skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe you agreed to a trade

It sounds like this is our fundamental disagreement. I do not believe that requesting an HTML resource is an agreement to load all external resources and execute all JavaScript referenced in that HTML. I submit the request, and the remote server returns some HTML. In my view, that is a complete interaction with no unfulfilled obligations.

According to your argument, I am not within my rights to cURL a URL if that URL happens to point to an HTML that references some ad-related JavaScript.
It's the argument of a two-year-old. I asked about revenue, not about personal value.
I recently used the author's software (we went to grad school together); software he wrote ~20 years ago that is still useful.
Napoleon was a far more complex figure than you give him credit for, and reducto ad Hitleram is a very poor rhetorical tactic anyway. While I wouldn't hold him up as some kind of perfect hero, his legacy in a lot of parts of Europe, from east to west, was one of a progressive reformer who brought a powerful civil law code with him[0].

[0]: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n24/edward-luttwak/a-damned-nice-th...
Straight-up eval() would be the most blatant case of a remote code execution vulnerability the web has ever seen. I don't think it's easy or even possible to build a foolproof sandbox out of eval(). And even then you open yourself to a denial of service since you cannot interrupt the eval().
> After Judith Miller, Jayson Blair and today's Tom Harper, I would say there is a good amount of data indicating the quality has in fact diminished across the board. The WaPost itself is a symbol of this decay: in 30 years they went from Watergate hounds to Iraq-invasion cheerleaders. If you look at the average column nowadays, it's all a bunch of "senior official sources" briefing utter lies in order to further their agendas.

I have no reason to believe it was better in the past. News organizations are human institutions, and like all the others they struggle with corruption and other failings. An major example off the top of my head:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/books/the-journalist-and-t...
Different kinds of private property are different.

Your home is very different from a private university, and both are very different from a privately owned, open-to-the-public business.
If people were concerned about the highest salary available to them, we would not have academics and NGOs.

People are motivated by different things. It is not better or worse to be primarily motivated by a salary that exists in one place, but, if you want a Silicon Valley salary, then perhaps Silicon Valley is the place that you should work.
I'm sure there are people who have cracked their heads open and died while running, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone travelling on foot needs to wear a helmet.
MSYS2 packages are signed by Alexey Pavlov. Pacman won't install unsigned ones by default.
Why are IPOs no longer viable? Too much red tape? It seems that investors and their money have a better chance underground (private) where public stocks are either too slow to get a return or the return amount would be much less.

Why does it seem all the money is in the US and not in Canada? More investors? More money? Taxes?
> the Bill of Rights only applied to acts of Congress ("Congress shall make no law...")

That specific language only appears in the First Amendment. Other amendments were taken to apply to the states well before the Fourteenth; for example, there is case law from state courts from the first half of the 19th century dealing with how states interpret the Second Amendment, which would be meaningless if that Amendment were not held to apply to the states.
That's certainly possible - this would get you 'a' containing an array from the first function and 'b' with the result of the last.

Can't off the top of my head recall actually seeing such a bug. I totally appreciate the desire to reduce the potential for errors from typos, but that ship has kind of already sailed with either language. I guess it just depends how far you're willing to let it go.

Yay choice. Testing will catch it anyway, right?

:/
I can construe an entitlement story on behalf of Soni Fink like this: since 1961, she probably put in enough money into rent that if it had one into a mortgage, she would own the place, with enough left over for all the upkeep.

The fact that she has been a tenant for more than half a century and paid into the building should count for something. It can be argued.
When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
Nah, it depends. For example, if he put the effigy up in a public area with restricted signage or the what not it could be removed and he could be disciplined for the infraction. Such regulations of public space have been upheld as long as they do not differentiate based on content. [1]

Now, if he was rejected from putting it up at the university art show or if other forms of art, signage, etc. were allowed in that area..it'd be a clear violation.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/01/12/376788864/supreme-court-hears-...
Right. I think open source software is great. The community, collaboration and transparency make it a great way to build and maintain software. It is not a great way to build and maintain a business. Github has struck a balance between open source and proprietary. I can't think of a successful open source company that has 100% FOSS. Can you? Would be really interested in that actually, it would be an interesting case study.
Feel free to share your insights with your Congressional Representative. They're the ones who dictate the governmental pay scale.
If only it was profitable for Linus Torvalds, Junio Hamano, and everyone else that provided that open source technology. But hey, slavery is profitable too, as long as you're not the slave.
I can't read enough of the first link to comment, the second one makes me think "you said what to your students??" But then again, that was 1995 and cases like that are part of how language like that became unofficially outlawed, not just for teachers but for everybody.

When a principal gets fired for calmly saying he agrees with Interpretation A of events it's clear that he's being fired for having the wrong belief system. The fear is we're not just removing words from our lexicon but attempting to eradicate entire belief systems. The problem with that is who gets to decide what the right belief system is?
Obviously it varies quite a bit. Some consumer companies can spend very little on sales and marketing. But many consumer companies and nearly all B2B companies spend an enormous amount. Look at a company like New Relic. They took four rounds of venture, plus two rounds of private equity. They were spending 70% of their operating budget on sales and marketing. It was expensive the whole way. It costs a lot of money to develop a product to the point where it is better than the status quo, and then a lot more money to market it.
How is ASCII or Latin-1 somehow not an obscure encoding scheme by your parlance? Latin-1 is less common by quite a bit on the web than UTF-8, and ASCII might be if UTF-8 wasn't a superset.

Fact of the matter is people have to get out of the habit of going "oh, that will never be relevant for me", because a) that's unlikely to be true for everybody (for example in a server environment you can't even write perfectly good North American names like Étienne let alone perfectly good older-than-the-country names like Þórr) b) it's unlikely to be true even for you as you will discover the first time you try to read a file written by somebody else c) it promotes intellectual laziness that makes later internationalization efforts difficult to impossible, because they're trying to convince people like you to care about stuff they find inconvenient but that is of vital importance to your customers.

I know of a man whose first name is Þórr who outright refuses to deal with any organization that will not let him write his name, and I have a hard time disagreeing with him.
Great post, lucidly written as always.

With the last part about "FRED BUNS", doesn't feel a bit like he's committing a variant of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy[1]? (That's the old saw about the Texan who takes a bunch of shots at a barn, then walks up and paints a target to encircle them.)

While the chances of "FRED BUNS" may be slim, the chances of /some/ pair of words being present in adjacent lines is much better. How much better? Uh, I'll let you know once I'm not on my phone and not lazy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
I love seeding all my stuff, I keep most things seeding for so far forever, and I usually keep my computer on most of the time.

This seems like it'd be pretty neat to try out at least, so I signed up.

What do you think the general price people will go for for selling per/gb? The video said 10c, but do you think it will stay around that or go down?
Ammonium nitrate in airbags?
That was my point, there's no way to perfectly stop adblockers since they are part of the client. The only way to stop them is to paywall, which will start to become more common.
I'm looking forward to a follow-up article from their development and/or ops team. Netflix tech articles are very interesting. I'm sure there is a good tech story behind this upgrade.
I'd guess that a lot of those sites permit password reset via email verification, in which case a lot of your eggs are in one basket anyway. In fact, considering that SMTP is even less robust versus encryption downgrade attacks than HTTP, while also providing a patient target for DNS poisoning, this oft-forgotten basket is pretty fragile.

It'd be nice if those sites recognized that that security arrangement is massively improved with OpenID, which can piggyback on the authenticator's two factor scheme, server hardening, and whatnot.
So now I'm very curious: can anyone comment on what's the biggest collaboration of this sort to have come out of Hacker News?
If your business has a website, it is now a "tech" company.

It's a brave new world.
I'm not the parent commenter, but I personally run OpenBSD on a pretty wide variety of hardware, most recently (among laptops, that is) a PowerBook G4 and a Dell Latitude D830. Most things work out-of-the-box, but there are a few exceptions:

* Power management is nonexistent on PowerPC hardware, so I currently have to shut down my PowerBook between uses, since I can't put it in standby. This is annoying, but workable.

* Hibernation is buggy on the Latitude. Suspend works fine, though.

* Both the PowerBook and the Latitude required the use of fw_update to install nonfree firmware (for the Broadcom-based Airport wireless NIC and the Intel PRO Wireless 3495abg-or-whatever wireless NIC, respectively). Also slightly inconvenient, but - again - still workable.

* Some things don't really work on PowerPC, most notably Firewire. A slight bummer, but hopefully this will be resolved someday.

From what I understand, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads are - just like they are with GNU/Linux - among the best laptops to use with OpenBSD; IIRC, a lot of the OpenBSD devs dogfood pretty heavily on them, so they get a bit more attention. I'd avoid anything with Nvidia graphics, whereas AMD/ATI or Intel graphics should be decent.
I don't really buy it but I've heard the theory expressed that LastPass is more of a target because an attacker knows that a compromise could get millions of valid logins but something like Dropbox is less of a known quantity with more things to sift through.

I'm skeptical that a) our hypothetical attacker couldn't search for files to get all of those synced 1Password files or b) that such a complete compromise wouldn't turn over enough interesting personal docs to make the potential resale value quite lucrative – “They got my tax return but fortunately not my nytimes.com password!”. In either case, pure worst-case analysis isn't terribly useful without some concept of relative likelihood.
We need a follow up study comparing the effect size to that of showering..
> The lock makes 1118 words (according to my word list). You might say that this lock is only 11.18% as secure as a 4-digit lock with 10,000 combinations.

What? It's exactly as secure; there are four dials with ten symbols. Wait, of course, Norving means dictionary words. Well, don't constrain yourself to dictionary words! You wouldn't use a dictionary word for your gmail account, right? Configure the lock for some arbitrary four-letter combination.

(There is still value in that over a lock with digits embossed on its dials, because some people can memorize a four letter combination which isn't a word more easily than four random digits.)

Here is another thing: you can configure a WordLock such that your chosen key word is something meaningful, but must be assembled in a row other than the "home row" to open the lock. That improves the security somewhat in the situation when you stick to code which is a word (as defined by Norvig). You have one more secret: the offset of your word.

If your offset keyword is such that gibberish occurs in the home row, then a naive search of meaningful words on the home row will not open the lock, so there is a "security through obscurity" element at play here too against (non-wirecutting) brute force attackers who don't know about this trick.

You might as well then memorize that home row gibberish, and use the original offset word as only a mnemonic to recover the gibberish if you forget: you can assemble the original word, and then rotate the dials in parallel until the lock opens.
Any reason not to use Bitbucket rather than Github, to get those features?
Can you elaborate on this last statement?
I definitely agree that over-engineering is a problem. My feedback was meant to be about how to communicate that balance.

In your example, if you tell the other person that their database sharding is over-engineering, they can say one of two things:

a) No it isn't.
b) Yes it is and I think over-engineering is a good thing.

I have never heard someone say (b); if they thought it was over-engineering then they wouldn't have advocated for it. The negative quality is part of the definition.

What you're likely disagreeing on is how far in the future you're team should be thinking or how much data is necessary to make a confident decision.

I don't think it was your intent to stop long-term thinking, but if someone says "we shouldn't over-engineering things", I don't think that solves any ambiguity because no one was intentionally over-engineering before.

It's akin to saying "don't do bad things." People never do bad things, only things that are bad under a different set of principles or based on other values.

My feedback is that this document should define what over-engineering means in their context (since it, like what is "bad", is context-specific) and lay out what engineers should look out for.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.0/01537.html
Don't even need to name names. Give me a department/division name so I can start firing up MuckRock with FOIA requests.
I dont think OP's question was serious, there really isnt any other business model. And how is saying there are more important things to be worried about giving an answer to his question? Obviously not everything is worth an upfront payment and sometimes freemium is the best way to gain users and sales. Why is that somehow an "issue"?
I can't remember ever encountered a unix-like system without "vi" installed. I've used (and set up) machines running FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, OSX, Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, ...

Plenty of those didn't have emacs, especially on first boot, when you're most likely to need to modify network configuration files in order to get online to install new packages in the first place...

Edit: By "vi" I mean that somewhere in the path there is a program called vi. Of course, usually this is nvi, vim, evil, etc; I don't mean the original UNIX vi binary.
This is the main reason I've switched to Firefox on android
While the idea of separate IC track looks like common sense, I don't think it plays well with traditional top-down structure (i.e. the structure of every single company out there). In top-down structure "resources" are allocated to "projects". The nature of the "projects" and details of allocation are carved out by "management". If you work as an IC on somebody else's project then he is your boss and you can't get much freedom beyond freedom in technical matters (usually Senior Developer title already implies this). If you work on the project of your own choosing that means you are a manager with really constrained resources and either you get more resources (usually it starts with a junior developer to help you with chores) and gradually become a real manager or your project risks to slide into irrelevance as you are outmaneuvered by real managers with big headcounts and budgets.

What I would like to see is a working scheme for more fluid resource allocation scheme than fixed tree-like structure. This holacracy thing promises exactly that but I am not sure if it is really viable.
nano is super easy to use, I agree. I tried vim and gave up. Will try again.
> A bit less convenient

This is why I use Lastpass.
How to Break the Internet
1) The process of content selection shifts from the user to the service provider, liability for copyright infringement also shifts because now they have influence over and responsibility for the content selection process.

2) The user of a content aggregation service is paying (directly via money transfer or indirectly by seeing ads) for the content selection, not only for the provision of an automated service to retrieve feeds. One could argue that the revenue the service provider creates with content selection is based on the publisher's content, the publisher therefore should get a share of it.
> But hey, slavery is profitable too

What does this have to do with leveraging open source software?
It's not just a CSS theme though. The XControls/Xcomponents libraries are complex toolkits.
Moleskines look like nice notebooks, but the paper actually does lack quality. It feathers and bleeds with most nice pens and pretty much all fountain pens.
I downloaded the pdf; will mail you.
This is a great blog for all things AWS Lambda: https://alestic.com/

The author is popular in the AWS developer community, and he's a really good guy to work with.
It does mean something though; the point is that the Executive (in place of the Sovereign) can't just instruct the police to detain you on a whim - it has to be done in accordance with powers specifically granted by the people's representatives in Parliament.

If you don't like the laws passed by Parliament, vote in different representatives!
Interesting that the npm is accessed with npm install dynamics.js. Looks like npm install dynamics is a different library. I wonder if we are running out of npm namespace.
Yeah that's kind of where I was going with that. It would be most ideal if the law was applied evenly and not arbitrarily.

I am all for protecting cyclists and pedestrians, however more laws enabling arrest and arbitrary execution of statue seems less desirable to me.

A clear line delineating between a cycling lane and vehicle lane would perhaps be a more effective safety method than employing a person to dispatch donated pamphlets using donated detection equipment. It seems like the line between a lobbying party and the execution of the law is blurred. In this case, its relatively innocuous however this kind of ambiguity of the intent of the law and the blurred line of its application is probably common.
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I learned ed for a joke and found myself actually liking some features so much that I started porting them to emacs.

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https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line/pull/12
How important is a liquidation preference on a $500m round which values Uber at $40b? Not very.

Moreover, most of the institutions doing these late stage rounds and secondaries are the same banks and asset management firms that float the IPOs.

One of the unintended consequences from SOX is the creation of this public-private funding environment where huge private firms and high net worth individuals can invest, but small retail investors are shut out until the venture firms believe the company's value has plateaued (Slide 30). We saw this happen with Facebook, for which there is a ton of second market valuation data from 2007 through the IPO to the present. If you believe that small retail investors should be protected from themselves when it comes to early stage investing, this is a good thing.
> 'I have a masters degree' is, of course, ad-hominem fallacy.

No it's not. You might argue that it's an argument from authority, which is a different thing, but in this case, I think a master's degree in public health is quite relevant.

You on the other hand provide not a single argument to why you feel her position is not well reasoned and reckless.
Except that the people who are running the ads aren't hiding that fact. The people blocking them and stealing service are trying to hide behind their ad blocker.
Lastpass admits it was hacked
Well sure, but that has more to do with property rights per se than with the implied right of freedom of association.

(Or maybe it doesn't. I dunno, really.)
Safari has it also, along with Microsoft Edge (formerly Project Spartan)
Bingo. A very large part of recent "tech" startup scene is just the good old "doing X but now with a smartphone" pattern. Or even worse "Sending a person with a smartphone to do X for you when you call them using your smartphone". I simply don't know how these businesses are supposed to be profitable at the scale they're supposed to grow to. Will Uber still be cool when it has a million quasi-employees? Will the governments around the world still allow the "quasi" part to stay intact at that scale - highly unlikely.
Depends on what variable you're optimizing for. If you're optimizing for cost, then you're right, the choice is clear.
zenefits, zenpayroll, slack were basically word of mouth
Nothing coerced is voluntary, they're mutually exclusive concepts. Mozilla did not fire him nor was Mozilla the group that forced him to leave, that does not mean he wasn't forced to leave.

As far as whether or not he was capable of running an inclusive company, he once founded what is known to be an inclusive company and was an executive there for 15 years without, to my knowledge, any complaints about how he performed his duties outside of contributing his personal money to a political campaign.

Particularly telling is this part of the FAQ:

> Q: Was Brendan Eich forced out by employee pressure?

A: No.

That less than 10 employees got him removed is outrageous. The people that worked with him knew best whether or not he treated people fairly and the fact that so few of them wanted him to leave tells me the whole thing was a disgrace.
I think there's a lot of truth to that, but the one thing it leaves out of the analysis is the opportunity to exit via acquisition.

I don't have a sense of what proportion of companies that might previously have had an IPO would in recent times get acquired instead. I'd be surprised if it fully made up for the effect you describe. But I also imagine acquisition is more possible now than in the past since you now have a lot more big tech incumbents with cash to buy other companies with (e.g., who would have bought Instagram in 2000?).