skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this is a rant. However, the first point is a good one.

95% of the author's [limited sample] where recruiters earning a large amount of money for doing very little technically.
Yeah, we all see that the german security concept doesn't work. France, Britain and the USA are much safer and have a lot less problems with terrorism. I really wish Germany were more like them.
From what I've seen/heard the OS itself is built on top of Linux and Android and apps can be developed with the HTML5 stack (and I suppose with Android's tools ?).

The main problem with this project is that the SoluOS itself is mainly a UI/UX innovation, but for some reason they had to provide HW and OS too. Why can't I install this on my Mac/Linux laptop ?

the main idea in SoluOS is that apps, files, etc. should be organized in "projects" instead of them all just being there in the same Applications folder and files in Documents or whatever. It makes switching between projects easy - imagine having "project environments" where all the correct files and apps are easy to reach.

ps. I'm not affiliated with them but being Finnish and in Comp. Sci. I kinda couldn't have gone without noticing these guys in the tech scene over here :)
Ask HN: Can I ask about burnout?
How long were you running on burnout before you gave yourself recovery time?
How do you recover from Burnout?
How do you recognise you are in a state of burnout?

And, how long did it take you to recover?

I'm in this last question state at the moment being asked back to Work. It's been a month...I still don't feel i'm back to a functioning level but I was running on burnout for a year - I didn't give myself a break after final university year and went straight into work when I was already burnt out then(I know, I know, silly me!).

Thanks HN!
Note that "funniest movie" isn't the same as "best comedy". It's merely the one that made me laugh the most. That's a very important attribute for judging comedy, but not the only one. Taking all aspects into account (how much I laughed, acting, memorable lines, cultural impact, cinematography, etc.) I would rate Ghostbusters as best.
The US is, without question, a nicer place to live than Russia. If you think otherwise, you've either never been to the US or you haven't seen the level of poverty that is widespread outside Russia's major cities. There are small pockets of prosperity in Russia, outside of those, nobody acclimated to western standards of living would consider them equatable.
Looks interesting, but I find it odd that the site itself doesn't have the widget available.
A changing speed of light would affect the spectral lines of distant objects. Since we do not see that effect, it is simpler to explain it as the universe expanding, which probably means that that is the correct explanation.
Not a TL;DR, but here's a very telling excerpt:

Consent has to be at least 1. freely given, 2. specific, 3. informed and 4. unambiguous under Directive 95/46/EC.

...

Users would have to be informed about the specific situation. So just saying that “data is transferred outside of the EEA”, as the Facebook terms currently do, will clearly not be sufficient to make an average users understand that his data may end up at the NSA. At the same time Facebook is still publicly claiming that it has never heard of any of any US spy program.

...

To get a valid consent Facebook in our example would have to be very upfront and explain that all data that is used on facebook.com is subject to mass and indiscriminate surveillance by the US government.

...

A legally binding consent under EU law can be done technically, but very likely Facebook would automatically violate the “gag order” that applies to them under US law. So basically they are trapped between US “gag orders” prohibiting proper information and EU law demanding exactly that.

...

Bottom line: We will see a hand full of lawyers advising client to simply put some additional disclaimer in their privacy policy – maybe just to have some additional argument in the public debate or before DPAs that are known to be “business friendly”, but this will not be a legally stable solution when data is processed at US companies that are subject to ‘mass surveillance’.
Azure AD Domain Services Is Now in Public Preview
Gluster has always been an OpenSource project IIRC.
Is the problem that it was based (rather than accurately translated from the book), or that the novel was written by Philip K Dick?
This is a fantastic point -- thank you. It's just it's not ready yet. I'm working on making it compatible with IE. Once it's usable, I'll definitely use it on the website.
Tech giants warn cybersecurity bill could undermine users' privacy
PID temp controllers are also used a lot in homebrewing especially for controlling mash temperature.

You can use the PID to maintain the temperature of the wort at ~65C by passing the wort through a heating element and a temperature probe (this is called Recirculating Infusion Mash System).
Jeff Bezos Plummets from Top CEO to 87th Spot
Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397496
If you get the chance, visit an Alamo Drafthouse (they're in several locations outside of Austin now, including Northern Virginia and Los Angeles) You'll have a much better experience - no ads, comfy chairs, beer & food brought to you, and obnoxious people get kicked out.
> Computer as a service

Next up: Breathing as a service.
Pixelmator for Mac rewritten in Swift
Because to regular people he spins it as a trade deal that will get us x, y, and z. Regular people don't understand how they're being fucked in the ass by Obama on this issue.
>> When you point out to them how internet or cellphone networks or taxis or a number of other things is actually cheaper in Russia (or in eastern Europe in general) because of the lack of regulations or government interference, they go in denial.

Cool. I'm from a small 3rd world country. Just as in Russia the police officers sometimes rape detainees with bottles of champagne, there is literally no justice, but lots other funny things.

But our prices are lower than those in Russia. And it's OK if you are not paying taxes here. So what? Does it mean the rest of the world must be envy?
Before we had reasonable espresso in Austin, I had my own PID'd Silvia. I had had good coffee Vivace in Seattle and wanted to replicate it.

But boy was it a lot of work, your home-roasted beans have to be the right freshness, the milk has to be super fresh and your tamping technique has to be spot on.

Now that we have good coffee in Austin I cant see going back to doing it myself.
Lisp is not and has never been the right tool for configuration management.
It's an optional module rather than changing the core logic (as 2.2->2.4 did), so in that regard it makes sense to only up the minor version number.
Open salary ranges tend towards the lower end, out of necessity.
Yes, "patriotism" (a mind disease) is endemic to the US, and it produces legions of useful idiots who are unwilling to admit grotesque/gaping faults in their motherland. These are the same people you see on the TV reading the news and playing the role of "topic expert".
I turned off my voicemail because of this.
Biotech startup Theranos has a huge credibility problem
Agreed, the "eggs with jam" seems to be genuinely made up in the cookbook. I browsed around author's website and she and her husband seem to be "food historians". In other words they travel quite a bit and people pitch recipes to them. Most of the exotic ones they never verify. In this case it seems someone has played a practical joke on them.
At least, not on HN. However, would you put The Martian almost on par with 2001? Would you rate it more than Blade Runner? I wouldn't do either, no way.

If you interpret the rating as probability of that a randomly selected person will enjoy the movie then yes. I would probably rate it higher than both.
Do past employers actually provide this?

My past employer in the UK was absolutely clear to everyone that joined something like "For staff that resign, we will only verify date an duration of tenure, and department and position title. All current serving staff are prohibited from providing references and endanger their position by doing so, etc..."

Living in China, and with both very large and smaller companies (international and local) in HR or close-to-HR functions, the HR manager would most likely meet this request with the delete key on their keyboard, or at best a canned response.

I share this because I'm surprised employers would actually disclose this, for how it can feed back on their own operations (for example, a predatory competitor using this information).
Why not have a lawyer help negotiate on your behalf instead? Employment contracts can get complicated enough that you might want to consult with one regardless.
It better be a really good one. (Swim without the fear of drowning? Smoke all day and never die of lung-related problems?)
@&#&!@)(@'in phones is what. Specifically the cellular radio components; put a cell radio in a device and suddenly you are hardcore rammed into proprietary software land. The halo seems to extend even to tablets that don't hook up the cell network since all the hardware still sources from phone-land.

I'd rather have open software slowly and even ungracefully get phone functionality merged into it, but that's basically not possible, so instead we've been forced to go the other way, laboriously, slowly, and largely unsuccessfully trying to open hardware and software up that is starting from a position of totally proprietary.

This is one of the most frustrating development to me of the past ten years. We've made huge strides towards proprietary, locked-down hardware, because of cell phones, even in systems that don't use them. I'd love something like the Ubuntu phone, at least in principle, but it's swimming upstream against some very strong currents.
How Is Pipemonk Different from Zapier
Reminds me of an ex-boss of mine, who got a visit by a couple shysters from an SEO company.

His first questions was: "What's your company's name again?"

clickety-click!

"Then, would you mind explaining why your company is not right on the top of a Google search?"

It was a mighty short visit.
Ha ha - that was a funny read. You've got a talent for words, forget this new fangled DeVelOps thing you've been doing for 15 years and get into comedy writing.
> even if it means giving up a little temporary security

While I appreciate your attempt to tie in the quote, in this context it's actually greatly improving security. In the short term, yes, attackers will be able to exploit things, but in the long run, you actually have people discovering and reporting security issues so they won't be exploited. I think software security as a whole as benefited greatly from the openness of the community (this is most easily seen with respect to cryptography) and it would be a shame if laws pushed parts of it underground.
I've started using more of Gmail's features to help control this.

First, there is the actual email address itself: Gmail ignores periods and anything after a + (plus sign). So every new site I sign up for gets a different email address, usually my normal email plus a postfix named after that particular site. This way, when I get emails from recruiters saying they found me through LinkedIn, but are actually using a form of my email address I've only used on Github, I know immediately what is going on.

And second, I just mark them as spam. Because they are.
Walmart Takes Swipe at Amazon with Open Source Cloud
The US has local telecom monopolies which even today are still highly regulated. (Making the rest of your argument moot.)
Graduated in 1993, started contracting in 1995, and pretty much been at it ever since then. I have no issue with agents. They make my life easier.

The only and ONLY rule I have is that the employer knows exactly the rate I am getting and is happy with the rate they are paying the agent. I've seen contractors walk out on jobs once they find out the margin the agent is getting. An honest relationship is key.
Actually, it seems to be even longer lived than that:

http://p-syutkin.livejournal.com/177938.html

It's a reprint from some 1955 book. Something is definitely fishy.
You're right - both are unrelated, I should've mentioned the pair of them
Coderstack (which is dead now) used to only accept direct job posts.

I wonder if a similar service would gain traction again. Because all of the job boards for UK have 90% recruiter spam really.
Introducing DATO, a CMS for static sites
The key words are "the President...determines"; the condition in the AUMF is not on an activity on the part of the potential enemy, it is a decision by the President.

Given that, any other vagueness is fairly irrelevant; its pretty much a blank check no matter what things like "harbored" mean. Which is why even President Obsma has said it should be repealed.
I have the .html5Mode set to true so it was routing based on push state.

I hadn't gotten around to creating a process to generate the sitemap.xml before I gave up on the site. For SEO, we were more concerned with getting the time sensitive content indexed.
Wow, this hits home big-time. I definitely fit into this category.

It's sad this doesn't have more upvotes :(
Glad to see sustainability getting more widespread.
This has been my experience as well. Even using a small subset of a playbook via tags can take a long time, especially if you're doing a run in serial. One of our deployments that only affects six servers takes fifteen minutes.

This can be mitigated somewhat by putting Ansible on the target machine, downloading all the necessary files to that machine, and then running Ansible locally... but that seems awfully fragile to me.

I am much more interested in Salt's ZeroMQ path these days. It seems to scale better, at least on paper and in my few small tests.
You don't need to poison the well to make that point.
It's going to get complicated for companies working together with US mass surveillance programs like PRISM. US secret services violate the essence of human rights of the EU and therefore it is unacceptable to transfer personal data to the US.

Up until this decision there was somewhat of an excuse for companies like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. since there was this Safe Harbor agreement that basically just stated that 'everything is fine.'
But now, Safe Harbor is dead. And making another Safe Harbor agreement will probably fail.

This is not something that can be resolved by Facebook with an update to the Terms of Service. Probably because it would be anyway invalid according to EU law but also because they are bound by gag orders from secret services that explicitly forbid them to state what exactly they're doing to the data. At this point, it is completely unclear what will happen and what Facebook and other US companies will do.

One possibility is to store data in the EU, effectively hiding it from US mass surveillance. However, there are most likely significant costs involved with such an approach.

We need to wait and see. These are interesting times.
I PIDed my Silvia as well. Seems to work well, though my heat exchange machine w/o a PID seemed to make better espresso (at several times the cost). These days my schedule has me leaving early so the machine is gathering dust in the garage.

When I was in Seattle this spring I made a tour of Vivace, Victrola, et al. Really fantastic stuff going on there. Here in the bay area everyone seems to like sour notes. I feel I beat out all the local shops with my home setup. Schomer definitely beats me out, though.
Should really be called "The Dangers of DRM'ed E-Books".

There are several advantages of ebooks over paper books:

* Less environmentally harmful
* Take up less space
* Easier to copy, I can send 1 subversive ebook to 1,000 people.
This is completely common in America. Is the London job market scene just messed up?
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In certain shops that may be true, but definitely not all.
Python has had a large role in Red Hat's tools for a very long time so I bet you'll find more Python than Ruby in sysadmin-land overall.

If you aren't using Rails for your web-stack, I suspect you might not be using any Ruby at all on a server. It isn't even part of the CentOS minimal install. Python is. I'm not sure about how Ruby is used in Ubuntu, maybe it's more common there.

However, language choice alone makes Ansible more "compatible" with the rest of the RHEL stack.
I don't get the complaint. This is the context:

"printed books …(stuff that applies to printed books) ..Contrast that with Amazon e-books (fairly typical).. (stuff that applies to kindle ebooks and other DRM restricted formats):"

Its fairly typical in that Amazon is the biggest retailer, a trend setter and other retailers and tech providers follow their lead putting out similar stuff.

I don't perfectly agree with the Free Software Foundation at a high level, but I think this comparison is pretty fair. If you compare in most people's physical and legally obtained digital book collections, this is what you will find. The ebooks don't come with the same rights.
What do you mean? Those sites are available from Russia, as far as I know.
What are these [0]? They are there where they mentioned Solu OS in the website also in the kickstarter page/video.

[0] http://www.solu.co/css/svg/OS_round.png
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From the article: "E-books need not attack our freedom (Project Gutenberg's e-books don't)"
I doubt he can spin anything forever in this information age. I.e. he can of course mislead some to push this through, but it surely won't give him any positive legacy. Quite the opposite.
https://twitter.com/actualrecruiter
Theranos Our Lab
1200 mAh is miniscule. They must've meant 12000 mAh or something else altogether.
There was another article on creating a portable cloud setup with Intel NUCs at Joyent blog few months back:

https://www.joyent.com/blog/spin-up-a-docker-dev-test-enviro...

I wonder what the cost difference would be between this setup and the original article box?
There are a lot of other sources for ebooks. I've never bought one from amazon. This article is FUD.
US recruitment (at least around tech hubs) does seem a lot more civilized than the UK situation - most opportunities I see are directly advertised. I left the UK five years ago, and I still get most of my recruitment spam from UK agents. Someone clearly needs to educate those guys about aging their databases - someone who was in the market for opening level PHP gigs in 2001 is probably not still looking for opening level PHP gigs in 2015.
How does Netflix operate on AWS? (from re:Invent 2015)
Whenever 'freedom' is mentioned in such a context, it obviously means the lack of freedom as in the USA Freedom Act, Freedom Fries, etc. Free trade is therefore, anything but.
They're invoking the "spunky underdog" memeset, that's all. If you support them, you too can be a spunky underdog. This marketing maneuver is often successful in created a small core of very, very passionate supporters who essentially take the project in as part of their personal identity. On the positive side, you can get some serious evangelists and big spenders if you succeed. On the risk side, if a project does flounder, such supporters will support a product well past the point where it is obvious to everyone else there is a huge problem, and then once they finally realize it has failed, turn on the project like jilted lovers. It's a high risk, high reward marketing move.

I say this neutrally, describing both the possible positive and negative outcomes of the move. I have insufficient information about the product in question to have a specific opinion on which outcome is more likely, beyond the observation that this is high risk in the general sense.
I cringe at the trend of describing speech as 'violent'. Its a small but important distinction between 'violent speech' and 'speech about or encouraging violence'.
This is a good idea. Try to launch as soon as possible, even without IE support. Especially, if the product works fine with other browsers.
Had a recruiter email me recently saying:

"JASON knowledge is an advantage..."

Yep. I still don't know jason
New NetBeans release
Possibly the most entertaining and well-written post I've ever encountered on HN.
SSH's major problem here is performance. When you need to orchestrate dozens of servers with many separate tasks, then the slowdown is very noticeable.
I've found that the mashing temperature of the venerable 'huge cooler wrapped in bath towels' is unbelievably stable.
Especially with Kepler onboard.
Containers != microservices.

Yes they can be used for this, but they are usefull for a lot more things, we use docker intensively CI in Jenkins for documented, project-specific build environments. I replaced dozens of build VM's that were idle 95% of the time with 1 beefed up VM running docker. I use a lot less resources a lot more efficiently.

Yes it is hyped, but that doesn't mean it's useless. Docker or containerisation, just as any other tech, is just another tool in the box. It's up to the users to decide how to use it - or not to use it. Stop bitching about it, and just don't use it if you don't see any advantages in your use-cases. For me, it was mostly a positive experience.
There have been times in my career when good recruiter was my best friend in the world... at least for a couple of weeks. These days I get spammed or called by five or six of them a day, most of whom haven't even read my resume, and have no idea whether I am a fit for the latest position they are trying desperately to fill. It resembles a boiler-room stock pumping operation.
I recently read the BuronOut wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout because I was having some thoughts about it myself. Burnout is a real problem in the software industry. With the exception of 2 months hiking leave (about five years ago), I never stopped working since after University (actually also during). I found that multiple short intensive vacations (long weekends 4-5 days), in times of stress, eases the tension a lot. It also depends how much support do you get at work (from you peers/manager, can you openly talk about it)? And how much support do you get at home from your immediate family.
A few things to remember - once you got a new job it is ok to negotiate the start date. Buy yourself enough time to recover, knowing that you are going back to work, but not now. Depending on your negotiation skills, if you can't get the salary you wanted, try to trade it with vacation days (so you can take more long weekends). Some burnouts could take a few months to recover from. Take your time.... Looking back at your career 10 years from now, these few months are very short, and who knows - you might get more offers during that time... going to meetups, messaging friends for better job offers, asking them about the stress levels in the place they work.
I'm not a biochemist, and it's been too long ago when I worked there to comment on what the current state of the art is in this area.

What I recall is that at the microfluidic level, a lot of the work becomes a mechanical issue not a biochemical one. You're working with very small samples in a disposable system (obviously cleaning a capillary between samples is practically impossible). Blood isn't the easiest substance to work with, especially when trying to move it through small channels.

On top of that, now you're trying to detect very small amounts of antigen in an even tinier sample size. Your technology needs to be incredibly sensitive but have a decent resolution as well. Some antigens you want a simple positive/negative outcome. But with some other tests you want a level or range (like thyroid).
Wild Vegas parties celebrated atomic bomb tests of the 1950s
(202F ~= 94C)