skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really a lazy mischaracterization of Apple. They've never been especially interested in your personal data. The only service they have where they maintain any sizeable, persistent consumer information seems to be the iTunes store, and as far as I can tell, they've never tried to monetize/share that information with anyone. I'm more curious why you would think of Apple this way - "I-want-all-your-data"? Maybe Apple "you-didn't-really-buy-your-hardware", but "I-want-all-your-data"?

If anything, I would liken Apple to a jealous and abusive boyfriend - they'll beat and abuse their customers with sometimes arbitrary controls over what they can do with their hardware, but God help you if you try to do the same to their customers. Whether you're a third-party developer, an accessory manufacturer, or anyone with a relationship with those customers, Apple will come down on you HARD if they think that you're harming their platform or exploiting their customers. From that point of view, Apple's action here - trying to interfere with RS' sale of Apple customers' personal data - is typical of Apple.
To support containers, is Linux necessary?

Nope, it's just software. With enough money, you can do whatever you want. Linux isn't necessary, nothing really is, but it's a very practical choice. The shorter path is to strip down linux as much as possible and then diverge from traditional use, rather than build something entirely new from scratch. Plus you have a rich environment from the get go, and can share platform advances back and forth with ease.
I had forgotten about balloons and kites, that is a good point. Only other thing I can think of in training that isn't traditional is using operant conditioning, but that was uncommon when I was still practicing.
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You need to add the 3DR Solo to the list at $999.
Symantec removed SGC from their products about 1-2 months ago. So you are right, these are outdated - but they are not relics.

Symantec was peddling SGC pretty strongly before then, including "SGC" in the name of their products.
However (almost?) all syscalls dealing with filesystem paths take null-terminated strings. See for example the implementation of the open() syscall:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fb65d872d7a8dc629837a...

(Hence the need for the strncpy_from_user()-function: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/fb65d872d7a8dc629837a...)
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Yeah. REST API + JS front-end frameworks like ReactJS look to be the future.
Oh, so that's why they have been trying to sell it here on HN.
You should quit your job if you hit even one of those items on the list.
That sort of comment, Sir, makes me doubt that you are a true knight.
1. Have you verified that the graphic designer was paid?

2. IMO, when it comes to going into business:

Yellow = Red

3. What did they show you in regard to market validation, funding efforts, user acquisition, business plans, etc?

4. What does the buy-sell agreement look like?

5. What has the electrical engineer been doing that has prohibited them from developing a technical background?
I got my startup shadowbanned on programming subreddits :(
> > Did they really trademark Sprite™?

> No, or they would have used the R symbol instead of the TM.

The circle-R is for a registered trademark. Something can be claimed as (and protected as) a trademark -- and thus, trademarked -- without also being a registered trademark.
...and, slightly off-topic, for a book that talks a lot about scientific forestry, colonization in Tanzania and the pitfalls of centralized cultural and city planning see James C. Scott's Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed.
Thank you very much for testing this exploit. The vulnerability is in gssapi.c which is only compiled in if HAVE_GSSAPI is defined. This is an optional configuration parameter, so it sounds like the configuration you tested did not have GSSAPI/kerberos enabled. That's good news for users who have a similar setup, it will give them ample time to switch to a different IPsec implementation.
You are right Yuhong. Symantec's "Pro" products used to advertise SGC, now they are using ECDSA instead.
"Unless we're baking them into the Container, at which point it's not much different than a VM."

A little more than a VM, but not much more. A file system (which might be on another machine) and a connection to a network interface are all that are necessary. .dll and .so files are part of the application, not part of the OS. Besides, static linking is making a comeback; Go and Rust are usually statically linked.
Indeed; "thinly-veiled ads" by an opponent in a zero-sum game is the impoetus behind half the useful data-gathering and analysis in the world. See: misdeeds by one political party investigated by an opposing party to create hit pieces; evidence investigated by the prosecution and defense on a criminal case to prove one-another wrong; etc.
This is genuinely awesome and I'm excited to see it's applications in future products.

HOWEVER: I don't think it's ready for 'consumer grade' things just yet.
It's one thing to have it in a controlled wind-tunnel for 48 hours, it's completely different than having it outside and in variable wind, dirt, dust, other objects, etc.

Honestly, I can't imagine my luddite brother or father wrapping their minds around this just yet: "So, I point the laser at this? Why can't I just use a flashlight? Can I use the laser to charge my phone?"
I read it as a mixed call to boycott (and shaming) together with an appeal to CertSimple's expertise; "I don't see you actually having any startups, and thus your opinion is meaningless. If you do have a startup you certainly are a bad startup."
You're obviously new to HN!
No, you're totally right. They were like 18 months in when I joined up, and I slowly began to realize the product was mostly vaporware.

Also right on point with the bright red flag...they had just closed an initial round for enough money to grow..yet the founder kept telling us about these unnamed investors who claimed the company was worth more and that we should keep raising. On top of that, founders always kept claiming "partnerships" with big name companies were always on the way but NEVER materialized. I basically started looking for another job 3 months in
Why Europe Struggles with Startup Culture
We use it to interface with our Django projects https://github.com/commoncode/django-ddp/
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The point of these tests is not to see who remembers their CS. The point of these tests is to have an opportunity to see how candidates go through the process of solving problems by approaching a problem that is well-understood by the interviewer. Good interviewers pair with the candidate and help to coach him/her towards a solution. This is a carefully crafted simulation of two people working together in which certain variables can be controlled. It's also time-limited because most interviewers have to go through dozens of candidates to find someone who is a good fit for a particular team and culture. It's economically infeasible to hire a bunch of people on a per-trial basis. It's also hurtful to bring someone in for a few days, and then tell them that they aren't working out.

Normally, when I heard this whole "I don't do coding tests" attitude, it comes from a candidate who thinks that he/she is so amazing that the rules don't apply. If such candidates flounce out of my tech screening because I dared to give them a problem, then my tech screening has worked. In my experience, most good engineers have tempered their egos with a dose of humility. They have hit the wall of their abilities, and they understand that they aren't nearly as amazing as they thought they were when they were younger. They are more careful, and they are open minded. I won't dismiss a candidate for lacking humility if I believe that he or she can grow, but if given the choice between a good candidate with humility and a stellar candidate who is too good for a test, I'll pick the good candidate every day. I'll let that stellar candidate be someone else's management nightmare.
Not sure why they haven't purchased thepiratebay.aw yet, I had thought Aruba had a trade dispute with the US that dictated (from the WTO) that Aruba could violate US copyrights: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds285_e...
In the long run, you'll probably be happier if you realize there are no "right" answers in software engineering. People who can't get past the belief that there is spend a lot of their time telling kids to get off their lawn.
Definitely. Now I want to build a blimp drone or a blone if you will just to give it a try :). I imagine a toroidal shaped ballon with a small propeller in the middle might actually do fairly well and would be less susceptible to sideways wind than a balloon.
I don't know the history of falconry.
It seems unlikely that such an esoteric activity would evolve in multiple locations; more likely that Japanese falconry and European (not to mention US) falconry evolved from some shared ancestor.
So whose bright idea was it?
Do we have a clue?
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No, you could have multiple servers talking to each other via something like ZooKeeper. But individually, each node/server would use multithreading to keep track of its state.
Many western criminal justice systems have what is sometimes called a "crime passionnel", a crime of passion. Man catches his spouse in bed with another man, goes crazy, and proceeds to kill both of them. The law gives much leeway when this happens, as it is not felt that the average person can withstand but so much without snapping.

In the military, one of the key things officers are taught is not to get emotionally caught up in what's happening. Stay cool, make decisions, think calmly for the group and leave the passion to others. Even when you make a big deal out of some emotional outburst, such as in jumping up and yelling "Charge, men!", it should be for dispassionate and good tactical/strategic reasons.

But coming into to Dachau just minutes after the SS left? Seeing 40,000 people in that state? I don't think any member of an army or otherwise rational human being would be called to justice for going just a little bit crazy. In fact, I would be extremely disturbed by those who were not extremely disturbed by what they saw.

War is a hell of a thing, and even in that hell, what these soldiers went through must have scarred them for life. (I'm not trying to de-emphasize the much worse suffering the residents had, only point out the great emotional roller-coaster they must have experienced moving between "we're winning the war" and "oh. my. god.")
Price and safety, I would bet.
I was under the impression most of the meteor devs work for meteor?
Aresdrones.com - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aresdrones/ares-finally...
For non startup I used to say leave asap when checked 2 of 3:

1. No longer supports the ambiance/atmosphere/vibes of the team

2. Salary is a problem

3. No more passion for the work
You can get specialised recruitment agencies and I came across a few in London who focus on one area. Head hunters will use all means necessary to get details from a department of the type of people working there. They then do build up a network of people outside LinkedIn or Monster that do have relevant experience inside a specific sector. Then by employing that agency you are more likely to get the kind of candidate you're searching for.

But this only works for specialised agencies all the rest is an absolute nonsense.

One of the companies I worked for went through various agencies but also put their own ad in the Guardian UK newspaper just because the CTO happened read that newspaper. That's where I came across their job through internet searches.

I guess it's just a way of getting 'some' candidates in the hope that you'll find a polished turd in the cess pool. Or perhaps it's to make the good candidates feel like they're not the only one being interviewed.
Civil disobedience (such as the Rosa Parks, the Boston Tea Party, and lunch counter sit-ins) has been a vehicle for social and political change since forever.
> I'm not one to denigrate syntax or readability, but I think it must without any question be prioritized below good semantics

I strongly disagree. You get what you wish for / focus on - if you wish for good semantics, you will get good semantics, but not necessarily readability. If you wish for readability, you may not get good semantics - but the point of having good semantics is readability, so...

This is the issue I have with the Zen of Python (versus the Principle of Ruby). The Zen of Python attempts to list out the things you should do so that you get Developer Happiness. Ruby just says "Go get developer happiness".

And so you get Python code that follows all the Zen of Python but fails to make you happy, and you have Ruby code that breaks all the rules of the Zen of Python, but does make you happy.

Given that what makes a good programmer happy amount to ease of use, effectiveness, reliability and speed (in an order dependent on circumstance), or more succinctly - if I am happy when I am effective... I'd rather be happy than right.
To be honest, no. I remember being a lot more optimistic about it ten, fifteen years ago. Most consumers seem more concerned with using it to supplement/replace cable TV then to use it as a source of knowledge or anything.

Maybe that's more a consequence of the times than the internet itself, but every day, there's inevitably an article about how some ISP is trying to string people into a walled garden or cap, or some government is using it to create a surveillance state. It's effectively gone from a place where you'd go to get away from the traditional way of doing things to one where at least I feel a little trapped by it.
Cant tell if this is sarcasm or not :P
There are people in the business of exposing corporate fraud, and the way they make money is by shorting the stock before exposing the fraud.
Ask HN: Are P2P Marketplaces Responsible for Sales Tax?
Google has so far been unhelpful in answering this definitively so perhaps HN might have some incite -

If someone were to build a peer to peer marketplace (ex Ebay or Etsy model) in the USA today, what are the requirements for the platform in terms of collecting sales tax on goods sold through the marketplace?

Is sales tax responsibility simply passed down to the vendor? Or are there requirements for tax collection expected of the ecommerce marketplace itself?
"share platform advances back and forth with ease."

Which means "do system administration". The advantage of not having much machinery underneath is that it reduces the need to change it. It also reduces the attack surface for security holes.
Pretty much.

The spawn is one that was built on the terrain of the previous map (different seed/generation) and was transferred to the new map. The edges of the spawn are currently being smoothed out to fit.
Its not the number of parties, its the freedom and autonomy to challenge the incumbent party.

A two party state is as free as a 10 party state. Euro-style multi-party governments fall into 2 major parties with smaller, often extremist (racists, etc), smaller parties anyway. Because the two parties need to court these smaller parties for votes, minority views like racism, get majority exposure and unequivocal representation.

A one-party state isn't free at all. Its just old fashioned autocracy. A shade less than a total dictator.
When I download a song from the bittorrent network, I'm under no contract with the label to pay for it.

On the other hand, if I coin a really good new word, everyone uses it without paying me, despite the value I have provided.
Most quadcopters aren't gas-powered because they rely on rapidly adjusting the speed of brushless motors attached to fixed-pitch props to control their attitude.

A few hobbyists have built gas quads with variable-pitch rotors, but the amount of mechanical complexity and hassle involved makes a similar nitro-powered single-rotor helicopter more appealing for most hobby applications (stunt flying etc).

As more novel designs that don't rely on precise motor speed control (for example, this one) come into play, I think gas motors will make a minor resurgence as people rediscover the energy density (and therefore flight time) they can achieve.

However, for most hobbyists, electric just makes more sense. It's usually quieter, works indoors, is generally a lot less of a pain in the ass to deal with (no need for starters, glow plugs, choke, adjusting mixture, engine maintenance, etc.), and is usually less heavily regulated.
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That's misleading because it includes a large number of android based video players in Asia, which are not competitors to the iPad as general purpose tablets.
+1 for the ring votes theory

Not saying it is not useful or important. It just doesn't fit the subject matter people come here to read.
Hey all. I'm Michael, a Developer Advocate at WooThemes and now Automattic. I'm happy to answer any questions. As you can imagine, we're all really excited about this.
Seems like a great thing. :) One question. Are those propellers safe? They are not covered with anything and may potentially hurt owner or other people (face, eyes).
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I'm not sure what you mean by #1 - could you restate it with different wording? Your coworkers start to annoy you?
Yes, another approach is to not have to carry all of the energy with you. Solar charging is another possibility.
I didn't find very mutch information about it.. yet. :(
anyone played with it?
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same here. I was going to order one last week to get the 1TB ssd via pcie 4 lanes (I have the 16/512 and that's hurting me at times, both ram and ssd), and to generally refresh battery and other things that get older; I was also worried apple may be going ipad on us (like they did on the 12 inch model), and get rid of the few ports left, all of which I'm using. (tb1 for Gb ethernet -- latency is an order of magnitude lower than wifi) tb2 for an imac27 in TargetDisplayMode, usb for a hub for target dev devices, the hdmi for a second 24inch monitor and the other usb for a backup drive.

I'm sure that if I could somehow do all of this over usb3 it would be tremendously slower, and there would be serious video issues. I used to use a usb2 video card (diamond bvu195), before apple added thunderbolt and hdmi, that was a major upgrade in productivity, so I'm happy to see they have not dropped ports and have simply added the new touchpad; I might very well refresh even though raw performance and capabilities are pretty similar, as a --vote with dollars-- gesture, depending on what dollars are available.

cheers,
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These kind of seem like general rules for leaving any job.
For multirotors it's just very difficult and impractical to power them with gasoline engines. If you were to build a gas powered multirotor, you'd have to have a central engine connected to each motor by means of some complicated mechanical linkage. This would also mean you could no longer control the speeds of the motors individually, so you'd have to achieve lateral movement by pitching the propellers, like on a helicopter. All these things mean that it simply doesn't make sense to build a non-electric multirotor, it'd be massively expensive and inefficient you'd be better off going back to a helicopter.

In terms of fixed wing drones, the benefit of electric over gas is mainly ease of use I believe. It's a lot simpler for someone to charge a battery and just plug it in than it is for them to fill up canisters, refuel the engine and cope with the complexities of tweaking and starting an engine. That extra effort and learning curve isn't worth it for the slightly longer slight time.

For aerial mapping the go-to option is normally fixed wing drones, they can easily achieve 30-40 minutes of flight time and this is normally enough for those kind of applications.
There are three ways to get out of a startup:

1) jump
2) go down with the ship
3) get pushed

There is also the mythical "startup hits the bigtime and you get rich", but the odds of that happening are so low as to be not worth talking about.

So if you join a startup you should be prepared to experience one of those exits. Jumping may be worth it if the startup is going sideways in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

1) persistent low traction

2) anyone in the company ever says anything resembling "we must educate the customer"

3) frequent pivots (one or two is OK, after that it's probably just flailing before failing)

The bad culture and poor pay issues aren't as likely to come up if you've chosen well in the first place, and are reasons why you should leave sooner rather than later, but startups are mostly experiments aimed at answering two questions:

1) Can we build this thing?

2) Do enough people want to pay for this thing to make it worth our while?

The answer to the first question is usually--but not always--yes. The answer to the second question is almost always "no".
No, by itself the number of vulnerabilities patched is only useful in telling us which software has been tested and found to be lacking in the past. Along with other metrics (severity, static analysis results, code quality, complexity, reports by an independent auditor, availability of a testing framework, and competitor quality), this can be used to decide which projects need to be replaced or improved upon.

The reason that many vulnerabilities have been found in Chrome is because it is a very large and complex project. The bug bounty only gives people the necessary additional motivation to work on it during business hours. Other projects that lack bug bounties have found similar numbers of bugs (Wireshark and ClamAV to name a few) due to their complexity.
WooCommerce has already got a big chunk: http://trends.builtwith.com/shop

And they're trending up: http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/WooCommerce
You're not alone. Actually every time I see similar products out there I see flying death but this one specifically looks like it could drop a bite-sized doom on me. :)

The fast pace of development and availability of these kind of flying machinery is bound to create security implications sooner or later. These things would be great for assassinations or with a fleet of them you can absolutely terrorize the hell of a sizable area.
My wife and I call them, "No shit studies," because no shit, that's obvious. However, there is a very good reason to do the "obvious" studies because, sometimes, the results are completely different than expected.