skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, volume discount is less risky for any business. Nice way to put it, thank you.
But anyway, I sometimes believe that some new companies turn too fast into "small" large inaccessible corporations! It's a good thing to take this in consideration for all startups out there.
Presumably the thinking is that certs shouldn't be issued with a validity more than a year or two. So certs expiring 2017 shouldn't be issued before 2015 or 2016… plenty of time for people to start issuing newer certs with stronger hashing. And if they don't… it's just a small visual warning, for now.
Other than not getting this started sooner, it seems fine to me.
Completely irrelevant. Many more drug deals have probably been arranged through email than through Silk Road too. SR's express purpose was to provide a marketplace for drug vendors to sell to drug buyers.
We encourage pet owners to spay/neuter their animals. Caponizing is no different, except for the intended purpose. It sounds tasty, so now I'm curious.
In some parts of suburban Canada, many pedestrians don't bother paying much attention to the road; they just assume all cars will stop for them!
There's a more modern version with some interesting features: https://www.mirbsd.org/jupp.htm
Article says the FBI located the server by entering "miscellaneous" input into the Silk Road login page, which at some point disclosed an IP address. I wonder if they got the Web server to throw a 500 or similar error, that rendered some debug output?
The very old common law precedent is that if you're benefiting from a practice that accidentally causes someone else harm, you're liable for any damages regardless of whether or not there's any negligence. For example, blasting at mines on occasion resulted in people many miles away getting hit with high speed pebbles that hurt them. The miners are liable for damages even if they took careful measures to reduce risk. There is zero reason to alter this concept for cars, trucks, or trains. If you want to speed around in two tons of steel because that's easier for you, then you should be fully liable for any consequences that flow from speeding around in two tons of steel. Trying to walk across the street is not an activity that creates the risk in the first place.
Here's an editor with a WordStar-style interface: https://www.mirbsd.org/jupp.htm
just as an interesting experiment, would anyone want to collaborate on a CUDA program to do this? I'm learning to utilize it now with c++.
> If you are hosting a Tor hidden service, do it inside a virtual machine. Put it behind a gateway that acts as an isolating proxy.

While this is good advice and will help you in the event of your server accidentally leaking debugging/config information, it won't help if someone is able to get the hidden service to make a network request. For example, if they can get it to send an email or check if a page is online, then that email will obviously go through the gateway. And obviously if someone gains arbitrary code execution, they can just Google "my IP" and see the externally facing IP.

Some other useful advice: if you're setting up a Tor hidden service, make sure the HTTP server only accepts requests from the Tor network. The FBI claims that when they put the $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] IP in their browser they got the SR home page right on port 80, which is extremely poor security on SR's part. Someone running a distributed scan of all web servers on the Internet could have found it on their own within a few weeks or less. And in fact, this is becoming more common as a technique to identify origin servers hidden behind reverse proxies and CDNs.
oh my, I just posted asking if anyone wanted to collaborate on a CUDA program to do this!! Thanks for making yours available on GitHub so I can learn from it.
This is just the cover-story.
Although HTML was not meant to be read by the end user, many of the compromises it made from its parent, SGML, do seem to have been intended to make it more easily manipulated (as in both read and written by a somewhat technical human user). No unnamed close tags, extreme flexibility on presence or absence of opening and closing tags, case insensitivity, overlapping nesting, etc. All these things make things much harder for a computer to reliably process the document but theoretically much easier for a human to follow them. Of course, in the long run as these things pile up it actually ends up being counterproductive. It's just hard for both.
A settlement this small spread among companies like this looks weak. It would seem to have little punitive effect in preventing companies from engaging in anti-competitive behavior. It might actually encourage this practice across more industries when they see how easy they got off.

Competition between firms benefiting everyone is fundamental to having a healthy growing economy. It simply cannot be dismissed as a function of the free market to allow this form of collusion.
Background: I am Dutch, in my fifties and recently moved to the US.

Mondermans ideas are only implemented in a very limited part of the Netherlands: only in one of the 12 provinces, and only in about hundred locations. And this is one of the least inhabited provinces..

So, the fact that the Netherlands has a 60% lower fatality rate can absolutely not be attributed to just his work.

In my personal view the real causes are:

- mandatory traffic lessons in elementary school
- standards for drivers licenses are much higher
- kids must be 18 to get a license
- less big cars
- smart road design, more lighting, better road quality
- narrower roads with more variety make drivers more careful, especially wrt bikers
- slower traffic must keep right on highways
- maximum speed for trucks is 15mph lower than other cars
- much attention to traffic safety everywhere
- stricter traffic laws and enforcement

So even though Monderman was on to something, many more things are needed, to keep the stupid and irresponsible from ruining lives.
Rhine – A Lisp on LLVM
That's a great paper but most people are interested in the performance of the top 10 firms, not the average of the top 100. If I invest only in Sequoia/KPCB/AZ/Accel how well am I doing?
I think he is saying that a lot of these companies have a mainframe emulator running z/OS on unix rather than a true mainframe. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I believe that's why he is saying you can attack from the unix side.

z/OS itself is most certainly not an emulation layer over AIX. It's a complex operating system with 50 years of history behind it.
I was in Shanghai last summer and started crossing the cross-walk with cars approaching from both directions. Instead of slowing, the cars just started honking and racing towards me. Had to play some hardcore frogger to cross the street. Just goes to show that driver opinions really are different in China. Oh, and don't use the crosswalks.
Has he worked as an early employee in another new company before? Because all of the best founders I know have. (Zuckerberg is an extreme outlier.)

Experience will save you a lot of heartache. I'm learning so much at the startup I'm currently working at, just by witnessing how decisions are made, what tradeoffs need to be made, etc.

These will all be invaluable if I ever start my own company, and yet I never realized any of this until I accidentally ended up working for somebody else.
It's an absolutely gorgeous pen though (in my opinion).
A.H. requires no explanation for those not in the know, A16Z does.
You keep bringing up Microsoft without mentioning thhat they gave their users 2 years of notice, while you are giving your users less then 6 months.
The Prize doesn't get into Rockefeller's business decisions as much as Titan though. If that's what you're after, Titan is a better choice.
For a short answer to the first question, see his slides on the collection library[0], particularly number 42. The gist is that the Scala collections have too many dimensions (mutable/immutable, sequential/parallel, strict/lazy), all of which share code -- but it turns out that the right implementation for a lazy immutable parallel collection is not necessarily good for a strict mutable sequential collection, and juggling all these variations makes it much trickier to modify or reason about the code. He seems to be fine with the existence of parallel collections, but probably as something that lives on top of the standard library instead of being layered into it.

To your second paragraph -- I believe that #2 might have found its way into a Scala-from-scratch, but the others certainly wouldn't. I think the big difference would be in the type system, which could be much simpler if it didn't have to interop with Java's weird generics.

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/extempore/a-scala-corrections-libr...
This is probably my main problem with HN. I love the site, i love the content but sometimes you want to read people's opinon on bad sites to identify what people is reaction on but it seems to be pushed from the frontpage very quickly. I like reading different opinions on subjects and the really controversial stuff seems to be filtered out sometimes :(
After watching this talk I don't care what he comes up with in the future, I want to use it.

Excellent talk.
Huh! I use joe, and wasn't aware someone had forked/worked on it. Nifty.
This is an interesting topic. Could it be we're at that stage where older browsers no longer matter/actually support one page/JSON based websites?
Why can't you just verify that the whole chain is SHA-1 instead of using the expiration date as a heuristic?
Cars are a vital part of most people's lives and the economy. Most people don't want to be a slave to public transportation, including me. Getting rid of cars would be ridiculous.
Judging from the readme, it seems that unGoogleability might be a feature.
Why does anyone need an "education" in calculator technology? After class ends, no one will touch the calculator again.
Believe it or not, there's a certain amount of dissent within this large collective of individual human beings.

You've touched on a point the group is divided on: How much heroism (however defined) should the group engage in? Is it nobler to lulz, or to take up LOIC against a sea of shitheads, and in DDoSing, convince CNN to notice?

That, or some people are sociopaths, some people are zealots, and deciding who's who says more about you than about them.
Without taking a position on whether I think <MCRed> is right as a policy matter, you're responding to a different point.

<MCRed> is arguing (admittedly in a rant-y kind of way) that the U.S. Constitution is a document that grants limited and specific powers to the federal government and reserves the rest for the states and the people. That argument says those powers do not include the ability to regulate money exchange. An implication of that argument is that nearly all law enforcement would be left to the states -- so your hypothetical sex slave ring would be prosecuted by the states, and in fact every state currently has a law on its books making such a conspiracy illegal. And in fact most criminal prosecutions are already done by state governments.

Again, I'm not saying what I would prefer as a normative matter, just that it looks like you're talking past each other to some extent.
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I had the same experience in India. A large group of us (Americans) was at one of the Mumbai offices.

We called it "consultant frogger" whenever we tried to cross the street. (Thane Belapur, if you're familiar with the area)
Ford Mobility Integration Challenge
David Christian's concept, especially the "thresholds", reminds me of an excellent course[0]/book[1]/website[2] written/taught by the wonderful astrophysicist Eric Chaisson[3]. Not exactly focused on "history" in the traditional sense, but on the history of the universe, focusing on different "epochs", from the big bang, to present day and beyond. I highly recommend the readings (and the course for those who are monetarily and geographically able to do so [Boston area]).

[0] http://www.extension.harvard.edu/courses/cosmic-evolution-or...
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Evolution-Rise-Complexity-Natur...
[2] https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/doc...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Chaisson
This along with all the other articles about how it's OK to be sad, depressed, burnt out, unable to focus, disinterested and demotivated are complete bullshit. We're living in a society where we no longer have any real battles to fight and our culture is starting to conjure imaginary problems out of thin air and then come up with creative ways to solve them.

"...even a random snide comment take up most of our psychic space, leaving little room for compliments or pleasant experiences to help us along life’s challenging path."

Here, have a strong cup of toughen-the-fuck-up.

PS: The fact that you're finding this at the bottom of the page and greyed out is a case in point on how HN has fallen in love with self pity. (Not an edit)
Commonsense dictates that you would have more people on foot rather than in their cars ( especially single-occupant driving cases ) if cities actually paid attention to the plight of persons on foot, on sidewalks.

It has to be said that I am uniquely referring to cities like SF known for their less than splendid sidewalk conditions. I am discounting the fact that SF is quite hilly and thus not very conducive for walking, unlike other flatter cities.

SF is notorious for its grubby, thrash-discharged, excrement-laden and generally deplorable sidewalks.

Just this week :

http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_Jay/poop-map.jpg [1]

Anyone familiar with SF knows that whether you are on the sidewalks abutting the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society and right next to an upscale mall or in seedier parts of Inner/Outer Mission, you can never take a pleasant walk for granted.

Prominent sidewalks are openly defecated on.

Casual violence of vagrants and the professionally-homeless is quite common.

Entire sections of neighborhoods are poorly-lit, with dodgy surfaces to boot.

All this not even accounting for the unenthusiastically enforced sit-lie ordinances [2], a thriving homeless industrial complex supported by the city's SROs and rising crime in parts of the city [3]

This irks even otherwise civic minded, forward-thinking residents who have all but given up on the city's frowziness and its celebration of the unhygienic and unsanitary.

I think there is a strong Well that is SF for you. If you don't like it, go live in Marin ethos prevalent here (and in other cities like SF). And that is not one bit helpful.

[1]
http://sfist.com/2014/09/03/photo_du_jour_poop_map.php

[2]
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sit-lie-law-primarily-enf...

[3]
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Duboce-Triangle-neighb...

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Perhaps less frightening when you consider that he manage to cut the end-user price of kerosene by 90%.
> Up until the days of auto-focus, single-lens reflex (SLRs) also used this kind of technique for focusing.

Everything else is perfect, but this is incorrect. SLRs use focusing screens with split prisms and/or microprisms, not rangefinders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focusing_screen

You can still mount one of those on some modern DSLRs by simply replacing a piece of glass. http://www.focusingscreen.com/privacy.php
Why not show it before signup? I'm not giving anyone access to my Dropbox just because they ask nicely.
What pain and suffering did he cause, other than running his business better and offering a better product to customers than his competitors? He cut the price of kerosene by 90%, which must have vastly improved the quality of life for a lot of people.
The secret to driving in Manhattan is not worrying about the people behind you. The busses won't rear end you, and if anyone else does, big deal its low speed traffic anyway.
Are you worried about bringing possibly-rabid wild or feral mammals into your yard?
Latency. Server-side rendered pages can display immediately; client-side ones need to wait for the JS to download before they show anything. This can be a significant advantage for sites that are transactional or content-based in nature (eg. Google, weather, news, or Wikipedia).
“slave”?
It wasn't an issue until it was raised by the defence.
It's interesting that Bitcoin is not classified as a currency by some parts of the government but it was considered a money-transmitting business.
I'm currently using Racket ( http://racket-lang.org/ ), it's a Scheme dialect. It supports Windows, Linux and OSX. It has a nice IDE with support for macro expansion.
And it has a lot of packages ("batteries included") and is usually faster than Python.

It also has a web server ( http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/ ). I'm using it for a small site, with a few hundreds users.
Cosmic Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Approach
I haven't seen anyone get hit, but all forms of traffic in NYC (especially midtown Manhattan) are very aggressive.

Pedestrians do regularly walk out in front of traffic against the light. Cars, especially taxis, will speed up to run yellow/red lights, even when there are crowds of pedestrians at the corner spilling onto the streets. Bikes often run lights and ride against traffic. Cars and pedestrians block bike lanes constantly.

It's remarkable so few accidents happen, really. I think part of it is, although NYC drivers can be annoying and aggressive, they are also skilled and attentive.
Ditto for Cairo, worst traffic I've ever experienced. Noticed an unusually high number of people walking with limps, too.
> I am just pointing out that as a stock holder if the only value of buying AMAZON stock is that you expect that someone else down the line is going to pay you more to buy it than you paid for it then thats similar to how a Ponzi scheme works.

By that definition, literally every investment would be a Ponzi scheme. A savings account would be a Ponzi scheme.
Yeah, that's due to a strong bias away from anything else. Lots of lobby dollars in play reinforcing that, and there is the strong perception that Oregon can't actually afford to make any kind of investment.

But this shows Oregon can, did, and it was botched horribly. Doing the same while providing local jobs, some great skills to be used all over the place, and build something that has a very likely lower overall ownership cost profile makes a ton of sense!

It just won't get proposed in the current political climate, which was the point of my reply.

Of course Oregon wants COTS. Everybody does, because they think the vendor will own it, saving them money through economies of scale. Quite frequently, COTS can do that, but for something like this, something new, that needs to communicate with a lot of varied systems?

No way in hell it was ever gonna be COTS, and that right there should have triggered a much different, "how does Oregon do this?" kind of discussion.

Oracle has a good sales team, and they sold it right to this dynamic, which is what they were supposed to do. Problem is the value really wasn't there. No matter what, it was going to take some real work to build out the exchange and have it function well.

As for the support contracts, those come with an annual cost. It's very highly likely that cost could simply provide a job for the people who built the thing. Additionally, having seen success on a project like that, the same team would be well positioned to build out more and or get funded by other municipalities seeking similar solutions.

I don't have the basic numbers a few of us ran back then, but they were compelling.

This works the same for States as it does companies or anyone else. Make the in-house investments and own the tools. From there, buying help is always an option. Avoiding it is another option. Relying on a vendor, who will very frequently oversell their support staff, counting on their product to be a winner, often results in that support contract merely funding the trouble shooting. More dollars are required to buy, implement, test, etc... fixes.

Fixes, which by the way, will be called custom patches for major customers due to the size and non COTS nature.
Paul English's Blade and Holy Cross Drop-Out Launch WiGo
Unfortunately, there are other costs associated with running than just "a half-decent vps"... IN addition your vps probably has to be better than you expect. For example, ramnode ($20/year) does not give near enough ram to run anti-spam (e.g. amavisd or just clamav solo). You need on the order of a gig of ram. You won't get that for less than $5/mo or $50/year.

You also must buy an ssl cert or else many other email providers will mark your email spam score up.

You also must go through the operational burdon of setting things up and managing backups, restores, etc. This is perhaps 30 hours / year, which means you're already well over the cost of $40/yr.

One thing to note is that for more than a few accounts (bring your own address, catchall, many aliases) you're unlikely to find something that costs as little as $40/year and the cost of running that yourself is identical, so that's where you can start to make money.

I've gone down the route of using hosted and hosting my own mail and feel like I have a good understanding of the costs.

Your flippant remark, completely disregarding even the system requirements, shows that you have not. Good day sir.
You can achieve weather, news, wiki levels of performance with client-side rendering. Although, today it depends on the device you're using.
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I've listened to Christian's audio classes. It is darn cool! You travel through all realms of knowledge. It celebrates evidence, reasoning and science. A simple audiobook is more intellectually stimulating than the excellent Cosmos Series. Man, if I had billions of dollars these would be the kind of things I'd love to spend my money on.
Not a bad idea.

One issue I could see though is the initial email would essentially devolve into a "poke". Nobody would bother writing anything in it, which would mean the spam filters would have nothing to filter on.
> Saying that Amazon doesn't make a profit depends on a misleading definition of the word "profit".

It's only misleading if you pick a definition of "profit" at random rather than investigating the definition being used in the article. As the article states, Amazon's gross profit is over 20%. And the article briefly hints that gross profit is not a very useful metric. It's certainly of little immediate relevance to Amazon's investors.
I still don't know what Alibaba does.
Besides the fact that Skype was an exceptional insider deal these numbers can be misleading ("twice over" for a 10 year fund is about 7% a year and IRRs are distorted when money is returned early because you are not getting that return for the remaining period of investment).
I love my 1st generation Moto G. It just has two problems: no SD card to put my music, and a terrible camera. The new version has a SD card. How the camera performs? It has 3 megapixels more.
`also, someone claimed that a lead maintainer of the Linux kernel is a rape apologist. That's good enough to drop Linux, right?`

If that was proved to be the true, then I would want him or her to work on Linux from jail.
What is worse? I mean, I can understand complaining about speed of feature uptake. But... stability seems pretty good pretty much everywhere else.

That is, my complaint here is that the platform is unstable. Thus making it scary to adopt. How is that "worse" everywhere else?
There's still a huge place for rendering on the server, but the Wheel of Reincarnation has been turning towards browsers being a thick-client app platform for some time now. But the underlying stack is still really bad for it. The high-performance path hasn't changed, even though we can see where we want it to go, and unless that changes it'd be hard to recommend making the shift.
Tesla Still Needs a Vote
I hope so, now that this has set the precedent.