skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$20 Android PC on Kickstarter – Remix Mini
It's not a bad suggestion, but I'd keep Mercado Pago in the title as well. Mercado Libre/Pago is huge here in Latin America, and I wouldn't have read this post otherwise.
People where mad at her because she obviously is a scammer, along with her husband.

Her rap sheet and her actions were the things that brought her animosity from the users. I do not support the view that it was because reddit users obviously hate women, all women and since Pao is a woman, they must hate her too.

I think that position is inane.
Algolia search API is now available in 13 regions / 25 datacenters
No mention of the 'stress test' that's brought the network to its knees the past few days, or of the soft fork that resulted in suggestions to wait for 30+ confirmations? Puff piece.

C'mon Coinbase, at least spin them into a '<X> is actually good for Bitcoin, because <Y>' format.
A while back I did some fooling around with eCos, and wanted to add a floppy driver. I looked at the Linux one, some from BSD, but settled on the Minix code: it was a lot simpler and easier to understand. I'm sure it was less efficient, and handled far fewer weird corner cases, but it was just a matter of a day or two of hacking to port it to eCos.

It really depends on your goals - if you just want to learn, then Minix is pretty good.
Intro to Kafka: “git branch” for production streams
removed unnecessary unwanted nonsense would, then, compress to 0 bytes...good for all.
Nir Eyal Reveals Formula for Creating World-Class, Addicting Products
I don't, actually, because I don't really care.

The GPL has held back open source and left the door wide open for Apple and Microsoft to push a locked-down cloud future in which general purpose computing has been or is in the process of being destroyed for 99% of the population.

It's a stupid license that grew out of naive politics, and has done nothing more than made the world suck more; quibbles over pointless GPL licensing minutia are a waste of resources and fail to inspire in me a dramatic response.
Excel as a back end sound like a terrible idea to me. Any reason why?
Are there any decent postmortems of Hurd? Not to imply that it's dead. In retrospect, what was a good idea, what was a bad idea, and what are the main architectural weaknesses of the kernel as it stands today?
As a person who grew up in a place where discrimination based on gender/age/race was not really a thing, this strikes me as insane! This really does feel like discrimination, just in the opposite direction.

Is it some sort of a conspiracy here to not discuss this that I am not aware of? Or is discrimination towards some OK but not towards others?
If you want to toss some bucks my way on a whim, and/or I want to toss some labor your way out of the goodness of my heart, no one objects.

It's when you draw up an employment contract and expect the government to enforce it that, well, the government begins to consider what kinds of contracts it will lend its enforcement to.
I'd warn against working on obscure operating systems and kernels unless you were independently wealthy so that this could truly be a hobby. You may invest years of your life into an OS, only to find the job market virtually non-existent. It's possible to switch kernels later in your career (and having worked on another kernel provides valuable perspective), but good luck convincing employers of that (some get it, but they are harder to find).

There are plenty of jobs for Linux and FreeBSD, and I find both kernels very interesting. As for architectural interest, I can see a case being made for Plan 9 or unikernels, but most other kernels are pretty similar.
Has it occurred to you that if your device is full of side channels, anyone can use those side channels?

How can you create a legitimate-government-only side channel? You could do it by basing all encryption off a master key that only the legitimate government controls. However, there's no way for a legitimate government to force everyone to only communicate with the master key.

Any other side channel is going to be exploitable by non-legitimate-government's in some way.
Maybe it's not as troubling if it needs to be searched for. But it doesn't need to be searched for. It's everywhere on the defaults, that's the troubling part. You don't have to go to a specifically racist subreddit to see racism. You don't have to go to a specifically woman-hating subreddit to see misogyny.

I'm saying that it is everywhere. Not "I could find some hatred in some submissions", but "I could find hatred in any submission".
In my language, there isn't No, there is only "YES" and "MAYBE".
I would love to hear what company you think someone would want to work for that absolutely excludes anyone without a college degree?
Anecdotal exceptions aren't proof of universal truth.
See [1].

[1] http://www.quora.com/Why-did-tribe.net-%28Mark-Pincus%29-not...
I am really excited about our new feature that makes forms much more secure using public/private key encryption.

Here is how it works:

1. You give us your public key (or we can generate public/private keys for you on your browser using JavaScript)

2. Before someone submits a form we encrypt the data

3. The data is saved encrypted in our database

4. When you see your data, you provide your private key which is used on the browser to decrypt the data. (the private key is never sent to our servers)
I've seen Ghostery mentioned for years and your comment encouraged me to try it out again. Thanks.

Also completely agree. I find myself wanting the internet back from before all injecting all this JS became popular. I know that's going to make many JS guys pissy, but it's true.

I'd rather see people just rely on simplicity and HTML. The web should be about hyperlinked document sharing and simple data/storage retrieval frontends like github and email. That was the original use-case and shoehorning in more today is clearly just pissing people off.

Going too far beyond this with flashy designs kill usability, speed and productivity. I'm frequently having to cut down Google's attempts at messing up my Gmail with constant new JS features.
I'd probably prefer just HTML Gmail too (https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h) if they'd just do a little touch up work on it such as the ability add contacts. It's not missing much but is so performant and just what I need.

My general rule is if you can achieve what you need with just HTML, then stop there. That would probably be fine for 90% of the sites out there like my email and HN.
I don't agree that the caliber of conversation is higher here. It's more directed since HN has a single topic, but I've never had someone completely change the way I think about a topic the way I have at reddit.

The amazing part about reddit is the sheer spectrum of people you meet. For you that's obviously not interest, but for me, I'd much rather have that experience than what HN gives me.

But I also don't choose, I simply experience both, which is the answer to your original question.

It's also the answer to Hubski's complaints about reddit. I like being able to have a deep conversation with someone about software dev, laugh at a cat pic, and learn something new about a subject I know little about, all in the span of a few hours.

HN will never give that sort of experience.
When that logic is run in the other direction, the courts smack it down. "We weren't discriminating against race, we just happened to use $CRITERION that effectively discriminated against race." Does it really change its force if it's discriminating "for"?

Utter strawman. The pool of applicants for any given job is largely a function of the people who've already been hired. This startup is providing a tool for counteracting that selection bias. It isn't "discrimination" to strive for the broadest possible pool of qualified candidates.
Yeah, email's a bit more complicated than twitter. I think for the time being, you want to just encrypt to a file and attach that. Maybe there's a standard (PGP mail?) that keybase could output to a file, but that doesn't tend to play well with the GUI mail clients that people typically use.
> I know I need to get out in front of my management team before they make a deal I'll walk away from

I don't think so. Whether you walk away from the deal is not their problem; it's the acquirer's problem. The founders can't write a sale contract that promises that you will do X, Y, and Z; all they can sell the acquirer is the company's assets.

It's with the acquirer that you will have some negotiating leverage. If they're smart, they'll bend over backwards to make you happy. Alas, not all acquirers are smart; but if they're not, that's their problem, not yours, and not your founders'.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9890188
Sorry, yes, I wasn't clear. I've been a natural lucid dreamer for 25 years now, to the point that I can't even remember the last time I had the "recognition" that I was dreaming... for me I long since just know, pretty much all the time. I'll cop I wasn't deliberately trying to exercise, but I doubt it'll matter.

Besides, this sounds like the sort of thing you can already do in your down time, riding the bus, sitting at your desk, etc. Regardless of how "lucid" you are, counting on getting anything like this done in your sleep is a crapshoot compared to setting an alarm on your phone and doing it during the day.

If indeed it works that well, which I'm still skeptical about. Common sense suggests that if it were this easy we'd have collectively discovered this as a race a long time ago. (Kinda like Larry Niven's arguments about why humans almost certainly don't have psi powers... if they worked, we'd know. The very fact we're "wondering" is strong evidence that there's nothing there, or the effect is so small as to be useless and essentially undetectable.)
That's fair. When did Keybase start? They seemed to be much further along than hobby, unless they just started working full-time (and with $10million!).
Perhaps a bit extreme, but the underlying point is applicable here.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Fair enough--the article wasn't a great one, and I only chose this link because I felt awkward submitting an actual reddit comment.

The main thing I thought was salient new information was Yishan revealing that the board wanted to ban the hate groups but Pao was the only one holding them back, which absolutely contradicts the earlier myth that Pao wanted to get rid of all the hate groups.
One thing that many people may not realize is that DARPA doesn't award grants, it awards contracts. You're obligated to achieve your deliverables, in contrast with NSF/NIH/etc where you might discover something new and follow a different path than you anticipated in your grant proposal. This is not a bad thing, but something to be aware of.

Second, the reporting periods are much shorter. You'll have a call with your DARPA PM every two weeks. This is for DARPA to provide any assistance they can to address roadblocks and move forward, but it does keep the pace relentless.

I also find DARPA projects to be the most ambitious and interesting projects I've worked on so far. Much less risk averse and highly imaginative.
Darkode hacking forum forced offline
How to Optimize Your Mongo Database for Meteor.js
HOLY HELL:
The website, LITERALLY, says:

At this time,
our platform is only open to individuals who identify as Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American.

I wonder if I could sue because I am now being discriminated against?

Funnier yet, they make you pick gender between "male" and "female"....no other options...

And further... The birth year selection box only goes down to 1950, so nobody over a certain age either...

Very diverse, guys....
I'm working on a single page wiki that uses a notecard metaphor: https://github.com/monknomo/CardWiki

I'm also working on a bunch of batch scripts to manage installing and switching between different versions of python in windows, as well as virtual environment management: https://github.com/monknomo/pywin

I need a new name for that one, because something else is already called pywin...

I have most of a game from a game jam; I just need to add fun. Manage a crop of potatoes: https://github.com/monknomo/POTATO_MANAGEMENT_SYSTEM
I'm a bit surprised that they have code like this:

if (msec > 0 && (
# ifdef FEAT_XCLIPBOARD
xterm_Shell != (Widget)0
# if defined(USE_XSMP) || defined(FEAT_MZSCHEME)
||
# endif
# endif
# ifdef USE_XSMP
xsmp_icefd != -1
# ifdef FEAT_MZSCHEME
||
# endif
# endif
# ifdef FEAT_MZSCHEME
(mzthreads_allowed() && p_mzq > 0)
# endif
))

When they could have written:

if (msec > 0 && (
# ifdef FEAT_XCLIPBOARD
xterm_Shell != (Widget)0 ||
# endif
# ifdef USE_XSMP
xsmp_icefd != -1 ||
# endif
# ifdef FEAT_MZSCHEME
(mzthreads_allowed() && p_mzq > 0) ||
# endif
0))

Perhaps they were targeting compilers so primitive that they could not optimize out a "|| 0".

(edited to hide my shame)
"... it's just that there's some sort of psychological effect ..." For me it feels like a bait-n-switch.
They are not threatened by a ban on /r/fatpeoplehate, but they are absolutely threatened by a vaguely policy for banning things that are deemed offensive or inappropriate.
> we're specifically focused on the collegiate and post-collegiate employment puzzle. This is simply a reflection of our initial target market and the immediate hiring interests/needs of our partner companies.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you're excluding candidates without a degree, your solution isn't a solution at all.

Stripping candidates names from resumes would accomplish the goal you're attempting to solve without creating the massive blindspot of candidates without a degree.
I've updated the post title with your suggestions. Thanks!
I've been through two acquisitions of small startups. Not sure if they would count as an acquihire but it was a technology/team transfer.

> what's the shortest transition-the-product-to-new-ownership period I can reasonably look for?

Not sure what you're asking. The day after the sale closes everything will change. You may get some time off I guess. How long will it take you to move your stuff to the new office location?

> Is there typically any short-term payout for acquired employees or will everything be in salary and slow-vesting options?

Yes there is typically a short term payout for key employees. both of the acquisitions I was involved in resulted in a large bonus up front but the majority of the total value is usually vested over time. In both instances, if I left before a year was out, I would have to payback the initial bonus.

> what's the likelihood I'd be allowed to remain in charge of my product vs having to execute on someone else's vision?

You will have technical ownership but you will have to execute someone else's vision. No doubts about this. It's what sucks about being acquired.

> When, if ever, is it appropriate for me to ask to be included in negotiations with acquirers?

Never, unless you are considered a partner/founder in the company. If you are considered an employee, then it's appropriate to negotiate your individual transition to the new company. That being said, don't underestimate your value to the acquirer. Product acquisitions are usually contingent on key employees agreeing to transfer to the new company. Therefore, don't accept their initial offer. You have leverage. The first acquisition I was involved in, the owner of the company agreed to transfer some of his proceeds of the sale to bonuses to employees so he could reach the tipping point with the number of employees that agreed to go to the new company. Don't overestimate it either (i.e. don't try and block the deal).
The discussion is not over whether to ban only /r/coontown.
That was a really impressive find!

Armed with this, I took interest in your response and checked out the math.

Interestingly, this device seems to produce the pressure!

Using their specifications of the piezoelectric pump on the page you sent.

Piezoelectric pump produces 1.5kPa. This converts to 15.3 cm WC (centimeters of water column) or cmH2O. 4-20 cmH2O is the range of a cpap!!

But, the airflow needed at that pressure is a critical issue as long as you want to breathe freely. The piezoelectric pump produces 0.8 liters per minute.

At http://www.sleepdex.org/cpap.htm it says a cpap produces 20 to 60 liters of air per minute (lpm).

To reach the lowest end you need 20 lpm. Calculate 20 / .8 = 25

So you need 25 of these piezoelectric pumps to reach the lowest possible; 75 of them to reach the high end. This is literally almost an order of magnitude.

And in case you thought so; piezoelectrics can't scale. They are very limited in size, by the physics of the vibrations.

So still not even close. It would require a quantum leap in technology over what we have available.
This is a classic case of why legacy code is a nightmare to maintain. It's the OpenSSL situation all over again, and one can definitely see the appeal of going through there and ripping out all of the functionality that nobody uses anymore just to make maintenance less of a nightmare. Luckily vim doesn't run suid root on any sane system, so all of this legacy cruft is not as huge of a threat surface on the machine.
1. You can set up multiple Keybase accounts if this is an issue for you. It doesn't seem like that much of a problem.

2. Most people do put enough personally identifiable information on their social media accounts. If you don't want to, that's fine, but you'll have to find some other way to identify yourself to people who you want to use your public key.

3. You can have Keybase manage it for you, if you want. Yes, of course there are problems with this, but it provides a reasonable compromise, especially if your threat model isn't a government entity (in which case, you're likely screwed anyway).

The truth is, most people have trouble working with more than one email account. Adding multiple sets of keys on top of it isn't going to make anything easier. At least with Keybase, I could get someone who isn't all that aware of security measures set up with public key encryption in a way they have a chance at using.

There's ideal, and there's better. Unfortunately, ideal has proven to be too onerous for people to use, but we can work on better.
I'd be interested in how the GPL has held back open source and what license would be better. Haven't the licenses like BSD/MIT just made it easier to take open source code and lock it down?
A Glimpse into the Future of Web Development Tools
That makes it right then? What about the number of people killed since that time? And the complete destabilization and polarization of the region due to what happened?
Thanks for your answer. The main goal on my case is to use the email address as an identity (since it's currently the closest thing I have for this) and not to send encrypted PGP email messages. That's why I never really understood keybase. You can encrypt with a twitter id but not send a encrypted tweet with GPG anyway, so why can't you encrypt by email ? I assumed the most basic form of identity is an email address. Thanks again for your answer.
I look forward to the day that the tech industry realizes not everyone is on (or can get access to) an unlimited broadband connection.

The modern ad-filled web is devistating if you're not on broadband. A site like iMore (I think Gruber was too kind—I find the content to be regurgitated dreck) is unbrowsable for someone like my parents on a satellite internet connection: takes way too long to load, and costs quite a bit of money to view. They're not even rural, just a little too far for DSL, and the cable franchise agreement isn't required to cover them. I understand that content creators have bills to pay, but you're shooting yourselves in the foot re your available viewership when you take it to the extreme of iMore. It's easy to pick on iMore, but it's the same story for many other websites.
I guess that might be something to worry about if it starts to happen. But I think it's a pretty poor argument to say "well if they ban racism, what's next?"
Google Wants to Make Your Cell Phone’s Screen Disappear
I agree with your statement. I think the clamoring for entitlements and awareness is driven by veterans advocacy groups, not the veteran community as a whole. In my opinion, it's a reaction to the neglect and apathy that veterans of previous wars experienced, most recently the Vietnam War. (If you want to be depressed, read about the maltreatment of WW1 vets in the US.) The veterans groups fight for entitlements because they believe they are subject to revocation as soon as awareness drops.

Through the lens of being a veteran, I find most of it to be overblown, though in the case of the author I think it's perhaps somewhat justified. However, he should admit that his issues aren't systemic; they're personal. His issues are 99% due to psychological issues from his combat service, not a tech-industry imposed Jim Crow Era (the Driving Miss Daisy comment in the article).

I don't think I'd ever comment on a CIB on display, it seems about as appropriate as the proverbial ignorant question, "Did you kill anybody?"

A good half of my friends who returned from combat had significant difficulty fitting into normal American life, and experienced psychological and relationship issues. I wish veterans groups would focus their rhetoric on that specific problem. Pay for servicemembers has increased far beyond parity with civilian jobs for the vast majority of occupational specialties, the Post-9/11 GI Bill truly solves the post-service employment training issue, and the stigma of being a veteran is essentially nonexistent. The hard problem that needs to be focused on is the significant therapy and rehabilitation need for the minority of veterans who actually were in combat.

What gets me is that he's whining about his raw deal as a veteran (pysch issues aside, is nonexistent), but he fails to accept responsibility for his life choices of 1) graduating (for free) with what I presume is a creative writing degree and failing to take internships, 2) failing to live in an affordable city (what's wrong with living in Oakland or Union City and driving over the Bay Bridge?), and 3) lamenting his lack of money as he wastes it at the bar (presumably in SoMa, and expensive).

The reason for the above is not because he's intentionally avoiding reality, it's because veterans often self-segregate in veterans groups. He lives in the TL because that's where his veterans organization operates (originally for Vietnam War vets with a more dire situation than his). Hopefully now that his Vice article has gotten him some more exposure, he'll have more interaction with non-vets and gain some perspective.
Using the cloud to make machines that soar through the clouds? Brilliant!
Partners Don't Let Partners Write RFPs – Aerie Consulting Blog
This discussion is not about reddit announcing to more strictly moderate the default subbreddits. I think they would be wise to do that, and I would have very little problem with it (especially personally, since I don't subscribe to hardly any of the defaults).
Does this have a noticeable performance impact for a typical vim end user, using it in an interactive file editing workflow? On any modern hardware?

I suppose there may be some negative performance impact if we need to use it for an automated/batch workflow (I can't think of many where something like 'sed' won't be better suited).
In cities and states across the U.S., it's the hotel industry versus Airbnb
No, it is an arbitrary decision and much like the race decision is not fully baked. This decision would rule out many Hackers including, at one time, Zuck, Gates, etc. I can see you have little domain knowledge/experience and are too comfortable in the HR space. I look forward to reading about future lawsuits.