skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally some serious community fuzzing effort! I always thought of fuzzing-project.org as of a joke, based on how little information there was. Hopefully this one will be better...
lol I thought that it was expected to write ancillary software to solve the hacking games.
Let us be a bit more honest here. Current numbers are near four hundred ppm and not even most exaggerated places them past eight hundred. Commercial greenhouses can hit 1k and even that isn't hazardous exposure levels. Man made levels are dropping but in the end, we are actually very close the lowest levels in our planet's history and may be too low.

Plants prefer higher numbers and being below 500 is actually been shown to be bad for them while double that is beneficial to greenery.

So there are issues with the climate we will face but CO2 levels are probably the least of them
> funnels most of that money into things that simply make promoting other startups more effective, but don't create value

Making it easier for startups to promote themselves is a huge source of value. It's just hard to capture that value, because the newest and most interesting startups don't have any money, and the companies that do have a lot of money aren't new or interesting so no one wants to hear about them.

There's nothing shady or fraudulent. The problem is just that early stage companies in this space are walking a tightrope with basically zero optionality. E.g. normally you want to build a product with ten or twenty different paths to success without having to make any core changes to the technology. This space doesn't really lend itself to that.

There is a huge pot of gold at the end of the journey for anyone who can get there, but it's just really tricky because a lot of the things you'd ideally like to have in a startup just aren't there. (E.g. lots of optionality, low cost of leadgen, costs that substantially decrease over time, etc.)

PH is actually doing pretty well, I think it's too early to say if the PH/AngelList combo will eventually win the space, but I think they have as good a chance as anyone.
How India's Flipkart-like online marketplace for government works
Right, thanks, I should have said "on the cloud" and "Cloud OS team" instead of "OS team".
I recall a podcast interview Ryan Hoover gave some time ago, where he said (if I'm recalling this correctly) that he wouldn't consider offers to sell under $100M, and his goal was 1B or greater.

At the time it sounded perfectly reasonable, though he since took the company in a direction that lead to today. The writing on the wall has been evident since at least a year ago.

>ProductHunt had no hope of ever becoming an actual business with realized monetization, ...

While I largely agree there, I think that Product Hunt could have made itself an otherwise incredibly valuable acquisition target. Had Product Hunt chosen a different path around late 2014, it's very possible it could have met or exceeded that 1B figure.

If I had to give a postmortem, I'd say the primary cause of death was an over-emphasis on the site's existing pattern of serendipitous discovery, compounded by community mismanagement, and attempts to monetize via turning PH into a store and/or referral engine.

The community mismanagement aspect in particular was unfortunate, since Ryan was one of the most voracious and effective community builders I've ever seen. Some of the bad press PH received was perhaps unfair and overblown. The original intent of ruthless product curation seems to have went somewhat awry—resulting in a self-promoting insider network of sorts. Unlike the bad press though, I don't think that it was the result of malicious intent.

Of course, armchair analysis in hindsight is easy. None of us were actually on the ground in his shoes, so there's probably a lot we don't know. At the end of the day, a 20M exit isn't the worst thing in the world.
Grrr. Smit[1]. A non-optional (in many cases) tool to accomplish administrative tasks on AIX boxes. Making it nigh impossible to script common stuff that was easy on any other unixish OS.

[1]https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-smit/
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

Nope, just a conference.
Thanks for the links
I wrote a wrapper around CPython for fuzz testing with libFuzzer [1]. It's dog slow because it's designed for anyone to be able to write relatively simple test cases in Python (so every iteration of the fuzzer starts the interpreter, executes the test, tears it down...). But a neat concept IMHO.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/ebadf/fuzzpy
No. This is the tone I intend to take with all dimwitted or disingenuous climate change deniers on this site.
I believe it was already HIPAA compliant (or else I need to go into hiding).

The path to HIPAA compliance in AWS is just arrange to get a business agreement with Amazon.
It's re:Invent: a big Amazon conference where they announce a lot of their new changes. You can find a livestream of the keynote currently going on.
> the immediate market for electric cars is commuter transport for households with two cars.

There is plenty of evidence that people don't want this. In fact I invested in a now failed company 15 years ago (Corbin Motors/Sparrow) whose business was predicated on this idea (Corbin had its own problems, but this caused me to dig into the market dynamics). Several companies in the US and Europe have gone bust with this model.

Sure, some people can afford to have a spare car for week ends, but not the majority. When they buy a car they typically want a "do everything" vehicle because it's typically the household's largest or second largest investment. The beige is that mummy drives the big SUV kids+weekend car, daddy drives a commuter car which is slightly more powerful than needed in order that he not feel emasculated.
Mostly legal haggling about land ownership and various rights like that.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
Zenefits' free software illegal under Washington state law
The Pentagon Will Test-Fire Its New Larger SM-3IIA Interceptor Missile in Space
erm.

where is the source code?
When will it be defunded, code search was fantastic until it was discontinued.
In pre-Linux world Solaris was the best Eco-system out there. Working with various flavors of Unix was frustrating compared to Solaris. It became apparent that Sun was in trouble right after Linux started gaining a foothold.

Now that I am thinking about that time it was like over night. Linux over took everything else so fast. I personally used Linux and BeOS in 1999-2001 and always thought Linux was coming and then it just happened.
Amazon paid shills to post on Hacker News
Was about to start python to decypher the password sequence when I saw it turn green.
How do they make revenue currently? I don't see any ads, and I don't even see anywhere I can promote my product for a fee.

I'll go out on a limb and suggest it's 40-60X revenue, and even that may be too low (anyone from ProductHunt reading, please correct me, but I doubt it).
I'm excited about what this means for Lambda. Building Lambda packages has always been a pain because much of the time it needs to be built on Amazon Linux to work, meaning most (all?) CI SaaS solutions are out the window. I assume CodeBuild will run Amazon Linux and CodePipeline integrates with Lambda, so this should make setting up continuous deployment with Lambda much easier.
Russia Is Building Its Own Silicon Valley in Siberia
I think you underestimate the global reach PH has achieved within such a short time across the five continents. Most startups everywhere - including mine - building their product has a key milestone - almost as a habit- to get it on PH and shout loud about that this is a significant milestone for their users and customers to know about.

I am grateful to PH and the team lead by Ryan because they helped MyAppConverter raise our profile despite we are not based in SV. I will always remember one day one early user who found us, used our product and put it directly on PH. Soon after that, we got a huge spike in our sign-up and platform usage and gave us global coverage.

So thank you PH, Ryan Hoover & team and best of luck with the next chapter.
Ask HN: Who would be up for a co-founder meeting in San Francisco?
Hi, there's no real solutions out there to meet a co-founder so what do you guys think about old fashion style meetups? We all get together in one place and chat.

How many people are looking for a co-founder here? A lot I bet. Having a network is great, but it's not enough since you have to convince your friends to quite their jobs and work for free with no guarantee... there's the network of friends and a network of wannabe entrepreneurs.

You're looking for a co-founder? I do. He or she does too. Then let's meetup in our respective cities.

Who wants to meet in SF?
AWS Lambda now supports C#
It's also only links from Reddit to Amazon so probably not the best source of good information
At any time someone can show up to eat your lunch but if you're developing software for operations or developers it seems like a scary space to be in. AWS has a huge advantage by being able to simply add a service to their existing catalog.
Lufthansa Joins Germany’s List of Companies in Distress
"""Has Linux reached parity with BSD in terms of the TCP stack?"""

Im not sure what you mean. Linux has led TCP implementations for a decade now.
I know what you mean. I think there are a few problems here:

1. There's a fine line between open-minded and irrational, and unfortunately a lot of people end up crossing it. This becomes a negative feedback loop wherein more and more people don't want to risk their reputations by sounding like they identify with irrational / fringe groups or ideas.

2. It's easy to identify genius in retrospect, but prior to being validated, people who really think ahead of their time are by definition in the minority, so they either have to get used to being laughed at / criticized, or give up. So I guess I would say, keep looking for peers who are open-minded but not irrational. I went to Carnegie-Mellon (`03) and knew hundreds of bright people there, but only 1 or 2 who I considered to be able to think out of the box, as you say. They're people worth finding, though!
Dollar Shave Club | Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) | Los Angeles, CA

About DSC

We’re on a mission to build a better bathroom. We started with razors way back in 2011, and now millions and millions of Members later, we’ve expanded into shave products, skin care, hair styling, with more to come. We’re always growing and reinventing, and we rely on killer talent to help us achieve our goal of owning the bathroom. If you’re a team-playing innovator, you’ll fit right in. A sense of humor helps, too.

Role Summary

Interested in writing Go and contributing to OSS? Excited about Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and the brave new world of containerized distributed applications? DSC is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Infrastructure (SDEI)! Help build a world class application platform for one of the hottest, most successful new brands in Los Angeles.

Responsibilities / Qualifications

Experience in at least one programming language. Go (golang), Python or Ruby would be great. Shell languages do not count.
A passion for building tools and automation.
Ability to communicate and partner with the rest of the engineering team to deploy and maintain a stable suite of production microservices.
Knowledge of networking concepts and security best practices
Experience with Linux systems
Experience or interest in technologies such as Docker, CoreOS, Kubernetes and Mesos.
Experience with a public cloud provider like AWS would be a big plus.
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
Experience with continuous delivery pipelines would be a big plus.

DSC Culture

We work in an open- air, freshly renovated office in the heart of Silicon Beach. As we disrupt industries and unseat corporate giants, our plan is to think big, but stay small. No egos. No jerks. No prima donnas. Just awesome folks who live and breathe collaboration and dig the perks like haircuts, weekly food trucks, and team happy hours. And yes, we have snacks.
Grove | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco

Grove is a small seed-funded company with a bold vision to democratize access to quality financial advice and redefine the multibillion dollar financial advising industry using technology.

We're looking for a generalist developer to be our 2nd engineer and help create our infrastructure, client-facing apps, and internal tools. We're looking for someone who has 4+ years of full-stack experience and ideally has an interest in fintech and personal finance (more info: https://angel.co/usegrove/jobs/192926-full-stack-engineer).

We offer competitive salaries, generous equity, full benefits, 401(k), daily lunches, and flexible work hours/PTO.

Please email me, Arsenio Santos (VPE), if you'd like to chat more: arsenio@usegrove.com
Veteran of the VoIP world, looks good from the landing page, curious about features, from the text on the page and screenshots, it looks like this is just for call origination and termination?

Do you think you'd support something like ring groups and call flows/phone trees in the future?
It amazes me that people still do business with oracle.
"Relatively small" is correct when Hacker News and Reddit are the competitors.
MethodExists Inc. (https://methodexists.com) | Calgary, Canada | Multiple Positions | Full-time | REMOTE (Canadian Only)

We are a Calgary-based, remotely operated company, with our teams currently spread over Russia, Spain, the Caribbean and Canada. Our company creates enterprise-ready fully customizable web applications leveraging a low-code platform methodology. We have a lot of challenging work in front of us, and want driven people to join for a new and exciting experience. You will be empowered by our great processes (continuous integration, test-driven development, nicely concern-separated codebase, linting, task management in Phabricator, code reviews, continuous deployment, communication in Slack, unobtrusive meeting practices, open vacation policy and more) and positive work culture.

We have successfully delivered solutions for clients in a variety of areas including energy exploration, operations management, hsse management, agriculture operations, tourism, risk management and learning systems.

In our next phase, we will be delivering solutions to meet a variety of technical needs. We will be working to integrate RFID readers for inventory management, map optimum routes through supply chains and do market analysis, and build front end interfaces to configure complex systems, among other projects.

We are hiring the skill sets below, but are open to hear from anyone who thinks they're a fit or wants to learn more. We are looking to fill some Canadian roles at the moment, but are also hiring internationally. All jobs are full time.

UX Ninja
keywords: react, redux, ES6, D3, leaflet, react native

Data Engineer / Devop support
keywords: AWS, SQL, NoSQL, S3, Apache Spark, Python, Scala, EMR, ECS

See more details on the individual postings and apply at https://methodexists.com/jobs
> conversation [...] should easily suss out anyone who had a third party to do it for them

This will lead to hiring people who can be coached until they sort of understand a solution, although they still couldn't create it.
Congrats guys! Awesome team with an incredibly high-need and well-executed product. Looking forward to seeing you guys scale!
Nestlé says it can slash sugar in chocolate without changing taste
3. So why can't Linux black-box re-implement it?
An adblocker in your browser will mitigate your actual threats better than any AV running on your system.
When will it be discontinued; code search was fantastic until it was shutdown.
Benchmarking Commit Logs: NATS Streaming vs. Apache Kafka
This seems like a step backwards to me in some ways. I'd prefer to see them evolve Lambda to support containers, longer jobs, and better workflows instead. I thought we were moving away from EC2 with its slow provisioning, spot bidding, and per-hour billing.
Tesla Looks to Include Augmented Reality in Future Cars
If your software was AGPL, we wouldn't use it, and hence wouldn't contribute patches. Plenty of other companies would be the same.

That might or might not be a downside to you.
> and near objects producing strong magnetic fields.

Or any ferrous material that distorts magnetic fields locally, such as steel beams, rebar in concrete, electric cables, etc. You can map an office building by measuring the local magnetic field distortion.

Compass everywhere sounds easy until you try it.
Disney Animation | Interns | Burbank, CA | INTERNS

The Walt Disney Animation Studios Technology Department develops software for our animated films like Moana, Zootopia, and Frozen. Software Engineers work closely with production users to create tools for modeling, rigging, animation, dynamics, shading, effects, look, and/or rendering while leveraging experience in graphics technology, mathematics, and research.

We're looking for interns for a bunch of interesting Summer 2017 projects. Overview of the program is here: https://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/interns-apprentices

If you're interested, you can search open positions and apply here:
https://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/open-positions
I think this is a great move. I recently went on a low-sugar diet and after a while I went back to my favorite chocolate bar from Trader Joe's. I was appalled how sweet it was and I really can't eat it anymore.
Oh BeOS.
One of the best promises that failed to succeed.
Hmm...only number I could find is $2.4mm in revenue back in 2007
Yeah around 2007, but this was relatively short lived.

At the end of the day the perception that economic output is dropping (slope) is valid if you consider it on a per capita basis. Now I'd you consider that the jobs and profits aren'disturbed equally, you can see why Trump won.
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service recently released its biannual report on sugar, "Sugar: World Markets and Trade".

> Global production for 2016/17 is up 5 million metric tons (raw value) to 171 million as gains in Brazil and the European Union and most of the top 25 producers more than offset declines in India and Thailand. Global raw sugar
monthly average prices, after falling for over a year and bottoming at less than 11 cents per pound in August 2015, have been trending higher to near 23 cents in October 2016. Despite high prices, consumption is forecast at a record 174 million tons, drawing stocks down to the lowest level since 2010/11. The global sugar deficit narrows from 6.7 million tons in 2015/16 to a forecast 2.6 million.

That the price of sugar has doubled over the past year amid shrinking stocks probably explains why Nestle is interested in cutting their use of the ingredient.

[1] https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/Sugar.pdf
I was totally bummed out by cougar nights at The Rosewood. Way too many people and not really a good place to enjoy yourself.
Sun/Solaris/SPARC and running sunhelp.org was a major part of my life for over a decade.

This is sad to see, but the acquisition of Sun by Oracle pretty much started the downhill slide.
Send alerts on AWS maintenance events
Wellframe | Healthcare | Boston, Ma | Onsite/Fulltime https://www.wellframe.com

At Wellframe, we are building an intelligent care-management platform that allows health plans and care-delivery organizations to better manage large populations of complex patients. Because the most clinically complicated cases in a patient population tend to drive a majority of the costs, even seemingly small improvements in these patients’ well-being have dramatic benefits for the care provider. Wellframe focuses on improving patient health by providing personalized and adaptive care programs for people trying to recover from or manage serious health problems. We use the health data we collect in order to intelligently allot care resources to the specific needs of patients, paying special attention to the most-critical patients. Through clinical studies and working with large healthcare payers, we have seen that our platform improves patient outcomes, increases the capacity of care management teams and reduces costs of the care provider.
We have a relatively small engineering team at about 10 engineers. What makes us unique is that we have a full time clinical team of doctors that work with us to break down clinical science so that we can build it back up into personalized and adaptive care programs.

We're currently looking for several mid/senior engineering positions (android, iOS, frontend, infra/platform, sre) across our engineering team. More descriptions can be found on our jobs page (below). If you're in the area I'd love to just grab coffee regardless of whether or not you're actively looking to move -- I love talking to other passionate, driven people about what they do.

Our stack is native Android (Java) and iOS (Objective-C), our API is served in a Ruby on Rails monolith and Scala services, on top of MySQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Spark. We are especially focusing on expanding our frontend team as we see significant growth on that side of the product. We are mostly Backbone + React, although some more complex state we are moving to Redux. It's a very exciting time for the frontend, as we are planning to grow both in scale in terms of patient populations, as well as product use cases that require diverse interactions. It is super rewarding to see our product affect real people's lives and the opportunity to reinvent this massive industry is enormous.

Jobs: https://www.wellframe.com/jobs Also feel free to reach out to me at nam@wellframe.com!
Thameslink, and only in these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_377
I would love to know how this is implemented under the hood. .NET Core on Linux? Or are they using Windows containers?
As someone that's been porting a bunch of C# utilities to Python for Lambda, this is good news, and the timing is pretty nice too.
Disruptive Forces Blow Up 21st Century Business Models
but why tho?
Anybody known anything about the people behind this? On the one hand I really want to order one, on the other hand I'm quite worried that it will ship 9 months late and be terrible.
AWS is having an event: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
alright but now this time FOR REAL!!!
From an antitrust perspective, predatory pricing is only a violation under EU/US law if firms are pricing below marginal cost. That's not to say Uber might not be pursuing a predatory strategy, but that it falls within both jurisdictions' safe harbour of legitimate practice.
its ur boi
> "IIRC they still pay Mozilla for making Google the default homepage"

True.

> "is there anything else they've done?"

Nah, and frankly that's just irrational in-my-head ranting, their behavior is entirely expected rational behavior. Google is a data junkie which critically all-caps NEEDS as much data as possible about us, in order to machine-learn our lives from head to toe so that it can make money helping companies sell us more stuff.

Of course Apple isn't bothering us to use Safari when browsing apple.com, it doesn't care as long as you buy Macs. Of course Microsoft neither, it doesn't care as long as you use their platforms.

But Google is different, it needs your data to operate, and so it will do whatever it takes to get its data fix, including bullying.

</rant>

EDIT+OFFTOPIC: cool article on your blog about AFL, thanks for sharing it :)
that haterade tho http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/minimaxir.com
I'm curious: How does this match up with CircleCI / AppVeyor / Travis / or other known build services?
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