skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With this negative image among developers in the Valley, how is Apple able to attract top quality engineers? They probably are not. Anecdotally, I still haven't met one single engineer who would love to work for Apple though they love using Apple products.

Apple is not even on the list of all top graduating kids who wants a job in top valley firms (Google, FB, Dropbox, Twitter, AirBnB, Uber, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Quora, other promising startups). Any software engineer who is in the valley for a while (and heard the inside horror stories of working for Apple) wouldn't want to work there. There is no way in hell, senior engineers from the new age tech companies (listed above) will go to Apple. Apple will have a hard-time poaching them. Based on this, I have to conclude that most good engineers@Apple are candidates who have a tenure of more than 15 years and are aging. All, relatively new Apple employees are either left-overs in the talent-pool who couldn't make the cut to the above top firms/startups or really B-grade senior engineers. What is Apple's strategy of thriving in a knowledge economy, when the only asset you need are "great people" to succeed in the long term. They probably have great hardware engineers. It is a travesty that though they are the richest company in the world, they still couldn't build a compelling cloud services suite which is better and cheaper than what Dropbox, Google, Box, Microsoft can provide. This comment, will probably ruffle a few feathers. [updated for typos/grammar]
You can get money in and out of the Stellar network using gateways. You can learn more about them here: https://www.stellar.org/learn/explainers/#Gateways_trust_and...

This post is about keeping everybody's copy of the ledger the same using a process called consensus. Even if there were no gateways, there still is the problem of ledger agreement, so we'd still need consensus. Gateways and consensus are orthogonal. You can learn more about consensus here: https://www.stellar.org/learn/explainers/#Consensus
The last resource category is within reach for a lot of people on this site. The second last one is within reach for a few people on this site. But if they're both out of your reach, then you could always add another line summarizing the resources you do have.

That having been said, your suggestion of using open source software and seeing where it could be improved is also a good one.
> a few more articles like this and I will be

Can you elaborate on why? "If it bleeds it leads" and the potential of another bursting bubble is making the media wet themselves. And when the media starts getting orgasmic about something its only natural that bloggers are want to follow.

But them constantly writing about a bubble doesn't make it true any more than them constantly writing about Ebola wiping out civilization (at least that was the implication).
He writes them for other Apple blowhards.
> limitations and all kinds of big O notation results

Or blockchains.

> as discovered a century or two ago

Give it up to Michael Faraday!
I, too, live by Kaizen.
That quote is so nuts! He didn't think for a minute he was doing anything wrong. That's supposed to make me feel better?

I agree with you, the way these rich people look at employees as chess pieces rather than humans is awful. If you're so afraid of someone quitting, then address that by making it worth their while not to quit! Not with collusion for god's sake.

The fact that they call someone getting a better job "being poached" just says it all really. (If you use this phrase, take a moment to really think about what you are saying.)
Wow. I wish Mr. Pincus all the best and hope he can pull off a Steve Jobs - esque "job" and revive a company from the clutches of death.

It is quite possible that he can try to do something really innovative and pivot to a complete new direction. He certainly has the funds to do something big, given he was an early investor in facebook.
This looks to be competing with AWS CodeCommit too which will allow any size of files to be committed since it is all just backed by S3.

http://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/
So does this mean the large files are actually versioned?
For someone who hasn't lived in SV you seem to know a lot about it :).
I'm not the person your replying to but....

Generally in B2B where the accounts your call center are responsible for "keeping happy" are worth 5 or 6 figures in revenue...tends to lead to a very different environment. Of course, at that point you aren't really paying $10/hr but are hiring "support engineers" with real salaries.

The only B2C one I can think of is Zappos.
Running stuff that requires Windows.
The paid version of Flickr is only $24 a year, and includes no ads. I've been using it since 2008 and have built a library of almost 9000 photos and videos. Even after Flickr's redesign, I still recommend the service for photo storage (unless you need RAW storage).

To keep everything backed up, I have a NAS in my basement that pulls a copy of my Flickr library on a routine basis.

Edit: Flickr Ad-Free is $49/year, but $24/year for grandfathered Flickr Pro subscribers. Sorry for the confusion.
From my understanding, it's effectively impossible for Apple employees to have any apps listed in the App Store through personal accounts. Which, no doubt, accounts for a lot of the reason why the Xcode -> iTunes Connect -> App Store experience is so miserable.
I feel that the best mindset with which to approach Haskell (and many other new areas) is: "I don't get much right now, but that's OK. If I keep working with what I know and expand that set by just a little every day, it's bound to click and I will be able to look back on the entire journey as worthwhile."

And I think that, itself, is a mindset that children more easily accept.

Children necessarily live in a world they can't yet fully understand (not that adults can, either, but we're more likely to live with the delusion that we can :). So I think they're more accepting of "you'll understand that later" than an adult is.

So I agree with you, I don't think children are necessarily more malleable. But I do think they have a lack of ego, an openness to knew things, an acceptance (or maybe it's ignorance) of their own limitations, and far less fear of failure than the typical adult. And that I find incredibly inspirational, and something I try (and usually fail) to apply to my own life.
Hong Kong's MTR: Taking a ride on the world's most envied metro system
Coming from the patron saint of XMPP, that some recommendation :)
You might like that to be true but it simply isn't. I'd suggest to "keep trying" but really that won't change the reality of how the term is used.
Zynga CEO Don Mattrick to Depart; Mark Pincus to Return to CEO Role
What's tacky about offering free food that no one is obligated to eat? GP might have written one of the most entitled things I've seen!
Scientists find complex organic molecules in an infant star system
Photos for Mac: A cut above iPhoto, but it's no Aperture
I've seen some recent polls where most responses said that Facebook Messenger was their preferred method of communication. Given that the poll was on Facebook, I still think it's reflective of many of my peer's (people raised with the internet) opinions. It's less of a context switch than going to email or some other method of communication. As Messenger's trajectory increases (see also: their features in response to Chinese messaging apps), it becomes more and more apparent why Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was a great idea.

This standalone Messenger app also widens business opportunities. A few days ago I was looking at suits on Bonobos and had a question about their construction that wasn't answered on the product page. I didn't immediately see a live chat link and I didn't feel like writing an email on a Sunday, so I messaged their Facebook page my question. They got back to me with a lengthy response in less than an hour. An interface like messenger.com makes it even easier to have asynchronous, almost-live customer service via Facebook messenger. It certainly made an impression on me.

Anyways, this is cool. Facebook's brightest days are still ahead of them.
Sonic.net, in the ISP market. They spend quite a bit on customer support, and use it, where they can (locally, mostly) as a feature.

Back in the day when they were reselling AT&T DSL (which they are doing again, I hear), it was a big bonus to get AT&T DSL at the same price, but not have to deal with AT&T almost ever. Let a third party deal with that and provide better service for the same cost. Win.

Full Disclosure: I've worked at Sonic.net multiple times in the past, ranging from customer support when in college, to their operations and system administration department more recently. I have fond memories of it, and count it as one of the best places I've worked, but I'm not employed by them currently.
Agree. But there are cases where perhaps you are just taking out or doing drive thru - and see a line to order and would just like to somehow get in quickly.
LDAP is already optional. You can remove the "ldap" section from the config file and just launch the client.
Uber's breathalyzer kiosk gets you a ride home if you're drunk
We haven't tried but it should work with any server that supports WebSockets.
So, the ad market is drying up. This is a thing we know. It seems pretty obvious, even predictable, that Google would need to figure out how to transition as many people as possible to paid customers before that market becomes unsustainable. Someday, YouTube ads will just be a way to annoy you into paying up.
Given that THREE of the responses to this question are Zappos, I'm going to venture that it's probably incredibly rare. Especially since, in Zappos case, they are essentially selling commodity products (branded clothes that you can buy from any retailer), so their only opportunity for differentiation is price or service.
I've always wondered how "awful" came to mean "bad" (the opposite of "awe full") and then has apparently added the meaning "very" ("awfully good"?)?
Apple releases iOS 8.3 with new features and fixes
Does this mean github could become useful for music production?
Yes. It is always very important to think about how bad actors will use the service. Just focusing on the good guys can lead to big problems.
then disable the feature
I think you're on the wrong thread, maybe you're looking for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9341687
Free, self-directed, programming educational retreat
Anyone know if this will work in a household that has a mix OSX and Android devices? Eg, will I be able to see the photos on my Samsung S4 that my wife have just uploaded with her iPad mini?
"v" just opens your $EDITOR, btw, not necessarily vim-in-terminal.

It's basically the same as the bash built-in "fc" command, but operates on the current line instead of the last one.
I suppose a pentium requires both?
I exaggerate my time worked. Most people are like me.
I've always found the story of Zynga to be entertaining and fun to watch. Mark Pincus is a refreshingly down-to-earth leader. He takes a lot of shit, and his company is the butt of a lot of jokes (probably doesn't help having a huge office right next to caltrain as a constant reminder). Despite this, Pincus always has a smile on his face and an air of confidence to him. I respect this.

Pincus is a hustler. He built Zynga from the ground up, leveraged it into massive investment, but unfortunately was a little too early to the mobile gaming party. Zynga got screwed because it depended on facebook platform, and new apps emerged that did not. Supercell showed how to profit from mobile gaming and avoid platform lock-in. iOS and Android also dominated Facebook platform so any game depending on Facebook lost to competitors who built around iOS/Android.

The early moves of Pincus were very impressive, and if he can replicate that execution, I bet he can also bring Zynga through a strong recovery. I respect his confidence and leadership. Seems like a cool dude.
I find this interesting. How do people collaborate? Did most of your team work the same hours? Do you just schedule meetings from noon-4? I would personally hate that schedule as someone with a family.
Solaris containers are no longer just a kernel level of abstraction though. As of Solaris 11.2 they're also capable of providing a near-system-level of abstraction via "Kernel Zones":

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E37629/

These allow virtualization of multiple, independent instances of the operating system each with their own version of the kernel and processes. It is not the same as running multiple instances of VMWare, etc. since it is specifically designed to handle virtual Solaris instances:

https://blogs.oracle.com/zoneszone/entry/install_a_kernel_zo...
I agree. The other day I was looking at some tutorial on Haskell type classes that I didn't understand earlier and it just clicked for me on the third-fourth try. We think, with our experience, that the learning-pipe going to our brain is the size of an oil pipeline but it's really only the size of a straw.
Google Is Slowly Phasing Out Google+
What about future time off? I'd happily work 60 hour weeks for $1,000,000/year, then retire after 5 years.
Thank you! I came here to write this.
Article aside for a moment, I find it fascinating that with this release so many people are discussing smart watches and their interfaces as something completely new with no established precedents. I've had my Pebble for almost 2 years now and my LG G watch for about 8 months. From my perspective this seems like a late-comer to a market that is already well under-way? I would expect more existing market comparison conversation.

Edit: for the record I love both of them after being initially dubious about the usefulness of such a device.
across all of their products

By "their" you mean "Apple's," right, not "the user's"? Not being facetious, it's true but the phrasing is ambiguous.
Dart is nice. I wish Dart and Golang teams had more intersection...
This Guy Says He Can Make 20-Year-Old Rum in 6 Days
Yes, seems like an excellent candidate application for that. By the way, what hassles did you experience with +clientserver? I use +clientserver by default for various reasons and it works flawlessly.
Why CEO Don Mattrick Is Done at Zynga
It doesn't mean it wasn't viable before, it's just another piece of evidence, which many more people will be exposed to, that it is viable.
If they removed the penalty and automatically guessed for questions left blank that would have the same effect mathematically, but women would score better. (AKA blank questions would be worth (1/number of choices) on average and educated guessing would improve your score on average.)

So, it is an arbitrary choice.
At it's core, the question of whom to trust is of course crucial, as there are clearly at least straw-man answers that have undesirable effects. But the trust topology affects more than safety, it affects the scenarios in which a consensus protocol is useful. E.g., if I issue some scrip and trade it on the Stellar network, I don't necessarily want to depend on mining rigs in other parts of the world for my ledger safety. I want to tell people "trust whomever you want, but be sure to include me as well, because I won't let you redeem the scrip if you don't have it on my ledger."

Part of the goal of SCP is to leave such policy questions up to the market and see what kind of architecture emerges. Our hope is that this flexibility combined with the lower barrier to entry will lead to greater financial inclusion as people build on our platform. But if we add too many policy restrictions, we risk heading off unanticipated innovations. (Heck, someone might literally replicate the Bitcoin policy and configure their quorum slices to trust 67% of whoever mined a Bitcoin block in the past week. That wouldn't really make sense, but it's possible.)

That said, what you're getting at is that with flexibility comes risk. We can't a priori rule out the possibility that organizations will choose bad quorum slices that violate safety. But we need to ask under what circumstances people care about safety and why. People obviously won't care about forks if one of the branches is purely a Sybil attack. But they likely will care if "real organizations" diverge, for some notion of that term. The reason, again, is that at some point the "real organizations" will affect one another in the network, however indirectly--maybe after a chain of five payments. That kind of indirect link is precisely what FBA quorums capture in the transitive closure of slices. So if everyone depends on the financial institutions they expect to do business with, and the whole economy is in fact interconnected, then Stellar will be safe.

I obviously believe such interdependence exists, and fully expect Stellar to be safe, but I can't predict exactly what the network will look like. Nor do I want to, as this could limit innovation. Only time will tell how this plays out.
So, you're an expert with Google's tools and want to set up a workshop... so of course your first choice is to go use Facebook...
Here's how to use those new, diverse emoji in iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10
Putting aside for the moment the illegality of collusion, I appreciate your take, and I think it's important to always try to see things from the other side, even if it stands against everything you believe in.

With that said, isn't the obvious solution to just raise everyone's salaries?

Also, the explanation only reinforces the idea that these executives view their employees as chips to be bartered, not free agents.
Fatih/color, Go Library for Colors with Windows Support
Synaptitude YC S15 application
"Peak population" is something the experts have seen coming for awhile but is just starting to make the popular zeitgeist. Projections are for world peak population to occur between 2050 and 2100. The perhaps surprising bit is after peak population comes fairly steep population decline, NOT a gradual leveling off. Expect pro-reproduction policy to be more and more of a thing as that event approaches!
If you are partnering with a company, you typically can break the partnership by poaching employees. I think the biggest problem is this anti-bidding strategy extended to companys that weren't partners.
I suppose this is pretty troll-ish, but some folks need a good dose of cold water to wake them up to reality.

You're not to old, you're too young. Too young to even realize how young and immature you are.

I have hard time distinguishing you from a teenager, and wonder why so many people are taking this post seriously.

Here's some free life advice: Sell your television.
I agree. Neovim brings promises to improve this situation drastically by separating the presentation logic from the editor core functionality, more easily allowing for embedding Vim functionality in 3rd party applications.
Intel's CEO Unleashes Gesture-Controlled Spiderbots
A small tip to clean C# code
Most people depend on a job to structure their life. No jobs and a lot of free time would destabilize society.

Funny, the world seemed to operate just fine before the industrial revolution created the modern 9-5 work week.

There's literally no evidence at all for what you're claiming here. High unemployment that leads to poverty creates instability. High unemployment where people's needs are met, though... that's pretty new territory. I'm not aware of any precedent that allows us to predict the outcome.
Definitely, as if good customer support won't help future sales and increase customer retention.

Without support and training software is kind of worthless.
Apple has built one of the most successful businesses in the world on mostly one thing: design. (And user experience, which is design more broadly applied.)

Undortunately, it seems to me that good design requires totalitarianism. Apple's products are comparatively coherent, clean, unified, and aesthetically pleasing. This is achieved via a culture of totalitarianism that extends all the way down to the device. OSX has some openness grandfathered in, but iOS shows you where Apple wants to go.

... and customers largely approve. Having used both iOS and the more open Android, I can say that while Android is more capable iOS is more of a pleasure to use. There you have it.

It's something I have seen broadly in the world, and I actually find it rather disturbing. Bazaars can be creative and can offer a rich array of options and a lot of value, but only a cathedral can deliver aesthetics and usability.
Yes, I had things like monads in mind, but also currying, and higher-order functions, and I could probably think up a couple more if I tried.

True, all languages require abstractions. But it seems to me that Haskell is more abstract than most. That's it's strength, in fact. But it seems to me that it also creates something of a mismatch when trying to teach it to a 10-year-old.
The problem isn't when it's "some ... managers". It's when you can't go to anyone for help with those managers. Sounds like it the problem went up at least another level. That's a problem and nothing anyone should be defending.
I have the same schedule now. It's much better since you avoid the crazy traffic of the typical 9-to-5'ers and getting to sleep in is the best thing ever.
That's the rule.
I've been studying and listening to what you describe as the Third Estate. I'm honestly not convinced they have good lessons to teach about politics, law, or labor activism. They have excellent lessons to teach about how those things worked decades ago, but have failed to update. Their decline in power and affluence is in part a result of applying old models to poorly matched modern scenarios.

Some of the ideas are useful, though. But not the ones where you add pain the lives of people and expect it to engender sympathy towards you.

The First Estate has more value and utility than your typical Marxist eat-the-rich analysis would suggest. Further, the Second and Third don't have as much in common as a naive analysis might suggest.
Imagine your happiness as a graph of sin(x). You have ups and downs, 1 and -1, but they're relatively stable, and on the average your baseline happiness is about the same. Then you have kids. Now the graph becomes 1+3*sin(x). The highs are stupendously higher, but the lows are deeper, and the difference can be stark. On the average your life is improved, but when somebody asks you how things are going your answer can be very different depending on the day and time. It is not an easy thing to ride the parenting roller coaster, but it is personally enriching in a way I cannot properly describe.

Also, about not having control and not having any time after becoming a parent. I struggled a lot with this myself until I read a passage in a book which shifted my perspective:

"In the past I used to look at my time as if it were divided into several parts. One part I reserved for Joey, another part was for Sue, another part to help with Ana, another part for household work. The time left over I considered my own. I could read, write, do research, go for walks. But now I try not to divide time into parts anymore. I consider my time with Joey and Sue as my own time. When I help Joey with his homework, I try to find ways of seeing his time as my own time. I go through his lesson with him, sharing his presence and finding ways to be interested in what we do during that time. The time for him becomes my own time. The remarkable thing is that now I have unlimited time for myself."
I think the question is why did they role their own solution when there was one already an open and freely one available. If it wasn't suitable in some way I would really like to know why.
There used to be Windows Services for UNIX (a.k.a. Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771470.aspx