skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That totally jibes with what I found "reassuring" in a sense. That even very smart people sometimes get hit with inadvertent "multiple problems looking like a single issue" situations.
Is it me or is the wrong word being used (0.o)?
See -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel
“They hadn’t done anything. They got some press. They hadn’t built anything sustainable.”

Yet Google Ventures put some portion of 8.6M into them well before any of that - 2 months after launch.

I guess like everything the "traction and addressable market" pathway is only for the rest of us peons not in the bubble.

[1]http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/14/secret-app-picks-up-8-6m-in-fu...
Not me -- I'm a violinist, and I've never taught anyone violin either.

Maybe you're thinking of my bother (Graham)? He was teaching cello around that time period I think.
Breach (sensibly) uses the chromium content api so it's like 99% C++.
A better example is frequency capping. Ever watch something on Hulu and see the same ad 4 times in a twenty-minute commercial? Or even, worse, back to back?

With a real-time data stack you can avoid the duplicated ad a good percent of the time. Better experience for buyers, for publishers, and for users.
There is an easy API for this now: http://Clarify.io

We use it to allow our customers to search their calls and voicemail messages.
We burned through all of our investors' money, and worked until we couldn't meet payroll. Once it was clear that we were going to run out of cash, I took a job and negotiated a deal that allowed me to make our investors whole.
you, dear friend, are assuming too much
Oh wow. Yes! Now I remember it was Graham. I was his student around then. Saw your photo on twitter and looked exactly like him! Hahaha. How is Graham?

My mind is just completely blown right now.
Completely agree - this is especially the case when you get to scale where the 1x and 2x dynos break down because their performance is very variable, so you have to go to PX which are $$$
> Structured editing is much, much, MUCH better suited for programming than plain text. Syntax preservation and source-display separation are game changers, and they are not the only benefits.

You can do a lot of things with a parser and a rich code editor...e.g.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming...

Parsing is just a detail, if you can get it right, you don't necessarily need a structured or projected text editor. And its not even the "big" detail, which would definitely be type checking, and structural isn't going to help you much there (that is, if you want any kind of fluidity).
The Synopses are intended for compiler writers.

The writing intended for users is at http://doc.perl6.org.
Secret was one of the most aesthetically impressive apps I'd seen on iOS, ever. It had all of the little usability details nailed on its first attempt. Even those of us who didn't appreciate its use case (myself included) couldn't help but feel jealous of the technical ability of its creators. The founders weren't random "immature assholes," and one would hope that the investors weren't either. A lot of people were chasing those guys with money, and they all knew what they were getting into. I wish people would spend less time obsessing over the money and more time figuring out why the company (and the two cofounders) fell apart; that's far more useful to learn/discuss. Hating on people just because they got a couple mil is pretty stupid and childish, especially when they are clearly more technically talented than their critics.

If there is a bubble in this industry, it is a bubble of amateurs; people who shouldn't be investing or working in a field that is driven by extremes, and always has been. Extreme people chasing extreme success at extreme odds. And you know, everything in those extremes is going to look weird to people on the outside. Young Gates also wrecked sports cars and nearly went to jail; maybe these are all anecdotal, but the fact remains that you've got to accept a bit of eccentricity in this industry, if you want eccentric returns.

If this whole Secret backlash thing continues, the kids in this industry might need a history lesson on why Peter Thiel called his VC firm the Founders Fund, and why it was so novel at the time. Investors always want to give founders a tough time; until Thiel and Co. came along, Valley VCs practically colluded to ensure that young entrepreneurs remained poor until an exit. I'm sure they would love for that era to return, but thankfully there's just too much capital for such a thing to happen anytime soon.
I don't know this for sure, but I seem to recall that lawyer's professional rules of conduct require them to not leave clients in the lurch, without providing them ample warning to find new counsel.

I believe this is what the GP poster is mentioning when he says that there often isn't "sufficient time to withdraw."
Wouldn't it be easier to just cut off the lock and replace with fake imitation that accept any key?
net worth skyrocketing come fundraising event

Which is monopoly net worth - those billionaire charts are fantasy land when it comes to actual liquidity as we all know.

but if you signal to people that you're selling your own stock, what does that do to the employees mentalities?

Ok, fine. Then make the deal that employees have the option to liquidate a percentage of shares at the same time. Ends up looking like a dividend.
Quite welcome! Engineers (I take it you are one) seem to make natural pilots, in my experience.

I don't own a plane but have in the post thought idly about commuting to the SF bay area from the Sierras. I've heard of pilots doing it from Pine Mountain Lake in the foothills, for instance, and a faster plane would make living in Nevada doable.

Trade-A-Plane lists 145 Cessnas for sale under $30K, though most in that range are 152s. There are a few older 172s:
http://www.trade-a-plane.com/detail/aircraft/Single+Engine+P...

It would be nice to have the additional capacity of a 172, especially if you want to (a) fly with two friends, for three people total or (b) you're a large or heavy person yourself, which might exceed the maximum payload of a 152 with a similarly large or heavy flight instructor or passenger. Also I don't think 152s can be IFR certified.

It is kinda funny that these older Cessnas are now cheaper than the average car! Anyway, good luck on your project!
That's a significantly short amount of time to be able to address an issue before knowledge of the vulnerability becomes public knowledge.

I'm all for releasing a vulnerability after it a) is mitigated or b) becomes clear the responsible party has no plans to address the vulnerability in a timely fashion.

One day is in no way responsible unless the researchers were told pointedly that there was no plan to address the issues.

IMHO.
>With Docker you still have all the overhead of Linux, and personally, I'm finding it a bit overwrought

You have an app whose bottleneck is the underlying OS? Or you just don't know how to UNIX sysop? Kubernetes sounds like the ticket for you if you're using Docker.
It doesn't sound like you understand the purpose of liquidation preferences. This isn't about equality or respect. It's about economics. If VCs are buying common instead of preferred shares you have a whole bunch of problems:

1) Immediately after taking the investment founders could sell the company for the value of the cash and profit handsomely while the investor loses the bulk of their money. That's clearly no good.

2) If VCs are buying common then it will push up the value of common stock much faster leading to much much higher strike prices for employees. That's clearly bad for them.

3) By ensuring downside protection VCs are willing to invest at higher valuations leading to less dilution which increases the upside reward if the company is successful. If you're focusing on downside protection instead of upside reward as a founder then what are you starting a company for in the first place?
You're right, government does create value, sorry if what I said wasn't very clear. What I meant was the last part of the sentence, private enterprise creates things people want to buy, willingly so, government create things people are forced to buy by law, by the power of guns.

As for what you listed, many of these services could be provided by private enterprise and are in many country, successfully so, in fact more so than in the US.
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Well, those systems are largely not distributed, barring SQL Parallel Data Warehouse and, very arguably, RAC.

Jepson tests network partitions... so less useful.
I'd love some context (maybe from cperciva himself?) around the performance enhancement of integrating new Intel AESNI instructions.

I was using OpenSSL for that (which was using a software implementation). The code (you can see it in spiped) now detects the CPU feature and selects between AESNI or OpenSSL automatically. Given that the tarsnap server code was spending about 40% of its time running AES, it's a nontrivial CPU time saving.

I should probably have been clearer in my writeup though -- using AESNI was never a "once I roll this out everything will be good" fix. Rather, it was a case of "I have this well-tested code available which will help a bit while I finish testing the real fixes".
As I said, my example didn't necessarily apply to your company. But just in the last few days I have read about 4 different startups returning capital to investors. Investors seem to be aggressively seeking the return of capital, which takes the "risk" out of "risk capital". Decreased risk should also mean decreased rewards.

If you chose to do it of your own volition, then that's a personal decision (though one I don't recommend because your investors made a calculated wager on you...sometimes wagers lose, and that's the nature of the game they have chosen to play). But if you were asked or pressured into it, they shouldn't have done that, and by doing it voluntarily, you are teaching those investors to expect it of others.
Thanks to both of you for the links. Although it's an interesting premise, I think we can safely assume any large-scale practical implementations of this kind of technology are some way off, so unfortunately I don't think it changes my initial conclusion: we're likely to see more locking down and partitioning of today's Internet for a while, before any more open and robust long-term solutions take hold (perhaps based on the kind of alternative future architectures you mentioned).
Wow that was fun. I'm tempted to implement a similar version in C.
Repeated games are definitely a fixture of game theory. And given repeated games, the notion of signalling comes heavily into play.
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the company was founded October '13

the series B was in March '14 where the founders took the infamous $6m

So they wouldn't have qualified for long term cap gains right?
Great suggestion! We're adding that soon!
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It is you. See https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628
* attendees at a Feb. 22 rally in Burbank held by Hollywood unionists were handed petitions to send to Sacramento citing that only one of 41 big-budget feature films shot in 2012 and 2013 was shot entirely in California.*

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/even-films-set-in-californ...

Hollywood is using every tool to avoid and work around unions.
Sorry if this is offtopic, but can anybody explain the value proposition of tarsnap to me? It seems like a nice service and all, but the pricing is an order of magnitude more expensive than S3. If you are storing a few GB, this might not matter ("over half of Tarsnap users spend under $1 per month on storing their backups"), but if you have that little data, why not just dump it on a free Dropbox/Gdrive/etc account?

For more data, why not just use one of the many compressed, deduplicated, encrypted, incremental backup systems (attic comes to mind, I'm sure there are others) then just sync to S3 at a tenth the cost?
Oh definitely. Minecraft does this in a simple but effective way. Though the interestingness of the landscape lasts until you've seen a few instances of each type, and then you have a model of the system in your mind, because it's just a few simple functions composed together. There is a lot of fun stuff to do so the terrain is only just the backdrop to that fun.

Instead of {noise(x,y)>0.5 = desert} let's simulate eons of weather, geological events, floods, and then feed that back into the lore of the game world. Dwarf Fortress is one of the few games I'm aware of that attempts this level of world generation. Unfortunately it's quite impenetrable as a game, due to its complexity.
Graham is in Japan right now, but returning to Canada soon; he'll be joining me in the West Coast Symphony for our June concert.

I don't feel that I should really be talking too much about my family in a public forum, but if you'd like to send me an email I can forward it to him.
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I'm not anti-startup at all.
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That wouldn't work because it would introduce a new key. Also every power-up takes effect immediately, this would break the consistency.

@developers

This is a bug on firefox, sometimes the dotted border from the remove wall power-up doesn't disappear giving the impression that the power-up is still active, thus killing players
I run my backups overnight and get a status email each morning, and I didn't even realise there were performance issues until now. As you said, unless you run your backups multiple times per day, or have long-running backups, it may not have had a lot of impact.

FWIW, I live in Australia (so an 'off-peak' timezone), and schedule my cronjob on an odd minute offset, so it may not have been an issue for me anyway!
You should take a look at "Call me maybe: MongoDB" [0]

[0] https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb
> A better example is frequency capping. Ever watch something on Hulu and see the same ad 4 times in a twenty-minute commercial? Or even, worse, back to back?

Yeah, but when that happens I usually don't think, oh hey they are lacking an optimal in memory distributed database solution.

I think, well... their engineers suck. Or they don't care. Pick one.

edit: His point is vague, so there is nothing technical to respond to. I am very much interested in a good technical example - but the things mentioned so far are by all appearances relatively straight-forward and linear, hence lack of effort or bad engineering are the only reasonable assumptions left.
The team behind this app is comprised of two marketing execs (very successful ones, mind you). Successfully implementing blockchains require extensive crypto, game theory, and security capabilities. Is there something I missing here?

EDIT: On a more productive note, I assume this is something a team like Ethereum is going to tackle or already is tackling, no? https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/04/13/visions-part-1-the-valu...
Indeed, if you do so you must word your blog post very carefully not to make any claims you can't fully back-up with a PoC. Such as being very specific about what versions/configurations are vulnerable.
iOS permission requests happen in-app rather than at install time, and they're definitely not "quietly given". Each permission gets a separate dialog, Apple's review process rejects requests that aren't tied to functionality, and iOS doesn't allow access ever to device ID, call information, etc.
When to check for security? Before I type a line of code, and right after I insert the semi colon for each line. If your code/logic is tight (and you weren't half asleep during programming), there normally shouldn't be any application-level security vulnerabilities so you should be thinking about security every single line...

For more detailed checks, Generally, everything I build is modular, so I do a sec overview after each module is complete. If you wait till the end, it can get really messy. After the app is ready to publish, I check the entire system - I attack it myself and try to plug in all the holes.
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Sure, but they don't, so it's either what they currently offer or nothing.
It must have been both exciting and frustrating to have lived in a time when there was so much unknown waiting to be discovered and yet, such limited knowledge of the world.
I don't think inequality is a problem, when people are completely free to exploit their full potential to succeed in life, this means some people will do way better than others. I'm very bad at playing the piano, basketball, painting of creating huge corporations, some people are very good at those things and a free economy allows them to do so. Good for them.

As for inequalities being a problem, as long as the quality of life improves for all, I don't see where's the problem. The poorest in America live longer and are more educated than the richest men in the world less than a century ago. Not bad.

> Also to claim that governments that produces such things as the law, education systems, and national defence have no valuable products is a bit odd.

If it's so valuable then why force people to pay for it? Nobody was ever forced to buy an iphone or a volkswagen. Anyway, my point is that government is not synonymous with goodness and corporations evil, which was parent's point. Both are made up of people who usually are not evil.
phamilton touched on another good example - the budget can be implicitly set per-user via a frequency cap. If you see the user and have a chance to bid on an impression for them, the odds are good you'll see them again in two seconds -- winning two auctions means you've overspent by 100%. Oops.
What he doesn't say is that savings from his programming work have likely enabled him to enjoy the "escape" of farm life while supporting two kids. How many farm hands have enough free cash to support children and have a computer/phone/internet connection from which to blog about the wonderful experience?
I was just joking... Take it easy.
I suppose I should have known that this would end up at the top of Hacker News...
My thoughts as well. And if you one does accept the restrictions I'd hope they remove the performance penalties associated with binding everything so late so it can be swapped.
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This is a major reason why I went into platform engineering and devops.

I can see the appeal of that. It also makes you less exposed to changes in window dressing and to political changes.

..and this is the other reason.

Sure, but it's also bad for the world that "market signals" are encouraging engineers to use bad languages for reasons having nothing to do with productivity. We know the real reason why there's so much Java in the software world: middle managers want headcount (they'd rather manage a team of 50 mediocrities than 5 elite engineers doing just enough work) and Java is such a low-productivity language that it forces teams to be big if anything is to be accomplished.

If an engineer who'd be nothing special in the Haskell community can take home $400k per year slinging Java, then what is a half-decent Haskell engineer (who, most likely, makes a lot less than $400k) really worth? $700k? $3 million?
I think the fact that animations are occurring right away is what contributes to the illusion. Most sites with any kind of animation aren't using CSS for it yet, and on those sites the javascript (which usually begins execution late in the rendering) introduces extra time to load any kind of animation, leading to a perception of slowness that is actually occurring client side.
The scored society: due process for automated predictions [pdf]
Just to be clear, when Tarsnap users wrote to me I told them everything I could. The "I think it will be fixed soon" delay in sending out an email to the lists affected only people who didn't notice or noticed but didn't ask about the issue.
There are plenty of times that one has a duty to violate the law. Consider that the US Supreme Court does not render advisory opinions; to overturn an unconstitutional law, one must violate it first, then defend oneself all the way to the Supremes.

This is a very risky proposition as it happens all the time that the Supreme Court will deny certiori over some petty issue.

If you wonder why I use my real name here and elsewhere online, it's because I regard it as my duty to - someday - defend myself before the Supreme Court.
Thanks for the reply. I had to re-read your response "node website" threw me for a second, best of luck with Edge :).
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Rich/poor is itself heavily g-loaded. What's the net effect here?
Because tarsnap is cheap, incredibly well documented, open source, and run by an awesome guy. It's an all around win-win.
I'm talking about the U.S. While it's great that other countries have experienced a benefit, I don't really want to see Americans keep working the way we have been, so that the tiny slice of ultra-wealthy in our country can continue to enrich themselves.

And...since this article is about overwork--and how we're putting in longer hours--I really don't see what the point is in bringing up developing nations' economic status, except to try and distract us from how much harder we're working.
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Yeah it is clickbaity but i think the usage of "hack" might be correct in some sense.
Just that the material featured most prominently on the site might be too imprecise for mathematicians and scientists with significant technical expertise. It would be nice if there was a convenient link I could pass along to informed, but highly skeptical, people with a genuine interest in understanding the platform on a deeper level.
Australia has long offered something similar:
"This is a way to achieve Full Permanent Residence without having strict regulations on yourself to work in Australia.

To be eligible for this visa, you need to have had AUD750,000 in eligible assets for the last 5 years = all assets such as stocks, bonds, savings, 2nd / 3rd homes - but not the house that you have lived in.

You also need to have had AUD1,125,000 (1.125 million) in total assets (which can include the house that you live in) for at least the last 2 years.

If you are eligible, then at the time of the decision you made a government approved Designated Investment for at least AUD750,000 in a State or Territory of Australia. This amount must be available for transfer to Australia within a reasonable period when requested."
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I expect your former employer was quite successful. Many aren't.

My full name is Michael David Crawford. I had a classmate in high school named Michael Dwayne Crawford who often skipped out of school. High school truancy before the age of sixteen is a criminal offense in California. Whenever Mike Dwayne would skip out, the police department's truant office would call my father at work, who then had to take leave from his important work of fighting the cold war then ride his motorcycle twenty miles - sometimes in the driving rain - then visit the principal, all to say "This is not my son".

This because the school's MIS system only recorded our middle initials.
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Rsync.net is even cheaper, has no requirement for a custom client, and arguably are more dependable because they're not just reselling S3

Edit: not to mention they offer actual support not just "contact the author" email link as a last resort.
Good way for Greece to make some money.
you've just described 2015.
Apple Computers had an agreement with Apple Records that it would not go into the Music Business and Apple Computers broke their promise and did not try to find a solution that would work for both parties.

Kind of like hoe there already was a Motorola iPhone in 2005 and iPhone was debut on 2007.