skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this kind of the reasoning the article is talking about?

I mean, I assume you think your positions are reasonably thought out. Perhaps other people also think their positions are reasonably thought out?

My takeaway from this article is to give people this benefit of the doubt. Sometimes this means acknowledging that _I_ am the one who is parroting something I heard from someone I agree with generally.

On a practical level, Onion articles aren't going to stop people from Trump/Cruz/Le Pen/Farage(well nobody votes for Farage anyways ;)). Though sometimes there's good fun in circlejerking, if you're legitimately worried about the other side's positioning, not taking them seriously from the outset you won't be able to do much convincing/persuading.
The precious gift of life: the only thing you need for a good life
If all you are doing is the above, then you don't need dd at all. pv will act like dd (but with stdin/out) and uses a sensible buffer size you can override. Your first example becomes:

pv --buffer-size 1m < /dev/sda > sda.file

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/quickref/pv.shtml

-B BYTES, --buffer-size BYTES
Use a transfer buffer size of BYTES bytes. A suffix of "k", "m", "g", or
"t" can be added to denote kilobytes (*1024), megabytes, and so on. The
default buffer size is the block size of the input file's filesystem
multiplied by 32 (512kb max), or 400kb if the block size cannot be
determined.

pv is great tool and works really well. On Linux you can even point it at other process ids, and it will automatically scan their open file descriptors and show progress of relevant ones.
Also a huge fan of Boiler Room, based in NYC tho
:) Actually Ford Shorthand was made in part for this purpose (loose obfuscation) and is much easier to learn since you can write out full words instead of learning abbreviations.

http://www.fordshorthand.com/
> Honestly you're better off starting your career at a middle point or low point in the market rather than a high point.

I don't think this is true. There's one study that found that students who graduate into a recession have worse earnings even long after the recession has ended: http://www.nber.org/digest/nov06/w12159.html

Eventually the effect wears off, but there's no evidence of a long-term benefit to graduating into a bad economy.
Feature detection is not always enough. E.g. if a browser reports it has a required feature but that feature is buggy rendering it effectively unusable, then browser detection is necessary.
Many sites behind Cloudflare.

If I don't have this line in my .wgetrc, I get 403's sometimes from sites using Cloudflare.

user_agent=Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline/1.0; +https://www.cloudflare.com/always-online)
I think that it's useful to distinguish between arguments that are, and are not, put forth in good faith.
We've found that DKIM keys are often if not always ignored by major mail carriers.
> The reason for doing it that way, is to emphasize when two loops together are conceptually iterating over a single thing, and have some symmetry, like iterating over the cells in a 2D grid. It makes it possible to line up the elements of the two loops, emphasizing the similar structure.

I'm not convinced. Even iterating over a 2D grid, one loop is iterating over the columns, and the other the rows, and indentation (and braces) can help see which is which.
This is a good analysis but it misses something. People on the "other side" in most social media conversations are either "red tribe" if you are "blue tribe" or "blue tribe" if you are "red tribe."

Scott Anderson gets into that filter-bubble issue:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
My experience is that such a news source would quickly be denounced as irretrievably biased by both sides.
Researchers find two flaws in OAuth 2.0
Ever think that on most issues, say 985 times out of 100, the other side is roughly 50% of those that are not undecided. If you look at the issue overall, and allow for shades of gray between the positions, then most people are in rough agreement around some central position.

I think that if you can construct a survey on the issue that correctly breaks out several shades of gray in the position, then the results will plot out on a normal curve. Only when the normal curve is heavily weighted to one side or the other, i.e. there is a larger group on one side of the median, do you have a winnable issue.

It's too bad that media just spends so much time groveling in the mud with everyone else, when they could actually be doing such surveys and illuminating the issue.

Take gun control for instance. How many of you have any idea what shape of curve would result from such a survey? And if you compared it to the results 25 years ago, how would it differ? If you had a series of such surveys over time, then what trends would they show?

Without this info, there is no point in debating. I don't doubt that somebody has done such surveys and does have this info. And those people do influence politicians. But that just reinforces an elite separate from the masses, and is fundamentally anti-democratic.
The downsides of collaboration between coworkers
Welcome to Silicon Valley.
My God, I just spent half of the last night debating this on Facebook -.-

My takeaway from that experience - when someone struggles with understanding why those two views are both equivalent and OK, make sure they understand this thing: heliocentric and geocentric models have only one purpose. They let you compute where planets will be at any given time. They do not try to answer why the planets are moving the way they are. For that, you need at least Newton's model of gravity, which actually doesn't differentiate between the Sun and planets at all.

Geocentric models still pop up in real life. When you're using a sky map to determine where some planet will be visible tonight, you're looking at a geocentric representation.
I find this style of formatting specifiers an eyesore:

fprintf (stderr,
_("%"PRIuMAX"+%"PRIuMAX" records in\n"
"%"PRIuMAX"+%"PRIuMAX" records out\n"),
r_full, r_partial, w_full, w_partial);
Out of curiosity, can you name some of these firms that contract out these kinds of engineers?
Unions primarily engage in collective bargaining with the employers of their members. The AMA is not a union.
I won't play oracle here. But I would like to point out that there are a number of skill sets you yourself can develop over the next year to make you more resilient to hiring trends (and depressions).

Networking. Sales. Domain knowledge.

As an undergrad myself, I feel most of my peers expect a job to be given to them as soon as they graduate. For some this will be true, for many it will not. I feel that this is a terrible mindset and will cause a lot of pain for people in our age group.

So networking, as in know people, know companies, you don't have to be an extreme extrovert but put yourself out their and actively try to meet and build relationships with people in the industry.

Sales, as in selling yourself as the product. Practice interviews, enunciation, phone conversations, whatever you have to do. If you come across as an A-player/personality you are much more likely to be hired.

Domain knowledge, get a basic understanding of what's in use today, what probably will be in use tomorrow, and build an expertise in it. It requires a lot of time but it will clearly distinguish you from those who don't bother doing so. While many companies prioritize hires that can learn quickly, don't forget the very real business need of someone who can jump in and run with the team immediately. If you have this there will always be a place for you at some company, you would only need to find one with a real immediate need, then, "oh hey I can do that for you"..
Well it also assume the social circle is fixed. There are plenty of people doing activities all the days of the week.

I worked part-time for a few months. I took a hobby and found that I could attend cheap course on the Wednesday afternoon (I think) and I was not alone, far from it. Those people became part of my social circle too - people I could meet within the week. I kept my regular circle for the we, which is what the other people attending the course did too. If it was not for the money, I can't think of any downside of that arrangement.

Which bring me back to the article, it focuses on unemployed to try to derive a rule for all. A lot of unemployed are not unemployed by choice, and they expect to get back into employment. So they will not invest into a parallel social circle like a Stay at Home Parent could. In addition to that their free time could also be a reminder of their failure to find a job, or of their financial problem.

And anyway, most people are only available during the we. So feeling a spike during the we is almost expected even if you are super-active during the week as you will have more time if anything with your partner/kids. Does that mean your week would be better with a job instead of hobbies, somehow I don't think that's the case.
Have you ever noticed how there are fortune tellers occupying prime storefronts all over the city? The places with a little chair behind the window and a thick curtain? I never saw anybody ever go in or out of those places. I asked a prosecutor friend whether these places are fronts for prostitution or drugs. Turns out the fortune teller stores are actually being used as homes for entire families. They cordone off a tiny area for palm-reading and live in rest of the space. It's a really cheap (and super illegal) way for a family to live in Manhattan.
This reminds me of babies. A lot of people assume that changing diapers or sleep deprivation is the hard part of having a baby. For me, though, the hard part is actually just that babies are kind of boring, and the boringness of having to watch them constantly grinds you down.

That definitely wasn't what I was expecting to be hard when considering whether to have a baby.

(Fortunately they get more interesting over time.)
Cheaper to hire actual human computers at that point.
Running a business is much, much more expensive than you'd expect if you've never done it before. I started one on $60 so I get the mindset which has people suggesting that this story represents prolifigate spending, but oh my goodness, it's practically a shoestring.

There is an individual thing in the AR deployment which exists for no technical purpose to get us a piece of paper issued by Rackspace which we need for legal reasons. That thing costs more than everything on this page combined. We have one part-time employee; she's 3X more expensive than that thing.

If you're put off by $80 for a database wait until you get quoted rent, insurance, taxes, accounting fees, any engagement with a professional, review of a customer's MSA to sell them an enterprise contract, healthcare for a single person, travel to a single conference, the wifi at the hotel for a single conference, etc etc.

Also: there is virtually no scenario under which a SaaS app grossing $Xk per month has a better financial or technical outcome by working on minimizing expenses when you could be working on selling more accounts and selling better accounts.
Does someone who opposes media-driven thinking (with supporting science to show why) about any one vaccine get lumped into "anti-vaxxers" in your mind? Because that all-or-nothing thinking fallacy is a key symptom of the problem.
I added them as products to the "Balderdash" company. I think we have different definitions of "deface".
It took Google a decade to decide this site was violating the Terms of Service. Routebuilder does one narrow thing, it's not like they've creeped into Google's territory over the years. Something's fishy -- someone on slashdot suggested that it could be because of google's new fitness trackers (http://fit.google.com) that they're flushing out any sites at all similar. If that's the case, then sites like routebuilder should be grandfathered into the TOS.
I worked for Electronic Arts during the dot com crash, and EA's value was even or increasing through that peroid. Why? Because they made an actual product, with their own money.
+1 for LetsEncrypt. Really great, and if your using DO their is already a tutorial for it.

Completely free SSL Certificate. 'Nuff said.
A “mrrobot” user in Reddit from 8 years ago
> with the proportion of the economy accounted for by solitary freelancers expected to rise

Am I the only one absolutely horrified by this?

The gig economy has never, ever interested me. I have no interest in being a freelancer. I want a nice 9-5 office job at an office park in the suburbs with strict boundaries between work time and personal time, a dependable salary, and benefits provided by my employer.

I don't even care about working on interesting things as part of my career; I'd rather work on interesting projects as a side project on my own time for pure fun. I work only because I need some way to pay my bills, because I really don't want to end up homeless. I don't have any desire to mix paying my bills with my personal life or with anything I do for fun.

But I've never really understood Millennials, despite technically being one (born in 1984; Millennials are defined as born 1982-2004). I've always identified more with previous generations. "Millennial culture" has always escaped and mystified me.

Between this comment and things like the article a few weeks ago on how suburban office parks are going away (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10773865), I've lost hope for the future.
Awesome article! From footnote 1:

In the time that it takes a sophisticated attacker to find a hole in Azure that will cause an hour of disruption across 1% of VMs, that same attacker could probably completely take down ten unicorns for a much longer period of time. And yet, these attackers are hyper focused on the most hardened targets. Why is that?

I can't figure it out, any fellow posters have ideas?

Well funded unicorns with iffy infrastructure seem like good candidates to pay out DDoS ransoms, while Azure, AWS, etc will never pay out a ransom. If attackers want credit cards and email addresses, softer targets seem like a better choice as well. It doesn't seem like an attacker can extract any value from hardened targets unless they have state-sponsored or corporate espionage level resources and skill.
This.

And if you differ because you are more informed about the topic than your peers, that only makes the social isolation problem worse.
Office365 Considers Azure Verification Email Spam
Thanks - you've given me some good things to google!
Some people just really like hard problems.
Scott Alexander expressed some important concerns about the project[0].

Edited:

<del>So far they've managed to label them as "coming from the LessWrong background" and subsequently dismiss via appeal to a strawman Paperclip Maximizer. It doesn't give me much confidence in them.</del>

<ins>Nevermind. I didn't realize this comment was not made by an OpenAI representative. Also, we could use a strikethrough formatting tag on HN. 'dang?</ins>

I hope they eventually address those points though.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/
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What's the best way to validate a SaaS idea?
Anyone have any recommendations or resources on the best ways to validate a SaaS idea before building out an MVP?
Just look at Twitter. They were worth $24 billion or so at the IPO, while losing money. If you hypothetically had every person on Earth using your app, it would be worth tens of billions at least regardless of any other factors.
That sort of feature detection is likely not sufficient for detecting if a video will play well or correctly. There's been a number of bugs in MSE in the past which means that YouTube has to fall back on browser version checks to avoid a bad user experience.
except if they bought a $1M house in SV
The majority of paying users are monthly, but mostly because of the demographic—freelancers. Most freelancers aren't full-time freelancers, so they don't always freelance (and don't always need a freelancing tool). That makes churn the biggest challenge. I follow up with users who leave and have learned that they either don't have a lot of freelance gigs at the moment and plan to come back, or they took a full-time job.
No I do have an idea, and I think you'd be better off not making silly assumptions. I was unemployed and living in my car for 18 months in SV, because I wasn't yet tech-trained in 2009. If you were an engineer casting your cold eye on the world, I'm sure you turned your nose up at the millions of us who were't in tech then. Or maybe we just didn't count us as real people.
> Travis is the _only_ former Sails contributor (i.e. someone with actual write access to our repos)

Again, we seem to define these terms differently. I think if you told the hundreds of Sails contributors that they aren't actually contributors because you haven't given them write access, they would feel rather insulted by that.

> But please realize that this fork is not about technical issues

It's true that I think you're a lying scumbag, but I need a software stack that I can build my business on for the next 2-5 years. Sails.js is obsolete, and these issues stemming from your poor technical competence and community management are thoroughly documented on the internet.
Most useless answer so far. Why would I take such an important decision without first getting some feedback from people who already lived the same situation? I am talking to my family every day about this, I am reading online, asking friends in the startup world, etc... Life is not as simple as "Yes" or "No"...

If you cannot learn from others and apply that to your own life and decisions, then you will gonna have a bad time...
[edit: Read the article again, deleted previous response, sorry]

So you think box office is a better correlate of 'good movie' than RT score? I didn't get that from the post, but if that's what you're saying, then yes, I concede you have shown that correlation is not valid.
> The company minus Alibaba has negative market value. It's that bad.

Umm no. The stock has tax implications priced in.

YAHOO STOCK = ALIBABA + YAHOO + YAHOO_JAPAN - TAX_FOR_ALIBABA

All the breathless press about Yahoo core being zero works only if set TAX_FOR_ALIBABA = 0.

No way a company making billions of dollars can logically have negative market value.
Here is a list of bugs with Google services and Firefox.

http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...
On BSD, unlike Linux, many utilities including dd(1) will dump a progress report when receiving SIGINFO. This was traditionally bound to ^T in shells, either by default or using stty(1).
Mike Tigas, the ProPublica developer who worked on the hidden service, is also the author of OnionBrowser, an iOS Tor browser.

https://mike.tig.as/onionbrowser/
Ah yes, the old "prove that something doesn't exist" argument.
it's a one time thing i think.
Thank you for noticing this. The $175/month came from the intercom services. Given that support is likely his main selling point, I think $175 is perfectly fine for the added functionality.
Fears over the true state of China's economy
We went through the same thing a couple years ago with an SMS short code. Had to submit a script (despite it being dynamically driven), set a max number of messages per month (despite it being user-initiated), etc.

The real kicker is we once got a massive nastygram from Verizon threatening us with shutdown - they claimed we were sending porn spam messages via the number. After quite some time auditing our entire stack we got a "our bad, one of our techs had malware on their Android phone" email.
Most are uninformed (often due to intellectual laziness) rather than stupid.

"Stupid" implies that they make bad choices after being fully informed, which is often unproven.
Very likely to be true and I wont disagree! I'm not actually even from the US so I'm unfamiliar with their scope. I disagree with the person I'm replying tos reasoning more than anything. Their objection was of a different nature than yours.
Similar line of reasoning happens with anesthesiologists versus nurse anesthetists (CRNA). Most anesthesia is administered by a CRNA with a anesthesiologist overseeing most, but there's been pushback b/c it cuts into the salaries of the anesthesiologists.
Then I really don't understand why you downvoted me.

(BTW, if you really think that I'm denying the existence of the poorest of the poor then you should look at this: http://graceofgodmovie.com. I'm the filmmaker.)
I must have misremembered it, because I had thought it was ice jamming the actuators, not the stab trim. But thanks for the link!

Edit: Vindicated! This link says it was the elevator!
http://www.aahs-online.org/journals/journal_template.php?vol...

And a somewhat different account of the same incident:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1978/10/08/t...
> The poor way in which YouTube does feature detection (via user agent string) is almost as appalling.

If you could provide a better alternative, I'm sure they'd be all ears.
Love purscript, big advantage to frontend devs
Cryptsy Has Moved Out of Their Building Unannounced, Nowhere to Be Found
A functional approach to UI construction
Maybe... but my recovery started far before Google. There will be downturns, but there will be work. You might not get a new yacht, but you'll be able to feed your family.
Good luck with that, considering europe already gets huge number of physicians from India.

http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/india-biggest-exporter-of...
We used Papertrail for about 1 year. It works for fairly well for basic reporting, but it gets pretty expensive once you have enough volume. We moved to Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana. The power to aggregate, digest, and search the logs from various apps is quite awesome.
ILM VFX Supervisor Roger Guyett on Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Also see tinysizer.[1][2]

[1] - http://www.anyware-instruments.de/tinysizer/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7s5uKstfek
Yes.

I left a startup that eventually exited prior to my first year. vesting. The manager I had was one of those that was a smart guy, but didn't know his limits and between checking in broken code, aggressively (to the point of insult) insisting people work insane hours, and pushing for outsourcing more and more to a firm that was incompetent, I had enough. Being lead engineer and stuck with a launch that had no prep or IT people in place didn't help.

My favorite two stories were:

1) Disappearing on a weekend (well before launch) for my wife's birthday down to Big Sur. I had told people, but apparently it didn't register. I was at work Monday and lectured despite a 70 hour week the week before.

2) Getting yelled had for whiffing and underhand toss of a pen to a colleague (and friend) of mine during a meeting where we went up to write what we were doing on the whiteboard. Said manager thought I was annoyed and chewed me out. I pointed out, I had just pulled an all nighter and was fucking beat.

When I walked, I told the management team straight up he was the reason I was leaving.

A colleague/friend (he was the UI lead) had hoped to stick it out awhile, he lasted a month after I did.

I went through the frenzy of bubble one, had fun. I'm usually pretty darn dedicated, but that startup showed me my breaking point and I've avoided such situations since.
I used to do it myself and know people who do. None of us are or were in DevOps. Plenty of independents out there that might make same arrangement. We did it just to save us time and make extra money. :)
That's a great observation, thanks. I will think on it.