skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Track record" is just a byproduct of motivated/smart people trying hard at life. Also there's no such thing as "increasing track record of successful events". You probably perceive it as such because you only learn what the media/people want you to hear. A lot of successful people kept going and going even when there was no glimmer of hope just because they believed in what they were doing, and one day they had an "overnight success". In extreme cases they never even saw their own success in their lifetime (not that I am a fan of this phenomenon).
Serving up HTML from Stored Procedures was a thing back in the late 90's/early 2000's as enterprise vendors made the shift to web apps.

In fact quite a popular thing for client-server app's where the server was built in PL/SQL, and some clients just needed reports.

I agree, AWS Lambda is a hammer. Just like everyone in enterprise software jumped at J2EE and Enterprise Java Beans back in early 2000's, and "did it wrong", I expect the same to happen here.

I just wish I know of a decent Open Source project doing similar things in a super-light-weight fashion - ideally in Python.
I quote from their Github readme:

License

CompCert is not free software. This non-commercial release can only be used for evaluation, research, educational and personal purposes. A commercial version of CompCert, without this restriction and with professional support, can be purchased from AbsInt. See the file LICENSE for more information.

I'm not entirely sure if something like that is good for an unpaid-for open source project...
Different stresses.
Why was it hard to deliver messages to iphone using p2p? I mean I guess they couldn't open ports and listen for messages, but that should have been true for plenty of NATed systems too right?
They think they know their competencies (database systems in one case, virtualization in another) but often they misunderstand what customers really value up the stack - in this example, Workday customers really don't care if it runs Oracle or MySQL or non RDBMS at all. In AWS case, we don't care for kvm vs VMware wars.

(I am the author of the TechCrunch post.)
Many airport options have improved quite a bit--though most are still hardly cheap. At some point, the message seems to have gotten out--for at least some terminals--that very few people want pseudo-fine dining at airports but many want good, relatively fast food.
Cows are intrinsically linked with organic farming in most of the world. They give fertilizer, power and milk. It is now skewed because of oil. If oil is expensive, they are the key to sustainable and prosperous agriculture.
a2enmod headers

echo -e "ServerSignature Off\nServerTokens Prod" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

openssl req -new -nodes -keyout webappsec-test.info.key -out webappsec-test.info.csr -newkey rsa:2048

cat webappsec-test.info.csr

Register here:

https://www.startssl.com/

Copy and paste csr...

cat Domain_cert.pem CA_root.pem

https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...

====>

A+ on

https://www.ssllabs.com/

Now? What's so hard about that?

I guess if you're using EC2 and Ubuntu on your server... ehhh...
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I definitely think there's a discoverability issue there.

1. The Hosted CTA is the right-most one. People don't read that one. Eyes naturally go to the first CTA, and then compare it to the 2nd one. Based on the first 2, I expect the 3rd one to be another downloadable package, not a hosted option, so I don't read it.

2. The top nav-link is "gitlab.com" not "hosted service". If I don't know that gitlab.com is a git hosting service, I'll never look there.

3. As mentioned, features + pricing don't mention gitlab.com, so once you get off the front page, you lose any hints of a hosted option unless you know what the "gitlab.com" link is for.

4. The first headline that my eyes go to below the fold is:

Self-hosted, scalable and updated monthly

That implies to me that "gitlab" is (exclusively) a self-hosted product, and isn't available as a SaaS option.
Yes, it does also say "Or use our free SaaS GitLab.com" but you can't really expect people to read the text immediately below a headline that (effectively) says "not what you're looking for"

Right now, since you're advising people to go self-hosted rather than gitlab.com, that might all be working in your favour. But when you get the performance + reliability of gitlab.com sorted out, I'd strongly advise you to make the SaaS option a lot clearer.

(I realise that I could submit a patch to index.html, but I don't think my 10 minutes of hacking is going to get you to the best outcome)
Leave this sort of rubbish on Reddit where it belongs, please.
That crap isn't free (you did buy a ticket, right?).
Excellent. Many thanks
Just one man's experience, but if you want a Linux that "just works," try Mageia. I've been running it since 2011, and in that time I don't remember ever hand-editing a config file. All my laptop's hardware works, printers just work, I use KDE and the monitor hot-plugging just works, the whole nine yards. It's pretty sweet!

It's actually gotten to where I no longer really remember how to do anything in Linux that would necessitate dropping to the command line. Happily, I can't remember the last time I needed to.
Look for companies that aren't startups, but not mega corps either.

I work for a software company with around 1000 employees and it's still a very relaxed environment:

- No dress code

- Free snacks, soda, coffee, tea

- 3 weeks vacation starting out

- Top of the line Xeon Workstation or comparable laptop with multiple monitors

- Flex work hours. I come in around 10am after exercising in the morning.

- No crazy work weeks (averaged around 40 hours a week the past year)

- Work from home when needed (bad weather, etc)
From first hand experience, Softlayer has been nothing but fantastic to us over the last few years, and cost effective.
Show HN: Looking for feedback on an ESL learning project
Trump Says He Will Force Apple to Manufacture in the US
What I can't understand is why United (and tbh most airlines) put such ludicriously short connection times in going from international to domestic in the US.

I've literally had them quote a 42 min connection at me getting from IAD international to domestic. This is literally impossible unless the flight was very significantly early/they put me on Concorde by mistake. I phoned up when I noticed and asked to change flight. Nope, some huge change fee + additional difference in airfare due.

Gave up and sure enough I missed the flight. They just stuck me on the next one anyway, but probably lost the revenue for the flight I was meant to be on. This has happend multiple times (I've it take as much as 4 hours at EWR to go through immigration -> go through TSA-> get bag -> recheck bag -> go through TSA -> board plane.

It must cost them millions of dollars. And as far as I can see there is no option on the scheduling system to say I want a longer layover. Not crazy long, just some room to breathe. Annoying.
Ask HN: What types of companies care about application security?
Maybe at the CDN level where there's lots of caching it's different, but for regular hosting apps are primarily IO bound so it's essentially "free" to do encryption. From http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...:

> In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been introduced as an option, but now all of our users use HTTPS to secure their email between their browsers and Google, all the time. In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the above numbers (public for the first time) will help to dispel that.
Making a product horrible in order to sell "less horrible" is not a great example of a market success.
Maybe you can share your strategy then because I dabbled in it a few years back and found it to be full of people willing to work for less than $10 per hour.

The majority of projects advertised seemed to be things like web scraping, homework cheating, people who wanted computer software to pick a magic lottery number, etc...
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Umm no, you are incorrect. Bitbucket does have its own issue tracker like GitHub.. (but it is not turned on by default) and what I am referring to is NOT JIRA Software.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/enable-an-issue-t...
I, too, like to live bohemian-ly.

I have a 1st gen Moto G. Bought it Dec 2013 and don't even care about having anything faster/bigger.

Indeed, the Moto E has been out for a little while and that phone is what I probably consider the bare minimum while still qualifying as a smart phone.

I'm just happy to have had device support for all these years so that I can run Android 5 natively and efficiently.
Which reminds me of the announcement while ago about Whisper Systems is helping WhatsApp implementing E2E [0]. I don't think I've heard ever since about it, and not even sure if that functionality is built into WhatsApp now...

[0]: https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/
You say that as if is has less value for not being a business.

When ideals are involved (strong encryption, privacy, ad-free), being run as a lean, open-source project is worth much more than being owned by a megacorp like Facebook.
To elaborate, the rocket can take only about 1 atmosphere of pressure in the radial direction, but much more force in the longitudinal direction. It's designed to withstand the stresses of going in a straight line, but as soon as it bends it'll crumple, like a toilet paper cardboard tube.

So when the thing topples over, it bends. And when it bends, it ruptures because it's far in excess of the loads under standard conditions.
Maybe a local (LAN?) NuGet feed with your preferred mechanism would help with the dev experience? You could even go as far as deploying custom templates. I don't think the new Configuration classes are limited to ASP.NET any more - and from the response I got on the issue tracker, if you find any hard dependencies report them as a bug.
"Apply with LinkedIn" on some of these sites is the closest to a "common app" for jobs but the system is still broken --

1) Recruiters at big companies are flooded with applications and can't screen through them; get a lot of applicants applying to everything

2) These sites still haven't been able to touch a lot of retail / food service /admin jobs, which are some of the largest segments of US employment. Their penetration here is low and even when they do have the jobs listed, they just link back to the original site where you have to fill out a long employment application.
what's the context of "application security"?
does bathroom tile count?
http://studiowhimsy.blogspot.com/2010/08/pike-place-market-s...
Nice. I'm interested in your ox-twbs package, going to take a look! Have you thought about changing the menu so it follows the reader?
One major problem is that the comparison sites that people use to determine this stuff don't make it easy to figure out if you're saving $10 to get a massively more uncomfortable situation.
A few issues I came across

1. Sign up btn on main page didn't seem to work but the one at the bottom worked. I browsed aroudn a bit before I clicked on signup and not sure if that had a effect.

2. Post sign up, I got a tool tip asking to create a task. But there were no other texts on screen. I can see a few button and even a arrow menu(top right corner) and none of these have a text in them.

I will check again later
I wouldn't read too much into that movie as an accurate portrayal of anything. The script is basically an early 80s college frat movie with all the bros in one frat replaced by stereotyped "nerds" to try and change up the formula a bit.

For contrast try: "Real Genius" or "Weird Science" or even "My Science Project" all from around that time period.
Maybe the client wants contractors that can read between the lines - someone who understands the scope of the job and is experienced enough to recognize the $5 price as a placeholder.
Looks like it was written from scratch [1] -

Quote: "I generally don’t like to reinvent the wheel so I tried to look at the currently available open source languages in search for a valid candidate. Some languages had a very nice virtual machine implementation but on top of a crappy syntax, some other languages had a good syntax but without an efficient virtual machine… some others were so huge and intricate that I refused to be involved in such a mess.

Requirements were clear… a thin and very efficient virtual machine with no more that 5000/6000 lines of code. I wasn’t able to find anything that could completely satisfy our needs so this time I decided to reinvent the wheel and project Gravity started."

[1] http://marcobambini.com/writing-a-programming-language-and-a...
Ask HN: Intellectual entertainment that's also not demanding?
After coming home from my Dilbertesque day job each day, I've found the ultimate antidote is to find something really inspiring from an intellectual point of view in which to engage myself in.

The problem however is that I'm usually mentally spent by the end of the day. I don't have the energy to sit down and read "The Origin of Species". So it has to be something that's, ironically, also not mentally demanding.

Does anyone have suggestions for blogs/games/entertainment whatever that fulfills this criteria? Stuff like zoomable fractals or xkcd comics, for instance.

Just need some reminders that intelligent life can be found on Earth.
We used Skype IM for a long time (inertia). It wasn't just the iPhone. Skype message delivery was erratic on all platforms. It got better, but even now there are occasional delivery delays when I chat with someone who hasn't switched over (we use Slack now).
Sure it is. It's a great example of market segmentation to recapture consumer surplus.
Everyone you know thought Google+ was a better interface than Facebook? That seems quite a strong anecdotal statement, but I have a hard time accepting it at face value. Yes G+ had some nice aesthetics, mechanics, use of white space, etc, but conceptually and organizationally it was a mess.

To chalk it all up to network effects is to let them off the hook too easily, after all there is no reason you can't build other successful social networks concurrently with Facebook, you have your Twitters, Instagrams, Snapchats, etc.

The way I see G+ failing is because there was no soul or vision to the product, it was driven by a simple fear of Facebook, and it's implementation was a simple conglomeration of features that constituted a cool tech demo but was not shaped by real users or a real use case (Google does this often, see Wave, but at least in that case they were trying something novel). In short, G+ was not true to Google's DNA.

I think my view still supports your main point though—stacks simply are not the same for each company. Lower level stacks tend to be more similar, but at the top they are serving unique market segments, so they are simply not fungible.
> And as far as I can see there is no option on the
> scheduling system to say I want a longer layover

A travel agent can help you with that.
It's very impressive that you were able to make this in 3 days! I signed up for an account and it was painless enough. My biggest gripe would be on the overall design, I like the layout but it severely lacks polish.

In terms of product, it's definitely something I've looked for in the past (Pivotal Tracker for simpler/non-programming projects). Nice work!
Even in the early/mid-90s, working along side women wasn't a big deal. I learned a lot from some very capable senior female engineers while at Netscape. I even got some great advice on how to look at things like "part time work", etc.

I think the bro-ness goes along side the "work hard, play hard, be at the office all hours" mentality. I've been to a few different gatherings where startups were pitching (including YC) and tune out anyone who pulls the "we are a family, we are here all hours, we blahblahblah" type thing.

Liking your coworkers and developing a desire to hang out socially, etc. should develop organically instead of some "mandatory fun" type work culture.
I assume it's due to the liquid oxygen remaining in the booster; essentially its a towering pressurised container falling on its side causing a breach.
I would not tag "low IQ" as the problem. Airline employees are mismanaged. Every working day they experience the same cheap-ass approach to stakeholders their customers only experience when flying. Then the bad ones take it out on the customers.
2 reasons:

1) As you say, salt water is bad. Do never go in salt water if you want metallic, electronic things to keep working.

2) The rocket can't withstand much, if any, load in longitudinal bending mode. It'll buckle like a toilet paper cardboard tube. This almost certainly includes under its own weight, if you were to 'catch' it at the top of the rocket and hold it on an angle. To design against that, you'd be adding way too much weight to the structure to make it worthwhile.
Nitpick. It still requires development.
Explain the box model... What is this 2010?
Can you suggest a good way to get started with Ansible?
Guessing it was because both phones need to have the app open at the same time. Skype's main p2p tech was built for the real-time synchronous chat use-case (like AIM), as opposed to the chat-log in the cloud use-case (like Slack).
It might be worth checking out ethereum.org and the work they are doing there on their blockchain, as well as serpent / solidity programming languages. Also, check out ipfs. The distributed computation and storage model has broad applicability, and a good lens from which to view the world.
A typical domestic flight has very few upgrade seats (e.g. on a 757). As one of those "frequent flier" business travelers on United (Gold--50K mile/yr status), I hardly ever get upgraded.

>would 'only' cost them 33% of seat capacity

So, on today's planes, they'd have to increase fares accordingly given that utilization on most flights is pretty high. I get your point. But the market dynamics are more or less "lowest price" vs. business class is OK.
On the 5th year report (that you linked to), they mentioned that they had funding for another year and a final report. It's unfortunate that there was never a 6th year final report to wrap up the project.
The last time I flew United was a non-stop flight from Chicago to NYC. I somehow ended up in Washington D.C. with seemingly clear skies* and no more flights out for the evening and a three-hour line for people trying to get hotel vouchers. I rented a car and was in my bed five hours later. That was six years ago. That wasn't my first bad experience with United by a long shot, but I'm trying to make sure it's my last.

* If there WERE poor weather conditions anywhere along the way, they weren't showing up on any weather maps. I'm no expert - I'm sure they had their reasons.
The problem was the avalibity when the sender was offline. You send a message from your iPhone to your friend who has an Android. Your friend doesn't have reception, and after sending the message you kill Skype b/c of the battery drain (otherwise it is being part of the p2p network).

Your friend now gets reception and will get your message... between a minute and a couple of hours. Most likely when you turn your phone back on, as the p2p network was not designed to store and propagate offline messages.

Meanwhile someone at Whatsapp built a key value pair on a server and if you had reception, you got the messages immediately and reliably. Oh, yeah, because the read and unread message states in Skype also propagated via the p2p network and also got took a while to arrive...
How to Create a Custom App with MDM Rest API
It's nice to see an article on developing for the new Apple TV, but I've been hoping to see an article like this for a paid tvOS app (up front or IAP).

I received one of the first round developer units myself and started on a number of ideas, both to test the capabilities of it as well as the market. Because of my workload at the time, I missed the deadline to have something out on launch day. Sadly, that seems to have been a good thing -- I have read nothing positive about the reality of marketing for and producing on the tvOS App Store. Everything indicates it's even worse off for revenue prospects than the iPad app market, which, aside from games, is on a steady decline.

While I'm sure we'll never know, I'd love to know what Apple actually expected to happen with the opening of this new App Store given the state of its other ones.
I should add, I've talked with Google twice over the years. My favorite interview conversation ever was a woman who was deep in kernel development work, the discussion stretched my knowledge and she taught me a lot over the course of an hour interview.
The two most toxic words in the history of tech - "culture fit".

Young, smart hackers came to believe that it is not just acceptable to exclusively hire people who look and act like them, but imperative for the survival of their company. Unconscious discrimination is inevitable when you hire based on nebulous factors of compatibility rather than concrete measures of ability.

When a founder hires in this way, they create an immense obstacle to diversity. The company grows on this ethos, creating barriers both direct ("she isn't a good fit") and indirect ("I don't want to work in this frathouse"). Improving diversity in these companies is like steering an oil tanker.

In my opinion, we need a new hiring norm that reflects the hacker ethos. We need to abandon the multi-day interview gauntlet and replace it with a fair, blinded work assessment. Classical music has seen a boom in diversity since the introduction of blind auditions and we should follow suit. Everything a developer does can be fairly and accurately assessed through IRC and Git commits.
Typed Up CRUD SPA with Haskell and Elm – Part 3: Routing
I've flown on couple dozen airlines. Yes, Asian carriers are almost always better in terms of food. I was actually served medium cooked steak on Asiana. But the real difference is in their cabin attendants. x10 better.

But what I hate flying about isn't the food or CA service.

It's flying into and out of JFK. Everyone working there is f'king miserable. They treat people like live stocks. And their customs and immigration are incredibly inefficiently run.
It's also idiotic that copyright law would prevent me from reading GM's software and modifying it for my personal use. As far as I understand the intent of copyright, it should only prevent me from re-selling GM's software (or a derivative work that's substantially based on it). If GM has a software-controlled braking system that they want to prevent other car manufacturers from copying, shouldn't that be covered by a patent?

Imagine how silly it would be if copyright law prevented you from reading a novel that you just bought, or scribbling notes on the book's pages, or publishing an essay analyzing its characters.
Arguments from the project/push add to url would be great! A page outlining why you are better than gitblit would help with clients :-) (who are all possible future EE users)
> Who is Team Clerk for?

It's missing construction (educators I've a doubt... do they try new things? Are they viral? Do they spend money? etc.). There is a lot of money in construction plus they still may have few good softwares. I don't know, just finger in the wind.
Yes, there are still traces of the p2p code. Most of messaging has been migrated to server based back ends, but there are still some hybrid solutions in place.

Funny thing the company DNA, P2P is still haunting Skype.
Yes, but the idea that you actually have to hire a person to do something that can be almost trivially handled by their existing systems is ridiculous these days.