skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can use extra salary to improve my home life (renting a bigger apartment, going to nicer restaurants, traveling to exotic places, etc), but there's not much I can do with it to improve my work life.

You can use extra money to improve your work environment, but you shouldn't have to. That's a difference between working as a contractor and working as a salaried employee. As a contract employee, you get paid far more, but some of that goes to buying your own equipment (as well as benefits and myriad other things). As a salaried employee, you have the reasonable expectation of your employer supplying everything you need to do your job.
Well, I think it's near impossible to quantify currently because all experiences are subjective. I think it's not too unsurprising many people are uncomfortable thinking about specific nuances of human social interaction, not many people are comfortable watching a doctor dissecting a human eye ball discussing how it works and measuring each part of it, either...
Runbox was also recently under ddos attack https://blog.runbox.com/2015/11/ddos-attacks-on-runbox/
Nice pictures and stories, but no answer to the actual question.

A hovercraft has to maintain a cushion of air. That means that it can only handle waves that are small relative to it. You never want even one wave to wipe out that cushion.

So a hovercraft has to be big. It doesn't want to go over open water with large seas. Therefore it winds up going over short stretches of relatively sheltered water. Given its speed, it will make many trips. You want it carrying people every time. So you need a high volume of potential traffic.

However when civil engineers see a short stretch of relatively sheltered water separating people who want to go back and forth, eventually they build a bridge or tunnel there. And then nobody needs that hovercraft any more.

Now we can improve hovercraft technology. We can possibly find new routes where the new hovercraft makes economic sense. But eventually that too will be doomed by the same facts. We have ever improving bridge and tunnel technology. And the hovercraft always loses once one of those is built.
"With the exception of Perry, none of the engineers listed on uBeam’s patents are still at the company, according to their LinkedIn profiles. What's more, uBeam engineers are said to feel as though they were being pressured by management to describe the technology in more optimistic terms than they were comfortable with."
What disruptive technology is disrupting is not markets, but government.
Virtual secret drawers.
》 For those who will reply to this I recommend first to spend a night in a desert with only a tank of CO2 to protect from the cold. If you do get back, I would love to talk.

You're trolling, right? I can't imagine what your understanding of the atmosphere is when you think a tank of compressed CO2 would provide any heating effect at night.
I would. I like what I do.

(Also, once you reach the level where that's a possibility, it doesn't tend to be a one-time thing either.)
Sex sells.
> But two University scientists were still surprised to find it lurking in a quantum mechanics formula for the energy states of the hydrogen atom.

So, in a round object?
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The issue is that there are projects where changing your API is impossible, which means that using Agile is often a hopeless concept. Because if huge insurances already depend on your API, no matter how Agile you are, you can’t change it anymore.

And there are many cases where your code will be frozen at one point. Even if the requirements change.

Especially for Internet-of-Thing devices this can be very problematic, as no one is going to ever update them.
Agroforest on a intense farmed land: https://vimeo.com/136423275
How is it not sustainable? How can it not feed the world?
As a New York resident, the state embarrasses me regularly in terms of the amount of personal liberty the politicians are willing to trample. Between Senator Schumer, Attorney General Schneiderman and New York Mayor DeBlasio, I honestly don't know who is the worst.

Schumer's ban requests include powdered caffeine [0], certain flavors of e-cigarettes [1] to Bitcoin [2].

Schniederman strikes me as someone more interested in extorting companies. His most recent subpoena Exxon for not speaking out about climate change to their investors (??) is his most recent campaign [3]. I'm guessing he wants to buy more iPads for the police department [4]

DeBlasio has an axe to grind against Uber [5] and costumed characters in Time Square [6] .

What a joke that this qualifies as progress.

Sorry, rant over.

[0] http://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/follow...

[1] http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Schumer-Calls-for-FDA-B...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/26/senator...

[3] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-10/schneiderma...

[4] http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2015/05/01/french-bank-settl...

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/nyregion/de-blasio-adminis...

[6] http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/570-15/mayor-de...
Ha. I suppose a lifetime warranty is not out of the question as well?
I'm not sure how a 'waterfall'-style development lifecycle will help you here. Even if you front load all of your design, documentation and implementation, you will still find bugs and security flaws in your software. As an example, see every software product ever shipped!

I think you're maybe labouring under a misapprehension of what agile development means. In particular, you don't have to 'constantly update' deployed software in order to be able to develop in an agile fashion. You're free to follow the guiding principles to make sure you are able to cope with changes when they inevitably happen.
I'm glad you like this solution. Indeed, the $(patsubt) function is one of the
most useful, along with $(wildcard) and $(foreach).
In what way is daily fantasy sports gambling "disruptive technology"?
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DDoS attacks today are such a commodity. It takes next to nothing to launch them.

You can get upwards of 200Gbps for 1/6 of a bitcoin. It is very easy to setup and you can DDoS your favourite site in a matter of minutes.

These are not very smart attacks and can be mitigated even using the free tier of cloudflare.

I don't have the background on the mail provider attacks but 6.5k ransom seems to come from attackers who use easily available booters. Hushmail switched to Cloudflare throughout their attacks and that seemed to have helped, not sure what fastmail will do.

But any public web service should not be in a position where they are vulnerable to off the shelf DDoS attacks.

DDoS attack as suffered by for example Githuh with heavy coordination and nation states behind them require more specialised defenses. There are commercial alternatives out there that go from anywhere between 9k-40k per month depending on bandwidth and technology - see Imperva, Prolexic, Neustar, Nexusguard, Blacklotus, Incapsula, etc..

Apart from the initial setup which is more involved than Cloudflare's there is not much to do apart from throwing money at it. Quite the money making business really :)
I commented on it before in a sibling comment.

Also, please link the actual manifesto, not the intention behind it.

And that can be paraphrased as "People over tools", "Documentation doesn’t matter as long as it works", "Who needs a contract? Just collaborate with the customer!", "Plans? Why? Just follow the latest trends!"

And I have to disagree with them in every single point.

Documentation > Working Software (as others then can write their software interacting with yours before you are done),

Contracts > collaboration (if you want me to stay longer to do something, expand the contract and pay me extra),

Plans > change (if you just follow trends without ever structuring your design, you’ll end up with lots of code and no single person understanding all of it)

http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
> so the company could have saved as much as much as 35 cents per employee per day.

Sounds like the original poster is under estimating, but I don't find the higher number (35c/day) enough to update the view that it is a trivial savings that has a significant impact on morale.
UC top mobile browser in India, Chrome dominates PC
>> I trust larry page and the Google team, and presume Google is handling my data responsibly.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/google-needs-to-do-a-lot-mo...
One of the best comments here by @darrelld.

I actually wrote a post 3 years ago about this, here's the gist of it

1. Get solid sleep time

2. Exercise

3. Stay Hydrated

4. Pomodoro

5. Block all distractions out, I use `get-shit-done`. basically `sudo get-shit-done work` will block all distracting websites.

Most of all though, if you get the chance to pick your own tasks, just move to something that's more interesting to you.

Since I switch a lot between operations (chef etc..), backend and frontend, sometimes just switching to another task helps.

Hope this helps, just my 2 cents
I think the problem is more about sustainable effort.
1000 Years of Reverbs
I want to second this about netflix. They pay the same total, but have different requirements.
I just realized that when I want to use drive I open a new tab and type "drive" and let auto-complete do the rest.

Since Google has hidden the other properties behind the grid icon I've completely forgotten they were there.
Link to video of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntj8ab-5cvE
“Temporarily rate limited”? from Google in mail relay
Since 2008 until 2014 there was a regular public transit hovercraft service in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Логопром_—_Борский_перевоз
not necessarily... you could use AI to detect attacks or some other methods that I am not aware of.
Google mobile strategy realignment from std apps to browser based app in India
Well yeah, clearly it's not a very significant amount per employee, but 5 cents/day seemed way too low for office snacks, so I wanted to do the math. Even 35 cents seems low, I expected it to be around a dollar or two, but there are probably a lot of people that don't eat a snack every day.
Which just translates, as many of these Netflix threads do, to constant terror that you're going to be out of a job. I'll take my game, A or B, somewhere else, thanks.
Not long ago I was running a small office of 4-6 devs and at least once a month I would make a trip to Costo or Sams and buy some good stock of soda's and snacks for everyone. This was easy to do, and cost negligible. Then at some point I hired an admin assistant and she correctly pointed out that, long term, this was likely a very bad thing for everyone's health. Drinking 1 or 2 soda's a day is not healthy for anyone. I know we were all adults in the office but at least I felt responsible for providing more healthy alternatives. Easier said than done as I was never really able to figure a good alternative at that scale. Most beverages in a can seemed as bad or worse than soda. I wonder if the office density in cities like SF or big startup hubs offer an alternative for this. I mean logistics of fresh fruit vs once a month trip are very different.
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OMG! Node.js in frameworks folks xD
I disagree. If you don't want your email to look the way Gmail displays it, use a different client. I don't want a million configurations for how I could possibly have my mail displayed. Show me a good option. If I don't like it, I'll use a different option. That being said, one thing I really miss in Gmail compared to other options is being able to do things like sort by the sender and that sort of thing. Instead I have to search for that sender which often gives me many false positives.
An argument I've heard against this is that stock (etc.) is a way to give delayed money; it depends on you being locked in, the company not tanking, etc. The "equivalent" money now is more valuable. I'd love to hear a refutation of that, along with what these salaries are.
Quietly, the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing burns hot
I don't like trying to make direct comparisons between Agile and Waterfall as if they are two separate mutually-exclusive approaches to development.

A product developed in an Agile process still has a 'maintenance phase'; the idea of software maintenance is not a Waterfall concept, it's a Software Development concept.

One thing I think you're having trouble with (maybe) is that this article was about Scrum, but you're attacking Agile. Scrum is an implementation of Agile, or maybe better characterized as a process facilitating Agile development, but it is not uniquely Agile. There are other Agile implementations/processes (Kanban, XP, etc.). Agile is more about attitude than implementation.

What Scrum is attempting to do is break down big ideas into small workable units, and help teams organize, assign, track and complete those work units efficiently. It separates the development cycle into several sprints: a team works a selected amount of items per sprint based on their capacity vs. the 'weight' of those items. If the development process using Scrum incorporates accepting changes to requirements or the design along the way, it's Agile. If it doesn't, Scrum can look a lot like a series of tiny waterfalls; you can absolutely have a Waterfall process where your teams organize and execute work like Scrum.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that neither Agile nor Scrum dictate what you consider to be a finished product, or a successful product. The standard of quality you added to one of your earlier comments is absolutely achievable using Scrum or another Agile process - in fact, it is the stated goal of Agile to turn out a high quality product which meets stated requirements.
“About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” Elon Musk, 2010

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/sorkin-elon-musk-of-p...

There are many other sources, and later interviews where he discusses this time of his life.
> "First they came..."

How does that apply? The first group they came for were Socialists, and I already oppose that discrimination. I don't understand how that is at all relevant to my views on breaking bad laws.

> But what if the next hot SV startup decides to ignore FDA regulations?

If they ignore FDA regulations that I think are bad, then I will approve. If they ignore FDA regulations that I think are good, then I will oppose. That's pretty simple.

> Do you want to live in the world when any entrepreneur gets to use VC money to blatantly break any law they like?

No, I want to live in a world where entrepreneurs (and indeed everyone) breaks laws that I think are bad.

> The only Schelling point here is to obey all the laws by default, and in case you don't like some, to use various mechanisms built into the government to try and change them.

I could not disagree more. There are countless laws that we probably both think were incredibly bad which were removed precisely because of organized efforts to break them.

> It's slower, it doesn't generate hot headlines in the press, but it works and it's the right to do.

I think it's pretty clear that breaking the law works better. I don't care about "generating hot headlines in the press," and I don't agree that obeying the laws is "the right thing to do."

> It isn't, but following them as a default is, and punishing actors that break the law is too.

I completely disagree. My default is to act in the way I think is appropriate, with no regard for the law except for the obvious threat of punishment if I break a law.
actually snacks are very unhealthy
Mostly it's indiscoverable. The v2 overhaul shifted everything toward a semantico-geographical google search, except it didn't improve the ergonomics, and even made the software 5x slower. The latest upgrade fixed some stuff but it still feels like a waste compared to the v1. btw, you something is wrong when you go to bing maps and you feel happy because "it" .. works.
You are correct about my assumptions.. I accept your more accurate estimate.

Either way, the point was this is a cost that is even more trivial than the $2/day estimate.
Unsweetened ice tea?
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This topic has been hashed through so many times and it's always the same.

H1Bs are used to distort the costs for engineering, not for hiring skilled workers that we cannot find. The engineers are then treated like slaves (Infosys), and at below market rates, to further distort the market value of these workers.

So we know that the companies are just simply lying when they say, "We can't find US workers." It's always, "We can't find US workers for what we want to pay." We know how they game it, and we know how it can be fixed, but the politicians simply won't step up. It's political suicide.

I'm glad that some people are poking at this problem, but the corporations are the ones with the deep pockets and we know who wins out there.

We can only rant and rave, send letters to deaf congressmen and yet, it seems like it's just completely moot and we're just plain ignored.

Sad state of affairs with easy fixes, but no political will. That's the state of the US these days it seems: Corporation ruled.
So are you ok with e.g. stealing from the rich as long as they don't notice? I'll grant you that the harm is limited (kind of "lazy evaluation" of harm - there's none until the victim finally notices, and someone will somewhen, way before the heat death of the universe).

But you have to look at the perverse incentives such attitude creates. If it's ok to break contracts as long as the victim doesn't notice, it pushes one side to be very shady, and the other to be hypervigilant. Also, people make mistakes and most of the time the victim notices quite soon. That's why we invented values of "honesty" and "integrity", which include not breaking deals even if the other party doesn't notice. Upholding them reduces the amount of resources we need to spend on protecting ourselves from one another.
JPMorgan's 2014 Hack Tied to Largest Cyber Breach Ever
VW confessed that it overstated claims about carbon dioxide too
I don't understand why this is not scalable. Even in the bay area, where there is high population density and the price of living is one of the highest in the world, there are tons of farmer's markets everywhere.

Technology which improves transportation aid local food production even more.
Too bad they don't tell you about it when your browser hangs.
> people are entitled to make things they don't like illegal

Things like gay marriage, flag burning, and atheists holding public office, right?
Show HN: Using WhatsApp to receive Soccer news about your teams
And I am surprised that NY people vote for these kind of scums again and again.
Thanks for the reply! I've got several responses, that are mostly unrelated to eachother.

1. "interesting definitions": As you note, "OpenBSD chose some 'interesting' definitions for their privileges". This was the core of my original thesis: because of the whole-system approach, they were free to choose "interesting" definitions that closely matched their current-implementation-specific usage patterns, making the whole thing more convenient, but less general. That's all my original post was trying to say.

2. code size: I see that conceptually these 2 code samples work similarly, but one has 5x more LOC.

3. dropping and picking up isn't really dropping: If I drop privileges, but can pick them back up, then if I decide to misbehave, picking them back up is just something I do first. Dropping them with the possibility of picking them up is security theater, not actual security.

4. sandboxing is addressed in other presentations: Earlier presentations explain why having tools to restrict the privileges of programs without source modification is inadequate; a common pattern for programs is that they require some privileges during start up, but then don't need them for the rest of execution; a source-unaware mechanism would have to allow the start-up privileges for the entire execution. Otherwise, it's not too different than existing priv-sep tools.

5. pledge() isn't about administrative privileges, it's about code vulnerability mitigation. Security tools around administrative boundaries are important, sure. But that is fundamentally not the problem that pledge() is trying to solve; pledge is /mitigating/ against vulnerabilities in the /implementation/ of the program. It's saying "for the remainder of my execution, I should only do these types of operations; if I try to do anything else, I have cracked & compromised."
> Refresh page to play again

This was very infuriating. The server seemed to be under load and took several minutes to load. I was not going to wait for it load again to retry the simulation.
I once got a contract with $household_name_restaurant's corporate headquarters. The first day they didn't have a PC for me. Meh, that happens. Around the 3rd day they gave me a 5 year old Celeron laptop with 2GB of RAM. This was about 2 years ago and it was a Java gig. It was an impossible task and that set my mood for the entire time I was there. I helped them out as best I could but didn't extend the contract when it was over. I was unhappy pretty much every day.
We don't hassle. You send an email saying "Hey, I want to cancel!"

We respond with: "Bummer to hear, but happy to take care of that for you. Anything we could have done better?"

Then that usually sparks a longer conversation, but if we don't hear back within 24-48 hours, we just go ahead with the cancellation.

We're also very generous with refunds and certainly wouldn't keep someone's money just because we delayed the cancellation a day or two. That's just silly.
Why should normal bookies be prosecuted and jailed when a big corporate entity flaunts their lawbreaking?

Doing something on the internet shouldn't be carte Blanche for breaking any law deemed inconvenient.
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Not sure this is what's needed. I see all of that (and more) on analytics.twitter.com when I click to view a tweet's activity, and I never signed up with a CC anywhere.
"The five-factor model provides an alternative basis for interpreting MBTI findings within a broader, more commonly shared conceptual framework."

That's the definition of a rotation. QED
In the $2,000,000,000/yr way and in the "Getting Disney to be part owner in a gambling site" way.
This update to a classic children’s book reimagines gender roles
Agreed. At a high level, its about users, engagement, and KPIs for the businesses. For instagram that's posts, follows, likes, and comments.

With Twitter, its tweets, follows, "favorites", and... @shouting, which is still a "tweet."

The problem with twitter is if I search for, say #occupywallstreet, I'm probably much less likely to bookmark it than I would "like" an instagram photo.

The difference ultimately lies in the fact that its about attracting investment - and twitter/(instagram/facebook) all share the same piece of that pie. So when you're posting KPIs for your business - they better look better than someone else's even though they are different "people/personalities."

The truth is all social networks are competing for the same influx of new users - those coming of age and interacting with social networks for the first time. Twitter isn't winning the minds of existing users with their hearts - they'll be looking at engagement and retention metrics for users that have joined 6 months from now, and never even knew you could once "favorite" a tweet.
You are dramatically undervaluing collision resistance.

> Imagine if your '==' operator only worked 99 times out of a hundred.

Imagine if the probability of your '==' operator failing was 2^(-128). I would be fine with that. And that's the same "gamble" made by any protocol that relies on the collision resistance of SHA-256. You would have to try 1 quadrillion per second for 10 quadrillion years before having a 50% chance of hitting a collision.