skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "snoopy vendors only" Android profile

That's a brilliant idea, especially now that the multi-user support works on phones in addition to tablets.
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Right and now think about who is going to control the JIRA install: the manager or VP or CTO.

Fogbugz's interface prevents this kind of crazy customization and thus it acts as a defense against the craziness. For a custom workflow with Fogbugz you have to grab a plugin. To get my manager to install a plugin for JIRA took weeks (and I still never got access to the REST API or approval for one plugin months later). So Fogbugz is developer-friendly because it makes it harder for a manager to go in an lock things down and mess around. With JIRA, the micromanager seems to be bundled with JIRA... ;-)
Although I think Yubikey is great, I use Plug-Up key to test U2F. http://sk.happlink.com/plugup/en/

It was cheaper but is more fragile, worked well to test it out.

Now when U2F is getting more support, I think I will buy a Yubikey with U2F.
But why do they quit their jobs? If it's to start a business, educate themselves, obtain skills for landing a job they enjoy more, etc, then all those are good things, and not a downside to basic income.

And if they're just too damn lazy to work, and are satisfied with whatever minimal amount of basic income they receive, and have no drive to do better, then maybe employers are better off without them?
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I had a long held belief that Amazon is a principled and trust worthy company... sadly that vision is crumbling before my eyes.
See also: nearly every agency of the US government.
Nice propaganda piece!

Do you have any ones for people bankrupted by medical bills, hassled by police, or any of a dozen more pressing issues than gun control?
I agree, this is a bad move for Amazon.

I also go to them because they probably have what I want, and they have reliable shipping. So if they start cutting things out, what's going to be next?
I love JIRA and would absolutely advocate for using it over any other tracker.

With just a little tweaking (30 minutes or so on a fresh install), I can have it perfectly configured to match my ideal workflow.
It's all about relative experience. Your 60 hour a week job may not be good, but you may be able to see and appreciate the parts that aren't as bad as what you've now seen, and even a great job may not look as good after you've experienced the perfect job.

And to be clear, I don't think the cure for thinking that "(insert first world country) is absolutely terrible" is now good, just that it's relatively better than the initial assessment.

To get back to your original response, it's like telling your happy friend they shouldn't be absolutely content because yes, there are people out there that are doing better financially (assuming you are willing to equate financial success to happiness). It won't make them happier, but it will make their outlook more realistic (which isn't always a good thing). But again, reversing the statement like that doesn't preserve it's logical attributes. e.g. If A implies B, you can't infer that B implies A..
I don't see how we could have implemented the same in FogBugz.

How would you implement the compliance without technology in place? I'm being serious, how do you think compliance happened in the days of 486s, TRS-80s, punchcards or no computers at all?

There isn't always a technical solution to a social problem, and JIRA's customizations are a micromanagers dreams. I'm sure there are good cases where that level of control is needed (your compliance case) but generally you don't need it.
There is CloudSearch however it doesn't support schemaless stuff.

Looks like this is AWS' answer to that.

There's also the issue of CloudSearch taking in document batches rather than individual documents, which means you have to do a fair bit of more leg work to get your stuff in there. ElasticSearch can take in Logstash inputs which is handy and quite performant.

Plus a lot of data analysts are used to Kibana so there is some appeal there.
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Bought some LED kitchen track lights on amazon that uniformly burned out in < 2 months
+1. This is the reason I pay for Amazon RDS/Aurora, where the price difference versus the same EC2 instances is even greater. Sure I could set up a database... and replication to another database... and script scheduled snapshots... and build monitoring and fault tolerance against all the ways things can break... but by the time I've set all that up, I've wasted a week or more building servers instead of building a business.
You've got more than 10 bugs. You just don't know it yet.

But really, "bug tracker" is just a colloquial expression for the more accurate "issue tracker" which can definitely include things like improvements, new features, A/B tests you want to run, etc.
That price difference comes in at under a half day of developer time per month. That's rounding error in the cost of shipping something.
> The one shown most in the demo mode?

Which would lead TV manufacturers to introduce hacks that reduce power consumption solely for the demo mode.
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More than a little duplication on that chart. Interesting though, thanks.
You can type commands into Siri. "Set an alarm for 6am".
Euclidean distance in RGB or HSV or whatever is a terrible metric for judging color differences in any context. Not only are they poorly matched to human perception, but these models are also useless from the perspective of judging chemical details of surface pigments, or whatever physical thing someone might care about.

But really, since we’re talking about “dominant color”, and “color” is defined with reference to human vision, what we likely care about is the color “clusters” apparent to a human observer. Which means we should work in a color model which accurately represents features relevant to human vision.

(The only time anyone should ever care about RGB is when something is going wrong with their physical display or camera, and the technical details of the I/O medium becomes important to study, or if they are writing software to convert colors represented by a better model <-> RGB for input or output.)
RDS seems to be doing just fine with a large markup over EC2. Why would the managed version of a service be lower priced than the same infrastructure being managed?
Thanks. Will check these out.
It does give one pause for thought: A device that in many ways revolutionized the world (medical imaging, TV news and entertainment, and tube electronics, to name but three) is disappearing. Without it, our world may well have gone in quite a different direction (or perhaps we would have found the diode, the transistor, etc., that much sooner and ended in the same place long before). Food for thought.
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That's soo true.
Amazon also has items listed by sellers for cheaper than Prime but they are buried in the buy box.

That might be changing. I can't say more than that.
tl;dr: On average, every 22hr or so, someone somewhere in the US "goes postal" and manages to kill at least four other people.
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So what happens when such a person eats relatively healthily and exercises regularly? Does this do any significant good or should they just accept the inevitable?
I covered this in a separate piece on low power wide area networks http://www.slideshare.net/haystacktech/the-iot-hunger-games-... though to be clear, we are not talking about high bandwidth like Ethernet. We are seeing good signal propagation in sub-1GHz bands (measured in miles) while preserving multi-year AA battery life with some newer PHY layer technologies like LoRa and others. 2.4GHz is a mosh pit that most serious IoT vendors are fleeing due to the high interference and the resulting RMA's and related costs. For sensor networks, there is rarely a good reason not to use one of the more popular sub-1GHz bands 433/868/915 regardless of your geographic location.
Is that even legal in the EU? Isn't that the same behaviour that got Google into trouble, allegedly putting their own products in front of others?
Congratulations, you fucked up. A lot.

What is Amazon built on? How does it work? Oh, you think it's built on web services running on cloud architecture. On fulfillment centers, supply chains, and all of that jazz. But that's only half of the equation, the other half is customer loyalty. Customers are loyal because Amazon is, in turn, loyal to them. Returns are mostly painless. Most problems are handled quickly with the customer feeling satisfied they've been taken care of. And Amazon has the best selection of stuff at the best prices and the smoothest transition from exchanging money for a product to having that product in your hands a short time later.

That customer-company bond is what keeps Amazon humming. And Amazon works hard, damned hard, to maintain it. They continually refine the fulfillment, ordering, and delivery process to make it easier, more reliable, friendlier, and faster. That's a multi-billion dollar investment, and it keeps people using amazon even though there are tons of other ways to buy the same stuff.

And yet here you have part of Amazon making the spectacularly poor choice to abuse and tear down that relationship for the tiniest and most dubious of returns. It would be so easy for Amazon to turn into a typical customer-hating corporation, there are so many opportunities for it. But any advantage that seems to buy in the short-term is going to be pissed away by a diminished view of Amazon in the eyes of customers.

I've been an Amazon customer since 1996, and I'm seriously considering cancelling my prime account because of this bullshit.
>> While most of these plugins didn't offer much in terms of functionality, for the person making a decision, it definitely helped to tip the scales in Jira's favor.

For me, this kinda encapsulates the problem with Jira. Jira is extremely impressive in the number of features, plugins, and customization opportunities it offers, and yet, I can't honestly say even half of the stuff is in any way helpful to me as a developer.
The Yubikey does not run on batteries. It requires no cellular service. It can be damaged by the elements but not easily. Most electronics would break before it does. Of course you can lose it, but you can lose anything. Attach it to something you care about, such as your regular keychain. If you want to give access to someone, register a second key and lend that key to them. Then revoke when they don't need it.
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Atlassian products tend to make me SO mad in this way. Confluence, can I just use markdown? No! Forget that I used it in so many other places. Oh but wait, someone may have built an importer... try to get that installed.
You're focusing on the consumer space. The big promise currently is elsewhere - sensors, automation, warehouses (for physical goods), and so forth. This is especially true for data collection in physically challenging environments, like mines.

This stuff is not necessarily tied to any cloud. There is a new term (wait for it), "the fog", that implies on-site data processing and analytics for all of these connected devices.

The funny part is the IoT is already here. Such systems are being deployed now in mining, oil and gas, etc.
I not heard good things about Jira's ease of use
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Opinions on the price being high seem to miss the point of AWS.

AWS is very expensive relative to other clouds, with exceptions so some very nice services (S3, SQS, SES, Route53).

"Core" (Very Important™) services such as EC2/RDS are (appropriately) expensive due to the tooling and high availability options available. I'd expect the tradeoff for their hosted ES to be price, since I'm buying availability and less headache, not just the search service.

I know for sure that I don't know enough to monitor JVM applications. I'd love to pay for their ES service if/when it made sense for a business.
My guess is that Fogbugz is a cash cow without much new development effort. The focus of FogCreek's founders is on StackExchange and Trello now.
More importantly for a business, you can get a lot more bang for your buck. High School grads have much lower pay expectations.
Your point is valid, but this may be a bad example. Construction margins are so thin, and construction businesses so sensitive to it, and Lowe's and Home Depot are so fungible. Even among retailers, there's no room for margin. Especially on easily-compared items like tools; construction workers know what they're buying.
as always, a different half is helpful to any particular user. add all the users together and you're back with the full feature set.
The complaints about git-lfs make me think we need to tell people about BAM for BitKeeper.

http://www.bitkeeper.com/features_binary_asset_management_ba...

BAM works with a similar idea, instead of saving large files in the local repository, users are allowed to save them in a centralized server. This saves disk space and network transfer time.

However, unlike other solutions, BAM preserves the semantics of distributed development.

Instead of requiring a single or standardized set of servers, every user can have a different BAM server. Data is moved between servers automatically and on demand.

One group in an office might use a single BAM server for storing all their data close and locally. When another development group is started in India, they can use a server local to them. The binary assets will automatically transfer to the India server as commits are pulled between sites.

This allows centralized storage of your data and yet still supports having a team work while completely disconnected from the internet.
By the way, almost every Youtube-on-TV app can be controlled Chromecast-like manner by the mobile app.
I mention P2P or "cloudless" connectivity in this article.
Being forced to sell something is quite a bit of moral distance away from being forced to allow anyone to set up a stall in your bazaar, regardless of the products they may be selling from it.

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, or a pirate jolly roger flag, or a UK union jack flag, or a North Korean flag, or a rainbow hippy peace-sign flag. A meta-merchant based out of the US should simply not be able to discriminate based on content, unless it also wishes to assume legal responsibility for those things it does allow to be sold in its marketplace. Someone, somewhere, will want to sell what I want to buy, and it is no more Amazon's place to prevent us from doing business on their general-purpose e-commerce platform than it is AT&T's or Verizon's place to prevent us from talking over their phone networks.

The instant you pull CSA flags from your marketplace, everything else becomes a de facto Amazon-approved product. Like ISIS propaganda magazines. Whoops, better ban that, too. Eventually, it reaches the point where some employee has to decide whether a fill-in-the-blanks legal boilerplate form can be sold by a merchant that is not a licensed attorney in the buyer's state.

Because if Amazon removed some offensive or illegal products, customers may rely on that when shopping, and assume that anything else bought from Amazon must therefore be legal and non-offensive. If Amazon wants to do that, fine. But do it on curated.amazon.com or only.amazon.com rather than the main www.amazon.com site. Maybe I'll go there if I only want to see stuff sold directly by Amazon without having to check that box in the search results every time.

Curated marketplaces are fine, but only so long as there is a free, uncurated alternative. I think Apple should be forced to allow uncurated stores (like Cydia) or curated-by-someone-else stores (perhaps a Google Play for iOS) for those who wish to assume the additional risks posed by such offerings. They are certainly allowed to preload their own store, and make it the default, but if I want to take my property out of the walled garden, they had damned well better unlock the gates and let me leave.

In my opinion, the extent to which the platform is completely neutral is inversely proportional to the responsibility the platform operators have for the things that make use of it. Of course, by this theory, if Silk Road had not policed its black market listings at all, it could not have been shut down for promoting commerce in outlawed goods and services.
> Given the choice of spending 2-3 days getting everything configured right

It's never 2-3 days, especially when the next dude managing it needs to be on-boarded. He might not be familiar with how you do things.

This externalizes all that management overhead.

One less thing that you (and your co-workers, and the next dude after you leave) can break.

Also all the configuration settings are exposed via a neat UI rather than hidden in various files scattered out and about. Yes source control, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, etc makes this vastly simpler but then you need to hire and train people that are familiar with these things.
It's not quite that bad as the channel time requirements for most IoT applications are small. I did some research on this (https://github.com/hughobrien/wlan-stats) but it's far from complete.
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Likely the next step for those will be NFC communication. Yubikey NEO has this for example, and can be used with Android phones. Note that U2F uses challenge - response protocol so sniffing the radio waves will not reveal the secret.
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Well, I also have a Fire Stick I use to watch Netflix and don't have a Prime subscription. I hope they don't make my Fire Stick useless.
Amazon has more possiblities to run a really huge cluster and balance the different load peaks of the search nodes. The whole business model of AWS is based on this... but you're right as well, price isn't everything and comfort worth money. And yes, I love RDS as well, especially Aurora... it's a great deal!
The only reason I looked outside of GitHub was Bitbucket's free private repos.

Now, for our academic lab, we're working entirely with Bitbucket (for the UI), and repositoryhosting (for low-cost repo archival with many users).

In an academic setting, where private repos are created for each small collaborative project, then left idle but accessible, GitHub's per-private-repo pricing model is prohibitive.
Just canceled mine as well. I've been uneasy because of all of the working conditions issues (especially in the warehouses). Kind of appalled with myself that this is what it took for me to act on it.
It is possible that their software isn't large enough to have 10 bugs... they could be implementing FizzBuzz.
I still can't believe they invented their own language... but #1 seems like it would have been enough.

I hate using JIRA, though, just like I hate using all Atlasssian products, so it would have been nice if FogBugz won.
That Minimal Viable Product graphic on there is a classic! I love it! Always a good thing to show people when when they get too hung up on the planning phase.

I'm a believer in: Just build something that works and iterate off that. Prototype rather than over-engineer. Over-engineering early is future proofing for a future that may never happen.
You're right, it's geocoding it to "Pebble Island". The format isn't standard, so it just geocodes the first place name it finds :)
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I was working at a large British bank in 2005 when Jira started to get adoption by several teams. The approved bug tracking product was ClearCase ClearQuest. If you think the Jira GUI is ropey you should see ClearQuest. Absolute nightmare. By contrast Jira was free to get started, and much nicer than corporate approved incumbents. They called it land and expand!