skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One good example is the hair on the forehead of the "woman" image. IMO, Daala does better than BPG here, but obviously overall there's no clear overall winner (but JPEG is a clear looser :)

Very excited to see another Daala update. I look forward to a competivite alternative to HEVC.
Founder of Streak here - by the "streak stuff" I'm assuming you mean the www.inboxsdk.com. We'd love feedback on how we could have been your first choice for building in gmail. If it was slow to get started or prototype, we'd really learn a lot from your feedback.
I don't know, but they could use Midroll's money to entice (or flat out buy) desirable content for bootstrapping.
Hatred against Jews wasn't hatred against success. The Nazis loved wealthy industrialists like Hermann Schmitz who likewise loved the Nazis because they fought the communists and socialists.

The hatred of the Jews has its roots in the blood libel and conspiracy theories but basically boils down to the hatred and suspicion of an "other." Successful Jews were doubly hated because it was evidence of the conspiracies: of course Jews couldn't become wealthy by being Fine Upstanding Germans like Hermann Schmitz.
Did you forget that Appelbaum was involved in the release of the NSA ANT catalog[1], or his involvement with Laura Poitras and the Snowden documents? Never mind his involvement with Tor (which has been a recent target of various state actors). I'm sure many intelligence community want Appelbaum only slightly less than they want Snowden.

Or do you want to argue that the NSA doesn't care about the person that revealed a catalog of their tools to the public?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
Rule of thumb: if an adversary has physical access to your computer, treat it as compromised.
I laughed so hard, that co-workers started staring at me. Had to abort before anyone looked. I think i will hide this like a LMGTFY link and slack it.
I think it feels like a "more accurate satire" because it mixes things that are overexaggerated and underexaggerated, and only by a small amount in either direction. So some of the strange realities (an executive Rollerblading into a meeting) are mixed with dialogue and behavior that is only slightly more absurd than reality.
Morocco bans reading newspapers in public
> Experience has taught me that interviewing them is usually a waste of time.

So we have a situation where hopeful individuals spend a ton of money on questionable bootcamps for the promise of a shot at a job... and the employers think interviewing said individuals is a waste of time. That's a lovely thought. :/
no, but the ads will be more funny and ad payment disbursement more distributed.

in the reverse, it could fire the backup mechanism and start showing very generic ads.
Or 15 hours or days later, after they've fixed the inevitable issues with installing *nix on a Windows PC.
I think these people would be wise to go to the police rather than writing blog posts/twitter comments that imply vague wrong doing without any clear crimes involved.
10base-2, we had some localtalk phonenet mac lan parties too.
The peer-2-peer mechanism is well understood now. Its economics have clearly been declared perfectly viable.

Therefore, you could have hundreds of Uber-style networks with a few cross-network search engines returning search results. That would have exactly the same effect as having just one Uber.

Transport services are important to the economy. We must always encourage swarmification of our critical infrastructure.

Furthermore, in a related case, we should be grateful that the powers that be attacked Napster and shut it down. Decentralization takes a lot of effort and is not just a natural outcome. The far-reaching decentralization of the bittorrent ecosystem only came about thanks to the continuous legal attacks that made it the only solution possible.

Therefore, I advocate sustained legal and other attacks on Uber.

We do not want a centralized system. We will need the attacks orchestrated by the state apparatus to properly shape a much more decentralized solution.
The story isn't about the suspension failures. The story is about the nondisclosure.
I'll take the (probably unpopular) advertiser-centric approach here...

I agree with a lot of what Ben says (and his podcast is the highlight of my commute these days). What is fascinating is that the space has been the domain of direct response advertisers for a while, and only a handful. I was familiar with all of the ones mentioned, but was absolutely shocked that they were such a large percentage of the mix.

Either podcasting ads are so nascent that only a handful of people are in on it, or there are performance challenges (whether it be attribution or overall poor performance). What I'd love to see is the # of advertisers to made a solid go of it and had dismal experiences despite having success in other channels. That would be very telling.

The conversion tracking piece is a big missing chunk of the equation. I could see ads embed audio tags that any reader could parse, but I fear the tracking restricted to individual platforms. That puts all of the control on the sell-side of the equation, and also conveniently impossible to audit or compare numbers against. I'd LOVE to see DoubleClick/Turn/etc. get into the game with some tracking solutions here. They are the industry standard and would integrate well into existing ad stacks. Anyone who provides good tracking solutions might consider them for possible acquisitions.

Beyond that, I think that podcasts make a lot of sense with the shift to native ads. Many people feel they have a relationship with the podcaster because it is in fact a real live person that you listen to because you like them. In speaking with Midroll for our own forays into podcast ads, it looks like you provide a list of bullets on your offering, and the podcaster works to craft the ad in their voice to make it more natural.

That is a win for both the advertiser and the listener. The more natural format likely boosts receptiveness (and thus performance) for the advertiser, and the listener gets something that isn't horribly disruptive to the listening experience as good podcasters (like Roman Mars on 99pi) make them fun and have found that people stick around to even listen to the post rolls because he's so good at them.

Anyway, that's my $.02. I think the space is nascent, and I hope that the inevitable power struggle between publishers and platforms doesn't kill it as it could be really powerful when done right. Advertisers have some challenges but that hasn't stopped them from testing before. I'm frankly just shocked at the lack of overall advertiser volume.
> hot women stand around looking to pick up rich

Rosewood Hotel cougar night by Sand Hill.
He kind of had to be if electric vehicles were going to have a chance. Look at the "batteries are fire hazards" shitstorm - because his company is new and interesting, the press is going to be much harder on it than they would be on any other manufacturer. Given how much I hear about Tesla, I suspect that his information control roughly balances out the muckraking into something like the truth.
The first step is free, just for signing up for the email list?
I have really enjoyed watching this show but the last few episodes it seems like the writing has went downhill. There were a number of cringe worthy scenes like "tabs vs spaces".
Got a really good LOL out of this. I wish HN had a little more humor, not Reddit levels, just a wee bit more.
> attitude of hatred towards success, which was a large part of the propaganda

If success is defined as not working, but parasitically living off the labor time of those of us who do work, as heirs and VCs and their LPs do, then yes, there is a hatred of "success". We who work don't need heirs parasitically living off our work and sweat.
Websockets would overkill for this kind of feature – you don't need realtime two-way communication. Server sent events (SSE) [1] are a much better alternative; it's a simple, long-lived HTTP request where the server can push data to the client. They're built into most browsers [2], and the client-side polyfill [3] is small (2kb gzipped).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent...

[2] http://caniuse.com/#search=server-sent%20events

[3] https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource
The eps I skimmed felt dumbed down for Hollywood. Unrealistically hot, oversexed people with tech as just a backdrop.
You have to tell us what is wrong first, in other words why do you think you're going wrong? There is nothing wrong with what you've described as far as I can tell. But what issues are you having? Users not going to your site? Likely not a tech problem.
Anybody remember Snipes on the old Novell LANs?
Mind you, you could probably only do that once in the
entire run of the show.

HBO is the same network that aired this skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyrM7GxyzGg
Maybe i am wrong, but doesn't google encrypt at source (esepcially if you are logged in, using ssl enabled, or have some security features enabled). This should go through as regular search then.
Hooli = Google

Gavin Belson = Marc Benioff

Denpak Singh = Deepak Chopra

Peter Gregory = Peter Thiel

Erlich Bachman = Sean Parker

Russ Hanneman = Mark Cuban

Laurie Bream = Marissa Mayer

Philz Coffee onsite = Facebook

Hooli tunnel = Zynga tunnel
For some reason that is the main reason why I watch the show somewhat religiously (and I don't even live in the US).

When suffering through push-backs, broken software, and no's frequently, sharing the pain with the Pied Piper team is my quiet way of balancing my mind.
Emails in Clinton Probe Dealt with Planned Drone Strikes
I think I misread it. She actually said:

>The best founders don’t have time to get caught up in other things.

>Here’s a list of things that I see easily distract founders.

So if you don't get "caught up" in it it's important; while they can "easily distract" founders, they're important. I think she might have gone too far stating that they're the startup equivalent of "wolves in sheeps’ clothing", because wolves in sheeps clothing presumably are only out to hurt you - but read this way her point comes across well. Spending too much time with them ends up hurting you, even though they can be important. I mean one of them is Networking... try building a startup without that.
Computer Engineering (A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design)
Okay? I'm very familiar with that principle, but I don't understand how to take that statement and apply it to the situation at hand. No one has ever operated this computer except me (though I did enroll the corp wifi certs).

So again, how could I be MITM'd without being aware of it, given HSTS?

Yes, someone could have snuck in a hacked copy of Chrome Canary that exposes phony cert chain information... but that's not what we were talking about, and I don't think most IT departments have the sophistication required to pull that off.
I think you're referencing the 2014 U.S. Mobile App Report by ComScore.[0] For a 3-month period in 2014, 65.5% of U.S. smartphone users download no new application each month. (see figure on page 6) I didn't see any more recent stats, at least without paying/signing up.

[0]: http://www.ella.net/pdfs/comScore-US-Mobile-App-Report-2014....
Yep, IronPort is one product, but our network guys have been saying something about it being built into the latest Cisco series 6 routers?

That's the enterprise life
And early Google was 'just' a search engine, something that already existed in some forms, that looked totally unlike the Google of today. You are correct, but what are you trying to say? All companies are going to be 'lame' early on by definition.
NPR Fresh Air broadcast a similar article today:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/481377115/in-hbos-silicon-vall...
You could be right, I was not there and only am going off history as I heard it. Here is the relevant bit from the article I linked above:

The economic based hate came from the accusation that they Jews were stealing money from hard-working citizens. This belief was grounded in the fact that despite the depression followed by recession in the early 1930s that crippled the German economy, Jews were relatively well off financially. Because of this, Jews were seen as greedy money mongers who were obtaining their wealth illegally, even though their fortune came from the practice of money lending.
If no clear crime was committed, why on earth would going to the police have done any good?
Just going to pitch in Diablo 1&2 and Myth: the Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter.

So many hours.
He thought i fell to my death
while its cool, i cant imagine using my phone as PC, it would be like doing all my computing on a frustratingly slow raspberry pi when I can just use this laptop; not to mention storage on my phone is at a premium now, so not sure how that would be using it as my pc.. Think this idea needs a few years to marinate yet before phones are at this stage. but good work!
>What a load of bullshit

It isn't bullshit, just out of touch. That did happen. But it happened 20 years ago. Since then the leftists have taken over the way the libertarians did before. I can hardly fault people who have been away from the tech world for 20 years for basing their ideas on how things were 20 years ago.
Feynmann and Calculus, an anecdote
Very true. The difficult problem in this case is that it's impossible to serve anything else, even though there are various techniques out there that still identify you when using private browsing (such as canvas fingerprinting - https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index...): even if they're using such techniques under the hood (and that study, apparently from 2014, says 5.5% of top 100k sites were using it), they can't use it for recommendations, for obvious reasons (browser vendors would get eaten alive, private browsing would be overhauled, this technique would no longer work, everyone goes home sad).
If you enrolled the wifi certs into your system certificate store, certificates signed by them ignore HSTS, for exactly this use case.
agreed. I forgot to mention Tor and Snowden explicitly in my OC but agreed that these facts are all relevant to how we need to interpret events in this space. because it gives even more motive for certain actors to smear Applebaum.
the infosec scene is in a place the OSS scene was in ˜13-14 years ago, before the formal introduction of the gnome foundation, kde reorg. guess what both of those projects have?
outreach programmes and ombudsmän.

now, guess what the tor project lacks.

as you're probably thinking right now "but how in the f..." simple, OSS has had to deal with toxic enviroments and individuals.
one of the cornerstones is, listen, corroborate, recommend, act.

the infosec community as a whole lack formal mature organisations to deal with these kinds of situations.

what we're still lacking in the witness accounts are timeframes, we have something of a picture from very vague details from leaked emails, these can be regarding pretty much anything, aside from one which is about _unspecified_ misconduct at a conference.

the sad thing here is that people can change, victims with trauma live with the trauma, so listen, validate, no-shame or pre-judgement.

but the infosec scene isnt a special snowflake exempt from the social contract of society, we all co-sign it by living in a nationstate, so we need to uphold it because the alternative is chaos.

if there is a legitimate grievance, report it, go through the system. hell, even brokep says as much, and he trusts the system on this, even though the process he has been forced to endure.
> And at a stroke the entire history of Sun, Solaris and Sun OS is brushed under the carpet as though it never existed.

I don't think Sun is responsible for Apple's choice of a Unix. I was around in the late 90s, and Linux really was an amazing workstation — far more so than a Sun, because the value for money ratio was incredibly good.

I also remember when OS X first came out (and before that, mklinux), and the selling point was that it was a Unix, like Linux.

I'd still rather have a Linux workstation than a Mac. Linux gets out of my way and lets me work. Solaris never did that (oh, the days of Solaris 'packages' …), and OS X still doesn't.
I upvoted your parent comment because it was a worthy contribution to the dialog. I don't consider myself PC (in the now pejorative sense), but when you put quotes around the word rape it can be construed to be discounting it.
VCs provide a service that is not entirely parasitic (although I do enjoy the term "vulture capital" :) ). They provide funding (good) and they provide an increased ability for you to sell your company at a higher price (good). Take the Oculus situation - Oculus did not need that $75 million off the bat (via VC $), but it did set the bar for their value and acquisition at the order of $2b. Palmer Lucky is now in his early 20s and worth $700m, hard to argue that he did not walk away with a good deal. (And yeah, its not always a good deal, but often times a better deal than founders would get flying solo).
I almost fell off my chair. They should come up with a way to contribute to this list
Erdogan writing on Bloomberg
Does it have encryption already? Because at top it says so, but at the bottom it says not yet.

>Soon, protect your conversation with state of the art end-to-end encryption using Matrix's Olm cryptographic ratchet.
Europe's Anti-American Obsession (2003)
I can't find any information about this. Can you point me at some additional information? Thank you in advance!
He also could have chosen any number of other occasions where Jews were persecuted that didn't involve Nazi Germany and industrialized genocide, but he invoked Nazi Germany for a emotive reason.
I've often heard the same about Scrubs. In a sea of medical dramas in TV, the light and warm-hearted show Scrubs is considered to be the most true-to-life... Apparently.
Perhaps he has changed his views over time. Many libertarians have realized that NAP is self destructive and foolish and have moved away from libertarianism.
Reddit is the worst thing to happen to Ycomb in forever. The recent dead canary, the tracking users offline, and the bait & switch CEO shit with Pao (who was their scapegoat)... it all adds up to something far worse than Digg ever was. All Digg tried to do was change their UI and spam people. Reddit is trying to fingerprint each user for the NSA.
No, Google 0.1 did something technically nontrivial. These other co's only got technically interesting after scale, which is generically true. Since you don't know whether the startup will succeed, you'd better enjoy the work, eg scraper (FB 0.1) and forum software (0.5).

There are any # of co's not lame early on: Google, Adobe, Zee Aero, Joby, Viv/Siri, Cruise, Magic Leap, DeepMind, Vicarious…
He gave talks at Stanford now and then. He was very energetic and usually on target about current business trends.
Consider the following problem. If this very question is relevant, then your project is not.

Would it have mattered what they had picked for Google Search? A web site or an app? No. It would not have made any difference.

If what you are building is compelling to its users, they will want it badly. Otherwise, regardless of how well you package it, it will be a waste of time.

You see, for example, companies choose SAP, and then they buy the servers, desktops, and other hardware and software that is suitable for running in a SAP context.

Nobody cares whether the SAP client is a desktop GUI or a web client. It is immaterial. In other words, if that kind of things matter, your program doesn't.
It relies on HTTPS, which relies on certificates telling the browser that the website is what it claims to be, which relies on a list of trusted root CA certificates installed on your computer, which the company controls. Most companies will install a trusted root CA cert that is themselves onto employee computers (otherwise you'll get SSL errors when accessing internal HTTPS pages since they're not signed with those public root CAs).
This is your response to having some of your glaring mistakes pointed out? You ignore having been proven wrong, then proceed to state your personal opinions as if people should care?

I have news for you. Redis and Node.js are widely used because they are able to solve real problems that real people have. They work in practice despite your personal opinions to the contrary.

Moving on, you're dead wrong about concurrency. How many programs are running at once on your computer? While you are loading a web page, do you want your browser to continue to be able to respond to you? Those are two simple cases where people want concurrency. Those are also two cases that Celery doesn't handle. At one point they would have been written with cooperative multi-tasking. Today these are generally written with preemptive instead. (Though there are some exceptions. PuTTY is a fun one. That implemented coroutines in C with an impressive preprocessor hack. See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html for details.)

And back to Celery, things that don't require locking, can and should get by without locking. This is a useful observation, but hardly a universally applicable one. And waving the magic Celery want doesn't change that. If I have 500 files to process, and that data needs to wind up nicely summarized in a database, Celery will only let me get rid of locking in my code because I rely on locking being implemented in the database.

If you care about data and race conditions, at some point you have to solve hard problems. And you'll need to lock. But only do it when you need to.
> Most real SV startups are, it seems, unfortunately just
> building a business around a CRUD application (see
> AirBnB, Uber, to name a few, but there are many many more).

I think you vastly underestimate the technology that goes into the parts of Uber we don't see -- the logistics of dispatching and monitoring a couple hundred thousand drivers (or so?) in real time.
And the not unrelated explosion of the interstate highway system, the rise of the suburbs and the corresponding decline of the walkability of many population centers.

Declining rates of physical activity, a rise in cheap subsidized processed food, and a TV in every home . . . .
I'm not sure it's fait acompli (I could be convinced!).

My thinking is: there's no requirement that a project not only accept just about any half-baked feature patch, but actually design an entire version control system to optimize for that use-case.
At this rate there wont be any blackberry. Also, it was Apple that had resources to fight back. If it was my startup I would have not choice but to comply or shut shop.
Also, the advent of broadband and routers now mean networking is literally plug and play, not spending 2-3 hours trying to either set up a DHCP server, or assign static IPs and trying to figure out why it's not working, only to find out that someone mistyped it.
It was mostly jacked that high so that American businessman wouldn't profit too much from WWII.
No, I didn't forget that he was one of three people involved in writing stories about the NSA ANT catalog, nor that he worked with Poitras (after she, Greenwald and MacAskill had done the most important part). I also did not forget that while he's been good at marketing Tor -- I've seen him at CCC in Berlin/Hamburg a bunch of times 2009-2015, he's become a good speaker -- he's never been important from a tech/operations point of view, from what I understand.

So, yeah, I maintain that there are plenty of juicier targets that Jacob Appelbaum. I'm also sure that he'd like you to think otherwise.
I think it happens in equal parts, although on the media side you will rarely, if ever, see critiques of the wealthy. But fish through reddit, youtube, twitter, and facebook, and you won't have a hard time finding people that hate successful people for no good reason (Markus Persson is a good example; I remember the day he bought his house, someone commented "respect lost"), and almost daily you see pointless negativity towards his success on Twitter.