skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can you elaborate on what exactly you mean by 'uninteresting'?

is that opinion informed as a believer or as historian?

does your date refer to survived text or assumed date of original writing?
One of the biggest risks to SpaceX's business is probably the perception that they cannot launch on time, that they have multi-year delays: they are not reliable in terms of launch date expectations. While SpaceX is getting better at this, they need to be able to show prospective customers that they will do everything possible to launch on time, or with the fewest delays. Otherwise, cheaper launches be damned, many customers might switch to a launch provider that will commit to a date.

See this here for a series of graphs of how big their launch backlog has grown over the years: http://www.americaspace.com/?p=93456

This means that launching customer payloads on fresh-built rockets is Priority #1, at least until confidence is fully restored, cadence is up, and backlog is down.
Are webhooks planned?
not yet, Robinhood and IB are next up on the list for us!
That compounded with climate lag... scary stuff.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climate-Change-The-40-Year-D...
What is the latency of your data feed?

How do you mitigate the latency between the stock exchanges, and the user's location + latency introduce via mobile devices?

Thanks!
Kernels do as well. Both have had security exploits that lead to privilege escalation. As containerization matures, I expect the security of a container host to become similar to that of a hypervisor. They are essentially doing the same thing. The only place on which they differ is the kind of abstraction that they use.

LPARs/LDOMs are a much more secure abstraction for "sharing resources among potentially hostile customers". Those physically partition at the hardware. LPARs are used on the IBM mainframes and are "EAL5 Certified". LDOMs are the SPARC equivalent, but I do not know their EAL. Both traditional kernels and various hypervisors are EAL 4 (some are called EAL4+), which is not as secure.
A lack of printing presses surely means that while it might have been "written" in 800AD it may have been authored well before?
Let's do some simple estimation! I haven't really looked at their spreadsheet, so this is just guesswork.

The product is fairly simple technologically yes, but the value is provided by making it easy to use so the customer saves time (= money). To do that you need a few UX people plus some developers (especially with web and mobile apps), call that 15 engineers/designers total, plus another 5 for ops. Now you need a sales team since your real money will be in selling to enterprises - call that 15 people. And on top of that you need customer support, and call that another 20 people. Now that we're up to 55 people, we need another 10 people worth of HR and 5 bean counters, that takes us to 70. Now cap it off with 10 managers/executives and we're up to 80, and I'm sure there's some things I was off about or forgot.

It's easy to forget about all the non-engineering resources you need for a medium-sized business.
Early Supercomputers: A Visual Overview
"We had just come out of a long experiment with self-management, where we fully leaned in to ..."

What on earth does 'fully leaned in' mean? It's not the greatest of metaphors, I pictured someone falling on their face.
The $155k salary might be due to the transparency, but could it also be due to a simple inability to pay developers $300k+? That's well over double the CEO's salary. I think it's clear they simply don't have the revenue and cash reserves to pay developers that kind of money. I suspect you'll find this to be true at a lot of smaller startups that rely on actually making money instead of fundraising.
> Don't confuse your job with your family.

Reminds me of this terrific article from David Brady. https://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/
E-Go Personal Plane Fits in Your Garage
Ouch. Never a pleasant thing to do.

I just hope they made the cut deep enough. A common mistake is to cut enough to just get back to break even, when what you really need in that situation is to get back to a decent level of profitability. The number of times I've seen a second round of layoffs because people got that wrong...

From the looks of their projections, they've done the right thing, back to profitability and growth.
yes! We are working to offer an API this summer with a webhook callback to get notifications on your triggers getting fired programmatically, should be a LOT of fun to play with.
From the abstract:

> In the near future, cloud providers will sell their users virtual machines with CPU, memory, network, and storage resources whose prices constantly change according to market-driven supply and demand conditions. Running traditional operating systems in these virtual machines is a poor fit: traditional operating systems are not aware of changing resource prices and their sole aim is to maximize performance with no consideration of costs. Consequently, they yield low profits.

> We present nom, a profit-maximizing operating system designed for cloud computing platforms with dynamic resource prices.
Interview with Elizabeth Rhodes about YC's Basic Income Project
Or: First the Government Went After ExxonMobil. Now They're Going After Me.
Not only is it not cynical, but should be taught to every college student, regardless of major and specialization in their general business elective class.

There is very little overlap between a family (or even a friendship) and a business (unless the business is mandated by law to provide benefits similar to what a family does - which it usually isn't)
Boeing Files Patent for Solar Plane
Kicking your child out of the house for doing what a child does is not in your long-term self interest or his.
I share your frustration with the arms race (and occasional incapability of some of the modern web to work reasonably on modern computers).

Still, in this case, uBlock Origin works for me (just installed it after being stymied by the corporate-controlled firewall). I suspect that "someone" will continue the back-and-forth as the situation evolves.
If I kept my longest tenure family members and laid off the new ones, my kid would be pretty unimpressed. Family does not work that way.

The term you're looking for is "buddies".
Newly discovered asteroid is Earth's cosmic buddy
Such a great book.

I've seen his tactics play our over and over again during my working lifetime.
Tor should really just detect and block (or warn + prompt the user to allow) unencrypted connections. If you're using Tor you probably also want end-to-end encryption.
They have some pretty tough competition now.

https://www.socialchamp.io/ for example is one that is growing rapidly.

I can only imagine that it may become a commodotized space w/ little differentiation.
E-books the same as printed ones, says top Euro court egghead
For that the European home market needs to become easier to compete on, though, and it currently looks like it’s moving towards getting a lot worse instead.

The Brexit might throw us back ten years.
Crowdfunding site dedicated to Anti-Aging research projects
Accordng to Elon, the rocket experienced #RUD = Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
I recommend not having children if you're only keeping them as long as it serves your self interest.
Indeed. The Earth is large and difficult to steer.
It is possible for them to determine popular triggers and front run them. Since they are not a brokerage, I am not sure if they will be regulated/punished if they do front run trades.
What sort of "fire resistant" exterior materials could work with a relatively inexpensive 3 story house that's 6 feet apart from another (yeah, the separation can be that small; and in my somewhat crowded 1-2 story house neighborhood far away from Somerville, with 0.14 acre lots, my house is ... 3 feet or less from the property line, then there's a driveway, then not many feet to a 2 story house; our garages have 1 foot of separation)?

Even if you were to build a Somerville today, you'd be hard pressed to achieve such a thing, instead, more separation is required (which does comport with your specification point).

(Although that's not part of the code. Which does say if you've got townhouses, or two family houses (for this level of the code I've purchased/you can find online: http://publicecodes.cyberregs.com/icod/irc/2012/icod_irc_201...) they've got to have a firewall between them that's rated for 1 hour.)
Correct. Put him up for adoption instead.
Not diminishing your situation, but respectfully, you likely weren't the target customer-base for their ad sales team at that stage of the game. Sounds like your budget was too low, and you're a direct response advertiser (from the "revenue-positive" comment). That $25k min. spend is a sales qualifier and looks like it was successful in filtering you out in favor of advertisers who don't bat an eye at testing something new for $25k sight-unseen.

With big media properties that are being cleaned up, a lot of that early focus is typically on big brands who are doing large branding efforts that have cool and sexy creative and are super customized to the platform. They want to reach lots of people, and the property in turn wants to leverage it as a large case study to attract other brand advertisers.

What you were looking for would not help meet their objectives because your budget was likely too small, and because they are a new display-driven property, they don't want advertisers focused on performance. Why? Well, most performance advertisers are not super savvy with how they look at display performance, and would be looking at it from a last click measurement standpoint where it would almost certainly bomb (like most display, social, etc.). Big brands doing branding plays are looking for reach and engagement (or post-impression performance metrics in some cases). This is better for Tumblr for purposes of building case studies and selling in to other big brands, because big brands tend to not care as much about overpriced CPMs, which means more margin for Tumblr.

Again, down the line it might have made sense that you could make a lot of money for your brand and might have been a good fit, but realistically, you just weren't their target. Same reason FB weeded out all the crappy affiliate ads to the best of their ability and started pushing big brands for engagement-based stuff.
In this case though, the graph shows that the layoffs are bringing Buffer to profitability. If they kept that secret and just told the employees not to worry, they would be just as likely to assume that management was merely decreasing the burn, in which case their assumption would be worse than reality. Secrecy cuts both ways.
I try to live my life as an empiricist. I didn't choose the family that I was born into. If my family treats me poorly, abuses me, etc., then bailing out on them makes sense.

In the same way, if someone in your life never shows curiosity or empathy towards you, you should probably leave the relationship.
Surely there is a big range of salary from intern -> managing director? Does "the mean" matter in this discussion?
I apologize for asking what may seem to you as a basic question. Why a custom hardware device instead of an application that does encryption locally on the customer's device of choice?
On HN, users aren't allowed to accuse others of being shills (or insinuate it) without evidence. An opposing view doesn't count as evidence.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11917707 and marked it off-topic.
Sounds like a brilliant business model, honestly. The world is brimming with brilliant programmers who are, for one reason or another, not able to reach their full potential due to outside constraints (third world countries, lack of tech investment, etc)
I am surprised you never found managing those risks as stimulating. I do. 'C' is pretty good at providing the furniture needed to enforce formal constraints.
I think it's likely that over time many changes will happen (first a blog post like this noting the issue, then a linter, then libraries that are safer, and then potentially language changes to reduce the risk of the most egregious mistakes).

Programming smart contracts will also require a different mindset than general programming, since modifying code on the blockchain is much harder than your own app.
>Uhh, I think you forgot quite a few things on the other direction: false flag operation and takeover of Crimea, creating and sustaining the civil war in East Ukraine

Well, there are two things: Crimea is a territory with 60% citizens of Russian descent (and favoring Russia). And it's right next to Russia's borders to boot, and with historical ties to it.

Heck, the US meddle with other countries, or even downright invade them (to bring democracy), when their "strategic interests" are hurt 20.000 miles away in places that they have no business to be, from Panama to Iraq, Vietnam, Philippines, Chile and countless other places.

This makes them arguing about somebody else taking care of such a thing next to their door is beyond hypocritical. And it makes the same of everyone singling out Russia -- if one can't see the blatant imbalance of bad actions between the two players, I don't know what to say.

Imagine if Baja California was 60% WASPs with historical ties to the US, and, say, Russia had just helped topple the government of Mexico with some crazy pro-nazi friendly lackeys -- which were also hostile towards those Baja California people. That's more like the reality of that.

>ongoing infowar with RT spreading lies and inciting protests (eg the false story of a Russian-German girl being raped by migrants in Germany, even after revealed to be wrong still perpetuated by Russian ministers through TV interviews)

That's more like juvenile delinquent behavior compared to the "spreading lies and inciting protests" one sees from the other side (which maintains and sponsors tons of "dissident" groups.

And these lies are not idea, they are also put to good use with actual political effects (and sanctions and other such things) -- it's not just some ministers perpetuating some false story. Heck, WMDs anyone?

When the US controls the majority of the Western media and its views dominate almost everything mainstream, plus maintaining tons of "Radio Free Europe" style operations (and internal stuff from Operation Mockingbird onwards), it's ridiculous to even talk about Russian "astroturfing operations to target EU news sites". It's like the British Colonial Army complaining that the Zulus are armed with spears. Or, an even better comparison, some Southern bigot complaining about "reverse racism".

>Not saying the US isn't absolutely abusing its power, but as a European we take US insanity any time over Putin.

Maybe if I was an Eastern European (and had historical grudges over USSR) I'd see it differently, but I'm a European too and didn't have Russian install a junta in my country -- the US did.

And what the EU has had since the crisis, which is a direct rule of financial interests with the help of the EU/EC bureaucracy is worse for me than any Russian "insanity".
Ive been using QtQuick for a while now and the last two weeks i've battled with 5.7RC. So, time to dl the proper release and see if it works any better.

My conclusions are that it's fantastic for desktop apps, but I'm having a lot less success with mobile, specifically Android.

Originally, my plan was to reserve QT for desktop and write the mobile versions separately, whilst sharing the same C++ backend. However, i got tempted to try cross compiling my desktop version for Android.

After a massive battle, it works - a bit. But there's enough that doesn't work that prevents me from making a release just yet (cut & paste is missing!). Looks like I'll have to fill in the blanks myself.

Then Android is always a pig. I'm chewing over whether to recompile QT from source and start hacking it about for Android. This is what Ive had to do with pretty much all the cross platform systems. Android support is always poor and buggy.

On LGPL, I'm fine with it. If you want my QML source code, sure. But for now, I'll keep the backend DLL/.so closed (although I'd like to open that too, when ready). If you want to be able to change the front end and rebuild, I'm ok with that too. in fact, I'll happily document the backend interface for you.

Can we have more Controls.2 QML examples please (most are recycled v1 examples). QtQuick lacks in the tutorial department, although the online docs are good, once you know what you're looking for.

qmake is great, but qtcreator sucks, sorry. Qt widgets is obsolete, QtQuick is the way, once you get over QML.
> Reflecting on it now, I see a lot of ego and pride reflected in that team size number.

This is one of the worse diseases I see in the tech world. I have friends who, when asked how their company is doing, respond with something like "great! We just hired a dozen more engineers."

I'm pretty sure a better answer is "great! We just got X customers," or "great! We're profitable now!". Not how big your fief is. (But, mentioning fiefs, I'm struck by the notion that a startup is just a business unit of a loosely-organized corporation and CxOs thereof just middle managers for an investor-class executive group.)
"Made mainly of carbon fiber, the e-Go weighs a little more than 300 pounds...According to the website, the e-Go runs on unleaded fuel and gets about 65 miles to the gallon when flying at 90 knots."

That is truly amazing. Now, which YC startup is going to solve the problem of easily getting the light-sport license?
we have plans to be become a registered investment advisor, which means we will have a responsibility to act as a fiduciary to our clients. We would never do such a thing as front running. In fact, what we would love to do is to offer back insights into the community, such that when you are placing triggers, we can tell you averages of where people are thinking of buying or selling for that stock as an indicator of key price points.
Are we seeing these event more frequently than before or is it just a matter of perception?

Anyway, despite being a tough time for them; it's good to know they live in reality and not in a "unicorn-themed-chase-party".
the hardware is "trusted", the customer's device may not be.
Also, as the article points out towards the end the whole story seems extremely fishy.
Is that really the problem though? In my circle, plenty of people are doing the boring crud apps at random big company. The problem is that they're paid very well. So taking a job that is more challenging often involves taking less money, for more risk, with a small possibility of a payoff. Is there really a surplus of highly interesting tech positions with better than average pay that are desperately looking for people? If you're struggling to find talent, you're probably not paying enough.
Please don't unleash another method of spamming developers on the internet. We already get 10 linkedin requests a day for the hottest coolest new idea.
So databases and browsers are "system software" now?
I recommend thinking carefully about what is to your long-term self-interest, and then acting accordingly.

That would include not creating children if you and your partner are not certain that you want them and will do what is required to raise them in a peaceful, loving and rational home.
I was thinking, a lot of them are _underpaid_. I work remote as well.
Remo spots a market for automating wall mount air conditioners
Assuming the fossil record and all of our measurements and assumptions about our measurements are correct. It's not like anyone was there, writing this stuff down at the time.
> "If it's a copy, it's not relevant for dating the book."

It's relevant in a one-directional sense. If you have an early 2nd century papyrus, you know that the original is early 2nd century or earlier -- which is fairly important, in and of itself, when it comes to anything relating to Jesus or Christianity. If you have an 8th century papyrus, you know that the original is 8th century or earlier -- which means very little.

So you have to look for other markers of age/importance/authenticity, such as vocabulary words that were in common use in some specific era. Or markers of inauthenticity, such as... well... a lot of stuff in this article.
Very cool, and welcome! I liked it too.
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You're missing the point. What's being said is this:

1. People highly praise city/town/neighborhood X for its density, walkability, livibility, sustainability, and other quality of life elements.

2. That city/town/neighbourhood could not be built today because of laws which explicitly ban the things which make it so highly praised. If it was destroyed in an earthquake, it couldn't be rebuilt in any form which shared the attributes which made it loved.

This isn't about earthquake strengthening; it's about density, parking, transport, multi-family dwellings, mixed-use neighborhoods, etc. An ocean of ink has been spilled on the problems of suburbs full of single-family homes (and zero commercial presence), but our laws frequently require that, regardless of the preferences of consumers.

(More generally: The argument for zoning laws is that local government knows better than residents what the people really want, and what makes for a good city. That does not seem to reflect reality.)
Are you saying it is customary to fly people business class in the Valley, rather than coach? Especially for a team retreat?
Some startups take your equity off you if you leave.
Haha, more like: the US does 10x worse stuff, all over the world, so anyone who singles out Russia for much tamer (and within their periphery and borders) stuff is a total hypocrite (or an American, siding with "their country, right or wrong").
Thanks for linking it - was on my phone.
Whence Serverless Cloud? It’s About the Market
Sorry, I only heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who worked on it.

Some googling yielded this, for example:

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2331257/lan-wan/encrypti... (2004)

http://www.freshfields.com/en/global/Digital/China_rules_on_...

But this only shows that there are some regulations and licensing required, no details unfortunately.
Thanks, will check that out.
Thanks for posting about our project! :)
I think the premise unikernel is that of a library or app as an OS.

I'm not following why you think turning on protected mode is crazy. Can you elaborate?
Germany and India Aim to Have All Cars Electric by 2030
Ask HN: How do I make myself employable at Google as a programmer?
I love programming. I have been working at a couple of startups in the last 5 years. I want to move my career forward and improve my chances of being hired at a big company that is relatively more stable. I am in my early 30s and I am feeling insecure about the future. I have sent my CV a few times to Google and I didn't get a single response back.

Outside work, I write little programs for fun and to solve my own problems. I contributed to a couple of famous open source projects and blogged about it. I have put most of my personal projects on Github (link in bio). I am willing to put as much hours as required to make myself more employable. But I feel stuck. I don't know what to focus on, what projects to start, or what books to read to get them to notice me.

I would appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thanks.
Pffft. I've laid off 10 people in my sleep in past startups
I think it would have been a better decision to lay off 3-4 more people and let the remaining employees keep their perks and annual salary increase. 3% doesn't keep up with inflation. Maybe make that 4-5 people and create an incentive fund for those who kick some ass and help the company fight its way back from its mistakes.