skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I understand well the "rump kernel"/"anykernel" idea as implemented in NetBSD. Could anybody please help me with that - specifically, how this differs from a microkernel?

My current idea is that I can take the current NetBSD kernel and:

a) for some (any? or only some?) hardware subsystems, ask the kernel (by some switch/config? where?) to run drivers in userspace, in "microkernel-like" way (and thus they reboot transparently in case of failure/bug/crash?), at some performance cost;

b) compile out/disable (? by some preprocessor directive?) some subsystems of the kernel, so that I get a "smaller" kernel e.g. for embedded machines which don't have video-card/GPU hardware;

and probably also combine the both above approaches together - i.e. build a reduced kernel like in (b), and then optionally run any missing subsystems/drivers like in (a).

Is that correct? Or am I wrong?
Why Twitter Moments Matters
This is the Friendship paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox ) applied to polling. If the people with the most acquaintances have similar viewpoints, which differ from those with fewer acquaintances, then it will skew responses to questions concerning the viewpoints of the respondent's acquaintances.
Wow, this is stupid tax crap, but there seems to be a workaround.

http://www.ecjlaw.com/22505/ecj-viewpoints/taxing-matters/ho...

"Here is how it works: The employer transfers the stock to the employees at no cost, and the employees make the Section 83(b) election to accelerate the taxable event to the date of transfer. That requires the employees to recognize ordinary income in an amount equal to the value of the stock and enables the employer to report an ordinary noncash deduction equal to the same amount.

The employer then finances the employees’ income-tax liability with a nonrecourse loan to the employees (at today’s low interest rates) secured by the restricted stock. Since this doesn’t involve the financing of the employees’ purchase price of the stock, the restricted stock grant would be considered a “transfer” of the stock, thus closing the compensation element of the transaction upon transfer because the Section 83(b) election is made. This avoids the tax uncertainty created by financing the actual stock acquisition with a nonrecourse loan and the requirement of a substantial cash down payment by the employees or, alternatively, a substantial portion of the acquisition note’s being recourse.

Although employees must still pay the ordinary income tax incurred on the date of grant, they have deferred the payment of the tax by means of the employer’s nonrecourse loan. The employer is permitted a noncash deduction in the same amount and at the same time, while the employees are required to include the compensation element of the restricted stock grant in income."
That second graph they use as an example (Same sex marriage one) adds up to 101%...
What exactly is the process() doing in the sample? Or is that also commented out in the test?

Because if the only processing here is throw-away this still screams for a FPGA in front of the NIC. Someone mentioned higher R&D on a FPGA solution, but clearly there is massive R&D here in just making sure evil packets don't hit a slow code path.
Firefox dropping NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016–except for Flash
Let's say I have a fantastic sushi bar. I'm the main sushi chef and after a multi-year on and off frustrating search I finally found an assistant / apprentice. We have also have a waiter and a cleaner / busser.

I have lines out the door for the limited hours I'm open, even after raising prices three times. All my employees are well paid, including profit sharing and benefits.

Sushi Combinator wants to give me big multiples of annual earnings to take a minority stake in the business, but in exchange he wants me to try to increase revenue dramatically. Any of the ways I can think of doing so I believe, even if successful, will leave me less happy than running the business I have now.

Should I take the money?
Have you thought about going the Private Equity route? I perform software/IT diligence for PE firm's targets and it sounds like you would fit that typical mold.
Wealth is not the only consideration. Political power is also an important consideration. While wealth is not a zero-sum game, political power is. Given that wealth is transferrable to political power, we find that increasing inequality impoverishes labor of his political power even if he is economically better off. THAT is the problem.

Would you rather be a rich slave or a poor free man?
A lot of the problems we hit were due to having to support many versions of many distros, not so much a particular bug in one distro. That said, we filed bugs, provided patches, and even drafted XDG specs for some of the issues we were dealing with.

The problem is, even if we filed a bug report with a patch for a 3.0 release of some distro, and it was fixed in 3.1, we still had to support 3.0. That meant code that worked with both the buggy 3.0, and the fixed 3.1. That's not a big deal when isolated to one distro or one component, but we're talking all the major distros, various third-party libraries, etc.

We may have been a bit nuts, trying to keep such a wide variety of environments supported, but that said, we also got really good at it, and it meant we didn't have to force customers to make changes to their system that they didn't want to make. The products ran on distros so old that they still only shipped GTK 1.2 (though we eventually finally walled off some of the older ones when we started supporting only 64-bit processors).
Which OS would handle the load he speaks of?
He'd be better off investing in Rubio.
Every experience I've had with Flywheel in SF has been terrible (sample size: 4). Each time the taxi has been slow to arrive, up to twice as expensive, taken bizarre routes and the drivers were just as rude as every other taxi.

I'd rather take the bus than give Flywheel my money to be honest.
Does the Future of Television Belong to the Device or the App?
It's a rebranding of iDraw:

http://www.indeeo.com/idraw/mac.html

I guess Autodesk bought Indeeo?
What is the aggregate PPS Cloudflare handles now? Whats the goal (aside from infinite)?
> Yes. If I don't vote, I have no right to bitch about whatever scumbag takes over a given office for the next term.

Please. When our choices are a turd sandwich and a douchebag, we absolutely have the right to complain.

“Whether it is exerted by ten men or ten billion, political authority is force … the power of the Rods and the Ax” - Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
TPP: The end of Filesharing
> It wasn't a very important comment...

I will reply anyway! I don't know the details about Tarsnap but in my case I work with a co-founder and several employees. We work collaboratively.

In this context we don't have the potential for higher overall growth because the specific niches where we do business are not growing enough. In the past we tried some new areas with great expectations but they never took off. This doesn't mean that we would not prefer a more favorable market sector if we "discover" it in the future.
Putin's Angels: Inside Russia's Most Infamous Motorcycle Club
>"On the other hand, that means that I'm giving ten different vendors the ability to monetize all the data my site generates essentially for free. This is great for them, kind of crappy for the users who get tracked and monetized, and terrible for me, because I'm not realizing the value I generate."

Presumably you are not directly sending data to any vendors you are not receiving value from. In the analytics world, it is kind of understood that if you use Google Analytics, you should have an expectation that Google is using that data however they see fit. Same holds true with other vendors unless they explicitly say otherwise.

As such, the burden (rightfully) falls on the site owner to properly vet their vendors to make sure they work with companies whose business practices align with the site owner's data policies.

Nobody is forcing you to integrate with vendors who don't adhere to your standards, but not everyone has the same standards.

So at the end of the day, I'm confused by your point about how this is terrible for you since you're not realizing any value that you generate. You are exchanging data, money, or both, in exchange for a service. It is up to you to determine what that is worth to you and whether you are paying a fair price, but it isn't Segment's fault if you decide to partner with companies that give you a raw deal.
In Damp Metro Tunnels, Prehistoric Plants Thrive
I also discuss the architecutre of Grapherl here, https://medium.com/@kansi/erlang-otp-architectures-grapherl-...
> I am glad I work in a meritocracy-based industry where anyone with any background can "ship" and succeed, and that has a low tolerance for bullshit.

Having worked in research academia, as a hospital medical tech, as a technical support bloke, and now several years across several different companies doing devops, I call hogwash. The software/startup world is replete with bullshit, more than anywhere else. Not to mention the huge amounts of time spent "chasing the shiny", where new tools are used because of fashion rather than merit. And network effects are just as strong in the startup world as in academia or medicine.

Occasionally a bedroom-based programmer can strike it lucky, but that's not the bulk of the startup world.

> Don't the laws of nature exist everywhere? Why can't anyone "do science," then?

Everyone can 'do science'. Youtube is filled with people doing science with everyday items. It's just that most human-scale stuff is low-hanging fruit and has now been 'done'. The edges of science where we're progressing with new knowledge need more expensive tools to observe them.
Why is it considered different from a physical safe? The government already has the ability and laws to compel citizens to provide access, why should it be any different with encryption?
I have repeated some of the things here to my coworkers in the past. My city for the most part is a community of retired people (baby boomers). They are use to getting their paper, and get angry when the crosswords are missing. You'd be surprised how many elderly people call and complain about little things like that, or maybe it's not so surprising.

Social media has changed the way news is reported as well. Everyone is a reporter now and by the time news agencies find out about an incident the public knows more about it then they do.

If someone is around when an accident happens they snap a picture and post it on facebook before offering the injured a helping hand. By the time a reporter catches the beat the comments are full of more information than the reporter could gather on their own. "Oh that's so and so....etc."

If you went to our website and removed all the click bait, advertising, "non-news" items the page would:
1: load faster :)
2: be mostly empty

Sad times for newspapers.
I've got iDraw (Now Autodesk Graphic) on OS X. It's okay - but I still long for something that can go head-head with Visio. Omnigraffle is sort of in that space - but at the end of the day, there is a reason why 99%+ of network diagrams are done in Visio - just seems to fit in better when you are trying to line up routers, draw connections between them and network segments.
1password for Android is free for the basic edition. The Windows & OSX bundle doesn't cost anything like $80 ($42 atm).
Show HN: Mongoop – Tame your mongoDB slow operations
Performance of TCP Checksums Over Real Data [pdf]
Yes there is tracking for each item submitted that the citizen can follow. I think this is the best part of the entire app to be honest, allowing a resident of Detroit to see in real time that the problems they've pointed out have been acknowledged and are actively being worked on are huge in this city.
Presumably that's from rounding errors... for example, the distribution could be 4.7, 38.7, and 56.6 ... which adds up to 100, but when those numbers are rounded up they then add up to 101.
NASA releases photos from Apollo missions
You want to check out Brocade, Intel DPDK and 6wind.
Brocades Vyatta router has DPDK support as has Juniper VMX.

http://www.slideshare.net/shemminger/dpdk-performance
So a devious entity can shift mass opinion through selective filtering and promotion of content on a social network.

I wonder what the nature of a "Pravda effect" would be where people suspect their information source has been corrupted and made unrepresentative and thus will distrust many traditional mechanisms of authority.

Is there an actual assuaging of opinion, a disengagement of the process, an increase in conspiratorial beliefs ... what happens?

Propaganda does this through smear campaigns - e.g., painting an academic as being egotistical and seeking money (thus making them corrupted by undisclosed motives). I see this with regard to climate change, evolution, and formerly tobacco smoke.
If you vote you are accepting and endorsing the system.

If you don't vote, and it's an active choice you've made, you're rejecting the system. That's a valid choice.

(Having said that I vote in English local and national elections).
And here I thought an 18-year-old girl eas behind this.
Significant card decline rate
Hello.

We are using Stripe for our recurrent billing and this month we saw 4x more card declines that ever before. As far as I now there are some other companies with same problem. Does anyone have same problem? And how do you solve it?
OK, free clue: You're the loser. So be careful about starting violence thinking that you're going to win and change everything.

In a bit more detail: You're the loser with 99% probability. The only way you're going to win is by having an amazing plan, or getting amazingly lucky, or most likely some of both.

That leaves two options: You lose and get crushed, or you don't make any change and it's irrelevant. For the rest of the world, it's better that you be in the second category, because you cause less damage that way.

And, in fact, I think you are in the second category. You're talking big about "destroy[ing] the current state and creat[ing] a new one", about how "only violence will [work]." And what's your violence? You're publicizing the Ashley Madison info of people who you're mad at. Pathetic.

But, in fact, I prefer pathetic big-talker do-nothings in this area, because they cause a smaller body count.
I just love how a term that has so much material impact for so many people swung from Not Great to Industry-Leading Excellent . . . from a HN comment, to a PR, and merged . . . in a couple of hours.
Why are you using the word "startup"?

Who gives a shit what the oligarch Schmidt promotes.. but lets not wrap the term "startup" around his BS.

Lets face the facts - Clinton (as well as many others, including any Bush) is an oligarch and a corrupt criminal.

Schmidt is doing a douchebag move of attempting to tie the "startup" lexicon to Clinton's hip in an effort to muster credibility...

It is all bullshit.
I noticed the GitHub description for the repo says "ejabberd monitoring server." Can this be used for non-ejabberd monitoring? I assume the answer is yes given the rest of the documenation. Maybe you can update the description.
"Thank you for the information, we will investigate/confirm, cancel their account, put them on a watchlist" would have done. I'm not after prison time, I'm after LogMeIn not allowing their service to be used by identifiable criminals.
We regularly have many-million pps per server.

You might find this interesting:

https://youtu.be/UcAygzNSxlI?t=7980

https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/21/contribution/5/material...
E.g. Maxmind (commonly used for geoip lookups) support IPv6:

https://www.maxmind.com/en/ipv6-information-and-faq
I'm torn between supporting open source businesses, and calling this and almost all of your previous submissions spam.
This is the clearest document about how stock options work that I've seen yet. That alone is commendable, even if it weren't for other commendable things like listing the denominator on what fraction of the company you own and otherwise avoiding the usual employee-hostile temptations here.
I've not come across Forvo before, but it's UI comes across poorly in comparison to youpronounceit - a small search box and many steps between type a word and playing it - whereas the latter has a clear interface, plays the result quickly and provides context.

Forvo may actually be more useful, but youpronounceit is the one I'll return to.
California's Drought Is About Economic Inequality
Didn't containers just create a sandbox for the code to run? If they get a full VM, what is the difference between containers and old style VMs?

Anyway, I don't have experience on Go or V8 Javascript, but C pthreads, Haskell threads and Python threads all just encapsulate the OS functionality to add some conveniences. Java does come with a complete threading implementation, and gets no lack on criticism because of that. You may get away running Node on a single task kernel, but Postgres will simply refuse to load if it can not fork some processes and talk to them by shared memory. Apache's behavior is similar.
Actually, I'd say 1Password is cheap for what it is; I opted to use it in my personal life because it was cheaper than LastPass. :)

The lack of enterprise features is a killer though. We currently use 1Password at work, but we're evaluating LastPass and Meldium as options to switch to purely for the password sharing, access control,etc. We don't want to switch, but it's not clear there's any option if you want to manage passwords reasonably smartly among a small team.
Twitter planning layoffs next week
Mildly interesting historical note -- a few years ago I was reading an old paper on operating systems from the 1960s. As I recall, it seemed to refer to a process as a "virtual machine".

(Sadly, I don't remember the title for a citation here.)
Why would I want to do that? It would give me what I don't want -- money -- and not give me what I do want -- to be part of a community of smart people doing interesting things.
Thanks for the informative reply. One thing I don't quite know: what is the package ecosystem like? Are packages generally up to date? Do people usually install from source, or use binaries?
Actually, J2EE (December 12, 1999, if the Great Wiki is to believed) predates .NET (February 13, 2002, same source).

.NET and J2EE (or C# and Java) never really replaced each other--at best, .NET was MS's attempt to upgrade the MFC/COM stuff to the Java VM world after J++ fell apart. They're more or less the same model, one's just the Windows Server flavor while the other is the Linux/Unix flavor.
Arduino team presents genuino starter kit
Can't you already achieve this with seccomp-bpf?
Containers share a kernel, but unikernels run right on the hypervisor. Basically your program is the kernel, and it's the only thing running in the VM.
I meant "read it all the time", as I only see this on the internet.

Fairly sure I'm fitting in just fine. As I said, I don't have a bad word to say about anyone I've met. Apparently asking you what "respect the culture" means gets me a negative response where you berate for me not already know what it means and telling me I should "try to understand".

So asking you directly isn't good enough. I think I'll just pass, I'm doing fine and Seattle has been nothing but kind. But good luck with your approach, I'm sure making someone feel bad for moving to a new place works on someone.
Oh, but it's there!

https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM

It is however touted as 'an easy and fun way to improve your English'..

Village name marketing gimmicks aside, good tool.
note: I'm not a tax professional and can't give tax advice. My experience with AMT is you can only get back the value of the stock that became worthless, not the money you paid in taxes when you exercised it.
That sounds scalable
I'm wondering how this apply to reality.
Are these identifications rigorously confirmed via other evidence? It would be too easy to abuse this "superpower" to make false identifications in order to round up undesirables. This reminds me of how drug sniffing dogs can be cued by their trainers to 'hit' at will, justifying a search if the officer suspects there are drugs.
Leftie.
REKT
That timeframe is too long (few ms)
Is $0 legal? I thought normally you gave the stock 1 billionth of a penny of value and paid your $1 in tax.
> Ya, OpenBSD has done some pretty remarkable work on the
> laptop front, and I find it interesting, because it's not
> where I would have guessed they'd be interested.

My guess is this stems from the very strong dogfooding culture the OpenBSD devs seem to have. If most/all of them are running OpenBSD on their main systems, and some subset of those folks use laptops as their main systems, then I am sure they are motivated to make it not a shit experience.
Dropbox runs a binary on your machine; that's enough to suspect them. Stick with an open source password manager and an open sync service (S3 plus a script? Or a third party client like Arq).
My city has a website for reporting stuff like that. Unfortunately I see no evidence that it has any effect whatsoever. None of the issues I've reported have been addressed.
Apple removes several apps that could spy on encrypted traffic
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
Hot dogs are definitely a dangerous food item for children because they can be a choking hazard. Jello can also be a choking hazard for small children as well. Teaching children to chew and swallow their food well will prevent them from choking.
Smalltalk running in a browser with the help of JavaScript and cloud... They definetely didn't planned that in 1978!
Not to mention making your primary source of fat canola oil.
Quote from the HN guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Much as I would love to discuss Mr. Carson and his view on guns and history, I don't think HN is the right place to do so. Sorry :-(
The official announcement from Apple is baffling:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT205347

If you have one of these apps installed on your device, delete both the app and its associated configuration profile to make sure your data remains protected.

... but they aren't naming the affected apps. How is a user meant to follow their instructions?
I'm not sure what this really does. I mean it's interesting but as far I can tell it's just searching transcripts or caption data for the word and then queueing that part of the video. There's no checking if the word is actually pronounced correctly so you're not actually improving your pronunciation.

Several videos were not just the wrong pronunciation, the captions were wrong so the person never said the word the system thought was the requested word.

A good example is "candidate" which many people pronounce wrongly as "cannidate" Checking the results, first one said "cannidate", second one said something that sounded like "kennedy", 3rd one captions were wrong, 4th one was "cannidate" as well.
My first thought was whether they explicitly blacklisted Pronunciation Manual!
The company itself is worth something. It's worth whatever it's worth to someone trying to buy it, for example. As a general guide, it's worth some multiple of its annual profit, with the multiple depending on how fast it's growing and how much longer it's expected to continue growing.
Connections are important. It affects us mentally and emotionally. I am not that surprised that having more friends will result in a longer life span.
The article makes a passing mention of media being a hub of these networks. One effect of this is that people will believe that there are epidemics of sorts (violence, economic, etc.) when in fact there aren't. This will often happen with pessimistic viewpoints.

An interesting example of this is explored in this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/opinion/nicholas-kristof-t...