skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why do VCs let founders cash out pre-IPO?

Because they aren't as smart as we/they think they are. Like most people, they have zero repeatable ability to spot unicorns or conmen.
It's an interesting glimpse into the sphere, highlights different people and different achievements, shows that not all contributions have to be code to help OSS, and due to the stylised nature is obviously non-exhaustive for practical reasons.

It adds a touch of humanity to technology that is often lost.

Of course, as a large percentage of the comments here show, we must criticise and tear-down everything...
It is an opt-in system. They're not making you use it and you don't lose anything by choosing not to opt-in. What exactly are they doing that you would consider "shilling"?

https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
I had to stop using Firefox 70 Dev Edition because it made my 2015 Mac run out of memory. Switching back to regular 69 fixed the issue, but I hope they have corrected it by now...
Here’s the Sync security FAQ to answer javajosh’s follow up question, which I can’t reply to directly.

“How Firefox Sync keeps your data safe even if TLS fails”
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-...
This comment is just "millennials are poor because of avocado on toast". There is an untold number of anti-capitalist academics who would take issue with this.

Not to mention that equating anti-capitalism with wanting "the government to come in and take care of you" is insulting to communists, anarchists, and other anti-state anti-capitalists.
Yes. There is plenty of research on the psychological effects of representation. The effects are very real.
It is not rational or logical that the burden of "provenance" is placed on the purchaser if they are willing to accept the risk that they are being defrauded. It is an utterly illogical and unhealthy mentality to have that one is responsible for the actions of others.

Are you responsible for having purchased something that may be ripped off IP, e.g., someone else's pictures or art? I suspect you would make a quick turn about face if you were hauled off to prison/court for having purchased some artwork from someone without having "verified the provenance of the artifacts and the legality of the sale".

I get it, the children of the corn are all up in arms and want to smite everyone with their self-righteous stick of indignation, but reality is that YOU are responsible for YOUR actions, not someone else; nor are you responsible for the actions of others.

Again, you totally focused on blaming one of the parties/victims of this fraud, while totally avoiding the reality that the only perpetrator here is the Oxford Professor. But based on you illogic, Oxford is even far more implicated and responsible for the actions of their Professor than Hobby Lobby is for buying the artifacts that the Professor could have easily said he acquired by some other means. So let's shut down Oxford for they are guilty of having committed a devious by proxy through another. right? That's your logic, others are responsible for the actions of yet another. What a sick logic and world you imagine.

You really have no idea what authoritarian communist hell you are conjuring with that utterly unhealthy false logic, do you? But you will find out soon enough when the jack boots you put in power come knocking on your door because they ran out of everyone else to blame for the crimes of others.
The point is that if Exxon went public with these findings (and in general was more honest about climate change sooner) it would be harder for them and others to lobby politicians against a carbon tax.

Even though the science is clear, nearly every republican congressperson on the relevant committees doubts that humans are the main driver of climate change which is pretty necessary belief if you want to put in a carbon tax.

This same type of argument
applies to the large subsidies that exist to this day. It would have been politically much harder to secure subsidies of the magnitude that exist today if they too had research out that supported the scientific consensus.
I guess it's the right time to announce my company, Mailsub?
Postmark. Very happy with their service so far.
I think the only thing that saved my career was dropping out of college 2 years early in 2000. I immediately started working in a print shop doing data processing work and earning my chops and programming experience through self-directed automation and process improvements. My friends in retail earned more than me, but I learned far more in 4 years there than college would have made possible. Leveraging my Linux and general programming experience I moved on to web development work in 2004 at a tiny consulting company based in the upstairs living room of my boss. We did "lean" and "agile" right and survived through the bust by wearing all of the hats and working hard. We could provide high quality solutions for half the cost quoted by large competitors. The pay was simply ok (but my colleagues and employer were amazing). Later, with a baby on the way I had to move on for better pay. Leaving was hard, but finding a position wasn't with all the experience I earned at a cut rate.

In short: I grew, barely survived financially, and made excellent connections.
I dunno. It's really hard to find out an overview what are you actually using the storage for. I had google backup enabled and forgot about it - it's really not obvious to find the UI. Then I disabled it and deleted it - it was about 4GB and my used space went down by 400MB.

You also can't find out how much storage a folder on google drive is taking up. And don't even get me started on Photos.
Agreed. So I'd be looking stuff like compiler theory at one end, and distributed systems at the other.
The fact that governments invested heavily in oil for the benefit of these corps, it's really a stretch to blame consumers. What other choice in energy did they have ? Consider the fact that half the cars in the early 20th century were electric. What we are dealing with is called a market failure, of the most extreme kind.
The issue has not been fully addressed by the legislature at all. There is real harm being caused by these externalities, and relief in court is the normal route for seeking remediation when there isn't some other mechanism in place to compensate for the harm. Same as anything else. If a big company causes harm to someone through malfeasance, they have a right to seek compensation through the civil courts. Criminal courts have a different standard.
https://plantix.net/en/ plantix app, a Berlin based startup is used primarily by farmers in India. It uses computer vision to identify crop nutrient deficiencies and diseases.
Is okay, bro apparently didn't read any of the context he replied to and hasn't heard of the colloquial meaning of "larping".

EDIT: BTW did you try out the HN Block List browser extension? Makes the site a lot more bearable than the vanilla experience.
I wonder how credit unions would fare.
Because it's old or has a whitelisted set of verbs that hasn't been updated since 1999.
The only feature you may miss is auto-fill of credit card info. It's saved my ass abroad before.
Actionable Book Summary: Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
I integrate with gov systems, very little PII, but we have to carry heavy insurance and get external audits every three years.
Machine learning was up and coming in 2012 when I graduated college. Not to say it is a bad career choice, just that it's safe to say that ML's time has already come.
I agree, but that makes it a much different sort of argument.
That's not been true for almost every device I can think of other than firearms/explosives. If someone steals your car and crashes it are you responsible? If not why are computers different?
For what it's worth, Rust will soon improve its linking stage by switching to ldd, as part of upgrading to LLVM 4.0. From what I've read ldd can dramatically reduce the time needed.
I think that if you read it symbolically it doesn't really matter whether the psychological model is inaccurate. This is why literary critics still use Freud in discussions. It's not about whether the model is accurate; the point is that these symbols provide a set of archetypes that we can then relate other things to. Freudian stuff in art criticism (when used well) is more of a shared vocabulary for discussing things than a reductive framework.

Not sure if that's your gripe. I used to dislike Freudian language/themes for a similar reason but realize now that I was taking it more literally than I now do.
You need to take a longer term view if you want to notice things before they become trends. Hopping on the bandwagon once it's a "hot" or "promising" area is too late.
This will inspire generations of future businesspeople to do the same. Start a business, paint it like a tech firm, get snowballing investment, and don't worry too much about whether the business can ever actually work.
Firefox + Mozilla are awesome. I still have a Mozilla 1.0 t-shirt from the first release party!

I've recently seen a ton of FF fans state that the reason they love Firefox is that it doesn't have ads or track you and preserves your privacy.

However, Firefox wouldn't exist without Google and (to a lesser extent, Google Chrome).

They make 94% of their revenue via bundling and distribution deals with companies like Google.

So to say that Firefox doesn't really have ads I think it is a bit disingenuous. They don't have ads directly but they benefit directly from the ecosystem.

Without Google's ad business Firefox wouldn't exist.

Not saying this to be rude or call you guys out. I think we need an honest discussion on this issue.

Across the industry, we see users just outright refusing to pay for products because they're accustomed to 'free' being the norm.

News, social media, browsers, etc.

If you charge for a news site the users will revolt and go somewhere else.

If Facebook tried to charge users they would revolt.

Same thing for browsers.

Yet a large percentage of these same users will get angry and yell that they're privacy is being sold.

I'd rather things be direct. I'd rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and I was the customer (not the product).
I know there's a ton of "where is X?" going on - but one that I would like to see on here is John Resig, jQuery is still practically _everywhere_.
Citation needed? My Estonian bank has offered instant payments in the EU for free for more than one year, an app that buzzes my phone at every payment I make with my contactless card, or use the phone directly as bank card... Without using Apple Pay. Something I rekon is still not common in many countries including the UK...
A few years ago I found out my nephew's Kindergarten had implemented fingerprint scanners for all students. They get to scan their fingerprint when checking in or out of lunch, going to the bathroom, arriving and leaving school.

Promoted as a safety feature to ensure they knew where the kids were and that they were ok. I was asked to go in with my brother and talk to them about it. They said it was all ok because that the actual fingerprints aren't stored on the system, only information derived from the fingerprints, the system wasn't costing them anything because some Edu-Tech company was paying for it as a test, no other persons had complained about the tech, not one, we were the first, and it's kind of weird that we are opposed to children's safety.

We asked that my nephew not participate in the trial and they agreed, though he reported after that he was often forced to be scanned anyway.

A couple years later I asked another parent about the fingerprint scanners and they didn't know what I was talking about, so either they were removed, or parents are simply not reading the notices they are sent home and often even asked to sign.
gp is complaining about third parties quoting tweets out of context. When Twitter's raison d'être is out of context quoting. He saw trees, I'm glad to point at the whole forest.
There are a great many things you can't debate about people. For example, you would be severely censured if you debated whether your colleague's chronic illness really was as bad as they claim it is.

If the position is "I should be able to question and debate anything about my colleagues" then the position is obviously absurd and I would ask a person holding such a view to reevaluate what they think society is. I don't think you would hold such a position.

So, why are you troubled that you can't debate this particular thing, when I'm sure there are things you shouldn't debate about your colleagues?
The ITU at that time (sorry!) was dominated by the UK (GMT) and the French. The acronym therefore would have had to be TUC (French) or CUT (English). There is history between the French and the English; neither was acceptable - the ITU is an international organization, and the people who attend its meetings are essentially diplomats.

So we get an acronym that doesn't stand for anything.

It's OK with me... but I could do without the ITU existing at all. They cause nothing but trouble. Dammit, they should stop meddling with the definition of UTC.
Security and privacy. Demand for security folks is white-hot right now, and the need for better security products continues to grow.

I've been seeing a lot of companies in adjacent spaces making headway into the security domain as well—ML assisted intrusion detection and cloud-centric security tooling come to mind.

In a broader sense, I think more governments and regulatory bodies are starting to take cybersecurity much more seriously than they did in the past. GDPR and CCPA are likely the tip of the iceburg in coming year and—regulations aside—I think there is a real and pressing need for better privacy and protection in both consumer and enterprise contexts.
Servers can reboot for any reason. There are tons of kernel issues, especially since Meltdown & Spectre, that cause machine reboots in Linux especially on high traffic machines.

I've worked in production environments with thousands of machines and random reboots are a completely normal event for some workloads. Combination of hardware issues & kernel issues with hundreds of thousands of lines of code makes it inevitable. I would be surprised if NordVPN even noticed and their architecture wasn't designed to automatically start everything at boot.

You can't be perfect at scale - you just need to design your work loads to be redundant and fault tolerant.
My definition of "fluency" is that it's the point where every well-written piece of code in the language is easily readable to you. ("Fluency" of a spoken language is the point where you can speak it and parse-while-hearing it without thinking, so I think this is a sensible definition.)

By this standard, most programmers never achieve 100% fluency in even their favorite programming language, unless their favorite language is one of the dead-simple ones; and there are some programming languages (esolangs, certainly) that nobody is 100% fluent in; and many (the APLs, Forths, etc.) that only a few human beings on earth are 100% fluent in. (That's not to say that there aren't many people who can read and write them—just, not fluently. If you need to look at a programming-language reference more often than you need a dictionary to parse out the meaning of a sentence in your native spoken language, you're not fluent.)

A language that's less "readable", by your terming, is just one that takes longer to become fluent in. Given that the programmers working on any given project are going to be in a mixture of phases in their careers, and thus have invested different numbers of man-hours into language fluency, there's going to be a mixture of fluency levels on any project (where less-fluent readers experience the language as "less readable.") Longer time-to-fluency means that the same number of invested man-hours get you less fluency, and so on projects in languages with longer time-to-fluency, but the same distribution of programmer career-levels, you'll see lower average fluency (or a skew toward the bottom of the distribution, really) and thus more complaints of low readability. Mind you, this isn't really a fact about the language itself, but a fact about the project—if everyone on a project are 20-year veterans of the language, any language can be "readable."

I would note that we can measure time-to-fluency; it's objective. We can teach people a programming language, test them along the way, and see how many man-hours of study it takes to get 100% on the tests. We can't measure a language's "readability"; it's subjective. But it likely has a heavy correlation to time-to-fluency, so time-to-fluency is the measure you should care about if you care about A-B testing programming language syntax features for their effect on "readability."
Depending on how you regard the Federal Reserve, it's already happening. The Fed has been making massive loans to banks that are unable to get overnight loans from other banks based on their portfolios. [1]

The amount and duration reporting has been. Originally it was $53 billion planned for a few weeks [2], and now it's over $128 billion [3], lasting into next year.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21004068

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-repo/n-y-fed-awar...

[3] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/fed-repo-inj...
I'm actually talking about Docker EE
Why would you still be working there if you could find something, ANYTHING else as a job?

This might end up being a black mark on your resume.
Compare your

> 'Taxpayers don't pay interest on Fed assets.'

with what I said; 'they pay interest on a loan enabled by that 2T+ expansion' (of Fed assets.) The Fed bought ~1.5-2T of MBS, turning bad loans that would never be repaid - credit that simply never should have been issued - into bank reserves. Those reserves both inflate asset prices and enable the banks to make loans on which interest is paid.

> When the prices stopped climbing, this process stopped.

The price climb - and the influx of less able borrowers - was primarily enabled by securitization.

> And bubbles from irrational people have been happening for millennia too. Does this simplistic tautology allow me to assign all blame to borrowers?

Borrowers can only exist if they've borrowed from lenders. Hence my point about lenders needing to evaluate risk to continue to be lenders.
I have a hunch that the Next Big Thing (TM) will be augmented reality: though the technology is currently in its infancy, when compelling AR glasses are finally released (Apple is rumored to be released theirs in 2020) I think that it will have a massive impact.

AR frameworks are a dime a dozen, but if you're an Apple person look into ARKit + Swift.
FBN was recently started in 2014 by 2 guys from the Silicon Valley area. So far, they focus on data analytics (e.g. seed yields).

There are various articles about them and youtube videos:

https://www.google.com/search?q=FBN+"farmers+business+networ...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fbn+farmers+bus...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oML9yLjTfk8
https://rewire.news/article/2015/07/15/hobby-lobby-blocking-...
You are right many firewalls operate on layer 4, but there are also Web Application Firewalls like ModSecurity which inspect HTTP messages on Layer 7.
https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/pulls
as an english only speaker I have no need for a feature like this to be built in. I get much more out of monitor. So perhaps neither should be built in by default?
The political hurdle to a carbon tax has nothing to do with Exxon's lobbyists. Politicians are scared shitless of raising gas prices. When France tried to do it recently it caused massive riots.
Like a true Cult leader

https://www.google.gr/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/cult-of-...
This piece is shocking in that nobody was interviewed. Not one single source anonymous nor named. This fails journalism 101 for me.
The beauty of his "con" is that he did it all in plain view and tacit approval by the board. He didn't need to do anything criminal when he's controlling the company's voting shares.
For most programming jobs experience in the the tech stack is the defining factor, as most programming jobs do not require deep domain expertise (whatever the domain is: computing, business, etc).

Of course general problem solving ability is still valuable but it is more difficult to assess than a candidate´s experience in some tech stack.

So, for the general programming market the tech stack is the defining factor. The only way you can navigate between jobs with different tech stacks is by having an insider that guarantees the hiring manager that you have what it takes to learn the new tech stack without trouble, or by finding some company which is desperate enough to take the risk.

You can label yourself what you want.
How do the satellites know the precise location of the client? Wouldn't it possible to buy a subscription in one country and go use it in another country?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "Ask HN" posts are expected to be text, not external links.
Event sourcing. See dataintensive.net

TL;DR - rip the writeahead log out of databases and materialize not just SQL commands but events yourself, returning control to reality rather than systems.
Who else do we hold accountable except the companies that profit on the short sighted behavior? I am willing/wanting to pay more for my luxuries but unless we make everyone do it, nothing changes.

If Exxon doesn't release the information, definitely nothing happens, if they do then maybe something happens.
Light travels 1000km in under 4ms. What else are you adding to that time?
> this means that my battery is going to last 4-5x longer with Safari

Well it might last 4-5x longer if you run safari in the background, since that is what you tested. But wouldn't the real test be running both browsers as the active window and comparing those results?

One thing that Safari is incredibly good at (and its' engineers are proud of) is the ability to reduce resource consumption for non-active tabs and windows to nearly zero. This is really good when running on battery because it is a shame to dedicate resources to things that aren't even visible on screen. But this could make the results far more dramatic through your test.

I would hypothesize that Safari still wins your performance test (if you were to re-test using them both as "active" windows), but probably not as dramatically as in the inactive window test.
Govtech and defense tech

Super high barriers to entry, governments are spending more and more but people are demanding better more efficient services and won't put up with waiting in line at the DMV forever. In defense, it's hard to see the applications and what to build from an outside view, hard to get contracts and permissions, and hard to compete with established co's like Boeing that have all of the relationships already.
How do you make the pay high enough? Compel labor, print money, or some sort of complicated metric?

"Based on family background, education, and IQ tests, we estimate that your best job is electrical technician."
Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying
> Pride? Character? Respect from colleagues?

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.

We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

-CS Lewis
I think AR has potential to be the most impactful new type of technology, but I don’t have any idea if wide adoption is 1 year away, or 10 years away (or more).

At the moment most of the focus is around overlaying some virtual world in the real world, but I think that technologies like U1 chip being added to new Apple devices could be really interesting to allow objects in the physical world to better mesh with digital world.

Experimenting with live filters for Instagram could be an easy way to dip your toes into AR: https://sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/
What are some examples of new areas to apply machine learning?