skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To figure out the dilutions, we need the valuation at each round. My understanding is only the IPO valuation is made public, not the per-round breakdowns.
The advantage comes from unikernels being even more disposable than containers. Your kernel is built with an absolutely tiny number of options. You wouldn't even need things like the console driver, because if a unikernel crashes, you just restart it, with crash logs sent somewhere for analysis. You can remove a lot of your networking stack, because your HTTP server, that only ever speaks http, can get rid of base things like UDP support. You don't need a full-featured filesystem, because things are only written to at compile time. The number of syscalls you expose can equally be tiny. In short, you have an absolutely minuscule kernel.

From there, you can start stripping out other things. You don't need a huge init system because all you're doing is running a single application. Your libc can be made tiny, or removed completely, because you can strip it of all the calls your app doesn't need. You don't need to run an sshd, because there is no shell to get into. You can get rid of PAM because there's no accounts to access or authenticate against.

On real machines and VMs, these things are necessary so you can run tests, do cleanup, etc. Unikernels are centered entirely around the idea that those things are someone else's job, and if needed, can be shouted for across the network.
> It reported roughly 4,200 employees last quarter

Wow - what do all these people do?
I thought it was an 18-year-old female and wondered why that was considered worthy of a headline.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363340
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/mbgreen/papers/ton98.pdf

A study was done on the Performance of CRCs on Real Data. CRC16 as used for TCP has real biases. "In one dramatic case, 0.01% of the check values appeared nearly 15% of the time"
I am not surprised that Netflix decided to raise the price by $1.00. The success is incredible; I will do the same as well.
At AgFlow (http://www.agflow.com), we've been using RethingDB for 2 years (since version 1.3 to 2.0). Eventually we migrated to PostgreSQL.
The query language from RethinkDB is very powerful. But it's nothing compared to SQL when it goes to expressiveness and performance (at least on PostgreSQL). ReQL is deceptive. It performs well as long as you don't embed JavaScript or don't do sophisticated joins (even based on indexes). When doing more complicated queries it becomes very ugly and slow.

Our main motivations for migration was:

* transactions
* performance
* tool kits around SQL

We are very happy after migration. Backup process is way faster.
I think there is only one place where RethinkDB is better then PostgreSQL: replication + automatic failover.
If your data is not in TB, then I wouldn't recommend Rethinkdb. World with relational DB, transactions, pl/sql, pub/sub, GiS, data constrains, stability... offered by PostgreSQL is way easier, reliable and offers better performance.
First, I don't believe YC's only goal is to dramatically increase revenue.

Though, to entertain your analogy: Why not develop the next-level sushi fish? One that not only dazzles your exclusive audience in texture and taste, but is a delight to work with and more satisfying to cut.

> Should I take the money?

If you want to do big things, then yes.

If your happiness relies on staying a sushi chef, you are a sushi chef, not an entrepreneur.
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Seems to me that Amazon is doing amazingly well compared to eBay. They have Amazon Prime and Student. I think their company will last.
Ha, the top comment was basically "not every industry is like Silicon Valley," and your response (among many others) is basically "life would be better if more industries were like Silicon Valley." Ok, that might be true, but it doesn't actually change the game on the ground today.

It's easy to say that "more people" should take career risks. It's harder to be the person who's spent their entire life striving toward a Ph.D. in the field of study they love, and face the (very real) possibility that they'll get one shot and that's it.

Even if they can land at a Silicon Valley company (not as likely for biomedical researchers, BTW), that's not their dream. Their dream was to do groundbreaking scientific research. That's why they got their Ph.D. instead of a job in Silicon Valley.

I don't think Sam addressed the commenter's concerns at all.
So, if you're trying to change public opinion, rather than changing the minds of the most people, you need to change the minds of the people who others respect and whose opinions influence those of others.

This also explains why some issues seem difficult to change public opinion on. For instance, if you want to get a majority of people to care about privacy, or more specific issues such as encryption backdoors and spying, you need those people's social circles to include many people who care. Since those people also tend to disproportionately avoid social networks...
> You wouldn't need any changes to the AVR side to do that, because the bootloader doesn't need anything special other than a reboot to get it into programming mode.

Then you AFAIK need an additional chip for the programming. Which e.g. the Arduino has, but you'd not necessarily add to your own design.

> However, if you've got an android device, the easiest, most reliable, way to program it would be to get a $3 usb otg dongle and just plugging your arduino into that. There are tons of free apps that will burn a new program on from there.

+ "there is an android app for that" is exactly the thing you can avoid with such a setup, once WebAudio is reliable enough you just can distribute a link to your users and they don't need any third-party software, you don't need to maintain documentation for it, ... Having seen quite a few support discussions for DIY projects that distributed pre-programmed chips this would be useful in some cases.
Not completely unexpected, but still somewhat of a surprise.

Twitter have been taking on staff faster than their userbase has been growing since their IPO. I guess the question now is how many they are going to layoff - 4,200 employees is a lot of people for something like Twitter.
KEI has a roundup of commentary on the TPP IP chapter, http://www.keionline.org/node/2335

A 6-min explainer video on TPP and ISDS, https://youtube.com/watch?v=AABOIcXZZwg

HN discussion earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359604

From the EFF article:

> "One of the scariest parts of the TPP is that not only can you be made liable to fines and criminal penalties, but that any materials and implements used in the creation of infringing copies can also be destroyed (QQ.H.4(12)). The same applies to devices and products used for circumventing DRM or removing rights management information (QQ.H.4(17)). Because multi-use devices such as computers are used for a diverse range of purposes, this is once again a disproportionate penalty. This could lead to a family's home computer becoming seized simply because of its use in sharing files online, or for ripping Blu-Ray movies to a media center."

Is TPM/DRM circumvention allowed for personal, non-commercial use? If so, why would ripping Blu-Ray movies for personal use (e.g. watching on an airplane) lead to computer seizure, e.g. during border inspection?
Few ms is for the round trip from the exchange which is right in line with what exchanges tend to provide. I have it on good authority that Brian knows what he talks about in that regard...
Leaks in general aren't rare. Leaks of high value private keys are very rare.

Offhand the only ones I remember are D-Link's leak of a code signing key this year and AMI's leak of a BIOS signing key a couple years ago. I've probably forgotten some.

Keys of this value are generally not stored online, and are often split using a secret sharing system among several people.

It's not hard to set up a system where all of the decryption of the encrypted symmetrical keys of seized phones takes place on a computer that has no network connection and no interface to the outside world other than CD-RW discs [1].

Of course just because there are ways to manage the private key and its use in such system that are arbitrarily safe that doesn't mean that the FBI would actually handle their key properly. If they do lose control of it, it would be bad.

My point, though, was just to illustrate that it is not the case that providing warrant access requires putting in a backdoor that completely opens up the system to anyone who knows about the backdoor and then hoping to keep knowledge of the backdoor hidden.

Also note I'm only trying to design this for data stored on phones and tablets, not for communication systems or servers.

[1] Thumb drives would be more convenient, but they contain electronics and interface via a port that is very hackable.
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My point is simply that LastPass has no responsibility to you and me to not ruin their product by selling to someone that might. If we were shareholders it'd be different, but as users we have very little say, and I think that's for the most part a good thing. Imagine if you had to treat all your users as shareholders.

Of course this sale to LogMeIn might mean the end of LastPass as a reliable and easy to use password manager. Of course it might cause you and me to spend time looking for an alternative solution, setting it up, etc. I am saying that none of that is LastPass's team's problem and I don't think that even a paid subscription for their service buys us the right to be consulted on their corporate strategy.
I have absolutely no problem with saying that I'm not an entrepreneur.
If one, instead of considering the ratio among those one know, what if people consider the ratio of the ratios of the people that the people that you know, know, can the same type of thing happen?
curious choice of username to promote The Groundwork's employment opportunities
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There are various tour operators that will fly you to and/or from the South Shetland Islands on a charter flight too:

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Travel/Fly_to_Antarctica.php
Well, the company can still be worth something when it's sold to someone else. That's not solely speculation, but it's not far from it.

I understand the popularity of non-dividend-bearing stock, but I don't like it.
With the data being open for the first time it makes everyone in city government accountable. If the wait time goes up to fix a problem it rises in the hierarchy eventually reaching the mayor. Before stuff got buried and now that is virtually impossible.
This morning routine is definitely different than your typical routine. Your meaningful insights may give people the opportunity to look for a positive outlook on life. Your routine will help people reevaluate their perspective in their lives.
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If you want to play online: http://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
I really wanted to like the product, they are a great team and the potential sounds amazing. But for me, I found that while they do cover the basics in each product they integrate with, often I want to use special features that they either don't offer or that it becomes to cumbersome to use. I am talking mainly mobile SDKs where each service offer something else like Mixpanel's a/b testing and intercom in app messages etc.

They cover a whole spectrum of products so different in their value prop that I think just can't capsulated with a single api
Delphi was and probably still is the best tool for builing traditional Windows desktop app. But despite having cross platform and web tools it never broke that mold which halted its growth. It doesn't help that a lot of Delphi develppers are old school who still can't spell WWW.
The inflammatory title doesn't help, either.
Ianal, but this might work. However, the irs might look at it as tax evasion if the loan was given at the same time as the election.
A better question is why do we even have 'High Frequency Traders'?

Wouldn't the market be better served by a window structure with a scale on a more human timespan? Say a 5 min process in which:

* for 4 min orders are taken in confidential secret.

* there is a 1 min blackout window in which no orders are taken, and in which any results of settling the outcome of orders is not published.

* At the end of that period the new results are published. (It doesn't matter who reacts first, it's who reacts best.)

The profit between what sellers are asking for and what the buyers are willing to pay still needs to be accounted for. This could be the market's operating fee (the cost of the sale's commission), it could be attributed to the government as a form of sales tax, it could be returned in some way to the parties involved (buyers pay less, sellers earn more), other, or some combination of the above.
The hype cycle was later, though. Microsoft was the dominant tech company in the late 90s, and they liked to pre-announce software, and so everyone knew by 2000 or so that .NET was coming and was going to be the next big thing. In 2000 e-commerce was all the rage, but after the consumer Internet melt-down in 2001, a lot of the effort shifted to enterprise, which was where J2EE was marketed.

I'd say peak J2EE was 2002-2003 - it continued to be a factor up through 2007 or so, and probably still is now but the hype has long since passed it by. .NET had a peak hype cycle around 2000, when it was announced, and also continues to have many satisfied users today but ceased to gain major mindshare right around when Google started ascending in 2004-2005.
I would write tentatively too if I have been consistently wrong on every single prediction and assertion I have made in the past 10 years.
This one in particular -- I use KeePass for my personal stuff, still; but at work, there seem to be a ton of logins we need to share.

Never mind sensitive stuff -- we get lots of use out of LastPass for managing the list of test and demo users on our site. We setup sandbox accounts (with various types of users) for potential customers. Each time the main logins to into LastPass, so if they run into problems, anyone on the dev team can help them out (with no other coordination required).

I've not been terribly impressed by LP's usability, honestly; but for quite a while they've seemed to be the only mature product in this space.

I've noticed Dashlane seems to be catching up here; I'm keeping an eye on them.
"In 1919, a tank of molasses in Boston collapsed. Molasses is thick, so you might think it would flow out slowly, but it didn't. The wave of molasses swept down the streets too fast to outrun, demolishing buildings and killing 21 people."

From (https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/), where I originally learned about this event :P
Are there some instances where dictators have been stopped because of guns? Because the assertion that guns could prevent a dictator from taking overs seems, well, outlandish, if I'm being honest. I'm willing to be corrected, however.
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Actually, it's my impression that a majority of people worldwide are in favor of the death penalty.

wikipedia: Although many nations have abolished capital punishment, over 60% of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, such as China, India, the United States and Indonesia.[0]

there are 206 countries in the world[1], of which only 36 practise capital punishment. USA comes on the heels of the top five of China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.[2]

questions:

* if majority of people are in favor of the death penalty, where does the majority of countries abstaining from it come from? in vulgar terms: is it an illuminati-level conspiracy?

* do the countries practicing the death penalty share any prevailing traits? do the countries which have abolished it share any prevailing traits? what are they? how do those traits correlate with wealth and wealth distribution in the country?

my impression is that (outside of truly fucked-up places like China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia) capital punishment de iure is a sign of a country with a huge wealth gradient: the poorer the poor are and the richer the rich are (in contrast) the better the chance the place will have the death penalty. countries with relatively flat wealth distribution seem to be less likely to practice the capital punishment.

[0] hhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Capital_p...

edit: formatting
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first big move will reportedly be layoffs
Singapore seniors to get robotic personal trainers
Instead of that complicated minute/day/week/year data retention scheme, why not just randomly replace an entry in a fixed-size store? So the probability of a datum being in the store is inversely proportional to the log of its age.
And it's a one-liner.
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Definitely not spam. I always hear people ask who is using RethinkDB in production, so just thought I'd help answer that here. I get where you're coming from, though :)
I wonder to what extent this sort of thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If most folks don't want to feel like they're out of the norm (which I suspect is true), then if they think that most folks disagree with them, they might be willing to change their opinions in order to fit in with a perceived majority.

As a couple of folks have noted, this means that all one has to do is suborn a relatively few influencers in order to effect mass change, despite the fact that the majority would have resisted that change if they'd known the truth.

As the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy might have said, some suspect that this has already happened…
Something a little easier and perhaps a bit less hacky IMHO is the web audio MIDI standard. You can make certain AVRs (the 32u4 in the Arduino Leonardo) look like USB devices, including a USB midi device. Then just have a web page that uses the new web audio & MIDI APIs to send data directly to the 32u4 as MIDI messages. No need to convert to audio, etc.
I imagine that a unikernel management system would have all the modules -- http, tls, the user facing app, etc -- just as object files, so that an update of the TLS library would entail little more than relinking and restarting the new unikernels.
It's legal, not because the stock has no value, but because the spread (i.e. the difference) between the strike price of the option (e.g. $0.01/option) and the stock's value (e.g. $0.01/share) is $0. That's the profit, so that's what you pay tax on.
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I agree with @Veddox. Another forum I am on practically locks thread that pertains to politics right after creation. They have it clearly in the TOS. Politics in general can turn into a heated debate and bring the worse in people IMO.
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Yeah, I'm surprised by that number as well, but then again, Facebook got tons of news coverage yesterday for adding five emoticons (did they actually add them, or were they just flighting it?). Things are strange these days.
For me look & feel and usability are nice, but not if it doesn't correspond to my needs.

I routinely use both a Ubuntu Linux laptop and a MacBook. Unfortunately 1Password does not support Linux.

And while I do use Dropbox, I like having the flexibility of switching to Google Drive. Speaking of look & feel, on Android the 1Password interface is the ugly duckling that doesn't use material design.

And back to price. At home I also have a Windows box that I sometimes use for media. My phone is an Android, but I also have an iPad. So 1Password would set me back $42 for OS X + Windows (includes the discount), about $7 for Android and another $7 for iOS. That would be $56 with the discount, or $84 without the discount. And that is expensive, I mean that's almost the price of an IntelliJ IDEA upgrade.

It's not terrible, I mean it does provide value and the price is sort of justified. But careful on the wanting to pay for things, as that's not how the world works. Do you know what happens to the farmers that invested money in the latest tractors and the seeds with the highest yield? Most are near bankruptcy, choked by loans and surviving on government subsidies. Just saying, wanting to pay for things is a sign that you've got more money than ability to spend, which is cool, but life is surprising and things change.
Is Angular involving multiple major-name partners such as Tweeter, and has been such from the start -- to the point of downplaying Google's involvement in the project site?

For something like SPDY/HTTP2 etc, I can say it's Google first and foremost (even if it got adoption later on).

For this not so much.
what benefit does high frequency traders provide to rest of society? none. they raise the cost of transactions of all investors. it should be banned and those brought to justice.
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The second page contains a succinct summary of theoretical reasons why this is true. The rest of the paper goes over empirical findings: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~keechung/MGF743/Readings/G2%20D...

Since then, we have additional data points from the decimalized US equity markets. See http://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2014/34-72460.pdf for a bibliography. The weight of the evidence points towards thinner books. Incidentally, the SEC is looking to increase the tick size for illiquid small-cap stocks for this very reason.
Now is the time for rhetoric. The future may perhaps become time for other strategies.
We use redash for some basic reporting. It is nice, and development is active.
It's interesting how haskell news most often score high but have very few comments here.
This line from the Wikipedia article is worthy of Bulwer-Lytton consideration:

Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air.
Yes, that is the scope and intent for now, although there is potential for state agencies to make use of it as well.
And half of its employees are engineers.
I would love to buy those lawyers a beer for being such great hackers, even if it's denied. But they said private letter rulings had been given...
It's civil. It's funny. It's true.
> Even in the late 80's, middle class people could barely afford a tv

This is not true. Color TV ownership, I'm pretty sure, was nearly universal in the late 1980s and I expect most households had more than one.

> Free market has been so efficient that people now have better lives than they used to for cheaper, which explains why incomes haven't gone up that much as it hasn't been needed.

I'd be interested in some basis for this. Not everything is cheaper, for example health care and gasoline. I don't think I've seen anything suggesting purchasing power overall has increased, but I suppose it's possible.

> It's a proven fact that the world has never been as peaceful, wealthy, well off and advanced ...

That seems like something that would be very hard to prove or to establish factually. Also, while economies have grown in aggregate, that hasn't made individuals better off. My income could grow from $100 million to $1 billion while 99 people could stay stuck at $10; our aggregate gain would be $900 million or a wonderful $9 million per capita, but that's no help to the other 99 who can't make ends meet.

EDIT: I should add that the world overall certainly is wealthier and many fewer are in extreme poverty. To attribute that to the 'free market' (as in purist free-market capitalism, not its usual forms which include elements of many approaches) is erroneous, I think; most was achieved by developing countries following not the market but government-directed industrial policies.