skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the second part of that quote makes things any better at all. OP is basically saying "I want to be successful in my projects, please advise", and the off-the-cuff diagnosis offered is that he's "aping societal ideals and trying to be someone [he is] not", and that unlike his peers, he must be lacking "genuine interest" in his projects. Seriously?

> Seems very much in line with your diagnosis.

I think you gave the grandparent post a very charitable reading :)
Same boat here. I lose jewelry. In my time I've worn earrings, ear cuffs, necklaces, dreadlock weaves, bolo ties, neck ties, zipper ties, hats, etc etc etc... they all get lost, they all get damaged quickly. And really, in the end, they just feel uncomfortable on my body. I haven't worn a watch in 15+ years and have never regretted it.
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If you get no respect where you work, just quit, as soon as you can.
> As with all messaging systems it doesn't really matter whether they're good or bad, it depends on who is using them.

What does that mean?

Hangouts has been losing messages recently for lots of people. That's bad no matter who's using them.
Yeah, but the return on investment in marketing is likely much, much higher. Or, better yet, invest in making your product better so customers don't need to call support in the first place.

Customer churn is also very, very hard to quantify, and your customers will leave you for a variety of reasons, many of which would not be impacted by better support (i.e. they move, go out of business, get purchased, etc.)
They ditched in Windows Server 2012.

Now recommend cygwin.

"The Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) is deprecated. If you use the SUA POSIX subsystem with this release, use Hyper-V to virtualize the server. If you use the tools provided by SUA, switch to Cygwin's POSIX emulation, or use either mingw-w64 (available from Sourceforge.net) or MinGW (available from MinGW.org) for doing a native port.
"
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831568.aspx
Support MBP Retina Webcam Driver for Linux (bountysource)
All we have is a press release. The diagram and the constant references to containers would seem to indicate these are, well, containers. You're picking at a few things and assuming they mean that the rest of the release is wrong. Why?
No one respects a thief.
What I really need is something that allows both my laptop and my wife's laptop to view and edit the photos. Not even simultaneously. Just from two different machines and two different accounts. Right now we store the photos on a NAS Picasa to view and edit them. (Picasa hates network drives, but symlink magic fixes that.) I don't really like Picasa (It insists on G+ too much, and the UI doesn't integrate well with MacOSX, specifically Finder.), but it works better than iPhoto for large collections.

Unless I'm mistaken, this looks like the standard Apple approach where its tied to a single iCloud account. Is family photo sharing/editing really that difficult? We can't be the only ones that want that right?

Also 1 TB isn't enough space. We have 14 years of photos we'd have to upload. That's a lot, and these price points are just too expensive.
What's a "Silver Fox" in this context?
Stop Fearing Artificial Intelligence
Team? I think it's just one dude.
>What a pity there isn't some sort of operating system that can be used to present your media/content NAS to you, from anywhere in the world, with whatever front-end you desire

It's not "whatever front-end you desire", but Plex can do movies, TV, and music over the web in a mostly automagical manner. Install server app, install client app (on Windows/Mac/iOS/Android/etc), make account, log in with account on both, and it'll automatically connect the two and even do stuff like transcode on the fly on the server to make streaming work better.
I don't think that applies. Unless I misunderstood the GP.

I understood the question as "will I be able to receive messages while the tab isn't open" (offline messages) and "will I be able to read my history on a different device later on" (MAM). Carbons serve a different purpose and sync connected clients (i.e. you chat on your desktop, but your phone receives the same messages as a carbon copy to stay in sync).
Funny, when Zynga first grew it was remarked as being dominant because of the tight Facebook partnership. When Zynga and FB broke up it's now pointed that it's because Zynga got to the dance too early.

The greater context is that all these coin-op arcade companies fizzle, leading all the way from Atari down. What happened to Rovio? To King? Likely the same ending for Riot to Supercell.

You get 2 to 3 years, maybe 5 tops, then you get replaced. The real game is figuring out how to grab as much cash off the table without looking as cynical and jaded and greedy as you really are.
Good question. I think we're actually in the early stages of the cycle. Those people I don't think will upgrade for a while are still on their first smartphones, mostly iPhone 5. I've noticed significantly less breakage once they switched from dumbphones... they actually like and need their smartphone where a dumbphone was like any other phone - you lose some contacts and that's it. Obviously, that attachment has something to do with the ridiculous growth of smartphones.
So I tested the board without me standing on it uphill and it goes up. I estimate around 35lbs+ for my configuration for a slight incline.
Probably by means of partial understanding. Someone talks about "an awful battle", or "the awful day of judgment", and people (especially children) might understand it as fearsome and potentially very bad, and use the word exclusively in that sense. It's easy to imagine the definition migrating to simply, "very bad".
I'm outraged that they didn't throw this food away or at least charge you for the leftovers.
I believe that everything that was written in this article is true and it's really depressing to see a work culture like this. How they can retain and attract talent with this kind of culture?!
Twitter revamps trends to explain why a topic is popular
As someone that has deployed multiple production applications in Tomcat and Jetty, I would never choose Jetty again. The concept is good but it has severe quality issues and does not offer the same stability as Tomcat. At one point we had to fork Jetty to fix critical problems, never again.
"Free" has the caveat that it uses iCloud storage, though.
Have you ever tried using wsman? It is not fun.

And, being SOAP-based, it's certainly nothing like a command-line.

But most of all, it's not fun.
It used to be that there was no such thing as a postdoc, and you would go into a faculty position directly after your PhD.

Obviously, you can claim sour grapes in my case, but - I finished up my PhD which was somewhat middling but I did accomplish some important things - and had two very productive postdocs in disparate fields. What I observed was, consistently, PhDs getting degrees that probably shouldn't have. About half of the PhD thesis defenses I went to at The Scripps Research Institute (consistenly ranked in top 5) were, in my opinion, undeserved, possibly including mine. The situation was somewhat worse at the University of Maryland where I did a postdoc. My second postdoc was at the Venter Insitute, where there were no PhDs; we had a grad student intern in my lab that my boss selected that couldn't get a simple molecular biology procedure to work. The undergrad with no lab experience that I trained did it 50 times in 1.5 months. The grad student got his PhD, and is now a postdoc at LBNL.

Opinion aside, fact of the matter is that the academic system is broken for a simple, mathematical reason. There is an 'exponential growth' mechanism where you have professors with labs with, say, three postdocs, and four grad students (note that the grad students stay for longer than the postdocs). You can't expect to 'copy/paste' this tree indefinitely, even with a modest attrition rate, because ultimately this growth is unsustainable.

You have to be willing to cull, and cull hard. Confounding factors include: an unwillingness to cull because it makes the program look bad; sometimes you have to grant the PhD because you're afraid the grad program will be sued (insert anecdotal story of a student who nabbed a nice severance including a trip to Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday party); PhDs being sold as 'the next step' for listless students who don't know what to do with their life next because all they know is schooling; PhDs having a 'social status' cachet; nationalistic measuring contests where countries try to project greatness as measured by how many PhDs they produce - aka race to the bottom.

The 'jobs outside of academia' for PhDs has basically come about as a relief valve for this exponential process and now that relief valve has likely been saturated.

That postdocs appear to be underpaid is a symptom of the market failure; there are too many of them around and so you can pay them less. Moreover, because so many crappy PhDs are produced, it becomes difficult to differentiate between them. This basically creates frustration for genuinely smart PhDs, and so they go into finance on wall street and cause stock market crashes by making the assumption that markets are normally distributed when they're actually levy distibuted.
I'm sure it does, and it is a slippery slope, but he/she mentioned wanting to to run Linux on a Macbook Pro.

So in a roundabout way, he/she would still be running OSX on Apple hardware.
> Then this release (and frankly, any MS product) is not for you.

I've certainly re-considered dotNet after it got open sourced recently! It (finally) seemed like a reasonable proposition -- as I explain in my post BTW.

But indeed, Windows, and especially Windows-closed-source-on-a-server, is not my cup of tea. And I don't understand how it could be anyone's tea.

> But some enterprises use MS software

Sure, and this is a start-up forum. :)

Anyway, I upvoted your post for taking the trouble to explain your downvote. Thanks.
Or maybe to preorder it while driving a car?
I don't think this is aimed at you, the person in front of a keyboard. This is aimed at datacenters, where Windows uses more resources than Linux, which means it does less work with the same hardware, which means you need more hardware... and that may mean 1000 more machines.
I think it is much closer to git-fat [1] (as jefurii mentions).

I've been trying out git-fat on a large repository that has some binaries in it. Since we are already using ssh to access the server (and have the usual ssh-agent setup), it was easy to integrate it with scp.

Unfortunately, the performance for our workload (45K files, 5GB total) with git-fat wasn't much different than plain git.

It seems most of my problems stem from the number of files, rather than the size. If I had a smaller number of very large files, git-fat might be a good solution.

[1] https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat
How do you apply security updates to the dependencies?
You might just be reading more articles or seeing more independent projects from young people, because those young people are less likely to work a full-time job (or if they do, they're not doing 12-16 hours a day in addition to open-source and articles). Plenty of people in their 30s (or even, gasp, their 40s) are still productive, high-earning professionals in the software world.

I started out quite young myself, writing software for gameboy advance at 15, and I did plenty of public-facing work: articles, coding competitions, etc. After uni I joined a big corporation, and while I was learning plenty and doing a lot of very influential work, there was much less personal credit for what I was doing.

While this is less related to age, don't be too impressed by how you see the work of others represented. I've seen plenty of fancy videos (and TED talks) for people who just had vapour. You're always going to view yourself with all your perceived shortcomings, but you'll see others as the public persona they have meticulously crafted.
> Uber and Lyft, for example, are dead as soon as self-driving cars become viable.

As I see it, Uber and Lyft have built systems that would be very useful for managing a fleet of self-driving cars to provide on-demand service, and one or both of them are likely to either buy such fleets, adapt their services slightly to be the middleman between such fleets and consumers, or be purchased at a premium price by the operators of such fleets once self-driving cars are viable.

Now, sure, driving for Uber and Lyft as a profit-making job is dead fairly quickly once self-driving cars become viable, but that doesn't mean Uber or Lyft is.

> AirBnB may end up being eaten by itself: as it becomes more viable economically, you'll see more purpose-built construction being built to be listed straight on AirBnB, and at some point it becomes worth it to ignore the consumer sellers entirely and just act as a broker between commercial property owners and travelers.

Again, that's not really a great threat to AirBnB in the absence of someone else whose built just as strong a relation with travelers and also has better connections with commercial property owners. But, most likely the transition of the suppliers offering via AirBnB from casual to commercial will be gradual -- and its already been happening from day one -- and AirBnB, as long as it maintains an advantage as the traveler destination, will be ideally positioned to continue that dominance as the property "sharing" market is less consumer sharing and more commercial rentals that are outsourcing much of the traveler-facing side of operations (and exploiting whatever rules are adopted for "property sharing" distinct from hotel operation.)
Apple Launches Comprehensive New Siri Website with Categories, Example Requests
>>> FINALLY all of my photos are available everywhere and safely stored without me doing any extra work

duh, dropbox resolved this problem... how much, ten years ago?
Haven't played with the framework at all yet, but I have to say that was the best announcement for a framework I think I've ever read. Totally subverted my knee-jerk oh no not ANOTHER one reaction I've come to expect...
To even use the phrase "poaching" is to give too much to the devil. It implies that a person "belongs" at a certain organization, as opposed to being a self-interested economic actor, and that there is something incorrect or dirty or unethical or wrong about leaving where they work to work somewhere else.
Yes, true. Working in tech, I'm probably seeing the end of the spectrum that updates their devices more frequently.

I have nothing against the apple watch per se other than price. Just a personal thing. But I can't see paying that much for a device with a) a rechargeable battery that may or may not be easily replaceable and b) has tech that will age out quickly (compared to for example just a digital watch of some sort). Just seems like extreme planned obsolescence. But I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

It may be the utility of such devices outstrips any such concerns.
That's all I'm saying.

It seems unrealistic.
Zynga Founder Mark Pincus Returns as CEO
what if mobile carriers where not allowed to discriminate whom they could sell zero-rated services to, so each service provider/app should have the freedom to choose the business model that works best for themselves?

what if 3rd parties where allowed to buy zero-rated URLs or IPs in "bulk" from all the carriers in a geography, making it much easier to contract all mobile carriers?

preventing companies to provide zero-rated services increases the digital divide as it inhibit people who cannot afford to buy a data plan to use services. In many areas of the world, the majority of mobile consumers are on pre-paid plans and have zero credits most of the time (most countries have calling party pays, so a smartphone with zero credit is still very valuable to receive calls)
>here's nothing stopping, say, a factory, from saying "well now, why don't y'all come in at 730am so you can get home earlier".

John is a factory worker who can't afford a car, so he takes the bus to work. Does the bus schedule allow him to come in and leave an hour early?

Frank and his wife both share a car; Frank has to drop his wife off on his way to work. Can Frank's wife come into work an hour early as well, or does she have to spend 9 hours at work and Frank has to wait an hour before he can pick her up? How about Jerry, who gets dropped off by his friend Lloyd because Lloyd has to drive that way anyways and doesn't mind doing Jerry the favour? Does Lloyd have to start running his daily errands earlier, now?

And don't forget that whatever solution you engineer for all of these people, it can't be too permanent, because we're just going to reverse it in a few months. And then re-reverse it later on.
Zynga Drops 8% After Hours on News That Former CEO Mark Pincus Will Return
iCloud is optional.
Is that actually true? MS has demoed Windows IoT with a UI on minimal devices already. Both ARM and x86. I don't know if the dragonboard 410c is in a different class than the pi2 however.

Take a look on Don Box's presentation at WinHEC from last month. Device talk stats about ~40 mins, device demo starts at ~44 mins.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/WinHEC/2015/Developing-for-t...
AFAIK, Apple does not use your photos for anything pertaining to Apple's own interests. Google does.

From the Google TOS: "Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored."

Also: "When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

The above is much, much broader than Apple's TOS.

Google would appear to not just allow ad targeting, but even use of user photographs or videos for promotional ad campaigns on Google's behalf by third parties. I'm happy to be corrected on this, but that is the apparent meaning.
But... customer support isn't a cost center at Apple. They sell the AppleCare extended warranty, and if you don't purchase that when you buy the product, you have to pay them by the minute for customer support via telephone.
Legal Issues Raised by Web Crawling and Scraping Tools for Analytics Purposes
Good to know. Thanks! So I guess the moral is, if you have a big, expensive struct, make sure the expensive part is in a sub-structure you know is heap allocated, such as a Vec. E.g.:

struct Expensive {
cheap_value: u32,
expensive_value: Vec<u32>
}

Does that seem like a good maxim?
Interesting, looking at this from 19 years in the future. I'm pretty sure in 1996, the thought of JavaScript and the Web Browser becoming the dominant application UI platform would have sounded absolutely absurd to most, and many still.

I think that there's a bit of a resurgence with regards to development concepts and constructs from the 70's and 80's. Functional ideas are starting to take hold again, go and rust are bringing updates to older paradigms as well. It would be nice to see a larger community gather behind a more clean unixy implementation though.

With Linux, Windows and OSX taking up several GB on disk for the OS and basic tools, it's kind of ridiculous. Although less open in practice, I was hoping for a desktop release centered around a smaller linux core than typical desktops today. It just hasn't taken hold. Windows is thinning up a bit, and OSX may as well too.

Who knows what the landscape will look like in another 20 years.
Apple is an example. Not current Apple, by the late 2000's Apple that saw exceptional growth. Apple was famous for being easy to replace broken products, get refounds, getting somebody smart to sell you stuff.
Or, people start getting paid the appropriate amount that they work, as seen by their peers and opposition.

It's kind of like a union in some regard. No wonder companies don't like it.
You might be able to run Windows containers under Wine....
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A more agile do-178
What binary formats are you interested in? For my graduate thesis I had to read a lot about JPG, PNG, SQLite3 and MS-OLE file formats and I could give you some references to read from and shamelessly link to my github project where you can find some tools related to this (and others) file formats.
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Yes, I can see that. Just the first (frustrated) reaction as the desktop Windows is so poorly equipped with utilities.
The fact that it's 3D printed is just an eye-catcher. You could have done the same without any 3D printing.
Seems like using thrust is going to be a limitation here. What about some kind of belt that contacts the ground when activated?
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Think very hard. Write code, lots of it. Get code reviews. Repeat.
Google has patented Spoiler-Free Social Media
Except, you know, they've been building phones for far longer than Apple.
As a counterpoint, I just set up git-annex and sync'd a couple of local servers plus a remote server, with no issues, by following along in the walkthrough. Granted, it's not exactly an out-of-the-box setup, like say, syncthing, but it wasn't anything overly difficult.
At macromedia I had to list the projects I was working on outside the company - not a problem, but it needed to be done.
It's incredibly ironic that Apple was founded with the intention of being the anti-IBM.
The feature that triggered the comment from Solomon:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1354823
Even my "request for down vote explanation" gets down voted! Hilarious...
Any time I move, I try to divest myself of at least half of everything I own. I've moved with only what I could fit into luggage. The take on it that I'm more comfortable with now is--if I want it, I want something really nice. I work for a site that specializes in antiques and collectibles and such. If I want something, I go searching for a special example of that thing. It sheds at least part of the disposable nature of things.
Is the PhD a dead end? If you want to stay in academia maybe
Pincus to a U.C. Berkeley business school audience in 2009: "I knew that I wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues right fucking now. Like, I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to—just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I don't know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. [laughs]"[1][2]

[1] http://www.vimeo.com/3738428
[2] http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/how-zynga-went-from-...

Newer Zynga employees, this is your new boss. Is this someone you want to work for?
Facebook Launched standalone Messenger browser app
The way I see it:

HFS+ is creaky, ancient, but battle-hardened.

ZFS is solid and battle-hardened, but not that suitable for many of Apple's customers, who want the ability to unmount disks they added, and who will not understand that they need huge amounts of RAM (they their Macoboks don't have) to keep their disks speedy,

btrfs is promising but not battle-hardened yet, and it is very unlikely Apple will use it as long as it has a GPL license (I think it is more likely that Apple will add checksums to HFS+ in some somewhat clumsy, but working, way than that it starts supporting btrfs)
Really, it made me cringe. I can't imagine being fond of the feature.
Then he would just be making a snowmobile.