skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is discussing zoning codes; not building codes. Different issues entirely.

It's not uncommon to find that you'll need to retrofit an old building to match current fire safety laws, etc. My family recently had to rip out a bunch of old electrical outlets and replace them with newer ones that were deemed safer.

Nobody requires you to match current zoning laws.
Awesome! I had this problem that my side-project (a vagrant box for Go development in vim) got more stars than my main and favorite project (thing written in Go). This will fix that.
> "With our culture of bringing our whole selves to work and seeing team as family, with shared values we live by,..."

This is total BS that employers might say to employees but either people will be foolish to believe so.

In India I worked for a large company that indeed operated like family. The company avoided layoffs by cutting salary of high performing employees to retain non-performers. Promotions were based only on number of years of service and not ability etc. But that is why I left for USA.

Employers should not feel ashamed to lay off people. It is not the case that people cant find other jobs. In fact being honest and transparent about it can help people find other better jobs. Similarly employees must leave the company at the first sight of the distress and go for greener pastures.
> Never before had an ancient manuscript alluded to Jesus’s being married.
yeah, because the church tried to smother the gospels: thomas, mary, judas, and 30+ others; that contained contrarian views to their goals

That's not really relevant here. There are a tremendous number of records of beliefs/gospels which the modern church considers heretical, including ones which pertain to the status of women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Paul_and_Thecla

The claim is not "this isn't church doctrine", it's "there's no other historical record of people telling this story". It would be surprising, though not strictly impossible, for this to have been a major gospel in ancient history without some record of it being found by now.
I do this stuff professionally, and I've learned the hard way that you either have a reproducible environment or you don't. etckeeper isn't reproducible. Actually rolling back with something like etckeeper is much, much more likely to break something (by deleting a config file used by a newer service, say) than to save you. If it did something like separate branches for each service or component within /etc I might be more sympathetic...but at that point you have half of a CM system already and might as well just go the rest of the way.

If you need reproducibility without a CM framework, keep backups of your machines.
Presumably, if they are able to entice those people away from their current employment, they are offering something better, whether it be more money, more fulfilling (which can be for many reasons, such as being more challenging), or allows a better lifestyle. If nothing else, if gives those undervalued employees that have been identified a metric by which they, and their current employers, can judge their worth on the market.
> So I cannot understand how the millenials expect to get their tools for free

I'm a (senior) millennial and I'm prepared to pay for tools that are worth it. However, Free (as in freedom) software has come a long way, I won't pay for tooling that is at par or less capable than, with Free software. I think the rise of GPL/Open source - GCC, Linux and Free DBs & languages (and their ecosystems) are to blame; not millennials.
It shows founder commitment -- a willingness to put their own personal savings at risk to help the company survive.

It's "savings" in the penny-saved, penny-earned sense.
I've long been what the author calls as "poetic naturalist" simply due to the argument that if we are talking about qualia, then qualia must have an effect on the physical world.

If there are elements of consciousness that are completely separate from the physical world (in that they have no effect on it), we cannot talk about them, nor even think about them.

I do find that trying to conceptualize p-zombies is a useful tool try to pull apart the strength of the effects of these qualia.

To take let's say we somehow duplicate the universe at the very instant I started writing this post, but with the potential for qualia removed. Since my brain had already done the processing, I would continue to write about an experience I would no longer have. I suspect everyone would continue to talk about qualia for quite a long time.

However, if the potential for qualia were removed prior to the formation of the earth, I think we have to image we would not be talking about it now. (Because otherwise we are talking about nothing.) I personally suspect that things would have developed very differently and the human race would have been far less successful.

My suspect that we tend to over attribute consciousness to others and to ourselves. I suspect we spend a fair amount of our lives in p-zombie mode and then project the experience of consciousness backwards onto our memories of those time.
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Up from preindustrial levels of 280 ppm. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...
How to really fix the latest Adobe Flash security hole
Any of you doing that might try Malvino's Electronic Principles. An EE recommended it to me as explaining the stuff better than most with some practical advice mixed in. Got a relevant edition for under $3 on Amazon. Finally understand quite a few things.

Still suffers from general problem with electronics books where I hardly know where to start on building real things. People have been recommending Chris Gammel's courses or certain kits for that, though.
Tried it, now my profile page 404s when logged out. Did they change some other "privacy" related settings?

(Also not a big fan of reducing the display from 10 to 5 repos, but what can you do...)
Or push you out to claw back the equity they granted.
Simple interview and phone screen tips
Perhaps it's a little like receiving multiple life sentences -- deliberate overkill. With the multiple life sentences even if per some great stroke of luck you get one reduced or time off for good behavior, the others will keep you imprisoned. Likewise with such a big default judgement even if he manages to acquire a lot of money he likely won't be able to do damage on the scale he's been doing again.
> Tell me if I'm missing something, but the premise of Unikernels seems to be that a ring-0 x86 hardware environment is the perfect fit for a universal container/host interface.
> Or to put it more charitably, since cloud compute services are based around booting VM images based on this model, we'll just go with it instead of trying to use an abstraction that is actually designed for this.

That is my understanding of part of the premise of unikernels. Another is security from having less code, although nothing stops you from having less code with Linux. LEDE/OpenWRT are Linux distributions that are often smaller than the sizes that are advertised for unikernels.

I consider containers using syscalls on a kernel that operates on bare metal to be a better abstraction.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the first thing any unikernel is going to do when it boots is switch the (virtualized) CPU out of x86 Real Mode (which all x86 machines boot into for legacy reasons, but virtually no one has needed since circa 1995) into protected mode.

That is only on x86/amd64 systems. It is different on other architectures.

> Is it just me or does this seem a little bit crazy?

The more I learn about unikernels, the more skeptical I become of them.
If you think about it logically for the era, it's incredibly unlikely that Jesus was actually unmarried. The typical age for marriage all the way up until the 20th century was somewhere between puberty and 20. Jesus didn't start his ministry until he was 30. It's really very possible that he was married, maybe even a widower. The fact that no gospel mentions it, could be the exact same reason women get ignored throughout the rest of history.
I don't think kernels are inherently less secure than hypervisors, but as they stand, current hypervisor implementations have a better security track record than kernels. The basic point that I am trying to make is that both hypervisors and kernels are just pieces of software meant for partitioning and sharing hardware. Software that has simpler and smaller interfaces also has a lower probability of having bugs that lead to vulnerabilities. I agree that that there are better hardware partitioning implementations out there but unfortunately they are not so popular. I am looking forward to having formally verified kernels like seL4 become more popular.
An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice (2014) [pdf]
Is it just stocks, or are options available/are they planned for the future?
Religion isn't a search for truth, it's a search for answers, even bad ones. If they wanted truth, there wouldn't be any religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
Pastel o tarta salada de calabacín en Thermomix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core

Ice was there and recorded it :/
Cars are getting weird
"Please complete the security check to access testanything.org"... How about no?

Here's an archived copy:
https://archive.is/a9MFf
It's not completely custom - trusted elements have independent evaluations (FIPS / EAL). We think that a combination of local and centralized elements provides best security.
They can't just take away equity that's vested to you. And any equity that hasn't vested isn't yours.
Back in the web 1.0 days, a friend started a company named Xigo (sp? Think it was with an X) to do sort of similar stuff. There was a full domain specific language for automation. They suffered the fate of many otherwise good ideas in the ~2000 meltdown.
Right. In general, if you have a layoff and the job market isn't extremely tight, you will also lose some other employees you wanted to keep. Especially the ones who see that top management's plans aren't working and it's time to jump ship.
Sounds like the kind of relatives you avoid...
Ahh, qualia is such an useless concept!

Here I am, a philosophical zombie. I don't have any subjective experiences, as far as I can tell. I challenge anybody to show that I am not!
I agree 100%. I've worked for multiple companies that say "we're a family", then lay off people with no warning or remorse. Businesses are not families.
Netflix is the DVD bargain bin of the Internet. I would never consider them relevant to the "world it created" because that world only offers fewer than 10-12 of Spike Lee's Top 100 movie canon.
Right now we consume real time stock market data for ETFs and Stocks, as well as corporate fundamentals and real time economic events. As for when we enable trading from Trigger, whatever your broker allows you to trade we can support. First we will allow trading for stocks, and then options and currencies. We can introduce new securities quite easily into our platform.
Companies want you to be family so you can give more. In a family system, the family tends to fend and tolerate dysfunctional members. Usually it's the company that is the black ship and everyone tolerates and busts their ass carrying the company. Once things get tough, the family analogy gets thrown out the window and it's all business.
FWIW, I found this comment pretty indecipherable. I have no idea how your examples illustrate your point.

Maybe you can do better as well? Which is to say, effectively communicating something technical to a diverse audience is difficult, let's not be unnecessarily derisive.
Hello! Co-founder here. Thanks for the kind words!

Bummer that you're noticing bugs though. If you feel up to it, we'd love to hear what they are - you can email support@triggerfinance.com or live-chat with us through the app (press the logo on your icon).

We'd love to integrate Robinhood in the future but have nothing that we can announce right now, unfortunately.
Sent at 5:23 PM on Thursday
Adrian: Hello! Co-founder here.

We currently access a Nasdaq last sale feed through a distributor (Xignite) for our real-time feed. We make no guarantees around latency per se, though in reality it ends up being on the order of < 1 minute (at worst) from exchange to a trigger being evaluated on our backend, and a bit more than that (highly dependent on many other factors) to being displayed on a user's phone.

Hope that this helps though I realize I wasn't very specific!
tptacek, one of the Stockfigher founders, comes from the world of security consulting. That strikes me as exactly the right sort of niche: incredibly high-paying even relative to cushy crud apps, but there isn't really an obvious inroad for even an experienced programmer to make the shift over to doing security work.

I'd imagine there are other specialized software engineering fields with similar problems.
Microsoft buys Wand, a chat app for iOS
NEW ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! YAY WE DID IT - wait a sec...
Liberty and Airbnb
One apparent problem is also to get a rocket certified for flying a second time. No one did that so far so there are no procedures for it. Part of the delay is figuring that out.
CFPB Considers Suing Student Loan Giant Navient for Cheating Borrowers
The shares are yours, but the company reserves the right to buy them back at the lower of the current price and price you paid for them, which it does when you leave.

http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/standards-ownership-canth...
No no, that just won't do. Math and modeling doesn't allow us to draw conclusions about things we can't directly observe. Someone had to be there and directly count the co2 molecules with their own eyes or it doesn't count as evidence.
> "exactly you mean by 'uninteresting'?"

Does not bring any particular degree of enlightenment regarding the life or teachings of Jesus, nor the founding or early history of the Christian church or religion. It might be interesting in its own right, but not for studying that topic.

> "does you date refer to survived text or assumed date of original writing?"

The ~150 AD date that I use to separate interesting from uninteresting? Assumed date of original writing. Oldest surviving text can sometimes help establish that date, but only in a one-directional sense. There are lots of other markers of authenticity or inauthenticity that scholars look for; if you click through to the Early Christian Writings website I linked above, most of the writings have a few-page discussion of their likely age and authorship, and reading through a handful of those descriptions will give you a taste of what a rich field of scholarship there is surrounding the authentication of ancient writings.
This invariably comes up whenever this is discussed, and what's usually referred to is that many people have a fairly narrow perception of what interesting tech work is, and sometimes exposure to other industries, or even interviews in other industries, can expand what they view as interesting work. Apparently, many industries have a problem sourcing good technical talent, even if they have the need and the ability to pay.

You might not think a position at an insurance company sounds interesting, but if the CTO starts explaining their plan on integrating their major departments with a new application they are developing from scratch (and maybe you get to help make ground floor decisions, like language), and needs to contain some interesting data warehousing to make sure that the statisticians and actuaries can access the data in heretofore impracticable ways, that might just tickle your fancy.
Strawman. Lets talk about Xen and Unikernels. So you said:

> You stand to eliminate much more overhead from eliminating the hypervisor than you stand from eliminating the syscalls.

So my hypervisor application talks directly to devices, thanks to pass-through. What's that about syscalls again?
the clue's in the name.
Family and community and culture happen organically so long as we are all humans. The company is what is structural and functional, with its existence depending solely on the performance of its functions. The problem is that the structure that gives rise to these functions are real humans. That is why restructuring implies firing people.

In the beginning the rewards from the human elements are far greater than the performance of the company. It could even be all you've got. You could have no profits, be in stealth, just prototyping, etc. Here the company could just be a promise written on a napkin or a handshake between founders. It could dissolve any minute.

Eventually though, once the company grows to the point where it hires people and makes money and pays taxes, the value of the company begins to far outweigh that of any individual member, or of any organic human elements that tends to adjust themselves anyway. This is when the company you founded might turn around and fire you. But congratulations, that's also when you know you've (sort of) made it...

The takeaways is to know your function. So long as you do, you should be able to predict if you belong. And if you know you don't, you should expect to be let off, knowing only that the people running the company are doing their job correctly.
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One thing that I would have loved some more detail on is how are secrets and credentials being handled?
I'm unclear as to whether this was meant to be sarcastic or not.

My point is this: Children have a certain nature; part of being a child is development of the ability to regulate one's emotions. Loving, thoughtful parents will (hopefully) learn about such things, such as Dr. Porges "Polyvagal Theory" and then be able to help their children with this process.

I am not suggesting that people should abandon important relationships on a whim. I apologize if I was unclear on this.
Same here. Seeing people on Twitter saying the same.

Edit (21:55Z): And it's working again for me.
We die for a reason, a damn good one. Humanity moves forward one grave at a time.
Probably? Odd thing to say. If someone actually believed that they would quit rather than lay someone off.
They can't take it away arbitrarily, but unless you're in a good personal financial position there's a good chance you'll lose it anyway.
They got rid of the second column of repositories you've contributed to. Not that it's a big thing to me but it makes the layout look weird.

edit: realized they merged the two columns.. yeah i hope they go back and split it up again.
Thanks, dang. The Yglesias post is basically a regurgitation of our discussion on /r/boston.
With a self-hosted on-line store, why are your prices still relatively high? Wouldn't you open up the market by lowering the MRP?
I think it is, unless your situation is so terrible where you don't think you'll be around in 3-6 months.
The World Beyond X86: Restoring Trust and Owner Control to General Purpose Comp [pdf]
The web developer making millions selling jQuery image slider plugins
>> (our VP) specifically named you because your piece is finished.

That is really poor, short-sighted management.
British Referendum Campaign Suspended After Killing of Pro-EU Lawmaker Jo Cox
(Thin sans-serif body text means you hate your readers.)
I fail to see what the problem is here.
I didn't really see anything in this article that talked about what made Wand special compared to other chat apps.
Potentially exploitable or backdoored firmware with weak crypto is no better than potentially exploitable or backdoored firmware with strong crypto, unless you are expert enough to know how to exploit it and then fix. And you probably aren't, considering that this stuff is all secret.

And, first of all, I'm not even sure if it was the ME firmware or any firmware at all. Might have been some stupid application you install on Windows.

I wouldn't buy security-critical stuff in China. You can bitch all day long about the US, but the fact is, if something like this San Bernadino phone unlock case happened in China, with Chinese phone from Chinese vendor under Chinese jurisdiction, you probably wouldn't even have heard about it.
I can't explain why you're wrong about kids and self-interest. It's something you have to experience for yourself.

You may have an epiphany about the 50th time you yell "watch out for that car". I swear she _wants_ me to have a heart attack.
I'm curious as to why they had 94 employees. That seems like an insanely high number for a company that does something pretty basic (not dumping on the product, I like it and have used it in the past). What are all of those people doing?
Beamery raises $2M to make recruiting a science
Ask HN: doesn't runtime exceptions and unit tests share the same goal?
I still see many programmers guarding runtime errors using "ifs". Which is ridiculous and leads to programs very hard to debug. Which then kind-of leads to the use (and importance) of unit tests. Any thought on that?
Yeah, "running your application bare metal" is a useful first approximation. Technically, they consist of the toolchain and libraries necessary to replace OS functionality with userspace library calls, which then run on the bare metal. (Or technically, in any practical deployment they would run on a hypervisor, which presents an interface that looks like bare metal.) MirageOS, one of the first unikernel designs, works by statically analyzing an Ocaml program to identify OS calls and then only linking in the libraries required to support those particular calls, all of which have been re-implemented from the ground up for security.

Right now, much of the research on unikernels focuses on implementing a POSIX API. In other words, it replaces libc so that instead of eg. write() making a syscall into a kernel, write() inlines the code that the kernel would've run and talks directly to the hardware.

IMHO, the real wins for unikernels come when they start implementing higher-level interfaces, eg. Node or Rails or Django or HTTP or SQL or the JVM. Many programs are already written to these frameworks, with no knowledge of (or in some cases, access to) the underlying POSIX APIs, and the frameworks themselves often re-implement a large portion of the OS to create better domain-specific abstractions. Node or Python's asyncio, for example, implement their own schedulers that each run inside a single OS thread. Databases work in terms of pages, built on top of a filesystem; they effectively try to recreate the abstraction of a block device on top of a stream on top of a real block device. Websites often have large quantities of text that are sent back with every request (think of page layout in a templating engine, or JS bundles for a SPA). This data is usually copied and concatenated multiple times within a framework, while a bare-metal-aware web framework would store it in a buffer somewhere and write it out directly to the network card.

And yes, I meant Amazon Machine Image. Doesn't have to be Amazon, but I'm focused on the pragmatics of how you might deploy a real unikernel to solve problems, and wanted to make the point that you're going to be loading it into Xen or some other cloud hypervisor at the end.
Taught to every Junior High student.
I would at least filter out VN girls from my adverts lol.
I agree that Jesus was probably married...

.. But your statement about the age at marriage is wrong, at least for Western Europe since about 1400, which has had late marriage and uniquely high proportions never married. If you haven't fact checked your demography assumptions, you are probably wrong.

The story that Jesus was unmarried was probably promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church, with it's uniquely weird attachment to celibacy. Which, of course, has affected Western European demography in many complicated ways.
sure, it could have been. There are a lot of other markers scholars look for determine whether it actually was.

The wikipedia page for this particular manuscript gives a brief description of the reasons this is considered a forgery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife