skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically how Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) solves the problem very efficiently. It uses InterlockedIncrement() to quickly and with minimal contention have something to merge all the records at the end.

If you're on Windows you should use ETW instead of reinventing it when possible :)
Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if this is fairly common, especially when you consider what happens when a lipo battery has a 'problem'. I'd want whatever's charging that up to be as exacting as possible.
Building 8 is the group.

> (Zuck) announced the formation of a mysterious research-and-development group known as "Building 8."
Cross-compiling with Docker and dockcross
Also: PHP has a JavaScript engine, V8js (http://php.net/manual/en/book.v8js.php)

So you could run a PHP VM on top of a Javascript VM in PHP.
Wordpress doesn't have a poor security track record.

Wordpress users have a poor security track record.
If I/O were the bottleneck then that would be the case with or without a lock, wouldn't it?
Hi, thanks for the lucid interview. Why the 3 year minimum service period to extend the exercise window?

> The main point is that if someone decides to not exercise and/or is not able to exercise and they leave the company, their options typically have a three-month expiration. So, unless the person exercises them within three months after leaving, they lose those options, which is kind of crazy to think about because the person has already invested time, already contributed to the company, already meaningfully helped the business.

> So at Gusto... everyone that has stayed here at least three years, their expiration changes from three months to ten years.

Doesn't everything just said about it being "crazy" to lose your options apply if you leave at 2.5 years? You've "already invested time, already contributed..." Why should you lose vested options, ever?

I asked Adam D'Angelo about minimum service periods and he responded that it'd be more transparent to have a longer cliff. My perspective is that backloaded vesting would be closer to the probable intended effect here (a barrier to leaving early, but you don't lose everything).

Put another way... Aren't "minimum service periods" exploiting opaqueness to make them seem like friendlier terms than longer cliffs or backloaded vesting?
I'm not at all surprised to see what my hometown of Bismarck, ND is obsessed with.
there has to be some humane place on the planet that fosters engagement and enrichment over private profit and expression over conformity.

No haha. If you want that, you have to carefully make friends who see more clearly. There are good people everywhere.

(btw if you want a non-english, non-white environment in the bay area, go to 24-hour Fitness. I frequently have Spanish and Chinese conversations there. Occasionally Russian but less often).
You moved the goal posts.

But yes, it could still absolutely be safe. Why do you think otherwise? Does Apple hold a patent on publishing malware-free apps? No. They do not.
> I don't believe it has happened, but that it can — and because it can, eventually it will.

Can't it also happen because you view a document on your Android device? I mean, ultimately either Google discloses in their ToS that they will snoop on people's docs, or they don't disclose it and do it anyways. The former is pretty clear-cut: if Google says so publicly, we can collectively ditch it. The latter... well I guess you'll never know until someone catches them and sues their pants off.

> It's a convenient browser-based augmentation of an Office installation, but no more than that; there are far too many features missing. It can't even completely edit a Word document; for some things you have to open the document in Word itself to edit certain parts!

I have no first hand experience with it, which is why I asked the question. Yes, if it's not a compete implementation of Office, then it's not super useful for existing documents. Then again, if you mostly use Web-based MS Office, then isn't the desktop version a complete superset of the features of it?

My experience is limited to Google Drive office stuff as well as some Apple office web stuff. Both have served me so well over the years that I haven't opened LibreOffice or MS Office since roughly 2007.

> There's Linux …

I was saying that the web version covers Linux, but see previous paragraphs about how I can see that it might not be complete.

> The question has been dropped, but reality remains the same. That folks don't discuss the elephant in the room doesn't make it disappear.

I personally think that it's a big concern. Privacy is being swept under the rug in favor of usability. My point is that the question of whether people will want to use cloud services or not has been answered. The next question is possibly "how do we use/provide cloud based services while respecting users' privacy?"
Here is some evidence of mining source code for common structure and idioms. I didn't even have to dust off my bull whip: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/csutton/publications/idioms.pd...

I don't have evidence of this approach actually being used to inform language or tool design, but it's not like it's an outrageous concept that nobody's thought of before. Your hostility is perplexing.
How come I never heard about it, this seems like a better successor to openID.
You're talking about the difference between perceived poverty relative to your previous lifestyle versus actual poverty where you're living paycheck to paycheck because you didn't have a sufficiently large paycheck.

Every generation seems to have a big economic shock it has to weather through (or two or three). I think living on a percentage of your income with 6-12 months' salary in the bank is the only smart thing to do when you're able to do it.
I strongly suspect most people here on HN have a startup mindset. HN's direct and obvious connection to YC filters for it.

When my startup failed and I was looking for a new role most hiring managers I spoke to were impressed enough with my resume but also had reservations about hiring me as they thought I'd get bored and want to do another startup within a year or two. Playing up the co-founder title might not be such a good idea. Everything else is spot on though - experience is far more important than anything else.
> Land is fixed

Housing is not land, and quite often in the United States is not provided in a way which makes maximum practical use of land, so land being fixed is pretty much irrelevant to whether housing supply is fixed.

> so the greater ability to pay from the subsidy simply increases the 'rent' earned by landowners.

If "landowners" were a single monopoly supplier, this, again, would be a reasonable conclusion. The ability to capture value from the subsidy, however, depends on the ability to provide value from housing on that land, something on which landowners naturally compete (qualitatively, even where the do not do so on some quantitative measures, such as floor space, as robustly as would occur in a truly freely competitive market because of, e.g., zoning restrictions.)
I recommend to people that Wordpress would be a good fit for to have it hosted on Wordpress.com. You get the ease and familiarity of Wordpress with less pwnage. It's free, but $6/mo gets you the use of your own domain and no ads.

I find it's a pretty good trade off if you don't need a heavily customized site.
You are not missing anything. EPB fiber made a profit after servicing it's debt. The electric monopoly is not subsidizing anything, they are receiving a subsidy from the fiber side!

The source of the funding is a bond, not a subsidy from the power company.
That matches my expectations. Really, if you are doing something as slow as writing logs to a disk, and the number of processes/threads is not in the tens or hundreds, I don't imagine locking overhead is your problem, given the speed of disk storage.

That said, I think the main problem with that is to do it cross platform, which the article goes to paint to mention quite a bit. I imagine the whole point here is to be portable, and I'm not sure what mechanisms work best with that, and what platforms they are available on. I uncovered some unsettling info about Fcntl locking[1], but generally I just used flock when I had to care about it, but i don't think that exists on windows normally(?).

1: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html
Company I come from I was at 5 1/2 years, through 2 departments, 3 managers, 2 CTO's, and a number of just fucked up things in general.

The company I'm going to even highlighted that me being somewhere for 6 years was unheard of today, especially to have put up with everything I went through at that place.
Incorrect, EPB fiber is sustainable as they make a profit after debt service. There is no subsidy from the power side.
Comparing Taiwan, which has been functionally independent of the PRC and under control of the ROC since 1945, to South Ossetia or Transnistria is absolutely ridiculous. Just because Taiwan isn't widely recognized by the international community doesn't mean that it isn't an entirely separate socioeconomic entity. A brief glance at the last two decades of politics in Taiwan will show you as much.
For hashing, you want the maximum possible throughput. If you want to hash a password, you can always iterate the hash function to add difficulty, or better yet, use a mechanism specifically designed for hashing passwords, such as scrypt, bcrypt, or PKBDF2.
Parole is actually a safety valve in such cases, you might serve a few days in prison and then have X months / years of monitoring. Prison is a rather separate situation, but they still let most prisoners read for example.
It's not especially difficult to customize a wordpress theme. At some point people who are not developers need to hand the reigns over to developers.

I often see posts from people asking someone to teach them PHP in a few days so they can modify their Wordpress install, and I think why would anyone who's spent 2 decades learning how to do these things for their bread and butter want to do that?

If developing is your career then you've got time to learn, and if you don't got time to learn then pay someone who's made it their career.
Did Gaston Julia ever get to see a computer-generate image of his eponymous set?
how about

mkfifo foo

tee -a log.txt < foo &

and then multiple processes write to pipe foo.
Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist, has written some interesting material on the deinstitutionalization movement: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/31/book-review-my-brother-... http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-pr...
> Housing is not land, and quite often in the United States is not provided in a way which makes maximum practical use of land, so land being fixed is pretty much irrelevant to whether housing supply is fixed.

It's clearly relevant-- the fixed nature of land makes is what limits the supply of housing. Both due to the obvious situation -- we can't build housing because there's no available land for it-- as well as the more complicated case where the limited supply of land is downzoned to create wealth for landowners.

> If "landowners" were a single monopoly supplier, this, again, would be a reasonable conclusion. The ability to capture value from the subsidy, however, depends on the ability to provide value from housing on that land, something on which landowners naturally compete.

It is uncommon for them to compete. It is much more common to enact restrictive zoning laws (and other bureaucratic measures) so they do not have to.
When did you last use Joomla?

2016 Joomla is as easy as WP to update, and easier than WP to install.
Got it. I saw that a newer comment was approved so I assumed mine was rejected. Apologies for that! I think the newer comment that was approved was probably just from an account that wasn't moderated.
The problem is the real, unbiased, can't be faked data shows that the CO2 level is rising the most it has in recorded history. It has jumped 4 ppm in the last year alone [1].

1. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
Generally when a story is reported like that there is almost always 'more to it', e.g. the press have probably twisted it and it wasn't actually a case where 3 kids were playing in a fenced-in backyard, totally safely and there were no prior incidents.

The police and social services aren't usually keen to waste their time investigating clearly well-tended-to kids. They get so many bullshit callouts, they really don't want to take on more than they need to.

Be cynical of the press for political-correctness-gone-mad/nanny-state stories as it's generally nonsense, especially when it relates to 'family matters' (we have a whole newspaper in the UK that specialises in this - Daily Mail).

From a sibling:

>> Who in their right mind thinks that kids playing in a fenced backyard are in danger?

No one. Which is why it probably did not happen like that, and has been misreported.
We shipped our hardware in Pelican Cases. They are indestructible, and they come with foam liners that can pretty much be custom molded or "plucked" to fit the object your are shipping.

I could almost guarantee what we were shipping was more fragile than your printers, (not a pissing contest) but it was precision instrumentation that needed to not get jittered around. Pelicans worked great for us. http://www.pelican.com/us/en/

And they arent even that expensive.
Um, hm? I don't know how you get to "Fiscally conservative socialism". The previous comment said that the socialists (ie. Social Democrats, Left Party - previously known as The Communist Party) became somewhat fiscally conservative.

There is a huge difference in how you would read that. The interpretation that you should go for is "The socialist being less socialist for the time being". In other words, they toned it down briefly. They're certainly at it again now.

That said, there is plenty of waste and bureaucratic excess/largess in Sweden - and it's very hand-wavy and nothing can apparently be done to reduce it when you start talking about it.

The last part of your comment I did not quite understand. What do you mean by having a culture that "encourages whistle blowing, snitches and oversight"? You mean that in order to have some kind of socialism to be fiscally conservative - you'd need whistle blowers that would rat out largess and snitch on people who waste State resources?

If that is what you mean, we have some of that (whistle blowers) - but we also have way more waste than what covers whatever gets surfaced. They're also few and far between..
I'm fairly sure, around the time of the original fork, Matt announced the intention for DragonFly to take inspiration from the Amiga for some aspects of the new OS and kernel. Messaging was one of them. I forget the others.
That's horrible advice. The existing .git/hooks/pre-commit may not even be a shellscript, you could be appending to a binary file.

Even if it's a shellscript you can't just concatenate shellscripts together and expect them to work as thought you'd run them as two independent shellscripts.
ETW is awesome. Too bad it's been plagued by such an opaque API and all the registration junk. I hear it can be easier to use now, but I'm still not sure if an exe can emit ETW events without having to register every possible event or whatever.
The even more scary thing is our models are so bad that we have no idea of how likely a positive feedback loop is. We are basically driving down the freeway at 100 miles per hour with our eyes shut with the hope the road stays straight.
Some discussion about this on /r/rust: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4vzomj/announcing_tok...
Perhaps.

Or perhaps you are choosing to interpret my words in a way that leads to a silly result.

The much more obvious reading starts with noting that the party ruling Florida is the same party that also happens to have policy positions that are of a piece at the local, state and national level positions.
I see plenty of homeless Swedes every day when I walk from the Stockholm Central Station to my work in Stockholm City - at least five, everyday - and that's a short walk. Sure, it's not San Francisco - but it'd be an incredible lie to say there are no homeless, like the previous comment before you said
> Hiring managers hone in on results, not only titles.

A lot of them kind of don't, but you don't want to work at those places anyway. This is good advice.
> You don't need a role model that has the same skin colour as you to be motivated to do stem or specifically get into programming. Stop caring about what people look like.

You seriously underestimate how important it is to see other people like yourself succeeding at the things you're considering. I also find it pretty interesting that you created a new account for the express purpose of making this comment. I don't know if that's because you don't want me figuring out what race/gender you are, or because you know you're making a boneheaded comment and don't want it to be visible on your main account.
I spend 90% of my time in 'real' languages like Java, C#, and Python building 'real' web apps/services and I still go to Wordpress if I need basic CMS functionality. It's incredibly easy to build a theme or plugin for and the deployment pipeline is pretty darn simple. Granted, if you were average Joe user and went installing plugins and themes from the darkest corners of the 'net your site would be absolutely hosed, but keeping it to the basics I've had very little performance issues and have been able to have a couple of sites withstand some major traffic spikes.

Maybe it's because I just haven't forced myself to get good and fast w/ Django, but when I need a CMS and the project is almost entirely about how it looks or some functionality that is solved by a well regarded plugin I just head straight for WP.

That being said, I 100% agree that the codebase is horrific when you're used to writing modern PHP (even worse when you're used to other languages, period) but it is such a known quantity it's hard to move away from it unless it can be solved by using something like Squarespace, etc.
> The thought process is that if hypothetically, an employee has to move home to live with their family or they’re getting married to a childhood sweetheart across the country, these are all things that are great decisions that should not be punished

Unless you have only been at the company only 2 years 11 months. Then you have earned nothing. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

> My perspective is that backloaded vesting would be closer to the probable intended effect here (a barrier to leaving early, but you don't lose everything).

Why is the approach of a cliff followed by getting a small amount of your stock every month afterwards not sufficient?
I'm curious: How do you think this rollout would have worked without the use of feature flags, and how would that have been better?
Interesting.

I thought "equity" meant just giving stock to the employees after they worked X years, not the mess of complexity, taxes and spending your own money that it actually is...
That's true, but even though there are plenty of tangles in the WP codebase it's not hard to do some pretty advanced customizations via plugins/themes.
If your a developer with a good amount of experience and stuff/projects to show then you have nothing to worry about.

If you didn't pick up any coding or tech skills during running your start-ups you may or may not have issues.

For me my start-ups were like going to school to pick up a new/in-demand skill that I could fall back on if my startup dreams fell flat.
I think it's 12Bn of investment in eCommerce, which includes but isn't solely Labs.
Ask HN: IT security apps for small businesses
Hi there, I've had a few friends ask me about securing their businesses. One is in the health industry, and another in finance, and so both are fairly mindful they need to take security seriously.

They also don't have a lot of money to spend, so are keen to pick some SaaS apps that can help them rather than spend thousands on consultants.

Typically Their client records are stored in specialist vertical SaaS apps (out of scope), so they are mostly worried about cryptolocker type threats that will lock them out of their local desktops (Windows 7, 8 and 10). One has his web site on Wordpress/godaddy, the other uses Squarespace. Both just have standard-issue ISP modem/routers with default configuration (admin passwords changed).

What are your top security apps that I should be recommending to them? Is it sufficient to just recommend something like McAfee?
I'm not interested in playing the part of a Yorkshireman, and I'm certainly not about to defend the CPC. I wouldn't trade my citizenship of a Western country for any other.

All I'm saying is that your example doesn't make your case that Western governments are that much better at tackling these kinds of potential problems, or that they don't try to cover them up, often in ways that prevent the problem from being fixed.

If you want to argue that they have a train collision a month that we just don't know about, while I vehemently condemn censorship for itself, I can't accept lack of proof as proof that it happened!
Nice! Now we can have hardware tracking me and filtering what I see.
Doesn't it cost Comcast money AND processing power to STORE the browsing history?
The price list at the bottom [1] isn't fair, a company like Apple usually pays more for it's components for "higher" quality (usually a probabilistic reduction in failure rate). Things are so bad in the industry that it's not possible to get some of the higher rated components because Apple has bought them all.

[1] List (from reference 19 on the site):

Component Cost
MSP430F2003 processor $0.45
MC33368D PFC chip $0.50
L6599 controller chip $1.62
LT1460 3.3V reference $1.46
TSM103/A reference $0.16
2x P11NM60AFP 11A 600V MOSFET $2.00
3x Vishay optocoupler $0.48
2x 630V 0.47uF film capacitor $0.88
4x 25V 680uF electrolytic capacitor $0.12
420V 82uF electrolytic capacitor $0.93
polypropylene X2 capacitor $0.17
3x toroidal inductor $0.75
4A 600V diode bridge $0.40
2x dual common-cathode schottky rectifier 60V, 15A $0.80
20NC603 power MOSFET $1.57
transformer $1.50?
PFC inductor $1.50?

On a side note... I've seen the case where Apple's standards for compliance are set using the components they buy the highest grade of - making it even more difficult for external companies to implement compliance. It was bad enough that the standard chip, recommended circuit and recommended testing tools failed to meet their requirements.

NOTE: Apologies to any users where the screen is stretched.
Walmart would be better off buying $3B of Amazon stock -- eCommerce is not their strong point.
An amazing amount of thought went into the design of these power bricks. Now... What does that say about their choice of fray-prone insulation?

Obviously they are aware of those of us who have to buy new power bricks regularly because the insulation has shredded. (I have to buy a new one about once a year.) In some proportion, we are either 1. a profit opportunity or 2. collateral damage of an engineering decision to favor that thin insulation for flexibility or whatever.

I'd love to know their analysis!
Amazing that so much thought goes inside the adapter, but they still manage to completely skip any worthwhile stress relief on the cable ends. One of the reasons I know how to solder wire is because I got tired of buying a new adapter every year.
That's text from his children, reprinted in the article, but clearly attributed.
Weird that all those tech company didn't learn from the car industry trying really hard in the 90s to dominate the Chinese market.
Lisp as a 'language' maybe, but the problem is it's more than syntax and compiler. The advantage of JVM, garbage collection, relative platform neutrality, docs that are really consistent, libraries that are very easily shared, and the huge amount of things built into the lang package over time, the number of Q/A on Stack Overflow, resources available, support, 3rd part libraries - these are things that Lisp really lacks, making it not a very useful thing all around.