skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how much reputation "massaging" occurs on Yelp I am not sure this is a good model :)

The solution to preventing scamming is to make it harder for scammers to raise money than genuine businesses. The major difficulty is it is very difficult for unsophisticated investors (actually all investors) to make accurate judgments into the character of founders of start-ups. Even if we had a good reputational system for start-up founders (we don't), most founders (especially the most innovative ones) are not going to have a lot of history to support any such reputation system.

On the topic of reputation, Linkin^ has a good platform to monetrise this demand. They could charge users (and pay other users) for reputation endorsement (not just skill endorsement). They could have users provide an enormous amount of biographical detail and then have others verify (or not verify) this data. Make enough links and it will be very hard for a scammer to succeed over the honest.

^ Actually this could be a great idea for a start-up. Have people upload massive amounts of biographical data and then pay other people to endorse each data point - probably someone is doing it already and will soon tell me all about it :)
Well it was probably either a Stratasys or 3D systems machine. They basically have a duopoly on professional grade 3D printers.
Personal anecdote isn't evidence, but I trust it more than handwaving appeals to evo psych. You do realize too that humans at college age don't have fully developed frontal lobes, otherwise known as the seat of planning and discipline?
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So much for me trying to be clever and avoid a cliche :)
UBL's connections to the house of saud are a matter of public record. And I don't know why people are assuming that dropping the body in the ocean wouldn't be part of the original plan.
While the scope was not known, Trailblazer, Thin Thread and Turbulence were known about, and whistleblown about fairly shortly after their inception.

The difference between when Binney & Drake etc blew the whistle and when Snowden did is the time that had passed since 9/11.

Binney started making noise in 2002, when the public mood was "If it catches bad guys, it's all good"
Drake began making noise at the same time, and first went to the media in 2005, when the Iraq & Afghanistan wars, and the hunt for Bin Laden were still relatively well supported.

Snowden went public much later, and with much more detail, but if the first 2 (and the others who blew the whistle at the same time) had gotten media attention, the program may not have spread as far as it had by the time Snowden came along.

Governments are fairly terrible at covering up secrets, the question is whether the media or the public want to pay attention.
as in... http://okws.org
>I can imagine the Pakistanis keeping it a secret (at least for as long as they did) but the Pakistanis coordinating with another government and receiving payments from that government without the US finding out?

I'd suspect the US probably knew the compound location for awhile as the US/Sauds/ISI have been pretty cozy over the years. One funny bit of trivia is that the long-time CIA operative that headed the first investigation into 9/11 had been to Pakistan a couple months before 9/11 and had breakfast with the head of the ISI in Washington on the day of 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Goss#Intelligence_inquir...
Awesome! I've used https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/ in the past (for fun stuff I was building to learn C), will try this out instead. But..

> Only HTTPS connections allowed

Seems a bit painful. HTTPS on the webserver itself is a fair bit more painful to setup and administer than HTTPS in your reverse proxy / loadbalancer (I prefer nginx). Web servers should support plain HTTP.
Why would anyone fly the boring San Francisco flag when they could instead put up the awesome California state flag?
I am firmly in the other camp when it comes to the common theme on here that anything above a 40 hour workweek is a sign of poor management of time and people. It's one thing to be forced to do those work hours against one's will, and I'll grant that doing so is bad business practice. However, when you are working in a startup environment, especially if you're burning through other people's money, there should be a fire lit under your ass.

A few weeks ago, my startup[1] did a crunch mode week before releasing our beta to the first set of users. We had promised access to the application on a certain day, and I am absolutely never going to be convinced that missing a deadline that you've promised someone else is an okay thing to do, as the article suggests as a form of self-punishment. In doing so, I did a few things in order to take care of my one employee. First, I said that lunch and dinner would be covered by the company, since we were both staying there until the nighttime hours. Second, I made a Costco run and got us anything would could need to snack on or drink during the week (not very expensive when you're buying for two people). Third, immediately following our successful launch on a Monday, he had Tuesday and Friday off. It's very important that when you're not on crunch that it feels like you're not on crunch, and you "make up" for the time that you burned through.

I am always of the opinion that if you're not willing to put in a ton of hours, there's someone just as smart and focused as you that is. I think my perspective has been forever changed, though, because I've been on deployments where we worked 12 hours a day for 9 months straight with no holidays, doing knowledge work I might add. Becoming accustomed to that makes everything that comes after it seem incredibly easy.

Both my employee and I feel incredibly lucky to be working on something that we both really believe has a chance to succeed greatly, and it is so much a part of our lives that when we're not at work we're thinking of more ways we can improve our product. When you're that deep into an idea, be it a business, hobby, love interest, etc., the amount of time you spend on it always seems like not enough. I think people bristling about long work hours are doing so because they haven't found something that makes them feel this way.

[1] http://pleenq.com
But then they couldn't mine your wasted time for business information.
> The server immediately started having problems, and every flaw in the message handling code suddenly became glaringly obvious. We quickly added another server and that seemed to hold off the worst of the problems (for the curious, we are running the server on Heroku, written in Java). I had to make changes to the servers on my phone at least once on the weekend, and we found a couple limitations in our database the hard way.

I would have wished for some more technical background about what actually broke and how you fixed it ("our service for X was written in Y, but that was bad because of Z" / "system slowed down at Y messages because we did Z" / ...).
Yea the creator is asking for funding to port. He is just waiting for Mozilla to deliver which they said the were going to do.
This is exactly it. In my first software job, I found it very difficult to communicate the status of a project because we had no project management. I naively thought I was only a few brilliant coding sessions away from getting on top of things, but that slipped into a few more months of crunch mode.

Also, learning to say "no" is vital to preventing crunch mode. Wanting to please my superiors, I would typically say "yes, I'll do my best" or "maybe" when things were dire but never "no, that's not possible".
> Making the mould is either work or expense, but you come out way ahead after a few hundred parts.

Where are you getting your mould? Everywhere I deal with wants $5K+ USD NRE.

You can 3D print a lot of stuff for $5K USD.
> I don't know if your obsession with Catholic or military trinkets is simple misinterpretation or deliberate obfuscation. Hersh never made the claim which you put "in quotes". And it's disingenuous to claim he did.

From http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/01/18/seymour-hersh-unleashed/ (which, while paywalled, is only one of many sources you could easily Google), they quote Hersh as saying, among other things:

“They have little insignias, these coins they pass among each other, which are crusader coins,” he continued. “They have insignia that reflect the whole notion that this is a culture war. … Right now, there’s a tremendous, tremendous amount of anti-Muslim feeling in the military community.”

I'll note that when I mentioned Hersh's alarm about 'crusade coins' (I'm sorry I missed the 'r'), you said that not only was it my obsession, but that it could have been a deliberate obfuscation attempt on my part, along with being disingenuous.

Disingenuous to claim something that's actually true! What a world!

> If top generals believe they are fighting a Crusade, that's newsworthy.

Religious people will often perceive the world they live in through the perspective of their religion. When top generals start taking the nation into harm's way for their own pet religious principles then by all means, sound the alarm. Until then, as long as they're doing the 'right' thing by the country to the best of their professional (as opposed to religious) judgment and don't try to force their religion on subordinates (as the Air Force Academy has been actually accused of doing) then I don't give a shit what God they pray to or how they make that relationship work.

> strawman

Please, by all means, go talk to Seymour about his own words, which are apparently a figment of my spotty imagination.
Blessed, a high-level terminal interface library built in Node.js
Or "a democracy" is just a word that means nothing.
Then it should be GB.s or GBs.

GB/s gives a different meaning. For example I could use 600 GB in the first second, then 400 GB in the second second. All together its 1000 GB.s, at an average of 500 GB/s for 2 seconds.

This is not perfect because kilowatt is a rate so kWh is a quantity. But GB is already a quantity. So a GB.s doesn't make sense either. It would need to be an equivalent memory rate usage × time in order to get memory quantity. Like avg GB/s × s.
>You can go to vegas and blow $100,000 in a weekend, but you think it's too dangerous to let people put that in 10 seed stage startups? Because they might lose the money?

Casinos are highly regulated so I am not sure this is a good example.

I actually don't think it is dangerous because people will lose money, I think it is dangerous because scammers would have a major advantage over non-scammers in a deregulated start-up investment market. Like Gresham's Law [1] we would soon be left with a market totally dominated by scammers and all trust would soon be lost in start-ups (i.e 1920s). This was why the regulations in this area were brought in - to restore the trust of the public in the stock market.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
Considering the utter absurdity of the government's story, I find it hard to imagine any rational person could have ever believed it for a second. Considering Hersh's reputation, the criticism against him is unfounded. That raises a lot of questions. Like how to deal with an "ally" who would hide this information from us for years causing our wars to drag on longer and many more people to die. It's a disservice that the media is not covering this, but unsurprising considering the initial coverage and lack of skepticism to the initial literally incredible events they reported when bin Laden was killed in 2011. Stupidity is great, but it's not as great as malice and I find it impossible to believe that the reporters originally reporting the story in 2011 didn't know it was a lie. I also find it impossible to believe anyone is still defending that story now. Instead of real coverage of the issues, however, we just get the media talking about itself like this article. I'm glad articles like this exist, but it's indicative of the self-pleasuring role that media has taken in our society and the duty towards the people it has shirked.
Marxism: Where your life gets recycled for the use of others.

Or you can go to the Sharia part of Paris and have your life be recycled for Allah.
I'm currently using https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/khash.h in professional projects. I know it's pretty much full of macro "magic" (well it's readable so not really..) so that makes some people scared. I really like these header file "libraries" and am also a big fan of BSD's sys/queue.h
Why is the idea that an organization, affiliated with one of the most powerful religious institutions in the world, would want to infiltrate a powerful miliary org intrinsically implausible?
Some of these are true, but not necessarily unwanted.

> A language designed to give programmers what they want may initially succeed but create pernicious problems as it catches on

A language needs to give programmers what they want or they won't write in it. Bad or good (from a pernicious problem perspective) is irrelevant. You will only see finished software from what programmers want to use. The elephant in the room about failed projects is that we have little science on proper software project management (still), not failures in language:
http://blog.bitovi.com/real-reasons-projects-fail/

> Adding a richer set of concepts to a programming language impoverishes its universe of discourse.

Adding different WAYS to express concepts does this, not offering abilities. See previous issue. Programmers want ways to do things and will choose languages that have those (or will fork and create something similar that does, see Ponylang, Rust, etc).
This is an excellent example of how not to use javascript on your site. If you look in the html, all the content is there. But nothing displays for many seconds while some js is waiting for something else to load.
The key item in the article is "loss of accountability".

IMO, that's the whole point of constant crunch mode. Everyone is a hero, which makes it more difficult to call out dumb decisions. In the places that I've worked at that abused crunch time, the management was over its head completely and was unable to get responsibility delegated to appropriate places. So the VP or even C-level execs were making decisions about LUNs (that they were unlikely to be qualified to make)

It's easier to congratulate the heroes than to actually manage.

In the worst environment, senior leadership patted themselves on the back for having as many as two dozen people on incident response calls in 15 minutes. Problems didn't get fixed, but by golly we spread the suffering around!
But in terms of the original comparison, it's not like Apple's UI team doesn't have access to the OS performance people, either...
I agree, in theory. Apps are faster.

No disrespect to PPK, but he needs to cite some examples.

If he's talking about jQuery, then I disagree. It's gotten faster, and it's a tiny download when you compare it to videos, images, or webfonts.

If he's talking about front-end MVC-ish frameworks, they're not completely blameless, but generally speaking, the sites that use them feel fast once you get past the initial load.

I think his premise is off. He's talking about front-end performance. Tools aren't the problem. Content is the problem.

Images are huge. Videos are huge. What we need are tools to help us get around this. And we're getting them. Talk to any serious front-end developer, and they'll tell you all about what they're doing to improve performance. Critical CSS, asynchronous CSS and JS, the picture element, Web Page Test, PageSpeed, better Inspector tools, etc. Even Google Fonts warns you very clearly about the impact your choices will have on download times. There's no shortage of tools, but tools aren't the problem.

There's no denying that the web can be faster, but we've been doing an admirable job of keeping up with rich content.
bah. Hoped this would be some kind of a neat large CMOS sensor/fpga/ARM SoC camera module which you can drop anywhere but basically it's just putting existing sony nex electronics inside an old camera body.
This proposal's not bad: http://imgur.com/a/h70HJ
I'm not demanding links and references - everything I mentioned above was mentioned by the author.
Interesting. Any performance data on this beyond the vague it is faster?
Come to Quincy's, there's a road off of Southern Artery where their back door is. That side road barely has any traffic and drop offs are easy.
This game is totally awesome.
> Looking at all of the state flags, it seems that the Virginia style "detailed seal on a blue field" is pretty common.

Wow, you're not wrong about that. I figured "seal on a background" would be a common type, but... why are they all blue?

Seal on white:

IL
MA
RI

Seal on green:

DE (?)
WA

Seal on yellow:

NJ

Seal on blue:

CT
ID
IN
KS
KY
LA
ME
MI
MN
MT
NE
NV
NH
NY
ND
OK
OR
PA
SD
UT
VT
VA
WI
It essentially combines all of React into a single component, the Reagent atom. It's used exactly like a normal Clojure atom, but whenever it's updated, Reagent will automatically update all Reagent components that depend on it. I find this quite elegant, as it allows one to write pretty much any reactive ui using only three functions: deref, update and render-component. Reagent atoms can even be passed between Clojurescript async threads, and will still work as expected, which completely eliminates the need for any kind of callback hell.

So what it eliminates is the need to learn React. Anyone who understands how Clojure atoms work and how to use Hiccup-style HTML templating will be able to use Reagent with almost zero learning curve.
I posted my uber for trash comment first, ironically.

I don't think you're kidding though, are you.
the creator or noscript is working on it and from what i've read mozilla is aware of the issues and doing what they can from their end to make it possible for him to make it compatable: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058542
I'm trying to avoid this. But lets see what happen. Thank you for your comment :)
Not sure why a specific challenge coin could not also simultaneously serve as a symbol of an effort such as a "crusade".
OK, it gets a couple small details wrong, but the rest appears to be true - that /usr was added for want of disk space and /sbin was for statically linked binaries.

The point of passing this along is to show that some ingrained "truths" (ex: sbin is for system binaries!) are just historical artifacts of conditions that no longer apply.
Do you have data on Firefox using less battery? I thought the order for energy usage was Safari < Chrome < Firefox (but can't find anything to back that up either).
IP reputation goes out the window with IPv6. Better get the other detection mechanisms working well without relying so heavily on one whose days are numbered.
Ahh that is a use case I hadn't considered. I guess it would be pretty useful if some type of basic webserver was required.
Same here. I keep sessions open for months at a time, with heavy tab churning (some days I have 30 open, then I close 10, open 20 more, etc).
Reagent means you don't have to grok Reagent at all. If you know how Clojure atoms work, how to use Hiccup-style templates, and understand that all templates ('components') that dereference a Reagent atom will be automatically updated when the atom is, then you know how to use Reagent.
Multiple processes does not necessarily mean increased memory usage. I'm a little surprised at how many misinformed comments there are like this.
This kind of statement warrants a lot more support.
I count a few points:

1. The article is not well-sourced.
a. There are many anonymous sources, which is generally a bad practice; SH consequently may over-represent confidence in his material.
b. It is difficult to track how many anonymous sources there are.
c. It is unlikely that these sources would have access to the information that they claim.

2. The article has internal contradictions.

I'm sure that we can flesh these out more if you would like, but none of these are ad hominem.

Wrapping "exclusively anonymous sources are bad" as a criticism in with "Sy Hersh is an unreliable jerk" is also an argument in bad faith. The two are not equivalent, and the former is a sincere issue with this piece. Including it in with the latter has the effect of encouraging dismissal of both just because the latter is obviously fallacial.
It has been studied (first in 1909 by Henry Ford!). As I understand it the results agree with the original post.

In short, you can use crunch time strategically to meet deadlines but you always need a recovery period afterwards. If you work 60 hour weeks, in about 4 weeks your productivity will drop lower than it was when you were working 40 hour weeks - despite putting in 50% more hours. Also many people in this burnout zone will self report that their productivity is higher than it was (and they're wrong). If you've been crunching for a month straight, you're working ineffectively and you're too tired to tell.

Here's a presentation on the topic from Dan Cook, with links to papers:
http://lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf

And here's a fantastic write-up of a recent quantitative study in the games industry. They looked at how the success of video games correlates with crunch time and overwork. I suspect that these results would also hold true amongst startups:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150120/234443/Th...
Free in most of the Europe. I am surprised this one will be paid tbh.
I think there is a difference between not talking about an activity, and having dozens of people actively tell a fake story.
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Not to mention that he was conveniently "dumped at sea" after being reported dead by the PM of Pakistan long ago.
Though Rust is very popular around here, and is an exciting project, this is a very low-effort comment which doesn't cast any light on the subject.
Trademarks are limited to the area of product they apply to. The purpose of trademarks is "identify and distinguish the goods/services of one seller or provider from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods/services." No one is going to be surprised that those 2 arduinos aren't the same entity, or walk into the bar and wonder why little computers aren't on the menu, so trademark law completely ignores this, and it's extremely common so the bar owner shouldn't feel bad at all.

You can change your name to Barak Obama, and you'll get internet commenters saying things that start with "in all fairness...", but the white house won't be returning your calls.
What would it do which can't already be done with normal nix permissions and/or ACLs? The solution is to create a user account, like www-run or redis or Postgres or any of the other tons of things which already do this.

An even better idea is jails, or something like Docker.
http://arewewebyet.com/

If you need something running on HTTP next week or next month, it isn't.

If you can wait a year or two, it'll probably be a closer thing.
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Great article. There are even more negatives than it points out. After such sessions, it's likely that employees will underperform and try to get away with it as much as possible. When employees see that those weeks of working around the clock served absolutely no purpose, it's likely they will develop a resentment and try to take that out on the company in whatever ways they can. Taking extra time off or putting in low quality or bare minimum work is not unheard of from disgruntled employees who have just been forced to work for free.
I agree reputation isn't an easy problem to solve. I think taken to its logical limit something like what you've described above is likely close to if not the correct solution.

Using the tried and true methods that already exist in the public key infrastructure of the web, I think the problem of tracking reputation online (in a reliable way) is something that will be solved in our lifetimes.
Would you say Chromium is in bad shape too?