skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one in the general populace cares about replaceable/removable batteries, any more than they care about the increasing difficulty in fixing your own car. Samsung gave in with the Galaxy S6, and they're obviously following the numbers.

And every watch I've ever owned has a battery that's just as replaceable as the Watch's -- that is, you take it to the dealer.
Yes, but by the same token, every tech article written by a woman seems to have a comment saying "Oh, I'm such an asshole, I assumed you were a man". Now I can't speak from personal experience, but that seems to be pretty explicitly enforcing the impression "people think there are no women in tech" (and, by extension, "people think it's unusual and/or weird that I'm a woman in tech").
This, or download your videos with youtube-dl.
How many users/how long will you be able to provide that for free?
Cool idea. I'd like to see it with a JetCat or similar hooked up to it.

http://www.jetcatusa.com/p200.html
Tangential to the topic but thank you for the closertotruth site reference, looks like an amazing resource.
Windows Server Containers will absolutely work in other hypervisors. You need to be running Windows as a guest OS obviously.
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I find I need a mental model of who the person is. It is based on assumptions of course.

First I assumed a man.

Now I know it is a woman, I still have some mental assumptions of what she looks like, what her son looks like etc. Weird.

I don't think it is sexist just human nature. I mean you can't imagine a person who is a 'schrodinger's cat' of all possible people :-)
Exactly. If you're happily playing Abandoned Title III, why would you need to buy New Hotness XXVII?

It's pretty much the same kind of thinking that counts each viewing of a pirated movie as lost revenue — nevermind that you can watch a DVD or BD over and over and over, and not get charged each time...
I made the mistake of moving 18 miles (San Jose) from where I work (Mountain View). Two years ago traffic wasn't bad but I swear it's getting worse. If I leave the house at 9:00 it takes 45-60 minutes to get to work. If there's a major accident or problem it can take up to 90 (happened once). Now I just don't leave the house before 10:00. My commute is less than 30 minutes and I regain 30-60 minutes every day.

I feel very fortunate to work at a company and with a team that supports my preferred schedule.
The demoscene and cracking/warez scene grew apart many decades ago. Even back when I was active (1998-2000 or so), they weren't a big influence any more. There was enough source and tutorials floating around. Just not for every demo released. Mainly because of the hassle with releasing somewhat "presentable" code. Many coders are happy to explain, if you just ask them, though.
You don't even need to appeal to Planck length here, because it's clear from more basic quantum mechanics that particles simply do not have classical paths.
So what I find so interesting about this is that I've never heard the counter-argument. No one is rushing to defend Apple, or say "Yeah I work at Apple on X and I really love it".

In fact, the more I think about it, I don't know of any prolific bloggers, or open source contributors, or HN commentators, or really anyone, who currently works for Apple. I know Bret Victor (worrydream) used to work there, but left IIRC because they weren't letting him do things he creatively wanted to do.

Where are the Apple advocates?
For anything translated, you'd use the (admittedly gross, fixed in Python3) "Welcome %(who)s to %(place)s" % { 'who': who, 'place': place }. The Python3 version is "Welcome {who} to {place}".format(place=place, who=who), or if you want to be un-idiomatic and unsafe, "Welcome {who} to {place}".format(locals())
Aperture will not be updated any more. They announced that quite a long time ago (maybe when first introducing Photos, I don't really remember).
It seems more often than not that the incentive is just to sit on the rights to IP, even if you don't plan to do anything with it ever, just because there's no incentive to let things go, and there's some microscopic but non-zero benefit to holding onto IP just in case.

I wonder if, instead of having the near-endless wait until public domain, it would be good to have a system of intellectual property that made copyright increasingly expensive to hold year after year, as some function of the total assets of the IP holder. Make it some exponential function, so that after a certain number of years, holding onto the rights to some IP is just too expensive to maintain unless the holders feel they can actually do something good and profitable with the IP (rather than a system that would need to show regular "use", which would incentivize publishing crap to satisfy a regulation).
Too bad HN is usually not a very fertile ground for such works of art .. But this is a demoscene thread ;-)
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Hey, he's too busy working 300 hours a week to worry about things like "averages" and "mathematics".
Great comment!

I've been reading occasional articles about latin america's imminent rise for about a decade. Still hasn't happened.
I think the reporters are either completely innumerate or pushing an agenda. And heck if it's a slow news day you've still got to write /something/.

There are spots of brightness in Latin America for example Embraer in Brazil, one of the top airplane manufactures which is a very difficult industry.
You are right that a EULA can't violate the law, but the law doesn't say you get to keep playing it forever or that you can produce derivative copies.

Contracts are VERY powerful in this country. The old saying that you can't sign your rights away is totally wrong. The default is that you can sign whatever rights you have away unless it is forbidden under the law.
Every time there is a new device/platform released, an opportunity arises for old games to make comeback and money to be gained. Whether it's right or wrong to make money off it... I don't know.

But I can feel both sides.

For example my favourite all time PC game is Heroes of Might and Magic (2 and 3). There is a wonderful "inspired-by" version called PalmHeroes, and then some open source projects (freeheroes and others).

And then I won't mind paying for the latest version UbiSoft released for iPad's - and it seems that version was just the DOS version emulated on the iPad (okay, maybe not, but felt that way).

But I was satisfied nonetheless. Playing heroes on the iPad is great.

Ah well, I don't really have saying in such matters - maybe movies/books can help a bit in this direction.

.....

Now one thing that is possibly worrying - is how current games are going to be emulated in the future. It used to be that next-gen games were able to play previous games (PC, console) or emulate them, but PS3/Xbox360 are already hard to emulate on PC (especially PS3) - wondering with even newer consoles...

And then that's even minor, what's more worrying if the game relies on external assets/services (fully online games) - then nothing could be done really....
It's also somewhat notable to mention that git-media was written by one of the founders of GitHub. So...that may be why? :)
Wow.

[EDIT]

The responses that amounted to "You did nothing wrong!" "We don't need to talk about this!" were what made the thread heated -- outside of that it was just a couple of posters realizing they made an incorrect assumption, what need was there to _debate_ that?
Asshole is of course facetious, and I don't think anyone suspects any of the posters here of beating themselves up horribly about it, but the general sentiment being expressed is still one of regret and feeling bad, and for what? Because you assumed the sex of someone in an article and ended up being wrong? This doesn't hurt anyone, I suspect. I don't believe that the positive energy in the ether is going to suffer a net loss because some people made this assumption either.

But it's not just that, feeling bad about about assuming the incorrect sex of an author and recognizing a simple mistake. This can be seen in the fact that one poster even went so far as to describe their assumption and one of another user's as being 'sexist', which it most likely is not. Someone said it best earlier, so I'm just going to quote them,

'Making an assumption about someones gender, race, age, etc based on what is most common (or most common to you) does not make you a sexist, racist or agist. It just makes you human.'

When presented with a faceless author and no hints of their sex or appearance, its pretty typical for one to fill in the blanks in their mind. The picture they come up with will be informed by all the experiences that they have encountered in their lifetimes. Simply being wrong doesn't suggest any ill will, belief of inequality, discrimination, or prejudices towards or against any group of people. Whoops seems like a level headed response, Oh shit I'm being sexist seems like a bit of an exaggeration.

Although it totally could be case, and kudos to someone who suddenly has the self realization that they're a sexist and wants to post about it.
Sorry, probably I wasn't clear enough. I knew that Aperture won't be developed anymore, but I wanted to know if there are any conflicts while using it after the upgrade.
People are already literally using your smartphone platform as a dating filter: https://medium.com/message/its-kind-of-cheesy-being-green-2c...

I'm kinda harping on the difference between us and the general population in this whole thread, as some HNers don't get it, but I don't blame them - the behavior of other demographics constantly amazes me. We'd do well to observe more.
Make that Sensu + Graphite and you get fault detection and alerts too.
“mostly with zero issues” is the same as saying “with issues”.

I would generally agree that it's rare for e.g. HFS to corrupt its own metadata due to bugs but bit-rot happens. If you think you haven't encountered it, you probably haven't actually checked your files closely enough – this is particularly easy to miss with things like video or image formats which were designed to tolerate a few bit-flips.

The reason why so many Mac users were interested in ZFS was that a modern filesystem incorporates strong integrity checks so you are guaranteed to either read back the bytes you originally wrote or get an error. That's a much better way to work than requiring you to use a tool which does strong hashes periodically to see if anything has broken.
Hillary Clinton hires female Google exec as CTO
It's unclear who was actually affected (I believe only two PM-level execs attempted to file lawsuits), and there's some mention that Pincus cited underperformance as a warrant to the action. There's a bit too much controversy to do much more than speculate or editorialize just how bad the action was, but there are a few pieces of evidence that speak for themselves:

* Pincus' memo defending his decision, citing a "meritocracy": http://fortune.com/2011/11/10/exclusive-mark-pincus-memo-to-...

* A solid law review article that upholds the legality of the move but nevertheless finds the action counter to the goals of the company: http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

* The Zynga earnings statements. The business model wasn't reliable, and yet Pincus remained deeply convicted.

It's somewhat important to distinguish between the party lines "Pincus and co tried to rob their employees!" with "Pincus and co were dangerously incompetent professionals!". The latter has more evidence. Furthermore, while we might one day forgive and forget incompetent, it's important to isolate the clawbacks as precedent of exactly what NOT to do when leading a young company. (We probably didn't need to learn this lesson, but now we did and have it in writing).
> Probably a lot less tricks up the sleeve are possible (especially with 3D accelerators and dependency on a lot of proprietary AND very complex software)

Sorry but doesn't that mean there are a LOT MORE tricks up the sleeve possible? They might be hard to find if you have to reverse a proprietary driver, but why not? :)
Forever, our business model is to make money with on-premises software (GitLab EE). In the long term we might add a marketplace to GitLab.com were you can subscribe to additional services (like Heroku does).
I've witnessed the same whitespace but find it still beneficial in contextually separating different 'moments' as they call it. Alternatively you can just go to 'All Photos' album and view everything ever in one giant grid.
It sounded to me like the ESA were equivocating. Their usage of "hacking" seems to be deliberately vague in order to strengthen the connection with piracy, where more precise language would have made the claim sound even weirder.
That is brilliant. It would solve the Mickey Mouse Protection Act problem as well.

If megacorps like Disney want to spend millions keeping Mickey Mouse and friends out of the public domain after 100 years, they're free to do so, without keeping things like The Great Gatsby or the Dewey Decimal System locked up for no good reason.
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Yeah, I don't like shell aliases but it would work. I wonder how the LFS client works.
If your execution can be so easily cloned, where's the value?
There are private servers running every expansion, some of which have decent and playable populations.
I'm not dead certain but I think smalltalk may have come before C++. For sure it was in widespread use before C++ was in widespread use.
Going after retrogame pirates of your out of sale game seems like a really stupid business decisions. If people still play your old game after all these years, despite the crappy graphics, it must have a lot of things going for it.

Do a remake, an expansion, or a sequel!
Where should we first see Stellar deployed in a major way?
Will this technology allow running a POSIX kernel alongside like in a VM? Or will these Containers be limited to Windows server software?
In the Bay Area Megapath competes with Comcast by offering the same exact connection but much better service with value added options like proactive monitoring. The same physical line in the ground will get you internet access. They will almost always cost more than Comcast, but it is worth it to many people to not have to deal with automated phone systems that waste your time and ineffectual support.
Sorry, I should have said 'long term' data storage. It's frequently used for short term/sneakernet sort of thing.
I see digital touch as "the killer app". The reason for this is communicating with my wife will be much easier. I think contextual based communication can be really powerful, for example coming home with a huge box of stuff from Costco it would be nice to be able to tap on the watch to get her attention to open the door for me as she does not always hear the knock and I'm there fumbling with my keys while trying not to drop the box. (or maybe get a smart door lock that is activated by the watch) This happens on a weekly basis and is just one example of the many ways that it'll make communication more seamless.
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So, one flaw in the approach they displayed is the mediator is kicking off two asynchronous processes. Yes, naturally race conditions will occur if process A competes with process B. Furthermore, why is a mediator performing business logic? The dispatcher / mediator / router / orchestrator seems to be presented as an active object in of itself. It really shouldn't be.

Rather than manipulating or calling components from your mediator, you could tell a coordinator that coordinates services. Services are then where you're housing your business logic. This allows you to structure these service calls and account for execution order.

>View initialization and render are separate steps

yes

> no events are fired during the app’s initial bootstrap/render process

sure

> on a given UI screen, a single top-level mediator takes on all responsibilities of communication/event-dispatching between subviews

> In practice, the code of the Orchestrator view becomes the centralized location and source of truth for all inter-widget communication in its purview

no?

There's a reason why actor systems are a thing. You can't just stuff everything into a central object like it's a flat key/value store. It's better (in my opinion) to form a hierarchy of responsibility. The "Orchestrator" should hire some subordinates and delegate work to them in an effective manner.

You guys must have an insane amount of business logic in your web app for any given UI screen (which as I'm understanding it is different menu options I guess? because otherwise a single UI screen is your entire app). The main takeaway in what I'm saying is a router shouldn't be confused with a component that executes business logic. It's doing too much.
My point is that the parent considered a sample of 100 to be too small for a population of 5000. Statistically speaking, it's a decent sample size.
The thing to keep in mind about those stories is that Man Bites Dog is a headline, whereas Dog Bites Man doesn't see print at all.

The teens gets print because they're absurd outliers; you don't hear about the 56 year old finding big success with his startup not because it doesn't happen, but because it happens regular enough to be too boring to mention.
> how is Apple able to attract top quality engineers?

From the rumours I've heard, they pay marginally higher salaries.
I agree that too much has already been said about it, but I'd say too much was said about it when it was simply posters calling themselves assholes and sexist for making a simple mistake. On that note, I'll step away from this topic :) It would be nice if this entire comment tree was removed from the thread, it detracts from the actual subject at hand.
Come on, every finance guy knows to cut off tail risk, yet they still don't. Look at LTCM, with all the brains they had still didn't cut off tail risk and Meriwether still came back and got burnt again. Look at Victor Niederhoffer, got burnt twice the exact same way not cutting off tail risk. Then you get a guy like Taleb profiting off tail risk. Complaining about liquidity crunches does not count as its one of the main parts of the tail risk.
I am crossing my fingers that your work on iOS will be very handy for a Mac Photos extension come WWDC.

Is it on the App Store or open source by chance?
sigh....

First of all he called himself an asshole for making that assumption. What about others that made the same assumption but didn't feel the need to derail the thread? Are they assholes too? Maybe people felt the need to chime in since there was an insult implied and they wanted to make it clear that by having the same assumptions about the author, they did nothing wrong.

Second, his post has NOTHING to do with the original article, it's just off topic noise.
Another topic in this vein is Throughput Accounting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throughput_accounting
I'm sure apple's "tiny innovative core" is very good at what they do, and works very hard, but I suspect the reason you don't hear as much about the work environment there is that they are subject to much stricter policies concerning what they write about their employer than are employees at many other places including google and facebook.

Add to that a culture that values protecting secrets versus some notion of 'openness', and an incentive to hold onto that job if you really like it and the valuable stock options that may have come with it, and I'm not terribly surprised that you see relatively few insider stories.
> Team skillset and some other considerations dictate a .Net environment.

Not to be a dick but... that doesn't sound like a Windows limitation.
> To be competitive, we need to build diverse organizations where people have different strengths.

Exactly. And if your hiring process locks out someone who does not have a certain strength (such as negotiation), which is not directly relevant to their job (such as programming), you will miss out on people who could have great skills in the area that is relevant to what you're hiring for. This is unfair to potentially strong candidates, and bad for your company.

People are very willing to admit that most interviewing processes simply select for people who are good at interviewing, and tests select for people who are good at test taking - these methods sometimes overlap with what you're actually trying to measure, but are obviously flawed in many ways. The same goes for negotiating, which may have a tangential correlation with being an effective programmer in some contexts, but certainly not very directly.

Ellen Pao is trying to send a signal to people who are good at what they do, but put off or intimidated by playing hardball over salaries. If you like negotiating, you're not the intended audience.
Aperture had way better UI. Lightroom had more powerful editing.

I think Photos will have the best of both worlds once Photos.framework comes to Mac.
FTP is just as unauthenticated as everything else above, so having MD5SUMs available over FTP doesn't really change the situation.
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... and it's a breach of the WoW client terms of service to connect to them.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Emulated_server
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No, it was relevant, but it was also false.
i see what you did there :-)
I take this as another example of a pivot that never made sense. It's like Mc Donalds trying to sell high end food under their brand. Why not start a separate daughter company for that? In most industries this is a common practise, it seems like Gaming still has to learn that.
You couldn't ever teach general relativity to your dog. It seems absurd to me to think that there is no theory about the world which is unteachable to humans. We're not that different from dogs in the long run.

Perhaps phrased in a more rigorous way, the universe is a spectacularly huge and complex system, and a single human brain is a positively tiny piece of that system, which is very much a part of the system and not external to it. So the question really becomes something like this: to what extent can a tiny little piece of a huge system contain within it a fully functional model of the entire system, which inevitably means it contains a model of itself?
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It feels like humans keep building more and more barriers to ACTUAL communication.

Yeah, yeah. It's not like shy kids back in the 1600s didn't write sonnets to express how they felt. Communication is a living language.

"Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born." - Alan Kay
A lot of inspiration did come from the git-media project which goes back to at least 2009: https://github.com/alebedev/git-media/commit/705ea59bd98a3d1...

git-bigstore is awesome too though!