skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no.

Device cost is trending to zero. People already _have_ the devices, often many of them, and frequently simply gathering dust. We're stuffing computers into phones, refrigerators, toasters, security cameras, set-top boxes, and fnord knows what else. A gumstick is sufficient to serve personal content.

The costs come elsewhere. You need a stable Net connection (pretty easy to come by). Distributed data means that any single system loss is pretty much a non-event. Abuse and bad behavior are far bigger issues, all the usual suspects: child pr0n, adult pr0n, copyright violations, threats and bullying. Policing those on a fully-distributed infrastructure would be a nightmare (maybe we'll just give up that fight).

Identity and credential recovery are actually pretty big issues. I could see a market where these are actually turned to a benefit, through localized service provision. A local business or enterprise with an interest in knowing who you are and/or establishing your identity might take on the task of maintaining base nodes. It would depend on costs and benefits. Retail, banking, insurance, healthcare, comms provider or other local institutions. Possibly education or government (there are those of us whose first Internet experience came by way of college or university, though we're starting to die out). And as I've observed elsewhere, "Who are you" is becoming the most expensive question online.

Craigslist comes to mind. A very small segment of activity funds a great deal else on the site, including a pretty extensive forums section (though that's got various issues).

The biggest cost is almost certainly direct customer interaction. Convert this to a model where that's already happening or can be converted to a benefit, and you may well have a win.

That $12-$15/mo isn't what you need someone to _pay_ you directly for the service, but what you need to be able to recover from them, net. Or, possibly, much less.

I suspect your $5/mo floor is illusory.
SpaceX named their recovery sea vessels 'Just Read The Instructions' and 'Of Course I Still Love You', after the Iain M Banks sci-fi Culture ships.
Are you a scientist? If so, in what capacity? If not, where do your assumptions come from?

My problem with your post is that it seems to be based on a faulty understanding of the actual way things work (compared to some theory on it), and furthermore is a case of 'I'm a software engineer, I can solve anything' without actually understanding the issues. Much like engineer's armchair lawyering, which is always so far off the mark that it's impossible to even intelligently debate, because it's based on so much misinformation.
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I actually believe I choose the most widely disseminated approach. My Facebook ad was targeted to within 20 miles of my town and reached around 10,000 unique people according to Facebook. Only 18,000 people live in my town and it's a very rural area. Even our local paper's job ads page gets fewer readers, I bet.

Two of the people I hired actually didn't even see the ad themselves but had it shared to them by other people, so if older people were looking for a job in my field, I believe they would have had a good chance to see it too.
Ryan Gosling just joined Vine and fans are going nuts over his first post
German companies are very unhappy.

http://www.dw.de/airbus-to-press-charges-on-nsa-bnd-spying-c...

Airbus has both civilian and military development and production in Germany.
The trouble with wars against humour, is they tend to be really funny.
Interesting to see such advises coming from CERN blog, given how the whole process works in reality (aka just like any other academic position).
It's been almost 2 months since I started learning Clojure+ClojureScript.

The language itself is beautiful and very powerful, you feel like you're gaining new superpowers as you learn it.
You also start to understand your imperative languages much better as you learn Clojure and grasp concepts like functional programming, data (im)mutability, runtime polymorphism and get some new insights into concurrency.
Lisp's Code is data and 'data is all you need' is an extremely powerful concept too.

Interactive development is a really cool thing.

But the path was not all flowers, I must confess.

I've struggled for weeks with the editors and Repl integration (I chose Cursive eventually), setting up the projects and the workflow for clojure, browser and node.js vm.

We have a tendency to try and adapt the stuff we learn to the things we already know and sometimes I did just that, trying to fit a square into the circle that I know and it never quite fits. It's best if you 'forget' all your previous programming knowledge and just go with the Clojure/ClojureScript way of doing things.
The language (and especially the tools/libs) are evolving rapidly so check the date on the articles you read: if earlier than 2014, chances are things are done differently now.
Also, the best way to get help fast is through the IRC channels on freenet. I would have saved days if not weeks if I've figured this out earlier.

That being said, ClojureScript is not like CoffeeScript. While it compiles to javascript, there's little benefit in using it as a 'javascript dialect'. It's power is in it's ability to be Clojure in the browser and the most benefit is when you have the tandem of clojure server and clojurescript client (which is actually one single application - go figure).

You can also feel that clojure is on the rise right now - there's stuff appearing every day - articles, books, libraries and cool demos, I think programmers are just starting to grasp the true power of the 21st century lisp. It kind of feels like the early days of node.js, so things will definitely grow in the future.
Fractint was well respected software. It's very old but the source is available. I'm not sure what kind of licence the source is under - this was in the days when people called things "stone soup".

The math is going to be easily portable.

http://www.nahee.com/spanky/www/fractint/getting.html
As they've said, the "merge" would most likely happen as a forked io.js repo with cherry-picked commits from node's repo.
Here's how Silicon Valley really thinks about diversity in hiring
What I know until now does not make me want to elect a new government. Really. I'm German and I follow the political scene.

This scandal is bad enough. I understand the urge to slap the government. But that punishment would ultimately hurt our society more than it would hurt the responsible parties. I don't see a chancellor that I don't believe will do a worse job than Merkel, and getting rid of the two dominant parties only leaves inexperienced and incompetent politicians to do the job.
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ioreg -l -n AppleSmartBattery -r | awk '/MaxCapacity/{mc=$3};/DesignCapacity/{dc=$3};END{print 100*mc/dc}'
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> LR-VDSL2 enabled systems are capable of supporting speeds of around 1–4 Mbit/s (downstream) over distances of 4–5 km (2.5–3 miles), gradually increasing the bit rate up to symmetric 100 Mbit/s as loop-length shortens.

You need to be quite close to the exchange to get the higher speeds. Sounds like it should be a solution to the last mile problem though - strategically place DSLAMS along the fiber where existing copper can be re-routed to it. I have no idea how much this is done.
The actual extent is still unknown. There is a possibility that industrial secrets have been transmitted, but there's no proof or even allegations of a particular case which has happened. I'd rather know more details before passing judgement.
I know a few examples how major companies have rejected a very smart experienced developers. Also a friend of mine was interviewed in a few major companies and every single interview was extremely stupid (by his words) because they didn't ask any question about his real experience but instead spammed with typical tasks from glassdoor.
The problem is that there are more issues than that and overall at least comparatively Germany is doing rather well at the moment.

Our current government consists of a large coalition between the SPD and the CDU/CSU. A government in which neither of these parties take part would be a massive practically unthinkable shift.

No matter how much you care about this issue -- and keep in mind the majority doesn't really care about any issue enough to vote -- doing anything about it comes with a very high risk.

So no matter how much we may dislike the BND situation, nothing about it is going to change simply because there is no other party that can both be trusted to change anything about it and successfully run the government.
Nope - you can see the salt in the stored hash. If you know what the 16 chars of salt are so you only have to search the 4 character search space to enumerate all possible 4 char passwords.

(it makes the number of rainbow tables you would have considered pre-calculating ~10 years ago a much more difficult task, but that's not how passwords are attacked any more)
> My workplace doesn't test either which I think is a huge mistake (so much so I almost couldn't write this sentence without swearing). That's something I am trying to change.

This is the biggest problem, I think - the conception of UX without "user" work.

This doesn't mean only testing per se, but any kind of empirical or data collection work (from using anthropological methods early to strict usability testing). If a given company is not doing any of this, then they're not doing UX at all. If they're not in contact with the user in any way, then it's not UX.

Having someone creating UIs in Photoshop is not UX and this is, I think, the biggest and most detrimental misconception of the field.
It also ruins scrolling for me. I have to click and drag the scrollbar.
There is nothing to realize. That's known for a long time. Other than GB we have been occupied by the US, we have large US installations here - including the US military central commands for Europe and Africa (!). The situation is understandable, because Germany caused and lost WWII. But after 70 years since the war has ended, many Germans wish that the US stops using Germany as tool.
Australian Prime Minister bans gay ambassador's partner from airport reception
This could really do with having someone copy-edit. The constant spelling and grammatical errors make it quite hard to read, unfortunately.
One disadvantage is that you miss all Power Nap features:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204032

In my opinion, you don't miss all that much except for the following features:
* Software updates download
* Time Machine performs backups
* Spotlight perform indexing
Could be due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9180229 (depressed at my job). Interviewers can catch on if you're unhappy and it can also effect your interview performance.

Ironic, trying to leave a job because you're blue makes it harder to get another.
Thank you too, I'll be adding a bunch of Liszt soon.
It's not actually a shortage of engineers. I can post a job and have an endless stream of interviewees in the door. There is a shortage of engineers with the requisite amount of experience and the right skill set for many jobs.

This holds especially true with startups that don't have the time or money to spend 6+ months getting you up to speed from zero on whatever they're working on. Hiring people based mostly on intelligence (what big firms like Google try to do) works when you have the capital to spend 6 months training them towards being productive.
I don't need particularly good performance. It's better to be able to play some things, though.
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The squid thing is a nod to Rolling Stone's famous description of GS as a giant vampire squid - many may be unfamiliar with it.
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Oh okay - so you're talking about product which is intrinsically valuable to its creator, irrespective of it's potential intrinsic value to others. Seems reasonable... don't know if I agree with your larger thesis... but it is an interesting discussion. :)
No. They're saying there's no USB-C to Lightning cable. But that's not the only way you could connect it.
> But why would Joyent consider rejecting a PR for gender pronouns as a fireable offense? Probably a website defacement / practical joke.

That wasn't a rejection because of gender pronouns. That was a rejection because one pronoun was changed from the docs, instead of all of them. This leads to:

- minor change, not suitable for a PR

- inconsistency, either change all of them to match, or leave them alone
Yes. And this is the reason I can't take people who advocate io.js seriously. They either didn't do their homework, or have a bizarre set of requirements from software. Joyent did lots of improvements in node.js observability with DTrace and mdb providers. This was one of the very first thing that broke after io.js forked.

Yes, releasing a new release every week is more important than being to debug, profile, and understand your application.
I think security in combination with money can only be about preventing a third party having access to your money.

The banks or any device you give your money to in the first place, you have to trust.

Otherwise keeping all money with yourself is the only alternative. A sock below the mattress or buried in the garden.

Don't forget to draw a coded (!) treasure map ;-)
Very cool, well done! I just showed it to my wife and 3 year old and both spent 45 minutes playing with it.

Some suggestions:

- the ads on iPad are really obtrusive. Please remove them. I'd gladly pay for the app or the individual packages. ( I deleted the app within 5 minutes)

- a "buy everything" option would be nice

- I think a two handed mode would be really great: perhaps you could consider generating two timelines with separate even handlers so that you can play multiple rhythms at the same time. Would be a nice "advanced mode".

- eventually , an option to include scoring would be nice. You could compare the actual rhythm offset with the"ideal" rhythm to train user rhythm. The current "sandbox" mode really should stay, though, since I really enjoyed watching my kid playing with it :-)

Other than that, great work!
I agree. I work remotely and do this a lot with team members, but when people suggest pair programming, they are (usually) referring to 2 seats on 1 keyboard kind of thing, which I hate and would probably quit if I had to do it on a day to day basis.
If you don't explain a concept adequately you cannot blame someone for not understanding it.
Seconded. The videos in that channel are a great help in seeing polyphony and how complex music can be behind-the-scene.
You don't need a backdoor since you can MitM either/both the user and Apple.

http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html
> only leaves inexperienced and incompetent politicians to do the job.

I think the idea that politicians primarily need to be experienced is a great mistake. It's not like they really run the government, which is really done by a huge number of government employees and experts a layer below.

What _does_ matter is integrity, a willingness to balance interests, listening to experts and aligning with the political position of those who elected you (e.g. a social democrat should probably focus more on the interests of workers - it puzzles me how the fact that there really are different interests that do not always align and that much of politics is therefore really about power is always ignored in favour of "experience").

And, by the way, some current German top politicians often _already_ seem quite incompetent. It seems unfair to just claim that members of smaller parties are more incompetent.
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This person never said that passing this first question was in any way a positive indicator of skill, though. For better or worse, when you have a lot of people coming in, sometimes you need to throw a negative filter in front. Something which you can say "If they can't do this, our conversation is over, and I can stop wasting time right away."

As much as I've been frustrated by someone asking me to write FizzBuzz, I greatly sympathize with the people who end up asking it or some variant of a very, very simple coding problem. I hope that at some point, there really will be a better way.
Do you have any proof for this bold claim? I will try to prove that quite the opposite is true: Germany has a very active civil society and privacy ("Datenschutz") and transparency is on the agenda not only of the opposition party "Die Grünen" and the small "Piratenpartei", but also by organizations such as Chaos Computer Club, Netzpolitik.org and Verbraucherzentrale. There have been huge demonstrations, "Freiheit statt Angst" (Freedom instead of fear), with thousands demonstrating in Berlin and elsewhere. You can find all material on their website, also in English - http://freiheitstattangst.de/aufruf/
>Well, why's mining centralising now?

Now we've come full-circle to my original thesis: this is a short-term phenomenon that I predict will slow and eventually reverse.

I'm still unclear as to why this shouldn't be the case.
Finding engineers with good algorithmic skills could be hard. But it's not the point. There are tons of undergraduate students in developing countries working hard on those puzzles day and night. Some of them can even squash a whole program into a single function with more than 1000 lines and still be able to make it bug free and quite micro-optimized. The really rare charms, in my opinion, are those who are able to design. That is, making good choices among the trade-offs. I don't think Chris Lattner, Rob Pike and Linus Torvalds would shine at the quickness of puzzle solving or inventing the fastest algorithms. I even doubt if Don Knuth can do better than you on UVA online judge.
On meditation and mind training. (2007)
Exactly, that's my method as well. Although I have to say it's not so much a necessity rather than a preference for new and shiny. Hardware is so powerful nowadays.
Anything 3D printed - fractal lamp shades, art, curtains, etc.
> I looks like they rejected you after interview so you didn't even go to the part where you receive an offer and reject it for being too low so the part about "cheap" engineers is just a cheap shot.

Even more so, if they were worried about cheap engineers, I assure you that they wouldn't be spending money to fly you around the country, buying you flights and meals (and often drinks and hotels and taxi/uber rides and sending you away with swag). The companies you listed pay the best amongst those in SV. I don't think price was the issue
My sense is that the Valley (and other little Valleys) has a serious shortage of the same 100 engineers.

With HN as the only sample, companies don't seem to be very interested right now in taking good engineers and molding them into great ones, or in building a business structure that can benefit from good engineers.

Instead, they're all competing for the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% -- and complaining that there aren't enough of those to go around, so the visa program needs to be restructured to draw that talent from the rest of the world.

shrug Honestly, I think the best thing you can do in that kind of environment is focus on looking outside the Valley, or do some freelancing if you think that would be a good fit, or start your own business if you think you can and maybe see about hiring the good talent that nobody else wants right now.
I found this confusing and almost thought it was a joke, because Quip[0] is a document collaboration tool for mobile devices and the web. Turns out they happen to share the exact same brand name.

[0] https://quip.com/
Not working in FF 37.0.2 either.
There is a local election on Sunday in Bremen (state level): http://www.wahlrecht.de/termine.htm

It will certainly be interesting to see if this scandal is of any importance to the voters.
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It's important to note that if the government will fall, it's not because of the citizens, but because of the opposition. This is not the first controversy the government faces after the Snowden relevations, yet the CDU doesn't seem to lose voters over this.
Cinder (YC W15) is hiring a hands-on EE to build magical cooking devices
We’re building the Connected Kitchen, starting with a new kind of cooking appliance which uses the latest food science and high accuracy sensing to cook restaurant-quality food, more conveniently then possible ever before.

Here’s who we’re looking for:
• B.S. or equivalent in EE
• At least 3-5 years of board-level design— AC, digital and some RF (you don’t have to be an antenna guru, although we don’t mind if you are)
• Experience with the whole cycle, from getting boards built, testing and debugging, certification and into manufacturing
• Solid hands-on skills; we have a tech, but you should be able to build and modify your own boards. Good with scopes, logic analyzers, SMT, etc.
• Startup mind. You do whatever is needed. You identify problems, take initiative to fix them. You can manage yourself and your vendors effectively.

Nice to have:
• Experience with UL and FCC certification. Appliance background even better.
• Willingness to travel to Asia, specifically China, to support manufacturing
• Firmware skills and experience
• Some mechanical assembly and test skills
• Shipped consumer electronics
Benefits of working at Cinder:
• Healthy lunch provided daily, plus lots of great food samples in testing
• Discounted product
• Team has shipped high volume products from Jawbone and Orbit Baby, as well as launching space vehicles with Lockheed and sensor research at Xerox PARC
• A product people really love-- change how people cook and eat at home every night

APPLY: https://angel.co/l/Hskyh
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This did give a chuckle.

Edit: I'm surprised that PHP accepts these characters (（╯°□°）╯︵┻━┻) as a valid function name. Perhaps there's a way to hack the same into JS (that would be messy).
The NSA has given target data to the BND and the BND has then handed over the collected intelligence about these targets to the NSA.

The check who were the targets, was a joke. There were literally millions of selectors and a quick check already delivered thousands of selectors which were directly against German interests.
I self-close out of XML habit. I think you're detecting nothing more than which programmers have written more XML than HTML. If anything I'd think the kind of programmer who likes to close every tag would be better at e.g. always freeing resources correctly.
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Not only to it's creator but to anybody. I agree, I too find the entire discussion, if a little off-topic, very interesting.
no windows installers yet :( ...
hopefully they get uploaded soon
There's a few things I believe would really help getting DANE rolled out.

As far as I know, there's really no "out of the box" validation for end users. The web browsers will have to make the validation, or failed validation, visible for people to care enough to implement it.

Although DNSSEC is becoming more and more commonplace, it still seems that in a lot of places, you'll have to throw up your own DNS-server to be able to use it. Make it simpler to implement, and you'll probably see a lot more people starting to use it.

Also, just to clarify, DANE doesn't _solve_ the CA-problem. You're now putting all your trust into it being hard to both issue a valid certificate and compromise the DNS chain.
As a fan of wry judicial humor, this excerpt is a MUST-SHARE:

Pregerson: And you're a great lawyer.

Voelker: I appreciate you saying that, Your Honor.

Pregerson: I mean, it says so, right there on your web site.
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