skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never heard of Vagabond before. If you want to know his background a little bit, this is a good start:

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/521121/innovators-unde...

As for Skype... the company is backed by VCs like Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel who all invested in Skype. Don't know any other connection to this company.

As for your comments about Silicon Valley, yeah it's pretty crazy. The basic idea is that companies like Google, Apple or Facebook have millions or even billions of customers/users and are some of the biggest companies in the world. Meanwhile they have very few employees because their product is mostly software, and 1 guy can code a program that a billion people use, unlike say a barbershop where 1 person can only cut a few thousand people's hair. Which means that the potential reward for the very best programmers (a small team of whom can build products used by millions) can go through the roof in a free market.

Which is why you get wages of $100-200k for solid programmers. And something like a free Macbook Pro then is not a big deal. It costs $1500, it's used for 3 years, so the cost is $40 a month, peanuts for someone whose wage is already $10k a month. It makes sense to spend an extra 0.4% for one of the best laptops available allowing your employees to be productive anywhere anytime they want.

And if a $50 gym membership & free lunch makes people happier, more productive and absent due to illness, to the extent they're only 5% more productive, you get an additional 5% of $10k of 'work', or $500, so it makes sense to give employees free gym memberships that cost you $50.

If you run a private bus service with wifi for employees and pay $500 for a private bus driver for a day moving around 100 employees who don't have to take a crappy bus, and those 100 employees are 5% more productive because they can get to work sooner (or leave home later and more rested), and work on the bus because it has wifi and is spacious etc, or because they can have breakfast on the bus, that 5% productivity gain nets $50k in total for the 100 employees, and costs a fraction of that.

etc etc. That's the kind of reasoning going into making it an amusement park. It makes a lot of economic sense to spend a lot of money to make employees a bit happier, more productive, less absent and reduce employee turnover, when these employees already cost $200k and in small teams build large software products. It also makes sure talent is attracted to work at your company specifically, and is less inclined to leave once they get there.

All of which can make for some amazing working environments, and also very silly outcomes (as well as friction in communities where people live that don't have any of those benefits but work just as hard, and have to see things like awesome private buses for some citizens, while they have to take shittier public transport, for example. There's been quite a bit of controversy in Silicon Valley about stuff like this the past few years)
Am I wrong to assume that "webtorrent" is a "hack" of current technology such as WebRTC to make torrents work over the web, and that it would be much better to define a native protocol for torrents/P2P file sharing on the web?

Unfortunately now that the W3C has made the MPAA a member of its board, I assume it will oppose any and all such protocols with both hands.
Just to add on to dash2's comment, the art collection world relies on provenance. Most large art museums (in the US, at least) rarely buy from private collectors for this reason. Items from private collectors are usually donated, and if an item is purchased, it is either through auction (usually the big houses like Sotheby's) or from well-trusted dealers.
Or instead of playing a blame game, perhaps we can try to be good people and improve society.
That Wikipedia article on the Julian calendar is both fascinating and a great example of Wikipedia at its best in terms of attention to detail.
As someone who extensively uses pgsql and SQL Server, I don't think it's fair to say that PostgreSQL is "more advanced" because it has one particular, somewhat trendy feature. There are many critical features that pgsql either lacks (query parallelization), or came many years after SQL Server (index-only scans, true materialized views, etc).

And really json in the database is just the more modern version of xml in the database, which of course SQL Server has supported for years. The problem with xml in the database was not a fundamental one, but rather an implementation issue -- where the json model in most solutions is some variation of toss-some-structured-data-in and then work with it, the XML model of SQL Server required significant poorly documented, confusing to implement configuration to work with in any meaningful way. It really killed the feature.

Personally I still think XML is superior to JSON, but it got usurped by the architectural astronauts who kept layering noise on it to the point of being unusable.
Maybe not evil. But surely they have NO moral compass. A big company is made of 1000's of moving parts - people. Each is in charge of a small part of the product. Imagine a company making a missile. You are in charge of the fuse port cover. What can you do to make the missile more moral? Nothing.

Even if an employee is in charge of the big decisions, still no dice. No one of them can decide "Choice A makes more money, but choice B is the moral one" and make choice B without repercussion. Said repercussion usually being firing, demotion or career derailing. Then you get somebody in their position who WILL make the profit decision.

Everyone in a company is responsible to the board, who are responsible to the stockholders, who are individually interested in profit only (by definition).
Apparantly it's built-in as psub for the <() case (I was looking for the same thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569730 ), not sure about >()
Great article, and fascinating insight into the analysis of your data.

Its definitely a problem both ways. Companies hiring can't be sure their initial hook will return appropriate candidates. Then candidates looking for a suitable role can't really be sure what they are applying for will suit their skill set and desires.

Your classification of roles and candidates is certainly a much more complete approach for ensuring various parties get what they want, good work!
Bingo. The goal of the movie industry is simply to make more money, and to prevent any challenge to their stranglehold on content... if that is achieved by balkanized delivery systems, that's what they will push for.
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Since when? Every flight I've been on, the flight attendants turn it off and on manually.
In America such things are more often done by DoD contractors and they are paid well and space systems are more tightly controlled than civil aviation.
I’m also a freelance web design/development and got easily distracted by all this stuff.

I just started adding the problematic websites to my hostfile and completely blocked them that way, even out of work hours. After a while I realized this websites weren’t as important for me to consume every freaking moment as my lizard brain made it out to be. I started removing the sites from my hostfile one by one but now don’t visit them that much.
What, precisely, is the problem with this? The entire code of conduct says "be nice, don't be a douchebag." Openness and inclusion is a great thing, and I'm very proud that more cons are working like this (Clojure/west raised a bunch of money to bring underrepresented groups to the con, which is great).
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> polite drivers that speak English

As a very infrequent taxi rider, as long as the driver can understand where I want to go and take me there safely, why do I care what language they speak? Am I missing something here?
Rates will vary depending on the technical abilities needed for the project, the client's budget as well as the contractor's experience, location, etc. In SF, going rates will be higher than the rates of someone in Iowa, however, I certainly wouldn't set a rate lower than $75 anywhere in the US, no matter how trivial the job is.
Typical request: "X-AppEngine-Resource-Usage ms=259 cpu_ms=4"

That particular request is authenticated, writes a file to google storage, and then returns a response (with a few other things like logging etc.)
What is there to lose? 0-Day attacks. Knowledge about bugs in aviation software is potentially more valuable to people who wish to do harm than to the people who would fix the bugs, so there's a concern that someone who finds a bug will sell that info rather than let the maintainers know about it.

The other problem is that the maintainers have to be set up to handle a potential avalanche of comments, criticisms, questions, and pull requests, mostly from people who don't know anything about software development processes and standards within the aviation community. If they're already too overloaded to find all of the bugs themselves, they certainly won't be able to effectively manage open-sourcing their code.
Part II: do a very good job, which means taking the problem off their hands and solving it completely. Folks contract out work because its a thorn in their side; eliminate the thorn, without becoming one yourself.

Then, when they have another thorn, they'll think "That contractor worked great before; lets use them again". Raise your rate 10%. Repeat.
Okay, yes, you could do that, but the library itself provides this as its idiomatic way of doing things.
Change spamd to use divert-to instead of rdr-to
json's been around for over ten years and is the default serialization format for most web frameworks. To call it trendy in the same breath as singing the praises of XML is a bit gauche.
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Switch Raises $35M to Expand Its Cloud-Based Phone System
I can't say this is a big surprise. My first job was at a chicagoland radioshack so I have followed their news and watched their fall with mixed feelings.

It felt very odd in 2001 to try and sell electricians that would come in the store at opening to buy 10-11 fuses if they wanted a cell phone, and bother people just getting batteries for their first and last name so they could 'return their item'. We got dinged for each person who refused us. So there is potentially a LOT of data this company is getting.
Percieved commercial advantage and pride.
I'm not libertarian, though I may agree with them on some stances.

>And it's intellectually dishonest.

You haven't demonstrated such.

>How, exactly, does that get enforced at gunpoint?

>How does a law limiting the actions of government get 'enforced at gunpoint proxy'?

Generally a complex system which starts in the courts, wiht the courts making a ruling that applies increasing penalties. Those who continue to ignore such penalties will eventually reach the point of being in contempt of court and either fired or perhaps jailed (it depends upon factors such as who it is). Take the example of a clerk of court refusing to award a marriage license to a gay couple after a federal appeals court struck down a state ban. Something bad is going to happen, which includes losing their job. If they fail to remove themselves from the premise after losing their job, they could be charged with trespassing. If their superior doesn't fire them and continues to pay them, then it gets messier but there are channels, albeit slow moving ones.

Simply put, if there is any point that you can thumb your nose at the court and tell them you are going to ignore them, then it isn't a law, only a suggestion.

Of course, there is a problem when the government does do this (look at three letter agencies ignoring court rulings or otherwise creating secret courts to bypass them). But, at such a point, the laws prohibiting what they are doing are no longer enforced and are thus no longer laws.

>It's why there are limited liability companies.

Who can have their assets seized. What happens when the government comes after an LLC's account due to violations and someone gets in the way?

>And there are laws to give people incentives - here in Australia, the government encourages voluntary payments into your own superannuation, and will co-contribute to some degree. How do you enforce that law at gunpoint?

>What bizarre chain of events would involve putting anyone at gunpoint because a citizen voluntarily put money into their own superannuation?

These are laws about what the government will do if you do X. What happens when someone refuses to credit an account because the account belongs to a minority? They would be fired, but if their supervisor refuses to fire them, it could go to court, where you end up with contempt of court. Refuse to show up in court and you'll be arrested. Resist, and out come the guns.

>There are plenty of laws that aren't 'enforced at gunpoint'

You are making the mistake of considering laws that never get to guns drawn because even unreasonable people don't want to escalate the situation (as well as thinking that 'if A does X, then B does Y' as being laws about A doing X instead of laws about B doing Y).

>Stop spreading libertarian FUD.

Nothing libertarian about it except for how it is worded. If you ignore the rule of law, there will be escalation til physical force is involved. Most people just submit or cut deals long before that happens, but they do so knowing that to resist will escalate.
And the follow up: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201407
Does that matter? I bet the core Servo libraries don't even deal with networking. And using Servo has obvious advantages such as a being a good render engine supporting incremental updates, probably being well-documented, well-tested, and conforming to well-known standards (yes, also used on the web, but does that matter really?)
Here's a sample rights-free hash link if anyone wants to test the download:

https://instant.io/#1cee1045f0ceebcc56bc416da566d5006b58e156

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So I know many people use OpenVPN these days, but does anyone use L2TP/IPSec or IPSec? I asked because when recently searching this topic, despite the author mentioning lots of dated materials, most of what I find is archaic. This post mentions ipsec-tools, but it has been clear that since the IPSec changes/patches went inline into the kernel for 2.6.x and beyond, these have slowly become more relevant over time, and that ipsec-tools and/or raccon to do L2TP and IPSec or pure IPSec is generally outdated and now only really suited to the BSDs because, as the articles mentions, it is more germane to that architecture.

And the difference between FreeSWAN, LibreSWAN, and StrongSWAN was very confusing to me unitl I read this.

http://serverfault.com/questions/173158/strongswan-vs-opensw...

I mean setting up VPN is no trivial pursuit, but the amount of effort to set any of these up to use native VPN clients for my mobile (Android devices) encouraged me to potentially consider StrongSWAN once I really review the documentation and learn as much as I can.

What are others doing?

Thanks for the cool article either way.
I think you underestimate the tracking done in commercial airplane manufacture. I believe the source of every rivet is well-known. And how many planes do they make? Many parts are likely manufactured as needed, one at a time.
No one is obliged to give me money -- unless they consume the content I created. At that point, they are.

Anything else assumes that because content exists, people have the right to consume it -- for free if they can work out how.

Let's be clear: I fully agree that Hollywood needs to catch up, and make content accessible in the way that Popcorn time has. But I don't have the right to consume content illegally, just because I find their business model inconvenient.
Many businesses try to espouse "a rising tide lifts all boats" with their employees. A growing business helps not just the investors, but all employees see upside and are motivated.

Uber seems to have taken the opposite tact, where a rising tide just allows them to scrape more off the top.
The target catastrophic failure rate there is 1 in a billion hours, which doesn't seem all that high to me... there are over 100000 flights a day[1], and the average length of one is well over an hour, so in one day all the aircraft in the world have accumulated a total of over 2.4 million hours in operation. If each flight was only an hour long, that's 417 days to 1 billion total hours, and if the failure rate really was 1 in a billion we'd expect to see one of these happen at almost yearly rates.

The actual failure rate of software to this standard seems to be at least two orders of magnitude higher.

[1] http://www.garfors.com/2014/06/100000-flights-day.html
Libertarian here. I love Uber and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I also am a fan of their business model -- once a few remaining bugs are worked out.

Having said that? Crap, what a freaking mess Uber is making of things. I have talked to more than one person who had an Uber driver tell them that the company continues to push very hard to control them. I guess Uber could make the case that this was in the best interest of the users.

Now that they're jacking their cut? With their actions they are creating the argument that folks will make for completely destroying the open market: major players squeezing poor drivers dry, quasi-legal and highly questionable policies that try to prevent drivers from going anywhere they'd like, using the commercial momentum of a large company to dictate to all other players in the space about how things should be. And that's not even getting into the problems with personnel. Look, I'm a fan. But this trajectory is not good.

Come on, guys. You can do better than this. If you continue kn this fashion, you're going to lose a lot of public support and goodwill.
You mean you don't like watching all those unskippable previews and commercials on your blu-ray, or "downloading" the included digital drm file off your disney DVD so you can take your copy of cinderella with you anywhere, anytime.* Or what about renting that great movie and having a 24 hour window to watch it.

*Maximum of 2 downloads. Approved devices only, Void where prohibited
> as long as the driver can understand where I want to go and take me there safely

If you read Uber's glowing reviews, people often praise the drivers for their ability to speak English well. I conclude that some people care, whether you or I think it's important or not.
Realistically, how could someone exploit a 0-day in a aviation software?
Your question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. Doesn't that imply you spend a large part of your day doing something you don't like just for the sake of making money?

What world do you live in where businesses exist to advance humanity and people work on things they like? I'd really like to move there. The world I live in, only a handful of companies believe in their feel-good mission statements and it's a luxury for someone's passions to overlap with an obtainable well paying job.
Regardless of your feelings, much of the initial buzz around Uber was that their drivers speak English.
All I can say is that I offered to do some informal product consulting with the WMF a few years ago and I walked into the building thinking I knew what the issues were and what obvious steps were required to fix them and I walked out being as equally confused and frustrated as the people there.
You just triggered my earliest Radio Shack memories of being annoyed at a company for asking for my personal information when making small purchases.

Radio Shack was definitely in the vanguard of data collection.
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When I travel abroad, I have to admit a strong preference for taxi drivers who speak passable English. In that case, it's a functional benefit (confidence that I've communicated my destination correctly, ability to ask where an ATM or late-night restaurant is, ability to sort out a credit card/payment issue, etc).

And of course, there is an element of subsurface tribalism (people like to be with people like them) that makes people prefer a hired driver who is like them, whether that's in language/accent, skin color, or any other dimension. It's not necessarily/fully racist per-se, but it's a tiny bit down that spectrum. I suspect this is at least part of Uber's appeal-you get a driver who is "more like me" and that's comforting to many (most?).
Apple's quality at this point of time is SO overrated. Yeah, Apple products out of the factory gates are relatively quality products compared to the competition but they tend to break down over time real quick and show their true colors and Apple's modus operandi of charging people more and more over the lifetime of the devices (recurring income) in replacements and repairs like in the automotive industry.
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DJB to the rescue, once again. http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
from the creator, a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7006317
Webtorrent is such a cool project. Kudos to Feross for the hard work.
Personally, I find it's better to write it as '2.i' or 'II.i' instead just to remove potential ambiguity.

(Aside, I'm also a big fan of the graphical design! What was used to make this? Any inspiration?)
The last CEO cancelled that policy as their first act. So for some years, that data was not collected. I wonder what data they had to sell?

Anyway, this is a warning to all of us. No matter what promises that honest startup gives you, the minute they are sold (and most sell in the end) the new owners are free to do whatever they like with your 'private' information. In fact it will be hawked in the marketplace like a chicken.
Yota Launches Crowdfunder to Get Its Duel Screen E-Ink Smartphone to the U.S
Communicating expectations and requirements is notoriously difficult to do textually - For most jobs it's pretty hard to accurately estimate what you'll be expected to do until you're actually there and doing it.

We all know how enormous the gulf is between advert and reality when recruiters are involve but it's astounding to see just how much that variance persists even when the company is doing the recruiting directly!

text adverts are clearly not working.
I collected aol cds as well. I have a 3 1/2 disk of aol version 2.5, the first one that let you connect via TCP/IP. About 6 years back I installed it and I was able to connect over my cable modem. Pretty neat.
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Actually, the W3C is working on a TCP and UDP Socket API which should allow for any kind of data transfer protocol over the web.

http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/tcp-udp-sockets/
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It's also totally reasonable for them to not provide their product in a form that only a tiny percentage of people actually need. Might as well complain that they no longer sell VHS tapes because "all I have is a VCR and I just want content in a form I can watch". At some point you have to recognize that you need to meet them halfway. I mean heck, you even recognize that Flash isn't supported on Linux. How hard is it to replace the word "Flash" in that sentence with "Hulu"?
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