skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of these cloud storage companies seem to provide a very important feature I can never seem to find in their documentation - file locking. It's the one feature missing that keeps us from using cloud storage.
This is a side effect of companies filling coffers via investors instead of via customers. If you're part of a high growth company with reasonable earnings, that sales multiple means you'll likely get a taste of the action. If you're in a high growth VC funded company with no revenue, then that multiple goes to the VC and maybe one or two people they might like to work with again.

You can restate this via all sorts of dilution and complex shareholder classes and endless paperwork and HN blogposts, but that's what it boils down to.

Chances are you're in a no-growth or modest-growth company so none of this matters and you should read a basic business book from the 1960s instead, serve your customers well, and charge a reasonable fee for the goods and services you deliver.
That is a truly awful blog layout. So much whitespace, and what appears to be around a 40 character line limit. I see the point is made once the license is pasted in a few times, but still frustrating.

For all that, the post has a valid question about how an open phone can have such messages in its source code.
It doesn't support integrated graphics on my Macbook at all. Luckily I have a PC as well. There's a chance it would work, but I wouldn't bank on it.
Enough.

You don't like JavaScript. We get it. The number of people who don't like JavaScript are as "well-documented and well-understood" as your problems with the language, as are the solutions you mentioned (use a subset of JavaScript or something that compiles to it).

I'm more than happy to read novel criticisms or novel ways to improve the language, but the ecosystem really doesn't need yet another blog post rehashing common knowledge (anyone who cares knows about The Good Parts, CoffeeScript, and GWT) and beating the "JavaScript sucks" horse.
If it's the 30 year old secretary coordinating the shareholder meeting I'm quitting school and pulling a Chris McCandless.

Otherwise, going to be a very interesting thing to watch. Mr. Buffet's love of economic moats will likely help ensure that his successor will not be in a Ballmer-type position.
Sounds like they're in pretty prestigious positions to me. Lots of professors publishing papers, and a couple working for the biggest name in finance; only one ordinary-sounding job ("web developer in Boston"). What were you expecting?

If anything I was surprised so many of them had done so well. I was on the UK squad for a few years and most of my friends from then seem to have ordinary jobs at companies you've never heard of (like me).
>change the meaning of the poem

What? Those lines are the poem!
To many, many gamers, as soon as the word EA comes up, it already means "prepare for disappointment, DRM, and disastrous launches".
You can also say that it makes for a good pre-selection process of people who are willing to cope with his attitude. So in that way, your "self-fulfilling prophecy" just means that there is a selection bias in people who are willing to contribute to the linux kernel.
Hey there! Do you mind explaining the use case in a bit more detail?
yes - I was part of a recent acquisition and made a little over 4M (pretax). I had 0.1% of the company. I was 24th employee (engineer). The company had 55 people at the time of acquisition. I joined about 14 months before the acquisition.
I'm not sure what you mean by Dropbox. Their front page is quite clear as to what the product is and does.
The average engineer who joined square about 3 years ago has made more than 2M
It won't give me an answer without checking "Apple" or "Google". You'd think a quiz for developers would allow mu for a specific answer.
> I, strangely enough, agree with Most of what Aaron says. And I'm the founder of a news company.

People should re-read this and understand that this is the best way of doing marketing for your startup. "I agree, here's my solution".
Head of Google's secretive X lab defends Glass headset
This. Unless you can honestly tell me that you make no apparently irrational purchases. Coffee from Starbucks. Video games. Movies. I get it, you like them, they're convenient, and so they're rational purchases for you. But you can make better coffee for less money yourself, and you can be entertained for free. Compared to what you'll likely spend on these over the course of your life, compromising on a piece of jewelry your partner wants is nothing. If it makes them happy, be glad you were able to do that so easily.
The "JavaScript Problem" is not about what JavaScript can or can't or will be able to do, it's about JS being the only option available, period.

The web needs a bytecode language that other languages can compile to. Some people say JavaScript can be that bytecode, and asm.js is a big step in that direction, but for the web to grow to its full potential developers need the freedom to express their ideas in the languages that suit them best.
The host key rotation support sounds very nice, and something I've wanted for a long time:

> * ssh(1), sshd(8): Experimental host key rotation support. Add a protocol extension for a server to inform a client of all its available host keys after authentication has completed. The client may record the keys in known_hosts, allowing it to upgrade to better host key algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys.

> The client side of this is controlled by a UpdateHostkeys config option (default off).

I wish it were on by default, but I guess they want to test it further before enabling it by default. It will remove the temptation to keep using old, weak or suspect keys just because of the hassle of having all the users update their keys or because the admins are afraid of training their users that the scary "HOST KEY HAS CHANGED!!!" warnings are normal and should be ignored.
That's because it's async. You want to use Samba (or whatever the Windows version is called) for that.
Genuinely curious, wouldn't EBIT be a more conservative number than EBITDA? Not that it matters in tech, as I assume Depreciation and Amortization are almost nil.
Check out GitBook. They build from Markdown/HTML and can produce interactive HTML and/or PDF.
The post starts off with:

"The JavaScript Problem is two fold: JavaScript sucks, but we need JavaScript."

Can we just got over this JavaScript sucks issue. We get it. There are a lot of people who hate JavaScript but we know the issues so start using JS the proper way.
It is difficult to take seriously an article that starts with The JavaScript Problem is two fold: JavaScript sucks, but we need JavaScript. and ends with Where you want to be on this continuum depends on how much you hate JavaScript.
In (non-Quebec) Canada, there's often an option to do French Immersion, even though the primary language is English. My parents put me in this program for elementary (K-8) school, and gave me the choice for high school, which I opted out of. There's a few positives and negatives that I found watching myself and my peers:

Pros:

- The 9 years that I spoke French in the classroom for every class except for English was enough to make the language stick. I'm 31 now, and I can still speak, read, and write French. My vocabulary is weak since I don't use French on a regular basis, but when I was in Paris, I had no problem understanding what was going on, ordering food, taking a cab, etc.

- I feel like having the 2nd language has made it easier to pick up other languages. I'm by no means fluent in Spanish, but when I was regularly doing DuoLingo Spanish lessons, I felt like things stuck very quickly.

- I also feel like some kind of structures in my brain from this help me pick up different programming languages. It seems like, compared to most of my peers, switching between new languages and learning new languages is generally a straightforward task for me, including weird ones like Erlang and Haskell. The majority of the effort goes into learning the concepts, not learning the syntax.

Cons:

- After graduating high school doing full immersion all the way through, many of my peers struggled with writing in University. I distinctly remember my first roommate getting an essay back and he was freaking out about the terrible mark he got. He asked me to look over it to see if I could see what was wrong with it. I read through it and just told him "Well... the problem is that you used English words, but you wrote it in French."

- Likewise, many of them had difficulties in math and science, where they understood the concepts very well from high school, but didn't have the English vocabulary to describe what they were doing.

All in all, I'm super happy that my parents made the choices they did, and that I dropped out of immersion before high school. I think, too, it helped a lot that I read a pile of English books growing up, both fiction and non-fiction, which hopefully helped supplement my English vocabulary while I was learning French at school every day. I was the 10 year old who held on tightly to his copy of the Peter Norton pink shirt book :)
Microsoft making ROM that allows Android smartphones to run Windows 10
There are considerable benefits to breastfeeding, so while it's totally the mother's choice and we should avoid undue pressure it's wrog to say that there are only small benefits to breastfeeding.
I have a friend who grew up in a home where her mom and grandma spoke to her only in Spanish and her dad only spoke to her in English. She was surprised when she went to Kindergarten and her teacher spoke English. She thought Spanish was what women spoke and that English was for men.
Not to banks it isn't.
We pay MS $3-5m/yr for desktop & server licenses to support a company wtih about 25,000 users/PCs. Their licensing model is extremely convoluted, and near impossible for a single person to fully understand. All the VARs have their own teams to work with enterprises on MS licensing & true-ups, and of course MS have their own org to help, too. It's not just counting usage, either, because so many products can be licensed in so many different ways.

For example, you can license Windows desktop OS by named user or by machine. If you do it by machine, it's cheaper, but if you do it by named user then that user can utilize the license on up to 5 (I think) devices (PCs, tablets, phones, whatever). Generally speaking, licenses by machine are called CALs (client access licenses), and the way you get to a number is by running a report in Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (MS SCCM), which is a server platform that helps you manage and distribute software to machines attached to your Active Directory domain(s). However, there is another option for desktop licensing: desktop virtualization using Microsoft Remote Desktop running on a server or VM. In this case, you have to pay for RDP CALs, which cost about 3x what a desktop "Core" CAL does. If you're running Terminal Server (for the RDP clients to access), you have to license that (the server OS + Terminal Server itself) ... however, you can reduce the Server OS license by also licensing Windows Server Datacenter Edition, which lets you pay once per Virtual Host and lets you spin up as many Windows Server VMs on that host as you want.

Anyway, counting all this and figuring out the contract amount is done using these SCCM reports, plus a bunch of manually counted stuff plugged into a complicated Excel workbook with many tabs, formulae and hidden VBA ... and then you start the person-to-person negotiations with Microsoft, because depending whether you're a category A, B, or C enterprise you get different pricing, and you can be in different categories for different products or product lines.

I'd say that each time we have to do a true-up it consumes about 1000 person hours.
Scientists are as sure about climate change as they are that cigarettes kill
Is option number 1 "Use JavaScript Carefully" really that hard?

Bjarne Stroustrup's quote seems more and more relevant to me every time I hear complaints about JavaScript.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

Edit: Well this is hilarious. I started writing this comment with no comments on the page and by the time I submitted it several posts seem to complaining about the constant complaints about JavaScript. Great minds think alike or JS devs are super-defensive?
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة ومانشستر سيتي
Masterful use of contrast and texture. Data vis can stand to have more of this.
Wasn't Vista supposed to have some revolutionary database like file system ?

Will we ever get to see it ?

EDIT:
Wasn't being snarky, was just wondering if it's still in the works.
Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but a very good read on the subject is "Venture Deals" (http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...).

If you want to know exactly what rights your shares have (and don't have), this is the book.
I see this as the first steps in planning to lock-down the Windows ecosystem completely (and then extract profits from the users). I wouldn't be surprised if this "free" OS becomes unable to install applications easily except from the built-in app store, has some paid features, phones home with usage statistics, may start being ad-supported, etc... basically making the OS "freemium" software.
I agree, it's an exciting feature with a lot of promise. It does have some potential for abuse, and I think defaulting to off is the proper choice. Even when it's no longer experimental, this is something I imagine you'd want to enable on a per server basis.
I think it's the opposite: to me you sound like an IT guy since you know about cifs and file servers and you have hard time understanding the value because you are looking from a technical instead of user perspective.
A five-letter password is not much harder/slower to type than a 4-digit PIN, but makes this attack entirely impractical.

Even using just lowercase letters, the maximum time expands from 111 hours to about 132,000 hours (15 years) per passcode.

Going to six letters expands it to about 390 years.
AeroFS syncs files to the local hard drive, meaning you can access them when not connected to the office network. It also automatically syncs any changes once you reconnect.
LinkedIn is down / having issues
What about ２言語併用、３言語併用？
Memory in the Flesh: Can memories survive outside the brain?
What about public transportation? We can make improvements to public transportation today.
On another tangential note: is there anything like this for home users? Say I have 1TB of "stuff" lying around at home (music, movies, photos, docs), and I want to share it: with my GF, across various devices, etc. I want to be able to stream music, movies off of my storage; save/delete files, etc. All securely, of course.
I haven't! Thanks for letting me know about it. Hopefully it works just as they say. Unfortunately the site is down right now.
It's likely just as unfair to tarnish the Maxis name for the game design failures of the EA SimCity era. Would a pure Maxis game have been as badly received? I guess we can't know for sure.
Not to mention that the same people who would be relied on to spread any information about the harm of consuming said media is... said media.
As a parent of a bilingual 18 month old, my experience is totally different. I speak english most of my day at work, my son speaks english at daycare, and we speak french together at home. When I get to daycare he immediately switches to french and this feels like we have a shared secret. I left a CD of french songs at the daycare and they play it when he needs soothing.

I think this boils down to the fact that I think of myself as an immigrant, not an expat.
I completely agree. I just posted a comment pretty much on these same lines but I guess your comment got there first.

The hate on JavaScript "horse" is past being dead. Maybe we can start a Javascript is ok/has good parts but is here to stay "horse"!?
In the architectural industry, we use AutoCAD drawing files that require only one person to open and edit the file. Most cloud storage options don't lock the file when it's being accessed. Other people are able to open and edit the file and therefore the cloud software doesn't know which file was the parent holder and instead updates the file based on the most recent changes.Even Microsoft's Dynamic Cache Service doesn't have a file locking feature. Therefore we need to use something called GlobalScape.
Miles per passenger depend on too many factors. I'd stick with 1 death per 6,200 driver's licenses (US, 2009)
> are completely opaque in what they do from their initial text.

dropbox.com:

> Your stuff, anywhere

If that was all you knew and saw about the company, would you have any idea what they do?
Interesting: My startup (which did something totally unrelated) was called Skylines, and I have been wondering what to do with the Skylines.io domain.. :)
>it coins me.

Whoa, what? How can you use 'coin' as a verb in this context? The news turns you into a different word or phrase? You've just blown my mind. Or is that a typo?
Banks, although regulated up to their necks, still manage to lose millions of dollars of customer's money in hacking attacks.
I can't wait to look back on the language we use to describe the web today and have a good laugh in 2032.
Hmm, not sure if I totally agree.

Superfish was certainly a huge abuse of the trust network. However, if we look at other recent SSL vulnerabilities: Heartbleed, POODLE, FREAK - most of these are all dealing with flaws in the encryption (some directly, through most with the use of side-channel or other clever attacks).

We also know that the NSA is saving encrypted messages for mass decryption in the future. New technologies like Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) can help eliminate this issue. I think that fact that nearly 100% of servers were still allowing SSL 3 up until the POODLE attack a few months ago highlights how poor most SSL configurations are. Unlike the trust network, which has infrequent but serious breaches, the encryption side seems to be poorly implemented almost universally.

However, unlike Superfish, which we know affected thousands, alot of these other SSL vulnerabilities are usually just PoCs...

A complex issue for sure.
ES6 doesn't exist anymore, it's ES2015 now.
Why is Canada importing $104M of used US clothes/yr?
A nine digit numeric pin would take at most 18 weeks to crack at 40 seconds per attempt.

edit: at most 18 weeks; actual time will probably be shorter
And then the immediate next line:

"Put your stuff in Dropbox and get to it from your computers, phones, or tablets. Edit docs, automatically add photos, and show off videos from anywhere."

What about this is unclear? It's on the front page..

Huh, and I reloaded and got different text:

"Dropbox is a safe, simple way to access your files on any device." - this time right above the download button.

Wonder if they're doing some testing...
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Problem? What problem?
I would have loved to manage that!
I'm a little bit confused about why there's such a negative reaction to this on HN - it seems like a pretty reasonable statement to make, no? Sure, I don't think there's any firm idea of when 'robotic' drivers will overtake humans in terms of safety. But it does seem pretty clear that it will eventually happen.

Self-driving cars have a few massive potential advantages relative to humans, such as faster reaction times, no distractions, the ability to directly communicate car-to-car, and so on. It certainly seems likely that those advantages will far outweigh the adaptability of humans – after all, aren't most accidents caused by distraction, driving too fast for the conditions and the like?
Right, PG's advice is not useful for all founders, just the 1 out of every 10 that makes it big. The others are supposed to nut up and get over it.

His advice does, however, benefit every venture capitalist.
In the promotional materials I see the alerts they have spotted, but what about the false positives, that is the big question.

Of course, most of financial advice/alerts/tips/et al industry is similarly wishy washy, that is everyone touts their successes and discounts their misses.

Let's not even go into larger scale economic forecasts, those have similar problems. An economist can build a whole career of a single successful forecast.

So Dataminr should feel right at home in this niche.
'Problem'?

As the GP points out, cash is still very common here. A _large_ supermarket over here (Kaufland) doesn't accept CCs, but does accept direct debit.

Listing 'accepting CCs' as a bonus for Uber seems.. weird in this environment.
Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely into the Future?
Important Security Notification from Mandrill
There were a lot of people trying to read the fine print about the free Windows upgrades "for one year," spinning out wild conspiracy theories about how everyone would have to pay a yearly license that turned out to be based on a misreading of some journalist's summary of what Microsoft said. If we're going to read the fine print and look for loopholes, we should wait for something more substantial than a Reuters article.
On the other hand, Lua is much easier to embed into programs. And it is used a lot in games. If I remember correctly, Redis is also using Lua for scripting.
Uhm.. the book is titled "The Prophet" so I would think "that turn" is core to the message of the book.
Show HN: Focus on what matters – who should do what
Blue Ridge Labs: Hack on Real Social Issues
Great hack, but I'm disappointed that it's this complicated.
Incorrect without further qualification.

There are people in the set of "others" who very much deserve harassment and ridicule--consider people actively working against the common good, like Scientologists or other online trolls or robber barons or city bosses.
He seems to miss out the combination of clever & stupid. ;)

(ok, industrious & lazy too, but...)
After they get going, I don't see how the capex could possibly be higher than for a traditional tower wind turbine. Everything is smaller, and closer to the ground. Less site preparation, and you don't need to rent giant cranes. You're also not shipping giant blades and pylons with special trucks.

Also, using smaller generators means that you've got a higher production volume, which can mean significant cost savings. You're also not dealing with giant bearings, gearboxes, etc. which are expensive to produce.

And if you're taking a kite offline, you might as well replace all the motor-generators at the same time. I assume they'll be designed to easily detach and replace. Then, back at the shop, you can check them out on your test bench, and see which ones can return to service in the spares stock.

I agree that the tether is a big question mark.
Seems kind of odd to use core assert and manual stubbing of meethods combined with mocha, but it kind of reminds me of the fun I've had with Ruby meta programming.. with much uglier syntax.
Exactly, this is why I said financial strength (by that I mean the ability to buy an expensive diamond ring) in itself isn't as important.
Will people use a product that has a 30 day trial?
Has the 30 day trial gone the way of the dinosaur? Do people expect to use an app free forever? Would love to hear some thoughts on this. Thinking about the best way to distribute our new email app.