skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an anonymous internet poster, I don't have a suggestion for who you should idolize. But picking Linus is a red flag. His man-child entitled attitude, condescension, arrogance, etc, make him a parody of a toxic developer that ruins teams from the inside out. Normalizing and uplifting that behavior makes us all worse off.
Sure, it'd be great of someone invented some kind of mental effort multiplier. We might even call these devices "computers" ;-) In all honesty though, (1) I don't know where to begin here (2) I'm not sure something akin to a "mental shovel" would significantly address the distributional issues. Some people are still going to be significantly more able than others.....
Are modern open space offices actually cheaper?

Just the costs of the decor and other accommodations would probably outweigh the costs of having internal walls and maybe a tab bit more floor space (even tho I have a strong suspicion that traditional offices are actually more space friendly).

Cubicles and small team offices do not take much more space, in fact they can often be more space friendly since there isn't that much open space needed in order for the office not to feel like a sweatshop and you also save a lot of space on quiet rooms and meeting rooms.
OP should check out canon's Project Eiger where he can buy full-color 3D prints directly from Canon.
People in the technology community should start organizing the construction of local government owned municipal fiber networks in their communities. I am abroad right now, but I have decided to start speaking up in mine when I return to the United States because I finally believe that I know how such a thing can succeed.

Local communities could use municipal bonds to pay for a 10G-EPON build outs where multiple providers can provide transit, VoIP and IPTV over the same cables using PPPoE and VLANs. Then a per subscriber fee could be assessed to make pay back the bonds. This would be an ILEC/CLEC model, except with local government ownership much like they own the roads.

The situation where incumbents drop prices could be handled by having a default CLEC that offers free ITU broadband service at 256Kbps. People would switch for that and then switching to a better CLEC could just be a phone call. The incumbents could not compete with free service over a 30 year period and the municipal government owned ILEC + private CLEC model would win.
He had fear of flying, I remember reading that in one of his autobiographical books. He was aware of that and wrote a lot about space travel, on the cave of steel he depicted humans as being agarophobic
I disagree. Pre-AirBnB there was an affordable hotel shortage in NYC. Now there is something like an affordable housing shortage. The root cause is a tool - AirBnB - that has enabled (triggered?) a massive increase in tourism by making it financially advantageous to take housing stock off the market.
parse-dashboard: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-dashboard

It even has user interface guidelines for the components.
I'm assuming you are an advanced user who can understand and manage these add-ons, and also diagnose the occasional website malfunctions that they cause. Here are some of the most useful I know about:

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* uMatrix: Use this for five minutes and I think you'll be sold on it. Essentially an application-level firewall for your web browser, which replaces several other add-ons. Controls cookies, JavaScript, plugins, frames, provides connection-level privacy blacklists, and all at a granular level, using firewall-style rules for local (to the website) & remote pairs: e.g.,

* * * DENY # Deny all default
cnn.com googleapis.com javascript ALLOW

But the most impressive part is the GUI, the "matrix", which allows you to visualize as well as create/remove rules very efficiently, with a click (though you can still write them manually if you like). Like a well-made car, it's so well-designed and executed that it's a pleasure to drive. Real firewalls should use this GUI.

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* NoScript: Does far more than block JavaScript, and provides a bunch of security that uMatrix does not:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624596

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* Decentraleyes: A local cache of common CDNs and other resources. It protects privacy by minimizing connections to CDNs, should reduce bandwidth, and can help performance in some cases. From their documentation:

- Supported Networks: Google Hosted Libraries, Microsoft Ajax CDN, CDNJS (Cloudflare), jQuery CDN (MaxCDN), jsDelivr (MaxCDN), Yandex CDN, Baidu CDN, Sina Public Resources, and UpYun Libraries.

- Bundled Resources: AngularJS, Backbone.js, Dojo, Ember.js, Ext Core, jQuery, jQuery UI, Modernizr, MooTools, Prototype, Scriptaculous, SWFObject, Underscore.js, and Web Font Loader.

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* HTTPS Everywhere: For the reference of others reading this comment, it's an EFF project that uses a whitelist of websites which accept https connections and forces the browser to connect to them over the secure protocol.

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* CsFire: CSRF detection and protection. Also technically interesting.

https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/software/CsFire/
I for one am definitely looking to replace Docker in production with Rkt. Just waiting for Rkt support in higher-level components (Kubernetes in my case) to mature a bit more.
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Google parent Alphabet Inc. is graduating its self-driving-car project from its research lab X into a stand-alone business, said X chief Astro Teller, a major step in the vehicles’ path to commercial operations.

The car group’s finances were separated from X on Jan. 1 this year, and now the team is completing a series of corporate and legal moves to become its own business, Mr. Teller said in an interview at the WSJDLive 2016 tech conference.

As its own stand-alone business under Alphabet, the car group would likely be expected to soon begin generating revenue, though not necessarily a profit at first. Mr. Teller declined to disclose the car project’s planned business model.

“The world is going to have cars that are sold to individuals and cars that are shared by individuals, and which one Alphabet does, we have our thinking on it,” he said. “But right now we’re very focused on safety.”

Mr. Teller said Alphabet will likely roll out its self-driving cars incrementally over the next several years as they improve with more time on the road. For example, the group could choose to launch the cars commercially in just a handful of cities with favorable roads and weather, before expanding to more challenging roadways and climates, he said.

He compared the process to teaching a teenager to drive, from parents first keeping their hands close to the wheel to letting the teenager drive alone only during daylight to eventually eliminating restrictions altogether.

“Any other company that’s acting rationally will probably do the same thing, which is finding constrained ways to roll out so that we’re learning safely,” he said.

Other companies building self-driving cars are deploying their technology gradually, though in many of those cases the auto firms are releasing semiautonomous technology that still requires drivers to be ready to take control.

Mr. Teller said Alphabet’s cars will be fully autonomous from the start. “You press a button and tell the car where you want to go,” he said.

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They used to have better rates, lately they seem to be no better than Kayak. My source for cheaper last minute hotels has been LMTClub.

Don't get me wrong hoteltonights support is great but all in all cost isn't as huge of a reason for me to use them as it was when they first came out.
>I'm curious how you could possibly lose money in a business like this

This implies that an unlimited number of people could have started profitable Groupon-like businesses.
Looks like it. So a deposit is received and it's recorded as cash (an asset) and customer deposits (a liability) on the balance sheet. And it doesn't affect the income statement. [ADDED: So customer deposits just a more specific name for revenue that can't be recognized as such yet.]
Provo Utah did something like this which failed and was bought by Google which now has also apparently failed. Fun times.
That is how business works. It's the definition of business. He is not running a charity. It is a for profit business.

Also, the intent of my question wasn't greedy-capitalism-gouge-the-customer...I meant if a business can charge more for their service and have better margins without pricing out would-be customers or losing them to lower priced competition (neither were his reasons) then why not charge more?

That extra money can be reinvested in this business or another business or used to retire early or go on vacation.

The guy runs a business, make a profit when you can. Every success is transitory here.
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Not taking a position here, but just to answer the question on the face of it. Yes, AirBnB is in the same market as hotels.

The market is short term rental property, not property management services. Supply chain is how one obtains inventory of product to sell into a market, it does not define what the market is. Owning and managing real estate that can be resold as a short term rental is just one supply chain solution to sell into the market. AirBnB uses a different one.
className has always been the convention for accessing the class attribute in Javascript.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...
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$10 says 'throaway0xff' is, in fact, Alex Karp himself.
I had this same question awhile back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12497202

Just leaving this here for reference and as a resource.
Exploratory UI. Teenagers can figure it out, but their parents sure can't.
WE'RE NOT EQUAL UNTIL YOU TREAT US DIFFERENT THAN EVERYONE ELSE. demanding safe spaces, segregation, preferential treatment.. this country will never unite until people get over themselves and ignore all these petty, superficial faux concerns. can't we all just get to mars and cure cancer without someone stopping the train to remind us of how different and important they are?

berkeley's academic bar has severely dropped...
Likeroll (my first web app)
A founder pushed out. David Fincher made a movie about it once.
Other commenters have made good points, I'll mention one I haven't seen yet.

Linus has mentioned multiple times in the past that he likes to merge code it is getting used even if it's not ideal. That way, it's in the tree and can be improved instead of continuing to change outside of the kernel without the core developers' input.

That's what Android's Binder is. We also have kdbus, so we know that something like this was seen as useful before. Obviously android is used on a HELL of a lot of devices. It's not considered suitable for merge into mainline for various reasons, but much like other Android specific technology something very similar to it does make sense.

So as long as they do a decent job at this there's a good chance that it will get merged into the kernel. Overtime Google will help improve it, as well as move things out of Binder or turn Binder into a layer on top of it.

Every piece of widely used external (kernel level) code that ends up in the kernel is a win. The only other option would be to wait for the extra repository to get up to standards and developed the way the kernel maintainers would like, which probably won't happen without their constant input. but this is good for Google because it means they get more eyes on their patches, and don't have to carry as much of a load when updating versions and making new releases.

This is good for everyone.
All of the early Kubernetes resources I can find describe it as involving Docker. Was running it without Docker really a thing early on?
Do Google's rules really say that you must be able to read an article you've already found by clicking an index result? Or only that if you first find an article via Google you must be able to read it?
Underestimated in this comparison is the fact that software development, even on very large projects, tends to be staffed by generalists, while building construction relies on many highly-specialized masters of a trade.

Software has some of that specialization (for instance, even big projects don't try to write new operating systems, invent interoperability protocols, or graphics libraries). But when it comes to the boundaries of what's considered part of the project, we rely on generalists. In building construction, a general contractor may have an HVAC subcontractor, one for electricity, one for glass, one for landscaping, one for every subsystem. In software, it's not economically feasible to contract in someone specializing in, say, web routes, and another in Rails model development, and another in for-loops, etc.

The other, related point: very often software development time isn't just a function of the requirements, it's a function of the intersection of the technical requirements/platform and the talent pool available for that platform/language/tech.
That was my response as well. Going public means filing 10K statements which will lay all their business dealings out. Something I wouldn't think they or their clients would be interested in.
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• "Completed forced penetration," 11.5 percent.

• "Attempted forced penetration," 6.4 percent.

• "Completed alcohol- or drug-facilitated penetration" without the ability to consent, 9.3 percent.

Source CDC referenced in link provided.

1 in 9 completed forced penetration. Another 1 in 15 attempted forced penetration. Almost 1 on 5 for either.
The key line to me is: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs are leading the offering
They are the people who will the make the real money. They always do.
You're telling me I could have gotten a steep discount on an S in Q3? How big a discount are you talking about; I've avoided test-driving one because I don't want to drop that much cash on a car.
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Prefix the URL with "about:reader?url="

I have to do that a lot.

Web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem.
Will virtual reality compete with museums or help them?
"Apple-compatible version" oh god this is really happening. What a regression!
Although it's cool that they open sourced this, I really wished they would open source their zero-knowledge backup client :(
I don't remember the details of those issues, other than concluding that the risks were way overblown and they were easy to disable.
You've recognized some of the problems you encounter with ADHD. Have you attempted to take corrective action? Instead of having hard objects around that make noise have something soft to play with. In the end you're responsible for your actions.
I'd love a web ui. I don't have an iPhone.
The rules say that they can't show Google one thing and users something else. If the content they showed to Google for this page was "subscribe today!" that would be fine, but that of course isn't what they showed to Google because a search result for this headline comes back with a link to the fully described article. That's the very definition of cloaking.
The Assassin Next Door
We use reserved Redshift instances for close to 3 years now. There were a few moments that we were slightly screwed by new features and bugs in Redshift, but most of the time, we don't need to deal with any maintenance, and because we are fully on AWS, Redshift works way better with other systems we build or use (we have a few use cases of bigquery). We do have lots of regular queries running every hour, and we did lots of optimizations on Redshift. Overall, we are happy with Redshift.

I think in term of EDW solutions, it is really not a one size fits all situation. I am happy for the people (especially small companies who can't afford running Redshift 24/7) who went with BigQuery, but I am also happy that we chose Redshift and so far, it has been great.
>I used them a few times

>The incentive to bring new customers by offering steep discounts is definitely worth it for those type of vendors.

But, it sounds like you either a.) Kept getting steep discounts with multiple Groupons for the same dentist or b.) Kept hopping to whichever dentist was offering a steeply discounted Groupon.

Neither of these is good for the dentists.

Or did I miss the sarcasm?
Modeling the Architecture of Borges's Library of Babel
The integrated circuit came out of Apollo[1], and apparently the cellphone camera came from NASA's work[2]. Not sure about the rest. We wouldn't have GPS, obviously.

You can credit a lot of stuff to the space program if you want, since all tech is built on other tech, and NASA was a big source of R&D in the 1950s onward.

[1] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/apollo-ic.html
[2] http://www.space.com/10635-space-spinoff-technology-cellphon...
I see a bag of hurt on the horizon here. Even with their nascent AR stuff, there's just not enough magic sauce to justify that valuation.
I wouldn't call it a framework any more than I'd call React a framework.
it's good for privacy, maybe
I don't think it follows. Because the address was hrcoffice then she had a server in her house? No, I don't think you should expect Obama to make that leap.
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If any ratio below is above 10%, you may consider it material

1) acquired assets / groupon total assets

2) acquiree pre tax income / groupon pre tax income

3) purchase price / total assets

Groupon has 1.7B in total assets. By looking at criteria 3, this means the purchase would have been at maximum 20% (340M - Wont get into reasons why we use 20%, but this is the ceiling) or less.

The price was likely in the 20-75M range, if living social contributed to less than 10% of the net loss of groupon (100M), and their assets were under 50M (likely).
Jails are considerably different than containers. Jails are more like chroot jails on linux instead.

Edit: My viewpoint was focused more on the composability aspect of containers. But I stand corrected otherwise.
I've never had a good experience trying to install Linux on a Mac. Maybe it's better these days.
Consumer Reports now says Model S is average for reliability -- that's the good news that the LA Times buried in their article.
Dual-GPU integration in Gnome
Apple maps using bus 159 from Union City NJ to the Port Authority Bus Terminal which is at 8th Avenue and 42nd St. Times Square is At 7th Avenue and 42nd St. is 16 minutes. I don't know where you get 35 minutes.

Apple Maps states the driving distance is 4 miles.

I don't understand why business 159 would take longer on weekends to travel 4 miles.

A monthly subway and bus pass is about $4 per day. I'd consider that a great deal. Getting around as quickly in other cities would cost far more than $4 per day.

Also there are fruit and vegetable stands all over the city with very good deals such as $1 fir 4 bananas.

In Chinatown there are great deals on fish as well as fruits and vegetables.

B&H Photo is a huge electronics, computer and photo store with great deals.

Also there are many museums people can go to for free on certain days.

Truthfully there are many deals in NYC.
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I hate nagios as much as the next op, but what is so magical about containers that your services will no longer require an outage alerting mechanism?
Microsoft Chrome
Forum-shopping is a problem, I don't disagree. But Apple didn't win that case on PR, and Lavabit didn't lose that case by making smart decisions. These are not analagous situations.

If you could name a single country that would offer better protections, we might have something to talk about. Western Europe, seriously? [1]

The reason we are going in circles is because you're unwilling to trust ZCash, not because of where it's incorporated. If, like me, you trusted ZCash, it wouldn't matter to you where their articles of incorporation were filed, because you would trust that the zero-knowledge implementation would prevent law enforcement from mattering at all. If open source, audited code by some of the brightest minds in the space doesn't earn your trust, nothing will. IcelandBux won't save you.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/05/france-passes-...
If you are using ProtonMail for anything critical you're doing it wrong. It might be more convenient than other encrypted mail solutions, but it's in-browser cryptography with all the security issues that entails.
>(to me)

That is a fairly small focus group.
From experience, I think the whole "human-readable" idea is a bit overrated. All it means is that the format is entirely/mostly in ASCII. But if you have a hex editor, like all good programmers should, binary formats are not any less human-readable (or writable) nor more difficult to work with; and for some, even a text editor with CP437 or some other distinctive SBCS will suffice after a while. It's somewhat like learning a language; and if you are the one developing the format, it's a language that you create.

Then again, I grew up working with computers at a time when writing entire apps in Asm/machine language was pretty normal as well as other things which would be considered horribly impossible by many developers of the newer generation, and can mentally assemble/disassemble x86 to/from ASCII, so my perspective may be skewed... just a tiny little bit. ;-)
> docker has a daemon that exposes an HTTP API

This API has to enabled explicitly. Docker daemon works by using a unix socket instead ( "/var/run/docker.sock" ).

> acts more or less like an init for containers

There is Docker daemon and there is Docker CLI. Both have separate scopes.
Oh! I see. It's much more concise and clean now.

But still I prefer the clojure version using pattern matching over the scala one: http://blog.klipse.tech/clojure/2016/10/25/core-match.html#f...
duct work for ventilating multiple smaller offices properly is problematic vs just having one big open space. I'm not sure what fire codes may have to say about it either. ventilation was one issue that was brought up to me years ago when asked for input on a new office revamp. Somehow the owners and exec team still all managed to get new private offices with ventilation, but the dev team didn't...
I still don't get it. The browser gets the session cookie even though the request processing crashed? Or does another request manage to pick up the session that was dropped from the crashed request?

I don't do PHP. It just sounds incredible to me that so little isolation seems to exist.
JS has stringify and parse, so there ought to be a JSON parser somewhere.
Several years ago I wrote a blog post expressing a related point, contrasting software design to construction. Here's a part:

Let me give an example: if you're designing a bridge, you can draw blueprints on paper which shows girders. The girders are described by giving their dimensions (accurate to 1/16th of an inch, say) and the particular alloy the girder is made from. This is sufficient to accurately model how that girder will behave under all kinds of different stress loads which is important for ensuring the bridge will be safe, and also to model how the girders will fit together like a puzzle which is important for allowing the steelworkers to build the bridge correctly, on-time, and on-budget.

The key to all of this is the fact that you don't need to create a real girder in order to test the design and make sure it's correct. A few easily described properties of the girder are sufficient; it doesn't matter where every atom goes, it doesn't matter if the surface isn't perfectly uniform, it doesn't matter if there is some rust, etc. Lots of the details just don't matter at design time, and most of them don't matter at construction time either.

Software just doesn't work this way. Software development languages are extremely detail-sensitive: get one letter wrong, one punctuation character in the wrong place or left out, and the software won't work right. There is no way to accurately model something this sensitive to detail without building it first, and if you have to build it first you lose the biggest benefit of doing design up-front: the ability to test and iterate on your design cheaply before committing to a full build of it.