skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do want to stay here actually. But definitely a good point about not expecting them to give me any favours. Thanks!
Why do so many businesses outsource software development to Poland?
It could also mean the software is abandoned and hasn't received security updates in a long time.
Wash.io decimated local businesses, then crashed anyway
We're talking about labor, specifically programming, not cost of materials.
> can you somehow make the system wait for the buffer to empty? If sending a packet syncronously, the system call would just hang until the buffers have drained enough.

It sounds like you're trying to make UDP lossless. Use TCP instead.

What if I'm running VOIP? Or a real-time video game? I don't want to wait for the dropped datagram to be received before processing the next one. It's too late! It should have been received already. Skip it and use the next one.

> Does the outside network just bang bits through the cable like a radio station?

Basically, yes. Ethernet has no flow control. IP has no flow control. UDP has no flow control. TCP does.

> is there, deep down on the lowest levels of the stack, actually some kind of request/response going on, even for UDP?

No. Ethernet, as commonly deployed, has no need for this, but CSMA/CD is the retransmit part of the specification in case you are using coax tap or a hub. Each Ethernet frame also has a Frame Check Sequence, and the receiving node will discard the frame if it doesn't match up. It's not up to Ethernet to retransmit. Use TCP for that instead.
There's an interesting analogy to things like WMDs here. Nukes can also have a much larger impact if abused or compromised, but we still built them. I expect eventually we'll have internet voting in place regardless if the benefits outweigh the potential downsides.
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That's really the key that pisses people off I think, nobody will worry much about high six figure executive compensation if the administration overhead is a tiny portion of revenue.

Kidney & Urology Foundation of America is a great example:

Total Overhead: 91.9%

Management & General Expenses: 38.8%

Fundraising Expenses: 53.1%

CEO Compensation: $132,642 (31.7% of revenue)
Or you can design it to be light and fast from day 1. I had no trouble with the same level of traffic during a ShowHN on a $5 droplet.
Trust me, you're not missing anything. You've been warned :-)
Using a strong key and cipher, you should feel safe giving anyone your information.
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I used to write processing software for stock exchange data feeds such as OPRA (https://www.opradata.com/), they were UDP only at the time.

Of course packets could be lost so there actually was a paper based form you could fill in and re-request the missed data packet by fax (no-one ever did that, though).

I think by now they implemented a TCP/IP connection to request re-transmissions these days.
Most relevant Internet bodies are noncommercial organisations, like ICANN, IETF, RIPE, ARIN, APNIC, AFNIC, LACNIC, the various Internet exchanges (xxCIX), some DNS registrars are noncommercial too. But someone has to run the actual cables, manage customers, host servers, etc.

I'd say the Internet has a very good balance between commercial interests and the noncommercial "public good". So good in fact, that some very restrictive governments choose to opt out and create nationwide intranets (China, Iran, ...)
Revisiting the not-so-great design of machines we use every day
Removing the loophole would lower your tax rate. However, why should I subsidies whatever you want to have happen beyond that point?

Sell milk? Why not set up a trade association to promote it. It's just promoting healthy living after all.
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This might be a tangent. I attribute my bombing a big4 interview in 2014 to restless and sleepless night the day before the interview (it was a very senior dev position and the role and responsibility described by the recruiter made me super excited. Actually, the whole week had been pretty much sleepless nights) which 'disabled' my hunger, and the lethal combination of sleep deprivation and overnight fasting manifested itself and I literally saw myself failing at things I shouldn't have but I could do nothing about it. It was a 9 am meeting and I was in a cold hall which added to the misery. I was groggy, about as articulate as a drunken child and utterly failed to benefit from the generous hints the interviewer was giving me. I felt sorry for him TBH. It was the company that had contacted me and I felt pretty bad for the recruiter as well for having fared so miserably. The biggest takeaway from this experience was to get sufficient sleep the night before important events. And to bloody eat breakfast.

So, are you sure your failure is not due to external elements like mine (which was one off fyi)?
It never ceases to amaze me how people have bought into "cloud" computing. Its hard enough to protect your own data, on your own secure machine. Once you entrust your data to a third party you should have absolutely no doubt that it is at risk. The larger the organization that that third party is, the more inherently insecure it is. In the cloud, it only takes one careless, stupid, or inept person to expose the data of thousands (or millions). And you can't fix stupid.

No thanks, I'll keep control over my own data.
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Julia Evans is not a guy.
The tax deduction provides a major motivation for philanthropy; removing it would massively reduce charitable giving. If anything, I'd like to see that increased.

Thought experiment: what would the charitable landscape look like if charitable donations deducted directly from tax burden, not from taxable income? (Perhaps with some upper limit.)

That said, I don't think the "donor-advised funds" mentioned in the article make sense; the tax break should occur when actually donating to a registered charitable organization, not just when setting the money aside for an eventual donation.
Yup been doing that already but planning to read up the codebase as much as i can for this last chance to prove myself.
Whoa whoa whoa, tell me more about the thing with France and collecting a percentage of your previous salary. How does all of that work? Who pays for it?
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Ask HN: List of sites most annoyed by adblocker
Adblockers have been running away with lot of money from the content generators and affect the very traditional business model. List your site or site you may know outraged by adblockers and also if you how much money are you losing.
Its just a open case study.
Large UDP datagrams are much more likely to be dropped than small ones. A short datagram will fit in a single IP packet. A maximally sized datagram may take about 40. If you have a 1% packet loss rate, then the short datagrams get lost 1% of the time, but the huge ones get lost 33% of the time ( 0.99^40 ). With a 10% packet loss you get almost 99% loss of maximally sized UDP datagrams.

The extra pain is that even though the huge datagram is lost, almost all of its data is transmitted. So you have a congested line and you are hammering it extra hard by resending the same data over and over.

Moral: unless you can guarantee low IP packet loss rates across the entire route, be very careful about large UDP packets.

Counter moral: I built a very nice VPN over TCP solution for a customer who insisted 10% packet drop on their network was fine. Completely fixed their large UDP packet based legacy system… which I had designed a decade before.
Well, 35 EU companies were subjected to the same ruling in Belgium earlier this year and Belgian government has to recover 700 million euro.

Apple is not the first case, it is just more mediatic and has a bigger sum
When to work on your startup?
I can't find much info on the father but the wikipedia cite for his father going to prison goes to this:

> In May of 1992, Tyler sold pot and LSD to a longtime friend who was really a police informant. His father, who was also named Timothy and had a fireworks business in Florida, helped out with the deal and was charged along with his son.
... His father, who had a prior pot charge from 1969, got 10 years, Tyler-Stoafer told me. He had heart trouble and died in prison when he was 53, after serving 8 years in prison.
http://www.businessinsider.com/timothy-tylers-mandatory-mini...

I also found this:

>Some packages with LSD were mailed to Tim’s father’s address, implicating him in the case as well. https://www.headcount.org/this-peaceful-deadhead-will-die-in...
Good. Philanthropy is horribly ineffective on average. Why should I subsides such wasteful spending?

Waste is insidious. The US government spends more per person on healthcare than Canada and get's far less for it's money.
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Yes a lot of these theories and speculations tend to not be scientifically tractable. I did an Anthropology minor in college but became very unimpressed with the mainstream theories regarding the evolution of various modern traits. Seemed like a competition to see who could come up with the most seductive, crazy theory and not the falsifiable one.
PyFlux an open source time series library for the Python Programming Language
PE is mandatory in every high school in the US. Why don't we have a nation of fit, active people?

I think the real problem is exposure. I don't like running, soccer, or football -- so my years in PE were generally a waste. There are physical hobbies I enjoy but the odds of being exposed to them in high school were improbably slim.
I'm sorry I don't have an answer for that at this moment. I read the comment on a different medium that had posted this story. I cannot verify it at this moment and don't have the available time to research it further.

If this is the story I recall he was mailing it via USPS and they letters originated from the house the father owned. However, this is a fuzzy memory from some time back.
It's taxi regulation that's the scam / cartel... and since when is making a living off something morally wrong?

Capitalism is about disruptive innovation...
RallySecurity Is Interviewing Sean Metcalf of Trimarc Security Tonight
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Tonight we are taking on attacking and defending Active Directory, defending against Mimikatz, and following up on Sean's Blackhat and Defcon talks.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393551 and marked it off-topic, because most of it turned into a nasty spat.

All: we ban accounts that repeatedly post the ugly sort of comment seen below, so please don't post those.

Unfortunately the fine subthreads like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12393884 get punished with the rest. I feel like a teacher making everyone stay late after class.
Heh, it doesn't even look half bad if you drop the bettermotherfuckingwebsite css on it.
This has crossed my mind. But I'm certain a short stint is not gonna be good in my resume, plus being a subpar performer at your previous company looks awful whatever the reason is. I'm just gonna try my best and if things still don't work out, I'll just be glad that at least I worked my heart out. Thanks anyway for your advice.
The equivalent of drinking a glass of wine every day is microdosing LSD, which, interesting, is something that's increasingly popular in the tech community. You may be already be around people every day who are consuming LSD.

To avoid a false dichotomy, you should say you'd rather spend your days with your friend who's drunk to the point of constantly hugging you and telling you "I love you bro, we're fucking bros, man, lets move to Mexico and become fucking PIRATES, man"

Last, it sounds like you've never been around someone who's on LSD, because at low doses they're usually very tame and can at times provide great conversation.
Acer announces the thinnest and fattest laptops in the world
Why does Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation get so much hate?
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Same boat as you. I think this could be the key:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-disc...

I can't recommend it highly enough.
Reading their footer, it says: "The Privacy Visa Card is issued by Customers Bank pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc."

So, it seems they have some kind of partnership with a bank, which is able to generate unlimited card numbers for them.
I agree with your edit. This is my big problem with the H1B visa. But how is what you are describing different from general immigration then? The US takes in approximately 1.2 million immigrants a year, and these immigrants are (by and large) free to pursue a career path in response to their personal interests and market signals. If they like flexibility, career stability, and helping people, they might choose to become a dental hygienist (paid at the median almost as well as a software developer in San Francisco). They might go to med school, sell real estate, open a sandwich shop, or try to make a go of it as an artist. If they like coding but don't want to work in a large open office with back visibility, micromanagement through scrum, age out at 35, and spend most of their time debugging javascript to get the drop down menus on the corporate payroll site to display properly, well, then they may decide to code as a hobby and do something else, or demand a lot more money, at least.

My problem with the H1B is that it allows employers to coerce employees into these jobs, under the notion that there is a shortage. Well, maybe there's a "shortage" because these are unpleasant jobs, or because the people who are capable of doing these jobs are also capable of doing other, better paid jobs with better working conditions. As long as employers can coerce people into these jobs by controlling their right to live and work int he US, they will remain unpleasant and/or underpaid jobs, because the market mechanisms that would improve them are subverted through corporate control of the immigration system.

To me, what you're describing would be more akin to creating a random lottery and allowing in an extra 65,000 citizens, without a corporation telling them what educational path they are allowed to take, what whiteboard interview questions they are required to answer, what projects they are allowed to work on, or what city they are allowed to live in. You know, free citizens.

That, I don't really have any problem with either. But personal freedom for immigrants is the opposite of the H1B.
Don't feel obligated or bad about it. If the job isn't meeting the driver's financial needs, he'll start doing something else.

The market can sort this out for you.
Season three was my favorite of all the seasons!

I thought it was much more interesting to learn about non-tech small businesses.
You'll definitely lose email from Amazon SES then. What about checking SPF records instead?
> Jesus you're a prick.

Whoa. You can't comment like that here regardless of how much of a prick someone is, or seems. Please don't do this again.
I don't use whatsapp or instagram and have not used the new account on any other device.

I did use my real number for the old FB account, but used 555-867-5309 for the new one.
Unfortunately, when you focus on human capital in China, you can't dismiss the fact that China, particularly in the manufacturing sector represents modern day slavery. The fact that no other country can compete only supports this.

In fact, the article does address this (cheap Chinese labor/slavery), and proposes that the shift in need of labor through robotics and automation, essentially resets the playing field in that regard.

They are not already the leader in next-gen technology because it is next-gen, is is in the formative stages. It is the leader in manufacturing, the current generation.

I don't agree with the statement that their manufacturing engine has stalled. Their growth is diminishing and their dominance is at risk.

I agree that the statement that their education is so poor they are not employable sounds like b.s.

That was never my point. If you can respond to my points, that would be a start. If you could refute them rather than promoting the propaganda I would be impressed.
> "I bet that TCP packets take priority over UDP in many routers."

Unless you prioritize them differently.
From the rulingÑ

> ASI, formerly Apple Computer International and originally Apple Computer Accessories Ltd., is a 100% subsidiary of AOE. ASI is an Irish-incorporated non-resident company that is carrying on a trade through a branch in Ireland
I had no idea SVG filters were powerful enough to do things like that cool blobbing-together effect... in 3 lines of actual filter! (lines 8-10 of the html)

(I haven't actually followed along with building my own, nor do I know SVG, so apologies and let me know if that is not the bit which is doing the blobbing together)
Illegal on what basis?
You need a license to watch TV in the UK?
I interpreted "pizza server" as a computer that produces pizza and thought about how cool that would be. I guess a pizza server could also be an oven.
In particular for charities that perform work the government would otherwise be engaging in, the opposite should be true, and a tax credit to refund 100% of the expenditure should be provided. The reason being is if you donate $100 to a charity that provides for example clothing or meals to welfare recipients, that's $100 the government doesn't need to spend on such programs. However, you are only credited ~$30 towards your tax bill, yet you are net negative $100 that you gave to the charity. The government makes a net positive $70 on your $100 donation to charity. Considering you are spending money so the government doesn't have to, you should be credited the full $100 donation instead of just the $30 that would otherwise go to your tax bill.
Another one I wrote for my friends and I a while back:

https://salesniper.com
I did remote contract front-end development for about 3 years. Working contracts gave me a TON of flexibility to work on my own projects on the side. I also tried to take high-paying contracts and save as much money as I could. When my last contract ended, I had enough money in the bank to survive for ~18 months without another paycheck, even while paying rent in SF. Currently, I'm about 9 months into that.

I've worked on several projects since then, one of which (TaskforceApp.com) is making $500-$1500/mo. The other I just launched on HN about 3 weeks ago: http://www.IndieHackers.com. It's gotten almost 300k pageviews since launch, and I've lined up some awesome sponsors who combined are contributing about $1000/mo. My plan is to keep growing the site by adding interviews, writing more blog posts, and adding forums/AMAs.

If you're interested in hearing lots of other stories similar to this (most of which are more impressive), I recommend checking out Indie Hackers. I publish average monthly revenue stats in addition to interviews with the founders behind all these companies.
​First look at improved Siri shows better control of third-party apps
The man who lost his memory but gave much to neuroscience
You can't comment like this on HN. We ban accounts that do so. Fortunately you've posted other comments that are fine for HN, so I'll read this thread as the sort of derailing that happens to most of us from time to time.

Comments on HN need to be civil and substantive. Heated rhetoric is neither, and personal attacks are right out. When you're hot under the collar, please cool down before posting.
Thanks for these actionable tips. Appreciate them. Yes I'm definitely not giving up yet.
Thanks. Didn't know about Elementary OS and was surprised there is a good number of Vala projects on GH.

Yeah there is something appealing about compiling to C. It is a relatively easier target than LLVM or assembly. Nim is in that space, is making progress but it still suffers from a small community of developers.
For folks looking for something similar, take a look at Galera Cluster: http://galeracluster.com/products/

We use Galera Cluster for MariaDB in production, using Percona's Xtrabackup for bootstrapping between nodes. It works well, its drawback is increased write times because it uses synchronous replication, and it's decent at self healing. We went with Galera over Amazon RDS because RDS only works across AZs in a single region, and we have Galera setup across 3 regions.
> On a side note, don't forget the time dropbox accepted ANY password during logins - http://www.cnet.com/news/dropbox-confirms-security-glitch-no...

I've not forgotten, and this glitch has kept me from ever considering opening a Dropbox account.

I'm surprised everyone else seems so forgiving of this massive screw up.
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I do this exact same trick and have been using it for years. It led to a couple of brief and somewhat awkward phone calls with local business owners when I asked them rather pointedly about them sharing my information with third parties.

I also take this one step further and have inbox rules to automatically send all promotional email (from sites I'm interested in) to the trash folder. If I want a coupon for a website I frequent, I'll just search my trash for the latest offers from that company. Google conveniently purges messages from the trash folder every 30 days or so, and I don't have to worry about a massive backlog of promos.
https://1password.com/privacy/

For some products, they are.

"Your vaults, items, and documents are fully encrypted in your 1Password Families and 1Password Teams and stored on our servers."
There is no good works requirement. Satanist preachers also get a tax break on donations. The government is not going to pay for a new Opera house in a tiny town. But, if you want an Opera house in a tiny town you can get the Government to pick up part of the bill.

Want to get Justin Bieber to play for your small down? Don't worry you can get that subsidized! Just call it an art's festival.
Here's a simpler fix:

Remove/reduce the tax break for donations to a charity you control.
I found an early access code on their twitter: "NETTED". They posted that 1st August, so I'm not sure if it still works, but give it a shot!
Could be a bug in our firmware.
China and Russia are doing this largely to avoid Western cultural and political influence. Their choice to opt out does not necessarily imply that we're structuring our networks in the most just or efficient way.
Wow, thanks for this. I just found out that my email address was breached 3 times, while only one company sent an email informing me of the breach.
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