skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this were true, would it be a bad thing to address some of Javas shortcomings like notorious boilerplate, 100 different ways to package & run your app, multiple seconds to boot up, and "write once, run nowhere"? Many go apps are command line tools, the kind of things people avoided using java for, and where GC does not apply.
it was his baby
Hey there, nope! They are one of our beta customers though.

They blogged about their experience so far with our tools here: https://sendgrid.com/blog/using-a-prototype-as-an-api-produc...
Latest version I can see from here - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/eglibc

Is - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/2.19-0ubuntu6.6

apt-get update
apt-cache show libc6
*snip*
Version: 2.19-0ubuntu6.6

This was released on 2015-02-25
Shit, more unsafe code in the wild.

Better get started on that Rust port ASAP
How is writing about a "non-event" for his thousands of Twitter fans and media friends to share and talk about and report on not making it a big deal?
Awesome, let us know if you run into any issues, or have suggestions - we're here to help. You can reach me directly at marc@stoplight.io.
Semantec... Symantec.
Nvidia also just put out a C++ API as well:

https://github.com/nvpro-pipeline/vkcpp
No, you shouldn't get your money back for games you finished and loved
Convenient. Can the sample endpoint (http://allorigins.pw/get?url=) be used by pages or do I need to deploy it myself?

How about CORS version instead of JSONP?
>It baffled me to no end to spend that much time just to sate hunger.

Clearly he wasn't trying to sate hunger. Cooking is as much of a hobby as hacking or being a "maker." Plus eating food is way more than just satiating hunger. I don't like cooking but I loving eating and drinking.
Yet:

"In May 2012, WD divested to Toshiba assets that enabled Toshiba to manufacture and sell 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer electronics markets to address the requirements of regulatory agencies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
How is that relevant at all?

GPS works pretty much anywhere in the world, even in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It would not penetrate water or survive the crash, which means it couldn't be tracked NOW. Nonetheless, you could know the position a few minutes (seconds?) before the crash, which would make finding the aircraft MUCH easier.
Scribd makes major changes
From an email this afternoon:

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Starting mid-March, your membership will include:

•	Monthly Reads: three books and one audiobook of your choice from Scribd’s library of bestsellers and award winners
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•	Substantial previews of any book or audiobook
•	Unlimited access to sheet music and documents

We will continue to offer the most diverse selection of books, audiobooks, and more - without raising our prices. Your monthly membership fee is still $8.99 per month. To get you started, we’re giving you three additional Monthly Reads to use for any books.

We’ve worked hard to strike the right balance between providing our members with high-quality books and achieving long-term sustainability. These changes will affect a small number of members—only 3% in any given month. We want you to know that we’re continuing to explore additional membership options for all types of readers.

We welcome your comments, ideas and questions. Thank you again for being a part of our story.

—The Scribd Team
I attribute their affluence to their direct democracy. When you delegate decision making to a oligarchy, they find ways to help their friends nickel and dime you and make you into serfs that are ever easier to exploit for their personal benefit.
Couple of points.

First, The idea of risk-reward trade-off is stupid. (This is demonstrated in my footnote.)[1]

Second: startups aren't startups because they have a high risk of failure. Simply because they expect to be much bigger in 24 months than they are today.

Someone making an app they want to sell on Android and iOS for $2 to all of the people who use smart phones is not a "small business", it's a startup. Why? Because there are 3 billion people on mobile phones.

At Internet-scale, there's really nothing between the two. There's no such thing as a mom and pop mobile game. Doesn't exist. If it's a mobile game, everyone can play it. Either you're in business around it or you aren't.

if you're in business on the world stage, you're not a small business, you're a startup. the only thing that matters is whether you would like to address the world's population or not.

i.e. whether you're "trying" (to hyper-grow.)

If you're trying to be much bigger later than you are now (by many orders of magnitude) then you're a startup. By the same token, anyone who has a plan to eventually make a million of anything is a startup. doesn't matter where you are today.

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[1] You can show yourself that risk/reward is not true. Suppose that I transport from the future to today the entire faculty of MIT and Cal Tech, who know all of the major technology breakthroughs that have happened between our time and theirs. It stands to reason that they are worth more the farther from the future you transport them. 12 months is worth less than 24 months is less than 72 months is a lot less than 70 years.

Does it stand to reason that the more value they're bringing with themselves, the higher the risk of failure?

No, of course not. It's just objectively higher value. So stop talking about risk/reward, I've just proven that it doesn't exist. The only thing that matters is the value you're bringing to the table. You don't automatically run a higher risk of failure if you bring the world $1 billion of value versus bringing the world $100,000 of value. Doesn't exist. No law makes this the case. Zuckerberg didn't suddenly increase his risk by 1,000,000 when he decided to target a million times as many people (the world's population versus Harvard's student body). It's just false. You don't need to go through a million zuckerbergs to get another facebook. You don't even have to go through fifty thousand of them. You just need people targeting the world's population who know what they're doing. This is why VC works.
My dad still has a laser disc reader and 100s of discs. Sigh.
This is exactly what Immersat are now offering. Almost all wide-bodied jets already have the senders, and Immersat will stop charging for it, so everyone will hopefully start enabling it.
Impressive artwork, love way how the animations react on the navigation events. I've never seen such nice webpage.
In certain parts of the UK people are rejecting the norm and opting to live in boats, caravans, yurts and the like. Many of these people live outside the standard economy and work on a semi-barter system, trading skills, and some are artists who are working with modern systems like Etsy and the internet at large to sell their wares. I think that this is going to become increasingly common over time but it does tend to be younger people doing this; it begs the question of what these people are going to do in their old age when their lifestyle choices means that their savings (and pension contributions) are minimal.
Not everyone is on ZocDoc and they have poor penetration in many geographies like SF area. In fact, many docs do not like ZocDoc. In addition, ZocDoc does well with smaller practices but not mid size and larger. The way health care smaller practices are going away.
The supply and demand economics behind the current VC boom and crunch
FWIW: I'm an engineer and at my last employer I reviewed hundreds of applications and I'd weigh the cover letter heavily. Someone who's passionate about the job is a huge asset and can easily overcome any minor weaknesses.
>The UK is bringing in a second home tax:

To be clear - this is a one-time 3% tax on the purchase price of second/more homes, for both occupation and rental. It's not an annual property tax.

Interestingly, it's waived for corporate landlords with (I think...) at least fifteen properties.

The UK doesn't have property taxes in the way that the US does. There is an annual tax and it is charged on second homes. But it's barely related to market value, so the tax difference between a studio flat (apartment) and a mansion isn't huge.

There are mutterings about a mansion tax on very expensive properties irrespective of occupancy, but they won't come to anything while the Tory party is in power.
First impression: after looking over the homepage, the 9 "Get Started - It's FREE" buttons made me hunt in the footer for "Pricing" or more information before signing up, because usually that tactic says "free trial, but then you want my money" to me.

Second impression is that it seems like a Swagger Editor tool combined with a REST Explorer (like Postman or Advanced REST Client). Testing now and will update with some more thoughts :)
Out of every scene in those two seasons, no sentiment captured what I've witnessed in startups as precisely as this one. Straight up perfect. I wonder who was the main advisor for that speech (this was pre-Dick Costolo, I believe).
Storage space gets cheaper and more voluminous by the day. Everything can be kept and tomorrow you can keep even more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11109839
Chris Mungall did a presentation in 2004 on "BioMake: Functional Logical Task Management for Bioinformatics" http://open-bio.org/bosc2004/accepted_abstracts.html#mungall :

> For our in-house task management we required something similar to Makefiles in terms of level of abstraction and simplicity, yet without the limitations of Makefiles and related systems (ant, scons, build, etc). In particular we needed:

- Asynchrnonous task management on compute farms
- Choice of either relational database or filesystem for storing build targets
- A cleaner specification language
- Fully programmable logic within the Makefile specification

That's about the time I stopped following bioinformatics, and I don't know what happened with it. (It's also the same conference where I discovered some whiskeys I liked. Coincidence?)
Great points. I would add that during the "unicorn boom", we also had the belief that proprietary tech would protect the market position of a large, low-profit companies, giving them time to monetize.

It now seems that we may have overvalued this effect. In fact, startups can grow quickly because new tech makes the first mover advantage tenuous; why should the effect that allowed us to climb the mountain now prevent others from doing the same?
> How do I get to that stage if I don't know them yet?

I really don't get what you're asking. If you don't know them yet, why are you trying to move towards having a relationship with them at all? Are you just trying to form a relationship with people entirely at random?

That's what's weird about dating culture. There was a woman who wrote an article about US dating culture vs UK dating culture when she moved to the US to go to college, and she said she found it offensive being asked to go on a date by people she didn't know well, as either they were just asking anyone at random and didn't actually care about her, or they were purely asking her out because of her looks, as that's all they had to go on, and that was offensive as well.
Historically high salaries? My understanding was that median salary was basically matching inflation.
Is there anything wrong with that? I lived in Italy for around 2 years and everyone there seemed perfectly happy with renting.

According to this article from The Guardian, it would appear to be similar in France.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jan/14/why-are-brits-s...
It's called "long-form journalism." It's apparently extremely popular, but I consider it to be the worst medium ever invented.
Call me a right-wing loony ... but why aren't we questioning why the government is giving out loans in the first place. Since the proliferation of government student loans in the last 30 years the cost of higher education has gone up significantly. The loans aren't working and enforcing them is a no-win situation.
Fun fact: If you have programs written in Go, after patching this you probably will need to recompile all of them.
If I put the following in the "Try it yourself!" box:

http://www.stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard/t.y/yellow-med...

....should I be seeing anything in the "Example json output" box?
I want my cut for independently inventing this, then :-)
i addressed your seeming confusion on the subject in another thread.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11109040
Well forget ever buying in London, my rent alone in central London is £2656 ($3800) a month. This flat would be more than £565,000 to buy.

How anyone saves for a deposit, while paying rent - without help from their parents is beyond me.
Even so, paying an extra £12k is a drop in the ocean if you can afford the deposit for a mortgage on a £400k buy-to-let, which will be around £100k.

From 2017 you will no longer be able to reclaim tax from mortgage payments, which should have a bit more of an impact:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c0281c4-2570-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173...

(Paywall, go via Google)
Ok, so supposedly the redesign is based on the idea of "bits and atoms". The atom at least seems to be based on the textbook image of a circular nucleus surrounded by lines of orbiting electrons. (Let's ignore the fact that the lines in the logo are pointing in totally nonsensical directions.) The "bit" though...why a square? A bit is a unit of measurement - it has no physical representation. Another circle would be just as valid. Maybe they're thinking of pixels? (Though those aren't always squares either...)

Even if you can get past how pretentious the whole concept of the design is, it all falls down anyway once you realize that they're just making shit up.
Close enough!
This story is hugely important. It gets to a deep question everyone here should ask themselves -- beyond immediate concerns of salary, equity, and learning value, is my specific work making the world a better place or a worse place?

This story goes to the core of ethics in engineering.

It's all of 9 hours old and has 341 points -- yet it's already off of the front page where nobody will see it. You could check HN literally every day and still easily miss this story.

Meanwhile, the front page is full of unimportant links to obscure tech trivia, many of which have less than 20 points.

We know that HN automatically penalizes submissions containing certain words, including "NSA", in the title. Certain prolific HN users have also said that they "automatically flag" submissions they consider "political".

But I really think HN would be a better place if the front page cycled out a little slower, if stories like this were not suppressed, if they got at least one day's worth of attention and discussion.
I believe that newer versions of OpenCL will benefit from Vulkan due to the mutual dependence on SpirV. My biggest hope is that this will finally reduce our reliance on out of date and buggy drivers to get OpenCL support on multiple platforms.
I've done something similar with programming languages, and that comic got me thinking a lot :)
By the way if anyone want to check it and have some feedback would be cool. http://nkittsteiner.github.io
Another situation where peer review makes no sense is sometimes recognized by traditional peer reviewed journals. Physical Review Letters has suspended peer review on occasion for high-energy physics experiments with thousands of authors, acknowledging that it would be difficult to find a competent reviewer who is not already on the author list.
Show HN: Docker NGINX container
It doesn't have to be a big rewrite of "everything" to Rust. It would at the very least be a slow successive rewrite whenever a major change is needed.

For this particular piece of code one would hope that the fix we'll see now would also include around 100 new lines of comments, splitting of hundred-line functions into a dozen smaller ones etc. I suspect that just by doing that someone would notice another flaw of this magnitude. Also, the updated code would be easier to maintain or rewrite in the future. The whole idea that all changes are kept as small as possible because of concerns that refactoring might break something says something about how brittle it is and how much of the testing is just battle hardening and not proper tests.
What's wrong with a 25% down payment?

You really shouldn't buy a house with less than 20% down in the US, either. It's just that some banks have looser financing (and higher interest) to allow 15% or 10%, and there are government programs that subsidize first-time home purchases to allow a 3.5% down payment.
Added link to an older comment of mine that addresses the HGST/Toshiba thing. To me, it looks like newer Toshiba 3.5" models are based on Fujitsu tech (if the enclosure design is any indication). Also, Toshiba might abandon their HDD business completely. [1]

[1] http://seekingalpha.com/article/3827746-seagate-western-digi...
It really is free, for individual use, forever :). Pricing starts at the team level - at $8/month/member. We're also introducing cheaper, annual pricing soon.

The hosted documentation integration is completely free - we have a paid option coming soon, that adds custom domains, theming, analytics, etc.

Eager to hear what you think - let us know!
And the crazy thing is the other country doesn't even have to behave well or keep up its end of the bargain to maintain top-level status.
This Glass Disc Can Store 360 TB of Your Photos for 13.8B Years
This Startup CEO Claims He Can Save You Millions on Marketing
Mountains and deep oceans are a big difference though. I really hope we do find it and get the families some answers.
Looks really cool, nice work!

Any thoughts on import from Apiary/Blueprint?
Brilliant, thanks for letting me know. I'm studying Logistics Engineering and reliability analysis is part of my degree. This will make a great case study :)
What's a few petabytes between friends?
I thought it was an old Chinese coin :(
Thanks.

So there are 7,000 residents. Oops, that's not zero. The majority of votes do go to businesses though, and it is an artifact of its long existence, not a new thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Elections
The MH370 tracking problem is unfortunate but what I'm most fascinated by in all of this is the continuing reminder of how powerless we are as a civilization when it comes to the oceans.

A plane crashes in an area with no landmass and we lose it. We've overfished many species to near-extinction because we completely failed to understand exactly how many fish there actually are. The sea acts as a natural eraser for human habitation, sometimes wiping out all evidence of entire communities within hours. We lose all kinds of cargo into the ocean and haven't the faintest clue where it goes. We're only beginning to figure out how to convert seawater into potable form effectively. The majority of our planet is covered in something we can't even figure out how to build habitats on top of without piling up dirt underneath.

The belief that we have any mastery over this planet seems to humbly disintegrate when looking at our relationship to our oceans
> It felt wrong for Uber’s global and local brands to revolve around the color preferences of a rich, white guy in California - even if that rich, white guy in California is the CEO.

It worked for Steve Jobs at Apple.
No reboot needed:

man systemctl

daemon-reexec
Reexecute the systemd manager. This will serialize the manager
state, reexecute the process and deserialize the state again. This
command is of little use except for debugging and package upgrades.
Sometimes, it might be helpful as a heavy-weight daemon-reload.
While the daemon is being reexecuted, all sockets systemd listening
on behalf of user configuration will stay accessible.
Q4 2015.
Yeah, the copy kind of indicated to me that there was some pricing scheme coming, but there is no indication (or info) about that on your site. Just something to remember if you're going to take a little time to add the Pricing details :)
Tangential question. Anybody here tried uBar? How is it?
How can you calculate lifetime value without revenue?
Curious, what language did the poster uses that implies aggression? I see none.
when did america become israels bitch? our troops are out there getting blown up and these israeli jews and sitting at home making their kids tech billionaires? all these young kids being brainwashed into thinking a communist jew like sanders is good for the country when he has his hidden agenda with israel. why is the us helping the israelis when the jews in america are determining the course of the US life? corrupting american culture with their bullshit ass rap music made by drake? running every media outlet and late night talk show hosts to afraid to say anything about jews? Jews will take their snake hands and bite you but will cry out in pain themselves.

edit no offense to paul graham
> Obviously my emotional venting is not the strong part of my argument.

The fact that you haven't provided any actual, technical reason why "Fuck Rust" is perhaps another part of the puzzle.
We s/unleash/releas/'d it, since HN's rules ask submitters to take clickbait out of titles.
What is the next term in the sequence
[1, 1, 28, 2, 8, 6, 992, 1, 3, 2, 16256, 2, 16, 16, 523264]?

The answer is 24, if anyone was wondering.

Coming to this answer as a "logical conclusion" requires knowing the context of the question, that is, the reader is assumed to have (or somehow discover) the knowledge of how many differential structures there are in N dimensions, for an N starting at 5, and going up to 19.

While the paper is fascinating, I doubt that any sane person would think that this is any kind of a realistic "IQ" test question. The title feels like clickbait, and even more so since this "question" wasn't even the topic of the paper at all.

Edit: The title has been altered to no longer be clickbait. You can disregard that part of my comment.
Nothing's wrong with a 25% deposit. But the size of that deposit - $130,000 - is pretty high for most people buying their first home.

They need to save that money while also paying rent and paying off student debt.
On Debian there is also the tool checkrestart available, it is part of the debian-goodies package. This might be useful if a reboot is (currently) not possible.

apt-get install debian-goodies

Then you can run:

checkrestart

And it will list services which require a restart. For example:

service sudo restart
service ssh restart
service cron restart
service ...

On Debian 8 (Jessie) i had to restart the systemd services as well:

systemctl daemon-reexec
systemctl restart systemd-journald
systemctl restart systemd-logind
Is there no objective way to tell if things are really cooling? Or for what types of startups things cooling?
I'd suppose it's a safety issue. I wouldn't want to draw attention to the fact that this person has no idea which car they're supposed to get get in.
Indeed, from their Q&A http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447331...

Let me put it this way: When The Talos Principle came out, it had a very similar frame rate in DirectX 9 vs DX 11. But then we optimized the game, and the drivers were optimized in the meantime, and now D3D11 is 20-30% faster than D3D9! I have a firm belief that this will also happen to Vulkan vs D3D11, over time However, for now you can actually expect lower frame-rate compared to D3D11. C'mon, it's brand new API, give it some time. :)
A real genius wouldn't care whether you read their work or not.
America has interests and not friends. Israelis understand this. Similarly Israel has interests and not friends. They are interested in protecting their own interests. Even if it costs Americans for them to do so. So you can basically say Israelis learned how to play these games from Americans.
There's a link. The article says:

> Thomas Richard and Godfrey Yeung, the former Placemeter interns who created the map