skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

A couple of thoughts:

(1) It effectively sets a certain bar at the company. There are no poor people working here. There are no disappointing dead ends. All jobs here are decent, by general standards. I'm sure that's culturally significant within the company.

(2) It sets a certain bar for employee productivity.

(3) The famous 'pirate codes' usually had rules for distributing booty. Captains got between 2 and 10 shares, while regular crewmen got 1. It's striking how much more CEOs get compared to pirate captains.
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I think most experience is not transferable. Most people are too dogmatic and lazy. Signal to noise ratio is very low , and unusual ideas simply get discarted by spam filters in our brains. I will give two examples:

I use 5 years old HP laptop, most people call it 'the brick'. Newer laptop would reduce weight I carry by one pound, but has several disadvantages:

- no easy way to swap ssd between desktop and laptop when I do travel. With my current setup it takes 2 minutes and OS restart.

- even newest laptops have the same performance and only 8 GB memory

- IDE and unit tests kills battery life, even newest machine lasts only a few hours under modest load. No improved battery life from new CPUs. Replacement batteries are must.

- it costs peanuts, I can take ssd with me and leave heavy laptop at hotel room

- because its cheap it can take a lot of abuse. Expensive components (batteries, ram, ssd) can be transfered to replacement laptop.

Second example is way more controversial. I criticize over-vaccination. For most people it means I am conspiracy nutjobs, but in reality my country (Czech Republic) has 3x more vaccines than Germany a few kilometers away. There is simply no opposition to medical industry. Even our doctors are now refusing to get vaccinated. (my children have all shots recommended by EU)
why does the client need to be built locally? Are you inherently suspicious of anything delivered over HTTPS?

I'm genuinely interested in why people feel local clients are more secure than something running in a browser. It's something I came across when writing an ssh client in browser (www.minaterm.com).

I guess it's the potential for a HTML page to updated overtime so it no longer reflects an audited version. However it seems that it's really a failing in our browsers that this is the case. Perhaps an external service that verifies the hash of a page would help? But this would need browser support of course.

The only thing I could think of that could be implemented in current browsers was a small stub page which calculates and displays a hash of the HTML/Javascript to be launched. The stub would need to be small enough that a user could manually check that nothing malicious has been added here.
No, but check out how XKCD is presented at the moment. It doesn't look like it's secure or insecure, it looks like http. I would happily read webcomics over a self-signed certificate if it was made easy for me.

We don't need identity verification on many sites, being resistant to passive eavesdroppers or transient active attackers (such as sites that present different SSL certs when accessed from a public wifi) is a nice to have as they prevent some attacks rather than none.
It just seems that Google, Twitter, Facebook or many other big Data companies will have some / many pieces of tech dependent on JVM. But I never heard anyone them using .Net
From the article: "Among the respondents, Docker recorded the strongest buying intention score the researchers recorded in the six years they’ve run this survey. Messina also noted that about 50 percent of the companies in the current Docker Hub beta are Fortune 100 companies."
I run twirssi[1], an irssi-based twitter client, on my server to easily skim tweets and log them into a greppable text file.

[1] http://twirssi.com/
Linkage to their paper:

http://deswl.github.io/page1/vikram_paper/kappa_des.pdf

via: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2015/Mappin...
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I went to a couple of events where Docker was a topic in Europe, the general feeling is that the solution looks great, but every single time a speaker/organizer asks to raise a hand if using it in production, nobody does. I mean, it's definitely a technology having a momentum, but I still have to find someone that heavily used it in production.
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But SubstrateVM, Graal, Truffle, isn't ready for another few years. ( I haven't heard much since 2013.... )
> There are no poor people working here. There are no disappointing dead ends. All jobs here are decent, by general standards. I'm sure that's culturally significant within the company.

I just visited Australia for the first time in 9 years, after having lived there for the first 23 years of my life. I've been living in North America (Canada and the US)

Your comment is exactly how Australia feels. There are virtually no poor people, nobody is left behind. Even people working "dead end jobs" like retail are perfectly happy. I would say they're happier than "career" people in North America.
“Efforts to combat formerly widespread sexism in hiring appear to have succeeded,”

Interesting conclusion.
Not surprising to me.
I've participated in admissions committees (for a graduate program) and hiring committees (for new faculty) at a top US STEM program, and women do get a significant boost. This preference is usually explicit -- to look for "diversity hires", and so forth.
Perhaps the availability of cheap mass spectrometers could mitigate some of the health risks involved (e.g. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-six...).
Are those Fortune 100 companies purchasers of the Docker Hub service, or mere users? If such a company downloaded even a single Docker image from the Hub, does that count?
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No, there are simply too many. Even gold has an E number (175).

People with allergies do remember the specific E numbers they have to watch out for.

The packaging often states what the E numbers are, either specifically or the general category (stabilizer, emulsifier, preservative, colouring, taste additive, ...).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number
Charging per-module like github would encourage people to author fewer packages and to lump more functionality into the same package, which goes completely against the ethos of npm and the spirit of tiny abstractions that do one thing well.

The way that npm has structured things, programmers pay once for membership in a commercial tier, where presumably money is already changing hands to work on private code. I think this makes much more sense and won't bias the code itself in a negative direction.
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For me it seems to fall into the same sort of setup as Mongo or MySQL in the long term, and MySQL did alright ($1bn).
Does anyone know whether the open source NPM implementation allows me to implement and host my own private repository system without forking npm? Or is npm (and thus node and iojs) hard-tied to npm, Inc's proprietary offering for private modules?
I think this this sentiment is a relative of the recurring comment that 'there is a legal/fiduciary duty get investors the highest possible ROI.' I think it's neither true in practice or in theory, taken that literally.

CEOs can't steal from investors or run the company against their interests. But they have a lot of decision making capacity within those bounds. Salaries (and realistically, the more pronounced questions are around executive pay), are within that boundary. So are marketing expenses, R&D expenditure and such. Companies are run using instinct, worldview, eve morals.

It's not like investors can drag CEOs into court over every decision and demand they prove they're in shareholders' interests. If decisions are seriously, provably against investor interests they can, but in practice this means some sort of stealing. Crooked contracts with kickbacks, embezzlement. That sort of stuff. Apart from that it's 'normal' business. If investors don't like how the company is run they can replace him. Otherwise, sell.
I recently got interested in nodejs. However, then I discovered that:

1. It doesn't support threads (facilitating structural sharing of large data-structures between parallel tasks, which cannot be done using ordinary processes).

2. The module-loading mechanism ("require()") natively doesn't support delayed loading, which is needed when loading from within a browser. Yes, there is the "browserify" package, but, come on, something as basic like this should be supported out of the box. Especially considering the fact that there is a "http" module hardwired inside nodejs (why isn't this a separate npm module, btw?)

3. To make my own privately held modules and install them properly, I have to run a npm server? This seems like an awful lot of work for something as basic as this. Ok, so now I can use the cloud for this, but come on, I should be able to do this just from within the filesystem, like e.g. git does it.

For people interested, one can use the package "sinopia" for hosting your own private modules. It seems to be a pretty decent package, but be aware that the authentication settings out of the box are completely insecure.
> - no easy way to swap ssd between desktop and laptop when I do travel. With my current setup it takes 2 minutes and OS restart.

Could you share your setup and OS ?
So trollface author became actual copyright troll himself clipping coupons of people who use it, but without reimbursing millions of people who made the trollface what it is today, a recognizable sign.
Coinbase (YC S12) Is Hiring a Product Manager for Wallet and Exchange
Coinbase's mission is to make payments more open and efficient for the world.

==Product Manager For Wallet==

The Product Manager for Wallet will be responsible for our bitcoin wallet product on web and mobile. This include prioritizing the product roadmap, facilitating excellent communication between teams, meeting KPIs for the product, and gathering feedback from customers.

Responsibilities

* Help launch new products through ideation, design, implementation, and launch
* Build a shared vision across teams
* Help set metrics to measure success of new initiatives
* Demonstrate passion for bitcoin
* Understand our customers

Requirements

* 2+ years experience
* Exceptional communication, organization, and analytical skills

Preferred

* BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field

What to send

* Link to something awesome you've built or launched
* A resume
* A brief answer to the following question: What would you improve about our wallet product at Coinbase?

Apply Here https://www.coinbase.com/careers/42539

==Product Manager For Exchange==

Two months after launch, Coinbase now operates the most popular bitcoin exchange in the U.S. We're looking for an experienced product manager with a combination of product and finance background, to help us take it to the next level.

Responsibilities

* Collaborate with engineering to lead launches of new features from ideation, design, implementation, to launch
* Communicate with customers to determine and prioritize features which will increase exchange volume
* Collaborate with support team to ensure customers are getting the best experience
* Collaborate with International Expansion team to launch Exchange in every country
* Navigate regulatory, financial, customer experience issues
* Establish shared vision across teams through consensus on priorities
* Define framework and analysis of metrics to formulate success of products
* Understand the Bitcoin and financial landscape to ensure the company’s success as an industry leader by launching creative products and features
* Facilitate excellent internal communication amongst teams and keep the company up to date on new launches
* Define and analyze key metrics that illustrate success of products

Requirements

* BA/BS in Computer Science or related engineering field
* Experience within the finance industry with trading commodities or currencies
Product sensibilities of users within the bitcoin and trading domains

Preferred

* Experience working with engineers and traders
* Product management experience

What to send

* Links to your GitHub/Stack Overflow/Portfolio/something awesome you've built or launched are good ideas.
* A resume
* A brief answer to the following question: What would be the first feature/change you would make to the Coinbase Exchange?

Apply Here https://www.coinbase.com/careers/55480
Ah, Tesseron is the nobility... they probably have the largest collection of old vintages of all the Grande Champagne houses! But you pay for the privilege... I once had a vertical tasting in a Swiss supermarket (Manor Geneva) by accident, I just wanted to chat to the sales guy and one thing led to another (and to the Lot 29). It was good but not good enough for the price tag. I'd say the marginal price increase to marginal value ratio becomes unattractive for me around the 53. Maybe when I've sold my company for millions things will look different.

In Springbank I love the Longrow CV - it's my default request in a bar with limited interesting choices because it's still relatively cheap. Very Islay-like though (a lot of peat, and probably the opposite of your sherried sweetness) which is not to everyone's taste. Haven't had it in 3 years so YMMV. I'll keep an eye out for the Madeira, although generally not a fan of port or sherry finishes (except Mortlach, whose sheer brutality is somehow enhanced by the lingering smell).

In terms of wine finish, Renegade (another Bruichladdich experiment!) used to make a series of rums finished in great wine casks - I particularly remember the Black Rock (itself legendary) finished in Petrus, and still kick myself for not buying a few bottles back then... they were really cheap! On the other hand I bought some Iwai "Chateau Mars" finish at Hasegawa last week, and that was literally all nose and nothing else, despite the glowing review from Nonjatta. Hit and miss...
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I went to see some of my cousins in Australia earlier this year (and well, to watch the world cup).

This is what surprised me as well. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the atmosphere of the world cup, but everywhere in Australia felt like a vacation. People were generally happy, welcoming and relaxed. I've never seen anything like that after traveling through more than 20 countries (not in Europe though).
That's because it isn't ready for production yet, and certainly not at scale. You're in for a world of hurt if you try to deploy hundreds of containers at once from a central registry. And there's not yet a way to bind containers to physical interfaces that DHCP themselves at runtime.

Docker solves problems for developers, and soon it might solve problems in production. But for large deployments, that day is not today.
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I actually hear a lot of women doing this too - referring to mixed sex groups or even all-female groups as "you guys".

I assumed it was just a change in the language, where "guys" was changing from meaning "men" to meaning "y'all" or "you people".
Thank you! This was timely for me.

I'm teaching my small nephew basics of web development and from now on I'll be following your book.
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Great that you're doing an AMA!

I'm a big fan if the concept of the MVP, however, having build 30+ apps and spoken with hundreds of founders how to buils their product, I have seen a lot of people struggling with the terminology of the MvP.

From the top of my head, 40% of founders are confused by the viable in the MVP. Furthermore, every time I explain the MVP, I catch myself having to explain that the MVP doesn't mean a crappy product, viable means having very few features, but having those few few features work really well.

Now that the term MVP has been out for 8 years, and so many people still build crappy products, despite all the knowledge around it, is it maybe not the right terminology?

I've thought a lot about this, and from what I've seen, building an MVP means building a product that is very, very basic, but that users would love, because this product can test a hypothesis. What do you think of the term Minimum Lovable Product, because from my point of view, this terminology encompasses everything that the MVP tries to define, without the bad stuff or the confusion.

Hope that all made sense, thanks a lot.
Have one button. Release to Reddit. Potential viral hit.
New keypairs would be generated on the client every time you join a chatroom. Another member of the chatroom sends you the shared_key encrypted by your public key. Server knows nothing, stores no keys. Keys exchanged between users.

Javascript crypto is still a problem though: http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

When you re-download the codebase on every use, there is no way to ensure integrity of the code. This is the reason cryptocat ships as a chrome extension, because it is downloaded once. Even with these issues, I'd take javascript crypto + open source over nothing (or just SSL).
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Linux and any laptop with removable DVD rom (extension bay). In my case elitebook 2540p with i7 CPU
I'm curious how quickly the company's manpower model already progresses people from entry levels to more productive and higher paid roles. Can they do this by making their people more productive, and thus worth more in the labor market or as part of the company? And if so, how are they going to do that? That's a workforce-led business model: We're going to provide value in the market place by taking people and training them up to do productive stuff for customers. We're basically investing in training people to enhance their productivity.

So what would be really interesting is if Gravity were to say, if we've got people stuck at entry level after two years, then we're doing something wrong and we've got figure out how to grow them better.

That is a model that all managements and investors would want to emulate. And then you're paying people more not out of noblesse oblige but because they are literally empowered to go make more. It's a much better model, economically and morally, than CEOs and investors paying more because they're such great people.

Probably most profitable and growing companies are already doing this to one degree or another. Your best workforce strategy is finding good people and then making them better.
If I'm not mistaken, he's only asking for money from whoever is profiting from it and he's not bothering anybody that just uses the image in a non-commercial way.

Still kind of weird because it more or less belongs to "the people" and everybody uses it, but if someone is profiting from it, I don't see a problem with him getting a share.
If the code can't change, what's the point of having it be delivered through the browser each time? Aren't you better off saving the bandwidth by downloading it once?
Ask HN: What B2B SaaS Apps do you pay for?
I am interested in knowing what apps you pay for monthly that you use in your business.

The last such discussion was done 3 months ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8932731 - but did not get many replies.

If possible, please also put the monthly amount you pay for the service.
Graal is being used by Project Sumatra (GPGPU) and JRuby.

Sumatra is planned for integration latest by Java 10.

There were a few Java ONE 2014 and JVM Language Summit Presentations.

JRuby: The Hard Parts, Reduction on GPUs, GPU/JVM Cooperation

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jlss...

Ruby on Top of Graal

https://old.parleys.com/share_channel.html#play/543f88bee4b0...

Sumatra OpenJDK Project Update: Parallelize Yourself with the Stream API

https://old.parleys.com/share_channel.html#play/543fa782e4b0...
I'm also unsure about this comment. It reads to me as "The main advantage of Go is.. that it makes it really easy to not have this problem." The OP talks about single core being an issue. It is not for Go due to the cooperative goroutine scheduling and function call pre-empting. You can still shoot yourself in the foot, but it's really easy to create an escape hatch by just making a function call or occasionally yielding to the scheduler...
Have a look at the sinopia package. You can run your own server on your own machine (without costs).
The README has the full instructions. Edit the file config.json and then do "./run" on the terminal.
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I'm surprised it's hosted by the .NET Foundation. I feel the .NET Foundation operates somewhat independently from Microsoft, but there is a large alignment with what Microsoft wants. Using LLVM feels like a departure from some of the things they're working on now.

Anything regarding coreclr seems to be handled with a goal of being through and through cross-platform.

Because of this tools like cmake, LLVM etc are used instead of Microsoft in-house tools. Because of this, formerly closed-source tools like MSBuild are now being made open-source.

It's a departure from how Microsoft traditionally have done things in the past, but it's perfectly aligned with where the .NET Foundation is currently going.
We're already using "private" modules, by hosting them in a private git repo. NPM can install from these, e.g., git+ssh://user@server:Account/Repo.git, without problems. I'm not sure what value this would add for us, and the URL doesn't sell me well on it.
Thanks! Good luck!

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"user story": a valiant attempt to extract coherent requirements and bug reports; ends up being precise specifications for the wing feathers of the desired magical flying unicorn pony
I2P, being fully decentralised, is also very vulnerable to a sybil attack. Join thousands of nodes to the network, wait until you are strategically placed, then follow the traffic streams routed through your nodes.

Of course, sybil attacks are a concern in any open network. In theory the tor directory authorities are able to deny new nodes so they have some recourse, but in practice if you stagger your new nodes you can still infiltrate the network. :/

The fact is, anonymity systems are a hard and unsolved problem. That's not due to the source of the funding. We take what we get.
Other than blablacar, EVERYTHING in that list is about either entertainment or solving non-existing issues for privilaged class (like organizing URLs), can we ACTUALLY go ahead and solve real problems or does that not attract VC funding?

EDIT: The above statement is based on an assumption that the list in the article is legit, I don't know anything about French startups to reflect on the entire scene
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It's an interesting chip. You can implement a SRAM interface[1] using a few cores. And also generate a VGA signal[2]. Or run 10base 10 ethernet[e].

It's probably better to compare it with a FPGA that allows for rapid programming, than a multicore computer. Only you can sort of configure the whole thing as a SOC. Which has great power management. I'd love to see some updates from Greenarrays -- there hasn't been much news lately.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/AP003-110...

[e] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/AN007-141...

[2] http://www.colorforth.com/haypress.htm