skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this isn't some penny-ante thing. From the article:

[Zalman executives] have apparently spent the
last five years producing fraudulent documentation
... inflated sales figures ...
By increasing sales and exports Park and his
associates were able to secure bank loans
totaling $2.98 billion

Who knew that building CPU cooling products could be so lucrative? Why does a company like that need to borrow even 1/10 that amount of money? Don't bankers do "due diligence" any more? There's probably a lot more to this story.
Was there ever any consideration of the rubinius JIT? It seems that for a somewhat small community like Dylan has, pairing up with other small groups to make and improve a shared JIT would be a better use of resources.
Partnership?! Are you out of your mind?! Now 100 internet strangers come together to build something, one of them makes a bad decision and 99 people have unlimited liability for that person's mistake. Sounds like a great way to ruin lives.
Its curious that selling to one's customer base amounts to an "echo chamber." The Amazon Echo could be really nice. If I could tell it to play an audiobook, I'd be very tempted. It's a truly new product in a world that has too few of those.
The lectures are from a good sampling
of the most successful start-up people
in Silicon Valley.

So, for any of the lectures, if not all the
content seems earth shaking, Nobel prize level
stuff, then just accept the good news: It's possible
to be one of the most successful at the level
of content often in the lectures! Comforting!
They don't really want to be anymore, which is why they're spending so much money on original programming.
Is Netflix making money yet or are they taking losses to grow?
I think this is a great post. A few months ago, I wrote a post that I think is complimentary. I focused more on figuring out how much to raise, and working backwards from that number. http://codingvc.com/an-algorithm-for-seed-round-valuations
Then you shouldn't buy this thing, or if you do be very careful about how you use it - including distinguishing between what the government has a recording of and what Amazon has a recording of (I rather doubt you are cool with your sex life providing entertainment for Amazon employees either, right)?

The point I'm making, though, is not what level of privacy you should be happy with (a decision only you can make), but how people in the aggregate make decisions about using technology that could have privacy implications - and my theory is that most people don't care.
That's basically the problem I have with the Kindle. I love how convenient it is to buy books, and just turning from page to page is easy enough with the physical buttons on my model (or hopefully the little touch zones on the new model), but everything else sucks.

Software updates are rare, the menus are convoluted and obtuse, when the newer models you have to know secret touch zones to use different features. Simple options that used to exist have disappeared and new options of questionable utility have taken their place.

Probably my favorite thing about the Kindle is that it syncs my place with my phone, but the app on iOS is gotten much worse over the years. At this point when reading a book the timeline thing at the bottom and all sorts of weird little blue dots on it that I've never been able to figure out. Sometimes if you tap on one it goes away.

The things just smack of strange decisions. Who thought it would be a good idea to remove the page current buttons for two or three years in a row? And when they brought them back or not real buttons, but hopefully they're good enough.

In the meantime the books are still absolutely riddled with typos, terrible formatting, and if a publisher actually makes an update to a book you're unlikely to find out about it. What little I've heard of the authorship side of things is supposed be pretty dreadful too, were even recent kindles don't support some of the newest formatting things because Amazon hasn't bothered to update them.

It's the best e-book reader on the market, and in many ways it's a piece of crap. It's so clear the decision seem to be made by marketing or something else instead of what the readers want.

And sadly this experience seems to match what I've heard about other Amazon hardware. At best they behave like a mediocre hardware company who doesn't understand software. Even their flagship devices like the original Kindle fire have serious issues, which if you're lucky get fixed in a software update later.
Private Company to Upgrade Rocket Engines After Failure
Suggestion. Update the url hash with the settings so you can share links.
Abstractions over Implementations
I think you might be conflating owner and CEO. Owners often don't have to work every day after the business is running smoothly and they have hired good people to manage it. CEOs have to work every day just like all other employees and they have different types of stress than the typical employee. Sure the CEO probably doesn't have to worry about money or about getting fired (mostly), they still have plenty of stress because their job is to always deal with the worst problem. The problem no one else can handle or wants to handle. Plus they have to worry about the business as a whole and they understand that if they screw up, 10s or 100s or 1000s of people are hurt.
Ah, thanks for sharing this. Very sad.
Zuckerburg is a bad example; Facebook was his 3rd company, and his second (Synapse Media Player) reputedly got a million-dollar buyout offer from Microsoft. There are many reasons he might've chosen to incorporate as a Florida LLC; the likely one is that past experience with startups told him it wasn't important and could be fixed later, so he chose the simplest option.

Your overall point stands - Google or E-bay would be much better examples, as they really were started by first-time founders.
I love card and coin magic. Good old purist stuff without gimmicks or trick decks. Sleight of hand is simply pure talent. Even the description of the poker trip had me cracking a smile.
There are three big issues; in order of importance:

1. PGP's RSA constructions are archaic; they use a format defined in the 1990s that is vulnerable to multiple different attacks and likely to harbor more that we don't know about yet. (This, bafflingly, is also a problem with DNSSEC.) I should be clear: PGP is not itself known to be vulnerable to these attacks. But neither was Java's TLS implementation, before it was found to be vulnerable a few months back.

2. RSA is well-studied but it's hard to say how well we understand its strength. There are no credible attacks on RSA-2048, but academic progress is being made on a cousin of the factoring problem it relies on (the discrete log problem). ECC is based on a harder math problem, is also well studied, and is believed to be stronger.

3. ECC is faster and provides more security with fewer key bits.

A combination of all three of these factors gives a sort of second-order issue, which is that modern public key crypto constructions tend to be based on ECC and not multiplicative group IFP/DLP algorithms. EdDSA is good for reasons other than that it's based on good ECC crypto.

Hope that's helpful and not just noise. Looking forward to inevitable 'pbsd correction. :)
Those articles do not address my claim at all.

Ashe Dryden merely lists some personal choices of women (cleaning their house more, taking care of children), and some unrelated statistics about women in general. If she did somehow draw a causal link between those activities and not using github (she doesn't), it would imply that women should also be absent from Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. They aren't.

The second link is merely an animated gif of an octopuss.

The only point the third article makes is based on the implicit and unproven assumption that merit is uniformly distributed.

None of those articles remotely attempt to show that women are prevented from using github.
Infinite Voyager: Audio from the Golden Record
Delivery networks are not profitable anymore, but if you control the avenue, you can promote and distribute your own content for almost nothing and you can profit from it.
No one makes money selling media for consumption anymore.

This is a common belief among people in tech. It is also disastrously false. Frozen has sold 1.2 billion dollars worth of tickets. The related IP alone, to say nothing of merchandising, will be sold for decades to come, and bring in additional billions.

You know the DVD, a dead format that can be trivially pirated? Yeah, they sold 3.2 million copies of Frozen. In a day.
Lytro is sharing its futuristic camera technology with outsiders like NASA
Thai Duong, Juliano Rizzo, Kenny Patterson's team at Royal Holloway, Daniel Bernstein, Trevor Perrin, Nate Lawson, the Riscure guys, the Cryptography Research team at Rambus.
Didn't Bezos once say something like "your margin is my opportunity"? There's a certain irony in Amazon not being able to compete in mobile because the market is too efficient.
MPS is designed so that allocation can be very fast in the common case as long as the interface to the collector in the compiler and run-time is done well.

They are willing to talk to people about the licensing. They're nice folks, although often pretty busy. CLASP supports using both MPS and Boehm as well.

As for the Open Dylan exception ... yes. But the other thing to understand there is that both MPS and what is now Open Dylan were developed at Harlequin in the 1990s and MPS's original "client" was Open Dylan.
Yup, but then why bother with CPM? Just buy display ads for a fixed price in publications they believe their customers might read. Sure, it's not an improvement over what they did in the 50s but they don't have to worry about fraud.
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"Bezos, buy me toilet paper."
Former Lyft Exec Denies Taking Confidential Data with Him to Uber
Amazon Has No Taste is a pretty good title if you ask me, it's an excellent summary of the problem.

Amazon's Echo Chamber doesn't strike me as that bad, it also seems to describe the problem decently. Amazon is big enough and has enough eyeballs that they can make mediocre products appear to succeed for quite a while. Because of that insulation the products don't improve nearly as fast as they probably should.
Interesting question. I would say that the answer is "no, the rubinius JIT was never considered" ... One thing is that we don't just JIT compile code. In fact, we only do on Windows when under the debugger / REPL. We do AOT compilation, for better or worse. LLVM is a pretty nice match and gives us a lot of good things, including DWARF debug info.
Leanstack.io was extremely useful for discovering services. Needed best A/B testing tools? I used to go to Leanstack. I don't seem to find any reason to visit Stackshare. I don't really care whether Twitter uses Zendesk or Freshdesk.
Doesn't let you submit a new site on mobile :(. Nexus 5 with latest stable Chrome.
"all profit is completely sucked out of the equation by the time you get to the consumption delivery system"

Is this false though? For all the success of the itunes store I seem to remember it not actually making a lot of profit from content?
I'm curious as to how this will play out. The complaint seems pretty specific. I imagine that Dropbox will have excellent records of when any files were added, accessed, or deleted.
I am asking for it - I think online shopping is one of those those things, like driving to the store, where you will not realize how annoying it was until you no longer have to do it.

I definitely would like to read reviews and compare prices when buying a big ticket item like a tv or computer, but for repetitive or impulse purchases I would love to be able to make them with the least amount of friction possible.
To clarify on this statement: the perception of privacy is important to some people, regardless of if the implementation is secure and truly private. So the assertion that people are concerned with it still remains true.
The problem with Amazon "selling to their customer base" is that they're doing the old "cheap razors, make money on the blades" shtick, because they're selling all their hardware at or near cost. So the correct measure of success is how many more blades you sell, not how many razors. The author is arguing that the low engagement after purchase due to poor quality undercuts how many blades they sell.
The author is talking about Amazon's share in those profits. It's clear that people who own the IP make a lot of money in media content.
Since my 2-year-old's name is Alex, I don't think "Alexa" is going to work out in our household :/
I applied for this job. I have a PhD in physics and have some administrative experience, and I didn't (yet) have a postdoc position.

The application process was very interesting---I had a phone conference-call interview with a few people in Wisconsin and New Zealand. I made what must have been a relatively short short list, because the interview was not cheap: they flew me to WIPAC, had me take a full physical (ultrasound, cardio study, chest x-rays, etc.) which is required for any winter-over position, set up a full day of interviews with science-side, tech-side, and administrative-side people, some of whom themselves had wintered over. The beer and cheese curds in Madison are great. Check out the Great Dane.

A lot of the interview was to gauge personality, and there were a lot of questions along the lines of "If someone was acting in a dangerous & threatening way, and you were in a place more remote than the space station (in the sense that there is no escape capsule or any chance for rescue) what would you do?"

The tech that keeps IceCube going is a bunch of custom-designed and manufactured blades which receive (IIRC) UDP from the sensors in the ice. A lot of processing happens at the pole, because the limited (and satellite-orbit-dependent) bandwidth would make transferring the whole dataset wildly impractical. So the "interesting" events are found on-site and sent over the satellite, while everything is also written to tape. Once the summer comes the tape is swapped out. Scientists can also query additional data to be sent via satellite if they need something specific.

A few weeks later I was told that for the two IceCube winter-over tech positions, I was third choice, and that if one of the people offered the job sustains an injury, fails the psychological examination, or backs out, that I might be called on short notice. As I didn't have a job at that point, it was OK by me, but I was certainly disappointed. I'm happy in my postdoc position, but will certainly apply again when the time comes.

Had I wintered over, it would have been the smallest of small-world phenomena, as someone I know from college was one of the chefs there this winter.

Aside: I have heard that (if you get the job) they will sometimes preventatively remove your wisdom teeth / demand & provide other preventative treatments.
The top three ecommerce platforms are all Java based (hybris, Oracle ATG and IBM Websphere) and there are a ton of "tier 2" platforms that are cover the .net and PHP stacks.

The tier 1 systems will cost you a significant amount of money to get up and running though (over a million $ is not uncommon).

If you only know of the PHP platforms then I guess you don't play at any significant level in the industry (like most people on HN).

This is actually a candidate for shit hn says.
Showing Creative Kindness
Even HBO pads out their scheduling with content produced by other companies. I do not see a future where the bulk of Netflix's streamed content is produced by Netflix.
My site has a https version, but you're right: it's still a mystery meat binary blob. No particular reason to trust those. They could be rather evil.
Cromemco and the Dazzler was the pieces of hardware that were the basis for most of the local news weather graphics that were seen on TV in the 80s.
The top three ecommerce platforms are all Java based (hybris, Oracle ATG and IBM Websphere) and there are a ton of "tier 2" platforms that are cover the .net and PHP stacks.
The tier 1 systems will cost you a significant amount of money to get up and running though (over a million $ is not uncommon).

If you only know of the PHP platforms then I guess you don't play at any significant level in the industry (like most people on HN).

This is actually a candidate for shit hn says.
Spot on.

A lot of people have recommended a Kindle to me but I've held off. I can't get past the massive Amazon logo on it and the awful page turn.
Amazon pretty clearly has a mid-range strategy of being the place you order groceries and consumables as a first choice. Weaseling into your household with Echo is a likely part of that. No research needed when you're ordering the same Wheat Thins and toothpaste you've ordered a dozen times before.

I also think the drones are for this small, frequently ordered stuff.
The author doesn't mean media isn't profitable, but media retail isn't profitable.

The author is somewhat right. It's only profitable when you have a walled garden that you control, so you can squeeze markup out of the supplier.
Well for Amazon Cloud Drive specifically, I don't even think they have a public API
"I'm struggling to find a reason why ordering anything via Echo is a good idea"

I agree.

But reordering things...
Working with a Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition
Great read and I agree with the majority of it.

This stood out though:

>Amazon’s retail strategy of being allergic to profit does not translate well into hardware manufacturing.

Don't most gaming consoles sell at a loss? The pickup for the console maker is on the publishing rights & distribution channels and the fact they take a gamble that the hardware will get cheaper over the course of that hardware generation. I had always though that it what Amazon was trying to emulate with their hardware attempts.
I don't want to be a wet blanket, but when I read how hard he and others work, the first thought that comes to me is:

"I'm not working even close to that level."

In a way, it's a glimpse into the reality required to do Great Things. Followed by the painful self-awareness that you're nowhere close.
Twitter has already built the most important audience on the internet - the news media and news makers. The only missing link is a strategy that caters to this audience with active sourcing of news worthy content and additional mediums for short burst one-to-many real-time broadcasting. Tools that let media and news makers exploit the stream are monetizable. Ad carry-through is entirely unexplored ad revenue awaiting Twitter. Mesh networking solutions are monetizable as are private and encrypted sub-networks. Twitter's chief problem is a lack of identity. It will never be Reddit, Facebook or Instagram - mercifully.
Amazon is also at least nominally getting into entertainment production, though so far they're doing a pretty clumsy job of it.
Which is exactly why Netflix for example is moving into content production. Does amazon do the same?
Advanced security analytics app for banking/financial Web application capable of scanning 10,000,000 events per second to discover attack vectors, such as sources of shellshock attacks, SQL injection attacks and similar, and present results in half dozen highly detailed tables and charts.

It's nice to see that something that I built in 2 weeks brings as much benefits as crappier looking multi-million dollar solutions.
Amazon has no taste
Speed. Key generation (and most other operations) in ECC is order of magnitude faster than in RSA, DSA or ElGamal. Last time I checked it took End-To-End's Javascript library seconds to generate a key pair in RSA, but only milliseconds in ECC.
The article can reference a product without talking about it specifically. I think that's what the author was trying to do.
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Are there Empowering vs. Enslaving softwares?
Do apps/software enslave or empower?
I feel there is some difference but struggling to convince myself.
Weird. My kindle paperwhite doesn't have an Amazon logo on it at all, I don't see how the page turn could be characterized as "awful", and it happens to be the far and away the best digital thing I've ever read a book on.
> it doesn't hold up so much after the changes HR made

Do you have a link to anything public about this? I've only read negatives about stack ranking and MSFT HR. It would be nice to read about how they've changed their evil ways.
I'm sorry that I missed that phrase. I don't have experience going to/from the one of three NY area airports that has flat taxi fares because I live in Brooklyn, not Manhattan (and Brooklyn applies to the analysis of Uber in NYC). There is definitely no need to be unkind to me about it; I'm sure you've misread something at least once.
HN'd. Mirror: https://archive.today/QF25G
Have you not read the news in the last year? It is relevant. They don't need to manufacture anything. They can just coerce private companies to give up their customers' data in the cloud. The companies aren't even allowed to announce it.

> or forcing them in peoples' homes.

Hence my argument for holding off from buying this and other devices like it.
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Amazon moved down that path two years ago, and is continuing to look at ways to expand original content:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/amazon-joins-netfl...

And for example, Alpha House:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_House
Last year I worked for a startup and I allowed myself to be pushed past the breaking point. The founders tempted me with equity (which never actually materialized) and I ended up doing many all nighters and many 90-hour weeks prior to an early release (another company was doing the front-end while we did the server in-house).

I don't have a wife or a puppy, but I shouldn't have allowed this to happen. I was hired to work for a set salary under the assumption of a 40-hour work-week - although I am naturally obsessive so I knew that wouldn't actually last. But I didn't expect my boss to say things like, "If we don't have a working build by 3pm tomorrow, we're all fired," (which turned out to be false, actually).

Pacing is important, and I think it would be interesting to do a startup where pacing is actively encouraged. I think this might be possible at a startup with strong IP protection, good funding, and leadership that sets realistic goals and trusts it's people to be motivated to get it done. It may mean that the public has to wait a bit longer before having a cool new thing available to them, but it also means that the thing will have been constructed by fresh, happy minds.

There is a moral imperative to not buy goods made in sweatshops. There is also a moral imperative to not use software produced under inhumane conditions. Congratulations on discovering this for yourself - and I hope you encourage your coworkers to be humane to each other and themselves as well.
StackShare has even more tools and services than Leanstack did, with more ways to discover them. Perhaps our messaging needs some work. StackShare is still very much about finding the best tools: http://stackshare.io/mobile-a-b-testing. Would love to hear your feedback, shoot me an email if you're up for it: yonas [at] stackshare.io.

EDIT: Just noticed you're behind Virtkick. Funny enough we just listed you last night: http://stackshare.io/virtkick