skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, the project-based nature of a flat org is essential because the project is a unifying mission with regular updates and well-understood outcomes (project milestones).

Small orgs are different because motivated people can self-organize. A small theatre company or neighborhood block party committee can self organize because the core cadre of a half dozen people take care of the finances, grants, etc. Even in those cases, someone is at least nominally in charge -- an individual needs to sign checks, apply for grants, hold the cash, etc.

I've lived this at least a dozen times, in a mid/late stage startup, F500 company, and sprawling government bureaucracy. The story is always the same. New business units emerge with a guy in charge and a nimble team of <10 people. They achieve success and grow. Problems start around 10-15 people because folks are focused and cannot productively communicate across the group. Leaders emerge and work out differences. The next point of resistance in around 25-30 people -- the lack of explicit authority undermines the emergent leaders. Everything breaks at 40-50 people unless there is an established chain of command.

There may be a way to tweak these things and make it work, but it takes special skills/knowledge/instincts that aren't obvious to people. Special things are hard to repeat, and business relies on repeatable process.

IMO, there are a couple of ways that flat orgs can work. The most obvious is where the work is delivering unkilled/skilled tasks. A plumbing company has a dispatcher who sends out plumbers. A consulting company has salesmen called Vice Presidents, Project Managers and dispatchers. No hierarchy.

I think the other type of org is a co-op type arrangement. Coops have some hierarchy, but the power structure is elected vs. appointed which changes the dynamic.
Dude, for me it's, because I have habit of using it for years. In inspecting things, CSS pane, console, etc...
The physics of electromagentism doesn't diverge all that much when you're talking about stray signals from alien satellites or radio arrays. So long as you use the radio spectrum to send signals out to satellites or interplanetary systems (probes, colonies, whatever) you're going to get spotted. Laser signaling may be the only alternative I can think of that wouldn't be so easily detected and probably lower power too, but that's it.

The only other alternative I can hazard speculation on is possibly gravity wave signaling? It's a bit of a stretch in my mind since the only real way to do that is to assume certain kinds of unproven particles like gravitinos (these are supposedly able to be interacted with in superconducting materials last time I read about them).
I suspect the best way to read any of Heinlein is not to consider whether the story and arguments really represent his views; rather, simply to consider why they should not be yours. Rico is not necessarily a reliable narrator, so even if the book isn't a satire itself, it's fertile ground for one...
This is a bit odd, there are two prior submissions of this same article (including my own) that didn't get de-dupped:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250576
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248459

Also, points count differences seem to support the hypothesis that there are optimal times of the day to submit to HN.
Skype outage
Not american but yeah the law enforcement agencies should be more careful about these loophole or at least try to fix them as quickly as possible once they are found out. Maybe there are some other incentives (sometimes) at the top.

But none of that excuses what these guys (I don't have any reasonable word to describe them). Its like saying there was this loophole that makes this kind of murder (not self defense btw.) not punishable by law so I went ahead and killed 50 people. If people dies from these diseases I don't see how it's not fair to put these guys in some murder trail. I wish we had some reliable tools to detect lies and CEOs and PR guys like these had to pass the test before such claims and actions based off such claims (we are trying to make a better drug) could be taken.
> For hunter-gatherer societies there was basically no impulse to fight over territory

I'd dispute that. Don't confuse sparse population density with "bountiful nature"; hunter-gatherer economies are severely limited in that they can only sustainably forage as much as the environment can regenerate. The fact that they're territory-limited rather than labour-limited gives ample incentive to fight over territory, and also explains the popular factoid that these societies had vastly more leisure time than we do.
There is a standard tool, ssh-copy-id, that does the job of sshpair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

The Gombe Chimpanzee War (also known as the "Four-Year War" of Gombe), lasting from 1974 to 1978, was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania. The belligerent groups were the Kasakela and the Kahama, which occupied territories in the northern and southern areas of the park, respectively.
Me too. Lsyncd rules! I use it to edit locally and run the code in an AWS instance. I even wrote something about it in my blog.

http://aurelianito.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/mejorando-el-mirr...
Show HN: Charting live Uber data in multiple cities with React/Redux/d3
Sheetsu is pronounced the same as "Chie dessus" in French, meaning "crap on [it|you|...]" :)
The book was definitely satire. Heinlein doesn't come right out and say how absurd the whole thing is, he lets the reader figure that out. I guess some don't.

Edit: Just because you think I'm wrong with saying Starship Troopers was satire doesn't mean you should downvote me. Also, read this: http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-...
> HIPAA has strict standards for storage and transmission.

If only. HIPAA barely has technical standards (much less strict ones) at all, essentially, the only ones are backed into through the HITECH Act breach notification requirements (and, because of that, there's some debate as to the extent to which they are requirements, since technically the HITECH act standards aren't requirements for how data has to be treated, they are standards for determining, once a breach occurs, whether the breach was of "unsecured" PHI); HIPAA's standards are mostly administrative rather than technical.

Lots of vendors sell particular technical solutions as being HIPAA compliant or even required-under-HIPAA, but that's mostly marketing bafflegab rather than a reflection of those products following clear and strict technical standards laid down in HIPAA and its implementing regulations.
Jerry Pournelle has some fun military sci-fi too. I don't care at all for the guy's politics, but some of the stories are good. Actually, I mostly read for entertainment, so I tend to favor stories that are first and foremost entertaining and interesting stories, rather than things trying to Send A Message.
>For intraplanetary communication, yes, I'd agree. But those signals shouldn't be strong enough for us to detect (otherwise, what a wasteful species).

Many of our radio signals are detectable from terrestrial sources such as radio and air TV stations. Even Ham radio signals throw out enough power for their signals to be easily detected beyond our solar system.
For any one curious about the prices of various drugs in India, try searching it here:
http://medplusmart.com/

These are retail prices.
The fact that boards like /pol/ and /b/ exist alongside genuinely brilliant places like /out/, /mu/, /n/, etc is a miracle to take pride in itself
I think 4chan reserves props for much of the discrediting of scientology over the past few years.
DHS infosec chief: We should pull clearance of feds who fail phish test
As Derek Lowe said recently, biopharma will not be dull as long as Martin Shkreli’s around

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/08/19/bio...
Equating Tereshkova to a dog is as disrespectful as it is dishonest.

1. Yes she threw up in space. So do ALL astronauts. So much so that NASA has procedures on how to handle that (http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/29/17970838-vomit-i...).

2. Tereshkova did not have a panic attack in space. She had a panic attack before going and was strapped into the seat against her will. Again, this is not uncommon - NASA considers behavioral and psychiatric conditions a significant risk to the integrity of its missions (http://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/Risks/risk.aspx?i=99).

(An interesting aside: A 1976 Soviet space mission Союз 21 had to return early because of "interpersonal issues" but of course these were male astronauts so no one says the mission was aborted due to crew's cat fighting).

3. Tereshkova was not "unresponsive", she fixed multiple engineering/communication failures, both during flight and landing.
It is not. $e_r$ is a rotating vector, not constant. Also $r$ is not really constant either.

Actually, if you think about it, the only plausible way you could have something in space with zero jerk and non-zero acceleration would be an interstellar ship maintaining constant acceleration, so the suggested rule is almost exactly wrong.
I truly do not understand your argument. First, nothing in my comment alludes to physics, except for maybe the involvement of time, which I can assure you is very much a concept in financial economics.

Second, financial economics is in no way unfamiliar with exponential growth. For instance, the compounding interest formula:

p-next = p-start * (1 - rate) ^ time
Its not misleading at all, any more than "1.5 million medical records found on street" would be if the insurer had dumped paper records on the street.

(Nor does it implicate AWS as responsible, any more than the analogous one would implicate the street as responsible.)
Some of those other interesting permissions are the ability to open arbitrary network/bluetooth sockets, read/write to external storage, and access the camera[1].

Mediaserver is not full root but it is pretty privileged. Given all of this access it wouldn't take much work to incorporate another privilege escalation bug to get root on the phone anyway, and there is zero user interaction.

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Drake-St...
It depends. I've paid for a support contract for our frontline loadbalancer (loadbalancer.org). It's too essential to our operation to be down for any extended amount of time.

We have many other OSS applications that don't need that level of response. If I can't fix it or tweak it myself I'll pay the developer or the consultant to do it for me.
(We do as well). From what I see, the only advantage this offers over lsyncd is that Windows is supported.
It's pretty scary to see this many critical vulnerabilities in a patch, then consider all the other widely-used software and the cumulative sum of their vulnerabilities.
> In the U.S., household, corporate and government debt amounted to 239% of gross domestic product in 2014, the Bank for International Settlements estimates, compared with 218% in 2007.

I am not an economist, but it seems to me that if you're going to write an article suggesting that the bond market is "intimidating," "vulnerable as never before," and "increasingly subject to volatility," you would not want to conflate personal credit card debt, junk bonds, and other private debt instruments with what is widely considered the single safest investment in the world, a bulwark of stability in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008 — U.S. Treasury bonds.

Given the spike (now receding) in the U.S. budget deficit since 2000, it seems likely a big portion of this supposedly alarming bond growth is in Treasuries, no?
Of course all this might go out the window once quantum computers become mainstream.
https://github.com/szhu/3030/issues/12

"harmless"

oops.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

Of course, it's possible to excise such processes via patching or with a debugger.
Ask HN: Enterprise Analytics?
Does anyone know of an "enterprise" analytics tool? Kind of like mixpanel, except that it understands the concept of a "company"?

Most of these tools that I've evaluated (mixpanel, kissmetrics, heap, keen) seem to provide great reports but have no native concept of a company and the purchase and activity dynamics around them. So, you end up modeling in companies as individual users, but then you lose the rich dynamics around how people evaluate products.

For example, I am looking to create a churn report. When a company buys a tool, there are often several people involved: someone who signs up for the product, others who use it, and someone who pays. They may all be the same people, or not. They all influence each other in the decision. The person who makes the purchase often has almost zero utilization of the app, since they are in the finance dept.

I'm looking to setup some sort of analytics that understands and models these users correctly within an account. I'd like to run churn and LTV reports on an account level, but still retain activity reports at a user level.

Does this exist?
Can you empirically show that Air Pollution in the US killed more people in 2015 than listeria in Blue Bell ice cream?

Being good stewards of the Eart is important, and as long as there are regulations and rules, there will be different attitudes to contend with. I consider air quality to be valuable, I genuinely do. I also think the entire annual production of all VW automobiles globally does less air quality "damage" than one season of wildfires in the western United States. Or a vocanic eruption.
"Your statement makes the assumption that paying bills is the goal."

Sure seems like it is, since -- you know -- he just sold 4chan.

Thanks for your cute little contrarian comment, though. It was very stimulating.
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Calling it harassment is a huge discredit to a movement that holds very valid criticisms of both these people.

Edit: I should qualify this. Both sides of the issue have their shitshows distorting the debate with harassment and dirty tactics. At its core gamergate is a conflict between cultural authoritarians and libertarians. It is just the beginning of a wider issue, the old guard of the internet, those that believe in freedom of expression without repurcussion vs those who believe that speech on the internet should involve more social responsibility.

There is really no reason why they should not co exist. Gamergate is one of the examples however of what happens when both occupy the same space. Those who are afraid of their space changing vs those who refuse to occupy such spaces.

There's nothing stopping either ideals staying within their own space or creating their own, however the internet is a pressure cooker that inevitavly leads to a game of escalation and one up mansship where no compromise is accepted.
4Chan's self serve ads are priced at a quarter of that, ~.25c CPM currently, and the inventory is never completely sold.
Well of note, listening to talk radio one thing I heard is true. The consumer will decide this in the end. However don't expect Madsion Avenue to take it laying down.

they will go the route radio went years ago, they will setup ads like news stories and blog articles and get to the point to where it will be hard to distinguish until you have absorbed a good part of the material.
How usable is Servo currently? Is the web security model fully implemented?

Has anyone in the team switched to using it for all their browsing? If not, when do you plan to start?

Anyway, thanks for working on this! Servo is one of the most important software projects, since it will hopefully give us a secure or at least securable browser, and maybe give a chance for Mozilla, the most trustable browser maker, to get the #1 market share spot.
I suspect "everybody" is doing this, and individual manufacturers can't opt out or they'll be producing slower, less fuel-efficient, more expensive cars that will fail in the market.

Without the proof and clout to stand up and accuse all your competition of cheating and win, it's easy to see how some might feel they have no choice.
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> Google's search algorithm has no right to free speech

Google's search algorithm is a tool which the people for whom "Google" is simply a legal construct used as a vehicle use in the course of exercising their right to free speech. Restricting the information that can be presented through this tool is restricting those people's right to free speech.
Wait, what? Did you click through any of the links on those pages you cite? In the very fist example you mention, every bit of that is substantiated via an archive link. Quinn's game is unpolished garbage as revied, Kuchera did contribute financially to her, and Hernandez is friends with her and did write about her without disclosing that.

Those are not lies, or even misleading in the least. They are all trivially verifiable facts. All the sources are right there.

I'll go through the others if you wish, but I'd ask you to examine the evidence and point out problems with it before just dismissing it as lies. Heck, I might learn something here.
I'm not sure I understand the point about economics being about utility vs. wealth. If its free market then aren't people free to choose between utility vs. wealth and in such case pure free market don't have much defense against a few sciopaths trampling all over the not so sociopaths?
I'm part of an open-source project commercially supporting two main libraries, a deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j -- http://deeplearning4j.org -- and a scientific computing library, ND4J (Numpy for Java), to power it. http://nd4j.org.

The amount of support companies are willing to pay for depends on how much they need the open-source library, and how complex it is.

There is a perverse incentive, of course, for some open-source projects to become overly complex so that users will end up having to pay them. A certain large open-source e-commerce platform comes to mind...

Companies can and do pay project maintainers for support and additional features all the time. We see this in the world of Java-based scientific computing, for example. I think you'll find that Java projects, because of their role in enterprise software, are more likely to become commercial than others.

Most open-source projects have enterprise distributions that vendors commercially support, like RHEL or CDH4... Those distros often include additional features. In Red Hat's case, they added a security layer that was a compelling value prop. In Cloudera's case, they often include supplementary packages like a management layer.

Support contracts usually indicate that there's a lot of demand and a company large enough to serve that demand. Hourly fees tend to correlate with a sole maintainer, and they can be very high.
Most HR people would see that, be disgusted and throw the resume in the trash. 4chan does not have a good reputation amongst internet laymen.

Maybe some of the more savvy HR people would be more impressed by the implied technical aspects of accomplishing such a thing, though.
Mentioning AWS in this is just spreading anti-cloud FUD. AWS had literally nothing to do with this: the insurer could have just as easily made the same mistake in their own datacenter. They hold all the blame and trying to involve Amazon is pure sensationalism.
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If the post-processing stage is useful to others, perhaps it could be upstreamed into tex4ht?

(I sometimes think that the user interface of github puts too much emphasis on cloning and not enough on cooperation. Many useful tools ends up in a dozen forks, all with slightly different features, all equally inactive.)
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At GitLab we see a lot of customers that need 24/7 support because our application is central to their delivery pipeline. In the beginning we had a lot of consulting engagements too to perform upgrades. As GitLab became better and the upgrades easier there was a shift to organizations paying for features in the form of GitLab Enterprise Edition.
Haldeman later wrote a "proper" sequel to TFW, Forever Free, but it's not nearly as good as Forever Peace.
Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9349918
If you're considering replacing your current (assumedly homegrown) solution; I'd recommend using lsyncd instead.
It looks to me that this keeps running "in the background" and watches for changes; syncing things as they happen. Rsync can't do that.
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The early history of PCs included sending away for a box of parts and a manual and then soldering the pieces together yourself. And then when you put the kit together, there was no software, so you had to write it yourself. Also, there was no keyboard, so you had to input the machine code for your software directly into RAM using toggle switches. And there was no real display, just a few LEDs that you could blink on and off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800#Description
But that's illegal...
Sometimes comments will be downvoted if the downvoter doesn't think the comment adds much new info to the conversation.
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Those attackers could instead install a hardware based touch screen logger or write a similar attack in software and write it directly to your phone's flash. It's more complicated, but it's still true, once someone has physical access, all bets are off.
We're not, but we hope to be dogfooding by the end of the year.

Lots of Web features are implemented, but most of them have various minor and not-so-minor bugs. It's very easy to get involved in as far as Web engines go, thanks to Cargo, so feel free to build it and file bugs (or even help fix!) issues you see on your favorite sites!
So I threw this into a website to try and load some data into a table, and get:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://sheetsu.com/apis/d54d6315?sort=Description&order=asc. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. How do I handle that?
Lsyncd – Live Syncing (Mirror) Daemon
I can practically guarantee that AWS has no role in this beyond being the host. Someone somewhere uploaded them without the proper permissions.
Well, war is almost always about resources in one way or another. Excellent points you make.

As for your last point, I quote a movie that's a favorite of mine, Bulworth:

Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."

Indeed.
As far as I know virtually no one has ever been "convicted" of a HIPAA violation. It's pretty much a nothing threat. My employer back a few years just paid off some audit firm despite a complete lack of interest in securing our production servers.
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Quoting beagle3

> this one is continuous and rsync is one-shot.
I'm not sure I get yours. Are you saying there is "nonexponential growth" ?
I almost feel as though this is at least half of the point of using salts. We're trying to make things slow, so forcing an attacker to crack the same password twice (or more) in cases where it's reused seems beneficial and very cheap. Weak passwords will still be cracked first but it will still require at least SOME work.
I know Keybase (http://keybase.io) uses scrypt, but that's the only one I know of off the top of my head.