skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the embedded world the quote from Mickens "I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS" happens much more frequently :)
Yep, we acquired the assets with a Canadian entity.

We had this problem with a previous business when we moved from a US Stripe account to a Canadian Stripe account (when we started the original business Stripe wasn't available in Canada).

We were concerned about CC rejections, but shockingly didn't deal with a single one. In the past customers would just call up their CC provider and tell them to expect a recurring change from vendor_name and it ceased being an issue.

One MAJOR problem we had was transferring subscriptions from the US Stripe Account to the Canadian account. Stripe used to do this service for you (it has for us twice, once when we moved from US ==> Canada, and once when we sold the Canadian assets to another US corp). But they don't anymore, and their documentation and process around this is WOEFULLY lacking. Probably have a blog post in us about the process.
there are some important differences between berry-bearing trees and the larger conifers

Yes, one of which is that some pines only reproduce in the aftermath of fire.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BOREASFire/

http://creationrevolution.com/plants-that-need-fire-to-survi...
What an awful overreach. Firewalls should not ship with defaults that break the internet, and such presumptuous header filtering can actually weaken security.
Hahah, I was thinking something a lot simpler than that. Something more like 'Insert subject:' -> fetch recent article about subject -> You give your thoughts about that subject -> you get a 'reply' that's like "Your opinions are wrong because <basic common argument pattern using keyword(from reply)>" or "That sounds interesting. Could you elaborate more on <keyword(from reply)>?"

And then when they're done they could export it to a text editor of their choice, or save it to dropbox or something.

I once made a chat app in Flash a long time ago called Mimic, that would take in whatever you said, infer connections between words (based entirely on what words were next to other words, so you could use just about any language or slang you wanted), and then build a sentence off that in response, that would almost kind of make sense. I would a good hour or more at a time responding to that thing trying to train it and getting a kick at the silly things it said.

This would be kind of like that. Yes, it'd be a pretty dumb app, but I could see myself being entertained by it, so maybe it'd be entertaining to other people as well.
Are you asking about valuations? FE has a post on how valuations work. It's pretty simple. Basically a multiple of how much cash you can take out of the business. If that number is small and not growing then the multiple is small. If the number is big and/or growing fast then the multiple will be larger. The key is it's about how much cash the business makes now vs. traditional tech VC land is about... how big this might be some day maybe.

If you're interested in buying a business the people who know how all this stuff works are the private equity people (PE). These guys do this stuff all day long (obviously at much larger scales. If you search you can find a fair amount of info on PE. On a smaller scale there is good info from people researching search funds. Search funds are basically small scale PE. Here's a good starting point: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/centers-initiat....
Password managers don't have a single point of failure: an attacker needs both your password and the state of the password manager.
Fortunately, most new design starts in the embedded world these days are ARM SoCs. Most (not all) ARM chips use a standard 20 pin JTAG connector. The Segger J-Link supports a large number of parts for debugging.

The BSPs are still as scary as they ever were, though.
It does happen in the search box as you say but I have been using Noto Sans for a while now on my site and it doesn't have this problem: https://kitnic.it/.
This is a political article disguising as a technological one. It quickly fulfills Godwin's law and keeps a double standard in Internet campaigning, something both parties are doing (see: Correct The Record).

I don't think this is worthy of HN.
In a non-RAID context, for example NoSQL databases that keep 3 copies of chunks of data, knowing about a failure in advance means that you can abandon using that drive slowly, without it becoming an emergency.
>Taken to its extreme, we'd end up with a world where we tried to save everything, even every insect

That's a Nirvana Fallacy. I can only imagine you'd never try to apply the same reasoning to humans. That since it's wrong to cause harm to them, you're now responsible to ensuring that no harm of any kind comes to any human anywhere.
My father bought an Oric Atmos when I was a kid, and it came with a full documentation of the 6502 instruction set (or so I think, I don't know if it actually came with it or if my father bought it separately, but I tend to doubt the latter).

Edit: found it. Somehow different, but that's the closest to what I remember: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/library/lib_manu...
Chapter 10 and Appendixes were invaluable.

> Today's kids can get in depth information on almost anything

OTOH, in the 80's, CPU instruction sets were tractable, and writing machine code was in the realm of possibilities for kids (I should know, I did it ; it was loads of fun).
With prints and a backtrace function, you can make up for a most debugger usage. But for tracking down heap corruption, a debugger with memory breakpoints is the bees knees.
"everything", except where it doesn't.

Its Usenet archives suffered from bitrot. Its RSS reader is no more.
So what if 70% of applicants are not women. Do you turn down better men just do meet a woman quota? That seems the wrong way to get diversity.

If a great man comes along hire him. If a great woman comes along hire her.

If you have a quota of X you are going to hire less qualified people, thus creating a culture of quotas and not performance.
I mean, from many people's point of view, it usually is.
This instantly brought to mind the classic 1984 book, The Unix Programming Environment, by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike [1]. Note that they call Unix a programming environment, not an operating system. This book shows that the original purpose of Unix is to be a tool for writing software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environme...
It's just as sexist but it's not PC to stand up for the rights of men or white people.
They've also actively tried to manipulate the moods of their users via manipulation of newsfeed content. Informed consent is for the little people, I suppose. Just like net neutrality.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everyt...
Jumping spiders possess an abstract working memory, a new study says
Believe me, it really wasn't funny...

Like, it was violent and creepy and Elliot Rodgers-esque. I would have looked like a psycho to the other co workers if I laughed. As it stands, the offending co worker looked like a psycho.

(He got fired. But I was a bit scared for my safety.)
Exactly! And I use 1Password so I also have the tokens on my computer, together with my passwords.
Replay attacks get harder though.
“Jack is a good entrepreneur,” Slingerlend said. “But Twitter needs a turnaround CEO, and that’s a completely different job.”

I am not sure if I agree with the above conclusion that Twitter needs a turnaround CEO. I think Twitter needs to fully execute the live streaming strategy and see where they go from there and Jack needs to become a full time CEO and handoff Square to somebody else. Bring Mark Zuckerburg on to the board so they start learning how to execute on social. These are some small changes they can make to win back investors and win back some credibility.
Check out https://thisdata.com -- helps with a lot of that login intelligence smarts, and they're friendly, smart folks.
I don't see how this is a "quandary." It's just a product becoming obsolete. The new product, LED bulbs, doesn't fill the same market niche. There should be no expectation that the same companies that once produced incandescent bulbs should transition into making LED bulbs. At least in an economic sense, they are very different things.

Thinking they are the same thing is like thinking that hard drives and cloud storage are equivalent to blank videotapes and cassettes, or camera film. They just aren't.

If LED makers are failing to make money, that is because there is too much competition. Companies will exit the business until a new equilibrium is reached. The price of LED bulbs may go up, and that's ok.
With evil-mode, which is what spacemacs is based on, you get it.
The math you are using does not describe reality and rational people, since about Galileo anyway, have known better than to insist on broken models.

First of all, it's a textbook exercise in topology to show that any rational decision process must have a utility function (at least for a countably infinite set of choices).

Let me repeat the statement for utility functions. Suppose I have a 1% chance of being CEO and increasing my utility to U(CEO pay) - U(my pay). Suppose this increases to U(10x CEO pay) - U(my pay).

It's simple arithmetic that 0.01 x U(10X CEO pay) + 0.99 x U(my pay) > 0.01 x U(CEO pay) + 0.99 x U(my pay).

Rearranging the arithmetic, this is merely the statement that U(10X CEO pay) > U(CEO pay) - i.e. I'll be happier as a CEO with 10M than with 1M. Do you disagree with this statement?
Just because it's better than "the natural way" doesn't make it humane. How is the idea of humanely killing someone unnecessarily who wants to live not an oxymoron?
> I don't much care for hiking in burn scars and dealing with muddy places in the Winter, so I'm pretty interested in what's happening to the forests right now.

So I'm from Colorado and spend a decent amount of time in the mountains. I've read an argument that our over protection of the forest is potentially to blame for some of the problems right now. We do everything we can to protect it from forest fires, and now its being chocked out by dead trees and overgrowth. If this argument is wrong however I would like to understand it better.
> We had a local chat start up but slack ate their lunch. Everyone here just uses the slack free tier. How do you compete against free?

The point of division of labor (aka how civilization got built) is that it's not _necessary_ to spend time re-doing the same thing others are doing. Slack is giving you something for free that you don't _have_ to spend time or money building now.

Now you have X engineers free to work on something actually innovative, not just a clone of X, and getting a cheap/free service from slack.

The point of economic policy should not be to produce pointless jobs.
The real use-case for algorithm knowledge at Google isn't implementing standard libraries, it's in distributed computing. Okay, you know how to implement a shortest-path algorithm. Do you know how to implement a shortest-path algorithm when the data is spread over 10,000 computers? How about when paths become blocked by traffic jams or accidents? Could you adapt it so you can update that shortest-path in real-time as weights changed?

In these cases, most of your head-space is focused on the problem, which isn't written down anywhere other than PM's requirements doc. It's pretty critical that you understand the algorithm really well, because if you have to look it up you're going to have to unload all the messy problem-domain stuff that's in your brain.
Yes they are unique characters. I went to some pains to ensure I used the word 'key' as in physical switch on a keyboard. However I did not go far enough in ensuring I was referring to the font package as opposed to the font, please accept my apologies.

It is the font package, look at iverg's comment on the github issue https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/736

here are screenshots with local font installed http://i.imgur.com/ycRs3A0.png

and without local font http://i.imgur.com/TUKsIY4.png

EDIT: it goes deeper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12656642
There's no shame in it but that doesn't mean that it's the best or most efficient way of doing things.

I've found that stepping through code in a debugger at a human pace, and getting to really understand what's happening when a bug occurs is invaluable.
Ex-NSA Hacker Creates Tool to Warn You of Webcam Spies (OS X)
One of my favorite recent fantasy series is Kingkiller Chronicle, but its author is notorious for procrastinating. It sucks because his books are so beloved by the community, but he spends a ton of his time committing to other projects like his podcast and video series, without ever providing any updates on the status of his writing. It's like having a loved one missing and never knowing their whereabouts.
Cool! But note that Clash is actually compiling Haskell (i.e. analogous to GHCJS or something), rather than being an EDSL.

I'm hoping (as is the author with http://qbaylogic.nl/) that the market for FPGA soft(?)ware will suck less. Best case it pushes pressure on the fabs for ASICs, but we'll see.
What are your suggestions for this "optimized for business"?
If that were all it brought to the table, it would be make for a great addition. It's all the other stuff in that's been rolled into systemd that I have issue with.
The animal ag lobby is strong here unfortunately.
symbolic representations of technology to attempt doomed magic rituals

I believe that's the official tagline for GNU Autoconf?
Not the same thing at all.
Just to be clear I'm referring to monitoring traffic for security threats. Not for things like stealing source code or applying for jobs or whatever BS some employers are paranoid about.

The reason it's a cornerstone is because your clients, especially laptops, are huge gaping attack vectors. They visit other networks and browse the web. Even if they're browsing the web 100% of the time through a web proxy it's not going to catch everything.

And it's for that same reason Google decided to shrink their perimeter. The distinction between their systems and someone else's is still maintained, but they've accepted and embraced the fact that the laptops used by their employees can and will get owned. So instead of acting as a bridge between the internet and internal squishy networks they sit out there with the internet.

But I'm hardly doing the concept justice. In fact I'm probably hurting it more than helping it. If you haven't read it Google discusses the security concepts in a short paper you can get here:
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43231.html
See, and I think "If we aren't going to provide better oversight and controls [as has been the attempt], let's shut them down."
Wow, a proprietary audio connector?
Rift can go f itself forever.
That is what would make sense however that is not the case. I should have been clearer and used the term "package" after font:

Local fonts package installed: http://i.imgur.com/ycRs3A0.png

No Local fonts package installed: http://i.imgur.com/TUKsIY4.png
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IPv6 Support for Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
The mapping is not strictly one index per field, but a virtual column expression must map to a MySQL type. So depending on the use-case you may be able to use more complicated expressions to limit indexes.

But to expand your question, there are two FRs we are looking at:

1) Inverted (aka FULLTEXT) indexes on JSON documents
2) Multi-value indexes
This is pretty standard, we block all "cloud" ranges for end-user-facing things (antifraud, etc)

Bots on EC2 scraping and bruteforcing and whatnot, free tier being abused for free proxies
I know someone that recently bought a business that was for sale for 100k for something like 10k and x% revenue for 2 years. Basically if revenue was constant the cost ended up at 100k. If it dropped it would be less.

Kind of a neat way to not need all the money up front, and make the owner shows you his business is not on the decline.
#1 - was this because you were still using the US store downloaded app? I highly doubt they would release Uber to Chinese people with a non-working maps.
I agree with the intention, but in practice it's not so easy :)

If someone is hungry and govt wants to feed them, then govt needs to forcibly take food/money from someone else and give it to that person.

That transfer of resources takes govt money and people to execute it. So in addition to an amount $A being transferred from person P1 to person P2, an amount $B must be expended. With a bureaucratic govt, that amount $B is non trivial relative to $A.

We can imagine a system where $B is reduced, or even taken to zero.

The idea is that if left to private markets, this sort of transfer happens anyway, but is (1) more efficient, and (2) more ethical because it does not rely on the use of force. It might happen due to family giving money, charity, etc.

In a less extreme form, a negative income tax (still administered by govt) might replace welfare, or minimum income might replace minimum wage; both are more efficient.
I'm biased (was part of Compose, departed post acquisition), but I think that's a really reductionist take.

We spent 5 years building a platform for operating databases. Putting Rethink on that took a few months, yes.

Hopefully the RethinkDB folks think it was a good move. :) They were by far our favorite DB company to work with.
It's been 35 years but yes I read and studied Aristotle (& Plato, Epictetus, Sophocles, Euripides, Homer..) in school, in Greek. I still find Platonic constructions useful while I consider, for example Aristotle's moral models simplistic at best and much less insightful than those of his predecessors such as Epicetus). I'm well aware that the moral models of different societies rarely translate well into other societies (not just Bronze Age to present day, but also present day to present day) but I remain unimpressed by Aristotle.

I'm not saying I would particularly like Plato as a person, or that I even agree with him on many things, but I find him a wide ranging thinker with much to offer the present.

I think Aristotle got a lot of credibility by being seized upon by some early christian thinkers. The world would be in a much better shape had they leant on some of Sophocles' lost plays instead :-).
Not if you assume that attackers are going to automatically try those that don't meet the requirements anyways.
Local font installed: http://i.imgur.com/ycRs3A0.png

Web font: http://i.imgur.com/TUKsIY4.png

See iverg's comment on the github issue: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/736

EDIT: To be clear, parent is technically correct. The problem is with the way "web fonts" is working, the actual 'font' is the same across both, just the web fonts are having fun.
Not really in some social circles you will have pressure wearing hijab and others pressure not wearing it , like every place in the world. I mean if you come from religious family in US you will have the same pressure wearing a short skirt. But nothing outrageous.
The issue I'm having with that kind of discussion is that instead of pointing out an opression problem somewhere in the world it stigmatize an entire community.
Not all women that choose to wear hijab are oppressed (most are not) west need to understand it and stop that hijab war
> If a great man comes along hire him. If a great woman comes along hire him.

Lol.. oops.
I hope they manage to make bootstrap-like themes that people can reuse - not a fan of the original look, but the code and philosophy are superb.
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I've never spoken to anyone who actually believes eating animals in modern society is morally defensible.

They'll defend it in a very ad-hoc fashion, but almost no one's moral axioms coincide with the belief that eating other individuals is morally acceptable.

Do you believe it's ethical to unnecessarily kill another sentient individual?
Running a database service is really, really hard. It's an obvious thing for OSS database companies to try, but the skills and experience necessary to do it are not at all the same as what it takes to build databases. MongoDB took _years_ to launch theirs, and then even more time to get it working well.
Besides stock management, they help use determine the overall health of a Storage Pod or Vault. They also help find trouble with other components. For example, if a backplane or cable were failing, the drives via their SMART stats may notice first. So they SMART stats are part of what we use to evaluate the whole system health.
That looks perfect, looking forward to it!

I was doing a little more research and it looks like MySQL doesn't support table valued functions at all right now -- not built-ins, not custom. I didn't realize that, I guess I just assumed that was a fundamental feature.

Probably explains the longstanding lack of STRING_SPLIT() etc., I guess.

Here's hoping you are able to get in a more generic support for table valued functions, including stuff like STRING_SPLIT() as well as custom table returning functions.
I wish when designing a new site people would take into account how frequently a user is likely to log in. If it's going to be something infrequent, it would be better to use OAuth/OpenID or an email/SMS based login. Forcing a user to come up with a password they know they won't be typing often all but ensures they'll use the same password on multiple sites. For example, my side project varmail.me is a site you'd log into maybe once every couple of months, even as an active user. So I made it work by emailing you a login link. I think people defaulting to a user+password auth scheme is part of the problem.
Mojibake is specifically the "garbage" from getting an encoding wrong—treating a sequence of bits as if they were a valid sequence of characters in some encoding, when they're either not from that encoding, or not from any textual encoding (because you're e.g. trying to render the contents of an executable binary as text.)

"Tofu" is a more recent phenomena, that didn't really have a specific name until now: when there are Unicode code-points—correctly decoded—in a document, but you have no font installed that offers a glyph to represent them.

Mojibake results from "I did this wrong and didn't notice"; tofu results from "I know what this is, and it's something I don't have a visual signifier for."

Mind you, often mojibake will result in "tofu"; the garbage code-points you get from bad encoding detection will turn out to be ones that don't have a currently-defined Unicode character, so they'll show up as U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (�). But that's a coincidence, rather than an equivalence.