skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my company we run a locally-hosted version of FogBugz. It's a smaller shop, with about eighty users. And about twenty or so of them are not developers or technical staff, but staff in other departments who need to be able to view tickets and occasionally comment on them.

Like all systems, it's not perfect. But we have no big complaints. What it does, it does well. The search is fast, and as granular as I've ever needed it. One user in this discussion said searching for something as simple as all tickets to which you added a comment in the last week was impossible in Jira. In FogBugz, it's trivial. There are plenty of little conveniences and niceties that Trac never offered (the last time I looked, which was years ago to be fair).

Fog Creek's customer support has been excellent, and they use it themselves to support their users, which we also do. And as a 5013c not-for-profit we get it for half price.
MasterCard or Visa aren't a monopoly/duopoly. At most, there's some inertia getting people to switch. The banks had the same problem getting people to use them in the first place, and it's a solvable problem if Visa decided to abuse its power.

They aren't comparable at all to the old railroad, steel, and oil companies. Credit cards are an extension of the idea of a promissory note - a piece of paper with "I agree to pay you $X" written on it. It's way more practical for businesses to not use them to process payments than it is to quit using oil, or to quit using the railroads.
We know there’s a gender pay gap in technology – what can we do about it?
Would the dimming effect be impossible to mimic?
No, I don't believe that confusion exists.
Are you implying that there could be a market for synthesized knock-off celebrity voices? :D
> take photos on your phone and push them to your Nixplay.

Good you mention the Apps, I forgot. Indeed the app is quite useless and how difficult could it be to have a Send To action? With an option to add comment, like in WhatsApp.

Indeed, do one thing good and skip the rest or offer one alternative like email. Also focus on a single device per logon with a single watch list. Given the number of complaints on their forums they don't listen and it is just a matter of time for (self hosted) alternatives to appear.
Linux packages come from the distribution and are controlled by the distribution, not some random 3rd party business.
Yes, maybe they should release a kernel security scheme for Linux that incorporates some lessons learned. Maybe they could call it SELinux.
Sometimes you just want to get close and admire something.
We're also working on making it easier to deploy and scale k8s:

- https://jujucharms.com/canonical-kubernetes/

Currently in alpha, feedback and PRs accepted, etc.

Disclaimer: I work for Canonical
I've seen this before but on the flip side. There was a CEO that would take candidates out for lunch, and would prior tell the waiter to intentionally mess up the order to see how the candidate would react.
Unless the economy collapse will trigger a truly destructive world war. That is not out of question.
Thanks. Please share if possible.

I'm Australian, so it would be the network effect :)
Peter O'Hearn Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
>And if you're using Ubuntu, you're trusting package managers, and if you're using Gentoo, you're trusting original developers

This is correct. Consider, however, the motivations of the people involved. Apple's motivations are to make money from you. Debian's motiviations (intentionally avoiding Ubuntu here) are to make a good user-centric system. Packages are signed by named individuals that I can personally get to know and trust, and with an accessible process - I can download their package sources and build or verify or tweak them the same way that the maintainer can, report bugs and ask questions directly to them, etc. I trust this model much more than I trust the model of a company who, at the end of the day, has a bottom line and will make compromises to ensure it remains where they need it.

Apple is very well known for using proprietary formats, adapters, you name it. Apple's cloud is also write-only, they intentionally make it difficult for you to pull data out of it and interop with other services. These decisions serve the company's interests, not yours.

>how often do you audit source code?

You would be surprised!
Show HN: HalfChess: play chess on half the board
It's a hell of a lot easier to do a chargeback in the US vs the UK.
I've been looking at Rancher for a few weeks, haven't put an application yet. How do you perform rolling updates with Rancher+Kubernetes? With Kubernetes itself, currently I just do `kubectl rolling-update <rc> --image <new-image>`
I suspect information exchange and debating, was not meant to be enforced on private property during the constitution's writing. If I owned a tavern, I do not suspect the founding father's intent was for me to allow whatever kind of debate/information exchange to take place in my establishment. If anything, I suspect the opposite to be true.

If I own a coffeeshop today, I would have the right to restrict what is hung on my walls (e.g. advertisements, local events), and what is announced (i.e. someone loudly giving an announcement) to my patrons. I may not be able to control small group conversation though.

That being said, posting something publicly to Facebook is greatly different than DMing a person / group of friends. If Facebook deleted the image sent from one friend to the other, this would be a different conversation. I think your analogy and inspection of the constitution's intent, even further justifies that Facebook has right to do what they did.
Unfortunately it isn't exactly endless. Even if you ignore the decreasing amounts of water at many dams due to climate change, eventually dams fill up with sediment. Lake Powell and Lake Mead already have about 10% less capacity than they did when built due to sediment infill.
It's slightly different, because Dropbox board members support warrantless surveillance: http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
There is free competition between social networking sites, while governments are definitionally regional monopolies.

Facebook can publish what they wish to publish, and not publish what they fundamentally disagree with. They are a private entity. That is pro-freedom, not anti-.
Did you run hg grep once before to keep it in the disk cache?
> It's a social network with kids on it.

What is this supposed to mean? There are adults too.

You seem to be falling into the fallacy of protecting kids by prohibiting adults from engaging in adult behavior.
Ale Genomics: How Humans Tamed Beer Yeast
There's a world of difference, as long as you are using only default repositories (which you should). Apt itself is root, of course, but it is (or should be) trustworthy. All other apps never see root access unless they need it - and if it is needed, then the package maintainer has checked the package to make sure it only uses root when necessary. Kind of like Apple checking apps on AppStore.
If there were a subscription service you could pay a nominal monthly fee just to have access to someone you could call up with questions and have them whiteboard you through it, that would be worth its weight in gold.

I learn better if you give me a bunch of videos, access to documentation, someone knowledgeable I can ask pointed questions to in order to solidify or correct my understanding and an environment to which I can apply what I'm learning. I don't need someone to hold my hand 90% of the time, nor do I want to waste their time holding my hand for that 90%. I learn faster on my own, but it's way quicker to get unstuck when you can ask questions ... and some things you just can't learn without doing, as my Gran would say: You can't understand the texture of bread dough without getting your hands dirty.

For technical stuff PluralSight et. al, Google, Safari and StackOverflow are immensely more useful than sitting in a class of other people learning to program, except for access to the professor when you need things answered.
No -- hydro is like solar, _if we had unfathomably large, incredibly cheap, low-leakage batteries_.

The US southwest is generating hydro power using water it saved up from 30 years ago, behind the hoover and glen canyon dams. That is MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE past what we can do with solar.

Come back to me when battery technology has gotten even close to that.
I believe the root of the problem is creating more money via institutions that don't need it. It would do a whole lot more good to give it to people who do need it and will therefore spend it. Their spending creates profitable business opportunities for others.

People and institutions that already have plenty of money are "hoarding cash" (and real estate) because, after other needs are taken care of, what remains is a concern about security if something unexpected happens. They don't see profitable investment opportunities worth the risk.
This argument is flawed. If there's a gift, there must have been a giver, so why don't we ask the giver? Well the Christians already have, and they like the answer they got. Why don't you like it?
I'm not seeing why that's necessary. Historically, patriarchy is pretty obvious. Women were forced into specific roles for thousands of years, and that was clearly still happening during the lives of many people now in the workforce.

So I'm comfortable just taking women at their word when they say they're still experiencing problems. I don't need to carefully measure the exact relative degrees of shittiness. Worst case, I will listen to them and solve some problems that turn out to be for everybody.

But if you're merely curious, I'd recommend reading some of the articles where trans people talk about sexism from both sides. E.g.: https://newrepublic.com/article/119239/transgender-people-ca...
> The rest of us can, but the question is to what extent the rest of us are or will in the future.

Look, if people aren't going to choose news-focused sites over social-networking-focused sites, then existing social-networking-focused sites that bait-and-switch their users into a news-focused experience are just going to lose to actual social networking sites, starting the problem back at zero.
I can read all mentioned pages with NoScript enabled. But fully agreed that static pages such as blogs shouldn't require JS to show the primary content.
Building Parser Combinators (Part 1) [Video]
Solar panels are large compared to a house, not large compared to a desert.
Can you see them on a bright TV? Maybe some night vision apparatus will do the trick or the next generation of cameras + an oculus. Or maybe even hololens nightvision.
To be honest I believe a lot of people are biased against torture.
So many, many things can be wrong and make a planet uninhabitable. Earth is probably unique in being - Earthlike. Such a delicate balance.
+1

I've lived in Seattle since 1991. I've lived without a car since 2005. It was harder then than now. These days we have Zipcar, Car2Go, Uber, Light Rail, marginally better Metro. Walking and biking are always options. It's getting to the point in Seattle, as in other cities, where having a car is a cultural choice rather than a necessity.

Zipcar is great for the days or evening where you need to be in the car culture. It's way cheaper than actually owning one in Seattle, and you have a lot of models to choose from including some nice Audis, BMWs, etc.
I remember explaining to a storage customer why they needed three very expensive switches at the core of their network. One to handle the traffic, another to handle the traffic when the first was busy, and a third which was in the rack, patched and updated to one release behind the main switches, that could be swapped in by moving cables in under 5 minutes of operator time.

They initially thought I was kidding but then we did the fail tree on a white board. It was an interesting experience for them, understanding what it took to get what they took for granted.
It's interesting because at some level, particularly with closed source products trusting the company developing the product is important. Apple have made some effort to stand up for the privacy of their users. Dropbox on the other hand have board members who support and have authorized warrantless wiretaps:

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
I use SC for my startup and it works great! Thanks. I'll have a look at the Baasil service, it sounds interesting.
White House Appoints First-Ever Federal Chief Information Security Officer
I'd not blame QE+low interest rates for this, because the problem is not national, but limited to very few markets. Almost anyone can afford a house in most US cities. Changes in QE wouldn't magically change demand in SF and NY.

When we look at SF, what we see is a city that has A LOT more people wanting to live there than there are houses: Heck, I'd move there if the prices weren't insane. Investors/speculators are just a sliver of demand, and they only invest there precisely because the real demand to live there is that high. When there's high demand, and no increase in supply, prices go up to the levels we see now.

If the only people that wanted to buy a house in SF were software developers, prices would still be high, and we'd have enough of those that we'd see prices go up so that mortgages are about 50% of household income, just like in every other place, ever, that had high demand. And guess what? that's the current prices already.

So while I am sure the fed would be able to lower prices across the board by doing something that craters the economy, housing prices in desirable places to live are not the problem.

As far as retirement goes, it doesn't really matter if you own a house, or the equivalent in stocks. I can't tell you if you are saving enough, you are living beyond your means, or should just move somewhere else, as I have no details in your situation. All I can say is that it's a wonderful time to be a software developer in the US, economically speaking. It's pretty possible to work remote or at a satellite office of a big tech employer and save crazy amounts of money.
I love a good story in a game. Most of my favorite games, save multiplayer only ones such as Battlefield, are story-heavy.

Sometimes you just want to shoot demons because they are demons. There is story in Doom but it rarely prevents you from continuing to send demons back to hell for more than a few moments. There's more in the menus but those can be read at your leisure.
It's a shame it's DRMed with Denuvo trash, and doesn't work in Wine because of that (of course they could release it for Linux and DRM-free to begin with, but it's probably too much to expect from today's Bethesda / id).

I'd rather wait for Shadow Warrior 2 (upcoming native DRM-free Linux release).
The United States has turned its higher educational system into a Cultural Marxist reeducation camp. Thus, race-baiting is seen as a sign of sophistication. If you are not a race-baiter, then you are a pitiable simpleton or a racist.
The speech samples suffer from common flaws in prosody. When it says "The Blue Lagoon is a 1980...", it omits the pause after Lagoon. When giving a definition, there should be a comma-length pause after the term. The pacing would be correct for a non-defining sentence later in the same article like "The Blue Lagoon is a popular subject for parodies, including ..."

Fixing that requires higher than sentence-level learning, since it has to know that it's introducing a potentially unfamiliar term which can only be known from the sentence's context within the article.
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That skips the important point that it's not supposed to be possible for even root to do this without a prompt.
"People like free shit."

How hard is that?

The abstract says it in a bit more formal academic tones: " The findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest".

But put it to a vote to pretty much any group of people, at any time, in any place, and they'd prefer to steal from their neighbors than they would to work themselves.

The trick of civilization is curb this impulse, thus allowing the generation of positive sum games.

As Milton Friedman once said (and apologies for butchering this; it's from memory): the wonder of capitalism is that it's the only system that restrains the capitalists.

...by which he means that every society has rapacious take-no-prisoners people.

The trick is to channel that into METAPHORIC rape and take-no-prisoners, and away from the literal implementation.
It doesn't even take a specific event. Don't go in front of a judge just before lunch as their hunger can influence their decisions, likely not in your favor.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110411/full/news.2011.227.ht...
> The problem, I think, is that extroverts collaborate more easily

Extroverts collaborate vocally, in person more easily. And we have sweeping management fads (e.g. Agile™) that are explicitly anti-literate.
Finding a new job will very likely not help either.
I have, yes, and there's no doubt they're both crucial in getting answers to some of those more advanced topics.

edit I want to also add that the Kubernetes community meeting is fantastic. I don't attend every week but I do play catchup on the videos released after.

Regarding rolling updates, I have found that looking at the kubernetes API - and discerning what kubectl is doing under the hood - is helpful in some cases. We've taken to API inspection to assist with some of the more complex update patterns we're trying to address.

Completely agreed on the value of Kelsey to the community. I hesitate about contacting any one person directly on a topic, but his guides and github repo are just outstanding.

On the load balancing/master slave thing - I would have agreed completely with you. Master/slave configurations seem antithetical to some of the core Kubernetes concepts... but then the waters are becoming muddied because it seems like PetSets are a response to that missing pattern. I think you're right on the mental model. Every pod is (from what I understand), or at least should be, seen as an equal candidate, the only thing being "can it receive and service requests, if yes, kubernetes doesn't care".

Failover by letting Kubernetes do the dirty work is, of course, an option. If the master or a slave dies - it'll come back up. Except... it's also at odds with anything that handles its own clustering model (thinking Redis Sentinel or Redis Cluster, or InfluxDB when it had clustering support). Sometimes "coming back up" in a system that has an orthogonal view to Kubernetes is challenging.

It also doesn't accommodate for the situation where... what if Kubernetes doesn't bring it back up for some reason? If the pod was killed for resource contention, or something along those lines. And now I have two slaves, no master, nowhere to feed writes?

I dont't complain too loudly about these things, because most often the solution is (correctly) to think differently about it, but there are real-world considerations that don't always fit perfectly with the existing Kubernetes model - but we may still have to use them from time to time.
Debit cards have some protection, but you don't get your money back until resolution. Therefore, you're relying on the bank to fight for your money. With a credit card, they're fighting for their money, which they're much happier to do.
Disclaimer: I work on JIRA Software

"Biggest issue I have with Jira is how it's trying to be the everything tool for all processes and procedures"

JIRA didn't try to be a universal tool for all processes and procedures, but it happened to spread from the development team into other parts of organisations due to it's flexibility. Of course that flexibility comes at a cost the experience to the end-user is controlled by the administrators.

What is the alternative? A more opinionated tool could potentially get a specific task done better. The problem is that you will need 2, 3 or more separate, more opinionated tools to cater for the specific use-cases. These tools will have to be maintained and probably won't integrate very well, making collaboration between different departments a lot more difficult. That's exactly what JIRA tries to solve, help your teams collaborate.

Could Atlassian be more opinionated. Absolutely. Being opinionated doesn't necessarily mean that we need to limit the flexibility of JIRA. We can do a much better job at optimising for specific use-cases and guiding people towards best practices, while still allowing customisations where desired. We've started this effort last year by introducing JIRA products aimed at specific use-cases. Take JIRA Software for example, it's aimed at Software teams and has specific features like Scrum, Kanban boards, sprints and releases that are specific to software teams. If you aren't a software team, you can just use JIRA Core and you don't need to worry about what Scrum even means.

There is a lot more we can do to make the simple things simpler, and it's a big focus area for us. We won't enforce limits on the number of fields you can add, but we are looking at giving project administrators a lot more autonomy around how their projects are configured. We can't stop the QA checkbox from appearing if somebody really wants it there, but we can provide the guidance and tools to make the experience better for everyone.

Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Why Are So Many of Today's Logos Wordless?
Well, let's be honest - Dell has no excuse for not allowing returns on these items. That's unbelievable, tbh. One of the reasons I buy most of this kind of stuff from Amazon.
For me that is more of a problem of bureaucracy and middle management insecurity than extroverts.
Yep. This low debit fee is due to the durbin amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment), which is generally how Stripe makes most of its money AFAIK. Stripe still charges the % and takes the remainder.
> When it comes to military power, the US is in a league of its own

Against NK, which would probably the last "conventional" war in history (unless we started a war with Russia)... we'd be a force to reckon with. After that, though, the state of war today are unconventional forces with unconventional tactics. The US then has a disadvantage. We're too big, too traditional, all we have is a hammer to solve problems, when what we need is a tiny screw driver.
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This is not the main difference (which is that apt packages are checked by package maintainers), but thanks for sharing the link, didn't know that. It makes this hack even more serious.
It's an interesting take on the game. One of the elements of the quarter hungry arcade game was deterministic behavior and part of the gameplay was executing patterns with precise timing. Which is to say that Pacman only required reactions due to mistakes.

But that's another game. In this one, I found that there were too many dead ends in the maze generation.

Good luck.
I wonder if Apple will thwart this hack with an update. Seems like anyone reading this will start using this hack. In the meantime a watchdog app on this hack would be nice to have and share with the world.
>the list of exit nodes is public

Stupid design choice if there ever was one.
> First I got burned in stocks, then in real estate, and now cash?

My advice to you is 1) Diversify 2) Stop trying to outsmart the market.

These things are cyclical in nature and it can be difficult for individual players to 1) buy on the low end of the cycle and 2) sell on the high end.
What's the difference between this and 'git commit --amend'?