skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's really amusing is the skepticism built into the name. Unicorns are mythical creatures and historical accounts of unicorns are either hoaxes or cases of mistaken identity. The metaphor is obvious.
to be honest Cory the last thing we have thought about so far is fees.

In all likelihood we'll slash current fees and get down to the nuts and bolts of what makes our customers tick, we'll re-think our lending practices and try to find risk-averse loans that make sense for us and our customers and allow us to continue to be a stable bank while becoming something the average customer is proud to work with
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So, no?

Brute forcing the strongest forms of modern crypto theoretically would take unfathomably amounts of energy and/or time. It's not a matter of bigger datacenters or faster hardware. Without discovering a flaw (which we have no evidence of) or inventing completely different computing paradigms (which don't exist) there's no reason to believe this is possible today.

Sure, some cryptography is weak and it's well documented. Others, well, we'd need a Dyson sphere to brute force...
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You don't need to be able to log in to be able to support a remote debugging stub, though.
Are we talking about microservices that talk over TCP of some sort? If that is the case it is a moot point as the other end need not even compile against a unikernel at all, it can sit on a traditional OS.
Inequality has been increasing over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#World_income_... Especially recently in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite... and Europe http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oecd-inequality-interview-...
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IQ raise in prolonged contact of people with higher IQ.

Maybe the culprits since the beginning are the adult being more and more stupid and having their IQ declining and blaming it on the youth?

Isn't searching for a third part accidental cause to an essential problem already a proof that IQ decline faster with responsibilities?
Shouldn't that be "Expect some Unicorns to Lose their _Horn_?"
It's not by any means the main point of the article, but: I'm not sure citing the Rust mailing list post on M:N scheduling is proof that it's a dead idea. The popularity of Go is a huge counterexample.
I recommend using something like OSSEC to watch your logs and also tie it to Slack/Pagerduty.

This post explains how to set it up:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/01/server-security-integrating-...
Are the JetIntelligence toners the ones that stop working after a certain date? That sounds very sketchy.
I wonder if that has led to some of these very-VC favorable deals with large liquidation preferences. Rather than take an investment that has lower valuation, a founder takes an investment in which a lower percentage goes to the VC, and thus the total valuation is higher, because getting into "the unicorn club" has value all its own: press, cachet, employee retention.
Michigan - and yes, power is awful in certain parts. Especially in subdivisions where much of the power cables are above ground and strung through trees... So bad that I was considering a whole house generator at one point but eventually moved to an industrial park for expanding business.... I also run equally old Trippline UPSes. They run off 220v. Every couple years we have to replace the batteries in them and other than the batteries, they still work.

The UPSes pretty much keep things running for a couple hours - most of my mission critical hosting servers are are in data centers these days and for the office, our servers sit on the UPSes where at most we lose power maybe an hour every couple years in the office park. Much more often in a residential area.

When that large blackout of 2003 occurred we were down for couple days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
Hi Michael, Aaron,

I'm co-founder of satsearch (https://satsearch.co): B2B search for the space industry. Searching for parts to design a satellite is a real pain, especially with the rapid growth of the small-satellite sector.

I've worked on designs for a few satellites and spent countless hours trying to Google specs: time that doesn't get spent on engineering. So to solve this problem, we're building parameteric-search.

The biggest problem people have faced when they've tried this before has been to keep the data updated. We're trying to incentivize suppliers to do it themselves by giving them insight into new markets & products they can target through search analytics.

The difficulty we're experiencing is that it's a low-volume, high-value market and suppliers seem to be worried that we're going to eat into their margins. At the same time, we've had multiple suppliers tell us that if being listed means they even sell one more part, it's worth it.

Any tips on how we can reduce the shot-term friction with suppliers?
And send it to Slack now as well:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/01/server-security-integrating-...
> Can anyone really say if there is any proof to this rhetoric. Are these companies really in such bad shape?

One thing is for sure, you can't look at companies/startups or VC in a vacuum.

You'd be wise to look at financial markets as a whole and all the interdependent factors that __might__ be leading to a situation similar to 2008/9 or worse; another housing bubble, weakness in energy markets, banks exposure to housing and energy, weakness in emerging markets (China, Brazil), tightening monetary policy, sovereign debt crises, geopolitical risk, etc.

If investor and consumer confidence really start to slide, yes, valuations will take a hit.

That's not to say that some unicorns and other companies can't still be wildly successful.
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Got it - is it growing? How quickly?
Absolutely correct.

Sunk costs can be a bankrupting, nation destroying, and species extincting level cognitive error. Sometimes it is best to quit.

Here's a podcast that goes into more detail:

http://freakonomics.com/2014/05/29/the-upside-of-quitting-a-...

The takeaway is that the quicker you quit the faster you can get on to something you can win at.
That is a platitude to me when you have no idea what the range values are. We may be in an extreme end but if the dimensions are not defined in a meaningful way, where is the wisdom in this statement?

You might as well say the secret to winning a football game is to score more points than the opposing team.
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My grandfather just turned 101, and is suffering. He would have expired long ago, if not for the pacemaker. It was just replaced - I wonder why he consented...
> Sports medicine seems to forget about the placebo effect.

Well, people who make gadgets are well aware of it - and use it to make a LOT of money :)

On the other hand, sports performance is 50% mental. If wearing one green sock and one red socks makes you think you are faster, then why not? You may really be faster.

I am not sure I would want a FDA Like body over sports gadgets.
* These sunglasses have NOT been shown in blind studies to make you run 5% faster. Any statements along those lines are by paid actors.
Slack is terrible for auditing, though. What's wrong with email?
Your statement does not agree with the article. Encapsulated in the sentence "cause is indoor living" implicates products such as antibacterial drugs used in soap, toothpaste, everywhere etc.
Yeah, I am much more picky when it comes to letting people borrow my truck than I am my car, and the car is newer and worth substantially more money. When people want to borrow my car, they just want to get from A to B. Worst thing that can happen is they spill their Starbucks or they're a little too hard on the throttle and they burn up my full tank of gas.

When they want to borrow my truck, they want to haul things with it. When you're hauling with someone else's truck, weigh limits don't matter because transmissions don't usually fail spectacularly the first time you haul 3000 lbs over the towing limit. Frames don't get bent and shocks don't get blown the first time you load the bed down with 500 lbs too many cinder blocks. What's the tongue weight limit on your friend's truck? What's the bed weight limit? Doesn't matter, right? Plus the liability if they don't hook up the trailer right, aren't using the lights or sway bar, etc. And god forbid they drive it in four wheel drive on dry pavement and wreck my center differential.

The very nature of "I need to borrow a truck" is the very reason why I don't lend mine out, and likely the reason why renting a truck is so expensive. Driving a rental car hard is nothing compared to driving a rental truck hard.
I read it as ADD medicine is wrong for most people, and that it was going that angle. I guess the wrong medicine at the wrong time of the day wins a double wrong?
> And the first -- I'm not convinced that qemu and x86 is all that much more restricted than a well jailed process. Given the complexity of the PC, and the number of critical Xen/KVM/... vulnerabilities, it certainly isn't trivial to emulate securely.

Xen has their own priorities and I have my views on their code quality. The interface is that much smaller that it should be much more possible to implement securely than the unix API (which isn't even well-defined). People elsewhere are talking about seL4; I hope we'll one day see a formally verified hypervisor. I don't think we'll ever see a formally verified unix container.

In the long run you're right, there's ultimately no difference between compiling my OCaml to a binary that runs on a secure formally verified microkernel and building it into a unikernel that runs on a secure formally verified hypervisor. But I can take steps towards the latter now - I can deploy unikernel systems to EC2 today, and while they may not be more secure than deploying processes to Joyent today, they're using an interface that should make it possible to run them on a more secure environment.
That's not a naturalistic fallacy. The author's claiming that our ancestors had lower incidence of bowel disease or were perhaps healthier in other ways. Feel free to refute that claim, but don't attack a strawman.
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Ask HN: Are you able to work on two different projects at once?
Just curious how effective people are at project multitasking or how possible it is. I work for myself so I have quite a lot of time, but I feel like two projects would be difficult for me to focus on, that the switching would be expensive, even if they're both the same language. Anyone here regularly do this with success?
Adding to the list: Pixels

[3] https://www.pexels.com

[4] https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/

They currently have over 5000 photos (~600 new images are added every month)
"He said the pair may have felt harassed, but he couldn’t prove Elliott knew they felt that way[...]

[...]People must “tolerate the annoyance” of oppositional views as part of that Charter right,

“One man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric,” he said."

Some people seem to forget this too often.
High-assurance security approaches on separation/MILS kernels have been doing this successfully for years. It's common for those RTOS's to have a native target on microkernel, a safety-critical runtime for Ada/Java, a featured runtime for them, a POSIX layer, user-mode Linux... all containing pieces of the system or even an application working together through robust middleware.

So, it's a proven model that's literally flying through the air right now due to aerospace take-up. It would likely work for unikernels, too, so long as they included same checks/mediation at interface points or middleware that prior model required. The only real questions should be about the resulting attributes of that system: is it a good approach vs regular unikernels w/ performance, containment, etc (theory vs practice)? Or just ditch them to enhance separation kernels, micro-hypervisor platforms, or capability systems?

Personally, I'm not sold on unikernels for resilience: prior, security models were better, field-proven, and survived advanced pentesting. Under-utilized imho. Cross-language is similar in both, though, with attributes of one application likely carrying to other. The real problem is the TCB being complex & insecure, breaking isolation paradigm.
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The problem here is you changed customers and didn't realize it. In the beginning your customer was the end user as you helped them implement. When you went to development your customer was no longer the end user but the business unit. It is their job to determine what the end user needs. Your job is to ensure business gets what they want. Take pride in doing a good job for them.

You may want to consider product design or starting your own project so you can do the product design, though. It sounds more like what you want if that is where you find your joy.
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people are more likely to be looking at chat windows as opposed to emails
>Yet the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) lasted longer than a hundred years—plenty of time for England’s enemies to learn that their defeats were heavily influenced, if not caused, by the longbow.

Didn't England lose the Hundred Years War? At least looking at the map before and after - it lost everything on the continent, incl. last remnants of Angevin and Normandy lost to France, with France rising up significantly bigger and stronger as a result of the war.

While long bow is a nice nostalgic weapon, the crossbow is technologically more advanced, and in our civilization technology wins :

"Plate armor that could be penetrated by large crossbows, but was impenetrable by longbows, was uncommon in Europe until about 1380"

(funny that while a child i was initially making bows, yet soon switched to making crossbows - and they were interesting until i made my first single shot handgun at the end of the 1st grade :)
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That seems like a pretty good way to start getting relationships with customers. How is it going? What have you learned from seeing how they use your product?
Just curious, as I'm not a physicist, what's the definition of "near room temperature"? Because 203 k = -97F/-70C.
Hi there,

As written in the title, wallabag is a self-hosted read-it-later web application (like Pocket or Instapaper, but open-source) that saves content from webpages. You can organize content and sync it on different devices. We were kindly invited (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904805) by HN to do a Show HN, and hope you'll be interested in our project.

For the last few months, we've been working on a whole new version of our application (v2), and it sound very promising. We've just launched a new alpha version for you to test on your server : https://www.wallabag.org/blog/2016/01/22/wallabag-alpha2-v2. You can also have a preview at http://v2.wallabag.org/

If you're not willing to play adventurous, you can still give a try to old version 1.9.1 or choose our hosting service at https://framabag.org/
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> It would be amazing to have fast GPU-GPU transfer. Is it the case in Firefox that using texImage2D/texSubImage2D on a main thread context with a worker <canvas> will result in a guaranteed GPU-GPU transfer? Or does that download the pixels to the CPU and re-upload them?

I didn't write the patch, but let me ask who did.
> using the Twitter Typeahead library

Unfortunately, it's no longer maintained [0], plenty of unfixed issues. You could try a recent fork [1] :

[0] https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/issues/1424

[1] https://github.com/corejavascript/typeahead.js.
I agree it's a challenge

I am also a paid subscriber and so I have a vested interest in seeing them do this right
Okay then... I guess it is "us". I just don't have any friends who use that I guess.
Ironically, I think you may have fallen victim to a kind of fallacy fallacy fallacy, because the fallacy fallacy concerns the interpretation of an argument assuming a valid fallacy in it does exist. At least according to Wikipedia's definition of fallacy fallacy.

Rather, in this case the parent post merely misidentified a fallacy.
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I like your question. Ok, you can use 500px, Flickr, Google and other sites... But... In my personal opinion, a developer should be curious. I'm a dev and, for this reason, I like to give myself a challenge. It's a good way to learn a lot, to discover new solutions, to meet new people, to improve my skills, to create something new. So... you can use Google Photos library or you can consider to create something different (because definitely your solution will be different from the others). It's a choice ;)
Exactly. They seem to be creating unsolvable, strawman problems instead of assuming we start with the middleware approach to getting things to work together. And there's both very efficient and very robust tooling available for that these days.
I'm curious, how does it show?
thank you for the clarification! one issue still remains - a developer writing that software knows that it will end up in cars which will be sold. even if they will not sell them themselves, they are certainly in the know about the illegal practice. if not before, than at least when those cars start getting sold, the developer knows laws were broken. not blowing the whistle at that point must make the developer accessory to the crime. i think that is inescapable. or, should be..
What it means is that it doesn't matter if they are faster or not because the OS isn't the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the framework or the user application in most of the cases.
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I once had a debian stable desktop and home server reach two years of uptime using that strategy of upgrading everything except the kernel. Some upgrades, like a newer glibc, were quite tricky to accomplish without a reboot as you had to restart nearly every process. It was a fun game so i didn't mind the effort. Eventually a power outage wiped away my uptime.
>Don't know enough Labview mainly

Don't learn it. Its a terrible language, and a worse IDE. Yeah you'll learn over 6 figures with 2 years experience. But you'll waste a lot of time debugging issues with the runtime itself, also the langauge itself isn't consistent which can lead to extreme headaches/development lagging. But NI will compensate lost development time with free hardware so companies love it.

The tools for tracing/testing in Labview are annoying and kinda primitive. Hence why a separate callable logger is useful. Mainly in Labview all functions start out as heap allocated monands wrapped in a mutex. So basically every function has state initially. You then have to opt-out of this to get a pure function.

>Hmm. That's more straight-forward than most async

Well yes. We're not exactly concerned with verification of the asynchronous system. Just making sure everything happens in the right order, and each thread is actually doing what its commended to do.

At a certain level you can abuse asynchronous systems to make certain measurements easier. Just assume your input has a half-Gaussian input lag level, and suddenly a 200 sample moving average becomes sufficient for smoothing data not jumping though hoops of fire doing weird data synchronization.
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Do you have a bigger problem with finding demand for parts, or with listed supply?
I have worked for a company where you got "points" for everything you did and provided a value for the company like doing client work, recruiting people, writing publications or holding internal trainings.

The value of each action and the current overview of everyone's points was visible for everyone.

After each fiscal year part of the company's profits would be distributed proportionally to the employees based on their points.
Hey Michael and Aaron, thank you for doing this. A few questions I'd love to hear your answer.

What advice would you give to yourself at 21 for launching and building your own startup?

Well being in college or working your day job, what's the most important thing(s) to work on to get your company bootstrapped to take on Full time?

What's your best advice for those applying to the Fellowship program.

Thanks!
"With that being said given the state of the public market (going down + low dividends) startups will still look sexy for a long time. I wouldn't worry about it."

This is such a ridiculous comment that it needs to be highlighted for just how myopic it really is.

Angel-and-after VC investment has been driven, increasingly, by the effects of ZIRP. "Fuck it, we don't have anywhere else to put our money, we might as well gamble on 23 red" is basically the prime justification for a lot of money that's been put into, say, companies that deliver lunches in San Francisco.

Now that we are moving away from ZIRP, sinking money into glorified AWS-React-Node applications is going to dry up, naturally. There are huge institutional investors who will no longer be willing to take the risk, period.

The "state of the public market" is getting hammered by oil prices, and by China. I don't know how you read that as "startups will still look sexy". The roulette table looks sexy when the bank isn't giving your savings account any return. The moment it does, guess what happens.
Those of you making more than $150k programming for a living: how?
My impression is that most of the software engineering jobs visible "on the market" right now pay in the range of $100-150k in the US, and amounts roughly commensurate to that elsewhere.

I don't personally know anyone who makes more (or I don't know I know them; people are fairly private about their pay), but I do know that such people exist, and a lot of them are probably on HN.

I think most people accepting "market rates" are curious what it takes to go beyond. So, here's a poll.

For those of you who have a (non-founder, non-managerial) job in tech, making more than $150k just in pure base-pay:

1. How much do you make now?

2. What first pushed you into this bracket? Taking a job in a particular niche? Good negotiation when you were being hired? A raise? Threatening to quit? Something else?

3. what's your take-home pay where you live? What is it after cost-of-living (rent+travel to work+groceries) deductions?

4. What is your nominal job title? Is that what you actually do all day?

And a last optional set, if you're not scared of inviting competition:

5. What is the industry/vertical/niche you're employed in? Or your specific employer, if you dare.

5a. How meritocratic is your niche? Are all your highly-paid coworkers highly-skilled as well, or is there no correlation?

5b. How long would it take a good programmer without previous exposure to your niche to learn what they need to know to get hired to do your job at your level?
... for me the question is what is the impact stat you are trying to improve... I'm not if readership is ideal - how about job placements? Then you can analyze your question in the context of whether it will increase job placements.