skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. There are really 3 things they argue for: performance, privacy and security.

Performance is a given, loading less = faster. Same with security, its just a few bad actors who keep allowing 3rd party content and malware. Many networks dont allow for anything other than text + images which have no malware possibilities.

Those two issues are starting to be solved by this consumer backlash and its a good thing. However when it comes to privacy I never understand how people think paying for things with their credit card is somehow more private (especially with all these data breaches) than some random ad network tracking script. The 3rd party cookie was actually a great thing that could easily be deleted and also stored any opt-out settings for users who wanted to skip tracking. Now with random out-of-context "privacy" reasons, browsers have ruined the effectiveness of cookies which means most networks cant even store a proper opt-out preference and they're also resorting to fingerprinting and other signals (at the ISP level) to track users no matter what device/platform/browser.

What the industry needed was more regulation and better standards, not this brute force guerilla warfare which is really harming the entire industry and leading to an eventually smaller and "closed" web.
It's a fair hypothesis to me: the public market has a larger amount of people, so more information; it also has mechanisms such as securities that benefit highly and rapidly information bearers.

But the idea that private investors' valuation is not "real" somehow sounds silly to me. The companies are still getting sold. The companies/investors that buy them have real value and expect to generate enough revenue from the acquisitions amounting at least to the acquired value.

The question then (and I think is a good one), is why private investment is getting more prevalent if public markets have more efficient valuation mechanisms. I think the answer is that private investors are more willing to 'kickstart' so to speak the early stages of startups, and from then have grown to dominate the investment market to their great benefit.
I'm fairly sure there was some possibility of segment isolation

This discussion seems to have died off, but here's some stuff I dug up mostly from Wiki (it's been so many years since I was directly involved with any of it):

10BASE5 could be a max length of 500 meters
and have up to 100 nodes

The 10BASE5 cable must be one linear run;
T-connections are not allowed.

10BASE2 could be a max length of 185 meters
and have up to 30 nodes

So there was need for some "segment isolation" as you call it. A single Ethernet would have multiple segments (all activity fully visible on all segments), because given the restrictions on physically routing the network cables around, it wasn't possible to connect everyone in even a relatively small building to a single segment. E.g. 185 meters isn't much when it has to be snaked around the backs of desks and around the perimeters of rows of cubicles.

There were devices called "repeaters" (originally very dumb two-port amps/isolators) that would connect segments of the same Ethernet. IIRC you could even connect a 10BASE5 segment to a 10BASE2 segment.

You were limited to how many segments you could have overall, and limited in overall distance to IIRC about 1500 meters for pure 10BASE5. Every packet was visible everywhere else, it was all a single "collision domain". The distance limitation had to do with all devices needing to observe a collision within a certain amount of time (active transmitters were monitoring the wire to see if any other packet collided with theirs). CSMA/CD protocol meant all active transmitters would stop sending and "back off" an exponentially increasing random amount of time when they detected a collision.

Combine all that with "quirky" Ethernet controller chips for even more fun.

I sure don't miss any of that. Thankfully those memories have faded over time.
People downmodding this have really nothing better to do?
> why are all books published with black text?

One of the web's greatest problems has been defining itself in relation to printed media. From use of font types, colour and page layout, margins and line spacing, the web is not on printed paper. Why do you think the two are the same?

I am not disputing that there is a lot of bad design out there, one of my personal peeves is tiny text. I've seen real UX people use a 9pt font because it looks good on their screen, but is impossible to read on anything else and when you don't hold your face 4 inches from the glass.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, one of the problems with UX is the number of "experts" who are self-taught. It's like web-design/development circa 2001, everyone was claiming to be a "web-dev" but in practice hardly any could do more than basic html & tables. UX, imo, is like that now.
I think the link to Geordi is not quite relevant here (although it is super cool): the claim was that it's hard to build a foolproof sandbox out of eval(). If you're using Geordi, since it's a separate process in a chroot, you can't use eval(). If you're giving up on eval(), you can write a foolproof sandboxed JS evaluator in JS alone.

Besides, the hard part with all sandboxes is not making the sandboxing itself solid; that's straightforward. The hard part is giving it a sufficiently rich interface to the outside world to do useful things, while not giving it so rich an interface that it can escape through that hole. All the semi-recent vulnerabilities in qemu, for instance, have been in virtual devices, not in actually emulating a processor.

Geordi's story is relatively easy, since all it does is compile code and execute it in an intentionally-minimal interface. JS on a web page has thousands of things it can do to the web page or to the outside world, if you want to implement it according to spec.
Although I am one of the lucky many who does not have lyme disease: check what diseases ticks carry in your home region (you can also get tick bites in a garden) or if you go on holiday, especially when you go hiking or have kids (that sometimes run into high grass or bushes).

E.g. in the area that we live now (Southern Germany), a relatively high percentage of ticks is infected with TBEV/FSME virus, which is not treatable. Because it's a high-risk area, insurance companies pay for vaccinations which are good for five years and have been shown to be very effective in trials.

Of course, if you e.g. hike, it's a good idea to check your body for ticks afterwards. Most diseases are not transmitted if the tick is removed properly within 24 hours.
Shipping Go binaries is effortless.
Not suggesting it's a good idea, but the PHP standard library gives you enough tools (shmop) to allow a straight port of something like https://github.com/schmichael/mmstats
Goodbits: A product to send custom newsletters
Agree with Meteor, trying out RamNode now too for VPS
That's the same link I debunked earlier in this thread. Just because someone made a website about something does not make it a real thing. I know there are a lot of sites that do text wrongly, not just colour, but size and font too, but they don't all need a movement.
Okok, now it makes senses :)
Hack of cloud-based LastPass exposes hashed master passwords
Its missing a lot of the newer more idiomatic frameworks/libraries that have gained considerable traction.

There's heaps of them, but the major one that strikes me is Negroni.
You can heard the other kid whisper the word to him at https://youtu.be/BcGJpVEq56Y?t=86 -- I am curious if the method does work however.
The latest Chinese hack on the US 'is not the end of American intelligence'
Well, then the sites should buy a service that gives them more features. If the existence of GA means there is no market for such products, then GA should go away.

I have no problem with lazy activism.
The meat of this fascinating ruling is in pg's 8 - 10. Quoting:

Moreover, there is nothing in the Federal Reserve Act or in any other federal statute that would permit a Federal Reserve Bank to take over a private corporation and run its business as if the Government were the owner. Yet, that is precisely what FRBNY did. It is one thing for FRBNY to have made an $85 billion loan to AIG at exorbitant interest rates under Section 13(3), but it is quite another to direct the replacement of AIG’s Chief Executive Officer, and to take control of AIG’s business operations. A Federal Reserve Bank has no right to control and run a company to whom it has made a sizable loan.

...

The analysis here leads to the conclusion that, if the Government had done nothing to rescue AIG, the company would have gone bankrupt, and the shareholders’ equity interest would have been worthless. Accordingly, the Court finds that the first plaintiff class prevails on liability because of the Government’s illegal exaction, but recovers zero damages.

...

As the Court noted during closing arguments, a troubling feature of this outcome is that the Government is able to avoid any damages notwithstanding its plain violations of the Federal Reserve Act. Closing Arg., Tr. 69-70. Any time the Government saves a private enterprise from bankruptcy through an emergency loan, as here, it can essentially impose whatever terms it wishes without fear of reprisal. Simply put, the Government often may ignore the conditions and restrictions of Section 13(3) knowing that it will never be ordered to pay damages. With some reluctance, the Court must leave that question for another day.
Can you list a few other weird requests you've made? I'm curious if there's anything you can recommend!
There's a free tier which you may be interested in: http://www.iron.io/pricing#worker

There's then pay-per-second pricing if you go outside of your plan (which I assume covers the free tier, but I don't know) [edit - if you have this enabled, you don't have to]

> Compute hours that exceed the rated plan will be billed at a rate of $0.075/hr. The free plan provides 10 hours/mo.

Edit 2 - Disclaimer, I don't work for them, just been looking at their pricing pages a lot.

Man, I'm full of edits today :|
The thing is, almost all hardware accessed through drivers has tons of bugs, at least it's nowhere near as close to "bug-free" as are things like CPUs or DRAMs which cannot hide their bugs behind drivers. The thing that one can hope to work reasonably is a piece of hardware plus an accompanying driver which knows to hide that hardware's issues.

So another way of putting what you said would be "on Linux there's no working driver for that piece of hardware, unlike on Windows where the 'proprietor' went to the trouble of supplying such a driver."
Exactly, the author himself stated as much.
there's a monthly thread here 'who wants to be hired'. idk if that's ideal for your situation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639011
Also depends on how many machines you got running. If it's 2: do you really want to wait it out and risk the other one going to hell too ?
"He says conversations led them to commit IBM’s machine learning technology after hearing that machine learning was a weakness in the Apache project." Do you agree with that? I actually think MLlib and Graphx provide a suitable level of machine intelligence. Has anyone worked with IBM's ML package? How does it differ?
It's almost as bad as the software engineers running the system that control our private information gathering in shady anonymous "hacker" forums to exchange programming tips.
I wonder what that says about programmers, then?
That isn't correct, exactly, and your response to someone else who tried to point this out that only contained a link to a naive google search is really offensive. (Because it is patronizing, because it trivializes a complex issue, because it poses as a retort without actually being one.)
Why every developer should have a side project
The compilers for Red and Red/System are written in Rebol2. The binary distribution is just an encapsulated Rebol interpreter with source code. Rebol2 needs the 32-bit supporting libraries.
Stack Overflow: Building Social Software for the Anti-Social
Correct. You are clearly dealing rationally with a complicated topic, and for someone to just spit in your face about it (the Google link comment) is incredible. There is a sibling comment to your own addressing this.
That's how you build a community around your product
In this case the TRIM command was un-queued, which makes it worse.
I've been adamantly opposed to the public trading of tech companies for fifteen years now:

The Valley is a Harsh Mistress

http://www.warplife.com/tips/business/stock/venture/capital/...

Investment yes, Wall Street no.

The reason to seek investment is to grow one's company so that one can grow one's business in ways that would not be possible to fund out of one's current revenue.

One of the very wealthiest people I have ever met founded "The Nation's Largest Sperm Bank" in the early 1970s with $2,500.00 of his own money, along with just one other partner, mostly for liquid nitrogen dewars, medical lab equipment as well as pr0n.
> Other missing features: request a film for streaming that's not currently available, so they have some way to gauge demand;

As a UK user, it'd also be nice to be able to somehow monitor when something that's only available in other territories (i.e. US) becomes available in the UK.
Actually, length restrictions of a few kiB are fine. Otherwise you open yourself to some forms of DoS attacks, I believe.
"Consumer-facing companies".

An ex-girlfriend of mine is an NSA cryptologist. I don't have a clue what she actually does during her workday. I only know where she works because she committed the grievous error of listing her work address on our alumni website.
This isn't really applicable for high-growth venture backed companies because generally, they aren't leverageable. It's almost impossible to lever a minority equity investment in a private company. It's true equity capital going into late stage VC / growth equity.

However, for mature tech businesses that have real cash flow, LBO valuations are driven by a levered cash flow yield. Valuations in this world are increased with higher debt availability and low interest rates.

The primary mechanism by which low interest rates influence late stage VC / growth equity valuations is in the amount of capital the LP community / institutional investor base allocates to those asset classes. Right now, that allocation is quite large driven by the need to move into riskier asset classes to drive investment yield.
Airmail 2 (I was a bit frustrated because I had the Airmail 1 too and when 2 got released I had to pay for the upgrade)
Drawing correct conclusions from correctly interpreted personal experience is a lot more important than clinical studies.

People brandy about "clinical studies" and "show me the data" constantly, and yet such studies generally are open to interpretation and seem to conflict with one another. If we rejected all other forms of learning, we wouldn't know anything at all.

I didn't see the guy's comment (it's deleted now), but the mistake isn't not having a clinical study, it's not correctly interpreting the "data" he has actually seen in real life.

In other words, the right policy is actually being rational, and clinical studies cannot replace that.

I realize now this is kind of a nit pick/off topic, but I've already typed it so there it is.
GitHub’s next funding round could value it at $2B
It's a pity that isn't a permanent link at the top of HN, with posts expiring after 1 week.
Tesla’s Mass-Market Portfolio to Include Sedan, Crossover
If this one isn't satisfying, digi_owl has a nice one, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723476
With our architecture, HW requirements, the price of HW and the price of the cloud VMs, even working on this for a week or two saves us significant amount of money both short-term and long-term. The side effect is that we now have tools to recover servers way faster and allows us to do things we have not thought about before.
Whiteboard surfaces become harder to erase if cleaned with alcohol, which is quite common. I find that you can write quite quickly if you use high quality markers and I tend to bring my own markers everywhere just to make things easier.
This definitely concerns me as someone who uses Docker + Overlay for sandboxing. Anyone know which webpage to refresh regularly to check for a fix? My guess is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1465400, but I'm not too sure.
The only problem with ergonomic keyboards is hands fit so nicely in those keyboards that I find it very uncomfortable to reach to mouse. A trackball in the ergonomic keyboards will be really nice.
I think I did set this up but was not working for some reason. However, it's not a high priority item to debug.
The drives we have detected the issue had still un-queued TRIM. I have reached to one of the kernel I/O developers for help and he confirmed that it is not related.
It's very fun, and thanks to the hobbyist/open-source community it is more accessible than ever.
Juvenile delinquent: the official guide on how to hack SchoolLoop
I've worked on some interesting SSD deployments / experiments a lot over the past 12 months. Quite honestly - I wouldn't go anywhere near Samsung products regardless of their 'PRO' labelling or otherwise.

We have had great success with both Sandisk Extreme Pro SATA and Intel DC NVMe series drives, we've also recently deployed a number of Crucial 'Micron' M600 1TB SATA drives that are performing very well and so far haven't given us any issues.
Dang, that's even my favorite movie, thanks for noticing...

Actually, getting a decent title matching rate was a problem that proved to be much harder than anticipated and allowed some false positives like this one to slip through. We don't have the resources to curate the catalog by hand (and honestly we don't even want to), so getting smarter at this is one main focus area for us during the next half of a year!
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Whether you're looking for freelance or full-time, there's a site that combines the two monthly HN threads in a convenient format: http://hnhiring.me/

In general I find the whole handwaving "I'm looking for work" approach not very effective. You really need to actively contact companies/potential clients.

With that said, here's a list of resources I resort to when looking for a next thing:

freelance
remote
http://hnhiring.me/
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/
http://www.lancelist.com/
https://gun.io/dash/
http://www.10xmanagement.com/
https://theworkmob.com/
http://workingnotworking.com
https://authenticjobs.com
https://www.upwork.com
http://www.happyfuncorp.com

on-site
http://getlambda.com/

full-time
remote
https://weworkremotely.com/
https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote
https://www.wfh.io/categories/1/jobs
https://remotecoder.io/
http://www.workingnomads.co/jobs

on-site
https://angel.co/jobs
https://hired.com/
https://jobs.github.com/positions
https://www.themuse.com/
http://startupjob.me/
http://www.insidestartups.org/
GitHub reportedly raising $200M at $2B valuation
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Public markets investors typically have far less information about companies than do private investors. For most technology companies, the probability of success / profit is driven more by specific company factors rather than larger industry and macro trends. Most public tech companies are understandably worried about disclosing detailed sales metrics / technology roadmap to all investors for competitive reasons; however, as part of any PE / VC backed investment process, private investors are typically given access to all of this detailed information.
In this case it was un-queued TRIM (I forgot to mention it in the blogpost). We have reached to Samsung and although it looked good at the beginning now they are silent for more than a month without any progress.
The syntax is minimalist for a reason. The primary paradigm of languages in the Rebol family (like Red) is language-oriented programming of which creating domain specific languages in an important factor. The more minimalist the base syntax the less you force the end-user into a syntactic corner, when they go to design their own DSL's. As for blocks (those things delimited by brackets) they're technically a data-structure (actually all code is an implicit data structure). In Rebol for example all the typical control flow structures are actually functions which take as arguments vectors of code.
The tests+code review make sure people are doing basic due diligence on the code they're contributing. Meanwhile, SRE roles are defined to take up a bunch of the brass tacks of making software storm-worthy... Are there aspects of good QA that you feel aren't hit by this combination? (Genuinely curious.)
Interdependence is a big deal.

Some real, present revenue to big companies comes from the startup world. Maybe it's where I live and what I do, but startups seem to pay for a ton of the Twitter and Facebook ads I see. Amazon makes good money running datacenters for them. Apple and Google see a lot of the value of their mobile platforms created by startup app developers. The big companies' current revenue helps determine how much they're willing to invest, including investments in the form of acquisitions, so the dollars invested into the system can themselves contribute to exit amounts in a weirdly circular way. I'm not the first to observe this.

That in itself proves very little; both sustainable and unsustainable systems can feed on themselves. And all these large companies I'm mentioning are certainly sticking around.

But it does suggest there are paths were one thing goes bad first--new investment falters, the market starts pricing ads drastically lower, big regulatory interventions shake up some subsector or other--and the ripples are bigger and reach further than might be expected.
You have to understand that baseball is basically ass-backwards in everything. Even if the terms aren't great, this is revolutionary that a team would look OUTSIDE for more information. This is becoming more common with the smarter teams but the vast majority of teams would NEVER think to do something like this. They presume to have all the answers in all realms of the business, in general.
The takeaway for me is that investing in tech companies during the growth stage has gone from being mostly for rich people to being pretty much exclusively for very very rich people.
He had "problems" a couple of years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Lehrer
TIL it'l not so hard to make your own blackboard. http://thedecorologist.com/dont-use-chalkboard-and-magnetic-...
My goal are not the same. Dillo optimise for the smallest footprint. I try to do a proof of concept of a web browser that will render web page in a way that will make it almost impossible to display ad, social network or merchants sites.

Also I used Nw.js not in search of speed or performance, but in search of fast implementation (it take me ±3hours to code the browser)
The pacemaker detects that the authors heart has stopped or is in such extreme arrhythmia that he will probably lose consciousness and die.

Working in the same way as a normal defibrillator that you might see in an Emergency Department the pacemaker supplies a large shock to the heart to restart it or get it to beat properly.

The shock is large enough so that a person will fall to the ground when they experience it. And the article mentions that if you are in a pool near somebody with one of these pacemakers then you might feel the shock as well.
Related: if you had a personal website/blog, would it be a good idea to put "I'm looking for a gig now" on it?
If you think CPUs do not come with a shit-ton of hardware bugs YOU ARE GRAVELY MISTAKEN.

Google up the Intel errata for the i7

The list goes on and on.