skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested but did not want to do the research, the student in question is Chris Klaus who donated $15 million in 1999 in order to get Georgia Tech's new (at the time) computing building named after him[1]. He founded Internet Security Systems right after graduating which IBM acquired for approximately $1.3 billion in 2006[2]. It is also interesting to note that the gift was made after his company went public in 1998[3].

[1] http://www.philanthropy.gatech.edu/building/christopher-w-kl...

[2] https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20164.wss

[3] http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/internet-security...
So..more free press for Donald Trump?
> but no amount of tweaking is going to make a turbofan work at supersonic speeds

Sure they can. It's the inlet's job to slow the flow to subsonic. Turbofans have been used on supersonic military aircraft since the 1960's. Go read about intake ramps. Then learn about diverterless supersonic intakes.

You're yelling scam pretty loud for someone that clearly doesn't know basics of the topic area.

Edit: My guess is the engine they're standing in front of is a JT8 of some flavor, which have been heavily used by both military and commercial aircraft.
What's wrong with Rust's error-handling mechanism (namely, the `Result` type)? Generally when writing Rust, panics only come up when you actively invite them with something like an `.unwrap()` call or the `try!` macro, which is Decidedly Bad Style for anything serious.
Out of curiosity what does it matter if your postgres download is via http or https? Is there any benefit of hiding your download from prying eyes?
I just read about something like that recently, a couple being thrown into jail in the US in the 1960s, for the 'crime' of being married and of being different races.

Edit: My mistake, it was 1958, but they took legal action in the 1960s (Loving vs Virginia, 1967), and despite the Supreme Court's ruling, some states kept such laws on the books as late as 2000 (Alabama), which is actually probably what you were referring to.

The comment by the judge in 1958 is (almost) unbelievable:

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow,
malay and red, and he placed them on separate
continents. The fact that he separated the races shows
that he did not intend for the races to mix.

Presumably God wasn't as fussy about non-red races in the legal profession in North America.
It does not make sense to compare the returns of a $26b fund to that of the S&P 500. You are thinking like a small-time investor who can simply buy and ETF or index fund. When you have $26bn to manage, you need to do a lot of work to diversify it and spread it across tons of different assets in different markets (not just US equities). Yale's target for 2016 is to hold only 4.0% in domestic equity.[1]

A good comparison would be to another fund of a similar size. According to this Citi report [2] (most recent numbers I could find by AUM size), the average fund with >$10B in AUM in 2013 returned 13%. Note - there were only 18 hedge funds in the world that fell into that bracket. That average is lower in 2015 - how much? I'm not sure. But probably under the 11.5% net return reported by Yale in 2015.

[1] http://news.yale.edu/2015/09/24/investment-return-115-brings...

[2] https://www.citibank.com/mss/sa/conference/aslf/2015/docs/ci...
Yale, Harvard, Penn (to a lower extent) all have a no-loan financial aid policy. Cornell with its $6b endowment doesn't - and neither do many other schools - and that's ludicrous.
There have been a number of reports about accounts being stolen and pawned off at 1$ or less.. might have something to do with that.
Generally there is a small annual fee in addition to a cut of the profits. Profits on huge gaining years seem really high, but you're forgetting the essentially zero profit (or losses) on years with negative or no returns. Those years are not necessarily (and in reality, not at all) the fault of the hedge fund. They still provided a very valuable service in down or break-even years.

Also, managing billions of dollars is hard as shit and requires a ton of expertise and talented managers. You can't just take a hedge fund with $50 million and hand them $4 billion and say "do the same thing, but with more money".
> I'm pretty positive I'm in full control of this company.

That means you're not.

> I've taken reigns and made all the decisions.

For which they are well within their rights to pay you $0 for upon termination.

> I will become the CTO and co-founder of this company when it launches.

Then it should be no trouble to get that in writing to protect yourself.

Read this tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/710191728763015169
Essential Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow
It's a godsend for me, and I don't use anything else on AWS. The value is that I can run arbitrary programs written in any language, and have it automatically scale up without having to think about VM instances. In my case there's a single (quite complex, cpu intensive) commandline C program that I need to run between zero and hundreds of on demand - I haven't found anything else that lets me do that.
Laying it all on Nixon does not explain "Reefer Madness" (1936) nor every other country that criminalizes drugs with zeal.
Fully Remote Organizations and the Prisoner's Dilemma
OK sure, there's the appeal of "Smart? Any human is as a lowly slug to the cosmos!" but in the context of a job application it would be dancing around the common use of the word. If the meaning is "I'm probably in the minority of humans who could solve this problem" then it is definitely a good attitude to have in the context of applying for a job.

Now if you say "I'm hardly ever wrong" that won't go over as well.
I added that in an edit, but basically, it doesn't grant any powers by itself. It simply aids the court in carrying out its jurisdiction.

So, when it comes to wiretapping, there are specific statutes that authorize wiretapping in such-and-such circumstances. The court can then issue writs as needed to carry that out, provided the writs meet fairly narrow criteria (not overly burdensome, only targeted at an entity "close to" the case at hand, only targeted at an entity whose actions are "necessary" and where there's no other way to carry out the jurisdiction, rather than, say, just convenient) and the writ must have some kind of antecedent in common law, which is a somewhat fuzzy topic, but it boils down to "the writ can't just be pulled out of thin air, there's a set of traditional writs and it should appear to be consistent with that set".
START WW4 AND ATTACK
For those who are interested in knowing more about Andy Grove and the early days of Intel, I highly recommend Tedlow's biography. Of all the biographies or business histories I've read, I can't think of one which does a better job of making you feel like you're hanging out with him, hearing his war stories, and getting a real feel for what kind of guy he was and what drove him and his company to success.

http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Grove-Life-Times-American/dp/1591...
Thanks, been a long time since accounting classes.
What a loss. High Output Management remains one of the finest books on our industry that I have read, and I'm glad we have that to help carry his torch forward.
But Mandrill didn't require any of this wizardy and noones emails got dropped?
it's pretty interesting especially for those of us who are creating analytics tools on top of postgresql, the increase performance would certainly permit less denormalized work-around , like creating "manual" aggregate directly in the database (with all the problem of keeping them in sync with the rest)

and I'm still here waiting for 9.5 to arrive in RDS of amazon :(
Yes, but that line of reasoning requires you to believe this was about the phone's contents to begin with and it would take a serious act of suspension of disbelief to go down that particular road with what's known about this whole sordid affair to date. It's simply the FBI using a crisis to attempt to expand their powers.

See also:

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-priva...
Hi Justin,

I'm currently trying to get my feet wet on GAE. Judging from your statement, are you suggesting that people should look into Managed VMs and maybe skip the regular GAE (or known as the original GAE)?

Perhaps the original GAE will be deprecated in the future?
Almost all Euro govts have >100% of their country's total revenue in debt. If prices were to go down, they're completely screwed. If prices go down because you starve the government's income ... that's incredibly bad for them.

(when prices go down you have to pay a bigger percentage of your income to serve the same debt)
Who wrote it? And when?
And:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288030
From Wikipedia,

>Grove's office was an 8-ft by 9-ft cubicle like the other employees, as he disliked separate "mahogany-paneled corner offices." He states, "I've been living in cubicles since 1978 — and it hasn't hurt a whole lot." Preferring this egalitarian atmosphere, he thereby made his work area accessible to anyone who walked by. There were no reserved parking spaces, and Grove parked wherever there was a space.
What a great idea! You sound like some super smart ladies!
There's nothing out there that's any good for me right now. I'm giving it a year. I would really like a modern app that lets me read and markup web pages, pdfs and make notes and drawings all seamlessly, and makes it searchable, etc.

Onenote and Evernote are way, way worse than a paper notebook for my needs, but I can taste the chance that a working digital notebook offers. It's so close!
Nitpick: Walt Watson is the back-seater in question — Brian Shul was just the guy on the stick (and the author of the story, of course).
Precisely - this seems (or seemed originally) like a best-case scenario for Justice: it's a terrorist's iPhone, rather than a drug dealer's or some other "lesser" criminal's, where the public's fear might not be on the side of the FBI. It definitely feels like fishing for a precedent for other phones (especially the later models where this attack isn't feasible).
Harvard Endowment - 37.5B.
Yale - 25.5B.
Penn - 10.13B.
Cornell - 6B (as you said).

Harvard Undergraduates - 6,700.
Yale - 5,500.
Penn - 10,500.
Cornell - 14,000.

Maybe it's because Cornell has less money and more students than the other schools you listed?

Spending 4% a year, that gives Cornell about 17k per student. It doesn't sound unreasonable to think that's just not enough to cover the tab.
Also notice that this is a repeat of Mac OS vs Windows in the early '90s. Then, part of the reason that true Windows GUI programs replaced DOS as fast as they did, and we didn't have a period of "Windows as a way to show multiple DOS Windows" was that people (Microsoft being an important one) had to learn GUI programming to support the Mac.
Data-Driven Collaboration
Is the name a pun on LFO (low frequency oscillator)?
Perhaps an appropriate measure for interviewing is to do some psychological profiling to spot where a candidate is imbalanced, and then incorporate into the remainder of questioning. As an interviewer, you're always going to be biasing towards your own strengths and downplaying weaknesses, and although there are personalities that pose more or less danger to others, there isn't a perfect personality overall.
It may simply be 2-factor authentication. You request a password reset, and they text a code to your phone. You enter that code into your browser. That way, they know you have both the full account details and the associated phone in your possession. Increases the likelihood that you are the authentic account holder.

Many sites, Google included, now offer this optionally. If NetFlix is mandating it, perhaps they really have a problem with users accounts being hijacked.
Are you saying that if you were happy to work with them and had the ability to crack that iphone, you wouldn't get in touch with them? You can pretty much set the terms in that case. Everyone knows about this case already, so they don't need to explicitly ask.
> the best of C# and Rust

e.g.? I've only just scratched the surface of Rust and dismissed C# as a Java clone (but maybe I shouldn't have?). What's some examples of the best of Swift that you see?
It reminds me of Webvan all over again (the first time all of these food delivery startups failed).

Food delivery is extremely difficult to get right. You needs lots of money in the beginning and the shipping routes need to be really efficient.

I have no comment on Valet parking startups, but it doesn't seem like a very profitable space, especially when VC wants a 10X ROI.
How Saudi Arabia Captured Washington
> On a conference call with reporters late Monday, a law enforcement official ... said the case was never about setting a precedent, but only about getting information from a dead terrorist’s phone

Pure 100% unpasteurized bullshit.
Anyone know the V8 version that they are targeting for node.js 6?

There are some sweet features in ES6 V8 4.9 that I would love to start using including optional arguments and array based destructuring.
More than likely along the same lines as Lisp Flavored Erlang - http://lfe.io
Oh dear, you're fucked.
Thanks for the note back.

I think the attack vector that seems very likely here is an e-mail like this:

User: Initiates Support Request around a transaction that's funky

Naughty BlockCypher Employee: "Let's try to debug this. Can you get me a private key from an early address you sent from, one which you WON'T USE AGAIN? I want to check that we're doing our math correctly. Make sure it's not an address with an existing balance!"

I propose that well over 99% of developers would think "Will I use this address again? If not, should be fine to pass on this private key."
Does Google still patch the stack (kernel, web server, interpreter, database, modules, etc.) whenever security issues are discovered? I always thought that was one of the best bits of the App Engine model.
I had the Razer Blade 2014 and loved it. I am going to buy a new one soon.
I still have the luxury of owning also a 2012 Macbook Air, but the Razer is a great alternative to a new Macbook Pro.
Could you elaborate on:

"Most systems are unable to keep DMA from scribbling all over everything in RAM, and probably all are unable to keep it from scribbling all over a filesystem."

In what context do you mean? When would this occur?

Thanks
Really I think Apple should be treated as a hostile agency operating in this country.Most countries in the world would. Sometimes one should get off their high horses.
Batteries do make sense on aircraft in place of APUs for backup and start and such, of course, just not thrust.
One main benefit of https is confidentiality, but for OSS downloads it more importantly provides an integrity and authentication benefit as well. Sure checksums and/or package signing should provide the same benefit, but most users cannot say they have checked these for every installation (and checksums are useless if served via http because they can be tampered via a man-in-the-middle attack).
Hi, I'm the project author.

I started writing this to do my own taxes, which are very complicated---the project covers forms 1040, 6251, part of 8582, 1040 schedules A & E, and several worksheets because I actually have to file all of those. [Well, I don't have to file f6251, but I can't prove that without going through it.]

But since starting I'm thinking more and more about the value of a public reference version of the tax code. I discuss this more here: https://bureauphile.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/managing-comple... .

Thanks to this thread I've learned about a few other implementations of the code, and I'll have to check them out. But I should note that the XML documents from the IRS are not one of them. They do a good deal of error checking, but you can't use them to solve for the bottom line. It's the lack of a reference implementation of the tax code from the IRS that has led me and evidently several others to roll our own.

Given a reference implementation, there are a lot of things one could do: a what-if calculator for consumers or businesses, a policy analysis tool using IRS SOI (statistics of income) data, still more infographics beyond the one at https://b-k.github.io/1040.js , tools for in-person tax prep for all the tax clinics that pop up this time of year. In a perfect and ideal world, IRS would pick up on all this potential utility and would start providing a reference implementation themselves.
Boo. IANAL so I can't quite see where the harm may lie in requiring the "moving party" to see through what they started (if the defending party wants it, of course).
Is there a study that shows that to be true? Can you point to any industry resources? Thanks!
R.I.P

Read his book "Only the Paranoid Survive" many years ago, he fought for cancer before I think, also remember his cubicle and no-reserved parking as mentioned here. What a great man.
But then you don't get invited to Ivy League donor parties
> "boom" is not the right name. Explosions. Annoying/scary sonic boom. These are not the associations you're looking for. Try "glide," "zip"—something along those lines.

I'd have to disagree. The way I associate these words causes me to think of something "revolutionary" when I hear "boom". i.e., it's shaking up the market. Contrary to that, "glide" and "zip" (I know these are just examples) sound more soothing and definitely not attention-grabbing. If the aim of the company were to provide luxurious flight, then maybe that would be fitting. But as I see it, the company really does mean to shake things up, in which case their name is already fitting.

Obviously, everyone has their own opinions, but I thought sharing an opposing perspective would be useful in showing that it's definitely not a one-sided topic.
If you ever find yourself trying to activate the keyboard cursor but the phone thinks you're typing, simply let off on the pressure a little (without removing your finger from the screen) and then press down again. This will switch you into cursor mode. I've found this to be 100% reliable.
Without GAE/GCP my business wouldn't be where it is today and in such a short amount of time. I can't reveal numbers, but our bill and usage is significantly higher than yours. But, it is still just a rounding error compared with our revenue. Thanks to GAE, we focus our work on real features for our partners, which translates directly into profit.

A post on this topic that I made a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159840

Thanks again Google! =)
Yikes! I have two copies, having thought that I'd lost mine years ago -- bought a new one -- then found the original again.
Anyone looking for an additional read should check Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari.
Lots of things involving cloud computing, performance, SRE, software development. I'm still an individual contributor, although I consult with many others. I'm often working at the cutting edge, problems that haven't been solved before, but not always. Whatever the company needs I'm happy to do, whether it's glamorous or not.

AFAIK, to get to my range and beyond, you need to be a top performer (and bring a multiple in value of your salary to the company), be an expert in in-demand technologies (ones that aren't really in demand don't count), have a good network including senior managers / executives at companies that want to hire you, and you need to know how to negotiate. And, you can't negotiate if you don't know what others are paid. Surveys like this should be helpful.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "CPU dispatcher"? I am not familiar with the term and have not heard it before. Is this something specific to certain SoC designs? I've never heard mention of this in x86 architectures.
Richard Stallman Braved a Winter Storm Last Night to March Against DRM
Thanks. Just bought a copy.
Now it has worked.
It is in development:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11142913

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143211
I just googled "J. Jovan Philyaw", and the first link is a transcript of his interview. Oh boy

http://jhuttonpulitzer.blogspot.com/
> It's hard to say exactly when, but I expect the supersonic overland ban will be reversed in the coming years.

Can you elaborate on this? Is there a significant lobbying effort for this or is it something the FAA is considering of their own volition, to stimulate activity in this area?
RIP. I'm in the process of re-reading High Output Nanagement, which was only one of many contributions Andy Grove made to the world.

Thank you for everything you did.
I think it would far more beneficial if they open source Cocoa/CocoaTouch. I don't care how the IDE works as much as the stuff I use every single day.
I discovered 3D Touch after watching an Apple commercial on TV, 3 months after I got the iPhone 6s Plus.
Hard nosed, no bullshit fighter. Rest in peace.
Production cost is a primary factor in pricing in industries having the characteristic of "perfect competition". For example, in the farming industry, the price of wheat is primarily determined by production cost, while influenced by other factors. You can read about characteristics associated with perfect competition on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Basic_stru...

If drug use and drug-making were both made fully legal, or comparable legal as alcohol-making and alcohol-using, then the industry would rapidly approach perfect competition for certain classes of categories (e.g., pharmaceutical recreational drugs).
> So after investing a lot of time and money in trying to get case law to expand the DoJ's power over corporations to conscript them into the War on the 4th Amendment, it become possible that they would see a judgement against them (especially if the Supreme court becomes more liberal with the next appointment).

Scalia would have hated the DoJ's argument here, honestly. If the Supreme Court even agreed to hear the government's appeal here it might well have been 9-0 against.

And I say this as someone with a low opinion of Scalia, in general.
One of the Valley's founding fathers. May he rest in peace.
If you haven't read it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679762884?keywords=high%20...
I agree with you, but many people see that as a plus when donating.

If I give $x to an organization that desperately needs it, it will be spent immediately. If I give $x to an endowment, it will sit there in perpetuity, providing investment income to the organization for decades or centuries.

Ben Franklin understood this and left a small amount of money (1,000 pounds) to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia in his will, instructing that the funds not be used for 200 years.

http://eddiethompson.org/2012/09/30/franklin_endowment/
"If you build it, they will come." Except they won't.

It seems to me that, unless your product is a platform, you probably shouldn't publish a public API until someone requests it as a feature. And you should charge for it, especially if your hosting the API endpoint. Turn it into direct revenue to support the development and maintence of those API features.
Imagining the Possible Futures of Virtual Reality
What exactly is the QNX IPC system? How is it different from regular IPC?

Can mapping QNX into the top of userspace processes avoid the TLB flush/invalidate?

I vaguely remember the Solaris Doors which is similar to pipe correct? How does it relate to this discussion.

Thanks.
Yeah, this is one of those issues where Democrats and Republicans both just assume that their party is the "good guys" and the other party is the "bad guys," when in fact it's not a particularly partisan issue at all.

("Free speech" is another one of those--both parties have been pretty shitty on free speech since 9/11, but everyone plays down their own party's sins and screams about the other's.)
+1, the 4S was Steve's final masterpiece.
except that Mach OS X's mach is a microkernel right? Or am I missing something?
Because they are building an open source industry leading database. What's not exciting about that!
What I’ve Learned Working as a Black Person in Silicon Valley