skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We are a team of 8. We are 2 full-stack, 1 iOS, 1 Android and 4 product people."

And that leaves 0 for business + marketing + sales.

Maybe you didn't find the right business model during 5.5 years because you had nobody working on finding the right business model?
My problem with serialization in Go isn't so much speed but marshalling/unmarshalling pain.

I've been using these packages with some success:

https://github.com/tidwall/sjson

https://github.com/tidwall/gjson

Not knocking this pkg, just thought I'd share xD
> everyone uses Requests in Python

I love Requests, but this statement overreaches. All of my Python these days is simple scripting, and in those simple cases the hassle of adding a dependency outweighs the utility that Requests provides over the standard library. And I'd say Requests is even a special case here in that it's widely known and acknowledged; while I wager you can find superior third-party replacements to the Python standard library if you look for them, the fact that you don't need to look for them at all (and audit them, ideally!) is what makes a batteries-included language so convenient even in the presence of a sub-par stdlib.
> There's no such thing as a "problem of base2".

That you cannot represent 1/3 as a non-periodic decimal number is a problem of base 10.

That you cannot represent 1/10 as a non-periodic binary number is a problem of base 2.

These are just mathematic facts. Maybe you don't like the world "problem", but it does not change that this is where we are.

The problem that you cannot represent 0.1 in base 2 FP, is a problem of base 2. You can represent it exactly in base 10 FP.
This is awesome. We were just looking at throwing up PgBouncer in front of RDS in the coming year. Looking forward to PostgreSQL support!
It was amazing to watch the effort Wasabi and Jrwr put into reverse engineering these ATMs. This write up is no where reflective of the head banging these people did to figure this stuff out.

Fun Fact. George (the dog pictured in the bottom of the post) is the laziest husky you will ever encounter. But he is cute.
> We thank Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD developers for their incredibly quick response: they published patches for these vulnerabilities less than 40 hours after our initial contact.

Awesome.
Do people still actually believe this?

"Next time it will work because the workers will be properly motivated!"
Agreed. Most VCs are just that, useless sacks of breathing meat.

For that reason, I've avoided them. Even during parties, I (unfairly) dismiss someone the moment I find out they are a VC and just invested in ...(insert famous tech here)...

Based on personal experience, VCs are statistically more likely having a conversation with you thinking they are better than you the whole time (and therefore knows better).

Not all VCs are like that, but unfortunately most of them are. Greedy, prideful people have caused me a great deal of suffering in my life and most VCs are just that.
It has indeed been raising an endowment for several years, but every time I ask them to structure the endowment so that the WMF cannot legally dip into the principal when times get bad the answer is "maybe next year".

If the endowment is just one more account that can be drained at will we have no protection from a sudden drop in revenue while the WMF maintains the current spending levels in the hope that revenue will recover.

I also looked into whether the endowment is legally protected against a large payout as a result of a lawsuit. I am not a lawyer, but it looks like the WMF needs to structure the endowment so that the WMF cannot legally dip into the principal to get that sort of protection.

Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".
Important quote:

“this vulnerability is remotely exploitable in
smtpd, ldapd, and radiusd, but its real-world impact should be studied
on a case-by-case basis. For example, sshd is not exploitable thanks to
its defense-in-depth mechanisms.”

Edit: formatting.
Put the cameras on their own VLAN with no internet access. My Hikvisions are scraped by Zoneminder. Home Assistant completes the setup, behind HA Proxy for a bit more protection.

My setup is perhaps a bit gilt edged but then I am a sysadmin and networks bod and PHB all in one odd package! Home IT needs to step up its game. If you get done over then the cost can be very high. I don't think it is sufficient to simply use your ISP provided router, plug in a few IoT thingies and download a few phone apps and stick your fingers in your ears and chant la-la-la.

I would hope that most of the inhabitants of this parish are capable of putting together a reasonably safe setup and also look after their less technical friends and family (it can be a thankless task but a I think it is a duty.)

Don't forget that your attic, garage or cellar may make good places to keep IT gear in but do consider heat, cold, dust and fire risks.
If someone could acquire the memories of Documentum from my mind I might pay them!
Outrageous Predictions from Saxo Bank
When/if the gag is lifted google does in fact notify the user with what it can.
Why does it not work the other way round, some women with bad experiences don't overrule the good experiences of other women?

For what it's worth, many of the accounts of "bad experiences" didn't really convince me, either. It is too easy to attribute all of one's issues to sexism. For example the common complaint of being passed over in promotions, or of having one's opinions not being appreciated. That happens to men all the time, too, they just don't get to claim it is because of sexism.

Confirmation bias may play a huge role in those personal accounts, too.

As I said - usually the comparison to actual experiences of men is missing. There are many, many more men who have been passed over for promotion than women who have been passed over, in the tech industry, for example.

Another thing that is missing is an account of the advantages women have, like men being eager to help, extra funding only for women, hiring quotas, and so on.
Can you explain why it would be?
Tell HN: Kids know what floppy disks are
Something I've heard a lot is "Today's Kids Don't Know What a Floppy Disk Is".

TL;DR: Yes we do.

Hi, I'm deven, a 16-year-old computer dude from Lewiston, Maine. It's one of the most-populated cities in this poor old state, last I checked. There aren't any game stores or arcades around here anymore. I still know what a cathode ray tube is. My friends know what a cathode ray tube is. We use them. Daily. They look better, at least to us. Bing it, someone else can explain why better than I can.

We know what VHSes are! And what compact cassette is! And we regularly use CDs and records! For God's sake, I have a cabinet full (literally overflowing) of tapes right next to me as I type this. I still play my mother's Gameboy Advance.

My point: Stop saying "Generation Z" doesn't know what your "90s kid" tech is.

We're not stupid. Old technology is still relevant in 2019 (going into 2020). Example: Windows, and I think Linux, display a laptop touchpad as a "PS/2 Mouse". What's a PS/2 mouse? Oh, the IBM Personal System/2, the attempted successor to the 5150 with improved graphics capability. Why can't you make a file called COM1.TXT on any version of Windows? Oh, it's backwards compatibility with CP/M (thanks, Foone).

Millenials tend to underestimate Gen. Z, especially our knowledge of old stuff. You don't seem to realize LGR's YouTube channel has spread among us faster than one of our "meme"s. Please stop saying we don't know what old technology is. If I see another person on this site say "modern teens don't know what a Trinitron is" I'm going to throw my computer into a lake. If I, a kid from a town where inbreeding isn't uncommon, know what a 5.25" floppy disk is used for, the computer kid from New York City probably does too. I hope.

This is a caffeine-fueled rant, if someone uses ad hominems my excuse is that I'm just a teen and don't know any better.
> I'm curious now: would it be possible to use use the content/markup intended for use by the amp cache to view a static/unscripted/readable version of the page's main content? If so, why hasn't anyone built a browser extension to do so?

If the goal is to get around the AMP CDN, you don't even need to read the main page content. The AMP URL contains the original source URL itself [1].

The extension you are describing would just need to capture all requests with the prefix https://www.google.com/amp (or whatever CDN you are trying to get around), parse out the original URL, and then fetch it, and do what you will with it.

If the goal is to disable scripting on the AMP CDN delivered content, first note that AMP pages can't contain page-author-written JS [2], and any implicit JS has to run async.

But if that's insufficient, you can disable JS in the browser altogether, which would disable it in the loaded AMP content.

You could also try to parse out the main content from your extension from the AMP page if you know from the URL that it's an AMP page. Because AMP's forces relative terseness and simplicity of HTML content, it is probably easier to parse than original page's content. Obviously that won't generalize easily given the large variety of possible of content representations, but you stand a better chance of achieving this with AMP content than the original content.

And if you generalize it enough, you will end up with one component of a web crawl / indexing system in an extension ;)

1. https://blog.amp.dev/2017/02/06/whats-in-an-amp-url

2. https://amp.dev/about/how-amp-works/
There are 100 ways to steal credentials if you manage to convince the user that it’s safe to start typing in the page, since you can serve malicious js that way.

I really don’t understand why the browser would masquerade the url just because the content is signed. At best it is able to say ‘the content is signed with x’s key’
Should read: "Google wants their excessive tracking and their ads."
> But when your level of skill gap with another player is too large, such that you won't learn anything by playing them and the entire match will be under their control 100% of the time, then there really isn't any point in playing them, and you'd be far better off—both for your enjoyment, and for your growth—to play against a weaker player.

Unless you're playing in an exceptionally small or dying gaming community, most video games and online board games have good matchmaking services, which provides a quick-and-easy matchup to people of similar skill levels as you.

A lot of the discussions in this thread are about Overwatch (one of the most popular video games right now), or Chess (one of the most popular board games). You should have no issues finding opponents close to your skill in either of these games.
Yep, very cool.
You have a system that allows the recycler to indirectly contact the device owner and offer them a choice of having the device returned or a small iTunes credit provided in return for the device being unlocked.

Everyone wins. More stolen devices returned less electronic waste in the landfill.
Having 10 million dollars as of 2019 and being unable to at least keep up with inflation means making terrible choices, many, many times over.
Quite the contrary, they are bound by fiduciary duty. Short term profits for long term disaster breaches that responsibility.
> I don't think it's possible to make an absolute statement like this with 100% certainty

100% certainty is an impossibly high bar in any hard science

This is the problem with chronic Lyme communities: They fixate on the "what if", no matter how small the probabilities. Many of these patients might very well have entirely treatable yet unrelated disorders, but their fixation on the chronic lyme infection theories keeps them focused on the wrong treatments. Many doctors have tried endless treatments with high-dose antibiotics, but the clinical studies consistently show no difference vs. placebo. We all need to move on from the chronic lyme infection theory unless/until someone provides real evidence to the contrary.

> There are patients who test positive under CDC criteria, take antibiotics, and never see a transition from IgM to IgG.

That was me. I tested positive under the CDC criteria, but followup IgG tests were negative. I lucked into a very astute infectious disease specialist who was as up-to-date on the research as I could have hoped for, and she even took the time to walk me through the various theories and studies.
They do that now in shell companies and off shore accounts.

No I don't agree with that. Someone may have asked the founding fathers that too. You know the monarchy will never go for independent colonies, right?

Political systems change, violently eventually unfortunately and the goal of a new system is to avoid that.
In Finland, there's a lot of old folk tradition around "house elves" ("tonttu"), that sometimes perform useful tasks, sometimes not, but are best not angered in any case.

On the one hand, it's easy to see that mice rattling around could lead to such stories, but on the other hand, it's difficult to imagine people intimately familiar with mice being very mystified by them. However, if they do things like cleaning up in the night, I can imagine that might give rise to some myths!
There's no reason the setup has to be any more complicated - it could work exactly as it does currently, only with the option of pointing it at your own server, instead of Amazon's, or even keep using Amazon's server, but end-to-end encrypt the data, with only you possessing the key.

Amazon and others know this. They don't offer it on purpose, because they want to retain control and a new revenue stream.
Was that an autocorrect from "zoomers" to "boomers"?
We covered it, floor to ceiling, in images and video. Yesteryear's web had a few grainy avatar images and GIFs in footers, todays has nonstop, wall-to-wall, high-definition media.
A tweet with 26 separate inspirations: "Would love to hear a solution." (https://www.parrot.vc/-Luic4DYDS2sZZwQD5L-)

I feel like there are multiple layers to this
Sure, but in Rust, the programmer writes code that calls malloc manually, which is completely different from Java.
Sure, I should be able to throw it onto a repo later.
I love this guy. He's just wacky enough to be fun to watch by not so much that it's annoying. And his videos have the right amount of technical minutiae; detailed enough that you understand the important bits without having to pause the video for a while to chew on the explanation.
I think this works in idea but not sustainable for provider. May be if there is a way to get both...choose free or pay for add free.

Some of the major podcasters tried going paid route and reversed back to ad based model. i.e. tim ferriss
I have a very specific memory of the first moment I encountered a "math" book, in kindergarten. It was literally just a book of the numbers from one to ten, with pictures illustrating what those meant, etc. I wouldn't have been able to verbalize it, but the feeling was "I am going to f___ing love this.".

And indeed I did, and took to math and CS like a duck to water.

No idea whether that's common, nor whether it might be more common for males, but it's hard to see how someone with that intuitive drive wasn't going to do quite well in the subject.
It feels like you're lobbing points from trench to trench. I am not in either trench, and wouldn't like to be (there are weird things in both trenches), so I'm doing what I can to avoid the established battle lines.

I am not trying to debate or argue or win, so there is no satisfying crunch. I am just hoping to say a few things you can chew on (without being too much of a jerk along the way).
I’m no fan of the startup and HN definition of success being valuation, revenue, or market cap while ignoring (the lack of) profitability.

But from a cynical standpoint, why not take VC money if you can get it? It seems like you should take VC money if you don’t have a business model that would lead to being a profitable ongoing concern.

If I can see profitability, why would I give up equity?

You let other people take the downside risk. Why use your own money instead of other people’s money.
How can anyone inside Amazon look at those numbers and think, "Meh."? Otherwise they'd fix it. Actually, they never would have let it get this high. To be this high, nobody with any ability to fix it cared. Period.
You wouldn't happen to be from the La Cañada area of SoCal would you?
I wonder if their change of attitude coincided with them becoming more of an American company rather than Japanese.
Amendment: This is a UX role for the front-end.
As the blog author, you can believe I struggled to distill Open Repos down to a concise soundbite. What makes it hard is that we've built it cover many bases, and we're hoping that customer feedback will lead us in the directions that are most valuable. Here's what it is so far:

* A free product

* A product that collects per-release statistics such that A) maintainers save time summarizing their release B) devs who are evaluating a lib upgrade can hone in on the specific difference between their version (e.g., 1.0.1) and the current version

* A product that makes it possible to browse through all the commits being made to a repo in visual fashion (i.e., to learn code style or stay in the loop on changes) and to discover repos where interesting code is being written

Per Michael Seibel's recent recco on Twitter, this isn't an AI solution and we're not an AI company. Approximating code evolution is hard enough without it.
“Blogger” started like this, according to the interview in “Founders at Work”, an interesting book.

The guy of blogger had to fire pretty much everyone, and it was on bay still running, and everyone angry at the former employer. A few months pass and Blogger took off.
Your comment seemed really strange to me, because I remember that even back at Georgia Tech, we had both technical writing and ethics requirement for anyone in the CS program, so I decided to doublecheck the facts you listed about the Stanford CS program.

Where did you get your info from? Because I just checked the Stanford CS curriculum requirements for Bachelors degree, and it clearly has "Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy" requirement, along with a senior project requirement (that would, I assume, includes writing), as well as 3-5 credit units from the list of approved "Technology in Society" courses.[0]

0. https://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofengineering/comp...
During a panel at this years LymeMIND conference a representative from the CDC named Susanna Visser said that she and her team absolutely believe in persistent Lyme, and that the CDC website now acknowledges it on a basic level.

>Why some patients experience PTLDS is not known. Some experts believe that Borrelia burgdorferi can trigger an “auto-immune” response causing symptoms that last well after the infection itself is gone. Auto–immune responses are known to occur following other infections, including campylobacter (Guillain-Barré syndrome), chlamydia (Reiter’s syndrome), and strep throat (rheumatic heart disease). Other experts hypothesize that PTLDS results from a persistent but difficult to detect infection. Finally, some believe that the symptoms of PTLDS are due to other causes unrelated to the patient’s Borrelia burgdorferi infection.

"Other experts hypothesize that PTLDS results from a persistent but difficult to detect infection."
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postlds/index.html
A skip button requires user intent, your entire value-add is automating that out.

Frankly, I would say that you are a hypocrite.

1. You charge $1.99 for an app that strips revenue streams off content creators, while simultaneously expecting people to pay you for your work. The equivalent would be someone simply taking your impending Android apk, cleaning out the part where you get paid and putting it up for free download. a.k.a piracy

2. Your TOS [1] is a draconian piece of work, implying that the mere act of linking to your site requires your permission (which is obviously inaccurate). However, you have the gall to strip parts of someone else's content in an automated fashion? I'm certain you are violating ToS of podcast creators by doing what you do, and I hope they hold you accountable

Even the list of podcasts you currently support (like ones from NPR) are publicly funded, universally acclaimed and mostly ethical in their labeling of ads. You are not a net benefit to the ecosystem

[1]: https://adskippro.com/terms.html
It's fortunate that people are too lazy to either change the batteries or plug in these devices.

When I was driving for GrubHub last year in LA, I'd say about 1 in 10 Ring doorbells actually worked.

Surveillance sucks.
>If you are a computer programmer considering a career change you should really take a day off to look into the new genetic technologies on offer.

What resources would you recommend, and do you have any advice for someone who is just starting their career?
Those are not service jobs. I think you might be confusing the definition of the service industry and information industry. Additionally, I would argue those jobs you listed could potentially be off-shored, while service industry roles (which typically pay far less) could not.
Towards a New Theory of Learning: Statistical Mechanics of Deep Neural Networks
This submission is _advertising_ a paid app to... skip ads.

Question for OP: how would you feel about a browser extension that automatically recognises submissions of this nature and hides them?
That doesn't let the original companies off the hook unless they release legal claims to the game and let people actually distribute that patch without fear of current or future legal repercussions - Disney in particular is never going to do that.
Direct link to the research article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijc.32738
Breast cancer, but not head skin cancer?
Interesting, thanks for that. I don't really follow what Bing does.

It looks like Bing has the same problem, and serves AMP from bing-amp.com.
Yeah you could arm yourself to the teeth with weapons and surveillance gear, or you can push for a more equitable society and well-funded social safety nets so that folks can get educations and get back up on their feet after a job loss or medical issue without feeling like resorting to crime is a viable option.
Western medicine is just defined as medicine that has been through a rigorous clinical trial process that actually proves it works.

Until these Eastern medicine have gone through the same process, it’s just anecdotal evidence.