skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
--Someday in the futre---

SecurityAwareCustomer: "I've noticed that my VPN and ssh connections have started to lag & disconnect frequently"

Comcast: "We've gotten several reports on this issue. To better serve our customers we've implemented a software designed to optimize network traffic routing. To do that, the software must do some deep packet inspection. Unfortunately, if a traffic is encrypted this software must go through all its known packet types before determining that it's encrypted. This takes time and also because the incoming buffer might fill up before it's done determining the packet is from an encrypted stream, said packets might get dropped entirely."

SecurityAwareCustomer: "So, encrypted traffic's performance is severely degraded then?"

Comcast: "We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause"

SecurityAwareCustomer: "Couldn't you check if it's known encryption first, then try other packet types?"

Comcast: "The software vendor has been made aware of the issue. Due to net-neutrality laws & regulations, the vendor was assigned to us by the USGov and they must review any proposed changes to the software. This legal process could take a long time."

SecurityAwareCustomer: "How long?"

Comcast: "Thank you for choosing Comcast!"

-Comcast hangs up phone-

SecurityAwareCustomer: "............huh"
So you have one example of one disagreement about a war which was run from Germany even though they disagreed.
The seller is also supposed to collect evidence of the location of the purchaser (billing addresses, IP addresses, etc.). By the time you're required to collect private data for each transaction, it becomes more than simply the kind of drudgery you can automate away and becomes a burden that is a bit too much for one-person entreprises.
Why do Russians like Putin? Look at Ukraine. Ukraine is Russia without Putin. Poor, ruled by american agents and going to disappear as a state, just like Russia in 90s.
I don't think the article mentions specific species of insects, but...

I have tasted maguey worm and crickets, and they are both quite good. So, unless it is poisonous, I think hornworm would do, too.
I like the compiler hitting the website to download the registered characters and if no internet access is available "making it appear to be your fault"
I often get into flame wars during my interview. If the hiring manager says something that indicates he is a jackass, I will quite bluntly inform him of that fact.

For example, Apple's CoreEdit is profoundly nonportable, as well as clearly designed to implement vendor lock-in. There are all manner of ways to store structured data that are quite portable.

So if my interviewer asks me if I have experience with CoreEdit, I will quite emphatically tell them "No, because it's nonportable," then supply some portable solutions such as SQLite.

I don't want to work for a bad manager.

What I have a problem with is someone making assumptions about me, just because they see my grey hair, and the wrinkles in the skin of my face.
> OTOH, twelve hours ago you were so disappointed with that decision that it undermined your confidence in the Rust team...

Well it's relatively small damage levels but it's the wrong decision, and it's the inoffensive choice made of status quo bias.
At Jane Street, you mean, right? There might be a selection effect here.

Or I could just be wrong. More than just possible.
Well that's just equivocating. You accept that they are allowed to say those things. Or you accept that other people are allowed to hear them. The speech is _able_ to be accepted, even if you don't _in particular_ accept it yourself.
Yes, that would be a more accurate title.
"For eight days last summer, a new generation of Randians was indoctrinated in the auditoriums of The Venetian. Where better to absorb Atlas Shrugged 's teachings than in a city of extremes?"

Indoctrinatied? What a way to start but he sure makes his stance clear with that sentence.

As someone who really values Ayn Rands work (I am one of those who was influence by Atlas Shrugged), I find it difficult to get through this piece (as it is with things you disagree with). I find it very biased yet it never really gives any good arguments against objectivism.

Of course one should not treat Ayn Rand as a god and be dogmatic about her ideas, and certainly don't judge her by the people that do.
"This implies that they can't prove they did or didn't do it, because nobody under NK government control was involved."

The only way to prove they didn't do it would be by having someone under their control involved in doing it?
RDS is just a database though. All the standard tools work with it. Unless you start dipping into more exotic services, it's pretty hard to become locked in. EC2+ELB+RDS are fairly independent. Even autoscaling doesn't lock you in.

That said, CloudFormation, SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, etc. are all very sticky services.
Rust has move semantics by default. A move does a bytewise copy, and then disallows access from the old location.

This code largely just copies pointers around.
Thanks for taking the time to respond!

I'd love a Java AOT compiler that produces native binaries with no additional dependencies. (I'd even be okay if, as a side effect, some Java features were not supported, making it technically not-Java.)

For small tools and utilities, the JVM requirement is quite onerous, especially when one does not know if the end user has Java installed, or if they do, what version.

Alas, the company I work for will not budget for a Java AOT compiler, and for my hobby programming, the commercial Java AOT compilers are far too expensive to justify.

I'll just keep hoping a good and free (or inexpensive) Java AOT compiler becomes available some day. I would even donate money and/or code if a serious project started.
Can you name this "big bully ally" that is "shelling NK?"
There's nothing wrong with that. The basis of capitalism essentially is that a well designed system permits each corporation to act looking exclusively at profits, while benefiting the whole society. I argue that, save for some important exceptions that need to be dealt with, the financial industry currently satisfies this principle.
If it helps any, dressing up in suits as a stereotypical white nerd doesn't help either.

I generally just like to dress up as it makes me get in the zone of "work time" better. But I never have gotten called a slut i'll admit, but I do often get comments of "must have an interview today huh" and so on. I find the whole geek/nerd culture around clothes annoying as shit. For a group that professes to not care about the external person, we sure as shit do judge people on their dress.

That said, keep dressing up, it impresses the non nerds and interestingly allows you to drive conversations with them easier.

Also I got a comment today from a barista "you always wear the coolest sweaters" and then I explained where I get them. I dunno its fun finding cool clothes and I'm willing to share in my findings. So I think I will stick with getting my fashion insulted by nerds, and you should too.

Tell the jerks that call you not a geek to explain how to make a one instruction set computer off basic logic principles. Or whatever your speciality is really, if they flounder just go never judge a book by its cover. Then walk away and sashay it up is how I would handle those situations. Good luck!
This is in essence the "killer feature" of the analytics world, and it is hardly an easy problem to solve.

Before Mixpanel can even attempt to solve that though, they first need to tackle multi-channel attribution. Right now GA and Adobe are the big players who tackle it, and GA only offers dynamic attribution (ie. the holy grail of attribution) in GA Premium (which costs $150k/yr).

If you want a standalone attribution platform you're left with options like VisualIQ, Convertro, Adometry, etc., all of which have recently been acquired by big players in the space.

So yes, I'd love to see Mixpanel answer the "why." However the first step is to truly answer the "where" question and until they add those tools, their model is still fully last touch, and therefore dated.

Of course even GA doesn't use its attribution modeling capabilities outside of the multi-channel/attribution reports, so they still have a ways to go too. The big difference is, those tools are available today for free.

That said, congrats to Mixpanel. They made huge strides in the event tracking approach that GA has since gone on to borrow, and that is what any modern web analytics platform looks at these days because it simply makes more sense.
Only someone with a poor understanding of the industry would think that. Mongo is killing it in the enterprise and their partnerships with Teradata et al is only going to cement their position for likely decades to come.

Plus MongoDB's pluggable engine approach will definitely breath some new life into it.
I only use slides as documentation if requested to do so, there are better formats for such purpose.
That's a bit of an extrapolation though, isn't it? Many people simply run VMs that connects to some arbitrary pgsql instance, which might happen to be on RDS if they want to simplify the management of that.

Those VMs can absolutely run almost anywhere, and they can connect to just about any instance of pgsql. I heavily use many services on AWS, but can quite literally move the entirety of it to my own servers, Google, Azure, or elsewhere in very short notice. People can choose to use some of the more unique services, but that is not related to RDS.
Is there an equivalent to the MySQL handlersocket stuff in postgresql?

http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/performance/ha...

http://www.slideshare.net/akirahiguchi/handlersocket-2010062...

It might go against the "no transaction" crowd, but seems useful for performance-critical needs. I'm scheduling a bit of testing time with it next week to see if it's something I'd roll out in production (Maria 10 system)
I think one of the appealing things about Objectivism is that it's a complete top-to-bottom guide to how life should be lived for individuals, communities and nations. Most rival philosophies seem narrower. Christianity, for instance, has lots of advice for dealing with individuals but seems disconnected from politics. Something like Marxism talks about the organisation of industries and classes but not so much about personal situations. Mainstream political movements seem more like packages of stances (on things like abortion, welfare, immigration...) with no clear unifying principles. Then there's interesting philosophies like say Utilitarianism, that lots of people know about and write about but seemingly no one seriously adheres to as a way of life.

If you agree with the principles of Objectivism you can more or less follow it as a way of life, without doing anything drastic like abandoning all your worldly possessions, or feeling like a hypocrite.
Only when using `cargo bench` to compile/run them.
The Hawaiian Invasion
The slide that helped them get an $865M valuation: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/v1-classified-141218103325-c...
When giving talks, I usually write a script accompanying each slide and include it in the "Notes" box. I don't read from the script while giving the presentation, but it's always there for reference after the talk.
They also do an excellent job at customer service. I wish every SaaS made me feel like a valued customer.
I'm a bit late in catching up on this, but NeXT really was a commercial failure. It sold a number of its workstations to government agencies (notably CIA) and scientific teams , but in the early '90s exited the h/w business to concentrate on selling NeXTSTEP and, later OpenStep.

The strategy switch was the result of the company's failure to compete with workstation manufacturers like Sun, and the company's rapid drawdown of its cash. By the time NeXT exited the hardware business, they had revenues of about $125m/year, but operating at a loss; Canon, which was already into NeXT to the tune of $100m, floated another $30m plus a $55m line of credit. Jobs was also funding NeXT and his other project, Pixar, out of his own bank account, which left him severely depleted. (Previously, Ross Perot and, later, a consortium of universities had also invested in the company for about $150m combined.)

By cutting the hardware business, developing a mildly popular web server (WebObjects), and selling off assets like the Deer Park HQ, Jobs was able to eke a minor profit out of NeXT, but nothing that would justify the massive valuation investors accepted during its early days. Apple's purchase was indeed partially for its technology -- Apple had played around with a competing OS, Be, for its new OS layer, but ultimately passed -- but also to lure Jobs back.
Mate... I will tell you that the one that I find have the easier learning curve is AwesomeWM.

The main advantage of it tho, is not the tiling window managing facilities... But the run-or-raise plugin.

It allows you to run (start) or raise (go to the window) of any application with an assigned shortcut.

Mine are:
Mod+e - Emacs
Mod+u - Browser (Conkeror)
Mod+y - Browser (Chromium)
Mod+k - Konsole
Mod+. - Keepass
Mod+x - Pidgin chat window
Mod+i - Skype chat window

The choice of shortcuts may seen arbitrary, but I'm a Dvorak user and all the keys are easily accessible.

With this setup, from my editor I'm a Mod+u / Ctrl+g g to a search on google, and from there I'm a Mod+k from my terminal (from where I run tmux... ;P) and a Mod+e from Emacs.

I'm also using a dropdown terminal with another tmux where I have access, from any where on my system just pressing F1, to my MTA (mutt), file manager (mc), IRC (irssi), Music player (cmus) and a root shell.

Honestly... With this setup there is definetly no going back... Every thing on the tips of my fingers... Some shortcut away.

I almost feel part of the machine! :)
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This is clearly horrible, but there seems to be a perception that Uber's business model is somehow conducive to this, or at least related. I'd argue the opposite - if a regular cab driver (or a gypsy cab) were to commit the same crime
a) nobody would report on it
b) you'd have a much harder time tracking down the perp

With Uber my wife has a record of exact pickup and drop-off location, route (including any stops for criminal activity) as well as the driver's picture, name, car description etc. I feel much better about that than I would about a random yellow cab.

And while we're at it, let's stop holding up cab drivers as paragons of virtue. I've read so many articles about Uber lately that make it sound like only the purest of heart and noblest of mankind drive real taxis and pay their graft ^H^H^H^H^H medallion fees...
We released an Intercal style guide as part of an April fools day thing.

http://cadie.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/INTERCAL-style-guide.h...

And a small script:

https://code.google.com/p/cadie/source/browse/trunk/CADIE.I

I could put intercal on the resume because of this...not that I did or will, but I could...
Y2K fears, Mainframe to Server migrations, Command Line to Graphical UI, the Internet! Oh man, those were good times.

However, to be brutally honest, $1000 a day isn't even close to unobtainable now. Many people in this industry pull down ~$250-500k per year.
I can't tell if these are legitimate growing pains any company experiencing such a growth spurt might incur or if these are a fault of Uber's.

Dumb comments made by CEOs, rapes by drivers all over the world.

The dumb comments by the CEOs are dumb, but they're just that.

The rapes on the other hand? A quick google search turns up a slew of results for taxi rape. It doesn't appear to be endemic but it doesn't appear to be uncommon. Of course, were Uber to dismiss these charges as "things that happen" there'd be a slew of outrage. But what solutions are there? Panic buttons? How do you track millions of separate entities all across the globe? And what do you do when someone presses the panic button? Are police able to get there in time? Do the police do "the right thing" half the time?

My belief is in India, often times, the "face" (as the Chinese use the term, to save face) of a rapist may often be considered more worthy of protection than the woman.

These are tough questions that the company must use considerable tact in handling.

They're not going to be able to offer free rides for every national disaster such as the one that occurred recently in Sydney. Will they set up a control center to monitor world events and observe when not to jack prices up?

And can any one reporter, group of people, or group in general understand and come up with a perfect way to handle a forty billion dollar globe spanning company which deals with people at such an individual level.

Most companies of that scale don't deal with individuals in confined spaces where trust is a prerequisite and many times assumed. Can a company handle that level of scrutiny on a global scale?

If a rape occurs in a NYC yellow cab, the damage is relatively confined to the NYC yellow cabs (still a seriously large market but the point is made). However when allegations come from all over the world every day, can any company withstand the pressures?
The Good News About Cuba Is Bad News for the FBI’s Most Wanted Woman
That's an API not a solution.

I do think (for once) PostgreSQL is addressing it's core weakness and by version 10 will likely have horizontal scalability locked down. The new API is a really positive step.
Sneaking in data inside pointers
That's only what they spend on housing, not total expenditures.
The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management
That slide looked very similar 2, 3, and 4 years ago. It was not enough, many people still passed on us. Raising any amount of capital (in part due to the risk at each stage) is more complex than showing a single graph.
How the Online World Is Fighting the Next Pandemic (2013)
You missed customer service, a huge one for me. I actively try to avoid brick and mortar shopping ever since a hardware store owner refused to take back a defective stud finder. Amazon will bend over backwards to make things right for a customer, and accepts returns for any reason.
This is effectively impossible to enforce though, at least for foreign sellers; is that a fair assessment? I'm really not seeing any mechanism whereby the EU could actually force them to pay their taxes when they're selling goods that don't physically exist. Small arts and crafts need to be shipped, software does not.

I guess they could pressure payment services (Paypal, Dwolla), but Bitcoin could always be used as a fallback- it's also VAT exempt or at least appears to be from my quick searches on the subject.
Yes it will be in the near future :)
All of this rape hysteria is a tactic by the media to induce vulnerability feels into women and soft men and push their votes towards Hillary in 2016.
New Tools to Hunt New Viruses (2013)
Thanks Suhail. It is reassuring to hear from someone who has clearly had success pitching to VCs. I am big fan of the 10-20-30 Kawasaki rule for slides and yours is pretty close to that
So, the Chinese have routinely hacked our power grid, yet for some reason North Korea hacking Sony gets overblown media attention. Am I the only one who thinks this is plain nuts?
It's important that we forgive Uber for these unfortunate incidents. It's wrong to pick on an innocent company for the misdeeds of a few employees.
A partner at a VC will generally only vouch for one or two startups a year. They are responsible for allocating capital, not directing employees. Furthermore, the partner at a VC will generally not have anywhere close to 20% of ten startups (usually it's 15% to the fund). They have a draw off of the fund (which they have to raise) and they have a certain amount profit if the fund is successful.

I do agree with you that engineers (especially the first 4 hires) generally get the worst deal of all.
The correlation is almost the exact opposite: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ces/ceswps/_431.html

It's cultural, tax evasion is higher in countries which were recently dicatatorships (Spain, Portugal, Greece) or never developed a strong central government (Italy.)
Right. He's only reverse engineered the phone-to-server data, not the band-to-phone data.

Exercise equipment like treadmills should be able to read band data. They can use it for feedback to control speed. That's a common treadmill feature, but it's usually not wireless.
I don't think Uber's model is necessarily conducive to this, but with small private hire firms it is likely that any case like this would bankrupt them so they may be more careful about drivers they take on. Uber has scale, but that also divorces it from the effects of "one bad apple".

Also, while I agree that taxi drivers are no better than any group - if you've paid for a medallion I doubt you would waste all that on committing a crime like this.

Running an unlicensed cab - now that is a dodgy bunch of people that no-one should get in a car with.
... if you don't know about the "var" keyword.
If you click the "Usage relative" button, then the bars do resize to reflect usage. The numbers here are based on StatCounter measurements, which show Chrome with a 42% page view share (about 3 times higher than the next most popular browser):

http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-201311-201...
Uber's Safety Roadmap
While mushrooms haven't been plants since the early 80s, if you were to use chicken-of-the-woods the right way then you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference. Especially if you mixed it with something like tempeh in the right proportions.
This seems like some kind of strange magical thinking to me. If animal-like creatures evolved on Mars and then all died because their planet's atmosphere and water dissipated early in its history, that tells us nothing about some "great filter" ahead of us. Our planet is large and geologically active and will most likely remain so until the sun engulfs it, so what would have killed any hypothetical life on Mars is not the same thing that will kill us.
Actually, there have been studies where they put red food coloring in white wine and given it to self-styled experts who could not tell that what they were drinking was not red wine.
I mostly agree, but (a) is untrue. A driver of a popular Bay Area airport shuttle service raped a woman and I did read about it.
Thanks for articulating this - it's a nice way of looking at it. This is one of six Pixite apps that brings another feel to creating 'edits' (or works of art made on mobile devices). All six apps work together to provide a pretty comprehensive platform for creating new things.
Lame! No, I definitely thought the Moto series was one of the "good ones" getting timely updates, so I'm bummed to hear that. Is the Nexus series literally the only one that wins points in this category?
NASA’s Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission
Cool app, thank you. Trying it out.

Do you know if it's possible to have apps start in fullscreen (the real one, as in Yosemite) by default? I would like that as default and only tile on some spaces.
Sadly, 'USDA Organic' hasn't really meant much useful right from the beginning. It's been determined by large food industry and farming corporations. I recommend Frances Moore Lappe's book Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet for background on food marketing and regulatory regimes.
https://cmdev.com/isbn/1585422371
I'm pretty sure people would be after blood from most companies if the rape occurred on company time and company premises.

(Yes I know the cab isn't owned by Uber, but the analogy fits)
>even new contributors are not really required to have a thick skin nor flame retardant suits

I will have to look into this community more. I've been burned by some oss communities before.