skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not remarkable its Bezos' business strategy.

The way he thinks about things is it's not a threat to his business to have competitors in his space not just because he is prepared to undercut them on cost but because he knows that his true focus is on customer satisfaction. And competition, whether through providing customers with a choice or encouraging his own systems to provide better services is good for his business.

But in this case it's really just because Netflix is too insignificant to matter to Amazon overall. It's just a tiny fraction of their revenue and what they're trying to do.

And if you want to be Machiavellian of course it's good because then Amazon has leverage of Netflix.

Seriously how would it look if Amazon turned down a company because they were competing? It would be an admission of defeat and weakness for AZ. That's not how an "apex predator" thinks.

Keep your friends close, and your competitors....
Correct. "Infrastructure" means a lot of things. You don't get Tupperware, their scheduling and resource management infrastructure, most of their logging infra, most of their monitoring infra, operating systems for the whitebox hardware, even power and facilities management for the OC stuff... I could go on. They are quite good about releasing open source, which is why I was careful to point out that I'm not criticizing Facebook; open sourcing this stuff is really hard, because internal software develops tendrils to other internal things that you often don't want to open source.

The point was that yes, Open Compute exists, but its existence is only partially relevant when one claims that Facebook has opened their "infrastructure." The two sentences in GP are basically what I'm responding to -- mainly the verbatim "FB open sourced their infrastructure" -- and I guess the implied context of Facebook infrastructure was lost when I said "nothing to run on it," sorry. I meant Facebook code. So this is clear: Open Compute is good, and I'm appreciative of Facebook, just want to make sure we understand what "open infrastructure" means and its limitations in this case.
Ukraine Cyberattack Was Meant to Paralyze, Not Profit, Evidence Shows
From a legal standpoint the company owns the automation. You need to tell them. They pay for your time and the IP you create.

An enlightened company would entertain your offer to deliver the same value as a fee for service at a discount to them. (You would incorporate)
As is always the case, follow the money :(
Huh? Section 33 hasn't just been used once. Quebec used to invoke section 33 on every piece of legislation passed by the National Assembly.
I actually really like Safari books online, the all-you-can-eat subscription style matches my usage perfectly. My experience has been that most technical books aren't worth reading cover to cover, but many make for great references. When researching certain technical topics, I just open dozens of books and skip straight to the relevant sections.
When evaluating startups there are few key matrices
- financial stability - most notably runway. Taking funding and # of employees can give you a rough sense of things

- key people churn

- business traction graph - depending on the market you are in you can get some sense through similarweb and the likes

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Lately I've learned to panic whenever a job candidate starts dropping Docker and Kubernetes in the interview.
I think the argument FOR napping is the financial one; if 20 minutes of napping gives more than 20 minutes of productivity/efficiency afterwards (which turns out it does, backed by numerous academic studies), then it is worth it.

There's a few things in American culture, in particular, working against it though: our backwards cultural attitude that sleeping is considered "lazy" (USA is one of the most sleep-deprived population) and the fact that working on little sleep is falsely considered a "badge of honor," even though the occurrence of mistakes made by workers is MUCH higher when said workers are sleep deprived.
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Zillow was thoughtful, and brought their own coffin to a gunfight.
Can you essentially only read the books from the library website?
That's interesting. I'll have to try that.
Or are they just including indirect costs? The secretary doesn't work on the project, but she has to be paid. The consulting company also must allow for time/cost overruns. All these costs have to come out of the estimated costs, so including them is not only ethical, it is necessary to remain a viable business.
> Is there designs that sacrifice trust in results for performance?

Sure is have a look at https://www.mastercard.com/
I believe the crest of Harvard University fits this to a T: the word for truth, Veritas, is chopped-up and spanned across many books. It is only in conjunction that the word becomes evident.
New Security Screenings May Affect Hundreds of Thousands of People Flying to US
I wouldn't be so quick to call it squandered potential. Sure, that person may have studied history and now works in Amazon. But perhaps some of the lessons they learned from their deep study at some point have a parallel to their job. Perhaps it comes up as a topic of conversation at work and is used to build a lasting friendship. What if that person, after studying history, decided that they didn't want to pursue a job in it.

I have a degree in computer networking that I've never used. Most of my job experience is working retail. While working retail, I've found time to put into doing software development as a hobby.
It will be years and years until those vulnerable miniupnpd versions are updated. Most are in embedded devices which will never see another update.

I'm glad to see miniupnp is still in active development: https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp but I can't work out if it's set to be vulnerable by default.
Apple just got deeper into AR with purchase of eye-tracking tech firm
Yeah, sorry about that, it could have been useful there.
Web servers do that, especially when spiders ask for urls that don't exist.
Ahh. That got tested on another forum I was on. Painful memory that was a good example of how a huge chunk of the U.S. and many computing pioneers would possibly be censored based on their speech alone.
Maybe not in this case, but this is not generally true. A installed executable could increase the attack surface, for example if it has setuid set and a exploitable bug is found.
My prediction is "not that different from today, perhaps a little less". The chief skills required are reliability and work ethic. People getting UBI of $600-800/mo aren't going to see janitorial work as "beneath them".
Either employers or they're hoping people will just "suck it up". For this to really work, they need to drop the price to Netflix/Spotify levels of 10/month.
It depends what you're ordering. In many cases they very much don't come from the same factories. Panasonic, Rubycon capacitors on eBay are generally fake. From digikey, generally not fake (though I've heard stories of them making their way into the supply-chain there too).
DHS tightens airline security for electronics on international flights
Right, that's what I said. Any cultural ideals, let alone modern ones, haven't been around long enough to make a dent in our biology ... so we should stop pretending that our instincts are irrelevant and that we can just say "ALL HUMANS WILL NOW COOPERATE IN PERFECT SOCIAL HARMONY, BY DECREE FROM THE GREAT LEADER" and expect it all to go swimmingly.

Useful social systems contemplate typical human behavior and account for it in a reasonable way, instead of pretending that it won't apply.

When you create a central chokepoint for all ownership and economic resources, the distributors show massive favoritism for the ingroup (generally government bureaucrats and their relatives), while the rest of the population is essentially left to starve.

Anyone who claims the purity of their political philosophy or their strength of character or the quality of the education of their central planners will prevent this from occurring under their implementation of centralized resource distribution is essentially claiming to hold a trump card over human biology, and they should be immediately discounted, because that's not how it works. Instead, we keep trying to reboot it, hopeful that this time, the superhumans are in charge.

It is disappointing to see that juvenile dismissals like yours are apparently now countenanced on HN, especially when they're the result of a misreading in the first place.
I actually agree with this. If, say, Canada or Europe or Australia banned it and banned importation of any goods exposed to it, Monsanto would be forced to seriously rethink their options.
Why haven't PLoS and Science One eaten Elsivier's cake? Their model makes perfect sense in a web-based world. Why are scientists still playing Elsivier's game?
As a follow-up to this question, imagine a job where a significant portion of time is spent waiting on a computer (rendering animations, code compiling, etc).

Two contractors are hired, one with a modern laptop and the other with a 10 year old machine. The older machine takes at least twice as long to process the work.

Is it A) ethical to bill for time spent waiting for the machine to process and B) ethical to use the older machine? Assume the contractor using the older machine is using the best equipment currently available to them.
>anyone
If anyone knows: what's the production volume histogram across the spectrum from sawdust-filled / sloppy process batteries on one side to Panasonic/Tesla quality (or better?) on the other?
I can understand their decision to stop selling print books, however, since they are still selling safari, why not continue to sell individual ebooks? Is the infrastructure and maintenance that much different?
I'm not sure it's accurate to blame Trump for (what comes down to) crap American "journalism." A couple times a week I catch the BCC World News on the radio and the contrast between that news and our "news" is almost the difference between fact and fiction.

Don't be fooled. Trump is the best thing to happen to the American "journalism" since CNN invented the 24 hour news channel. They shoe-horned him into a position to win, and now they'll milk his media-friendly tweets all the way to the bank.
Ask HN: Did you succeed after struggling to build something people want?
What was your journey?

How did it feel when finally people started to use your service?

I've been trying for so long to build something people want, without success so far. I may never.....

I'd love to know how it feels though to go from trying and trying and trying to finally building a software product that people want to use.
> You don't need everyone to have a complete blockchain.

You do if immutability, censorship resistance, and resistance to state capture is what you hope to achieve with your crypto.

> Etherium, for example,

If Vitalik Buterim were to be arrested for whatever, or if he were even to just have a skiing accident and die suddenly, you'd see how important that decentralization is in bitcoin. There is no single point of failure in bitcoin. That's the point.

Hey, for what it's worth, I think the tech behind ethereum is great. Most of the people who acquire it have no idea really what it is good for, but it has real potential. But as a 'store of value'? That's just one of the things that it isn't designed for.
That's ascribing emotions to a situation where they don't really matter.

Amazon's selling. Netflix is buying. It'd be stupid to refuse the money. Netflix wouldn't lose much sleep over it–at their size, building their own infrastructure can't be much worse than renting.

Plus you'd get the idea out there that Amazon isn't the sort of reliable utility company their marketing suggests. They have their fingers in so many markets, a third of their customers would start to fear being cut off.

AWS is also a separate division within Amazon, and probably not lacking self-confidence. The people are judged by the numbers of AWS, and they'd probably resist attempts to get them to forgo revenue just for the sake of some other division's feeling.
PS: I'm currently shopping for an road bicycle headlight that takes repairable packs or individual cells made from 18650's so I can retrofit with NCR18650B's (or equally good cells) at some point.
Yes, and next I'd love to see big parentheses:

⎛if ⎛> (+ a b)⎞ ⎛case x ⎞ ⎛cond ⎞⎞
⎜ ⎝ (- c d)⎠ ⎜ (1 'foo)⎟ ⎜ ((> y 2) 'quux) ⎟⎟
⎜  ⎜ (2 'bar)⎟ ⎝ (t 'error)⎠⎟
⎝   ⎝ (3 'baz)⎠     ⎠

((http://imgur.com/oI0zVm3) if that isn't rendering for your setup)
If you are hired as a software engineer, yes, the systems you develop as part of your job belong to the company.

If someone hires you to cut the grass, and you create a machine that does it (the "Yardba"(tm)), there's no reason that machine would belong to the employer - creating it was not a part of your job.
And if you really care about error recovery, error messages, incremental processing, and tooling integration, writing a parser by hand via recursive descent is always a sure bet. There are good reasons why many production PLs don't even use generators.
Addressable, at cost. VR requires pretty high-end hardware in most cases. Telerobotics doesn't sound inexpensive, either. Surely solutions can be found to various problems, but that doesn't unto itself make something a sound decision. Just because one can doesn't mean one should.

Rural telephone service and electricity both required subsidization by those who've opted to lead more practical lives i.e. lives where phone and electricity and other various utilities don't have to be directly subsidized by others.

Is it fair to force people who make reasoned and informed decisions about their own lives and where they live to pay for the decisions of those who prefer the country life?

I'm not advocating forcing people to move, under any circumstances.
You assume that Netflix pays retail price.
I don't think you need a blockchain to decentralize something like Facebook. You just want to verify that so-and-so did in fact make this comment and this other person did in fact like it. That can all be ensured with asymmetric encryption.

As for the size and scale of Facebook, it's only huge because it is centralized. If you decentralize it then the social graph for you and your friends is much, much smaller than all of Facebook. I imagine a p2p client running on a cell phone would be fine.
>> even a copy of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice will look fine on your desk

My copy of CGPnP is from 1993. Math doesn't get old, we just build more on top of it ;-)
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Ya, heck, not just C++, but scala and C#. You can tune the heck out of error recovery when you write a parser by hand, as well as support IDE services.

Using a combinator or generator makes sense when you really care just about getting trees out as fast as possible; e.g. what a command line batch compiler or interpreter does.
Tricky POV shift. Your expectations have increased. We are not reducible to a gross domestic product.
> his acting career was actually ruined by this role.

Like Harrison Ford?

Maybe he's just older and wiser and now realizes life is what you make of it.
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Very neat, I really appreciate the Racket community's willingness to experiment with syntax.

Looking at the examples reminds me of Julian Noble's "Elegant Finite State Machine" in Forth[0], which takes a different approach to the same problem of creating a language to better specify a problem (in both cases graphically).

[0]: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/fsm....
This is pretty common to me. I worked a job where I wasn't at work at night, but was responsible for doing network maintenance on servers late at night when the business wasn't functioning. My boss made sure I billed those hours, but I never got paid for them. At the time I was just happy to have a job learning so much, but man, how terrible of a boss.

This type of behavior is a warning sign that this business will eventually end up doing a lot of corrupt things in my opinion.
Hey jgalvez, I wanted to come back a few days later to check this out. I love the article, which I didn't mention, but I also think this format looks a LOT nicer. Thank you for changing it!
That's my point though. Talking dollar amounts isn't the end goal. The end goal is what you can get for the money.
It only affect ubuntu's way of systemd that is discouraged by systemd's community

Some one called a title another systemd's vulnerability a click biat

Quote

Try to guess what title catches more clicks:
1. CVE-2017-9445: systemd Hit By New Security Vulnerability
2. CVE-2017-9445: systemd-resolved, which is not recommended on most systems and isn't used outside of Ubuntu Hit By New Security Vulnerability
See the recent Walmart / Amazon kerfuffle it's like employee non-competes to me http://fortune.com/2017/06/21/walmart-amazon-whole-foods/?__...
> This is the reverse of most for-profit education, which relies on loans and doesn't guarantee a job.

I've wondered for _years_ why the "equity" (vs debt) model of funding isn't available to private citizens, at least in narrow circumstances like wanting to mitigate the risk of massive amounts of student loans and un- or underemployment. It's nice to see people actually putting that into practice. Presumably if it gets too widespread, some hack will write an article about how it's exploitative and we'll start seeing pressure for a crackdown.
Greetings E.T. (Please Don't Murder Us)
From Wikipedia:

"Economists regard seigniorage as a form of inflation tax, redistributing real resources to the currency issuer. Issuing new currency, rather than collecting taxes paid out of the existing money stock, is then considered in effect a tax that falls on those who hold the existing currency.[4] Inflation of the money supply in the long run may cause—and, all other things being equal, will cause—a general rise in prices due to the reduced purchasing power of the currency."
That's a better metaphor than my backup one was. Thank you!
You have data on the refusal rate for Germany? It might be worse than the US (immigration wise). [bold] I'm not saying it is, but without data we can't really know the truth[\bold]

For all the hate that the US is getting, it is still by far one of the largest countries that accept foreigners from all over the world to move in the social ladder and build wealth.

The lottery program alone accepts 45 thousand every year. You can get your mother/son into the US if you are a US citizen. I know many people who moved their entire families to the US this way. Sure the process was a hassle (a multi-year hassle) but it enabled them to access the US infrastructure.
>"We have not, to date, accepted that freedom of expression requires the facilitation of the unlawful sale of goods."

That precise argument may be well-intentioned, but it threatens free speech because it sets a precedent placing a burden of acceptable effects and results of free speech.

In other words, should Tiamen Square be de-indexed globally because free speech in China does not require it. Should torrent trackers be de-indexed--free speech does not require illegal file sharing, after all? What about bit torrent clients? Tor browser?

This site may or may not be rightfully de-indexed, but it is not because of some limitations of free speech.
The Guardian has apologized for the bullshit story that you love, and completely retracted the claim of a "backdoor".

Do you still believe HN users instead of security researchers?

Do you still give security advice based on randos on HN instead of security researchers?
It is kind of ironic, since the internet was designed as exactly the opposite: a damage-tolerant coast-to-coast communications system, i.e. one without a single point of failure.
There are significant problems with both options.

For Amazon, when you buy an eBook, you are essentially given a license to use it. Amazon can revoke that - we've all heard of people moving to another country to see their entire library disappear, only (hopefully) remedied after enough hell was raised on some website.

As for Play Books, lets imagine you are a Android developer working on the next great thing, and you are an ethical person. Still, you can make a mistake. Suspension of an app is considered a strike against the good standing of your developer account: “Additional suspensions of any nature may result in the termination of your developer account, and investigation and possible termination of related Google accounts.”

You would lose everything, eMail, books, etc. So while I don't expect these problems, knowing there is a small possibility, with almost no chance of remedy by a human on the other end, dissuades me from investing lots of money in that ecosystem.
I've worked jobs with such a disparity. For a govt census job, the top two workers out of 20 visited 3x the dwellings per hour and had a ~4x success rate per dwelling compared to the average, so they were literally doing as much as the other 18 employees.
This may be a more comprehensive resource in you're looking for but Princeton is offering a course on bitcoin via Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
This is the best. I have been using this for a while and It was very easy to run this in our vps.
I'm not really sure why you're engaging with me. I wasn't really soliciting general feedback from the forum, Lochie (the poster I reached out to) has particular qualifications, and more to the point has evaluated other schemes which take a different approach. Lochie has a tool online[1] that lets you see some of these tradeoffs. Their blog[2] is fantastic.

I suppose if you (toss1) wanted to give me some form of contact we could exchange a few messages to see if there is any overlap. Do you have any aeronautics experience or training?

If the primary motivation for your writing was just curiosity then in the first instance I would prefer to work with an expert, sorry. Thanks for writing, and for your questions. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude by not answering them here.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/lochie/www/erange/main.html

[2] https://lochief.wordpress.com/
The % is indeed a comparison to men.

(Of all respondents interested in Rust, only 3% are women. Compare with R 12%, and Ruby 11%)
Because a lot of scientists work at large research universities that simply subscribe to the complete set of Elsevier and Springer and so don't see the problem. I'm a big fan of open access, even though I'm at an institution now that subscribes widely, because I worked for a decade at a small research institute that ran up against paywalls constantly.
Even if they reduced their server usage by 10% that would amount to a lot of money, and it's probable the performance benefit would be much higher than that.
This is very disappointing. When discussing the space, I liked to point at O'Reilly, Manning and the Prags as examples of tech publishers that did a good job directly selling ebooks. I've bought many books from all three of them.

(Disclosure: Manning author twice, Leanpub co-founder.)

Now, at Leanpub we're going to be rolling out our own courses in the next couple months, so we agree with O'Reilly that there are lots of great ways to produce and distribute learning material. However, the book is the best, most general and timeless way. We're committed to selling DRM-free ebooks in PDF, EPUB and MOBI directly from on our own site for the long term.

The ebook world should not just give up and sell everything through Amazon. I like Amazon--they do a great job of focusing on customers, I have Amazon Prime, and I'm really happy that Jeff Bezos is a good owner for the Washington Post. But we should not let Amazon become the only seller of ebooks.

Stay tuned for something else we're planning in this regard in a few weeks...
Isn't this amp hosted on their own server? What's wrong with that?