skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Easy to install: I mean normal-human easy, not programmer-easy

2) Easy to use: I mean normal-human easy, no programmer-easy

3) Can handle thousands of visitors a day on basic hosting if configured decently

4) Updates rarely break stuff, great backwards compatibility

5) Once you understand how it works, for what stuff using it and the community/ecosystem (plugins, themes, how to develop, etc), it's really fast to go online and start your journey to success (or failure)

6) Proven success: unlike other idolized cms or frameworks, if you search for WordPress success stories you find thousands of sites, of all kind, that made millions. I won't name names, but there are many popular open source frameworks and cms that are all talk and no money. You have to show me the money if you want to be taken serious, show me people are making money with this software and they are not the creators themselves

As you can see there are some points, like 4 and 5, that are the completely opposite of what you usually hear about WordPress. The sad fact is that, despite its success, WordPress is considered "pleabian" or something like that by other programmers. It's like the PHP of cms, hated by people who don't understand that going and staying online comes before current month buzzwords or arcane computer science departments technology. I respect and I am fascinated by both buzzwords and arcane stuff, but I understand that serving the users, and achieving real world success, comes first.
I have a few cases of Soylent that I keep around for days I have no appetite. The good thing about Soylent is that its CEO actually survives on it, and they really do care a lot about what goes into it. They're constantly improving their formula.
> Mostly being able to find OOTB tools that I want. I use f-droid on my android and I usually end up just going back to the play store to find anything worthwhile.

Okay but to be fair: If you had the Play Store on Ubuntu Phone you would probably also go there a lot more often. Especially for OOTB experiences ;)

> The Ubuntu phone gives me a real OS that I can just "apt-get install" something, then make a shell-script or something similar to fix my problem. Android's shell-system is a joke, which makes sense as they don't really want it to be usable. Ubuntu's shell system is much better, which means I can fix the problems that I come across myself.

That sounds nice indeed!
In an infinite universe, nothing is rare, by that logic?

Rare is relative, so just because something happens an trillion times it can still be nearly nonexistently rare, given the data sample is trillions of trillions?

Seems like a silly thought..
systemd is the best. May it never die.
It's only rude if you believe that the customer has to respect the hard work and good intentions that went into the product, and make allowances if it doesn't "just work". They don't.
At a company hackathon, we had a outside company sponsoring the hackathon, including a prize they would award to the best user of their API. It was kind of a clunky API, and their product didn't really fit what we did, so my teammate and I decided to use it - hoping that we'd be the only ones to use the API, and therefore winners by default.

We didn't win. Obviously, I'm biased, but I think our product was more promising both in terms of realistic use of the technology, and in terms of the possibility of going to market quickly. But our demo wasn't as shiny, we were from a remote office so people didn't really know who we were, and neither of us were particularly charismatic presenters.

Presentation matters. This has been impressed on us repeatedly; the joke is now that whoever manages to snag the UI/UX person first for their team is going to win.
Canonical are ditching Mir? I must have missed this one. Was this discussed here?

Page won't load for me but my first thought was this was a poor taste April fools ;)
Insight Data Science Fellows Program Expands to Seattle
I had a couple of very similar experiences.

1. A team winning a few very significant awards (including second place) for pitching an app that allows you to take picture of your food bowl and tell you the nutritional content breakdown. Of course no demo was provided, and the guys fessed up that they "didn't know anything about machine learning until two days ago, but learned everything needed to make it work in that time period." No one questioned authenticity or whether it was actually a possible thing to make.

2. Another group of 10 people who ONLY made a powerpoint talking about some app that mixed traveling and tinder. When asked by judges whether they had something besides powerpoint, they said that they "are not coders, but idea-people", and that it took 10 of them to make that powerpoint.
Presentation matters.
Didn't sound like it...
Udacity spins out its self-driving car business as Voyage
The link to Shuttleworth's blog is failing with error 110: connection timeout. I am glad the article provides a reasonable summary.

EDIT - I am curious why I am being downvoted. Is the article not a reasonable summary?
This happened at Medium [0] because they hash paragraphs to a 4-digit hexadecimal string, and ad blockers would hide things like "#ad01", "#ad02", etc.

[0]: https://medium.engineering/the-unluckiest-paragraphs-751dd36...
"The two companies were already working together on a project initially called Flattr Plus, where users can allocate a monthly payment to online publishers. The money is then distributed based on users’ engagement with different sites and articles."
Do operators' compensation packages, phone bills, office rental, equipment expenses and utility bills add up to an amount above or below $610,000?
Where is the redhat ecosystem trending with regard to CoW filesystems ?

Are people regularly using ZFS-on-linux with redhat ? Or is there an officially sanctioned CoW choice from redhat ?

Or is that not on the radar at all right now ?
Remembering Passwords with Password Grids
Home-made beef stock is actually INCREDIBLY nutritious, especially if it is made with the bones. There's a huge trend of bone broth suppliers cropping up in New York.

If it's some kind of mass produced stock though, it's probably not better than salt water.
OTR: the secure messaging protocol for cypherpunk hipsters.

OTR is useful if you go to great lengths to exchange public keys, and as soon as the key changes you go through all of it again. (I don't really count shared secrets as a secure means of authenticating your key, since if you have the shared secret, the key can be substituted and thus is irrelevant)

That's probably fine if you're just chatting aimlessly and don't need to rely on secure communication regularly. But it's a pain in the ass if you wanted to rely on it for remote long-term secure communication. "Privacy" is about all it's useful for (assuming more attacks aren't found in the protocol).

(Side note: to defeat all this complicated encryption and expose identities, just become a member of the hacker community. They're quite gossipy)
I'd say they prove their purity because that's what distinguishes them from the rest. Now, if you talk in terms of projects successfully backed/run by the FSF, you may be right, there are not as popular as they were.

But as guardians of the GPL ethos/politics, I'd say they do a good job (considering that this ethos hardly translates to money)
Crooks took control over operations of a Brazilian #bank for 5 hours
Bluegogo Bikesharing Company Leaving San Francisco
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...

Source link.
Judge says he’s likely to slap Uber with an injunction over missing files
I've seen this kind of senior maintenance developer being allowed to flourish only once in my career. In my opinion, the key was project scope. It was complex enough and had been in production long enough so that this maintenance wizard always had a wide range if issues to choose from. He got the reputation of knowing the whole complicated mess by heart, and being able to resolve the problems nobody else could. As a result, the management did not dare move him to new feature development, he got to work on what he liked, did it good, and thus cemented his position more and more.

If the project had been any less of a mess (lucrative, highly lucrative mess), somebody in management would have insisted on "not wasting the talent" and moved him to churning out new features. Because features are always more important, unless the bugs become perfectly capable of sinking the whole project.
it sure is a great historical fiction! in another HN thread I too suggested this for readers interested in drug trade during colonial India.
No idea but initial system setup on every system I touch is to alias bc to 'bc -l'.

I use bc tens of times per day ...
It would appear that in this instance his strategy of trading the asset numerous times over the years has led to significantly less yield than if he would have bought and held.

If you have an edge on the market there's a good chance you're either breaking the law or deluding yourself. Not that some people haven't found legal edges and made vast fortunes from them - sophisticated mathematicians have for instance. But there's many more who confused dumb luck for alpha and ended up underperforming the market or broke over time.

You're right though - buy and hold is generally best applied to a diverse set of assets. If you're making direct plays on companies and have little ability to influence the board and leadership then that's a lot of unhedged risk. Warren Buffet's advice is often confused with making directional stock plays. He buys enough to get board seats and can influence the direction of the company and has a track record of doing this well. Regular people will never have enough of a bankroll to qualify for a board seat or have influence on the management.

And yes, many day traders and swing traders have some strategies based on short term changes in an asset but taxes are the killer. Short term capital gains are taxed the same as labor but with considerably more risk.
Best email app?
this is becoming more like http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/tournaments every day! Can we agree on the 4 grand slam hackathons and make them January Australian Hackfest, May French Codes, July Wimblehack, Sept the US Code Open.
A Case Against Discipline
Baidu teaches AI 'baby' bots English by ordering them around a maze
It's WAYYYY too sweet.
Maybe not at the butcher but in peoples's fridges for sure. Isn't it that a quarter of food gets thrown away?
No need to look at fancy paradoxes, just think about the following.

What does it mean that tossing a fair coin has a 50 % probability of showing heads?

If you think you know the answer, you are probably wrong.

EDIT: Instead of just voting this down, try to give an answer. If you think it is easy, you have not thought about it careful enough.
User interfaces from the Star Wars universe
I've been running everything using supervisord lately -- then I only need to maintain a single system startup script. And I can use supervisord under OSX easily as well to run the same stack of stuff.
I want it cool to the touch, not even warm (that is, what's acceptable to many people isn't to me). But even on full blast it's not hot like the Macbooks I've touched. Maybe the metal case?
Mostly long-term perspective, I think. Sprints (releases, versions, however you call it) are very lucrative, because being short term they offer quick turnout, sense of quick progress (in terms of tickets closed, features delivered) and bring easy to achieve victories, visible in probably every daily team call/meet.

The whole premise of various Agile methodologies (at least as I see it) is building minimal viable solution that solves the problem at hand without investing in bullet proof solution, because requirements may change (not necessarily client requirements. Internal design requirements as well) and that investment may be gone. From management perspective a minimax game to maximise "billable hours", which rarely include bugfixes and do not include maintenance. Though it seems to sweep under the rug the fact that next sprint may be built on top of weak assumptions under that MVS.

Without long term goals a team needs a person who is experienced enough to see problems down the road, caring enough to refactor stuff themselves and capable enough to squeeze deliverable required by ticket and maintenance duties into story point value - rockstar developer, and those tend not to be available in bulk.
I mean, fresh bread and cheese is delicious. Stale bread, not so much. You're aware that stale just means old?
Who?

They're not even in the same ballpark. RH has 10k employees and USD 1bn in revenue with a market cap of ~15bn, these guys just seem to be a ~500 person WordPress shop.
Using Create React App with Phoenix
Of most importance is the fact that it has first mover advantage in the CMS category. Then the fact that it's open source and extensible.
Growing Ubuntu for [current buzzword] rather than [last year's buzzword].

Why not just build it for server and desktop because that's what Ubuntu is best at, and not chase the latest fads?
Nobody running a thousand of anything uses the first release of $X, whether $X is a database or window manager or kernel or router firmware

SQL Server 2016 may be better than SQL Server 2008, but enterprises aren't deploying it until it has baked a few months, and maybe sp1/sp2/some major rollup ships for all the bugs the suckers find at rollout
Cloud may be a fad, but Ubuntu is making a lot of money on it. Mobile may not have been a fad, but Ubuntu was losing a lot of money on it.
This is a good list. I would add easy to customize as well - there are levels to this from changing user facing settings in the admin UI, to hiring a developer who can modify/build a plugin to solve your business need. But at all levels, customizing WordPress is typically easier for the end user than other CMS's (even enterprise grade products that cost 5 figures for a license)
People are still using Adblock Plus? uBlock is the superior option because I can trust them not to sell out like ADP did.
Yeah, I do respect the product for what it is, and while it's not something I'd use 24/7/365, I'd definitely turn to it in a pinch. I also agree with you about the care and the improvements, they seem to be willing to listen to feedback too.

I have reservations about people who think they should survive on it, but if they're going down that road anyway this seems like a safe choice.
Firefox for Android allows many of the same addons as the desktop browser, such as uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, or Self-Destructing Cookies.
How Chatbots Are Changing Design
I've built both Debian packages and RPMs, and I feel that RPMs are somewhat easier to wrap your head around. It's been a while since I did Debian package building, though.

It's also undeniably true that there was a time when APT + dpkg blew Red Hat's "equivalent" tools out of the water, but that's not the case anymore.

One thing I like in particular about dnf/rpm is that I can install packages by using functions, so eg. telling yum to install perl(Net::DNS) will work and installs the perl-Net-DNS package. I'm not sure if apt can do this.
Wow. This is amazing.
This includes a significant VAT that varies by country, so the price isn't comparable to the listed US price which excludes any applicable sales taxes. That being said, the consumer is still paying nearly $1000 USD for their device with the hidden tax.
I’m Sorry, but Those Are Vanity Metrics
Containers are for a completely different use case than system packages.
Looking for container monitoring solutions at DockerCon? Netsil wants to help
Every 5 min spent writing code in a new language  5 hours reading posts
> Why not just build it for server

What do you think Cloud means?
The message is more like that the desktop is too pricey and does not bring back money, so they end up dealing with the £££-generating options.

Does the desktop on Linux have a viable future?
After reading that, I see only one reason I wouldn't consider hiring you: You don't have enough common sense to post your CV when someone asks for it.

Seriously, if you want a job, publish your CV on your website already.
In terms of the number of game copies an individual buys, cheaters are certainly the most prolific. I am not saying that cheaters make up the majority of sales or purchases of any game, just that as a group of customers, they will buy a game account and play it until it is banned, and then buy another. They are power buyers in this sense.

Oh, come on, nothing was done and cheating is as easy as ever? And what do you mean by game's immutability other than that you can't cheat when looking at a screenshot?

Yes, this is exactly my point. Cheating is easier on CS:GO than it has ever been. There is currently no anti-cheat implementation for the CS:GO Linux client. Cheating on Ubuntu is as easy as `git clone aimtux.` No other counter-measures are needed.

More so, the client-server model CS:GO uses for their game networking is inherently insecure, and VAC (memory profile hashing) has proven so ineffective that Valve has tried to complement it with a crowd-sourced cheating detection (Overwatch) that lets players review and vote on suspicious players. That would be a good supplement to an otherwise effective anti-cheating system, but google "Overwatch bypass" and you will see that this is just as easily defeated. You could say that "Prime Matchmaking" (described in a comment elsewhere) is another concession by Valve that their software-based anti-cheat is completely ineffective, and that they are resorting to psychological measures and gameplay changes to curb cheating.

When I say "nothing has been done to improve game state immutability", I am saying that the same memory scanning hacks/techniques have existed in online FPS for 20 years. The client has too much control over their game state, and there is very little signing or checking of the client's game state.
Async/Await are awesome
I suspect Microsoft's upside in capturing more details (websites visited?) for use in what, advertising?, less than VW's upside in circumventing physics.

Ads make money but it seems hard to capitalise off of secret collection - too many People involved and you can't advertise your capabilities to clients.
> They got subverted at one point by an organization they thought was helping them.

Fair points, shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater etc. But as a governmental agency, do they have the autonomy to avoid being similarly subverted in the future? Not rhetorical, I genuinely don't know how they are governed/if they can refuse the "help" of the 3 letter agencies.

Which makes me realize, the 3 letter agencies may have still benefitted by the Dual_EC_DRBG scandal coming to light - what they lost in a backdoor, they gained in a chilling effect on the spread of good crypto practices by staining NIST's reputation.
Well, I hope they do not decide to start moving away from desktops.

While I am technically capable of installing most distros or compile my own kernel to enable the modules I need, usually Ubuntu has a good enough default kernel configuration that is compatible with laptops to a level I am satisfied.
1 billion active users. 200M in India. WhatsApp to provide direct bank payments
Thank God. That thing is and always was an abomination.
'“To the extent Uber tries to excuse its noncompliance on the grounds that Mr. Levandowski has invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to provide Uber with documents or assistance, Waymo notes that Mr. Levandowski remains — to this day — an Uber executive and in charge of its self-driving car program. Uber has ratified Mr. Levandowski’s behavior and is liable for it,” Waymo attorney Charles K. Verhoeven wrote in a letter to the court (emphasis his).'

Ouch.
Interesting articles are copied on this website: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
Gnome (for major versions > 2) is even worse than Unity though. They should've chosen an actually usable DM like Cinnamon.
My lord fractint still exists?! THANK YOU KINDLY.
1) https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3397#issuecomment-284...

2) The latter. Former is nice idea you for sure should rise it on go-ipfs tracker.

3) The repo update is currently automated (run daemon with `--migrate` flag so it will migrate itself)

4) Unfortunately not but it is very interesting question. If you could ask it on http://ipfs.trydiscourse.com/ it would be awesome.
A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world
Maybe they're saying that the Elite Tauren Chieftain imposed it? :-D
The truth about the gender wage gap (2017)
I feel like it's being abused now. For instance, I always tip but felt betrayed when another waiter charged tip without even asking, and I was eating alone. I stopped going there.
If I understand correctly, you misread that. (Alternately, I misread it.) I think it said that Boston had 7% year-on-year growth of tech jobs, not that Boston had 7% of the country's tech job growth.
http://neo900.org

>The Neo900 project aims to provide a Fremantle (Maemo™ 5) compatible successor to the N900, with a faster CPU, more RAM and an LTE modem. This is all based on a free, mature and stable platform - the GTA04. We'll provide complete, ready-to-use devices, as well as motherboard replacements for your current devices.
Most importantly, the Neo900 is an open platform, carrying on in the tradition of the Openmoko project. Neo900 will support all operating systems available for GTA04 (QtMoko, SHR, Debian, Replicant, ...)"
Watching netflix is the most graphically intense thing I do so not really.
Offhand, this kind of sounds like a parent asking their teenager to go and search their own room for drugs.

"Nah, I didn't find anything. I found this plastic bag that looks like it mighta had something in it, but I'm pretty sure my friend left it here and it was empty when he brought it."

"Okay son, go search again."
Android is killing it and there is no viable open alternative.
Matchpool Cofounder Quits on Claims of Misuse of Funds
physes [3:16 PM]
@channel I regret to announce as cofounder of Matchpool that I am leaving this project. I was involved in architecting Matchpool, writing the white paper and writing the first draft of the smart contracts. I was not involved in the implementation of the ICO. I have asked internally what is going on with the funds you sent to Matchpool, but have not received a satisfactory answer.

Over the last two days 37500 ETH has been withdrawn from the multisig wallet by the CEO, Yonatan Ben Shimon without any explanation or announcement due to the need for "hedging". Yonatan keeps claiming he's working with Bitcoin Suisse and it's all okay, but so far I haven't seen any evidence of this. I suggest you all demand an explanation and keep a close watch. In all likelihood your guppies are worthless- the terms and conditions seem deliberately designed to prevent contributors having legal recourse in the case of misuse of your money. In either event, I believe the standards of transparency and integrity in this organization are well below what is needed for a blockchain project, which is why I can no longer a part of it.

https://etherchain.org/account/0x72a7197bbccbe6ee1e9c688645436ed06017768a
Ask HN: How do you organize your Bookmarks?
I use to use del.icio.us back in the day before they were shutdown, I guess they reopened. I moved over to Google bookmarks, but the interface is aweful.

I am curious what other free solutions are out there to organize bookmarks in the cloud.

What are you using?
It seems like there’s a spectrum between “pitch competition” (best idea wins) and “coding challenge” (best implementation wins). Hackathons are somewhere in the middle, but given the zeitgeist behind the “hacker” movement, I am not surprised that they are leaning more towards the pitch side. After all, corporations are looking for implementable ideas rather than cool bits of tech someone hacked out in 24 hours. Transparency in the process and clear expectations help here.