skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that this blog post is giving an interesting counterpoint. As I said, I'm not diminishing their success, but this blog post isn't about their story, it's about knocking other styles of companies they disagree with. For example, the VC thing:

> Therefore, VCs often push companies to grow too quickly, before they’ve nailed down product-market fit and monetization

[citation needed]

> Staying small keeps you focused on a small number of high-impact features.

[citation needed]

> This is not just a few bad actors: the behavior is wide-spread, including by many well-known and ultra-wealthy investors

[citation needed]

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I'm not going to get on some high horse here defending VCs, but these aren't original lines of argument and when unsupported I'm not sure what value they are providing. For example, YC is a VC. Do you think these 3 things apply to them?

Again, good for this company, I'm really happy they are succeeding and I'm glad they are doing it without VCs or other trends they don't like. This blog post is very shallow marketing though, I don't see how this is adding to the accumulated knowledge of creating a startup.
Can you elaborate how they are siphoning off someone's info if someone has uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger and someone doesn't use FB?
> it feels like every day I talk to someone who's never even considered bootstrapping to be an option

It's mind-boggingly to me that this can be an option that people have never considered but I totally believe you. I've seen people have the "epiphany" that companies can spend revenue in much the same way they spend VC money. I guess their model is that only after that money is distilled into an up-and-to-the-right graph and put in front of VCs and they give you money do you actually get something you can spend.
Schoelkopf and Devoret are in Applied Physics, not CS.
Yes agreed,
in several cases this summer I thought I was doing well with ICOs until I did the math and realized I would have done at least as well by just holding the ETH.
> I doubt you can even hit a target directly under you from a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, at least without a fairly significant amount of effort. You can't just fire a rocket "straight down" -- if you just point at the Earth and thrust, you end up in an elongated orbit that misses the earth entirely.

Yeah, I know pointing straight down is a horribly inefficient way to deorbit; if anything, it probably requires more delta-v than you expended getting up there in the first place. I was more thinking that with something in geosynchronous orbit, small-ish changes in whatever velocity you end up in after the deorbiting burn could result in very different targets on the ground, whereas in LEO you can't cover the same amount of ground under your orbit with the same delta-v (or at least I think; haven't actually done the numbers, if I even knew how). Still requires a heck of a lot more fuel if you just want to get from LEO to the ground, as you pointed out.

> Oh, and since you're still moving when you're doing that ΔV maneuver, you'll end up in a lower (and not-geosynchronous) orbit before you get all the way to the planet, so the payload would probably end up doing a few orbits on its way down anyhow (at which point, why care if you're "over the target")

If the deorbit burn provides enough delta-v, you can fall straight from geosynchronous altitude to Earth without being stuck doing a few orbits. And the not-geosynchronous orbit is actually what I expected. You want the Earth to rotate, since that might move the point under the geosynchronous satellite approximately under the point the nuke would reenter the atmosphere. I don't know whether an orbit with the right period exists though.
FWIW:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/ssafun.ps
I'm running freenas on a Xeon. I'm assuming i am going to have to install something from supermicro and wait for a freenas (and freebsd) update. Is there anything else I should update?
I would like to read the paper but it is paywalled
> the interference issues in the USA leading up to WWI seem like an apt historical example.

It's a good question. I think you need to apply Reed's law at scale, not in the formative state. For example, the initial internet in 1969 was limited to a small group of universities, and not accessible like it is today. My point is you can't cherry pick a point in time for the technologies and compare them. Early radio vs. mature internet aren't the same thing.

My original point was that radio and newspapers were one way mediums that limited control to a small group of people. A different way is to say the internet enables platforms, as opposed to gatekeepers. Both can be megaphones to the savvy and powerful, but they are fundamentally different in other ways.

The recent #MeToo movement is an example of this: that never would have happened if we were limited to traditional mass media, because there was no way for people and have their voices amplified. This is a good example of how the combinatoric effect of Reed's Law relates the social control argument.

It's a bit dated, but Small Pieces Loosely Joined lays out some of these ideas very well. http://www.smallpieces.com/
Claiming that Apple is acting in its own best interests is not an "accusation". There doesn't have to be an especially negative connotation to Apple acting in their own interest, and I don't think /u/michaelbuckbee was intending to "accuse" Apple. I think they were just reminding us why Apple is behaving the way it is, but not passing the negative moral judgement you implied.
This has severe ethical implications. How am I supposed to know if I should eat my Tuna now?
What's published in China is amusing. Current events are touchy politically, so there's a vast amount of wuxia. See any Chinese drama site. Novels about business success are popular.

China has explicit political movie censorship. The golden dragon logo at the beginning is the "passed by censor" label. The Chinese army even produces an occasional feature film. "Sky Fighters", is a ripoff of "Top Gun", but worse. The USAF, especially the Strategic Air Command, used to do stuff like that in the 1950s. See "Strategic Air Command"[1], with Jimmie Stuart (considered good) or "Bombers B-52" (not so good).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk
As someone from the UK your experience sounds similar to my perceptions of the US education system. It's... quite strange.
FYI, Ubuntu released updates today for Meltdown:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-1/

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-2/

Ubuntu 17.10: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3523-1/
The context is whether Assange's behaviour is rational. If it is impossible to determine whether an extradition request has been filed, then he has to assume that one has been filed. So in fact the burden of proof is the other way around.
Did you change it, or did external actors? Consider your sources of information.
> I'm of the persuasion that they can rank and display the results however they please, it's their site after all, so it's a non issue either way.

Of course they can legally do it, and we're not judges debating that.

There's a difference between what they are allowed to do legally, and what they can do that keep me coming back as a user. This is legal, but it makes me use DuckDuckGo instead.
This sounds like a new BlackAdder pitch...

"Sir, I have a cunning plan"
"Does it involve that legion of rabid space weasels again?"
"... maybe."
The left loved him when he exposed George Bush for shitty behavior.
Pulling the ladder up after using the works of the Brothers Grimm.
Google Announces Plan to Improve URLs for AMP Pages, but AMP Will Still Suck
Naturally, a lone country road designed for speed is fine. It's when you've got a high speed road with lots of on-street parking and pedestrians right next to traffic, even house fronts, where you've got a major clash of functionalities and a safety problem.
Minimalist, open source online pastebin
Huawei’s CEO going off-script to rage at US carriers
Typing in a text box and reading text on a screen is just as easy now as it was 15 years ago. Typing and reading text on an IRC client is also no more difficult than doing so on Slack.
And it's well aware, right before loading the script in the HTML is:

<!-- yes, I know...wanna fight about it? -->

The script is also loaded async, so it's not that bad.
The same people who called it all “conspiracy theory” we calling him a “Russian hack” today.

Nothing has changed.
>Or his tv deal with RT?[1]

I'm getting tired of that one.

I don't have a dog in this race, and have little opinion on Assange's actions, but media opportunities are media opportunities.

I have absolutely no trouble considering RT and their opinion to be spun, but I don't automatically associate Neil deGrasse Tyson with the opinions of Fox News or Bill Maher for simply being a guest and using the media opportunity to speak to an audience.

RT spins things. BBC spins things. NYT spins things. Fox spins things. MSNBC spins things, it should be no surprise that media outlets, most especially ones funded by a nation state, have a hard bias.

Serious question : if Assange was seeking a media soapbox to sit on top of, what other network choices did he have, being implicated in a feud with western agencies?
Ask HN: How do you decide whether or not to try a startup?
I've been agonizing over the past few weeks & months whether or not to "try a startup" -- and by that I mean executing on an idea, beginning to write the code, actually trying to solidify these ideas and traversing whatever the next steps I have to figure out are.

I'm 26, have a good job as a SWE, relatively stable life all things considered.. and yet I feel like over the past year I've been going through a sort of "quaterlife crisis" where I feel like I could be doing more with my life, and challenging myself in different ways.

It's probably due to the fact that I've been browsing HN and learning about startups very heavily since coming across this forum but I feel like that "challenge" is executing on this idea and founding a startup -- it's constantly on my mind but I've been hesitating to throw myself all in for reasons which I haven't really come to terms with.

It genuinely feels like there is this itch that I just need to scratch. I understand that starting a company is hard, I've read many times that a start up is the hardest thing the founder(s) have ever had to do, for some reason that is even more appealing to me because as mentioned at this age I'm left wondering what else is there in life and feel myself looking for a great challenge.

TL;DR: To founders and co-founders, what factors led to you ultimately starting a start up, how did you asses your feelings and come to the decision to just "do it"?
They do when farmed as a theft of their potential culture.

Start with Disney and all that they made from the works of The Brothers Grimm. Hint at all that could be done, if it were not for greed pulling the ladder up behind them.

Then point to the endless reboots.

RAMBO 35 COMING TO THAT THEATRE NEAR YOU NOBODY CARES ABOUT.

A long time ago, I got one of the Lessig FREE THE MOUSE bumper stickers. It has been the most effective one I ever used.

I tell the story about once per month. People wonder about "THE MOUSE" and why it must be freed.

Some lesson in there somewhere.

All I know is that phrase works.
Seems like a great idea really.

Maybe an emergency mode in the Slack application. When users cannot reach the Slack servers (when they're down or bad network connectivity) the application exposes a P2P connection and looks for other P2P instances.

It would still need a centralized tracker (like a torrent tracker) to help P2P connections find each other through the internet.

All this is easier said, then done!
I'm curious, as a libertarian, how do you come to the conclusion that private property, which is a political construct, is a good thing, while taxation, which is also a political construct, established by the same set of laws, is a bad thing (If judging by your description of one being "theft" of the other) ?
No you don't. You could group together and demand Apple supply you with a battery that has proper specs for it's usage. But instead you'd apparently rather insult people who are trying to help you understand how you are getting screwed.
Or, "Do men and women have different life priorities?"
Worth noting that in France, a perfect score (20/20) is extremely rare if the test has open questions.
Not unheard of in maths, where precise answers are expected, but in literature, most teachers probably never gave a single 20/20 in their entire career.

There is this idea that nothing is perfect and as a result, there should be no such thing as a perfect score.
Where is the line though? What is genuine enjoyment versus a dopamine hit, like a mouse pounding on the lever to get as much cocaine or electrical impulses possible? It’s all chemical reactions in the end I suppose (says my internal nihilist).
There’s very little to meditate on.

The details are largely irrelevant. We’ll kill him the second we get the chance. If US INTEL doesn’t get him mossad will.

He knows he’s not long for this world, and it’s frankly very sad that this is happening at all.
Router and Subscriptions
In general, there weren't "all those holes" because most sites didn't have that many networked computers. This was the pre-PC era. 10BASE5 could only have taps every 2.5 meters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5
Everything you want to know about x86 microcode [video]
What about those of us still on 10.11? That one is horrible already but the horror stories I see on a daily base from colleagues with 10.12/10.13, thanks but no thanks... I'm not a free QA engineer for Apple.
Server Rendering, Code Splitting, and Lazy Loading with React Router v4
Lol you think we’d file a request.

I mean really, these games are played on an entirely different level.
It does say "Debian Linux*", which I take to include Debian 9.
Facebook has jumped the shark.
well marketing is an art ..

marketing was born with competition, you need marketing, because you are not the only one good at what you do

marketing is anything and everything you do, to influence others, to achieve your objectives .. this does include the product design and features .. or in other words, the features you chose to include in your product

marketing is not bad, and is not a waste

marketing is not, in my opinion, more important than the skills required to create a product, but it is definitely very important ... because simply put, you are not the only "skilled" one in the market
Linkedin?
Does this release has anything to do with Linux P
page table isolation patches (http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-myst...)?
Is it typical to spend £10 million trying to capture a sexual assault suspect? As much as I like to believe the UK takes sexual violence extremely seriously do you suspect no other motivations are at play?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-has-...
Suicide is somewhat like cutting yourself. You cut yourself to cause pain that will numb the other pain you have.

In this case, the thought of suicide numbs the other pain you have.

Then you keep thinking about suicide more and more, and then one day bam, the thought of suicide just feels too good to not let go and you do it.
I do not want lingerie ads showing up on every page I view just because I browsed /r/tallgonewild for an hour last night.

If viewing lingerie ads meant I could get my alcohol half price, I might start accepting them.
I think it's mammalian, not just human. We've felt a loss that's hard to describe all throughout history. Just because it was common doesn't mean it hurt any less.

Here's the description of a man losing his son, from Beowulf, a thousand years ago:

(lines 2444-2464 of Heaney's translation)

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It was like the misery felt by an old man

Who has lived to see his son’s body

Swing on the gallows.

He begins to keen

And weep for his boy, watching the raven

Gloat where he hangs: he can be of no help.

The wisdom of age is worthless to him.

Morning after morning, he wakes to remember

That his child is gone; he has no interest

In living on until another heir

Is born in the hall, now that his firstborn

Has entered death’s dominion forever.

He gazes sorrowfully at his son’s dwelling,

The banquet hall bereft of all delight,

The windswept hearthstone; the horsemen are sleeping,

The warriors underground; what was is no more.

No tunes from the harp, no cheer raised in the yard.

Alone with his longing, he lies down on his bed

And sings a lament; everything seems too large,

The steadings and the fields.

Such was the feeling

Of loss endured by the lord of the Geats

After Herebeald’s death.
>Coping with Windows is a fact of life. Get used to it.

echoes from 1998.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

Your use of the word 'coping' is telling.

p.s. I can't remember the last time I touched MS software outside of a VM.
Yet the author's memo was not taken very well. People aren't rational, the media is a page click machine, and all nuance is ultimately boiled down to a headline. What should we expect, that people are perfectly rational spheres?

I'm aware this line of thinking is like "blaming the victim" for non-neurotypical people who don't know where the line is. It's not a great situation all around.
I wish to see that going down in court but this sounds like a typical settling case. The stronger he can drum up press the more Google will want to have it go away.
There is no HFA diagnosis anymore, isn't it? It's just a spectrum and depends of severity you get your place somewhere in between. Besides, as an adult it's difficult to tell about your traits when you lived your entire life learning to cope with society, often by trial and error, not knowing what's "wrong" with you. At some point you learn some rules that allows you to at least work in peace, leaving you exhausted in the evenings. At that point it's extremely difficult for you to give naive (as child would do) answers to test questions.

The traits required to get the diagnosis are explained[1].

The field hasn't matured yet and even kids sometimes can't get proper diagnosis[2], not to mention adults. Above all the adult women are in the worst position as their traits differ to some extend and also they show more empathy than men.

1: https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/diagnosis/dsm-5-dia...

2: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322131423.h...

Edit: Formatting and typo.
Wish Intel would say if this does anything useful without also updating the Kernel, or do you have to have both.
> Perhaps the meta-lesson is to do what other people are not doing.

A better lesson might be: stumble upon a phenomenal river of gold and dive in head-first.

Unfortunately, rivers of gold are rare. Which is why the rest of us are stuck with mundane stuff like marketing units of product or service to sell at a profit.
I think that private property can be easily derived from individual rights. The right to control my own life, the right to do what I want, the right not to be interfered with. Those set a pretty strong precedent for private property. If I create something out of nothing, shouldn't I be able to keep that?

I could be down with taxation if someone actually offered me a contract to join the USA with all the provisions. But they didn't, they just implicitly assumed it, without my consent.
An instruction added as a curiosity / micro-optimization back in 2010 is now very important.

Previously: "PCID is now a critical performance/security feature on x86" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094349
I think the common thread is multiple sender/receivers on a single shared conductor using csma/cd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_...
> Oh, yeah, I remember how much free video was available on the internet before YT.

Yeah, I remember that too. What is your point?
Does AMD also need some microcode update for this?
Ubuntu Spectre and Meltdown kernel updates available
Sorry, you misinterpreted my reply. I agree with you completely. I replied mostly to point out that microcolonel's statement that

> Don't accept non-STARTTLS traffic. Google doesn't, ...

is incorrect -- as you doubted:

> If that's true, I'm both impressed ...
If money was distributed based on what was useful or of value in peoples lives, mechanics and chefs would be rich.
I've wondered about the fat protocol concept. At the root of it, the token that allows the developers to monetize their fat protocol has to make sense as an investment. In other words, what are the investors getting when they buy this token? why should they expect a return? this, I don't understand very well.
Bitcoin ETFs Hit Regulatory Road Block
Advertising is already a competitive arms-race. More effective advertising means that more of a firm's spending will shift to advertising because it will have a bigger effect than more engineering or QA or anything else.

(If we could make advertising less effective, we could have better products ... maybe because spending more on advertising wouldn't work as well as spending more on engineering or QA. But overall spending/cost is a bit orthogonal.)
The common mental model of a fledgling software startup is too large by at least one order of magnitude.

For a decent, traction-but-no-rocketship product oriented startup, you need one solid back-end+ops guy, one solid front-end+UX guy, and one programmer for each mobile platform you wish to support. Add a CEO+sales+finances person, to keep the business side of the business compliant.

Yes, you won't get a cool continuous integration autoscaling whatnot doodad. YAGNI also applies to infrastructure, people and organizational hierarchies. Don't build them just because Google and Facebook have them.

Look for a profitable company that's just one size bigger than you are today, and aim for that. They've already proven that it's possible to operate at that size with the whatever they've got. Repeat as you grow.
It's good PR. If a mainstream media outlet looks into it they are predisposed to "hear" two views and weigh them equally. They'll get one from the OS/Security community saying "this is really bad" and one from Intel (via their spokespeople) saying "don't worry about it, we got it". Then their journalistic tendency will be to give more weight to what Intel say over what a bunch of "nerds" say, and the resulting headline will be "Intel fixing chip bug some say is puts the cloud at risk" or some such nonsense.
Adding pub-sub/queue/message broker in your app when a normal when a normal connection to SQL db from your web app is more than sufficient. There are a lot of companies that have kafka in their stack when they actually don't need it. This is one thing i have seen a lot.

On front-end side adding redux when a normal react-app would be just fine.
I always assumed they were not just signed but encrypted, and padded to avoid meta analysis. Is that not the case?
FYI the "Russian/European" hydraulic press guy is Finnish!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw
Right? "We're a family... and if you fuck up, you're outta the family."
For the box in my office most "failures" and the time to resolve them can be scheduled outside working hours. Many critical systems don't need to be up 24/7, 10/5 is more than enough. They can also be scripted with automatic failover, automated restore from backups, etc so that very little downtime happens.

With a hosted service you don't get that level of control, your software updates when the provider wants it to, not when you want.
You (and colleagues) must have a strange workload. Despite my misgivings about an in-place file system change, the switch to 10.13 was pretty much painless. I use software from the latest Apple stuff, to aging programs from Adobe and other third parties, to GNU Emacs, to scripts written decades ago, so it doesn't seem like general breakage.