skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is people can't go public with this stuff. They will be blacklisted from ever working in government again. And these are regulatory agencies that can make trouble for you in the private sector world too.

This is why I'm being so vague. I could actually give you specific details, but then my friend would be identified.

My friend said even with the small level of reforming he was trying to do, people stopped inviting him to meetings--because he was embarrassing with the way he was saying the Emperor has No Clothes, with respect to the processes being used.

Imagine a tech company where everyone basically has tenure, and promotions are based on how long you've been warming your seat. Now bake that organization for 50 years. That is your govt. IT department.
That says nothing about why the systemd folks are entitled to hijacking a kernel flag instead of (more sanely) namespacing their own debug flag, which is the actual bug that was filed (and in turn met with "it's not a bug it's a feature, so go whine to the kernel folks about the thing of theirs that we broke and don't feel like fixing", as if the systemd folks have become one with the Microsoft).

Whether or not there are other underlying issues stemming from such misbehavior is irrelevant to the fact that the misbehavior exists. It's like sticking your hand in a fire, then blaming your hand instead of your own stupidity for your third-degree burns.
because web forms are hard

-- the mid-90's Perl CGI scripts are calling and they're laughing at us all.
Thanks Kareem!

He was one of my favorite guests. I'd interviewed much more famous entrepreneurs than Fabrice, but the episode with him was one of my most popular because he was by far the most candid -- even telling me his net worth at every stage of his career.
Something something ad hominem. Besides that, to what are you referring?
I think you're exaggerating the difficulty. We have more than sufficient documentation of many facts to make definitive statements about them, and where we are not sure abou ttheir provenance we can qualify our statements as being limited to a sinlge source or being controversial. We could, for example, dispute the historical causes of the Battle of Waterloo all day, but there's widespread agreement that it took place 200 years ago next Thursday, who the principles were, how it proceeded, and what the outcome was. Of course there are numerous details about the event that event that remain the subject of historical inquiry; did Wellington meet Blucher at 9pm or 10pm, and where on the battlefield did this meeting take place?

It's certainly true that any historical incident comes with a mass of unanswered questions, sometimes of great import - witness the ongoing controversies over the assassination of Kennedy or the authorship of the September 11 2001 attacks in modern times. But there is little dispute that that assassination and those attacks took place on those dates, what the basic nature of those events were and what major changes ensued in the aftermath. Although we face significant epistemological limitations in studying history, you seem to be arguing an almost solipsistic position, as if the impossibility of knowing everything invalidated the notion of knowing anything.
https://www.twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/2348563455794462...

When life imitates art.
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Thanks for explaining, I see what you mean now!
For what it's worth, as someone who currently favours the public domain over copyright for his work, I will say that it's not especially because I think that it's simpler to choose the public domain; it's because I've tried to understand what copyright means and what public domain means and I think that public domain makes more sense and better serves my interests.

In particular, it reflects the fact that I don't think readers of my work should be obliged to follow any rules I might set (license) when they turn to the creation of derived works. They should go and do as they like and, where appropriate, acknowledge prior art (as a matter of professionalism).

I also feel that the problem of associating each "expression" with it's legal creator is a nasty problem fraught with difficulties; certainly, in this regard, you can say that I choose public domain because of its simplicity.

By the way, djb has argued in defence of the public domain here:

http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html

Anyway, I'm interested to read other developers views on this topic but I'm no authority and don't want to give the impression that I think it's unreasonable to choose differently. And anyway, most do! GPL, BSD and the rest seem much more popular than public domain.
A 1X liquidation preference on a $500m investment is only relevant if the price of Uber declines by 98.75%. If it is 2X, then only relevant if price of Uber declines by 97.5%.

[Edit: Wow was I not awake when I wrote this. Retracted but left up for posterity.]
This is pretty swell. I just started using pm2 for my production apps, and it is also really great. Good work.
nitpick: the Canadians actually beat us in the war of 1812. Twice if you count the failure of Benedict Arnold's campaign. The real reason for the peace along our northern border was Britain's post-Munroe policy of trying to cultivate an alliance with us as a means first of securing free access to Latin American ports and later of having us to aid it in its traditional role of balancing against the prospect of a hegemony on the European mainland.
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"I don't understand why everyone doesn't do things exactly like I do using only tools I like" is a really stupid way to look at the world.
I had meant to take another look at ProxyCommand (http://heipei.github.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-cons...), so thanks for the reminder!
Technically, a 1Password vault contains a "1Password.html" file that essentially loads up a browser interface to your vault. This may or may not meet your needs, depending mostly on whether or not you're cool with carrying around a thumb drive with your password vault on it.
That was me. BrubeckNYC. :)
I'm no economist. But I've been reading Paul Krugman's blog for about 10 years now. And time after time his predictions about what would happen turned out to be true.

And most of his predictions were the exact opposite of the predictions that I was reading in the papers or I was hearing from the politicians. So, is it true that "other stuff" is relevant? Sure. But I'll take his economic insights - mistakes included - over all those other Nobel prize winning economists any day.
Except I would rather trust a service like tarsnap to host my backups securely, or amazon with kernel updates than doing it myself. Hosting my own backup server is "trivial" only if I have the expertise to encrypt it properly, and keep the box updated and safe from vulnerabilities.

Moving to our systems only makes sense to me if its a core part of my business or if 3rd party solutions are inadequate. Paying 2 engineers $75/hr to reinvent IRC/git/email poorly is a poor use of time and money.

At the end of the day, if GitHub steals my IP (for whatever reason) I can sue GitHub (if its not morally wrong, they have a legal reason to discourage them from doing so). If my "1u ubuntu server" is hacked due to a poor default, I have no recourse.
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This is something ive been working on in my spare time on and off for about 6 months. Mostly PHP and node.js.
The average retail investor is still licking their wounds from 2008. Many, like myself, put our tiny blood soaked wads in CD's, at .01 percent. There are millions of Americans who can't gamble on a rigged stock market, and relied on a healthy 5% interest rate.

This free money being doled out by the Fed to a select few entities will have consequences. My biggest fear is market will finally win over retail investors from 2008. Then, and only then will the big boys pull out leaving us holding the empty bag. Big boys who should gave bleed out if Bush Administration didn't throw them a coagulant? (I know a cheezy metaphor.) Oh yes, My America--you are the picture boy of Capitalism?
Just to be silly.. These locks are not secure and you do not need to know the word. I have known how to do this on these types of locks since I was 12 which is no 26 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcGJpVEq56Y
I have the following set in my .cshrc:

setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
setenv LC_COLLATE C # use the ASCII sort order

What have I broken, and how badly?
Banks get the money at 0%, lend it out at above 0%. Profit.

(And if they don't find anything, they only pay 0% while they wait.)
VR goggles displaying a view of outside, maybe recorded from a plane that flew the same path then synced to your location to simulate your actual trip.

The feeling to your body would then match the view too.
> How important is a liquidation preference on a $500m round which values Uber at $40b? Not very.

It's substantial. If VCs get a 1x liquidation preference, then it's (effectively) a no-downside investment since Uber is worth (worst-case) $500M+. If they get >1x and are the last investor (most-preferred), then they are virtually guaranteed solid return. Late stage VCs know what they're doing and valuation is still only half the equation.

As for private firms and high net worth individuals.... that's an entirely different issue; I'm certainly not a fan of accredited investor regulation. I'm also not a huge fan of my retirement (401k funds) being invested into the startup ecosystem without any say in the matter either.
Well, maybe they did differentiate based on content, if an unapproved[0] anti-police-violence rally (specifically on African-American victims) was held in the same spot the night before, part of what "made" the "art" so "triggering" (mixed quasi-quotes on concepts from both sides.) I don't know how to easily/reliably determine if it was unapproved though.

P.S. The Facebook event page for the rally might be interesting: https://www.facebook.com/events/338643562987236/
Also: https://storify.com/DearSplenda/serhat-tanyolacar-terrorizes...

[0] http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/06/did-anyone-at-university-o...
I'm only trying to be rigorous in my evaluation of the evidence, since I'm in no position to judge the actual strength of the diffuser. Yes, this is probably just academic, as I wouldn't trust a disk with suspected tampering. (Or if that was required, like storing VHDs on a hosted block device, I'd store a hash of the disk or executables.)

Anyways, my reasoning:

1. The diffuser didn't really help for serious threat scenarios, and hurt perf, so no one should be upset by its removal. This seems to be true.

2. But MS previously called the diffuser critical and has made no statements as to the security impact of the removal. (Indeed, there are easy attacks without the diffuser, but no known attacks with it.)

3. A well-known cryptographer (Bruce's actual cryptography credentials are undoubted, correct?) cites the removal as a reason to be suspicious.

If 1 is true, which I think it is, then 2 and 3 are at odds with how reality should be. No matter how confident I am in 1, points 2 and 3 require a shift in the probability of 1. Or, I am misunderstanding 2 and 3.

How else should I evaluate these things? Sorry for being dense or wasting your time.
Newspapers have never been an unbiased source of information as a public good. My dad was a newspaper journalist and tells a story of almost getting fired for a minor factual error in a story about a major advertiser. Newspapers have always been businesses primarily.
Ok, but it is still valid today. It didn't become easy for a black person to be a doctor.
https://brilliant.org is another good source.
I wonder if a similar email would work as a defense for distributin OSX on non-apple hardware... well, we sent you an email declaring the terms, and you didn't opt-out... and given you've sent similar emails with similar landmines, you obviously find this to be acceptable in practice, so...
And (likely) tooling for altering/fixing samples, and (likely) updating their transcoding process to include thumbnail generation at all the various sizes and qualities they encode for, and backfilling all the existing titles to fit into all such tooling, and coordinating such a project across what are likely multiple teams with different roadmaps and reporting structures, and doing it all without service interruption (lockstep deployments of all the various moving parts).

So much slow in large organizations. So much.
The model where services do not daemonize and write a pid to a file is ...

... the one that people who moved away from System 5 rc scripts years ago have been pushing for with some degree of success, for years. systemd is not its source at all. systemd has merely been reaping the benefit of all of the programs over the past 18 years that have gained a --no-fork or a --foreground or a -D or a -F or whatever option in response to those who wanted to run services properly without bodging things under daemontools, or runit, or s6, or perp, or freedt, or daemontools-encore ...
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He actually replied to a tweet that brought that up:

"I was young(er) and stupid(er) then.."
And this is exactly the point being missed by much of this discussion.

Protect the db blob with one ridiculously long master password with crazy amount of PKBDF iterations and 2-FA.
You are incorrect. Liquidation preference matters for ANY liquidation valuation less than the fundraising valuation.

Let's say a VC invests $500M into Uber at a $50B valuation (1% equity). If Uber gets acquired for sub-$50B, then the VC gets their $500M back despite their ownership percentage. As an example, if Uber were acquired for $25B, then the VC would get their $500M back rather than the equity value of their shares (1% of $25B => $250M). And if they had 2x liquidation preference, they'd earn $1B on a $25B liquidation.

This downside protection (sale of company for less than valuation at fundraise) is a key term on all priced rounds for this very reason. That's why these terms matter so much.
I dunno, I did. I used the same password everywhere, and then I got a password manager and started generating passwords. Granted, it may have been the case that it was my desire for stronger passwords that drove me to use a password manager, and not vice versa. I honestly don't remember.
That blade cuts both ways: the keepassx archives would be lost in the noise of all the other files on Google Drive/Dropbox/etc. On Lastpass, you know you're getting password archives. To me: advantage KeePass.
This...actually makes a lot of sense given the Dodgers' history. They were one of the first teams to really recognize that a strong farm system was essential to a strong team. Developing a good pool of young talent in sports tech and sports entertainment like this would make sure that the Dodgers are one of the first beneficiaries of products that come out of this accelerator.
Is this in any way legal? I'm almost totally convinced this sort of intrusion and violation of privacy without cause is totally beyond what the police are allowed to do, even with the current trends toward this sort of thing in the U.K.
Bad link given.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28315256/colorado-supreme-...
And the landlord step is further accelerated by the overseas wealthy using sf real estate as a secure bank account compared to their home country and hedge funds buying up stock as an investment step.

NIMBYs then leverage it further by constraining supply.
Your own thoughts and other people's communication do not have the same effect in the context you're describing.

You could agree or disagree with what other people say (or whether it matters), for one, while the unreasonable thoughts and irrational thought patterns associated with depression is part of your own perspective in this case. These negative thoughts are identified by and refuted because of the fact that they are irrational, resulting from erroneous thinking.

Also, your own thoughts and beliefs would cause or motivate your emotions, but the external forces you describe would necessarily have to be interpreted by you (i.e. pass through the lens of your thoughts and beliefs).
It would not be other the other people's criticism that leads to any emotion, but rather your thoughts about it, according to CBT.

Depression (clinical, major depressive disorder) is also something wholly different than feeling angry, sad and ashamed, and is (generally) in fact not a results of bad treatment or other external factors.
Originally TRIM was an un-queued command; all writes had to be flushed, then TRIM executed, then writes could continue. This was bad for performance with automatic on-file-delete trim, so everyone wanted a trim command that could be put in the command queue along with writes. Many new drives have this.

It turns out that Samsung 8XX SSDs advertise they support queued trim but it's buggy. The old TRIM command works fine.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/642

There are in fact lots of "quirks lists" and "blacklists" in the kernel and virtually all computers require some workarounds in the linux kernel for some buggy hardware they have. Pretty amazing when you think about it.

EDIT: another closely related example is macbook pro SSDs and NCQ aka native command queuing. They claim they support it, but on many it's buggy. It gets better though; the linux kernel just starting trying to use such functionality by default relatively recently.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60731

these sort of things are, as you can see, very confusing and frustrating to track down, identify, and find a general fix for

EDIT2: now that I actually read the kernel bugzilla entry further, it's more recently come to light the actual problem with recent macbook pro SSDs is MSI (efficient type of interrupts)
From the bottom of the FAQ page:

>The Accelerator model gives you the opportunity to pitch investors, venture capitalists, influential industry leaders, and R/GA executives and clients at the end of the program during Demo Day. As a benefit of participating in the program, each company will receive $20,000 as well as work space, connections, and deep mentorship in exchange for 6% equity. In addition, companies accepted to the program have the option to accept a $100,000 convertible debt note. This provides even more resources for you to get your ideas off the ground.
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The slide about e-commerce only making up about 6% of total retail sales is only relevant if there are a lot of "unicorns" which are in that market. According to Fortune's Unicorn list there are only 3 unicorns that are retail e-commerce based businesses.
State of the demoscene: 1991 – 2014
Just for an accurate number Uber has ~4bn of liq prefs currently.
No. The author is not getting reloading the daemon's configuration mixed up with reloading systemd's configuration. You, however, are. The systemctl manual page warns about this mistake. See what it says under daemon-reload.
It seems that the author completely disregards the modern tendency to treat boxes as commodities. While pondering a "what's going to start on this particular machine" question is interesting in the "old world", it is hardly a question anyone asks when your fleet starts to be measured in tens of thousands of cloud instances.
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> In practice, there are almost always offerings for employees to liquidate at roughly the same benchmarks that an IPO would have reached.

Can you elaborate a bit here. Specifically this is so vague its almost a useless statement "at roughly the same benchmarks that an IPO"
To my knowledge, states did not hold plebicites. However, their legislatures did vote on the issue. You can read the ordinances of secession passed by the legislatures here: http://www.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp

Note that what is shown are excerpts. click the links to view the full measures passed. Note the ones that include the defense of the institution of slavery as their primary motivation.
Plug for https://oneshallpass.com. Open source. Your site-specific password is an HMAC; the key is your password and the payload is the site you're logging in to. Works perfectly offline. You can optionally store an encrypted list of the sites you use (and parameters like number of symbols) to the server.
Except that I'm not defending the Chinese communists either, nor was my intent to do that. Both are rooted in the cultural value of not valuing individuals like the West does. They are a collectivistic culture, and that behavior is in line with collectivism.
I find it a bit irksome that when discussing command line editors, the dichotomy appears to be be "nano vs vim".

There are other CLI editors. I'm quite partial to ne (the Nice Editor), which has more manageable shortcuts than emacs, a command line (it's still a non-modal editor, to be clear), macros and syntax highlighting.
Also jed is not bad. While vim (and nvim) have advantages, and certainly benefit from being ubiquitous and having ther shortcuts replicated in other programs, users should shop around, even on the command line.
The original question was about the command line. When managing servers it's perfectly accessible to use LATIN1 if one does not expect to deal with UTF-8 data (examining processes, VM states, changing configuration, etc). If that's not the case, one can use UTF-8 or some other encoding for that matter (i.e. I routinely have to deal with non-UTF non-ASCII filenames and text, using UTF-8 won't cut here either).
> A 1X liquidation preference on a $500m investment is only relevant if the price of Uber declines by 98.75%. If it is 2X, then only relevant if price of Uber declines by 97.5%.

No, that's wrong. The investor loses nothing until the value declines to $500 million and then suffers linear losses afterward (i.e. if value is $100M then they lose $500-100=$400M).
Uber has raised almost 6B. It's very unlikely their valuation drops to a few hundred millions as they must still have a few billions cash. However it's not impossible to see it drops to the 10B level or less if the economy tanks or they fail to execute, leaving little to the common shares. If I were an early employee at Uber, I would've been looking for anyway to liquidate my shares :), even if it that means shorting the NASSAQ.
Finally. I've been wanting this for ages.
Note that npm now has scopes http://blog.npmjs.org/post/116936804365/solving-npms-hard-pr...
Better Headline - We've priced young people out of normal areas and they couldn't afford to stay.

tl;dr: Young people have huge college loans and poor job prospects combined with an economy ruined by previous generations. Houses are costing more (as a percent of the average wage) than ever, job security is poor and alot of places will only hire young people either on temporary contracts or at obscenely low wages compared to middle aged workers in the same field. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, technology is one of the only exceptions here.

Slightly different case in Australia, especially in major cities like Sydney, where people like myself will likely never be able to afford a house less than an hours travel from the major places of work (CBDs etc.), if at all.
If you agree it's a problem, I'm not sure why you think it shouldn't be talked about. Your (a) and (b) responses would come from an engineer who is not open to dialog, and I'd say from an engineer I'd prefer not to work with. I would add another option to your set of possible responses: (c) Let me now think harder about whether we really need database sharding and justify why I think it's needed, and allow this further analysis to possibly lead to a revised, simpler design. That's the route that the open-minded, discursive engineer will take.
Tor Browser protects against these sorts of attacks very well. Just don't use Tor with a regular browser. https://twitter.com/torproject/status/610542145305464832
I'm curious, why do you say 'unhirable'? Is there anything specific?