skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm biased working on the thing, but speaking purely a user, I feel WeChat gives us a peek of the phone OS we'll see in 3 years.

The recent "messaging apps will eat everything" spin is burying the lede. What's happening, broadly, is that in some places (esp. Asia), OS/phone vendors are losing in the early stages of a war between platform (iOS, Android) and meta-platform (things like WeChat, LINE, FB).

Yes, its central function is nominally an SMS replacement, but as a meta-platform it plasters over a bunch of gaps in the OS level. The central UI is a common, semi-hierarchical stream for notifications/news/messages with a consistent set of controls for deprioritizing/blocking things. Then you have services like payment, authentication, and social graph. A lightweight Instapaper/Evernote shared by all my apps. Handling for things like QR codes which western-designed OSes don't do on a system level. Universal search for chat and non-chat content alike. A health/activity data feature for the various Bluetooth gizmos my friends and I use. Then, on top of that, you have tons of light-weight third-party services/apps which, while the experience can shoddier than a native app, for 50% of apps is far more convenient than actually downloading and updating so many 100MB+ apps on my phone and spotting their various red badges in a sea of icons/groups.

In effect, it's a nascent vision of an OS oriented around a thread-based UI paradigm instead of an app-based UI paradigm. Some day, I'm certain some kind of sensible central "inbox" will replace my home/lock screen (as well as the push notification tray).
I'm not so sure about the Jeb Bush presidency. He seems like much more of a policy wonk than his brother. I'm not I know enough to compare him with his father.
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PHP static code analysis vs. ~1000 top wordpress plugins = 103 vulnerable plugins
I do pronounce j on Clojure as zh. Is it officially wrong?
I realize no such thing.

http://mic.com/articles/88015/what-happens-to-your-brain-on-...
Strange tone to your reply, especially in the second paragraph.
> The paragraph we are talking about has a slightly poor taste reference to gay dating

I characterized Loopt's waning days as a gay hookup app because that is exactly how it functioned. How is that poor taste? People here are hanging on the every word of a man whose greatest accomplishment to date was the predecessor to Grindr.

> His Wikipedia page

is little more impressive than that of any other VC lottery winner. Again, what's the big deal?
it has been a reality for many folks for years. real-world anycast can be tricky, but it is certainly deployable and usable.
I didn't see anything when viewing on chrome on desktop (with uBlock). What information was it requesting? Some new HTML / JS hook?
Knowing whether a VC who will be giving you advice has been a successful operator is, in turn, pretty standard advice.

(No comment on the rest, staying out of it.)
The phone market is really weird. Carriers aren't exactly retailers, Samsung et al aren't exactly OEMs... and it feels like somebody should be guilty of price-fixing.

It reminds me of when I was a kid. We had phones hardwired to our house, which we leased from Bell Atlantic for an obscene price. In 8th grade, I pointed out to my parents that for less than a month's lease, we could buy touch-tone phones at the local strip mall that were much better. I got a couple of RJ-11 wall plates and installed them in less than an hour. Somehow I knew the lines supported touch-tone and we didn't need to ask the phone company for permission.
Found 10000+ BTC on my old computer. What do I have to do to liquidate this?
That was quick

National Geographic gives Fox control of media assets in $725 million deal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geog...
> "That software we've got causes us so many problems, it's disaster! When we get the new software everything will be fixed."

This way of thinking isn't exclusive to software.
You know, there's probably a sweet spot between "AWS all the things!" and "We will build our own cloud"

I mean geesh, people have been building small clouds since there were servers. That's the way mom and dad did it, and by gummity it oughta be good enough for you. The "new" stuff was autoscaling, PaaS, and so forth.

So build out a few servers for content management and publishing, then write very small amount of code to push what you have out to a CDN. If you want realtime data capture, capture it using AWS (or whatnot) and pull it back locally.

I'm not saying that's optimum for every solution, just that the all-or-nothing kind of thinking is probably what lured them into building their own cloud in the first place. You need a cloud for some stuff, so use a cloud. But you don't need a cloud for every freaking thing the company does. Its assets in the form of text content, internal docs, and branding are probably extremely small in modern terms.
Do you mean life partners?

Anyhow its especially prevalent in software. Just search Google for "why we switched from".

If anyone is thinking of writing yet another "why we switched from X to Y" blog post, I can save you the effort of a long blog post explaining the reasons. It's because "the old software was shit and the new is fricking awesome!" You don't need to explain the details.
I think you're kidding. And I'm a Romanian, and so are you, I think.
I regularly use org-mode, for all types of notes, including for work notes. One of the many advantages with org-mode is "time-stamping", and to have a reference to a particular item in your agenda (org-agenda).
As e19293001 noted, time-clocking is also very nice, and the possibility to generate reports based on time spent on each item.
Another very useful feature is the usage of internal or external links: links to local files, or to a external source such as a web links (e.g. through http, ftp, mailto, etc).
You can export to and import from freemind and there are some ideas here, afaics: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18341590/org-mode-mindmap...
probably cornish :D
> Researchers poke hole in custom crypto built for Amazon Web Services

is not the same as

> academic researchers recently uncovered a potentially serious weakness
The government is collecting plenty of revenue already. If the need for increased infrastructure spending is pressing, there's plenty of waste and pork-barrel to cut to make room.
I don't think we can honestly say there is something really serious coming out of Romania (with few exceptions) as long as our overall culture still lags behind. Entrepreneurial culture is built on the general state of culture, the juice youth grow in, the schools, the friends they make in high school and college, the teachers they have and so on.

The pool of developers is large, although not as large as the demand, but the mentality is still one of an employee. Very little UX skills. What to say then about having a far reaching, yet pragmatic vision. Funding also is an issue, but I'd say it's mainly the people, from devs to the way too many 'mentors'.
Org-Mode has been the most rewarding part of using Emacs for me and has been what kept me from switching to another editor for more than two years now. I have a single Org-Mode file[1] that builds my entire development environment.

[1] https://github.com/daschwa/emacs.d
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The article headline is: "Millions of Baby Spiders Create Giant Silken Blanket"

tldr; Baby spiders do what they do. Spiderwebs enuse.
But the ads are on (untrusted, ill-maintained) third-party CDNs anyway…
I'm from Cluj-N and I disagree with your following points:
- "real hackers". I guess if you mean torrenting and refusing to pay for software products, then yes.
- "Cluj is not broken". You need to take a walk through the city. Ahole drivers, bad infrastructure, bad services. Did I mention ahole drivers?
This post got me interested in the actual statistics of what income range the middle class represents in Canada, and I found an early 2015 Macleans article [1] listing the following statistics:

- Lowest 20% individual income is 18717 and below

- Highest 20% individual income is 55498 and above

That definitely brought some perspective to my view on this issue. I guess my views on what qualified as a middle class income was pretty heavily skewed towards my own salary range. Now I definitely agree with the conclusions made by you and the Liberal party regarding the TFSA contribution limits.

[1] http://www.macleans.ca/economy/money-economy/are-you-in-the-...
Uniform vesting (1 year cliff, 25% per year) is typical. Some companies (startups and post-IPO) were doing non-uniform vesting in part because the company's valuation was rapidly soaring (and in some cases crashed shortly thereafter). Some did this for refresher grants. The evidence I've seen is that it doesn't help with retention. Well, maybe it helped retain certain execs implementing the programs...
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Related? http://www.alchemyapi.com/
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635159 and marked it off-topic.
I used to use https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav to export my agenda to owncloud, which at least gave me a low-effort read-only calendar of my agenda, but with recent versions of orgmode they changed the whole export engine which made my configuration not work (and I haven't had the energy to try again).
Check this paper by Valiant https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/2643031/Valiant_...
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Glad to hear the second edition is happening after all. I highly recommend the Commodore book. It puts a new light on Commodore in ways I had not imagined. Jack Tramiel for instance. What a character he was.
Except if you stop and look around, Cluj has the highest rents and building prices out of Romania.

If you're working for a western salary, then sure, it's cheap. Not for a regular Romanian, though - especially if you're not working in IT.
To summarize: The Internet was designed to survive nuclear war. It was never designed to survive psychological war.
> Is there some spambot that randomly picks an article from Wikipedia and posts it to YC?

If random Wikipedia articles routinely get a lot of upvotes, I'm not sure it's a spambot.
As someone with arguably both, and the same with my peers, not really. Difference between easier and easy.
> Is "polyarchy" a word?

Oligarchy, per the OP.
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He mentions Ceilometer which was recently rewritten (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Gnocchi). Of course whether the replacement will work any better is an open question at this point. Never really understood why they don't just use rrdtool and have done.

Networking which he also mentions in passing is also being rewritten (https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-video...).

I generally agree with his final points - OpenStack really needs to work for the end users, not for the many competing vendors working on it.
Zim works just fine for me
Is this from a book. I would love to read it.
Doesn't have to be that complicated, though. I recommend starting with a simple workflow.

As a former Vim user, I can recommend evil-mode and the SpaceMacs project:

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/wiki/Home

> An Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim!

Evil is a very, very complete Vim emulation in Emacs. I have yet to find a feature which is missing. Some features work better than the original.
It was my understanding that the ethernet on the Raspberry Pi sat on the USB anyway.
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I believe he used the word "hackers" in a good way. Otherwise I agree that Cluj is getting nuts traffic wise. Not quite Bucharest level of nuts, but nuts.
That's a very uncompelling argument, not to mention patronizing. The criteria he sets up is literally "it's fascist if you want anything done about the things you're mad about," which is ridiculous because it removes any ability to change the status quo. If there were a professor who were openly defending fascism, calling for him to be removed would be fascist.

In fact, if you change "Calling for people to be fired for expressing their beliefs" to "Calling for senators to be voted out of office for expressing their beliefs" then that's fascist. You can play this game for all his examples:

> Calling to defund a newspaper for publishing an editorial you disagree with

Divestment from companies funding apartheid, something student protesters commonly supported in the late 80s

> Tearing down fliers that you disagree with

Removing neo-Nazi propaganda posters

> Calling for students to be expelled for wearing offensive Halloween costumes

Calling for people to boycott Chick-Fil-A because of its owner's anti-gay agendas
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No, I'm not kidding and yes, I am a Romanian; from Cluj-Napoca actually. Why would I be kidding? I know few developers which have difficulties with the English language. I know many that know the difference between "who" and "whom" or between "color" and "colour". I can't account for all, of course, that's why I wrote "the average", in an attempt to group them by their skills. Maybe I did exaggerate the part with "most americans", but I've certainly seen enough examples of English being misused.
He believe too much in this urban myth.
No mention of pricing.
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Here is a link to Henry Worsley's website of the expedition - http://shackletonsolo.org.
Bundled phones aren't a major thing in many markets, so I don't think their impact on prices is that much, especially since they seem to somewhat align internationally.
no, the one you linked is an analysis API -- now owned by IBM
Yep pretty common in the UK. The chargeback the IT department makes to other groups or projects for kit is called the "tin tax" too.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635235 and marked it off-topic.
Plan9 can turn any protocol into TCP via 9p.

Connect to a remote plan9 machine by whatever means using 9p, import /net from the remote machine into your local namespace, et viola you now have all the network connections of that remote machine available, including the tcp stack.
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With the current USDEUR for $50-$80 you can get excellent programmers in most of europe. And most of the world by the way.

Edit: it depends ofcourse if you get a company with projectmanagement, testers, overhead for that or just people coding in their attic. I find working with a small company of techies with a strong PM and process works well and is worth far more money. Not talking about outsourcing factories which are horrible.
What does this have to do with the article?
Glad you liked it! We will be fixing that with the next update :)
Was frustrated by this, until I realized that I actually do not need my agenda on my phone. Still nice to have, but not a deal breaker.

And Google Keep is fine for shopping lists.
Stability issues? On Linux? Well I'm yet to see a windows box with uptime of two years and everything up-to-date.
Also great for myriads of devices with constrained memory and computing power we use every day in 2015.

> But postfix programs are hard to understand

No.

Badly written programs are hard to understand. That's true for every language. Also, programs written in a language you don't know are hard to understand. That's obvious, right? Postfix, prefix or infix notations have little to do with this.

There are natural languages written from right to left, and also ones written from right to left and vertically at that. Are they "hard to understand" for people who use them? What do you think?
Also, the company belongs to the owner, so he naturally can do anything he wants with it in terms of leadership,etc. I'd say that's the most important distinction rather than "this is not a democracy".
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Nothing serious? How about BitDefender?

Regarding the culture of being employed, you should check Germany. Everyone wants to be an employee, lots of benefits. Making a company is extremely hard and capital intensive. A freelancer is chased by all autorities and they make you feel like an outlaw. And so on.

Compared to this, Romania is a littel heaven. Just the corruption and buericracy is holding it back.
Monty Python to the rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-51DhOzHE
Just wanted to mention

"The first rule of flying a glider is: "Never come up short"."

Going by the number of times glider pilots head out to a random field to load up a glider in a trailer; I'd say that rule is nowhere near the first rule.
First rule is probably the same for any aircraft (wind, which way and how fast), or maybe where's the lift at?

For landing, again it's the same as any other aircraft (Am I coming in too fast?, or is the runway clear?).
That's why politicians love to cater to the middle class, right? Almost everyone self-identifies that way.

Edit: Ha, wrote that before clicking through to your link, which leads off with the same point in almost identical wording.

Interesting numbers in general too. Thanks!
Also a British person here. Also own an ISP. I hear that phrase all the time from suppliers to customers.
Just to counter my fellow countryfolk, and because anecdata is the best kind of data, I have definitely heard it called that before ... though not so much recently. Perhaps it's a dying term?
They're not competing, they're cooperatively building a potemkin village so that they have a cloud story to tell Wall Street and the tech press. AWS is steamrollering everyone, but most of them incorrectly imagine AWS to be a mashup between VMware and a payday lender scam. They've been content to put people on stage every six months to peddle this-actually-works happy-talk.

Dell tells the story. February 5, 2013: Dell announces plans to go private. May 20, 2013: Dell abandons Openstack.
There's little substance to this other than "OpenStack is hard, let's go AWS!" - I would have liked to hear where exactly they ran into difficulties and what the problem was in detail. This is for two reasons:

1. "We have switched some components in our software stack" without much info is not an interesting story to read.

2. I have friends who work on OpenStack in RH who would I'm sure be very interested to know the sort of troubles that The Guardian had so if there is a usability or functionality issue it can be addressed.
> OpenStack really needs to work for the end users, not for the many competing vendors working on it.

IMO OpenStack is effectively where 80s/90s Unix was. Either Linux/BSD will emerge from it, or the private cloud vendors will Windows it.
The NLP group at Washington is one of the best in the world (imo likely top 5), and did most of the seminal work on open information extraction, the technologies backing this service.

I'm surprised they chose this name. The commercial service, AlchemyAPI, that was bought by IBM is likely to be much less accurate. I can't say for sure, though --- their terms of service prohibit evaluation. All I know is, that's not a good sign...
(Living in Scotland): I've heard the phrase maybe twice in all the years I've worked here.
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There is lot of money to be spent on gadgets today. Why don't we make a collaborative post here and vote the best deals up?

Proposed format: Item - $PRICE (%saving) http://link

If you think something is a good deal, upvote. Happy shopping!
+1 can vouch I have had similar problems with YC companies, though not as bad as mentioned here. I think it's important to remember YC companies are totally free to ignore the advice of YC, especially if they believe (perhaps mistakenly) that they'll succeed doing so.

That said, I've had still had very positive experiences with other YC companies.
I do general tech support for office day to day issues.

A little of everything, from printers to network/servers for the past 14 years(2 job switch so far). I love helping people resolve their issues, I would say I love my job but a recent switch to a oil and gas company seems to have been a bad choice.

Headcount cutting and all means I have a lot less support issues to deal with and more HN time.

I have this impression that most developers in any company would be more or less quite 'technical'. Is there any need for tech support role in bigger corporations?
On the other hand, if you come to my company, and every decision you make, you make because of a person's specific gender, then that's sexist, and I would no hire you either.

All workers need to be treated the same (aka, professionally) no matter the gender. I don't need my workers to go around making decision based on whether the other work is male or female. That's sexist.

People need to stop treating people differently base on their gender, and need to start treating all people the same, no matter their gender. When you do something because of a specific gender, that's sexism.
I think Wolfram makes an interesting point here: much of our morphology is not programmed in our genes, but is rather the result of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions.[1] These are essentially simple computer programs, which can produce a variety of features if only one of them is adaptive, or even if none are. Is it more likely that cheetah spots are precision camouflage, matched to the Savannah, or just the result of the simplest possible local rules for 2-coloring a surface?[2]

[1] recent story here for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10629731

[2] shown on human forms here: https://vimeo.com/145251635
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I don't think free-market advocates would say that it doesn't apply to corporations/companies. I wouldn't either, as an anarcho-capitalist, say so.

The difference is that in a corporation it doesn't matter if the individuals in power get corrupted. If you work on the assumption that bad behavior by the company/corporation is pushed-back in the free-market, then the corrupt actions have to serve the customers/clients, otherwise other companies are given an advantage.

Of course, that singular assumption is a huge sticking-point for a lot of pro/vs discussions when it comes to free-market principles.
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The whole point of the article is that all of those usually go

"Hey, we should refer to our db nodes as the primary and secondaries, cause master & slave has some historical baggage"

"Yeah, K, not really a big deal"

Not

"OMG YOU CALLED THE DB NODE SLAVE YOU'RE RACIST ARRHRHRGRGRGGRGR"
I hear ya, I've been "lucky" and got my order in on every model of Pi on the day of release - even the original. I went through the same process of "ooh, shiny thing!" when I saw this announcement, then thought back to my other RasPi's sitting on my desk doing nothing and decided to leave it for someone who might actually get some use out of it. I'll be getting a Zero when they're more generally available though, if only to complete the collection!

That said, they have been used in the past for various things - a simple SSH server, a networked webcam, a serial interface for my Atari ST, and I've even done some tinkering with a breadboard and the GPIO, so I have had some use out of them at least.
I hate this mentality. Why does it have to be proved to be sure it is unhealthy? It should be the other way around. It has to be proved to be healthy for you to eat it.

Back in the day, smoking wasn't proved that it was unhealthy while it was common sense that it was.
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Great post. We have the same thing in Brazil. But I am unsure with this problem really starts in high school.
Actually, I think this problem starts on Facebook...