skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used Egnyte, almost since their beginning. Surprised no mention here. Pretty good enterprise offering, including hybrid cloud or self-hosted options. The only complaint I've had is they unilaterally tried to double my subscription price to match their competition. I negotiated a compromise and now I have some weird custom tier.
A robo-voiced ... documentary...? I'm convinced!
DO uses KVM.
> 2. Inferior. Digital Ocean still won't give you a /64 per standards.

Huh? I made a droplet just a week ago and it was assigned a whole /64. Maybe this is only a recent change, but you should know that it's here now.
Debunking article: "The maths of the paper disproving conspiracy theories don't add up" http://littleatoms.com/david-grimes-conspiracy-theory-maths HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008224 (106 points, 2 days ago, 60 comments)
A stupid question, how this is related to zen?
My comment was actually referring to Bernie Sanders. You're right though, Rand Paul did a lot to fight the "Freedom" Act.
But we have other types of driver assistance for that as well. For instance, parking assist has to handle the complex maneuvering of a vehicle into a narrow space. Presumably while both avoiding hitting the cars near it which are parked, but also any cars which might come across your car while it is parking.

I could see driver assistance eventually move to a point where it's tracking and simulating just as much as a fully autonomous vehicle, but allowing the driver to remain in control until it believes a collision is imminent, or that the user is making an unsafe judgment call.

Things like the automatic emergency braking feature will eventually learn how to detect different types of objects as well. Say, to avoid slamming on the brakes because a plastic bag was pushed by the wind past a camera or sensor.

Presumably, these currently independent assistance features will converge over time, into your car simply being aware of it's surroundings and intervening to protect you. And then someday it'll just drive itself.

All of this can (and probably will) be done gradually, but it sounds like that isn't fast enough for Urmson's son to reach driving age.
The "supercomputer" claim is based on the F-35 having a multi-processor avionics system.

A good example of the "cheap" fighter is the Korean F/A-50. This jet has some of the Beyond Visual Range capability of the F-16, at 1/3 the cost. It doesn't have the range or the weapons capacity.

A well trained T-38/F-5 aggressor pilot can nail an F-16 or F-22 in a dogfight, within visual range. The Stealth F-35 will have the ability to engage an enemy aircraft without ever being detected, and that "minor" detail justifies the cost. In previous conflicts, once the opposing aircraft locate each other on radar, the adversaries would be forced into the merge, or risk being shot down at long range.
Being of the opinion that climate change has the potential to become an existential threat to humanity in spite of the fact that we are still debating whether or not it exists, I feel that it's appropriate to raise the issue in most conversations about fossil fuels.

> "Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future."

Researchers at University College London published a study in Nature[0] which determined that a significant portion of the remaining fossil fuel resources must _not_ be used if we are to avoid crossing one of the major thresholds of climate change. This isn't about morality, it's about the survival and prosperity of future generations.

[0]: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/much-worl...
The run the VPN server on your home network as well. I was merely generalizing away from a completely managed VPN service where you don't get to decide what software is used, which features are enabled, or how the routing is done.
> which is a transfer of tax money to team owners

It's primarily a transfer of money to players. In the next ten years players will earn around $50 to $55 billion in income. That's drastically beyond anything owners will either earn via operations or extract through capital gains via a sale.

Take the Houston Texans for example. They're stated as the 7th most valuable NFL franchise per Forbes, generating $114m in operating income (not net income) annually - the salary cap is $143m. Green Bay? Tenth most valuable, they only generate $63m in profit - every 10 to 12 years, the Green Bay players earn more total than the entire franchise is worth. The bottom 20 teams? Forget about it.

Most leagues are the same, the players overwhelmingly extract the value. The top 450 NBA players are set (with the new TV rights money) to earn more than all of the Fortune 500 CEOs combined in terms of salary (~$17 trillion in market cap of the companies those CEOs operate).
> I'm also not familiar enough with air-traffic control rules in the area to be sure, but it looks like you'd have to either pass through Icelandic or Scottish airspace to get to Scandinavia.

There's two separate issues there: there's airspace controlled by the Iceland and the UK and there's sovereign airspace. In the case of the UK and Iceland, the airspace they control goes far beyond the sovereign airspace.
I think that statement requires more clarity. There are parts of the SE, like where I live (NC), where basketball is heavily favored over football. Even with the success of the Panthers this year, when it's ACC basketball season that's what people talk about.
It's amazing how much this line of code actually makes happen;

http.ListenAndServeTLS(":443", "cert.pem", "key.pem", nil))

A full HTTP and TLS stack ready to start dispatching requests to your callbacks. I know there are other languages that can do the same, but I still think it's impressive. I've written just a few thousand lines of Go and while I'm pretty sure I'm not really "doing it right" I was able to port some decent complexity C# and very easily had all cores processing data at a higher overall rate with the Go code. High level libraries like this, and managed memory makes it almost feel like a scripting language, but with all the advantages of a compiler.

Operational question... If you're terminating client-side TLS like this, then does that mean either it's a single server or you have L4 (or lower) load balancing in front of it? I assume it's more common to have haproxy or nginx or something like that in front terminating TLS, with the API servers sitting behind.
Ask HN: Any advice for a disillusioned young developer?
I am currently working as a full-stack engineer at one of the "big" tech companies in the bay area. I also happen to be the youngest FTE (hired at 19). I always held a romanticized notion of what it would be like to relocate here and work at a large tech company.

However, since coming here, I have struggled to find purpose in my work, and have also failed to locate any professional or personal allies. I am not challenged by my current role, and I've also found it nearly impossible to gain any leverage or visibility within the company. Despite being given consistent positive feedback, I'm always being told that promotion / recognition is just around the corner, or I just need to complete a few more projects, while my peers are moved ahead. This pattern has negatively affected my self confidence and job engagement, as well as my attitude towards software development and "tech culture" in general.

I'm not necessarily trying to identify the cause of this issue as much as I am trying to decide whether it's worth staying in SV and potentially facing many more years of unhappiness, or whether I should relocate elsewhere and accept that Silicon Valley and I just aren't meant for each other.

Has anyone else faced a similar situation?
Prejudice against people might be something which is contemptible. Prejudice against corporations is not something to be ashamed or concerned about. It means their brand sucks (as in the perceptions of customer), probably because of past behavior.
Mindful Cyborgs
Get a mini binder that fits in your pocket. You can use it like a notebook, and also take the pages out and use like index cards. Took me 3 godndamn years to think of that lol.
I'm one of those people with "uneducated parents" and it's true they do not know the least about it. My father actually told every single one of his kids not to go to college.

4/5 did (a couple have grad degress) and only 1 of those has been able to make good on their investment (my sister who is a nurse). I love learning and I'm glad I am educated, but I would not do this all again. Americans pride ourselves on being a classless society, but the reality is I was born to blue collar workers and I was meant to be a blue collar worker. The extreme attempt at being a white collar worker has failed most in my family. All we did was get was huge debts that have crippled every one of us through our 20's and 30's.

And then we're told to get on our hands and knees and thank our bosses for the opportunity to never be challenged or build a career. I would rather slit my throat than continue to be lied to about all these "opportunities" I apparently have. I've made plans to do just that if I am going to be forced into another bullshit job where I get to make the world worse all for the "opportunity" to not be challenged or pay off my student loans. It sucks, but I see more virtue in going off and dying.
Why does YC needs to grow into 2000 companies/ year program?
I feel they should tackle it like a University. Stanford does not try to grow 10x from 20k students to 200k students.

Part of the appeal is exclusivity (besides of course its hard to scale).

I'd rather see YC at 200-300 companies a year - and ensuring these companies continue to grow/ succeed after the batch is over rather than churning out 1000 more.
I think it's mostly the money. Non-profits, small amounts of money, and the programs are always running. If they're not putting on shows, they're often running programs all day, all week for kids and teenagers.

The big stadiums and sports teams don't come even close to such an intimate level of involvement with the community.
Yes. Similar to programs offered by other providers, this credit does expire after one year.
Sign me up for immortality.
Suddenly, at 5:21 PM one day in 2042, all cars accelerate as much as physically possible. A dozen seconds later, they start crossing the median in coordinated fashion, targeting each other via car-to-car communication and cameras and radar. Each car impacts another one under perfect autonomous control. 85 million die in the USA alone. Only two countries are spared, Vatican City and Cuba.
>Replace your iCloud abomination with Dropbox when the time comes.

Sure, but if they did who says they will let you write files directly to Dropbox?

They'll probably have you store your stuff in a hundred different crappy SQLLite databases tied to iNamed applications on your phone and Macbook, just like they do now.
Yep--according to their TOS credits expire after one year unless stated otherwise.

From https://www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms/

5.8 As of March 6, 2015, redemption of promotional credit is limited to 12 months from the date of issue (unless otherwise stated), at which time the credit will expire. Upon redemption, promotional credit expires after 12 months unless otherwise defined in the terms of the promotion. For instances where promotional credit was issued or redeemed prior to March 6, 2015, that credit will expire on March 6, 2016.
https://github.com/lelylan
Yes, they are working on sexting apps and ad injection.
This seems like a tragedy of the commons: those projects only exist in the state they're in because some products exist which allow you to work with them despite their flaws. Whereas, if nothing worked with 100kb+ source files, the projects would change.
>> hosting is often one of the biggest expenses for early stage companies.

I don't understand this claim, at least when it comes to services like Digital Ocean and Linode. Maybe it's a statement made out of selection bias. Yes, Ycombinator batches have had their share of hyper growth startups. Yes, hyper growth can lead to scaling challenges and expenses.

That being said, it strikes me that most early stage (or any stage for that matter) tech companies do not and may never have that kind of problem. If I had to venture a guess, the normal case for tech startups is closer to the SaaS company with a few hundred business customers. For these more common cases, it's hard to imagine server costs on Digital Ocean running much higher than what you'd see in a cable internet bill.
Just to confirm, we use KVM across our fleet at DO.
"If we could get more people working on real problems..."

That's a political economic, and social problem. I wonder if a basic income couldn't help here. Of course "free" education also, if it could keep high standards of quality.
Our powerful people don't read much history, do they? Perhaps they think that the monster will stay on the leash this time. That's cute.
To make that clearer: Nuclide is to Ubuntu as Atom is to Debian. You can use Debian packages on Ubuntu, but Ubuntu packages are really unlikely to work on Debian.
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Not good for those who leveraged trillions of dollars of valuation in non-petrol investments. The stock market hasn't been having problems just because of China. There's still trillions of unwinding to go, and what's in progress is a huge wealth non-transfer: the assets and expected profits in petrol coming from consumers won't actually be transferred.

Not that I'm complaining... Except fuel taxes are now way too low.
This is the argument that pisses me off about job creators. I know a plethora of middle class kids that would LOVE to go out on their own, however, even one slip up would ruin them.

We love to praise those who take risks, but it's probably not that much of a risk for most job creators.
Go with whatever works consistently and your can trust. So don't use a piece of shit like evernote, for example. This is where paper-based systems can shine (until you can build your OWN digital system). Can't even count how many times I had a perfect digital system set up only to find one stupid little thing about it I could not change because it was not my code to change.

Ideally we would have a digital system that works with our own unique way of thinking. Until then, paper sucks but it's the best.

Why do you need to keep a backup? A good analog system doesn't need to be inefficient. If you can stumble upon the right setup it should be plenty efficient, unless you can build your own digital system.
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It looks like Helvetica with a lot of modifications to make the arrow look correct.
There's a comment above talking about a sociology degree making 30k. I knew lots of Biology and Chemistry majors who were making that or less right out of undergrad in industry.

But we did it wrong! It's our fault. I guess in a couple decades when there's a total of 2 majors that will actually return your investment we will actually be able to have a productive talk about college costs. Until then, those at the bottom will continue to be told it's their fault.
I actually just saw these for the first time on Sunday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

The main attraction was the final cranking of Babbages Difference Engine No.2 Serial 2, that thing is gorgeous in operation.
Not really, because private student loans have to take you to court to get a judgment against you. Also, in some cases they can be easier to get discharged in bankruptcy, and they're subject to statute of limitations laws for collections.
Football is great for tailgating and then watching on TV. Baseball is fun to go to in the summer and maybe watch on TV when the playoffs are on.
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>with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data

Finally someone said it.

Putting my files on someone else's computer is a concept totally alien to me.

If the mob or a russian crime ring offered free online storage, openly advertised as such, I'd fully expect people to line up to store their tax returns and visa statements on it.

I keep that stuff encrypted and offline most of the time in my own home, much less on dropbox.
The idea they went with, which was one of the ones I proposed, is used in a variety of open source projects, so it had the advantage of being somewhat familiar and vetted. And what I meant to say is that they had to modify things in a backward compatible way, which means keep whitespace by default and trim with new syntax.
The NASA audit wasn't nearly as comprehensive as you may have expected: http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-toyo...

NASA didn't find a software defect, this is not the same as NASA finding that there is no software defect.

Toyota absolutely built and sold dangerous vehicles with software and hardware defects. This was not only a matter of gas pedals sticking to floor mats.

Importantly in this context Toyota did not put customer safety first and decided to suppress the truth of the problem rather than own the solution. This is cause for concern as we move toward self-driving systems which have to be perceived to work in order for the product to remain economically viable.
Tell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.
Your tutorials are awesome and while you may not even see this I would love for someone at DO to get on blob storage.

If that was available I could move a lot of things over ($25k/mo on AWS currently). Load balancers and VPCs are also nice but blob storage is a killer.
I think people are juxtaposing "what's good for Facebook" not with "what's good for [territorial subunit]", but rather with "what's good for the lives of the people working at Facebook." A slogan like that is sensible in the first case and terrifying in the second case.
A $5 bullet probably took down a $40 million F-117 Nighthawk over Serbia in the late 90s. You can always fill the sky with lead. No aircraft is impervious to the "quantity" argument. The F-35 would have a better chance at evading it and delivering its payload than a slow and low A-10 though.
Ask HN: What sort of data would you pay for?
People use builtwith.com to find out what websites are built with what technology.

Are there any other data that you'd be willing to pay at least $295/month and up?
That ticket was created by me, and yes, treating whitespace like that would obviously break plain text templates and anything else where whitespace is significant. Remember that Go templates are for more than just html. What about generating CSV files for example? Plaintext emails? I use it for generating Go code, so the whitespace is sometimes significant (to terminate a line of code) but moreover careful control of whitespace is necessary to get readable code.
I agree. I actually use Dropbox, Drive, and OneDrive. I've only used OneDrive once to share some download links once. The only real reason I use Drive is because of Google Docs. For everything else I use DropBox because I trust them more. I've never ever had a problem with it. Also DropBox hasn't had major scandals and for the most part stays out of the news. When a company is basically holding your private stuff for you that's a huge plus.
> Chess is not a popular spectator sport.

ESPN made poker entertaining. I wish they would try with Chess. I would watch something with good commentators explaining the game as it unfolded.
The link is to a press release. Just see what they reference and skip to the bottom to get the paper:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16932
Would performance with ClojureScript (Om Next, Reagent, Re-frame, etc.) be any better?
Apparently Bizsparks lasts three years.
I love the dialogue there! When I'm up in the middle of the night (certain periods when my sleep schedule is off) I have this exact voice in my head, planning to go get a donut from my favorite shop when it opens. Luckily my desire to get in better shape has been keeping this urge under control, but it's amazing how persistent it is at convincing me otherwise.
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Is the success scaling? My gut says no.
These sort of war machines aren't designed for economic parsimony. Their sole purpose is to dump tons of money into the MIC. Partly to line the pockets of the higher ups and partly to maintain the massive jobs program it has become. Defense superiority is really secondary or tertiary. The gold plated requirements list forces the sort of complexity that keeps the contract gravy train running. The real trick of managing a defense program like this is finding how much you can go over budget without getting cancelled.
Alabama may have a lower minimum wage, making it take longer to earn enough to pay for a year of tuition, but they also have a much lower cost of living than most of the country and that's not taken into account in that chart.

You also forget that for a large number of people, that just doesn't work out. Some of us have to help out our parents when we work (yes, even in high school), and that $1500 car could just as easily cost you thousands in repairs as save you money. Add in health problems or other unexpected but vital expenses and you could really be screwed.

College really doesn't have to cost this much, and it DIDN'T cost this much until very recently. Both the professors and the students are getting a raw deal now, and the fact that you were able to limp your way through school by working a lot and occasionally going less than full-time doesn't change any of that.
I was able to get one of my websites on Azure hosting when I formed an LLC to manage it. I just had to send out a few emails to developer advocates until one could hook me up.

Granted, I'm on Digital Ocean now for my sites (most more cost effective) - but it was fun to play around with while it was free.
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Well... I'm assuming the drones would be deployed by a developed nation as well. I know a few defense contractors, and they're decent guys, but i don't think they make really top notch stuff. In greedo's example, he's talking about all out war. I kinda suspect we would get the best and brightest to build software, sorta like the healthcare.gov rescue.

I do think a lot of low tech options are pretty viable, since we can only afford to make a few hundred F-35s. High wattage UV lasers shot at cockpits permanently blind pilots, high energy RF pointed at jets turn all those little wires into antennas, drones can just play tag because jets are so delicate. when the cost of loss is 100M, with equal resources (even fairly unequal!) you can try all sorts of crazy stuff, one win is a huge payoff.

I dunno. Playing armchair general is fun. I'll never be in a position to test my theorys. I also played a lot of zurg back in the day, so my opinion is probably kinda silly.
Winning powerball numbers :)
... unfortunately.
We have a lot of interesting stuff coming up later this year around networking. Some of it will be behind the scenes, but it is going to open up a lot of new possibilities for user-facing features. We're looking to give users a lot more control over their network while maintaining our focus on UX simplicity.

Might be a good time to mention we're hiring network engineers as well:

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers#software-engine...
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>Part of the appeal is exclusivity

There are too many complex problems in the world that need to be solved for the desire of exclusivity to exist.

I think 2000 companies/year is too few. There are so many good problems that need to be solved and they just need a little bit of midas's touch. This sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Nice! Does it work yet?