skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're most likely protected by DMCA safe harbor provision, so while they probably can, they don't really have to.
We want to analyze the user's connections and emails to figure this out. We do understand that there would be a lot of privacy concerns in this regard, and hence won't like to save any such private data on our servers. Once we derive this information, we present it to the user to confirm & save.

If a user A adds user B (who already uses 128HS), then we need not worry too much about learning about B as B is already a 128HS user. The problem is with those family members who don't use 128HS.

We also encourage the users to share interesting plans/places/events with their contacts (which the user thinks their contacts might like), we keep learning more about their contacts.

We do realize that the same user behaves differently / has different preferences when on a grad trip vs a family trip. We want to generate the network graph accordingly.

On another thought, we were also looking at gamifying the entire trip planning exercise among family members with incentives for inviting family members to plan trips collaboratively - just an idea, didn't think through too much in this direction.
Completely ignoring the transit issue is remarkable. New York City serves an example of a vibrant and expensive city, but one that has a multitude of options depending on how much you're prepared to commute.

People truck in on a daily basis from New Jersey and Connecticut because there's highways and reliable (enough) rail options.

BART, from all accounts, is a total disaster and is about to completely implode. The rail project through the valley is anemic, completely inadequate for any serious commuter use.

If you can provide more options, stronger links with better commute times, you can live in places farther away without as huge a penalty on your time. It should be practical to live in Oakland and work in San Francisco, the two are so damned close, but it's a nightmare in practice.

Fix that and you're half way to solving this problem.
KDE doesn't even support XScreenSaver anymore.
Help me understand how:

"We learned from our failures and stayed stubborn on the vision"

isn't mutually exclusive
Are there any teams, companies, products, etc that I should invite?
> Amazon isn't making any money yet.

Amazon makes TONS of money. They aren't currently returning any of it to shareholders as profits, they're continuously reinvesting it in the company.

The difference between gross profit and net profit is how much Amazon is spending on building new businesses that after a few years start grossing $10b a year in sales like AWS. That got funded out of the gross profits from regular Amazon retail operations.
Just curious as to why owning an automatic was one of the most expensive decisions of your life?

Just for reference I own an automatic and I'm quite happy with it.
By the way Glassdoor is subject to subversion by a company's HR. Go to Theranos' Glassdoor postings and ask yourself whether the glowing reports sound like they were written by employees, and further, whether it is reasonable that they coexist with some of the rotten ones.
I am perceived to be part of the problem.

Not attacking, just commenting: maybe rephrase? I'm similar to you but despite background / origin we're still part of the problem. We are rich enough to live in the mission and shop at bi-rite and we displace poorer folks (who, as you observed, are often from ethnic minorities, with backgrounds different from ours). Having come from modest beginnings doesn't make us less the problem.

That said, I think it does help to make us more aware of how unfair the system is.
It's really depressing that every single thread about React has to beat this confused dead horse.
Cannot believe I missed this wonderful reply. For those who don't know, the VBX interface is one of the most successful component models in the history of computing. Growing pains != to failure.
It certainly does.

With 5M I would probably play it fairly safe, keep my money in a diversified portfolio weighted towards high dividend stocks and try to live a modest upper-middle/upper class lifestyle, with the exception that I would travel quite a lot. I would probably run a small consulting firm just to stay engaged.

With 40M, I would probably have 2-4 teams of people simultaneously working on business projects. That much money lets you take risks, because even if everything goes wrong, as long as you're not retarded you can just liquidate and still have enough left to play out the 5M scenario.
Haven't tried Azure yet - will give it a spin eventually. I love Digital Ocean compared to AWS. Sure, AWS has a lot of bells and whistles, but this simplicity of DO is just what I need most times.
> yet (almost) none of the dynamic languages go faster than "an order of magnitude slower than C with a huge memory penalty" even today, after a ton of effort has been poured into them

Interesting. What are the exceptions you have in mind to warrant the (almost) hypothetical? You mention LuaJIT. I've also heard that Q/KDB are quite fast. Anything else?
I see this letter as an attempt at vindication for the controversy sparked by the NYT article on Amazon's corporate culture. Jeff Bezos was clearly affected and I see this as a defense of their "distinctive culture". "For better or for worse" that culture got them to $100 billion in annual sales faster than any company in history.
If you have 4M users and $350k in advertisement revenue why are you applying for the fellowship? As well most things related to just making free phone calls have been done previously many times over. I would add something like free video calling made easy. Or if someone who does not know how to use a computer or a smart phone, and your product can help them make video calls with ease.
Audit univ of california screwed over states own students in favor of outsiders
Dang, you've mentioned this to me before so I have been counting, but I prefer a more scientific method. Are there APIs that let me know the number of flags for a post?

Edit: also why I asked for the number of upvotes. According to him it was 45? That's a lot.
Love this! Hope it works out, and if there is anything i can help with i'll be happy to do so. Also, if you aren't already doing it, do think about this not only for the US but as a global project.. Its needed worldwide. I would suggest promoting this as social enterprise. I am sure you'll find lots of support.
$596 million in net income the last four quarters to be exact. So yeah, they are making money.

Further, AWS is a money printing machine. It's generating over $700 million in operating income per quarter, and that's growing very fast. It'll be at $5+ billion per year in operating income within perhaps just two or three more years. There aren't very many technology businesses anywhere producing that kind of operating income.
LOL. Ballmer say so:

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/ex-microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-...
A few things:

* You can use Signal with any phone number that can receive voice calls: http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21319067...

* Signal's primary audience is non-technical users. The big goal of Signal is to thwart passive, dragnet surveillance of people's text and voice messaging.

* AFAIK, Signal's use of GCM makes it more difficult for an adversary to perform traffic analysis to determine with whom a Signal user is speaking, but not impossible.

* If you don't trust Open Whisper Systems to treat the phone number that you give them as sensitive and confidential, you really can't trust their messaging software, either. :)
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Great explanation. The tooling and first mover advantage were the reasons I started working with it back when it was in its infancy.
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Sorry but what's the difference between ETFs and index funds? It was presented to me as the same thing just one word being more common in Europe and the other more common in the US.
How so? You try again when you fail like that Thomas Edison quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
I'm guessing recent progress in texture synthesis [1] and content generation [2] using deep convolutional nets made this possible. It would be interesting to see what was actually fed into the generating system. That would be a piece of art truly speaking magnitudes.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07376

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06434
If you like this you'll love gifi[1] which plays a gif instead of npm's loading bar.

1. https://github.com/vdemedes/gifi
I get the idea from my own experience of interviewing at one of those "larger companies". The reason why they look disinterested is because they are indeed disinterested. A lot of times developers get pulled into interviews regardless of whether they have some important task at hand, and nothing makes you more frustrating than losing focus. And a lot of cases you get the notice about the interview the same morning or the day before. As a result sometimes I just go in without any preparation (honestly I would rather spend my time working on my own important task at hand than preparing to come up with some clever interview question for some guy who we may or may not even hire, and whom I will probably have nothing to do with even if he does get hired) I am not saying this is right, and I also think the system is broken, but it's system's fault, not the interviewer. So if you "ran" from Google because of this reason, you probably made a mistake, because at Google you can move around different departments after you get hired.
You can have tactical failures that don't invalidate the vision.
Did you also read the patent's text, or just their title and high-level description?
Generally code relevant to anything but security is passed off in movies etc. as being relevant to security. It's interesting to see this phenomenon come full circle.
I think they're saying that it's silly to use any complete operating system for a task that could be entirely handled by a few kilobytes of embedded code running on an 8088.
> Arguable since only a tiny percentage of Vic-20 owners ever wrote more than two lines of code, while vast numbers of kids use the Apple ][ in schools..

I don't know about your school, but at mine folks were playing Oregon Trail and simple math word problems on Apple ]['s and that was about it. "Coding" didn't happen until maybe 11th or 12th grade - as an elective choice.

Prior to that time, on my C64 I was copying programs (painfully) out of the back of magazines in my free time after school. Point is, just because there were computers in schools did not somehow create a legion of CS majors. Heck, more than half the folks in the programming class I took (late 80s) all had 'cheap' computers at home. They only the class because they perceived it to be an easy A or B.
Usually vision is paired with the concept of execution. The vision was to build a business out of being a marketplace where third parties can sell goods, they failed twice on the execution.
If there was such a thing as an "implicit" grant, then there would never be patent infringement cases.
Intelxdk is easy to learn and i think it would be a good fit for your project. Plus, you get to build for iOS, android and Windows with the same code...
ETFs are exchange traded funds are just that: investment funds which trade on an exchange, where you can invest and divest by trading a symbol.

Index funds are investment funds which seek to match the performance of a target index.

The concepts are orthogonal. You can have index funds which aren't ETFs and you can have ETFs which aren't index funds.
what's up with their site?
There's another part of the quote that was not included that relates to being flexible on tactics (...while being stubborn on vision). So the "why" and "for whom" stay constant, but the "what" and "how" may change as you learn.
Indeed. You'd be much better off using webpack (or similar) to set the search paths, and then just require('foo').
They are convinced of the vision and have an unwavering belief that they will achieve this vision, but there are many paths one can take. So to act rationally when encountering a failed attempt, given their belief, is to learn and try something else. :)
It is free to them. It literally costs them no money. That's why they're choosing it. They're not fussed about the cost to their users.

(I don't use Facebook and don't like when communities build on Facebook.)
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I used to paint old masters portraits as a hobby (including Rembrandt). I think it's a bit disingenuous to describe this as 'painting'. On top of ma2rten's criticism that it basically photoshopped previous examples to create a most representative work, I'd add that 3D printing with texture is not painting. Rembrandt, in particular, was known for painting with countless layers of semi transparent glazes to give his paintings a sense of depth and an ethereal glow. He'd also mix his pigments with bindings aside from pure linseed oil, sometimes adding chalk or glass. 3D printing the final result with none of that process makes for a very limited reproduction.

Also, I'll add that I think it's very impressive, but I think they're overselling it here.
Are there best practices for designing connected, secure-by-default embedded devices? If you want to give your fridge an IP address, I feel like there should be an easy way to do that without additional security worries.
KDE doesn't support any screensavers any more
It gives an advantage to attorneys that can afford it. The vast majority of cases that see trial probably don't have a lot of money for the defense to spend on such things, while the prosecution has access to the DA's site license or whatever.

It's hard to believe this wouldn't end up mostly used by prosecutors.
He's talking about failures related to individual steps on the way to the greater vision of what Amazon is supposed to represent as a value proposition to customers.

A single failure on a step, such as the Fire Phone for example, doesn't imply a failure of the overall vision ("Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.").
That's why he said, "If you're feeling lucky".
Ballmer isn't conflicted or anything.
If you rolled it out to Oz surely you can enable New Zealand to ???
Your quote is from the section where they are explaining their first attempt at an auction house and how it failed but how their current system of third party retailers is implementing a similar idea in a successful way.

They kept the same vision/goal but they learned from how their first attempt failed and iterated on it until it succeeded.
That would be a powerful argument if you could prove the code path enabling this uses Erlang.

According to Wikipedia, shortly after Armstrong was let go of Ericsson, the company quickly ripped out Erlang from all its products and replaced it with C and C++.
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Correct. The YC valuation is a special case. An example valuation after totality of round A funding for a company can stand at around $1M for 1%. So that'd be $50,000 for .05% for an early-stage company.
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I live in Seattle and am friends with a lot of Amazon folks. Most work very hard and complain from time to time, but I only know one who left for another job because most who are there now actually really like their jobs.

One friend put it best after he transitioned from a small department in the ecommerce side of the business to one of AWS's early-ish hires, that most young departments have the thrill of working at a startup but with some very supportive corporate backing (as long as things are growing).
Well, Erlang is a niche programming language, isn't that evidence enough that all these claims that Erlang will save us from the multithreaded hell are vastly overblown?

We're doing multithreaded programming just fine in a lot of very varied languages.
I had no idea react used .innerHTML. That provides a significant performance drawback compared to other DOM APIs due to it requiring the browser to re-flow / re-render so much more. Glad you guys updated :)
Companies have budgets so estimates are necessary. Volunteer or work in open source if you don't like it. Those asking - business types usually - know (and often care) little about the craft, so they can't be expected to be much help.

The best you can do is be experienced enough to be able to get it somewhat close. Nothing wrong with padding. How much.. is an art form. But remember technical people nine times out of ten, will under-estimate.
Microsoft bought/aquirehired Erich Gamma and his team in Switzerland to get hold on the technology. It's also the root cause for the TypeScript development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
At the end of the day, John Yoo has probably studied the Constitution more than Obama, as well as other nameless ones throughout government. For every one of you and me, there are entire graduating classes every year chock full of ideological pushback.
Most of his shareholder letters are like this. Even the 1997 reprint they put in every year as part of the letter talks a lot about the company philosophy and culture. Certainly some of the stuff at the end about new programs for parents and students is from NYTimes, but I think the rest of it is consistent belief/action since the start of the company.
There is no easy way. There are ways to prove software correctness, but it is far from easy
So I guess this article is suggesting mass migration to PaaS providers like Heroku and ElasticBeanstalk, where things are sufficiently abstracted that it won't be too big of a drain on developers time?
For me, over the years I spent a lot of time looking for the right atmosphere, changing jobs once every one or two years. Then I noticed / worked towards a change within myself and I think I am now better at recognizing a good match. Unexpectedly, I am now also more open to more relationships in which I wouldn't have engaged previously.

I know the ways in which I work best and I'm not afraid to let people know. That confidence makes a big difference not only in who I choose to work with, but also in how I work with others.

When gauging a new employer or coworker I decide mostly on feel. It's easy to recognize a matching relationship once you know yourself. That doesn't mean it's easy to find one.

It might not be true for everyone. In my experience, knowing myself helped a ton, and I was the only one who could figure that out. I was always told this growing up and had no idea what it meant. People telling me to "be yourself" made little sense to me until I learned more about myself.
The only issue I had with this setup was that if a download got cancelled, it would start failing throwing package integrity errors because aria downloads directly to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/package_name.tar.xz rather than a .part file which is copied upon completion. The built-in downloader of pacman ensures this is done right.
We only used .innerHTML when creating new subtrees, which requires a reflow anyway when they're inserted. There are reasons that document.createElement is faster for us, but that's not one of them.
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I also made a VGA shield for my Nano! I got a couple pictures at https://mobile.twitter.com/dyselon/status/648020130471899136

That project is actually kind of what convinced me to go ahead and buy the CV. It was fun, but it just felt like a lot of work making things that I could just already have on the board.
The only problem I have with this is that when you have a lot of joins and your query is long it gets confusing, as in what table was 'l', what table was 'a' and then you have to scroll up and look it up again, whereas in the parent comment its easy as it makes it explicitly clear and the table name does not matter when looking at joins.
Some people have told me that SimCity was based on Empire http://www.classicempire.com !
AWS has moved on from single-EC2-instance simplicity. It's not worth it if you don't need a virtual rack of servers with all the VPC networking that comes with it.

But if you _do_ need that, like we do, it's bloody brilliant.
> Before Erlang, Tandem systems built hardware/software with many of the same ideas in them.

Indeed, Jim-gray's (from tandem) paper 'why computers stop and what we can do about it' is an quite good. It contains a detailed report of machine failure including s/w and h/w and details techniques for reducing the mtbf by these.

Erlang's language and runtime seems to have picked seminal ideas from here...
Ask HN: Confused about career, need help
I am a 23 year old Indian Engineer. I started my career in one of the best startups in India, did some great work and learnt a lot. But after 2 years, the worked seemed kind of monotonous and I saw no growth ahead. So I quit.

I had an offer from another startup which had just raised Series A. They offered a 30% raise and I was happy. Their product was something I already used to use and it had immense potential and is definitely the next big thing in fintech space.

However, things went haywire after I joined.
I have no idea why they hired me. The company is already overstaffed according to my opinion. The engineers are mediocre and do not follow any best practices. The response time of their app is in the order of 2-3 seconds. They have n+1 queries and n square complexity code all over the codebase. The code isn't modularised. It doesn't even have callbacks at model level. They asked me NOT to code, even when I am extremely good at the stack they are using.

I talked about this to the engineering lead and the response was like "You're in Devops. No need to look after code. You just joined a week back, you can't criticize people here just like that. We are not fools here."

Noone here is concerned about performance. They just want to acquire new customers and show MoM growth to investors. Engineering is in a very bad shape. It is so bad that, there is no way to test this code locally. You have to make a change, push it to staging and then test. Imagine the horror!

I got fed up of this and started applying elsewhere to companies that have been around for 3-5 years with proven engineering team. I have couple of offers now. I am confused about what to do.

1. It has been only 1 month in this company. Is it ok to quit too soon?
2. What happens if the new company also has a same situation? How long will I keep running like this?

Any help is appreciated.
AFAIK they used modified version of QEMU to run Android. Will the speed enhance take any effect on the base QEMU? Or there were just OS optimizations?
I think it suffers from the same problem as other asset caching. Think of all the sites you visit and how much JS they load. 1000 websites with 1MB of JS will hit 1GB of storage.
>very supportive corporate backing (as long as things are growing).

I tend to feel like this would be most corporations that aren't shooting themselves in the foot. Not that there aren't plenty of those out there.
How long should an investor wait to get any ROI on a 20 year old company? (honest question)