skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the fonders have been cashing out I'm pretty sure. Employees get antsy if there's no way to cash out. Not to mention venture investors, for whom this is (assuming the price stays up and they sell before the stock can start nosing its way down) a huge payday they can bank and look good to their LPs, so they can raise the next fund.
> Will Google try to directly interfere with third-party app stores and launchers?

They have already in a subtle way. Many apps depend on Google Play Services to function (including TextSecure). It's surprisingly difficult to find a list of good apps that don't depend on Google Play Store being installed.

As it stands, Android is almost unusable for the average user without the stock app store installed
While I understand that, there have been many extensions that have been sold and turned to malware, so I do not trust Chrome extensions any more than I trust executables downloaded from ThePirateBay, unless the extension demands reasonable permissions. I know that Chrome doesn't have a good permission model or a review process, but I still won't install your extension though.
Who knows, I saw something recently about some of the stadiums built for the world cup being used as parking lots.
Little Bites of Cocoa #8: Mixing SpriteKit into UIKit
Well Android is free...
It's a different thing than windows...

just like linux is a joke in consumer PCs...
You should give the extension a whirl – you only get a few notifications per day. Perhaps you’ll even end up spending less time here. :-)
You can safely backdoor encryption. If you don't know how, well, you are just stupid (which is what I figured anyway).
I know users are using Travis-ci to automatically build when there are new commits in master and push back the results to the gh-pages branch with a lot of success.

Github pages is so cheap and easy it is the disruptive technology that is eating the lunch of stand alone hosting. Users don't think about servers, deployment or other things, they simply are pushing a branch and poof it is on the web.

Do you have a wishlist of features to add to GitHub pages? Maybe allowing minimal sandboxed server side computation with a max runtime of say 1ms, setting headers, redirects or other stuff? I am guessing every little addition would eat away at the alternatives.
A classy product and an even classier write-up!

"Having solved two problems with one excuse,..."

I trust I am free to also use this phrase? Beautiful!
I threw out that prototype soon after the talk. At the time, there weren't a lot of other engineers at the company doing Erlang, so maintenance was considered to be a long-term problem. I'm glad we made that call.
We re-implemented Meteor subscriptions and reactive database queries in 300 LoC
They were offered three billion dollars that they turned down. That is the best offer they will ever receive, and they fucked it up.

They fucked up big time.

The value of a company pre-IPO is what someone (or relatively few people) is willing to pay to acquire you. The value of a company post-IPO is essentially how much your shares are selling for. The prices of your shares are largely dictated by the opinion of a much larger number of people.
With the kind of capital Snapchat can raise today, cost savings on salaries is a trivial part of their competitive advantage.

1,000 people * $100,000 average total employment cost = $100m per year (intentionally rough math). Now shave 20% off of that. It simply isn't meaningful to what they're doing; they raised $685 million in the last six months, saving $20 or $30 million per year doesn't matter.

For Snapchat, for which money is no issue relatively speaking, it's better to have this super rich funding environment. They can out-raise, and out-spend their competition when it comes to talent (and for those they can't do that to, like Google, it's moot anyway).
> network in Android land has been that Lollipop remains a disaster

That's merely anecdotal, and my own anecdotes run in the opposite direction.

I'm building https://recent.io/ for Android and iOS and have a Nexus 5, iPhone 5, and iPhone 6 Plus on my desk as test devices as I write this. I use both OSes, though I do use iOS a bit more.

It's true that early versions of L were less than stable, though Apple has had the same problem. Another problem is slow adoption; only in the last few weeks, I think, has the Galaxy A3 been L-upgradable.

The saving grace for Android L is Material Design, which is finally a strong unifying design language at least as good as what Apple has to offer and IMHO better with at spanning different device sizes. It's well thought out and will make Android apps easier to use (and Android generally easier to use) by increasing UI/UX standard interactions. That's anything but a "disaster."
wget at least isn't affected, as long as you copy the link from the files page (the one that normally displays ads and a countdown timer in browser - it'll download the file directly with wget, since they apparently do user-agent sniffing).
Programmers: Effective Job Searching in 8 Steps
Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.0.M1 Debuts Hashicorp Service Discovery
Arq is now available for Windows
I have used the PowerSSR Tail at home and now at the office for switching mains power on and off with an Arduino, works quite nicely and comes in a nice little package.

http://www.powerswitchtail.com/pages/powerssrtail.aspx
A family friend was one of the people who helped develop the Lyme vaccine. He invited my Dad to be part of the trial because my Dad spends a lot of time outdoors. It turned out that my Dad got the placebo during the trial, but they let him get the vaccine after the trial was completed. That was a long time ago. The vaccine has certainly worn off at this point.
Farhad Manjo using Ben Thompson analysis, what could be more impartial?
If you look up the artist you'll note his previous illustrations are mostly crudely drawn comics. I suppose that is the charm.
That would be true if there was a salary bubble. There isn't. On the contrary, salaries for engineers are still low relative to the scarcity, and tech startups are only a small portion of the IT job market. And most startup jobs are actually underpaid compared to "boring" IT.

There may be a bit of an impact in SV, but not much beyond. Same as last time.
Sierpinski Triangles in Bitwise Logic
In fact, the vast majority of modern smartphones support GLONASS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smartphones_supporting_...
I half expected the article to reference the Oracle Java API fiasco. That could definitely murky the waters for Android. This, at least, is pretty credible threat to Android.
> it's essentially saying "we have something to hide" (like bad performance...), or "we don't want competition"

This seems a totally imaginary dichotomy when literally the comment you're replying to presents an alternative option, namely; "We don't want you to publish things that are almost always going to be wrong and misleading"
This is kind of true. Though you're the first person I've heard say it without complaining that GPS isn't in AOSP.

Amazon has done a pretty decent job keeping up their version, as far as I know - and they try to maintain API compatibility.

This could be solved by some good third party architecturing a solution, but overall it's Google dominating by providing the better developer tools and ecosystem.
The name is unserious but the project is very serious, its writer has responded to a few comments and linked to a presentation of his on the subject[0]. It's an extension of UTF-8 used to bridge UTF-8 and UCS2-plus-surrogates: while UTF8 is the modern encoding you have to interact with legacy systems, for UNIX's bags of bytes you may be able to assume UTF8 (possibly ill-formed) but a number of other legacy systems used UCS2 and added visible surrogates (rather than proper UTF-16) afterwards.

Windows and NTFS, Java, UEFI, Javascript all work with UCS2-plus-surrogates. Having to interact with those systems from a UTF8-encoded world is an issue because they don't guarantee well-formed UTF-16, they might contain unpaired surrogates which can't be decoded to a codepoint allowed in UTF-8 or UTF-32 (neither allows unpaired surrogates, for obvious reasons).

WTF8 extends UTF8 with unpaired surrogates (and unpaired surrogates only, paired surrogates from valid UTF16 are decoded and re-encoded to a proper UTF8-valid codepoint) which allows interaction with legacy UCS2 systems.

WTF8 exists solely as an internal encoding (in-memory representation), but it's very useful there. It was initially created for Servo (which may need it to have an UTF8 internal representation yet properly interact with javascript), but turned out to first be a boon to Rust's OS/filesystem APIs on Windows.

[0] http://exyr.org/2015/!!Con_WTF-8/slides.pdf
I find the comparison compelling, but if you want to criticize it, it's because Microsoft _has_ managed to diversify more than it is given credit for, so that today it has something like 15 separate $1bn+ annual revenue businesses.

But one doesn't need to diversify to be successful. Apple is working well with few products.

The comparison with Microsoft works well at the research level. Microsoft's research led to a tablet as a early as 2001, but without the proper vision, was not able to turn it into a viable product until Apple ate its lunch. Both Microsoft and Google are lacking visionaries to work towards new possibilities, rather than just new technologies.
"The biggest thing that I think people miss is this: because it’s so much easier to capture images using digital technology, there’s a disconnect in people’s minds about how relatively easy or hard it is to protect, conserve, store, those images for the future… [With film], when you’re done, you stick it in an envelope, stick it in a drawer and it’s safe. Short of fires and floods, it’s gonna be there in 600 years and look just fine. Today, I don’t know that the imagery I have on a hard drive — I don’t know if there’s going to be technology that can read those files 5, 10, 15 years from now, so I have to continually keep backing them up and re-backing them up onto newer and newer media just so people can look at them when I’m dead and gone. Digital is far less archival than film."

Interesting argument. I think most readers will have a different perspective, especially with cloud backup. But there is reassurance in the physical.

"P: Who are some of your favorite photographers?
T: Irving Penn, Arnold Newman, Philippe Halsman, Jim Marshall, Max Yavno, Arnold Newman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Ruth Bernhard, Herb Ritts, William Garnett, Joseph Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, and Horst immediately come to mind. There are more."

Some other work to check out in the future.
Do you still have that PAL fusemap (or .jed file)? The MAME team could use it for the jrpacman.c driver for preservation purposes at the very least.
Are the assets extracted from git and dumped on the filesystem or are they fetched from the Git objects? aka If I generate a git tree object with millions of files, but only pointing to a handful of blobs (think a maze) would this exploded on the filesystem?
Same here. As I remember Russian website/magazine xakep.ru (rus. 'хакер' - hacker) had an awesome guide on how to install and configure the Mandrake distro.
Even only filtering by very concrete facts is going to not work, especially for the social sciences.

For example, the NISVS 2010 shows that quite factually, female rapes within the last year vastly outnumber male rapes... using a definition of rape that excludes the majority of cases where men are forced to have sex against their will. I highly doubt that a factual database would include such intricacies as the specific definitions used to give a fact.

Or for a less charged and more natural sciences inclined example, consider facts about gravity. Newtonian gravity isn't quite correct, but it can safely be treated as a fact by the general population who aren't familiar with the physics behind gravity.
Seeing Double on Yelp
And there are more interesting articles related to it, like https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge_%28s%C3%A9quelles_d...

(Try using Google Translate if you don’t understand french – the english article just is far too short)
Pretty similar to how Neocities serves static sites (https://neocities.org).

There's a few differences. We don't use SQL in the routing chain, we use regex to pick out the site name and then serve from a directory of the same name (this is NOT as bad as it sounds, most filesystems can do this quite well now and take MUCH more than half a million sites to bottleneck).

DRBD is also a little hardcore for my tastes. Nothing wrong with it, I just don't know it well, and I don't like being dependant on things I don't know how to debug.

An alternative I wanted to show uses inotify, rsync and ssh combined into a simple replication daemon. It's obviously not as fast, but if you enable persistent SSH connections, it's not too bad. If it screws up, you can just run rsync.
Rumor has it the Internet Archive uses an approach not too far away from this for Petabox. Check it out if you're looking for something a little more lightweight for real-time replication:
https://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/

We're still working on open sourcing (!) our serving infrastructure, so eventually you will be able to see all of the code we use for this (sans the secrets and keys, of course). I've just been having trouble coming up with a good solution for doing this. For now, enjoy the source of our web app: https://github.com/neocities/neocities
Rust is newer, but Go is also more relevant to the crowd here.

Most people writing web apps don't need a language where you have to worry about ownership, but they do need a language that does concurrency really well. It's the same reason you hear more about Python or Ruby than C++ here. Use cases.

Even as Rust matures, it is unlikely that people will be writing a lot of web apps in it.
My last phone had Facebook as one of those apps that you couldn't uninstall. I was so pissed, I've never had any sort of Facebook app on my phone nor do I want one. Even if I never signed in. Absurd.
Golang could host a PPA.
I put together this little blog post showing how bitwise logic operators secretly have Sierpinski Triangles lurking in them. They also have other interesting patterns too, if you use different operators.
They are a business and are thus regulated by relevant laws. In this case FIFA is also a monopoly. Imagine if comcast started forcing Tier3 or someone else to pay bribes to get to their customers (heh). This is basically equivalent to that. Tier3 could sue if it was done off the books (re: bribes) and the IRS would go after the corp for tax evasion if they didn't report the bribe income. Not sure how this case will proceed, but my bet is that some of the charges will relate to tax evasion. Taking bribes is also likely only part of the story.
A tiny bit of criticism. “The entire build cost something like $150 in parts and $2000 in development time.”

I think adding a price to a personal project takes part of the fun out.

Anyway, nice work!
I was disappointed over the lack of links in a web(!) article, so I did some research over this comment: Poland notes that since then, Lyme has become more widespread and is now the most common tick-borne disease in the country.

Dr. Gregory Poland works in Mayo Clinic which is based in Minnesota. Here are statistics for Lyme disease in that country:

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/lyme/stati...

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/lyme/cases...

And for the entire United States: http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/chartstables/casesbyyear.html

Looks like the number of cases is slowly growing. Charts don't seem to be normalized. The increase in cases could be due to increase in population.
Mackup – keep your application settings in sync
Community and further discussion can be found at:
http://opensource.com/open-organization
If you're already at Mises.org you should read

Ethics of liberty
http://anarcho-capitalist.org/wp-content/pdfs/Rothbard%20%28...

For a new liberty
https://mises.org/sites/default/files/For%20a%20New%20Libert...

If those are to your liking they contain some great reading lists. A lot of the books in those lists are also available for free at mises.org
The Left (the people concerned with racism, who don't understand racism is counter-productive and no one would choose it in the free-market) is not concerned with persuading anyone of anything. Remember the USSR? Did they persuade 100 million people? No, they killed them. Killing is an extreme form of suppression. The UK isn't there yet, but it's getting there:

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" -- David Cameron

He's saying "I've had enough tolerating law-abiding citizens that disagree with Leftism". You know what comes after that.
In current browsers they'll happily pass around lone surrogates. Nothing special happens to them (v. any other UTF-16 code-unit) till they reach the layout layer (where they obviously cannot be drawn).
I didn't imagine that one can write an article about chess so fascinating, that a laic like me can get completely immersed in the story.
Seconded. I also recommend the podcast version, at http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/ .
> The levels of criticism this has reached crosses into downright racism.

What the fuck? Thousands of people have died building soccer stadiums and people are saying that is wrong.

That has nothing to do with race whatsoever.
DNS Inspect
Not one, but two anti-Google articles on NYT today? Interesting.
Oh, I didn't realise that either. Now I understand.
What’s Hot in the Art World? Algorithms
Why is this implemented as an Illustrator plugin, rather than just a SVG to draw call converter that can be implemented in the build system? Or just a SVG reader in the final app?

Doing it this way seems to be encouraging people to paste in the code and then lose the original SVG, leading to pain later.
RustCamp will be on August 1
FBI is part of the justice dept.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/going-dark-are-technology-p...
No! It is trademarked. Here's the trademark: ™

But seriously, sure, go ahead!
WinNT, Java and a lot of more software use wide character encodings UCS2/UTF-16(/UTF-32?). And it was added to C89/C++ (wchar_t). WinNT actually predates the Unicode standard by a year or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_character , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development

Converting between UTF-8 and UTF-16 is wasteful, though often necessary.

> wide characters are a hugely flawed idea [parent post]

I know. Back in the early nineties they thought otherwise and were proud that they used it in hindsight. But nowadays UTF-8 is usually the better choice (except for maybe some asian and exotic later added languages that may require more space with UTF-8) - I am not saying UTF-16 would be a better choice then, there are certain other encodings for special cases.
> "Google doesn’t create immersive experiences that you get lost in", whatever that means,

I read that as "Google doesn't create immersive experiences that you get lost in, like all of the 1999-era search engines with cluttered, spammy front pages that it completely dominated then and has no reason to emulate now."
lol, enterprise tech sales needs a guide?

1) Wear douchy leather shoes, slacks, look smart
2) BS and make stuff up on software you 20% understand until the client nods
3) Keep going
4) Call client, every, freaking, month, for 2 years
5) Do this enough - Sale!
Previous NY Times articles:

Ford, mighty now, but not forever.
GE, mighty now, but not forever.
Microsoft, mighty now, but not forever.

Upcoming NY Times articles:

Apple, mighty now, but not forever.
> I just find the whole concept of nationality bizarre.

Then let go of it and call it what it is - cages for the tax cattle.
This article commits a composition fallacy and ignores that Android is the cost-leader.

Yes, as the #1 low-cost solution you're going to have users you don't make a return from, but you have enough users that as a sum you make returns. Android's strategy isn't to maximize returns from each user.

It's a subjective article and doesn't really provide anything insightful beyond FUD of the future.
Funny, that everyone seems to miss the fact that the current indictments actually relate to corruption w.r.t. the previous tournaments and world cups hosted in USA, South America and South Africa. Nobody in /r/soccer seems to care about that.

Of course, don't let the facts get in the way of all the Qatar/Russia bashing.
After the Cold War, Did We Get the Worst of Both Capitalist and Communist Worlds?
Yet mysteriously other countries and the UK for decades have been fine without them.

https://www.blocked.org.uk/faq

You are aware they block things like dating sites as a matter of policy unless you opt-in to the "perv list", yeah?
FWIW, there have been iPhone doom and gloom articles since its launch. Maybe it's just that doom and gloom articles get clicks?
I agree, I don't care about either, since it was very fun to work on! However, some people were asking me how much it cost, and saying it cost $150 in parts would be misrepresenting the time I spent working on it, so I thought that including the time would be more accurate. The $2000 price tag is a bit tongue-in-cheek.
NoSQL: Tradeoffs Among Cassandra, HBase, and RocksDB
tl;dr: People who had irrational fears of vaccines claimed harms from the Lyme vaccine that probably were not caused by the vaccine. Sales dropped so much that vaccine manufacturers became reluctant to market the vaccine to humans.

Similar irrational fears prompted the development of the "acellular" version of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine, which is less effective than the previously used version of the vaccine. Pertussis is a serious illness, and now that many people refuse to use the vaccine, and even the people who use it can only get a type of vaccine that is less effective than the first vaccine,[1] the whole population is needlessly at risk for pertussis outbreaks.

[1] http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/05/...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22423127
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Kind of amusing to read the excerpt, having just applied for a job at Red Hat. I will gladly pay for coffee if I get an interview.
Rust is a better C++ more than a better C, it has similar goals to C++ of advanced zero-cost (at runtime) abstractions, not so much of being a portable assembly. Like C++ it can be an alternative to C in some contexts.

D intended to be a better C++, but that hasn't panned out well in practice for various reasons (one of them being the use of a GC and much of the standard library depending on it, though IIRC they're trying to fix that).
Haha me too, I was like geez I hate those guys, they come in in teams of 4, the only reason we're listening to them is because they partied with my boss,

Grill them, a year later sign up for something we 10% need lol
Curiously, I remember sticking with lighttpd on a project for quite a while simply for their Lua integration (nginx didn't have it at the time).
Yes, you can live 43 minutes underwater without breathing
Can you elaborate more? Since I'm finding Lollipop significantly more usable in pretty much all respects - UI is more thought out, runs faster, battery life has significantly improved, dead Wifi detection is more reliable, timed audio profiles are a godsend...

Can you be a bit more specific? Are you perhaps using a Samsung TouchWiz device, where Samung pretty much removed most of AOSP UI improvements?
> So basically you're saying that because he cares and because he tried, and because the comments were dumb, nobody should criticize him?

I don't think anybody is saying that.
Internet of Things Drives Growth for Smart Grid Innovation
I broke down the audio to find the pieces you mentioned:
http://clarify.io/try-it-now/?id=7f833e66216a43dea4af21eef43...

Search for "prospecting" to find some great bits.