skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest building the content off a Github repo, rendering from markdown files. This solves the problem of contribution enablement. Rackspace has a docs/developer project that I was involved with for a very short time which has its source code available for use. Start there and get your content moved off Wordpress. Nothing against Wordpress, but it's not built for this. Also, code snippets.

Rackspace site on Github: https://github.com/rackerlabs/developer.rackspace.com

I agree with the readability part. It's important to curate from the stance of educating the multitudes quickly. Having disparate content can be an issue in starting the education, but variety is the spice of life - and use cases as time goes on. I'd recommend content + reference as a solution here. Cookbook style, if you will.

Keep in mind I've spent a fair amount of clock cycles thinking about this than most people. I've rejected things like logging standards as well. That doesn't mean I'm right, but it is, at the least, a data point for you.
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Seems to apply also to tests...
It's been awhile since the last big anti-trust trial. Get the popcorn!
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Ugh, this explains that crap pair of Creative speakers I ordered some time back. The speakers themselves are very nice and sound good, but they have this infuriating habit of powering off if no sound is received for ~5 minutes. (And they don't automatically power back up when there's sound detected)

Now it sounds like this was to comply with this inane EU directive. Aren't there some lower hanging fruit to pick like major appliances before hamstringing comparatively lower users like consumer electronics?
Business idea: Make it easy for consumers to test their own devices / vehicles and aggregate statistics [of users who want to upload them].
My anecdotal data is that my personal best (30 miles with less than a gallon) was indeed on such a hilly drive.
Amazon has flexed its muscle in a similar way with its selling of books -- it temporarily made it difficult or impossible to purchase books from Hachette on its website.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazon-escalates-it...
It's no secret that GPU drivers are tuned differently to different games. That's a feature, not a bug. You can't expect every game to conform to some super-tight code conventions that optimize against the GPU driver, so Nvidia and ATI optimize their drivers for the various games.
That's not really fair. In this post, Fred announces that he agreed to invest in Bryce's fund.
I think you're painting it more complex than it really is. I developed just such a solution for a manufacturer. The manufacturer paid for it and charges the end users for the service and the end user pays for maintenance of the sensors and transmitters. We used a cellular technology (not wifi) from the moving things and its worldwide. And it runs on a utility cloud service similar to Amazon. It's not that hard, really.
They already have apps for iOS. I can only assume this is about the 30% cut that Apple takes for in-app digital purchases. While it doesn't matter for Prime videos, it matters for Amazon Instant Video sales and Rentals. On iOS they can nudge users over to Safari to buy. No such option on Apple TV.
> This generally shouldn't be a worry if you pick a large enough hosting company.

It doesn't matter who provides the infrastructure. If the business entity that runs the services on that infrastructure closes its doors, the services shut down and any devices that depended on those services are hampered, crippled, or rendered useless.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly or a market commanding position.

Amazon does.
It's probably retaliatory due to Apple and Google leveraging their platforms against Amazon's video distribution.

It makes sense that they would, in turn, leverage their physical distribution platform against Apple and Google's physical streaming products.

Amazon probably feels as though they were hit first in this fight.
At least they did something cute/funny rather than fullscreen a liveleak gore video or worse. :)

>This has also made me a more fervent believer in security-by-default.

I've yet to understand why anyone would be against security-by-default. How many users would rather have set of [x] features that for whatever reason require an insecure setup compared to those who would prefer a secure setup?
History... Germans have complexes with it.
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I think the fact that almost everyone here agrees that this is a mistake, but that Amazon still thinks its a good strategy illustrates a common problem with big organizations that have diversified focuses.

The retail arm of Amazon wants to be the best it can be. That means stocking the best stuff.

The video arm of Amazon wants to be the best it can be. That means getting its content storefront in the homes of as many customers as it possibly can.

The problem is when the two arms have aims that are in conflict. Then one arm tries to drag the other arm towards its interest, and hampers that arm from doing the best it can do.

That's when a single-minded, and focused organization kicks the butt of the arm of the big company.

Yes, there are advantages of scale and cross-selling within big companies. But it seems to me that these days those advantages are far outweighed by these cross-purposed interests hampering product development.
> If I wanted to buy a Confederate battle flag, it shouldn't be any more difficult for me to do so than buying a 50-star US stars and stripes flag

Funny you don't make more apt comparisons, like a Waffen SS battle standard, or an ISIL flag.
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But remember, they are not confirmed dead, just "missing".

I think the official demand is intentionally absurd because the situation is absurd as well. Think about it: some students were "disappeared" and then the government tries to perform a Jedi mind trick on everybody? The scary part is that they (the state) are befuddled because the mind trick has always worked.

The tragedy of the 43 is hardly unique on it's own. The political consequences of it is what makes it interesting, important and –as the article states– historic.

IMHO: "we want them alive", is another way of saying: "we want blood for blood".
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Fair enough. Add httpS to that and it will be a good security layer.
Few big players seem to be making use of such a thing. They'd currently rather have their own walled gardens. :)
It sounds like you know exactly what I'm asking, but are being intentionally obtuse.

>and there is no way I can give you that data.

Can't give because it's physically and/or logically impossible? Or, because you or your superior authority prefer not to?

>Largely it's the same thing.

Largely, but not precisely. A proof would need to be formulated in terms of bits.

>If marketed properly, people will throw money at you to solve their instances.

Sure. I think part of my question implies, "How do you market such an algorithm? At the end of the day, you need instances to feed the solver. How you get those instances into the solver?"

Assume you have everyone throwing money at you. Which instances do you solve given the resources you have? Picking the largest bundle of cash headed your way doesn't seem like it would necessarily give you the 'best results' (in terms of benefit, as described previously).
That's kind of the dirty little secret here, right? This technology has been around forever, it only became attractive and fashionable lately because the smartphone revolution has dropped the price of radio hardware to the point where it can be dropped into everything/anything.

So now we face the challenge of groups that want Stuttgart-Siemens-PLC functionality for Shenzen-ESP-IoT pricing. Oh yeah, and let's skip all that service contract nonsense. I mean why am I paying $20/month in service for a chip that costs $1.50?
I think having the process explicty shown visually is better than just a "In progress" column. That way everyone knows where every other task is.

In progress could mean anything from writing specs, ui design, dev or testing
Only if your installation is set up that way. Here's how I create a Jira ticket in my organisation: 1. Click "Create Issue", 2. type in a summary (the headline), 3. type in the detail, 3. Click "Create"

If you have more stuff to fill out, that's an issue with your local configuration. Blame your Jira master, not Jira or Atlassian :D
Well, reading this it's pretty painfully obvious that Atlasssian knew how to market a product better than Fog Creek, at least at the time. So sure, I'd agree the outcome was probably mostly not due to technology, but marketing is important. (I mean marketing in the old-school sense of knowing the market you're selling in, in addition to advertising and publicity)
Issue tracking systems are very important, even tracking a handfull is a pain over email or some other non-standardized process.

The way to keep the system effective is regularly close issues that have had no updates for, say 30 days. If someone cares about it, it will be re-opened. If no one notices, well it can be closed.

Good issue tracking system is just as helpful for the coders as it is for QA, PM and the rest of the team. If it isn't, you need to discuss improving it rather then abandoning it all together.
I was 17 when I dipped my foot in the game development industry, and not even a year in I had done enough research to understand the slave path in front of me.

I didn't take that path and now I am thankful for it. In other words, your nephew is not a bright kid.
Amazon wants to sell digital downloads on their app, and they don't want to give anyone 30%. HBO does not.
That's fine, but when I first looked at it, it seemed like they were sliding. Now I see that it may be rolling as desired.
It already does. Been using 2fa for a year or so.
100% agree. It seems so obvious. Not sure how they didn't think that one through.
I seem to recall that at least around 1980, the Guinness Book of World Records said that the hardest tongue-twister in the world was a Czech phrase that translates "stick a finger in the throat". The whole phrase has no vowels in Czech.
Is it safe to assume that Gitlab's implementation of Git LFS will allow to host the file storage server on premises and potentially on another machine than the one running Gitlab?
Would you be so kind as to un-shorten this URL? URL shorteners poison The Web. :(
When your wireless technology has an average outdoor range of 30-40 feet, of course spectrum is not an issue. When large numbers of endpoints (thousands or tens of thousands) share a common access point over many miles, it's a really significant issue that can be addressed in a number of ways outlined here http://bit.ly/1hExgtG
But the Chromecast has no interface of it's own! If I use Netflix on Chromecast, I'm in the Netflix app on my tablet or phone. Amazon can still own it's interface.

I don't have enough ports on my TV for a Fire Stick and a Chromecast (and everything else) so I'm going to choose the one with the most options (Chromecast).
When it breaks, you can call/email someone to look at it. Factor in the cost of having someone on retainer or hiring a person that has experience with hosting ES.
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I wonder why Amazon didn't get into this business 10 years ago...
Based on the news article, Amazon isn't banning competitors. Roku competes with Fire TV, and the Netflix app it bundles competes with Prime Video. The article says Amazon will still sell Roku. Indeed, Amazon's Fire TV also supports Netflix and Hulu and HBO and ESPN and whatnot, not just Amazon Video.

The news article says that they're banning video streaming devices that don't support Amazon Video. So if that's true, it's not that they're banning competitors, but that they're forcing streaming devices sold on Amazon to support Amazon Video in addition to whatever else they support.

I don't know what the primary motivation is, but I could genuinely see some customers being confused. Imagine you're a customer that's just signed up for Prime. You don't have a TV stick to watch it on, so you shop around the store and find a streaming device that's highly reviewed. You buy it and plug it in, only to find that Amazon Video does not work on it, or works poorly. This is plausible; this kind of thing happens, especially with unsophisticated, less computer savvy buyers (the kind of people who think the Google search box is the Internet). I could easily see my parents making this kind of mistake.

Whether that's the primary motivation, I wouldn't know. It seems like you could also deal with that problem by changing the way the product is displayed, for people who have Prime Video, and show a big warning like "This product does not support Prime Video" on the side so they can't overlook that fact when buying it. (Though this could lead to other complications - I could imagine there being weird legal or anti-competitive issues with making claims like that about competitors' products in a way that they can't control, that's not part of the product description. Banning them might be the simplest way.)
Movement? That isn't the problem. Cost and interoperability are the problem.

On the cost side of IoT, the rent is just too damn high: I don't want to pay $50 for a fancy light bulb. I want to pay _maybe_ an extra 50 cents or $1 extra per bulb.

On the interoperability side: Most of the things I really care about are plugged into my home's electrical sockets. I'd love to see a new single standard "smart" plug that wires my devices into my home network when I plug it in. I can plug "dumb" devices into it and at a minimum turn if on/off. If I can do that, all my lamps work. For "smart" devices, they would push/pull data via TCP/IP.
Not sure if they were working together with GitHub on this, but Microsoft also announced today that Visual Studio Online Git repos now support Git-LFS with unlimited free storage:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/10/01/a...
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Kind of a sad move, I understand how someone might be convinced it was the right one based on near term goals but longer term it will bite them.

I have a Prime account because I order a lot of stuff for business, and that wins on shipping cost. But Prime Video wasn't ever really the motivator.

Its another part of the Amazon strategy that is opaque to me.
Very thoughtful writing here about how to navigate "information space" and how people cope with a ridiculously fast-moving world.

In navigating this nauseating landscape, we need fixed points that do not exist. This points to a salubrious [health-giving] role for both bullshit and absurd conflict. Fighting about politics, sports, or religion, or believing in harmless bullshit like the persistence of personal identity or Newtonian mechanics, may play a major role in keeping us at home in reality.
Issue trackers are like utilities, like electricity and water. If they're doing their job, they're invisible. You only notice them when they're broken.

As a result, all issue trackers have more detractors than promotors, with the vast majority of users being neutral.
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Is this not how most school lunches are in the US? Why not? Where I'm from we have a large hall and everyone comes in and sits down at the same time - pupils and teachers.
What's your development experience? I am guessing that you haven't worked on line of business applications for big companies which takes years to develop.

I think it's a mistake to think that Jira and FogBugz are only used for tracking 'bugs'. They are obviously used for that but everyone I know uses them to track everything related to their software. Track features/support questions/infrastructure changes etc.

To give you an example, I am part of 50+ developer team implementing straight through processing for a large hedge fund. This involves developing variety of systems which are highly dependent on each other. Jira tells me that I have 120 items which I need to implement by this year end. Mind you, this is just one system. There are at least 10 more systems like that. I can confidently say that there at least 1000 items in our overall list which we need to work on. You absolutely need a tool like FogBugz or Jira to track them properly.
Many unix tools are written to build looking for dependencies on default paths including /usr/local.

Putting packages installed in a custom /opt/homebrew location would make it harder to install and use software that often assumes a /usr/local possibility, but not an /opt/homebrew it's never heard of.

It is in fact a pretty common place to put non-distro installed software. And was not (and still is not?) used by OSX out of the box. It made a lot of sense for homebrew to use it.
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I use them both as well. What I like about Amazon* Video is that it has new releases. If I don't catch a movie while it's still in the theater, I can watch it the day it comes out online.

I still have a Netflix DVD subscription, so I could go that route too, but I always forget. Are there other good ways to watch new releases? Looks like the iTunes store also lets you rent movies.

*Edit: I meant Amazon Video here when I said Prime Video. (The difference being that Prime has a set of included videos you can watch for free)
For anyone unfamiliar with JS, async/await is about the best JavaScript will ever get:

var orders = await getJSON('/users/joe/orders');

No callbacks, promises etc (Edit: that you have to look at, as other posters note the implementation uses promises in the background).

You still have to explicitly say you want to be async, so it's not quite as good as non-blocking IO in something like Elixir, but it's the future as far as JS goes.
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Yes it's my go-to map when I need just a map, quick and reliable.

Google maps "offline regions" is a joke. Too limited and awkward. Google doesn't want anyone using their products without signing in or connecting to their endless "do you want fries with your maps" online offerings. This slows thing down on mobile.

Often I just want to refer to a map without even needing my location to be known, and definitely not the Internet. That's where maps.me is so good.
Where can one get a job as a professional FizzBuzz developer?

I think if a program is big enough to devote a software developer to it full-time, it's going to have at least 10 bugs. Maybe they are small or unimportant or so obscure that none of the users actually run into it, but they're in there somewhere.
Interesting; in addition to competing directly with sites like Zazzle and Spreadshirt (with the Amazon name attached), they've targeted their marketing specifically at mobile app vendors making shirts to go with their games.
I think it's too late for that to be a solution for crime. What would these criminal groups do if they lose their drug revenue stream? Go and find a job? I doubt it. They'll just diversify their criminal activities.
Every JIRA product has it's own special markup.

I can never remember how to write code into comments or titles. It literally changes from product to product and yet all of the products orchestrate together so that if you do happen to use Stash, JIRA, Wiki, etc all together, then you encounter as many different markup languages as there are Atlassian products.

It really is hellish.

I hope there's some good reason why they can't provide one "comment markup" language to all applications.
That sounds incredibly petty.
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I will agree that "intelligent" time tracking features in FogBuz ~4 years ago seemed relatively flaky and random.

JIRA's benefits are likely in customization - which is a giant pain for managers in some ways, but it's nice that it can do it, but JIRA is supremely frustrating when editing dashboards. Every time somebody changed a component name, it would break all the underlying queries, etc.

I think there's a huge market for someone to overtake JIRA because it's so unfriendly, and I was very happy for various projects that had a team scope small enough to use Trello, but with better searching and a few more (optional) controls on top or something.

Since there's common DNA there, I think Trello could evolve to be that. I hope it can.

(BTW, I'm also nostalgic a tiny tiny amount for the end-user usability of Trac.)
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I would say that the use of the phrase "we reported" is acknowledging that it is someone else's work. At my University such words have specific meaning.
Oh god, Open Garden, not to be confused with anything that's actually in any way open.
Your iPhone is completely covered with your fingerprints. Also, if your phone gets hacked/compromised the attacker could steal the secret used to generate your TOTPs. This is not possible with the Yubikey, it is absolutely impossible to extract the private key.

I have a Yubikey on my keychain (it can easily withstand this), and it takes very little effort to plug it into the USB port when I require it. Less than it would be to take my phone out.

As a side-note, some time ago the Yubikey had a vulnerability with its GPG module so they shipped out new ones for free. I now have the old key (with no GPG keys loaded on it) permanently plugged into my USB hub at my desktop. It is amazingly convenient.