skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It provides a consistent interface for changing all kinds of configuration files, making Ansible-style automation easier and more robust.

"Changing" goes beyond "parsing and generating"; e.g. ordering, comments and formatting are retained.

The alternative would be search-and-replace style edits (not robust), custom implementations for every format (hard work to get right, especially without Augeas' infrastructure in place), or being limited to templating entire files.

The list of supported file formats is quite extensive: http://augeas.net/stock_lenses.html (note on naming: lens is a well-known theoretical concept)

It's sad that Augeas is necessary though -- in an ideal world, developers wouldn't come up with custom ad-hoc file formats or abuse 'sh' and /etc would be empty by default.
But not distinct voices.
Seconding. I've previously worked in places where I would fight my sleepiness for the whole day because ventilation was poor. I'm somewhat more sensitive to that than average, judging by the fact I was the only one with this problem.

Environmental factors are annoying, too. I prefer it colder than most people, so I sometimes will sit in a t-shirt while my cow-orkers complain it's too cold...
Airbnb’s female employee representation down since last diversity report
Has anyone tried "free choice"? My suspicion is that it won't irk brillantly because even the loudest open-plan advocates generally perceive private offices as higher-status.

Also, once people are in separate offfices you do need to think about information exchange slightly more actively (a good thing IMO -- but potentially a bit of a shift for the folks who find open plan, listen-in-on-everything to work well)
What happens if your long term neighbors are drunk idiots? I fail to see how term length is relevant since it's not like neighbors vet new long term tenants for alcoholism and IQ.
Wacom Cintiq 27QHD 27": $2300 [1]

Core i7 PC with Gtx 1080: ~$1750 [2]

= $4050 for a much more powerful machine and $150 cheaper + upgradable

[1] - https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=1113...

[2] - https://pcpartpicker.com/b/f2qkcf
GoCompare uses Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring to protect customer journey 24/7
Really worth getting yourself to a gallery.

Painting is applying pigment to a page using a liquid which then dries after it has been applied. This liquid could be water (for watercolours), an acrylic polymer compound (for acrylic paints) or linseed oil (for oil paints).

The liquid used has its own properties which mean you can achieve different styles and textures. For instance, water colours absorb into the paper and spread out.

Oil paints are very thick and slow drying. You can layer up the paint, and even crave back through it revealing different layers. It is common to use pallet knives and spatulas to work in oil aswell as brushes.

Some artists even create work where the paint is centimetres thick on the canvas - creating work which is more of a relief than a painting.

Because you have this texture, the light interacts with the paint differently to a printed photoshop filter. There will be highlights and shadows as the light hits the painting from an angle, as you move your perspective these will change too. You can even mix paint so that pigment is more dilute and the paint ends up slightly translucent or pearlescent, this can make parts of the canvas almost glow under the right light.

There is a lot more to oil paintings than just a photoshop filter.
Mainstream Economics Has Become a Celebration of the Wealthy Rentier Class
There were 110 emails in 52 email chains that were classified at the time they were sent or received, and at least 3 (that the FBI director remembers) that contained visible classified header markings.

This is national security we're talking about, it's really important to be accurate when making statements.

In the pursuit of truth and fact, please refer to this video of FBI Director James Comey at a House Oversight Committee meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ
Microsoft unveils Windows 10 Creators Update, coming in 'early 2017'
This is cool for my Instagram account, and I do really like Prisma, but... Google and others do hard work in neural nets. I feel like there must be less obvious applications here than what's discussed in the blog post. Anyone have ideas?

Does this go far beyond photos? Will I eventually be able to translate my ideas and thoughts into anyone's style programmatically? Could each user view the same content interpreted in a different style that they like best? Might I be able to extrapolate how a user might use my website from their clickstream stlye on many sites? etc
Yangshuo, China would be my guess.
> We achieved record production levels in Q3, rising to 25,185 vehicles for an increase of 37% from Q2 and an increase of 92% from Q3 last year.

An almost 100% production increase Year over Year, they said it couldn't be done and yet here we are.
Looks interesting. I have the Bose QC-20s and they're great for traveling. They're great on planes although, as others indicate, they're better at background noise than voices. I held off on noise canceling headphones for ages because I pack pretty light and refused to bring over-the-ear headphones traveling--and then hesitated at the price.

But they were really worth it. I never realized before using them how much I was cranking up the volume to compensate for the background noise even with ear canal phones that isolated relatively well.
Maybe these companies are succeeding in spite of these policies instead of because of them.

I also work in an open office environment. What are the most desirable desks for people to get? The ones next to windows or furthest away from foot traffic.
Bose QC15 here. It makes miracles in noise workplaces, it works better with pitch voices (usually man's voice).

It also upgrades the quality of any flight.
I agree. This is sort of like a lot of constitutional issues. The forth amendment is clear, you can't take cash off of people without charging them with a crime. The problem is you have to be wealthy to fight it.
Is this affiliated with AirBnB? If not, I can't help but think that the logos have a similar shape and the font appears to be the same, too.
I'm not a believer myself—not that I don't find Snapchat compelling, just not necessarily $18-35 billion compelling—but here's my best shot at a devil's advocate argument.

Snapchat is the proverbial 'new MTV' that marketers have been waiting to see appear on the internet for perhaps 20 years. Huge numbers of young people use it daily. Engagement is great, perhaps unlike any other consumer internet product: you watch it the way you watch tv. Just queue up a bunch of stories and stare at it for a while. Advertisers and the brands they represent like this. A lot.

The newly renamed Snap Inc has even greater ambitions. They aim to be the 'new Apple.' A consumer electronics line that achieves more than customer loyalty, something more like emotional commitment. The sort of 'brand identity' that gets written about in textbooks but rarely actually exists in the world. A company that produces functional gadgets that are meant to be flaunted like jewelry.

Is Evan Spiegel the 'new Steve Jobs'? Personally, I doubt it. But there are plenty of wealthy and connected people who seem very invested in that notion becoming reality.
I actually like coding with bitmap fonts very much, which becomes too tiny if shown on a high-dpi screen.
Do you have a list?
I think what parent meant was "last nail in the MacBook Pro" coffin, not the company as a whole. It could well be that building high-end laptops like the old school MacBook Pro's for power users is no longer worthwhile from a profit generating perspective.
Ask HN: Advice about JavaScript framework (yeah yeah I know)
I need to pick some piece of JS to do the frontend of an ecommerce store. The specific bits that I want are, if you look at the link below

http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=samsung%20galaxy&Nao=0&facetedValue=5vfln&sortBy=relevance&og=samsung%20galaxy

on the sidebar, the ability to filter by facets and the ability to automatically send out a request to the backend, and the ability if necessary to persist or cancel the facets throughout a session (all the backend is already done).

Question: What do you recommend in terms of JS frameworks to do this? The smaller, the better.
That changes depending on the polls. One more recent: http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2016/09/the-new-blueprint/ has the majority of people placing immigration as a priority over the single market.
They literally link and quote the FSF definition in the article, did you even read it? This post is basically white noise.
It looks like abuses like the mews behind your building were the intended target of the legislation. Airbnb failed itself and its investors by failing to address this problem. I'm glad you're free of that nuisance; it sounds pretty awful.

Hotel room prices are related but aren't a strict function of the niceness/care of a hotel room. I've paid hundreds for a crap hole in a great touristy location (and with no crowd control as you describe it).
We use CloudFlare and after this my boss said "set us up with secondary DNS somewhere." Unfortunately, CloudFlare doesn't support being a primary DNS provider with NOTIFY messages. They are designed to handle the DDoS for us by proxying content. It's an interesting problem and I don't know whether to push back to CloudFlare or my boss. Anybody else running secondary DNS after this with CloudFlare?
At least one artist (the guy from Penny Arcade) says the Surface Studio compares favorably to his Cintiq: http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surface...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you should be able to loopback-mount a "proper" file system (e.g. ext4) from a file on NTFS, and then you'll have no limits other than what ext4 imposes. Of course, you then lose easy interop with the filesystem from Windows side, but that is the inherent trade-off here.
Market incumbent celebrates new market participant being kicked out? Color me shocked!
Show HN: Church encoding in Elixir
Isn't it beautiful?

defmodule Church do

def true_(f, _) do
f
end

def false_(_ ,g) do
g
end

def if_(x, then_, else_) do
x.(then_, else_)
end

end

IO.puts Church.if_(&Church.true_/2, 4, 2)
IO.puts Church.if_(&Church.false_/2, 4, 2)
Every time I click this article it redirects to an article about MS Surface after a second. (but never loads - a popup gone wrong?)
I agree that Microsoft should sell the monitor by itself, or at least allow an eGPU accessory, but it seems they're going to 'Apple route' where they fully control hardware and software.
Slack fails to address privacy concerns for over 2 years
The most basic question: if people can host themselves, why do they pay for your service?

I get that for large companies it is perhaps better to just pay for the software as a service than to have an internal team dedicated to run it, but for small and super-small companies it is perhaps better to host it -- while accepting some (little) maintenance work and some risk of crashes for the low price.

So, if I'm building some software that will be used mostly by small teams, how can I make it open-source and still make money by offering it as-a-service?
Sometime at a previous job, the A/C failed in the server closet. Since the rest of the office was so chilly, the door was propped open, and stayed that way at least until I left. For the first time, the temperature was sometimes bearable. I wonder if that episode killed some of those geriatric servers; this was 2012 and there were several Pentium 3 Xeons running Win 2K Server in there.

A while after that, building management sent around a survey. It included a table that asked 'how is the temperature in...' and various parts of the building. I put 'too cold' for everything. I bet everyone else did too, because two weeks later, they installed a thermostat in the office, and things were comfortable enough without a jacket.
> * To do lists/Reminders

I use a file called ~/TODO for that in this format:

| % cat ~/TODO
| == EASY ==
| todo/no/progress
| . task/some/progress
| x task/done
|
| == MEDM ==
| todo/no/progress
| . task/some/progress
| x task/done
|
| == HARD ==
| todo/no/progress
| . task/some/progress
| x task/done

> * Bookmark lists

I use a file called ~/SITES for that in this format:

| % cat ~/SITES
|
| begin category
| http://link link name
| http://link <b>more interesting link</b>
| begin subcategory
| http://link link name
| http://link <b>more interesting link</b>
| end
| end

I then generate HTML file SITES.htm with 'clickable' links with a script from that file in cron(1) hourly.

> * Financial tools

Just a XLS file with GNUMERIC/LIBREOFFICE for editions.

> * Calenders/Reminders

I use a file called ~/CAL for that in this format:

| % cat ~/CAL
| 09/28 c car/something
| 10/04 B birthday/someone
| 10/08 x some/event/other
| 10/12 N some/name/event
| 11/10 B birthday/someone/else

... and everytime I spawn a new xterm(1) terminal a script that parses ~/CAL starts with 21 days upfront to remind me what I have to remember, like that

| ==
| TODAY IS 10/26 B birthday/someone
| 15 day(s) to 11/10 B birthday/someone/else
| 22:54|hostname|dir % _
| ==

> * Files on disk

ZFS with LZ4 compression + GELI encryption on FreeBSD.

Regards,

vermaden
Apple is a hardware company. That's where they make their money. What would be their motivation to open macOS? Do you think that macOS license sales would provide a meaningful offset to the drop in revenues and profits?
I'd rather have insignificantly higher hotel prices and lower housing prices. It's a fair trade off.
And its a bit much, I don't mind the sign up in the story, but to top it off, full page sign up box.
I agree with you on 2, but 1 is a bit more problematic. The worst offenders seem to be people who are fronts for hidden “teams”. The front person is good, but the backend people are very often terrible.
I’m not sure that solves the issue of a user (user:user) uploading and creating files via SFTP, but www-data:www-data having to execute, read, and modify them.
Even if we don't find it let's not forget the inside that joke that is expanding a story about a collapsing universe. He pretty much had to expand the collapse, which one would actually consider being opposites.
Yes, I read your comment after the fact.

I have been downvoted all to hell whenever I suggest buying drugs is supporting these murderers.

Has the (thoroughly corrupt) PRI being back in power made the violence better or worse if you know?
If it's the same person repeatedly causing a nuisance, I could see the Police paying more attention than towards a different person every night.
>There are some important differences, of course.

I'm surprised you wouldn't bring the biggest difference - the data. Facebook had tons of user data, even at their IPO, while Snap has relatively little.
Ask HN: If you attended a bootcamp, did you find work as an engineer afterwards?
I made a tiny one-question Twitter poll to better understand coding bootcamp outcomes and whether they line up with what attendees are promised.

It lives here: https://twitter.com/alinelernerLLC/status/791065299097231360
- Have you experimented with painters from areas other than China?

- What's the onboarding process like for a painter?

- I read on the reddit soft-launch post that one way the business handled scaling was by printing out the photos and then painting over them. Did it turn out to be a successful strategy?
My solution is over the ear head phones + nature sounds. I personally like:
http://texashighdef.net/
http://whitenoisemp3s.com/ (these are for purchase, but I've found them to be of very high quality and return to them repeatedly).

Your mileage may vary; some people find this stuff puts them to sleep.
Fact check.... I spent nearly a month in Stockholm in July. Stayed with friends and none of them got close to 1Gbps. In-fact speeds were similar to mine here in San Francisco (50 - 100Mbps).
Their spectacles is going to be a game changer. I hope it does well (buy also part of me hopes it does not for the sake of everyone's privacy in public).

https://www.spectacles.com/
Well, there are a bunch of job sites that also give the option of "contract" work.

AngelList for example.
Got a screenshot?
Hotels not only pay taxes, they provide direct and indirect employment for a lot of people, they have standards to meet, they provide insurance for their guests and many other things.

Airbnb is no longer a thing where you rent your house during your yearly family vacation; people invest in properties specifically for short term rents.

This increases the revenue from the property considerably driving up the prices further and in many places you see them buying up properties that no one would be willing to live there for more than a few days.

At least in London it's not uncommon to see 1 bed/studios that don't meet regulations e.g. no white appliances, no kitchen, smaller than the minium size being pretty much dedicated to Airbnbesque type renting.
These flats are often purposely developed from larger properties to be split up as much as possible while still technically being classified as an apartment.

This puts even more stress on both the rent and buy prices in a city which is already driven beyond any reason this isn't a bubble anymore this is some goddamn superdimensional membrane manifold.

Why rent a flat to some one for 300GPB a week when you can get 600+ from Airbnbers that won't complain that there isn't a dryer and a washing machine, a dishwasher that the heating isn't good and the shower is moldy.
I believe it's "The Gods Themselves", though Wikipedia doesn't have anything about it starting as a short story (at least skimming on my phone)
Good point to note the ZEV credits. The first time they showed a profit that was part of it. But those credits keep on coming, they aren't necessarily a one time thing. Other car companies that don't produce electric cars in abundance or at all will have to keep buying them until they do.
Middlebrow dismissal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
Make an ad of yours! You can really target that audience with an ad!
I had just signed up for it in Overland Park, Kansas. Hopefully they still do the construction here where they already said they would.
Thanks for reporting, we're trying to fix that one.
It's hard not to be "nosy as shit" when the conversation a couple of desks over contains just enough high-relevance keywords that your subconscious keeps pinging you to say this might be important.
Chicago is 1% of the country.

I live in the Bay Area (Berkeley). My only choice above 20mbits is Comcast. AT&T's lines near me are old, I can get a max of 18mbits with them; Sonic says I can get about 12. I own my own home, so I can't get Webpass. LMI and the other local ISPs offer things like 3mbps for $90.

I have literally zero reasonable choice other than Comcast.

I'd happily pay double what Google charges for Fiber for a quarter of the speed they offer. I just want off Comcast. Google shuttering Fiber is the last hope I have. I don't think I'll have any other choice for at least a decade.
Does the same apply for the FAQ page? I've clicked that link, but nothing happens.
I'm getting this too
https://www.spectacles.com/
That was like two sentences, why bother posting at all?
What if another company takes open-source Sentry and start offering hosted versions of it, competing with Sentry.io and in the end putting Sentry.io out of the market? Would that make you regret making your software open-source?

I guess this is probably not an issue for Sentry as it is now, but imagine some small company with a new software-as-a-service, super useful and loved everywhere, but without a well-established "name" in the market yet. Does the same answer still apply?
That's pretty horrifying but if true it answers my question about how this can affect so many devices. It sounds like whether because they were the directly hacked devices or because of this UPnP flaw, home routers are the main villain here. Not smart lightbulbs and webcams which the news media seemed to want to blame -- though the latter may well have been secondary villains.
http://www.asimovreviews.net/Books/Book182.html

It's about real science but I suspect the style of the story is what made them refer to it as a 'novel'.
IMO, Google glasses were an obtrusive form of eyewear with limited AR capabilities—with a price tag of $1500. Spectacles are $130.
Most impressive here is a 70% increase in production.

Note that this occurred while Model 3 production is still starting.
So we now run a split view with DYN and AWS. My biggest issue with AWS is again they are a large attack surface, but also they don’t really play super nice with others and no DNSSec.

We are currently evaluating the Netflix denominator tools to spread DNS and sync our alternate providers.

My biggest problem during this outage was that I could not login to my registrar and make change to DNS directly - I had to login to DYN and ADD Route 53, it was impossible to remove DYN completely. And that's how we landed up with a split view.

NOW if anyone can tell me of a competitor for the Traffic Director product that works on Port 25 I'll be happy to consider a migration. Cloudflare has something in the works, but I’d really just like a DNS provider with a virtual load balancer that can handle my 250qps at a reasonable price.
There are too many options for monetization in AR to spell out, or to narrow down exactly which ones Snap will utilize, but just assume if you can make money on the web now, you'll be able to make money in AR in a similar way.
There's a lot of things, but at the end of the day its marketing, and ensuring you challenge your customers to think about what really matters:

1. You, as a developer, care about open source and want to fund it.

2. You, as a business, don't want to run more infrastructure.

3. You, as a business, care about expenses (and SaaS is cheaper).

4. You, as a developer or business, want the latest and greatest version all the time, and on-premise is not tailored to that.

(there are certainly more, but this is just some quick ones that come to mind)

For us a lot of these things come more easily as Sentry requires Serious Infrastructure(tm) unless you're a tiny little side project. If you are a tiny little side project, you can just use our SaaS for free.

Now on the counter side, the biggest reason you host it internally is compliance. Thats not usually legal compliance these days, but its more about controlling liability, or because you (usually incorrectly) think you are better at securing systems than other people. This has been shifting for a while with the rapid rise of AWS, and the time is absolutely right to focus on SaaS.
Meanwhile, renters celebrate slower price growth, because they no longer have to compete against AirBnBers renting out apartments for twice their market value?
Applying photoshop filters doesn't actually require any manual intervention. The process can be entirely automated and Adobe will even sell you a licence to run a fully scripted version of photoshop on a server.

There is definitely a market for posters or even high quality reproductions of artworks. There is a market for oil-paint style digital artwork, whether printed or digital. I don't believe that instapainting is trying to compete with those options. It is entirely likely that the same person would have one of each on different walls of their house, each medium has different strengths, weaknesses and roles.
Awesome, thanks for your response!