skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional academic publications in markdown using pandoc-academic-publication
I dropped lastpass for dashlane awhile ago, it's much better at actually filling out forms.
Yes, it's because of the different URLs, thus not related to recent changes.

Anybody know of a reliable way to tell whether a query string can safely be dropped from a URL?
The White House is pressuring companies to not implement end to end encryption (see, for example, iMessage). Anything short of end to end encryption is considered broken by many people for communications between two parties.

The only way the government can get the equivalent of a wire tap is if there is no end to end encryption. What police do not want is to need to go back to pre-telephone detective work where they need to determine the location at which the parties will communicate (with modern communications there are of course at least two locations) and compromise that location to spy on the supposed criminals.
I think the price is in line with the quality, at least for the ones I've bought. I was less impressed with their sweaters, but I'm very pleased with my t-shirts.
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You would be a core part of our management platform team with a lot of ownership over specific projects and features. With that we expect you to be ambitious, creative and responsible. It will also require knowledge of the following languages, frameworks and tools:

* Python
* Django + Django Rest Framework
* RESTful APIs
* Git + Github
* Vagrant and VirtualBox
* MySQL
* Comfortable with Linux and Linux-like command line environments

Ready for a challenge? Apply by email -- derek.edwards@coachlogix.com
You're talking about where his company is. I'm not saying he's not already doing great - he says it himself above.

My point is, if you're creative, directions to grow your company are not scarce. Resources to do-so are. If he is actually flush with cash, and doesn't know what to do with it, that's a fundamental problem.
Whatever the details turn out to be, kudos for committing so much money to research.

It'll be very exciting to see what happens.
The Unicorn Window Is Closing
> Are you saying that economic systems have morality?

Economic systems are about how scarce resources are allocated. The choice of the mechanism for doing this is always, inherently, based on a value system (possibly an extremely simple one consisting of a single value proposition).

In that sense, any economic systems involves a moral choice -- to say that a particular economic systems has "no regard for ethics or morals" really usually means that that system is perceived to have no regard for the the value propositions that the speaker believes to define correct morality.
Not necessarily, since there was nothing to vaporize it. He even shows an old picture he'd taken of it where the drops had sat undisturbed for so long that they had a chance to oxidize.
Humourously related is the Pronunciation Manual: https://www.youtube.com/user/PronunciationManual
The Democrats have many people under 60, they just aren't running because of the perceived Clinton juggernaut.
A more granular tick doesn't just "spread out" the existing liquidity to a bunch of price levels--it meaningfully decreases incentives to post serious size. The spread will end up being marginally tighter, but with thinner books, you still pay more to trade large amounts. The objective function to minimize is transaction costs, not spread.
https://github.com/ivandiazwm/phpback/blob/master/system/lib...

This appears to be built on CodeIgntier 2.1.x.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532384

https://scott.arciszewski.me/research/view/php-framework-tim...

Opened an issue: https://github.com/ivandiazwm/phpback/issues/2
The original poster says:

"Given that unikernels compile only which is necessary into the applications, the surface area is very small."

I think this is a somewhat strange statement. You don't lower the surface area by not compiling in dead code--unless you're offering a way to run arbitrary code, in which case it can help implementing the anti-features the attacker wants. But to me it seems the primary innovation of unikernels is that they are not implemented in C, but in a higher-level language like Ocaml, Erlang, etc. Those languages, if their compilers and runtimes are implemented correctly, don't allow buffer overflows, and have also other features to prevent arbitrary code execution (type system, or secure process isolation). Those kernels have (given the same attention to quality) the potential of being more secure than the Linux kernel by using such languages. Also, by not having to be a general OS kernel, they are simpler to implement, hence reducing the number of bugs likely to be around.

It's not the "compiling into the application", it's the "implementation of the algorithms" that's smaller. Perhaps that's what the original poster meant, but it sounded strange to me.
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Somewhat related to this, several years ago I have successfully used FSK[0] to transfer data[1][2] from an AVR microcontroller to iPhone through its headphone jack.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying

[1] - http://www.creativedistraction.com/demos/sensor-data-to-ipho...

[2] - https://github.com/ezefranca/FSK-Arduino-iOS
My mother is in her late 70s and my father died a couple of years ago, I think just short of his 89th birthday. They grew up in a different world, where a handshake meant something and overnight wealthionnaires who won the lottery or got rich doing something online that many older people cannot fathom or whatever was just not a Thing that was going on.

My dad grew up on a farm, in a log cabin with a dirt floor. He remembered those phones I have only ever seen in black and white movies (http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=old+party+line+phone&FOR...). He was able to tell me those phones were a party line, something I had never known. In other words, one phone line serviced the entire town. Anyone with a phone could pick up when it rang and potentially listen in on your call. There was no expectation of privacy.

He just could not keep up with the rate and level of change in his last years. The world had changed too much and he no longer wanted to try to understand. It was just not the world he grew up in.

People also were less likely to be college educated back then. There are ways in which they genuinely lacked the sophistication we just assume people are supposed to have.

My parents were/are very good hearted people and the way the world has changed just does not fit with how they related to it for so much of their lives. This is probably true for a great many other elderly people.
It would be nice if you could specify the part of speech also. For example the verb and noun pronunciations of associate and attribute are different.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 discusses the article I remember reading. The comments there (which I haven't read) seem to also disagree with the article.
This should be the top answer.

As much as I would love another reason to hate Facebook, I don't really think they actually capture the app user's voices.
This is the same principle as DEX. Just with a speaker / mic setup instead of some sort of rs232 cable with 1/4" jack. What would be interesting is if you could use a sonic range below what humans can hear and still be effective with an open speaker / mic setup? Lights, hvac type controls would be very doable.
Honestly? Because I had been sitting on that domain name for years and couldn't find anything better. I have no idea why I originally registered it. :-)

It was evocative while being vague. People only started associating it with space-filling curves in the last year or two once those started becoming trendy again among programmers.
I think the potential for cloud.gov is to expand to other federal agencies, not private companies.
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How companies use RethinkDB in production
> It doesn't make sense for Americans to oppose this treaty. We already live under most of these IP rules with no hope of relaxing them.

We need to push to change these laws. Such treaties make it harder, to they should be opposed. Besides, if they are bad, you should be opposed to spread them to others.
The Update, the Vent, and the Disaster (2010)
Hey @sama! How many applicants on average get the opportunity to be interviewed?
I loved Delphi.
"I used to do this all the time growing up, at least once a month I'd spend a few nights out in the woods camping from sometime around age 11 to 17"

That's nice. I lived that way throughout large chunks of my childhood.

Camping is fun. Living it as a lifestyle sucks.
How delightfully relevant -- is the content legitimately licensed to be reproduced on Youtube by its owner? It's certainly not old enough for its copyright to have expired.
Los Angeles, too:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myla311/id611079486
Freestart collision for full SHA-1 [pdf]
"nobody will either attend or work for a university" -- universities will never disappear, at least not in 20 years because (a) there's too much business, cash flow, physical infrastructure, etc currently and (b) professions such as lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc. will still require formal education whether you call it a "university" or not.

Those are 2 reasons off the top of my head.
When you move to a new place, that place has a culture. If you want locals to like or accept you, you should try to at the very least understand if not adopt part of that culture. It works the same everywhere. In a small town it's much more pressing and obvious -- watch how fast you get ostracized when you dump on their culture; in a big city you can kind of get away with doing your own thing and ignoring most of the people/culture/tradition if you want.

People in Seattle have worked very hard for years to build a community and a culture that they enjoy and on the whole represents them and is different from any other city in the country. That hard work is one of the biggest reasons people consider Seattle such a great place to live. Dumping a million rich young people who are there to work themselves to death at amazon for a year before they jump ship and work at a real company somewhere else into the middle of it isn't particularly good for that community or culture.

If you don't know what respecting the culture of a place means then I don't really know what to tell you. If you "hear it all the time" that means people are saying it all the time and it means something; I'd try to understand what they mean rather than being hostile to the idea.
See above. Been there.

My character is strong enough, thanks.
Yes. If I don't vote, I have no right to bitch about whatever scumbag takes over a given office for the next term.

Also, I might be naive enough to think that if I vote despite my cynicism and outspokenness against the shit politicians pull, maybe - just maybe - I might inspire just one other person to vote. And if I manage to do that, maybe they'll inspire someone else and eventually people will start engaging with politics again, instead of just handing the reins over to the people that stand to gain the most from voter disenfranchisement.
> Capitalism is about maximizing profit, with seemingly no regard for ethics or morals.

The idea that organizing a system of legal structures (particularly, property rights) the way that capitalism does is not one made with "no regard for ethics or morals" is incorrect; instead, it reflects a decision that doing so is a moral good, either intrinsically (e.g., that the structure of capitalism directly reflects moral axioms, a common argument from those who hold to a view of "natural rights" to property that align with the structure of capitalist property rights) or because it serves some other good (the usually "other good" referenced is the common good from an aggregate utilitarian perspective, with reference to the optimality of markets in maximizing realized utility in the absence of externalities under the assumptions of rational choice theory.)
This blog post nicely fits as a fourth part of the series we've been releasing since June:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-achieve-low-latency/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/single-rx-queue-kernel-bypass-wi...

I hope this gives a bit more context.
I'd like to see one like this that works through the free air -- it so much more compatible with the spirit of the age where people are even resentful of putting a power cord into a laptop or phone.

The old 300 baud did, and at that data rate you can transmit a 19 character URL in 0.5s or for that matter a 128-bit UUID/GUID.
It is an exercise to modify your SHA1 implementation to start hashing from whatever IV you please. If you work through tptacek and friends' wonderful cryptopals puzzles you will have to do just this!
Minecraft Streamer Buys Swank Mansion for $4.5M
This entire thread is based on the premise that sending humans to Mars is desirable, and we are discussing how best to get there. The purpose of my comment was to address how NASA should spend its money, not whether it should have the money in the first place.

If you would like to discuss de-funding human spaceflight and/or NASA, I think there are points for and against both, and would be interested to read your thoughts on the matter.
mildly annoying presentation style, got tired of clicking to see more.
When to Stop Breastfeeding Baby
I commend you for sharing this. A couple issues for you to consider:

Share price isn't always set in that clean a manner, as you'll learn when you fundraise. It's nice when your math works out like this: "if Clef is worth $20m and we raise $5m, we are now worth $25m. If you owned 5% of $20m before, you now own 4% of $25m (we sold 20% of the company, or, said differently, diluted you by 20%). The 5% stake was worth $1m before the fundraise and the 4% stake is now worth $1m." but often you end up with a bit more complexity. Beware simple examples can still set expectations. Converting notes with discounts is one example of this. Preferred and common are not treated the same way, and it is unlikely you will escape selling preferred shares to your next investor.

Early exercise would actually be far more tax advantageous to your employees. You can do this "cashless" as an even greater benefit.
In my experience common stock (i.e. what your options buy you) has no "information rights", so the company does not have to disclose financials to you. Additionally, even if you were offered the chance to buy preferred shares (what investors buy in a Series A, B, etc.), which ordinarily do carry information rights, there is usually a provision that prevents stockholders with paltry participation in those rounds (e.g. buying a single share) from enjoying information rights.

It's an extremely risky situation to be an employee stockholder. You are at the mercy of the founders, board, and investors. Usually founders also hold common stock, so that is somewhat reassuring, since they're in the same boat as employees from that perspective. However--and not saying this happens often--there is nothing preventing founders from being given the option, say in an acquisition or financing round, to cash out while employees are stuck without liquidity.
Unikernels are essentially the far less interesting cousin of exokernels, in that they nominally preserve the libOS angle but are limited to application deployment under a bare-metal hypervisor.

Much of the motivation for microkernel research, too, was for applications to be able to control their workloads at a finer granularity while retaining a full OS environment. Scout and SPIN were such examples. Something as simple as making page replacement and eviction a userland server where each library or application can implement its own policy over the RPC interface, can yield great benefits.
True. What I meant to say was, I was not poisoned, nor felt sick, and so far I am into my 50s. I know there might still be time to pay for what I did as a child...
Be 'respectful'? I just saw an article about Trump linked here on HN and the people commenting ripped him apart and did not show any 'respect'.

More and more I'm seeing comment guidelines used more as a way to limit and silence opposing view points rather than to get rid of trolls.

If we can't have an honest discussion, the discussions is pretty much worthless.
One of the strangest things I've run across on Reddit is a group of people with a kind of thalassophobia (fear of the sea) that is focused on man-made things under or partially submerged in water. They call it submechanophobia and share pictures of such things to spook each other out on their subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia).
Clinton might still win the labor vote due to the other side being even less palatable.

Which is, frankly, pretty sad, considering that she was on the board of Wal-Mart for so many years. A company which has long been about as hostile to workers as one can possibly be.

To pick one of the more egregious items from Wal-Mart history -
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4146540/ns/business-us_business/t/...
LogMeIn is used by those phone scammers who ring up and say "We have detected a Windows Virus on your machine and are here to help". They then convince the mark to let them start a session, then surreptitiously download data from their machine using a back channel. (LogMeIn lets you share screens, but also access the filesystem in another panel and the other side can't see).

When you complain to LogMeIn and give them the details of the scammer, they couldn't give a rat's arse and just ignore you. Those kind of ethics do not belong with the owners of a password vault.

Source: Experience trying to report a bad actor.
The networking industry likes to do this too. For example, VXLAN:

> "It uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate MAC-based OSI layer 2 Ethernet frames within layer 4 UDP packets, ..."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN

Before that, MPLS: IPv6-in-IPv4 over PPPoE over HDLC over MPLS over an Ethernet VLAN inside a service provider's VLAN (Q-in-Q) over MPLS CSC to another ISP halfway across the country to ...
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Hi Sam!

I'm the CEO & Founder of a 4-person SaaS company – profitable as most of our employees are outside the US. We're 4 years old, and are now doing ~$30k/mo in revenue. I started the company young and have learned a lot.

I question whether this is just a waste of my time, and whether I should just sell and start something new, but my worry is that by the time the new thing kicks off, THIS company will be making far more.

What are your thoughts on WHEN to sell a startup, and whether to even sell?
Presumably at some point in the future, the company will make money and pay dividends. The 409A valuation is supposed to be an approximation of the valuation based on the likelihood of future dividends (I believe using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). For a startup, this valuations is almost always a lot less than the top-line valuation used in the press / Series A investments.
@Paul_S, I may be wrong and if it the same book I am thinking then see below. I hope this helps.

1)Sapiens (A brief history of humankind). The book authored by Yuri Noah Harari

2)TheSupermen (The story of seymour cray and the technical wizards behind the supercomputer). The book authored by Charles J. Murray.
The description of ZeroHedge is funny and not entirely untrue, but if you regard them as an aggregator of opinions, (which they mostly are, even though they do offer their own opinions), it is unmatched in its breadth of coverage, despite having a rather low signal coverage.

WRT suffing the order book - at least as far back as 2003, in Eurex, there was a swiss trader who would do that in bond futures. There were a lot of comlpaints, and even death threats IIRC, but a Eurex investigation at the time found he did nothing wrong - their main finding was that he would occasionally get those "stuffing" orders executed, which means that (as far as they are concerned) they are not false or misleading in any way.

That's probably the gist of it: as long as you are willing to take the hit if your bluff goes against you, there's nothing "fake" about it. It's been years since, and I know not of any (officially investigated) cases back then, or of any recent cases - but I'd be surprised if it's not very prevalent. (Also, I've been out of the HFT world for a while).
meh. to me the offering of segment carries very little benefit. it's great being able to swap in and out of different SaaS but honestly, I did not find the value offering to be significant because you end up fiddling with less than 3 or 4, 10 at extreme cases.

Ultimately, I ended up going with Mixpanel because they offered pretty much everything I wanted in analytics. I have integrated Segment everywhere but ended up ripping it all out once I realized that I had bought into the marketing.
With 1500 Byte packets at 1Gbps you're pushing 83,333 packets per second. If 1% of those (833) are corrupted and 1 in every 2^16 corrupted packets has a valid CRC then you have 1 corrupt packet with a valid CRC every 78 seconds.

Still not something to ignore, but not nearly as bad as the author indicates.
Url changed from http://upvoted.com/video/the-story-of-optikey/, which points to this, which has more background info.
Shout out to InkPad, Steve Sprang's wonderous original vector drawing app for ipad.
Loved Delphi, too. The object inspector, the visual designer and all the components were a pleasure to work with. I kinda miss the good old days... oh well.
Aw, no 89Ti version :/
How hard would it be to port it?
No, just realising the ones we have based on assumptions from the 70s don't match what we really want.

My phone has an operating system that mostly pretends that it's a mainframe. With just a little hardware, I could hook some circa 1978 VT100s up to it and a team of average *nix web backend developers could even be productive.

My "workstation" pretends to be several tens of machines doing all sorts of different things. These boundaries exist for no reason other than to map to organizational concerns -- my CPU does all kinds of computational gymnastics so I can "keep things tidy".

The model is just wrong. Things are immutable that shouldn't be. Things are mutable that shouldn't be. Things aren't distributed that should be. Things aren't durable that should be. Things are shared that shouldn't be. Things are isolated that shouldn't be. Config management, containers, orchestration, stuff like adding BPF to the kernel, Docker, Hadoop, Mesos -- all very cool, but all very much bandaids.

We're working on it but because we're human we can't go straight for the goalpost, we have to play politics, cheat by modeling the future using what we already have today and lead by example.
Disclosed Netgear Router Vulnerability Under Attack
Rent first: maybe SF doesn't have any places with cheap rent, but the South Bay does. There are outliers in the market: $800/mo for a room or $1200/mo for a studio.

Car second: if you get an old car then the repairs + depreciation can be ~$500 / yr.

Services third: look at your most expensive purchases (Are there things that could be bought cheaper?) and your monthly bills (Do I need Netflix and Comcast cable? Do I need Costco and Amazon Prime? Do I need that EC2 instance? Do I need the deluxe laundry service?).

Food fourth: budget $5-$20 / day, leverage free food from your employer if possible.