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I am an unabashed fan of Gerrit - the fine-grained ACLs can be annoying to wrap your head around, but the code review interface is quite nice.

the only thing I've found missing is the ability to render images inline. If someone submits a documentation update with SVG and PNG updates, you have to download the changeset to see the files. It would be nice if an option for "view this attachment inline" were available without installing extensions.
There are some things you might want to investigate with a doctor.

1) get your thyroid levels checked.

2) sleep apnea.

3) possibly anemia

4) stress

5) etc

After that advice is around sleep hygiene, then food and exercise, and stress resiliance
I think the actually-interesting thing that changed is that there's no longer a fan-in of review data, followed by some sort of central number-crunching. Instead, it's effectively a feudal system: every "lord" is empowered to give their "vassals" whatever raises/promotions/bonuses they like.

This is a system that actually works well, if you've got good and generous "lords" that want to keep their "vassals" happy and productive and generally use "do it yourself" as an opportunity to do away with bureaucracy, rather than make more. Whatever benefit Adobe is seeing from the change is probably because they managed to hire some really good managers (somehow), and are finally letting them loose to do their jobs.

Of course, a bad feudal lord is a lot worse than an impersonal rank-and-yank system. At least rank-and-yank is predictable enough to be gamed.
> I can see through most of the political BS that people even here on HN can't seem to grasp. Why is that?

It isn't, you simply believe that it is; as the guy below said a clear case of Dunning Kruger, you are vastly overestimating your own intelligence. You've done nothing here but repeat plainly ignorant right wing propaganda that's not even smart enough to require disproving.

> I don't need your acceptance.

No you don't, ignorance kind of works that way.
Exact same experience here. Omnipage also produced excellent results.
the previous 2 rocksteady (Batman AA and batman AC) games were developed concurrently for 360,ps3 and pc. the first party development resulted in an excellent game that was highly regarded on all the platforms.

Origins was developed console first and ported by iron galaxy. the port was atrociously bad. you could not finish the game. the main story line was bugged so hard that you could tell that the developers had never done anything more than walk around the first mission.
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Technical issues is an understatement. the main storyline wasn't completable.
I only know what happened in my case. I worked for a Swiss company that was bought by Adobe. They pretty quickly expanded our office and we became an rnd center - the other in Europe being Hamburg.

Other examples, macromedia became their san francisco offices, navisware or some other purchase became an office in north carolina....

They must eventually close some down though - they've bought a ton of companies in the last 10 years.
It's far more likely the Googler was referring to Google's variant of Perforce, which is what is used for most internal projects.
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Must be fun to finally be able to talk about FB, eh Doug? :)

Joe had more of a legal focus, but if you think back to where FB was at the time there were significant problems with privacy/compliance, LERT and other external-facing security issues that made him a good choice. Similarly, Uber is in the position now where they need someone who can handle those aspects of company security and policy more than someone to tighten up the internal pcap analysis system...
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Yes really. That scientists had such debates proves my point, not yours. Science doesn't make absolute claims, it posits positions based on evidence and changes those positions when the evidence changes. Sadly, you're clearly not intelligent enough to understand the distinction.
> But because our mosquito is oh-so-light, the raindrop moves on, unimpeded, and hardly any force is transferred. All that happens is that our mosquito is suddenly scooped up by the raindrop and finds itself hurtling toward the ground at a velocity of roughly nine meters per second, an acceleration which can’t be very comfortable, because it puts enormous pressure on the insect’s body, up to 300 gravities worth, says professor Hu.

Interesting article, but in the span of one paragraph here we have confused velocity, acceleration, and pressure - and there are similar errors in the following one. For an article about physics, I would expect this to at least be proofread.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/
Maybe true. I recently ported an Obj-C project containing 9000+ lines of code ( no GUI ) to Java and was quite surprised about how easy the Obj-C code was to read even though I knew nothing about it.
Why would a "small team" require fewer materials?
None of what you said has to do with security - and you shouldn't conflate security with privacy.
I am not saying that Facebook don't, just that it is not that bad.
I'm not sure that this is necessarily a valid claim. The people who have to use the device are not normally the people who purchased it.

I'm sure that most of us have been in a position where we have been forced to use a product that is inferior or even completely broken, trying valiantly to make up for the shortcomings in the product. The person who purchased the product may have done so in good faith; misled by a smooth sales pitch, or may be actively corrupt and complicit in the deception.

I have no doubt that many of the people who were forced to use this product were aware that something was not right, but I doubt many of them were in a position to do anything but shut up and soldier.
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$1.35m Salary for a Data Scientist at AirBnB?
Another take: High car ownership rate (1-2 per household) is unsustainable even with electric cars.
Ah, I see. My bad.

Yes, Krulwich does draw pretty well.
Wuala hasn't updated their social accounts or blog since January, and recent comments by Wuala's users seem to be mostly negative. Does Wuala have a future?
The previous versions of Erlang were using the Erlang Public License 1.1, a modified Mozilla Public License adapted with Swedish laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_Public_License
Much like any PaaS provider. Heroku, Openshift etc.
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Judging by the comments there is much space for improvement on open source OCR libraries, maybe someone with experience in the field should start a kickstarter for it, there must some here in HN itself; maybe something with CLI and GUI and layout recognition.
That looks pretty neat, thanks!

I'd only previously come across underscore.py [0] (python port of underscore.js) which looked a little unmaintained though perhaps because it's 'done'.

[0] https://github.com/serkanyersen/underscore.py
I really dislike the term myself. It's not just cute, it's jargon-y. It's language that leans away from describing a problem and towards unexplained pejorative -- and it's a concept that leans away from talking specifically about what's wrong and towards a vague sense that something deeper might be wrong.

* "Oh, man. You've got a long function there. That's a code smell, you know."

* "Long functions often involve keeping track of a lot of state or activity -- and that makes it hard to keep a clear mental model of what it does, making it more likely that you'll make mistakes. See if you can break it down into a series of smaller, simpler functions that are easy to reason about."
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Circa failed because it used expensive journalists to create what should have been cheap aggregated content. The content itself had little added value compared with thousands of other daily news sites. Aggregators need to keep costs low and volume high -- Circa had this backwards.
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Is it possible to extract text from pre-formatted documents? Let's say I have a document issued by the government, and I am only interested in the fields that have been filled. Could I process such a document fully automated using Tesseract? Maybe some image pre-processing would be needed?
Very good point. Also, at least here in the UK, cars seem to get scrapped after 12-15 years. They should really consider higher priced cars that are designed for a long life.

My first car, a 1974 Land Rover series 3, is still going and will be for a long time to come.
Does it have to be open-source? If free, but not trainable and restricted to Windows apps/phone is good enough, then I recommend the Microsoft OCR library. It gives you very, VERY good results out of the box. An excellent piece of work from Microsoft Research. To test it, see for example https://ocr.a9t9.com/ which uses Microsoft OCR inside.

And for comparison, an OCR application with Tesseract inside: It has a dramatically lower text recognition rate: http://blog.a9t9.com/p/free-ocr-windows.html

(Disclaimer: both links are my little open-source side projects)
Very nicely put between-the-lines interpretation :)

One small nitpick:

> a bad feudal lord is a lot worse than an impersonal rank-and-yank system. At least rank-and-yank is predictable enough to be gamed.

If you have a bad lord (eh, manager) and your company uses a rank-and-yank system, then it'll be your boss gaming it not you.

-Reviews- eh 'working' in general - only works well if you have a good well-meaning boss?
Great to see the cabal problem being addressed. It's the main reason I've given up on Haskell.

I'm wondering, is there any plan to support installation of pre-compiled binaries with Stack? (Compiling Haskell libraries with all their dependencies can be quite slow.) Or is it what Nix is for? If so, can I use Nix along with the regular package management of my Linux distribution?
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So totally saw Alex getting some major opportunities coming his way, and very much deserved. If you don't follow infosec watch the entire hour video of Mike Rogers and the Q&A that included Alex along with Bruce Schneier before him. Alex's lucid, persistent and funny Q&A raised his profile in a big way this year.

Here's the Q&A and while I do think the intelligence community actually does some decent work on occasion, the kind of doublespeak displayed by Rogers here is what really gives the IC a bad name and has lead it down bad paths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjL1WYhLx-M

I'd also very much encourage developers here to watch this presentation which is my personal favorite. Alex talk about some really smart ways to approach application security and why the idea of a traditional firewall is basically dead. Also some interesting stuff re moving away from virtualization towards containerization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1kZMn1RueI

Edit: Just wanted to add, I really hope he continues contributing talks to the infosec community as they're a great contribution.
> Office on the Mac was called Multiplan in 1984 [1]

No it wasn't: that's nonsense.

Microsoft wrote some DOS programs in the early 1980s, including Word and Multiplan. Multiplan was a spreadsheet, similar to VisiCalc. It was never Office 1.0.

VisiCalc appeared on the Apple II, Apple III, Tandy TRS-80 and Atari 800. After Lotus launched 1-2-3 and killed VisiCalc, it bought Software Arts and closed it. However, Software Arts was almost dead by then anyway (and Bob Frankston went to work for Lotus).
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/09/business/lotus-set-to-acqu...

Lotus certainly botched the transition to Windows, partly because it was still making tons of money from 1-2-3 for DOS, and partly because it was best buddies with IBM, and both of them hated Microsoft. That ended happily when IBM bought Lotus Development. (Well, happily for all the executives, not for poor blooming users....)
As some sort of an XMPP fan and a Telegram user:

Multiple devices should be a non-issue today, really. Usable web and desktop apps is quite subjective, I think? I do admit that the Telegram desktop app looks slick.

The OTR problems seem weird, because as far as I'm aware Pidgin and Adium share the very same implementation for example?

It sounds like you were mostly unlucky to me. On the other hand: Maybe that's already another blow against XMPP, if it doesn't "just work".

I would love to get your coworkers feedback on something like this [1] - because 'looks like something from the 21st century' is not something I get immediately.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve...
In Tokyo I often go to caffice in shinjuku http://caffice.jp/ . Power outlets, free wifi, coffee, food, comfy chairs.
The two are virtually synonymous. Things are more expensive when they need more resources.
The fact that the chances for a planet with a solar eclipse like ours is so tiny makes for a plot point in several science fiction books. One example, from Iain M. Banks' Transition:

> But what I want to propose to you is that, as well as all those other wonders, they would definitely want to see that one precious thing that we have and probably nobody else does. They’d want to see our eclipse. They’d want to look through the Earth’s atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can’t survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they’d still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it’s possible to arrange. They’d want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes.
they didn't keep me and a few of my boys from quitting
As you have mentioned many chat system... We thought about adding chat module to our open source trello clone called Restyaboard http://restya.com/board/

Do you think if this will not be useful addition? Or what chat system among above will be useful to integrate?
> OpenGL was available on the PS3 but wasn't used by AAA games

Not even real "desktop" OpenGL, but OpenGL ES 1.1 (branded as PSGL) implemented on top of LibGCM.

Also not to say you wrong (almost no games used any of PSGL), but at least several games used some of it. E.g Techland titles like Call of Juarez / Dead Island.
Actually they have been loosing a lot of their top talent. This is just a PR Fluff piece.
Given the Condi Rice appointment it would be silly to put important files on DropBox. I only use it for non important files. And in that case I might as well use the free competitors. So DropBox has a very weak business case, at least for consumers.
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These days cars seem to die because of rust, not failure (at least for me).

Aluminum cars? Stainless steel?
Reminds me of the Accelerate framework and Altivec for Mac OS X from 10 years ago...

http://www.unix.com/man-page/OSX/7/Altivec/
It's the same reason most restaurants offer vegetarian dishes. You're not just losing the business of the few percent that are vegetarians - you're losing the business of groups that include vegetarians.

(The analogy is incomplete since you'll also get people who don't want to get locked out of Linux even though they don't currently use it)

Also Linux users are very overrepresented in the propellerheads group that you are targeting in the takeoff phase of a DB/Drive like product.
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Leaving aside the fact that Tarsnap is based in Canada (since really, I doubt CSIS has any more qualms about asking for data than the NSA does), the whole point of Tarsnap is that I can't reveal customer data because -- unlike Dropbox -- data stored using Tarsnap is encrypted using keys which only the customer holds.
"Maybe some image pre-processing would be needed?"

No, a whole lot of pre-processing would be needed. It all depends on the exact layout - if your tolerances are tight you need much more logic than if you have, let's say, 2cm white space around one sentence you're after.
Look out for these lies with charts
Chart’s purpose is usually to help you properly interpret data. But sometimes, it does just the opposite. In the right (or wrong) hands, bar graphs and pie charts can become powerful agents of deception, tricking you into inferring trends that don’t exist, mistaking less for more, and missing alarming facts. There's a simple takeaway from all this: be careful when designing visualizations, and be extra careful when interpreting graphs created by others.
To first order options are worthless. I've worked for venture-funded startups, angel-funded startups and started my own company on debt and nerve, and the only one that worked out was my own thing. The rest... well, I have a lot of pretty wallpaper in the form of option certificates and the like.

Anyone who makes decisions based on the prospective value of options is a sucker. They are a nice bonus when they work out.

You're right that options in a reasonably well-established company can have some value, but such companies can also afford to pay a decent salary, and should.
Kwin has this built-in, for the record.
vEB layout has expensive index calculation though, BFS might still be faster.
Could you explain how to use a Hough transform to find areas that have text? I only recently managed to wrap my head around how it works for line detection and other shapes with the generalized form, but how would one recognize text?
I give it a year before he jumps ship to the next highest bidder. He'll be CSO of Uber and wishing his friends at Facebook farewell as soon as the next best offer comes along.
They do raise the prices in the markets that are not competitive http://ridesharedashboard.com/2015/03/19/uber-for-the-first-...
I would call that a red flag for the company not being able to attract capital nor revenue.
Assuming your premise is true, that the US government exists to transfer taxpayer money into select corporate accounts, then there are far easier ways to do this than venturing off to war. Most of the large private companies that benefited financially from the Iraq and Afghan wars are primarily logistics or general defense companies; there are plenty of other opportunities for these guys to win new defense contracts outside of active war zones.
Exactly. I've been doing some research on Haskell, but Cabal is making it quite difficult for me. I've been dealing with a lot of dependency version mismatches when using sandboxes... I'll definitely give Stack a try after reading this.
Not very convincing. Maybe Patrick Naughton was in love with Objective C but there is little of that left in Java.

Depending on which angle you look at, you could see Java's interfaces as a direct successor of Objective C's protocols or a simplification of C++' multiple inheritance.

If you were to believe James Gosling, it's clearly the latter that influenced Java's design. The fact that Naughton liked Objective C hasn't had much impact on what Java ended up looking like in 1995.
The reason I was told about the elimination of a yearly written report card, and replacing by regular conversation, is that employees have no trail of documents saying their performance is good.

This gives greater freedom to lay people off, in the sense that there is no documentary basis for a lawsuit of wrongful termination.
Thanks for the link. I wish all serious discussions about software design would take the time to enumerate the axioms (even if only implicit) used in the design.
Get ready for 3XL iBands for your iWatch.
Not a spec of rust on mine (12 yo Fiat). Think that depends on where you live.
The naming of parameters in method calls was something I found a bit weird and overly verbose when I first used ObjC.

But I've come to appreciate that it can greatly improve readability when trawling through unfamiliar code bases, and thankfully it's a feature Apple have carried across to Swift.

Now days I often wish Java had external parameter names, too!
I may be biased, I work at MS, but I've always loved OneDrive. It just works everywhere. On my laptops, tablets, and across both Windows Phone and Android.

Google keeps doing UX things with photos and Google Drive that confuses my #1 usage scenario (finding photos). It also has some strange integration with Google Docs. It all sorta works but, again, the UX changes pretty damn frequently. OneDrive has reliably stuck with "here are a bunch of files."
8h/day programming is exhausting. I have one hour lunch and spend two hours doing non-programming work (e.g. discussing code with colleagues over IM). If I program 8 hours straight I'd be sleeping at 7 too.
The 'feudal' approach replaces bureaucracy with favor-peddling and sycophancy in my book.
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How many of you think that there should be a search feature on HN. So that people can search for a specific news.

I know waybackhn.com is out there but it doesn't provide search facility.
You cannot always invest in what you choose. Generally, illiquid assets are both difficult to sell and difficult to buy. In particular, investing in pre-IPO startups may be hard unless the startup chooses to do crowd-founding, you know the founders or are a venture capitalist.
On the underperformer side this is an interesting strategy. By having frequent conversations about underperformance that alone causes people to leave.

If what they're doing is true I think this is one of the more innovative talent management strategies out there. I hope this leads to more honest conversations and less politics due to doing whatever it takes to make sure you come out on the top end of a distribution.

As a consultant I've had many projects where we came in to fix a process where we were really fighting their performance management and incentives system.
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Direct hit just after the minute mark: https://youtu.be/LQ88ny09ruM?t=1m3s
It could fill it with adverts and track you, which is how Google pays for its "free" stuff. Or it could attach it to $1,500 hardware dongles, like Apple.

The Microsoft ecosystem is much more powerful, and works both online and offline, and it's cross-platform (Windows, Android, iOS), but you don't think any of this is worth paying for?

Perhaps you have much more important things to spend your money on. How much is your smartphone costing you? How much do you spend on Spotify, or Starbucks?

How much would you have to pay Google for the 50GB mailbox and 1TB of storage bundled with Office 365?
I'm sure this will soon be the next evolutionary step for something like stack or an add-on tool on top of it.
As other commenters have suggested, it's tough to beat public libraries (uni libraries often have late hours too if you can reach one).

In addition, I highly recommend https://workfrom.co/ the site lists places to work from (hehe) for a varied group of cities. You can either log in to add coffee shops or restaurants that haven't been added yet, or to suggest creating a page for your city (if it isn't already there).