skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, my best management is never even known by my staff, they simply deal with a metric ton less bullshit due to a thankless move on my part—ignorance is bliss.

You should try to keep your staff in the loop. Hiding things just means that you end up with a far bigger mess when you aren't able to shield them from it. If you keep your staff in the loop from day 1, it becomes far easier to deal with problems later. Because they won't even be problems then, just challenges that everyone knows about.
There the "risk free" aspect, but there also just really isn't much else in the world that you can buy 100 billion dollars of in just a few years. Even the entirety of taxable property in Manhattan can be had for just over twice that amount of money. Not to mention good luck trying not to move the market while buying 100 bn of anything.
Seems pretty simple solution, just pay more.

You have a 9 Billion dollar Technology budget just pay 225k and I'm sure good devs will sign right up. Coolness be damned.
https://github.com/popcorn-time
I have 14 properties. I have never seen Airbnb predict anything other than $99. None of my places list for less than twice that.

When you have filled out that they get a 3 bed, 3.5 bath 2800 square foot home, furnished, all to themselves with utilities included, $99 a night is way off. You can't rent a home in any market furnished with utilities for that price. (yes someone will point to a cozy place in North Dakota that is that price) so I'll also specify, Walking distance to a Bowl Game stadium, nations top 10 night life neighborhoods, and with a 2 car garage.

Yes. Putting a "default" price there probably helps. But their predictive algo, sucks, and they shouldn't be bragging about it.
I think you're showing VPS pricing (not dedicated servers).
Cross-posted from Reddit:

"Servo is a successor to Firefox" isn't really accurate. It's a research browser engine, not a production browser, and there are no productization plans at this time. (That said, we're aiming for the same engineering quality of a product—"research" isn't an excuse to cut corners.)
whois exelion.net is your friend.
The term "rent-seeking" is accurate within the study of economics, but is bound not to be understood accurately by lots of non-economists. It resembles a competing, everyday meaning that is inocuous: buying a property or other asset and renting it out is a valuable service, whereas "rent-seeking" is destructive. The term is economists' jargon that euphemizes the problem. If I were the chief of the rent-seeking lobby, I would want everyone to keep calling it "rent-seeking."

The term "economic central planning" emphasizes that it's fundamentally opposite to free market economics, and that its practitioners and defenders are hypocrites.
I can understand that, but they're still in a different league than technologists, who don't benefit from lobbying unless it aligns with certain business interests.
"We will do anything to recruit tech talent, except pay more!"
Or the CPU or the memory or the OS...
Ok, but who didn't predict this outcome?
It was lost, when the auto dealer franchise laws were put into place along time ago.
What this shows is that if you are using a machine connected to the internet, assume you have been rooted. If you are paranoid, do all of your surfing in a VM over Tor and reset that VM state after every launch.
Hetzner has good prices on Haswell servers (1 € == 1.4 USD):

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

As well as lots of inexpensive older models:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/serverb...
Google Cloud Bug permanently deletes compute engine persistent disks
Does a Model-S come with the country club membership? I'm in!

It's more likely to come with a hackerspace membership.
Yeah, I don't know what it is, what they've done, or why they are stopping.

Not in any real detail anyway.
You do realize that for most Android devices, "rooting" requires finding a security exploit first to allow escalation of priviledges to root? It is not officially a part of Android and is not really blessed by the OEMs.

From a policy/ethical perspective, if you have to find a security exploit first to completely own your device, how is Android OEM policies any different from Windows then?
The formula is:

1. Create a new app that's a slight variation of something popular that already exists.

2. Hype it like crazy.

3. Find someone clueless to buy, either a large corporation or have an IPO.

4. Repeat with the next idea.

It's basically the same model for hyping celebrities. Is Lady Gaga popular because she's a great singer, or because the media hypes her all the time? Similarly, is Secret popular because it's good, or because it's being promoted all the time?
Wait, a gem, a yaml file? What exactly is this doing with my scripts? Can I really expect this to make my shell scripts work across clouds?
My implementation I did for a programming challenge within my organization:

https://github.com/tnishimura/challenge2048
Our stores will transition to being galleries, where you can see the car and ask questions of our staff, but we will not be able to discuss price or complete a sale in the store. However, that can still be done at our Manhattan store just over the river in Chelsea or our King of Prussia store near Philadelphia.

"Cross an imaginary line a few miles down the road that the auto dealers can't access and everything will be A-OK!"

This is everything that is wrong with politics in a sentence.
I buy luxury brands and have for a long time.

The dealer experience is pretty darn good.

I took delivery on a new Porsche. The transmission had a problem. So they flew a new one in from Germany by Fedex at a cost of perhaps $8,000 (after all it's pretty heavy) in air freight I was told. Loaner cars? Last time they gave me a brand new Cayman (I own a 911) with 300 miles on it. Other times Cayene Hybrids with 3k miles.

It's not without it's bumps of course (routine service maintenance was $450 to keep up the warranty Mercedes does something similar). But if you can't afford that type of thing you don't buy this type of car (at least not a new one).

The standards are higher for several reasons. One is that people with money don't take shit generally and are very demanding. So they keep the people working there in line and don't take bs answers and complain so much.

I brought the car in to fix a problem and when I was driving down 95 the repair broke. I called them they towed the car back and got the repair mechanic back from home (he had left for the day) and fixed it while I waited. I felt bad for him he was literally fearing for losing his job.
It's hard to make anything that people want to open and use every day, that's why I commend the folks behind secret.
Docker supports (supported?) what LXC supported, which was relative CPU shares. I am not sure it would help if it supported something else (like quota minimum/maximum). When the IO subsystem is hit with a memory intensive workload that thrashes swap, all your guarantees go out the window. From my perspective (staring at top while an interactive terminal is not responding), it's the kernel that owns the CPU shares being used, and the IO volume, and it looks like the container is "almost idle" because most of the CPU time is being spent by the kernel.

I don't know if it's that something Docker can fix. It might be something kernel devs can fix, though.
Python's grammar as a flowchart
Lego, 3D Printing and Agile Development
Secret may be hugely profitable someday.

Still, as for today, I wonder how we'll know when we've jumped the shark?
AOL Lays Off "Double Digit" Number Of Employees
No, but "Cars do uncomfortable things at high velocity" is not exactly an edge case.
Excel Addins: Reloaded
They deleted it from there, didn't they?
You don't forcefully create jobs when there are none required. Lets get rid of computers and hire thousands of accountants instead.
Tesla still has service shops where the local people would be employed.
Here's what Monty (of ogg vorbis fame) has to say about this: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
That's what a seed box is for. If you're really paranoid about it, you can actually pay for a seed box in bitcoins. Cost a good ~$20 a month though.
Well, for anyone else looking, this build currently works for me: https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app
arent these guys supposed to know a thing about valuation?
Let me know when you learned how to "Hype it like crazy".

Thanks
So... this is basically just one module from Ansible, plus some obscenities?
There are two ways to debug something:

1) Step through the program, try to think of logic errors etc.

2) Do a binary search through your latest commits and see where something broke.

Those are your two clues.
I believe its already been done

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/01/10/260572933...

I'll admit I'm a little surprised there wasn't some legal ramification
My point is that they're not "Soviets" anymore...
They said it would be great news. This post isn't great news. Yet.
Because it's an awful productivity device?

It has no usable filesystem, poor integration between applications, awful input device support, a tiny screen and is impractical for office work.

Yes I do own one for reference.
Could someone explain to a European, in simple words, how the franchise-dealer-factory thing works?

If a dealer is the company who actually sales cars and the factory is the one that produces them, why do they need a franchise in between? And how come that a dealer is comparable to a manufacturer Tesla? Why do they have conflict of interests selling non-gasoline cars?!
> the government is preventing a company from selling a superior product

There is some bias there. You judge Tesla a better product, so of course all the regulation that are against its sales are going to feel unjust.

I have difficulties to really follow this whole stuff (I live in EU, the whole buying a car in the US seems a very 'exiting' experience, at least when reading about it on Reddit), there does not seem to be any sort of nice non-partisan explanation of the problem and why those regulations where put in place.

Actually Musk is the clearest answer that is not either: "Tesla great, fuck the regulation" or the opposite, "Musk dick, cannot follow the regulations like everybody else", but what's PR and what's factual ?

Edit: Just realised why it irked me this time. I was reading about EU decision of standardizing the power plug for smartphone to micro-USB. People were all happy for regulation there. When people complained that now the we would get stuck with micro-usb forever, people dismissed it saying the EU will just change the plug when a better one comes up as if the EU/US hadn't got an awful track record at keeping their regulation and spec up-to-date, like in this case for example.
Agreed, the whole article can be summarized as 'Mozilla is working on a new browser engine made for multi-core systems, in a new language they are developing called 'Rust' which is made for speed and safety'. Not much more to learn from it.
Given that:

1. Some publicly traded companies have been sued for not maximizing shareholder value.

2. Not utilizing all of tax exempt vehicles provided to them could be counted as not maximizing shareholder value, unless of course there is a better investment they can make with their cash pile.

3. Given inflation of 1.5%, $100 billions in cash that Apple has would be losing $1.5 billions per year in terms of buying power. So not investing it is paramount to loosing money.

I really do not see how can anyone can claim that companies are evil for doing this. They merely operate in framework set up for them.

This also raises interesting point that it would be illegal to try to repatriate gigantic cash supplies they have because that would definitely go against maximizing shareholder value.
I have no idea what this is, but the name is awesome & catchy and if I saw it in the app store - I would probably try to download it.
A simple and flexible way to do a game loop in JavaScript
Honestly this is not a bad idea. Since bringing up a new instance VM will always be in exactly the same state, the shell script is completely deterministic. If any line fails to run, you could simply log an error and automatically shut down the VM.

The bash script itself is also extremely straight forward and is easily testable with a built in REPL (you know, bash). Anybody who vaguely knows unix is also going to be able to understand and maintain the shell script. Adding in new dependencies is simple. It's easily portable and you don't need to do any extra work to add in new features. I can't even think of a drawback.
Seems like a good idea. I'm using windows 8.1 at work and home and the only time I use metro "apps" is when I have a file association that needs to be updated to use a desktop app.
I was hoping for actual hand to hand combat. To the death, preferably. Regardless of who wins, or whether it attracts more tech talent, fewer bankers sounds like a win.
It's interesting that Christie seems to have totally given up on being a viable national political candidate, after the drive slow thing with the bridges, this, and some other issues.
The article you linked to does almost nothing to make the case for poor management of Medicare / Medicaid. In fact, it does a pretty good job of saying that a program which provides health services for 1/6th of our population is waging a pretty darn good fight against an army of people who want to defraud it. Probably the only thing in the article that could be called "waste" is the policy of "pay and chase", which they then immediately note is improving.

Sure, there are an army of medical professionals that want to scam the Fed, but its not like Medicare / Medicaid's just sitting there and letting them be scammed. I mean really, if you're going to pick on a gov. program, you probably shouldn't go for one of the better run ones in the Fed, maybe try the DoD. Now them,... they've got some waste. How many times has the DoD said it doesn't want more tanks? "Oh, what's that, you say you want more tanks? Here's 50 billion. Make it happen. In my district."
Designing for Metro was a waste of time from the beginning.
The article goes on to criticize American tech companies for not moving overseas funds here; this after they are being criticized for buying Government debt with the money they already have here.

I am at a loss.
Uber and Lyft expand insurance coverage after lawsuit over New Year's Eve death
Heh. I was working for a multinational petroleum company on software that literally had multi-millions of dollars in repercussions every 15 minutes if it didn't work right, and people in the company balked at paying $100k for a programmer. The company had an incredibly regressive attitude towards software and was continually paying the price for it. (But they made so much money, they failed to notice. Petroleum products traders also used to joke that if you didn't have enough profits, just send this company an invoice, and they'd pay it. Except, it wasn't exactly a joke.)
On the topic of pirated content, I was an early contributor to the Veronica Mars movie Kickstarter, and I received my "digital download" today.

It consisted of a link to sign up to two separate websites to download a specific player that would stream the video for me on supported platforms only. Also, the HD version might not be available right away.

I checked and the torrent of the HD version had been online for 30 minutes already.

Why do they bother with this bullshit? It makes no logical sense and all it does is hurt them.
Every android device I've owned has been freely rootable. Maybe there are some that are more restrictive, but all I've had to do is change a setting in a menu.

Whereas the Win8/secure boot ecosystem is an active pain to dual boot, where it doesn't just downright block it entirely. I had a Win8 laptop that I bought recently, it was an absolute pain in the arse to get anything other than windows booting.
It is because being a milquetoast is such a popular tactic that people like Christie are able to retain power once they achieve it.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
"Wanna just use fucking shell scripts to configure a server? Read on!"

Step 0: Install the gem

# gem install fucking_shell_scripts
# gem: command not found

wat.
People don't buy whole devices for an app. Or at least not most people.
I used to be annoyed by autocomplete=off until I started using 1Password. Now, I actually tell Chrome to disable auto-filling of forms since I can fill the form fields with 1Password, which is the only place I'm keen to store personal information.
Hm, I thought that by now most people would have got that:

* Free-market is for the poor (in every sense: money, political power, etc.)

* The rich (again in every sense) know that in order for you to become obscenely rich you need a state-protected, but not state-owned monopoly.

That's how wall street works actually: We share the loses, they get the winnings... It's risk free win-win for them.
See reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/20fmbu/ask_hn_w...
Which is another way of saying it's Ansible without all of the stuff you don't need (plus obscenities).
I don't think this was Popcorn's choice. I'd be willing to bet their hand is being forced here.
I've seen this again and again, where some alpha-male exec who knows nothing about programming just angrily asserts, "Those guys aren't worth $100,000!" with nothing concrete to back it up.
I too hope so, but not for automotive. I want to 3D print the hull for a high speed catamaran. Every year I wait is another year laser sintering gets cheaper, 3D printing gets better, and the cost of technology drops.
OK, just following up on my own curiosity here. Sorry if this is getting OT...

Every FIDO request has an AppID which is the service you are registering for, and it's an HTTPS URI.

When you resolve (HTTPS GET) the AppID, it returns a list of "FacetIDs" which are basically the different channels/endpoints which you can trust sending an authentication response. No more than one of those channels may be a 'Web Origin' facet. "In the Web case, the facetID is the Web Origin [RFC6454] of the web page triggering the FIDO operation". Examples of a non-web facets are "android:apk-key-hash:2jmj..." or "ios:bundle-id:com.acme.app"

While processing an authentication request, the FIDO client must;

o Obtain FacetID of the requesting Application. Resolve AppID URI and make sure that this FacetID is listed in TrustedApps.

- If FacetID is not in TrustedApps – reject the operation

The FIDO client will embed the FacetID it used as part of the signed response it sends back to the server.

The authentication response can optionally contain TLS channel binding information, which the server can use to try to detect MITM (although there can be false positives depending on your network). It also looks like a MITM may be able to use a specially crafted certificate to ensure channel binding information is not usable by the FIDO client.

The final step on the FIDO client in the spec is simply: "Send [xyz]Response message to FIDO Server".

So in summary, it looks like the response channel can be DYNAMIC -- I can ask your FIDO Client to send an authentication response from a different URL than the one you used when you enrolled, but the domain I ask from has to be listed in the response provided by HTTPS GET of the AppID.

The haven't found where spec says exactly how the facet ID should be matched up against the string array returned by resolving the AppID. It appears the full path is undefined and left to the control of the attacker. So a FacetID of https://www.google.com would allow an authentication response to be sent to https://www.google.com/a/domain.com/...
Enjoy your horse, then... but only if you're an atheist. :-P
Here's hoping more developers follow suite and Microsoft is eventually forced to drop this whole failed experiment. The changes coming to Win8.1 and the terrible sales figures as people stick to Win7 are hopefully very good indicators that this will happen - and then the rest of us can get back to actually using an OS and not fighting it.
This looks like a great idea. The only thing I'm concerned about it the work it will probably require to organize my "jots".
Only the lawyers who don't understand the idea of an open source project would be licking their chops. I can still run popcorn time, you can still run popcorn time, anyone can still run popcorn time.

It relies on completely open APIs hooked to the torrent infrastructure.

Development will continue in some form or another I can guarantee it. Besides this isn't even the first project like this, just the most public. See: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736
Exactly

If I want to use FSS to configure the server, I already do. I don't need the "latest fad in configuration tool" to do something FSSs already do!

Like fabric. If you're not using their advanced features, you're writing a shell script in python.

Thanks, I'll write a shell script
And even then it is not necessarily legal, because the case can be revisited on appeal. Or another case can be revisited in another court from a completely different angle. It's happened before. Many times.
Introduction to the Sockets API
Their cited use metrics seem a bit bizarre. I had absolutely no idea Firefox for Metro existed and would gladly have tried out a prerelease build if I had any idea it were available.

I certainly don't disagree with the idea, though. Mozilla have limited resource and by almost all accounts the Windows tile UI isn't being adopted rapidly or willingly.
That's perfectly reasonable. I do that all of the time when I have a hosting issue.

I whois the website to get the contact info for the owner. Because whois info is always correct. /s
What is the industry norm for financial tech salary? Low?
Using tables for layout? No thanks.
Ask HN: Data structures via plain, clear, practical-sounding explanations
Like many, I have coding experience, but I don't have a CS background. I'm interviewing. I'm being asked to explain things like what is a hash collision, and what do you do to fix it. That seems like a reasonable question, but most books that explain it feel much more theoretical/academic. What is the best practical guide to data structures. I have Hetland's Python Algorithms, and it's helping, but I'm looking for supplements, something where I can imagine that the person is explaining it to me over the phone (like one has to do during a screen etc). Thanks.
Yes, they know something is only worth what somebody will pay for it ;)
3 Reasons Good Employees Break Bad
KMS fixed this.
Really? It's working fine for me. What problems are you having?
Typically shell scripts are fine in the beginning, but over time the complexity rises and it becomes an unmaintanable mess, and you'll end up reimplementing it in a proper programming language.

Shell scripts are not easily portable either, unless by "portable" you mean "works in Linux". Node.js scripts, for example, really (mostly) work on Linux and other platforms like Windows.

Until you hit some nasty "path is longer than 254 characters" bugs. Oh well..
Except for the fact that banks do pay a shit load of money for quality programmers...
Benched tries to explain humans to aliens, episode 122: "It was possible to compose pictures and sound coming from a screen in such a way that some people would consider it dangerous."
Also just think; how long did it take for the first iphone jailbreaks to come out, cydia for your car. Alternately replaceable ROM's for your car a la android. Where there is a closed eco system there are 100 people just staring at their computers until they figure out how to break it wide open.
Thanks for this; I've shot you an email.