skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big user of FreeBSD on the server (in production) and came across a link to this a while back in a forum post and decided to run through it just to see how accurate it is (there are a LOT of out-of-date FreeBSD "how-to" articles out there. "n00bs" are often referred at this one and, if you follow it, you will generally end up with a working system.

There are a few things that could be improved, however.

I would recommend not blindly copying the sysctl values provided. Many of them were already set higher by default on my test system. By copy/pasting the suggested values, I was actually lowering the values (maxfiles, shared memory settings, etc.).

Another big one was device permissions. For a single-user machine, they're probably okay. If another person will ever have access to your machine, however, you're probably granting them way too many permissions.

In short, if you're just wanting to bring up a FreeBSD desktop to play around with, this will probably get you there. You might also consider PC-BSD [0], which takes of all the hard work for you.

Once you're up and running, head over to the FreeBSD Forums if you encounter any issues.

Welcome to FreeBSD!

[0]: http://pcbsd.org

[1]: https://forums.freebsd.org/
Well I guess nobody would mind if Spotify goes bust then.
Guide to Migrate from HTTP to HTTPS – Flow.ci Weekly Mashup 9
How to create trust with UX design
I've built the same app in both Redux and MobX.

Things I noted:

1) Agree with your #1. It's a pain of boilerplate.

2) Agree, Redux is very easy to reason about and debug.

2) MobX was definitely much faster to develop.

3) MobX performance was better out the box. I may have done something wrong, however I have noted this with the mortgage example.

4) MobX has its own pain points when trying to build more advanced (tree) data structures. Creating a nested observable object requires creating map objects at every step of the tree. This makes using libraries such as lodash difficult.

5) I prefer the redux dev tool

6) Redux containers works well at the top level, however implementing a reusable container requires more boilerplate code. Since there is no consensus library or approach here - I implement my own solution with caution.

7) It is possible to use both redux and mobx on the same app, but you need to know what you're doing. Additionally you seem to lose some of the benefits of redux when you do this.

8) You can communicate between stores, but I feel this is a bad approach and will lead to messy code.

In the end I chose to proceed with Redux, however I think MobX implemented with proxy objects would be amazing.

I look forward to a framework that sits on the top of React and Redux designed to reduce the boilerplate. Perhaps Vue2 will be what I'm after
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The German policy sounds better based on what you have said but the reality is most foreigners (Indians and others) want to go to US not Germany. The US knows it so it can come up with any rules it wants and people will still choose US over other countries.

Couple of my friends had the opportunity to go to Europe via their Indian Outsourcing company but they cajoled/begged to be sent to the US.
"The tone of the report was a little operatic, but the question it raised is deadly serious."
Is there a way to retrieve deleted group in slack?
So one of the admin decided to delete the group as they were leaving the company. Is there a way we can retrieve the messages that were lost?
Kondratiev wave
That is a good point. Once you apply for the green card then yes you are tied to your employer.
Nothing changed, really?! How about crime rate down to 45%? Freedom of Information is signed. A free 911 implemented. 8888 to call for corrupt politicians. Laglag bala scam gone. etc etc...

If you can't see changes today then you have problem. And really, you expect everything to change upside down in just 2 months? Are you on drugs?
How to use sentiment analysis and data mining for your personal brand
Oh, it's bullshit made in Germany again.

>> When e-mails go unnoticed because of being redirected to a spam folder that you never check, you are in fact still legally liable for such e-mails – as you cannot disprove having knowledge of them. This is a danger that our users can safely ignore: We check for spam and viruses before the e-mails are accepted and reject anything that looks suspicious. This way, you always know exactly what e-mails you have received and read.

How does that even work when they GPG encrypt content. Are they escrowing the private keys?

what a timing of this post. Just as I was ranting about this old 30C3 talk[0] and pointing out what a scam "DE-Mail", "e-brief" and "Trusted-Cloud", etc. is, ... then this is trending on HN. Hilarious.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6175253192402563072 - or:

[1] http://www.amara.org/en/videos/y1Gk3maFbvNQ/info/bullshit-ma... (select English subs)
Cool, perhaps that's why I was required to work more and be oncall all the time, have meetings after 18:00, have no life, have high blood pressure.
Venture capitalists bet millions that this email service is better than Gmail
No Theano comparison?
That's 11 years old and as far as I know no longer relevant.
> The tax code is the worst possible way to do income redistribution, and the American obsession with trying leads to really poor outcomes.

Northern Europe would like to disagree, and to point out that Americans are far from obsessed with this. Take Mitt Romney: in 2012 he disclosed paying 15% taxes on his around $15 mill./year income. In a reasonable country he'd be paying at least 35%!

Actual progressive taxation without loopholes, together with a properly implemented public health service, ending the health insurance industry, government-funded parental leave for the first year of a child's life, and otherwise socially responsible policies (ending the prison industry that disproportionally targets the poor and non-whites, ending the war on drugs etc) is a great way of doing income redistribution and society improvements.
As someone who completed medical school but has a bachelor's degree in CS, I have to disagree with your first statement.
I would assume the obvious solution in France would be to take out a loan of 50-80% of the property price, instead of selling it + paying the taxes. Mortgage interest rates are relatively low, and you can use that money to reinvest. Every country has its tax quirks but also usually has a solution for it. Deferring taxes is generally a lot easier than avoiding them.
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>You may put any value you like on the "entertainment" - but what it displaces has higher value. //

Disagree. This conversation has a value, I [likely] can't derive anything financial from it, one might term it "entertaining" even [that wasn't supposed to sound quite so denigrating!]. The value is difficult to define, but it doesn't remove value from my life IMO. It possibly takes some time with which I can argue for opportunity cost, but I see the conversation as a generally positive thing.

I'm not sure if a mere conversation can be equated so easily to the value positions involved in drug addiction. However, I would say that it's a mixed bag. Some aspects that come out of drug addiction can have positive value - I'm thinking the progression of the arts: some great works of literature, paintings, dramatic performances, appear to have at least some relationship to the artists drug use [and in some cases addiction, it's hard to know where the divide is].

>"This is no more true than to say that Van Gogh was only Van Gogh because of his inner turmoil or than Jean-Michel Basquiat needed heroin to draw or paint. But it is also worth remembering that it killed them both." (http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/under-the-influen...)

Similar ground with a greater focus on musicians - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/creativi....
Slack has a customer service team https://thisisshowroom.slack.com/help/requests/new
I'm no expert on the streaming industry either, but I'd guess it's because Spotify has much larger numbers of casual listeners (the free tier), which provides a long-tail for popular songs that aren't new enough for "exclusives".

So it's essentially Spotify's way of saying "if you don't want our customers to listen to the album when it's new, don't rely on us for listeners when it's old".

Although these claims are going to be essentially impossible to prove. Who's to say what should or shouldn't be in a playlist, for example?
MaruOS project goes open source
Taiwan's CTBC Financial, China CITIC Bank Cancel Deals
Probably we don't talk about it because it's a part of our industry that we're not exactly proud of.
Very on point about the AMA functioning as a union. I'm not a software developer (and don't even live in the US) so apologies if this question is ridiculous: could software developers form a union, er I mean the 'American Software Developers Association'?

There are strong network effects in many digital markets. In these cases, given enough time, it leads to a monopolist employer in that market. Even in cases where there are a few firms competing (e.g. Google and Apple), they have incentive to form a cartel through 'agreements' on hiring practices (and there have been documented instances of this). The natural way for software developers to avoid being exploited, in either scenario, is to form a labour monopsony...
This is probably the best article ever written about the efficient market theory and passive investing. It was written by Warren Buffett in 1984.
http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/rtfiles/cbs/hermes/Buffett1984....
>We are often told that starting a startup on your own is madness.

That statement remains true. It's a trade-off.

As a solo founder, maintaining both motivation and momentum becomes far more difficult. The upshot is you at least have a singular, unified vision and (hopefully) less drama.

Of course, you're also stuck with all of the work.
I missed the opportunity to get a 1101 for 50$ in an auction once. Hesitated one afternoon. Found a 1660, not iconic but alas.

ps: gridpad pictures http://www.oldcomputers.net/gridpad.html
Is the synchronization synchronous or asynchronous?

Is there a uniform resource identifier where I could read more about it? Or perhaps some book? Research paper?
The whole reason starting a startup is so stressful, and why you need co-founders, is because of the need for rocket growth to satisfy investors. Take out investors and you take out the need for ridiculous growth and the stress and the need for co-founders.
Ask HN: What annoys web developers?
I'm making a list of things that annoy web developers:
https://github.com/omidfi/how-to-annoy-a-web-developer

Please help!
I wished someone made that case for a Novena board.
Absolutely. Furthermore, if the loop is small enough it can execute from uop cache and the instruction fetcher/decoder can be powered down for a turbo boost.
Do you really need the backlog of bot output for a migration?

For me the biggest feature Mattermost has over Slack is that you can host Mattermost yourself.

If you use GitLab or want to consider using GitLab, its omnibus package comes with Mattermost included. A really nice combination.
Susan McDougal is a specific example which shows there is both criminal contempt-of-court and some of can happen as a result of civil contempt-of-court. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_McDougal :

> From September 9, 1996 until March 6, 1998, McDougal spent the maximum possible 18 months imprisonment for civil contempt, including 8 months in solitary confinement, and was subjected to "diesel therapy" (the practice of hauling defendants around the country and placing them in different jails along the way).[12] In her case, Susan was shuffled from Arkansas to "Los Angeles to the Oklahoma City transfer center, and then on to the Pulaski County Jail in Little Rock, Arkansas".

> ... McDougal's trial for criminal contempt-of-court and obstruction of justice charges began in March 1999. The jury hung 7-5 to acquit her for contempt of court, and found her not guilty on the charge of obstruction of justice.

Also, H. Beatty Chadwick was held in jail at the county prison for more than 14 years as a result of contempt of court.
One of my best friends is from a country without tipping. He's well-traveled and has something like 20+ stamps in his passport. He says he loves tipping. I was a little curious so I asked him why, he said in countries without tipping, service is shit. Moreover, the demeanor of everyone involved is shit. He said "you Americans don't know how good you have it". I guess even someone fake being nice to you in expectation of a tip is better than being treated like dirt because you disrupted someone's cigarette break in Paris.

He said the only exception to this is Japan. He says they have, hands down, the best service in the world. Whether you're in a family owned shop out in a rural area or some upscale joint in Roppongi, the people there actually care if you've enjoyed your food (and will nearly be offended if you try and tip them).

Thought his opinion was a bit odd, but I think it might be valid considering his experience and the fact that he's not a naive, anti-establishment 20-something. He's fairly pragmatic and a realist.
If anyone wants to integrate Mattermost with their LDAP server, another way is to let Mattermost use your local GitLab to authenticate and let GitLab use LDAP. That's what we do. This should work out of the box with GitLab's omnibus package.
Here's the key. I'm sole-founding my current startup, and I know I am having less fun than if I had a cofounder.
I would recommend OpenBSD for laptops. I'm not sure why, but my machine under FreeBSD had similar power issues and enabling apmd did nothing to resolve them.

I installed OpenBSD because someone said it supports think pads better and they were absolutely right, my machine is cool, quiet and the battery lasts ages. OpenBSD also requires X11 to be installed for ports to work, so maybe it is designed more for desktop use?

For reference I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad x201s
I for one am grateful to NVidia for providing a FreeBSD driver to this day. Their dedication to providing support for UNIX systems is admirable.
What "rules about not lying"? Movies are entertainment. Most of them are based on lies, regardless of what it says at the beginning or in the credits. Actors are professional liars. Hollywood thrives in fiction; story and tropes.
>It’s only recently that studios have relaxed the disclaimer to allow that certain films are inspired, in part, by real events—maybe that’s because, in 1967, Felix Yusupov finally died. Now, blessedly, you can say whatever you want about him.

An estate doesn't have libel rights?

Edit: hm. https://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/feb/18/def...

Also, it was his wife that was libeled, so his death isn't the relevant milestone here.
Mattermost can use GitLab for authentication, which is nice. Other than that, you can configure webhooks in GitLab's git repositories to push messages to a Mattermost channel; for example, push every tag created so colleagues can see a new version of one of your libraries/products was released.
You should ask what annoys users.

Pop-ups/lightboxes.

Changing the default scrolling behavior.

Sites crippled with ads.

Slow sites.

Google analytics everywhere.

Unreadable text (light gray on white, what could go wrong?)

Unzoomable sites. You know not all people can see perfectly well. I need to zoom to be able to read.

Sites working only on $X browser.

Headers sticking to the top, consuming screen space.

Lots, of other stuff...
Now i find myself wondering if the attitudes towards government has to do with the judiciary.

Meaning that common law nations may have a more adversarial attitude towards government because judicial rulings carry much more weight.
In Russia, such kind of services started way before Uber just as the next step in the evolution of taxi companies, benefitting from the same things as Uber did: no regulations, no taxes etc. The first apps were targeting JavaMe phones! So, from the Russian perspective, Uber is just another competitor in the flooded market. We were actually surprised that Uber is treated as an innovative startup in the USA.
If you're interested in this topic, I'd recommend this great explanation of why Uber lost to Didi in China: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Didi-beat-Uber-in-China/answer...

There are ultimately many reasons why US startups fail in some Asian markets (including China and Japan), and it can't be reduced to cultural differences or protective regulations.
> GNOME 3, available on Linux since 3.0 in the spring of 2011, is finally available in the official FreeBSD tree as of November 2014. The three and a half year delay is thanks to the upstream GNOME project’s years-long fight against any operating system that doesn’t have a penguin for a mascot. It took several years and a vastly waning userbase, then suddenly they care about portability again. Sure, okay. Either way, it’s here and you can install it from x11/gnome3.

Well thats interesting...
Schwab, Vanguard.
Makes a good set of training wheels, sure. I used it for a couple of years.

I did end up with undo still on C-z after turning off cua-mode, because I use graphical frames and never want to suspend anyway. But it's not really a help: the C-/ C-? pair is much more convenient, and for nontrivial undoing I'm navigating a state tree anyway.
Success rate is what matters when you are weighing co-founding or investing, not just the number of successful companies.

It's as if the article discovered that fifty percent of those in American prisons are black, and came to the conclusion that there's no difference in crime and poverty beacause that's roughly half. That's meaningless. Base populations matter.

What percentage of new startups are single founder?
A lot of people aren't interested in running a successful business except as a means to their actual goal: being independently wealthy.
As sterling has devalued over the last century it correlates nicely with the decline of British industry, especially manufacturing. Yet you still quite often hear some business group spokesman (CBI etc) on the news hoping for a devaluation of sterling so they can remain competitive.

100 years and they still haven't figured it out.
A discussion about Time Series databases
Databases seem to be a favourite topic on here. Whenever a discussion arises people always put forward their favourites.

With this in mind I recently created a spreadsheet to compare every free and open source time series database I could find.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCEWdPtAoccJ4a-IuZv4fXDHxM/edit#gid=0

Here's a link to the blog that discusses the results:

https://blog.dataloop.io/top11-open-source-time-series-databases

Looking for feedback from anyone interested in this topic.
Mattermost actually is apt-gettable if you install it alongside GitLab CE with GitLab's omnibus package¹.

1: https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
Related: the hashtag #qtwain (Questions To Which the Answer Is No) can make for an amusing/ time-saving Twitter search

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23qtwain
Ask HN: What non-technical skills do you wish you were better at?
Co-founders or not, the underlining reasons are alike for people (entities) with different personalities (characteristics) working together.

Only one person in charge will always do, if he or she has a very strong personality and also has appropriate supporting subordinates.

Two person founding team will be great if their personalities are complementary, thus one plus one is bigger than two. There are many very successful enterprises in this group, such as Apple, HP, etc.

In initial phases of founding companies, projects, etc., always avoid groups of three strong personalities at all costs. Trinity is a very special case that will ensure endless internal fighting/competition, low efficiency and sustained tensions. However, trinity is good for long lasting (market) competition and ensuring all parties will not be easily wiped out. Example cases: a) US-Russia-China relations; b) President-Congress-Senate structure. c) Firefox-Chrome-Edge browsers;

For groups bigger than three, if the number of prominent members with strong personalities is less than four, see previous cases. Otherwise, avoid at all costs.
Does that change my thesis at all?
What is this, 1982?

Japan's Yakuza hasn't been a thing since the U.S mafia was a thing. They have similar political influence these days; little to none. They've either all gone legit, gone into grey area markets (pachinko, porn, etc) or flat out folded. Many have actually gone white-collar, getting into internet start-ups and investing in the stock market.

See here, "Where Have Japan's Yakuza Gone?": http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/09/where-have-...

Japan has cracked down on the Yakuza governmental/political corruption so much so, that it doesn't exist anymore.

Don't get me wrong, the yakuza exists, sorta, but not in the same way they existed back in the 1970s or 80s when they ran the show. Things have changed dramatically since.
I would love to trial on a Macbook Pro 15 Retina that I've got available, anyone has experience with this sort of hardware setup?
Maybe, but that still means it's not unprecedented
"The Amityville Horror: A True Story" was nearly all fiction. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp

I remember as a kid seeing the "nonfiction" on the spine of the book cover, and thinking that mean it was a true story, rather than the reality that it was marketing spin.
This sounds to me more like a procedural than a hardware failure.
I don't think Excel ever destroys the underlying data. It simply layers formatting over it. One can override by specifying custom formatting, or opt out by selecting all cells and setting their format to text.
Does your village's voluntary fire department's website has close to 50 million active users every month? If yes, then it is a big news.
Building the full adder might even make it less ICs overall. Lots of tricks are lost here, for example the subtraction logic can be used to implement a NOT function if you add to zero. Rather than having an extra XOR chip you can implement XOR by using the adder but cutting the cout->cin path.

The 74x181 4-bit ALU IC implements all of this (plus quite a lot more) in 56 gates once you drop the carry-lookahead logic. That'd be about the same number of ICs as used in this project, but logic only.

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74ls181.pdf (page 5)
No, it's not. It has huge market share and huge resources. Chicken would imply the forces it is up against are in someway equal to its own. They are not.

Uber is an interesting case study for anyone involved in startups. Not because it's a relevant way to scale, but a master class in strategy.
Well, for a big studio today it's close to the amount they spend on catering for a blockbuster (most of which budget regularly extends above $100-$200 million dollars, which 10 and 20 years ago was extremely rare).
True, but that's not really building a "startup" anymore. That's just starting a business.
Spreadsheet link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sMQe9oOKhMhIVw9WmuCE...

Blog Link:

https://blog.dataloop.io/top11-open-source-time-series-datab...
You can disagree all you like - on what basis??? How do YOU know what I'm doing and what my time is worth? This discussion certainly has zero value - more like a negative value to have to encounter so annoying. Ridiculous!

> This conversation has a value

I covered that!!! Do you actually READ the comments you respond to? I mean, without the filter that removes the things that don't fit your narrative?