skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that Route 53 and Cloudflare don't have distributed DNS? How could they not be, when my OLD PAL 4.2.2.2 has been distributed since the 90s?
There might be direct pressure from earlier investors to commit to an F or G round so that on future deals you might get in earlier on the next racket.
If you do that, you're too stupid to be a developer, really.
Greater fool theory, they're thinking they'll make money on the IPO. They might have, actually, or they were very close to doing so -- a couple more weeks before the bad press Groupon started getting around the IPO and they'd have been sitting pretty.
The two aren't really related. The TC article shows that they are laying off sales people in marginal countries where they aren't doing as well, and changing their strategy to invest more in technology and less in sales. That's entirely consistent with them hiring mobile developers in the US.
Cyborg Combat Critters
I was peeved to read about his lawless character with young women in the article. I only knew about his fourth wife, a famous New York socialite who left J.D Salinger for Chaplin, essentially. Oona O'Neill (yes, that O'Neill) was something like 18 or 19 when she married Chaplin, but they stayed married until he died over 30 years later.

The article makes it sound like he just raped his way across America, and perhaps he did -- I wouldn't know. It does note that he was accused of this by a Nazi sympathizer, but says that the accusations were essentially true.. About the man who made "The Great Dictator".

The journalist doesn't bother to mention that he did settle down for what was by most accounts a loving relationship, and must have been a successful marriage by any standard.
I was peeved to read about his lawless character with young women in the article. I only knew about his fourth wife, a famous New York socialite who left J.D Salinger for Chaplin, essentially. Oona O'Neill was something like 18 or 19 when she married Chaplin, but they stayed married until he died over 30 years later.

The article makes it sound like he just raped his way across America, and perhaps he did -- I wouldn't know. But, he did settle down for what was by most accounts a long and loving relationship.
In the Northwestern US we get most of our power from hydropower and wind.

Coal has a massive human cost in human health that makes it absurdly expensive overall.

Personally, I would like to see and end to coal and nuclear power.
And that is exactly my point. In such situation just leaving the reactor be would cause destruction of the reactor and no major environmental impact, yet they misguidedly tried to save the situation and thus exacerbated the environmental impact.

Poor placement of backup systems is critical to process continuity, but in case of BWR mostly irrelevant to actual nuclear safety as long as you are willing to just write off the reactor (as you should) in case of major accident.
Maybe, but you can certainly find someone on twitch streaming themselves reading a book. You can follow them and tip them accordingly.
Your comment is like writing, "Why not code everything in C?" on a Haskell post.
6 things school doesn’t teach you about programming
It was just announced yesterday that Hiroyuki Nishimura (founder of 2chan) is the new owner of 4chan. There are past disputes with the owner of 8chan (Jim Watkins) and Nisimura mainly due to monetizing the site (2chan).

It could be an effort to stifle 8chan in an attempt to drive users to 4chan so that it can be better monetized by Nishimura.

>After 8chan received a surge of new users, founder Fredrick "hotwheels" Brennan worked out a deal to have its content hosted by the same folks who hosted 2channel's imageboards. Last week, Brennan confirmed that he is no longer 8chan's owner but instead a paid administrator, which he claimed was due to domain-name transfers and the fact that the financial and technical support offered by the site's current owner, Jim Watkins, is the reason the site has not yet shut down.

>Watkins' name figures into the story for another reason: he wrested administrative control of 2channel away from Nishimura in 2014. The site had already been run on American servers to bypass more restrictive Japanese content laws, and imageboard users have alleged that this change of ownership occurred, in part, due to how Nishimura handled—and possibly sold—users' private data. Nishimura has yet to speak on the record about such allegations, though we imagine he'll receive questions about those and his 2channel breakup during an official 4chan Q&A on Tuesday, September 22, at 8pm EST.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/imageboard-sites-4ch...
Thanks brryant! We've been laser focused on community first, but that community _includes_ the enterprise.

You can quite literally click a button to profile you app in realtime...no code modification required.

https://cloudup.com/cNdDqLq_1sM
The complicated balancing act gets even cooler. Modern engines can play tricks like injecting fuel into the very center of the chamber, so that the flame front does not touch the chamber walls, insulated by air. Supposedly this reduces the development of hot spots on the chamber walls (reducing NOx formation)
My father was in the UK RAF in WW2 and for some reason had to cross the US by train from Florida to Hollywood - he always spoke very fondly of that trip.

[NB He was always rather vague as to why he had to cross the US by train, but in between stints in North Africa, Arctic Canada and the Bahamas he seemed to have an interesting war]
The Illusion Matrix
Finding similar customers
> If a page is static, then CloudFlare can cache it. But if you set your cache headers appropriately, and use efficient serving code like nginx, I imagine serving static content is pretty darn cheap.

With the static content it's not the cost of serving it, it's the fact that Cloudflare is serving it from a large bunch of distributed servers that are likely to offer far lower latency to the end-user than your servers. With modern web pages often containing hundreds of objects, this can make a big difference to page load times.

If all your customers are in one geography this is less of an issue, but if you have a global audience this can make a huge difference.
Firefox 41.0 released
Ask HN: I'm not influencer, how to lunch product that will get a traction?
For example, it will be easy to lunch product for nodejs developer and get a traction if you are node core maintainer.

But, how about non-influencer or non-leader in the market?
Slack's Workplace Revolution
It's done great for them up to this point. How many companies wish they were in a position where they had operations in 7 countries to shut down?
It seems like you're saying that Technology has passed the "Second Watershed".

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/IllichTools.html

"Watershed (figurative definition, as used by Illich): A point in the historical process when a particular “tool” creates a quantum shift in society, like the sudden application of gravity feeding water into a terrain basin (literal watershed)."[0]

[0] http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=...
Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More
Thanks! That's nice to hear.

Can you create an issue with some more information (such as: what command did you run, what was the exact output, etc)?

If you're a subscriber, please email support :)
You don't get to be that financially successful and own and manage that much property without knowing how to hire people.

You don't do things yourself at his scale.
My experience has been different. I used a Cheesecake Factory Groupon once and was given a special meal that reflected the "value" of my Groupon. It felt like a complete rip-off on top of a restaurant that was already overpriced. $30 for Cheese, bread, and a few grapes and strawberries? I stopped using Groupon after that.

It reminds me of Massdrop. You expect to get a deal by purchasing something in "mass" with others but it turns out you are paying at best Amazon retail price but most likely MORE than you would pay buying from Amazon not to mention shipping costs.
Thank you for sharing. This blogpost is gold for Docker Continuous integration: http://cloudacademy.com/blog/continuous-integration-docker/
Ask HN: How do you choose what to read?
With more books and content on the internet than anyone could possibly read in a lifetime, how do you decide what deserves your attention and what doesn't?
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
I see a lot of people saying they disable Gatekeeper on purpose.

Is the "right-click and open" trick that disables Gatekeeper for that app generally unknown?
Or do people value not being assed to do it more than (potential) security upsides?
> "we'll close this ticket WONTFIX if you discuss patents here" is so terrible that it's shaken my perception of RedHat in regards to Fedora.

Sure, but if I was "Tom "spot" Callaway" I'd lose my patience a bit. If things are bunged up in legal what's he to do. I thought he did a reasonable job of trying to keep the bug report on-topic whilst fending off the tin foil hatters and some generally quite rude individuals adding nothing to that thread.
Martin Shkreli raises pill price from $13.50 to $750
The whole property is poisoned. The mods are incapable of keeping a lid on the problem.

This is the same phenomenon that played out at Reddit where the leadership was hesitant to try and interfere with so-called free-speech issues, and would then wildly over-react when things came to a head.

The problem is that 4chan's tone has turned from "social justice", those incidents early in its history where people were genuinely trying to help others as internet vigilantes, to those that started antagonizing people, and later, to viciously harassing them.

A lot of people who wanted no part of that have left. This skews the community heavily towards those who don't leave, who enjoy that sort of thing.

I'm not saying all participants in 4chan are guilty, but the nature of that entity, as a whole, is the polar opposite of SJW.
If we got to the point that we need ad blockers to navigate the internet peacefully without interruption, I’m sorry to say but it is the publishers’ fault. They had a right and they abused it. Maybe now they will put a little more UX consideration before they plaster ads everywhere in your face. I personally tend to avoid the buzzfeeds, the CNNs and a lot of other sources of all crappy journalism for lack for better words. This is the only weapon we have as consumers to help us fight back or voice our choice. Customer is always king and always will be. Produce something that works for me and I’ll buy it. But if I make it to your restaurant and while I’m eating you are having a round of people sit across from me and speed pitch me while using sometimes unacceptable methods… then don’t be surprised if I fight back. One, ad fine. two ads, fine. A gazillion ads… what am I here for again?
Hey Guys! CEO of Vectr here! Today's launch was a bit accidental, we didn't intend to launch it quite yet but it got picked up and is blowing up a bit (particularly via Product Hunt) so hey, go with the flow.

Happy to answer any questions guys! We are at TC Disrupt as well if anyone would like to come by and talk in person!
Crash Course: Learn to write great ebooks in just 2 minutes
Google, Apple moving into wellbeing-mental health continuum; big potentials?
I'm surprised not more comment here about

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541446/why-americas-top-mental-health-researcher-joined-alphabet/

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2015/look-who-is-getting-into-mental-health-research.shtml

- surely is potentially seismic, after the tech giants have been so surprisingly absent from this area for so long, and given tech development and use in this space seems to have been limited and primitive so far?

Apart from anything else, this creates another source of potential buyers for start-ups in this area?

More importantly it hopefully signals big acceleration in using tech tools to improve human life across the happiness-wellbeing-mental health continuum.

Does anyone have any more colour or views on which directions Google et al may head?

There seem several potential dimensions;

1. Tech tools to help human run him/herself better.

2. Tech as enhancing adjunct to brain; memory chips, other tech, use of AI.

3. Brain as tech ; insights for mental illness prevention and treatment by modelling the human brain as an engineering system.

4. AI ; AI's as a way to create max happiness, if one follows Bentham utilitarianism.
I also take a dim view of that performance instability, with any workload. In fact, it's one of the points I address on the slides I just sent in for a mini-tutorial on storage performance (for LISA'15 in case anyone wants to see it). All I'm saying is that, even under the best of circumstances, I would consider any COW file system a dubious choice for OLTP.
You need it for the installer to install it. I haven't read the agreement, but perhaps it makes clear that it only applies to the Apple licensed products.
He also says - "The disaster could have been forseen and prevented. As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster."

I'd say his stance is pretty nuanced and more to do with the care taken by people when designing and operating nuclear technology than being anti nuclear technology.
From the Conditions of Use for the Hue Developer Program[1]: "We want all your apps to work with our API to form a rich ecosystem of interoperable applications, so it is a condition of access to our API documentation that you do not use it to develop or distribute any bridges or devices which interpret the hue API in order to control physical devices. Emulators are allowed provided they only control virtual bulbs"

Umm… what are they trying to say? They want interoperability, but only if it's done their way? Seems kinda elitist.

[1]: http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/conditions-u...
I moved from Mint XFCE to Xubuntu and in the 15.04 release everything works out the box as well, even the monitor setup with the open source radeon drivers via xfce4-display-settings -m is one of the best I've used for 3 screens with one rotated.

Absolutely painless all around and XFCE 4.12 is a nice little upgrade just gentle improvement all around but functionally the same.
disabled gatekeeper to get it to run

Not necessarily - they might have disabled GateKeeper a long time ago and never re-enabled it. I have the same complain with Android's "allow software from third parties" checkbox - it's a little useless because you uncheck it for one specific app you downloaded, but probably leave it unchecked forever more.
I personally leave gatekeeper enabled. If I really need to run unsigned binaries I can just right-click -> open in the Finder. This way, any runs of unsigned code is only allowed because of an explicit per-instance decision on my part. It may be overkill, but I think the extra safety gained is worth it.

EDIT: I should mention that I work as an iOS engineer. Gatekeeper has not once impeded my work.
Marketing Bitcoin to the Masses: Selling 21 on Ignorance
What output is expected when you run the command? I get:

$ spctl --assess --verbose /Applications/Xcode.app
/Applications/Xcode.app: rejected
source=obsolete resource envelope

I downloaded XCode via the app store, but have disabled gatekeeper (re-enabled it before running this command).
it monitors third-party HTTP requests, not links: "webXray is a tool for detecting third-party HTTP requests on large numbers of web pages and matching them to the companies which receive user data...The core of webXray is a python program which ingests addresses of webpages, passes them to the headless web browser PhantomJS, and parses requests in order to determine those which go to domains which are exogenous to the primary (or first-party) domain of the site. This data is then stored in MySQL for later analysis."
Yeah, I am an old timer when it comes to Linux and so am perfectly aware of it all. CentOS or derivatives don't support recent hardware, has _way_ too outdated s/w stacks and so it's something you use on servers, not laptops or workstations. On the other hand Fedora is so bleeding edge and broken that it is pointless.

Ubuntu/LTS supports most hardware without all the instability and I was merely pointing out that there isn't such an option with Fedora and many people find that a non starter.
Fedora has a rolling release channel too: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide
Underground coal fires like the one under Centralia, PA -- which has forced a similar evacuation -- also last hundreds of years.

Sea level rise will last thousands.

The destruction of aquifers in central California -- when too much water is pumped out, the porous layers compress, and will no longer hold water in the future -- I don't even know if there's a process by which that will heal.

The loss of diversity of ocean and land life, you're probably looking at millions of years for new speciation to fill the emptied niches.

Ocean acidification, also another long wait.
I always download the XCode from AppStore, I didn't even know you can do it from another source :D
> The author completely ignored those victims. Instead, he focused on Fukushima, which will cause around 150 deaths from cancers

Yes, freedom will do that to people: get them to go wherever they want, take pictures of whatever they want and focus on whatever topic they want in their own web page.

> Yet coverage is warped in the opposite direction.

Some guy's blog with travel pictures isn't "coverage". Journalistic standards do not apply.

He probably went elsewhere in Japan too and took other pictures. Those are off topic for the web page which is about the Fukushima site. Maybe he has other pages about other topics (in Japan or elsewhere).
You are very brave! When it comes to a razor on my throat, I'm not sure I would want a steep discount.
> Sending the hostname is default Packagecloud.io behaviour

Your own download page states:

We recommend you set the name to the fqdn of the target node (the value of hostname -f on linux), but you can set it to whatever you want

If your company is recommending something, shouldn't you have a good reason why?
Bad analogy. My brother (who is a non-carpenter web designer) shortened an IKEA bed recently. Apparently it wasn't a big deal.
Yeah sorry wrong link.

https://cloudup.com/cNdDqLq_1sM
Facebook SDK for Unity is now open source
Platforms to create Realtime Applications
eh, between Chrome DevTools, PageSpeed Insights, SERP hits based on load time, SPDY/HTTP2, WebM, new compression algorithms, etc etc I would say Google has done more than a little to help reduce wait times for web pages.
As I recall, that's only for use in the classroom, to get students hooked. If you're doing research, or anything other than teaching a class, you pay for private repos. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Bitbucket gives you a free unlimited account if you sign up with a .edu email address.

[Edit: You actually get five free repos. Still limited and not at all the deal you get with Bitbucket.]
Is GitHub activity a reasonable indicator of programming expertise in the first place?

No.

I'm not sure what this is even supposed to entail. It's scraping a bunch of profiles and running first names (assuming those are even shared or not gender neutral/ambiguous) against a public ML service and proceeding to draw long-winded hypotheticals that go nowhere.
When did submodules become "fancy" ?
I've done the much shorter 12 hour trip from Prince George to Prince Rupert, British Columbia followed by the similar length ferry trip through the inside passage to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island. The scenery on both are absolutely incredible, but I still got bored. Twelve plus hours of good scenery is just too much no matter how beautiful it is. That said, I still hope to one day take the railway clear across Canada and/or the trip across the U.S. and/or the trans-Siberian railroad. However, I will make certain to have substantial stopovers to break up the journey. I will also make certain I have plenty to read or write or code; I do think it would be an ideal place to work. Hack across America, anyone?
> no one will care what a "mess" the insides of it are.

...except the poor bastard who will have to build the website and maintain it.
GitHub Pages might be a good solution for you course website, it does HTML templates and allows you to use markdown.
Would private repos created by my teacher count toward my 5 private repo limit of GH education?
It looks like the link is working now
For servers that is fine - try installing CentOS on your newer laptop or workstation. Even if you did get it to install, the s/w stack is way too outdated. Between that and Fedora being the extreme, Ubuntu LTS is a well balanced choice for workstation/laptops - you get stack refreshes periodically with point releases and it is not so bleeding edge as to be unusable.
My favorite interview question
I've never heard of this negative reaction to Groupon like you folks are describing. What was the negative side? Was it not a good advertising investment for companies? Were expectations not being set correctly by Groupon? Do they take too much of a cut? Are they just jerks to the companies?

Is there room in this space to not be a shitty actor?
Some news sources said Angry Birds 2 was trojanized, but "only" for the Chinese version. Anyone have any more info on that? Because I didn't think you could have separate binaries per location? Unless it is actually two entirely separate apps? And why would they even have a separate binary for the Chinese market (and why would they use a different build environment?)
> If time, $ and mental energy is at premium, train is not the solution either. A plane ticket will be the same cost or less and take 1/40 the time.

That's part of the the point; you don't have to think that way. You actually don't have to think or plan at all. You're not trying to consciously get from point A to point B. You're just sitting, thinking, reading, and going where the train takes you.

It generally takes you to some really interesting places, far from the well-beaten path. I suppose Jack Keroac or someone who would write Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance may do the same thing in a car, but I've never done so.
Presuming, of course, that whatever process may have corrupted your version of Xcode didn't also corrupt spctl.

Heh.
Seven brief lessons: physics illustrations
> I mean, there are crazies on both sides, but when it comes time to elect a president, you pick a centrist you think might be acceptable to the other side, too.

That's a reasonable strategy if turnout is fixed and you have a unimodal distribution of political views.

With, e.g., a bimodal distribution and turnout affected by enthusiasm, you actually want to pick a candidate as close as possible to the peak on your side of the distribution rather than a centrist.

While either of those models is ridiculously simplified, there is lots of reason to believe that the real distribution of political views and real electoral behavior is more like the second than the first.

And if its like the second but those on the far extreme, even if smaller than those near the local peak, have more extreme enthusiasm swings based on candidate suitability -- then it may make sense actually chose candidates more extreme than the near peak.
So in other words PhantomJS is used as an API to have some pages crawled, and the links emanating from those pages are captured.