skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public Comps co-founder Jon here! Let us know if you all have any thoughts or reaction to our analysis of Crowdstrike which is going public this Wednesday.

Here's the high-level analysis

1/ Crowdstrike is #1 Fastest Growing Public SaaS Company at 108% YoY revenue growth. Move over #Zoom

2/ There's a lot of room for Crowdstrike to grow and continue to replace legacy solutions like McAfee and Symantec which are $B+ revenue behemoths but shrinking or growing slowly.

3/ Crowdstrike has best-in-class net dollar retention at 140% which is #2 among our top SaaS companies.

4/ ⏳Crowdstrike is able to do grow relatively sales efficiently with a payback period of 15 months versus a median of 22 from top SaaS companies.

5/ Unlike Zoom, Crowdstrike is not profitable and has -25% Free Cash Flow margins (lowest among SaaS companies with the exception of Slack)

For valuation expectations and the full analysis, please go to https://lnkd.in/eHGcdpe
The charges ARE in the article, AND the author specifically mentioned why she wasn't re-hashing them more than she did. Most of those black teens at Homan Square didn't get an article at all.
Nasa to Allow Private Tourists on International Space Station
The NYT is yet to publish a correction to an article publicizing a comically erroneous study suggesting a relationship between Facebook use and attacks on refugees in Germany: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/08/fa...

They have been running smear campaigns against tech companies for years and then act dumb and ask about the change in sentiment towards them.
The criticism of the NYT cartoon wasn't just on Twitter, but had demonstrations in front of their office, other large organizations weighting in, ...
Yes, humans breed new cultivars.

This is far more of a problem than a solution.

1) Many of the bred/GMO cultivars are sterile and/or unable to survive in the wild. They actively work against biodiversity.

2) Many of the bred/GMO strains are used in monocultures either in agriculture or gardens. These both displace the native plants, steal resources, and are also far more vulnerable to pests, disease, etc. Again, not improving, but destroying biodiversity.

3) Much of human activity in addition to breeding new species/cultivars is also deliberately or inadvertently moving species into new ecosystems. Some of these become rapidly spreading invasives that damage or destroy the local ecosystem, both plants and insects, animals, and birds that feed on the now damaged ecosystem (& no, they usually cannot just eat the new plant, nevermind if it's not toxic).

4) Many of the bred/GMO variants, even if planted in their native habitat, are incapable of providing sustenance to native insects & birds. While they may still have the external characteristics to attract them (odor, UV spectrum colors, etc.), they lack the actual nutrients, e.g., because they are sterile. So, not only do the human breeding/GMO activities damage biodiversity in plants, they are also damaging the other ecosystems.

So, if you are going to count human bred/GMO'd cultivars, they need to be counted against biodiversity.

Between these disruptions of the plant ecosystem, pesticides, habitat destruction, climate change, and other effects, we are much more dangerously close to breaking the food chain than people imagine.

This is invisible because of ignorance, normalcy bias, and the fact that these are enormously complex ecological webs, and they are very resilient until they aren't -- at which point the system collapses and it is too late to repair.

Numerous civilizations and indeed ecosystems have collapsed because of this sort of problem (see e.g., Permian Extinction which nearly extinguished life on the planet).

We are now causing this on a global scale and, except for the asteroid ~65MM years ago, at a pace unprecedented in geologic history.
I commented when there were few comments on the article hoping to head off people from thinking it was a substantive article. My comment now seems like I'm trying to discredit them. I'm not. I want to see ALS conquered more than anyone. However, it is very difficult to learn anything new from a PR release and I was hoping to save everyone some time.
> We might go extinct but if we don't, it might be pleasant to vacation in the arctic? Is this the sort of scientific claim you have in mind?

I think GP means things like "all that potentially fertile land that will thaw off" that sometimes show up, e.g. wrt. Siberia. Personally, even if true, I suspect it doesn't compensate for the farming land lost - and even if it did, we won't be likely to survive the effects of mass migration and conflict for these lands.
That would imply that security is irrelevant. Maybe you should re-work your rule the say that it will attempt to be hacked. Therefore you should always worry about security.
Yea no this is wayyyy underestimating the costs of data engineering. I can tell you from my very limited experience some queries I've seen, on some systems and some datasets, have estimated TTLs in YEARS -- and that's the difference between companies that invest in tooling and infrastructure (and big O analysis during system design) and those that don't. And you will invest a good deal of effort and time and money before you realize it, it's like the perfect ambush.

Never start a land war in Russia, and never neglect your data infrastructure if data is in any way a key business differentiator/fundamental in your market.
Minor side note: I did that too but found that institutions were locked down and could not access my public server, and they wouldn’t accept a usb drive with the same data. They were only set up to receive FAT dvds - and I spent many, many hours duping DVD’s for doctors in their waiting rooms.
Great story.. but extremely shitty interviewer in my view.
I _think_ OP was trying to be sarcastic.
AFAIK, Windows always commits on allocation, growing the swap file if necessary.
https://grapheneos.org/#roadmap is pretty interesting:

> Details on the roadmap of the project will be posted on the site in the near future. In the long term, it aims to move beyond a hardened fork of the Android Open Source Project. Achieving the goals requires moving away from relying the Linux kernel as the core of the OS and foundation of the security model. It needs to move towards a microkernel-based model with a Linux compatibility layer, with many stepping stones leading towards that goal including adopting virtualization-based isolation.
Is it actually anti Semitic to portray a (Jewish) head of state as a (guide) dog?

I'm going by the description here, rather than the actual imagery, but as described it doesn't seem to me to anti Semitic.
> Name the last time an aircraft carrier won a battle, stopped an attack, etc.

The primary benefit of a large conventional military is to deter such an event from even happening. That said, the air support provided from carriers definitely helped a great deal to curb and reverse the spread of ISIS.

> Also if you educate 100 people, the majority of them will provide benefit to the economy via any number of ways.

If this were true, then it would be economically advantageous for those 100 people to borrow the money themselves (perhaps with the help of a government subsidy). And they do.
They use the Filesystem api.

There is experimental support to stop this detection in chrome now (74 and later). Go to chrome://flags/ and Enable "Filesystem API in Incognito". It should be on by default in an upcoming version.
ThoughtSpot on Tableau Acquisition
This article is solid sanity check on the NYT story discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20146090
FYI Just noticed the block at the bottom of the article that this is just the first part of a series. Maybe a premature quality verdict, but that fact was poorly communicated.
> If I had more faith in the market's rationality, I would short them as soon as they IPO...

Total tangent, but how much of the stock market do you think is fair? By fair I mean abiding by SEC regulations (and other obvious laws, such as regular fraud), versus unfair where people are using insider trading, trying to influence a short, or even have some ulterior motive perhaps related to politics?

Now I hope someone more knowledgeable than me chimes in with links to articles or papers, because I'd really love to learn more.
Replicating OpenAI GPT2–1.5B
It really is the greatest business plan ever though. They figured out how to loan money at 28% APR without actually having to loan out any money.

Very impressive.
Not just land border crossings - there are also CBP-maintained checkpoints [1] within the '100-mile zone'.

[1]: https://goo.gl/maps/Nfk1XjUFGsNh5QD29
> Back then they were seen as a defence of free speech and our democratic rights, a way of mocking the draconian regimes of the Middle East

Was this an universal viewpoint in the West? As a non-Muslim teen in India I saw it as mocking Islam (I get that others' mileage varies).
Yes that is quite crazy
The angry vocal minority on twitter (people who may not even be customers, perhaps likely are not) really has such an effect on a company's sales? Got any examples?
Whoever is downvoting this comment is ignorant.

GMOs and cultivars grown in labs not only have no positive effect on biodiversity, they have significant negative effects. See more detailed post above.
Yep, same here. But this card has broken the interest free purchases into three tiers based on their cost. That is a $25 item will be interested free for 30 days but a $250 item might be interest free for sixty days. This seems pretty complicated and could be difficult to manage for a consumer.
Can you show me where in the text of the CARD Act it must be displayed on the landing page? From my reading:

> [the APR must] be placed in a conspicuous and prominent location on the billing statement

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/statutes/c...
I actually felt the same way about Salesforce until about a year ago when my company bought it. It certainly has a duplo blocks side that let's non technical users do complex things (aka Excel) but their backed is extensible through a language that is more or less Java for custom handlers/queries/etc and they are switching their front end to W3C compliant web components for developer maintainability after getting burned by rolling their own front end framework in the early angular 1 era. They have super tight integration with heroku postgres dbs (because they own them) and have some other best technical tricks up their sleeve to the point that I my opinion has changed quite a bit.
To be clear, the NYT never did a lot of cartoons nor was it known for them.

I really don’t think this is a big deal.

If The New Yorker or sone other publication did, then maybe.
Yea. It's bullshit. You can't install something like Magick and then relock the bootloader with a new signature.

A PC with UEFI (except for a few of those which Microsoft locked down) lets you turnoff secure boot, and install your own keys, and turn it back on. So you actively delete the stock keys that boot stock Microsoft/Ubuntu/Redhat, and then custom sign your Grub bootloader or UEFI-Stub Kernel, add that cert to SecureBoot and turn it back on.

You can argue device security all day long, but if manufactures can't update Android security patch sets as they come out, then you have gaps in your device security anyway.

Google controls ASOP. They could literally force manufactures to be compliant, have UEFI or devicetree as a standard, demand every device allow a stock reinstall just like Windows and even create shims to fix the broken Linux driver ABI. But there is more money in planned obsolescence. Gotta throw out that phone after two years and just buy a new one.
Not far from the truth here.
Political cartoons are, in my opinion, reductionist garbage that fail to take into consideration nuance and complexity and context. The caricature that inflate the size of ears and chins and lips and noses is not dignifying and doesn't add any value to whatever argument is being made, and can sometimes even be racist. There's no rebuttal to a political cartoon, there's no dialogue. They're cheap and easy to make and easy to consume and are just as easy to forget.

I don't care if they exist or not, either way I don't read them, but standing up for political cartoons as being a thing worth defending, I don't think it is. I think they hurt more than they help.

Go look at political cartoons from the sides of opinions you disagree with and see how they make you feel. Are they convincing you of anything or are they just making you mad?
Well, yea, not just youtubers but also farmers, janitors, receptionists, construction workers, and so on could probably make more if they were instead competent dev ops engineers.

Of course, this gets at another reason why owning your own platform doesn’t make sense, which is that web infrastructure is a specialty that most people have no interest in, and if they did, probably limited innate ability and training.

If it were that easy for people to suddenly pivot into a 6 figure salary field...more people would.
The backend stack of both make development like swimming in glue. The same managers you are referring to cut us over to these tools and we subsequently experienced a massive decline in our business.
Sounds like pretty standard PR legalese to me. I guarantee that the same is going to happen to the subcontractor (after a lengthy investigation, to be sure), but it's bad practice to go throwing around public legal threats, especially for the government which likely has a multi-hundred page contract with these people, and especially at such an early point in any investigations going on.
I think you picked a hard thing to do given the market competition but that doesn't mean you should toss in the towel. You have some non-zero traffic level and there is value to that if you want to continue to see what it can do.

The problem is the site is competing against the large incumbents in the space like Google etc. So you have to differentiate IMO. For example, I assume you are local to many of these restaurants, what about doing interviews, back stories, historical building facts etc. Make it nice for locals and tourists alike to learn a little about the people behind the restaurant as well as the area and history.

My son traveled recently to Ireland and that was one of the things that he and his girlfriend loved, most bars and restaurants had stories or were in some historical building etc. As an American we think old is a building still standing from the late 1800's early 1900's, Europe in general has furniture still in use that is older than some of our buildings. Google isn't going to tell you that, only a hyperlocal search can help people with those cool facts.

That type/level of content I think would help drive additional traffic not to mention differentiate your site from the big players. But you have to be honest with yourself, that takes significant work to cultivate that level of content, and you have to make sure you have a monetization strategy, but I think there is market for that type of stuff.

Just some ideas, YMMV.
I would like to know:

how many individuals and vehicles has been impacted?

anyway we can hold the agency and its contractors accountable for this issue?
Ungodly expensive.

PostgreSQL on the other hand - so good, so free!
Why we still place human beings as something alien to nature... If we're wrecking the stuff out of the biosphere may be that's just what we're meant to do as a species. It's sad, but it might be something hard coded in our purpose in this big unknown game of existence.
We are living in a boring, yet somehow equally terrifying, dystopia.
That $6K is the average balance carried forward from one month to the next month (AKA revolving balance), not the balance paid in full [1], so actually its as insane as the parent thought, especially of the median is much higher.

1. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/average-credit-card-debt-hou...
That sounds like something that might have been around since the 50s.
I think so too. My father was a teacher and then a school principle. He is a very likable fellow and had an ease with most all of his students in relating with them and getting them to listen to what he had to say, particularly the difficult ones others didn't like, probably his high likability factor helped tremendously and very happy disposition. It is having that bridge or way over to relate to others or hook them in that really allows advice or words to have a deeper meaning in terms of sinking in knowledge or advice. Years later I've seen fairly often students of his past recognizing him and thanking him for things he told them. Pretty cool.
I think because the original gift cards just effectively said "I'm a $100 card" in the magstripe.

Now, gift cards operate more like limited credit cards.
Is this supposed to be sarcasm? They “can’t stop killing people” that aren’t bothering to look out the window while traveling 60mph+ on the highway?

Low speed pedestrian avoidance in parking lots is an entirely different subsystem than highway autopilot. Arguably it would be significantly less controversial to forego LIDAR in the pedestrian case and rely purely on ultrasonic, radar, and cameras.
Remember the time Experian got hacked and the CEO subsequently retired with a $90M payday? The private sector is just as consequence-free.
Seems reasonable for the federal government to pay states to send new license plates to affect the compromised ones? I'm not under the impression license plates aren't recorded in public anyway, but still.
Or aluminium. The better choice is to carry a reusable bottle, but I do forget it from time to time.
If you read "The Sixth extinction" it talks a lot about this. Her hypothesis is that the main cause of this is in fact humans, but not human-caused climate change -global trade and travel.

"Kolbert then explains that global trade and travel are creating a virtual "Pangaea", in which species of all kinds are being redistributed beyond historical geographic barriers. This furthers the first chapter's idea that invasive species are a mechanism of extinction."
Except that the said newsrooms are more often than not the ones that amplify and give a legitimacy to these mobs by printing their reactions as if it was somehow the reaction of the people. The NY Times itself actively participated in many of these lynchings, like the Covington kids.

To me it looks more like a newsroom that likes playing with fire, got burned itself, and decides to cut its exposure so it can keep playing.
From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
Either that or rework what data you collect so that when you get hacked/leaked it's not as big a deal. Or don't collect data at all.
A $4.7B number for how much money Google makes off news industry is imaginary
The tools and stack of Salesforce make building your own version extremely appealing.
Smart move for Microsoft!
Intercepted chats between Brazil’s Operation Car Wash judge and prosecutors
I think OP is arguing that you should worry about security AND collect only what's strictly necessary.
Only politically connected companies, if you and I ran a business like that the outcome would have been different. The state has no problem going after small businesses.
Doesn’t quite explain the cash hemorrhage or the path to profitability though.
I think your use of credit cards is atypical. How long until your cards accrue interest? If it's greater than 30 days, that's probably the result of more disciplined debt management.

There's some attempt to compare those who carry a balance vs those who pay in full:

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/average-credit-...

Takeaway is that those who carry a balance and presumably accrue interest tend to have a higher balance.
"Meant to"? "Purpose"?
> This is the era of images. In a world of short attention span, their power has never been so big.

Given the reach of social media with respect to images, cartoons, memes, etc, do we need newspapers to be the distributors of political cartoons? Does it simply add legitimacy to some cartoons to separate them from the huge amount of low quality social media content?
I'm with OP here. You just shouldn't have unencrypted, sensitive data in a database.
“In the private sector” covers a lot of ground and I have extreme skepticism about your faith in the process unfolding that way: ask yourself how many breaches you’ve been part of and whether anything more than a press release happened along with waiting for the news to die down. How many customers did Experian lose?

(In the enterprise software world, I can tell you how epic failure to perform on an 8+ figure contract unfolds: the sales guy takes a VP out to the next game so they can discuss it over drinks in the corporate box and nothing will change)
Humanity, as far as we know, is the only species that is aware of the impact it has on its habitat. It is also the only species we are aware of that has come to the realization that its habitat might be the only one like it in the universe, and that destroying the unique life that is found there is beyond tragic.
You seem to be off on the state of Google Play Services from a real-world standpoint. Case in point: Microsoft's core apps like Outlook and Skype don't work without Google Play Services enabled, even if you find the APKs somewhere other than the Play Store to sideload them.

Microsoft's apps are specifically an example I've given of how closed Android truly is: Even Google's competitors, which have all of the same service capabilities, are essentially forced to use Google Play Services. Especially when you consider the other top HN item today about how Google now essentially requires all apps use a closed source Firebase library for push notifications.

And while yes, Google Location Services is a location provider that slots into Android, you are missing that Google has convinced app developers to call it directly, rather than using the Android location provider. This means that no alternate location provider will do: Google Location Services is hard coded into almost every location-based Android app today.