skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically a gross misallocation of these kinds of investment deals, but you're probably right and it's all too common. It says something about oversight as well.

There is a very real rationality behind SoftBanks ideal that they want to do things 'big' and 'dominate'. So, so many markets go to a single or small number of winners, and the surpluses tend to go to one winner.

SoftBanks strategy of finding 'something that is working' and then giving a company maximum firepower to basically replicate that thing and dominate globally, makes sense for them.

Now - some things don't scale well, and some things need a lot of market adaptation ... but the logic is sound.

Softbank 'threatening' a company that doesn't take their money is not very nice, at the same time, it's not really a threat, rather it's just the communication of their rational strategy: 'we take companies that have figured it out and give them the means to win the market'. Logically, if ABC Corp doesn't want to go that route, they'll be looking at DEF Corp and GHI Corp.. This is not new, just the scale if it all seems daunting.

The difference we're seeing in scale is due to the new reality that it's no longer about 'winning America', now it's about 'winning the world'. Much in the same way Hollywood films now, the big ones, are designed for international markets and without a theme, the stars, a story that will 'win' globally, the massive budget cannot be justified.

The notion of companies pivoting on something that's working, towards some 'grand vision' is kind of sad, but in a way understandable ... every one of us Entrepreneurial minded people have an 'irrational' bone where we want to 'do this thing' that compels us forward, it's just a matter of being very pragmatic about it.

$100M is a big round B or C or whatever, it's there to scale something, not to 'find a bigger product market fit'.

It's one of the classic mistakes of taking on too much money ... but it can be mitigated by really thoughtful leadership. If you take the money on the right terms, and spend it only as you needed it surely it can be mitigated, especially with the right kind of coaching, maybe by people who have been there.
Vitalil Buterin on the history and state of casper research in ethereum
Not GP, but have trained freediving and used to spearfish almost daily.

There is usually an easy period until the desire to breath starts, from 1 to 2 minutes in. The next minute or so is tricky, you get contractions as your body tries to breathe. After that you start to slowly zone out, but you're no longer in pain. Eventually the world closes in around you.

When spearfishing you're typically fairly conservative and never get past the first easy section.
My experience with Watson is a manager asking if I had any project ideas for it because the company had “Watson time” that no one could think of a way to use. I tried to picture the chain of events necessary for the exchange to have taken place that wasn’t comical. I failed.

After being forced into ClearCase use at another company, I couldn’t help but imagine how much damage IBM sales has done to the software industry. How many inferior products have been propped up and resources drained by such dishonest sales practices and poor leadership?
It's the reality of the market, which is why Windows is adding Linux compatibility (as is every *BSD, Illumos, ...).

But also it's the fact that three decades of not even life support has left the Windows console in pretty sad shape -- the folks tasked with getting it into better shape were bound to see the value of ptys.

Lastly, don't forget that Windows NT was meant to be a console OS, like VMS. There must still be people, even if very few, at MSFT who appreciate text-oriented apps.

For me, the tty/pty, shells, screen/tmux/..., ssh, and so on, are the things that make Unix so powerful. The fact is that Win32 is far superior in a number of areas (SIDs >> UIDs/GIDs, security descriptors >> {owner, group, mode, [ACL]}, access tokens >> struct cred), but far inferior in the things that really matter to a power user trying to get things done.
I don't care about minor cases like that. I'm talking about things like a CMS not letting you open a post in a new tab because they wanted to load the post via Ajax and failed to provide a fallback.

Really egregious examples even change the location so that I can copy the URL after clicking, new tab, paste, and hit back in the original, but I can't middle click for a new tab.
Its not a matter of asking other people to pay, it's a matter of there not being enough housing stock and houses being seriously unaffordable relative to wages. BTW: NZ workers do the OECD average amount of work per year.
If you're curious like me and wanted to know what happened to Nikki Catsouras, skip it. There are some _extremely_ gruesome images that come up when you search for the incident.
Broadcom might be interested in acquiring them.
UTF-16 is garbage. Windows is stuck with it because it was too early an adopter of Unicode. Oh the irony. This may set Windows on a path to deprecating UTF-16 -- godspeed!
I have a friend who is an OB/GYN Oncologist in Indianapolis. Her hospital had IBM Watson Health on campus last year, and she mentioned to me in passing last month that they finally had kicked IBM off of their (learning) university's campus. When I asked her why, she said:

"Often times, Watson would recommend courses of treatment that would be completely incorrect, if not detrimental, to the patient. It became more of a hassle than a learning tool, and since the Residents are operating under my license, it's 'my way or the highway.'"

Hell, I went to an urgent care over the weekend, and they were still using a old IBM e-series application built with COBOL -- and when the doctor was inputting the drugs to prescribe, it warned him about potential interactions between the different drugs -- not something I had seen the EPIC system that my normal doctor uses do.

I still feel that there's a lot of good growth to be had for data scientists in the Health Care field...but, Watson itself is probably not the answer, and IBM should probably get rid of Ginni Rometty and find a new CEO, unless they want to continue cutting IBM down to a skeleton of what it used to be.
You'll find serious resistance by existing residents to even moderately increased density, that isn't solely a NZ phenomenon either. People are fiercely protective of anything which may affect the value of their property.

Logic has gone out the window regarding sensible planning, it's all politicised and no longer serves the greater good.

House prices could be slashed overnight with the stroke of a pen in many cities on earth.
They looked at people's movie habits and wrongly applied that to an "all you can eat model". I'd guess the average person sees 6 movies a year.

This is quite common. I worked at a telecom that sold 0.99 unlimited 1-day calling cards and we predicted would spend less than 1 hour on the phone. People spent an average of 2+ hours on calls which made the product lose money. And some people spent all day on the product.
Big fan of Netlify and use it for several sites. They have had some issues with DDoS attacks lately (and I've seen outages), but the blips seem to be under control.

The other one to consider is Google Firebase Static Hosting. Really excellent performance.
A better business model:

$19.99 per month. $2/matinee | $3/non-matinee. $1 in 'movie cash' for every $5 spent on concessions. spend 15 -- get $3...meaning the $3 is basically waived for a non-matinee.

Edit to clarify: This would then be more friendly towards theaters, encourage more $$ in concessions, and make them possibly give more deals/lower costs to moviepass... I think it would be more sustainable.
This is true for any business and any area in the world. Like for example, a thriving diamond polishing industry caused increase in land price tenfold or more in Surat city in India.
Can you elaborate more on product managers focusing on security? I just graduated with B.Sc in CS but am in a networking job now there is a lot to learn, am planning to branch into the security field after getting more experience (2-3 years)
For an accredited Master’s degree from the #8 CS program in the US* - https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch...
MoviePass (incorrectly) assumed it would be able to strike sweetheart deals with all theater chains, thus drastically reducing overall costs. It even sounds good in theory - why wouldn't the theater want to get paid for seats that would have otherwise gone empty and have more people inside buying concessions?

It could even have worked - maybe five or ten years ago. Now the theaters themselves quickly realized the value of such a subscription model, and made the logical decision to cut out MoviePass entirely and just offer it themselves.

It's similar to how Netflix would never exist had it started out today, because no studio would surrender their back-catalogs to them for pennies.
Show HN: A Flask extension for accepting multiple API calls in one HTTP request
My guess is being utterly lazy with localization. They don't want to have some sort of font rendering or anything like that with fixed dimensions or having and then it got cargo-culted from there. Personally I find searchable text far more useful as Ctrl + F "Setting" highlights everything so much quicker especially on large pages.

I also loathe the unnecessary javascript everywhere.
As this is a masters-level course, arguably readying people for management, I would add a course or two on compliance. Too many security pros know how to secure a system but know nothing about security standards. If you cannot explain how what you have done complies with various standards, all your effort will be torn down.

A course on documentation would also be prudent. Knowing the difference between policies, standards, and procedures will help you in any interview for positions above entry level. Knowing qualitative from quantitative, and being able to talk about abstract security theory, would be good too.

And some law. Some basic course so you can talk about negligence and liability without sounding like a wikipedia page.
Watson is just IBM's way to market solutions based on ML. The whole Jeopardy game where Watson beat the human contestants was a big advertisement for the set of solutions. When I was in school a couple of professors went to IBM's office . They were expecting a technical breakdown of how the Watson system worked. Instead they just got some marketing that you would not need to have to create code to solve problems. The professors promptly left after that.
I managed to avoid using my computer at home from Friday night all the way through to Wednesday night where I used it for 20 minutes. I'm quite impressed with myself. Upon saying that, I did watch a couple of movies on the TV with my roommate, but that's different because it's a social activity, I wasn't really watching the movie.

I've been making an active effort to avoid using my computer at home. 40 hours a week of sitting in front of one is plenty. That's not to say my alternatives are exactly healthier, sitting in front of a computer is probably better for you than drinking pints at the pub.
*nix consoles typically have two buffers - many full-screen temrinal applications switch to the "alternate screen" on start and back to the principal screen on exit. That's why when you exit vim(1), you see the terminal state back as it was before you started it. Will ConPty support this?
Hear hear! wchar_t is a disaster. UTF-16 is terrible. I'm not at all convinced that 2^21 codepoints will be enough, so someday it'd be nice to be able to get past UTF-16 and move to UTF-8, and Windows and ECMAScript are the biggest impediments to that. Your choice of UTF-8 will tend to place UTF-8 on a level playing field in Win32.

I guess, too, that this is the end of codepages -- I doubt they'd go away, but there should be no more need to struggle with them, just use UTF-8. You'll still need a semblance of locale, for localization purposes, naturally, but all-UTF-8-all-the-time is a great simplification.
Will there be a terminfo database entry for ConPty? What TERM string should we expect to see?

To elaborate: although an ordinary POSIX pty doesn't inherently have a terminal type - that's entirely down to whatever emulator is connected to the master side - the way the ConPty system translates Console API calls into terminal control codes means that it necessarily needs to pick a terminal emulation, which all actors in the ConPty system are expected to use.

A terminfo database entry would be useful both for applications running on *NIX hosts but displaying on a remote ConPty master somewhere, as well as for porting existing terminal applications to Windows where they will run on a ConPty slave.

As a follow-up question, presumably this means that the SSHD running on Windows as a ConPty master needs to translate between whatever terminal emulation the ssh client is connected to and the one expected by ConPty / ConPty apps (in the same way it must translate between the native ConPty UTF-8 and the remote charset)?
FWIW, BitBucket's app can.
I can and often do but my brain just shuts out the podcast when I am concentrating and I don't hear it or can only vaguely remember the content. It becomes like music or white noise. Sometimes they end and I don't notice. I find it much better and less distracting than having background noise of an office or coffee shop and it's comparible to me listening to music.

Upside is that when I'm doing things that don't require high concentration that are kinda boring and easy I get to listen to the podcast while I do it. A faily large chunk of programming is me on autopilot writing things where I know exactly what to do so a podcast isn't a big deal.
Once you get to a reasonable level of career experience, college is not beneficial for your bottom line. At least that's been my experience.
I worked at Epic years ago, but even then it was able to warn about drug interactions. But those warnings were configured on a site-to-site basis; your normal doctor's hospital (or practice) may not have configured drug interaction checks.
The stock many worlds hypothesis has a couple of really big problems. For one, the information content of the multiverse expands exponentially towards infinity. Second, it basically makes the amplitude of the wavefunction meaningless, since everything that can happen, does. If you make the assumption that the measure of the multiverse is fixed and quantized, things become a bit less conceptually problematic, but that breaks the math. Regardless, it still has the fewest problems among current paradigms.
You are bullshitting me, http://www5.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...
MTR is shit. I haven't tried buttermilk but if they are as good as they claim then I am definitely going to be one of their target customers.
Well, I’ll forgo the proper words to describe how the US treats it’s coal miners, but one suffering from black lung disease would often have to go through the court system just to get an appointment with a doctor.

I think it’s safe to say your experience in Germany does not apply here.
I'm a grad of the OMSCS program. The "netsec" subject covered all of the "things that would help" and some in detail with practical projects.
Watson as vaporware articles come up here about once a month. Not that the articles are wrong. Just a bit amusing.
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What happens when the DHCP lease expires?
Could you elaborate? I've been under the guise for most of my career that doubling a digit leads to huge benefits that I'm too comp-sci ignorant to understand.
https://github.com/trevorprater/pymorton provides a simple, dependency-free, and efficient Python interface for generating Z-order curves from two and three-dimensional data.
Do you mean undergrad or masters?
Why... can't you have I/O redirection to the null device and have it understand (and throw away) Console API messages? You might as well also add some pseudo-device to convert Console API messages into Unix-style text streams (with or without metadata converted to terminal control sequences), so that one could redirect console programs' output to files / pipes.

When the user's (programmer's) intent is to run a program with no console window, then that's what they should get: no console window.
And remember to use less -R or else pipe to col(1) or whatever.
You should do that then. After you’re done you can staff up 400 sales people at $120000 salaries to snatch one of IBM’s clients to a $60m contract and make a cool $10m+ profit.
There are a number of organizations that apply data science, ML, and HPC to support cybersec operations. The ones I am familiar with would likely consider an MS in CS to be a good entry point. A candidate that also had another substantial degree would be of even greater interest.
As anecdotal data: The Masters program I took (not in Cybersecurity) is offered online for the same price as it is in person (I did it in person). If I were to do it again today, according to its website, the program would cost a total of $37,000 (€32,5k) in tuition, not including books, etc.
> None of that will help you get a job at any company with a serious security org

Most of the jobs are with non-serious orgs. But yeah, paying $10k to get a basic bootcamp on security probably isn't going to inspire tons of confidence by employers.
> For $1M, they'll grow $2M in beans, I promise!

You are reinforcing my point. If you do that, it would be fraud, plain and simple. You would have to pay the investors back and you will spend a couple of years in prison. You can't show up to the court and say, but your honour, they should have known better. Well, you can, but it would not change the court's decision in your favour.

Communications with the investors is not a place to play loose. If you say we are profitable and you are not, or we are sustainable and you are not, or we have a buyer lined up and you do not, you would find yourself in a world of trouble.
Elon Musk's tweets investigated for possibly breaking law: reports
I feel like my Indian friends will just frown at this, most of them take pride of home cooked meals and they love to share it with us.

Having said that, I wish you luck, this is better business and idea then last 5 that were posted here (which I will not mention). It is like YC can find original people any more.

Anyhow, good luck!
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I think u/paulie_a is just asking for a better shell. If cmd can't be made better, then make a new one.
Someone pulls the plug in the movie Million DOllar Baby.
> imagine keeping code in Emacs's Org mode and being able to compile it.

Org mode already does that using Org Babel. I use it to take "code notes" (code blocks with their evaluated/compiled outputs with notes) for Python [0], Nim[0,1], Awk [2], PlantUML[3], etc.

[0]: https://scripter.co/notes/string-fns-nim-vs-python/

[1]: https://scripter.co/notes/nim/

[2]: https://scripter.co/notes/awk/

[3]: https://scripter.co/notes/plantuml/
Looks like she aimed almost completely parallel to her skull, causing the bullet to expend most of its energy on bone. It barely had any energy left by the time it reached her brain.

Her choice of aim was likely just the first thing to come to mind, given her short stature compared to the length of a Remington rifle.

Had she thought on this one iota more, tilted her neck down and placed the muzzle onto her forehead ... the result would have been very different.

I should also point out that since a bolt-action .308 is just about one of the worst possible civilian weapons to use for home-defense, and that therefore it was likely a hunting tool ... there was no excuse for this gun and its ammunition to be kept in an insecure manner.
>I also agree that linux takes the non-portability to an extreme: I got my 386 last January, and linux was partly a project to teach me about
it.

Times sure have changed
I pondered that a bit when I first heard about them. It must be they looked at the number of movies the "fanatic" pays to see, and the number of movies the average person pays to see, per year.

I'm guessing they figured the fanatics would cause enough buzz about their service to convince the average person to subscribe and when enough did they'd turn a profit.

They may have created a formula where they estimated those lines would cross, but at best that would be a "known unknown" and I don't see how an "investor" could fail to realize that. You either have faith that goal can be achieved, or you don't, and faith in such matters is known to be risky.
I'm confident that situation is far from unusual, and it's my theory as to why AWS is so wildly succussful.

For all the lip service given to "you have to do a cost comparison", it doesn't happen in practice.
Obviously a revelation on Twitter about a secretive organisation's workings should always be taken with a grain of salt. However these sorts of reports aren't too uncommon, and it surprises me how there's a lot of pro-china commentators in communities such as HN who seem to glaze over these sorts of things and still aggressively promote the "Chinese way of doing things" is superior to whatever western value or opinion is the discussion point of the day.
Same here. Did the degree previously require 12 courses instead of the current requirement of 10? I feel like when I first started looking into the program before I joined it was 36 credit hours, not 30.
Yeah, so destructive she took a head shot and lived.
Open Source Database Schemas
I hate the alternate screen with a passion.
This story is about California where mag capacity is limited to 10.

The only .45's with a capacity of 6 are subcompacts
Who owns Blind? Where are they based? Sounds like a great way to mine insider info from tech companies naive employees.
China's entrepreneur re-build Chrome as national autonomy browser
>only talks about the global rise in CO2 in terms that make people think

Because the levels in the global rise are negligible in comparison to what is dangerous for breathing. Here's a hint, if you think you've spotted something blindingly obvious in a field scrutinized by hundreds of thousands of scientists, you're probably making a mistake.
I don't think being tied to a single chain is too big of a deal. Everywhere I've lived there's really been one dominant chain, and usually an alternate chain. Almost always, I go to only one or two theaters, so it wouldn't be a big deal to be stuck to one place. It's different than say, I probably wouldn't want to pay for watch all the Warner Bros movies you want, because I would like to have a variety of studios
Indeed. If you're hunting large animals, you want to cause plenty of destruction to a vital location in a single shot, so that the animal dies quickly and humanely. (And you certainly don't shoot at their face, parallel to their face.)

If you own dangerous tools that don't happen to be useful outside hunting (bolt-action, small magazine, high-penetration cartridges), you also want to store the dangerous tool in a secure manner. That clearly was not the case in this story.
Chrome Bug Lets Attackers Steal Web Secrets via Audio or Video HTML Tags
I guess my point is, if you consider GT to be a top CS program, then the fact that undergrad intro infosec is a 400 level course (on the easy side, but 400 level), would imply that infosec isn't a 100 level concept (this makes sense, before you can start to understand secure vs insecure X, you first should just understand X, without security being an implication).
This is the most inspiring thing I've seen in a long time. Humanity is awesome.
You can find extended mags at whatever capacity you want.
> Why do you think the people who would not want to eat spicy food would order Indian food advertised as spicy and authentic when they have lots of other options already?

Regardless of whether it makes logical sense, in practical reality, they do.
Sure, but if a few percent of people read _many_ books then they could disproportionately drive revenue for books sales.