skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mind map browser history/bookmark system would be the most intuitive. With timestamps and relations between items.

Most of the time when searching through my browsing history I remember a small bit from the page that I want (like a phrase), but not the whole address or title. So searching for something like "find that page about a Python module, which I opened two days ago" would be truly helpful. Hell, even searching by a page's dominant color would be helpful sometimes, since I have a good visual memory.
Heroku addons status page
To me, this looks very similar to the waterfall model.
Indeed, and that usually becomes a problem at any stage of the project, usually converting it into a longer project, and if you're not careful you will surely loose money and precious time.
> Nobody has ever tried to design a sub 1 watt x86 design.

Transmeta tried and succeeded.
Too bad that the backup generator refuelling pumps have been submerged (while the generators themselves are running).

That sounds like some really ... unfortunate planning of the positioning of these machines, made me think of the Daiichi incident when backup assets failed to come online because parts of the backup infrastructure were destroyed. Not as serious, of course. Fog Creek's hosting isn't a nuclear power plant. :)

Makes me glad I don't work with things that are as hard to test in the real world as these kinds of backup solutions must be. I hope they manage the refuelling, somehow.
Hurry up and print !
There was also a 3.2 Honeycomb release.
Or the "YOU forgot about my remark 3 weeks ago regarding the -insert little detail that doesn't mean jack sh*t but I want it done anyways- ... (Sorry to rant)
Agreed. Look at the situations reversed : Earthquake on the west coast... How tasteless it would be for the New Yorkers to insist that YC keeps to its original deadline.
Do you use this process for all the client projects you take in? We use an Agile process for internal projects which usually don't have an ending date. When we take in freelance work from clients we end up with a certain ending date, for a certain amount of work and iterations stated before starting the project. Before using this kind of process, projects would end up being longer, we'd end up loosing money, and time for other projects.
Arrows all going in the same direction? Yep, that's waterfall.
I am a fan of chef, we use it at cloudpokerdb.com for all of our configuration management. The Ruby Scripts vs Config Files rings true (at least it did when I first compared the two a while back). Im sure you can do it with puppet, but chef allows us to auto-deploy and setup any type of server environment (using openstack) one could need, via a couple recipes, and databags.
or even criminal negligence, since their seed contaminated your crop, then the contamination was used in a shakedown.
I voted yes simply because of the fact that you might miss out on great team. BTW, I am not applying so I am completely unbiassed. Cheers.
We (Shapeways) are also down.
Cooks is no Sculley. The latter was very ineffective as CEO and made huge mistakes such as porting Apple's OS to the PowerPC platform. As such, he was ousted by the board. Cooks is far more capable, and has the advantage of being "home-grown" as opposed to coming from another company.
It'd be a pain at first, but look at other APIs like a database ORM that supports MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL. The commands to the end-developer are all the same for any of the platforms, but the underlying API can use any of the supported database engines.

If the Ubuntu API were done right, it could be ported, to say, Fedora, and use any underlying fedora libraries without the end-developer having to change her code at all! It could be extremely useful. You'd have a Linux API that can source the best API to use for the end-users current configuration.
What happened at the 14th St con-ed substation?  
What happened at the 14th St con-ed substation? Any electrical engineers here that can speculate?
This story reeks.
Thanks for the mention!

FWIW, front page is http://ansible.cc and there's a FAQ there that explains a bit more.

Docs are http://ansible.cc/docs
Submerged fuel pumps are the same problem that Internap are experiencing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715889
How long would some <X> 55-gallon drums full of fuel have helped, anyway? Most cars can easily run through 55 gallons of fuel in a matter of hours (<10), much less a datacenter!

There well may have been poor planning at some point, but these things happen so infrequently there must be an allowance for this-is-a-disaster that cannot easily be worked around.

Another question is for the customers: are they running all their services from a single datacenter? Sounds like it shows poor planning.
I think you can only blame yourself for purchasing a Nexus 7 last week. There was already plenty of speculation by that point that they'd be announcing the next iteration at the event.
That's what she said: Double entendre identification
Fog Creek's services are hosted at Internap's LGA11 (75 Broad St) data center.
I'm assuming their servers are in LGA11, according to Internap the basement has flooded and damaged the fuel pumps for the generators. They also said in an earlier email they have no staff on site and are urging all customers to shut down their servers.

Edit: here are the emails I've received from Internap regarding LGA11 https://gist.github.com/3980482
Greece exit from Eurozone now a certainty...
Making Economic Decisions
No, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint all broke out iPhone sales in their recent quarterly reports. Verizon + Sprint didn't outsell AT&T on total iPhones, so it would make no sense for them to be winning iPhone 5 converts fast enough to create this sort of version skew. Instead, I think we're seeing an artifact of how the models are reported.

If you look at Apple's iPhone 5 specification page ( http://support.apple.com/kb/SP655 ), you'll see that the CDMA iPhone 5 and the non-US GSM iPhone 5 have the same model number. That says to me that they are probably reported together in this sort of device breakdown (and may well even be almost the same phone under-the-covers modulo some configuration bits). In other words, the iPhone 5 on almost everyone but AT&T is massively outselling the iPhone 5 on AT&T, which seems much more reasonable.
Were going to create software tools to allow anyone to sell ebooks quickly and easily.
>Which should surprise practically nobody

Why? You mean corporations can arbitrage production and employment costs, and we can't arbitrage product purchase costs is logical?
Explaining how you get buy in would be a much more interesting blog post. The person footing the bill usually wants some plan for reassurance sake. Something along the lines of, "Aha! Gotcha! You didn't do X! I'm not paying!"
Are you thinking of Typekit, maybe? Typecast is an app for typesetting web fonts, basically. It uses fonts from Google Fonts, Typekit, and I think a couple other webfont providers. It's not in competition with webfont providers at all. Although, now that it's been acquired by one, that may change.
The New Microsoft Outlook.com, Graymail, and a Zen Inbox
I got a strong time cube vibe from that site.
Pretty much. Why would the answer be anything other than "Of course! I'm really happy it's getting looked after now I'm busy on projects x, y and z."
Starting is Hard To Do
I have met these guys in Puerto Rico (which has a great emerging startup scene) a few times. They are by far one of the top UI/Django pairs I have ever met, and could give any agency a run for their money. If you're looking for some smart guys, consider them.
Instead of having to make sure we have them organized, browsers should just index their content and provide good search. Indexing engines are more than fast enough nowadays.
Injured Soldiers Can Now Work Civilian Jobs from Home
Show HN: JackDB - Database development in your web browser
Update at 10:17ET http://pastebin.com/NUQNHHJi
Interesting they don't have a public status page of any sort.
The subtext here is that companies are afraid of employees becoming hard-to-fire based on out-of-job credibility. We could see 6-month severances being the norm (at least for so-called "co-branded" people) in a few years.

Credibility used to come from job titles, references, and performance reviews. It came only from people that companies hand-picked to be "managers". This meant that a person could be fired for any reason and the company could call it "performance" and that person had zero credibility. They held all the cards. The result was that companies could treat people (not only those they fired, but those they kept but could threaten with termination) badly.

That era's ending, and good riddance.
I don't espouse the Google interview process, just some technical questions. I've done at one point the Google interview process and actually wouldn't suggest to follow it.
Reddit: Coder Heya, bringing programming guides & references together.
For those looking for a dead simple alternative to Chef or Puppet, I wrote Shoestrap. It's a pure Bash, no-BS set of scripts. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Chef, but it might be enough for your needs.

https://github.com/cmer/shoestrap

https://github.com/cmer/shoestrap-example
For those looking for a dead simple alternative to Chef or Puppet, I wrote Shoestrap. It's a pure Bash, no-BS set of scripts. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Chef, but it might be enough for your needs.

https://github.com/cmer/shoestrap
https://github.com/cmer/shoestrap-example
"Given the preparation work that's gone into this, we are confident that all of our services will remain available to our customers throughout the weather." - yesterdays update.

Try not to let your fingers type cheques your datacenters can't cash...!
It is great how everyone describes their "process". In the end, it doesn't mean a lot because it will all depend on the mentality and knowledge of the people working in that process.

At the point where people are using "the process" and not their brains and common sense, it will cause a disaster and you have to re-invent "the process".
Create an API and sell access to it.
Later if you come up with an idea, you can still build it.
"Stalin's regime (or more generally to the Soviet regimes)"

For the record, I find comparisons to the DPRK much richer for satire.
HTML5 Mobile Debugger's Manifesto
Redacted. My permutations do not necessarily terminate on evens, which would have been necessary to draw the conclusions that followed. Ah, Collatz, you've won this round...
Looking for developer feedback on a new "cloud application platform"
Are you guys looking at the same picture as I am? What I see is a weak copy of Bret Victors landscape generator with horrible colours and MSPaint-like strokes.

I mean it's nice to have such a thing on your CV, but why post it to HN? (and why upvote it?)
I hadn't actually considered how much evernote might be useful to me if I used it like that. I think I might actually reinstall it.
They should adopt the Human Interface Guidelines that Elementary OS use. http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines
CouchDB seems to disagree.
Create a honeypot profile with photos of you in a suit, at church, volunteering. Share the password to this one (if they give you no other choice).

Hey, it's a social media profile, it's got your name on it, and pictures of you.
The dilemma is that it's basically impossible to contact one of these big blog/twitter folks privately. Send email? DM? I'm sure they get way too much volume (and hatemail) to even read it.
Isn't that the same as the Nexus (IIRC the Nook HD is based on Android 4.0 with some B&N specific changes and some 4.1/4.2 bits back-ported).
It is movable. It would take a few days. We have another DC. We wouldn't say that if we knew it wasn't doable.

EDIT: Just because it's feasible doesn't mean we will actually do it; just wanted to clarify that we weren't firing from the hip.
Me and My Censor: What it's like to tell the truth about today's China.
We are beginning to bring down all Fog Creek services (FogBugz, Kiln, Trello, etc.) as our datacenter is shutting down.

fogcreekstatus.typepad.com and @fogcreekstatus on twitter will continue to have updates.

edit: All Fog Creek services have been shut down ahead of power failure. We'll update the status blog as we know more from our DC.
Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) barely made it out. We are in the same datacenter but we just finished building out and testing a secondary datacenter in Oregon literally last weekend. We did an emergency failover last night after the datacenter went to generators. Read more at http://blog.serverfault.com
iirc, OSX behaves in the exact same way as Ubuntu. Alt-Tab, to switch between applications, and Alt-something to switch between windows of an application. I could be wrong though, it's been over a year since I used OSX now...
thanks for pointing it out,
looks like it will not work with sockets though.

Also spec says that it will return list of either strings or binaries, not exactly iolist.
No redundancy what-so-ever? What an amateur operation. I still say Joel is a fraud.

EDIT: this site is amazing - divergent opinions seem to be actively discouraged given how many "points" I've lost thanks to stating mine. Is the point of this site for all of the members to think in the same way?
One approach that worked well for us when we tried to do this for an automated labyrinth project was to only operate on one color channel and template match an ideal ball while updating the template based on lighting conditions. Our project was slower moving though so the ball didn't deform quite as much. Our webcam was terrible so there was probably more visual distortion than I seem to recall.

Edit: also in our case we used a region of interest that moved with the ball position to cut down on the computation.
I'm getting flashbacks here of Dave Winer and the battle over RSS and Atom.
"... numerous people apparently clicked on the file, releasing the virus into the police department’s computer system, said Bachar. “Closing off the department’s computers to the Internet is a complicated matter, and police would have done so only if they felt that there as an acute need to go offline.” Among the measures police have reportedly taken to prevent future attacks is to ban any outside media — USB drives, CDs, etc.– from connecting with systems."

Does it make sense to anyone to ban physical media but not connecting to the Internet?
True that ! Here's another one! http://www.slashgear.com/chat-perf-accessory-makes-your-ipho... LOL !
Rochester, NY guy here, with parents in central NY and grandparents on Long Island.

Like other commenters have said, it's an absolute mess. ConEd is predicting up to 7 days for power to return. I voted "yes" but a day won't be enough. Some people trapped won't even be able to click submit for a week.

I think that a deadline extension isn't the best option. The best option would be to give grace to late entries that come from hurricane areas (like others have mentioned, a checkbox would work). However, I'd add an additional box for those ticking the box that asks about their hurricane experiences. After all, isn't YC looking for amazing founders? What better way to see who a person is than hearing about their experiences living through a record-breaking storm?

Sure, people would game the system but if they do make it to the interview stage it'll be easy to tell who's faking.
Chat Perf accessory makes your iPhone smell good - SlashGear
Given the title of the submission, "Keep the keyboard, remove the rest," I had expected a portable device intended to be used alone, like a laptop with a extremely short display, but further reading reveals that it almost certainly needs to be hooked up to a PC in order to work at all, just like an ordinary USB keyboard needs to be.

The user manual says Windows XP or Windows 7 required, and I get the strong impression that the (short) display built into the keyboard will not work at all if you are running any other OS. No sign that it works even as an ordinary keyboard with no display (or rather a blank display) on other OSes.

Submission not upvoted.
Definitely makes a big difference for me, and most people I talk to. Reading on a "retina" display is vastly nicer.
AudioBus: Live, app-to-app audio streaming on iOS
The Candor programing language - simplified JS
This is where Alt+Tab in Ubuntu/Gnome was just fine before and the new OSX emulation has ruined it for me. I've switched to XFCE.
Wow you expect fog creek to be down for that long when it does? Why can't you just scp everything on there to your other DC? or at least just move the harddrives? Seems like it would cost less time.
So from what you write it sounds like the time it took for Puppet to apply the configuration changes was the problem: to install all the packages you wanted, and then to configure and check them. This always takes time though, this isn't Puppet specific.
actually, I found this the most effective way to deal with idiot management.
"Ok, I'll do it after you confirm it by email" - 90% chicken out
Hmm, maybe the reason I like Unity is because my previous machine was a Mac and everything just makes sense. I guess if you're coming from Windows, you're going to get annoyed with certain things, but only the same things you'd get annoyed with if you were moving to OSX.
I initially read that as Fog Creek the company was soon to be going out of business.
I pretty much hate puppet after 4 years of dealing with it. Scaling problems, having to run another bunch of crap to store configs, in an app that was designed to store configs.

I'm getting all riled up just remembering the hell.

Next time I get to pick, I'll use salt.
Ofcourse they have redundancy, just not cross-datacenter redundancy. And if you knew anything about cross-datacenter redundancy you'd know that cross-datacenter redundancy is something you do not decide upon lightly.

Then again, having cross-datacenter backups that can easily be taken online would be a bit more professional than 'we want to physically move the servers'.
I have the feeling that choosing a configuration management system is very similar to choosing a build system. There are a few big players where it's easy to do easy things and possible to do complex things, but hacking with them is very arcane (like GNU make). There seem to be quite a lot of documentation and contributed packages for both Puppet and chef, for example.

But, instead of trying to fix what is broken, it seems that a lot of people end up reinventing the wheel and writing their own "lightweight" configuration management system.

As someone that wants to switch to such a system, I believe that it will be easier to learn puppet since the existing code base is just enormous.
Fair enough. Zurb isn't desperate for HN traffic or users. It's only fair that some of the other equally good frameworks get due attention.

http://www.getskeleton.com/

http://gumbyframework.com/

http://titanthemes.com/titan-framework-a-css-framework-for-r...

http://www.angrycreative.se/wordpress/plugins/less-framework...
"Celebrity" is a clumsy metaphor for this because most celebrities are made by behind-the-scenes executives and agents who have a lot of power. Celebrities are mostly made products. Establishing independent credibility is something else. It's not outsized fame, but it's still enough of a force that companies are beginning to see it as dangerous.

Thirty years ago, companies held all the cards, because credibility came from job titles and references that only a hand-picked class of stewards called "managers" could hand out, then managed to convince the peasants that it was "unethical" to play out-of-band (by having a friend give a reference as manager, or upgrading a title). If they wanted to reduce a target's career credibility to zero, they could do so. They could fire that person and give a terrible reference and call the person "disgruntled" if he said anything bad about them. They could even reduce the employee's job title and fail to acknowledge that he held the higher one at any time: their word against his. The only recourse an employee had was to sue the employer, which is mutually assured destruction at best, because even winning a termination suit is usually bad for a person's career.

Companies could also bring ruin upon people who spoke the truth about them, so almost no one did, and this kept their pristine organizational reputations (and thus, their credibility) intact.

We're moving toward a different sort of economy in which these middlemen are losing their hold. The one-sided expectation of "professionalism" (companies can be abusive, but employees and exes are expected to keep their interests and secrets no matter what) is ending. It's a very good thing, but it's scary for corporations because they've lost control of information, and because it's not hard to make recruiting just enough harder to cost the company more than, say, a 6- to 12-month severance (which is extremely generous, at least in the U.S.) would cost.
Reminds me of NASDAQ's post from over a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928519

Good luck FogCreek.
Who can be the target market for those APIs that I will sell?
'Badass' bug kills off Borderlands 2 characters
I guess "The Cloud" got rained on in this case.
Ask HN: Points to keep in mind before agreeing on profilt sharing
I am working on web application with a person. She initially hired me for the development. She now offered me profit sharing option which will allow me to take x% from profit. I am thinking about taking the offer but not yet decided. I am first trying to see all possible scenarios which I should discuss with her before moving ahead.

Could you all share your experience/advice about this? I want to explore all possible cases such as: "if we split after some time", "If you are not sharing your code then should I" , "I am not allowed to handle the account then how would I get to know about exact profit" etc.
Noah didn't have much if a choice from what I remember of that particular fairy tale, he was under direct instructions from god that was about to destroy the earth (what a great guy!)

Not exactly a helpful comment to bring Noah into this... But there's always one that has to bring up Revelations or some other end of days nonsense wherever there's a storm.
Xtreme RAT Targets Israeli Government, Infected Police Force
The trick is to include both the big word and then the explanation of said word into the essay.
Malware in your Mouse can act as RAT for Cyber Criminals
Not to mention that a lot of ARM chips outperformed it anyway, right?
Background subtraction works really well for these kinds of problems. You should give that a go, even better if you can make your background based on a rolling average of the image pixels.

As for the speed issue, your can often get massive gains by restricting the colour classification and blob detection to areas of the image which have changed since the previous frame.
Yeah there's some stuff here which we won't see fly with our clients.

Every step has at least 2 iterations.

Sounds great but whats an "iteration"? Is a design of a whole website? What if they want a few tweaks on the about page after the second iteration because that area wasn't fully fleshed out originally?

We also explain the client that anything that does not get revisions or comments from them is automatically approved

Never, ever will this language be approved by our larger clients. We can sometimes get "deemed acceptance" language by but its never "immediate" its usually like "if no feedback is provided in 15 days". The alternative is to have a "pause clause" in (if you don't get us feedback in 15 days we have the right to put your project on "pause" until we can get back to it)