skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the firm was not fastidious about certain key aspects of
> HR and employment policy

HR is an expensive luxury, until it's not, and your dirty laundry is all over TechCrunch. c.f. Github.
Probably structs, the ease of using object pools, and the reference/value distinctions you can make.
It was Multics -> C -> Unix -> C -> Unix... etc.

C was developed in order for Ken Thompson to write the first Unix. The development of one fed the development of the other and they came into being together.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html
How the Microsoft Band Will Beat Apple's Watch
Funny "This Sounds" implies you stumbled across the site rather than being the creator (or creators mate). :-)
Sous Beurre Kitchen in the Mission does just this:

http://sf.eater.com/2015/2/6/7974123/sous-beurre-kitchen-san...
What Software Testing Looks Like to a Hardware Engineer
I like seeing the service included in the bill, it makes it explicit that it's a separate thing from the dinner and something that I'm paying for.
It is creepy but it IS just one side of the story. It seems premature to condem then until hearing all the info.
Some of the suggestions seems reasonable, e.g. 'arrays cannot have holes', 'Length always in sync' and 'Sane Coercions'.

It's also a good gesture that they'll try to work with others to standardize. SPDY -> http/2 is great example of this!

I disagree with 'Accessing missing properties' and a few others. I don't want Javascript turned into Java.

Also sounds a bit like a hammer looking for nails, i.e. they've already optimized everything, so to optimize more they'll need to rewrite the language. Again, I think some ideas are good, but may be slightly misdirected.
'Light Field' 3D maps take VR broadcasting to the next level
There have been some studies testing exercise for depression -- they compare exercise against no treatment or exercise against treatment.

When you only include well run studies you find minimal benefit for exercise vs no treatment -- it's a little bit better than not doing anything. There's no reason to expect this would be different for exercise vs treatment -- when you use good quality trials you will probably see very little benefit, and the benefit of actually getting a real fucking treatment is probably going to be better.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004366...

Here's the authors extract for clarity:

> Exercise is moderately more effective than a control intervention for reducing symptoms of depression, but analysis of methodologically robust trials only shows a smaller effect in favour of exercise. When compared to psychological or pharmacological therapies, exercise appears to be no more effective, though this conclusion is based on a few small trials.
As you already iterated, the non sequitur is that you can be right at one thing and still be wrong about another one. Which means that this argument doesn't really support the position. It is exactly the same position that you are not allowed to critique the writing style of Theo de Raadt, Linus Torvals or Ulrich Drepper because they are all excellent engineers, which is the major contention point and the reason for the documents existence in the first place.

She is right in that the sentence does have some ambiguity, if you twist your brain enough, you can grasp what she is seeing. But I also think that the context firmly states the intention. If your cognitive position is that someone is an asshole, then you will eventually see everything written as being purposefully malicious I guess.
> Aren't these are only necessary if you let people you don't trust into your system?

They also provide an additional layer of protection if you're running server software which gets exploited.
18 U.S. Code § 953 – Private correspondence with foreign governments
Full.social – an idea in the works
Not conceding anything... just pointing out some of the use cases today that are interesting.

Another one is most of the email service providers in Germany, where DNSSEC / DANE are being seen as ways to have a more secure email environment.

The list can go on...

> And one of the ways you suggest it could help is to allow clients to override TLS certificates and instead trust the government-controlled DNS.

:-) Where did I say override, Thomas? You can, if you wish, use a different trust anchor than the current (broken) CA system, but the beauty of DANE is that it gives you a way to add another layer of trust to existing systems. So you can use a CA-issued TLS cert and put a fingerprint in a TLSA record as an added check during a SMTP transaction. You could also check certs with CT... and if it were HTTP you could do pinning as well.

As many layers as you want!
That might be a false correlation indeed, however I disagree when you say:
"there's very little to think that level of service in restaurants in the US is related to the expectation of the tip"

waiters with good work ethics will offer a great service no matter if there is a tip involved in the end or not. Those with poor work ethics however would care less about providing a good service. I didn't mean to sound insulting to waiters, a lot of them do a great job, but I think that for some waiters the financial lure is important.
Wow Wow Wow!!!!

To take the basketball analogy further, is like the NBA champions getting a hold of the first pick in the draft lottery.
Logs processing on AWS, a brief overview
That's really impressive. Randomize even makes pretty compelling loops.

It gets bogged down for me and starts stuttering and losing the beat when I have all three tracks working (i7 system with 8GB RAM, running current Firefox developer release on a modern Linux system). I wouldn't know where to start on troubleshooting performance problems.
Yeah, because KPC, that poor startup, really couldn't afford proper HR. :P
Notable Labs (YC W15) Provides Personalized Medical Testing for Brain Cancer
> So tl;dr: it's about composability, not being "lazy" or "ignorant" to SQL.

If you want composability you should factor the common sql fragments out to parameterized views (table valued functions), or just regular views. Doing this across a large project can really improve performance as well.
I agree with you and I made a provocative comment I knew was going to be downvoted. But at least I expected some people to voice a contratrian opinion. Thank you for you straightness
Crystal: PHP microframework based on anonymous functions
This article from the chef at the Linkery (mentioned in TFA) is required reading on the subject.

I think the fact that there is good evidence that tipping is often racist and sexist is perhaps the strongest argument against it.

Part 1: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

Part 2: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

Part 3: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

Part 4: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

Part 5: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...

Part 6: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
This addition iconifies the way the Valley's power structure has been changing over the last few years.

Substantially more (reputation wise) powerful now than 5 years ago:

- Peter Thiel (and Founders Fund)

- Y Combinator

- Joe Lonsdale

- Keith Rabois

And that whole crew. The PayPal mafia (and @sama) are the new tier one.
If the lady says people are staring at her boobs, why are you dismissing it with a wave of "internal interpretation"? Why wouldn't you take her at her word?
It's come to a place where you don't date at work. You know, the place it's been.
> This married dude just harassing co-workers left and right. How gross.

I am little surprised that a VC is not firing people for doing this. Just strikes me as a huge liability and a great way to drive talent out of the shop.
> Hits like Bohemian Rhapsody are by their nature freak events and not easily reproducible.

Just like startups...
Apple stores draw so many shoppers that they lift sales 10% at malls
> "As a rule of thumb, you should only use MP3 devices at levels up to 60% of maximum volume for a total of 60 minutes a day" (http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-hea...).

Out of curiosity, is there a peer-reviewed study on this? Moderation sounds good, but I'd like to understand at what intensity (dB) for what period could potentially constitute hearing loss.

The 60% cited in that link seems to be based on a 120dB max (so: 72dB), which is a fair bit higher than most consumer devices (with consumer headphone impedance levels). Some cursory research shows that it's a bit closer to 103 - 109dB for an iPhone (and similar devices), which puts it around 63dB.

For context, I use canalphones for the isolation, and so I can keep the output down. I also understand that these aren't viable and/or comfortable for everyone.

TL;DR: How long can someone sustain ~63dB without potential hearing damage?
you can train yourself to not do this.

i consider myself generally quite misogynistic and horny as hell... so take my word that it is possible.
I found a top post called "Welcome Peter" to be jarring and eerie... :-)
After GigaOm, the Non-VC SimCity Approach to Growing a Media Business
Clickbaitier headline: "You won't believe what new color of lipstick V8 engineers have found to put on this pig!"
> What's the point of validating the communication between the servers if the last mile is unprotected?

It's all incremental ways of reducing the attack surface. Get DNSSEC validation happening at large public DNS services... then at ISPs... then on network edge devices... then into operating system (in stub resolvers) ... then perhaps into applications themselves.

Each step reduces the attack surface a bit more. I wrote about this at:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/plan-dnss...

This is why some people are using libraries like the GetDNS API to build DNSSEC validation directly into apps:

https://getdnsapi.net/

And solving the "last mile" problem is exactly why the DPRIVE working group was chartered within IETF:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dprive/charter/

(And anyone is welcome to contribute to the group.)
“Epistemology”, he whispered.

Using data is good, but “based on” offers a lot of wiggle room. A 10% increase in CTR is nothing to sneeze at, but it does not answer the question of the best use of your engineers’ (or designers’, or marketers’) time. Should they have instead been working on the thing that has a 50% chance of a 20% improvement? How do we account for all the data we didn’t bring to bear?

The data is small, the interpretation is big.

There is also the problem that philosophers call “regress”, which is that every rational decision has to trace back to a premise that one assumes in. Should we be in the business we are in, compared to all the other potential uses of talent? We can’t know that empirically, at root.
Perhaps new developers shouldn't transpile at all, or may use a single transpiler. It certainly could get confusing working with multiple transpilation layers.
It only throws if you access the property with the [] or . syntax, so I don't think this particular thing is a big problem.
YC believes in the advantages of their current model. There is something to be said for face to face interaction between founders and other founders, and between founders and mentors. It's possible that video or tele conferencing could be just as effective, but apparently they prefer to do business in person.

They've never said, at least publicly, that the best ideas are found among people who are of a certain age or parental status. They have said that they think it's better if all of the startups they fund in a batch are in one geographic location for X number of months. It's a matter of preference, not a moral judgement. Anecdotally, several of the YC partners have families and children of their own. I find it hard to believe that they aren't sensitive to the situation you're describing.

Personally, I think that doing a startup can be very difficult and demanding. It's been known to put a strain on family relationships. I would encourage people with families to think twice and to put in a lot of extra effort in the planning, research and MVP stages. It's one thing for a 20 year old to go through the stress of a startup, it's another when the lives of children are involved. I've seen the experience test people and get the better of them. If I encouraged someone to do that and it caused their family to fall apart, I would feel significantly worse about knowing that negative outcomes are assured for some. That's just me, though.

I don't think that the YC partners see things that way at all. They've found a process that works for them and if it ain't broke, they don't want to fix it.
Vvvv has been around since 1998, so it's quite established.
I wrote some animated SVG's in the past. It was often slow but good enough for most tasks. Quality was/is browser-dependent, but it worked well in overall.

I'm not sure what people want to achieve. So, how well works Scalable Vector Graphics for you?
That is a tough one. It's hard because there's nothing "apples to apples" with a male. If some girl stared at my chest, I really couldn't care less.

Now, if a girl made me uncomfortable in some way because of some advance or because she was staring uncomfortable at me in some way, I would let her know.
The problem are mixins from elsewhere. But yeah, most of them can be replaced.
Lots of ignorance in the article and some of the comments regarding data-driven decision making. Does the author realize how much of the civilization around us is built and guided by data-driven decisions? Also, people/companies not being able to effectively use their measurements to their advantage is not really evidence against the idea itself. When your model doesn't work, it's not modeling that's broken, it's just your model.

Gut reactions can take us only so far: they break down as we move away from single human-scale familiar problems (ones that the brain has some built-in, evolved capacity of handling, such as reading other people's facial expressions).
> Data-driven movies gave us 25 Hollywood sequels planned for this year

You mean, data-driven movie investment. Movie producers don't want the same thing as cinephiles.
or you can check first with .hasOwnProperty() or with the in operator
This is a bit of a tangent but sometimes I wish browsers would just open up some kind of standardized assembly language like interface to the vm and the dom. This would effectively make development for the browser virtually identical to the desktop; and also as a side effect, completely end this debate about "strengthening javascript."
There's nothing profound about it, it's common sense in business though people use different words like "moats", "barriers to entry" and "pricing power".
True, and given the tiny portion of people who are cinephiles, that seems reasonable.
I get that too on Firefox, I'm hoping to try out the web-worker idea suggested by meandave to fix it. At the moment it works much better on Chrome for some reason.
Oh yes, I think it's a terrible place for the business to find themselves. It just seems like getting hit by a bus is the only way they leave the organization--they'll even stay through retirement!

Anyone who wants to own some part of the business that thoroughly is a liability.
> one of the most profound insights in Thiel's excellent book, Zero to One.

Which was an insight in Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005).

And before that, if you squint, in Competitive Strategy (Porter, 1980) and Competitive Advantage (Porter, 1980).

And the B-school theorists basically got their ideas by peeking over the fence of the Economics dept at how monopolies are formed and abuse their power and saying "hey, let's teach that to our students".
One quote stands out for me - "we're a small partnership". Now it could be bad transcription by TC but that shows even after sueing them, Pao still thinks of Kleiner as part of her.

It's hard to fake.

I feel sorry for her - she has a huge uphill slog ahead of her, and even if she wins, her career is start on her own or move to growing oranges.

I look forward to hearing Pao associates making investments in female founded businesses using money raised from female only investors.

Probably the only way to get taken seriously.
OpenBSD does a damn good job as a stand in for crazily priced network equipment. Being able to run redundant firewalls with fail-over firewall state, IPSEC state, and IP addresses all supported natively with awesome documentation is a killer feature. I haven't had to do so in 5-6 years though, so maybe others have caught up.
I think there is a lot more possible right now, creating this has given me a lot of new ideas for a more fully featured sequencer.
The PDF that you linked to is talking about AR9462. Libreboot machines typically use chips with the AR9285 chipset.
+1 for epistemology.
Looking someone continuously in the eyes can also be judged too intense and uncomfortable, and the most natural reaction, at least to me, is to lower your gaze momentarily. This is the thing that (to me, at least) seems least like I'm bored or checking out of the conversation.

It is unfortunate that when talking to females, this puts your eyes in the region of their chest, and there have been instances where I've found myself with my eyes locked on someone's chest and it's really not the intent.
The primary link for this should be to http://www.rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Wa... . Coplien write a follow-up at http://www.rbcs-us.com/documents/Segue.pdf . Links to those, and more by the author are at http://www.rbcs-us.com/software-testing-resources/articles .

There was also a long discussion about the original posting, almost exactly a year ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353767 , with few hundred comments.
My point is that the claim that policemen routinely arrest people who refuse to pull over is far less uncertain or controversial than the claim that male employers routinely ask women on dates and make their employment contingent on their response.
"In tipping countries waiters basically beg you to leave as soon as you've eaten." That is true, is it a perverse effect of the tip? (for an average meal on an average table, 1 tip of 30% in 2 hours is not as good as 2 tips at 20%) or is it just another culture: people in the USA eat faster than some south Europe countries for instance.

I grew up in a non-tipping country, this isn't a culture issue when some waiters are clearly hard to find in the restaurant, good waiters will leave you alone, but when you need them they will be here, or at least know when they need to take a look from far away and see if water/bread seems lacking.

This is annoying to just be frustrated when you planned to have a good night, and know that other people are going to be frustrated by that bad waiter too.

If I am unlucky and have to get a terrible waiter, I appreciate the fact that he/she is going to provide a minimum service because of the tip.

Fortunately, for non-tipping countries, reviews like Yelp/Foursquare/... kind of help the market I think, you can see what the reviews says about the service.
Fixed. Apparently I was blacklisted from the website even though I haven't even used it recently, let alone inundated it with requests :\
Please don't propagate the myth that women only object to inappropriate behavior from people they are not attracted to.
One of the problems here is the lack of a feedback loop. Yes these things are subtle but if never dealt with nothing changes. The person looking at the boobs, may nor may not be aware how obvious it is. Not that this makes it okay but it means they have no internal conviction to change the behaviour.

And it may be equally possible that some of the 'feeling you get from someone' could be a total miss read. As long as nothing is said nothing changes. I think a culture where people are willing to deal with the discomfort this sort of thing brings would help. Also a culture where people are not thrown under the bus at the first hint of a problem. It is seen as too much of a risk, to have either an offender or a victim of sexual harassment on staff because of the legal repercussions and that's not okay, that keeps things hidden.

There is also the more blatant instance of sexual harassment in the industry (well in every industry) but I think it's a case of the broken window effect.
When the little things are allowed to slide things escalate out of control.
so here's one concrete thing you can do - when a woman says she can tell that someone is staring at her boobs (versus just happening to be looking in that direction), believe her! don't immediately start looking for all the reasons she might be mistaken.
Who are these people? Why do they get all the money from wall street and then get to go around acting like they're gods? A monkey could have done a good job of throwing money around Sillicon Valley and picking a bunch of winners over the last 10 years. Why hire these prima donnas to do it? Wall Street is a corrupt joke.
It's hard because there's nothing "apples to apples" with a male.

Maybe try "apples to bananas"?
Dear Salvatore,

Your arguments are exactly what I had wished for - your POV is just as crucial and my only regret is that we didn't "demand" that you go on stage then and there to present it - I would have certainly stayed for that and the ensuing discussion no matter how long it would have lasted after closing time (although, in second thought, that would have been extremely unfair as you would have been pushed into a tight spot w/o preparation, so I take that back). I could offer my views on each of the points but that's hardly relevant IMO, useless :)

What really pains me is seeing you two beautiful and smart individuals, who are passionate about the same thing, disagreeing so heatedly over these issues. I think (hope?) I can see where each one of you is coming from and to me it doesn't look like your goals are that different. Perhaps the nature of an open source community is such that such topics needs to be vented out in public - /me don't know. I sincerely hope that the core team will find a way to overcome these differences because despite of (or maybe because of) them, from a bystander's POV, it looks to me like you have a good thing going - together and backed by an amazing community.
The name of one of the protectors is 'Themida', not "Themeda". Aside from that, nice article. I wonder how many of the antiviruses complained when you actually tried to execute your packed file? There should be a second round of heuristics then which would catch the malware after it's unpacked to disk.
What is a part-time partner and how does it differ from a full-time one? Do they get carry?
So how about separate charges for cleaning and accounting?

The restaurant pays for a lot of other things too that are not directly part of the dinner. I don't understand why service should be considered special.
OpenVG has been thoroughly dead for a while now. I think the half-baked libraries are as good as you're going to get.
No, it's syntactic sugar for one particular approach to using prototypical inheritance that resembles "traditional" OOP.
Apparently he was fired, but not for his conduct with Pao, but for sexually harassing another female partner.
(past ES4 champion from the Adobe here)

I agree with Brendan about the difficulty of mapping features from AS3 (Flash) to ES4 (the web). I'd go a step further and say that the only way this even would have been possible is to grow it out of the host's DNA of JS1/ES3.

Even if at a high level many of the emerging features of JS look like those in AS3/ES4, they are in their details profoundly different. This is as it should be. They need to grow out of the primordial stuff of JS1, not AS3. I suspect that the ES4 effort has informed many of those now working on ES.next in a way that wouldn't have happened otherwise. So in that sense, at least, ES4 lives on.