skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'm following, do you mean that the company may not be extracting optimal performance out of them? I'd agree, great people don't always do great work, often simply due to the environment they're in.

Having said that, i think when people have a great personal Github repo where it appears they should be able to answer the above question, but in practice cannot do it without looking up the answer on Stack Overflow...then there is an issue.
Well, he's a security specialist. And I feel he's figuring out new ways to attack. If you're not an attacker yourself, then I think you'll always lag behind.

I'm currently taking a security class and what I'm noticing is that I mistake the complicatedness for complexity but in essence most vulnerabilities and attacks have the same high level overview.

What I'm trying to say is: don't feel so bad, if you understood 25%, then you know more than you think. Perhaps you too are captured by the complicatedness of his post ;)
A good solution to the issue of bad local investment scenes, or a good solution to the issue of exploitative "terms" on VC deals in general? I put terms in quotes because I'm using it broadly, referring more to the cultural expectations that come with accepting VC money than something that's necessarily an explicit, contractual element of the deal.
You're criticizing a comment making an assumption about javascript tooling, on a thread specifically ABOUT javascript tooling? If you aren't using javascript tooling, wouldn't a change in that tooling have no impact on you? Seems like an odd criticism to me.

Regardless, the only thing I mentioned was npm. I don't consider node/npm to be "crazy javascript tooling". So yes, I was genuinely sincere.

"In order to build jQuery, you need to have the latest Node.js/npm and git 1.7 or later. Earlier versions might work, but are not supported."

Welcome to [1]2011, where the most prevalent front-end codebase requires node and it's package manager to contribute. Feel free to peruse the countless other commonly used libraries. Maybe you can point out a widely used front-end codebase that doesn't use node/npm/git? The only one I could find was BabylonJS, which uses bower. Conveniently to my point, bower is dependent on node/npm/git.

Writing code in a text editor and saving it with the extension .js makes for a javascript file. We know that. Using that file in the browser means using some a <script> tag. Whether its from the server or through a cdn, that script tag contents/url will still have to be in javascript, even if you used typescript to develop it. No negative impact on text-editor user-land.

[1] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/d503845d0cf45632c0d7...
Why not just put your proprietary stuff in a closed-source library and distribute the rest of the source in accordance with the LGPL? What's so horrible about that? Even iOS allows dynamic linking nowadays.
Wow. I did not realize it was time for the yearly Cyc article again. Cycorp has been a thing for a long time, but I think history has shown that the path Doug and Cyc have taken is not the way forward.
Yeah, I've accepted that, and for the most part, usually something new comes along and replaces it. The trick is to find where people went after X site went to crap. Sometimes though, a suitable replacement doesn't always crop up. I haven't seen a good imgur replacement.
You could use C++14 with Qt4 if you wanted. Your choice of standard doesn't really affect Qt much.
That's a really good analysis of what I was hoping Twitter could have been, and what it has actually became.

I am quite curious to poke your brain a little on this. I agree that the concept of Twitter-as-an-infrastructure could be amazing. I also agree that what they're doing is definitely taking massive steps away from that ideal (Whatever Twitter's initial lofty goals were, I would classify its current niche to be some sort of celebrity-gossip/outrage machine).

I'm having trouble articulating exactly what the correct thing for them to do would be, though? What sort of API access would you envision that they can provide in order to help developers grow the infrastructure in the best way possible?

You mention that Twitter could become a decentralized infrastructure. What exactly do you mean by that, and how would it work?
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It has DCC protocol built in, but it isn't nearly as robust as most would like for it to be.
I'm in a situation now where I was one of the first five (#5, to be precise) employees at a startup. I told them what I needed to get as a salary, and I didn't cut it down for the sake of hoping to cash out later. I got less stock than I could've, but that money (if it ever exists), is more of a bonus to me than anything.

I can't afford to go out on a limb for a startup or to hope for some big pay day. I'm a single earner in a family of five and I can't just make my kids stop eating and growing because I want to get some stock options.

I would suggest anyone thinking of working at a startup keeps their regular salary in mind as what you need/want, and think of stock as a bonus later that probably will NOT ever come.

Stock is a nice carrot to dangle if you're a stingy employer (or one who refuses to pay folks' worth), but it shouldn't be considered as part of your compensation if you're a lowly employee like myself.
This move will be a "GAME CHANGER" for the Cloud industry.
Oh, this is perfect! Wish I'd read this before starting with LibreOffice.

Actually, I guess I can still use this. Perhaps I might tell our GSoC students about it.
I have worked closely with the management teams of some large celebrities. Almost all of them get anywhere from a handful to dozens of fake accounts created EVERY DAY, mostly by trolls and people who want to harrass others. Some of them are very convincing and "leak" false information, bully young fans who believe they are real, and so on. A small handful of them try to monetize by posting spam links, but it's really rare. The vast majority are just trying to get attention or have fun at someone else's expense. This may seem like a non-issue, but when you're a high-profile person trying to protect a reputation, it's a real headache. And when you're a fan thinking you're interacting with a celebrity, and they turn out to be a fake, it greatly reduces your trust in the platform.

Now, we could argue that we shouldn't really care about the concerns of celebrities, and that fan/celebrity interactions aren't what Twitter is for. But it's clear that they drive a lot of the traffic there, and Twitter encourages it. The verification system is one tool for making this experience better.
That's the risk of customizing the UI in any cross platform toolkit. I'd rather have slightly wonky cross platform apps than native apps for a very limited subset of platforms.
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Ok. It's kind of good to hear the barrier to open sourcing is more legal than commercial. That means it's fixable :)

Can I ask you some details on how you went about working with Skype and Hangouts? Did you do the reverse engineering yourself? These are protocols several popular open source projects have been trying to support for years and haven't succeeded.

Can I also ask you about your tech stack/languages you used for Sameroom?
> to build clusters at scale, we want to avoid the need to place Maglev machines in the same layer-2 domain as the router, so hardware encapsulators are deployed behind
the router, which tunnel packets from routers to Maglev
machines

Is "hardware encapsulator" just a fancy way of saying they're using tunnel interfaces on the routers, or is a "hardware encapsulator" an actual thing?
After the Fact: Google and Big Data have ushered us into a crisis of knowledge
I just realized the biggest irony about San Francisco: by working to block development to prevent San Francisco from physically changing, the NIMBYs are driving real estate hyperinflation that is destroying its culture. A pro-development San Francisco would probably indeed look like Manhattan by now, but it might still be home to quite a few artists and counterculture types along with all the nerds and businesspeople.
This blog entry is remarkably clear about the problem and why the suggestion of barring non-key escrow'd encryption won't work.
> nothing is more annoying than dealing with a very nice library written in Scala, Clojure or Groovy and have it not work in plain Java

I don't think the backers of Scala and Clojure make the claim that libraries written in their language will work seamlessly in Java, only that libraries written in Java will work in their language. The marketers of Apache Groovy, otoh, do claim code written in it will work in Java but from what you say that claim is false.
Yeah, lots of people who are not amazing applying and having to be filtered is a key challenge for anyone trying to hire at scale. In fact the key issue that this question is intended to address, so I agree with you.

I would never want to suggest that 'most programmers are bad' or anything like that, i think the real issue is that people who are not really great programmers apply for jobs that are beyond their level of skill at the time of their application.
I don't understand where you see that argument in the article.

The statement was descriptive, not prescriptive. The claim is that the core of our thinking is analogy-based. It doesn't say we are incapable of logical reasoning, or that it is undesirable.

If one agrees with that descriptive statement of human reasoning, then to make an artificial system that does similar things one should have it also reason by analogy rather than logically at its base.
> everywhere you have ever lived, all of your phone numbers, voting records, debts, legal history, marriages, past names and aliases, email addresses, everything.

A lot of these things are publicly available from government entities. Voter records (available from sites like voterfind.com) include your address, and phone number in some locales. Marriage licenses are public record. If a debt goes to court, it becomes a public record. Any and all legal incidents are public record. Property taxes are public record.
This seems to be good for everyone but Amazon, can anyone offer some insight otherwise?
My guess is that it's pretty much just BigQuery. No one else seems to be able to compete, and that's a big deal. The companies moving their analytics stacks to BQ and thus GCP probably make up the majority (in terms of revenue) of customers for GCP
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You can turn all of those notices off; I've not seen those sorts of updates in channel for years & years.
The main reason not to block deals is that 1) this should not be a single-round game for VCs 2) people talk.

If you block an exit in a way which angers founders/employees, even if you have a higher expected return on that particular deal in doing that, you're now going to be "that fucking asshole VC who blocked our sale" every day until the company gets a 100x return above what the deal would have been (which is probably...never).

Not only will the founders hate you forever (both your firm and you personally, the partner); employees of that firm will hate you, and anyone those founders/employees talk to. Also earlier-stage investors/angels in the deal will also likely hate you for being "that asshole late stage investor who tanked our deal."

As a professional investor managing a large pool of other people's money, you probably have the greatest risk tolerance and most diversification of anyone involved in the deal. For employees, founders, and even angel investors, even a 2-5x exit, if it's the best/most likely thing, is probably going to be life-changing in a positive way.
I will respect the rules here, I'd just really like to know what they are, specifically:

Does it mean that discussing the influence of the religious views (even, or especially? of very large groups or even most popular of them) on the topics discussed is not allowed?

Does it mean that it is not allowed writing personal view on such topics?

Is the goal to have only the comments that are never downvoted?

Is the goal to have only the comments that nobody finds "offensive"?

Is it allowed for somebody who is not religious to discuss the topics from his own point of view (the point of view of a person who certainly doesn't believe in any of the religion which can feel "offended")? To compare, would you allow a homosexual to discuss any topic from his homosexual point of view, even if some religions are "offended" by mere existence of homosexuals? If you give homosexual these rights, why not giving the same to atheists? Only because even more people can get offended?

I understand that the "rules" are something that grows with the use, so even if they weren't openly written, it would be nice if they were openly accessible and readable.

(I honestly don't see where I actually offended somebody (except for expressing a different view, I actually try to discuss to the facts)).

Thank you.
The first mission of every organization is not making money, it is living longer.
That's questionable though — there are a lot of people switching over to Sketch who were previously in Photoshop, and while Photoshop may have never been the right tool for interface design work... plenty of Photoshop users were willing to try something new.

You're right though, it's all a matter of weighing whether or not it's worth it. I wonder what Adobe's methodology for the change was.
Reminds me of the story around AIM/MSN wars from back in the day.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/21/5635488/msn-messenger-vs-a...

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
> ...how else would you or anyone define it?

A geographic location where there exists a monopoly on violence. For example: the USG gets to decide who is allowed to kill who and under what circumstances, exclusively, for a specific location. That monopoly can be made clear through laws, but it isn't necessary - consider monarchies with no legislative bodies. Also consider the fact that laws cannot be established without a monopoly on violence, which a lot of people seem to get confused about - thinking the authority over violence is somehow derived from law...

> And are we talking philosophical or real world examples?

I'm really tempted to launch into a rant about cognitive dissonance here, but I'll just save time and say that is a distinction without a difference. As far as examples, like I said, pick any monarchy without a legislative body - Native American history has plenty of that.
Yeah, filename changing is what I would end up doing.

As far as the model is concerned, a lot of the industry is familiar with magazine advertising so I just go with a monthly rate to keep things simple. There is trust involved, though most run a trial before committing to anything longer-term so they are able to see if the level of generated activity meets their expectations.

It is much easier to do this kind of advertising because the content itself is so narrow that the readership ends up being narrow, whereas a general site like BBC or CNN you end up having a wide audience and then end up needing tracking tools to help narrow the audience into smaller groups.
Incorrect - the 0.6 number is purely for personal survival. They cite the number when including plant maintenance, regolith processing, etc, as 1.2. See the article:

> "The amount of water needed for extended human survival is around 0.6 kg/hr/person which includes water for consumption, hygiene, and everyday living in space (Bobe et al., 2007; Horneck et al., 2003, 2006). This estimate is based on space station living and, assuming water consumption is less in a micro-gravity environment, would increase up to 0.7 kg/hr/person to account for living with gravity. The amount required if demands from a growing colony (regolith processing, manufacturing, perchlorate remediation, plant growth, habitat maintenance, etc.) are added to human needs is estimated at 1.2 kg/hr/person."
Thanks, all really good points. Initially I'll be targeting the high end residential and commercial market to get cash flow going and sustain the business. Residents in major cities such as Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad purchase their houses for US$500k+ with cash. The goal is to sell them on solar electric systems ranging from US$5k to 15k with the promise they can completely or mostly eliminate their electric bills, and get their ROI in 5-7 years while getting uninterrupted electricity for 25 years. The market is ripe and I have seen residential installations worth US$35k with upfront cash.

Generators and UPS are current alternatives. However Generators, very loud and expensive to purchase, are dependent on fossil fuel (dirty) prices, which are very low at the moment but fluctuate routinely. UPS devices produce square wave outputs that damage appliances permanently. Convincing the market to go solar instead because of these reasons is the eventual sales challenge for sure.

Transmission losses (including electricity theft) are part of the sales pitch. They are a big reason why Supply doesn't meet Demand and Load Shedding has to be enforced.
Ugh that headline is so editorialized. The article as a whole is pretty devoid of content.
I don't question that. Yet doing things based purely on their effectiveness for your goals without any regard to the consequences for other parties is semi-sociopathic behavior, which is why it's frowned upon. Whether something is effective or not should not be the only metric by which we decide whether it's the action we should take.
Kernel is what I really want scheme to be. It's like scheme, but better. And if you're wondering why I say better, more first-class objects is always a good thing.
Given how cheap bigquery is, there would have to be a lot more bq-only customers than customers that use other services. And given how seamlessly the different products work with each other, any beachhead product like bq will quickly garner more product usage.
Haha so why not sell this to dudebros worried about getting brought up on statutory rape charges? Or is there already an app for that?
Isn't the LGPL good enough?
Yes, ck and preshing https://github.com/preshing/junction are state of the art.
This one really not.
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"Try it for free" - but what's the actual pricing?
The reasoning ability and executive function of birds, crows in particular, is astonishing. Intelligence (certain kinds, at least) may be just as reliant on brain:body mass ratio as it is on overall brain size and complexity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVaITA7eBZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
Yeah, the interesting details are in the paper. If I understand it correctly, ECMP alone doesn't give you a very even distribution because of the small number of hash buckets. And every time the routing table changes (e.g. when taking backends in or out of rotation) it will drop connections because packets are suddenly being hashed to different destinations. Maglev adds an additional layer behind ECMP that solves those problems.
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Good for Amazon too: it'll make them compete better on innovation and price. They have been quick to introduce products, but their technical infrastructure and abstractions thereof seem to lag Azure and GCP, and investment in those take a long time to pay off.
SV tech wages at post-Series-B companies are generally close to Google/Apple/Facebook/Microsoft, anyway, at least in engineering. (Early stage, up through some Series A, are definitely lower)

There are big/public companies which underpay people, too, of course.

I think wages for a 5-10y experience "good" engineer are probably around 200-350k all-in in SF right now (cash, bonus, reasonable equity calculation, etc.). At an early startup it might be that you get a more advanced role than you would in a larger company, but in general there is close to parity now. It might be $25k more cash at a big company, and the stock being more liquid in RSUs vs. options, but the total compensation based on what I'd consider fairly reasonable valuation of equity is probably roughly the same.

(I don't really know the 0-2y experience market/college hires, or non-technical roles, though.)
Read the book, it's actually considered one of the best business books of recent years. Despite the title, Thiel covers countless important areas of the entrepreneurial journey to great ideas -> great businesses
In hindsight, there were definite revenue challenges -- customers would try the product, like it, but not sign purchase contracts very often. How much of that is me being grumpy and how much is normal growing pains I don't know, but customers definitely weren't jumping up and down throwing money at us. Had the company been earning even millions of dollars, it would have been a different story. We made like $40k the first full year of attempting to charge money for the product. That, to me, augurs towards a poor outcome and supports selling.
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Thank you for your response - I agree with what you are saying.

> so I have a hard time understanding why you'd want to switch

The main reason is that I want to write code and build stuff. Most of my current time is bug fixes (last point of escalation), estimates, meetings and managing people, and the odd "new feature" I develop when everyone else is busy. One of my main strengths is that I can get to the bottom of bugs really quick and provide (what other people call) "elegant" solutions but I think I'm falling behind on actual development skills due to lack of time (I see what other developers write on the internet and I realize that I'm waaaaay behind).

I'm aware that from a career perspective it doesn't make much sense and that is why I asked this question in the first place. I do want to write more code but I 've worked very hard to get where I am now and I don't want to make a bad call.
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Great blog post! Thoughtful explanations and links to research papers[1] is a much classier way to compete and differentiate compared to just saying "we're better, we're better" like they've done before[2].

I love the jab at AWS in the end:

> 'knowing that when your traffic ramps up, we’ve got your back.'

They've heard that AWS load balancers need "prewarming" to handle huge traffic spikes, so they're throwing one in there...

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub44824.html
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10287318
Side note, but I'm impressed the article didn't try and put a positive spin on it given Jeff Bezos' interest in Business Insider.
How did the change impact you? More control, lower cost?
A new business or a business expanding their current menu always has an issue with distribution. It used to be solved with ads in the newspaper, Yellow Pages, fliers under windshield wipers.

Groupon and LivingSocial's value-add is allowing a small business to gain distribution relatively on the cheap compared to other methods.