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Jenkins Community Speaks Jenkins Survey Results now Available
The results from the first Jenkins Community Survey are in! 624 people took the time to share how they use Jenkins and tell us what capabilities matter most to them.
- 82% of respondents said Jenkins is mission critical to their development process
- 71% of survey respondents use Jenkins as their only CI tool
•	Jenkins is useful for companies of any size, but 76% work for organizations with > 10
- 80% of respondents have 3 or fewer masters and 10 or fewer build agents

More detail in the report...
They're not a regular technology company. They're owned by KKR.
Your Deimos (and Moon) velocities are off, as those are velocities relative to Mars and Earth comparatively. The real question is, does 24.1km/s +- 1.3km/s keep Deimos in orbit without Mars. 5% change in velocity will probably knock it a bit out of whack, but I am not doing the perigee/apogee calculations right now.

PS, The Earth was the original example of 'flat' and nothing is ever allowed to change as we gain better understanding.
It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cradle.
Ask HN: What to do next?
Disclaimer: This is a temporary/throw-away account.

I wanted to post this on HN as it seems to be that there is a very diverse set of skills and smarts present most of the time. That and coupled with the fact that responses are usually very focused would help me get some good answers and leads.

I will/might try this on Reddit as well, where the slightly lower level of quality of responses is offset by a bigger audience (i.e. if my post generates enough interest)

Anyway, the background to the question:

I've accumulated (at last count) around 450K in stocks and cash (roughly 50/50), plus 60K in a couple of 401K accounts. It's not a lot, but it is for me. I'm 41, with an OK job (pays around 100K) in SF (working as a software developer with startups; I actually have started looking for the next one).

I don't own any property, but I also have zero debts or financial obligation, and relatively low cost of living (considering I'm in SF).

The question:

What to do next? what to do next financially? I'd like to cash all of my stocks or a large portion of it (bird in hand and all that) but I worry that doing so will trigger a huge tax event for me.

I definitely still need to work, but I'd like to work less and free up part of my week for other endeavors...
Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA
To be fair the slides never really makes any comparisons with Erlang instead just used an inflammatory title, so it is understandable if responses are a little hand-wavy. It just goes along given the level of discussion.
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It's not flawed in its context. It would be flawed if your point was valid. For your point to be valid, the obfuscation you imply should either be true, or unknown. It's not unknown to whoever knows the language. It's simply false.

In other words, you cannot assume a variable to be unknown when one of the parties does know it.
There was an article (that I now cannot find) that claimed there was a positive effect of counterfeiting for high end fashion brands because it motivated buyers to more quickly move on to the latest version. Someone who is willing to spend $700 on a hand bag will get a newer version rather than hold onto the one they have when they see anyone and everyone sporting it.
thanks for the encouragement =). I am working on one now for jekyll but it's not finished yet.
Thanks, signed up. Any screenshots or overviews available?
All though I sympathize with your argument, it seems to be based on "reasoning". Reasoning is the one thing this government/industry ins't interested in.
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Louis CK:
'I never viewed money as being "my money" I always saw it as "The money" It's a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.'

I don't think his point is that this money exists in some sort of limbo where it's not his, because however he views it, it's still his money. I think he's making a general statement about how he views money: as a resource to be used, not a collectible to be amassed.
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What's actually being paid for, here?

It could be the case that having Google as the default in Firefox will pay for itself through advertising. Anyone have any feel for how likely that is?

If it isn't, is it an attempt to buy good will? Trying to gain some leverage over Mozilla when it comes to taking sides in the standards war?

Or just the idea that any time Firefox gains a user is a time that Safari or IE isn't gaining that user, and that any marginal hits to the adoption of Chrome are disproportionately compensated by hits to the adoption of competing browsers?
Don't these guys take an oath to uphold the Constitution when they are sworn into office? How is attempting to pass a law to subvert free speech not breaking what they swore to protect?
Flagged. Looks like link bait to me. The real announcement is apparently here: http://blog.context.io/2011/12/context-io-v2-0-out-of-beta-p...

It looks cute, but the obvious problem it will have competing with IMAP is the lack of a free implementation. This isn't software, it's a for-pay email service with an apparently interesting web API on the front.
Same, but I think it was 46 for me ;)

Big relief having finally gotten off my butt to do that. Well worth the $200+ and at least that renews them all for an extra year at the same time, so it's not like I wouldn't have spent it anyway (just not all at once).
Huh, so extensions.gnome.org works now. The last few times I've looked for it, I've gotten a "permission denied" or other "no-such-website-here-yet" error. I only knew it existed because I happened across the "Gnome Shell Integration" plugin in Firefox's plugin list.

For what it's worth, when I first tried out GNOME 3, I customised it the same way I customised GNOME 2: gconf-editor (and a little later, dconf-editor).
Just gained a ton of respect for you YC
I actually prefer an actor-centric model vs a channel-centeric model. Don't know why, just makes more sense to me, and Go way might make more sense to others.
haha, I think you're right, I could probably prune a bit. Domains can get addicting, but probably 15 to 20 are not related to anything but late night ideas. :)
As much as I support the anti SOPA cause, is this more of a hunger strike than a consequential action? The startups presenting at demo day need those dollars a whole lot more than the corporate venture arms need the investments. Money is money, no matter how stupid it may be.
I agree with your point that singling out a domain provider is not the only thing we should be doing. I guess you could pay in cash rather than use your Visa/Mastercard, but in monopolies like this we're sort of screwed because they can act with impunity and we stil have to use their services. Any ideas on how to hurt these companies would be great, I want to make their bottom line pay for the shit they're trying to shove down our throats.
Mainly I think you're just kind of missing the point, while at the same time bringing in a lot of unrelated negativity that doesn't add anything constructive to the discussion.
It is not exactly built ON Lucene. It reuses very specific constructs. The main one is the structure that holds the comprised index. And that is only used for the long term index. The realtime part of the index has been written for IndexTank exclusively.
Everything's orbital velocity was taken relative to what they orbit. My point is if you take Jupiter and +/- the moon's orbital velocity you get a more extreme orbits than you do with Mars +/- Deimos. So the new orbits say just as much about how far they are from the sun vs what they orbit.

PS: The Earth is not the original definition of flat.
They are not legally liable, which is different from being responsible. Imagine if one of their portfolio companies was a child porn distributor. You wouldn't defend KKR, because clearly they have some choice in who they put in their portfolio, and a child porn distributor is an immoral choice. Holding a SOPA supporting company is also a (albeit less egregious) poor choice. Taking away invites of their portfolio companies provides motivation for them to look into this sort of thing when choosing companies in the future.
That’s an interesting point, and I’d like to read that article, but I think it’d be highly situationally dependent on the particular brand and you’d have to know their internal sales numbers to confirm it.

Even if it were true, though, it still doesn’t address the fact that the designers would be crazy not to want more power to stop their designs from being stolen for simply artistic rather than pragmatic or business reasons. It’s not fair to call them greedy or immoral—and it’s certainly uncalled for and wrong to call them unpatriotic traitors—for wanting this and for not particularly caring about our industry just as we probably don’t really care about theirs. In fact, it’s that kind of one-sided ad hominem bullshit that’s actually the problem.

That being said, SOPA is still an unacceptable solution.
> "visible from our telescopes today."

Our nearest other star is 4 light years away. 1000 light years away may still not cover many planets good for ET to colonize. But for us now to see evidence of a colony on a planet 1000 light years away or more would be TOUGH.

Note: The planet hunters mostly don't actually see the planets but just shadows or evidence in star wobbles, etc.

But we are putting up some new telescopes with some astounding resolution, etc.
IndexTank right now supports preffix search, stemming and a basic implementation of a Did You Mean feature. Regarding languages, it supports tokenization for every western language, and not long ago, we added support for CJK too.
Google "Santorum" sometime. It's possible.
You might want to take a look at Lily; a document store that runs on HBase: [http://www.lilyproject.org/lily/index.html]. It exposes a REST interface to perform CRUD and search operations, and has a very expressive object model (including record-to-record links).
Yes, but Louis CK is way, way more well-known than Notch is. The dollar amounts might be similar, but Louis CK is regularly on late night talk shows and the like. The backlash would be far greater.
A voice command computer would allow me to walk into my kitchen and say "make me a coffee", whereas the ancient desktop model of computing would require me to log into my Windows desktop and scroll and click through menus to connect and schedule time with my coffee maker.

There is an order of magnitude difference in usability between these paradigms, and it doesn't matter how good the Ubuntu Unity Linux desktop is, it won't make tasks like this any bit easier.

In every office I have worked in, people are already talking on their phones, I don't see how talking to your computer is any different.
Just transferred (recovered/save/gavelife) (well, just) 3 domains out of GoDaddy. Rest of my domains are gathering dust elsewhere, but I am happy that this marks the end of my relationship with the nasty GoDaddy. Best wishes to them with their skimpy dress ads on SupBowl!
At 1AU, orbital velocity is 42.3 km/s. Io does 17.3 km/s relative to Jupiter. Io would be gone. Calliso does 8.2 km/s and I highly suspect that would be too fast to maintain a planetary orbit at 1AU.

The orbital velocity of Earth is the escape velocity of the solar system, from Earth (42.1 km/s). Fun fact, this means that if we ever wanted to dispose of nuclear waste by dumping it in a star, we'd need much less rocket fuel to hit Alpha Centauri than the Sun.
Quick tip, you can use the promo code 'switch2nc' to save a dollar off each transfer.

(I am not affiliated with namecheap, the promo code or anything related. I am just cheap :-p)
Our confidence in congress has been declining rapidly for years. Last month, a poll reported 9% of the population thought they were doing a good job. They literally don't have 10% to lose. They've learned that they can do anything they want and we won't do anything about it.
Only because their discoveries and religion didn't conflict. There is zero room in doing good science for faith.
I'm not sure that Hollywood is, in fact, dying. The evidence[1][2] suggests that Hollywood has been making more money in the 2000's than ever before.

1. http://the-numbers.com/movies/records/
2. http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/2010-box-office-more-r...

They are having record breaking revenue years in 2009 and 2010. It's not like they are suffering the downtown that the newspaper industry has and they don't have nearly the legal protections that Hollywood has and while they are struggling, they are adapting.

If Hollywood were to take a new approach to entertainment, who's to say they wouldn't be having even higher revenue than they are having now? It just seems like a fix for a problem that doesn't exist.
Safari is gonna need support for spoofing headers, all these companies want to get their foot in the door by having you use their app
> What's actually being paid for, here?

The same as with Google's previous deals with Mozilla, Opera, etc.

By being the default search engine, Google gets more prominent placement in the browser. Were Google to no longer be the default in Firefox, some users would use alternatives to Google - either because they just leave the non-Google default because it is good enough, or because they are exposed for the first time to the alternatives, and they find they like them - all of which Google wants to prevent at all costs.

Another way to look at this is that there were some estimates thrown around during the Flock days of how much advertising revenue a browser generates for a search engine (this was Flock's proposed business model). I think I remember $1-2 per user per year. That should actually be higher today, assuming in the ensuing years search engines have gotten better at monetizing traffic which seems reasonable. Given that, $300M sounds about right given the amount of users Firefox has - apparently Firefox was receiving below market value before.
I'm more concerned about his having a secure, patched server and his website having no vulnerabilities. Non-idiotic passwords are hard to guess; SQL injection is easy.
Unlike Notch and other indie game developers, Louis thought this out with advisers and lawyers, and no doubt notified PayPal of the plans. If they already know what he's selling and have his ID on file, they have no reason to temporarily suspend the account to ask those things.
Here's a handy map:

http://www.spatialsituation.com/sopa-map/
FYI the post-email-confirmation click through goes to http://hireshot.com/ which is a dead link for me.
As long as you're using TOR to connect to any regular site, your traffic will eventually exit the TOR network through an
exit node.
If that node's ISP performs packet inspection and traffic originating from it ends up hitting an URL for illegal content on a download site, the exit node could be taken down and it's owner prosecuted.

Only hidden services using the .onion alternate TLD are safe.
Why go to grad school?
It's always seemed to me that Apple's view of their users is simply that they do very little actual typing- and they will be doing less and less as time progresses.

It doesn't really even seem like that inaccurate of a view. It is exceedingly rare I see any real typing happening on an Apple keyboard. Usually the most use I see them receiving, is the typing of a paper- at about 3wpm.

* typing either with a physical keyboard OR with an on-screen keyboard
Ask HN: With GoDaddy even more horrible, what budget hosting/domain company?
For example, I'm looking to get a theatrical designer friend of mine set up with a basic static website. He just needs a domain and a few GB of storage on the web with SFTP access. No bells and whistles and none of the complications of setting up a website off S3. I can support him getting it all set up, but I won't be there forever. For something like this I'd (though with some reservations) just get a domain and hosting from a mega-provider like 1and1 or GoDaddy, purely because it's near impossible to find two "budget web hosting review" websites that agree on anything. - Where should I go?
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可 means "able to" (so 可口 could be sort of literally translated as "mouth-able"), whereas 渴 actually means thirsty ("mouth thirsty").
NO, i am not going to learn Clojure. If its good as a primary programming languages i could learn at the office. Holiday is for resting and laughing not for the (()()(()))
I was surprised by Revlon, L'Oreal, and Tiffany & Co. I can understand why makers of music and movies might (wrongly) support this, but why makeup and jewelry?
Firms do not usually take stances on legislative matters their own. SOPA's passage significantly benefits firms' activity levels and in turn the revenue produced in the furtherance of protecting their clients' rights. While outward facing corporate positions may take a neutral or negative stance on SOPA, many overt and implicit stances are taken by their respective counsel. SOPA claims made via premptive cease and desist letters or active litigation may or may not claim SOPA in their position statements to prevent drawing clear relationships between their clients and SOPA. Most agreements come with gag clauses to further protect and guarantee the cat doesn't get out of the bag. Unfortunately, firms are notoriously good for keeping secrets, so I am not expecting Wikipedia like bombshells connecting brand X to SOPA support.
Does this finding increase the odds of a Tunguska-size impact?
>If I wanted to donate to charities, I'd do it myself.

So then your employer shouldn't give you a paycheck, if you're just going to turn around and give it to someone else?
Yep. I registered my first domain with them about a decade ago. I've finally moved on to NearlyFreeSpeech.Net (don't really like their weird account funding thing, though) for a couple of new domains last year.
Is hurting them really the only option? Converting would be more useful..
IMO this isn't really about consumers making smart choices. It's about incumbent telecoms operators like France Telecom making sure they keep a balance of power between suppliers. They're making sure that as their customers come up to renew their contracts and upgrade their phone they're leaving the store with an Android device.

Despite the strength of the iPhone brand, there's still a significant chunk of the market that really "doesn't care" and just wants a phone that works. Sure they'd be happy to have a camera and all the rest of what a smart phone offers but they're cautious about increasing their monthly bill with data charges and, first and foremost, just want a phone. You can sell this type of consumer an Android phone quite easily, even if they came into your store asking for an iPhone.

Meanwhile Apple made the "mistake" of pushing their vision of user experience all the way through consumer. To do this they dictated terms to telcos on how they distribute iPhones, and broke long established conventions built up with Nokia, Motorola, Sony Erikson and others about the distribution process, and questioned the role of the telco in that process. That left telcos scared of a future where Apple is their dominant supplier. So they fixed it.

IMO that's where these numbers are coming from.
Hurting is how you convert.
In Sweden wire transfers within Sweden[1] generally do not have a per transaction cost and most utility bills are paid through wire transfer. Recently many online stores have started allowing purchase with invoice (many use a company called Klarna[2] which handles the sending of invoices and the risks) which you then have to pay through wire transfer.

1. I think it is usually free to all EU countries too as long as you use IBAN.

2. https://klarna.com/en/business
Just checking: when alt-tabbing, you know you can pause on the Terminal icon (or hit the down arrow) and switch between all your terminal windows that way, right? Granted, it's not as convenient as having all your terminals available from one keypress, but it's better than having to switch to the mouse.

Also, if you want Nautilus icons on the desktop, that option's available in gnome-tweak-tools (although I just found an extension that puts a menu of Nautilus bookmarks in the menu-bar).
Lily looks cool, thanks.
Minor tangent here that's not relevant to your main point - what exactly is wrong with trying to dispose of toxic waste in a "semi-competent" manner? Lead, mercury, asbestos, and all those other freaky things have got to go somewhere. Shouldn't you be more pissed off at people generating that waste?
Um, you quote a passage declaring that according to Keynes, real wages need to go down to boost employment. He says this is difficult because nominal wages are sticky.

How does that differ from what I said?

Note that I wasn't advocating a deflationary spiral, I was advocating a stimulative wage cut while allowing price levels to rise.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Keynesian_economics
Ask HN: What if you work for a company that supports SOPA?
What advice do you all have to someone who actually works for a company that supports SOPA but doesn't support it themselves?
I've heard that GoDaddy is good if you want Windows-based hosting. (personally, I use DreamHost and love them)
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Have you ever been to a tech. trade show and seen the booth babes? If sexism (unless I've missed misogynistic adverts, it isn't a synonym for sexist) is enough of a reason for a boycott then there's a hell of a lot of companies you'd have to avoid.
The problem with those types of polls is that they measure support for Congress as a whole. Only 9% of Americans think that Congress is doing a good job, but the real issue is how many people still think their Congress(wo)man is doing just fine.

Everybody thinks it's somebody else's problem, and as soon as those somebodies else stop being idiots, things will change. Nobody realizes that they are somebody else's somebody else.
Gandi.net has a US branch/office now. I asked them what they would do if the US Govt wanted to seize domain they host and I only heard crickets....
I was going to write something about it. Would that be enough? Essays are more my thing than videos.
I was going to say the same thing.

Thank you PG for doing your part. Thank you so much.
Knowing that I would need to pay to renew them anyway made it slightly less painful. It's tough to cough up $300+ at once, but SOPA is a horrible idea and GoDaddy apparently has no clue who their customers are. I'd be very curious to see some stats on how many transfers happened because of this effort.
>Anyone have any feel for how likely that is?

As a rough napkin calculation, Firefox has 25% of the market share. So, roughly, 25% of Google's revenue comes from FF users. That's ~ $7.5BB annually. Now, as to how many of those users would manually choose to use Google for search, I don't think anyone can say for sure (although I'm sure Google has made a good estimate). Suffice to say, Google clearly sees it as worth their while to pony up and keep those users directed towards them by default.
For the past year, I've told people that size 14, and most cases size 16, is the new size 12.

Yet, some designers, especially designers outside the design space (designers you find in places like insurance companies) still crush size 12 fonts into large spaces.

Drives me crazy. Not only is it hard to read, it's essentially invisible on monitors with high resolutions.