skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it has a lasting impact beyond Spreedly, too. The impact of founding a company shouldn't just be on customers; if we act in an upright manner, hopefully employees, vendors, partners, the families of all of the above, and a cascade of future endeavors will be positively improved.

RE feedback, we try to give it and make it meaningful, so for instance the pre-defined, objective grading criteria we use for work samples lends itself well to us being able to highlight why someone isn't a good match.

There may be a slight possibility that giving clear feedback opens us up to some sort of liability, but (a) a respectful process ends up documenting itself really well as a side effect (how else are you going to keep up with all the details?), (b) a respectful process hopefully leaves even candidates who weren't a fit feeling like they got a fair shot and thus not inclined to come after us for a perceived slight, (c) I think the fear around giving feedback is more about how uncomfortable it makes us feel vs. an actual legal risk, and (d) I hate not getting feedback when I fail and as a founder and executive I have the clout to take some risk and do what's right.
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Dedupe your processes
If they don't have your pin, they're limited to $100 max.
"By default, VS Code shows snippets and completion proposals in one widget. This is not always desirable so we added a new configuration setting called editor.snippetSuggestions. To remove snippets from the suggestions widget, set the value to "none"."

Sold me on it.
> It is only with the advent of "civilization", i.e. agriculture, that we find great power differentials, including the power of men over women

That is exactly what I'm saying. Do you somehow contend that hunter-gatherers societies are more likely to have left written records that have survived to today?
Well, if you think about it from a reductionist perspective, in non-monogamous societies children were by definition primarily socially familiar with their mothers, because they were the only family actually known.

Evidence of matriarchy includes living matriarchal societies (eg. the Mosuo people). I am no expert, though. If you look at Wikipedia's matriarchy page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy#Asia I actually live in Yunnan, which is smack bang in the middle of all of the Asian examples.
Most of those things are exaggerated risks without context.

For example, from the MSDS for DOT-4 brake fluid:

Skin Contact: May cause irritation. Brake fluid may be slowly absorbed through the skin. Excessive exposure for extended periods of time involving large areas of skin would be necessary for absorption of harmful amounts.
If there are better alternatives then sticking with the current technical debt may be a non-option as well.

>Features were presumably mostly added for a reason, and customers probably use them. Removing them is a hard sell.

Trying to make everyone happy is one of the big drivers of technical debt, a lot of stuff that gets added just to get that one critical contract. Sometimes you can refactor to better handle these variations that weren't anticipated, but sometimes you can't and you have to evaluate the complications versus that one customers business.

You say this most often in businesses that practice sales team driven development.
In UK in the general case none-violent crimes don't carry sentences like in some other countries.

It's a policy I largely agree with.
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Here is some inspiration/good information and a service that sends you a SaaS idea per day:

http://StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com (Rob has went from drop shipping beach towels to selling his SaaS GetDrip for $XX million(just a guess) you can follow him along the way in the podcast.

https://nugget.one/ (email Justin at techzing about a student discount, this is more for SaaS probably not your best starting point, see Startups for the rest of us, stair step method in podcasts above. But the nuggets are interesting.)

http://techzinglive.com/ (Justin is on this podcast)

Your idea for you side business will most likely find you, when you build something scratching your own itch or you see an opportunity you can solve with technology.

Good luck.
Seems like once a year or so I read something about attempts to replace good old 100LL avgas but we're still using it :-/
I agree it often does. That's not to say that concerted effort can't make a change though. The internet itself works this way, partially because there wasn't a lot of concerted commercial interest initially, and partially because there existed standards, and that's cheaper.

It's hard for any one company to compete with Google or Apple when they decide to make their own standard and it's semi (or totally) proprietary, but then there's hardware and manufacturing it's harder to be totally dominant. If there's hundreds of companies that all do it a standard way, there's a lot less use in being the one company that's not compliant. There just needs to be something for all those other companies to target.

That's not to say it succeed, but if there's a chance, I think it's worth it to try.
You'd rather they pick losers? Spread investments evenly without regard to any evidence?
Own the platform.
It is a choice, just an exceptionally easy one. Most of the important decisions in life are actually easy to make, I think. (Just sometimes hard to live with.)

I took my marriage with me. But she knew from the start what she was in for.
I disagree. I tend to eschew restaurants that serve too much, especially those that advertise the size of their portions.

I know the quality of the food will be meh. When I eat out, I want as good or better than what I can make.
Charlie Miller must be happy.

https://twitter.com/0xcharlie
You may be interested to learn that mayonnaise is one of the most highly regulated foods in the US. When your product consists of ingredients as basic as eggs, oil, and vinegar/lemon juice, the name "mayonnaise" loses its meaning very quickly once corners start getting cut (aka the profit motive to reduce costs).
That's slightly different, in that Starcraft's system used RS232 in a standard point-to-point fashion. If you wanted to play with three or four people you had to daisy-chain and the one or two in the middle were effectively acting as routers.

This is hacking RS232 in to a bus network more or less.
There is a glaring contradiction between the two mainstream narratives, one of which goes that we need working class jobs because not everyone is capable of middle class jobs, the other of which says there aren't enough people to fill working class jobs so we need immigration.

There two narratives exist in almost every Western nation.
If it's important, I bring my own. For me personally, the keyboard, mouse and monitors are important.

Sounds like it's time to find a company that views you as more than a glorified typist.
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Studies show that people have trouble recognizing someone out of context about half the time. In other words, you work with John, you run into him elsewhere. You may not recognize him at all or you may realize you know him, but struggle to say from where.

People who are giving you a hard time about this likely are overestimating their ability to recognize faces. Context significantly influences this.
Show HN: I pinged the Internet (IPv4) and generated a map
I would love to find a restaurant with "reasonably sized plates." Most places serve ridiculous two-person portions, and out of some Catholic guilt-laden upbringing (kids are starving in Africa etc.) I feel compelled to not leave anything on the plate and have a bad time as a result. I would rave about a place that kept portion sizes down.

Another bonus is it would be more practical to also have dessert after the main course. In practice I usually just end up ordering an appetizer as the main course at the cost of some awkwardness with the server.
How does buying your own products create demand?
Visual Studio 2015 is the only real player. Have you tried it? I've compared it to every other IDE and nothing comes close. Of course, you need to add quite a few extensions (addons) to make it really nice but other than that, it's got the best autocomplete and the best debugger outside of Chrome Dev Tools.

Add the Node.js Tools for VS and the Tools for Apache Cordova extensions (including the kick-ass VS emulator for Android) and you've got a complete kit for programming JS everywhere. Developing ionic apps with this tool is an absolute dream.

EDIT: And it's free.
Disregarding what amazon_not said about the facts on the ground, your objection is an interesting one in theory.

I think in such a situation I would perhaps try to play on people's pride and make an emotional appeal.

And/or sell equity to customers. Some are happy to hold part of an enterprise they believe in, and will accept submarket returns. Come to think of it, a cooperative wouldn't be too different.
Yeah, but how can we make money on that sort of thing while also satisfying the haters who want to punish people even more than stopping crime?
There are ISPs allowed by Gov to provide uncensored internet access, those are unblocked.

Otherwise personal use of VPN can be blocked by the gov. See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357590

See also the top comment of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469
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I did that one, as well. 9/14, which is a lot better than I expected - I did "cheat" though. I picked details on their faces, and concentrated on remembering them.

I have aphantasia (to a degree). For example, I had difficulty recognizing my mother when she dyed her hair a few years ago.
Yes, can spend up to a few thousand US$ on whatever you want.
You said:

> Tech has saturated the existing market, there is no demand to be satisfied for more tech.

Of course, if you mean at current prices, then sure: everybody who wants and can buy at current prices will do so.

Still, demand is very elastic. Even with current tech, there's lots and lots more demand at slightly lower prices. Companies can just wait until their capital investments have deprecated a bit more, and then lower prices a bit.

(You also want to keep prices high initially, even if costs would allow to go lower and still break even, to capture the higher willingness of some people to pay more to get your product sooner. Basic price discrimination.)
No, it's not. As the preferred social sharing platform, they control conversations about things by controlling the exposure that various shares get. That is entirely different from everything that came before it.
"Startup = growth"

:/
Who's Eduardo?
Meet the Firm That's Betting Against the Startup Bubble
I think it's more like Apple is patient and waits to get things right. Bug bounty programs are relatively new (past few years). The article notes that Apple faced a more complicated landscape than your typical company, one where state actors are bidders. So they needed to craft a more targeted program.
Is Corante no more?
No, Linux does not pre-zero pages in the background, at least on x86 and x86-64.

Not-present faults on anonymous VMAs are handled by do_anonymous_page() in mm/memory.c: https://lxr.missinglinkelectronics.com/#linux+v4.6/mm/memory...

As you can see, a write fault on a not-present page in an anonymous VMA calls alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(), which calls __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage(). The x86 architecture provides an architecture-override for this as a macro which calls alloc_page_vma() with the GFP_ZERO flag added. This calls down through alloc_pages_vma() and __alloc_pages_nodemask() which eventually gets a page through get_page_from_freelist() (potentially via __alloc_pages_slowpath()).

get_page_from_freelist() uses prep_new_page() to act on the GFP_ZERO flag ( https://lxr.missinglinkelectronics.com/#linux+v4.6/mm/page_a... ). Unless the (non-default) PAGE_POISONING_ZERO configuration option is set, this clears the page directly with clear_highpage(). The PAGE_POISONING_ZERO option zeroes the page at the time it is freed (so not in the background) - it's intended as a sanitization/hardening option, not a performance one.

A read fault on a not-present page in an anonymous VMA maps in the singleton "Zero PTE" which is a read-only PTE pointing at a page of zeroes. A subsequent write fault on this page will end up in wp_page_copy(), which recognises the Zero PTE and calls into alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable() instead of copying the page, as before.

It would be possible for another architecture to provide a version of __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() which did use background-zeroing, if it was more efficient on that architecture - I haven't checked to see if any do, though.
It's ALL edge cases. Everything. The non edge case are the easy part. It's the edge cases that is hard.

Saying it's fine "it's just edge cases" completely ignores the difficulty.

> But think of the many accidents those automated cars avoided in the first place. It sucks, but it's still worth it.

Did you read the rest of my post? Do you understand just how good the computer would have to be to have any impact at all? I have a feeling you don't.

> They can still be remotely controlled

No they can't. Wireless internet service is not even remotely close to good enough to make that possible.

> Also, automated cars ... every dimensions. Safety is paramount

This is why I say highways only. That covers that majority of the use cases, and the most dangerous part, and the easiest part. It's a triple win. The use case for city roads is basically non existent with the exception of self parking.

> has way less than 99% reliability

That 1% doesn't mean death. It's means slowness. That's not what I mean. The self driving car has to be basically perfect or death is the result.

People very much underestimate just how good people are at driving.
A similar effort was taken to successfully identify MLK's killer from his fingerprints, back in 1968.
For those trying to understand the numbers on the tablet, this could help: http://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html.

However, I did not find success while trying to read that.
Not sure if this is helpful but I just found their Github repo consisting of the tips and tricks for VSCode.

Github: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-tips-and-tricks
I still wear the "extreme" nitrile gloves from Harbor Freight (black, 9mil), a P100 respirator, and safety goggles when working with it or doing any car maintenance. Who knows what other nasties are in all that road grime.
Have you done an overlap against LiteIDE?
Surprisingly, we found that not only do our attacks remain possible, we can
even increase the damaging effects of our attacks by abusing new features of HTTP/2.

Interesting!
This comment is awesome:

Ah, the old sand bucket. Was out in the hall outside the undergraduate labs. Might have been there since benzene was linear. Top was decorated with cigarette butts, dried gum, bits of paper. Then one day down the hall the THF still is being cleaned out – long over due. Thick clumps of whatever ketyl becomes. Inside, a bright shiny prize of sodium metal that disagrees with the optimistic and impatient grad student’s use of straight ethanol as cleaning aid. Fire erupts. Extinguished by CO2. Humid day, icy glass, beads of water form and follow gravity down. Into and onto sodium metal. Fire erupts. Extinguished by CO2. Repeat several times until it dawns that CO2 will eventually run out. Send terrified lab mate down the hall to fetch savior: sand bucket! Weight of bucket: about 200 lbs. Skinny grad student risks hernia rushing it back to lab, arrives exhausted, collapses in victory like Pheidippides. Firefighting grad student drops damned CO2 tank, plunges bare hand into sand bucket. Screams in pain – sand has been accreted by age into protoconcrete, impermeable to human flesh, spatulae, metal rulers, etc. Fire meanwhile burns itself out. Sand bucket replaced for next sucker.
I'm in Duboce Triangle and get the same 65Mbps up and down. There have only been two short outages since I got the service two months ago. Given I'm paying a third of Comcast's price, I can stand 30 minutes of no internet.
Why do you assume computers would've needed to be involved? One can plot space-time warping by hand. Indeed, Einstein had no benefit of computer assistance in developing his theories of relativity and gravity warping.

Why assume a complete theory of black holes or wormholes was necessary? Clearly the concept existed. Clearly we had General Relativity. One could imagine a more speculative but still physics-based visualization of what might happen in traveling through such a nexus of space-time.
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Lots of non-violent people go to jail for marijuana use as an example... Lots of violent destructive people never see jail -- you know the kind of people that forcefully take homes and money from people with the help of the sheriff because they knowingly sold homes to them that they couldn't afford..
Well said. If I detect that then I usually try to disarm them by saying that we don't need to agree and for most things... that's ok.
Fyi.

Their blog/research: http://www.snow.ventures/blog/
>This, on the other hand, is a way of reconciling the fact that you obviously don't have a good reason to believe the things you do (otherwise, you wouldn't be threatened by the mere fact that someone disagrees with you)

I don't agree that this is the only reason someone would be threatened by disagreement, or even the main reason. You can feel threatened by disagreement on the basis of the other party acting on their belief, and how that outcome would affect you.

As a relevant example, you can feel threatened by someone disagreeing with your stance on abortion if you are pro-choice, because the down-stream implication of pro-life beliefs is legislation and societal constraints that remove your ability to choose.

If we're just debating in a vacuum then sure, you would only feel threatened as some kind of ego response. But in the real world beliefs tend to result in real-world consequences, and those consequences are the root cause of feeling threatened by disagreement.
So the crisis is not a result of a combination of incompetence, corruption and fiscal fraud, but of orchestrated propaganda?
We likely have different ideas of what constitutes future support. You seem to want the A+ package. I think it is sufficient that consumers get a pro-rated amount of their money back, depending on time since purchase. That can be done similar to insurance or escrow. (Although that is still a form a trust for future support.) If you buy something for $100 and 24 months later they pull service, should you get back $10 or $100? Only the smaller end seems viable to me.

> Just allow more control by the user

Given infinite people, time and money that is easy. I can't see any way of it being practical though. It is considerably more engineering effort, considerably more support effort (all that stuff has to be documented, tested and revised), will increase time to market etc. The only winners are those folks still using the device when service is pulled!

I'm sceptical that generic third party configuration could be reasonably done well. Is there any example of something similar? SNMP was mentioned as a failure by another commenter.

Certifying the software could be done like some other certification is done:

* Publish the list of best practises (eg authentication, update mechanisms, how they participate in the network, long term service)

* Have auditors (yeah they would need to be certified too) that will come in and examine a product/code base/service and give their blessing for relevant best practises. I'd imagine some open source libraries would end up certified too (eg an updater, or authentication) so a quicker path to product certification would be use already certified components.

* Award the certification based on auditor report

Yes it could be gamed, there would be wiggle room, bad actors etc. But it would be a lot better than we have now, and a feedback loop would help improve.

BTW I am working on a product somewhat in the space. I'd love to make it completely open, available for ever, plugin your own servers etc. But it isn't remotely viable for people, time and money reasons.
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Me too. I was a bit skeptic at first. Been a long time vim user but wanted to try something new. I now use it to code Python (I write a lot of it). It works very nicely. So much that I'm in the process of making it the official company -wide text editor for python at work.
Avgas is leaded petrol (gasoline in the US), used in reciprocating piston engines. That is, small planes.

(You might also find it in wankel or rotary compression/combustion engines, though those are rare.)

Gas turbines, which you'll find on major airliners and many propellor craft (turboprops) burn what's effectively kerosene.

The lead is added to petrol to avoid knocking, a problem where you're compressing fuel in a cylinder (or again, compression-rotary engine). It's not used in most commercial aviation.

Yes, if there are small craft flying out of your commercial airport, you'll have some lead exposure. But it's your small and personal craft that are the bigger concern.

(As with several other cautions here, the advice you're giving is incomplete, misleading, or in several cases, simply wrong. Lead in paint and plumbing, yes. Mercury, yes. Teflon? Maybe. Aluminium? No.)
I wonder how the data looks when presented along side Foursquare/Swarm active users.

Can't think of anyone I know that's used either in ages now. The appeal wore off a while ago.
There's one in every thread. Are all categorizations meaningless? Can you define what a "nerd" is, or a "jock", or a "goth"? Just because a categorization is fuzzy doesn't mean it can't be agreed upon by the majority of a population.
Likely also the FTC
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> Some people wouldn't know what clickbait is

The term "clickbait" need never be used. One could describe the characteristics of clickbait and ask about them. "Do you feel this article was meaningful?" "Did you feel this article required to click too many times?" "Did you feel this article had a misleading headline?" Or whatever more refined version of these questions might make sense.
Excellent work, perseverance proves!

D is a very good language, avoiding most of the pitfalls of C++. I have wondered why D isn't picking up. Even Facebook has abandoned Warp [1]. Other than the lack of corporate backup,

The complexity of the language gets out of hold as we move forward.

DMD is the official compiler, but it doesn't optimize as much as LDC/GDC does.
LDC/GDC is not available on the Enterprise platforms on which C++ is used (at least on the servers with RHEL/CentOS).

There are 3 different compilers and the resource is not concentrated on improving just one. I agree that competition is good for health, but when things are not picking up why not focus the efforts on making the better the best (probably GDC/LDC)?

Albeit few community members are very helpful and humble, personal attacks are a common thing in the forum.

The forum gives some hints [2], [3]

[1] https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp

[2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/vlosobeqnvfrfuriedpv@forum.dlang...

[3] http://forum.dlang.org/post/hjaiavlfkoamenidomsa@forum.dlang...
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Unfortunately, while I could point you to great books on electrical engineering in general, I don't know of a single online/book resource on this topic because I learned all of this on the job while apprenticing and contracting for many different companies. For further reading, I would probably start with semiconductor and electronics manufacturing/supply chain books of which there are dozens. If they don't cover the nuances of dealing with part variations then they are likely not worth reading. Sorry I can't be more helpful.