skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, cloud computing is a potentially much more important market for.SGX than DRM. Even though Intel could no doubt handover machine keys to any government agency on request without you knowing, it potentially protects you against e.g. malicious admins at a cloud provider. There has been some really interesting research recently on running applications in an sgx enclave where the OS itself runs outside the enclave and is completely untrusted (see e.g. the Haven paper from Microsoft Research at OSDI last year, it's extremely cool).
Require JavaScript files the sane way: with symlinks
> how seriously the FCC takes enforcement of those radio bands that are available for public use

Except CB. Listening to it, you'd never guess that they used to regulate profanity and the use of illegal signal amplification.
People using stupid captioned images in their blog posts and technical announcements are a real turn off for me; I'm not sure if people are trying to be funny or edgy but it comes off really lame and childish. Feels like being in one of the Reddit default subs.
There have been a number of good HN threads (sorry I don't have links) on the CIA's history of promoting arts and letters—often by artists and writers who became distinguished later, indicating rather good taste at the CIA.
Considering the US is also tapping every cable leading out of the country, where do you suggest folks take their business?
The really sad thing is fake reviews are really easy to counter. Want meaningful reviews? Start reviewing everything you buy from Amazon.

But, meh tragedy of the commons.
They might have solved K4 but the method used might be extremely classified, for example if it is AES-256 encrypted and they solved it, yeah, mass panic.
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It would be naive to think Reddit doesn't already have people dropping product suggestions for marketing purposes.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situat...
Commodity Traders Helped Spark the War in Syria, Complex Systems Theorists Say
(Machine controlled) Cameras 101
Very nice article. It is nice to see photoshop-like capabilities added to web applications. Although, it seems a pain to use with various platforms, like Java, .NET ... image manipulation is needed depending on what device or connection speed the requester might be using.
I would like non-camera pics to be vector based, to allow dynamic resizing. And camera photos should use this capabilities, along with a small link provided to download full quality photo, if needed. But these image manipulation capabilities should be part of a framework so that it is easier to use and update. After all, every page is littered with images, however, there is so little we can do with them right now.
Good approach though to start of with ...
Don't worry, I work for a company in the space and fully understand the challenges :) I have a really hard time believing that you can align a 30x genome in 8 minutes because the I/O time is longer than that, and bowtie doesn't use one of the faster algorithms for alignment (usually the kmer hashing methods are faster when you have machines with enough memory. Microsoft's snap and Illumina's isaac are two examples). What kind of hardware are you benchmarking on?
Sounds good, I'll try all these. Thanks !
That seems to be what has to happen. It unfortunate because he has formed a software union of sorts and is acting as a union rep. If I fire him I could potentially lose 2-3 others.
I feel the same way about Seinfeld as you do about the Sopranos.
> Yeah, short term is the right thing. But I'm talking about why stay in the same loop DECADES? Because the pile of mud is bigger with each iteration. Eventually, I think, the cost of a clean start will be far less that push ahead.

The pile of mud has network effects. Even when you're starting from scratch, you're not really starting from scratch. The world is built around the things that are popular. Everything is better supported and better tested for those things. If you create a new language, it not only needs to be better, it needs to be so much better that it can overcome the advantages of incumbency. Which is made even harder when the advantageous characteristics of new languages also get bolted onto existing languages in a way that isn't optimal but is generally good enough that the difference ends up smaller than the incumbency advantage.

Which is why change happens very, very slowly. We're lucky to be essentially past the transition from Fortran and COBOL to C, Java and C++.
Yep, and despite promises of decreasing reliance on RNG, the most recent raid (Kings Fall) has more loot randomness than any of the previous end game activities.

At each loot point you have a chance of getting loot or not. Fine, that's just like the previous raids. But now instead of getting max level gear, you get gear between (MAX-10, MAX). It's double randomness, and it sucks.

Introducing a bunch of quest based loot items was great. But you can't actually use most of the items until you're blessed with MAX level gear from the raid that you can then dump into this special item you just received.

Oh, and if you want to level up more than 1 piece of gear? You need to throw the dice multiple times for chances at MAX.

It's like they listen and react correctly on one hand, and then completely forget the point. Either that, or they just want a farmville like experience.
Both Andrew and the Investor sound like jerks to me. Sometimes you have to deal with jerks and sometimes you have more than one jerk to deal with.

Building a team that works well with each other is hard to do. I don't know at what stage the project is at yet, or if you have the equity to give to the team. How well are they paid? I figured if they are paid well like at least the average salary for their position, there is no need to distribute equity until the project is finished.

The problem might be that your startup doesn't have any income yet, so you can't distribute what you don't have.

I hope each member of the team has signed a contract, one that has a non-compete clause in case they do walk and take IP with them.

You need to look for another investor or do some crowdfunding to raise funds to replace him.

No matter what choice you take, fire Andrew or get rid of the investor or even do both, you will be in for a hard time.
Wow, I have been looking for something lightweight and powerful like this for soooo long
I don't know if I understand how most of these things could be considered secure unless they've been heavily attacked already.

Are they all so much more secure by design that you consider them to be great projects?

My experience is heavily with server-side web languages, so I'm particularly skeptical of those. Even the most secure-seeming web languages have buggy, insecure implementations at first.
Indeed. I wouldn't be surprised if prosecutors take a particularly unkind view of the possibility that Holmes has potentially put lives at stake.

That said, her board is a veritable who's who of DC powerbrokers. That will definitely be a factor.
> Sugar is addictive. It is therefore a drug. Like it or not.

Addictiveness has nothing to do with whether or not something is a drug. Like it or not.
My miserable experience pre-ordering a Surface Book
"Though NASA found a younger engineer who was brought on to work with Zottarelli for a year and eventually replace him, Dodd said it's an impossible task.
No one will replace him,' Dodd said."

That's a lifetime of job security
I don't understand that comment either, but it might be the lack of classList support in earlier IE versions without a polyfill.
A post isn't a duplicate until the story has had significant attention. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

This is important, because otherwise far too many good stories fall through the cracks without having been noticed. I wrote about this here if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818.

The repost invitations we've been sending out (including to minimaxir to repost this one!) are the latest in a series of experiments to find a solution to this problem.
Seems like:

* Your investor is 100% right about not negotiating with blackmail. You should absolutely fire Andrew soon. Your relationship with him is unrecoverable. (The demand to do it "tomorrow morning" is itself close to blackmail, and you could postpone a little to collect your thoughts and make a less emotional decision. It is hypocritical for your investor to reject blackmail while blackmailing you.)

* Your investor (and you should own some of this responsibility too) has screwed you over by expecting software engineers to work at a startup with an eternally-postponed equity discussion. I don't even understand how that works. You may need to compromise with your investor by firing Andrew (which isn't really a compromise; it's the right idea even without your investor's demand) but also insisting on an equity discussion immediately so that you have something to show the rest of the team that you're listening and want to treat them right.

* Andrew's threat to take the team with him is confusing. Where does he think they'll go? They probably want jobs that pay them money, and it seems unlikely he has one of those ready tomorrow. He (and you) may be overestimating their attachment to him. If he behaves like this among them, they may even completely understand why he's leaving.

Seems like some combination of firing him, and having an honest conversation with the remaining team where you say that this is solely about him and not them, you want to make things right with the them regarding equity, and having stern words with your investor is the way to go?

(I have no qualifications which make this particularly good advice to follow, to be clear. But maybe simply being detached from your situation is helpful.)
Look up WebRTC - there's a pleasant article at https://webrtchacks.com/own-phoneco-with-webrtc/ that seems informative, and perhaps even useful
> It is a bit pricey ($29.99) for a note taking app

I agree, it is a bit expensive, but I felt it was well worth it; I now use it for literally all of my document processing, technical documentation, personal writing, proposals, literally everything. Because it runs through Pandoc, I can produce amazingly professional looking documents for everything. It's one of my favourite applications by far!
Also, Andrew may be bluffing when he says the entire team will follow him out. Can he really get them all a better deal elsewhere? Could he ever get funding for his own company once word got out about how he blackmailed the current company?

It might be interesting to talk to the developers privately before firing Andrew to see if they're really on board with his plan. Maybe they can be convinced to stay. For example, the most senior one could be promoted into Andrew's position and be offered a raise.
The article didn't make it clear... has Zenefits regained access to ADP's systems?
There is almost always a way to make feedback constructive, and it doesn't necessarily involve pandering or 'shit sandwiches.'
I have a PS4. Don't play very often. But one thing you notice real quick is sloppy packaging. The Binding of Isaac needs more than 200MB? Isn't it a handful of sprites and procedural levels? I've only played for... I dunno, 30 minutes, but it seems like it could have easily been a PS2 game.

And then you have games with 300MB save files. Which is a huge problem since you only get 1GB of cloud storage for saves. So you end up deleting most.

I care about efficiency. I like that my iPhone charges in 45 minutes unlike the multi hour charges of the ~3,000+mAh devices I've owned. I like small downloads. The Apple TV isn't going to have the power of a dedicated console. There's no reason to download 40GB of texture data.
A bigger Walgreens affords it more bargaining power against drugs/pharma companies, which could lead to them cutting drugs' cost to consumers. As it is now, there are times the Walgreens (and independents and the rest) have to swallow the bitter pill of drugs price adjustments because the reimbursement schedule does not adjust as drugs prices adjust. A drug they pay $10 for today might be $60 next week and if they want to keep their patients coming, which they do, most of the time they take the loss on those drugs --till the price schedule from the feds is readjusted.
They backpedaled mostly and offer perpetual licenses.

I just wish they'd simply added subscription options in the first place vs going through all the hullabaloo. Perhaps it was a smokescreen, but that just feels very conspiratorial.
Simple Material Design Palette Extension for Google Chrome
Oh apologies, I read in the Bucket List that it was happening but I just checked and it's only mooted at this point!

https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/issues/802
The Scala 2.8 Collections API
> That didn't add much

For what it's worth, I think it did.
> I wish something like Elm was mature enough.

So do I :)

If you're not 100% up on Flux, I recommend having a play with Hoverboard[0] -- it's a tiny implementation of the Flux architecture, with some interesting choices itself. It's a single function, too, which is pretty neat!

I've been using it to implement the "Flux Challenge" in combination with domChanger[1] instead of React: https://github.com/girvo/domchanger-hoverboard-flux-challeng...

And here's a partial TodoMVC implementation I wrote in Hoverboard and domChanger: https://github.com/studionone/todomvc-domchanger-hoverboard

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[0] https://github.com/jesseskinner/hoverboard

[1] https://github.com/creationix/domchanger
Clearing up the history of Elementary OS as a monetized open Linux distribution
Because it looked like a good article that might be of interest to HN, and it got no attention yesterday.
Those projects are mostly research into how to make software and hardware less buggy; most of them are not themselves written with a threat model in mind.
I agree, Amazon reviews used to be useful, but are now largely useless. I used to find the reviews really helpful, to the point where I was much more likely to buy something with only a few minutes research on Amazon than on any other site (although amazon's money back guarantee helped too). Now though, I usually won't buy there without doing a lot more research, which in itself imposes a cost on me, and reduces the amount I buy.

Some possible markers of fake reviews I look out for, completely anecdotal:
- products that have high hundreds or thousands of reviews, with almost all 5's and a few 1's.
- products with a large disparity between the Amazon reviews and sites that (I think) are much less likely to be targeted for fake reviews, e.g Walmart.com or bestbuy.com
It should be no harder to figure out an algorithm to stop this than to stop spam email, which makes me think sites like Amazon are not really motivated to stop the practice.
But wouldn't you give the control and test groups the same looking / tasting slurry?
Welcome to HN submitting! We hope you'll submit as many intellectually interesting stories as you can find.

The links in my comment above were just to point out related links of interest, not at all to suggest that you shouldn't have posted this one.
When this happened we ditched ADP for ZenPayroll - wasn't that hard. Now ZenPayroll and Zenefits are fighting.
Project Fi rides on T-mobile and Sprint (T-mobile having the better network of the two).
Barcode Generation and Reorganization Using Aspose.BarCode Cloud SDK for PHP
Mobshr featured on front page on BetaList #digitalnomad #remotework
You should have given all the employees equity when they joined. It's better to give them equity sooner rather than later, but definitely before the next funding round (because the strike price has to be higher).

Employees with drone experience are in high demand right now. You have to give them equity to compete with other startups, as well as Amazon, Google, DJI, and others that can pay higher salaries.

Investors often have good advice from years of experience, but ultimately the CEO has to make the decisions.
I appreciate your input and perspective. Thank you.
The International Space Station is home to potentially dangerous bacteria
Ah, Lustig. Many of his fellow doctors are not on board with his conclusions: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/sugar-health-evi...
>Actually, the markets created some of the most disease-ridden, sewage-infested hellholes

The two most polluted places in the world currently exist in China and Russia and stem from when they were run by Communist dictators ships without markets. So, an absence of markets doesn't seem to reduce pollution, it actually seems to increase it.

Market's aren't pefect, far from it, but alternate systems seem to do worse at providing for the things that you specifically care about.

> jobs that exploited child labor

In agrarian societies, children worked in the fields and still do. This has been since near the beginning of human civilization. It's only in advanced, developed countries with mature markets that there are barely any children working.

>threw away the sick and injured

What evidence do you have for this?

>It was people who took up arms, got shot at, but persisted in wrenching some measure of control from the "capitalists" who managed to pass child labor laws, get medical insurance, and 40 hour work weeks.

What are you talking about? Who got shot at in advanced developed economies to ensure these laws were passed? The laws were passed through the acts of various parliaments, not through revolution. These changes were made peacefully with in most cases broad agreement across the community. In countries that have experienced violent revolutions, like China and Russia, there are still many children working today, even though they've passed anti child labour laws.

You don't like the current system, obviously. But any alternate systems that have been tried appear to have done a poorer job on achieving the objectives that you desire. So what alternative do you propose and what evidence do you have that it will do a better job than our current systems?

>Your fairy tale narrative is a pleasant fiction, but we have plenty of examples of unfettered capitalism in history--the vast majority of them were horrible.

It's a shame you don't give any examples. I'm presuming you would be referring to the early industrial revolution. Supposing this is the case, you would be right - at the start of the industrial revolution the working conditions for many people (including children) were poor compared with the standards we enjoy today. Yet, despite this, people still flocked to the cities from the country side to work in factories. Why do you think this is? Do you think that people back then were stupid, or that they hated children? Or do you think they could see for themselves that compared with living on subsistence farms that they were better off? As I said earlier, it is common for children in to work on farms, so they weren't any worse off, and the extra income they provided their families made their whole family better off. It's easy to apply today's morality to people having to deal with conditions hundreds of years ago, it's harder to actually live under those conditions and make the best decisions for one's family.

Also, without going through the early industrial revolution, how do you think we all would have escaped living lives that were poor, nasty, brutish and short?
Paul for example is running for President. He has to be at the debate if he even wants to pretend to still be in the running. Could he be in both places in the same day? I don't know, I guess you'd have to find out how plausible that is in terms of debate preparation.
"Think about about it..."

Implying that I haven't is needlessly rude, and not providing an explanation is unhelpful. Please do better.

"In an econ 101 competitive market you also will not make accounting profits."

The way I learned it, if market participants are making less than they could elsewhere then some will leave. This lowers production and raises the price. This dynamic will raise the profits the remaining producers make until they're making as much (accounting) profit as they could at the next best opportunity, which leaves the economic profit zero. I don't see what drives the accounting profits everywhere to zero.
In my particular case, hiring for security engineers is ridiculously hard.

If we put them through a hands on assessment, they only find cross-site scripting errors with the most basic payloads (for example) and fail to assess with more abstract thinking (like design flaws that are not part of the OWASP Top Ten).

Out of ten candidates I interviewed, only one knew what same origin policy is (this is foundational). I'm not asking about elliptic curve cryptography here, and I'm pretty generous with assuming people are just really anxious.

I've considered that I'm too harsh, looking for the wrong signals, interpreting noise as signal and trying to match for folks like myself instead of an objective bar. Every time I revise to try and reach the platonic ideal of an interview where:

1. There is a short hands on assessment,

2. There is a phone interview with basic theory and no trick questions,

3. We eliminate as much "culture fit" hunting as possible,

4. We basically go totally rèsumè blind,

...we still fail to interview folks who can reliably find find SQL injection in a deliberately vulnerable MySQL database.

I think it's pipeline issue, personally, but I'm open to suggestions that my interview methodology sucks. I'm a big fan of 'tptacek's hiring style.

Every time I get hopeful, something goes wrong and we have wasted 10 or so hours that week (or more) collectively evaluating this individual. The closer we get to the final interview or hiring decision, the more disappointing and inefficient it gets.
Serious question: Is Zenefits providing much value for anyone here that uses it?
Ghosted has a _web browser_ for Android. Works great on 5.1.1.
Facebook is a scary example. Facebook is 1% open source contributions funded by 99% proprietary walled garden. Scaled down to something like rubinius, the scale fraction would be something like working a proprietary company/job all year and writing some open source on vacation days.
Can they do "Underground Thursdays"? Nearly every app degrades to unusable the second I get on the subway.
Sprint is the slowest us mobile carrier but they've had free 2g roaming in Mexico and Canada and recently upgraded that to 3G I haven't tried to use them outside of those areas (and tbh I wouldn't expect it to work since it's not gsm) but for traveling in some subset of the Western Hemisphere, sprints not too bad.
> In 2014, publishers sold just over 2.7 billion books domestically, ....

Estimating the U.S. population at 320 million, that's about 8.4 books per person per year -- higher than I would have expected.
Pierre Omidyar perhaps, to go with the Lessig mention. He has the money and has put some of it where his mouth is.
Newspapers usually don't cite their sources because they don't want to drive traffic away or get their facts proven wrong. Subarine PR and native ads are where sources get cited.
I'm not really sure how a study about monkeys has any relevance to whether humans have engrained gender roles. People are cognitively far more complex and nature vs. nurture when it comes to gender is not really as decided as it might seem.
Sure, the US needs a separation of state and economy for the same exact reason and state and church - any mingling generates intense, dangerous corruption. You'll never see that separation however, because 2/3+ of the political class are heavy statists that like to accumulate perpetually greater amounts of power - and to accumulate power, you must have control over the economy.