skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should be mindful not to vilify Artem. [...] We wish [him] well.

This is clearly a lie. On the face of it, the intent of the post is to ensure no-one employs Artem again, under that name.

However, it's about what you could expect from people trying to create a site that reviews people; that puts into the public and searchable record as many experiences as they can about named individuals - whether positive or negative, but we all know we're more motivated to post the negative. Monetizing bullying, IMO.

Unpleasant founders, unpleasant startup, unpleasant developer. Unpleasant all round.
Ok, maybe i didn't understand your point. Then why do you think the palestinians arabs are the only legitimate people on this land (emphasis on "only") ?

And by legitimate, i don't meant the right to steal or kill. Just purchase some land and become autonomous.
What kind of advice did you end up getting? Was it classes, or a personal trainer? I'm in the same situation myself, having a very hard time getting technique down for back squats
SystemVerilog is a Hardware Description Language (HDL), which is what the first step in the process. The HDL synthesis is the level just above the part of the process where the major tooling issues referenced exist, since synthesis generally isn't specific to a particular chip vendor and, as noted, is also a necessary step before laying out an ASIC.
Similar to Tucker Max and Lioncrest, I heard him on a podcast the other day about how people kept asking him how to self publish and he would go into great detail and they would lose interest, until an entrepreneur yelled at him, she basically said, "this is my problem find a solution" and he came up with a completely novel way to self publish, that was unthinkable before.
Density – A simple Pixel Density calculator for your Mac
Running “fuck” twice almost gave me a heartattack
Fun, perhaps. I am not sure about the value of such a 'diverse' stint from the perspective of one's career progress/development. Promotions often require sustained excellence, which may be hard to achieve if you are starting off in different roles every now and then. Jumping jobs often requires external visibility, which would also be stunted if you are constantly changing roles.
Yes, I remember that you are perfectly fine with them planning on intimidating the kid. The intimidation is what I objected to in my first comment in this thread. Anyway, it's fine if we disagree.
It sounds like he could be taking on multiple projects simultaneously, and after the first week either outsourcing the work to someone else or just spending very little time on it.
The service they were paying him to build, Karma, is a service for discussing private individuals by name publicly.

Fascinating coincidence, no?
The video is almost entirely in slow motion though, I looked it up and prefer to see them in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_M_aRtX-bA (does have some slow times but only for a second at a time)
Lightwave and Photon Measured from a Rocket, VMware Enhances Cloud-Native Apps
They do. [0] And even their nonpaid support was absolutely awesome the one time I needed it. Not conclusive evidence by any means, but I was impressed by the way the bug (/feature request) was handled...

[0] http://www.haproxy.org/#supp
i would argue that running their own network is a pro and not a con, as they would be able to control QoS and better respond to incidents, amongst other things
The point was, they want to feed themselves. Profit is further down the road.
The economic data don't support this talking point (frequently seen in conservative political circles) that the mid 1990s CRA amendments caused the housing crisis.

If that were the case, you would expect to see CRA loans performing worse than private loans. But the opposite was true--loans to persons in CRA-eligible zip codes performed slightly better than loans to otherwise similar borrowers.[1]

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/20081203_ana...
AFAICT the entire purpose of their startup is to monetize online revenge, naming and shaming, etc.
I believe you need to rethink what the word 'imminently' means. The most aggressive timescale out there from the National Climate Assessment suggests a 4 foot rise during the next one hundred years. If that started today, its less than a half inch a year. Thats hardly imminent. Thats not even in your lifetime you see the 3 foot mark.
Hack Corporate Networks with Single JPGE File
Someone doesn't like Google.
If you click on the original link, you'll notice it says "Port from Nginx+"
> I stopped short of raving about the actual mattress, because I didn't want to come off as a shill

That's fair. I'm more than happy to throw my receipts into Imgur for anyone who thinks I'm a shill. Awesome mattresses, A++ would buy again.
Print your own Battlefield
Often times there are clever optimizations and work around that have to be implemented to work around internal limitations that they don't publish so as not to give their competitor marketing advantages.

What we should be pushing for are cross platform tool. Being open-source isn't something that I necessarily would care about as an EE in this particular case. It doesn't get me anything I don't with vendor tools. The BIGGEST thing in FPGA/ASIC design is certainty. Error in the tool costs me time and money.

You'll find it difficult to convince anyone to a tool that isn't supported by the vendor because errors and bugs, in the tool or the tool data, won't get resolved quickly.

Most of the money in ASIC/FPGA is spent on "verification" either as pre-build/pre-tested cores or as tools that do verification, such as formal logic tools.
Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming
Tcl script errors on Altera tools - brings back lots of bad memories... It seems like as soon as you try to break out of the standard way of doing things the scripts break.
I am guessing they outsourced the creation of their logo with similar success: http://bit.ly/1HoypyB
I thought MongoDb:s main selling point was the simple scale-out model? At least that's what stuck with me. I'm well aware about the non-robustness properties of Mongo, but to me it seems like calling this a clone without the scale-out capabilities would be missing the point.
Instacart is hiring Data Scientists
If someone is feeling sorry for this developer, and wants to right a wrong they have a chance of hiring him (I don't know if some of the blurring on the post was intentional, but it was certainly ineffective), his contacts are there.

What goes around comes around.
Twitter Now Lets You Opt in to Receive Direct Messages from Anyone
1/1 is kind of a fraction
Second that.

You have more stuff going on than the title of your post suggests.
Drupe App Scores 1 for Team Android
His social engineering contest at defcon is always awesome to watch. It's incredible to see the big companies give out such internal information. The social engineer is inside of a glass protected booth and the crowd can watch and listen in. They have a points system where the harder to get info gets you a higher score. Ex: a high score was given if you could get them to hit social-engineer.org from their browser. One guy told the person on the other side of the phone that it was a social network for engineers. Also: Make sure To check out the contest on Friday/thurs as they can't really do the live over the phone hacking on Saturday/sun as most businesses are closed on the weekends.
I will happily welcome it even if just to break down those gigantic walled gardens. But I can also think of a lot of dashboards I've built for clients where they really would have appreciated push notifications.
Drupe Improves Android UX

Drupe is a simple an elegant solution that improves Android UX by reducing the number of interactions (taps and swipes) required to interact (message) with your contacts. It's been installed over 250K times and seems to have pretty good reviews.
These codebases are often sub-contracted to the lowest bidder. Which explains all of the issues that everybody has on a daily basis. Sadly, hardware is a race to the bottom, and there is little motivation to provide quality tools.
Rebar does not even guarantee repeatable builds

I think you're setting the bar a little high there. Reproducible builds is something that most package managers, OS and language-specific alike, struggle with to this day. Only Nix and Guix have complete solutions, I think.
I know. It's very nice. That's what I use everyday on Arch. Still, I feel functional package managers buy you a few more advantages. The whole package tree doesn't need to be in sync, and package hashes mean you have pretty strong guarantees things won't break due to dependency mismatches.
Strand: an open source UI library based on Web Components and Polymer
They're both related to cars, but I don't think they're that complementary. Google's self-driving car project is a moonshot R&D thing that just piles on a ton of computers and sensors to an existing car. It's pretty much unrelated with designing and producing the actual car. To the extent that they would go together, presumably so they could build an integrated self-driving car from the ground up, it fits in to my worries: rather than continue to improve and sell the Model S, the acquisition would tie into another project with a significantly different goal in mind.
The real story: two months into the project, Karma founders Dayne Rathbone and Clyde Rathbone realize that they are not happy with their contractor, Artem Andreenko. DR & CR threaten AA that unless he gives them a full refund, they would publish a name-and-shame article about him. AA disagrees, Karma founders follow through on their threat and publish the piece.

From the article:

We discuss how much money we should ask Artem to refund us. We consider all the time and energy he’s cost us in addition to the cash, and decide to request all our money back.

A search on GoDaddy informs me that www.artemandreenko.com is available. I buy it and begin writing this blog.

The following day Clyde and I had our last chat with Artem. We were interested to see his reaction to a draft of this blog, and to give Artem the opportunity to decide how the story ends.

You say "karma", I say "shake-down".

P.S. Negative review blackmail has been around for a long time: https://www.google.com/search?q=negative+review+blackmail. Your startup is not doing anything new.

P.P.S. Biggest lesson of all? When you use GoDaddy, Bad Things are bound to happen.
Marsala Beauty Tutorial
1. AWatch doesn't go on your face and doesn't have a camera pointed at whoever you're talking to all the time. Basically, people probably won't punch you or ban you from their theatre / restaurant for wearing it.

2. Not sure how displaying notifications and having a camera with some basic voice recognition is that big of an advantage right now for a smartwatch. Maybe I'm missing something big, but it doesn't seem like Glass did anything that could translate to a smartwatch that smartwatches don't already do better than Glass. Also, they already have Android Wear.
Nginx has supported http loadbalancing basically forever using the upstream directive along with proxy_pass. It supports leastconn, round-robin, and ip-hash (sticky). It is far from unproven. I have personally used it successfully in some huge projects. This new announcement simply makes the existing functionality work with tcp backends.
> Except that we weren't. We won the Vietnam War

North Vietnam achieved the political objectives for which it fought the war, the US did not. The US unambiguously and absolutely lost the war. That the US momentarily achieved a pause during which it could claim that it was in the process of securing the aims for which it fought the war does not mean that it won the war.
Any evidence you provide is more or less worthless in making such a determination.

It would be a weird thing to do, but even something like creating fake bank statements isn't particularly hard.

(I'm not implying you are a shill, just commenting on the utility of links to imgur in verifying anything)
"name and shame" without giving the other side a chance to respond seems a little unfair, and from the tone of the article, one has to wonder if this is the model for how the site will work. I don't know that something like this will be very useful or productive. This experience is called out on their homepage, tagging the Artem as "Deceitful". If it ever takes off, I predict a lot of messy private disputes ending up out in public and not really to anyone's benefit.

Also, I think they fell into a trap that a lot of startups fall into (and some pre-startup ideas I've had have certainly fallen into this trap) - overthinking technology choices. I think choosing Go and Cassandra was a mistake - not because there is anything wrong with those technologies, but because there are so many other choices that would have been easier to hire for (their post mentions how hard it was to find someone).

If you are a founder that is going to be writing code and actually building the software that runs your business, I could see making somewhat uncommon technology decisions, but it seems unnecessary for non-technical founders to paint themselves into a corner by choosing technologies that are hard to hire for.
So in the beginnings of time it was /dev/null, but /dev/null felt so empty and lonely; so he created init... but init was envied by his brother systemd, that killed him..
My point was to ask for clarification as to what said work entails and how it's larger than, e.g. Ruby or another mainstream platform for web applications.
I look gringo, but speak fluent spanish (half panamanian), and get spoken to primarily in spanish in many large portions of Miami. I know lots of older cubans who've been here 30 years+ and barely speak english.
The JTAG mess resonates with me. I probably have 10 different debugger dongles now and the higher end ones from GreenHills or WindRiver are pricey.

As to open FPGA tools, I think the main problems are:

- there's a ton of competitive advantage in the algorithms to generate the bit stream so Altera and Xilinx have no good reason to give that up until a viable competitor emerges

- FPGAs are usually in small to mid size designs so it's hard to scale up to the point where just selling the chips makes enough money
"LinkedIn: I have everywhere you’ve worked. Everywhere you went to college. Facebook: I have your family, your wife, your kids, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your last vacation. Twitter: I have everything you’re doing throughout the day. If you’re on Foursquare, I can geolocate where you do it."

This is so true lol. Many people don't realize all the valuable info they put up on social media. Great article btw.
Historian is browsing history on steroids for Google Chrome
Haskell Diagrams 1.3 released
No, price fixing is when a group or institution colludes to set a price above or below it's useful value in order to extract money from those outside the group.
meh, in France I got scoffed at for speaking FRENCH. I speak it fluently, studied it for 10 years.
Thanks for the reply. I ask mainly because if those that choose to live this lifestyle are not a burden on the already strained resources available to those in need, then what right does anyone have to judge them?
A good example of Emacs as a platform* for building a true "IDE" for a workflow.

*can even include a real editor like Evil :)
"Elixir Sips" is a nice little screencast site showcasing and howto-ing various Elixir features. They have an episode on Dialyzer:

http://elixirsips.com/episodes/125_dialyzer.html
Just going off the ones I recognize from this list[1], older than "a couple years" but since, say, 2009: On2, reCAPTCHA, AdMob, ITA, Widevine, Motorola (though arguably it had no awesome product to maintain), Waze.

But more than half the companies in that range I don't recognize, so maybe their product is still around (or is fully functional, but only within Google Docs or something).

You're also ignoring the fact that many acquisitions wouldn't have survived without being acquired and their products would have shut down (or "pivoted" until they were unrecognizable). Tesla obviously wasn't in that category, but that actually makes it harder to compare to historical data, as few companies really parallel it well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
One quick note to people writing release notes pages:

Often these pages get posted to news aggregators, and the people who click on those links are not as likely to be familiar with your product. A quick 1-2 line elevator pitch at the top would do wonders.
For the record, these types of mattresses don't have to offgas. http://keetsa.com/ is the best mattress I've ever had and it didn't off gas of all because they don't use the normal chemicals.
You're right that it's not ethanol in general, just corn ethanol, and by extension American-produced ethanol. Which is the topic here, but it's certainly true that it's not a condemnation of ethanol in general.

Ultimately, as far as picking technologies goes, the history of oil doesn't matter. It's interesting for sure, but they're a sunk cost that we get whether we want them or not. If oil is better than ethanol right now, either with no subsidies or with equivalent subsidies, then we should stick with oil. The fact that oil got subsidies in the past doesn't change that.

Of course, sticking with oil is a bad idea in the long run, but the same basic idea applies to comparing ethanol with other sorts of renewable energy, and electric cars and such. Would we be better off putting those subsidies into nuclear, wind, solar, electric cars, etc., rather than ethanol? I think so.
The best part of this article is the "RMS" comment. It isn't the real RMS because he never surfs the web, only via email. So his comment is still at least another 24 hours out.

Nevertheless, I like the whole "NSA+Google" system conspiracy theory. Funny!
While Artem seems to be an ass, the other important conclusion that can be drawn from this article is that Dayne and Clyde sunk $10k for 600 lines of simple Go code. It took them months to realize that they're being cheated. Now... would you sink $10M of funding into a company managed by such people?
Why, though? Or, put another way, why are push notifications from apps fine when push notifications from web sites are not?
Just tried a quick google search:
https://www.google.de/search?q=inurl:news.ycombinator.com/us...

Reveals a lot of usernames and creation dates.
This does a good job of capturing the first part of the problem. Note that Xilinx did make an "open" FPGA part, the 3000 series, it did not do well for them.

The critical thing to understand, is that FPGA users (the big ones, not the casual ones) don't want them to be open. They want the information they program into them to be secret so that their hardware is not easily duplicated by the folks in China and mass produced to under cut them. You can't patent schematics. So these folks want to have a way that a board can be assembled in China but not reproduced there in a way that isn't an exact clone (which you can get blocked as a counterfeit product).

Ok, so where does that leave us? Well it might be easier to create your own FPGA design, have TSMC make it on their cheapest process. And then try to sell those chips.

And if you're saying "Jeebus Chuck! That isn't 'easy' at all." you would be right. And that is why a 200Mhz general purpose CPU is easier to turn into a "custom chip" than an actual custom chip.

So where does that leave us? Well, all the bits between HDL and chip can be done, in a low scale way, either in simulation or on bulk small scale hardware. You can program CPLDs to be simple Logic Units (LU) for your FPGA and wire them together on a PC board. You can find the things that need to be parameterized (intra-LU timing, global clocks, I/O configuration) and build tools which can synthesize, place & route, and download to your "pseudo" FPGA. And if you have all that tooling, and you can show it works, you might be able to get a partner to make some small scale parts for you (200 - 1000 LUs)

It won't happen over night, that is a 5 year plan minimum I think. And you have to get over the hump of developing tooling for an FPGA that may never exist. On the plus side it should be good for several Masters level projects and probably a PhD or two, and if your simulation work was robust you might become the 'standard model' for testing assumptions about reducibility of different constructs into hardware[1]

[1] Sort of the Lena[2] for FPGAs.

[2] A playmate digitized by USC which became the standard image processing image for research.
I can't speak for OP, but my interest is in signal processing. DSP and FPGAs are a great match and with the boom in software defined radio, having reconfigurable DSP capabilities is extremely useful.

For example, if 802.11b devices had been built using FPGAs, an upgrade to 802.11g could have been an OTA update. Or a new Bluetooth variant emerges (e.g. BLE) and support could be added to computers and phones overnight.

For these applications it's useful to think of an FPGA as a chip that you can patch, upgrade or reconfigure for new applications. However, looking at it from another angle, we can think of it as software that isn't limited by the CPU architecture.

This second category opens up the possibility of crypto algorithms that don't suffer from the timing attacks that they do on the CPU. Or a video codec that can be designed without having to worry about which extensions the CPU supports.

I'm sure there are much better examples and some of these are bad ideas that would work better on a CPU, but hopefully that gives you some ideas.
The dominance of Cubans as part of the demographic is quickly slipping. So many more argentines, venezuelans, colombians, nicaraguans, and brazilians are here now. Agreed that brownsville/overtown/liberty city are all still dangerous. Wynwood was dangerous 5-6 years ago!
For anyone already using nginx in their stack, I don't think these things (being a newcomer, or needing credibility) are a very big concern. Some people are already used to using nginx as a load balancer for HTTP traffic (this new feature adds load balancing for any TCP traffic) so those users won't have much gap to cover. Also this feature was in the nginx+ version, which presumably means it has already been battle-tested by their enterprise customers.