skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardware provisioning is a dying art. I would love to see a modern-day xCAT[0] clone that's easy to install and configure and with proper multi-platform support. Foreman is half-way there, but AFAIK doesn't do BMC provisioning and discovery, which is a big deal.

0: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/blob/master/docs/source/i...
This satire perfectly sums up the current state of overpriced tech startups who make no revenue. I have always admired Jason and the Basecamp team for what they have managed to accomplish. The same goes for Atlassian whose founders managed to retain ownership of their company which has grown to be quite profitable.

The epitome of the industry as a whole is nicely summed up in this paragraph in the article:

>In order to determine the valuation of companies, Bhatnagar typically applies the following formula: [(Twitter followers x Facebook fans) + (# of employees x 1000)] x (total likes + daily page views) + (monthly burn rate x Google’s stock price)-squared and then doubles if it they’re mobile first or if the CEO has run a business into the ground before.
I know exactly what you mean. I am trying to figure out why I do this too.

I guess at some level, I expect a dopameine reward for watching a video.

And, I guess this also motivates the other 8 million people.

Even after I've watched something like this, I'm not entirely sure I've wasted my time.

But, I think this does point to some kind of human failing, or inherent human bias, a bit like a propensity for gambling.
One of the most compelling aspects of it for me isn't so much the shared history, but just visibility of what people have done. It's a really effective way of transferring knowledge of how things are done. You can easily drop into the room and watch play-by-play how a given task is done.
sounds like the 'value vs cost' method, which was covered
It's worth noting that it's not enough for police to passively not cover for each other's crimes. It's the job of police to actively investigate crimes. When corruption is so rampant, any police department which doesn't have a well-funded internal affairs bureau with extensive prosecutorial support is not doing its job.
I seem to recall the QNX kernel is pretty slim as well.
Yes, that are common plates. But there are also special ones. Look at the personalized plates in austria.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
Note that database migrations weren't part of Django until 1.7, before that they were provided by an external app (South).

Which meant that Django's database models couldn't migrate.

Even now, there is no real way to start with Django's own User model and switch your project over to a custom one later (because you'd have many database tables with foreign keys to the Django one). The current recommendation is to start new projects with a custom User model always.
It might be marginally beneficial but it's not an effective way to combat climate change. Something else is needed to stop USA, Saudis, China and Russia from digging up the cheap oil and coal. And to stop everyone from doing all the wasteful and co2-increasing things with agriculture and deforestation etc.

We need intergovernmental coordination and limits on market forces much more than we need an energy MacGuffin.
So anyone know how small the L4 kernel is compared to this?
Chance to win a car from Japan. Just follow this steps
He died before it happened.
by copying all the python features :D
Interesting, so Yahoo Taiwan is independent from the mothership as well ? Is it still popular there?
Not strictly, no. While currently they only support the "hardware" in KVM/QEMU/VirtualBox, there's nothing stopping anyone implementing drivers for whatever hardware they want to run on, even bare metal.

This probably means integrating whatever Ethernet adapter you have, and some way of sending/receiving stdio, probably over serial or something.

Sideline: I'm particularly intrigued by the idea of implementing drivers for AWS EC2, so you can run this as your AMI.
Battlefield of Ideas
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2015/10/deprecatin...

>tl;dr: We are no longer recommending the AJAX crawling proposal we made back in 2009.

Google is now saying they will probably be able to just index your Angular app without any extra effort on your side.
As an Australian living in Japan all of those plates look remarkably similar. It wouldn't surprise me if all of them were covered under the 'eu' directive.

Of course, my point was simply that there IS an EU rule, and therefore it makes sense to simply have an 'eu' mode that acts upon the rule even if it doesn't cover all EU plates.
> It still needs a 'real' OS (e.g. Linux) running as the Hypervisor.

It runs against hardware virtualization... I'm not sure I understand why it needs a "real" OS underneath. At least in theory it should be able to run on bare metal as long as you include logic for whatever device drivers you might need.
I have no idea what's going on in most of these photos, but I love it.
I wish they had coordinates though.
PHP 7 new features: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php
>Search engines do not render JS

seems iffy. Here's Google explaining how they do render JS http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/underst...
The interesting insight from the article is that python might be a good language for learning algorithms. The fast development time allows you to write a complete program (albeit clunky) without the pre-optimizing you might be tempted to do in other languages.
> I'm particularly intrigued by the idea of implementing drivers for AWS EC2, so you can run this as your AMI.

Yup. Kind of like a skimpy version of OSv.
here's the reason why every six months you read this same headline:

previous yahoo investors invested with almost zero dividends. that means, yahoo kept all its profits.

now yahoo is still profitable, it's just not growing as fast as the competition. those money reserves are still in the bank.

new investors think they can just pony up a few dollars for YHOO shares, pay a magazine to say yahoo is worth nothing, and convince the board to force a sale.

that would then expose those big money reserves to the current holders, giving them instant huge profits for nothing.

and this is the reason you see that every six months.
My first response was "why not just give it to the Gates foundation" since they're already doing it and well. What's his special insight into what makes a cause effective to fund? Are we perpetuating a world in which charities employ a bunch of people to convince any of a hundred different rich philanthropists/foundations to hand over wodges of cash?

It's a hugely net positive thing he is doing no question.
That sounds like a useful way of looking at the reviews. I'll try it, thanks!
Also checkout https://github.com/Tumblr/genesis which does sort of the same thing as the PXE image GitHub writes about.
Facebook is not worth $33B (2010)
Pro-Tip: Raspbian comes with loads of bloatware. If you really need a headless server go ahead and install Ubuntu Server 14.04... IMO much better than Snappy Ubuntu Core

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi
You could send an email to the work address on my personal website (see HN profile). I can't promise that I'll be able to answer everything. :)
That makes no sense, the point of pressurising a G-suit is to physically press on the pilot's lower body and drive blood towards the upper body, think adaptive high-pressure compression stocking.

Pressurising the cabin can have no such effect.

Plus the point of G-suit is high-G manoeuvres, not linear acceleration or deceleration: untrained humans can handle 17g eyeballs in and 12g eyeballs out for several minutes versus instants of 4~6 g along other axis, Stapp's work demonstrated that properly restrained humans could walk away from 46G eyeballs out (decelerating while facing forwards)
I did a fun experiment last year with Chrome extensions: for some websites, it adds comments about the current page from Reddit.

For some websites it actually works quite well. Some users reported it actually "adds a dimension" to the page.

So while i agree universal metaweb is doomed, I do believe in some specific additions from relevant sources.
Thanks for the feedback! I think what you describe is a specific instance of Value vs Cost, which is one of the covered techniques. Value (i.e. benefits) can mean whatever you need to evaluate at a given point in time.
It's really a great release! Great work by all the contributors.
In conclusion, earplugs are the best investment you can get.
The amazing observation in your example, for me, is that it's one of the few things you can get cheaply, fast, and reliably. The holy trifecta of impossible requirements.

Some 60-70 years ago, you could not get it done for any sum of money. Maybe the military could do it, on a good day. A few years later, it's not just possible, but cheap.
I used this just today to demonstrate to our developers why their attempts to fix SQL injection via real_escape_string and regex wasn't a good idea. Great tool.
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Variation: Infeasible or unfeasible? (2012)
No, PHP isn't "quite decent". It's still a steaming turd, it's just been polished with a whole bunch of features.
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PHP 7 makes life a lot better for PHP devs in many ways but one awesome thing is it obsoletes bunch of out-of-date tutorials by finally removing the old Mysql extension \o/

http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php

I actually met a young aspiring web developer who still learned DB-access with mysql_* functions. I urged him to switch to a sane framework like Laravel. Oh boy he was happy in a month and learned bunch of best practices quickly.
> Over the past decade, however, a new, more virulent strain of Panama disease has begun to spread across the world, and this time the Cavendish is not immune. The fungus is expected to reach Latin America in 5 to 10 years, maybe 20. The big banana companies have been slow to finance efforts to find either a cure for the fungus or a banana that resists it. Nor has enough been done to aid efforts to diversify the world’s banana crop by preserving little-known varieties of the fruit that grow in Africa and Asia.

It astounds me that Big Banana has been "slow" to react, given that "By 1960, the Gros Michel was essentially extinct and the banana industry nearly bankrupt"!
It probably had a bad time.
But paths can contain newlines.
I would have left not long after the "big pivot". I've seen it quite a few times before, if the tech team is not involved in 'pivot' decisions, it means the execs have no clue what they are doing. Typically they go to a trade show somewhere and immediately want to 'pivot' to the latest craze.

I had my own 'pranad'(sp) too a previous project, one that was even slightly sneakier as he did fake demos of the features he was asked to write -- still manage to stay 18 months, and every single line he ever did had to be replaced afterward.

And in the UK, the sort of toxic situation with the manager would guarantee a 'constructive dismissal' payout too.
I said if. I'm stilling running 7 with Debian in a VM. Looking to invert this if possible in my next system--with Windows in the VM with an AMD graphics card passed through so I can still play games.
Or Raspbian Lite:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
I'd be amazed if anyone with no knowledge of Angular (e.g. the "marketers" that are apparently its audience) comes out of reading this article _less_ confused.
By learning from Python's best practices :)
Maybe a bit late to the party but id recommend reading
How to live life on 24 hours a day by Arnold Bennett (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274).

It's helped me a lot with the same issue. The main idea is to ensure that you don't overreach but start small and focus on improving or researching one thing at the time and only on weekdays.
The difference is history and options. Computers have a 30 year history of apps and buying options. Smartphones don't. iOS has only one way to get an app on the phone. Computers don't
From what they write in their live demo[1], it's about the dimensions of the plate rather than what's on them:

> OpenALPR supports both North American style (12 inches by 6 inches) and European style (52 cm by 11 cm) license plates.

That makes a bit more sense. Then again, the "Country" field there gives a choice of North American, European, Australia, Great Britain, Singapore, Korea.

I wonder if accuracy couldn't be improved quite a bit if they included heuristics for individual countries. For instance, German licence plates should be really easy to read thanks to their "forgery-impeding typeface"[2] which has uniquely distinctive features for each letter.

It's also not guaranteed that all European licence plates have those dimensions. Motorcycles and tractors for instance have taller, narrower plates, and cars where regular plates wouldn't fit (like imported or antique cars) can get special plates as well.

And then of course there's Switzerland which has wildly different dimensions and has changed its mind every few years[3].

[1] http://www.openalpr.com/demo-image.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
That's basically my experience as well. Now imagine that your connection is rather slow, which forces you to start larger updates before going to bed - I can't count the number of times I woke up to a password entry dialog and no download progress at all.
It takes me ages to upgrade anything there since I really hate opening that app. With 1 Mbit/s connection even process of searching for updates will take a good minute.
The best productivity method is to just go do what you have to do and spend all the time doing it. Every thing else in the name of a productivity method is an excuse for your mind to stay off from what you really have to do.
I'd imagine if I lived in a dangerous neighborhood, I'd want to avoid earplugs. Same if I had a newborn baby. I suppose in various cases, interruptions are preferable to a good night's sleep.
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One of the very useful things to own when dealing with embedded computers is a low-voltage/CMOS usb-to-serial cable, such as this one: https://www.adafruit.com/products/954

There are modules that have variable I/O voltage, very handy when dealing with devices that have 1,8V, 2.5V, 3.3V or 5V logic: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12731

Equipped with such a cable, you can also observe any errors that might occur on bootup, such as when you have made a mistake in configuring your config files on the filesystem.

For normal "Rasperry Pi"-Level work, the cheapest eBay-cable will probably be ok. If you have more exotic devices you'll appreciate UARTs that can produce almost arbitrary baudrates, or might support inverted Tx/Rx pins. I found some chinese knockoffs using a "CH310" UART/i2c/spi chip to be particularly broken.

(EDIT: Added last paragraph, fixed a few typos)
Funny, my grandmother used to say that one hour of sleep before midnight is worth two hours after midnight. I'm not sure if it's placebo but I found it to be true for me.
It's not sinister per se, it's just silly. And I'd say it's roughly 50/50 the fault of corporations and of the US government setting tax policy weirdly.
they do and have done for years. Years ago, even if you tried to not have google index your outpt from js ahem they nearly always could.
False positives...

The only valid reason to draw a firearm is defense of life. If there are security robots around, one doesn't need to defend oneself or one's companions. (It's true that life may be threatened by tools of violence other than firearms, but robots might be trained to look for those as well.) Besides, by "incapacitate" I don't mean double-tap, rather something reversible like an enveloping foam etc.

...intent...

This is unnecessary scope creep. Firearms have one legitimate use, killing. They are not props to use to bolster one's argument, even though the current state of jurisprudence allows police to use them as such. Keep it in your pants until it's time. Cops brandishing firearms are barely less of a danger to the public than anyone else doing so.

The bot can't always already be at the scene...

It's true that many locations, at least at first, will not have these robots installed. However, those places that have them, will have enough of them to control extreme numbers of armed humans. Capital costs might be higher than human security, but robots don't need doughnut breaks. So "arriving at the scene and figuring it out" is also scope creep, and incidentally not something humans are good at either. The robots will always be on the scene already, so they'll always be ready to take action.
I'd argue that a propensity for gambling is essentially a propensity for risk taking, something that makes us human and commonly leads us to success (and major failures too, but this is the human condition). Many of my own successes have come via merely dicking around or dabbling in things that interested me, so I'm going to chalk it up as a win.
Good grief, I have 23 versions installed on my system. None of which show up in 'installed updates' in Windows Update. And when I try to remove them with dism I get an access denied error.

A cynical person would think MS is deviously trying to hide them and prevent an end user from opting out from their data collection scheme.
I wish every PHP developer would reread the docs and start using new features available instead of just continuing with what they know already just because it works. And of course if there was any way to remove all those old tutorials out there.
.keys() returns a list (in python2) so if you write

for k in dict.keys():
...

then python first builds a list of all the keys, loops through them and then throws away the list. If the dict is large, this can be quite expensive. The correct way is to either use .iterkeys() which returns an iterator which generates the keys one at a time, or simply iterate directly over the dict, saving you need to first copy all the keys into a list you'll just throw away.

This has been 'fixed' in python3 and .keys() now returns an iterable view of the keys, and if you actually want a list of the keys you have to explicit and write list(dict.keys())
You clearly do not understand software.
I was pretty amazed by the spot-on references and actually working game of life animation when I saw that.
I'm a sheep, and I feel really bad about this website. My private life is exposed to anyone, since my face is clearly shown! Why google only masks human faces?
Your Pipeline Argument Is Bullshit
It is easy to be a critic of private venture backed companies valuations as these investments are done considering where the world could be in the future vs where it is now. These kind of bets requires not only financial models but also unique vision and a lot of guts -- traits hard to train but present in most of mankind's big achievements. So it's no wonder those bets pays really well when they succeed.

Of course, if you're not a fan of how the private venture backed companies game works, you can always do a traditional business and use profits as the only source of growth. That's the beauty of our current system: it's not perfect but it still allows you to choose whatever path you want to and still have a good chance to make it work.
Google's search definitely renders JS. The question is how much does it impact your page's rank to have it download and execute that JS?

I'm not sure, so I'd rather not think about it and just render my JS server side. React does with minimal effort https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/top-level-api.html#rea.... This also has the added benefit of making you think what the UX is like for people browsing without JS enabled.
Public transit is not a failure in the US, it's just very uneven and it's a big country. Moreover, the US especially suffers from the "lost decades" of urban decay through the mid 20th century. There was a sweet spot for initial public transit infrastructure investment around the turn of the 20th century and a lot of cities in the US missed it, with a much bigger hill to climb today.
Anybody know what is the status for repairs in Europe/Germany? My jacket is falling apart and I really want to either have it repaired or if I get a new one, I want a company that offers repairs.
This piece is very poorly written.
A tag is not a release, it should be officially released tomorrow.
That Markov's chains are almost ready to take over this journalist's job ...
What do you consider "bloatware" - all the graphical X server and applications?
Raspbian Jessie Lite available
The only people who won't post salaries are those who are scared it will be so low it will scare people away. They all think "oh, you will like working here so much you won't even mind when we low ball you!"
99% of jobs have a budget. Just post your budget...
I'm fine with ditching the headphone jack for lightning. Whatever. I use the stock EarPods anyway, and an adapter won't be the end of the world. High end headphones are already stupidly bulky for mobile usage and an adapter won't make it worse. And headphone manufacturers will probably start shipping with adapters like they already do with multiple earbud sizes if there is a lightning/usb-c split anyway.

What I do have a problem with is thinness for thinness' sake. I upgraded from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 6—skipping the 4S, 5 and 5S—and noticed no improvement in battery life! We're talking brand new day-one battery performance comparable to a busted 2 year old phone. I can't go a whole day without needing to recharge my 6. I can't believe Apple hasn't gotten into the battery bank game yet since I now own several of them and can't live without them.

Stopping me making phones thinner. Make the battery bigger!
OSX, Chrome 46 - apparently their scaling "Rules", though I'm not sure if a 100%, the "Sucks" is still faintly visible.
Or Raspbian Jessie Lite: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=1270...
Boring calculation for people in the UK (as I am, and I've thought about this quite a bit ;-)).

Under certain conditions you can use "Entrepreneurs' Relief" to only pay 10% capital gains on your sale of a business (up to a limit of £10m), so a £3m sale could net you £2.7m in hand.

Depending on many circumstances, £1m in dividends (per year) should net you around £750k. So it would take about 3.6 years to make the same as selling for current 3x annual profit. However, if your profits were increasing by more than 10% per year, it would be a wash.
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