skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems perfectly reasonable that he tweet, in exasperation, that he wishes to make the company private.

He's the CEO. That doesn't just mean he gets paid a lot and can do whatever he wants. He also has responsibilities to his investors and potential investors such as accurately reporting on the financial situation of the company. If he doesn't want this responsibility and prefers the freedom to vent on Twitter he should step down. After all, one of the reasons CEOs are so well compensated is the additional responsibilities the job (supposedly) entails. You can't have it both ways.

Edit: It's not a witch hunt to hold someone accountable for their actions in a position of power. No one forced Elon Musk to tweet misleading information that could affect the stock price. Given how intelligent he is, he should know better.
du -sh * | sort -h
Do you think Facebook are likely to deploy any sort of additional monitoring/security around Zuckerberg's page whilst he's streaming?
13.7%
Is there anything that prevents the FW from writing to the disk directly? Or patching the OS kernel in memory? Unless there are actually security mechanisms in place to assure that firmware can only politly request the OS to do something, then it is only a matter of best practices and ease that that is the mechanism used.
getting married just to have sex is really a brain dead thing to do. Too much risk of horniness affecting the decision instead of it being just about knowing you found someone you expect to be able to spend your life with happily and without drama
One interesting implementation detail is that this product is itself implemented as a worker. We're finding that the Workers platform is the easiest way to build first-party Cloudflare features.
I really want to respond to, and point out some things that I think are fallacies in your thinking. But I won't. What I will do is point out that your comment, my desire to comment on it, and others decision to do just that -- that is precisely why the media focuses on low brow trash. It drives discussion, interest, and ultimately a nonstop target for clicks, which generates revenue. Now let's talk about the rover. Man isn't that cool. Yeah, it's cool. Wow. Yeah.. wow. See those pictures? Yeah. They're cool huh? Yeah. Yeah...

It's quite unfortunate that there's now such a strong profit motive in pushing controversial and divisive topics. The internet was supposed to be the great uniter. Unforeseen consequences, as always.
You've made this claim with no evidence or detail at all.
I know it's a common saying. I'm trying to poke the bear here.
Intel second quarter profit: $5 billion

AMD full-year 2017 revenue: $5.3 billion

You see, Intel is gasping for breath, drowning in the $18 billion of profit they'll generate this year. How they'll survive another year at this rate is anyone's guess.
There's a reason we don't throw away a 747 after one flight.

Fuel is only a couple percent of the cost of a rocket launch. Rockets are expensive, and on the Falcon 9 the first stage is 80% of the cost of the rocket.

In the early days of SpaceX I saw claims that expendables were more economical because you could build them cheaper, but then SpaceX went and build reusable rockets that are also cheap; their rockets cost less than competitors even without reuse.

They're getting government business because they charge the government less than their competitors charge. The subsidy argument doesn't make sense unless it's only the commercial launches that are cheap.

There are a lot of vested interests in this industry that are strongly incentivized to say reusable rockets are no big deal. I think they'll continue to say that until the BFR flies and SpaceX drops their rates to levels far below what disposables could ever achieve.
The judge threw out convictions that occurred in Seattle between 1996 and 2010. In 2003, Seattle effectively decriminalized marijuana by making enforcement of cannabis laws the "lowest priority". That covers half of the window the judge looked at.
Somewhat inspired by the Japanese robots bouncing around on the Hayabusa2 mission ... I think it'd be nice to be able to 'push off' against the debris satellite, to both decelerate it whilst also gaining orbital velocity for the clean-up satellite to go hunt down another target.
Notebooks serve somewhat different purposes to a raw REPL. They have different cells that run code in nonlinear order (cells are independent of one another) which encourages experimentation of whatever you're trying to achieve. My use case for notebooks is to try out many different ways of doing something and then once I find the right combination, I'll extract that code from the notebook and package it into a Python script. Others also use it to present their code in a literate way, by having code and explanations interleaved.
This seems like an easy thing for FB to make “undeletable”.
>> I wouldn't have expected them to interact much at all.

They don't interact directly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...
CppCon 2018: Herb Sutter “Thoughts on a more powerful and simpler C++ (5 of N)”
"Unknown" is not an insult. It's not rude. It just means that he was not prominent before this company. It's actually somewhat of a compliment, because you generally expect gradual rises in fame and performance, not meteoric ones. So to say "unknown X does great thing Y" is more complimentary to X than saying "X does great thing Y".
Yep! it's funny - I've been feeling some disgust and resentment toward the behavior of my parents' generation for some time, and felt like I was kind of alone in that until I saw Bruce Gibney's recent book [and accompanying NPR interview on] 'Generation of Sociopaths,' which coherently makes it clear that, well, there are other folks who feel the same way.
Here's me, wandering around the internet for multiple decades now. Tuning into Slashdot for maybe 10 years, HN for about 5 years, I'm tuned into pretty much all of the new school recent developments and current events, across a wide range of technologies, and I've never heard of this particular company, neither heard nor used of any of its products, nor heard mention of any of them, until right now, today, and it's the most valuable startup ever, worth 75B for no reason, with a website that does nothing.

Okay, Bloomberg. Thanks for cluing me in. Maybe you could have dropped this news on me when it was worth a billion. Or maybe when even one of its products gained a bit of inertia? No? Not really? Okay. No problem.
My guess would be either a MITM auth capture, rootkit inject or someone (even a nation state) trying to attribute sources of illicit facebook ads/posts to unsuspecting citizens.

I would not touch that with a 10 foot pole.
Stuck at the pop-up page, just no. There are now so many sites where you have to agree with over 300 companies and their terms to track you for ads... How about finding another business model? This is beyond annoying.
FBI solves mystery surrounding 15-year-old Fruitfly Mac malware
Tutorial: Database Access in an AWS Lambda App
So, with a global consistency window of 10s, and 1 write per second, would consistency ever be reached if a key is written to every second? What value would be visible?

One great example of why this would matter to me - could workers ever institute a coordinated rate limiting function using this KV store?
Gimme Scotland / Wales borders to play with too, that'd make for some funny pictures.
> A normal ping will go on forever. We don't want that. Instead, let's limit that to just five pings.

It almost always what I want.

> alias getpass="openssl rand -base64 20"

If you really want to be handy, use "pass generate -c" instead of openssl, you got the password stored in your passstore and temporary copied to the clipboard.
Ahhh so that's what it is ... There is a tons of ads for musical.ly on youtube these days and I wondered who was burning so much cash to acquire users
Windows 10 security:  how we're hitting back at fileless malware, says Microsoft
You are basing that on nothing.
@jgrahamc what a great service. It might be great to have cloudflare credits like aws/google/azure credits for CL Workers for startups.
Mind elaborating on these risks?
Make criminal records private and protected so companies can’t see it?
No, the penalty is being permanently barred from being an officer or director of any public company. If he goes to trial, there isn't going to be any middle ground.
Researchers label Australian data-sharing legislation a significant misalignment
my nonsensical comment deserves sarcasm
Insider trading is a lot harder to prove.
If you want to migrate in order to use some of the many services offered by Google Cloud, migrating from Heroku to App Engine is likely an easier path.
Most of the items on that list would be better on a list of "when to give up on a product". But a startup isn't (necessarily) a single, specific product. In fact, I'd argue that you very much should not see a startup as being strictly synonymous with any given product, even if you only have one product in development at the moment.

To my way of thinking, if the goal is to find "product / market fit" you can accomplish that by iterating on the market, OR the product. It's cliched to talk about "pivots" but you can try products other than the one you started out with. And you can keep trying until you either succeed, or are forced to quit by one of the factors like

You have lost the passion for doing the business and it’s time to move on.

or maybe

You can’t afford to run it anymore and it is starting to ruin your life.

Although on that latter one, you can potentially adopt the "keep the burn rate super low, and work a day job" model in which case literally "running out of money" probably won't be a problem. But burning out might be, and that could be a legit reason to walk away.
> So, the divorce rate’s decline isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages.

Under some basic assumptions, this could still be.

E.g. if couples that have been married longer are more likely to stay married, lower new marriage rate would result in proportionally more old marriages and hence lower divorce rate.

E.g. if people are less willing to marry, more of those who marry would be marrying for a "good" reason (i.e. because they're more sure they're compatible, or because they follow a religion where divorce is bad).
There is much less value in producing chipsets on the more advanced process line, which would basically waste the investment in the new process. Also depending on the issue it is likely to affect chipsets and cpus similarly so there may not even be a manufacturing advantage.
Amusing, but facetious. The border problem as stated is indeed impossible to solve, but both Brexiter and EU strategy hinges up the idea that the other side will blink first, the EU betting that the Tories will fudge up a sea border, and the Brexiters that the EU will plump for any deal to avoid a no deal (as that would definitely have a hard border).
FBI warns companies about hackers increasingly abusing RDP connections
Actually, the profit plan has been going very well and straight forward - ADs.
I’m now older than my father has ever been
He's like a low rent V for Vendetta
Alphabet launches VirusTotal Enterprise
Why free though? Renting a domain can be done for cheap (~20USD/y); and email management is a real service with its own set of challenges. Why would anyone do that 100% free?
I guess about 51% of the population didn't see this coming or they didn't care. I remember the propaganda going on around that time... The best scene was a politician rebutting a scientist because "what does an expert know about anything" especially economics.

I tend to agree with Aristides or Socrates (rip by vote) that people are idiots and democracy can't work without education.. atleast about the issue that is being voted.
Zuckerberg's profile is already "special." It's known that no one can block his profile, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other stuff as well.

https://qz.com/1066804/facebook-fb-wont-let-you-block-mark-z...

That doesn't mean that this guy doesn't know about that or found a way that bypasses those application-level checks. After all, he could always just issue delete statements on the database through some SQL injection or something.
Not sure what the immutability of functions has to do with your argument. You may want to edit the Wikipedia page on literals in computer programming where it describes anonymous functions as function literals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_(computer_programming)

I know I could redefine the term in my own programs but the problem at large is that it is confusing for newcomers to programming and may deter them from learning about a useful tool. I think it is a bad name and there is surely better alternatives, interested to hear if you have any suggestions.
I read once that they pay over 2M+ USD as an annual salary to entry level employees. I'm sure they're exceptional and talented, but still crazy to think about.
I narrowly dodged being arrested simply for being on the street during the 2008 GOP convention. The only reason I wasn't arrested was that they weren't arresting EVERYONE the first day. (I did have to sit for hours, not allowed to leave, next to two people who were just trying to get home to their apartment.) After that, anyone unfortunate enough to be caught on the streets in a kettling zone got arrested, whether or not they were even protesters. A friend's co-worker got arrested when he went outside for a smoke break.

Yes, it could be worse, and it is in many other countries. But my point still stands.
I believe when 90% people feel it this way, they turn bad.
Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again
Almost everyone who created a giant tech company is an "unknown" when they started. Few exceptions are Musk and Benioff.
Gasping for breath != dead; Intel is stumbling here, AMD will start eating into those numbers unless Intel can regain their pace.
I don't know of an 'objective' thorough evaluation of Zig as it stands, but I hope these are of interest:

Previous HackerNews discussion on Zig: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184407

Also, perhaps not as objective as you'd like but still good resources:

Whirlwind tour of the basic thinking behind Zig: https://andrewkelley.me/post/intro-to-zig.html

A ~50 minute talk on Zig, by its creator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak
The way things go these days, you need to consider the context of this headline (and the whole article really).

Worlds most valuable dog shit on a stick isn't something anyone cares about, regardless of how much someone says its worth.

Similarly that dog shit on a stick doesn't make it's owner any money.

So. What exactly is the difference?
> The purpose of news … … … …

You conflated 'news' with 'for-profit news agencies'
There should be more options, like Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom.

Or Scotland making a bid to join the EU.
"A white-hat hacker is promising to livestream his bid to hack into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account on Sunday (30th September). " That isn't white hat...
Zuckerberg would go to IT "hi guys, make a backup of my account every second and restore immediately after it is deleted, thx."
Health insurer Bupa fined £175k after staffer tried to sell customer data
I think you are overestimating the amount of people who care about the issues you mention in your post.
Assume one of many attack vectors:

any site that is loaded via http can have content mutated -- forcing users to http (and then acting as MITM), injecting javascript, other payloads.

If you can get a foothold on client computers you can also do things like inject trusted CA's to allow yourself to act as MITM without any cert issues raised.

DNS can be mutated.

Auto update software that does not check the cert chain and hash of the deliverable can be used to inject and run code.

...

Hundreds (if not thousands) of repeatable attack vectors given physical access to the network like this.
Take a look at the pricing.

$5/month for

- 1 GB of KV storage and up to 10 million KV reads
- 10 million requests

After that it's $0.50/month

- per million requests
- per GB of storage
- per million KV reads

I think that's well within startup money. I mean, if a company has to give out credits perhaps it's just too expensive :-)
I'm sure that was for one person or a small handful. And that is rational, one engineer can add a million dollars of value in a day if they are really capable and focus on the most important problem.
One key point there, simply being cuffed is not the same as being arrested. They are just detaining which isn’t going on your record. Might have a note about being at the scene but that won’t really do much.
> People with a sudden access of money will often splurge on bizarre displays of wealth, sports cars and motorcycles, fancy clothing they rarely wear; etc. Often not because they have a long-held desire for the toys they are buying but because they have a cultural template of what wealth and success should look like that they are trying to act out.

It's astounding that many people still aren't self-aware enough to realize this and take appropriate action when they gain a lot of wealth. Seems like common and easily accessible knowledge at this point. I suspect it's a form of evolutionary wealth redistribution that's built in to the human genome.
VirusTotal slips on biz suit says Googles daddy will help the search for nasties
Facebook could be breaking EU law by using shadow data for ads
If anyone is interested, I'm using Zig full-time. I switched from C# to C++ for game development but I had immense difficulty accepting the language, so when I heard of Zig I gave it a go and I've been very happy with it.

This is a serious project that I'm working on. The 'engine' uses the Vulkan graphics API, cache efficient design, scales to the number of cores, game logic is multithreaded, AVX is used, and so on.

I only mention this to hopefully get people interested in Zig. I'm not ready to share screenshots yet and I'm certainly not going to be advertising my game here.
Escape from samsara is an entirely ideological concept and a basic pillar of the Buddhist religion.
Heck, I think that's well within hobbyist budgets. Thanks for pricing it out nicely :).
Spoiler alert: Google's would-be iPhone killer Pixel 3
sigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Sexual assault hotline sees record surge in calls during Dr Ford's testimony
Finally, a cool PHP project.
Show HN: Fiets – Opinionated feed reader and filter
Heh, if you ever came into a place that had used Zig and we're now transitioning to a different language, your job would be to--literally--"remove all Zig".
FCC commissioner tears into colleagues over failure to stop robocalls
I agree, I think this says more about the VC market in China than it does about Bytedance.
That's a fair point; other commenters pointed out that parts of the ship as depicted are identical to the parts seen on TV (e.g., the screens with the LCARS systems on them.) That's pretty damning.
As someone who works on lawsuits for a living I join in your question. People make a lot of assumptions about employment lawsuits that I, as something of an insider, don't see IRL. I can at least say that this particular issue has never come up in any employment suit I've ever worked on. It may well be true that employers do certain things because they're afraid of being sued, but I'm not convinced that those fears are well-founded because the things they do to protect themselves ultimately don't seem to do much good when the case goes to trial. For example, people often say that employers put employees on PIPs as a precursor to firing them because they think it will make it harder for the employee to file a lawsuit when he or she is subsequently fired. Does that dissuade some wrongfully terminated people from talking to a lawyer? Probably. But on the other hand, in pretty much every employment case I've seen go to trial involving someone who was fired from a large company, that person was on a PIP. At the very least, the protective effects of these measures seem exaggerated.
It would be a double standard if Obama chose to broadcast illegal drug use to millions of people to score some internet points while holding a security clearance.
"not mass produced to the scale of normal binary hardware" is the understatement of the century -- other than that completely agree, IOTA is an absolute fraud.
>First of all, that's rude.

Real question: Is there some social etiquette rule that says describing a person to a news audience as "unknown" is being rude? Honestly, I've never heard of that.

If I created a billion dollar company and Bloomberg called me "an unknown", I'd consider it a massive compliment. It means that I was able to grow the company totally under the radar without any distracting interview requests from TechCrunch, TheVerge, Gizmodo, etc.
From stockholders point of view, this is still just a big glitch that is possible to fix and recover.

Intel total revenue grew 14.9% in 20182Q, competition grew 18.08% in the same quarter, so Intel is slowly losing ground and there is potential for trouble. The real competitive moat is Intel's profit margin relative to the competition. Intel has been undisputed king in the profit margins and still continues to be. 60% Gross margin (20% above TSMC).

Intel has been beaten technologically before. AMD did it years ago. Intel responded by lowering prices, and removing profits from AMD's technological triumph. When AMD was financially in the ropes, Intel increased its profit margins again.

As long as Intel maintains 10-15% margin over competition it can cut into margins and compete with low price. Only after Intel loses the margins it will become just another chip maker.
> You realize that your position is, effectively, circular, right?

It's circular in the sense that because a bias is perceived from an organisation, the content of that organisation is attributed a certain bias by the reader, which reinforces the reader's idea of that organisation's bias.

Although that is, indeed circular, it's also how humans tend to perceive and process information.

> Your argument is that readers can't determine an article's bias by reading it.

I fail to see how that is true. If I were to, for example, write an article about a contentious subject, say, for example the positive or negative effect of Trump on America's economy, how, from just the article itself, would you be able to determine whether it was a biased or not?

> There seems to be a definition of bias you're using here that can't be measured.

I didn't make claims about the measurability of bias.
Servicing cost for Model 3 is likely to be greater than any other car in the same price range: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/20/heres-what-7000-of-dama... . Sure, you might say "but, fewer things break!" on electric vehicles. In case of Tesla that might not be true either: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/Tesla-Owner-Frustra...
Then human reproduction will only be possible through IVF or gene therapy, which might make some people happy
It appears that the 10 nm problems caught Intel by surprise because they fell into the unknown category. I’m confused why you think that some communication issue follows from that. Intel has a multi year roadmap and long lead times so I don’t think they were unprepared for this. This is the exact response you would expect to a delay on the latest technology node.
I don't think that they get sued for hiring a convict.

It's more that if they get sued for some other reason (legitimate or not), the fact that they hired a convict may count against them in the jury's eyes.

So, as the business sees it, hiring a convict brings extra potential liability.
This is probably due to a difference in what we click on and find memorable. My view of Google from HN the past few months is all about privacy concerns, arbitrary punishments against innocent users, and poor customer service.