skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that's terrifying. Glad it worked out for you.

My tifu is when I first started working for an actual client, I thought I was a genius running my own git server on my own computer. Also I had the ssh key for my server on the same computer.

When my hdd failed, I lost everything.

Now the funny thing was, while my server was running I had no way to gain access to the server, the customer had already started using it, and they had inserted around 400-500 records already.

Now there I was, locked out of my own server, no source code I was working on for around 3-4 months.

Lucky for me, someone online had mentioned about a way to gain access to an aws server if you lost the ssh key.

I created a new instance, and mapped the old storage to the new instance. Lucky for me this worked.

Also, 2 weeks(ish) before this blunder I had sent a copy of my code to a friend who was helping me with some issues I had.

So my email saved me.

Now I backup regularly, use github(recent projects gitlab) and I have my ssh keys on 3 separate pen-drives and this http://www.oakalleyit.com/node/4
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> It relies on you trusting code that (supposedly) expert programmers have written, and which has been reviewed hundreds of times. Which is no better than C.

This is a vast oversimplification.

It relies on you trusting tiny bits of unsafe code which have been carefully reviewed. This is opposed to entire C codebases which need reviewing. It's much, much easier to audit 10 lines of unsafe code than it is to audit an entire application.

The vast majority of Rust code is not unsafe.
AWS FTW
That might be normal. All cathode displays made a high pitched noise, TVs included.
SCTP tries to be the best of the two, and as such it feels "overengineered". But besides that, the main problem I see is that you can't communicate with arbitrary hosts. There is a SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel, besides the 'reference' one that is developped against FreeBSD. For OS X, you need to install a kernel extension and for Windows I don't really remember TBH.

Of course, you could use a userspace stack but you still have another problem: all the middleboxes between you can your destination. Anything that tries to be smart about your packets (NAT, proxies, younameit) may break your connectivity simply because it only understands TCP and UDP. I guess you could use UDP encapsulation but personally I'd start questioning whether picking SCTP as a transport protocol is worth all this trouble.
Sometimes software methodologies are a little like the stone-soup story; vaguely defined such that when it turns out bad, you can always wriggle out of it by claiming it was done wrong, and there's a better way to do it that works. When you follow up for details, the full "right way" has such a high bar, no one but a few true believers are gonna actually follow it.

I want a methodology that provides improvement on average, even with only partial uptake. Many other best-practises are independently virtuous, hence have this quality.
Is it possible that Farook had some copyrighted material on his phone?
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Those some good points, but if some one is living paycheck to paycheck they still can't afford a new device. Also iCloud backup only does so much data before it costs something, so that could be another additional cost that some people are not going to be able to afford.
Amazing service. I've used it many times to read articles from newspapers I'm not subscribed to. Also got my money back a couple of times. It just works.
I think if you add the word "profitable" to the first sentence, the "a lot" changes to "some". But I will give you that "some" :)

Fluff was probably the wrong word.

When the perception you want to build around your incubator is about massive, life-improving, world-changing businesses (or at least that's my impression). There are some ideas I would consider leaving on the table for other investors and incubators.

- plush phones for toddlers / really loud speakers (kickstarter).
- Slack or Zapier acquisition targets.
- Chatroulette for phonecalls.
- The next Whisper / Secret / YikYak / Gossup / Babbly / Cloaq
- Yet another live streaming service.
- A meal subscription service which makes me buy an oven to join?

No offense intended to any founders or investors. If I'm wrong that's great!
Ask HN: How can Slack be disrupted?
I read many articles about "Company X taking on Slack", but they fail to point out exactly how the company plans to disrupt Slack.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/23/microsoft-slack-killer/

https://www.techinasia.com/wechat-slack-work-office-chat
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/22/domo-takes-on-slack-with-130m-at-2-billion-valuation/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-to-take-on-slack-and-facebook-with-new-ai-powered-chat-says-report/

http://www.slashgear.com/quip-adds-chat-rooms-to-take-on-slack-21380086/

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/27/hipchat-looks-take-slack-new-app-private-networks/

We use Slack all day, it is deeply embedded in our productivity and workflows, it just works. What exactly would convince us to give up something that works?

Emulating Slack is not enough, how do you think Slack can truly be disrupted?
Congratulations on the launch and I'm very curious to see how adoption will be in the US!
My reading was that their C&C monitoring stuff was polling once an hour, not the bots themselves
During beta testing only binaries are available.

Why?! Surely this is the optimum time to provide source code, given the amount of trust one has to place in these things to not lose/misplace your data.
That, sadly, is something Apple really doesn't support or encourage, by and large they've kept moving away from reparable and upgradable products[0] even though that's by far the most ecological option (short of not using industrial products in the first place)

[0] to trade them for form (soldered RAM, fused display panels), for assembly convenience (tons of adhesives, thankfully they've at least started moving to adhesive pull tabs for iOS device batteries) or for no fucking reason whatsoever (custom SSD connectors, proprietary/security screws). As far as iFixit is concerned, the only thing less repairable than an rMBP is an orange.
Also, when 4 years later you come back to the thread to find it is was you, asking the question before.
IRS Offering $10,000 Prize for ‘Taxpayer Experience of the Future’
Nobody should have write access to prod when wearing their dev hat. Only scripts tested against a copy of the DB should be run with write in prod.
Sounds like a terrible situation. I wish those guys luck.

One useful sys ops practice is the creation and yearly validation of disaster recovery runbooks. We have a validated catalog of runbooks that describe the recovery process for each part of our infrastructure. The validation process involves provoking a failure (eliminate a master database), running the documented recovery steps and then validating the result. The validation process is a lot easier if you're in the cloud since it's cheap and easy to set up a validation environment that mirrors your production env.
Creator here, happy to add items on the checklist. Any suggestions on what to remove or to add? Thanks!
Oracle is extremely good at coming in, completely hosing everything, then disappearing and sending you a $350/hr invoice for the privilege. Their consultants seem to tread the line between totally incompetent and actively malevolent surprisingly well.
That will be a fair statement once there are any commercial (or general aviation!) passenger flights for which all flight operations take place without human intervention. We don't live in that world yet. Saddling an already risky endeavor with the additional risk of having to invent a completely new class of control software is really too much to ask.

If you think this will be easy, why not just start by outfitting e.g. simple four-passenger Cessnas with your amazing new software that obviates pilots? There's got to be a market there, for something that works. Then when you've got that handled, move up to bigger and faster planes.
This is exactly what I do too.
I also tend to pipe to "xargs echo [the rest of the command]" first, to verify that the generated command lines looks sane.

Still plenty of fun potential escaping caveats, of course.
In the DR services my company provides, failover testing is baked in to the cost, and is _mandatory_ annually. It is hard and complicated and expensive, but not as hard as explaining to the customer that "we have your backups, we just can't use them because we never tested whether the software would run on the DR hardware" or "don't worry, the replica of the file server is secure in the datacenter, you just can't log in now because the Active Directory server is tombstoned and won't process your logon." When someone needs their data, what's the difference? Can I see my files or not?

It's more than a cliché that without restore tests, you don't really have a backup-- if the customer won't commit to testing the DR, we won't provide the service anymore. Anyone who pretends anything else is acceptable is kidding themselves.
Ask HN: Most widely used enterprise search that can search unstructured data?
New to this area and looking to find out if there's a perceived leader in this field that stands out ahead of all others. If not, why do you think that might be? Realise typically only really huge organisations use that kind of thing, though.

Does anyone know of any recent advancements in products in unstructured data search?

Thanks.
> I think this was just an ill-judged offhand comment.

I don't think you have provided sufficient information as to why you think my comment was bad. You say the 'get' different use cases better than most in the industry, and that used to be something I agree with. However, this effect is shrinking, at least as far as my personal needs are concerned - which is admittedly anecdotal.

> P.S. I'm typing this on an 2010 MBP which, with an SSD upgrade, still works beautifully.

I did the same thing with my 2012 MBP, but I'll have to replace the machine entirely for performance reasons soon, and there is no upgrade path for current MBP models anymore, at all. What you buy is what you'll have.
Death by (Any Of) a Few Thousand NPM Dependencies
Add to avoid sticky elements on mobile apps.
Hang on: FDA just makes sure the drugs are somewhat effective and don't cause terrible side effects in the short term.

FDA regulation doesn't encourage manufacturers to look at long term effects.

EDIT: I'm wrong about this. Thanks hga.
Good luck using that Mini for 4 years, when iOS runs worse and worse on it. You could mend that with more RAM, but hey that kind of luxury ain't "the Apple way".
When I try to zoom in to read the rather small image illustrations on iOS MobileSafari, it just takes me to a different blog post. Going back again leaves a huge animgif running at the side of the page :( Please don't override scroll and zoom gestures :(
Not to sounds like a Monty Python skit, but 50ms really does seem like luxury to me :-). I guess to back up the OP's point, I regularly use vim over 250ms+ latency lines for hours on end. It's not fantastic, but it's definitely doable. You need to have your vim golf game up to par, though :-)
Looks like the pricing page is 404 right now as well (but all other pages seem to be fine)
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That doesn't make them notable hidden services, Facebook is undoubtedly notable but is their hidden service so? I think not.

Facebook has no need to hide their origin servers, so their use of .onions is symbolic at best (besides as a TLS alternative) as any tor users would be better off browsing the clearnet version of the site.

For wikileaks using .onions makes sense for receiving documents, not for displaying the leaked ones.
Exactly, same here !!
Note that it isn't 100% memory safe, it doesn't protect against iterator invalidation (which is a pretty common way in which memory unsafety springs up). But it can be close enough.
The Amish have a tradition called Rumspringa where teens are given a year of freedom to do anything they want after which they can choose to come back and be Amish or go their own way. Basically, a bunch of kids are sent off into the world with no sex education and told to do whatever they want. Obviously a lot of them come back pregnant or with STDs or drug habits. And with little education and no resources outside the Amish, the choice isn't real; there's no way for them to realistically choose to leave the Amish community. And if somehow they do manage to get enough resources to leave, they can look forward to being ostracized by their friends and family.

Saying that is bad doesn't mean I'm an extremist.

I'm not suggesting we go into Amish communities and overthrow their leaders. I'm just saying I don't think we should fetishize or support their way of life, which is harmful to many who live in it, and we should provide support for people seeking to leave the Amish community.
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I love this! Loved this game back in the day, love that Elite has been remade and frogger as CrossyRoad now I'm just waiting for ChaseHQ to be the next tablet blockbuster.
E.g. Some UK newspapers have started to have .onion addresses for their sources to use. This was in response to a case last year.
i love DoTT, and this looks nice, but I'm disappointed that they don't seem to have given the same attention to the music they did to the visuals.
I guess im used to working with languages with excellent IDE support.
Having more files and jumping around the code to see the detail don't seem to be a problem for me when using a good IDE.
While I only got through around half the video I can see hes created 500 line functions with 5 levels of flow control, personally I find that much harder to follow than clicking though to a function or just reading he functions name and API.
I think the parent poster meant this was "just an ill-judged offhand comment" on Schiller's part, not you :)
IVR Technology Group Announces Merger with Phonologies
https://archive.is/WRDSx
I am not affected by this. It just seems like a childish move that only hurts the users. NPM did not go against its ToS.
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And the "--" option to most utilties that make everything follow the "--" parse NOT as an option.

e.g. "rm -- -r -f blubb" will delete the three files "-r", "-f" and "blubb".
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I think that's irrelevant. The encryption needs to be a means of control like DRM, not just copyrighted material that happens to be encrypted.

Edit:

>a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

So encryption that doesn't depend on the authority of a copyright owner isn't affected.
Hard to say. I've seen posts by jamwt (I assume someone that's working on the said Rust project) which are more confusing than enlightening.

In one they say that Dropbox is investing multiple millions in a key piece of infrastructure written in Rust. One month later they say that the project is written in go with some Rust and it will "stay that way".

There was also a HN thread, maybe that contains more clues.
True, fortunately there are initiatives such as http://nusi.org/
I'm open to being wrong. This would be an interesting point to research as an economist. You're right in that in the past 50 years unhealthy food has become relatively cheaper compared to healthy food.

My thought was comparing the cost of a particular balance of nutritional value from now, to past centuries and millennia. Maybe it doesn't hold for the economic "golden years" in America from 1950-1970.

My completely arbitrary estimate is that total food costs as a percentage of total household consumption has plummeted from something like 40-50% to about 2-5%.

Of course, there are regional differences. At the moment, in the developing world getting enough protein is a challenge. For many historically meat was prohibitively expensive. But it wasn't so for people close to hunting or fishing industries.
Would you like to live in a world where most of the surrounding is the same. Where's the fun, or the happyness, or even the possibility to get new knowledge or new thoughts that break trought what is today's impossible. It might be cheaper may it will make you stupid, ignorant and lazy. (And then they will throw you away allthough you were nice to them
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Show HN: Duplicacy, cross-platform cloud backup based on Lock-Free Deduplication
why is everyone that writes for a living a muh feels moron
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Better administrative controls, more fully fleshed out bot ecosystem, payments integration (perhaps by bot), ability to let users setup alerts (hashtag, keyword or user) based on content in various chat spaces that they may or may not want to actively participate in, email integration, better binary document handling (attach files to chats), preferably with collaborative inline editing.... Just a few things OTOH. There are really two options, imho: 1) go after Slack & enterprise chat, or 2) go after Whatsapp, FB Messenger & WeChat and consumer group chat. If anyone creates a product that can do both, they'll be instant billionaires.
Ping Pong Is Killing Your Company Culture
https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe
In my first job (at a pretty small company) I needed to debug something. I made a dump of the production database, downloaded it to my dev machine, then deleted the live production database instead of the one on my dev machine by accident (typed the command in the wrong shell).

This happened while the CEO was talking to someone external to the company, right beside my desk. Little adrenalin rush there.

Anyway I had of course just made a backup, and only one order was placed while I was downloading it that I could restore by hand using the email that was also sent for each order, so no damage done. But I'll never make that mistake again :-)
I somehow feel canonical/ubuntu should be valued more, at least not too far from Redhat, they have decent software, probably just need a "better" CEO/CFO to monetize what it has so far.

Meanwhile that will drive many freemium users back to Debian when revenue becomes the priority, as what Redhat did in the past.
Yeah, it's just a title, so what makes a senior dev is that title on their resume. Everyone has their own view of what should merit getting that title so it's not an interesting discussion topic. (For fun though, my view is senior is just an understanding of how your work ties to business value.)
FWIW this was my understanding as well.
That's just it, it would have to work 10x better to disrupt. I suppose it would take not reacting to new technology change. If Augmented reality took off, and their interface was only minimally adapted.
I want to see a large-scale system written in Rust or a security-critical piece of infrastructure where it's demonstrable that defects were reduced. Of course, no one is obliged to fulfill my wish, it's just a criteria that I use to evaluate the maturity of a tool and that I think is very reasonable.
I had a client call me in panic after he'd run a unit test script that started by wiping and recreating the database from scratch, and he'd run it against the wrong server.

Thankfully he'd just run it against a dev environment where the loss wasn't particularly severe (the prod environment is firewalled off, so he couldn't have done the same thing against that), but from the panicked tone of his messages before it was clear what had happened, I'm sure he's come to be extra careful about database credentials going forward....
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Why would you want to build a business based on Twitter API and then if successful your access gets revoked?! It's just crazy how badly Twitter has been dealing with companies that are building on top of their API. For me, Meerkat was one of the worst examples. A lots needs to be done to improve the relationship with developers and tech startups.
I've lived on several Pacific Islands, and spent time on others. Sadly I haven't made it to Vanuatu, Samoa, or Fiji. Your links seem to refer to fish deaths rather than coral bleaching.
The ~10 minute RSA Animate video for "Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us" is terrific:

http://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
Yes it was, thanks for the info.
Amazing! Where can I find TIME and Newsweek when using an existing dutch account?
No Respite for Yahoo, Battling on 2 Fronts
Man, I never got to BLARP as an undergrad. I feel so left out.
My dad still uses my old first gen iPad and it does everything he needs it to do. It's been the greatest gift (for me) ever. He was never comfortable using PCs and I do FAR less tech support than I used to.
The life of an ISO proposal: From “cool idea” to international standard
Actually, since Red Hat is a public company, its "market cap" valuation is actually at $13.28 billion. The article merely claims says Red Hat has made $2 billion in revenue. That being said, the company does seems overvalued (P/E ratio is 70.62).

It has a positive EPS of 1.03, which is another point in its favor (it means it's actually turning a profit).

Source: http://fortune.com/company/rht/
Windows 10 has cloud storage which it enables by default. While not as smooth yet as a tablet, it's a step towards solving the grandma problem.

My mother has an 8 year old computer, and Windows 10 runs just fine on it.
Guilt by association. They are trying to build a case against the dark web, like they built the War on Drugs:

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
The GNU tools accept arguments at the end, so I'm in the habit of writing:

rm ./ -rf

instead. There's a bit more chance to notice the mistake. Of course, rm is already aliased to rm -i.
$250K Salary Could Qualify for Subsidized Housing Under New Palo Alto Plan
How is it a franchising scam? I'm agreeing that not guaranteeing an operating area is a bit shit, but reports (from within this very thread, no less), suggest that it is very much a real and, more, worthwhile, outfit. Then again, I don't really care if it's good or a pile of shit, there's no law against having a crappy product.

Withholding pricing details is pretty standard for franchises. I would probably agree (somewhat) with a point that franchising as a system often tries to take advantage of unsophisticated people, but I don't see much evidence that this is anything more than par for the course.

> Any 9yo could figure out how to attach a foam tip to an arrow.

As I said, I didn't disagree with the obviousness, though it's become murkier, read more discussion below.

> They've spent far more time obtaining patents and setting up complicated commercial schemes than they have developing a product.

Feel free to back this up any time you like.