skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to hire the people who the Googles of the world won't hire and train and mentor them

Very true. If you're willing to take a risk on someone smart who majored in Cognitive Psychology but is interested in programming, you don't have to pay them anywhere near Google salaries. But you do need to train and mentor them, and give them respect.
Nobody will tell you this but.. you won at life over 95% of google engineers.
Simple checkins & timing for your background tasks.

Plus SSL certificate and domain monitoring. Helps you to be sure your apps _are_ working

I just launched it - feedback appreciated.
The only thing is, I shouldn't have to pay for a VPN to continue enjoying some measure of privacy when I'm paying for the ISP's service. This is just some MBA's "great idea" to "leverage previously untapped revenue sources" rather than a real need by struggling firms grasping at any life-line.

It's disgusting, and I'm disgusted (_yet again_) by the mercenary Republican Party. They are declaring war on me and my loved ones and the vast majority of our fellow Americans and anyone else unfortunate to have to use an internet connection in the US (and live under the rest of their insane policies).

For the record, I signed up for a personal VPN two weeks ago because this anti-consumer outcome was assured with the current party in power in the US.
I believe the nuclear power industry largely started out as a way to justify world's largest nuclear warhead stockpile. I believe it was on a show from Netflix that discussed the history of nuclear power. It worked remarkably well.
No VPS supports IPv6?

I can think of a few off the top of my head that do:

* Linode

* Vultr

* Tilaa

* DigitalOcean.
> Nuclear power, while not perfect...

If I had a nickel for every time.

Nuclear power has no excuses. The cost of accidents is astronomical and uninsurable. That's not a regulatory cost unless you think a risk of that magnitude should "go naked" in some free-market fantasy of handling uninsurable risks.

It sure would be nice if there was a grid-scale power source that emitted no CO2. But it's not anyone else's fault but the nuclear industry that we don't have such a thing.
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You could say that all those people have been wrong before and therefore could be wrong this time.

But, the problem you don't mention is that there is an element of self-fulfilling prophecy to those statements. There is no absolute objective metric that measure your country in a negotiation, it is more a market type thing. There is an element of irrationality and if all your partners think you are in trouble, then they will act toward you are if you were in trouble which may well be cause you to be in trouble.

That works at all level too. If enough people living in the UK think the UK is doomed, they will start saving money or investing in foreign countries. A slowing of consumption is a crisis, it does not matter if the slowness was caused by objective and rationale reason or not.

You can already see the effect. The last budget was another austerity budget with cuts and no investment. Despite the supposed economic nirvana that is only a few months away, the government is nevertheless bracing for trouble and that will affect the British people negatively regardless.
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We're an 18-person venture-backed company in Mountain View, CA with a great list of customers beyond tech and well beyond SF. We've grown 4x each of the last 2 years and we're hiring for several roles so we can continue that growth.

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"That may be the case, but that’s an easily solvable problem."

So, how is that problem solved? I can't see what VPN companies are really doing inside their stack. They might very well be logging everything and I have no way to find out other than to "trust them" - so there's no real market mechanism to choose a VPN provider which doesn't log anything.

I suppose it could be in the contract.. so does VPN contracts have a clause like that, and how is it enforced?
While they werent dumb lizards, i havent heard anyone claim dinos were dolphin or ape-smart. The brains were small and structured very differently than animals we today consider smart.
Thanks for the pointer, I'll ask my guy to try them on me at my next annual, if he hasn't tried that brand already.
It is worse, actually, because it uses GTK, and is only available on Linux and Windows (not macOS, although there have been attempts).

Most of the "big names" who provide modern and contemporary desktop IM apps deliver on the 3 platforms (Linux, macOS, and Windows), and use mostly web "technologies" (sometimes "pure browser", and sometimes with electron-like desktop "packaging")... so as a consequence, it is very native, indeed, but it is a generally consistent and continuous UX (user experience) between mobile/tablet and desktop/laptop.
Can you explain what you mean by the math not being correct? I verified the previous poster's calculations. They do seem to be correct. Is this an issue with notation: $ vs. c?

This reminds me of Verizon .02 cents debacle from a while back.
Not really; there are differences between the two - a price differential is something that could possibly be checked, reasonably objective fact that inferences can be drawn from. Someone's weekly supermarket choices are not fixed like the cost-of-living index basket of goods, they are entirely subjective and will change, sometimes hugely, from week to week without anything needing to alter in the world economy, and the fact that a bill is reported as being higher does not allow me to make useful predictions.
Why the secrecy? Many of us would like to know. It's fine if it's pitching a product that you are making. We would like to sign up.
> Were voting machines hacked? No.

It's been more than 10 years since researchers showed that voting machines were hackable, and I have yet to see any visible progress down the path of "make voting machines less hackable / more transparent". All it would honestly take is a requirement that all voting machines print out a receipt of the vote. Then you could drop that into a box on your way out, and someone counts those votes to make sure they line up with what the database says the final vote was.
> Yikes. Gambling is just a dumb idea in general

Or, a thrilling and potentially expensive form of entertainment. I don't feel it's dumb when I lose $200 at the blackjack table when I'm in Vegas for a bachelor party.
At least until they overturn the net neutrality rules, too, and then the ISPs will be able to throttle VPN services to make them unusable. Or perhaps they'll ask them to pay more for the "fast line", and VPNs may get too expensive for most people.

How do you solve the problem without policy then?
"The side effects of female hormonal birth control are really bad for plenty of women."

I think you lack at least some grasp of basic statistics.

As for the 99%, just read TFA.
One of my new years resolutions was to learn to type faster. To get some practice I started taking notes in all the meetings I attend. This wasn't common practice in my team before, but I've found it to be really useful. I've lost track of the number of times someone's said "didn't we talk about this in that meeting a couple of weeks back" and I've been able to point them at my notes.

I've found a really simple way of authoring and sharing notes is to write them in Org mode and then push them to a wiki on github. Github understands how to render Org markup nicely, so you get a nicely formatted wiki pretty much for free.

As an added benefit I can now touch type :)
> We (people) enslave entire species, remove their body parts without anaesthesia, cage them in cells so small they can't move, force them to have babies over and over and then kidnap their children and eat them, grind them up, or enslave them as well. It's horrible, and I think that anyone who knows what is done and argues, but meat is yummy, is a sociopath.

I produce my own meat, on my own property. Not in cages, no forced babies (chickens lay anyway), no enslavement (the arrangement is closer to me being their slave), and no 'body part removal.'

So many of your arguments are made up for non-commercial meat sources.

Also, do you not see how your language is just an attack on meat-eaters? You say you're just "telling us the reason," but you're not, you're making an attack.
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Another Cooper Vision recommendation, I'll really have to check them out, thanks!
Increase the equity for early employees by roughly an order of magnitude and aggressively protect their, still relatively small piece of pie, from dilution.
Of course it means a lower salary.

There are some number of jobs out there and most of them don't want remote workers. Job applicants that are willing to take jobs that forbid remote work can also apply to those that permit remote work, while workers that will only look at jobs that allow remote work can only apply to the small subset that allow it.

It's straightforward micro-economic exercise to see that the when you hold all other things equal the market clearing rate for a particular employee is higher if he is willing to take on-site work than if he is not.

It'd be the same thing if an employee was only willing to work at companies whose names started with a-m.
Unfortunately so long as people are needy enough to be vulnerable your nice idealism of "free contracts" is a farce of the "freedom is slavery" kind. There are limitations on what may be contracted for good reason in our often pleasant but less than utopic world.
A difficulty I've always had with nuclear power is the problem of clean-up. I'm not scaremongering and saying it's impossible, but it is inarguably expensive. Having a large amount of costs after all the revenue has gone away is a huge regulatory red flag: it's simpler to just structure things so that you won't have to pay.

This problem applies to mining as well, but very little mining has to occur near residential areas.
You're right, of course, but a VPN at least lets you make sure that the service that can snoop on your data doesn't want to snoop on your data, because they know you'll just leave them for another, more privacy conscious, provider if they do.

Only if you can tell that they're doing so. If they create two companies with no apparent connections, how would you know that VPN company A was selling your data through Marketing company B?
For those who might want a somewhat indirect introduction to radare...

Here's something from Linuxconf.au and hacking Thinkpads:

https://youtu.be/Fzmm87oVQ6c
You are defining due process differently than the Supreme Court.
That's for properly functioning plants. When a coal plant fails, how much radiation does it emit? Compared to Fuk?
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good read! Got a lot of great tips
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Trend so far has been: lots of very bad but cheap products made by machines with as little use of materials as possible (we keep getting better at determining what the smallest amount is, so everything keeps getting worse!), with some variety in price and quality but all basically crap, and at the far opposite end much better but very expensive goods, often with at least some human involvement, if not wholly handmade. Economies of scale and competition don't kick in enough to reduce the prices on the top end much, and the potential middle of well-made and designed with good materials, but by machines and cutting some corners, is a no-man's land where there's no profit to be had. If there's anyone serving the midrange they're selling a brand and image mostly, not providing a much better product than the low end, and just collecting more profit.

There are exceptions, but the world I see as served by capitalism is one of cheap, frustrating crap that keeps optimizing toward even worse quality, and overpriced (overpriced compared to an imagined world where the magic of market efficiency were brought to bear on it) nice things, and little in between. So much for choice.

So I don't see anyone deciding to pay 10x what the crap costs (no economies of scale kicking in or it'd be 3-4x, in a perfect world, but hey) and 1/3 what luxury goods cost for handmade mid-range. They'll bump up and have real quality plus the public image and ego-boost that goes with it, or have 10x as much crap-tier stuff instead. This is in part because people want more stuff, all other thing being equal, and in part because no-one's got the time to figure out how to evaluate quality in more than a small fraction of what they buy (this is why the mid-range is a no-man's land—your market is budget conscious but discerning, educated consumers, which is to say, you're screwed). The consequence is that without regulation setting a highish floor on how awful products can be, we get the deep bathtub shaped graph of supply on the Y and Price/quality on the X, necessarily. There's no room for semi-affordable goods with a human touch. That's just how it is. :-/

Also, nitpick: per Graeber, barter is where you go forward from money when money is temporarily not working, not something that you return to from money, since it didn't, in any meaningful way, represent a step on the way to money.
Nomad's exec & java drivers handle CPU and memory through cgroups (via libcontainer). In particular CPU uses CPU shares[0] so all cores/CPUs are treated as a single pool of shares. In the future we plan on adding CPU pinning and might add cores as a unit of CPU resources.

The idea of constraining CPU resources by core is especially important on ARM servers which don't always report their clockspeed. Packet.net for example has 96 core ARM boxes, so users would probably prefer to set how many cores they need instead of MHz.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...
Jeez, what a nightmare.
Everybody is right. It doesn't have to be either-or.

You can select a paid VPN service that helps protect you from specific adversaries. You can roll your own VPN on your own VPS that helps protect you in some use cases.

You can, and should, advocate for good privacy policy.
Yes, that is what I consider when I get my car washed for $10. I could do it myself, but my time is worth more. It is also why we moved from COLOs to the cloud.

When a service is 10x your entire AWS bill the metrics of "Is my time worth that?" shifts. This is like a $500 car wash. We do moderate traffic and the pricing would make it the highest cost besides labor.
In hindsight, yes they should not have built a nuclear power plant in an earthquake-prone area like Japan. But there are plenty of places that are completely safe to build nuclear reactors, and given the alternatives, we should lend the advantages credence. Hopefully the whole debate will be moot when either solar/wind gets to a certain point or we figure out nuclear fusion.
As the paper itself says, this is still N^2 log N worst case :)

Note that these are all variants of general algorithm I posted, and more generally, variants of tricks used in boyer-moore (though hunt's work predates boyer-moore, that's the easiest way to describe it), which means they try to skip parts of the text they can prove can't match.

Because they can't always do so, they don't change the worst case time bound, only various other time bounds.
Well allow me to retort.

This article is saying, basically, that the tendency of ISPs to try to monetize user data is a natural consequence of capitalism, and trying to curb that tendency with legislation is ineffectual compared to the real solutions (fight monopolies, and everyone use a VPN).

I don't buy it. Roughly the same argument could be made about virtually any regulation. "Corporations are incentivized to pollute, so there's no point trying to stop them. Buy a water filter." "People will always try to get heroin, so there's no point in restricting it. Get some naloxone." Damn near every regulation is an attempt to counteract some profit-motivated tendency which is the unfortunate consequence of capitalism. And as regulations go, user data is a lot easier to regulate than drugs or pollution.

"Just get a VPN" might be good advice for individuals, but it is emphatically not the society-wide solution to data privacy. We can and should continue to fight for good legislation that protects us.
Sure but even at dozens or 100s of rps, the point where a loadbalancer really starts making sense, it's quite pricy. I think you just priced out $126 for a monthly average of one rps above. One.
The first fifth of the linked resolution addresses what is customer personal information (protocols, ports, IP addresses, MAC addresses, contained information, etc.)

Paragraph 106 mandates that the information released should not be able to be de-identified, and third parties must be contractually obligated to not de-identify customers from the data.

Paragraph 117 says the clause must be transferable to third-parties all the way down the list, but a middle-man can hire a company in a different country to do the necessary work, outside the jurisdiction of the FCC.

Paragraph 115 says the ISP can share the IP address, and no other identifying data, and meet the requirements of de-identification. A clause to "revisit this topic later" is present. Damn right you better -- combined with other data sources from social media and search engines, I can trivially combine multiple data sources using the IP address and build a "personal profile" of your entire Internet usage, including those really unique "outlier" destinations.

Paragraph 143 says that no periodic reminder is required, so expect the "privacy notice" to be buried in a sea of required checkboxes at point-of-sale, and never seen again. There are provisions that it be available on a website and via other methods, etc., but "available" versus "easily found" are two different things.

Most of these rules will take effect in 12 months, not immediately. (The rule of preventing ISP services requiring you waive your privacy to provide service is 30 days (paragraph 295, § 64.2011), data security requirements in 90 days (§ 64.2005), and data breach notifications and requirements in 6 months (§ 64.2006).)
>Were voting machines hacked? No.

Almost Nobody has been saying they have,(it's becoming a strawman), most of the hacking accusations have been about emails and potential collusion between those hackers and the Trump admin
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I like to see how other people try to "optimize" their lives. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet, but definitely some takeaways from this lifestyle I like:

* Multiple blender pitchers (to not have to keep rewashing one)

* The multi-photo frame on the desk (I would probably put cars/places to travel or that I have already traveled)

* Dedicated 3pm time to exercise

Most of the actual activities of this "fully optimized life" are completely subjective. This optimized life description is really just a routine and sticking to it. If everyone actually stuck to a routine, they would also have ample time, but most everyone allows distractions to de-rail them.
If it weren't for the relentless attack on wages via wage fixing cartels, visa abuses, outsourcing, etc. we would likely be seeing the very top engineers making close to $1M per year.

Far from that "hurting startups" it would be a benefit to all tech workers as wages would rise across the board.

This framing of "hurting startups" is a euphemism for "hurting investors" or "hurting the wealthy". It's roughly the same complaint as when they claim that there are "tech worker shortages".

They want to pay employees pennies on the dollar, full stop.
That's a reasonable tactical perspective. For the individual entrepreneur, it's valid.

That doesn't mean that this article isn't a valid complaint from other perspectives. E.g., It's totally reasonable that CEOs and investors will grumble about this. I'm sure Bezos, Page, and Brin were grumbling at the costs back in the day.

But I think the interesting perspective here is at the ecosystem level. If startups have to spend a lot more, it changes what's possible. We'll have fewer startups. We'll have less interesting startups. The incentive to pretend to be a zillion dollar winner is higher. As is the incentive to pursue artificially amazing growth rates. And to lie, cheat, and steal your way to making good on your sky-high valuations.

Personally, I think the startup world was way more interesting 10-20 years ago. The pressure to be the next unicorn is so intense that I think we've lost a lot. There are a lot of factors here, but I strongly believe that much higher living and operating costs is one of them.
>I can't see what VPN companies are really doing inside their stack.

You can always run your own VPN. Buy a cheap VPS, and set up OpenVPN to route traffic through it.
I agree. Do you have any particular recommendations for how we might engage on this particular problem?
I was playing with it for a bit and came across a few issues, but can't seem to find a support or contact link. Where would you like such information sent?
I'd still say you need to take a hard look at your pricing. Lets assume we're talking about a pretty standard Rails site on Heroku without ridiculous traffic. Lets say 1500 requests per minute average (25/s).

25 * 86400 * 30 * 0.05 / 1000 = $3,240

I'm legitimately going to be spending 5-10x as much for my loadbalancer as I am 2 Heroku dynos and a reasonable Heroku Postgres instance.

All I can say is that I'd recommend discounting your price by 5-10x to put it in reach. You don't want to be the biggest line item in someone's budget, you'll be the first to go.

Back in the early days of FullContact, we charged a _lot_ per record for our Person API. After a lot of feedback at SXSW Interactive, we announced a 50x price cut. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason our API took off as a business. We optimized on volume and made it cheap to sustain thousands of requests a second. Five years later, that's paid off for us quite well.
Exactly. That is also most of the argument against sex education as well.
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There's no secrecy, there's no product yet. I just already operate a VPN for my own use, and could easily do so for others. Maybe a product would come out of it, maybe not.