skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless synergy has explicit support for WoL (it didn't last time I used it, but it's been years), it won't just work.

You'd need to patch the synergy server to send a WoL magic packet[1] to wake up the client whenever it sends a message that might hit a client that's asleep. (some systems might support something other than the standard magic packet, but I don't know of anything else that works consistently cross platform.) Might also need to look at making sure the client connection comes back up clean and have some delay to make sure it's ready to receive whatever message started the process, and doesn't timeout while waking up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_packet
As a previous small business owner...being able to fire somebody for whatever reason I please is absolutely and 100% necessary. It is expensive for an employer to hire somebody. Realistically, the examples you provided do not happen often. The majority of the time an employee is fired is usually because of performance, team incompatibility/culture fit, or what I've seen is the employee simply stopped caring/lost interest/passion. Regardless of what the reason is, most employers know it is expensive to have employee churn and firing is the last resort option.

When you own a business, and have two employees, and have to get rid of one, it should be easy as sitting down and saying you are no longer a good fit for the company...The employee takes the two weeks pay and that is the end of it. That is all it should ever be. No matter the reason. Non "at-will" employment states are ridiculous.
See my comment above. For me it seems more accurate.
Might be. I'm planning to do thyroid tests soon, because some of the things in my life could be explained by problems there, and my sister recently found out she has some thyroid problems. I understand the experience - for me, day-and-night difference was getting on SSRIs.

But it could also just be that I never started to like exercising in the first place. I have myopia since early childhood - so from the first years in school, glasses gave me logistical problems on PE lessons. It was especially problematic during team games - when I took the glass off, I was the worst player in class. When I left them on, I could play somewhat well, but I was risking breaking them when hit by a ball (it actually happened). So I ended up avoiding team sports as much as I could, and there a negative feedback loop starts (not playing made me only suck more and be less willing to play).

Anyway, thanks for the advice :).
I've been interested in an alternative for a while, but have been too lazy to spend much time looking. I primarily use two Evernote features: writing plain text notes, and on taking quick, easy (and stored) screenshots using their keyboard shortcuts.
I like sublime text too. but the most recent update seems to have an issue. sometimes when opening a file on linux, I won't see any content rendered unless I resize the sublime text window.
Because of the author's background I couldn't help but get a morose chuckle out of the popover ad which read "We'll come for you".
It transfers general IP packets, but encapsulates them inside UDP packets.
CS5 never crashes for me...

That said, The price tag is obscene. Large price tags for specialty business software is fine when the publisher is an indy developer with a small demographic. Photoshop does not qualify.

I understand they will charge whatever the market will pay, but that doesn't make it right or "not evil". It's 2016 and I think we should really grow up as a species. Competing so ferociously with your fellow man that you make all the money and they end up dead should not really be socially tolerable.
By far my favorite Alfred integration is with Dash, the offline documentation viewer: https://kapeli.com/dash

I have an Alfred workflow with a hotkey of COMMAND+OPTION+CTRL+P that searches Dash. I then type whatever it is that I'm searching for and Alfred displays the likely matches sorted by the docset preference order in Dash. It makes me feel psychic and I can't imagine working without it now.

It's the first feature I show people who ask, "Why use Alfred instead of Spotlight?"
> Is there an age limit to being called a startup? Is there a valuation limit? Revenue limit?

This has become a problem lately with companies remaining private longer. You could consider it a start-up because it still aims to grow unprofitably by relying on private capital

> Maybe the new definition of a unicorn should be a private company that is profitable and requires no outside funding?

You could call it a grown up unicorn
The "upside" of the fee is nothing more than feeding the voracious appetite of the state of California. The explanation for this AMT franchise tax literally uses the phrase "for the privilege of doing business in California". The state tax board knows what it's doing, and it doesn't care, because the truth is that loads of people want to start a business in California or run a business from within California as a resident, and have no other choice but to pay the AMT franchise tax (even if the business is incorporated in Nevada or Delaware, if most of the business occurs in the state of California, the tax man still cometh).

It is greed. Plain and simple.
Here's that CB Insights list for anyone interested.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies
Git, Linux, Python, Sublime Text, Redis, Postgresql, VLC.

Also Ubuntu, I remember how I always felt having a half broken setup when I started using it in 2007 but for the past 2-3 years it just worked, really stable, no more release upgrade mess ups, really enjoy it.
Perforce works well for a monorepo at certain scale. It also falls over with too much stuff, and when it falls (due to capacity or otherwise) over your entire company is dead in the water until it's resolved.
Thanks, adding to "to-read" list!
Jepsen: Crate 0.54.9 version divergence
Imagine how much more science could be done if we, America, did not have to pay for tens of millions of illegal immigrants and globalist rent seeking. Tens of billions of dollars could be redirected towards a manned mission to mars, a fleet of Kepler telescopes, and reviving the SSC.

The elite are illegitimate.
nginx, SQLite, Reaper, Audacity, VLC, ffmpeg and ffplay.
Oh, well that scheme wouldn't be legal for a few reasons: once you receive an NSL you aren't allowed to say you've received 0 NSLs in a given time period (you can only report in 0-249 buckets so you couldn't say "We have received no NSLs in Jan 2016") and the granularity with which you can report (on my read of the document: [1]) is per year or per six months depending on which option you choose (so you couldn't say "We have received 0-249 NSLs in March 2016", just "We have received 0-249 NSLs in 2016").

The only reason the canary "works" is as a binary option - if you say "We have never received an NSL" up until you receive one, the government cannot compel you to continue including that line in your report, because that would be compelled speech which is legally difficult and (as far as anyone knows) hasn't been attempted. But anything you say beyond that related to the quantity or existence of NSLs is subject to the linked guidelines. In other words, they cannot force you to continue including a paragraph (the canary) in your report, but they CAN regulate anything you do choose to include in your report.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/422201412716042240...

Edit: NSL letter, ATM machine, blah
zsh, vim, git, tmux, ssh, curl, less, rsync, mosh, ag

VLC player deserves extra credit because it's a big, messy, cross-platform GUI app.
I regard it as a good thing that BP, and Shell, and VW (and so on) keep ticking along! People made bad decisions and should be punished. Companies cannot make decisions. Only people can.

There's no point in burning down the village because the mayor's corrupt. The town still has value!
It doesn't matter where the company is incorporated, you will have to register it as a foreign entity in your state (in this case, CA).

Take the time to read about this before doing anything. One impulsive action could lead to thousands of dollars in annual fees and even more in filing costs (accountants, lawyers).
Thanks for sorting this. I'm a little embarrassed I complained on HN instead of raising an issue on GitHub or something :)
It would be more appropriate to title this the "Euro-Centric History of Science" or simply "History of European Science". There were serious and productive investigations into this matter long before Europeans got science.
It is certainly impossible to create realistic models of the economy, if one's economics is based on assumptions of linearity and equilibrium. Mark Buchanan's book _Forecast_ [0] makes the case for more realistic models, using techniques from the natural sciences, that would have better predictive value.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Forecast-Physics-Meteorology-Sciences...
"only for national security" just like Russia
Aikido is a very "broad church" - ranging from fluffy bunny to pretty hard styles - and the effectiveness can vary significantly.

The principles and techniques can be very effective, but it depends on what/how you train (or who you train with).

There are many reasons to train, and based on your reasons, you should choose the martial art you wish to study, and also the teacher/school where to study. That said, it can be a great idea to study with a good teacher (but of an art you are less keen on) who is close by, than the perfect martial art which you can only get to infrequently.

Aikido isn't the best art to quickly learn how to defend yourself if that's all you want to do. But it has many pluses - "old man's judo" as a friend of mine said - you can keep going and keep getting better (if you practice) inspite of age...

I can recommend: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meditations-Violence-Comparison-Mar... for some thought provoking reading and study.
It says "We'll come to you!", not "for you".
So are you planning to copy everything from Skydio or just the job posting?

https://www.google.com/search?q=The+core+of+our+system+is+th...
What's weight? Mass is well-defined; you could call weight "the force of gravitational attraction between the object and the earth" or you could call it "the force acting upon the object, when at rest". Since we're talking about measuring weight, I was using the second one, which is easy to measure directly.

Granted, I was also using the first sense when talking about the weight of the helium specifically. I guess in that sense my terminology could have been better.
Real runner's high means you started damaging your muscles and brain flushes endorphins to your blood stream in order to keep you being able to continue without experiencing debilitating pain in case you are running from a disaster/predator/death in the last attempt before you cease to be able to move. Not something you'd want to achieve repeatedly.
AirBnB Vows to Fight Racism but Its Users Can't Sue  to Prompt Fairness
I like that you posted this to gather opinions and create a discussion around the ethical implications of it all. Kudos.

I'm wondering why you chose to use your real name though. Seems like there would be little benefit and very high risk in doing so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
I currently use Launchbar, does anyone have any good examples of where Alfred might be better?
I have personally swapped AirBnB for the entire hospitality industry in my mind. The only times I end up in hotels now are when I'm booked into one by my employer. I wouldn't, for pleasure, stay in a hotel or motel unless I really had no other choice. I was very happy to discover that AirBnB has a significant presence in Japan which made my recent trip there more pleasant and saved me money.
Alas, my phone is running a newer version of Android, and does the Media Protocol thing instead of doing Mass Storage. I usually don't expect to be able to access its files in a sane manner over USB; it's hit or miss.

Instead, I use Syncthing, so my files are synced properly between the phone and my computer using my wireless network, no cables needed. I just copy the same folder to my USB drive periodically and don't need to mess with it beyond that. (In a pinch, I suppose I could use the OTG cable to update the USB drive using my phone.) I like being able to have the drive plugged into the car at all times, as it's one less thing to fiddle with when getting in and out.

If I'm going to plug a wire into my phone for my car, I'd much rather just use the standard AUX (3.5mm headphone jack) port that's built in, as it's simpler and more reliable. I still do this from time to time if I feel like using Youtube, Google Play, or another streaming based service, or if I need to hear something on my phone (like Navigation).
Most of the money would be in development, not research. Elegant designs and methods exist, and the designs can be iterated very quickly. The very real problem has been interfacing with the rest of the world. Not at the hardware level (see the switch designs mentioned elsewhere in this thread), but in the interoperability of design software and other tools. Any company will need either their own design software, or to do a massive hack-job to get synchronous design software to work well without that bedrock assumption.
That may yet happen.

Although CSS sucks more than a very sucky thing, and the text+markup idea barely makes sense in 2016, I can see how we got here - and how CSS needed to hit the classic "worse is better" sweet spot that allowed designers to play, and not just people who code.

But that was then. If someone invents a meta-protocol now and implements a meta-browser/meta-server for it, I'd expect cult/niche status at least.
I would risk a heart attack for stroopwafels. I love Amsterdam, but I go back for the stroopwafels.
I've observed this too. Facebook suggested I connect to two people who had moved in next door to me. We have no connection otherwise.

Notably I've never installed the main Facebook app on my Android phone - only the separate fb messenger app.
So long as you do not compress the random data you add it will work. Compressing it will not help the situation at all since the compression ratio will be constant for the random data. The problem is you have to then seriously negate the effects of compression.

Consider compressing "silence" in a telephone call.. You can't compress it well if you also need to have the non silence elements be indistinguishable from it by adding random noise. You must add enough random noise to cover up any compression differential, otherwise statistical artefacts still persist. That amount of random noise will be up to the maximum compression ratio you can achieve.
I think your last paragraph sort of makes the point.

A lot of these things depend upon the ability to quickly and easily see how a given piece of code is being used universally. Whether that means a single repo or simply a single unified index of all code and the ability to atomically commit to every repo is immaterial, but the latter sounds a lot like the former.
MOC. Music on Console. I've been using it forever with no issues of any kind. It's immediate, it's lightweight, it never fails, it works with my files in my hierarchies, it has all the important functions mapped to individual keys. It's brilliant. My wife calls it "nerd mode," which obviously makes it even more appealing.
Yes, Perforce can handle huge repos with gigantic binary files much better than git. Sadly, it sucks at pretty much everything else.
Uber and Lyft are actually among the most exploitative, in terms of real income versus the promises they make.
The USA is an extremely expensive place to build infrastructure. [0] Building subways and high speed rail costs about ten times as much as it does in first world countries with the best constructions practices, particularly Spain and Korea.

And HSR at 10x the market price is never going to be a viable transportation option for California. It's best either to accept that HSR will never work there or to try to change the procurement and construction culture on smaller projects before trying to build.

The reasons for high prices in the USA are myriad and complicated. Spain and Korea have high wages for workers and stronger labor unions. Neither country is known for particularly effective anti-corruption practices. The simple answers people reach for first are not the key drivers of cost difference.

Instead, at every level of operation the USA system fails to use its resources wisely and there is no responsible party that drives efficient construction and operation. Agencies and governments work at cross purposes impeding each other's progress and everyone with authority in the system uses it to extract concessions by blocking the others instead of cooperating. Until that changes, trying to build HSR in the USA is foolhardy.

[0] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/category/transp...
Ktorrent is the best torrent client I've ever used.

KeyPassX is my favorite password client... generates passwords well and saves them. Very easy to use.

And Seamonkey is a pretty righteous browser. It has email built-in and it runs leaner than Firefox on my machines.
Nethack. It was one of my first games on Linux (circa 1999) and I've been replaying it since then. Infinite replayability, lots of fun, still haven't found the Amulet.
it crashed once for me and the auto save didn't work, however there was a cached version in another folder so I was able to recover my work.
Show HN: Make a Facebook Messenger app in 10 minutes and 100 lines of Ruby
You can achieve this effect by having the compressed content have the same length regardless of attacker input. i.e. don't include any mutable information in your compression.
There is a plan to electrify the Caltrain line, which will increase the frequency of service. According to the plan, the first electric trains will start running in 2020 or 2021.

http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...
What are some Alfred workflows that you'd recommend?
Wow, you sound like an it guys I worked with in IT who thought that IT will never be out sourced to another region / country...

For what ever reason...
That was definitely in the plans when I started doing this, but as it started to take a while to complete, I dropped that feature for now. If there's any traction with the app, I still plan on adding that.

I also would like to have a more robust weather forecast, the ability to choose multiple genres, and to have the option to either use the default youtube video player, or choose to use apple music as the source if you subscribe to it.

Thank you for the feedback!
That's an area I'm not an expert on (Though learning). C3/nvd3 support real-time updates, but Chart.js seems more maintained.
On that note -- emacs-org mode is a great FOSS note and organization tool.
Ah! Sorry. I read it, clicked the X, and now it's not coming back. (I don't feel like faffing around with trying to make it come back...)
To add based on the experience of running ClearCase in a 3 place multi-site setup in the past:

* Mapping the repository into the filesystem requires drivers which can add a whole dimension of fun if one has to support a larger team over multiple platforms.

* Doing replication is hard if you want uptimes of 99.9x%

Yes, done right it can work great. But usability does not degrade gracefully when things break.
While we're here, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/technology/china-appears-t... also happened in 2015. Not a legal request to remove content, per-say, but something...slightly different.
The OP should take https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
Having a large portion of your staff barista-trained also allows for some pretty big pivots. These guys have their eyes on the longterm.
Yes, kinda. At least UIUC did that to students who had libraries from the coding exercises.

For example, the cs225 course provides an image processing library, and you need it for the assignment, so if you put the library in the repo they DMCA'd.

Similarly, many courses give you a framework of code. If you filled in the framework they would DMCA.

They did this a bit, but there was a pretty massive back lash. I don't think they are doing it atm
It's closed. I will never vouch for a messaging app that is not open.

Long live IRC.

Look at slack... it's IRC with some design in the front, and suddenly everyone loves it! Somehow it's even worth billions!

Irony aside... I miss the good old days of IRC chatting with bots, privileges (please mod me!) and even file sharing :D
I've been using Uptime Robot, http://uptimerobot.com/ and I'm happy with it. It can check if a port is open, ping or do an http request.
How else would things go when people use a tool for which it was not designed to do? It's an evolutionary thing. A need is identified, a feature addressing the need is proposed. Then new needs are identified, new features are proposed.

The problem wasn't in the tool, the problem was the tragic slowness in the browser vendors implementing the features into the actual browsers. Don't forget that for many of those 20 years we had competing standards of different browsers doing their own thing. If the vendor didn't like a proposed feature of CSS, it didn't get implemented. I wouldn't blame CSS for that.

Every complaint that I see about lack of features of CSS or how long it took for the features we do have to get implemented I blame the browser vendors.
I also of course love all the other usual suspects in the thread: coreutils, git, emacs, sqlite.
That reminds me of the section on the changing standard of "reasonable" for insanity defenses in the Illustrated Guide to Law: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=603
Agreed. I started using it recently, after previously using x2x, and I keep hitting https://github.com/symless/synergy/issues/9 :(
Ask HN: How do you handle scheduled production releases in a remote team?
When working with remote teams, what would be an appropriate workflow and/or tools to handle scheduled releases to production environments?
I've used it before in reporting large data finds (such as US voter databases). It's really more about standing up and saying "I'm not afraid."
Anyone can write js.

Some humans can write Lisp. But Lisp production code can only be maintained and updated by AIs who are more intelligent than we are.
I'm actually stunned by Apple's wifi connectivity issues.

I don't know of OS X breaking updates as acute and widespread as Windows, but the space of Apple machines to test is small and predictable, where Microsoft faces an essentially impossible testing task.

Beyond that, though, Apple laptops seem to just have shitty wifi connectivity. At a guess, it's one of the downsides of metal unibody design (along with godawful native speakers), but it seems almost universal. Things have improved, but strength, speed, and range never seem competitive with non-Apple machines at a similar price point (or half that price point).
ok, now I lol'd twice haha!
I remember it had a 2x option, to double the size. Did you try it? Still small?

Foobar works for me, it has a small memory footprint and it's very customisable