skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically a single physical server running 10's to 100's of virtualized servers. With all the management challenges that entails.
I think that your hammer must be open source if possible if you develop software. Learn from mistakes of the past, like TextMate. We're lucky that the developer open sourced the project in the end, but that's not the way it usually goes. It's Vim or Emacs IMHO, ( Vim in my case )
And they've actually been mapped by OSM: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&#...
We simply don't need to - we use a procedural password which any of our employees can easily emulate but which still provides enough entropy.

It goes something like this (of course, this is slightly different):

(First 2 letters of domain name) + (To01n) + (TLD) + (Last two letters of domain name)

So, for instance, www.mcondalds.com would be:

mc + To01n + com + ds || mcTo01ncomds

This appears random to the client but is easy for us to work out once you've done it a couple of times, but of course there are exceptions:

Hosted on Localhost TLD: loc

.co.uk TLD: couk

Once you adapt your company to a procedure like this is becomes simple and quick to log in to client sites, but also saves you the overhead in time of managing a large spreadsheet or application for it.
They may be handmade, but the sites display predesigned models. Even if they're handmade to order (i.e. they don't keep inventory), I expect to get the watch shown. Is it too much to ask for even a range? Is that a $500 watch? $10,000? Should I only consider buying one after I've paid cash for a Lamborghini?
Sequel Pro 1.0 released
I'm sorry to say this but doesn't this mean the end for Zencoder, TransLoadIT and other video encoding services?
"but sorry, the "right" graphic to use here is the Mercator projection."

Maybe I'm just not understanding you, but this doesn't make sense to me. The site doesn't even show a map, what does the Mercator projection have to do with it?
The ability to make those decisions, often mid-project, is what separates veterans from rookies.

I know two kinds of veterans: the ones that grew up eating their own food, a.k.a. maintaining their code over the years and following customers complaints and unexpected specifications evolution, and the ones who were soon magnified as writing software "that works" and immediately moved to "enlighten" other projects, leaving the stinking pile to the "rookies".

... and you can reconcile the debt over time

Honestly, has this ever happened to you? Technical debt too often ends up being an always growing burden on the shoulders on the next developers who have to touch the stinking pile with the business around asking: "Why is it taking so long to code such a small modification? In the end, the applications already WORKS!".

I agree that code has to respect time and money budget, but the budget must respect the code, too! The biggest problem in our industry is that too many of us have made non technical people believe that "with software, everything is possible", just to have a project failing after another when the fairy tales world crashes with reality.

As Alex put it: "We are practically the only industry where completion and success are synonymous. If the foundation of a one-year-old home is crumbling and its roof is plagued with leaks, would anybody actually call that a success? Of course not! So why are the products we create – complex information systems that should last at least fifteen years – be held to a different standard?"
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/What_Could_Possibly_Be_Worse...
It's not the same constraints.

With video transcoding you push batch jobs that can be processed at any time. The video is taken from a S3 bucket and the result is put back in another place. When transforming the video you might use some heuristics on the whole file (because some formats have the metadata at the end). You can also implement fallbacks when the transcoding fails.

With live streaming you need to acquire a streaming video source, transform it in real-time and forward the stream without too much latency and without failure. Then you need to push that stream to the N connected people possibly fanning-out the traffic to multiple servers to dispatch the load.
Wouldn't this mean ex-employees would know your password scheme indefinitely?
We will have to wait and see how long he is kept in prison before being actually charged and brought before a judge. If it stretches to more than 6 months then the people of Sweden need to concern themselves with their general loss of Habeas Corpus. Right now it seems things are still developing and maybe we should give the prosecutors a bit more time.
But if you don't think this upgrade is worth it, do you want to invest in a product that is likely to make you pay for upgrades you don't think are worth it in the future?

[Not that I'm saying this upgrade isn't worth it]
I would argue that a good terminal app can help make something easier to use for both technical and average users alike.

Since you can assume that the terminal will be never or very rarely used by average users you can make the advanced functionality available as command line applications and leave the most basic/common options in the GUI.

A naive user is far more likely to check a box and click apply by accident than they are to type "rm -rf /".

A good example is a modern version of Windows, the control panel is full of options,tabs,checkboxes etc that can do weird stuff to your system and consequently make it harder to use because (until recently with powershell) windows has never had a useful commandline.
Clickables:

"Project Eternity" video: http://youtu.be/kuGdQqUhKD4

Gas Powered Games' Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaspoweredgames/wildman...
You can encrypt a file to N users in GPG with only one output file, and require only one of the corresponding private keys to decrypt. More information here [0]; TLDR, it encrypts with a symmetric key then includes the symmetric key encrypted with the public key of each recipient.

[0]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8245/gpg-file-si...
It seems they haven't reached their Linux client goal yet, with only 6 days to go:

http://www.indiegogo.com/torque3d-for-linux
At this point the cause of death has not been released. Please don't speculate. Its the last thing that his relatives and friends need right now.
I really like Sequen Pro. I wish they'd start a Kickstarter or something to fund the development of a Postgres version.
NCircle patches PureCloud vulnerability scanner on Vulnerability-Lab report
I know it would be very difficult, but I also know it's possible, so what about live preview? I generated something, it wasn't as good as I hoped, and I wish I could tweak it a bit.

If not, maybe I'll try to hack this with <canvas> this weekend...
Data Loss or Leakage
There are many ways to compromise data. Deletion or alteration of records without a backup of the original content is an obvious example. Unlinking a record from a larger context may render it unrecoverable, as can storage on unreliable media.
It's completely true that Backbone is somewhere in the middle. It's a light framework to make things more modularized and maintainable in a somewhat large javascript application.
Of course you can make things even better for very large javascript applications. That's not the point.
Backbone handles best applications that are neither 20 LOC (for which jQuery is enough) nor 200K LOC. That's why it's pretty popular. It corresponds to a need.
It appears that in the UK people come for the posperity/jobs and people born in the UK leave because of the weather - or at least that's what the press here in the UK say.
Maybe it'd just be better to make it "source available" and allow licensees to modify and share the code freely amongst themselves, but not grant unlimited redistribution rights.
"I'd be really worried and slightly confused by Amazon took this step?"

This happens. Look at the operating systems companies. Apple introduced iTunes or Time Machine, and the sales of third-party music players and backup systems goes down. Microsoft includes a web-browser and the sales of third-party browsers goes down, or to go back 20 years, MS introduces DoubleSpace and sales of Stacker go down.

It can be a balancing act. If Amazon starts picking off the businesses of its most profitable cloud customers then there will be an uproar. If Amazon sticks with the features which make it a better cloud provider, then it's more to be expected. This fits into the latter. Hopefully the video encoding companies that operate on AWS already have considered this possibility.
I suppose so, yes, but on the other hand, wouldn't it mean that every time an employee left, wouldn't you have to go through every single password (currently 436) and change them?

In any case, once we sign off on a project, the client normally like to set up their own usernames and passwords for admin accounts, it gives them a sense of control.
Afcon 2013:Black Stars Set Quarter-Final Clash with Debutants Cape Verde
I always assumed it was because the US prefers that people gamble in the market rather than in the casino.
I was under the impression Zencoder already runs on the AWS infrastructure:

* https://aws.amazon.com/solution-providers/isv/zencoder

* http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/zencoder-raises-2m-for-cloud-ba...
Apple Removes Vine from 'Editor’s Choice' for Featuring Pornographic Content
EDIT: The video displays the page at "the lash of Philome", which clearly references Philomela (Φιλομήλα), so I'm not sure if I understood their point

(see http://goo.gl/TxMkG for an annotated extract of the text)
Please tell me this magical place where people aren't obsessed with watching sports (playing themselves is fine). My passort is in hand :)

I completely agree. Athletics should be decoupled from public schools - K-12 and public universities. As someone who attended public school in the US, and who's wife currently teaches at a public school, I can say with certainty that these places are just training camps for the best athletes. In the place I currently live, the adults speak of their children always in the context of how good they are at a particular sport - never about academics or other achievements. For the parents, a child who's a good athlete is the same as winning the lottery.
Microsoft partly releases study on Munich's Linux migration
Not a question but thanks a lot!
I've been writing backbone applications for more than a year and I still learned a couple things thanks to your rundown.
Also I'm totally going to use this to teach BB to my next recruits.
I'm surprised at the lack of "innovative" new captcha ideas targetted towards mobile devices.

"Spin your phone clockwise 3 times and lick the screen to prove you're not a robot"
Not only from state-to-state (as you allude to). I'm from SC and can easily distinguish the accent spoken in Upstate SC (which sounds much like the stereotypical "Georgia peach" accent) from one spoken by older people in the Low Country area around Charleston, from the accent spoken by the rest of the state. And move up just a few miles from Upstate SC into the mountains of NC (and tip of SC), and you have an entirely different accent.

I suspect that these differences are being lost in younger generations, as everyone moves toward a more standardized accent, but I can still distinguish the difference in accents among most South Carolinians.
I love ST2 - it's the first editor I've really sat down and learnt properly, and I've got a tonne of value out of it. The features ST3 are bringing to the table - at this point - don't seem worth the upgrade. I dislike the idea of paid upgrades for just about any software, even though I understand the economics.

Ultimately, I think continued development of plugins will force the issue, and upgrades will be required.
1.500 disabili chiedono “assistenza sessuale”. Un diritto negato solo in Italia
It's that kind of rationalization to spend more money that makes other people rich, and I read variations of your justification on HN all the time.

A 2% increase isn't very good IMO. I'd rather look for other efficiencies that won't cost me more money.
I think it's just like when you try to play a games console game and the Y-axis is inverted. Some people think it's normal, some people hate it.
It's not assumption by implication, it's due to omission. I cannot assume a feature exists in your software, you must tell me it exists. As a contrived example, why would I expect your To Do List app to manage recipes?
KeePass + some kind of bidirectional file syncing service.

Personally, I use dropbox to sync personal passwords to my work computer.

Professionally, I use OpenText Tempo Box. I work for Open Text, I don't personally work on the product, but do like it. The Tempo Box product has similar features to dropbox, but it is for those that need to keep their data within corporate controlled servers.

Despite the service you choose the most important lessons learned are:
1. People need to close keepass every night. So if new passwords arrive, they will get them. (People tend to leave the application running)
2. People need to be taught to use a keepass and encouraged to use it! People are afraid to update the entries and things fall out of date.
3. Sync first, then update!
4. Please use a title naming convention. We didn't and things got messy. We have many instances of the same application. Naming is very important.
5. Auto-type is nice, please configure it and teach everyone to use it. (There are some applications it refuses to work on: Remote Desktop)

I hope this helps. Internally, we gotta do some of the above and clean it up. But overall it's a working out pretty well for us. We have a global team that spans multiple offices and timezones. If anyone has a better solution, I'm all ears.

edited for spacing and glaring grammer errors
I didn't have time to read the article. I'm just coming here to tell the author (if he reads this) that the typo and general design of this website/blog (or whatever it is) is absolutely stunning. One of the best-looking I've seen. Bravo.
Announcement: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/22/microsoft-release...

Site: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/media-servic...
ES6 will allow for low-level extensibility with Proxies (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies).
probably hackernews effect, but I'm getting a mix of 502 errors and slow page loads.

love the generate wallpaper tough
The psychiatric wolves attack more innocent children
A lot of the time, there is a particular individual who has the cheque-signing power up to $X. For such a person there is a psychological distance from the act of spending -- it's not a personal loss if the purchase doesn't pan out. Whereas for individuals spending their own money, the simulation heuristic makes purchases of unexperienced goods or services much scarier.

Hence my "monopoly money" remark.

I think you have correctly reflected that a purchasing decision may have input from many different parties. But these people matter from a sales perspective only so far as they influence the decision of the person with the chequebook.
If people want it without paying they will get it without paying anyway.

I say open source it, but continue to sell licenses for it.
Ask HN: What do you do in cmd.exe?
Usually, when you google for tips on Windows command line, you're likely to find either guides on Cygwin, or some advanced sysadmin-oriented guides on Powershell. I am yet to find a tutorial on using cmd.exe as an every day time-saving tool.

So, HN, what do you do in cmd.exe, apart from file manipulations? What kind of tools do you run in cmd.exe? You favorite scripts? Please share.
Already taken! - http://www.pquery.org/

Also see: http://ajaxian.com/archives/pquery-php-and-jquery | https://metacpan.org/release/pQuery
Brilliant. Now let it run natively in the browser rather than compiling to JS and you made the world a better place!
I just really, really prefer Python and think it would greatly simplify the whole process, make scripts much, much easier to read, write and modify, etc. It's basically an argument that JavaScript is bad. Not sure what the deal is with the cult of JavaScript that's been arising in the last few years but in my mind it's still Brendan Eich's quick "seven days to save the company" hack, and for that it's impressive, but it should have been deprecated a long, long time ago.

To be honest I'm not intimate enough with JS to give a big list of my biggest language-level annoyances off the top of my head. It's just a general distaste/annoyance that occurs every time I get involved in JavaScript code, either the reading or the writing of it. Python, on the other hand, is nearly readable by non-programmers, and is otherwise super cool. I recognize that others may have a different opinion on this than I have and while they're not necessarily wrong for themselves, I believe Python is more accessible in general.

I think the facts that a) almost no one writes bare in-browser JavaScript anymore, it's all through jQuery and b) CoffeeScript and other persistent "rewrite/simplify/improve JS" movements exist and keep coming up are ample evidence that the basic tools provided by the browser and the JS language are insufficient.
With that particular list of features and complaints, you may want to take a quick look at CoffeeScript. It addresses everything on the list except for the "multiple frameworks trying to use $" bit.
A web-based "infinite desktop" multi-app UI
How does their claim:

"Your password never leaves your phone or computer and is not stored anywhere.
Encryption occurs locally. You are the only one that can decrypt your data!"

square with

"Anywhere, anytime access.
Access on the phone, web or desktop. All apps work in offline mode & auto sync when connected."

If they provide a web interface, they'll probably get access to my key at least temporarily (unless they decrypt in JavaScript and I trust them to not hijack this). GPG + Dropbox seems a little less convenient, but significantly safer since I have full control over the encryption process, especially in view of the fact that the US seems to be keen on listening in on cloud data of non-US citizens.
The last place I worked at was an online advertising agency. My experience was similar, and managed to get things done only by coming early (often before anyone else) and wearing a good pair of headphones.

I particularly disliked the fact that some people lacking a technical background don't really understand that we often need a distraction free environment. Perhaps it's because their creative spark comes by brainstorming in a more lively environment or they have seen too many people coding at Starbucks.
Top Javascripts Slowing Down the Web
The name, "project mercury", might already be taken. Nonetheless, very interesting concepts.
Microsoft, Netflix and Google propose DRM in HTML5
I think it should also be noted that Ian Hickson from Google was against it:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Feb/0274.html
It wouldn't kill them to do a viewport check. I mean, unless they expect crackers to run their servers from a jailbroken iPad?

I also had to change my Yahoo! password for Flickr a while back, and I think the maximum length of my password was still at ~32 characters ... and there's not two-factor authentication to boot.

Yahoo! is very AOL-like still, which is one of those things I really, really hope Meyer can do away with.
Goldman Sachs and the Apple structured bond deal
Also the weakness here is that if two websites with weak password security are compromised (let's not forget recent history) your company password naming scheme will be completely obvious at first glance, assuming you use the same email login.
How to Run A Productive Board Meeting
Damn pretty smart move.

They place themselves in the 'lowest common denominator' of the industry.

Whilst the smaller companies and startups compete and struggle to find the right combination of factors for their awesome video/web/cloud/storage/etc product at the end of the day they all need the same kind of thing to operate on and Amazon is often the cheapest option to start with and it serves the whole industry making little cents tick tick tick one after another...
I've had a couple of experiences with this type of floor plan. It's absolutely awful, especially for programmers.

Whenever someone suggests a 'bullpen' or 'open' office, I cringe, because, well, I actually want to get things done.
Yes, they do,they use the cluster compute instances:http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/07/23/first-look-at-google-com...
I doubt if amazon is going to use them.
Generate random domain name ideas for your startup
nice idea, but the MVP of it seems a bit too M for me.
another alternative (easier to program, but not the "natural" representation) would be to put the data in a circle and use the same location for both arrival and departure. i did something similar for package dependencies - the code is offline now, but you can see a screenshot at http://acooke.org/portfolio/practicl/
Exactly. I minify my site's CSS but there are rules used on only some pages. Unless you crawl the whole of a website, this tool is useless for any site that has more than one page.

You'd be better off using SitePoint's DustMeSelectors as it at least makes an effort to crawl the site's CSS:
http://www.sitepoint.com/dustmeselectors/

(bit out of date though, it seems)
Magic in progress just takes infinite time when code contains Unicode... Or is it just me?
There are still friendships that happen solely through the mail. I have a friend who is a pen pal with someone in prison. I don't know too much about prison so I don't know if there is a reason that theirs is through the mail only instead of using more modern means.
Even when I was in school the idea of a pen pal was not foreign (I was in school in the last 9 years. Is that too long ago?).
404ing already. Anyone with a mirror/cache?
They are only at $9,144. Maybe with a little visibility on the front page of HN they'll get a pop? I don't have much use for the app, but I'd pay $10 to see it ported to Linux. Signing up...
Thank you, but by "client FTP" I mean an FTP server provided by a client for data exchange as part of their internal protocols. It's not always possible for us to bend clients' IT policies to our own desires.
This more or less sums up what I despise about JS: http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/#intro. Python has way better language design. CoffeeScript may be better suited than Python though, because the callback-heavy nature of web programming is easier to tolerate when you have inline function literals and stuff, in my opinion.
I wouldn't get shit done in an open office as someone with a degree of low latent inhibition. I can listen to music - but only lyric free while I'm working. I don't even have TV in my own house for that reason - background noise drives me insane because I cant filter any of it.

I'm not a programmer (professionally, anyways) but an analyst, which also requires huge blocks of uninterrupted time. Clients don't understand why I don't answer the phone all the time and refer them to email communication for non-major stuff.