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Hackestimate – Open Source Tools for Hackathon Organizers
http://52.24.83.13:8000
This is a hackathon project that I worked on last weekend. It's a simple web tool for hackathon organizers to help them budget for their travel reimbursements. It helps them optimize number and quality of people they are providing reimbursements to. I am considering to continue on this project as an open source tool and add more features. What are people's (more specifically, hackathon organizers') thoughts on this tool.

Use this link to download the test data file as a CSV
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lTV4wx7yVtE3Ubs1-SejcXWplBf2boTEqEJ6YYN-rQ8/edit?usp=sharing
Have you tried using any of those browsers? I don't think they're very convenient for frequent use. In Lynx, it takes 10 keystrokes to navigate to link #1 on Hacker News. 11 if you count accepting the cookie, which you have to do every time you open it, since it doesn't persist your choice. In my terminal, Lynx fits 5 stories at a time and navigating from one to the other takes 5 key strokes.
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What you're forgetting here is the "analyst." The non-technical person who sits in front of the X-Keyscore UI and just punches in a name and has all the information about them. Sure, someone with engineering talent built parts of that system, but they probably didn't know the full picture since everything was compartmentalized.
I completely disagree.

My father in law won't buy anything else other than the Samsung Galaxy S series. To him it's not even android, it's a "Galaxy".
"Hilarious" tweet: Ask not what your country can do for you Ask what you can do for your country. My country told me to fuck off [bitly link to citylab article]

We have drastically different tastes in comedy...
Try opening really really large files in Atom, it can't do it.
I'm a bit puzzled about the exact level this is pitched at.

The intro seems to be aimed at someone who already knows enough to be building web apps (albeit with difficulty). "Here's a description of a bad experience trying to solve an Angular problem. Sound familiar?"

But then it switches gears and what follows seems more appropriate for a reader who is completely new to programming. "Let me define terms like 'bug', 'comment', 'function call' and 'loop' for you."

(Maybe the actual audience is people who have recently started trying to build web apps (or something of the kind) without learning the fundamentals, and have been barely surviving by copy-and-pasting things? It doesn't look like it from the other articles on the blog.)

I'm also not sure what our hypothetical beginner is supposed to do with this little glossary. On its own, it seems to me it has the exact same problem the author described earlier in the context of Angular documentation: you don't know what X means, so you look it up, but it's defined in terms of Y and Z which you also don't know. So you look up Y and it's defined in terms of P, Q, and X. Etc.

I think this sort of little glossary of basic terms is potentially useful, but only in the context of something -- e.g., perhaps the author's book -- that introduces these terms gradually, in an order chosen for ease of learning, and in a context where most of what's going on is something other than "here are some definitions to learn".
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The sunk cost fallacy, basically.

That or Stockholm syndrome.
I am not so sure it is physics but accidents of economics business and Engineering. Companies have not been so enthusiastic to put optic fiber to where people live. Also the TCP protocol doesn't support really fast connection when you're going up to a gigabit or so. There is a company with a patented protocol based on UDP that companies like Disney use to move big video files around.
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I know /s, and perhaps I'm getting old and idiosyncratic, but I really don't understand why invent new text editors (Sublime, Atom, ...) at this point.

With emacs and vim around, I'd argue that text editors is a solved problem, if there ever was one. It is very hard to match emacs in terms of useful features or adaptability. Granted, the learning curve has a reputation for being steep, and elisp could need a facelift, but I think addressing these problems would provide much more value than reinventing the wheel with another shiny editor.
The attacker can replace the server's response with his own form that pretends to be Stripe's, too. In the end, there's no real defense against phishing.
> Weave ... has a tendency to over-complicate simple stuff like running an ElasticSearch cluster with auto discovery

Elasticsearch autodiscovery relies on multicast, AFAIK the only way to get it working with Docker is to use Weave (or another overlay network that gives you multicast). Is that not correct?
I have no fixed goal so interested to know the different trade-offs between each one e.g. which ones excel at different goals you suggest?

Also general comments about things like quality, extendibility, community, momentum, learning curve, level of fun, reliability etc. would be really helpful - thanks!
Julian Assange should be allowed to go free, UN panel finds
In theory, if you are selling to customers in the EU you are supposed to collect VAT from your EU customers and make the appropriate VAT return to the VATMOSS authorities. Or else stop selling to EU customers.

In practice, if you're based outside of the EU then you can probably just ignore these regulations (many smaller US sellers seem to be taking this approach). It's hard to imagine the EU tax authorities chasing you down.
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I'm impressed, it's almost an exact description of the product in my company, only thing we don't have (yet) is group chat rooms. And yes it's pretty horrible experience developer wise.
And does not being actively developed anymore suddenly makes it unusable? I don't think I ran into a bug in years, it's fast and supports everything I need. Moving to Atom sounds like a downgrade to me.
TIL: go.com still exists.
If you imagine yourself in the future(maybe 50 years in the future) and look back at the present and think about the present,specifically regarding privacy,mass surveillance,data collection,the state of the law and the power that the Government and corporations have over people's life, it seems totally ridiculous to me.

This is a problem that can only be solved if the vast majority of the population gets involved and cares about the pressing issues in the world.

One of the great side effects of the explosion of the internet is that it has created a potential medium for everyone to participate in the process of democracy and law making. With the awareness and the right tools to enable participation of the masses in every decision that the Government makes, we can limit the power that the Government and corporations have in the process of democracy and law making.

And with participation of the common man,we can finally move towards a democracy in the true sense of the word.
about a third of the size of this post.

This was a delightful comparison. It didn't really sink in until you said that.
I had the Atrix , stiil have, is running great ( but slow ) with the lapdock.

Idea is absolutelly great, HW reall OK, but in software was never completly done. It felt like was more like a PoC.

I was pretty dissapointed by Motorola not following this idea. It was kind of ahead of time.

Like others commented, very few phones have a HDMI interface.
I opened and played this while opening this second and started to read

http://www.neverendingbooks.org/artisanal-integers

Work strangely well.

AFAIK might work well with any HN story
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A huge portion of value with any of these text editors come from plugins and ubiquity. Over the years I have seen text editors come and go as the new "one true editor", but only Vim and Emacs have had true staying power.

Back when it was hot (some of you are probably too young to remember this) I used jEdit. It is still around and gets some maintenance updates from time to time (http://www.jedit.org/), but the plugin ecosystem has languished so you better be ready to roll your own.

With Vim and Emacs (Vim for me) I can trust it to go anywhere I want to be. If I'm ssh-ing into a Redhat 5 production server needing to do an emergency fix at 3 in the am Vim is there for me.

And when I need syntax support or any plugin under the sun, that is available as well. Vim is also blazingly fast compared to Atom (the latest fad) which is sluggish by comparison. Sublime seems to be falling into that sunsetting stage the same as jEdit

Just my 2 cents.
Yes, it might, but Congress can still do it.
Do you live in one of the UK's divorce hotspots?
and also, why cannot a chromecast + cast screen + a keyboard + a mouse would give me the same experience?
Yep, domain is also quite often very important, often the title does not mean much without the domain.

I think though two lines per item would be needed to display all that info
Wonderful, I've got to listen to this when I've got more time.

How did mankind survive before SoundCloud? Experiments like this music would probably have been a hard sell in those dark ages (except when you're John Cage).
previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032787
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Between. Although connectivity to the moon should be fine, pings in the order of 3-4 seconds happen regularly on Earth, too. From personal experience I can attest that WoW is perfectly playable with pings of up to 5 seconds.

Network connectivity between Earth and Mars is going to be a slow affair, though, and will require relay satellites for when the Sun is between the planets.

A worst case round trip time of 45 minutes definitely won't be fun with TCP.
I get "This content is no longer available". However, this appears to work: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-julian-assange-pre...
I see these solutions a lot lately, HN browser, weather, etc, all in the terminal. Perhaps a silly question, but why the need for browsing it in the terminal instead of a browser like say, Chrome or Firefox?
Maybe a TV set would work too?

I know, the target was initially a monitor, but everyone has a HDMI enabled TV ( ok, unless it lived under a rock in the last 5 years ).
You really murdered any sense of normalcy in your de novo system for footnoting.
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10086

Atom is fine for many people's usage of it, and it does some interesting things. It is not without merit. But until issues like this go away, I can't consider it. I regularly need to work with text files several hundred megabytes large. Atom cannot handle this usage. And before you say "Well, you're deliberately being difficult"... I am either taking a quick look at big csv files or automatically generated XML files that store configuration information for some of the systems I work on. A 120 MB XML config file isn't unusual.
The bottlenecks are the undersea cables and satellites needed for intercontinental data exchange.

Planes stacked full of HDDs have a lot of bandwidth.
Thank you for this explanation. I didn't know it was that bad. Why people chose to build this sparse in such a cold climate? I'd imagine in harsh environments you'd give anything to keep close to other people and to infrastructure and supply lines.
I'm a SuperCollider fanboy. It can be very expressive and terse, as sc140 tweets show. You can use it for livecoding. It also now has a pretty good IDE written in Qt, and you can make your own GUIs in Qt with it too.

I will admit that I haven't tried Sonic Pi yet though.
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previous discussion (863 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6439680
Add to that thin power cables that fray easily. A poor keyboard (relative to my thinkpad). Glued-in internal battery. Heavy (relative to plastic/composites) aluminium case that dents easily and attenuates wifi. Glossy glass screen that cracks easily and is far too reflective. The trackpad is good for scrolling but right-click is too awkward. The whole design philosophy is form over function.
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weird, it's in my profile. anyway, here it is dida1337 at yahoo.com
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Updated 'six degrees of separation'
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Yeah, but the Galaxy is a line that avoided the fate that's being reported. The question is: do people have that attachment to cheap HTC and LG phones?
People like what they're used to. I'm not in the least surprised that you happened to be a former Mac user...
Not that it kept me awake at night, but the question did pop up in my head from time to time. It may be more a topic of cultural history than anything else, but it's nice to get close to an answer.
Maybe it's just because I don't frequent social networks all that much, but I've never been exposed to this sort of depiction of Edward Snowden. The only coverage I've come across of him focused solely on what he did or his current predicament, not his image.

Even calling that Wired cover "sexualized" seems a little farfetched to me.
I'm not sure I understand what your comment has to do with Sublime...but in any case, Sublime does have a very active plugin ecosystem: https://packagecontrol.io/
Yes Vim is great. This post has nothing to do with Vim, why did you make a comment about how much you love Vim? Is your point that you think Sublime has no staying power so everyone should just use Vim or Emacs?

There's reasons other than staying power to use an application. If I only used applications that I expect to be around forever I'd be paralyzed and unable to make a decision a lot of the time.
According to an Apple board member it was rejected internally by Jobs himself.
The scuttlebutt I heard on him is that he opposed using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques for search, specifically deep neural networks.

I can understand his opposition, Google search results have been monotonically declining in quality recently in my opinion.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a polite way to sweep him out of the way. It's pretty much a golden parachute if so.

This is of course all speculation and hearsay based on what I heard about him a few months ago.
Someone really should build this. I'd pay handsomely for an easy to setup linux version that i could just boot on a beefy machine and keep running as an installation like that.
WhatsApp group limit increased from 100 to 256
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Ah, of course. Thank you for the clarification.
Not using social media is probably the simplest and most effective strategy to stick to the 'real issues'.
I have 9 invites and I do not particularly want to trawl through all of the existing comments to find people who may or may not have been invited since having posted their comments hours ago.

So, reply to me here or email me (wanda {at} teknik.io) and I will send you an invite. First co-- actually, first noticed, first served.
... and there goes my macbook (2008?) where windows 7 runs harder better faster than osx, and pretty much more reliably than the monster imac at the office.

Pity that nobody remembers Windows NT4, it was miles better than OS7. I stopped using mac altogheter after starting to use it.
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Their profitability depends on being able to dedupe and compress data across all customers. They would need to raise prices significantly to make client side encryption a built in feature.
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I really like sublime text, i have considered buying it several times. I go to the buy page and see the price tag - $70 US! Nope.

Given the very slow and infrequent development and the fact that its just a text editor (albeit a fancy one), i really can't justify the price.

I would consider buying if it was receiving regular updates (bug fixes, new features, etc) and had a bit of certainty with its future. But really, if it was priced around $20, i would have bought it ages ago - and if it hadn't then, I'd buy it now.
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A government state doesn't actually have to put you under constant surveillance, they just have to make you think you're under constant surveillance.

It's the old idea of the Panopticon as envisioned by Jeremy Bentham: Achieve compliance not by watching everybody all the time, but by creating a system where everybody could be watched at any time.
I'd really like an invite.
Why the heck doesn't he stop calling 3 'beta'? Many people are being led by the naming and web page instructions to install 2, only to find that 3 'beta' is really the one everyone in the know is using, and that plugins are being developed for.
That is "usually" never the definition of a pirate, you are describing privateers. Piracy is not limited to times of war nor is it dependent on a sovereign nation.
Because it looks good on r/unixporn ;-)

But more to the point - it fits with many keyboard only work flows and/or tiling WMs (i3, awesome, etc). At least that's what it's good in it for me. One less context switch.
Presumably for the same reason that people prefer native applications on iOS / Android to using web applications in mobile browsers.

This approach allows you to tailor the controls and the display to the specific application, thus creating a more pleasant experience.

Have you tried using HN in lynx?
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Ok thanks. It sounds like this should be something your payment provider (softcover via proxy through Stripe or whatever they use) would take care of for you.

Other platforms that sell items globally tend to charge EU customers more which probably account for the VAT increase, but in the end gives the author roughly the same amount per sale?
Yes I agree with the sceptisim. Although if you were trying to reduce access time for rarely accessed data and had sufficient volume it could be worth doing.
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Hi Christ, thanks for the remarks - I'll add them to the article as an edit. Thumbs up!
Historically technology has been more successful in affecting political change.
Someone did try (I believe it was called wecanhasthetechnology or something), but it didn't last long.
I'll also add that Julia has some of the killer features that py3 should... Metaprogramming in particular.
Keen as, would love an invite. (daniel {at} protonome.com)
Ok. Think I'll leave well enough alone then!
Also, Jython py3 dev lagged far behind py2.
I'm pretty sure current license keys work for both 2 and 3. Although it's not doc'd clearly, which does not inspire confidence. But my existing license key for 2 worked for 3 beta, and the FAQ[1] says "A license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade."

But if you already have a license key for 2, there's no risk, download 3 and see if it accepts your existing license key -- I think it might.

I have no idea why 3 is still called 'beta'.

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq
> The Rubik’s cube almost as a sex toy of those paranoid for dataveillance, a symbol of the genius needed to beat corrupt political systems.

Honestly? What is this garbage? Interesting commentary, maybe, but I can't say I agree with any of this. Is this a respected author or news source of whose opinion I should be more accepting?
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This may be obvious, but when working on Java I've found that this applies not just to classes but also to methods. When refactoring a poorly-factored class, often the most effective way forward is to inline all the private methods (introducing a lot of duplication) and then factor out the duplication.
The good old days... when viruses merely displayed a funny message or erased your hard disk, but didn't turn your computer into part of a botnet controlled by organized crime.
People are easier convinced to upgrade to a slightly better HTC/LG in the future, because "it's the same phone, but better". I understand the strategy.
> mostly via floppy disk sharing as the world wide web didn't exist yet

Great post, but wouldn't the internet, email, BBS and other networks have been the main cause of its worldwide spread?
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You cannot lump galaxy phones wroth the other Android phones because it is the only range that makes money for its parent.
… and yet here we all are.
What's alleged is irrelevant. The case was dropped because the standard for criminal law is "beyond all reasonable doubt", at least in any rational or sane justice system.

There is absolutely no way a case with this many holes in will ever - EVER - reach that standard of evidence unless they have something really unusual, like video evidence of what happened.

The chance of getting a conviction in this case given the weaknesses of the claims, the he said/she said nature, and the contradictory behaviour of the alleged victims afterwards (which included attempting to remove evidence that contradicted their story by deleting tweets etc), all point towards a failed prosecution. Hence, why Assange is suspicious.
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Can you give some examples?
> Programs written in a general purpose programming language (like Python) are [not] automatically parallelizable

Of course they are - your super-scalar, out-of-order processor does it for you at the very least.

And at a higher level, the same speculative techniques that can be used to automatically parallelise a C program can also be used for Python, Ruby, etc. It's just that nobody has implemented that yet.
Bill Gates? Really? His company is one of the biggest proprietary companies in the world that to this day are still venturing into people's privacy as standard.

Also:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371608/Bill-Gates-t...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/0...!

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-ambitions-of-bill-and...

...
I smiled at psycho (spent a lot of time composing random and lines). You didn't try the fire graphical trick / demo ?
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> The demoscene prod "8088MPH" demonstrates this to spectacular effect.

I thought those were on an RGB screen. All the more impressed by the brilliance of those guys.
This is true, but attempting to defend against the general threat you're describing via PCI DSS is meaningless. Any web site, if hacked to serve misleading content, could collect any visitor's credentials for any payment method. This is true even for sites that normally have nothing to do with collecting card payments and therefore have no obligations under PCI DSS.

I'm not a big believer in the usefulness of schemes like PCI DSS anyway, but to the extent that they might be useful, it's as a checklist of good practices to follow when things are working properly. In that case, clearly there is a significant distinction between sending sensitive data over your own network to be stored on your own servers and sending sensitive data only to a trusted service provider that is better equipped to deal with it securely.
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