skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most outages only happens on a single az. which is not really hard to handle.
in over 1 year we had one outage on frankfurt. and that was just a small problem which a small reboot of our machines fixed the issues. oh and that happend automatically.
the problem is you need to know that failures could happen.
not only in the cloud but in the cloud these failures are more easily to handle since you could just create new boxes or use multi cloud envs.
React native + Cordova, seems like it would be pretty great for everything except 3D games...
"...the US legal system offers little protection against frivolous lawsuits."

If they believe that, they need better lawyers. I know this is over-simplified, but -- If the lawsuit is truly frivolous they can file for a summary judgment. If that is not granted, then the lawsuit was not frivolous.
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>Trade Secret Law - N/A. They are former employees. Non Compete Agreement - Agreements in restraint of competititon are void in California.

I would respectfully disagree with these assertions. Trade Secret is not void just because someone is a former employee. You don't get to walk out the door with the secret recipes. And there are many exceptions to california's ban on non-compete agreements. Non-compete agreements are also very different than non-disclosure agreements.
You're missing some important context. GM is long-established in America. (So is Toyota.) VW's current market penetration in America is pretty minimal. And all Volkswagens are sold with a premium sales pitch, if not premium price points.

Now all VW diesel cars sold during a certain period will have their resale value greatly reduced. Non-diesel VW resale values will be tainted at least slightly by association. Even if VW recalls the cars and replaces them with a completely overhauled diesel drivetrain -- very unlikely -- there will still be a massive class action lawsuit, because the car will not be working as advertised in some way. This will keep potential buyers away from showrooms.

It's really not hyperbole.
Maybe Smule doesn't want their code and IP floating around anywhere outside the company? Even if they trust the company doing the audit, can they trust all the employees of that company, and any future acquirers?

I'm not taking sides (because I don't know anything), but after reading this and Geoff Ralston's post, that's at least one good reason Smule wouldn't agree to the 3rd party audit that no one else has brought up.

Of course, I say this with a background in the quant hedge fund world and I doubt any decent fund would agree to voluntarily submit their most proprietary code to be reviewed by anyone.
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The 30 instructions don't include

"In the case of TCP, the upcalls almost
always go two levels: IP finds the datagram is for this host &
it upcalls a TCP demuxer which hashes the ports + SYN to find a
PCB, lays the packet on the tail of the PCB's queue and wakes up
any process sleeping on the PCB. The IP processing is about 25
instructions & the demuxer is about 10."

Further, note the "almost always"; it's true, but it's not "always".

Also, there's

"So, the first term of the 'if' checks four
different things simultaneously:
- that the window is what we expect
- that there are no tcp options
- that the packet has ACK set & doesn't have SYN, FIN, RST or URG set
- that the connection is in the right state
and the 2nd term of the if checks that the packet is in sequence..."

The result is that

"On the normal receive data path we execute 16 lines of
C which turn into 33 instructions on a sparc (it would be 30 if I
could trick gcc into generating double word loads for the header
& my carefully aligned pcb fields)."

Note the phrase, "normal receive data path". Again, "almost always" is not necessarily "always". This heavily optimizes the common path while penalizing the uncommon path.

IBM's AIX also did something similar, back when I knew anything about it; it did almost all of TCP in the hardware interrupt handler, making the same assumptions of windows, options, flags, connections, and sequence numbers. It was ridiculously fast.

On the other hand, the non-fast-path cases have to be handled somewhere and are considerably more than 16 lines of C. Further, I'm not sure all of the assumptions are valid any longer. One assumption in AIX was that the incoming packet was the next segment of the same connection as the previous packet. That was true then, but may not be true now given that servers are handling more connections than back in 1993.

YMMV. Offer not valid in all 50 states. Don't shoot the messenger. Yes, we have no bananas.
Covered under "business information" in the boilerplate that tptacek posted.
> Each time there's a story about a buffer overflow, the top comment says how that would be impossible in Go, Rust, JavaScript or the next shiny thing.

The top comment made by the same person.
Many of the "baby bullet" trains are slowed down by other trains on a daily basis. Some stations only get one stop per hour, even during rush hour, so those trains are overcrowded and can take minutes to make those stops. It's not uncommon to see a bullet have to come to a complete stop behind one of those trains. More cars should allow the passengers to exit the train faster, so that would counteract the impact of slower acceleration.

There are 4 (edit: looks like 5) unused Metrolink cars sitting in the siding at 4th and King. I don't know why they aren't being used on some of the busier routes.
Bitcoin micropayments device runs Linux on Raspberry Pi
No motivation. That's what happened with the IE, isn't it? Now I can only hope that's true and MS getting lazy with innovation/changes will cause real competitors to appear in a year or two.

Then again, there's a big difference between office and Photoshop. Office is in a way complete now - they can work on making it nicer forever, but as far as the basic package people know goes (excel, word, pp), is there really anything new everybody expected?
Can someone explain why a company being sued needs a lot of money to survive?
A lot of the overhead from 'traditional' microfinance (the model popularized by Mohammed Yunus in the 70's-80s) comes from creating social/community-based incentives for repayment, referred to as social capital. This is considered the alternative to regular loans since in non-collateral lending the borrower loses nothing monetarily if they don't repay.

According to their site, the repayment rate for Zidisha is under 50%... thats pretty dismal in an industry where you normally consider a healthy MFI (microfinance institution) to be operating at high 90 percentiles of repayment.
Almost all states enforce noncompetes, not that it's clear to me what noncompetes have to do with this.

I think you should talk to a lawyer before making assessments about how unlikely it is something is to be protected. Generally: safest course is to assume it is protectable.

I talked to a lawyer before starting this company and I was very surprised by how many pitfalls I hadn't even considered.
For those who really don't want to install Meteor, you can even run it right in your browser:

http://meteorpad.com/ (JSFiddle-type thing for Meteor)
There's an inherent frame of mind disconnect in this question. As long as the interviewer is able to engage with the many frames of mind someone might approach this question with, then it'll work.

One possibility: I want my job to look like this, pay in this salary range, I want to learn these things, get better in these areas, build some cool tech, etc.

Another possibility: I wouldn't mind getting paid exorbitantly to do whatever I would want if money weren't an issue. However, I could also answer your question as "what job do I realistically think I can get, from an economic supply/demand perspective, while still maximizing my enjoyment of the job?"

I inherently think in terms of the second perspective, so my answer may be inherently at a disadvantage because my "ideal" is unrealistic, but then if you wanted the pragmatic version I'm sure I could give you an assessment of my skills and what jobs I think I'm a good fit for, that I would enjoy doing.
This is YC's forum that helps market the brand, and FarmLogs is a YC success story. "The guys that provide this forum have backed visible winners".
Easier way to check if your phone is affected: http://time.is

My iPhone running iOS 9 (updated launch day) is 17 seconds ahead!
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I would guess because Taler's tagline is "Electronic payments for a liberal society!"
Yes, in legalese those would be considered trade secrets. Tellingly, Smule did not name "theft of trade secrets" as a claim in their lawsuit.
Thanks for the correction. I had misread and thought all functions were called with member syntax.

I guess in simple cases like this the difference between OO and other styles are pointless. I'm just thinking that if I were to write it in a functional language, it'd probably a very similar API, though possibly/probably returning a new state vs modifying.
I still think there are a ton of people who want something that is small and portable but still has gaming power. I could see a ton of college students getting laptops for college and then buying an external GPU so they can game when they get back to their dorm. Anyone who travels or moves around a lot could have a powerful gaming laptop when they want it, and a light and usable laptop when they want that, without the terrible battery life, huge size, and obscene price that comes with a full fledged gaming-only laptop.
thoman23. You so get me right now.
Brian from Backblaze here. I wonder if that was during the incredibly annoying "Comcast goes to war with Netflix" era that Backblaze got caught up in. That was Nov 2013 through Feb 2014, you can read a little about it here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/obama-backs-net-neutrality/ (scroll down for our graphs showing our customers getting throttled). That seriously sucked for Backblaze.

But either way, we added threading to the bzdownloader (our custom application to download large restores) and if you tried it today crank it up to 10 threads and I swear you'll be happy with the download performance.
"I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut." -- Jimmy Conway, Goodfellas
You don't get to walk out the door with the secret recipes.

Indeed, but in general in the US you have to go to real efforts to create and keep secret such recipes. And I find it utterly amazing that California law, last time I checked, doesn't consider customer lists to be protectable trade secrets for salesmen (!!!).
That's not quite accurate: "Ideas" cannot be patented or copyrighted, but they can be protected by contract.

The distinction is who the right to the idea is enforceable against. A patent represents a government enforced monopoly that bars anyone from using the specific intellectual property, whereas a contractual right to an idea can only be enforced against the other party to the agreement.

In California, the seminal case is the Supreme Court's decision in Desny v. Wilder, which held that a screenwriter could enforce a studio's promise not to use one of his ideas without his consent. The Court's reasoning was that while a party is free to come up with its own ideas, the disclosure of someone else's idea confers a benefit. Federal courts have addressed this issue a lot in a line of cases holding that Desny claims are not preempted by the Copyright Act.

I haven't been involved in any cases where the alleged theft of an idea involved an employment contract, but I see no reason why the same principles would not apply. Logically, an employer should be able to disclose propriety ideas to its employees without fear that they will be stolen, regardless of whether the ideas are sufficiently novel to qualify for an exclusive federal monopoly.
> yes. bsder's comment should only be taken to represent his own reality.

No argument.

> Design constraints on microcontrollers include: power, clock speed, FPU, number of digital GPIO, number of analog GPIO, quality of IDE and debugger, price, package size, available operating systems, longevity of part, volatile and non-volatile memory, quality of compilers, peripherals and so on.

True. But most of the embedded work I have been dealing with over the last 5? years seems to be very different from prior. In the last 5 years, choice of microcontroller moved from contentious to almost an afterthought: 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit? Motorola/Atmel/Microchip/ST/Renesas? gcc vs proprietary? Sufficient frequency? GPIB/RS-232/USB? All gone.

I get asked about memory and footprint (BGA/CSP is starting to become popular ... bangs head on wall) and that's about it. Even cost just doesn't come up much anymore--I don't know if its that things are cheap enough or that everybody now actually knows what microcontrollers cost.

Pretty much things seem to be splitting into two bands: internal memory only (M0, M3/M4 class--generally an RTOS) and external memory (A-class+, runs Linux). And, given some of the higher end M-series, I suspect Linux is going to hit there shortly.
(1) Lawyers are expensive.

(2) Going to court without a lawyer is even more expensive.

(3) With an outstanding legal issue the company will find it hard to access credit.

(4) Many assets may be locked-down pending the outcome of the lawsuit, making it difficult to sell things, enter into new contracts or use said assets as collateral on loans.
I've lived here for nearly a decade. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone at these prices. It's not that one SF dollar is worth ten Manhattan dollars, but rather that people are paying Lamborghini prices for a Mini Cooper and congratulating themselves on the purchase.

The bay area is definitely a world leader in smugness and self-satisfaction. The restaurant selection in SF is perhaps on par with the east village, but more expensive and provincial. It sure is "endlessly great" not to be able to get decent food after 10pm!

Also, you're wrong about salaries.
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Agreed. Also, unless they've managed to massively cut down on the power requirements, the 980 would burn through your battery rapidly.
Some people do but they are expectational and not average. It'd be interesting to know but I don't think there is good data.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-eng...
Thanks. I feel like this issue is strangely underreported.
>I'm really interested in knowing to what degree someone should be paranoid. Are you potentially risking your entire business because you once checked your work webmail from a personal computer or checked a personal email account from a work phone?

You should be paranoid, but just checking your email isn't a big deal unless you start co-mingling secret information.

But under CA trade secret law, you can commit trade secret misappropriation without ever taking a document or file. Mind trade secrets are still trade secrets.

If your employer creates a new algorithm that nobody outside the company knows about. You can't recreate it from memory in your own company. As you can imagine, this gets into grays areas real quick. It's impossible to neatly distinguish between skills you learned at work and trade secrets you learned.

I'll leave the business advice to the businessmen, but I've seen several investment/buyouts killed because during an IP review it was discovered that the startup was in the same space as a previous employer.
Curious why you say that of Sucuri? Have you tried us recently?

We have some very very large sites using our services now with great performance. During the last 6-12 months we basically rewrote our entire stack, built our anycast network and focused a lot on performance optimization and expanding out services.

You can ping me directly if you prefer too.

thanks!

Daniel Cid (CTO/Founder of Sucuri)
Just want to point out that Smule has not cited trade secret theft as a claim against us.

And on non-compete, Mark and I were just employees, not officers of any sort. Neither of us was a manager with direct reports.
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> It's possible that there are times and places where political correctness really is oppressive; Considering my life experience, though, I find that to be pretty unlikely, but who knows.

Brendan Eich knows.
It's just frustrating. Same stupid shit, over and over. This seemed particularly egregious as it was buffer overflow 101 example; no fancy exploit needed.

Though the comment seems to get reasonably upvoted, you're right that perhaps it's not a very high signal. Sorry.
Is it just me - I cannot understand how it works? There are diagrams and explanations about banks and wallets but no actual "how"?
I said that ideas were not IP, not one of the recognized forms of intellectual property rights. Everyone is of course free to invent new concepts via contract, but that only creates obligations between the parties. Any dispute will be governed by contract law, not IP. Nobody outside the agreement will be bound.

The classic case in this area is Warner-Lambert v. Reynolds 178 F. Supp. 655 (1959). (It's about a contract covering the formula for Listerine)

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/17...
Thanks, I appreciate the response. I started taking a look through the documentation and the CI looks pretty robust. I might try to set GitLab up at home soon.

I currently use hosted travis-ci for personal projects, which is nice since I don't have to worry about infrastructure, but it means there are things that can't be done with it. Generally stuff they haven't anticipated is verboten.
I'm not suggesting that companies avoid competition at all costs. I am suggesting that the right price to model when considering entering this market is $13-20, not $500+/dose.
Also check out: Simply Object-Oriented C --> http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22139/Simply-Object-Orie...
can you fully automate data driven investment on these platforms?
What do you mean by "right strategy" in this sense? Doing a 3rd party review of Shred vs Smule code/methods will give them a trove of relevant information if they intend to win on the merits.

In my understanding, refusing it is only the "right strategy" if your intent is to not have the case go to trial.
Calling Palantir evil strikes me as pretty fair.
I'm surprised you can't just sue them on the basis that they keep bringing up fraudulent charges against you and wasting the legal departments rather valuable time? If something like this isn't possible, then our legal system is currently flawed. I'm not a law expert but that's just awful.
Wow! Magic Piano? My daughters buy songs on there all the time. Deleting it right away! Thanks for the information.
Did you even read the comment on the original post? It's impossible to tell the real trolls from the small but vocal minority of people who really do believe the humanities are a bastion of the liberal elite and Illuminati.

Not to mention that there is a huge amount of disdain for the humanities in some hardcore engineering circles.
They use Clojure and I believe ClojureScript on the frontend. (I'm not sure about Hadoop, when I had spoken with their devs before this didn't come up--but since they're already on the JVM such tools are a natural fit.)

They're one of the many success stories in the community of startups who have chosen Clojure as their primary weapon. (See also: Climate Corp, now owned by Monsanto.)

Lisp is having its victories, here and there, but notably in meaningful and economically real ways.

Edit: They DO NOT use ClojureScript, sadly. Unlike say, CircleCI or Prismatic, who both have very compelling stories with regard to using Clojure from the front to the backend.
I'm working on a residency scheduling app (https://reschedulemed.com) and would love to talk to a doctor knowledgable about code. Shoot me an email? (the address is in my profile)
Anyone know if the font rendering issue was fixed? The email reading pane in Outlook (on Windows) didn't do any subpixel smoothing, and so the fonts looked fugly as a result. Hopefully they fixed it.

Office for Mac 2016 doesn't seem to have this issue though.
So are liberal policies. Often they involve limiting women's and minorities' freedom of contract, and that can be a double-edged sword.
> The tax is taken per-transaction by the bank on behalf of the government or regulating entity without knowledge of the participants.

Sounds like a strictly proportional system only, then?
I'll add to the discussion that until a bartender friend of mine taught me about this a couple of years ago, I had no idea. I asked a few friends and family if they were aware of this and it was a real mixed bag.

I think there are a lot of people like me who before groupon, never used a coupon at a sit down restaurant in my adult life, and therefore it was never something I ever had to even think about.
Very interesting, but it could be explained better. I have to admit that I didn't really get it until I read some comments here.
Corrupting an RSA employee sure, making a deal with a corporation for measly 10M nope.

Human assets is a different story, 1.4 and even 250K while not being a large sum is quite a large amount of money.
Those assets are usually developed by other means, in most cases the money is largely irrelevant even if the asset refuses to take money tradecraft mandates that they'll be forced to take it it just to leave a money trail that they could then be threatened with if they no longer with to comply.
Additionally being paid also makes the asset more invested in their duty because it creates a link like with a would be employer, and allows them to quantify their assignment with a positive reinforcement no matter how big or small it is.
So money which is paid to long term assets isn't really a bribe, an initial sum might be used to turn the asset in the first place but it also usually require them to be in a position to need it e.g. gambling debts, medical bills etc.
Generally assets that can be bribed will not be farmed in such manner as the cases you've mentioned, people that can be easily bribed cannot be trusted which isn't a trait you want in an asset.
> Right now I can't buy anything online and not be tracked by the payment provider unless I use bitcoin

Here are a couple of solutions I've seen but haven't tried:

* Masked Cards by Abine (a privacy service): Abine gives you a card to use and you pay Abine. Obviously, you'll need to trust Abine.

https://dnt.abine.com/#feature/payments

* PaySafeCard: A prepaid card; "You don't have to enter any personal information or bank account or credit card details. Your privacy remains completely protected at all times with paysafecard!"

https://www.paysafecard.com/en-us/
First, I believe them when they say they didn't steal anything. But second, and more importantly, I find it highly unlikely that even if they technically violated some agreement somewhere that it would play any significant role in the success or failure of Shred Video. I think it's just anti-competitive, greedy, ill-will to not allow former employees to succeed or fail based on how well they execute their new venture. It's a dangerous bullying approach that stifles innovation.
Because there actually is a problem here that needs solving, but all the drama mongering keeps getting in the way?
> Microsoft’s new license fee formula and the demands from the computer vendors have forced DRAM manufacturers to make plans to restart production of 2GB modules, which were originally destined to be phased out.

This is ridiculous.
However, calling directly into the syscall interface is illegal on most platforms other than Linux.

I'm not sure Go can fix this without getting rid of their M:N threading.