skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where you're coming from, and even agree with some of your view. The system in unstable, and I don't know that every policy school administrations put in place help. But I don't think you used very good examples. School is way to PC, but a lot of that is for good reason, even it get's applied unreasonably sometimes.

Honestly though, it just touched a nerve with me. Millenials, as I'm sure every generation before us, has become the it thing to bash. And I feel as though most of the people doing the critiquing skim over the fact that the world we grew up in is fundamentally different than that of our parents, and their parents. The basic assumptions that older people make don't apply for us. We are the first generation pretty much since this country was founded who's job prospects are worst than our parents. Most of our parents will benefit at least something from Social Security. We will never see a dime. We are the largest, most educated generation ever but also the most in debt and most under-employed (people who want a job but can't get one).

Part of all this is just life. But what makes it worse is that people keep characterizing us as lazy, and entitled for wanting the things we've been told all our life we'll get, if we work hard. Due to no fault of our own, the American Dream or whatever that means if pretty much not an option for most of us, and yet people are surprised we started making a decisions without that goal in mind. If I have to work til the day I die, and most likely I will, shouldn't I try to work somewhere that is as fun as I can find. If that means swings, puppies, and playpits is that a bad thing?
Absolutely. What I meant was that there should have been some "are you sure" confirmation in this case.
Okay, so this is one rare example that's actually true.

Let's break the point down a bit. For an actual rape survivor, it's possible the word "violate" might be triggering. If that's the case in that room, then perhaps another word should be used.

As for not teaching rape law, while rape law is something that might be triggering to a victim, this is a rare example where not teaching it, at least if it's a requirement of the program, is a problem. There's a discussion that can occur about the appropriateness of teaching rape law in, say, an introduction to law course at the undergraduate level. Having the discussion is important.

Funny how the people who say that coddled students want to shut down all discussion, only to shut down discussion about what's appropriate to teach in general courses or for a university to endorse.
I recall using a lin-log and log-log graph paper when I was 16 or so.

I suspect we HAD to use them because the school had some leftovers. We drew graphs on them for like 20 mins and then did it on the computer (GeoGebra I think).
Primer is awesome, one of the few (if not the only) time-travel movies worth watching. It's the only movie I ever watched in entirety the very next day after seeing it the first time.
> "It does lack the mechanical blasting action of regular showers, which is good for removing caked mud"

Hmm, I need that, just due to playing with (and having) kids and doing yard work. I could imagine redoing a bathroom and having a shower large enough for a traditional shower head on one side, and this on the other.
probably for the same reason that Apple requires you to own a mac to build an iPhone app
Damn, and here I thought I needed to build a gigantic rocket.
I am running Wordpress on a $5 plan for my personal website. Also paying $1 extra per month for backups. While requesting for an OS image to install, you can choose to install Wordpress on it from their menu. It is a no-frills simple setup if you want to go the self-hosting route.
It takes a lot more than good code, talented engineers and passionate customers to scale food tech startups that deal with getting perishable food from local farms to people’s doorsteps.

It feels like some kind of tech-myopia that anyone should think code was the key to a successful food company. The old "when you're holding a hammer..."
Mary Ann Davidson: The Oracle license forbids you from reverse engineering
See also the massively popular, and critical-to-rails Gem https://github.com/erikhuda/thor - naming is hard.
I was excited about this for a moment, since I was a big fan of Pushbullet before they decided to "evolve" into a messaging app.

I used it simply to send links between my phone/browser and to occasionally send a link via SMS. I would have happily paid for this functionality.

In a recent update, it became impossible to send SMS from the browser without also syncing your entire SMS history (images included) to their server without end-to-end encryption, so I nuked my account.

I just signed up again to test this out, and I didn't get very far before I realized they are still storing all my MMS images on their server un-encrypted.

Here's one from my SMS history:
https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/KWevdTT0b4Fe92yukWHDKlo...

I just "cleared my history" and deleted my account and the link still works, so we'll have to see how long my data stays on their server. I'm going to assume indefinitely :(.
I don't see how that would negate the convenience of an app.
It is currently quite a bit slower, but the goal is to make a codec fast enough for real time communication use.

VP9 is still about 9x slower than x264, but yields the same quality at half the bitrate. You can set VP9 to run a lot faster, but you'll lose some of the bitrate advantages. Still, VP9 is practical for a lot of applications, such as Youtube.
What part of this is tackling something that Silkroad and its friends haven't?
"Lessig said he would serve as president only as long as it takes to pass a package of government reforms"

So in other words four years, eight if he gets re-elected.

Awfully roundabout way of saying that....
The bestselling upright vacuum on Amazon, the Bissell Cleanview, looks quite a bit like the original Dysons.
The problem is that nobody is asking the actual market value of their product. TechCrunch would probably want subscribers to pay north of $5/month. But the actual marketing value (in ad revenue) that they are currently able to extract from a single reader is probably closer to $0.50/year - if that.

You solve the micropayment problem and then we can talk about what I'm willing to pay for content.
I never said it wasn't crazy for the medallions to cost as much as they do. I just said it's not crazy that the person who was wise/foolish enough to pay that shouldn't be allowed to try to recoup the cost from someone using it.
React is for Tools
I'm left wondering what's the latest Visual Studio version you are familiar with. 2013 and 2015 are becoming pretty good - out of the box.

I'm using visual studio nearly daily for C++, nothing wrong with it (except it lacked vim binding for which - there is an extension.)
@coffeemug, do you have an ETA on when performance benchmarks will be released?
Isn't it possible to do this incremental?

FB has done it and I didn't feel a thing, besides some disappearing bugs.
I was responding specifically to the latter portion of the quote excerpted by the grandparent post, which indicated minimal and zero profits for Standard Oil in areas with competition, in alignment with economic theory which indicates economic profit tends toward zero with increased competition.
"The art of icon design is steadily being lost with each passing year."[citation needed]
"The single biggest mistake we made was growing too quickly, to multiple cities, before fully figuring out the challenges of building an entirely new food supply chain."

This is a repeat of Webvan. Webvan had a good idea, but tried to "scale" fast. They had about 3% market share in 30 cities, and needed 30% market share in 3 cities.
Lots of recent bad new from Dropbox. Doesn't sound good for one of YC's first startups.
I've made about $25 from donations, vs about $70 from AdWords and Amazon affiliate links, over the course of about two years. Of course, I actually got the $25 from the donations, whereas the ad revenue is still waiting to hit the minimum payment thresholds...
The first time around it was called "The New Economy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_economy
This is a lot more normal than investing in a startup that rents out inflatable mattresses. This saves a lot of water while still allowing people to continue their 30 minute washing rituals, making it somehow feel even more awesome, and it just so happens be around during the ever continuing trend of a horrible droughts.

A lot of startups profess 'to make the world a better place'... this one easily delivers.
Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb are not unusual.
Yeah the list goes on. Even for the pros, there are an insane amount of steps to get the install perfect. And it has to be perfect, as one overlooked thing can mean the box can be taken offline by net-hooligans. Things like Commando are handy for this and I frequently use recipes when I spin up a new server: https://commando.io/
In my honest and not-so-humble opinion, the tendency to attribute arrogance to Oracle is by no means "undue" (which is required for the parent comment to fall victim to FAE).
This is totally my fault. I've had a pretty comprehensive benchmark report pdf sitting in my inbox for a few months now that the performance team put together, but something else always took my attention away. I'll ask the documentation team to format it and add it to the official documentation. Sorry this slipped through the cracks.
Apparently because they're innovating with Thor, according to[0] Daala people are experimenting with Thor tech (IETF 93 was a few weeks ago) and Daala tech is being experimented for Thor[1]

[0] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-netvc-5...

[1] https://github.com/cisco/thor/pull/8
It seems I brought some of my priors into this discussion.

Apologies for the misrepresentation of your position.
Trigger Warnings
I dont know if we are or not, but that isnt the point. The point is that prior to the reforms, campaign finance was problematic. Since it is still a problem, I would say the reforms didnt fix the problem completely if at all. Therefore we need another, better reform rather than going backwards in my opinion.
I use both. The friction is way lower on the Linux side of things. Sure you can knock up a 50 line powershell script to thing X but if you do it in 97 lines of python it takes less time because you didn't have to download a later version of management tooling which then required a reboot followed by half an hour arguing with script signing followed by an hour of trying to scan through KB articles to work out why your PS script didn't run in task scheduler only to find it was an obscure compatibility flag followed by it failing after two days because a CIFS share suddenly went offline...

And today visual studio 2013 crashed on me a relatively low 11 times...

Oh and I had to fix a script that tried to deploy sql server instances and pretty much entirely fucked up my workstation.

This is every day when your product gets large.
Oracle needs to archive what the false positives in each release of their software according to popular tools are.

Oh, wow! How could we be so stupid. All we have to do is build a false positive database of all tools, everywhere. Don't forget for all versions. Not just all versions of the tools, all versions of your code. And whenever a new tool or version comes out, rerun everything. Because inevitably some guy limping along with Oracle 8 is going to download the latest Parasoft release and he's gonna what a word with you because probably Parasoft doesn't even have an Oracle 8 instance laying around any more. No problem!

Adopting a code style that reduces false positives...

Force coders to change their style because "AppScan v6.00.01 patch 10 throws a falsy on this expression in version 11i patch 200". Sure, why not...fuck those guys. People should be slaves to the tools, not the other way around.

rigorously demanding working test cases

Forcing your 400k some odd customers to come up with test cases for your code before you pay attention to the vulnerability reports they genuinely believe are important. That sure won't alienate customers at all.

Proof once again how easy it is to wave ones hand over a complicated subject one doesn't fully understand, assign simple (and wrong) solutions based on limited information and declare others inadequate.
Kali includes a huge number of tools (some pre-installed, others in the repos) that aren't available via the package manager for most distros. Also things like wifi drivers that are patched to support monitor mode and default login as root, which is insecure for day-to-day computing but since most of the tools require root access, it's quite nice on Kali.
Depends on which "several large personalities" you're referring to. Perhaps if you specify, your curiosity will be sated.
It's fair to have compromised your expectations of frameworks - since there aren't many that have been around for long - but Bitovi and its clients have not. Our libraries are both backward compatible and constantly innovating.
I think detailed, illustrative icons can be iconic - human eyes are good parsing 3d things with complex shades, and the lighting and color can convey more information than just 2d shapes. I think the purpose of an icon is to be instantly and universally recognizable, as opposed to being a platonic ideal of the thing being conveyed.

It's just that skeuomorphism is out of fashion at the moment so this style look a bit dated.
Correct me if I'm wrong (because I don't live in the EU and can't verify this), but to comply with the cookie law websites started just displaying "we use cookies" in the header somewhere and didn't actually change anything. Meaning its the same as browsing the internet everywhere else you just get told that this is happening.
I work in gene therapy; expect a lot of headlines like this in the coming years. We're just getting started with solving the easy-to-fix problems and disorders right now, but they're falling quickly.

Soon it'll be possible to seriously talk about improving working functionality via gene therapy-- I'd expect simple musculoskeletal augmentation first.
The micropayments could be handled via one of those 20 companies. For example, it would be fairly easy for Doubleclick to have users set up an account and fund it with a few bucks, and then they'd pay TechCrunch .01 USD when the user read an article. In effect it'd be a sort of protection racket, if you don't want see any ads, pay up.
If they had used Haskell I think things would have gone differently.
Many static analysis tools are working on JVM bytecode level, and there are quite a few for even the raw x86.
What're you talking about, there?
Same sentiment, without the snark: I was surprised to read that claim, because I have never heard it previously, nor do I see any reason for it to be so. I continually see new software and applications, and they typically have their own icons. Can anyone support or elaborate on the claim?
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
A thread similar to this was posted ~1 year ago by gillis . I think it's time for an updated 2015 version and I am on the market for a website/product, possibly in the security space.

If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.
Amazon has 24,000 workers in Seattle and is building office space for 70,000 more. Why?

* Are they relocating 70,000 workers from other areas?

What areas? Why would they relocate these workers?

* Are they adding 70,000 new jobs?

It's possible that Amazon is planning to expand. I have no idea.

* Are they building office space without intending on using it?

Amazon would have to have a very good reason for doing this. Maybe they plan on starting up a lot of business units and doing a lot of churn-y startup-y things? Maybe they plan on renting it out? Maybe they're just sinking money into Real Estate to retain their no-profit image?
The worst part about this is that I've heard they wouldn't have been captured if they didn't get greedy

I've heard before that getting greedy is one of the most common downfalls, and that fraudsters who can manage the scale of their fraud are the hardest to catch. For example, there was some guy who got hold of a $1 printing press. He produced & laundered modest amounts of fraudulent bills for something like 20 years and was never caught; they only figured it out when a certain $1 printing press was found in his estate sale.

Think of it like athletes blood samples being held for years after competition. They won't test all the samples held but they have the data there to look back on if they find a reason to

So you're saying the athletic governing bodies are guilty of illegal vein-tapping, and have some kind of blood bank of every athlete ever somewhere out in the Utah desert...? :)
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202
The very next task of mine

is a new value of pi to define.

I think I'll use 3

it's much simpler you see;

than 3.14159
Their site is down. Can someone post the magnet link?

EDIT found the link on reddit: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:66fc47bf95d1aa5eca358f12c70af3ba5c7e8f9a&tr=udp://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce&tr=http://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce (torrent at http://images.kali.org/kali-linux-2.0-amd64.torrent)
I don't believe you can really know whats coming out of college campuses in the US, other than some opinions viewed through the lens of these few professors who are pointing out outliers. You're getting the same grossly unbalanced viewpoint that would tell you that murders and rapes and child molestations are rampant if you viewed it through the lens of local or national news. Colleges are much more diverse than that, and people learn all sorts of opinions. The "over-victimhood" issue is something they'll encounter but don't think for a second that its the majority viewpoint. People are simply more sensitive now towards other people's struggles, and a natural overextension of that is the protectionism of perceived victims by shutting out perceived perpetrators, which simply does not have legs long term.
Awesome work guys. Could you give some details on what you're most proud of and what was most challenging?
There is a tendency on HN to only consider product- or service-oriented software development. That's fine, I understand that tendency, it's kind of what we all want to do.

But there is a LOT more consultoware in the world. And a lot of it runs in the browser on corporate intranets, where IF it ever gets updates past the first year after release, it will probably be by a completely different team. And by different team, that could either mean a completely different consulting company, or a completely different set of developers in the original company [0].

I know for a fact that there is JS code that I have written that has been in use, unchanged, for 10 years. That's not to say that I wrote amazing code. I didn't write anything good 10 years ago (and probably don't 10 years later, but that's a different issue). That code got written, the system got installed, and nobody ever went back to change anything in it. I'm sure the database server crashes once every two days and they just have a policy to reset the server every morning.

So yes, you absolutely can expect code you write to last for 5+ years.

[0] And that could be be either because the consulting company moves their A-Team around on new projects and puts their B- and C-Teams on long-term-support, or it could be because the company perpetually assigns teams to projects, and bored developers quit to new companies.
Oops, I somhowe missed it good catch.
Sometimes "do things that don't scale" is bad advice. It's great advice when starting out (because you should be focused on building an appealing product before you worry about scaling it), but you need to be using your scale-up to test ways of breaking out of doing the "things that don't scale". The idea is to turn it into a forcing function for the company: if you can't find a better way to scale, you're done.

Disruptive innovation is about ripping out the assumptions that incumbents made and operating under a new set of assumptions that may not have been possible when the incumbents started. But sometimes, the incumbents' assumptions/constraints are still valid, and new entrants don't have as much of an advantage (or the new entrants' advantage is easily copied).
A bit off-topic, but can you recommend any RethinkDB SaaS providers?
<TL; DR;> Creators of CanJS think you should use CanJS.

Honestly; I have a hard time taking this article seriously when they put Backbone & Knockout into the "stagnation" category, but CANjs into the "safe bet" area. Both Backbone and Knockout are continually maintained and have done a good job with backwards compatibility.
wrong: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10km%2Fs+%2F+speed+of+l...

3.336×10^-5

1000km/s is enough to escape the galaxy (in fact, about 2 times more than needed. it's ridiculously fast.) 0.03c is 8990 km/s.
It's distributed, so you can't take it down without deleting every copy of the source code.

A few other versions of this exist:

http://slur.io/

https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/Main_Page

(I think unsystem is trying to tackle the distributed DNM problem at least but I could be mistaken)
This is a duplicate of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202

(The mods might want to redirect the original to the archive.org link)
I believe every network protocol and outside connection is disabled by default. It's supposed to be setup so that it can be booted invisibly, on an existing system via live USB so that you can simulate a real intrusion.
Everything still reduces to the lowest common denominator, HTTP. How often does that change, like every 5-10 years?

Front end or back end still need to communicate over HTTP and display in browsers. Your end users don't care what framework is used or if it is popular. They just want a usable and probably cheap site/application.
Suggestibility and Compassion
I believe this link came from today's Raymond Chen's blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/08/11/10634...

He has just finished a 10-part series on IA-64, and probably posted that to provide some contrast.
Hello, I'm the Daala tech lead.

One of the things that made Opus a success was the contributions of others. We certainly don't have a monopoly on good ideas. We'll take pieces of Daala and stick them in Thor and pieces of Thor and stick them in Daala, and figure out what works best. Some of that experimentation has already begun:

https://github.com/cisco/thor/pull/8

https://review.xiph.org/874/

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-netvc-5...

Because none of us have a financial incentive to get our patents into the standard, we're happy to pick whatever technology works best, as long as we end up with a great codec at the end. Hopefully NETVC can replicate the success of Opus this way.
> There is absolutely no excuse for having all that crap to go through.

I agree, too -- and this phrase has been on the minds of people while installing Microsoft products for decades now. It's in their DNA somehow, it seems.
Uhhh what? "Added support for Jepsen tests" shouldn't mean "we sent Kyle a pull request"

That seems like deceptive marketing to me. Once the pull request is merged, then you can make that claim.

Here's the open PR for Jepsen: https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen/pull/70
MS does this with a magic cookie value. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181362.aspx

It's been discussed on the pg mailing lists but nothing has happened so far