skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That allows ZoL to run on many different * nixes, which means that if Linux made a drastically breaking change, you could use it on another OS, sure.

And the Linux kernel has made numerous breaking changes to their APIs that ZoL has been able to work around. So it has happened, they've just been able to deal with it.

Despite the belief that a breaking change that ZoL can't work around being improbable, it is still possible. The Linux Kernel could majorly overhaul an API in a major version release, in a way that ZoL can't handle. Given ZoL's status as a separate kernel module not under a GPL license, it's entirely possible that no amount of yelling gets the Linux maintainers to change their mind. In fact Wowfunhappy notes a discussion along those lines is happening currently based on function symbols being removed for an API required for Mac hardware support.

And sure, that compatibility layer means that users could switch to FreeBSD, or Solaris, etc, and keep using ZFS. If that happens, does Delphix change their target platform again to move to FreeBSD? Or do they come up with another solution, and stop supporting ZoL?
> Our core belief is programmers spend too much time on repetitive work like copying and pasting from StackOverflow, fixing simple errors, and writing boilerplate code.

Do you have data backing this core belief up or is it just an intuition? I don't feel any of these things are problems I need a solution for. Maybe this depends on the type of programming someone does or the language they use but as a working programmer this is not a compelling sales pitch to me. You're offering solutions to problems I don't have. They're also not problems that I see to any great extent in junior programmers who report to me.
I'm just trying to get an idea of what's being used out there to build a rapid prototype of some simple ideas. Trying to avoid something exotic, just trying to see what will get me the fastest from idea to prototype. I understand that this will be different for many people, but I imagine tools like assembler/C++ wouldn't be many people's first choice for building a SaaS prototype.
Can some top notch hardware be made in USA ? For sure. Did someone made a top notch hardware, even some prototypes ? Please tell us who.
Perhaps the real issue is that nobody is excited to make hardware anymore in the US as westerners expect to retain ownership of the working capital in the Chinese industry, which is getting less and less relevant when China is getting richer and richer.
The western world needs a mental leap as Tesla did with the car industry if it wants to keep up with China in this ground.
Just a bit older! Updated.
It's one thing to contemplate whether you have free will or not. It could be a "fun" exercise. BUT to feel like you have no free will is an entirely a different beast. DP/DR sometimes makes you feel like you have no free will and that triggers a lot of panic.

It also makes you feel like your "self" could disappear at any moment. This notion of no self is prevalent in eastern mysticism. Also, folks who have imbibed certain psychedelics can also lose their sense of self. So what we feel is not entirely made up, this disorder may be pointing to something important to look at.

Here's another article if you are interested in learning more: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/enlighten...
The best form of payments ever to support journalism was classified ads. They brought in tons of cash and they were shunted to their own section of the publication so they were not obtrusive.

Also, and this cannot be overstated, they were often fun.
The Churchill you didn't know
When you say "he was looking at maybe 6 or 7 years if things went as favorably as possible for prosecutors"

Do you know this for a fact?

Because the way I understand it is, he was facing multiple decades in prison IF all charges stuck. And once you got to trial, all charges can stick. It has happened. So he was facing 35 years. So saying he wasn't is just wrong.

Your 6-7 years is 'probably'.

I think what your saying is: The federal government doesn't threaten you with 35 years, they threaten you with 10x3.5 years, and since it is possible that not all 10 will stick... it's not really a 35 year threat?

I mean, if I threaten to punch you 10 times but I might stop at 1,2,3 or any number and I probably won't get to 10, but we can negotiate before I start, is it not a 10 punch threat?

To me it seems like you are splitting hairs in order to defend the indefensible. The practice of tacking on as many charges to get people to plea bargain is unethical and fascist.
Designer Hunt: Follow and Learn from the Best Designers
Add a TLS auth channel to the portknock with a wait window and OTP and you are really in business with this approach.
Add PTO protection to the long list of California wins.
Reminds me a bit of https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx
While I agree with the spirit of this comment, I would suggest that it does not really work like that. There are some aspects of running a business (eg support, maintenance, etc) that do not scale linearly like you propose. Running 3 $500/month businesses is much harder than running a single $1,500/month business.

In all likelihood, your $500/month business will open a door to a $1,000/month business which will lead you to a $2,000/month business. You have to think of each part as a step on a path. You will never get to the last step if you never take the first small steps.

To be clear, I am totally in agreement that the important thing is to start wherever you can.
the trashy, click-bait articles in a way is funding good journalism

The problem is that the trash tarnishes the brand its reputation. Buzzfeed may do great things, but I won't read any of it because the overwhelming majority of what it publishes is crap, and I never know if a headline is important, or clickbait.
Ask HN: Incognito as default mode in browsers?
For the paste month I have noticed that I have been browsing the internet with firefox in incognito mode (private mode).

What if we could modify Firefox to use incognito as the normal mode with the ability to whitelist few domains like Outlook, netflix and various other forums I use? By whitelisting these domains the browser will remember the session/cookies.
DHH on enabling source maps by default on Rails production apps
Absolutely, and I pulled 5% out of thin air, too.

Here's a graph with the famous Arab spring 2011 drought... about 10%, for one year. You can debate how much of that you wish to attribute to what cause. But note that this is also the population growth since 2011 alone.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.PRD.CREL.MT?location...
> You can't cite laws to get out of contractual obligations unless the contract demands you do something illegal.

That is simply untrue. There are a number of reasons a contract can be deemed invalid or unenforceable. Illegality is only one such reason.
The level of detail you can find on this page about your activity is impressive.

You can also "Pause" activity tracking for various services - search, map, youtube search, etc.
Seventy Years of the Somerton Man Mystery (2018)
>"The main actual objection to C++ is that, well, the exception handling model is controversial"

I am not familiar with this. Can you way why exactly it is considered controversial?
A Few Thoughts on How to Think About Dilution
I decided to learn Elixir not just to learn the language but to understand how functional programming works. On my day to day job I use Java/Kotlin but in the past I have used Ruby. So, for me it makes sense to learn Elixir and apply it's good practices of functional programming to my day to day job.
> Rust in no_std mode isn't much different than C

This isn't really true; you still have memory safety, and generics and a sane stdlib.
You're missing the forest for the trees. A fixed and reusable prototype, with a constructor, is a class. And when that's part of the language spec, that means the language has classes.

And it doesn't matter what typeof says. I could take a C++ program, replace every instance of the word 'class' with 'struct', and it would work fine. It would still be using classes, even though typeof says 'struct'.

Typeof in javascript calls the constructor a function and it calls objects objects. That's correct and fine. You can't put a class itself into a variable in C++ anyway.

And if you really want to get into the gritty details, it's possible to make a very similar argument that C++ of all languages doesn't have classes. Sure they exist in the source code, but all that pretty syntax gets thrown away and you end up with a naked object or one that just has a pointer to a struct it inherits from. And there's not even a 1:1 relationship between source-code 'classes' and those structs!
Are you totally clueless? Buzzfeed has some of best investigative reporting out and there and has been doing an amazing job covering the abortive Trump administration. You sound like a complete idiot with these sorts of comments.
It's not the resources that's the limiting factor, it's the side effect from our consumption
Take this test to figure out how tone-deaf you are
It should be noted that Foxconn is a Chinese company in the larger sense of the term (i.e. not PRC but ROC) and its founder's family is from Shanxi and moved to follow the Nationalists (and so unsurprisingly he supports the KMT).

This is a business decision to expand and diversify but that also widens the Chinese sphere of influence.

Its existing factory(ies) in India are very much used by China mainland smartphone companies, which dominate the Indian market, for example...
ben thompson, this is his site
I believe there's a really interesting parallel between Facebook and TPB.

TPB did everything in it's power to push the stance that, 'We run the site, what users use our site for is not our responsibility'.

Whereas Facebook takes responsibility for its' users, and the impact is has on them.

The interesting thing about this model is that; When a site shirks responsibility for its' users, it has no interest in moderating who joins / who can use it TPB doesn't even have mandatory 'accounts'. You would think, if Facebook was truly interested in supporting a healthy community of users, it would impose restrictions on who joins.

It would be the most evil win/win in technological history. Facebook running background checks on potential users before joining. All that data? They could vet potential 'threats' to their 'community', and sell what their allowed to retain to marketing companies. Now you have a heavily moderated social networking site that lives up to your 'The Good Place' reality.
> My experience with working from home: suddenly you're doing all those household chores that you're always putting off.

I don't understand this. There are certainly benefits (being in when parcels are delivered for example), but the extra hour a day of not commuting (the average US commute is tiny!) gives you time to do chores, not to mention the extra time while you cook lunch where you could empty the dishwasher or whatever, much better than queuing for an overpriced sandwich for trader joes.
Happens much more with other psychedelics. In my experience, MDMA produces the least bit of a "psychedelic hangover", other than feeling depressed.
Right. But only bring up your jump server when needed from a CSP. The rest of the time unseen and mostly unknown.
What backpay is owed to employees? If you're referred to unpaid PTO, if it was in their employement contract I agree. Otherwise, just another case of clueless millennials signing contracts without reading them.
Just one word, only two little letters, really transforms the meaning on that sentence. Not that the deletion of the word 'on' wouldn't also result in an accurate statement...
They have indeed gotten nominated multiple times for the pulitzer award
https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
Well it's a one author site. It's Ben Thompson, he has been doing this for quite some time and is an important figure. Here is the about page: https://stratechery.com/about/

There is also his Wikipedia which gives a good amount of info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Thompson_(writer)
Probably means "close to $1000/month" rather than any value under $1000
How does physics "remove all these defects of character"?
Or Wen Ho Lee - charged with 59 counts of espionage (stealing nuclear secrets). Eventually was convicted/plead to one count of mishandling data and went on to get a $1mil settlement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee
Is this term sheet descriptive or prescriptive? Are you telling us what standard straight-forward terms are right now, or what they should be right now (and would be, in a slightly better world)?
Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.
What's Grey?
If wages increases are less than GDP growth rate, the GNI must rise. The situation for the last 40 or so years.
What about CSS grid? I did a very basic one https://caub.github.io/misc/sheet without resizable columns, but I believe it'd work more easily than with tables
What skills/languages do you have? It can help tune the suggestions.

Barring that, you can google "compiler tutorial" and just start looking for one you like. One nice thing about compilers is they consist of a lot of stages and while the whole is arguably greater than the sum of its parts, the parts are all pretty darned useful on their own, too.
Then the rules for firing toxic and under performing employees can be written into the union contract and how the union conducts its business... This isn't an unreasonable ask, no one is going to want to be saddled with a toxic person they can't get rid of.
Lawrence Lessig on What MMOs Can Teach Us About Politics IRL
> hallucinates that they are thinking thoughts

That particular phrasing is a bit turtles-all-the-way-down, though..
The bodies of knowledge and practical tools (meditation/breathing/etc) from the great spiritual traditions over many thousands of years come to exactly this conclusion: your consciousness DOES create your reality. "Control" of reality is a different beast, you have to ascend to very high levels to achieve that, but it's 100% possible and happens all around us.
Improving the Weekly Review
iirc the SAFE doesn’t cover vesting, information rights and control rights (I guess this is because typically companies that YC invests in are set up with something like Stripe Atlas or similar?)

In many European hubs the typical term sheets for seed financing are provided by Angels or seed stage VCs and typically aren’t as founder friendly as in the US.

Having more information/a recommended seed term sheet from YCombinator that explicitly covers the above (or references Stripe Atlas) would help.

Really appreciate all the documents and context that you are publishing. The impact is vast and goes way beyond the Valley and the immediate YC network.
>Tired of being that guy who has ideas but can't make them a reality.

Then you need to build something. Doesn't matter what you use if you never build.

Personally I just use whatever I feel like learning with. My current fun project is using golang, and react.
LuaRocks 3.0 ships with an all-in-one statically-built binary which is built against up-to-date libraries and does not require these third-party tools. Get it here:

http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/releases/

The legacy package is, as the name implies, legacy. Thanks for reminding me about this issue, about time it is closed. The Windows installation instructions need to be updated at the LuaRocks wiki, but that's a separate issue.
Playstation Vitas have always had trouble with charging.
We just shipped Arq 5.15 with support for backing up to Office 365 and SharePoint accounts. https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/onedrive-office365-sharepoint...
I'm not settled. Do you see a difference between designing and implementing? From experience, I do... but I'll happily hear other opinions.
Some of the journalists who used to work for companies like Buzzfeed have joined the YouTube cottage industry of reporting as an independent journalist. Unlike 90% of the mainstream news media, these individual journalists are not owned and controlled by six billionaires. They make their living via the tiny percentage of their audience that is willing to pay them through sites like Patreon. The recent Covington mis-reporting by the mainstream media should start to wake people up regarding the need to receive one's news from independent journalists. Regarding specific recommendations... He's a little more left wing than I'd prefer, but I'd still recommend Tim Pool's YouTube channel.
Why, if people first buy at price X, then sell at Y>X now people bought in at Y, so the number goes up. That one transaction increased it by Y-X. Where am I wrong?

Aha I see. I guess what I want is to sum up all the Y-X where the person “bought in at X and sold at Y”. How do I get that info?

If we had 100% gold reserves for every bank then you could just count the reserve of gold at the bank to know how much that bank was in demand vs others.

Similarly we do this when businesses accept consumer cash - however much cash is in the business account represents how much in demand its products are. It is the integral of the money velocity into the business from its inception.

I want that but for a stock.
Is China at the forefront of drone technology?
One thing to remember about psychological illnesses is that most are defined by hampering a “normal life”, but are normal behaviors taken to an extreme level.

I think there’s a lot of “mentally ill” people who understand some aspect of the world better than the average person, but who are distressed by not sharing a common myth or who lack the shared culture to meaningfully share their experience. Unfortunately, that inability to integrate leads to ongoing damage, isolation, and co-morbid conditions.

This is where I put on my speculation hat, but — I think certain disorders are caused by the inability to resolve the tension caused by living a lie to maintain a social myth, inability to integrate socially taboo knowledge into a persona acceptable to others and being unwilling to lie, or being unable to articulate an insight and subsequently being pushed out of social interactions for being incoherent.
This is the state that most of us committing our lives to spiritual practice seek to achieve. All of these overlap with symptoms of Enlightenment, although the enlightened being has conscious control over all internal processes, so they are not only able to feel joy and love, they've reached the source of those emotions.

* Detachment from self, feeling as though one is watching a movie about oneself.

* A sense that one is not in control of one’s thoughts and actions.

* Reality may seem dream-like or unreal.

* Distorted sense of time.

* Perceptual alterations like visual snow, halo around lights.

* Emotional numbness, unable to feel joy or love.
I certainly don't think anyone is required to join another implementation.
Correct, close to $1000/month.
I read this a lot in comments about this product but this is a really simplistic description of what this product is in comparison to building your own eGPU right now.

Very often "cheaper alternatives" have stability issues like crashing. Or plug / unplug problems. Stability is more valuable than the quiet although silence matters when the entire rest of your workspace is silent.

The build quality for these enclosures is obviously cheap and low quality. You can tell by when you work with the ports on them.

Also, none of these builds have been supported by Apple. This product was cooperatively designed with Apple so the support is excellent. You have one Thunderbolt 3 cable for all of the things to the mac.

So the price is actually good for what it is.
Migrating from Redshift to ClickHouse
We're looking at it. Looks like it takes up to 15 hours to get your data "rehydrated" so you can download it. Also it's $5 to rehydrate 10,000 blobs so depending on how Arq chunked your data it could cost quite a bit of money to restore.
Or someone can simply own your key holding device as you sip your beverage at the local hotspot or home wifi. Simpler to
go after the secret privileged client than the server.
> The venture capitalists in implementing liquidity preferences as a commonality defined it as an us-vs-them fight.

... You'd have to support that argument, because it is not evident.

This is a mutual agreement between two informed parties. You don't have to take those terms, and you are free to offer them more common stock as a risk substitute. I also don't understand why you invoked class warfare here, which really undermines any credibility to your argument.
"Our core belief is programmers spend too much time on repetitive work like copying and pasting from StackOverflow, fixing simple errors, and writing boilerplate code."

Sounds like you will likely be introducing bugs into people's code. Or at the very least, regressing code quality towards the mean.
Dennis Ritchie’s answer to Alex North-Keys, what he called the hash-bang
Re: other high-profile companies using FoundationDB in production, I suggest checking out these two talks from the project's community conference, FoundationDB Summit: Wavefront/VMware[0], and Snowflake Computing[2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M438R4SlTFE

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkeyjFMmIf8
OK, we've updated the link from https://www.wired.com/story/a-childs-puzzle-helped-uncover-h....
Depends. Generally with power there are elements of scale in favor of very large generation plants. Manufacturing does sometimes have their own power plants (aluminium needs a lot of power to refine) when you can cross that line. Also if the local utility is running into issues building large plants a medium sized plant might get under the regulations and so be cheaper. Of course when you run your own plant you also control the reliability - in some cases this can be worth a lot of extra cost. Utilities often give companies a large discount for having a backup generator that the utility can ask them to switch to at times of high demand: depending on how efficient Apple's generators are it could well be that it is cheaper to run them most days - utilities are going to be running peaking plants then anyway which are no more efficient and Apple saves the line loss price.

Generators are complex and weird. Many use more fuel at 50% of their capacity than at 80%, even though the latter is delivering substantially more power.
Western Digital Releases SweRV Core
Perl6 allows it, and it's the preferred convention to boot.

Small Intro: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/day-5-identifie...
I think you already answered that question in your post. There would be incrementally more proceeds for the founders and employees in an exit that is flat or below the postmoney valuation of the Series A round. But as you also noted, this stuff doesn't exist in isolation - pull one lever and it results in other changes. In this case, that outcome would probably change how the investors think about the risk-reward and may depress the valuation itself, especially if it's relatively high.
If you've negotiated many term sheets for Series A with not even a 1x nonparticipating liquidation preference - impressive.

That said, also illogical, why are these investors doing a preferred investment vs common if they don't have a preference?

The only people I've run into who can negotiate nonsense contracts are folks playing with other folks money (family etc). I will say I stay far away from those types of folks. Often crazy, and often have enough money to pursue their flights of fancy, including ungrounded legal theories, a good long distance.
Fsync errors
Your conclusion is incorrect. Most people with simple projects will use simple techniques to make modules work without worrying about the preprocessor. Large companies will create their own tooling to use modules in their own way. My point is that this is how C++ has been used since its inception. C++ users are already aware that the language needs external building support and modules cannot change this reality. But modules will certainly improve how the language is used.