skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, no one truly needs anything, but having the right tools can make a huge difference between merely being able to do something, and doing that something well. I think we all can understand the nerd impulse to really want to get into something, learn as much about it as possible, and do it well. Having the right tools can easily be the difference between a given hobby being rewarding or frustrating, because you can't yield the results you want, or because you don't have the right tool to make a really tedious part of the process easier.

Some of the more esoteric hobbies I've gotten into have included amateur telescope making, ham radio, long-range precision reloading, and shed construction, all of which are very tool-dependent. The more and better tools you have, the more capable you are in the hobby, the better your results, and the more satisfying it is. Sure, some hobbies are more amenable to getting farther along in them with having less stuff, but that doesn't help you if you end up interested in something that is tool-dependent.
We made a Slackbot for startups to tell them some simple financial metrics (how much is in their bank account, and what their latest transactions in those accounts are). We're connecting to company accounts through Plaid (plaid.com) and sending them a financial 'digest' through Slack/email each morning.

As consumers we've been using a couple apps like Digit (digit.co) to track our personal finances but couldn't find a push-based version for companies. Logging into our company bank accounts to keep track of transactions has been pretty painful (online business banking UI is really hard to navigate) so hopefully this can make the process easier.

We want to eventually incorporate burn-rate to help founders stay on top of their company's money. Would love any feedback -- thanks!
I'm skeptical about the fundraising goal. Seems a bit low. They could easily spend that much on another commercial.
Right, I don't think they have to directly attack anyone. It's just a matter of tradeoffs - here are the things the Google Cloud gets us, here's a specific example that hones it in, and here's why that's critical to our business.

At the moment, the blog post just says, "Yay we moved to the cloud" and threw out some marketing buzzwords. It should be beyond a shadow of doubt that they got a lower price as a result. That's ok - now give us the details! On a product level, what made Google Cloud so compelling that you were willing to move your entire infrastructure to it? That question really wasn't answered, and is really the biggest thing, as a customer, I'd want.

Right now, I'd have to call Spotify as a reference in order to do to get that answer, which again allows them bring the price lower. Not necessarily democratize the information.
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Paying more for more support cases or more urgent responses is standard practice for support plans. For example, here's the AWS Support comparison page:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/

which has similar tiers of support.
Gates doesn't govern any countries and he's not in charge of any global policies. Also, he is not superman and he doesn't have infinite resources. He's just trying to find niches where a rich geek can make a difference. Child vaccination was a good example.

Significantly, he's trying to do practical things to improve the lives of poor people in the third world, as opposed to founding libraries or building more William Gates computer buildings at elite universities.

It's fair to judge what he does against what he could do, but it's unreasonable to judge him for what he can't do.
> "though the selection is spotty from store to store."

Need a middleman "broker" with accurate local data and up to the minute stocking data. There's two "close" home depots and a local lumberyard with rentals and a regional contractor supply and a local contractor supply. Which of those five rental agencies has a stump grinder for rent tonight? Check back with me in 30 minutes. Would be nice to have an app that could tell me instantly...
Definitely fun. Good work adapting the original to being multiplayer. Rename it to "Ourfield" and you've got yourself a nice pun, too.
IMO one of the benefits of a platform service is that you get the whole platform from one vendor, so if you're having some problem, you can work with one vendor to sort it out. Trying to get Google support to work with a 3rd-party vendor and my hypothetical company on an issue sounds like a nightmare. There are already many other options for platform services which provide e.g. Everything you'd need to run a Rails app in dev and prod, so that's where the bar is.
There is one :

http://us.zilok.com/
I think I'd rather play Planetside 2.
I mean "types" more like I might say "types of water". Sure, there's only one real water, and whether there's lemon added, or if it's filtered through limestone, it technically bears a different configuration (now making it water with lemon, or water with limestone).

That said, LSD is (to my experience) rarely concocted at pharmaceutical grade. Different concentrations, different configurations, different additives lead to different outputs, each of which we might all refer to as LSD colloquially, but which are all effectively "water, with a hint of lemon", or whatever else, moreso than LSD-25 vs. something else.
That doesn't match my experience at all. I can't recall ever seeing a big box of unused tools. I mean who goes out and spends a bunch of money on tools for no reason?

99% of the time, people buy tools when they have a need for them.
cost it not a problem and google wouldn't do it. I'm talking about stealing recommendation algorithms and models. Have a peek new features before release etc.
> This surprises me. I would have thought pi, the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter, is a much better known example of a pure number.

Everyone is so fancy. One, two, three, and even zero are pretty well known, even outside physics.
That is true. And, as Spotify found out, what Spotify does can also happen in its own Data Centers :)

Google does give an additional level of comfort - seamless scaling, No-Ops, powerful Big Data tools, flexibility.

I'm going to shamelessly promote one of my opinions on this topic when it comes to BigQuery:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/visualizing-t...
> Since criminals didn't have this capability 15 years ago they couldn't use it to hide criminal activity.

The difference with an iPhone is not that it hides criminal activity but that it records it to begin with. There was no default recording of the content of communications. What loss have the police suffered that the information is now stored but unreadable when it was previously not stored at all?

> I mean, why draw the line here?

Because there is a difference between the police being allowed to do something and everyone else being obligated to facilitate it.
The laws originally used to weaken encryption were issued under ITAR arms/munition restriction rules.

The author doesn't see this as two sides of the same coin? People have the right to protect their privacy using encryption. They also have the right to protect their lives using arms. Just because encryption can be used to "protect terrorists" doesn't mean that is it's only use or even it's predominant use. You could say the same for firearms. The arguments surrounding gun control and encryption control are identical.
Kinda hard to trust company accounts with an external service like this. Is there a way to just give you a downloaded CSV or something for this?

If not – how are you managing security?
So what's the difference between this and shared apartments?
Link to paywall article, and rather annoying one, at that.
Kubernetes is pay for hosting in the case of Google Container Engine, and pay for hosting + support in case of RedHat OpenShift Origin (which leverages Kubernetes). Docker Datacenter appears to be pay for support based off their pricing page at https://www.docker.com/pricing (which just says call for quote basically).
These things are not mutually exclusive given large enough time scale. In fact, they are correlative.

Thus, the conclusion to be drawn from this is that most investors are bad at what they do. Even if that fault is only a short-sightedness.
It's a cautiously positive message - although still stumbles into some conflation of robotics, automation and computerization ie. conflating job loss through computerization with robotics.
I intentionally avoid clicking on the first link when it's an ad, I don't care if it's relevant or not. Yes, it's very scummy.

I also use DDG as my primary and only resort to Google when absolutely necessary - and even then Google usually fails me too.
I feel similarly about wedding registries, for myself emphatically and for others slightly less. I'm fortunate to have everything material possession that I want, asking for more seems wrong to me. I feel incredibly grateful, and couldn't imagine asking anyone, much less people who have less to give material possessions that I don't need. I don't need them, nor would my partner, because we have managed to live to this point without them. If it comes time to register for a wedding, I would only request that donations be given to select charities. </end rant>
Now I can't help but wonder how different the world would be if TPB was only about pirate-movie torrents.
The right to encrypt really should be the modern equivalent of the RKBA. The parallels in regards to defending against tyrannical government are stark.
I'm surprised Gates, for all his work in this field, has failed to recognise that we're burning up more food growing cattle and farming animals, than if we were to just eat the plant resources we use to feed the animals.

It's mathematically crazy that, during a mass shortage of food in some parts of the world, we're feeding a net loss of food in order to eat animal produce.

He's even insane enough to support getting more meat, dairy and eggs to Africa, instead of just bringing the nutrient filled crops.

With his attitude about energy and carbon footprint reduction, there's no way, India, China and Africa live sustainably on a meat filled diet.
The difference, in my experience, is that clicking on the non-ad result takes me to the company's home (or product) page, which is what I wanted. On the other hand, clicking on the ad usually takes me through several dozen redirects and to some form of ad on the company's site, at which point I need to find a way to navigate to the product page.

The usability of ad clicks from Google is usually significantly worse than the organic results, even when they're the same company.
> but you can also use a liner.

Now your box of liners consumes the space that your cake tin would, and you haven't changed anything.
Because the term has a certain emotional impact. The purpose here isn't to be pedantic economists. The purpose is to sell something - in this case, sell an approach to startups for how they can sell a vision to investors. "Monopoly" is a beautiful, meaningful word, not a technical specification. Investors don't hear dry economics. They hear "Potential for sustainable high profit margins in a large and hopefully growing market".

If you want to get pedantic about Thiel, he argues that the monopoly does not need to be the direct source of revenue - in fact, it's better if it isn't. Consider Google. What's their monopoly? Search engines, which they dominate with their superior product. How much do they charge to use that product? Nothing. Google makes all of its income indirectly, off of ads served via their monopoly (and other monopolies they hold, like email).
The IETF (or whomever) could pre-specify a nothing up my sleeve number algorithm.

For example they could choose Pi and say that the following are the official NUMSN for each order of magnitude:
1, 41, 592, 6535, 89793, 238462, 6433832, ...
and if a number is needed with a specific property (e.g. 40 digits and prime) than the nearest number to a NUMSN is the official NUMSN for that purpose.

Then any future standard that used a constant they claimed was a NUMSN but wasn't complaint with RFC 31415: Procedures of Generating Constants would be suspicious.
I've found this also, though it does vary drastically depending on the specific details.
>And there's also a vibe here

It's not just a vibe, but also a fact that cannabis use has health benefits under certain conditions. There is also very little to support the potential feared effects on "developing brains" or any other kind of brains; and growing evidence to show that it has few negative side effects.
I never had any problem with using libraries packaged into distro repositories. And I don't want C++ package manager. From my experience with other languages, it would result in lots of low-quality and poorly maintained packages used instead of established standard libraries.

On the other hand, it may be acceptable for "applications" world, as opposed to system software. Desktop applications may benefit from it, but first we need proper sandboxing to prevent low-quality libraries from undermining security.
Spotifier here. One of the big risks that we identified with the Google partnership was exactly this: Google isn't exactly known for awesome customer service.

We've been very pleasantly surprised. The cloud team has been pretty awesome to work with, including lots of engineer<->engineer contact, walk-throughs of systems and code for critical dependencies, and solid support and collaboration. Exceeded our expectations.
Anecdotal: AppEngine deprecated their Master/Slave datastore[0] in April 2012, and it was actually shutdown on July 6, 2015. So that's 3+ years to move to newer tech.

[0] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/masterslave-data...
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One thing I think might be important to distinguish is how different companies coming out of YC (and not in YC) are in different stages. No matter how many times the partners told our batch to not compete over valuations, it still happened. Personally I felt like without a competitive price tag, we wouldn't be looked at as a promising company even though we had less traction than other companies. We had a (rightfully) pretty lame raise after YC. I think one thing that might help is to be explicit with the companies, give them some idea of what their perceived stage is and what valuation range would be a good place for them to start.
> For example, prior to changing account settings, reauthenticate the users, regardless if they have a valid session.

Why not reauthenticate by sending a one time password by email/SMS (instead of asking for a password)?

> Combo of email & SMS.

Good idea. I was also thinking of sending one time passwords through some chat applications like WhatsApp, but most of them have no API for such a thing (except Telegram).
Speaking for latchkey here (I'm the other guy), we routinely run several-thousand-qps batch jobs. Scalability is not an issue.
CVE-2016-0739 – Weakness in diffie-hellman secret key generation in libssh
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Ha!! When I saw the page, my first thought was, "This is still safer than running around the forest spraying everything that moved with BBs.."

Good memories...and damn, I really need to hug my poor Mom! :)
Paying $2500/mo for rent alone on a $50k salary is crazy.
Also at - https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2016-0739.txt

CVE-2016-0739 libssh: Diffie-Hellman bits/bytes confusion bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-0739

CVE-2016-0787 libssh2: Diffie-Hellman bits/bytes confusion bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-0787

Fixed Versions (Debian) libssh:

squeeze	0.4.5-3+squeeze3
wheezy	0.5.4-1+deb7u3
jessie	0.6.3-4+deb8u2

libssh2:

squeeze	1.2.6-1+deb6u2
wheezy	1.4.2-1.1+deb7u2
jessie	1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1

Find your version (libssh2) with:

dpkg -l libssh2-1
Kubernetes is an open source project sponsored by Google. Google offers hosted Kubernetes for the cost of the servers and calls it Google Container Engine. It makes their Cloud Platform more attractive. Ideally, the dependence on Google goes down over time.

CoreOS maintains and builds kube-aws[1].

[1] https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-aws....
It is fun to observe that everyone might be busy tinkering with mentioned features instead of commenting.
> Combo of email & SMS

In France, where I have most of my customers, the SMS is paid by the sender, which makes it expensive.
I'm inclined to agree here -- the energy inefficiency of meat is really quite astonishing when you look into it [1].

Not to mention the global environmental benefits, etc.

[1] http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-mi...
This is good, but I wish Google offered the same policy for most of their other general cloud services.
Default AppEngine instance is only running at 600MHz. You can choose to pay for a faster instance:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/modules/#Pyth...
I thought this as well. They have. This is Androids answer to Apple Music.

edit: This also seemingly posted from a shelf account. Front page on HN, account 530+ days old, 0 comments, 0 posts.

Reads like an acquisition. I am not sure what to make of this as it could be a total coincidence that after a year and a half dmichel was really interested in spotify's backend migration, but either way I wouldn't be surprised if google is going to purchase or bid for it.

Maybe spotify moved unilaterally and is trying to position itself, could be a thouyght as well.
Likely the most valuable part of Zynga at this point.
Or people could just learn the correct terminology.
> I did used to get a big laugh out of people (usually junior consultants) who confused airline status with real social status.

I see this a lot among consultants - they love to talk about airports, airport lounges, "horrifying" delays, rude customs agents, free upgrades, and seat pitches. Bizarre.
Object Oriented Wrapper of AWS DynamoDB SDK, 0.20 Released
The main reason I tend to shy away from GC is that it's blocked in China. AWS isn't (which also means Heroku isn't blocked since Heroku runs on AWS, so I use AWS for IaaS and Heroku for PaaS).

If you plan to offer multi-lingual content, anticipate having viewers in that part of the world, and your content isn't something they would be interested in blocking, it's just a practicality worth factoring in.

Another reason is that I find the GC console a mess. I had to simultaneously use two versions of the console to get different tasks done; they didn't have one console that had all features of the system. Heroku was a lot cleaner and easier to navigate in this respect.
I've never understood why airline miles follow each individual person rather than the company that's paying for the weekly business class seats.

Seems like the Senior Manager who just joined the firm should be bumped up to first class in front of the Junior Consultant that's been flying out weekly for a year.
The South China Tiger Is Functionally Extinct. This Banker Has 19 of Them
Startups aren't (and have never been) about the hacker ethos of doing things just because they're intrinsically cool and interesting.

There is a small bit of overlap (as in a Venn diagram) between the spheres of "doing things that hackers find technologically cool" and "doing things that make a lot of money." That small area of overlap is where startups are. The vast majority of hacker-cool material isn't (and has never been) in that startup slice.
Thanks for mentioning this. I just started using Windows at home after a long break and defaulted to setting up Cygwin with cmder. Before that I used Arch Linux for a while so seeing that msys2 uses a port of pacman is intriguing. Could you (or anyone else for that matter) share more information about what it's like using this as opposed to Cygwin? Pros, cons, etc.
Until you run out of Valium ;)
Perhaps. But no-knock search warrants are also legal. The police can break into your house and put cameras or microphones in it with a warrant. Even though the process of breaking-in does affect the evidence a little, or even opens the possibility of a cop planting drugs or something, it's generally still accepted in court.

This is basically the same thing as using malware for surveillance. I'd argue the malware is even less invasive.
Ah, fair.
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Android Engineer - Audible.com – Newark or Jersey City, NJ or BOSTON – ONSITE
Audible, Inc. (An Amazon Company)
(http://about.audible.com/)

This is a full time position.

We are looking for experienced Android Engineers to join the team. (At least 5+ years of experience. Sorry, we are at our max for entry level/junior engineers!)

2016 is going to be a huge year for us and we have tons of new features and products to be developed.

For one - Audible is about to launch a new product, a startup business, with backing by Amazon in the Education technology space. We are looking for senior iOS engineers to work on native applications that will be used by our customers. This is an opportunity to work on a new, small and high impact team, building a business from the ground up with the support of Amazon.

If you are interested, email me at

Thanks!
One lesser known psychedelic, Salvia Divinorum, when taken responsibly and with a measured dose derived from incremental experimentation, tends to bring a person into the weird world too. Lots of beings, lots of entities.
> What's a more efficient way

Staying in California.
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Nice! I've been using ShellJS (https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs) for this purpose (replacing a bash script with a cross-platform version). Any compelling reasons to use Cash over ShellJS, besides slightly better coverage of UNIX commands?
I'm sure that contributes to a lot of it, as well as experiences others have with harder drugs. But from my research, many people reported this experience without ever being aware that others have experienced it. I think there must be some factor unique to DMT that can create experiences like this.
The sun getting bright is different than a meteorite impact. The latter has a Poisson distribution; a big one could hit next year, and the one following that in 10, but it also could be many thousands of years before the next big hit.

On the other hand, if our understanding of astrophysics is even remotely correct, the sun will not get too bright for the first 100,000 years. So, it makes perfect sense to not worry about the sun now, as it will not happen soon.

As to the limit: the Dutch design their sea defences for “once in a 10,000 year” events and their river defences for “once in 1,250 year” events (http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2005/2005_30-39/2005-3..., http://blog.longnow.org/02011/03/09/the-10000-year-storm/)

I also expect some governments have spent time thinking of what to do in case of impending “once in 500 million years” events (probably lumped together with all smaller ‘end of life on earth’ events. The big question here will be: (when) do you tell the public?)
Is that a major problem? Are Coloradans in the habit of leaving half-licked lollipops lying around, and do other unsuspecting Coloradans have the habit of picking up random half-consumed food items and consuming them? This sounds like it might be a potential parenting problem, but not a law enforcement problem.