skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding the right point on the supply-demand curve is key to this. Their current strategy is trying to have their cake and eat it too. What I'm arguing they need to do is stop playing games trying to charge the few people who don't care about cost more and focus on the much larger market of people who are happy to pay what they feel is a fair rate for quality product. Apple nailed this when they priced songs and TV shows at 99¢. Amazon is killing it with affordable kindle offerings. The formula is pretty simple: good content, convenient access, and affordable pricing that feels fair to the consumer. The NY Times is succeeding at the first two and blowing it at the last one. As a result they are failing to capitalize on the broader market.
This vulnerability doesn't appear to have anything to do with the "memory, paging and protection model for X86".

It's just a common-or-garden access beyond the end of an array.
markdown file, so old school.
As an expert in the subject, having stopped for 8.5 years, started, stopped again for almost 10, and started, and now stopped for another 8... um, nope.

I'm addicted to substances that haven't been invented yet... and my brain really enjoys being wasted... the Ramones "I wanna be sedated" pretty well sums it up.

So for someone like me, mind altering substances are dangerous because I have no brakes... even after years of being stopped... because I really don't want to "enjoy alcohol responsibly".... I want to enjoy alcohol irresponsibly.
> However, places are limited and they are given out based on your GPA

That's mostly a thing of the past and almost only applicable to human medicine anymore.

Today universities are free to set their own admission standards and procedures, and while school grades play a big role in it, you have realistic chances to get in based on some other measure of merit. Or even luck in a lottery.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/06/8547112/...
CSP is better for sure, but message passing is still a pretty primitive model, synchronous or no.

FWIW I like CSP, but promises are great for e.g. fetching data
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>And where is the threat to your livelihood, exactly?
>If what you said was as acceptable as you claim, you face no danger.

Take anything he says, interpret it in the most uncharitable way possible, and then get him mobbed online. His company cuts off the limb to save the body by firing him. This is a tactical way of shutting somebody up, not a sign of their moral deficiency. Anybody with some numbers behind them can do it. I also got a sorta "I know where you live" vibe from how you repeated back his job to him, so I think you know this.
(The current post was killed by user flags.)

The post you're asking about broke the rules around voting rings [1], so we gave it the standard voting ring penalty. We err on the side of penalizing posts less, not more, when they're negative about YC-related stuff. But that doesn't mean they get a free pass.

The HN guidelines ask you not to post questions like this to the site. If you have questions about HN moderation, please email them to hn@ycombinator.com.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8396284
Can you be a little more specific about the scope of who "you" is? Startups, small businesses, freelancers, etc. I can answer this question, but I'm not sure I'd be polluting your data or not.
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Not research, but in Sociology 101 I picked up that the US have a traditionally high upward social mobility and even poor kids can go to college (if only through student credit) and have a good career afterwards. I've heard that recent financial crises, and the bad job market prospects of liberal arts graduates have changed this somewhat.

In Germany, tuition is almost non-existent (usually some fees of maybe 150€/semester, although a few years back there was a phase of actual student fees of - still laughable - 500€/semester), and if your parents don't make much money, or if you have many siblings, you can even get a half-credit/half-scholarship from the government (AFAIK even without interest, called "Bafög"), so especially for poor kids it's as easy as nowhere else in the world to go study. In smaller towns you can also get a student dorm room for under 200€, and overall living (esp. groceries) in Germany is quite cheap.

Yet Germany has a very low number of working-class students, for whatever reasons. Usually I think it's the parents' influence (but don't ask me why).

We also now have student credit now, in case you don't qualify for Bafög money, but unlike consumer credit which has become quite common, student credit doesn't seem to find many friends. People don't want to go borrow 10-30k for a college degree, but they'll happily finance their 25k cars or their 300k+ condos/houses.
Can this advice be generalized to other creative endeavors in general? There's an interesting article by Scott Alexander, "Negative Creativity" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/05/negative-creativity/

"It is said that one of the highest-level and most awe-inspiring of rationalist skills is Sitting And Thinking About Something For Five Minutes.

The sitting part isn’t that difficult. It’s not even that hard to…how should I put it…apply mental effort at the problem. But that mental effort tends to be spent rehearsing the solutions already thought up, retreading worn paths, ruminating on how difficult the problem is.

Coming up with entirely novel ideas is really, really hard."

In other words, if we set out deliberately to "come up with a startup idea" or (in a completely different context) "plot for a short story" we're likely to fall into the "gaming" trap, that is coming up with what _sounds like_ a great idea and could potentially even convince others, e.g., professors in a "Creative Writing" class or investors that it is one.

I've been applying this same tactic when dealing with "once in a million" (which at -- I hate to use this term, but it's actually a good one -- webscale can easily happen once an hour) Heisenbugs: fire up five processes in gdb (as to force contention around network, disk, and CPU), add a bunch of log statements, pepper the code with random usleep()s, and set assertions or watch/break points in "impossible" places -- as opposed to a more rookie approach of rewriting any suspect code ("let's put a lock around this just to be sure...") and hoping the problem goes away.
Better resolution and frames per second than modern games :)
These things are like a con-trick on naive developers.

Do they really think that the brains behind the big iron DBs hadn't considered this stuff?

Our transactions don't do _any_ fsyncs, with a small risk of losing 4k of data that's recoverable from application logs in any case. As the post says you still need sort algorithms, pages &c &c.
The most important point in the lecture: Startups are the one area where the traditional gaming of the system will not work. May bring you seed or even series A, but not users. Learning in a college is, after all, gaming a traditional system.
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IME very many German people are on FB (but yes, many also aren't, because they don't care and have their circle of offline friends). Twitter, almost nobody.

Among younger (20-30) Germans, I think almost everybody is on FB (and even more are on What's App).
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This is an excellent write up about how the OpenDNS system works to identify malicious DNS activity so they can block it. The idea of a data firehose that consumers can listen to and work with is a powerful one and is something I've found quite useful in systems I work on as well if you're looking to either listen in to the running system or if you want to collect data for analytics.
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I've seen https://waffle.io/ talked about in previous posts, but haven't used it or Taiga. Github issues is painful enough in the past that, for companies I've been in at least, we used other issue trackers anyway (Jira and Pivotal specifically) so I'm not sure how market there is outside of open-source. For me, Taiga looks like a nicer solution for private projects (replacing redmine, trac, etc.)
> He goes and learns a bunch of stuff to the cutting edge.

Some of my best work and graduate school assignments had started off by being handed an RFC (or a language, or a third party library, or a paper, etc...), asked to become an expert on it, and then implement it (or in the case of a library to re-factor old NIH-y code to use that library, etc...). Learning isn't useful as preparation for something else, but it's extremely rewarding in it of itself.
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i wonder if the US tests being all in the west and pacific had anything to do with everyone in project Manhattan being in, well, Manhattan
I'd say most Germans with average income pay 20-25% in income tax, another 15-20% in health insurance/unemployment/retirement taxes, and 19% sales tax (7% on groceries).

Just to give a perspective. I think the more expensive US states aren't that much better, but the cheaper ones are (much better).
PG, this has been one of your best essays IMO.

Maybe these are also the same qualities required to be a winning investor. Thinking clearly, loving the area that you're working in, and developing domain expertise.
It's more common than you think; RT and Trac both have cli interfaces.
As an old cathode display user, I'd really like to have a terminal emulator which mimics the modern LCD display.
Good point, I hadn't thought of it in that way but very true. Most systems have pathologies and you just need to work around them somehow. I agree: Gaming for personal profit and gaming for some higher goal are two different things.
Not to mention, all of the safety and luxury perks we see from Tesla vehicles would be compromised as well.
Interestingly, Microsoft recently invested in IPython development: http://ipython.org/microsoft-donation-2013.html
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The claim made is that "gaming doesn't work on users". The claim breaks down when selling to the enterprise.
I think all German states have abolished tuition fees after lots of public outcry about them (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studiengeb%C3%BChr#Deutschland). It says that Niedersachsen decided to abolish fees for the 2014-2015 semester as the last state in Germany to do so.
A billion people in less than a month-a study on India's cleanliess drive
I've always said that anyone working on an electronic system really needs an oscilloscope. Without it, you are effectively blind and just guessing at what the signals on a PC board or on a wire look like. When I first started (a long time ago), those images were mostly transient.

Really? All the scopes I've ever used have had capture modes (although I have never used truly antique scopes). While I forget what the function is called, the scope would trigger on an edge, capture the waveform and freeze it on the screen. Now, this only ever fits a handful of bits (maybe 3-5 ASCII letters) onscreen, but it was really helpful for me. If you wanted to capture data in the middle of a long stream, you could use a second probe for the trigger, and in your code fire a single edge on a secondary pin right as you send the data you want to capture... lot of cool things you could do. Even the old analog scopes are amazingly powerful. I highly encourage anyone doing much scoping to do their best to master it.

But anyway, back to the subject at hand, I just thought I ought to point out to those who are getting into this sort of thing that Logic Analyzers exist for exactly this purpose.
I find it much more natural to walk/run and think about a problem. I don't know what you need to do when you need to keep notes and look at numbers while approaching the problem, you can't do that on your iPhone while walking, but generally speaking running/walking disconnects my brain from my body very effectively. So all I need to do is focus on the problem, but doesn't take as much as effort as it would take if I did it while sitting on a desk.
Free shouldn't mean that everybody attends college. Degree inflation sucks.

I observe the same problem in Germany - more and more people attend school/university for more and more years, but don't turn out any brighter overall.
Please stop using "Show HN". It's for stuff you've made yourself.
PG is a living man. the essay is a dead document.
thank you very much, yours (and others') replies were very interesting.
It's referred to as 'dissociative thinking'. The back burner of your mind... similar to waking in the middle of the night with an answer to a problem that has been plaguing you for days
So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working. Gaming the system may continue to work if you go to work for a big company. Depending on how broken the company is, you can succeed by sucking up to the right people, giving the impression of productivity, and so on. [2] But that doesn't work with startups. There is no boss to trick, only users, and all users care about is whether your product does what they want. Startups are as impersonal as physics. You have to make something people want, and you prosper only to the extent you do.

The bootstrapper crowd (Amy Hoy, patio11, etc) often level this as a criticism of VC-backed startups -- that they are a gameable system, a series of hurdles from accelerator to series A to series B to acquihire. Whereas (they say) bootstrapping isn't gameable, it relies on making something users want, and it teaches you to deal with raw reality head-on. [1]

Maybe they are only looking at a dysfunctional subset of VC-backed startups though? One common pattern seems to be that a person enters a particular field, notices that many people around them are unimpressive and focused on perception, "networking" and system-gaming -- and concludes that the field is corrupt.

But in actuality, they'd only seen the bottom tier of the field, and the higher tiers have more genuine talents who also despise bullshitters.[2]

[1] http://unicornfree.com/2012/why-blacksmiths-are-better-at-st...

[2] I'm thinking specifically of academia as another example of this pattern. Since bullshitters do manage to reach the higher tiers of both startups and academia, there's a genuine question as to whether the bullshitters will someday come to dominate both of these areas, and whether this has already happened. By definition, a field that has been taken over by bullshitters is not going to let you know that this has happened.
Thanks for your story. It must have been tough, rebuilding a whole life. Good luck.
As a followup, someone finally did find a full-blown 'execute whatever you like' exploit for the patched version of bash.

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/bash-bug-how-we-finally-...
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IIRC they were not considered to be the pinnacle of good style, but they were much more acceptable than they are today.

Interesting fact: In early 60s there was a serious discussion about whether stack frames (called activation records back then) should be global or not.
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Feel a bit misled by the site. I assumed this was just launched the way you phrase everything until the sentence at the very bottom of the page.
More accurately, we live in an eerie mix of Brave New World and 1984 :(
Cool-retro-term and this are awesome! It's like Instagram for the terminal!
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Parallel scheduling of task trees with limited memory [pdf]
It is curious that people spend so much time considering games to avoid actual work rather than figure out work that they can enjoy; or at least feel a sense of progress.
Yes I should check my factoids before regurgitation. In atom counts there is more silicon than iron though, but more oxygen than either. Still interesting though that silicon is so plentiful. Doesn't matter if its bonded to an oxygen. I suppose the bonding explains why the oxygen count on earth is so high also. Oxygen is also (part of) rock.
Not to mention that their syntax is wrong and won't trigger the vulnerability in the first place.

env x='() {.:;.} ; echo yo'
*line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `{.:'*

It should be:

env x='() { :;} ; echo yo'

Better luck next time.
Analog scopes could not freeze anything on the screen, unless you had one of the expensive Tektronix scopes with a storage CRT. Most modern scopes that look like analog scopes are really computers front-ended by A/D converters.
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Will promises still be needed with generators?
and this one to: https://searchcode.com/?q=indexOf%28%22windows+9%22%29
I think CP/M is where the driver letters in windows came from. Now I know who did it.
- C-store paper
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- Mass tree
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