skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
welcome to the western world - where no one goes to jail for white collared crimes!!!
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But Can You Make Pong?
And surprises me how few SSL-deploying sysadmins use HTTPS Everywhere! (Or perhaps, how few browse their own site...)
Which is kind of stupid right? If I'm supporting a platform, wouldn't I need to WRITE THAT in my description? What a load of BS these Apple guidelines are.
It's not calm, I have to dodge ignorant pedestrians all the time. But the normal commute hours tend to have plenty of bikers on the road who keep the lane pretty clear.

It's definitely not a scenic ride through the country, but it still beats the L. :)
Economics doesn't work that way. The profit margins of the American capitalist may have been higher when the Chinese were poor, but actual total world productivity (the amount of stuff available to share around) has gone up as the Chinese have gotten richer. The development of the Third World is a positive-sum, ahaha, development.
i have been working on it for 3 years now .... they just started charging 350 EU for the appointment at the embassy, even if they do not give you the citizenship
And what should they write?

"We support also a device made by another company that you can wear on your wrist. Our maps will be displayed there."
From an email further down in the thread https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/0...

While these relays account for 6% of the total number of exit relays, they only sum up to 2.7% of exit probability, which is what really matters.

Almost all of them were younger than one month and they seem to have joined the network in small batches.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/0...

the diversity here is interesting. My hunch is that we are looking at 38 popped boxes.... The question to me is: Do they all have something in common? What was the vector of compromise?

Curiously enough, they all run Debian stable (according to the SSH version string "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4+deb7u2” ALL of them spit out on port 22 — no exception!).
I'm lucky enough to have a flexible schedule that lets me dodge the rain, or leave when the rain is the weakest. And my tires are pretty good for wet conditions.
I analyzed the algorithm in detail in 2013 and found multiple unexpected factors. For example, titles containing "NSA" were penalized (which is apparently no longer the case). Certain sources are penalized. Postings with more comments than upvotes are penalized by the "flame war detector". Flagging and voting ring detection also apply penalties. About 20% of front-page articles had one sort of penalty or another.

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
They don't even provide evidence as to why they think a state-actor is targeting them. The message seems like it was also built to promote their service.
That is a very different situation. The app in question has pebble integration. It is not simply saying that SeaNav also has a pebble app, it is saying that one of SeaNav's features is that it can communicate with an Apple Phone.
The difference is that Google has a near monopoly on search whereas Apple has no such monopoly on mobile platforms.
Macho man! If you need to know the intricacies of an abstraction in order to use an abstraction, then it's not a very good abstraction.

Do engineers know the ins and outs of concrete and rebar? Or do they offload that knowledge onto manufacturers? But programmers can't offload anything onto the language creator or they aren't real programmers.

I'm glad for all the work the SBCL and GHC teams put onto their languages so I can use their abstractions without needing to know the ins and outs of performance optimization. Maybe one day you'll find a language you like that allows you to focus more on your problem domain and less on its traps, idiossyncrasies and inadequacies.
Easily confused with http://codingame.com
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Shorter this guy: "I don't like programming that much, so am bored by discussions about tech topics, so maybe you should quit having them, ugh get a life."
Many houses do too which when triggered call the police.
"I feel like people are really overstating the momentum Elixer has."

I think the real problem is overly broad generalizations about languages in general. I'm just a sysadmin, so I have to keep up with the big picture overview of things, and one thing I have learned is that certain languages have momentum in certain areas of application where they don't in others. The devs in one area see language A as awesome and language B as sucky for their work, while the devs in another see it the opposite. Elixir/Erlang for example has concurrency that is only challenged by a small set of languages like Go. (Henning Diedrich got 877k TPS with Erlang and VoltDB. )

Anyway, my point is that for those of us more specialized and deep instead of jacks of all trades, we need to keep in mind our biases when we speak so broadly about languages. Also, when it comes to momentum, some languages can pull others behind them. For example, I am recently fascinated with Racket, which seems to me a perfect way of pulling Scheme (SICP) into a modern setting. Elixir may have enough momentum that it brings Erlang with it, etc.
The ferry is awesome, especially at sunset.
There have been Generic Tuples for a while in .NET... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.tuple%28v=vs...
I think he's saying "overly concerned with detail, marked lack of eye contact; probably on the autism spectrum." These are literally two of the diagnostic criteria for 299.00 Autism Spectrum Disorder.

It seems like you're reading a negative connotation into the "autistic" label that isn't present in the article. Calling the gopher "unsettling" is the biggest insult I can find in what he wrote.
I think Apple expects you to bury it on your app's webpage.
looking at this stats here might be the wrong approach.

'How to get on the front page of HN?' is basically the same problem as 'How to jump from the 'newest''s section front page to the HN's front page before my post gets replaced by newer posts there?'

To do so, you need to remain long enough on the 'newest''s section front page which happens when there is less 'posting competition'. So if you post around 8-9am EST (see here: [1]), your post will remains longer on the 'newest' front page which gives you more time to gather upvotes. At this time, the competition is such that it is easier to jump on the front page as there are less items posted.

However, this happens right before a lot of traffic pours into the website which ensure you can enjoy a lot of visibility/upvotes once you are on the front page.

[1] http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/
Antitrust requires a monopoly position, which Apple doesn't have (but Microsoft did have). Apple are being dicks and should be smacked down for it in the market, but I doubt antitrust would stick.
Interesting choice. One is still able to add a module that wraps the calls with a custom allocator.
> I think you'd be hard-pressed with an antitrust case because Apple does not have a monopoly on mobile devices.

> [Merriam-Webster] of, relating to, or being legislation against or opposition to trusts or combinations; specifically: consisting of laws to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints and monopolies or unfair business practices.

It doesn't only apply to monopolies but it is a very good tool for dealing with them.
Well, Erlang has kind of a cumbersome syntax, and it is hard to learn for someone who has never seen a functional programming language.

IMO Elixir does a great job at reducing the inherent complexity of the Erlang syntax, while keeping its powerful features (Erlang-procs, horizontal scalability, fault-tolerance).
That's not what monopoly means.
Apple is well known for enforcing rules spottily if at all. TONS of app violate some of the rules (such as ads through push notifications).

Many of them seem to be there as justification to choose from if they see something they don't like.
The guarantee is not against a malicious agent, but a reasonable programmer who may make mistakes.
I've said it before and here it is again:

Microsoft was in a position of arguably less control in the late 90's and got a huge antitrust case brought against them. Apple is somehow getting away with wildly anticompetitive behavior (more broad than just this case) and for some crazy reason we are all supporting it because "that's the way it is!"

When Microsoft was the dominant OS, imagine Windows having a blacklist of applications you can't install because they advertised compatibility with Linux or Mac apps. People would riot. But we accept exactly the same behavior from Apple like it's totally fine.
Seems like it might be hard to build a UI for Pebble support without mentioning the name Pebble, but I guess it's possible. It would make it a lot harder for users to discover the feature, which is sort of like saying support has to be removed.

> Specifically, -> your app <- and app description declare support for thePebble Smartwatch.
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I guess you wouldn't try to be a smartass in such a situation. Parole violation means going back to jail.
boot = trunk
I agree, though for high-dollar items you're usually required to be present to sign for an item. That, and your car may find itself parked in areas much seedier than where you choose to live.
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Good advise - but a swappiness = 0 setting can bite you as well. See an explanation in http://www.chinanetcloud.com/blog/attack-of-the-killer-kerne... and why we set swappiness = 1.
Imagine if Google did the same thing in search.
It's a bit tricky. I agree with most comments here that Apple is in the right to control what appear in the description and metadata. Not just from a competitive standpoint but in a way to make the it better for the user experience.

That being said, in the Pebble case, I think it makes the user experience worst for the user. I.e. if I have a pebble watch and am looking for an iphone app that play well with it, I'd want to see the name in the description/meta-data.

I think it's different than saying "Also on Android" because this is a totally different device. I.e. saying it's on another smartphone doesn't add value to the description, but saying it supports some hardware device does.

It seems like Apple is doing that as a way to kill competition and promote their own watch, which is fair from a business standpoint. But as a user, I don't like that approach of forcing everything into the Apple ecosystem. I got tired of that 2 years ago and switched to android, haven't looked back since.
I too have been using Copy for years.

Let's not forget they have a working Linux client. Maybe things have changed since I last looked, but they were one of the few supporting Linux (both cli and gui).
So apps for cars would be rejected? Tesla is literally a "mobile platform", hehe.
Seems that wasn't fixed reliably. Still seeing lots of probe requests. Is there a https://support.apple.com/HT... talking about it?
There was also the socially-constructed "ideal" human that eugenics strived for, or how it designated non-white races as "inferior" genetically, or the subjugation of the individual's fitness to society's "needs". My feeling is that these ideas are "not even wrong" enough that they'll incrementally come right back if you don't place a moral firewall around the entire concept.
Other comments seem to indicate that this previously wasn't an issue for Pebble support.

From a consumer perspective, I can see Apple's argument that mentioning Android support doesn't matter because the app running on Android has no bearing on whether it works on your iOS device or not.

But for something like a wearable, that's absolutely information I want as a consumer. To me, it's much closer to an app being able to say whether they support BTLE heart rate monitors or not. It's something that interfaces directly with the device.

I suspect the actual reason Apple is suddenly expanding what it considers a mobile platform is that it's a preemptive strike against Android Wear support for iOS.
They have a monopoly for the iOS platform, at least. And in some jurisdictions you don't need a monopoly to be guilty of anticompetitive behavior.
For a second I thought this was about them being able to remotely "boot" the computer in cars for some reason.
> I agree that more than one thing should matter, but our society is pretty hostile to that idea.

Practically speaking our economy is more hostile to it than our society. It's just that it's really really hard to have marriage+kids in a nice neighborhood and compete at the same time; but by accounts people who can pull that off are considered winners.

It seems to me the only answer is having a very progressive, socialist economy which makes the marriage+kids easier. (Another alternative is resetting societal values to be less materialistic, but that ain't happening -- men will always want BMWs and iphones, a lot of women would still want that diamond stone).

Also, the egg-freezing scares the bejesus out of me. Someone pointed out in the thread about Chinese scientists tweaking human embryos that we know so little about things that while we may be thinking we've tweaked an embryo in a safe way, and a human is born of it, the really bad dysgenic properties may not be manifest until later in life. Egg-freezing stirs the same feelings in me. On a related note, one of my aunts is an ob/gyn doctor, and I've heard her say many times that for a very wide variety of reasons it is best that children be had earlier rather than later (20s instead of 30s, 30s instead of 40s, etc.) for both men and women (but especially women). I don't know what I'm getting at, I guess all I can say is, damn, we have it tough, I wish I knew of good answers.
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I task candidates with problems, and then I ask questions as the candidate attempts to solve the problem to learn what the candidate is thinking, and how the candidate approaches the problem - solving the problem isn't important to me, but seeing how the candidate works is. I'll ask questions like "Why did you choose [insert data structure]?" or "Why didn't you approach this problem [insert way]?" or "Why did you approach this problem this way?", or even questions like "What would happen if you chose to do it [insert way]?" You also find out a lot about the person's knowledge as well.

I don't necessarily expect perfection in code design - I can help teach that, but a good foundation is paramount.
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> and the data will not leave your company.

That is a two-edged sword. The data is also inaccessible outside of your company. There are ways to make it accessible outside the company (VPN, WebDAV over https), but they tend to be complex, fragile, and sometimes unworkable (see next).

> standard protocols (SMB, AFS, WebDAV, whatever)

Support for the standard file sharing protocols (SMB, NFS, I presume AFS, and WebDAV) sucks or doesn't exist on mobile devices.
It would be great to be able to remotely connect to the world, so plays can use the language of their choice. Personally I like web sockets and JSON, as they are well supported by most programming languages. In any case it would set it apart from some the other online AI arena's I've seen so far.
Apple has 100% monopoly on iOS platform.
They have a monopoly on the sale of iPhone apps, no?
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An antitrust case because apple are using their minority position in the market to tell developers not to advertise other platforms on theirs?

Sure, sounds appropriate.
You certainly can get clients through email, and I can think of no more valuable skill you could practice than the art of composing a really good email to a consulting customer who lives twelve time zones away. It is not especially difficult to earn $500 per day with that skill, plus the skills you already have. Algorithms, shmalgorithms.

Your English looks flawless to me, by the way, so don't sell yourself short: you can learn to write like a pro, you may already be there, and describing what you have done and what you are going to do in written English prose is where the money is.

Are you actually a Wordpress themer? Learn just that much PHP and you can get all kinds of little gigs, doing work like customizing themes for people's Wordpress or Drupal sites. The advantage of learning a package, like a CMS, is that they lend themselves to little jobs, because most of their code is not customized and oftentimes the custom code is, shall we say, easy to improve. And if you are looking to fill time for a few months - and practice those vital pitching and customer-communication skills - little jobs might be nice.

Incidentally, at some point you might really want to practice whiteboard interviews, but if I were to do that I would specifically practice whiteboard interviews, not TopCoder or algorithms. Whiteboard interviews are a specific skill all their own. That skill is at least as much about being able to think out loud as it is about what you are actually thinking about. Knowing more algorithms might not help. I have found it more valuable to be able to implement bubble sort while telling jokes about bubble sort than to know what quicksort is.
This strikes me as a bizarre idea, to be honest - I can't imagine many being comfortable with this, particularly in Germany, which is a pretty privacy-conscious nation.

Reading the title, I thought they might be doing something genuinely interesting, by subsidising the cost of the car so long as you have a space in it which Amazon had access to which can be used for ferrying goods from X to Y based on your normal travel patterns. i.e. using personal vehicles as deadhead capacity, effectively.

Edit: Further thought. What if they're about to deliver to your car, having found it from the GPS beacon, and you decide to drive somewhere. Are they going to chase you down the autobahn, waving frantically at you?! How will they manage delivery schedules?

I can't help but think that this is a logistics nightmare.

Edit: Further further thought. What if they can't fit it in your trunk? What if you park backed up to a wall?
It's funny that HN is normally so free-market that people here are happy to accept this sort of market feudalism: the company running the market for iOS apps gets to make their own rules, no matter how arbitrary.
> the latter still never "broke out".

Crossing the Chasm strikes again. In general, grabbing the early adopters doesn't inherently mean you'll be successful.

(Not that everyone wants to cross said chasm. Haskell's motto has been 'avoid success at all costs' for a while now, if I remember correctly.)
I'll agree they're not a monopoly, but they're being highly anti-competetive, to a point that a legal remedy might actually be successful should the FTC or DOJ push it.
IMHO when Ericsson decided to remove "experimental pmods" support from Erlang in version 16, the compiler magic in ChicagoBoss turned from "oh cool" into a liability. Ericsson's development team did release a workaround example, but the whole process how this went down left a sour taste in my mouth.

My wish is that Ericsson's Erlang development team became more transparent to the outside world, shared their bug tracker, code reviews (Go team does this wonderfully) and did all development in the open. Then we would not have these situations https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/687 and it would save me ton of time couple years ago chasing after ssl bugs.
Walled Gardens - stifling innovation since 2007. Nothing to see here, move on ...
Interesting analysis. And that's absolutely correct, the exit probability is what makes the difference.

It could be that they were all popped boxes running the same config, or it could be basic devops making sure all boxes setup have the same config. Both seem equally plausible, IMO.
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Just read the posting and have to say, I really would dig the Chrome extension - and having a lot of traveling colleagues here in Hamburg, they would too.

Also the app - this would really be a great app to have.

Kudos!
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It's still a rule worth discussing. I hardly think this deserves to be flagged.
It's a very large investment from the perspective of Haskell, a miniscule investment from the perspective of Microsoft.
I think people who are professional programmers should be able to easily get over one syntax or the other in order to gain access to something powerful, but the reality is that it does seem to matter. I suppose it's better to deal with that reality rather than gnash one's teeth about it.
The App Store is Apple's private property. As much as we disagree with its policies of mentioning Any Mobile OS Which Shall Not Be Named, we must allow Apple to do with its own property as it sees fit. This is the essence of liberty. As a developer, you are also at liberty to choose against developing for iOS if you disagree with Apple's policies.
> Apple is a vile antitrust monstrosity.

I think you want to say "anti-competetive", not "antitrust". Antitrust legislation is what is used against anti-competitive companies. But yes, otherwise you are absolutely right: Apple's behaviour is monopolistic and unfair and "vile" is not unjustified.
Could you explain why a railway operator might not want their data to be opened? After all, better availability of data might convince more people to use trains.
I see only 3 alternatives anyway:

1/ Google Drive

2/ Box

3/ USB keys
Ho ho ho.

They usually call a monitoring centre, who then call the police, who then take a note that they were called, sit back, and have another cup of tea.

To actually get any kind of police response, you have to have a specially certified alarm system, and there have to be multiple sensors triggered... and even then, they'll take a note that they were called, sit back, and have another cup of tea.

See the recent Hatton Garden raid as a case in point.
It really does seem to me like the only possible sane strategy, on a systems level, is to raise the cost of operating a private automobile in Manhattan and use the revenue to subsidize or build more trains. Every other approach leads to Robert Moses/Houston/Atlanta. The implementation details and prices are certainly debatable but I'm always astounded that there exists anyone who questions the fundamental strategic premise of Manhattan=transit.
> You have the option of buying 4G speed bandwidth for a fairly reasonable price - though still a bit higher than the Google Fi data rates.

About 10-15x higher, it looks like. :/ Around $100-150/GB, depending on the pass length, e.g. 100MB usable in 24 hours for $15, or 500MB usable in 2 weeks for $50.
"Dropbox sucks", with specific reasons why, is informative to me as a potential user.

Not sure "so what?" is a reasonable test anyway. If you're snarky enough, couldn't you ask that about any article at all?
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> No, monopoly over their devices doesn't count.

Why not? They are influencing one market because of their control of another unrelated market.