skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't get how Slack got so popular when Hip Chat was already around doing basically the same thing. Both products have 3rd party integration and APIs. Slack still feels unfinished to me, so I don't think they beat Hip Chat on quality. The everyday experience of using both apps are essentially the same.

So my theory is that Slack has influential investors who succeeded in creating hype. Or maybe HipChat did something to screw themselves.
A payment processor that my company uses sent a notice that they are finally disabling RC4 by summer and TLS 1.0 (and maybe 1.1) next year, because PCIDSS.
I'm a little surprised they would emphasize "not for the masses" since Cloudflare's mission has historically been for the masses.

I'd love to see a new, modern registrar without all the inanities. I'm always surprised at how many companies still use GoDaddy. This is super-old but I bet still directionally accurate: http://joel.franusic.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html
Because it still doesn't have the stability and maturity of ZFS (which has seen over a decade of production use)
You can try them out in your own browser easily by visiting them from rawgit: https://cdn.rawgit.com/pcwalton/webrender-demos/master/moire...
Thank you for taking the time to write up the experience. I can think of a few metrics that directly relate to what made it suboptimal. Google is pretty good at improving things when we have metrics we can measure directly.

That said, this falls into that category of things where I can tell you "I'll follow up with the teams involved" but it's unlikely I'll be able to say more than that (unless any result makes it into a public blog post or something).

I will do what I can, though.
IBM caught tagging San Fran streets with Linux ads (2001)
The "linux developers" aren't a single entity. You'd need a separate release from theoretically every copyright holder (or a really good legal argument for a subset that defines all the conflicting APIs).

The point here was practical, not moral. Linux, in practice, can't relicense the kernel. Oracle, in practice, can relicense ZFS. Thus the "magic wand" comment.
I read that book in college and enjoyed it. I must confess I have no idea what to do with those quotes in the context of software development.
IBM's graffiti ads run afoul of city officials (2001)
As a counterpoint, here's a 2011 video of Bryan Cantrill claiming that it is "emphatically not the case" that the CDDL was specifically developed to be GPL-incompatible: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=1375
Well it appears I get to eat a little crow. It was not NASA work, but it was a peer-reviewed paper cited in the NASA materials:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913

The NASA material is worth reviewing in its own right though - and the Navy has conducted quite a few LENR experiments of its own.
> Well, so could the linux developers by relicensing to MIT.

The majority of the zfs sources are owned by Oracle, one entity. The linux kernel has many copyright owners and it would require the permission of nearly all of them to relicense the kernel. That makes it a different situation.
If you use AWS is there any reason not to sign up for this? $15,000 in credits for $500? And I believe somebody commented that they don't expire?
On one hand a court decision would solve it once and for all on the other hand who the hell are we gonna find that A) is actually qualified to judge this sort of thing B) doesn't have a vested interest in one way or another.

On the gripping hand it wouldn't actually solve anything because lawyers will continually argue that this case isn't covered by that precedent.
Sounds like you know your Dale Carnegie quite well! :)

Also, don't sit straight across from them, police interrogation style. It's intimidating, especially in situation like an interview. Sit at the orthogonal side of the table.
There's already a lot of knowledge and technology around using the GPU for high performance 3D rendering. Doing it in the browser (with WebGL) isn't that different. The breakthrough of WebRender is (mostly) to efficiently use the GPU for 2D path rendering.
What is die-space? / What does die-space mean?
Yeah, I was saddened by them abadoning Persona. It was a really great idea, even if there were some flaws related to how one was supposed to change username if you shift emails. I feel like they never gave it the effort it deserved... never even saw a FF addon providing the browser integration they targeting :(
Hah I thought that on one hand, but on the other hand the initial logo had some issues. What is a fair revision request count for a $42 logo? Maybe 1?
Can't wait till Google starts data-mining background noises to "improve" your experience. Yes, they can do it with other of their services, but this one is the most likely to provide the most personal information. Also, it will capture much more information, since you will be running it over longer periods of time.
Yes, and I agree with Conservancy here. They are most certainly violations of the intended effect of the GPL, but it remains to be seen if courts agree.
Bill Gates: Israeli tech ‘changing the world’
There is a lot to be said for having choice. Just because the dominant browser today is OSS (Chrome) doesn't mean Mozilla should declare victory and pack its bags with Firefox. Likewise, Android is hardly the ideal torch bearer for a Free mobile OS -- while AOSP is open-source, the development process is certainly not open, apps are not open, and that's ignoring other problems of abysmal performance, locked down hardware, and vendor crapware.

The reason that Firefox had the impact it did was because the browser is the gateway to the Internet. Firefox came of age just as the Internet was maturing as a platform, and because of that, Mozilla was able to play an important role in influencing the semblance of openness that we do have on the Internet today.

There was a similar platform shift to mobile, and Mozilla totally missed the boat. Now, please tell me, how will a FOSS (mobile) browser help open up the greater mobile ecosystem? The OS is the gateway to mobile, not the browser, and we need a better gatekeeper.
If you want to try out both PayPal and cards, you should probably use Braintree Payments. They even process your first $50k for free, which is great for startups. Uber and Airbnb use them, see how seamless those checkouts are?

https://www.braintreepayments.com/
That is the exact sentence to which I refer. Note that it says nothing about "disclosure" or "recouping investments in R&D" or "protecting the little guy" or any of the rationalizations people typically assign to the patent system. It is deliberately vague and open to interpretation, specifying in broad terms only the means ("time limited monopolies") and the ends ("progress of ... the useful arts").
I think Matt Levine points out that most of the comment letters from individual investors should not be taken with much weight.
We live under a government where oppressive discrimination by the majority is also illegal.

You're expecting a majority to care about a livable wage for their fellow man or woman more than an extra dollar in their pocket saved from taxes. That's not a very realistic expectation and taken to conclusion, damaging for the country and the services provided by those employees (no expecting Ritz treatment at Walmart salaries).

I included a caveat about how unions need to be bounded, and there are additional needs in the public sector, but the same tensions that drive their necessity exists for public employees as well. Just because you choose a government job shouldn't mean you sign your rights away.
> I would like to know how Snowden was connected to the people he eventually gave that information to

Snowden selected Greenwald and Poitras and reached out to them via email:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald#Contact_with_E...
Yes you can - as soon as you start wrapping your arbitrarily complex macros into a custom syntax. I am easily doing this stuff with any language I am adding macros and extensible syntax to.
Woah. That's brilliant.
How I fell out of the funnel:

Preview > Click Video > Flash Warning > Close Browser Tab

Maybe one day I'll be back.
Thanks Jon! I'll look into JWT.
I think the question is why does P/E cycle count matter for storing YouTube videos? As videos are uploaded, you shard them with FEC across your SSD array, but once the blocks are written, when would you ever need to erase them? The only concern is longevity of a single block which requires some amount of P/E (re-charging the cell) but lets say that's just 1 full disk write per month to keep everything fresh...
You are perpetuating a myth for the sake of a monopoly.

A novel solution could be designed and implemented by a small company but no one dares.
> the GPL brigade is getting louder in their intolerance of other licences.

I can't even
Well, if you use "first" and "rest", then (caadr l) could become (firrest l) or something like that...
I did a little googling because you sparked my curiosity and it's happening. “Silver” brings Apple's Swift language to .NET and I found at least one mention of Silver and .NET Core.
Hm ... works fine here in Germany.
That's exactly what the article is about though (and more)? Did you read the whole thing?
In response to multiple language support, an alternative use for the voice recognition is learning to speak well in another language. I've already improved my native English, by noticing which words are mistranscribed. And assuming the problem is with my imprecise speech, not the bot.
I remember DDG did side-by-side comparisons, but did they ever just query Google themselves and then do their own stuff on top? Anyway I'm not sure Google can be beaten at all by any particular newcomer, instead they might suffer death by a thousand cuts as more niche engines like Shodan show up and bring in context-specific searches that are orders of magnitude better than Google's more complicated all-web-they-approve-of-and-find-relevant-to-your-account search.
It amazes me that SSD drives still (mostly) conform to the same drive sizes as spinning disks.

My most recent computer build used an M.2 slot SSD, and plugging that tiny little card into the motherboard seemed like the future. No cables required, and it was even smaller than the RAM sticks.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/21/mikey_ibake/.
OPs point is that there is a pattern they see where people use the word quality and make an ultimatum. They would rather see people have a deeper discussion on constraints and generally show more empathy rather than constantly using a one liner that cuts off communication.
Of course you need a good idea and resources. But success in an enterprise environment also requires more than just the team. It requires developing a clear vision of what you're going to build, participation from marketing and sales teams, and navigating internal politics. Not to mention ongoing commitment of resources. If you think about the mechanics of providing reasonable guarantees of such support to a group that already identifies as a team, you'll find they mostly reduce to either venture investment or consulting service contracts.
I know what you mean! I've lived in places in Texas that, by all rights[0], should have been walkable, but in practice weren't for the very same reasons:

1) Social inertia: you're going to be the only one doing it, and feel like a pariah. It also feels like you're holding everyone up because they basically expect to be able to turn across a lane that now has a pedestrian.

2) Poor design: you have to take a bizarrely circuitous route that makes you ask, "okay, did anyone actually try using this before final approval?"

Especially sharp contrast going from my office in SF to the Googleplex in Mountain View -- in the former, I could stroll around, take a walk, go wherever. At the Googleplex, you end up having to take unofficial routes between buildings -- walk up a sharp driveway (shared with cars) rather than the out-of-way sidewalk, dart across a busy street while traffic is held up, sometimes waiting on the median for the other side to clear up. Yuck.

[0] Example A: Lived in apartment catty-corner from my (large) university in a small town. Much of the route didn't have a sidewalk, just a curb and some dirt/grass. People would actually ask if you needed a lift! No, just walking to my apartment, 1/3 mile away!

Example B: Lived in an apartment directly across the street (a two-lane, slow one) from a shopping center and less than a half mile from a bar -- but again, drivers don't expect you to cross the street or walk alongside it, and no sidewalk to the bar.

(Just realized this post has a ton of words that are different in British English.)
OpenSUSE is using it for root, so I assume they think it is stable enough.

(Interestingly, they use XFS for /home)
> discussions should be collaborative, not argumentative

There's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma here, though. I've tried the collaborative approach with decision makers before only to get grilled, spun into a defensive position, and ultimately dismissed.

I think, generally, developers are empathetic to business needs, though they may disagree about the specifics. I find the lack of collaboration comes from the other side of things. Often because of a lack of context from the business side.
Net Neutrality Presentation – Western States Communication Association
The opportunity to conduct my first solo presentation at this year's Western States Communication Association Conference in San Diego comes with great excitement and responsibility given the topic - 'Net Neutrality'.

As a result, I am inquiring to scholars and industry professionals alike to current resources, comments and information I should include to make the presentation as insightful and cutting-edge as possible. Key players including FCC, AT&T, Netflix and Telecommunications Act of 1996

Thank you
There are modules like this: http://aeotec.com/z-wave-in-wall-switches/170-micro-smart-ap... that work with hubs like wink or smarthings, but home electrical wiring isn't consistent, so the installation isn't like the 1-2-3 easy setup you get from something like Hue.
OK. I was thinking more along the lines of PROM (i.e. random access) but I can imagine there's nothing now more useful than flash.
Biased search results alter our opinions
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France's gun laws prevent more people getting killed. The Bataclan was an exceptional event. Mass shootings in the US seem to occur every frigging month. They aren't even exceptional anymore. Even the media refer to them as "another mass shooting" they are so common.
It's covered in the video too (with visuals that illustrate what your parent is talking about), but the "die" is the slab of silicon that the CPU itself is on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_(integrated_circuit)
I'm aware of how banks mostly originate and securitize loans these days, rather than holding them. However, as banks continue to perform many billions of mundane operations throughout our everyday lives, mere securitization may be problematic but seems inadequate to demonstrate a clear connection to the oppression of the working man.

In general, banks are not above criticism by any means, but making a throwaway statement about the existence of financial industry headquarters in a city being tantamount to Oppression is tendentious in the extreme. If one wishes to make that case in these pages while maintaining some semblance of rational discourse (as opposed to populist rhetoric and invective) then we should do so while identifying the assumptions and world-view which led to it, so that they can be properly understood and critiqued.
Does Oracle own the code for all of the existent OpenZFS code that Canonical imported? If not, then doesn't there exist the same issue that all of the developers would also need to relicense?
I don't think this piece should be read as "come work for Google" (although you can interpret it that way). Rather, I think the researchers would want see all companies to take advantage of this research and use it to make every workplace better.

(Disclaimer: This is my opinion, not that of my employer.)
Curtis Yarvin, yes.

Brendan Eich is a bit too.
Yeah, stuxnet used a stolen signing cert from Realtek.
Guess what. No one cares if you don't use Swift. Go with Kotlin. It's probably a great choice for you. It seems like a great language and I hope it gains traction.

You're doing that nerd thing where you need to tell the world why something isn't good for you. We'd waste a lot less time if we simply found the group we desired and added value there rather than find another group and tell them why what they're doing doesn't work for you.
Paul Graham actually has a blueprint for managing these kind of tradeoffs (speed vs quality) in his growth essay: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html. While the main point is that growth defines startups, there's another point (possibly more impactful) that claims hitting your growth goals is the best decision making device.
When the iGPU is not in use, the CPU is able to stay in its thermal budget and sustain turbo speed for longer.
You're right. Think of it as free market validation testing for AirBNB. That's $2.5MM of their own VC funds or revenue they didn't have to waste.
Now if only we could apply that empathy to all humans.
My 2¢.

1) "Reaching the masses" is patronizing. "The masses" don't really care that they are being spied upon. Patronizing them will not change that.

2) The real change comes from hackers, companies, and activists' direct action. These shakers don't act based on major media, but on real people digging up actionable shit. Actionable shit has been dug up by lots of people who are otherwise unknown.

3) Motive is always clouded by capitalism. Financially incentivizing releasers directly calls motive into question.
It should be mentioned that even though they started out as one project the Rust language team has done a great job at not letting the development of the language be influenced by the needs of the Servo project.
> There is a lot to be said for having choice.

Yes there is: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_c...
Yes. Snowden is an American patriot. Cryptome are extreme information-freedom fundamentalists. WikiLeaks is moderate by comparison, and vets stuff before publishing. But Snowden wanted vetting by professional journalists. So we have what we have. Bottom line, though: he got the stuff, so it's totally his call on how it gets released.
When I search for Amazone the only result for Amazon is one for a product called Amazone. All the rest are Amazone domain names or Amazone the movie
I'm the author of the post. I'm curious why you feel I was "abusing" the designer here.

I made every effort to be fair and keep the revisions to a minimum. Both I and the designer were happy with the end result and left each other positive feedback.

I am also promoting the designer through this post as another way to send more work to him.
If that was the intent, is it not something that can be clarified and fix the problem? Or did they screw up too badly and it's unambiguously incompatible no matter what they say?
Does that mean you consider PayPal trust worthy?

We've never used it, and we don't know how people feel about it.

I know it's strange to consider using something we don't know much about, but we don't see another way short of developing our own payment system, which, considering our (barely existent) experience, would not be responsible.
> There is a lot to be said for having choice. Just because the dominant browser today is OSS (Chrome) doesn't mean Mozilla should declare victory and pack its bags with Firefox.

Just since this is repeated so often: Chrome is not and never has been open source software in any shape or form. Chromium is OSS, but has only a tiny fraction of Chrome's market share and AFAIK nobody really knows what the differences between those two are (outside of the obvious: Flash player, pdf reader, etc.). Btw, Firefox is still the only major browser that's OSS, neither Safari nor Edge/IE are open source.

This isn't academic nitpicking either. Mozilla had to build a PDF reader from scratch (pdf.js), it couldn't just reuse what Chrome was using to display pdfs, since it wasn't open source. However everyone can now use pdf.js for the same task.
We're discussing what it would take to build it right now. It's absolutely one of the things people appreciated about Mandrill, and I know we want to ease the transition as much as possible.
Seems like the NSA does trust other law enforcement agencies at least to a certain level, with the use of parallel construction for illegally obtained evidence [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Germany is like the size of Oregon, so it's unsurprising that the US would rank higher. But China surprises me.

I would expect the list to look more like:

1) Russia

2) United States

3) China

4) Germany

5) France

6) United Kingdom

...
Darn, in that case, I wasted a good amount of time! Hahaha. I wasn't able to find the other services though.

When you remember, if you could drop them in here, that would be awesome! If they're open source, I may just contribute to those. Otherwise, I'll probably keep this going.
My argument is that it is theoretically possible that in a declining market environment, the combined effect of HFT and other algorithmic traders (I apologize for conflating and using crude terms, but my vocabulary is admittedly imprecise and incomplete) could accelerate a market selloff and overwhelm the normal mechanisms that have evolved over time.

For example, one worry I have is that algorithms may crowd out non-silicon short sellers. As much as short sellers are demonized as "evil speculators" in times of market stress, sometimes in a down market they are in fact the only buyers available and actually slow down declines when they cover. I don't have solid evidence that short sellers are crowded out by HFT... but I am trying to provide an example of a scenario where the "macro" effects could transcend the nuanced "micro" arguments about cost, efficiency, liquidity, etc. There are numerous other plausible scenarios that fit this bill as well, and it is the uncertainty around them that I am trying to point out.

Of course, none of these things have to do with IEX or a time delay... maybe things like order stuffing or spoofing are related but even those things are not what I'm talking about. Especially considering the dialog that has taken place since Flash Boys was released, I feel that both industry and regulators risk getting caught up in a cost/benefit analysis of the small issues while ignoring potential systemic problems.

As an investor I don't really have a huge dog in this fight... I'm not expecting any pension, and I don't own any managed funds. I generally use fundamental analysis to do long term investing in broad sectors using ETFs and a smattering of individual stocks. I manage my own money and so I will have no one to blame but myself if things go wrong. And frankly, if I lose $0.0002 on a trade by being frontrun in a dark pool it doesn't change my life, so for me to argue for or against IEX is somewhat irrelevant. However as a taxpayer I am concerned that public pension systems could very quickly find themselves vastly underfunded in a short period of time, and as a human being I worry about people who have worked their whole lives and just want to retire in peace.

I think that my concerns are not entirely disconnected from what the general public feels/understands about "modern markets", so while in most cases I probably have no basis to refute your specific arguments, I suppose I take exception to people with "macro" views such as mine being dismissed as unsophisticated proles. Even if that is not what you were trying to do... Matt Levine definitely comes off like that in his article.
Obama backs down, won't continue apple lawsuit