skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that liquidation preference has been standard in term sheets for decades mean that its advent cannot have caused the recent inflated valuations. But the way that VCs are employing liquidation preference may have changed. For example, the liquidation-preference term may have increased in importance if IPOs are becoming less common relative to other liquidation events or if out-of-control valuations mean that liquidation-preference is a more important form of protection than it used to be.
I don't know about the OP's reasons, but one of mine lately has simply been dependency management and simplicity of deployment. It's just handy to be able to package it all together, especially for packaged software where deploying another component would be more configuration. I suppose this is why docker containers (or in the past, virtual appliances/VMs) have become so much more popular.

The good embeddable web servers are usually pretty lightweight, scalable and can be programmatically configured. Things like Jetty are popular, but look at languages like Go that have HTTP serving built in via libraries and scale nicely via coroutines.

Vert.x etc. are cool for performance reasons, being lightweight and usually much less thread hungry (using async operations, sometimes in many less threads).

That said, I do agree that reverse proxies are still really useful for all the reasons you mentioned. Reverse proxies on top of some of these high performing embedded HTTP serving engines is a good practice, when you need it.

And there is no need to throw out the tried and true engines, like Apache, Nginx, etc.

Just depends on the use case and needs I suppose.
Well, it's a popularity contest. Lua is certainly a great language, it's fast and it works well with C. I guess that nginx team thinks that js will bring more users therefore more business. If I were to develop a product and add a scriptable layer, i'd certainly use JavaScript. Even if it is not the best language out there, it's about growing an ecosystem.
> As a corollary, garbage-collected languages do not work for this at all.

As a naive person about this...

Is possible to reap some of the benefits from this kind of architecture in a managed environment (like .NET)?

If a try to implement, for example a sqlite-like/kdb+, memory only database in .NET, how far is possible to go?

Or how avoid some common traps?
i didnt say recaptcha
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They appear to have been denying it for a year at this point, before they admitted it. So presumably something happened in that period of time that made them calculate that admitting it now was better than continuing to deny it.
Why would you care if they are "in" or not? If you are happy with it it wasn't a mistake, if you feel it is too bulky it probably was, end of story.
The 4 cylinder TDI was for the economy range of vehicles. The more expensive models with bigger engines use urea tanks or BlueTec as Mercedes Benz politely calls it. More expensive to make and service, but those who buy more expensive vehicles expect these kind of added service costs. Those on the lower end do not.
Hackers Took Fingerprints of 5.6M U.S. Workers, Government Says
Here's a Reddit post about Polygon's Samit Sarkar which got 500 upvotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3jq1xm/goal...

Here's a post about EA giving early access to Reddit mods, who didn't disclose it. 2000 upvotes: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3c8wze/ethi...

There's definitely a constituency among gamers.
Conspiracy Theory: Facebook is lying about its VCG mechanism and is actually maximizing short term revenue with a different mechanism but reaping the benefits of a perceptively ungamable system.
There are many differences in this situation, not the least of which that there's a difference between an engineering flaw, and engineering the flaw intentionally.
"0. Use Git and Github

I'm not going to dignify this with a non-zero number. If you aren't using git and github.com then you are already making excuses for doing it wrong. It is not about fashion or groupthink. Github (the company) know how to make Good Code, and their tools reflect this."

I stopped reading there, and shed a single tear for all the enormously talented people through history who thought they had made anything even remotely worthwhile pre-github.

:,(

Github is great, but it's not a prerequisite of Good Code for crying out loud. This article is not Good Writing.
Yea, and Apple's app store has no idea what apps you have on your phone.

/s
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I agreed with you until your last line - apple has been doing stuff like this at least sense 2011[1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-your-l...
> no evidence that the copyright for the words was ever transferred to that company alongside the words

I'm guessing that was meant to be "[...] alongside the melody"?
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Gotcha, I'll move to using the original article title from now on.
I was exaggerating for effect. Parts of east Oakland are definitely the kind of place where you might get mugged for looking like a techie and carrying a laptop.
> I don't believe there's a technology bubble, but there is absolutely an advertising bubble. When it bursts, companies are going to be more desperate and will unload all the personal data they have on us to absolutely any willing buyer. And then we'll see if all these dire warnings about the dangers of surveillance were right.

If you read this paragraph critically, it is easy to find the problem with the argument in this article.

There is a fundamental failure to explain how the privacy concerns are having a negative impact right now.

The cigarette comparison is ridiculous, because cancer is an obvious problem. Cancer is bad. Cigarettes cause cancer. It's is very easy to understand that.

What is the "cancer" correlation with online ads?

Something that might happen in the future if the advertising bubble bursts?

I'm not saying that there isn't a serious problem. It's just that the negative affects are not clearly stated. And that is a problem -- especially if you want to cause change.

People don't want cancer. That's why cigarettes are almost universally seen as bad. With online advertising, what is the correlation? I don't see one.

edit: I want to add, that in my experience as a small publisher and a small advertiser, I have no problem with click fraud. The robots are not winning. (I spend around $30-40k a year in ads, generate significantly more in ad revenue.)
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I'd argue that services like Parse.com make the cost go way, way down. Even lower if you are a mobile app developer yourself.
I'm interested in learning more about the research ladder (and how it's different to the SWE ladder) at Google.

So I found this: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

If anyone has other interesting resources about the general employee structure at Google/other big companies, please reply :)
buying VW stock makes perfect sense. you look at what the value of the company is and when you see a large disconnect between the value and the stock price you buy.
it's 40x from "faked condition test" to "road condition". And the "test condition" are totally unrealistic behavior on the road (such as 0-50km/h in 26 seconds)

Most car are above the allowed limit in real situation.
Does this become less true the more niche the website is? People who read my math blog should be served ads for technical things (math books, online courses, etc), regardless of recent search history.

In reality, I have a math blog with ads for Cap'n Crunch cereal and strange new yogurts which seem very distracting and poorly-targeted when compared to, say, ads for O'Reilly math/CS books or a MOOC on probability and statistics.
There are other countries in the world, and in some of those countries, there are significant numbers of diesel passenger cars.
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When I was car shopping the VW diesel numbers, for tdi sportwagen in particular, were impressive. Nothing else came close to VW's combination of power, space, and mileage. Now maybe there are people who know more about cars than I do and can dispute that, but that was my perception a couple of years ago.

If I were the other car companies, I'd want to know exactly how VW was pulling that off. They must have looked into it, and surely they're not as easily misled as I apparently was (how would I know if VW was outright lying about the car?).

This suggests to me that the other car companies must have known that VW was doing something wrong. The fact that they didn't rat VW out suggests to me that they were either doing the same thing (maybe not as aggressively as VW) or they hoped to get away with the same thing. The former seems more likely, and if that's true then I expect this to spread beyond VW soon.
SF is pretty culturally hostile to outsiders. Maybe if more residents felt like it was "their" city, rather than just the place they live, they would feel a greater sense of responsibility to improve it.

This problem probably affects most cities with a large transplant population.
I can't help but think this is a bad idea. Jamming more stuff into what is a great tool puts nginx on a slow path to a bloaty death.

Am I incorrect in assuming that you could implement your entire server-side js app now as an nginScript module? Do people think that is a good thing?

Not to mention that putting more interpreters and more end-user code into a system that has access to your service's private key might not be terribly wise.

I'm sure many people will tell me I'm wrong, and I guess I can see some benefit to simplifying configuration and perhaps deployment.

But there's a reason we've mostly moved away from deploying embedded PHP applications inside of mod_php.
I work on a project that's a mix of F# and C++ and my code tends to break down very similarly to this.

The actual algorithmic lines are very similar in size and readability but when it comes to defining your data structures, F#/OCaml clearly wins.

The author of the website(Jon Harrop) is a very good writer and though his books are expensive I'd recommend them to anyone learning OCaml or F#.

Specifically F#/OCaml for scientists is awesome( it comes in variants for both languages) as is F# for Numerics.
Interesting development then.

Not that I'd ever buy a device with Windows preinstalled anyway, nor do I recommend it.
from the article

[Dan] Carder [director of West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative
Fuels, Engines and Emissions (CAFEE)] did, however, shed light on diesel
exhaust. The problem, he says, is one of thermal management.

Catalytic converters break down NOX only when they’re hot, and keeping them
hot may sometimes require that you burn more fuel than you need for the
performance you want. You might want to run the engine on a lean fuel-air
mixture, but you have to run it rich.

“There’s also a trap for NOX that acts like a sponge,” Carder points out.
“But if you saturate it with NOX, then you have to go to a rich-burning
condition to use the catalyst to reduce the NOX” and thus wring out the
sponge.
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Who cares if they are receiving them and never seeing them because they are blocked?
This article talks a lot about the effects of preferences on the founders, but doesn't mention the employees, who get an even worse deal because their upside wasn't that big to start with.

Maybe at some point founders will start to refuse deals involving preferences, even at the expense of valuation and/or amount raised, in order to be able to offer their employees a better deal (and thus attract better employees).
Yes. The biggest benefit is very low ground footprint and highly predictable traffic flow. A few articles discuss it as a reasonable form of mass transit.

http://urbanland.uli.org/infrastructure-transit/public-trans...

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/commute-by-gondola-...
Ah, this explains why last month I suddenly had to start paying Canadian sales tax on my droplets.
Are all of those people paying though? I block a lot of trackers and I don't pay a cent.
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Some ways I can think of that help non-nerds:

- lets you make backups you physically control

- prevents vendor lock-in

- lets you spot and correct mistakes in things like your user profile

- lets you verify that things you deleted were actually deleted

- promotes competition by making it easier to take your data and go elsewhere

- protects your privacy by forcing vendors to keep better track internally of what user data they're storing
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Woah, I had no clue about this. I really hope they end up with something good and this gets big.
A taxi is a vehicle for hire that you can lawfully hail on the street.
Lua and JavaScript are very similar languages and share the basic problems. I'm indifferent.
Downvoting of this comment only makes sense to me if someone disagrees with you. And on that note, is that what downvoting on HN is for? Other link aggregators typically say downvoting isn't for disagreements; that's what commenting is for.
They're two separate bridges built decades apart. They put a bike lane on the new eastern span despite it not being very useful at the moment so that whenever a new western span is built it won't run into the exact same issue (and there's some ideas being thrown around for adding a bike lane to the current bridge, but they're all hideously expensive).
Born, raised in America. Hardly know/seen the Yogi Bear.
To me, the line between cheating and ensuring good compatibility is drawn when you deceptively "optimize" for particular benchmark measurements at the expense of other qualitative un-measured or difficult-to-measure qualities. This undermines the purpose of the benchmark.

There's a huge difference between "Game XYZ uses these inputs and shaders, let's make sure our driver works as well as possible when we see this pattern" and "When we detect the user is running Benchmark ABC, make everything look like shit so we come out with a high benchmark score that we can use in our marketing materials!"

I'll admit, however, the line gets fuzzy when the game itself is used as a benchmark.
Right, like the "GM nod".

The principle that CEOs are responsible for what happens on their watch is major reason cited for their levels of compensation. You don't get it both ways.
NASA seems to think different.
http://www.aviationsystemsdivision.arc.nasa.gov/facilities/v...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhu_UldlP_E (in motion...)
I want one. I'll replace the walls/stairs in my house with this and just zoom exactly where I need to go. Think of the space savings; I could mount my computer 6" from the ceiling!
To be clear, it's not that VW was able to get wildly better figures than competing companies, it's that, in one engine map, they get NOx emissions levels that are around the same as other companies (i.e. it meets emissions criteria). Then, in another engine map, when it only uses when it suspects it isn't being tested for emissions, it runs a different fuel/air mixture that allows increased economy (which might only be a 10% improvement or whatever), but at the expense of severely increased emissions.

Other companies running the same sort of emission map that optimizes for fuel efficiency at the expense of all emissions would get similar figures of 40X for emitting way too much emission. VW is the main one we're aware of that's cheating in this manner.
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We wrote our own scheduler, called Quentin, which we may opensource. Essentially it is a simple queue that takes care of running containers and managing pools of instances that containers run on by integrating with AWS autoscaling.

It is a very straightforward service, for example it doesn't do retries (done by Luigi), it is not highly available and not distributed. That makes things much easier to maintain, and we don't need HA since jobs inputs/outputs are in S3 anyway. Luigi makes it easy to restart parts of the pipeline if scheduler ever goes down.
However liquidation preferences are opaque to candidates, so "top talent" just has to assume there are liquidation preferences on all companies.
N20 is different from NOx... which actually causes global cooling.

Its bad for health reasons which is why there are strict standards on it. But global warming is not the end-all be-all of problems.
The difference is obviousness. If you interact with the app store to buy an app, you clearly know you did so. If you run a spotlight search and it returns results from the internet, spotlight obviously queried the internet somehow.

Lenovo monitors what you are doing without in any way telling you, or the user taking any action.
All new vehicles, but the fleet doesn't turn over instantly. You could still buy the old No.1 or No.2 Diesel for your old engine for a couple years before it was phased out entirely. You would have been stupid to do so, of course, because the new stuff was the same price, was cleaner, and probably ran better too. As time wore on, it did get increasingly hard to find - my local gas stations all converted right around 2007 and immediately stopped carrying the old stuff. But if you were running a fleet that fueled up at your company depot or something, you may well have been buying No.1 or No.2.

It's not an ironclad rule, just a guideline of where you should apply a little extra scrutiny. There were studies of what ULSD could do that predate even 2006. But until 2010 I would look carefully at methodology, anything that just says "diesel" without elaborating may be looking at ULSD, No.1/No.2, or perhaps the vehicle fleet (which consisted of a mixture of both).
> If we can't fix these problems locally, how do we expect to fix them remotely?

That seems at odds with centuries of human existence. Nations, cultures, and people have migrated, immigrated, expanded, and contracted for a very long time. A hyper-local focus is (probably) just as toxic as a hyper-global focus, no?
> So a CEO must know every detail about every component of every subsystem of every system in every trim level of every car of every brand that the company sells?

Of course, not. Stop trying to change the argument.

He would know that VW cars are getting better scores than other cars. These are numbers that CEOs and other managerial positions live for. He would know why. Though he may not understand the technical details of why.
Well, I think the title should be changed to "Node v4.1.1 (Stable channel/branch) released", just like what Google Chrome does without misleading.
>The 4 cylinder TDI was for the economy range of vehicles

I have a 2014 Jetta TDI (4 cyl) with urea injection. I'm totally confused by the information surrounding what cars are affected.
Thanks for the link, that's cool. Looks like 3 Catholics and an ambiguous reference to Satan, and your second link is to a cult. I guess the cult might count as fundamentalist something.
Collision tests can be gamed obviously by designing for the fixtures used... But the variety of fixtures in use and testing protocols imposes a decent all around level. It's hard to cheat when 3000 lbs of steel is crashed at 40mph against a concrete obstacle.

Fuel consumption however, now that is rife for cheating by trading off performance for better fuel consumption in the ECU and automatic transmissions.
"The market decides the price"

Well, not quite the market... just the undertak... I mean underwriters. Which is not quite as open-markety a process as one might assume.
According to http://www.cheatsheet.com/features/how-does-apple-invest-its...:

Cash, money market instruments, and other types of fixed income. Basically lots of things that can be turned into cash quickly without much volatility in their price.
Is no one talking about how Jessica Alba is a founder at a 1.7 billion dollar start-up?!?!
Yogi Bear gets his name translated. In Portuguese he's Zé Colmeia (Joe Beehive).
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100,000 deaths from 500,000 cars? That's hard to believe.
That's reasonable. If you wouldn't mind, you could help understanding by pointing to particular aspects of the Scandinavian style that disqualify the "socialist" classification. After all, there are some people on HN who unironically describe USA as "socialist".
Deal allowing tech companies to transfer data between US and EU is invalid
No Cheating Needed. Europe's Lax Laws Make Diesel Tests a Snap
For CNN's are you using caffe?
and as for sourcing (someone asked privately), my group was under research and reported to the research VP for many years. I have been on promotion committees for research scientists and SWEs in google research, etc, so at least theoretically, i either understand what they are supposed to be doing, or have been screwing it up really badly ;-)
This seems like massive overkill. Instead of adding a limited domain-specific language which is tuned to nginx's requirements, they've added the behemoth that is JavaScript, along with all its flaws. A turing-complete behemoth, at that.
1. US engineering licensing is more than title protection, it is backed by education, testing, and work experience requirements.

2. Suzuki closed the deal to buy out Volkswagen's stake amid claims that Volkswagen was withholding information that effected their partnership in regard to fuel efficient technology, immediately [for some definition of "immediately"] before the revelations in regard to the TDD practices for TDI software: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34275917

There's a matryoshka of foundations and policy groups behind the research funding for the project that uncovered the software design. VW has been in and out of the US diesel car market with every change in the price of gasoline since the first diesel Rabbits in the 1970's when famously, they had to remove the assertion that diesel fuel was less expensive than gasoline from their television commercials.

This way, Volkswagen Passenger Cars [a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group] does not have to negotiate with its US car dealers regarding a lineup change that removes high profit options and models that bring customers onto the lot who often drive off with some other VW instead of a TDI. If history is a guide, with gasoline down around $2.00/gallon it won't be long until Americans lose most of their rather limited interest in diesels.

The worst case fine of $16 billion is highly unlikely and even were such a fine politically feasible in the US it almost certainly wouldn't send Volkswagen AG under.

The timing is no more likely to be accidental than the way in which the software is configured. The study was completed in 2013.
Cell phones have felt the IPv4 exhaustion pressure a lot more strongly than most networks: network address translation is an interesting feat when the device may be moving in three dimensions at highway speeds. Thus the LTE networks have especially been pushing handset manufacturers to support IPv6 first and foremost and deprecate IPv4-centric APIs/applications/software as much and as fast as possible.

It's interesting too that you mention a campus computer in comparison: most American Universities were early adopters and thus got very large blocks of IPv4 addresses assigned to them, so in some cases they may be the last to deal with IPv4 exhaustion. (To be fair, though, many have given big blocks back for reassignment, doing what they can to have kept us from an exhaustion crisis before.)
No kids yet, but this rings true. The burden of hobbies I'm not working on sucks more time than actually sitting down with a single hobby.
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NOtwithstanding the other comments here, in europe the % or diesel cars is already very high. so europe is optimizing for diesel allowances, and the usa is optimizing also for its own local issues.