skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would you filter out teams or applicants who just pay lip service to this idea?

What you're describing is the elusive "Match.com" for job-seekers and employers. There are several players out there working on this idea now.

You might think one could determine a solid match based on shared personality profiles of both job-seekers & employers. But that gets impossibly complicated when dealing with large global matrix organizations. The company profile is based on the combined make-up of multiple personalities and influencers. Worse still, any growth-mind set platform is ruined once touched by HR flunkies with limited clue as to what you do or what the hiring executive needs.

The best filter remains 1:1 dialogue, a conversation between the job-seeker and the hiring executive. Each party probing for how the other thinks. Do they share the learn-and-help-others-learn framework? What are their goals, how do they stay on track? Can you help one another up your game?
Yes. I don't think that the YC brand or any VCs would have helped them to attract customers. The VCs are well too far as a marketing environment compare to the kind of people who could use their platform. If it's a company like docker then yes: the VCs, tech guys, and companies using it are all connected and know each other. Their mutual respect and actions create their own brand so it works. But here people renting their apartment not so much, even more cities outside the Valley. They can be in the energy industry, banking industry, manufacturing... so with no particular interest in the tech world or VCs/startup world.

The biggest challenge for them was to find people willing to use their platform to rent their apartment to strangers.
> And this is why Chrome's policy of updating automatically and completely silently is the right thing to do

Not everyone is hooked up to unlimited broadband 24/7. To anyone who is frequently jumping between capped satellite & 3G/4G networks, silent auto-updating software not only unexpectedly slows down your already non-ideal connection, but also eats up lots of your capped data.

Lots of services tend to forget about the users who aren't hooked up to broadband 100% of the time.
Crowd-Sourcing the Treaty Verification Problem
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It depends on how the YC pro rata rights are documented. It's entirely possible that their pro rata right will be completely independent of any later pro rata right for major investors (i.e., the major Series A investors might get their pro rata rights in addition to the continuing YC pro rata).

That blog post is helpful but not the best source of info. For one, it confuses preemptive rights (right to buy a % of future financing) with first refusal rights (right to buy shares from other current stockholders who try to sell). And second, it's rather one-sided. Companies understandably want to limit these rights to only big investors for a number of reasons but especially because (1) it really can be expensive/time consuming to continually contact or chase down signatures from an investor base that eventually might include dozens of people/entities, (2) it can make it really hard to convince new investors that the investment will be worthwhile when there are pro rata rights to buy up a huge chunk of the round and (3) there's a major signalling problem when the prior angels have these rights but choose not to use them (the author mentions that he always demands these rights but doesn't always use them, which can scare off other investors and, what's worse, many angels will decline for innocuous reasons such as a seed-stage only investor who never does follow-ons or a smaller angel who is priced out by a high valuation).
I'm sorry, my tone was not intended as "what are you even talking about!?!". My tone is intended to convey that security penetration skills have become scarily good and "is it theoretical?" is almost no longer a question worth asking, because the skills, techniques, and tools to take what superficially seems to be a hairline crack into full-blown network ownership are unbelievably well developed.

As I said, I am on the defense side myself, and I will freely admit I can get a bit tetchy when doubt of the viability of a vulnerability occurs; I frequently find myself in the position of being a "team captain" trying to explain that, no, seriously y'all, the other team is coming to play, they've been working out, they take illegal steroids, they practice six days a week, they don't play by the rules and they're coming for our scalps and you're on your third beer telling each other how easy this is going to be... it's not exactly game-winning prep you're doing here....
> The bad news is that I have over 1TB of photos and the next pricing tier after 1TB ($9.99/mo) is 10TB and that costs a whopping $99.99 per month. So I use Google Photos with the free compressed setting. I don't actually mind since I have my own file backup solution and I use it more for that added layer of intelligence, convenience and utility.

I've tried doing as suggested here, but here's the problem: if it's too expensive to store your RAW images on the cloud (which it is for most people), then your cloud photo library is really just a proxy of your library. That's not to say it isn't useful, but unless it's synchronized both ways with the original files, you're just asking for disorganization - from my experience anyway. You have to be careful and basically only touch the originals to let changes propagate one-way to the cloud proxy.

If it isn't hosting your RAW files, then it doesn't fill the role of a backup, and if your edits or tagging on the cloud aren't applied back to your originals, then any time/effort you put into organizing and editing your library on the cloud is somewhat wasted.

To be honest, I do use Apple Photo Streams for something similar - but I just treat it as a convenience for low-quality output/viewing of recent photos, mostly from my phone. Even then, the Photo Stream part is still a mess. My main library resides on a NAS (as in the article), is backed up to 2 low-cost cloud backup providers (still much cheaper than hosting a single RAW copy on Google Photos), and I use Lightroom for all actual editing and tagging since it applies to the authoritative library.

My point is - I too look forward to the day where at least one copy of my full library can be hosted on something like Google Photos in the cloud, but we're still a ways off from that being practical. Google Photos can be a convenience in some ways, but at current prices it really doesn't fit what I'm looking for.
Great article, I've had a similar setup for years now.

An 8 year old readynas that's still running, it's really slow but it works.
I do a sync with that and a local desktop with a big external drive.
And then I back up that local desktop to crashplan.

I have a comment about the drives, I generally like purchasing different manufacturer drives for my NAS when I'm buying them in bulk. I always worry about multiple drives from the same batch failing around the same time. It's happened to me before so now I'll buy similar capacity drives but from different models or mfrs.
How Facebook Open Sources at Scale [video]
You don't have to figure out a 1400-ly trip to be here. You just ("just") need to be able to move from one star system to the next.

If they took 100 years to get to the next star system 5-ly away and then 500 years to populate that system enough to start a new colonization, that's just ("just") 168,000 years to be here. Given a 2 billion year head start, that's easy.
I always take a few shots & similar
compositions of the same thing to
make sure that at least one shot is
super in focus.

I get it, I do the same thing when I shoot digital. I'm just recommending that those photos never make it past the Previous Import section in Lightroom. If you're aiming for tack-sharp focus, it should be quite straightforward to do a very quick culling then. Also, please say hi to Chris Burrows for me; I haven't seen him since we worked on Visual Studio together about a million years ago :)
There is always new stuff and C# is going to still be much faster than say a python or ruby so just like go replaces a lot of stuff written in those languages it wouldn't be crazy to see C# used as well.

The ship hasn't sailed, but when they get to the ship it better be good enough.
I just migrated from working directly on the IBM Mainframe in COBOL (gasp) to my true love of .Net and JS (yep, both of them) within the same company. I have been on a number of greenfield projects with IBM and quite frankly, my opinion of them differs based on the area of the company you are dealing with. For instance, I love dealing with the CI guys at Urbancode Deploy, whereas getting similar information from their Rational counterparts (Rational Team Concert) was like pulling teeth. Pretty much every experience I had with the Rational teams was terrible because they would hide information to sell more consulting services or additional products (even though they guaranteed the feature was available on our existing license). I despise the documentation sifting and information gathering required to use IBM products (developer works is a terrible site). However, I have much respect for the engineering that goes into those products and it is a joy when you get to work directly with their engineers to solve a problem. Good luck compose, I hope you get to be autonomous like Urbancode and not stuck in the sand of the Rational teams.
And notably Google did face the billion dollar lawsuit with Viacom vs YouTube and had to fight for survival under DMCA. The key argument is "knowledge" of copyright material being improperly hosted, the same standard in theory being applied to all these services from Napster to YouTube to Mega.
problem is they don't support syncing folders. You'd have to keep track of what you've uploaded already. Also I haven't been able to get it to successfully upload all my photos, seems to always stall out after a few hundred photos or eventually hit some sort of rate limit that goes to a crawl
It sounds like they operate as reference librarians more broadly instead of just fact checking.
The ex-boss of a friend of mine used to clean the toilet brush in the office dish washer.
That really falls under cost of doing business. With some effort you can mitigate those issues, but they really don't end up costing you close to full property value the way a fire / flood might.

PS: IMO, it's important to separate the value of a property from the income stream it generates. Someone that's 3 weeks late every month in paying their rent you 250$/year in interest and some aggravation, but that's almost meaningless in the end just toss in a late fee and it tends to average out in the end.
It's great that every time is getting easier and easier to track analytics. No need to change the code or ask your engineering team to push changes.
Seems they are trying to do what Heap analytics (another YC company) is already doing. Even they are using very similar colors as Heap.
I use them both on my projects, hope they join forces some day!
MDN always has the most relevant and easy to read documentation for me, but it's a shame it doesn't get ranked more highly in search engines. Whenever I forget the syntax for a JS or CSS property, I'll always type it into Google and append MDN to make sure I get what I want quickly.
I'd say the responses were proportionate: we banned the obvious troll and asked you not to break the rules.
Good to know that all streaming music is copyrighted and there is no legal music one can stream. Except that isn't the case, and so it goes back to my point. Perhaps he actually meant for it to be used by people streaming all the free, legal, and often hard to find mp3s out there. You can go to OCRemix for a lot of free music, but searching through all the musicians who put out their own song on their own website isn't at all simple without a tool like this.

Compare it to Tor. Lots of legal uses (at least legal in the US, maybe not in the country where one would need something like Tor for said uses). But the majority of its use is for a few illegal activities. Are we to judge intent based off of how the majority of uses use it? Good bye torrenting.
Toilet Seat Genuine Advantage.
A great archive of 20th century propaganda.
Have an idea of a tech startup that uses erasable internet
I want to begin a startup where I plan to come up with a social networking site with a primary implementation of erasable internet.
Some Googling reveals that they've discussed 64-bit TXID since 2005, but resisted due to performance and complexity concerns.

The two biggest discussion threads w/Tom Lane seem to be:

2005 http://postgresql.nabble.com/Re-PATCHES-lastval-td2213404.ht...

2012 http://postgresql.nabble.com/PostgreSQL-64-Bit-XIDs-Transact...
I think it's important to note that Microsoft wasn't the platform of choice to act as a server - for most of the projects at least. Also, big corps who developed server-side OSS kept it for themselves.
To be clear, "it works" is not an argument, it is a counter factual, basically evidence that invalidates a previous claim. The argument that author makes was a general "it does not work" and in the very broad definition of works or doesn't work, mass surveillance can be shown to have uncovered unlawful activity that would have gone undetected without it. That is a very technical definition of 'working' and does not address the moral or legality issues of the surveillance itself.

My goal is to help the author make a stronger argument for their cause. And it is stronger to claim mass surveillance has not been effective at countering or uncovering terrorist plots but it has been effective at violating peoples civil liberties and subjecting people to a violation of their right to privacy. Then you have to tie that right to privacy to locally enacted laws or constitutional claims. In the US we've been asserting that mass surveillance is a violation of the 4th amendment which says US citizens have the right to be secure in their persons against unreasonable search. And then we've gone on to argue that mass surveillance is an unreasonable search. With judicial backing like the recent ruling about putting a camera on a telephone pole across the street from a house to keep it under surveillance.

So you have to build the argument from the initial claim to the last one so that each step of the way the listener can understand and agree (or debate) the evidence you present for supporting that claim. That was the form the article takes, laying out its claims one by one to support its call to action to reject the changes proposed in Dutch law.
The article specially mentions a one-page invoice with items like "overhead costs" and "disturbances while building" amounting to millions – billed at a time where they still had 5000 other invoices to check.
Unpaid work training Google's spam filters
Economist:  the tech boom may get bumpy, but won't repeat dotcom crash
Great article...lots of comments here about how you shouldn't keep that much data. I agree with that for hobbyists, but this is pretty relevant for professionals where the option to cull doesn't extend that far and there are business reasons for retaining terabytes of photos for an extended period. Additionally, next-gen cameras with 40-50MP RAWs are right around the corner.

I use a similar combination of home-built network storage (no RAID - just manual multiple backups) and glacier for offsite redundancy. Dealing with images as a business, I typically only work on a couple shoots at a time so syncing across devices is not a big concern, but long-term archiving and redundancy is.
Wow, closer than 452b to us and similar size, have we done any focused listening in its direction yet?
Hopefully this will clear the whole "class" thing in javascript up with some people. Every time I mention using classes in Javascript I get the obligatory response, "That's stupid, they are not actual classes, just syntactic sugar. I'm not using that!"
face palm

Yes, I know...but look at how much nicer that is to type than his first example...

Pretty good, straight forward write up though!
Which ones in particular? That's just not right.

Everything I said has been perfectly straightforward and honest.

Downvote brigades are usually only a thing on Reddit, but I experience them here occasionally.

The OP claimed you were a shill - I questioned whether you were paid. I said maybe you were just in the circle or bought into the narrative.
Actually I don't think these guys are really a competitor to Toptal. They're a competitor to the guys that Toptal was trying to under-cut by allowing you to bypass the overhead of a more full-featured development shop (project managers, etc).
Whoa you know Chris! He's on my team and we have standups every day. Amazing developer with a great design and product sense!
Frankly, I want a good, cheap burger, and if the way to obtaining that is to automate jobs, bring it on.

I remember when if you wanted a cheap burger, you went to Micky D's and if you wanted a bit more quality you could shell out a buck or two more somewhere else like Burger King.

But the field has changed and now with a greater number of Five Guys and In-and-Outs, it seems like everyone wants to jump on the quality end of the value triangle when it comes to pumping out burgers, and you're left with very little variety in pricing.

Give me a place where I can shave a couple bucks off my combo again at the expense of not having some teenager or college student screw up my order and you'll have a customer.
That's not true at all! So not true that I went and checked the top comment on every page; not one of 30 came close to what you claim. Instead I saw top comments that:

* provide substantive links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936945

* point out possibly-critical missing information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936448

* compare the author's approach with one's own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937333

* describe showing the material to one's grandmother: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934321

* link to the commenter's presentation on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935644

* give detailed usability feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935477

People often make false generalizations about HN. I doubt that's particular to HN—probably just humans in general being human, with sample bias and all. But getting the wrong generalizations in your head can prevent you from seeing things. Here that might mean seeing less of what's good about HN, and thus getting less out of it.

This is on my mind because we've been thinking lately about new ways to highlight the positive and amazing things this community comes up with, many of which go unseen by the majority of readers.
OT: do you know if/when everybody with a Mac will become a "subscriber" (their credit card will be charged) of Apple's new service; and, if so, how not to get screwed? Thanks.
If you could accelerate at 1g, you could reach it in 7 years, in your reference frame.
"and if you don't impress the hackers, your days are numbered"

http://m.slashdot.org/story/21026

"no wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame"
I've always read the "great filter" as some kind of mass extinction. I just think that the Fermi paradox gained popularity when everyone thought that both our travel speeds and our population would continue to grow exponentially, making space colonization both inevitable and necessary.

What if we (and every other intelligent life) just level off when we start reaching the limits of physics and the available resources within our own solar system?
Ipython notebook completely changed the way I do data science, specifically because its iterative/exploratory capabilities are so powerful. You can also hook it up to large scale service like hadoop/spark. Embedded Matplotlib charts have spoiled me. I cringe at the thought that I used to write scripts to output csv, run them on the command line, then copy the output to excel to graph the data. Never again!
It's due to NIH and the "power of defaults" as soon as MS recommends a library, it effectively kills any chance that an alternative OSS will gain enough mind-share/traction to survive on its own, which a lot of the time given the lack of adoption, OSS Authors end up abandoning the project since the effort to further develop, support and maintain them doesn't justify their negligible impact.

You just need to look at the NuGet package statistics to see how pervasive this is in .NET: https://www.nuget.org/stats/packages

Out of the top 50 projects, the only packages I see that aren't prescribed defaults shipped in VS.NET Templates are:

- NUnit & NUnitTestAdapter
- Moq
- AutoMapper
- log4net

NUnit and log4net were originally ported from Java and defined their respective categories in .NET which MS's NIH alternatives aren't able to match (e.g. they don't run on Mono).

MS doesn't offer anything comparable to Moq or AutoMapper which explains their success.

Reasons why from my 2012 Interview on .NET OSS: http://www.infoq.com/articles/interview-servicestack-2

> The .NET platform is like no other; Microsoft has PR channels, Evangelists, MVP Award programs and control over VS.NET that commands a strong influence over .NET mindshare where they're seen as the authoritative voice for the .NET ecosystem to most developers. Historically they've only used their influence to validate their own libraries and frameworks which has contributed to many .NET companies being reluctant to deviate from Microsoft's prescribed technology stacks and explore alternative solutions.

This also explains why the .NET Ecosystem is slow at adopting popular technologies (prevalent in other platforms) where they don't gain traction until MS PR validates them, inc: MVC, Testing, NoSQL, MQ's, etc.
I'll go to the Zoo or somewhere and take 1000s of photos, then spend hours in Lightroom deleting maybe 80% of that till I have ~100 I keep and ~20 I edit.

I don't understand why people keep the same shot 23423352 times.
"Microsoft was initially given a May 12, 2015 deadline, but this deadline was extended to July 19 at the vendor’s request. Since the company failed to meet this deadline, ZDI has decided to inform users of the existence of this flaw."

I would expect Microsoft to handle security vulnerabilities with a higher priority. Not sure why they are dropping this on the floor.
It's jarring to think that if intelligent life were on Kepler 452-b and observing Earth, we're so far away that they would be seeing our "civilizations" in 615 AD: shrinking global population as the old Roman and Byzantine empires are overrun by barbarian hordes and Arab conquest, with some pockets of human progress in China. They would have no way of knowing that the descendants of those squabbling warlords just cooperated to fling a space probe at 36000 MPH past a tiny ball of rock at the edge of our solar system.
Its Gandhi ( not Ghandi ).
If there was an intelligent life form, like humans, it would have expanded into the cosmos and colonized the entire galaxy within only a million years of developing technology. Since we don't see traces of them everywhere, we must presume they don't exist.
He memorized the dictionary in 9 weeks. That is astounding
Paul Allen – I've always hated Microsoft
Or, "We're deaf, blind, and isolated."
I'd love to see the number of on that - popular projects that have lost contributors, slowed down, etc.

Though I suppose some projects naturally slow down when things are working well.
Gaming Meets OSINT: Using Python to Help Solve Her Story
Increase Email Security: Stop Sender Fraud with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
previous discussion:

9 months ago, 29 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443028

3 years ago, 28 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030309
True, but our radio telescopes have also been improving. The Square Kilometre Array, under construction in Australia, would supposedly be able to detect "an airport radar system on a planet 50 light years away". I suspect that an advanced civilization 500 ly away would still likely leak enough radio for us to detect it with current or near-future technology.