skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that moving towards static linking, on balance, seems like a a reasonable tradeoff at this point, but it is hardly as cut and dried as a lot of people seem to think.

As one very minor point, it turns vulnerability tracking in to an accounting exercise, which sounds like a good idea until you take a look at the dexterity with which most engineering firms manage their AWS accounts. (Sure, just get better at it and it won't be a problem. That advice works with everything else, right?)

One's choice of deployment tools may slap a bandaid on some things, but that is not the same thing as solving a problem; that is automated bandaid application.

And odd pronouncements like any given container shouldn't be long lived are... odd. I guess if all you do is serve CRUD queries with them, that's probably OK.

As a final point, I feel like the container advocates are selling an engineer's view of how ops should work. As with most things, neutral to good ideas end up wrapped up with a lot of rookie mistakes, not to mention typical engineer arrogance[1]. Just the same thing you get anywhere amateurs lecture the pros, but the current hype train surrounding docker is enough to let it actually cause problems[2].

My takeaway is still the same as it was when the noise started. Docker has the potential to be a nice bundling of Linux capabilities as an evolution of a very old idea that solves some real problems in some situations, and I look forward to it growing up. In the mean time, I'm bored with this engineering fad; can we get on with the next one already?

[1] One very simple example, because I know someone will ask: Kubernetes logging is a stupid mess that doesn't play well with... well, anything. And to be fair, ops engineers are no better with the arrogance.

[2] Problems like there being not even a single clearly production-ready host platform out of the box. Centos? Not yet. Ubuntu? Best of the bunch, but still hacky and buggy. CoreOS? I thought one of the points was a unified platform for dev and prod.
> When the gate guard was deciding whether to let him in, they started bonding over the thermos he brought. Like, You got that thermos? My wife bought me that thermos! I’ve got the same one. And he’s like, all right, I’ll let you in.

I'm always amazed by the "social engineering" factor in these kinds of attacks. No matter how high your password-entropy, you're still going to get penetrated if you actually tell it to someone when they ask...
That would be a no-brainer for sure!

At $75k/year $15k for a day off a week would be roughly "break even" on the hourly rate trade off.

Someone on $100k taking a pay cut to 4 days would see their time valued at an increase in hourly rate. Since you're getting 15% less money in exchange for 20% less time.

Broad brush strokes on the math there but you get the picture.
This lets you do smart obvious things like route /blog on your home domain to your blog provider. There's a lot of stuff you can do that makes your website better and faster using a smart load balancer and so this is kind of an obvious missing link in web stacks. Glad that Kurt and Jerome are working on this!
Produce more value, enjoy the fruits thereof. Yes, one has a moral duty to help those unable, by circumstance, to reach up to that bottom line; provide food, shelter, and education until a minimum is reached and they can provide - so long as the individual is making a fair effort to get there, and not just enjoying a free ride. Compelling others to provide, and giving what's taken to the wantonly idle, is immoral.

My thought experiment addresses those who seem to think no effort should be required for survival. If you are at all capable of that minimum level of productivity, it is expected of you; if you truly aren't capable, I'll choose to help you out.
Actually I'd say that people being wrong about their own safety and well being is the rule, not the exception.
Not just that, but being able to choose your VPN+ISP is better than being able to "choose" your ISP.
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You might be happier if you weren't racist.
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I mean your whole argument falls apart when you take into account the fact that cars cost money and the president or PM's car is going to cost a lot more than your average car.

Browsers are free.

> pulling trailers (real extensions)

Well look what's happening to Firefox's extensions soon.

> PPS: Oh, at close range even the google car yields to a sniper rifle.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/pwn2own-2017-microsoft-edge... - Although the statement "Firefox was back at this year’s Pwn2Own after missing last year, seemingly because the browser would’ve been too easy to hack" probably sums it up nicely.
The glyphosate thing was IARC (Int.Agency for Cancer Research) deeming that it was probably cancer causing; IIRC there's evidence suggesting that the US EPA had been corrupted in order to pass glyphosate for use. The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and WHO have reportedly since determined that it is "safe" [enough] for human consumption and the ECHA (Euro. Chem. Agency) have determined that a ban is not required.

Pulling glyphosate would be devastating. But keeping it if it's causing widespread cancer would be continuing to ruin lives too. The Tories controlling the UK would IMO be more likely to let the proles die and support the farmers (who historically have a Tory preference). I prefer the EU's scientific and cautionary stance to the "will it cause loss of profit for shareholders" stance that we're going to be seeing much more of.
It's dangerous to try to solve a problem completely in isolation. If a polity puts together a really generous program for street homeless that involves a ton of resources and benefits but has a relative stingy programs for poor people that are living in shelters or doubled up -- what are the possible unintended consequences of that?
Yes, but you and the grandparent commenter seem to treat it as black and white -- either they are sane, or ALL logic has gone out the window. Many (most?) actual mentally ill are not like that (spoken from first and secondhand experience) -- SOME logic has gone out the window, and there is room to "negotiate" or "convince" in alternate ways. But that requires getting to know them, caring, spending enough time to earn some trust and understand more what kind of entreaty would most appeal to them.

A good comparison is a young child (or an elderly person slowly getting senile)! They often believe silly things, but it's not all or nothing. It's possible to "reason" with them, but it takes more effort, time, and care, that's all.
I think the distinction isn't making money as that's necessary to keep the doors open, it's more about corporate motivations. Some firms want to be a unicorn and some like where I work are more focused on building a business we all want to work at. While both are motivated, there are different buy in strategies with the employees. We have great growth, but we regularly turn down clients because they're not a fit for our team. I realize this isn't as feasible in all areas of expertise.

There definitely is a bit of marketing though and too much talk of culture is usually a good red flag.
HN please pardon my language but you Kronadude, you're an idiot.
Yes. Went from omnivore to vegan overnight, stayed that way for two years, and then went vegetarian three years ago. No meat since Jan. 3rd 2012.

When my wife and I took the plunge I had been eating lots of meat at lunches...mostly in sandwich form and we had been unintentionally transitioning from all meat to chicken and fish to mostly just fish at home for dinners...wife's preference for fish over other meat drove that.

Then we watched the documentary "Forks Over Knives" and, regardless of the scientific accuracy of the film, said "Why don't we try going vegan for a month and see what happens".

So after a New Years trip to see family in LA where we are a ton of meat we drove home and then...never ate meat again. After the first month "test" we asked each other if we should try it again for another month, agreed to do it, and then never asked again.

Over the holiday break in 2014 we ended up eating a bunch of eggs and decided we really wanted eggs and cheese, so we ditched the veganism and went vegetarian. We probably eat 80% of our dinners as vegan still, unintentionally, but we don't feel bad about eating cheese anymore.

One quick tip if you try to be vegan...be flexible if your not doing it from a moral standpoint. If I ordered a sandwich and they accidentally put mayo on it, I just ate it anyway. If a coworker brought cookies or cake, I ate it. I didn't ditch my shoes or belt. True vegans would probably be appalled, but life is so much easier if you go with the flow. Try to stick to it, but don't fuss or worry about the occasional lapse.

Hell, I know plenty of vegetarians that are 99.9% vegetarian but occassionally grab a slice of pepperoni pizza or slice of bacon or whatever. There aren't any rules...it's a personal decision. Do what makes you happy.
While many of these people need help, the institutions were closed because they were rife with abuse. It's a playground for predators. If their victims attempt to speak up, you have the choice between believing the "sane" person or the person that is so mentally disabled that they need to be in an institution.

> These are sick people that need shelter and help

There is a large amount of literature on how said institutions didn't provide much help other than sedating people and subjecting them to procedures like lobotomy for diagnosis such as "mild" as depression.
Sure enough Henry VIII leaving the Holy Church of Rome will lead to all kinds of disaster for the kingdom. Oh wait no, they actually went on to rule about half of the world afterwards.
You mean, "What should the state do?" That's a different question than what ordinary human beings should do.

The notion that someone who said, "Jesus wants me to live on the street," would suddenly find themselves incarcerated and drugged to change their mind is such a terrifying overreach of state power that it boggles the mind.
Ask HN: Should I negotiate with top tech companies?
Hi

I was lucky enough to pass the standard software engineer interview with 3 of the top SV tech companies (think Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Amazon). I have about 7 years of experience (some titles held: Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager), and the various recruiters handling my case said the feedback from the various interviewers was generally on the strong/very strong side.

Problem is: how much can I negotiate?

In my current company (medium stage startup) my total cash comp is about $200k and I have unvested equity in the form of stock options that are valued on paper at $~1M (based on the price the investors paid for the last round) and, while the equity is obviously illiquid, the company still has a very considerable growth potential and the business is going well. I already vested a decent amount (not included in my calculation above), so if I leave I would capture to some degree the upside of a liquidity event, should that ever come. I am interested in leaving my current position purely for new technical challenges (I am experiencing a very mild form of burnout due to the lack of new exciting projects), but I am not so desperate to accept a lowball offer. In other words, my BATNA is reasonably high.

In terms of offer, what I have gotten so far from one of those companies is:

- $180k base salary

- $200k RSU package over 4 years

- 10% target performance bonus

- $25k signing bonus

Considering my unvested compensation, this seemed low, so I told the recruiter that and, after a couple days, he came back with more RSUs (total package $300k now). How more can I play this game? It would be nice if the RSU package could get as close as possible to my current potential unvested value, but I don't know if that's even possible and if that would have other negative effects (e.g. unreasonably high expected performance level, so that I would be an easy target for termination after 11 months?).

Any advice would be great.
The way the article frames the $350k competitive salary as a "problem" for startups is backwards.

If you're a businessman, you build a business that works with the prevailing pricing that's out there. That includes prices for everything such as raw materials, office rent, AWS/GCP cloud costs, government taxes & fees, and yes, high programmer salaries.

Complaining that your startup is "hurt" because AWS egress transfer fees are too high, or office sq footage $ is too high, or programmers cost $350k is counterproductive.

To think like a businessman, one has to turn that around: how do I build a more valuable business that can pay the high costs of the San Fran office and the $350k salary?

E.g., Jeff Bezos in 1994 isn't going to handicap himself because Microsoft was paying $100k salaries. Google in 1998 can't blame the difficult recruiting on Cisco and Sun Microsystems paying $100k salaries.

Either build up value in the business and/or include the high programmer salaries in the numbers when you ask VCs for money.

The other option, as other sibling comments noted, is to attract programmers who will work at a discount. Brian Acton & Jan Koum applied to Facebook and were rejected.[1] They are obviously not the worst programmers in the world and many of their caliber won't get $350k from Facebook/Google. See if you can hire overlooked programmers like them. Some will also work for a discount because they value the startup's equity or other intangibles. A startup entrepreneur has to hustle and make compelling propositions to these programmers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#2009.E2.80.932014
Earbuds with a good seal. Daily meditation. Convincing the guy in charge of seating plans to give me a desk without a high traffic corridor behind it. Going for a walk outside when it gets really loud or people are running around. Working from home whenever possible.

We don't have enough conference rooms for actual meetings, so that's rarely an option.

Really, I've only managed to mitigate the problem a bit, not solve it. Would love to hear anyone else's tactics. I'm seriously considering going freelance again mostly just because it means never having to work in an open plan office.
My friends and I discuss this all the time. There are always people trying to get us (software engineers) to join various startups around town/country, but the comparatively low salaries coupled with the exceptionally low possibility that any offered/granted equity will be "worth it" some day leads almost all of us to follow more traditional routes with companies that can pay us today, not MAYBE tomorrow.
Then the EU apparently wrote into its constitutional cornerstone something that was not possible to manifest in the real world, and as a result it is breaking up, at least a little now and possibly still more in the future. Again, at least it is doing so without bloodshed.

The EU has no ontological right to exist. It is not an immutable fact of the universe. It is not rationally or logically valid to reason from "The EU requires this attribute for it to exist as I envision it" to "This attribute must be attainable at a reasonable price." or any variant on that.

I take a historical view on these things. Things are always changing. There exists no polity in history that only grew and never shrank, excepting only those polities that are new enough to not have shrunk yet.

I'm actually sort of becoming something of a secessionist. Not pro-Brexit or pro-Calexit or pro-any-particular-secession, but just generally in favor of the idea that since polities are inevitably going to shrink at some point in the future, it is preferable to make sure that such processes are as easy and as bloodless as possible. People shouldn't need to die by the thousands or millions for something so predictable. I am coming to believe it is a mistake to ever think that one can "permanently" bind a smaller polity into a larger one. And I believe the US has the much greater problem here! The US has no established mechanism for leaving (though a Constitutional amendment could make it possible), and a big ol' Civil War that says it's not possible in the bloodiest possible way. To the extent that we are having similar issues arise in the US, we have no peaceful mechanism for dealing with it.
it's mostly there to have a bargaining chip in the negotiations with the EU.
No law was passed in the first place.
>It's not good at all for normal text, especially large blocks of text.

I mean, I disagree. It looks and seems better to me. I understand that the font is monospaced but I don't see that as a problem. I understand that the text is put inside its own horizontal scrollbox instead of wrapped automatically, but again, I also don't see that as a problem for a lengthy block of text. I agree it would be annoying to have to scroll on every quotation anyone made.

When I say long blocks of text, I mean a snippet that is 60 lines by 60 columns, like the transcript excerpt I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13976410 . Personally, I would rather scroll past that than scrolling past a long italicized, autowrapped block every time I came to the thread.

People keep saying it breaks the layout in some cases, and if so, then they are right to ask that people refrain from using it until the bug gets fixed. However, I haven't observed such breakage happening, and no one I've asked has shown it. At the moment, it appears to be a personal preference thing.
Perhaps I should have added another qualifier: for a team of three developers. (One initially.)
No thanks. No way I'm offsetting the cost/work of having a child vs the reliability of a Hackernews doctor and a Googled drug source.
1) Vasectomies are a surgical procedure, this is an injection. Opening up the male contraceptive market to those unwilling to undergo surgery but willing to get an injection is HUGE.

2) Surgery requires healing time, this doesn't.

3) The risk of injection is significantly less than the risk of surgery.

4) LARCs - Long Acting Reversible Contraception, those that work for an extended period of time without user action but are reversible when pregnancy is desired, are pretty much the holy grail of contraception. Currently we have IUDs and implants as the only LARCs. The Depo Provera shot is sorta-kinda LARC-ish, it requires user action 4 times a year. This is intended to be reversible with a second injection, eventually.

5) Adding more contraceptive options, especially for men, is pretty much never a bad idea. Choice is good. Even with all the options there are my spouse and I have not found not a single option that is ideal for us. THIS would be absolutely ideal for us and I'm stoked to hear about it.

6) Its much cheaper!
Yes, for 10 years (between 8 and 18).

I love animals and care for their welfare (and still do), but reflecting back as an adult, the reason did it was because I wanted to control over some aspect of my life, and I consider my own vegetarianism (and my young cousins 'low fat high carb veganism') as eating disorders.
Why is the national level different to the continental and regional levels?

You can apply that same logic to counties: Greater London is very different than Leicestershire. Why should Leicestershire apply laws that are designed to fit London workers? Why can't they make their own laws?

Forget counties, why not neighbourhoods? And so on.

I'm obviously not serious about this, but the logic doesn't hold just because your nationality is different. The average briton has far more in common with the average french, than the average londoner has in common with the average belfaster.
This is sad. You're lost buddy.

If I sucker punch you does it mean you let me do it?
They have lower internal inductance and resistance than other electrolytics. That is very goo for making the low-pass filters one uses on power supplies.
Nice personal attack there.

For what it's worth the parent is right. I have a single ISP available to me, as is the case with the majority of the US(or maybe two if you're lucky enough to live in a large metro that hasn't signed exclusivity agreements).

The free market isn't going to bring a solution to this. When the internet started out there were tons of ISPs, now there's only a few large ones that are split by region so they have an effective monopoly.
While I disagree with you in many particulars, I'm grateful for the depth of this comment.

Regarding VPNs, one issue that I'm sure you're aware of but didn't discuss, is that VPNs aren't really a technical privacy solution. Rather, they're a technical solution for moving your privacy concerns from one policy jurisdiction to another that you see as more favorable. That can be private policy (your VPN provider has a better privacy policy than your ISP), or public policy (the Netherlands have better privacy policy than the US). But the policy issues still matter. If every government had a dystopian privacy policy, and enforced it on all of their ISPs and VPN providers, then a VPN would be useless.
To me the big non monetary currency is time.

Average US commute time is about half an hour [1], add to that another 15 minutes on each side for context switching and "settling in" and it's an easy 10 hours a week at least you're saving.

Remote work isn't for every job or person, but the financial difference would need to be significant to drag me back into an office.

1 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/25/how-m...
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No, VCs are fallible and don't always recognize opportunity. They may not trust that it can be delivered. They might be hedging their bets for whatever reason. Having a good product is no guarantee of significant funding.

Most startups, even potential game-changers, only have a limited amount of cash on hand and need to make it stretch as far as possible. You're thinking about the unicorn case which is so rare as to be a joke.
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Fair enough. It would also be useful to know that 200 GT/year translates into 0.01% per year. Or 1% per century. It's indeed a long term process.
Mozilla prototyped something like that back in 2014 called the "Interest Dashboard". The extension is no longer supported however.

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/11/14/firefoxs-interest-dashboard...
This is the right approach. Build a business you want to work at and your employees want to work at. Focus on maintaining operating costs and expenses, everything else is gravy. The buy in and work output isn't necessarily greater or worse than others, but I would argue the quality of life is through the roof. Kudos on what you're doing.
One wonders how specifically targeted the ISPs will sell data. One easily imagines advertisers wanting to know who is searching for X product, or the government wanting to track who is looking at certain web sites, but can your employer check up on you individually? Can you, as an individual, get information, say, on what your Congressman is looking at at work?
England / The City of London, yes.
I think democracy should be reserved for when people are given the true outcome on the ballot. Here the secret was that the kingdom will dissolve in case of leave. Had people known that the outcome would have been different. I think the will to keep the UK is stronger than the will to leave the EU. That, and the fake news storm about NHS money and whatnot led to this. It's a stolen referendum by the forces that wanted to leave.
I found https://vimeo.com/jonathoda

Do you know of others?
think this is lacking in ensuring a robust & secure communication.

would be good to have views from HNers re: validation of steps mentioned + alternate (better?) options. especially for non general mobile users.
That's another one. The narratives blend in his case where they expected him to start in one then end up in another.
I read somewhere that ants design better algorithms than humans;
now are you referring to #1 (younger + training) or #1 (older)?
We didn't. The last time we declared war was World War II.