skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are conflating issues and assuming too much. I'm not a Google employee; just a member of the general public.

> I deeply disagree with your attitude.

The attitude that a company's payroll data is a company's privileged information, and the general public has no right to it?

> > Why is it our business to see who makes what?

> Of course it is your business (if you are an employee)...

But I am not an employee. Your strawman argument is irrelevant.

> These are the reasons why we have free speech, to prevent people doing wrong things in secrecy, as to avoid collective moral correction to take place.

"Free speech" does not apply here, since it's a company's private information, and this information has no moral component to it (except for internal employees; and we're talking about the general public here), so even the whistleblower exemption doesn't apply here.
bruh, what about assembly?
What makes you think that is more likely?

In 2013, it was Finland and Costa Rica whose teams were "gender balanced", not Ukraine and Bosnia&Herzegovina. In 2012, Bolivia. In 2009, Kuwait.

Previous years stats don't suggest their education systems are anyhow different, it's just how this year's random has laid out.
The best current method is to file a lawsuit.
If you don't like what you are being paid, QUIT.

I sure as hell wouldn't want someone like this working with me. Immature and highly unprofessional.
A simple Mac command line approach is `security find-generic-password -wa {SSID}`. (Using -w instead of -g prints just the password, so no need to grep the output.)
BetterCap – A complete, modular, portable and easily extensible MITM framework
In use on common webpages edge feels very snappy. At least as much as firefox and chrome. Good enough for me.
It would be interesting to know which browser(s) they are using for Hangouts and if they observe the same behavior in Safari if it's not the one used.
Authors explanation:

'It seems like Microsoft has been targeting their optimization effort for the competitor benchmarks in order to show impressive results for their new product. When it comes to more intensive and complex HTML5 benchmarks they are still miles behind the competition.'

Reasonable explanation to me.
Unless you have an unusual background, find the best big company you can and try and go there. I'm old so when I was in college it was Bell Labs. By the time I got out it was Sun so I went there. Don't regret it for a minute and I stayed there for about 7 years.

If you are a grad student thinking about a PhD, here's what I remember about that. A hard part (there are many) of a PhD is your thesis. Finding a good topic, while you are in school, is hard. However, go into industry and look around and you'll find topic after topic.

Getting back to startup/big company, I would pick a big company if you can go to an interesting one and do interesting work. Facebook seems like they are doing a lot of pretty interesting systems stuff, languages, tools, etc, along with all the social stuff (that I don't pretend to understand). Google used to be the cool place but some of that has worn off, might still be worth a look but it would really depend on what you are doing.

Oh, one other thought: don't be afraid of paying your dues. When I got to Sun I joined the kernel group and they gave the job nobody else wanted: make the kernel conform to the POSIX spec. Seems like a bunch of shit work but for a relatively fresh programmer it was a fantastic education. If I had turned up my nose at that work I would have lost out.
The IE team has said that they prioritize features based on how they are used on the most popular websites. I'd like to see a benchmark that was just the wall-clock time to load the Alexa Top 1,000.
Maybe women just suck at math, have you considered that one?
>I'd also like to add that philosophy has a long history of pretty dramatic accomplishments in the real world. You can thank philosophy for science and the various modes of scientific inquiry, and the concept of natural rights and liberal democratic government. On the flip side, the Nazi regime was heavily influenced by late 19th Century philosophy (not all accomplishments are good?).

If your method of answering questions yields contradictory answers to the same question (eg: "Do individual humans have moral worth? Nazism says no, liberalism says yes -- philosophy!"), then it's not very good.
The GUI way of doing this on Windows (if you're currently connected to said network) is to do the following:

1. Go to Network Connections.

2. Right click the WiFi connection and click status.

3. Click Wireless Properties

4. Click on the Security Tab, and then click Show Characters.
I'm confused as to why you would think about soldering a crimped connection

Because most crimped connections (at least in the hobbyist/DIY world) are crap. So after crimping, the only way they hold together is with solder.

There are no applications where this is better. Every connector manufacturer I know recommends against doing it. You can get away with doing it if you support the soldered end against vibration, but you should do that anyway.

It's really a training issue. People haven't been taught better and there is a lot of bad advice floating around hobbyist forums. I have only been using good crimping tools for the last few years since I started making a product with a 50-conductor harness. Until I spent $200 on a crimping tool and took the time to research how to make good crimps (Molex has an excellent document), I never realized how they were supposed to look. Now most of my tools are used, purchased at auctions of dead companies, but I have $400 crimping tools I paid pennies on the dollar for. Even so, I normally farm out crimping to a company that does it with automated machinery, better and faster than I can do by hand.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9904428
And for some reason the photo of the K-7 used in the quora thread is a photoshop of the plane with 2 heavy gun turrets from a battleship... When the original is this incredible, why add lipstick?
Recreating Swift 2.0 in Swift 1.2: Defer Syntax
JVM: Quasar http://www.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/

Scala/Java: Akka http://akka.io

Haskell: Cloud Haskell http://haskell-distributed.github.io/
the transition from pure math to the application of statistics to the real world (or science) requires a philosophical adjustment.

In math, the model and axioms are sound (by definition) within the mathematician's world.

However, in order to make judgments about reality by using statistics, one has to come up with reasonable models and assumptions, otherwise the resulting deductions can be worthless. The leads to a lot of subjectivity and grey areas for debate that a mathematician may not be accustomed to.
> Your sense of nice conflicts with Erlang's goal of supporting reliable systems.

Obvious counterexample: Elixir. Plenty of modern niceties that Erlang lacks (rubyesque syntactic sugar, scheme-style hygenic macros, the pipe operator, mix, etc), but shares most of Erlang's semantics and ultimately compiles down to the same bytecode, so AFAICS doesn't sacrifice any of the things that make Erlang good for building reliable systems.
I'm afraid you're going to get downvoted, but that pretty much is the FDA approval process: throw things at the wall until something sticks.
No, that's basically just an ought-is fallacy.
This kind of reflexive cynicism is annoying and pointless. Especially because we can just as easily flip it around and accuse Microsoft of cherry picking and optimizing for specific benchmarks.

Neither of these accusations are in any way constructive. I'd be much more interested in real world examples where one browser or another is noticeably slow.
Exactly. The new entrant into a market isn't the one who can afford to get into the lobbying game.
While it is obvious that the author was hoping to discredit microsofts speed claims, the result on running the original tests was that an agreement on sign but not on magnitude (assuming the uncertainty on the MS claims is entirely in the last digit presented).

The new tests don't seem particularly hand picked given that the are among the top results I get when I google for "Browser speed test", arguably a sign that they aren't overly obscure.

As an aside, all the tests benchmarks are made by parties other than microsoft so they should count as third-party. And their being third party is typically seen as a virtue due to the tendency of vendors overturning on their own benchmarks.

So while this was obviously a bit of hostile benchmarking, it doesn't seem like there was any need for special effort to get a discrediting result, simply benchmarking with other suites proved enough. The fact that the author is clearly hostile to microsoft does not in itself disprove the results presented, and is not ground for dismissing them.
Luckily, unlike deities, Art, Good, Justice, and Culture are all fairly easy to examine empirically.
He has asperger's.
So first you move to dispel the notion that Iran is 'evil'. That's good, very enlightened of you. But then you go on to attribute 'evil reasons' to the US? I think you still have quite a way to go along your path of self-enlightenment.
> Chrome runs my test case in 2.7 seconds, Firefox in 3.2, and IE Edge in 23 seconds... (ie 11 in 30+)

I think you are doing something wrong. I have a light app and very heavy SPA (written really badly with almost 5mb of code, D3 + Highcharts). Still, both app loads in less than 4 seconds in IE 11, FF, Chrome and Safari.
Casella & Berger's "Statistical Inference" is a nice introduction to basic probability theory and statistics. I found it pretty readable, and it's used for many 1st year graduate stat programs.

Duda & Hart's "Pattern Classification" is one of the best introductions to machine learning IMO. It assumes very little in the way prerequisites, which is nice for first time exposure.

Hastie & Tibshirani's "Elements of Statistical Learning" can be a little intimidating without having been exposed to the ideas of the previous two texts. Afterwards, however, it is a gem.
Well don't forget to a large extent it's probably about economies of scale. Lead acid may be more economical when density/weight isn't as big a concern (such as in a home), but Tesla wants to produce cheap car batteries which can't be lead acid for the goals they set for their cars, and if they have a large extra market for the car batteries they produce, they can produce them cheaper, more efficiently, at larger scales.

If Tesla wasn't producing cars and somehow found itself wanting to build batteries for homes, still, it may not have gone lithium-ion.

Beyond that though there are still (some) issues with the amount of cycles/lifespan, charging speed, disposal and efficiency of lead acid, even if they're cheap and recyclable.

And even in houses, space is still a concern with lead acid being a few times more voluminous as lithium-ion, and it's not like the power wall is a tiny unit. Don't forget the standard version has a capacity of 7 kWh, while using a clothes washer and a clothes dryer just once uses up about 5 kwh+ according to Tesla itself. And the Tesla car batteries typically have 75 to 85 kwh of capacity or so, so you'd need 10 units fully charged to charge your car once. They've made it clear that you can buy and link multiple power walls, and I wouldn't be surprised if people ended up having more than 1 in their home. So space is definitely not completely irrelevant unless you're not in a very urban environment (which is a big use case for sure, but not always the case).
Android SDK Terms are so restrictive, see 3.3, 3.4
Intuition is no guide to truth.
This article completely misses the point.

Musk is not a great presenter. He stutters, mumbles, goes off topic, etc as others have pointed out.

Do you know what makes his presentations more worthwhile than pretty much anyone else in the Valley?

The substance. He works on hard problems, and he fucking delivers. Who's got time for style when you're revolutionizing multiple industries? We see that it doesn't matter, people will watch his presentations, buy his products, and back his companies regardless.

The real problem is that most people don't have anything worth pitching.
My 2011 MBP gets super hot when viewing Flash videos or browsing particularly javascript heavy websites, so it doesn't surprise me to hear that these things are struggling under the load.
High court quashes regulations allowing people to copy CDs
One toke over the line: Race on to develop 'pot breathalyzer'
There are shit jobs at startups and great jobs at big companies (and vice versa) by almost any set of metrics you can choose. It may be better to compare specific opportunities and therefore keep your options open. What will matter more than anything else in the long term is the quality of the team you join and the quality of the work they are doing.

Good luck.
I'm not sure I understand the complaint. In your example you say BigCo honestly tries to work them into the fold, ergo the project wasn't made just to fire people (even though a predictable chain of events might lead to the same result as if it had been). I think we might be saying more or less the same thing.

Side question: how did you get a blank username?
> Or maybe your company is doing a poor job of making it clear what it is that he brings to the table.

I don't think it's really a SWE- for example -'s concern what Jeff in sales brings to the table. I mean maybe they're friends, or work together, and he knows.

But if he doesn't know, and doesn't think Jeff deserves so much, it's really neither here nor there. It's not up to him.
There is a short discussion and links to their papers toward the bottom of the second section of this Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable_security
It is confusing, so I will try to break it down as simple as possible at least the way I understood/understand it. The reason the reverse split happened in the first place was that the company was trying to get a certain valuation with a certain opening price for the stock at IPO. With the number of shares they had granted in the option pool, hitting those target numbers was impossible. To adjust for this, it was decided to do a reverse split to reduce the number of shares out thus allowing them meet their valuation and opening price for the IPO. For example, if they wanted raise $8,000,000 on the IPO and have a $20 opening price they could only have 400,000 shares out. Instead they had 32,000,000 shares out. This would have meant to hit the same $8,000,000 raise, they would have had to open at $0.25. So to adjust they did the 1 for 8 reverse split meaning they went from the 32,000,000 shares to 400,000 shares out. Now they can open at $20 and raise their $8,000,000.

Using the same example above, here is where it hits the employee. Let's say on opening day the company opens at $20. Now let's say in the original picture you owned 8000 shares and stock closed that day at $60. You would stand to have made approximately $320,000 ($480,000 - $160,000). However, now with the reverse split you now only have 1000 shares. The stock still opens at $20 and still closes at $60. But now you only made $40,000 ($60,000 - $20,000). That's the downfall of a reverse split.

At least with a normal split (i.e. 2 for 1) you have an upside potential on earnings. This is how a lot of early employees of companies like Microsoft, Apple, Under Armour, etc... have made out significantly well for themselves. With a reverse split they are taking away shares so there is no upside.
I think that line is new. I saw it earlier this morning and seriously debated whether or not it was serious.
Typo, should have been 1 for 8 reverse split.

UGH. Having one of those days. It is 1 for 8 reverse split. Sorry trying to do this from my phone and haven't had a full pot of coffee.
"We can't host it ourselves because that way we miss out on updates."

Couldn't you just have a cron job that grabs the latest copy from the CDN every night and caches it on your own server?
Absent from both the original blog post and the OP is Mozillas kraken test, is firefox simply dismissed as slow these days, and their benchmark just discarded to the annals of time?

From arewefastyet.com they seem to be doing ok, (even if they keep testing some really slow chrome version for some reason) and so it seems strange they are being left out.
Have you considered the possibility that women are mentally inferior at math, like the same way they have inferior spatial awareness, and physical strength.

What do want to do? Sue god for sexism?

The way you handle this cognitive dissonance is fascinating.
> But it means you also earn the same regardless of competence, creativity, or general usefulness as an employee.

Well, no, because presumably the more competent employees get bumped up a payscale, and the truly "useless" ones are quickly dismissed.
The part that impacted me in terms of presentation was the data:

- With 160 million packs the US transitions to renewable energy.

- With 900 million packs the world transitions to renewable energy.

- With 2 billion packs everything in the world, including transport and heating, may transition to renewable energy.

The general pitch is a classic fear mongering strategy used in sales for decades:

1. Beware, something very bad will happen to you.

2. But there is a solution.

3. I have that solution so you need to buy it from me.

In finance it is used to sell insurance, retirement, and trust products.
> Traditional breeding is notoriously bad at avoiding genetic defects and temperament problems. Mutts avoid a bunch of those.

A large number of mutts are also either born or placed into bad situations and end up developing social and temperamental issues as a result, which become increasingly difficult to overcome the older they get.
I think instead they worked in JavaScript performance, so in js benchmarks like sunspider and octane they do well. Meanwhile their page loading was not as optimized, so benchmarks that test loading whole pages such as peacekeeper don't perform as well.
For really simple you could just use something like PayPal. Another option would be to use Stripe Checkout. Either don't require a whole lot of programming skill, although PayPal is probably a little easier as you can just direct them to the PayPal site to pay you.
This is one of the reasons (along with a discrete GPU) that I stick exclusively to the 15" rMBP line. Yes, fans are unsexy and all that, but it's got two of them, they're very good and fairly quiet, and the shell is big enough to serve as a decent heat sink by itself.
Most of the crimpers I use are $1000+. I was totally shocked at the expense when I first switched from home hobby to professional work, but the quality of the crimps is simply incomparable. Very much worth it for reliability.
This just confirms for me that the world needs more respect for laborers.
Implementing the newest web 'standards' is often in conflict with security, privacy and usability.
Am I the only who could can't find the RSS feed for that blog? Pretty strange for a tech blog to only allow subscriptions via email.
Waterloo is the MIT of Canada.
> The text was completely
readable for me, viewing
on an iPad (not even fullscreen).

For me, full screen, 1024 x 768 pixels
on a razor sharp monitor, without
a magnifying glass, essentially just
blurs. Just checked: If I capture
the screen, pull the capture into
PhotoDraw, and magnify by 400%, then
it is nicely readable.

All that is needed is another 400%.
While I agree that the this video isn't that good as far as sound as video quality goes I think we need more of these. They are very valuable.

I'd rather watch this than something written by professional writers, vetted by PR department, practiced with guidance of presentation experts, where everything is pinned down to the minute and every body gesture is scripted and over-practiced and then professionally recorded and edited.

And I definitely don't feel that we "should keep the nerds in the back room and let the big boys do the talking". What makes you think he was forced into this?

Sharing knowledge is good.
https://blogs.janestreet.com/feed/
... but can't buy a decent house for less than $800k.
(note: I don't live in CA)
i'd rather they implement more stuff

http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+10,ie+11,ie+Edge,firefox+39,c...
And have fun defining "measurable"!
The SunSpider benchmark is bullshit, and you shouldn't take anything from it. In particular, Chrome stopped optimizing for SunSpider with their last JIT, as they optimized for longer running apps (such as ones you'd find on the web) but took a hit on SunSpider.

But SunSpider is a really bad benchmark anyway. All benchmarks are bad and suffer real problems, but SunSpider more than most.
Yeah it seems rather ridiculous to me that Firefox isn't mentioned here -- Firefox consistently beats Chrome on the three major benchmarks (SunSpider, Octane, and Kraken).
This is a severe problem for me with my 15" MBP. Long meetings (heck, even short) with colleagues make it extremely hot to the touch (keyboard and frame) and destroy the battery. Same with streaming netflix or youtube videos. Microphone seems fine but not great quality.

It wasn't my decision to purchase this computer, it was my company's, but I'm very disappointed in its performance at simple two way audio video communication via hangouts and skype.

I'll add that it can also get extremely hot just from running a simple local node.js server and mongo database. Not sure how normal that is but they seem like they should be fine considering i have no incoming or outgoing traffic, it's just keeping the port open.
The article isn't saying that the larger scale relationships exactly match the smaller scale ones. It's just making the claim that the larger scale relationships include all the ingredients that materialists usually identify as sufficient for consciousness.
> Xcode is the standard IDE used for all Apple software development - 99% of people viewing a video like this would know that, as its so elementary.

Not for people on Windows. So,
your claim is that 99% of the
people on HN have significant Apple
software development experience?
Can't believe that.

Besides the demo screen didn't look like
it was from just a console session
and not an IDE. So, if no IDE was involved,
then what could have been the role
of an IDE font Xcode?
From the text:

> "If seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work."

Maybe I'm being too naive, but this sounds more like he is concerned about giving away the work rather than locking people in.

I would prefer if these kind of initiative are open source but in my opinion each company have the right to release as they please the technology they develop. In my mind, this is the same case that Apple with the Thunderbolt, and I think is fair that if Apple decide to keep its technology as private they should be able to do so.
Not sure why this is FP on HN right now, but if we're doing Apple Support this morning, then I just want to say that all of the Macbook Air I have owned had overheating issues after about 1 year. The fan starts going crazy and battery drains fast. The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke, but now it's annoying.
Both IBM and Cray had nearly all the features implemented per "Data enhancements and object orientation" on page 6.
I'm glad you brought up ethics, as it was absent from the article. If you believe that God put other species on this planet as a resource for humans, there's no limit to the creative possibilities. Otherwise it's hard to argue that human exploitation of other species can be ethical at this point in our technological development.
I had no idea RSS was still expected... (Not trolling just surprised)