skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advertising networks being the last to use it is something that will make Flash's implosion very quick and sudden, IMO.

If uninstalling flash only causes you to miss out on ads, it makes uninstalling flash that much more attractive. Which makes the advertisers want to get off flash that much sooner.

It needs probably just one or two more use cases to disappear (Facebook video is one of them), and its final death will be quite quick.
I'm not advocating such a system and I agree with the points you make. I don't think a "frontdoor" would be effectively secure against either government abuse or key compromise. Its a bad idea. Not only that but since it is publicly known, such products would have a competitive disadvantage.
So you didn't read the manual or at least the help for the command you were about to use and blame magit for not doing what you expected?

As with many emacs commands you use C-u if you want to specify the refspec to push to.
No. I've done my share of stupid/risky things, but I'm simply not going to work on a side business while actually in the office at my day job.

That said, I used to know someone who did exactly this successfully. However, while he was an engineer, his day job had absolutely nothing to do with software development and gave him lots of free time "at work" when he would just have been bored.
Man... if there was clear market demand for immodesty we at The Awl would be billionaires by now.

One can dream.
This post isn't meant to call out poor judgement in VCs, but rather to encourage all the struggling founders out there who receive these emails on a daily basis.
>There are reasons other than "I disagree with your specific comment" that a person might be downvoted.

Including, but not limited to, "I hate this person so will downvote everything and anything they say."

Which makes you a disagreeable person if enough people hate you enough to downvote anything you say.
People who don't recognise the domain appreciate an informative title so they know whether it's worth a click. That said, one that rules out one point of confusion only helps some people and not all.
It isn't anyone's buisness, it is just interesting to consider.
Running an internal DNS resolver is actually very cheap, almost every broadband CPE device runs or can run its own DNS proxy resolver.

It's also a great source of information when monitoring egress communication, so I would just make sure you know what you're doing.
I now list other people's docker and AMI instances in my README, that should help.
Sorry to hear this but its their loss.
data: I grabbed all 500+ records and counted, by month, those with severity 10 (column 10) and severity >= 7 (column 7). Rows is the # of cve records for that month.

it's not awesome

month rows 10 7
2015-07 35 28 29
2015-06 14 7 7
2015-05 17 10 10
2015-04 22 19 19
2015-03 11 7 9
2015-02 19 19 19
2015-01 12 9 11
2014-12 6 5 5
2014-11 19 16 18
2014-10 3 3 3
2014-09 12 11 12
2014-08 8 7 7
2014-07 3 0 2
2014-06 6 1 3
2014-05 5 0 5
2014-04 4 1 2
2014-03 4 2 2
2014-02 4 3 4
2014-01 2 2 2
[...]

2015 has not been kind to them, but it's been a continuous trickle of remote severity 10s every month for a year and a half

truncated because it took too much space; full results:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/763e28612b74d3a1817a

NB: only months with at least one cve event show up, but given adobe's focus on security, it wasn't really necessary to fill in months with 0 events to get the point across

download each screen full of results from the cve site into a single directory and run this script: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/990bfe126d273ef84134
wtf are you complaining for? You don't like flash and they are removing it.
Personally, I try to merge PRs as often as possible. I aim to keep my open PR count at 0.

If a PR is not quite right (which is often the case), I will clone their fork locally, and edit their commit(s) using git rebase and then merge it.

That way the user is still acknowledged as a contributor on GitHub (and they can see both of our names/profile pictures next to the commit message). Then I make a comment explaining why I edited their commit(s) on the pull request itself or the issue page. That keeps everyone happy and encourages further contribution.

It's not always practical to do this though but it feels natural in many cases.
1) It's not related to the topic.
2) You're using a forum for discussing the topic to force a response from Airbnb regarding an interaction that should only be taking place between you and Airbnb
Well, not exactly. Lack of people of working age has an effect on economics. Reproduction is just one possible way of fixing that problem, not the only.
it is also harder from the CLI to stage granular changes (git add -p helps to a point).
This is a very standard "No" response from a VC. There isn't anything exceptional or strategic about it.
This is some of the European side (European Commissioner for Trade):
http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/malmstrom/team_en

Regularly paid EU-officials. I think they are generally hard-working and well-qualified people.
Why would you think that's costly? A cheap home router can do it with dnsmasq.
In the interest of being more civil and adding to my comment too, I agree with most of what you have said.

I only disagree with the snarky Windows development comment. :) Visual Studio is hands down the best IDE I have ever used. The DirectX API is very nice (just ask any game developer and they'll tell you how much of a pig OpenGL is to work with). I use OSX at work and Windows at home, I much prefer development on Windows.
I did not say partner. He was a YC founder for years prior. He got Airbnb their YC interview. Let's drop this really boring thread ;-P
Ask HN: Would you move to Montana to work on a startup?
Hi. I co-founded an ISP in Helena, Montana that's about to do 1Gbps FTTH and I'd like to see more tech in the area. We're working with a local economic firm who has a building that it would like to see used for economic development purposes...and an incubator seems like a great fit.

So, free Internet and office space in beautiful Montana (which has a low cost of living, BTW). Is this enough to get you to come visit?
Great answer. This also wastes the least amount of your time if they are not serious. It's much better to work on your company than waste time on deals that are all smoke and mirrors.
It's correct that much of the details are secret, but I'd stay it's still more correct to label it as a free-trade agreement than a 'secret deal'.

I think it's insane that negotiations aren't public, and I also disagree with some of the contents being discussed. But I think it's more objectively described as a free-trade agreement (in which there are also a lot of good parts).
Care to share? Always looking for jails management tips.
Last time I checked the name of the game was making more than 100 times the amount invested in less than 5 years - taking risks is a unavoidable side effect.
I have enjoyed the Awl pretty much since its inception, they run a lot of good writing. The ambivalence Sicha and the editors exhibit here about the future and everything else is irksome, though. It's like, figure out what the hell you want to do already. Six years! Oh my goodness! Yes, time passes. Please try not to faint.
Wait -- so you'll invest in a startup blind, regardless of fundamentals, without trying to ballpark its valuation?

Give me an hour to come up with a business plan, and I'll shoot you an e-mail :P
Ask HN: What's your favourite product?
I heard they have some issues with ATMs, perhaps we could look at that.
Upvoted. Try working with them.
One problem is that the current kerfuffle is likely to have the opposite effect: they'll shed "good" users, and keep the douchenozzles... ><
"Antibodies" is my favorite: a story about what might happen when P = NP, with a hard AI singularity.
And that's what passes as serious philosophy these days?
Hence my disclaimer at the top of my post.

However, having been a software engineer at multiple Fortune 500 companies that don't even allow their software engineers local admin rights or relaxed proxy filtering - things that we need to do our jobs - I've had to use this workaround to, well, do my job. Sometimes there's a patch or a workaround for an esoteric bug on someone's private blog that you can't access because it's on a .nl domain and your workplace blocks all .nl domains unless specifically white listed, and it would take you weeks to file and get approved a request to get it white listed.

If you happen to be at a company that doesn't trust you to be on the internet and to administer your own computer, this is one way you can use to access what you need while you look for a better place to be employed. I've found it useful and thought I'd share.
Very glad its useful to you, I'm currently doing lots of development on the project so look out for updates.
The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan
I know you're getting downvoted, but to be totally honest, the first thing I thought of was postgres TOAST tables as well, given the general technical nature of this site.
Schäuble’s plan for Europe
What is the ROI for the company buying you?

If it is website traffic... multiple your monthly new visitors by $1.50 or whatever and given them a reasonable break-even period (12 months)?

If it is a team.... what would they have to pay in recruitment fees?

If it is code... what would it cost to build it?

For another small business that is bootstrapped, this is the only way they can think of it.

You get a bit of a negotiation advantage if you can identify what matters to them most and use that as the metric. You can start amplifying how much of a difference you really can make for them.
You can say the same thing about radium tonics.
Bitcoinfographics.com – infographics about Bitcoin
Product discovery questions to ask potential customers
I don't think discovery on Reddit itself matters to users. Google "mechanical keyboards" and the second link is r/mechanicalkeyboards. Good enough. And the sidebars generally provide curated, related subreddit links. Unless you want reddit to be your total, all-consuming news stream, but most users already have other, better sources for that.

The actual problem with Reddit is described very neatly here: <http://gawker.com/so-long-reddit-1717315112>.

Why it won't be fixed is described neatly here: <http://www.chuqui.com/2015/07/the-death-of-reddit/>.
How we did it: L.A. pedestrian accidents analysis
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
This is offtopic and, I freely admit, overly cynical. However...

People in general are selfish; the core Reddit demographic (males 18-29) is certainly no exception.

One of the paradoxes of Reddit is that the site can appear so monolithically left liberal, yet at the same time so militantly libertarian. Few politicians seem to engender such strong positive feelings as Ron Paul and Elizabeth Warren, often at the same time and from the same people.

The answer is that if Reddit has a vibe it's "freedom for me", closely followed by "fuck you, I've got mine". Redditor's don't like being censored, and they don't like content they like (mostly celebrity nudes) being censored. They don't like taxes that they might have to pay, and they don't like social programs for the poor, but they love taxes on the rich or spending on the middle class (and, especially, spending on student loans). They're anti-cop when the perceived victim looks like them, but pro-cop when it doesn't. They're very much pro-pot, and pro-civil-liberties if it involves their email being read, but otherwise they don't much care. The NSA reading their email is a true outrage and morally indefensible; the CIA torturing swarthy foreigners is a big yawn.

It's fair to call Reddit anti-authoritarian, but it's the anti-authoritarianism of someone in a dorm room bitching that the dorm monitor asked them to turn their stereo down. What there isn't, in my experience, is any deep reservoir of principle. The median Redditor will write outraged screeds about free speech if you suggest that the site shouldn't play host to links to celebrity nudes, or if you move to ban a subreddit they personally participate in. They might even follow along on a popular bandwagon (eg, making snide remarks about "Chairman Pao") even if they couldn't articulate why, exactly, Pao was meant to be bad.

So yes, cops shooting a pot dealer gets Reddit's attention (although I will note that as of right now, the top comment is critiquing the writing of the article, and the second-top-top comment is blaming the victim, and yes I do think that is in part because the victim is black, and thus harder for the average Redditor to empathise with). Youtube bullying an app author, or employers snooping on employees are also obvious examples of the stuff Reddit care about (ie, "bad stuff happening to people like me"). What I haven't seen is significant numbers of people who care about eg, free speech qua a universal human right.

(And thus ends my probably overly cynical digression.)
Bingo. There's no way these guys can truly believe that e.g., forcing Apple to decrypt iPhones on demand is going to put a big dent in terrorism. I guess they are a) hoping to get an upper hand on a few small-time/unsophisticated criminals and don't mind stretching the truth to sell it to the public, or b) they view this as the first of many long-term steps in killing encryption/privacy in the US altogether, or c) they plan to deploy this much more widely than they are letting on, possibly even internationally through things like trade agreements (in which case it could actually be useful for counter-terrorism.)
Greece's problems are not IT but political and cultural. They want things from the government but don't want to pay taxes. The Greek populace should have it figured out by now that when a politician promises no taxes and retirement age of 51, some one has to pay for it.
What language is AutoCAD written in? And what percentage of successful products and projects use LISP? That's what I mean. It's the status quo of where LISP is in the marketplace. It's you that have to provide dozens to thousands of counterexampes to even illustrate a trend. They're not there.

Whereas companies adopting PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, and so on have no time finding help, libraries, or customers. Because they're mainstream and attract such people. See the difference now?
That's at least some of the reason Smalltalk is useful. It's also probably the main reason Smalltalk has never taken off.
How about making police raid homes and forcefully uninstall Flash Player?
Ah, I was under the impression that they've officially moved it out of the 'beta' naming
Swift Algebraic Data Types
A compendium of glib HN statements. Gold.

> There are a lot of talented coders on HackerNews who could built any app currently on the market in a weekend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect right? That person clearly doesn't build much.
In essence there are not critical US systems running on Flash and so the defensive side of NSA don't care. And the offensive side is just happy to let it rot, as that means more opportunities for them.
You can't get a decent low mileage car for $6800. You also cannot reliably identify a well-maintained car. You can get an Accord or Camry with 150k miles or a Scion with a bit under 100k.

I bought my car for less than $5k, but I don't drive much and don't need to worry about occasional $1000 on repairs. For someone who needs reliability, buying a new, but extremely minimal $7000 car may be ideal.

If you want something you don't need to set aside money for repair on, you'll need to spend $10k+.
No, not "at the same rate". I wish people would stop linking Paul Graham posts as if they're gospel. In the very real world of running an engineering team, network effects matter, and only in 2015 is there a Lisp (and I don't say this as a "hater" or any of the other easy ways to dismiss someone, I like Lisp and my first collegiate language was Scheme and I've used GNU Guile in multiple projects) that can approach the same value prop as Java when those network effects, the ability to just raise your head and find a sufficient solution to almost any problem that isn't business critical and many problems that are, are taken into account.

That Lisp is written for the virtual machine originally written for Java.
Because then you end up with millions of programmer-individual languages built using a meta-language.
Presumably, whatever would be permitted under "fair use" in a standard copyrighted work can't be forbidden by using CC.
Rising Economic Insecurity Tied to Decades-Long Trend in Employment Practices
For algorithmic trading, speed is life.
Totally - see my comment at the bottom of this thread.
TTIP Visas: “ reach full visa-reciprocity between EU and the US”
Yeah, I'm surprised the developer hasn't been fending off Facebook yet.
i get that this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, and appreciate your sense of humor, but it also saddens/frightens me to think this could become the prevailing sentiment in the years to come.

i grew up believing the internet was a great equalizer, capable of providing opportunity to people from across the globe, irrespective of nationality, race, creed, etc.

but now i fear the actions of certain nation states could produce -- for lack of a better term -- a fervent "digital xenophobia" that causes people to delineate and enforce boundaries on the net mirroring real world geopolitical borders maintained by a powerful minority.

that's not the kind of future i'd like to see.

for example, might people one day need a digital passport to send and receive data internationally? and might those data be subject to customs inspection before/after receipt?

today these may seem like parts of a cyberpunk b-movie plot, but it's not inconceivable that legislators would push for similar measures in the future if, for example, "national security interests" hung in the balance and they had the power to push such measures through.
I was tinkering with DNS tunneling for free mobile internet, and found that TCP port 53 was apparently unfettered. (Other traffic I tried was firewalled, and HTTP was captured and redirected to a page prompting to buy a data plan.) I guess the intention was for DNS over TCP, but I was able to ssh over that port and got decent speeds and no apparent tampering of the traffic.
There are also a few short stories on tor.com based on Charlie's "Laundry" series: http://www.tor.com/2008/07/20/down-on-the-farm/ ; http://www.tor.com/2009/12/22/overtime/ ; http://www.tor.com/2013/09/24/equoid/ .
The ethics of a search engine
This comment, to say the least, contains gross generalizations and stereotypes. Talking about what "Greece's problems" are, that "they want things from the government but don't want to pay taxes" and the "Greek populace should have figured out by now"...
And another song, also from 1979 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm00l5N8Jao

I Love You Miss Robot,
Electronic tease...
programmed just to please. etc.
You know, I originally had a hard answer and edited it away because I think OP is ambiguous.

>for $150,000 you could have bought 10% of Airbnb.

Does that mean for $150K I can buy as many shares as constitute 10% of the current outstanding number? Or that after I pay $150K, I will own 10%?

Since new shares are issued, in the former case I end up with 9.0909...% (1/11th) of the company. That gives us a post-money valuation of... $1.65M! (and $1.5M pre-money) But in the more probable reading of the phrase, I own 10% of the post-money $1.5M company, giving us $1.35M pre-money.

So, your choice. Someone more in the VC loop might be able to say that the phrasing definitely means one or the other; I've just got the math.
That thing belongs in a Neal Stephenson novel.
> Next time you have an idea and it gets rejected, I want you to think of this email.

The winner of a lottery could go around telling people not give up buying lottery tickets...
Yep, pretty much every relevant state (representing nearly the entire US population) will require you to have a motorcycle license, and to wear a helmet. That's why Elio has been vaporware for nearly a decade and why they are trying to take their investor scam mainstream. They will never get to production.
Based on ExpiredLink's comment elsewhere in this thread, it doesn't seem like the deal is secret at all? Here's the EU page on it: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230
Probably would be more efficient to write code for projects you know are valuable, and donate some of your returns to Greece.

They may need code, but may need raw materials more, so would probably appreciate something more fungible, let them prioritize.

Or you could save up for a Greek holiday. The thing they really need is tourists (and people buying Greek goods):

http://philhellenes.org/how-to-help-greece/

Some Greek charities below, no idea which are most reputable though:

http://projecthopeforgreece.com/

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-a-child/europ...

http://www.hellenic-hope.org/

http://hellenicleaders.com/blog/help-greece-now-the-power-of...

http://www.praksis.gr/en/about-praksis

http://mdmgreece.gr/en/our-mission/

http://desmos.org/who-we-are/?lang=en

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-crowdfund#/story
Speaking of which, Estonia recently implemented a "no legacy" directive [1], under which all government systems will be rewritten from scratch at least every thirteen years. They are taking the stance that a good implementation will last around a decade, not less, but also not much more.

[1]: http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/taavi-kotka-is-putting-the-e...
From this page:

> The European Commission is negotiating TTIP as openly as possible.

> A final agreement would have 24 chapters, grouped together in 3 parts:

> - Market access

> - Regulatory cooperation

> - Rules

> And as part of our latest transparency initiative, we're publishing:

> - new 2-page factsheets, in plain language

> - negotiating texts we've given US negotiators:

> - - EU textual proposals on parts 2 and 3 of the TTIP – these set out how we'd want a final deal to read, line by line

> - - EU position papers – what we want to achieve in a chapter.

> We will publish further texts as they become available.

> We will make the whole text of the agreement public once negotiations have been concluded – well in advance of its signature and ratification.

Sure seems like they're trying to open this up... wonder what the leak is about then?
Ask HN: Is Google or Facebook turing complete?
Or perhaps a better question would be something along the lines of - is social graph or page rank turing complete?
Airbnb is an example of a company that is nothing more than just a brand, because anybody can build a booking website in a matter of a few weeks.

So, this is just gambling. I'm not sure of what interest that would be here, but that is of course a personal opinion.
I some parts are still held secret; this is only the EU-side, I think the US are still keeping their citizens in the dark; and EU only started publishing some details after heavy criticism, it should have been transparent from the beginning.
The title is intentional. I dare say it is designed to stir things up and get you to read the article. Did you read it?
Web filters doing deep inspection on the HTTPS traffic should catch this I believe - using a fake cert to decrypt the HTTPS.
I have a client who needs a booking website built in NYC. Competitor to Airbnb, targeting high-end rentals.
I've put up with depression for around 15 years. I wish I'd taken myself more seriously earlier and seen a doctor. It's an illness, there is not always a clear cause.

Atypical depression is characterised by mood reactivity and is the most common form of depression (40%).

See a doctor, get some therapy for the bad thoughts that you've internalised when you were depressed, and get a prescription.

Life can be great.
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