skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had (and have) a similar reaction. It was strongest when I was raising money back in 2000 for my first startup.

My co-founders and I were pretty dismayed by the anecdotes of "20 year-olds raising millions with just an idea!" because we were, well, 20-year-olds with a great idea, and the millions were NOT being thrown at us. (And not to sound too arrogant, but we were pretty much in the target demographic for that easy capital -- Harvard & MIT guys with a great idea and great demo.)

In the end, we did end up raising money -- after a LONG slog and MANY disappointing meetings. So we proved it was doable, but certainly not easy.

We came to a pretty simple conclusion back then: The anecdotes were either exaggerations, extrapolations from a tiny number of actual examples, or outright falsehoods. Remember, this was the first dot-com boom, and the story about kids with big ideas and tons of investor cash was a new one and played well in the press, so it's easy to understand why it got play.

These days, the story is different - and to staunch's point above, the "easy money" stories today are either coming from inexperienced/naive investors who think that's how things are done in Silicon Valley, or experienced investors throwing money at folks who have made money for them before (and why not? If your investee made you 10X on your last investment, it's understandable why in some cases, simply as a thank-you, you'd throw one of those Xs back at the new idea.
Many years ago my grandfather owned a retail shoe store in Appleton, WI (back before malls). They used an x-ray machine to aid in sizing shoes. As a kid, years after it was put out of service, I came across it in the store basement. The device was about the size of a washing machine, made of a fine cabinet wood, and had a crt on top that allowed customers an x-ray view of their feet with the new shoes on. Fortunately it was no longer working when I found it.

The point is, lack of evidence is no reason to assume a non-invasive procedure is safe. There should be many "hurdles" in place to prevent unsafe medical devices. This is an area where very few consumers can analyze the risk.
Rust is already better than C++ for those use cases that normal, idiomatic C++ serves [RAII, templates only used for (bounded) parametric polymorphism]. However, for metaprogramming, C++ still has an edge over Rust: C++ templates are more powerful than Rust macros, and more convenient to write thant Rust compiler plugins.
Many dishes we think of as "Indian" also trace a Persian origin, for example Biryani, Korma, Naan, Jalebi, Gulab Jamun, and so on (pretty much most Mughal-era Cuisine).
I also don't find it very elegant but it's the first tool my team actually uses to create some kind of shared document repo.

There are a few shortcomings MS could easily solve but like most tools these days they just fiddle with the UI without adding functionality.

But overall I find it very useful.
It seems like the setup I use is pretty similar to Om Next, but via independent libraries. I am looking forward to seeing the finished Om Next to compare.

ClojureScript is shaping up to be a fantastic way to program browser-based applications. This is what I use:

* Reagent -- another ClojureScript React wrapper

* Datascript -- An in-memory database with datalog query lang, this is used as the central store for all application data.

* Posh -- Datascript transaction watcher that updates Reagent components when their queries' return data changes

* core.async -- used for handling any kind of event dispatch and subscription. I do a unidirectional data flow type thing and it only took like 15 lines of ClojureScript.

This is one of the nicest front end development experiences I've had. Just the composition of these four libraries gives you a ton of flexibility and a good way to structure your application. You can use this setup to write a real-time syncing/fetching system with a backend database pretty easily.
"people don't seem to care."

That's the real problem from which all others derive.
With regards to cycle life, the amount of cycle life you get by reducing the depth of discharge is very nonlinear. Some internal studies show it be a strong power ((1/fractional_depth)^4 or more).
Let's encrypt turned on DNS validation a few days ago https://twitter.com/letsencrypt/status/689919523164721152
I wouldn't discount OP's comment at all. It's the main reason I use Uber. I couldn't care less about it's service vs. taxi's, or ridesharing, or most other things. The things I like about it are:

1) I have a single app that I can request a car in mere seconds in just about every major city

2) Payments are handled automatically

That's it. And #2 is an added bonus. #1 is the killer feature for me. I don't have to stand around trying to hail a cab, nor do I have look up a cab company's number to call a car and hope they have one available within a reasonable timeframe.
NSA Chief Stakes Out Pro-Encryption Position, in Contrast to FBI
If I recall, if a link to GitHub hits the front page then we pick it up. The code to clean up old entries in the database is slightly broken (oops! :), Tschuy is fixing that up right now.
I recently needed a cert and got one from letsencrypt. Haven't read about them or followed all the news. I have no idea about the architecture of Let's Encrypt. So these might sound stupid;

- Why do we need a local client app to issue certificates? Is there a web interface in development? Is there a technical reason for it to work this way?

- Why does it issue 3 month certs? Beta period? (This is reason enough to pay btw, If I did not screw something up to end up with short term certs)
Permethrin is what the pros use. It's way better than DEET, and less dangerous. I've been using it for a while now to prevent ticks and have been really impressed with it's effectiveness. You apply it your cloths not directly on your skin.
Fox also does the same thing with liberals. It's an easy tactic. You put people there who don't communicate well and no matter how worthy the idea, it will fall flat with presentation and lack of eloquence.

Now, I do hold npr to higher standard because they market themselves that way. Listen to their money drives and how they sell themselves as impartial, best unbiased news source. If you don't recall, its coming next week I believe. Listen closely to how they sell themselves as bearers of the truth and impartiality.
LE enables Domain Validated certs...so you'll get a green lock in most browsers.

The Extended Validation certs gives you the green lock AND the name of the organization. The EV assures you that the company you're doing business with has been vetted...but customers don't know and most have not been educated about the differences in encryption and trust.
There's a lot of folks like me who program on older, non-sexy, maintenance roles on established systems which use older technologies. Outside of big cities, these positions don't generally command a big wage.

I've been paid $109k a year for work on Smalltalk. And yes, it was this century, in Houston. (As of this writing, 4th largest city in the US.)
Video ads are what made me install AdBlock back. They totally destroy normal use flow and actually make YouTube less useful (unsuitable for playing music in the background, especially at a home party).
This is getting serious here in southern Mexico, we just had a chikungunya outbreak a year ago and now this. These situations remind me of a talk given at Oscon Data by Steve Yegge about working on the things that matter[0]. Virus are complex and modelling molecular biology requires CS expertise, it's kind of sad that we're normally discussing the new JS frameworks instead of working on the hard(and important)problems.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8
DNS validation landed in production yesterday[1]! \o/

The official client doesn't support it yet though; you'll have to use alternative clients.

[1]: https://twitter.com/letsencrypt/status/689919523164721152
Hadn't seen that, thanks for the link!
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Travis, the CEO of Uber has already told Elon Musk he'll purchase $500 million in self driving teslas' if available by 2020. Of course that's not anything real, it'll be interesting to see if Uber moves into owning a fleet of SDC's or jsut remaining as the middle man. If they only remain middleman, their market position could easily be at risk by the companies who own the fleets. Uber would become a 'sharecropper'.

A more likely approach would be shared vehicles owned by groups of individuals/communities. A community neighborhood could own say 10 SDCs, which would have a scheduling platform and such that would effectively remove Uber from the equation altogether. I see individual car ownership dropping significantly and moving towards 'pay as you use' type service, where the car is just summoned to you. The owner, whether it's a company or group of individuals, would own the market there.

By that thought, the only way I see Uber lasting long, long-term is by offering a "fleet as a service" type deal, where any city/community/group could purchase it and split payments by usage.
The gimmick on the super fancy certs that give the big green bar w/ company name next to the URL is that they supposedly mean the CA has done a super thorough investigation on the company and verified that they really are who they say they are. Those certs cost like $1k from most vendors. This could be valuable if you get a lot of people trying to imitate your company or domain; for example, something like nikeshoes.com v. nike.com. But since most customers don't actually know any difference, the practical value is very small.

By contrast, a normal SSL cert is issued just by confirming control of one of the domain's email addresses.
We've tried exterminating mosquitos before. It turns out they're very hardy, and it's an extremely expensive program that needs absolute, global buy-in.
NodeOS, like most projects, is likely just a duct-taped jenga tower of the usual suspects. The attack surface will be huge. For example, OpenSSL will be in there with all of its gotos and malloc-reinventions. From a security point of view, I don't see a contest. The Mirage guys even clean-room implemented SSL in OCaml. This is no ordinary OSS project.
It launched yesterday :-) https://alexgaynor.net/2016/jan/20/announcing-letsencrypt-aw... is some tooling I wrote for use on AWS.
It is past time. Where was this last month? We just started using Let's Encrypt to get certs onto ELBs. With a few mods to stuff on github we can easily generate certs for multiple domains (up to the 100 domain limit) and put them on the ELB.

I'm glad they are getting into this, competition is always good. With the pricing page giving a 404 I can only guess that it will cost more than Let's Encrypt, but if you haven't already rolled your own, it might be a nice option.
That's a great idea! We'd have to look at those sites individual APIs. PRs welcome of course!
Thank you. I wish people wouldn't just equate skeuomorphic design and bad design to be trendy (particularly when they don't know what "skeuomorphic" actually means, as often seems to be the case). As you say, there is nothing wrong with having details or styling in a UI, particularly if they are cosmetically attractive, as long as form still follows function.

I think a lot of people on the flat design bandwagon try to create a false dichotomy with skeuomorphism and try to use this as an excuse. All too often, I suspect they really prefer flat design for other reasons, such as not being any good at more sophisticated styling but also not wanting to hire a digital artist onto a project team, or wanting to avoid anything where the implementation requires real graphics instead of whatever severely limited tools are available using nothing but CSS and the icon font from their favourite UI toolkit. I'm not saying no flat design has ever been done well, but all too often I think it's just lazy and/or unskilled design and the anti-skeuomorphism dogma gets wheeled out to try to justify it in some more flattering way.
EV and wildcard certs, IMHO. ACM is offering the latter, and not the former.
No, a valuation is pretty much meaningless without the context of the terms for the deal.

One of the most important clauses is the liquidation preference. There are many others.
This is clearly political propaganda. You can read the first half to learn about the daughter and what happened soon after, but it soon quickly turns into an article talking about the big bads as Israel sees them (Palestine, Iran, et al), and then makes vague hand waving implications (with no specific evidence) as to all of the evil that they're responsible for.

This and other similar media are timed to publish due to recent softening of sanctions against Iran, certain parties are keen to keep them in the dog house, and keeping public opinion against them is part of that.
How many times does it have to happen before it makes sense to offer a higher rate?
They don't have "nests" but there are prime breeding sites, like the inside of old tires, that are essentially "Mosquito Population Boom Ground Zero".
3 Career Paths for Industrial Designers
I would love to see some code examples of this part "If we try to show a component that needs to know the current user’s initiated builds, that triggers an API call that asks the server for the data. If we stop using that component, we stop making that request. Automatically."

I'm currently knee deep in a react/redux implementation, which I guess is quite similar.
In brazil, mosquitoes may be nothing more than a pest to be eliminated. But in places like Canada and Russia (ie the north) they are a huge part of the food chain. They are so numerous that swarms could be classified as carnivorous. They eat a weight of animal protein equivalent to that consumed by a large carnivore. Actually eliminating mosquitoes as a species would be like eliminating plankton. The ripple effects locally and across the planet may be incalculable.
There are plenty of areas in the Us with high population density and they still don't have good infrastructure. They Us has just given up on planning for the future.

Transportation infrastructure in Switzerland is actually quite difficult because you have huge mountains everywhere.
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Looks like Certificate Manager is only available in the US-East region thus far.
Here's a better article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945964
Clojure and ClojureScript for president in 2016! No, but seriously, one of the most promising pair of practically useful languages in existence.
AWS is the CA: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172401

EDIT: Just got a cert from the new service. Here's a screenshot of the cert chain. Amazon is issuing them: https://imgur.com/VGos0eY
To go beyond that, cities that grew after the 1940s often have relatively poor transit access to the "new" sections. For example, the DC Metro system is only halfway through finally opening up service to the enormous northern North Virginia area and utterly failed to even provide halfassed streetcar service to Alexandria. New York City's subway system doesn't attempt to cross over into Jersey or even to the eastern half of Queens.
Because DDT doesn't have any adverse effects on human health at all.
It gives 3 month certs because what you are supposed to be doing is automating the cert creation and when you have it automated 3 months certs are a good thing since it is a security benefit and has no disadvantages.
Unless they are Formula 1 drivers from another country :-)
Clarifying speeder's comment on "ignorant people": Mosquito larvae grow on still water, such as rain water accumulated in old tires, vases and debris.
I think there is a phenomena where people measure themselves by salary more strongly than quality of life, because it is easier to compare apples to apples. When I was graduating from Business school (twenty years ago when people did that so don't throw shade) people compared themselves against their other classmates in terms of salary almost exclusively.

In retrospect it may have been more important to get your foot in the door of a company or industry that you wanted to stick with for a career. Alternately, if you get paid a lot when you are young it becomes your quote. In my experience, people who don't get paid a lot at the start tend to get paid less for the rest of their working lives.
The post I was responding to was about how companies want relaxed immigration rules because they make more profit.

My post was responding to the fact that increased immigration (of high tech or white collar, both) helps people in general by increased prosperity (nothing in this post was about an emotional outburst of the conditions and welfare of immigrants).

You respond by talking a non-sequitur about a bubble. It doesn't make any sense.

Funny thing is, what you wrote rhetorically is exactly what happens in a crash.

As a consumer you don't care whether your salary is $100K or $50K, what matters is what you can buy from your salary. If you can buy a home on mortgage on $50K salary and save for your kid's education, but can barely pay rent and groceries on $100K then the $50K Salary is higher 'real salary' (albeit a lower 'nominal salary').

Any recession is only cleared when real wages fall faster than the real prices of the goods (because only then businesses can be profitable again).

According to free market economists, let wages and goods of prices fall. This will eventually clear the market.

According to non-free market economists (which includes Keynesians and monetarists) increasing the money supply is the solution because it lowers the real wages (albeit keeping the nominal wage high). So at the end of a recession you still make same salary as you did at the start of the recession, but you can afford fewer goods now. This ALSO clears out the market and businesses become profitable again.

Introduction of educated immigration labor would actually result in faster recovery (just like lowering of interest rates would make businesses more profitable).
> Why do we need a local client app to issue certificates?

So it can verify domain ownership automatically.

> Why does it issue 3 month certs?

Because it verifies domain ownership automatically.
Here is one - the alternative to ads everyone proposes is people pay for their content directly. Except there are catastrophic barriers to entry for such a business model:

* You need to bind real world money to online browsing, somehow. This means you need some kind of blunt "want to see the content? Pay X money, here are paypal and CC info links".

* People who do not have access to these tools - there is still a sizable chunk of America without a bank account, and often without access to credit cards - are thus cutoff from most web services.

* The Internet was predominantly built on principles of no barrier information exchange. Putting a paywall up is implicitly putting up a barrier to knowledge, which has deeper effects than just bottom lines on culture.

I would absolutely a lot of sites currently ignoring monetiziation and just using ads as a surrogate are making a mistake. I also recognize advertising is predatory and while I am arguing ads open up the Internet to the poor advertising also disproportionately harms the poor by manipulating them into making superfluous purchases they cannot afford.

But I also cannot condone a paywalled experience where you need to pay $3 to watch youtube, or $2 a month for Facebook, or $1 a month to use Twitter. Rent seeking is one of the great threats to civilization in our current era and the fundamental is that all these websites build value off of their exclusivity guaranteed by the state, thus making them the ultimate renteers of the services they offer because by definition nobody else can compete with them at being youtube or facebook or twitter - you can just make alternative products meant to fill the same niche. Its like using hand soap as a substitute for bar soap because someone owns the rights to physical bars of soap. It can do the same job but its not the same product.

Which is why I am extremely wary of pushing a paywalled Internet as a solution.

Now, there are absolutely alternatives to both models - Wikipedia demonstrates an annual fundraiser model akin to Kickstater or Patreon class crowdfunding to keep things running without ads or paywalls - but at the same time there are tons of comments about how Wikipedia should use ads so people don't have to feel guilty about not contributing when they don't have the money to do so while Wikimedia runs the large banner ads in December. Its the same psychological manipulation as ads, except possibly more benign since its from the project itself.

In a perfect world, all our software endeavors would be paid for before we even start writing them so that the code could be free and the servers run forever without worrying about money, but that model doesn't align with western shareholder-value driven markets at all. The whole point is to make something at fixed cost and extract potentially endless revenue from the monopoly IP gives you. For better or worse, that is how this economy is operating now.
We changed the title from "AWS is now issuing SSL certificates".
While not phrased in the best way, wanting a disease whose major consequence is in pregnancy to have a very early average age of infection isn't particularly flawed. The same thing is true for rubella in countries without a robust vaccination program.
I guess they could use the train tunnel as particle accelerator during downtimes :-)
The certs that Certificate Manager manages are issued by AWS
The Science of Product Design
They want you to automate renewals.
First, before you leave your current job write down your plan.
I see you still love coding so it should not be too difficult to find a new job

Go to meetups in your area to get a clear view of the current tech landscape, look at firms you are interested in on linkedin/github. Also, get your resume/github/portfolio updated
You could also take the consultancy route and start building applications for people. These involves doing a lot of handshaking, talking and marketing. If this is your thing by all means go for it.
Hmm... That seems like the most obvious way to phrase that (without any intention of making a pun).
It depends on your circumstances, but as someone who just jumped ship with some savings... it is much less stressful to get a new job first. I'd strongly suggest getting a new job before leaving! Even if it is one where you are underpaid: a consistent paycheck is very valuable.
"This CEO said the Valley used to be a place of "quirky people" but was now filled with "arrogant" people"

Right on. I remember being in Noisebridge, just after moving to the Bay Area, basically being snubbed and bullied by a poster child for "The Nerd-Jock Convergence." And that isn't even the worst story I can tell.

I've run into as many delusional, arrogant people on coke here in the Bay Area as I did going to an Ivy League school in the 80's. That's not an exaggeration, sadly.
My trust in a product and company is usually inversely proportional to the amount of ads they run. The more one is aggressive with their ads, the less I trust them.
He didn't reverse course as late as 2007 [1]. Where's the article/quote where he "wishes he never used the GPL"?

[1] http://www.informationweek.com/the-torvalds-transcript-why-i...?
WooChat aims to become an anti-Yik Yak
My first thought was: is this a caching / instruction-fetch artifact? The two instruction sequences generate blocks of 8 bytes (for the eax+eax version) vs 11 bytes (for the 2*eax +0 version).
how does this work ? one of the big challenges with letsencrypt was that I'm unable to bake it in my Docker images. I had a circular dependency - where my nginx wont start without my certificate and letsencrypt needs nginx to be running to serve the temp file that it creates.

does this solve that ? Am I now able to bake letsencrypt in my docker images ?
In memory of Honest Achmed there is none. And that comes from someone who works for a company that is a CA.