skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there's really no comparison between the leather in a Rolls Royce Phantom and the leather in a Honda Accord, and yet somehow Honda moves hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year.

My question was not a refutation of the claim that original oil paintings are superior to prints. It was rather an honest attempt to understand the market opportunity of a business and whether the OP believes that a market for prints exists. However that attempt seemingly gave way to a forum for people here to show how much they know about art.

Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries. I actually live less than a half mile from one. I do not dispute that there is a difference between a Francis Bacon and a Photoshop reproduction of a vacation photo from my phone. My question was how the OP figured out that making clear that the picture was not a filter and was produced by a real person was an important feature of the service. I give up.
VC-backed Chain Blockchain goes opensource
CAS Vulnerability Disclosure Oct 24, 2016
I used this for configuring RHEL / CentOS machines. Good stuff. Call via Python API and everything works nicely in one or two lines of code, as opposed to editing network and other various /etc config files.
I really miss the tab stacking feature, but also the integrated email and rss readers. :'(
I read the article some time ago.

I have my own Lisp, Emblem, which I released well over ten years ago. (There were few takers. I have improved it considerably since then, but not made a re-release.) I decided that it shouldn't be gratuitously different from Common Lisp. However, it is a Lisp 1. The reasons are: (1) my programming style was never inconvenienced by the lack of separate function and value cells when programming in Scheme instead of Common Lisp; and (2) Emblem uses a world (i.e. an image) to store its compiled code in, and an extra, rarely used, cell on every symbol increases the image size.
Related, at the beginning of Q3 Elon Musk sent email to employees urging to cut costs:

> I thought it was important to write you a note directly to let you know how critical this quarter is, The third quarter will be our last chance to show investors that Tesla can be at least slightly positive cash flow and profitable before the Model 3 reaches full production.
You really don't think the middlemen are the ones doing business on your platform? You've simply squeezed the margins so that the artists get even less.
It's very difficult to find a place that isn't open office. Every single place I've interviewed and worked at has been open office or low wall cubicles which might as well be open office. The only places that I know of that have private offices for some engineers are joel spolsky companies, microsoft and apple.

So the people who prefer open offices already have a ton of choice. Those who don't have almost no choice.
Zero-day DDoS attack vector leverages LDAP to amplify malicious traffic
The Clara Waitlist Is Over
>You are totally correct. The Western notion of China and Chinese labor is totally wrong.

Well, not that wrong. Western businessmen have a very accurate notion of Chinese labor, and opportunities from lower wages / mass production there.
Throwing an exception when parsing fails, sounds like a case of exception-handling as flow of control: a bad thing even when commonly done, having a lot in common with GOTO statements. (See http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/18922... , and Ward's Wiki when it comes back up.)
Is AirBnB really in the same market as hotels? I don't think AirBnB manages any property, do they?

Maybe they compete with franchises that solely license a brand?
The Economist recently did a good article on the financing of Elon Musk's companies that flew under the radar of Hacker News that probably warranted further discussion [1] [2]. (Though the author of that piece completely misses the relative importance of each company to Musk, suggesting "he could try to sell [...] SpaceX, through gritted teeth, to a defence firm")

It's unfortunate there's a bit of a reality distortion field around discussion Elon Musk's companies sometimes. Maybe because everyone wants his companies to succeed...

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709061-entrepreneur...

[2] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/ec...
It's much easier to start open source, rather than tack it on after the fact. Depending on your business, it could also be a huge advantage. For us, being open source means companies like Uber and Airbnb, whom have ample engineering expertise, can still use Sentry. In another world they might have rolled their own. This opens up a big opportunity that you can take a number of business directions:

- a hosted offering (effectively what sentry.io is going for)

- paid on-premise support (we offer this as well to select customers)

- on-premise enterprise offering (open core)

I'm not a big fan of the distraction of doing both on-premise and SaaS (thus our stance), and I really would love if we never have to build crippleware (open core).
> Anything else is not really "passive."

Sure it is.

Yours is just a different method. You had to work to get the money, first. Passive income is the same. Some effort had to be put forth.

Passive doesn't mean do nothing and get something. That's idle income. I believe, particularly when we talk about it here on HN, it means to apply a set of already possessed skills, knowledge, resources, etc., and put forth some effort without a great deal of emphasis on making a profit, at least initially. Otherwise, it is a job.

But if successful and money is made, you have a source of income. And it may eventually become idle income.
VMSA-2016-0017 VMware product updates address multiple information disclosure
This is the standard banner for alpha/beta services. Some become permanently free once they go GA (i.e Cloud Shell) while others become paid (i.e Cloud Vision API)

I work for Google Cloud.
I agree, that's why Microsoft had to sell this monitor on its own, without that PC attached.

Also I did not see any mention of pressure sensitivity on that Studio panel, if it does not have it - it's a major point to still choose Wacom.
Pick a handful and let them know that there presence isn't desired at the university anymore if they can't respect their fellow students. They have every right to peacefully assemble less so to bar other students from freely moving around the campus.
The thing is, this market does exist, and is very well served. I've seen stalls in malls offering this for over a decade, I've seen website offering this for years.

I don't think anyone is saying that this market doesn't exist, just that this site services a completely different market.
There have been under ~$500 prices for West Coast to PEK and PVG with semi-regularity for the last 12 months.
We're talking about a bunch of gay evangelical Christian undergrads in the darkest years of the AIDS crisis at its ground zero. This was indeed how such people behaved-look up "cognitive dissonance"-but cut them some slack.
> consumers don't trust MS.

Well, Microsoft is actively chasing consumers away. Proof: reneging on OneDrive offer to Lumia phone buyers, current lineup of two phones nearing end of production.

They want to be Oracle in place of ORCL, milking those big fat enterprise cows, and the stock market is nodding approvingly.

Good luck, godspeed, and thanks for the nice phones. Didn't last long, but was OK while it did. Designers never got any props, too.
The only thing I personally can testify is that they spam LinkedIn and other channels with job ads.

I've read some spanish-language forums and read about very different experiences - some good, some pretty bad.
Containers existed before Docker and will exist after Docker, and articles like these are desperate attempts to remind everyone of that in the face of Docker's unilateral destruction of the concept. I know I'm right because of comments like these that presuppose "well, if you're doing containers, use Docker, the alternatives just aren't there." Except they were, before Docker, and after Docker.

Docker is a developer tool, not a container runtime. The 'containers' it presents require you to commit a daemon on every machine, commit to a weird storage and distribution story when, you know, files of containers served in a flat directory are totally adequate, and so on. Docker made extremely complicated choices for a lot of things and now everybody wishing to advance containers has to deal with presuppositions like these, where Docker exists and the motivation for not using it is unclear to a lot of people, you included.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/84/
I think the problem here is that Linux NTFS drivers are all a pile of reverse-engineered hacks, so obscure features are overlooked or not fully implemented.

Now, Microsoft should be in a position to put something better into their WSL, but that might entail the risk that someone else will hack that implementation and provide good drivers for everyone, something they clearly don't want (or they would have provided open specs for NTFS support by now).
Cached version here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VMbrnBW...
I disagree. Airbnb has always had a really really simple solution to all of this: make it so people can file complaints about specific addresses without being involved in the Airbnb system. Airbnb lost the public support because they ignored externalities: so many people were adversely affected by living next to people who irresponsibly rented out their Airbnb. Personally in one building I had my lobby and elevator destroyed by Airbnb guests, as well as many loud party nights in an otherwise quiet building. In my next building I've dealt with noise and partying again. But I have effectively no recourse.

A system like this would vastly limit Airbnb's market: it would make it so landlords could easily tell when people were Airbnbing their apartments out, and thus would vastly shrink Airbnb's market.

I like Airbnb a lot. I use it when I travel, my friends use it when they visit me in NYC. But I am happy about this law because Airbnb chose short term profit over long term sustainability. The zoning laws that support hotels are there for a reason. And there was room for innovation there, but Airbnb has not been successful in traversing the space between the economic inefficiency and the zoning issues.

None of this even touches on the macro issue that Airbnb demonstrably increases rent prices.
We started to pay for Sentry a few years back since it was both cheaper and easier than hosting it ourselves.

Might be cheaper for a lone hacker to self host on a VM running multiple applications. But if you are to host Sentry on a separate VM the cost quickly exceeds the SaaS service.

The reasons for self hosting are probably more related to compliance, security and direct database access than cost.
And even if it's a more complicated scheme, there's nothing to suggest the attacker has to run C&C on a host for which he's paying. I scrubbed a lot of IRC daemons off legacy shared-hosting boxes, back in my admin days.
I wouldn't exactly call it comical. It's just that it's a political term rather than a financial one. Deciding to take a profit this year is an important signifier for the investors, who all must have the same question in mind, how long is it going to take for their investment to pay off.

As long as Musk decides to roll all revenues back into operations, investors get nothing. Musk has a reputation as someone who doesn't really care all that much about his investors, this is a move carefully designed to massage that image. Musk still doesn't care about his investors, but throwing a little cash their way keeps their voices from building to a crescendo.

As for what humanity is getting out of the deal, they already got the Model S and X, it's soon going to get the 3.
Open office plans are a great example of cargo cult management, second only to Agile.

Despite numerous well controlled studies debunking the myths that people are somehow happier, more creative, or communicate better in open plans, we get: "Company X was very successful, and they had an open office plan; therefore, the open office plan made them successful and we should have one, too." Company X was successful despite the open plan, not because of it.
"I found this law problematic because it was written to make enforcement easy, not to address actual issues with serial short-term renting."

Those two things are very much related. It's all well and good to propose an exquisitely tailored law that only forbids exactly what is socially negative and nothing else, but if it is totally unenforceable as a practical matter then what good is it?

"At least with Airbnb, there was a rating system and an escalation/authentication path."

That's great for AirBnB's customers -- both guests and owners (or leasors), but did nothing at all for the rest of us living in NYC.

All other things being equal, I'd be happy with lower hotel prices in NYC. That's good for tourism, which is good for NYC. But I sure as heck don't want to trade off not being able to rent an apartment and be assured that the apartment next door isn't an unregistered hotel room used by a rotating cast of drunk tourists every weekend. If those are my choices, I'm voting for higher hotel prices every time.
The spec is too vague; it's "agnostic". A number can include a fractional part, but it doesn't say if that means that fractionless numbers are to be treated as integers. It leaves that to the implementation, which is a terrible idea for an interchange format.

Ruby, IMHO, errs on the side of consistency (fractionless numbers become Fixnum, so encode(decode("1")) => "1"), whereas Go goes the opposite way (all numbers become float64, so encode(decode("1")) => "1.0", unless you enable the magic json.Number type).

JavaScript is an interesting scenario, because JS doesn't even have integer numbers, which means it doesn't have any choice in the matter. Interestingly, Node.js/V8 truncates the fraction if it can: JSON.dump(JSON.parse("1.0")) => "1".

It's a mess.
Just to clarify two things:

- rkt can run any docker image in the vibrant ecosystem: https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-docker-images.htm...

- Help test Kubernetes and rkt with minikube, it is working nicely today: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube#using-rkt-container-e...
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I am a Tesla bull, but you are correct. I'm very interested about the increase in AP. Hope the conf call will get into that.
My guess is that is with "bursting" and is not very sustainable. Not to mention, being able to type so quickly is very impractical when you need to think about what to say (well....type) and with programming especially, typing speed is irrelevant.

To give a comparison - I can type 700~ cpm steadily, which means I can maintain it for large periods of time. Only practical when copying text when OCR fails me or when doing data entry. With "bursts" (unsustainable but rapid typing) I can type 160-170wpm with a negligible error rate (<1%) but I can only keep it up for a few minutes. Realistically, I type closer to 110-120wpm, because I take longer pauses between words while I consider what I am about to say (again....type).

My hunch is the author actually meant 800cpm, but I do have my doubts to the accuracy or susustainability of the figure. It isn't "impossible" but it is "The top 1% of the top 1%" levels. :)

http://i.imgur.com/NW2Kq4p.png
This is an expected headline/occurrence, but it shouldn't be what happens to sway one's opinion about the legislation. A hotel exec saying anything about business is news. What is the potential for a news org to write about the person who had a slightly easier time finding an affordable rent, which is the ostensible purpose of this bill?

It's not much different than when an executive politician stonewalls on prison reform. Willie Horton happened 30 years ago and he still hangs like a specter over the justice system. What about the thousands of released prisoners we never hear about because, if we haven't heard about them, they probably went on to live normal, non-imprisoned lives, as criminal justice reform intended.
This post is hilarious. Here's the original HN post with 258 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108092
Because we need it of course! Either we got GCE/AWS or we gotta recreate it on bare metal with VmWare :D

If you're a [very] small company with limited resources (and limited needs?) to the point of living on a cheap featureless hosting provider, you should forget about Kubernetes and Mesos. They're hell to setup, don't waste your time with that.

What's the scale of your operations? How many servers? How much budget for hardware? How many applications? How many devs? How many ops? Maybe open another question, with more details. More people will catch up if you're lucky.
> I guess this is probably not an issue for Sentry as it is now

It kind of is, with Opbeat as their competitor which forked off from Sentry, but Opbeat have also kept the code that came from Sentry free.
So do I, but you should still consciously decide whether to add an overflow check.

Let's do a quick estimate: one can read in the order of 2^24 bytes/second from disk. A day has on the order of 2^16 seconds, so that's 2^40 bytes/day.

=> You will need 2^24 days to read 2^64 bytes. I think that's around 50k years. That an attacker will try to generate a buffer overflow this way is a risk I would take, even if I thought the hardware had room to store that string.

The only way I can foresee a real risk is when an optimizer can optimize away the computation of a string whose length it is asked to compute by an attacker.

That's still very much far-fetched, and if no string gets allocated it's hard to see how it could become a security issue, but it could be a reason to be extra careful, for example when providing online access to a C++ compiler, with its template metaprogramming capabilities.
Do you know whether the talk's likely to show up online?
Facebook owns PII data -- data the user attests -- and user engagement data. Snapchat just has user engagement data -- data derived from the user's behavior. This is a notable difference, but frankly, at this point in time it doesn't matter: every potential advertiser worth their salt knows that the average Snapchat user is between 14-25. Both services usually know location.

To many advertisers, the Facebook ad platform's sophisticated audience analysis isn't so much value-add as a way to prune people unlikely to be interested from being shown your ads. This is why the comparisons between Snapchat and MTV are apt.
> Now students cannot effectively sublet their apartments on Craigslist while out on summer break or study abroad, for a summer intern working at a company in the city

Incorrect. Sublets of 30 days or more are still legal, as they have been forever, and in fact are highly protected under NYC rent law, which requires landlords to allow sublets.

So your narrative is fiction. The law, which existed before the founding of Airbnb, and subsequent flaunting thereof, prohibits short term transient rentals. The only recent change is the prohibition on actively soliciting this illegal activity, not the already-illegal activity itself, thus making enforcement easier.

We can have a healthy debate about the short term sublet laws. Many NYC residents, myself included, will support the ban on transient rentals and improvised hotel arrangements, because it has severe negative externalities to other residents of the buildings in question, negatively affects the rental market, and violates community principles of land use and zoning.

Others, perhaps including yourself, will take the opposite view. And via democracy, following that debate, the law against short term subletting can be amended or retained. Needless to say if you're promulgating these views from San Francisco your preferences on the matter will be disregarded.

The only thing that's happened here is that the other strategy, the Silicon Valley end-around of just breaking the law and seeing what happened, has proven to be an ineffective means of changing policy. Good.
His older novels such as the later Foundation series were crap. Fad idea of the day (Gaia) instead of exploring a topic a bit more in depth (advantages of large populations in combating stasis). His best work was his early short stories (three laws of robotics, ultimate question). IMHO, his quality gradually went down before falling off a cliff. Traded quantity for quality?
Some issues have a clearly wrong side. Marijuana legalization seems pretty clearly a public good. Laws restricting marriage and whites and blacks, pretty clear. People still resist, but laws restricting gay people from marrying are also similarly obvious right. KKK views about blacks, legal restrictions aimed at black people voting, extremely clear what the right answer is.
I stand by the idea proposed by Cal Newport that the best way to do great work is to do "Deep Work"—large (but not all day) amounts of no-distraction, in-the-zone work. Harder to do than ever, but when I can do it I'm amazed.
> They refused to give data to the attorney general, and instead, mounted an AD campaign.

Companies that take their customer's privacy seriously should be lauded, not condemned.
Honestly. If GF dies you can still take AT&T. Therefore I would risk it if I were you.
The whole is greater than its parts. Tesla, to 'own' the ecosystem, needed to eventually offer what SolarCity has or there'd be a segment in their market they are catering to.
Grow a spine and tell her she's being loud. Don't be mean about it, but make it clear that she is being too loud.
Yeah, if only they had another product which makes tons of money............. hmmm................ I wonder what it could be......................
Really great news! But something that shouldn't be overlooked is the discounts they gave in Q3 to push deliveries up.

First, those that know me know that I am a Tesla FANATIC. My girlfriend once challenged me to not talk about Tesla (motors, energy, something) for a 24 hour period. I dunno if I've ever done that honestly. I'm also an owner (no surprise given my fanaticism, lucky to be able to afford one). And I also own some TSLA.

Elon sent a company-wide email in Q3 to push sales to show profitability. I don't think its a fluke but they did something they never really do to help reach this number: they offered significant discounts on vehicles (new, pre-owned, showroom). Like, really big discounts (relative to the price of the car).

That certainly helped. Elon also sent an email at the start of Q4 that NO MORE DISCOUNTS are allowed. So I'm really very interested to compare Q3 to Q4 when that comes.

I also happen to know a lot of the people who bought a heavily discounted Tesla in Q3 feel kind of burned that right at the beginning of Q4 Tesla announced the new Autopilot hardware (that isn't retrotfitable on old vehicles). If you did your homework on Tesla though, this wasn't a surprise. It was expected that Tesla would make some big announcement to spur Q4 sales especially after Elon said there wouldn't be any capital raises in Q4 while he expected to hit Q4 numbers. You generally can't do that without some big news.

Just wanted to color this news with that. I'm still very excited!
No, they are not. It's gonna be another gimmick lifestyle tech product that gets trumped up in the press and then no one cares about. They are glasses that only take ten seconds video and can only post it to snapchat. And they cost $130. Come on.