skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few employees, one is a rockstar programmer (programming an OS in his spare time) and the others are not.

But this rockstar cannot talk to customers so one of the other devs dows that, and he is a rockstar in that field.

Another dev delivers solid work every day, every hour and never miss a deadline, he is a rockstar at being rock solid.

If I only had rockstar programmers I would never be able to get everything done.

So even though you are not a rockstar hardcore dev, then be hardcore and rockstar in whatever you are really good at!
This is incidentally why I run a hefty firewall for outgoing traffic and most endpoints can't access the internet at all.
There is a huge generational disconnect between the boomer-driven media and political establishments and the X'ers and millenials.

My prediction/hope is that the stereotype of millenials as relatively happy socialites will end up reversing, with them falling in with us burn-it-to-the-ground X'ers once they are old enough to realize how screwed they are.
>> "However we are interested in the potential for other products which might work in the US."

I'm pretty sure there is a small but enthusiastic market in the US for sharing expensive sports cars, either through formal timesharing arrangements or by going in with a few friends. Formal timesharing clubs exist but the insurance is badly organized and stupidly expensive.

It would be great if I could go in on a Ferrari with 9 of my buddies and only pay for insurance when I'm driving it every tenth day.
Go to settings. There is an entire section to set all your default apps.
For anyone new to OSC, liblo (http://liblo.sourceforge.net/) fits the bill for a lightweight C implementation whose initial commit wasn't 8 hours ago.
Mozilla hasn't made me very happy lately with their "choice" tactics. Resetting people's default search engine to Yahoo of all things on update was very opaque. Also the AMO signing fiasco, Pocket and Hello. Feels like an "It's only okay when we do it" kind of thing.
just a datapoint, .su is still around and still used by some universities.
Not strictly speaking; it hasn't happened often enough for a policy to be established. The ccTLDs .cs (Czechoslovakia), .dd (East Germany), .yu (Yugoslavia), and .zr (Zaire) were all dissolved some time after the reorganization/renaming of their countries. However, this hasn't always been the case. For instance, .su (Soviet Union) continues to be used today.
How is that fair? Note that this isn't a technical choice (you can preserve the previous defaults, that's just a well-hidden non-default option during the upgrade process) - it's using your monopoly position to make life hard on other software manufacturers.

How reasonable would it be if a chrome install had a light-grey disabled-looking customize word hidden amongst a wall of text that if you didn't find and click it would replace windows with chrome os?

This sounds like a power-grab.
You're wrong though about it having zero factual grounding. They collect data, like everyone else, this is a fact. They state that openly in their privacy policy, they even go so far as to define what they consider personal vs non-personal information. We also know that that Siri collects and transmits a bunch of this "non-personal" information to a 3rd party for analysis.

On their QuickType page they say "your conversation data is kept only on your device, so it’s always private." That's a lie because iMessage and your keyboard Dictionary are synced to iCloud which isn't your device. That doesn't mean that it's in Apples hands or they can access it but it's not a factually true statement either. They're also careful to say "conversation data" and not something more general like "anything you input into your keyboard".

I'm not suggesting Apple does anything more invasive than anyone, I'm just suggesting they don't do anything less based on what's observed.
I think that horizon was meant to be in general, not on a per-startup basis. If any given start up fails in 12 months (expected), the space can be sub-leased to someone else - but they expect this scenario to only be the case for another few years.
If you rent cars for > 30 days, you're probably better off buying one...
Wow. I remember this is exactly what happened in 2001 and 2007. Maybe things are different this time.
Well then, Netscape would exist. Which was pretty neat.
Spere-Online shopping re-imagined
Check out the story of the .su (Soviet Union) domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/may/31/ussr-cyber...
If you're skilled at evaluating startups and have access to capital, owning real estate is a waste of time. This isn't an arbitrage opportunity. At best it's just borrowing short to lend long: the liabilities of the spot lease firms are in long-term leases and debt owed against owned real estate; the assets are short-term and demand leases on that property. This is no different from what gets overextended banks in big trouble when a bust occurs. In fact, we can even go a little farther: the banks that think they're the best at managing subprime credit risk (i.e., have the most underwriting skill) tend to take the biggest hit, because that skill is almost never real.
Hell, look at this very thread on HN. There are people further upthread essentially saying, "Whatever, I like it because it's convenient."

I have adopted a passive stance on privacy and security: I stay up-to-date on news in this area, I choose for myself products and systems that minimally increase my risk, and I will answer questions from clients or other people. But, I won't evangelize it. Most people really just don't care all that much.
Daily wifi plans for global travel
I didn't realize babel had a registration wrapper.. that's a lot handier than having to precompile or using a different runner.
Credit cards generally only cover the cost of the rental car, I've not seen one that provides liability coverage. So if you don't have a vehicle of your own, which would provide such coverage, the little-known rental car policy is what saves you from having to fork over extra cash for liability coverage.
And let me guess, they don't have your phone number memorized; they probably save your phone number in their phone's contacts list alongside your name, which is automatically backed up in the cloud in either Google Contacts or iCloud depending on what phone they use.

Expecting your friends not to use cloud services seems a bit unreasonable and unenforceable. Are you really going to tell all your friends they should write down or memorize your phone number instead of storing it in their phone?
Not currently, but we will be working with VPS providers to provide this option.
Or, consider starting a company outside of San Francisco. Not just outside of SoMA, actually outside of San Francisco. (I know, I know, blasphemy.)

Eventually the price of real estate and labor will be so high that the relative disadvantages of other locations will not matter.
Yeah but if they're really remembering 2000, they know that's not so. There's always going to be some nonzero attrition rate among startups, but once a bust is under way the door slams shut on all of them at once. I'm saying I think (and think that landlords also think) that the door is going to slam shut in 12-18 months (maybe even less), not 36 or 48.
Gotcha! Will check back in a couple of months when I'm ready to use this.

Good luck!
If you want to, drop me an email and I'll make sure you don't miss them. :) Jordan at latis dot io.
You may be interested in this facility: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprogram_Research_Facili...

Edit: also should say it is amusing to hear Obama talking about exascale conputing by 2025 when the NSA's goal (read the Wired article) is to get there by 2018.
Some will like Firefox enough to change back. Some won't. But why should they have to?

I got really sick of Microsoft trying to force me to do what they wanted back in the 1990s. In the 2000s, they seemed to change for the better. (Maybe that was due to the antitrust settlement.) Now here they are back to their old ways.
Same thing - leaky abstraction. Too much host language semantics leaking into the problem domain. It's not a pure BNF, and therefore it's faulty by design.
> Your location, your voice, your pictures, your passwords,

However, it will ask you first about that. And it is not actually Android, it is Google Play Services. For snitching your pictures, you have to download an extra app by yourself.

If you don't like that and you don't want to say 'no' when asked, use Cyanogen without Gapps. That way, you'll get non-spying vanilla Android. (That means without Play Store too).
>If you’re over 62, your odds of having at least $1 million in net wealth (your total assets minus your total debt) are relatively achievable -- about 1 in 7. But if you are under 40, your odds are low: 1 in 55.

So the older you are the more time you have had to grow wealth. The younger you are the less time you have had. This is then forcibly tied into median family income?

this is huffington post tier article.
What is the setup and/or recordation fee? The monthly fee is certainly competitive (and IIUC, I like that unlike ForUsAll you're not charging some sort of additional management fee), but I'd want to know what the upfront cost is.
Yeah get the murder part. Try more white and little red peeking.
Too much red = Blood Bath and Some novice Killer on loose.

Little Red = Well planned and well executed murder with precise knowledge of his tools. IMO :)
How does Babel compare to Traceur from Google?
Large landlords with experience are probably a better group to bet on (in terms of understanding long term economic trends) than startups.

Just like the bond market is a better indicator of economic growth than the stock market. More money, more professionals, longer memories, not as much optimism.

Edit: future economic growth expectations, rather.
Love it—but only in combination with treadmill and other seating options. Standing still all day is miserable.
Cool! The interface for variables is reminiscent of DragonBox (http://www.dragonboxapp.com/).
cmd+number works in El Capitan.
Nvidia's Pascale GPU, due next year, is supposed to do 28 terraflops with 1300 watts which I make 21 GFLOPs per watt.
What a strange world view. Who sets the laws then?
You may want to take a look at Nanopass: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/nano-jfp.pdf
They're likely not using something too exotic: 10Gbps free space optical links have been available commercially for a few years now (see products by AOptix). The tricky part is pointing them and getting the last bit of power on target. If they're actually forming links at 100's of km separation they're already on par with what APL was doing just 2 or 3 years ago [1]. Impressive that they not only have the data terminal to develop but have had the additional complication of building a new airframe as well.

Having worked on the pointing/tracking/acquisition side of this problem that's the part that's truly impressive to me. Sub-microradian pointing is not trivial. Their "red beam following green beam" shots in the video must be included for a bit of a laugh...

[1] http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/ScienceAndEngineerin...
Doesn't Firefox make a dozen HTTP requests the first time you open it? And have ads on the start page? And have the only modern browser without a sandbox? This emperor has no clothes.
> Only one other language (Fortran) is that old and still in use [...] Sorry to burst this bubble

Perhaps he meant the Fortran-style programming language, e.g. Cobol, Algol, C, Pascal, etc.

> BASIC still has tons of fans, either in VB disuise or in the the various commercial BASIC's around

It's stretching belief to call VB and Altair Basic the same programming language. Or did you mean the Basic-style programming language?
Privacy yes, but legal? If you operate a website/ service that may be used for illegal purposes then I think you need to be able to track down illegal activities.
Can you give me an example?

And why not have all the features that can be done locally be done locally. If it's possible for my computer to understand me entering an apportionment, why should that go to a MS sever to be stored forever?
I think the GP was just stating the fact, not expressing his opinion about it. But I agree that secret patent ownership sounds a little dodgy. Say I want to apply for a license to use some patented technology? Who am I supposed to turn to?
I saved 40+ hours recruiting on Craigslist with a DIY applicant tracker
Way out of my expertise. But this went viral a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blXydyJLkYY
> they exist and are valid.

Uhm, no, so far not a single valid non-straw-man argument against macros.

It's important to mention that macros do not affect the rest of the language design choices in any way whatsoever. The underlying language can be literally anything, macros can be added on top of any imaginable combination of design decisions.

In case of a python-like language, see Converge, for example.
The contents of the second audit in particular deeply troubled me. Lots of simple but grevious mistakes. It's nice that they got the audit though.
I didn't know the story, it is super interesting. I have very little memories of Windows 3.1 but that sounded right, I remember I didn't know what was running! Taskbar was op:)
I never had a problem with either of them, for some reason, but E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros had that effect on me pretty heavily. To this day I've never read more than 100 pages of that book in a single attempt (where attempt can be a couple weeks of concerted effort).
> The .su domain was invented by the then-19-year-old Finnish student Petri Ojala.

"Invented" seems like the wrong word to use here.
Agreed, many landlords seem to feel like the trouble is a mere few months away, although often any attempt at getting them to discuss how they arrived at that conclusion gets something like "I just know it."

So one wonders about the whole "wisdom of the crowds" or "herd" in this case, and whether or not they can sense something that isn't showing up in other indicators. I've been looking but other than the extensively covered late stage valuation madness I've not found good correlation for this feeling.
Consider my metaphorical hat eaten. Thanks for the cool tools! I'm currently working with Postgres and this looks like a great thing to add to the mix.
> Young people (generally defined here as those under 40)

What is with the media and this strange concept of "young people" now being the 28-40 age bracket? Back in my day, "young people" meant 8-18 year olds.

This isn't the only article making this bizarre wordplay. One of the previous USDS "submarine" articles referred to "young people" on a team as the members who were over 28.
gcc is merely an example of a C compiler. Feel free to substitute the Intel compilers, the Microsoft compilers, or just about any real-world compiler that gets used to ship real products. In other words, any actual C compiler.
Haha, fair enough. We appreciate the input and sanity check.
Oh yeah, I agree. I just found the dig at Microsoft vs. Apple a bit disingenuous since Apple's biggest platform doesn't even let you change your browser at all.
"iOS market share has declined tremendously since 2010, from approximately 80% to approximately 20%."

Not so. IDC data: iPhones shipped in 2010: 47.45m. Total smartphones shipped worldwide in 2010: 303.9m. iPhone share: 15.6%.

iPhones shipped in 2014: 192.6m. Total smartphones: 1.295bn. iPhone share: 14.8%.

As a percentage of all mobile phones (including featurephones), iPhone shipments have risen steadily from about 3.3% (average across 2010) to 11.8% (average first two quarters of 2015).

I don't know where you got your numbers from, but they don't match any I recognise. (Equally, if you're using "market share" to mean "install base" - don't. They're not congruent.)
Sixpack doesn't currently support multivariate testing, but there have been proposals for it in our github issues. I'd imagine that it gets added at some point... until then, we accept PR's!
The GP didn't say anything about blocking or throttling, merely that you'd pay to have access to content you wouldn't get otherwise and that ISPs could offer subscription bundles to their customers--pay $5/month and get unlimited access to the NYT and a bunch of other paywalled news sites.
Did you even read past the first paragraph? The piece addresses your point directly and shows how the situation is getting worse, with the older generation having become increasingly likely to be wealthy over the past few decades and vice versa.
I have a pretty new loo that uses 1.0 gallons per use. I haven't had any problems that I've heard about, thankfully, even on the "worst days." I think that some of them are designed better than others.

As an experiment I dumped a half gallon of water into it and it flushed. Of course the bowl didn't fill up after but this makes me think that my loo would work with one of those reduced water flush mechanisms for when the waste is liquid. I've seen some retrofit kits but they won't fit my loo.
i don't think it's related to Viginere. here's an example of repeated text that is not repeated when encrypted:
http://i.imgur.com/i4XLLEm.png
thanks, i decided to ditch the logos. though i am just attempting to promote their product and if they prefer i don't do that, then that's their choice...
That's missing the point entirely: yes, older people usually have more money than younger people. But there's been a drastic, meaningful change in just how much richer older people are than younger.

Maybe there are good reasons for this, maybe not, but it's not just a restatement of the obvious.
As much as I'd like the US to crash to reality a bit so we can get our house together... a Chinese slowdown + European clusterfuck makes the US the best place to invest, still. That gives this boom a slightly longer lease on life.
I have seen an integrated system in Australia. Delivery Hunter. Actually involves a delivery service if restaurant does not have one.. We all thought it would fail but it is getting bigger and bigger.
There's a ton of fear-mongering going on in these comments. It's depressing.
It certainly was, for a while. But not for some time before it was sold to AOL and then died....

Mozilla has been a much better influence on the web, I think.
Even if an app doesn't have an override for chosen key assignments, you should be able to override anything visible in a menu by using System Preferences (Keyboard category, Shortcuts tab, App Shortcuts item).
Compared to bitnami, we focus on the convenient installation of apps into your cloud. This includes also updates, backup and single-sign-on. See https://cloudron.io/features.html.
We do not focus on virtual machine images that can be launched on your favorite IaaS.
If you really are as charming in real life as you are online, people might indeed accede to your quaint insistence on anachronistic media, until they don't.

Personally, I require that all my so-called friends communicate with me in morse code over short wave radio. It works a treat.
Baker St, a simple client-side load balancer for microservices
What about programming do you find unnatural?
If the NSA is a targeted attacker, then yes, the James Mickens "Mossad / Not Mossad Duality" applies. To paraphrase, "either your attacker is or is not the Mossad. If your attacker is not the Mossad, you can use strong passwords and avoid shady websites and you should be okay. If your attacker is the Mossad, there's nothing you can do and you are definitely going to die".

However, the average citizen is not a target of the NSA. They can tap all sorts of public infrastructure and record it, etc. But much of my activity is spread out over many networks, and is encrypted in ways that may still not be super-convenient for the NSA to constantly crack. The problem with these privacy settings is they're causing WAY more stuff to go over infrastructure easily targeted by the NSA than before.
Javascript frontend (React/Angular) Javascript backend (Node.js) Javascript DB (MongoDB)
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I would most definitely go for Ableton, you can free versions to try it out.

Sounds like that guy is using a lot of Beat Repeat effects, this is already built into Ableton but you can also use an external VST* called Glitch which is perfect for these sounds http://illformed.com/

*a VST is a 3rd party plug in for Ableton/Logic etc

There are literally thousands of tutorials on YT for how to get started making beats in Ableton, and the big advantage of Ableton is that you can get a loop going incredibly quickly compared to most other DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).

I found the best way to learn is to listen intently to your favourite tracks and try and seperate out the elements that make up the track.

e.g. what do the drums sound like? how many synths are playing and what are they doing? are their vocal samples and do you recognise them?

Write all this down as you are listening to the track, along with a timeline of when the different elements come in and out. This will put you on a good path to understanding the makeup of electronic music.
I had a McKinsey offer - rejected it to take up my first job which was in technical research in California. Most consultants spend time building powerpoint - some of them are exceptional and eventually do well - like the ones who are now top-notch biz-dev folks at valley tech companies. But thats a small fraction.
True, but there is definitely a lot of staying power in those currently of retirement age, kicking the can down the road, with a growing proportion of the population over age 65 (20% in 2020 versus 9% in 1970) receiving the benefits of Social Security and Medicare which are largely unfunded.

There will have to be a number of cut-backs in retirement benefits for future retirees, including means-testing, removing the maximum wage for Social Security contributions, and higher Medicare premiums.
JavaScript is only a real issue when you have an insecure code delivery mechanism. The article spells that out pretty well.
I dislike pass because it doesn't encrypt all information in the typical configuration. Its simplicity is nice.
The existing contractors definitely don't like it, and on healthcare.gov, we learned to expect zero cooperation (indeed, plenty of interference) from the management of those companies. [1]

But ultimately, the people making the contracting decisions are agencies like CMS, HHS, the VA, and DHS. And with USDS, the agencies now have solid third party to provide technical advice--for example, that a consumer login system shouldn't cost $80 million to develop.

That's why you see results like the one quoted in the article, where a $200m initial healthcare.gov system was replaced with a $4m one. And if you read between the lines, you'll notice that the major federal contractor for healthcare.gov decided not to bid this year:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/healthcare-gov-contractor-optum-...

Sometimes the good guys win.

[1] On the other hand, the engineers at those companies generally want to do the right thing, if they are empowered to.
Internally using hashtext(), which is not a good idea for a bloom filter for a few reasons, one of which is http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABUevExTx2whgSpKaoMVow...
Either way someone looses out, bookmarks were so handy.
I think the advantage of a massive skilled labor pool and investors within walking distance is a nearly insurmountable advantage.

For a small company, I'd say the time/cost of hiring a few good engineers is way more than a few months rent. You'll certainly pay a respectable headhunter quite a bit.
This looks like a really easy-to-use experience for the experts, and I can see the end user's view working very naturally on AR headsets too. Very cool!