skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I didn't pay people in the beginning. I had a cofounder and an advisor and we all coded and worked FOR FREE before we raised money.
Air incident investigations have shown that under stress/duress, a pilot will ignore things that seem stupidly obvious due to focusing on one aspect of the crisis.

That first landing looked far from 'perfect'. He was coming in high and possibly too fast, and I daresay he was focusing too much on how much runway he would have left after landing. He could have also assumed that the warning was the overspeed warning from extending landing flaps at too high a speed (though most light aircraft don't have that warning system).

That second one was a lot less explicable - looked like a normal landing approach. Surprised that the instructor also didn't pick it up.

Interestingly, that second pancake landing is in exactly the same type of aircraft that I did my initial flying training in. Something about seeing that instrument panel, and hearing that warning alarm made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and raised my pulse a little. Even 25+ years after I last flew that type!
Yes I'm in SF.
'The English love this drink': Italians bemused by prosecco trade threat
Fiat Chrysler teams up with Amazon to sell cars online
>I think we need a counter strategy

The Gentoo folks, as well as many of us Arch users, are with you. Gentoo in particular has been aggressively forking and maintaining patch sets for any of the software that has succumbed to the cancer (the *kits, various desktop software, DBUS, GNOME, and most notably udev. Although if they weren't needed for some pieces of software I use, I'd gladly chuck 90% of that stuff). So yeah, if you want to help, that's where to contribute your effort.
A temporary, floating university for studying the oceans
Respectful? Give me a break, you've been successfully gas-lighted.

>where it says that VC's can be "quite persistent" asking for coffees

Lets be pragmatic. How many VC's are we talk about, 5? 10? Can we not read a little bit of a veiled humble brag into this point on the fact that the number isn't mentioned and that if the number is 5 that the author couldn't spare 5 hours over "multi months" to meet with someone signing checks? Which brings me on to-

>If you're the kind of person for whom "many VCs were extremely persistent"

What does this person do that they seem to fart rainbows when every one of the most talented engineers that I know has to hustle to get these sorts of doors opened? We can only assume that something else is at play.

Which brings me on to Op's point-

>in my experience people with 9-17 jobs don't have that kind of money to hire people.

This is entirely correct, most startups can't trade money for time but the author doesn't reveal her fountain of money which further undermines the blogpost.
I suppose it depends if you selling flowchart software to mainly technical people? Else if it is more like Excel users, you may want to go with 'as intuitive as Word' or something similiar.

I'd just list 'fully secure' or 'encrypted' as one of the features, and not put it in the price plan at all.

True enough on the Web 3.0 look! I'd recommend using one of the many colour palette tools on the Web though, just to get a more natural softer look between the various hues.
If you aren't selling enough product, you have to slow the factory down. But factories often don't slow down efficiently, it can be better to just work 4-day weeks for a while.

It's not really managements fault that we have a boom-bust economy.

And... I think most people prefer a little collective belt tightening and to the risk of losing their livelihood.
How did ‘less than stellar’ high school student Jared Kushner get into Harvard?
I personally blame the New York Times as much as anyone for the results of the election.

For the last 15 years, they've participated in the fear mongering over-reporting on extremely rare Islamic terrorism to get readers and appeal to fearful Americans who don't understand statistics and don't get told by the media just how small a threat it's always really been.

The culture of irrational overblown fear of terrorism they've helped create is what created Trump, more than emails, more than fake news.

Big media players like the NYT play up threats for views and wonder why people vote for strongmen fascists to protect them from the big bad Muslims.
I started the company BEFORE my husband was diagnosed with cancer but to be clear I never sacrificed my health or time with my family. My husband is now cured of cancer, my family is thriving, and Winnie is doing great too. That's kind of the point of the post -- you can have it all (mostly).
They don't seem to have any problem with adding new data sources to their growing pile of data and new data centers to house it, so they can implement proper security controls as well.
The other half seems to be powered by Windows XP.
I agree. How you use the information once you have it is not the same as how you obtain it in the first place. I was addressing the use of information, and I do agree that obtaining those signals has a separate set of considerations to take into account.

But unless there are strong reasons to do otherwise - for example, what 'wakkaflokka pointed out in a parallel comment may potentially be such a reason - I do think we should derive rigorous conclusions from the data we already have based on math, and not on rhetoric.
A variety of consumer products by our customers. Google has better ROI and pretty decent targeting.

One of the most blatant issues with FB is what they did with their pages. You spend tons of money and effort building an audience and they don't let you reach it unless you pay. And pay through your teeth you must, every time you want to reach your followers.

In other words, you never own your audience. This is a huge business mistake. You want to own your audience. Your list is worth gold. Here's where email marketing (to a vetted list) still beats FB.

If you use FB to drive traffic to a site, have people hop-on to your email list and then market directly, sure, yeah, that works. You can do that with Google just as well.
Indeed - painfully cold hands could be Raynaud's, which is a symptom of a number of syndromes (of varying severity):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud_syndrome
I've been a software engineer for nearly 30 years and I was diagnosed with tendonitis in my first 5 years but I have managed to hold RSI at bay. I pay attention and if any pain surfaces I take action that day. I do not ever, ever wait.
This is what I do:
1. short regularly enforced breaks. I use WorkRave to take a break every 10 minutes for a minute and 6 minutes every hour. I skip these breaks if I'm fine but use them if I have any soreness.
2. A keyboard that allows my hands and wrists to be vertical and can be configured for any slant. I use a comfort keyboard, not easy to find anymore.
3. Ice baths. If my wrists are sore at all I immerse them in an ice bath for 7 minutes each, morning and evening. This really works. So cold it hurts.
4. Pressure point massage therapy. Releases tension in the muscles. It hurts but works. I do that once in a while.
The article and in case you didn't read it, title of the article as shown above is about the new CIA Director.

That's Not Trump.

This is Rep. Mike Pompeo.

So whilst your point is that "oh Trump says stuff and doesn't mean it" that does not mean that everyone Trump hires also has the same get out of jail card.
Just as an aside, don't neglect your neck. I have had a couple bouts of pain, that felt for all the world like it originated in my left wrist. Turned out it was a pinched nerve in my neck. Physical therapy and a standing desk were the cure for me. (Of course it might have just cured itself too).
As a mechanical engineer, this is the key to efficient work. Never CAD anything until you have done mental experiments, paper drawings, and thought through all the possible issues.
Ask HN: What are some companies solving hard problems?
Oh my, I didn't realize until I just read a news item that she's going to replace Barbara Boxer, thanks to California for inflicting her on the rest of the nation!
Great, so now I have an encrypted volume that I can't read unless I can compromise the HSM that stores the keys.
Do you mind sharing which cage and barbell you bought?
Seconded. I would pay a lot more than $9.99 for such an app, but I don't use OS X.
My understand is that customer service is a scalability problem and isn't financially feasible for free services. If they had a support number they would be deluged with the very angry people you see in the product forums. Many of these are people they simply cannot help as a CS rep because they are angry about things like missing or dropped features. And as it turns out, free users are often the most demanding in terms of attention, time and resources.

What they really need is a customer service team that finds these people that are having genuine issues that can be resolved. They'd need the means to reach out and communicate without that person being able to subsequently share contact information with the world.

That said, I don't know what I'd do as a Google employee looking at this guy's situation. If david.smith@gmail.com is dormant and my name and ID say David Smith why should that give me access to that mailbox? How do you verify the contents without violating someone's privacy? We're not asking some tiny ISP to take a quick peek, this is Google and they have a responsibility to all of their users to practice great care. So we can't assume they're telling the truth and neither can Google. This guy's situation sucks but the mistake of turning over the account to the wrong person is catastrophically worse than the bad experience of denying the rightful owner access. This exact situation is why they have recovery options.

I think it's likely they're telling the truth and I do feel bad for them and their situation. I've been there myself with a yahoo account years ago but at the end of the day the only way I could recover it was using something I no longer had. The things in that mailbox that I wanted access to were also things I would be furious at Yahoo for sharing with someone else no matter what their identification or birth certificate said.
As a linux desktop user, I thought at first "this is terrible" given experience with Ubuntu's fickle issues with breaks after upgrades for desktop users, but seeing that it is mainly for security patches, that doesn't make me as upset.
Full disclosure, I work at Udacity, but it's worth mentioning that our iOS program was just refreshed literally 3 days ago, so I'd encourage a second look!
Sounds very interesting. Could you maybe do a blogpost and explain how this is supposed to work?
Various URL shorteners. For example http://tinyurl.com/ must have millions of URLs out there. Trouble is some URLs might point to intranets or contain authentication tokens (the "nobody can ever guess this long string" part of a URL).

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page lists a couple of preemptive "warrior based projects" of services that currently still exist.
> Above 20,000 Hz, she says, an alarm “starts sounding not really urgent, but like a squeak.”

Not sure it's even right to call it a squeak. Many adults hear nothing at 20,000 Hz.
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
"you either trust your fabricator and tools, or you don't."

Equals you trust blindly or don't trust at all. There's a whole range of verifiability between those two. It's worth exploring.

"but unless you're a Nation State or a massive company, you're pretty much wasting your time."

There's smaller firms on buying and supply side of the equation benefiting from simpler, easier-to-inspect stuff. Especially for energy or cost savings. Examples include Moore's Forth processors, Java CPU's, Plasma MIPS (FOSS), 16-bitters in smartcards, etc. Those on 0.35 micron or up can have random samples inspected by eye with microscopes if user wants to go extra mile. Alternatively, they at least have black boxes they can analyze or test for conformance to white-box designs they're supposed to be. Or more easily monitor at analog or digital levels for inconsistencies w/ power shut off during such an event.

Much more to this topic than you're suggesting.
I didn't consider experimental and I agree it sounds more reasonable there. I'm not super familiar with experimental regs, other than the obvious "no commercial use" rule and the necessity of hanging on real tight while you bump and wobble your way down the strip :P

Interesting about the fact that you can fly IFR on your own GPS. I would not have figured that would be allowed since you will be around other aircraft under similar weather conditions/operating rules. Particularly in Class Bravo airspace where it's busy. Or are there other restrictions about experimental aircraft in Class B?
Stay the hell away. We had to use this at my last job and it drove people nuts.
I it's more likely that Kaspersky lumped OpenBSD and Linux together as Unix-likes (very valid since they are talking about basic OS architecture choices in that section), and chose to say Linux instead of Unix-like because Linux is much more widely known.
This took quite some time to dig up. In case anyone else was wondering, this produces a png (assuming foo.pic contains the example pic instructions): $ pic foo.pic | pic2graph > foo.png
I bought a Kinesis Advantage, and it 100% completely cured my wrist problems. Best money I've ever spent.
Funny this should appear because I just started at a company today where a big part of my job will be to help the team work with big messy monolith of code that is difficult to test.

Can anyone here recommend further reading on this particular problem?
Yes - if we're going to include ultra-sonics, air-gap spanning networks, things of that nature... yeah, it gets very quickly into the range of nearly impossible to catch.

Especially if it's intermittent or simply passive. Then you could have an embedded issue for years and never know (I've long suspected that this could eventually be a problem for Defense companies)
It makes sense, though. If you've been tasked with a job you want whatever makes your job easier. I would expect him (and anyone else in that position) to want increased powers, especially since when something bad happens people are going to blame him for not detecting and stopping it.

That's not to say we should give them any of those extra tools.
You've now reduced your argument to the trivially inane. You were claiming that the critic needs to be able to propose a solution, but now you're just claiming the critic needs to say "given flaw X, the solution is to not have flaw X".
Chrome Extension Created by College Students Solves Facebook's Fake News Problem
"My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich buy their underachieving children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations."

Why should we be shocked?

It's even more subtle than that. As a youngster enrolled as an undergrad ,I was shocked to find less than a handful of my class were from public schools (in Australia, government educated students attend public schools). This was in an era where probably less than one in ten attended University. The rich were expected to go to University, and were trained accordingly. The rest maxed out at form six, then got a job.
How big of a difference did Dvorak make for you?

While I feel no pain at all I'm pretty paranoid about getting any pain/RSI in the coming years (recent graduate now working full time)
Show HN: Get a great domain by translating your keyword into 30+ languages
In the dark old days when I was uninspired and couldn't come up with a name for a project I'd hop onto my old pal Google Translate and see if a keyword associated with my name "sounded cool in German"

If it did, and the domain was unused I'd scoop it up and use it.

This process took a while, I'd try German, French, Russian, Armenian, Latvian, etc trying to find something cool that wasn't already being used.
So I built http://www.catelus.com/

It translates your keyword into more than 30 different languages and checks if your-word-in-german.com and your-word-in-polish.com are registered/being used.
I wanted a name that brought to mind hound dogs, which lead me to "puppy" which in turn lead me to catelus which is Romanian for puppy.

It's a pretty cool word yeah? I was honestly surprised that some analytics company hadn't gobbled that one up.
I'd appreciate any feedback you have!
I've long been a fan of footnotes. Alas, they often don't work well in electronic formats. But they are a good way to provide context, justification, or additional detail without breaking the flow.
Now, we're looking at a top-notch team of OS programmers

Kaspersky AV hobbles my core i7 to the point where it can't even respond to keypresses. I have no view on its anti-virus abilities, but my every experience of it (the client and the management tools) is that it's shoddy enterprise churnware.

And, of course, they also promote it as if it's the best thing ever.

I guess the OS team could be the best ever. But my starting position is "ha ha, as if".
Dell error hands Mexicans $33 laptop bargain
> If you wrote a PS file three years ago it likely still works today.

That's a really low bar.

Isn't Windows supposed to have a legendary commitment to backwards compatibility? 3 years of backwards compatibility would be nice for a bleeding-edge development environment like node.js that you can tear down and replace whenever you want, but not for your operating system shell.
Me?

I'm just more interested in calling out drudgery, propaganda, forced fanaticism of boring topics, and adding color
There is also an sstrip tool [1], written by the same Brian Raiter already mentioned here. It strips a bit more eagerly:

$ gcc tiny.c -O3 -o tiny; wc -c tiny
8456 tiny

$ strip tiny; wc -c tiny
6224 tiny

$ sstrip tiny; wc -c tiny
4140 tiny

[1] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/elfkickers.html
I thought it was Knuth who wrote something to this effect. Not so, but I stumbled onto another gem of his:

> Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
> I sure didn't know anybody who had $7500 to spend on a computer;

Let alone a student! If only I had that kind of cash as a student...

/me gazes wistfully to the stars gracing the horizon
Yeah, I had a lady cancel her reservation at my place in NYC after realizing it wasn't a professionally operated hotel citing that she'd never experienced such an arrangement on Airbnb.
All 60+ domains I own are .com although I have a .net and a .org for a couple of words. I only paid premium price of $2000 on one of them. My company name is Sendlinks and getting Sendlinks.com kind of makes sense. ;)

In particular, I have a 5-character easy to spell meaningless name that I am reserving for some large scale service I will build in the future.

Getting an unregistered .com is tough, but many are available at a reasonable price on secondary market. I define reasonable price as under $1000. When I decided on the Sendlinks name, the seller originally wanted $5000. I made the decision to buy it at that price once I was ready to re-brand.

Since no one else would likely buy the name, I wasn't too concerned about someone taking it. Fast forward a few months later, I was at the point where I had money and so I decided to just buy it then and cross that item from my launch checklist. Luckily for me, the price dropped to $2000.

I own the .com domains of my Internet nickname and my last name among other properties.
I haven't gotten anywhere near as big as you, but I was contemplating hooking one of those USB powered fans up to mine when I tried to load up the devices.
It's possible but I'm not saying likely. OpenBSD's handling of UNIX architecture, low-level primitives, security features, and code quality stand out a lot. It's still UNIX-like enough to have UNIX weaknesses but they mitigate quite a bit.

Kaspersky has a big-enough ego that I suspect his main goal is just having one of his company's and country's own to brag about. Especially if it ends up better in track record than something like Linux that's very visible albeit not made for security. That will actually be straight-forward if it's a Layer 2 or 3 operating system given how little they need to get right with one.
It seems that pieces like this are intended to sway either the president to withdraw the nomination, or the Senate to reject it. I gather that both are quite rare:

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/...

Most recently, John Tower was rejected in 1989, and Tom Daschle withdrawn in 2009.
The "apply for a job" link[1] is a different form than the "tell us your story" link[2]. (Which isn't to say that you aren't correct; the incoming Trump administration may be using the form as a tool to identify "idea people" for the many roles they need to fill.)

[1] https://apply.ptt.gov/
[2] https://apply.ptt.gov/yourstory/
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND SOPHISTICATED INVESTORS/INVENTORS
Sup Hackers,

I own a robotics company that has build platform grade technology for scalable robotics applications, our target market is the drone industry and we're working on something really great.

We recently moved out to the LA area to get some better opportunity and as our current investor says "be in a better zip code". Currently, I am working with some of the staff of the facility we are in and all they keep trying to do is water down the business plan/model to something that reminds me of a presentation I gave when I was in high school. I keep getting told that it's too complicated and I keep trying to explain that Complexity and Complication are not the same thing. At all. The business is complex, not complicated. Just because the number of steps required to complete an action is greater than like, 3, doesn't mean there is a fucking tree in the middle of the road. Complexity is nuanced and sequenced... Complication is simple and binary there is either a disrupt or there is not a disrupt.

Gaahhhhhhhhhhh!

We are slow cooking something that has serious potential to not just create and fuel an industry but will enable developers and small business alike to form and thrive. Yet i'm told that I need to use 5 words to 'sum up' the business opportunity and that all that the investors are really investing in is our IP. Hahah what the fuck is that? Yeah we have a shit load of IP but it doesn't mean jack shit if I keep diluting my business model to what everyone else in the market is doing. I'm sure you guys all know this but doing what everyone else is doing is EASY, doing something that actually matters is HARD and NOT SIMPLE.

REAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES ARE SO FUCKING HARD TO BUILD GOD DAMNIT.

Okay, my rants over, I feel better.

Thanks for listening Hackers.

-CA
Mirai botnet leverages STOMP Protocol to power DDoS attacks
This is a good blog post, but a web directory ? Being hunted by investors, and over two million dollars raised ...
"my first thought was of the US Congress for the past 20 years or so"

This is a valid point. The quality of discourse, the inability to tolerate diverse ideas without resorting to insults. This is evident not only in the political class in the US but also the UK and the antipodes.

Here's an example of political discourse in Australia: https://thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/11/12/joh...
I can attest to the pressure point massage. After having two sessions (three was recommended) I could use the computer for a few months without feeling any pain nor the need of using a wrist strap (or whatever it's called).