skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Tech companies are delaying IPOs, why we need a new name for the Tech sector
Same.

Vrapper [0] for Eclipse, Vintageous [1] for Sublime, VsVim [2] for Visual Studio, and Vimium [3] for Chrome.

I have become one with Vim :)

[0] http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/

[1] https://github.com/guillermooo/Vintageous

[2] https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3...

[3] https://vimium.github.io/
Edited title to fit into character limit (Processors -> CPUs).
How does it work when Person A,B & C equally owns Company X which has cash reserves of 10m and liabilities of 10m

Person A & B also own Company Y.

Company X buys out Company Y for 5m which later leads to bankruptcy of Company X with creditors left holding the can.

How is conflict of interest treated here? What if Person C also has equal shares in Company Y. Is Company X debarred from buying Company Y. Can creditors sue Company X directors ?
You can run squid on pfsense. Pfsense is great.
Looks similar to LinkIt Smart 7688 by Mediatek.
What purpose?

Does he honestly think the author literally believes the parts of the brain involved in locomotion can be used for programming?

It's being pedantic in an unproductive way since no charitable reading of the OP would come away with that conclusion.
SQLAlchemy has a lot more power than Django's ORM. I'd argue that Django's ORM is more accessible to beginner SQL users though. Django handles joins for you (which admittedly breaks down with very complex queries) which is the only ORM I'm aware of that does. SQLAlchemy maps much more closely to SQL and is a tighter abstraction.

A GSOC project is currently adding customisable indexes: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/XA...
Fair enough, but does this mean gun enthusiasts should similarly flag articles about "yet another JavaScript framework"?

I'm not sure HN's algorithms are up to the task of sorting that out...
Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
Per-user limits is certainly way easier to implement than deploying a cluster of proxies doing on-the-fly transcoding of video streams(!)
Oh I don't feel entitled to it at all. But If I send you a GET request and you will just send it to me now questions asked then I'm going to ask for it. Nice try.

Your variation of the old "if you don't like it why don't you just move" argument is the more childish response.

Besides, enforcing this intellectual property racket is paid for by my tax dollars. Lets call those "contributions" to the
cause my dues.

"This sounds like someone who believes that if something comes up in a Google image search, it's free game for anyone to use."

Exactly. You imply that it is written in stone that ip is a sacred thing. Not everyone agrees.
I just used Channels in a personal project and it's great! My requirements were mostly basic and I haven't put it into production yet, but everything has gone smoothly so far.
DJango 1.10 source download is 7MB.

I don't know what is normal for Ruby. Basic crud app in Java tends to be 20-50MB, but DJango above doesn't have DB drivers or anything yet so I suspect it is similar.

*seems reasonable.
OUch. Big write down to the yuppies who bot into this glass brogrammer tower.
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There are some crucial details here I'm not understanding.

The article says Israel needs (or needed?) 1.9Gm³/year (60 kiloliters per second, 60kℓ/s) of water, of which it got 1.5Gm³/year (48kℓ/s) from natural sources; but now (or when the plants opened?) it gets 127Mm³/year from the 2005 Ashkelon desal plant, 140Mm³/year from the 2009 Hadera desal plant, and 150Mm³/year from the new Sorek plant. These total 417Mm³/year (13kℓ/s), but the article says Israel's current total is 600Mm³/year (19kℓ/s) from desalination plants, which is more than 417. Also, it says, Israel now gets 55% of its domestic water from desalination. But 55% of 60kℓ/s is 33kℓ/s, which is 14kℓ/s more than the 19kℓ/s it says Israel gets from desalination. I suspect there's some confusing mixing of categories here leading to these numbers not adding up properly.

The other really crucial questions are about capex and opex. How much do these plants cost to build, and how much do they cost to run? How much of that is the energy cost?

They give the figure that the Sorek plant's reverse osmosis runs at 70 atmospheres (7.1 MPa; fucking Christ on a stick, why do people keep inventing new non-SI units?) which means that each liter of output water requires 7.1kJ of mechanical energy to force it through the membrane. There are presumably some other energy costs, but that may be the bulk of it. At US$100/MWh (US$28/GJ; fucking non-SI units again), which is a reasonable ballpark for the levelized cost of electrical energy, that's about 200 μUS$/ℓ or 200 US$/Mℓ. Irrigation water is commonly quoted in US$ per acre foot in the US; this is US$240 per acre foot, which would be a very competitive cost.

But it says the cost is US$0.58/kℓ, which is 580 US$/Mℓ or US$715/acre foot, about three times the cost of the mechanical energy and high enough that many crops are uneconomical. It is crucial to understand where that extra cost is coming from.

One of the comments on the Ensia version of the story claims that the new Carlsbad desal plant is selling its water for US$2000/acre foot. I don't know if that's true, but it's about 150% higher than the projected costs.

Links, in case the Scientific American web site is lost:

Original article: http://ensia.com/features/how-a-new-source-of-water-is-helpi...

Bar-Zeev et al.'s article about their bioflocculation anti-biofouling prefiltering apparatus: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236137883_Biofloccu...
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.03.013

"Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought": http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241.abstract
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421533112
I wonder how all that works out for Netflix. They must get a massive discount but do they buy reserved instances? or are all of their instances reserved instances?
With a small catalog, you can pre-encode everything. That means that in the unencrypted case, media files can be sent directly from the kernel's page cache, as unmapped I/O. Eg, the data is not even touched by the CPU. But in the encrypted case, you're suddenly touching every byte with the CPU, thereby doubling your memory bandwidth requirements.

With a large catalog like YouTube's, I would expect that most of the titles are saved in some master format, and are encoded on the fly. That means that the data is already being touched by the CPU to re-encode it on the fly for whatever format is needed by a particular client.

My expectation is that if YouTube was re-encoding on the fly due to the catalog size, they would suffer less of a CPU hit than Netflix did, so SSL would be "easier" for them to implement.
Machines+Steal+Human+Blog+Gigs?
I think it's a bit premature to conclude we have uncovered what the fabric of existence is made of. History has repeatedly shown we have no idea how much we don't know (just until recently we thought we understood more or less what the universe is made of and we now realise we understand less than 5% of it) and the reality keeps delivering surprises.

But just for the sake of the argument, let's suppose we do know how everything works. There's enough matter and energy out there to supply endless economic growth if creative minds continue to come up with ideas on how to leverage it.

Besides that, from a quick research, I see many economists with a much deeper understanding in economy then myself are convinced that economy isn't a zero sum game. This doesn't necessarily make it true, but I'd study their claims before dismissing it.
“Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?”: July 2016
We did that on low-end PC hardware 15 years ago for conference and guest networks (800+ simultaneous active users, LAN and WiFi).

I find it unlikely that Linux, FreeBSD have gotten less efficient since then and the hardware has made enormous improvements, far in advance of the common uplink speed.
I used to work with this guy that was a prick to almost epic levels. We'll call him "Richard", because he was a Dick. (Not his real name of course)

Most assholes are subtle, but somehow this guy kept his job despite being, basically, a monster.

A few of the things he did:

- Once, he kicked over a trashcan and stormed out for the rest of the day because I checked in a visual effect he didn't like (.. even though he approved the code review and it was trivial to disable).

- Another time, he very authoritatively started inventing policy around branching. (Keep in mind, he was nobodies boss). When one of the senior engineers politely asked him if that was from our boss, or just something he wanted us to do, he incoherently started shouting and, once again, stormed out.

- Every scrum, he would pounce on even the smallest misstatement to "correct" people (even if they weren't wrong). When it came to be his turn to give an update, he would condescendingly give the most terse eye-roll of an answer he possibly could, as if the entire thing was beneath him.

- At a certain point, he just stopped showing up regularly. He'd maybe appear two out of five days of the week. Which meant three-out-of-five workdays were great! Despite this, he would get upset about not being consulted on decisions by people that actually did work daily... even though he wasn't there.

- When he did show up, for the last six months or so he was employed there, instead of working on our product, he would take his laptop, co-opt the empty front-desk, and work on his own startup. (Luckily, he would still take the time to tell us the work the rest of us were doing was not to his liking).

- One time, when me and my boss were bouncing some light-hearted banter back in forth, he immediately jumped in and started attacking my boss, which turned into a shouting match between them and he ended up storming out early... again. (notice a pattern here?)

- Once, we had to pack our desks and move around some office furniture for some office construction. Being that Richard was a Dick, he decided not to show up for this, so his colleagues had to pack his desk for him. After three hours of heavy lifting, our boss decided to take us out for lunch. ... And suddenly, Dick shows up. Team player.

That's actually the tip of the iceberg with this guy. I never thought much of the no-assholes-rule before (though I was familiar with it), but now I'm pretty much adamant that I won't work with people who think being an asshole is ok, even if it just comes to tolerating misbehaviour.
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When Oracle bought NetSuite there was a special committee put together to handle all the negotiations exactly because of Larry Ellison's personal investment into NetSuite.
"Hand of God", "Transparent", "The Man in the High Castle", and a whole bunch more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Studios
Well, it does. If there is a limit on how small X can be as a percentage of the total economy (because we value it), and the amount of X that can be produced is finite, this puts a limit on the size of the total economy.
While you're right to be suspicious — of any hosted product, really, especially biz intel things like this and Slack — I think you got ahead of yourself in the last couple of sentences. A does not necessarily imply B there. (I'm not kidding myself.)
Implicit agreements for everything are a side effect of our idiotic and corrupt legal system.

Imagine going to a car lot and having a salesman walk up and say "our TOS say by walking onto a lot you have to buy something, you owe us. Didn't you read them? they are behind that dumpster over there duh. Its on page 53 paragraph 10"

Its really shady to link to some other resource on your domain in small print that is full of legal mumbo jumbo and pretend that constitutes any real agreement between you and somebody else. And yes I understand that all those Judges and lawyers who make a living off of making this crap up disagree with me.

For what ifs - What if you sending me a document without charge or explicitly asking for payment first did not imply that I "have" to download some other document that will annoy me and possible infect my computer.
> It's possible to have sincere ideals and still make iffy judgement calls. The positioning makes sense, but who here would bet that this would have still happened if both companies were turning a profit?

This is not the first time this decision needed to be made: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/14/8605597/elon-musk-discusse...
Uber quits China and sells business in the country to its rival Didi Chuxing
> it's an example of how different the playing field is for different people

I really liked your response, and am curious to know if you'd be able to comment more specifically on that little bit I quoted above.

What exactly is the playing field? Getting VC funding? Managing regulatory agencies' demands?

Who has an advantage on the playing field? Who doesn't?
I wonder how they're gathering that information and using it to alert the user. Is it a checksum of the file that Firefox is comparing to a central database? Or is the check entirely client-side?
Ah, you're right. Perhaps I read too far into the "Security/Privacy" section here: https://quip.com/about/tour
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HackerNews: Build apps, expect billions in valuation.

Elon Musk: Pour fortune into building actual things, get shit on by startup culture.

Haters gonna hate.
All these years, and we're finally getting around to the important questions.

I don't have a cat (or a workplace), but cat cafes seem to be purring right along.

Digging a bit, it seems that one in seven kids has cat allergies, which is twice as much as the rate with kids and dogs. Either way, that's a fair number of people, so if there's any sort of discrimination involved, I'm sure cat lawyers will pounce.
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People still use Stumbleupon? I though everyone gave up on like 4 years ago when they turned it into a horrendous POS.
The biggest problem with these is that they are keybindings only. The don't allow you to customize things the same way which I think is the main benefit of learning one editor well.
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Its a good post i like it
http://greenlahore.blogspot.com/2016/07/air-quality-worsens-...
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You're right. I read too much into the "Security/Privacy" section of their website.

So what's the real selling point, then? Like I said it seems like a hybrid of Google Docs and Google Wave.
Its really good
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Answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12207328 but in short, you're correct, I made a bad assumption.
New York Times coverage, "Seymour Papert, 88, Dies; Saw Education’s Future in Computers":

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/technology/seymour-pape...
Theranos Offers First Glimpse of Technologies, Assay Data at AACC
I have a phone with a headphone jack, and I'm using Bluetooth headphones for hours every day. The headphone battery lasts a lot longer than the phone. In the past few years even audiophile brands have been releasing blueooth models and they are getting good.

I'm not saying I agree with getting rid of the headphone jack. The amount of utility it provides is pretty high relative to the volume it takes up.
So, you think landlords should operate at a loss for the benefit of their tenants?
I don't doubt that such laws existed, though I know very little about them. I might surmise that the "public interest" upheld by these laws was based on a rather restrictive definition of "public".

But I don't quite understand your point. My point was that if your goal is to end racial discrimination, free-market forces left to themselves are not sufficient. Sometimes legislation is needed to level the playing field and make non-discriminatory businesses economically viable.

Does your post relate to that, and I am just missing something? Or are you heading in a different direction?
The New Political Divide
"Uber is joing (sic) the long list of tech and Internet companies that failed to crack the code of doing business in China…"

There are many who would argue that the problems that non-China companies experience trying to do business in China are entirely political and have nothing to do with their achievements in localization, their understanding of the China market or their willingness to make reasonable concessions to gain access.

China knows its domestic market is large enough to sustain any business that may have traction elsewhere in the world, and the government wants all the marbles for themselves.
But surely threats and sarcasm are not at the same level...?
I think it's a pretty well-done app!