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Ask HN: Am I producing low quality links?
I try to blog once a month in average. And I almost always share the links on HN.

And even though with every post, a decent amount of traffic is generated, most of the time there is no feed-back or any kind of interaction in the comments/votes.

Am I doing something wrong, like posting in wrong times, about subjects that don't interest this community?

Or is my writing style not that interesting/engaging?
You hit the nail on the head here. In particular the points about changing the English text and about different contexts resulting in different translations.

I also feel that the gettext approach assumes everyone speaks the same base language (namely English), but that's not necessarily true with an international team. Obviously the string IDs still need to be in a common language, but those are simpler to parse and search for than full sentences, especially if the person writing the English text has chosen uncommon words or syntax.
I don't know how other also-rans like Dash and Deezer can keep raising funds to pursue the razor-thin streaming music business.
Bloat and jankyness seems to be a function of project age. This is a relatively greenfield project, so it's pretty nice for now.

MS Office is ancient as far as software projects go. The only things that are older at this point is UNIX, Oracle bank/govt mainframes.
Anonymous hackers' group declares war on ISIS
This does nothing to address the problem of the initial application.
Due to the considerable amount of HN comments complaining about definitions in submission titles, I can't help but propose a new acronym.

Introducing NIMTAU: not in my thesaurus
> 1+1=2 is only true because it doesn't contradict our experiences.

Not quite. In the mathematical sense, 1+1=2 is true because (a) it is a well-formed sentence in a certain formal system and (b) there exists a proof of it in that formal system. The formal system consists of a grammar for well-formed sentences as well as rules for deriving true sentences.

The key point here is that the definition of "true" is part of the definition of the formal system. Unlike in philosophy, we have a clear and unambiguous definition of what "true" means, and its evaluation does not depend on properties of our physical universe.[0]

So when people say that "mathematical theorems are true in all possible universes", they're well-intentioned but I would argue that they are misleading. The deeper (philosophical) truth is that the (mathematical) truth of mathematical theorems is independent of universes[1].

[0] The fact that our minds are drawn to thinking about the specific type of formal systems that are usually considered to be reasonable foundations for mathematics may well be a consequence of the properties of our physical existence.[2] However, if by some magic the definitions of formal systems studied by alien civilizations in a different physical universe were to be transmitted to us, we would be able to arrive at the same conclusions about those systems as the aliens, and vice versa. There would be no disagreement about what sentences are true in such an alien formal system.

[1] Where I use the word "universe" in the physical sense and not in the sense that is found in set theory and its ilk.

[2] However, I personally don't think so. I believe (though I cannot prove it) that something like the Church-Turing hypothesis also applies to foundational formal systems at least up to basic set theory (possibly minus the axiom of choice). It is conceivable that some alien civilization in a much stranger universe would consider a certain extension of our set theory as the natural choice for mathematical foundations, but they would recognize our set theory as a subset of what they're studying.
God forbid! PowersHell can really drive you to insanity with half-swallowed chained exceptions (pointing to the initial caller) and its return-everything-from-procedures behaviour.
can we please have a fully functional bash on windows?
A lot of photos from unsplash, is this just an aggregator?
Much of that is simply being out of practice. At 35 you generally don't spend that much time learning new things. But, if you go back and get a masters you can get back into the swing of things.
The F# team is working on getting F# working on .NET Core. It's an important goal for the team.

You can follow their progress: https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/pulls?utf8=&q=is%3...
For those who are, like me, ignorant: VS Code is a source code editor...

I find it funny that nowhere on the official page (code.visualstudio.com) does it say that it's an editor.
For ex try to read the data from a signal.
Another example is to start a namespace before all threads start.

I can go on for a while :)
And Amazon during re:Invent.
I've done this in the past with a pretty basic time series model. The accuracy was incredibly high and allowed us to forecast financial results months into the future.
The light side of dark matter
I will never bring my kids up this way, they will enjoy life. Imagine if Steve Jobs was raised this way, we would have no Apple, this kind of one dimensional excellence is for the parents satisfaction.
The investigators claimed they found it when the login page leaked its IP. It was one of the more contested facts of the case - some thought it was possible, other infosec people thought it wasn't.

There are stories that say Ulbricht was notified by someone in one of the chat rooms that the site was leaking IP addresses, but Ulbricht never fixed it, which allowed the FBI to find the real server in Iceland.

Wired did a great two part article on the story:

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

More articles on the leaky login page:

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-leg...

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/dread-pirate-sunk-by-leak...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/08/leaky_captcha_behind...
Goa – Design-Based HTTP Microservice Dev in Go
Created new pastebin entry and got the same outcome :-)
http://pastebin.com/p7fZ8QYR
And I was using the service three days ago with no error!
Yeah, a lot of what you're saying I agree with.

In the several months since I wrote that I've changed my mind on a lot of things. The new design uses a sharded architecture (on hash of topic id) with nodes having a specific keyspace. This makes it much more robust and allows for actual consistency. Since all data will be treated equally, there will no longer be a penalty for less used data.

The main reason I originally thought that less used data should be penalized, is that it takes up a lot of resources for things that aren't used by the majority of users. However, that's a hard thing to track and makes it difficult to propagate inserts.

As for triples vs property graphs, they're functionally equivalent. I'm using triples because they've been shown to work quite well at scale such as Google's massive Knowledge Graph.
This has been on Debian, Netbeans, IntelliJ, and other editors / software / OS since as far back as I can remember. Not sure if it's standard, so long as it's optional I don't mind it.
Ignore your former cofounder and get on with your life. Badmouthing you is going to make him look bad and you look sympathetic. There's nothing you can really accomplishing by tackling the guy head-on.
The next frontier in NGS is long read SMRT (Single Molecule Real Time - PacBio) combined with Oxford Nanopore's technology. That is, very long reads combined with massively parallel transcription that doesn't rely on light emission. Illumina-based tech is not going to be part of the equation.

Illumina is really only related to traditional Sanger sequencing in that its sequencing by synthesis.
It tries to hurt the big outsourcing companies, but unless it manages to transfer (tens of) thousands of engineers each year they just won't notice it...

Also, very often a company needs someone qualified and found a particular candidate they want and tries to apply for him.
I'm not sure how taking one of the many low qualified "engineer" coming with these outsourcing companies would fit the need here.
Wow, this is heavy. Good article.
This is the case with many low-level libraries with Haskell bindings.

If you just wrap the C calls for some SQL database, or say, OpenGL, the resultant code ends up looking very imperative, stateful, and C-like.

Some people have tried to make more Haskell-ish wrappings with limited success.

Fortunately, even C-like Haskell is not totally awful. It's just not as nice as more idiomatic Haskell.
Is it the lottery in the literal sense? I.e. are applicants who match the requirements and wanted by employers are randomly selected just as the DV lottery winners are?
Really interesting post. Though SVGs can reduce the number of HTTP requests, it's definitely important to manage file sizes as well, or the speed gains might be negated. Nice writeup!
It's being auto updated on a monthly cadence - not too different from Chrome. Some releases are big, some are small. I wouldn't write off a project that has a team that's set up to do that.
over 30 chapters and the only reference to graphical models is naive bayes and EM
It takes Saturn 15 years to do an "about face" so that it's on the opposite side of the Sun. Perhaps Microsoft's code base, when printed out, is as massive as a planet.
That's really neat. Any reason you decided to abandon work on it?

Non pay-walled version: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-bin/tr-get.cgi/2...
Yes, but why?
A fun exercise in 'constrained' writing about a complex topic.
However making that claim that it 'explained' Relativity is not valid in any reasonable sense.

I found the reliance on keeping to the 1000 most commonly used words to be actually fairly painful to read thru to the end and even harder to understand.

Perhaps "Relativity as explained to a 6 year old" might make it more accessible. A 6 year old has a vocabulary of ~5000 to 10000 words (for reference) and being able to take these "verbal shortcuts" aka words would make for better understanding.
Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)
no mention of Windows 3.1 calculator's 3.11 - 3.1 bug?
"New CC0 Stock Photo Website" with a member login and a /shopping cart/? And you want my email address before I download a photo?

How about "New Stock Photo Website using CC0 photos to gain an audience, impending expansion into the pay-for-stock-photos market"

Try these real sites that won't try to take your money: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://unsplash.com/
You do know that the name is mostly an artifact from a previous age and the GUI designer in VS is like 5% of a very powerful IDE, right?
There is no way that this is going to be the case. It's much more likely to be a combination of Illumina and ONT or ONT alone. PacBio is far too expensive and low throughput to be a challenger outside of niche applications (like genome assembly).
The sooner we do it, the impacts will be smaller and it will be cheaper. The longer we wait, the more pain we're in for. Politics don't change that fact. No one said it would be easy, but burying our heads in the sand isn't going to solve anything.
This is pretty interesting. One thing I've seen happen with H-1B employees is that they feel trapped as a consequence of being sponsored by their employer. If this enables those 'trapped' individuals to more easily switch jobs, then it won't matter as much that the big companies are gaming the lottery.
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"Mono is a free and open source project led by Xamarin" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)

But Xamarin have wisely moved into a wider place in the .NET tools ecosystem so that they don't only do mono, i.e. so they don't live and die with it.

Mono has been important and useful. But it may not continue to be that.
Ask HN: Review my startup: dynalist.io
Ask HN: Review my startup: dynalist.io

Live demo at https://dynalist.io/demo

Feedback we're looking for:

If you have used WorkFlowy, what do you think of our product? Does it look like a clone? Is it better or worse than WorkFlowy? By how much?

If you haven't used anything like this before, do you understanding what the product does by looking at the landing page? Especially, does it communicates clearly what the benefits are for a user?

Any other feedback is welcome too.

Thanks!
So the solution is transfering them to triplebyte and then match them to a startup?

Who pays them in the meanwhile because I believe its illegal to be on H1b and not be employed (being paid)?
PyPy3 stable is compatible with Python 3. PyPy4 is not, yet.
yes, your understanding is correct. The odd was 1 out of 3 this year I think.
Two things stuck out to me.

A lot of the roles/responsibilities stuff is very similar to Holocracy. Like a lot of methodologies, Holocracy may be better taken loosely. And flexible, but clear roles is one of the nicer things from that world.

And the bit about having teams work on only one project at a time has a lot of backing in the book Principles of Development Flow. A lot of things done in the name of efficiency actually slow things down. And packing in your spare cycles with extra projects is definitely one of them.
I don't think the tool is for me, as it feels like too much of an opinionated framework.

However, I really appreciate you open sourcing it under a permissive license, as I can see myself using some of your shell and go scripts in the future.

Thanks.
I almost got suspended from high school for using PowerGoo on a photo of my friend. Result was a trip to principal's office, a call to parents, and a day of detention. Apparently another student was "afraid i may create something horrible out of his yearbook photo" and reported me. Later, he admitted that he just used that as an excuse to try to get me suspended as a way of bullying me (i was a nerd).

This was in 2000. Today, given the insanity about political correctness, i would expect nothing less of a SWAT team, 3 months of required psych counseling, and getting expelled as minimum punishment.
Yeah, I first noticed this on desktop software in the early 2000s. Knowing how people are using your products is pretty critical for software companies to improve.
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Ask HN: Does Google have a place to report poor ad placements?
http://imgur.com/hhOYUJb

Does Google have a place where people can report unfortunate ad placements?

This example: I do some voluntary work around suicide prevention. My local newspaper has had some bad reporting around suicide. I was searching for one of these examples of bad reporting, using the search terms "rope" and "suicide". The ad detected rope.

It's unfortunate placement for that ad.
That goes without saying. They're saying that the parallel means there is an endless supply of people signing up to the vision. No matter how horrible it is, people are doing it now and in the future.
> downloading 40GB takes too long; whereas streaming is popular

Um, what? If you can stream 4K media in real time, by definition you are able to download the file in at least the media's run time.

That is: you're only spending ≤30 minutes to download a 4K TV show episode if you can also stream it.
Another idea I've had -- a "genre DJ". If you regard genres as graph points, this would give you control over transitions between those points.

So I can say "x% chance of playing Dixieland Jazz after playing a Swing song". This is so you don't get Megadeth right after listening to Louis Armstrong. But... after maybe 10-12 song + genre transitions, you might work your way there.
I will bet you any large sums of money that this kid will not accomplish anything extraordinary by the age of 40.
Clickable link: http://imgur.com/hhOYUJb
Against a repository hosting service that lacks SSH or rather incentives HTTP(s) over SSH (Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online), entering credentials is a problem with Git. 98% of Git users won't have this issue, but for those few it is probably the biggest, most annoying issue.
If you have a product that is highly unlikely to succeed, the solution isn't to invest money in highly unlikely remedies. If that's your best option (maybe Microsoft has better ones; I don't know) kill the product.

Also, they could use a VM and give up providing a 'Windowized' interface to the apps.
Looking forward to it. Thanks for the fast reply.
I really wouldn't -- there are orders of magnitude more facts in the world than I have time to digest, so it certainly helps having a basis of analysis, even if sometimes that analysis is misguided.
Beautiful website. Really. The colors are exquisite.
But they have existed for every version of iOS none the less. The relative difficulty may quite well be due to other reasons - closed source, locked down hardware etc. Says nothing about software security.
I don't see how that's different from atom.
It's pretty cool that the book is not only free, but they link to courses that uses it.

If you speak Hebrew you can get two different professors take on how to teach the material in the book, as well as lecture notes from a total of 3 professors. That's pretty neat if there's a concept you are struggling with as a student!
And Google during I/O.
I should have said, what Apple 2.0 has stood for. Because music was very much the foundation for what led to the modern Apple Inc after Jobs return.
Recently MS announced that the package manager they're building for Windows, until then code-named OneGet, had been christened.... PackageManagement. sigh
How will this work with the pages which have login?
If you're limiting it to the "The 5 Most Infamous Software Bugs in History," Heartbleed is definitely out. It just happened to be recent, so it has an outsized place in people's minds. Including it would sort of be like those foolish "Top 100 bands of all time" lists that have the Beatles at #1, followed by 85 bands from the last 15 years.

As others have noted, the big miss is the Therac-25 bug, which is pretty commonly taught in Software Engineering/Computer Science classes the example of how intangible software can kill people.
Awesome maxims from the aspirational side.

From the more practical side- the time you spent 'wandering' can pay big dividends over those who are more tightly-focused, when you get to a more strategic role. Having tons of varied experience makes you a better communicator, teacher, & leader...
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I think this sounds good. Maybe 1%. In all likelyhood, this company will not have any measureable value without significant outside contribution. At a certain point, even if it were possible to win enough equity from the cofounder, that would likely make it impossible for the company to parcel out equity in the future.

A product with few customers and a largely allocated cap table, would likely assure no one would work on this in the future. Try and leave on amiable terms, and ask for a percentage or a flat rate warrant.

If the company pays back the original investor and makes a profit, your time will be valued at /some rate/ and you will be paid that back.

The most important thing is try and leave on decent terms.
I only discovered this CSS grid recently (even though it's been around since 2013) and was very impressed. It's a shame it hasn't got much traction.
It's definitely about the words you used, whether I'm projecting or not. I didn't want to assume any ill intent on your side, so I answered in general.

Saying that the other party may 'call your bluff' implies that you're attempting to cheat them and hoping they won't notice. The word "bluff" is an euphemism for lies and deception. It's used positively in poker because the game rules allow it. But in real life "bluffing", i.e. deceiving and cheating, is frowned upon and often illegal.

The OP seems to have a relationship of trust with their partner and I'm urging him to keep it that way. I also meant it as a general business advice - it's important to keep friendly, trust-based relationships with people. Having to constantly look over your shoulder afraid of your co-founder stabbing you in the back, which is when phrase like "them calling your bluff" makes sense, is a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Stipulating that "understand" can cover a lot of territory, one can perhaps develop a surface and somewhat metaphorical understanding of aspects of modern physics without math. However, you're almost certainly right that any deep understanding of, say, the standard model or relativity is deeply rooted in the math.
You checked the latest Office 2015? I think it improved quite a bit, at least on OSX.
I would love some guidance on how to take advantage of OCW w/ my kids.

I don't want to reproduce Ahaan's story. My father was a biology teacher and always had tons of text books we could just kind of grind through growing up. I'm not doing the same for my kids at this time- mostly for lack of resources.

Just skimming through the OCM content- I don't see material in physics or science that can be used to introduce kids to the scientific method. It mostly looks like baptism by fire.

Any tips?
Interesting!!!
Yeah, I've been trying to streamline this too. Have yet to find a good way to do local development inside docker. The best approach so far I've found is that I have my db, redis, and other services like that running in docker. My application is checked out locally and configured to hit the docker services.
I will ignore time constraints and business concerns to uphold ideals that are not realistic.

I will be a workhorse and ignore the fact that I am maintaining legacy code, or writing software that ultimately cripples my resume and portfolio.

I will work beyond the 8-to-5 and it will not be to improve my craft, but to continue working on underestimated projects with low profit margins.

I will never stop trying to learn and improve my craft, and it will come at the expense of trying to balance every other important aspect of life whilst sacrificing some of them, such as family.

I will work predominantly with people who like ideals such as Uncle Bob's but produce work that cannot ever hope to compete against world-class developers and designers.
You could say the same about PHP vs Ruby, and would have been able to for a long time. Yet, people still use PHP. I suspect stuff like Wordpress has a big influence on that.
Indeed. That was a great read, and I said "Wow" out loud when I saw that he flew again after 10 months.
Then learn Chef/Puppet or something like that and write/reuse recipes to install and configure whatever you need to configure.

I haven't set up an environment manually in a few years: I simply have my own recipes for the types of apps I'm developing in Chef (most of them just minor tweaks or config changes over existing recipes), my own vagrant boxes (I like different flavors of linux for different types of apps) and so on.

Starting a new project implies choosing the necessary recipes, adding them to a vagrant file, 'vagrant up' and wait a few minutes until everything is set up. Done.
They wouldn't be transferred to us or spend any time unemployed. Once someone goes through our process, we become their advocate and find them startups they'd be a good match for. They don't have to leave their employer until they've found one willing to hire them, at which point they can begin the transfer process.
I don't see why I should
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Cute photos, it reminded me of the classic Beatrix Potter tale if anyone hasn't read them they are great:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Mrs._Tiggy-Winkle
No, that's not true. A full-time offer is a commitment to full-time employment. A three-month trial period is an overt refusal to offer that commitment.

Software firms can be ruthless about at-will employment, but they can't do that while retaining staff and recruiting new staff effectively. Companies that are ruthless about at-will employment are ostracized, which is why that kind of ruthlessness is rare in the industry.
Not yet. I succumbed to temptation and ordered one though.