skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VCs are a perfect implementation of "the market will decide" but I think you misunderstand in this case what the market is. It's not some idealized invisible hand, the market is the people who show up and participate, exactly like your local farmers market for vegetables.

And the VCs are the ones who show up and participate, so they are in large part the market for early stage startups.

Anyone else who wishes is naturally allowed into this market as well. Markets are no panacea, they've only ever worked as well as their participants, (being composed of nothing else) and they tend to do better when they're broader and deeper, which VCs most certainly are not, in comparison to other markets such as for stocks.
"essentially free access" costs libraries thousands to millions of dollars a year. For publicly funded or resource constrained institutions librarians have to make hard choices about what they can cancel just to pay for the more expensive journals. Why should publishers get all of this money?
The median household income in the US is ~$52k. Unless your definition of 'middle class' is 'top quintile', $120k is not 'barely middle class'.

NYC and SF are also notable outliers, and aren't representative of 'any major metropolitan areas'.
Why didn't they turn off the engine to stop the vibration? To a layman that would seem safer than having an engine violently shake the wing!
That's great, but I'd rather be prepared for the possibility of institutional failure than in denial about it.
> Just like you spend your time focusing on versions of Linux nobody actually uses (they use stable kernels or distro kernels) but which benefits your corporate sponsors and maintains the churn you want to force everyone to contribute to. The days of Linux being a community project are long gone, it's a fairy tale at this point.

Clearly a load of crap. I think they should quit being spicy and think about what they should be doing instead.
Air Asia is certainly a budget carrier, but unlike other budget carriers, they actually run a tight ship.

I've flown with them quite a few times, and know plenty of other people who have flown with them, and none of us have had any complaints. The planes are bare-bones, the seats are small, and you pay for everything on the plane, but their service is perfectly fine, and they usually run on time, or close enough.

I can't say the same for Jetstar, all I hear about them is complaints. They seem to always be late, or cancelling flights, or screwing up their customer service and screwing over their customers. I will go out of my way to fly with another airline if possible.
PHP is my GOTO language on the backend, and I don't use a framework. That's my favorite thing about PHP - you don't really need a framework. (I know lots of people do use PHP frameworks, it's just my opinion that you don't really need one.)
Does nextdoor help promote involvement into community and state politics? Raise awareness of props that will affect you, town halls, etc?
Verizon flexing it's muscles?
"Days of our lives" Linux kernel edition.

Do many people have a taste for kernel drama and Linus antics? I mostly just want the software.
Is this designed to be a test of (lack of) net neutrality or something?

Verizon now owns Tumblr. AT&T e-mail addresses will suddenly be blacklisted from logging in to Tumblr.

Maybe I am reading too much in to this?

Edit
According to TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/25/take-the-oath/) it's all cool. Except that the explanation still makes no sense. It sounds like what they are saying is that (for example) an att.net e-mail address won't be a Yahoo account anymore, which I assume means that Yahoo won't be hosting their e-mail or something like that. But why wouldn't those addresses become the "username" on Yahoo logins, in the same way that any e-mail address can sign up as a Google account, even though the e-mail itself is hosted elsewhere (i.e. my "username" for Google could be a non-Google-hosted e-mail address, but my e-mail itself has nothing to do with Google - i.e. it's not a GMail account).
The captain apparently informed the passengers he was praying for their survival and asked that they pray too[1]. This tells you everything you need to know about the quality of AirAsia pilots.

Anytime I fly in that area of the world, I make it a point to avoid Malaysian and Indonesian airlines at all costs. Fly Cathay or SingAir and their affiliates if you can. The cost premium is well worth it.

1)http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/a-boom-in-midair--th...
I'm not misrepresenting it, I'm giving you my best understanding of your rather cryptic utterances. It would be a lot easier to understand your point if you would explain it in greater detail.

I realize you think your original comment speaks for itself, but I'm telling you that I'm finding it vague and confusing.
But even if they had been a C corp, vesting or no vesting, it sure sounds like they were both still employed so it still would have been a 50-50 equity split. Thus your friend couldn't have ordered anyone around? In order for vesting to help, someone has to be no longer employed and thus no longer accruing equity.

I'm not arguing against vesting, but I don't understand your example.
That's weird re monitor issues. I've been impressed with how consistent mine are.

What I see:

Same monitor/monitors plugged into same ports produce consistent configs.

I get a unique config per monitor/port.
> the most open source of the open source licenses

What does that mean?
I found it especially ironic that the only shirts they showed that were even tangentially related to STEM were all from companies that exclusively made girls clothing.
If there had been concrete examples and such, rational argument (hopefully) would have ensued, and HN would not have been notified about a completely normal engineering discussion down in the weeds. But seeing condemnation and drama works better for post material I suppose.
IT wasn't prudishness - it was literary taste.

To mention the Kinsey Report and then not talk about it in any detail (it's mentioned exactly once in the article in a near-throwaway line; to string together anecdotes one after the other without an apparent overall theme to unify them aside from their shock/giggle value; then a segue to Kink.com.

It's a dog's breakfast.
There's also FarmHash, whose 32-bit version is 2x as fast as xxHash on little endian machines (at least according to this benchmark suite https://github.com/rurban/smhasher).
The fall of the USSR
The man doesn't mince words
> In fact, what performance oriented devs need to be taught about these days is how to not use hash tables, or, more generally, dictionaries. They are a super-easy data structure to reach for, but often it is possible to arrange your data such that their use is unnecessary.

A lot of devs are completely unaware of what's happening at the layer of abstraction below them and this is one of the ways that comes out. The number of elements it takes before hash tables are faster than iterating through an array can be surprisingly large and yet it's one of the first "optimizations" that get made.

Some other related problems are not knowing how expensive network calls are, not knowing what the ORM is doing, caching in memory even though the database already is and more. They just don't think about performance issues in code they don't write.
Telegram accepted the challenge
The least restrictions on what you can do with it. It was the closest to public domain we could find among the major licenses.
If you're entry-level and don't have a network, certs help you get through the HR filter. Once you're mid-level, you can use your network and experience.
> murder the phone's battery life

I don't think that kind of audio processing would be an issue for battery life. They're able to do everything on a coin-sized battery in their system. From their prototype pics, they're using this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1572

That's a 120mAh coin cell that they say lasts for 50 hours. They might be using something different in their final product, but we can safely assume that their algorithm isn't super power-hungry and running a small mic isn't going to do anything to your 3000-something mAh phone battery.

Obviously implementing this is a higher-level language like Java is going to incur some overhead, when compared to their microcontroller implementation... But the point is, they're not doing some advanced pattern matching on a database of sounds or anything that's going to use crazy amounts of CPU-time.

> Better to run out of battery on a third-party device than your phone.

I disagree on that - it's really easy to remember to charge my phone. I do it every single night. Other devices that I don't use for days at a time are easy to forget about.

> a separate device allows you to use it with your laptop or your phone.

True - it would need to be ported to work on those platforms.
Quotes of wisdom for entrepreneurs to hang on their walls
So, just to confirm I see this correctly:

Grsecurity creates patches for issues in upstream, but their patches are too fucking big/ugly, so nobody upstream really wants to merge them, and when someone tries to fix em (take the important bits out), grsecurity complains about them using their work.

Grsecurity then say they don't feel like doing a lot of work on their patches when they're not paid to do it.
The Encore Multimax used the NS32032- late 80s students of WPI are familiar with with this machine because it replaced the Decsystem-20 as the student mainframe.

Encore did make one product which had fairly wide use: their Annex terminal servers- sold to Xylogics.
I flew Sriwijaya Air last month, the crew appeared stressed out, irritated, and a bit disorganized. Which if that wasn't concerning enough, their flight safety routine includes asking everyone to pray for a safe flight. And if you thought delayed flights were annoying, how about flights that leave an hour early? Yep, let that one sink in.

If you do need to positively get some place without crashing, Garuda Air is a normal international standards airline, and actually a top 10 airline worldwide.
Some AirAsia pilots are religious!?

My word!
You have it backwards. JetStar > AirAsia in terms of safety.
> And wouldn't a child see through a comment, 'tought like mummy'

Nope. Sons are told all the time to "be big and tough like dad".

That one annoys me, as does 'feminist like daddy', because they're far too complex an idiom for a child. It annoys me in the same way you see people bring their children along to protests and hand them placards to hold, proclaiming opinions about topics they just won't understand. As a simple example, does anyone think that the kids that the Westboro Baptist Church protestors use, that those kids could even possibly have considered opinions on God's opinions of homosexuals?
Chandler Carruth talks about unordered_map performance[1] in his CppCon 2014 talk "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures". He endorses most of the other alternatives you mentioned.

[1] https://youtu.be/fHNmRkzxHWs?t=46m39s
> Are you doing FBA for that shoe?

We would have to raise prices to use FBA for that shoe and Amazon doesn't allow us to sell a different price on Amazon than we do elsewhere.
Let's split this by paragraph. Sorry to fisk your post so much.

> re 1: so only the computer-related companies are smart enough to understand and then take advantage of such effects?

I think maybe you're misunderstanding me. Apple, Google, Oracle, and others have engaged in a wage fixing cartel that was exposed a few years ago. A big long summary was laid out here: https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

> The count has remained unchanged since the late 1990s/early 2000s. Yet there are many who have crossed over the southern border each year since then. Therefore ...

I'm not sure what you're referring to here or if you're suggesting I disagree with the amount of "illegal" immigration being on an uptick. I think it is, but data I've seen suggests an impression that it's a function of the country's total population, not a trend that rises out-of-proportion. Further, the rules for immigration (and the various visa quotas) have not fixed ("remained unchanged") since 1990. It's eye-rolling, incandescently hot cow pies ripped right off of a poorly sourced Breitbart article comment section to suggest they are.

Our economy has grown substantially as a result of business owners exploiting labor that has no legal recourse for mistreatment, cannot easily push back on unlivable wages, and does not receive health insurance. And it's outrageous.
And now the backend (running arbitrary unix command as http service) is open sourced at https://github.com/bashrocks/shebang
They did, assumedly as soon as they could've. The shaking came from the plane having effectively a giant scoop for the air to catch below one of the wings.

Source: http://avherald.com/h?article=4aac9f14&opt=0
This image alone is the scariest graphic I've seen in a while:

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/03/a...

While concentrated hydrofluoric acid is well-known as a nightmare mode poison, it's still scary to see a toothpaste icon make the same list as the rest. Chalk it up to industrial accidents though, which is certainly a reasonable argument against municipal flouridation.

Bags like these are loaded into the potable water supply as part of a routine program:

https://organicolivia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Screen-...

It seems like a pretty low-tech operation, and trivial errors involving accidental concentration foul-ups (maybe two bags of mix in the water supply, instead of one) probably fly under the radar, and the dynamic changes during a hot summer when everyone's using more ice cubes and drinking more iced tea. Decades later bones are more brittle and everyone's senile.

Meanwhile, growing up, I think I must have inhaled kilograms of toluene vapor, given all the airplane model kits I built.

I avoid dry cleaning simply because it costs too much, takes too long, and those sorts of expensive clothes just feel generally wasteful.

Mercury is probably the most threatening item on the list, given that I enjoy lots of seafood, but I feel guilty enough already, given the rampant destruction of the oceans my appetite contributes to.

Pesticides and other persistent bioaccumulative toxins, I pretty much feel powerless to control, and so I try not to think about them.

It's amazing my brain works at all.
The great problem with most critiques of the USSR is that they do not explain its successes.

Why is it even remotely acceptable to speak of "successes" when the full context is that this nation murdered between 20-60 million human beings? Much of this occurred completely outside of a wartime context:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.TAB1.1.GIF

See "How Many Did Stalin Really Murder?" http://www.distributedrepublic.net/archives/2006/05/01/how-m...
From your original post:

> Vapor cloud detonation has never been considered particularly likely, and never documented as far as I know

This is an example of a vapor cloud detonation. I'm just pointing out that it's happened, so I'm not sure why you're saying it's never been documented. Unless you just meant in the context of a tanker, but that's not how you phrased it.

As it happened, I lived in the area at the time (about 40 miles away on the back side of Cypress, Texas). I didn't think so much about it being an earthquake, but instead thought a large airplane had crashed nearby. I ran out into the street expecting to see fire and explosions and whatnot within a block or few of my house ... only for there to be _nothing._
Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile
This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts. Now they're not.

SBC, prior to acquiring BellSouth and AT&T, originally contracted with Yahoo to run email/web portal service for their customers.

The SBC/ATT email addresses were essentially premium Yahoo accounts but with SBC's domain, and had access to all of Yahoo's products. At least at one point, SBC/ATT customers got free Flickr Pro as part of this.

AT&T evidently has left email the same (for now) but they've set up their own web portal. People have been informed that the former Yahoo-enabled accounts will no longer be usable for Yahoo properties.

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31478297-Legacy-swbell-use...

edit, after your edit: since it seems like Yahoo is still handling the email side (for the time being) I imagine their system just treats these email addresses as neutered Yahoo accounts, so they'd be unusable on Yahoo-owned services that expect a Yahoo account.
On chrome it looks like native scrolling. I don't know why they decided to leave 20px of white space at the top though.
Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow?
I am interested in the technical specifics - what happens end-to-end, and where does the slowness/latency come from?
It is rare that true heroism can be framed as a catchy story. Those working for campaign finance reform is another example. People who fight "David-like" against these Goliaths are doing extremely radical work, and they will be canonized in the coming centuries. They don't get the semi-celebrity of Snowden or Ellsberg in the present day because they lack the whistleblower story of one person verses the full power of the federal government - the only sort of punishments they face are an unsexy sinking into obscurity, or a quiet snuffing-out such as with Aaron Swartz.
That article is specifically about co-pilots, not the captain. For better or worse the airline pilot market is heavily seniority based, so you're expected to do your time before making anything significant.

None of that inherently makes anything more or less safe. Statistically it's still significantly safer than the taxi driving you to the airport.
Even though Slash wasn't playing a Les Paul then (it was a LP copy)!
Note: this is a lot tamer than a lot of the stuff I've seen him post in lwn.net comments.

I have a lot of respect for their work. It's just a shame that their toxic communications will make the good things they do so much less likely to be widely adopted.
That depends on how you read section 6 of the GPL2. It states in part:

> You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

The central right granted under the GPL is, of course, the right to modify and redistribute the source. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm certain that Grsecurity could find a number of legal arguments that what they're doing is allowed (likely starting with the claim that terminating a relationship with a customer isn't legally imposing a restriction on that customer's actions), but the idea that they're in violation of the GPL isn't pulled from thin air.
Is there any published errata for Ryzen or other family 17h CPUs?
> I'd like to hear more specific experiences on switching from working for free to $CONSULTING_RATE for the same client

You probably can't. If you perform some regular work for someone for free, then they will think that that is your rate, and they come to you because your rate is so low.

The help the OP is talking about, is things like:

"Our most successful publicity attempts always sprung out of helping others-- we did several community workshops, mentored lots of people, helped people find jobs, etc. As time went on, we also got more invitations to speak about the product at events and conferences."
I'm happy to see the XC2018 FPGA on this list. I remember when they came out, but at the time I did not realize just how much could be done with simple logic (I was then interested in bit-slice and microcode), so ignored them. I did get to use them though since both the 2018 and 2064 were still available in the mid-90s, even though they were obsolete.

This list is missing RF chips, though I suppose success is from RF technology on chips, not any single killer chip.
That's actually pretty tame for Linus. This is his kinder, gentler side. He must be getting old.
If you don't minD telling us, how do we send her money to support her?
This is where ICOs (Initial Coin Offering) Token Sale may help. It is doing two things: 1. democratization of who gets to be VC 2. democratization of access to capital.
Why do you think this? Because they let people fork the kernel, patch it, close the source, sell it, and never contribute anything back?
I use MiniKeePass on iOS and have been very happy with it.
They should not, but that's not to say out of all the things wrong with academia that it's a real chokepoint for research. It's just one small part of a system which throws away millions every year.
> The fact you can't go from a high paying IT job to a factory job or retail management position and still have enough money to put your family in a decent home with 3 hots and a cot and to put your kids through school and college is a failure of society in general, not the IT industry

It is absolutely bizarre how people have mythologised the factory jobs of yesteryear. Apparently there were no poor people, and the baby boomers invented poverty.
If backwards compatibility is broken, what you wind up with is a subsection of users that out of necessity use versions of linux with none of the updates that secure the product. You can't just tack on security patches that break user-required features willy-nilly, there's a big cost paid here.
The reddit thread is better: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6j7saq/linus_torvald...
Ah, thanks for the tip :-)
California: Senate Bill 106 shows how Bay Area housing crisis was created
I'm not sure how the elevator works, but if you've ever tried to toss a magnet down a copper tube, it appears to defy gravity - no electricity involved. Something similar could work to create a "fail-proof" elevator.
I wonder if they will build more stable landing platforms. If you look at oil drilling rigs, they stay calm even in relatively heavy waters.
Doorbell transmitter affecting car key remotes
A genuine question: Why isn't it perfectly reasonable to accept to break compatibility in order to increase security? Isn't that what we do in our lifes all the time? When the authorities issue new fire safety regulations for buildings, then that is breaking compatibility to the older building standard. We still do it because there is good reason. Sometimes even old buildings need to be retrofitted, and that is then what is done.

I don't get Linus in this point, and suspect so far that he is wrong, or that I didn't get it yet.
It's worth recalling that Qu'ran is some 1400 years old and a great deal has changed in the world since that sectarian (not genocidal) ideology was proposed.

Nazism as an ideology developed only about a century ago, and should be evaluated in the light of all the historical and other knowledge accumulated during the interval. If you're looking for bold statements of Nazi ambition, you could consider this remark by Goebbels on the New Order concept in 1943 - bluster during a losing war effort, to be sure, but hardly out of line with past expressions of the ideology:

The Führer gave expression to his unshakable conviction that the Reich will be the master of all Europe. We shall yet have to engage in many fights, but these will undoubtedly lead to most wonderful victories. From there on the way to world domination is practically certain. Whoever dominates Europe will thereby assume the leadership of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)
It could still have the type of safety brake that mounts under the car and engages when excessive downward motion is detected.
Sure you can sell it, and under whatever terms you like.
But you have to _also_ provide the full source under the GPL, not under "the GPL with additional constraints".

I'm no lawyer, but I highly doubt it'll hold. And buying Linux from them could be very toxic as "GPL violation" => "termination of license" -- and I'm not sure how you go about getting a new license :)
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