skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Quicker way to get promoted at large corp - prove your skills, leave on good terms, gain visibility and titles elsewhere and then re-join large corp at a much higher position."

That one irks me no end, but it's in my experience true. Also, in smaller companies, "title inflation" is a thing, I've seen companies you can get named whichever job title you prefer in exchange for a lower or no raise in salary.

And afterwards, said employees spin their "inflated" job title into a better job at large corp. (which they usually are qualified to do, but they have a leg vs equally qualified internal employees with a lesser title).

Edit: my experience applies mainly to NON software large corps., which have less ways to gauge the skill levels of internal employees in IT. Also applies to the government sector (same as credentials and certifications).
Maybe its an issue with scope, and targeting specific issues that people have. Couple of advance users have issues with security not a big issue, Taylor Swift has issues with payment of artists, next day issue is addressed.

I guess its the illusion of caring.

You would think that the core would need to be solid, while the outsides would be constantly polished.
I don't believe the company has been on the path of quality since the release of 10.7-10.9 and the all the hardware issues that came through during that era, till now.

While i agree that desktops are not the future, and mobile is increasingly picking up momentum, mobile to me is like the horse with a blinding mask on, this is what you get, and ONLY this. Even more so with the case of Apple.

I guess I came around full circle to bite myself. I want new things with mobile, and I want there to be options. But at the same time I want something that is quality. Should I have to sacrifice one for the other? Or worse, wait forever to be able to do something, at which when i get it i don't even care anymore because I need to do something else now.

GNU looks so nice right now.
Imagine earth is struck by a 10km asteroid. This may well kill everyone on the planet. Having a self-supporting colony on mars or the moon would avoid humanities extinction.
If you want to actually learn Korean, check out this site.
[1] An American knowing no Korean moved to Korea and meticulously documented everything he learned, and this website was the result. It's an incredibly thorough study into Korean.

[1] http://www.howtostudykorean.com/
Just wait for the next patent to be approved by USPTO: "Method of assigning exclusive rights to an inventor."
s/ar/ur/g
Could you please provide one example of non-determinism? I would like to understand what exactly do YOU mean by that term.
Well.. It's also fair in situations without perfect information. Assuming that as a requirement would render any ethical judgement on real life scenarios unusable.
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Interesting point! Worth noting that I do think that this is what lawyers _really_ do. They smudge the gray area to their will, and with enough effort, they make some sort of progress towards their client's bidding. Worth noting, even with the existence of Tomahawk and youtube... and napalm indexer, soulseek, and torrentz.eu, I still felt that it was much easier to pay for Spotify than to drill through the tendrils of the Internet. I had time when I was a poor college student/post-college "adult," but I figured semi-efficiently pirating music for 20 years (yes on a 56k modem as well), I'd rather just popcorntime it and go. Where is the popcorntime for music anyway? Does Tomahawk count at this?
> Picking up tourists and aimlessly driving around for half an hour to run up the meter, refusing to take people where they want to go and not picking up black people are just some of the shenanigans they pull on a regular basis

Well, if you need a X-hundred-thousand-dollar taxi "medallion" to be allowed to transport people for a fee, that cuts down on your competition quite nicely, and then you're not really motivated to provide a good service.

Uber has shown that there are plenty of people who wouldn't mind transporting people for a fee, but they haven't been able (or motivated to) get permission to do so, which means the licensing system has been highly effective in keeping competition low and prices high, just the way the state-maintained monopoly/cartel wants it.

Can an Uber driver pull nasty shit on people and keep getting gigs? No, but taxi drivers can, and there's a reason for that. Well there you go.
It doesn't work with 'HTTPS Everywhere' enabled because you hardcoded some javascript to HTTP. You could leave out the protocol for JQuery and the Soundcloud SDK to let the browser decide. Both scripts are available over HTTPS.

Other than that, it looks pretty cool, played with it for a while.
> Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.

That's because they are supposed to make edits (cutting out the commercial breaks, for instance), the errors happen because the edits are done hastily, in order to release first.

The police isn't supposed to edit or tamper with the video at all, and I can't imagine any way edits like this (missing bits and looping) can just appear by accident or technical error. The only edit I can imagine to happen by accident is an interrupted upload/transfer, which would cause the video to be truncated at some point, all the way to the end. It can't just leave parts out in the middle or loop certain bits.
This mascot is just a bad one, and in more than one sense. After a quick look to the article, I'll swear to have read 'wall of fart' somewhere. Aesthetically is a bad design IMAO
UK says it's once again illegal to rip CDs for personal use
True, it should specify where support drops off really, it's not as if there aren't tools to automate the JS testing part of it if the time isn't there to thoroughly manually check. I've think maybe spent too much time assessing JS libraries & frontend stuff; after a while when you see 'modern browser' you mentally tick off where it's likely to be functional and accept/discount the guessed tradeoffs (maybe a bad habit)
Yes we know, but we are supposed to not be negative here even if what is said is true :)
What computer today has a culture comparable to the Amiga Demoscene of the 80s and 90s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WtWYmz3iA

(Part 1 of 3.)

It wasn't just about games and productivity.
I think collecting tips on their driver's behalf would poke a big hole in Uber's claim that they are contractors.
I missed out on the Amiga, going straight from 8bit Atari to x86. I used a A500 but never owned anything made by Commodore. I still find it fascinating and the Deathbed Vigil video was a great but melancholy watch. I never programmed for the Amiga but like everyone else I was always impressed by what the Amiga demoscene could do.

An unfortunate clash for the opening weekend with quakecon dates.
I was under the impression that the UI was pretty incidental in most judges' interpretations that platforms used mainly to locate copyrighted material were on shakier ground than platforms which incidentally, and despite ostensibly significant efforts on the part of developers to limit it, could be used to locate copyright material. It's not like Google doesn't get hit by content-provider lawsuits either, it's just that they're big enough to usually get a settlement agreed on favourable terms and far too big to be bankrupted by legal costs, which is a wider and more general problem with litigation.

Ironically I'm writing this listening to YouTube streaming in the background: a far superior free way to locate and listen to music without paying for it than most of the early pirate platforms ever could have hoped to be.
You right on this. I meant that the USPTO seems to have no incentive to stop bad patents. I don't think a small time inventor submitting an idea that seems novel for him should be punished when he tries to enforce this in good faith. USPTO should have the resources and the expertise to stop bad patent and when they fail they should compensate for the mess they create. They are played by NPE and big companies and don't defend the small inventor and the society in general. They fail their public mission.
I've used Nagios in quite big installations. There are plenty of things that can be improved, and has been in the surrounding ecosystem, but that's just paiting a false picture. Nobody runs CGI anymore, and even if they did, they're not in C and never has been. Some of the checks are, of course.
RetroGameModz videos are extremely by the book, IPC to the letter. Afair he is from Netherlands, or some other old rich European country, so he can afford 'wasting time' during repairs as a hobby. In real life this level of attention to detail (pedantry) is present _only_ in military, aviation and space (even medical is not that crazy). For example normal people dont reconstruct pads, they jumper over with kynar/enamel wire.
No, monopoly is about being the only one doing something, not about "marketing organization".

If you invent the first bicycle and nobody else makes them then you do indeed have a monopoly on the bicycle market. The difference is just that we define "bicycle" as the market, not "5-wheeled bicycle".
Btw by default, we have made our bot in such a way that one cannot add it to any group. :) Its completely personal with anyone who adds @icliniqbot from his telegram app.
As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future.

(I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
Does your employer run SSL MiTM attacks on you?
It's even better than that. Contactless is "faster" because it generally doesn't do an authorization.
If the admin can't log in to do anything I think it's fair to say the site is broken.
I've found startup life to be less initiative-based than my previous corporate life.

In B2B startup, features are driven by sales and post-sale support, and sales / keeping the biggest customers happy (for later upsell) is of paramount importance. We have far more potential features to build than we have people to work on them, so prioritization is done from the top down and can change depending on the sales landscape. Thus I have very little discretion over what I do on a day to day basis, and there are people asking me to do things every day. Initiative isn't actually necessary, unless you want to improve things in ways that management etc. can't see.

Whereas in corporate life, I owned a little corner of the product, and when given a strategic initiative, I came up with feature suggestions that made our customers' and my team's life / lives easier. I had more strategic responsibility, and although the direct risk of my failure was lower, my work had larger impact because it got delivered to far more people - a mature organization has far more customers, if it's healthy.
Get root on an OS X 10.10 Mac: The exploit is so trivial it fits in a tweet
We will update it in the website shortly. Thank you for the feedback
The paper, "Econometrics for Learning Agents" linked in the article is an older version. The newer version is here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00720
What about a free trial period? Something that expires after a few short months.

We used that to try out ReSharper and ended up loving it to the point we bought a few dozen licenses. Management is much easier to convince once you get half the developers wanting the same thing :)
One important point is that because large corporations often try to emulate the culture of startups (and never the other way around), if you try to make an article contrasting the two cultures you are inevitably going to miss the mark on your description of large corporations. Essentially you are trying to describe a divergence when much of the world is seeking a convergence between the two.
Behind the all-seeing eye of Dota 2's observers
There was an earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934428

I think it was flagged because it used some social media tracking URL instead of the original...

Here's my post from that thread:

I like to think of this as a good example of why not to use curl to execute bash scripts.

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nchelluri/rootyourself/master/doh.sh | bash
Well. All our processes are HIPAA compliant but we do not have a certification yet.We are working on it :)
As of now we are a second opinion platform globally with users across 160 countries.
There's a very nice interview on Tweakers.net taken on the Amsterdam Amiga day, with many influential developers:

http://tweakers.net/video/10600/30-jaar-commodore-amiga-de-i...

RJ Mical and Dave Haynie are interviewed, who did hardware development for the Amigas, as well as Mike Dailly (creator of Lemmings) and Allister Brimble (composed for some well-known games of the platforms).

Lot's of Dutch inbetween explaining the historical significance, without subtitles, but probably worth a listen to just for what these guys have to say about the platform.
Just tried this out of curiosity and you're right: https://github.com/insin/show-me-the-react

npm install -g jpm
git clone git@github.com:insin/show-me-the-react.git
cd show-me-the-react
jpm run
Great work! Very useful! It would be nice to have quick search filtering feature though.
One of the best memories I have of my father is when he opened the car trunk, beaming, presenting me a brand new Amiga 500, and the joy and the excitement my very nerdy teenage self felt.

A fantastic machine, at the time the best of both worlds for gaming and productivity.
First of all, it's perfectly legal in Illinois and Chicago in particular, because Illinois and Uber worked it out. Secondly, obviously because rent is significantly cheaper in that neighborhood.
They may have issued a memo that if implemented by all issuers, acquirers and terminal vendors may help. Of course nobody does that.
Too bad Korean is not written in mixed script (hanja + hangul) anymore. It is incredibly easy to understand texts and to focus on learning grammar rules once you have a signifiant Chinese character knowledge.
I'm not sure I understand the point of using a blockchain in securities trading? I mean, it's not like it would actually have any of the advantages of Bitcoin[1]. You'll still need to settle accounts periodically (transfer money/stock certificates/etc). Those things aren't going to go away.

Once the parties need to trust each other for that, they might as well cut costs by pooling money and buying a centralized order-matching system. That is, make exactly the thing they already have today.

[1]-I don't think those advantages are all that great either, but that's beside the point. The point is they don't even apply here!
Was the latest in a long line of shit products.
Announcing StackExchange.Precompilation
When you register a bot it has to end in ...bot, so any account that pretends to be one is easy to spot.
Lsipc – new command to list IPC facilities
Hey guys, if you have problems with Chrome block or some errors like myself earlier try www.filespook.com and you will be able to use the popular torrent and streaming sites no matter of your location ...enjoy!
You raise a very good point. When it comes to a service like Uber most people just want a McTaxi experience; they want to get to where they want to go efficiently in a safe and friendly manner. They are not looking for more than this.

The reason McDonalds is successful is not because they produce great food, but because they meet a minimum standard in consistent way. The way Uber currently works make this hard to deliver.
5 Pieces of Wearable Technology Used for Protecting Children
I'd imagine the feeling is similar to the first day back in the RC after watching K-19.
A nifty feature that's only possible on analogue monitors, I think. Like light guns.
Show HN: LogCroc – Status dashboard from servers logs
No matter what Uber does, they always please me with stuff like this. It makes the anarch-libertarian blood run warm to see government cronies routinely bested and consumers offered superior services in a market that was ripe for innovation. Now we need this type of disruption in health care and education.
I think the announcement is live at noon today (EST).
I remember when we upgraded the family computer from a (second-hand) Apple ][e to an (also second-hand) Amiga 500.

I had gotten my start programming in BASIC on the Apple ][, and was blown away by the stuff I could do using AMOS on the Amiga.

The Amiga 500 was eventually replaced by a new Amiga 1200. Sometime after the end of Commodore (I must have been 14 or so) my parents bought our first PC, a 486 (the latest and greatest at the time) running DOS / Windows 3.1... it just wasn't the same.
The Story Behind the $250 ESC Key
The Year of CoCoRo Video #29/52: Jeff – Preprogrammed Trajectory
After visiting the demo my browser is running spyware.
This would be the hope, but these cases can take a long time. I am not sure if it is a good idea to rely on the DOJ for your business model.
Sky, Disney and Warner B. hit with EU antitrust lawsuit for geo-blocking content
Yep. But many Wordpress sites are rarely updated, and the owners of those sites need not panic :)
How far away, tho I suppose not like it matters now that getting even into orbit is harder than before.
This article doesn't feel like it has any real substance to it. It seems like someone just trying to promote their site.

Also, trying to go to the main page yields an error.
Flirtey Demos World's First Drone Delivery Tech in U.S
DNSCurve and DNSCrypt use authenticated encryption.

DNSCrypt is not stuck to "a single ciphersuite designed by djb". The ciphersuite is negotiated (using DNS queries + signed responses in DNSCrypt v2, and TLS in DNSCrypt v3).

Over TCP, it's not limited to "per-packet encryption" either.
The problem with that line of thinking is that it's a fool's gamble either way. For the people living on Mars, you'll have a quality of life far below that of a prisoner in a second world country. Forever. And for the people staying behind, you get to pay exorbitant sums of money so that people other than you get to survive an asteroid impact in the next few million years. (Unless of course it's Mars that is struck, then you just lit 80 trillion dollars on fire.)

Sorry, colonizing Mars just doesn't make sense and it probably never will. At least not until we have progressed to the point that we have the resources to terraform planets at will. And even then, it will probably make more sense to just live in space.

Actually, there is one very specific scenario in which colonizing Mars is a great idea: if you're in the business of selling space travel to governments.
Ask HN: React vs. Angular vs. Ember?
React vs Angular vs Ember. What's your choice?

What are the pros and cons of each framework that you have come across.
I simply cant believe that to be true. a mission to mars must be much more complex than one to moon for example. and much, much more costly- no linear but exponential correlation I would assume.
For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
This Post Was Handwritten by a Neural Network
It seems crazy to:

1) Implement a draft header from the W3 at this stage (which I think this is from what I can see.. there's even some fun debate about how many characters long it should be: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/issues/216). Do they really expect webservers to handle this correctly?

2) Despite having a bug like this open in Beta, allow this to get out to Prod! Surely it's obvious this is a major breaking change?!

edit: here's the working draft document: http://www.w3.org/TR/upgrade-insecure-requests/#preference
I would be interested in hearing that story. Care to describe it, or point towards some reading material? :).
RRDTool: Logging and Graphing.
J Sellens - USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track, 2006

The GE patent pertains to metadata indexing and query resolution against a distributed block store, so RRDTool doesn't really apply anyway. Maybe something using HDF5 hyperslabs on a parallel distributed file system would though.
Hosted ElasticSearch: The Future of the ELK Stack
we did a PNW road trip a couple years ago and got lucky with great weather the whole time. Olympic National Park /Hurricane Ridge, Moss Forest, Mt Saint Helens, the coastal drive around Portland and Seattle are excellent.
Yes, it's a bad idea, but an awful lot of bad ideas were the common practice a long time ago, when vendors had to deal with limitations of the HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 RFCs.

In fact, we aren't talking about application headers. The HTTP RFC makes a distinction between application headers and hop-by-hop headers. There are mechanisms that proxies are required to implement, but they still don't.

For instance, a proxy must declare itself by appending its signature to a "Via" header - however most of them don't.

The RFC about forwarded HTTP extension is unclear about how a hop should deal with those headers, there is no one-size-fit-all situations:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7239#section-8.1
What's an "earth similarity index"? Is there a definition somewhere?
The X- prefix recommendation was deprecated a couple years ago. Since everyone used that format, you had to be careful of collisions anyway. That's not to say you can't use X- to start custom headers, it's just not required.
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"The Earth Similarity Index, ESI or "easy scale" is a measure of how physically similar a planetary-mass object is to Earth. It is a scale from zero to one, with Earth having a value of one."

Mars is at 0.697, for reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index
LMGTFY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index
It does break frontends too: assets and links URL are generated with an https:// scheme, which results in assets not loaded and broken links.
I'd forgotten all about Songbird. I kept coming back to that app but I never managed to stay. I always felt I should like much better than I actually did.
3 years ago I started a company (Stackify) with the hopes of building a better nagios. But it doesn't seem like developers really wanted it. They wanted and needed a lot more as basic server metrics didn't really tell much of a story about application health. The shift to cloud based services also makes a lot of basic monitoring tools unnecessary. Cloud based apps don't really need to monitor servers or infrastructure beyond simple CPU and memory measurement. Developers need to monitor the app itself. Which can really only be done by code profiling, custom metrics, and analyzing errors and log statements.

So we since pivoted a little bit and have focused heavily on true application monitoring via basic server metrics, custom app metrics, error tracking, log management, and true APM code profiling. All of this together provides a lot of power when it comes to monitoring and finding application problems.

A lot of companies we talk to barely monitor anything about their apps. So many IT teams work in such a reactive mode they aren't very proactive when it comes to monitoring application health and behavior.

Would love to get anyone's feedback about this topic. Do you just use basic server monitoring? How detailed do you monitor the actual behavior and health of your application? How do you do it?

If you're curious you can check out our product. http://stackify.com
It's the difference between a phone book and a list of phone numbers of meth dealers.

They knew what they were doing was in at best in a legal grey area, and they were making themselves targets. Steve Jobs may or may not (this is second hand hearsay) have been the one to point them out to Warner, but ultimately they made themselves a target and it's not Steve Jobs fault that they failed.

Also, blaming someone who's dead for your company failing and then spending the rest of the post with ridiculous self-aggrandizement shows a serious lack of character, IMHO.