skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder who, where and how pressure was applied.

NVCA (mentioned in a reply in the article) appears to be a lobbying firm for venture capitalists and appears to have been behind it according to their twitter page.
Much more directly than that, from protection of special treatment of carried interest.
I hope there is a new language which combine "C++" + "thread safe and mem safe". That will be a killer language
>designers were still for a long time dependent on somehow getting web developers to translate that

Yep. Many companies had the workflow where graphics designers who had domain expertise in typography and layout -- but not HTML syntax -- would work on webpages primarily in Photoshop. The psd mockups would then be handed off to the programmers to turn into HTML. (Although, the programmers might use Dreamweaver instead of handcoding HTML.) I'm guessing Dreamweaver has sufficiently evolved so it can be a primary tool for graphics designers and let them skip Photoshop altogether.
'a win' - most of the readers here will be better off. Screw the poor and infirm, top 1% baby.
There's not actually anything forcing you to upgrade should you not want to.
Is it possible that you have a biased view of the options that are out there? I have never received NSOs and don’t know any non-executive who has, after 9 startups, two of which were definitely late stage (they went public) and one of which arguably was (acquired for over $100M).

This bill would’t have changed my compensation at all of the startups where I’ve worked except for one aspect — the removal of AMT.

Honestly we have way bigger things to be worried about in this bill, even if you focus narrowly on issues startups have. For instance, removing the individual mandate likely means the ACA health care market will collapse. This will make it less likely that people who need healthcare coverage will be able to start companies. I’d love to see the startup community up in arms about THAT.
Makes sense. So, if you don't mind me asking, how much are people paying for an average home? How much is an average salary?
The housing market in Sweden has been like borrowing money to buy stock and while everyone earns a profit, no one complains and it would be unpopular to make a change politically.
I imagine akerro was referring to the fact that he was anti-technology.
Spender makes fun of them for not actually understanding his code: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/929803776357224460

The whole situation is really sad. Isn't there a single company willing to pay Spender to upstream his stuff? Red Hat, anyone?

Spender may not be the easiest person to work with, but Linux would benefit tremendously.
Shouldn't home prices rise the same rate as inflation?

The % of salary people devote to housing shouldn't increase by a large amount each year.

And people's salaries don't rise that much year to year either. It rises the same rate as inflation.
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Why Hacker News of course! Thanks for sharing.
Or you're one of the blissfully lucky outliers.
And how do we all agree on the NASDAQ final for some end date now and in the past? Maybe the oracle cheated. So in any case we need multiple machines who we hope don't collude. How would we prove the NASDAQ final price was not manipulated ever so slightly by a colluding party? And so on.
Google amps up job search tools with salary, location features
I think you mistook who we are. By we mean those who already are doing TP, not everyone. That would be everyone here.

There are enough people for everything. Some can do TP and others SP. If you are capable of doing TP then doing SP is inefficient use of resource.
Ask HN: Equity and cofounder title for first hire?
I started a company this year with the mission to help end metabolic disease influenced by lifestyle. We do this right now by selling ketogenic cookies and teas directly to consumers. The company is Fat Snax, fatsnax.com. I started selling in April and will do $80,000k in sales this month and $100,000k in sales next month.

I hired a marketing consultant in April and he has been integral to our growth and success. My deal with him at the time was a $600 monthly retainer plus 15% commission on sales with monthly contract review and renewal.

He's asking to made a co-founder, given equity and still draw a small salary. My question to you is what is reasonable given that he hasn't put money in, he gets paid, I'm still a volunteer and founded this long before I hired him?
Conversely github has never deleted my work and sidelined me for a day by making foolish mistakes
I often hear people point to security as a reason to avoid shipping sourcemaps in Production, but it seems like such a non-issue given that anyone can unminify the code shipped out to their browsers. What kinds of secrets are able to be hidden via obfuscation? The answer traditionally is "none" so I'm pretty consistently baffled. We do strip comments explicitly so that devs don't need to be as concerned with exposing anything that way, but aside from that I don't really understand this angle.
This is a great point. A lot of focus seems to be placed on beating Chrome. As long as browsers have about the same performance, then the other differences start to matter a lot, and that's where having an independent (default search contracts aside) browser provider is a big deal.

I don't see this as a competition for speed. To me it's more of an effort to get the performance issue out of the way so the real benefits can shine.
It's because of how much money and emotion the average person is throwing into a house.
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That's because it's another domain. Wheels are not very useful on ships -- or dynamic languages based on JS.
That's a good point. My last name, when written in Russian cursive, looks like a series of waves, and is effectively indistinguishable from a child's scribble.
- Lightweight

- Portable

- Cross-platform

- “Fast enough” out-of-the-box

- Massive ecosystem

- No need for an application container

- Actively developed and maintained

- Supports procedural, object-oriented, and functional styles equally

- Non-proprietary programming language
I'm using an oldish HP laptop with Slackware current and I noticed a huge difference. I don't have PulseAudio installed so Quantum won't play sound but otherwise it's a big improvement for me. And it was super easy to install, just download, untar, move to proper path and execute.

Because of that I'm able to keep the old Firefox which works with ALSA for youtube and such and use Quantum for everything else. Gotta love switches like -profile and -no-remote.

Nice work Mozilla!
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No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
Utopia of the zero-hours contract [pdf]
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Well other countries didn't reject it. And the battle wasn't won because India rejected it.
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> Donna Brazile wrote a whole book about it.

Her claims that the DNC rigged the primaries were quickly shot down as bullshit and she walked them back the very next day.
Where Millennials Can and Can’t Actually Afford to Buy Homes
Would you mind to elaborate? How does "having referential transparency in mind" protect against typical refactoring errors, such as an unexpected "undefined" value due to a typo in a field name?

(Of course you could argue that you don't need OCaml for that, as TypeScript or Flow can prevent this, too. But then the argument of using "dynamic" JavaScript instead of static types is moot.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia?
You can always move to a smaller, slower computer.
Fedora requires an FPCA. In the comments below https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-l... we say the following about that: "While FPCA may not be a typical CLA with regard to rights and restrictions, this is not the only factor we looked into. We also were looking into whether there were terms in general, other than commonly used open source terms. Our analysis took into account that non-legal users do not always understand the nuances of legal language and can be deterred by any CLA, restrictive or not, if they do not understand the terms."
I can highly recommend History of Byzantium podcast by Robin Pierson.

"The History of Byzantium” is a podcast dedicated to the story of the Roman Empire from the collapse of the West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Byzantine history is fascinating, world changing and largely forgotten. Listen and discover who they were."
You could say the same about NullPointerExceptions, and while they're better than segfaults - in practice they're not that much better.
I can also confirm XPS 13 coil whine which Dell considers a "non issue" / "working as intended". The quality of Dell products declined so fast last couple of years that I'm glad this thread is full of useful laptop advice as I'm seriously considering dropping Dell altogether. (actually coil whine is the least of problems with this laptop)
Contrarian position: low inflation seems like a good problem to have. You can always increase inflation much more easily than decrease it -- such as printing more money and giving it to people or businesses to spend on things, which spurs the economy.

What is interesting to me is that, even though it seems to take less Kronor now to buy something, somehow it slumped against the Euro so it takes even less Euro to buy that same thing? Yet the thing remained the same?
We ran into problems with ext4 on an NFS server with 64-bit inodes and 32-bit clients. XFS had a mount option that solved it. We're likely to stick with it now as we prefer the quotas.
Citation needed on women suffering more "bad trips" than men.
I noticed a huge difference . On my work machine Firefox became as fast as chrome if not even faster .
> After all, why should anyone profit merely by owning land, when the value of that land really reflects other people's economic activity and development in the surrounding area.

After all, why should anybody profit from merely owning a stock? Or vintage car/painting, whatever that can appreciate over time because of supply/demand. This is how people invest. I understand that being on the other side of equation might suck, but that't not the problem of equation.
Previously discussed the blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602564
Forgot the link: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/
I've been watching this idly on hckrnews.com; it's been leaving and coming back to the front page with great frequency. As of this post, it's off the front page again (39 and falling).

I would speculate that there are user flags fighting against upvotes at play. That's usually the case when there are still articles from yesterday afternoon with fewer upvotes still on the front page. Unfortunately, the flags usually win, once it's been off the front page for any appreciable length of time.
Of these, only GitHub, Mailchimp and Auttomatic have less than 1000 employees. All have more than 500.

(That doesn't mean that Twitter isn't too big or grew too early, but it does mean that none of those nowadays qualify as "see how you can run a big product with 30 people")
> "Anyone who's a fan of Queensryche knew that Geoff Tate by the early-90's and on didn't have half the vocal sustaining power that he had in 1983. 1983-1986 Queensryche bootlegs are some of the most enjoyable in my collection."

Have you got any song recommendations for early 80's Queensryche? The whole Operation Mindcrime album is great, and I like the song Silent Lucidity (IIRC that was on a later album), but I haven't heard much early Queensryche.
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Elixir/Phoenix looks amazing. I actually flirted briefly with Rails, so looking at the docs for Phoenix, I sort of understood what was going on (even without having learned Elixir).

But doesn't using Phoenix still require JavaScript for the client-side? One of the benefits of Node is the potential for sharing code between client and server.
In this case home prices rose because it became cheaper to make mortgage payments on a house. People were willing to spend the same mortgage payment as before, so the net effect is that housing prices rose.

Salaries don't necessarily rise at the same rate as inflation. If they did, there would be 0% real growth in the economy. Inflation is usually measured by watching the prices of a basket of goods: if those goods' prices increased by 5%, then inflation is 5% (in reality it can be more complex than this).

Inflation isn't a "real" metric in the sense that it affects all things equally. Housing prices could increase by 50% but the price of a gallon of oil or a bar of soap could decrease by 10%.
Chrome also is failing at 97/100
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Try the ESR release. It will keep the changes/updates to a minimum but you'll still get security fixes.
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I don't notice a huge difference between Firefox 57 and Chrome. There's a massive difference between Firefox 56 and 57 on my systems though.

They may not be faster than Chrome but at least it's neck and neck again.
Reminds me of a scene in "The Social Network" movie (2010):

Lawyer: What are you doing?
Mark Zuckerberg: Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia.
Lawyer: Bosnia? The don't have roads. But they do have Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg: [stops typing and looks up from his notebook]

Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-r39_QkAs
Is there an equivalent to MNIST for NLP? I've always wanted to play around in this space but I don't know a good, and simple, database to start with.
I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s just looking out for his self interest here. If you read his post, he’s not advocating for or against the tax bill, just talking about this one particular term that affects startups.
Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor
Just feeling misanthropic
We have a company details API that does exactly that at ipinfo.io - get in touch at support@ipinfo.io if you'd like more details or see https://ipinfo.io/products
Bill Gates’ smart city is not smart, not a city and little to do with Bill Gates
They didn't woke up. Long term work finally sold off ...
You’re still taxed on all of the gain. The initial taxation upon vesting would reset the basis. Any additional gains would be taxed when you sell the underlying shares. It would have done two things: a. Pull in revenue to an earlier date (a key factor in this tax plan, since all of the gain/loss calculations are on a 10-year timeline) and b. Lock in gains, even if the shares are later worthless. Yes, you can theoretically write off the losses, but only a few thousand dollars at a time if you don’t have offsetting gains.
Bank loans, money creation, and tax breaks subsize them, causing prices to rise. Not to mention population growth and nimbys restricting supply.
He doesn't, and hasn't, ever wanted to upstream his code. It isn't a matter of working with him. He just doesn't care.
OTOH,the oldest guestbook entry is spam advertising the signer's web page lol. That part was there from the beginning.
So you want to give them a justification for tracking their users' behaviors? We're generally trying to avoid it.
For yet another different, but related, use of the word, check out 'crash-only software': https://lwn.net/Articles/191059/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software

It's a concept implemented in eg Erlang. Crash in their sense means basically, 'kill -9'.
Speed feels the same on my top end machine but FF could handle more tabs opened and font rendering looks noticeably better on Windows 10 vs. Chrome.

Chinese characters look like a bad flashback from the 90s when viewed on Chrome, I can't believe they never bothered to fix it.
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Have you tried our new UI in GitLab 10?

We're not done yet making GitLab faster but it is getting better quickly. Last big thing we're working on are merge requests with hundreds of comments. Should come out on a few months.
The only difference I get when comparing Firefox Quantum to Chrome stable on Linux (updated Arch) is Test 71, which takes too much time in Firefox and thereby gets a 'warning'.
I will add, not just "doing code reviews" but how - what are they like to disagree with? How do they express a different perspective? How methodical are they? What do they look for?
Not just you. I've been using it on and off since Nightly and it drains my battery fairly quickly. I'm back to using Chrome.

Ironically, I read this blog post (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-h...) in Chrome and Firefox, and on Firefox the scrolling was noticeably slow to the point where I found it distracting.

Edit: Turns out scrolling a simple page up and down causes Firefox to use 40% CPU. Is it not using any hardware acceleration?
i wrote a tool: PhantomJsCloud.com

it's getting a little long in the tooth, but I will be updating it soon to use a Chrome based renderer. If you have any suggestions, you can leave it here or PM me :)
I don't feel this way. What are some neat features of Chrome Dev Tools that I might not be taking advantage of? One I know of is the ability to inspect WebSocket connections, I really wish Firefox had that.
> Also in Sweden for apartments, you don't own it. Most apartments for sale is so called "Bostadsrätter" which means you own a percentage of the association that owns the apartment building(s). If the association/organization has a bad economy and can't pay the debt they could be forced to sell the entire apartment building(s) and you'd loose your apartment while still having a loan to the bank.

In the US we call these co-ops and they are mostly an NYC phenomenon. Fun fact, some co-ops don't own the land they sit on, they rent it. And those rents get renegotiated every 30 years, potentially making a bunch of co-op owners suddenly unable to afford their monthly maintenance payments.
Thanks. I was going for coinbase API, but are there any other better API services? Also, I don't see pricing, I am assuming its being compensated by the trade execution fee. Is that the case?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

Pretty obvious blemish.
Cards Against Humanity buys land on Mexican border to stump Trump's wall plan
Jeez, nobody said the desire to own your home was irrational, by definition. You can have a rational desire to own a home or you can have an irrational obsession.

Irrational obsession would include things like when you prioritize homeownership over financial security and other basic necessities like healthcare or food. For example I know someone who gave up health insurance to buy house - and she readily admits this.
IBM has freed itself from the tyranny of Helvetica
Ask HN: What is your weirdest secret YouTube addiction?
I understand your position. But it hurts me a bit to see all of the hard work we put into replacing the Apache style CLA with the FPCA and our messaging around it to make sure we explain it in transparent ways being reduced to "doesn't really matter, it's still just a CLA if you're not an expert" :(
Wow same. My dad thought my brother and I were slamming doors. Crazy to see a story about Dhahran.
> Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven?

Not really. The problem is that building all but stopped in the aftermath of the 2007/8 crash. Meanwhile the economy recovered, Dublin in particular is booming now but we're still lacking enough homes to meet demand and building never recovered to the necessary levels. Add in a reluctance for "building up" and a growing population, that gets you higher and higher prices...
Sorry to sound negative, but what exactly?

Both browsers communicate with their owners under various circumstances. Both have it relatively well documented (both with some omissions, as the docs lag behind). Both had screw-ups (probably, non-malicious but just accidental - YMMV) and were caught communicating something (IIRC, non-severe) when they shouldn't have been. Both have their own ecosystem/services (starting with Google and Firefox Accounts respectively) that they actively promote.

This is subjective, but I believe in the large picture neither of browsers has some consistent technological advantage in terms of user privacy (fingerprinting, data leaks, options to block unsafe modern stuff etc). One or another wins over specific cases or introduces some measures before another does, but they feel to be generally on par - at least if we consider available extensions (adblocking, etc) and not just the core features.

The only significant difference I see is that one of the browsers markets itself with heavy use of term "privacy", and other doesn't.
"Acid3, in particular, contains some controversial tests and no longer reflects the consensus of the Web standards it purports to test" acidtests.org
Some of these use GitHub for their open source work but mostly GitLab for their closed source work.
Their devtools have come a long way. And are almost caught up with Chrome. I've only noticed the following things missing: When an XHR response comes back as HTML, there is no "Preview" tab like in Chrome. Also, the responsive testing tool doesn't have the device frames (ie, iPhone, iPad, etc) and it also doesn't have the little touch circle cursor that let's you drag and swipe while testing.
FYI, still a glitch: email form for pdf doesn't work right on mobile Safari for me---the cursor shows up in strange places unrelated to the form fields, have to click in random places to go from editing the name field to the email field.
Doing so cratered the housing market in '89. Other countries watched and learned.
I would assume, at the very least, that some significant portion of those enterprises who are switching to Git are Microsoft shops who are just switching to a version of TFS that includes Git.

I'd also guess that "Bitrise users" is a sample group that differs in significant ways from "Enterprise users".
You can download it here https://ibm.github.io/type/#
The battery and of course the trackpad...
The problem with the web up until about 2006-2008 was that the designers responsible for websites mostly came from print design. In the absence of other alternatives, it's not a bad source of talented visual designers at all. But the principles of visual design for a fixed medium don't translate well onto web pages. Since then we've had a generation of designers who understood the web as a primary medium, which helped things.
Agreed, it would be nice to see an "inexpensive" ARM platform that could include 8-16GB or so of memory.
You're reading a whole lot into the statement. And from the statement, it seems that he may have been referring to a conflict between two different minority groups each using derogatory language. If your employees are doing that to each other, asking them to accept apologies seems reasonable. What alternative course is there? Firing everyone on the spot?
Given the ubiquity of JSON on the web, can anyone here think of any other common JSON parsers for modern web languages that behave in these unexpected ways?