skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of curiosity what were you hosting there? How have you found the azure experience overall aside from this latest issue?
First, I've never heard it referred to as "Rooster Sauce", it's always been "Cock Sauce". Maybe I need to hang out with some higher class folks.

Second, while it's great on lots of Asian foods (Korean BBQ comes to mind along with Pho), I tend to prefer stuff like Texas Pete or Tabasco. I live in the South, so maybe that's why. A little Texas Pete on some pulled pork (vinegar-based) and collards makes it just right.
I host my personal projects on Google Code. In contrast to Github it lets you host files (especially important if not all your users have compilers or similar tools), and lets you have multiple repositories per project. Pretty much every hoster does two repositories per project - one for the main source and a second for the wiki. Having more than two is great. For example for work stuff I often have Android client and server as different repositories. But there is no need for them to have separate bug trackers or wikis - for an end user it is often hard to tell where an issue actually lies and having to copy issues between client and server side trackers is useless work. Github's issue tracker lacks being able to prioritise which is highly annoying.

The most annoying problem with Google Code is they refuse to have private paid for hosting - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829

Having all our employees create new Github accounts and doing administration there is a pain when we already do everything else at Google. I suspect paid project hosting would also help improve Google Code since there would be revenue behind feature requests and bugs.
I'd argue that the open-access model is not much better than the traditional model, because as you point out, it incurs basically the same expenses, but simply charges the author more to recoup the lost institutional subscription.

Now that systems like ArXiV exist, researchers and taxpayers should not be paying for marketing and typography.

But the real reason journals persist is because readers and promotion/tenure committees want a credibility filter. A really good technological solution to this problem hasn't been found (AFAIK), but I don't see that it would be too hard to build some algorithm to rank articles according to author prestige, institution prestige, number of citations, reader interest, etc. If people want a "hard" metric of article impact, they would be better off using number of citations than journal impact factor anyway.
Well there isn't anything weird with the counting or mathematical usage, just the names for them seem not to use a typical decimal system. For example, in English and Norwegian, 75 and 82 are straightforward compounds of "7,5" and "8,2". In English, seventy-five, eighty-two; in Norwegian, syttifem, åttito.

But in Danish, 70 isn't syv-something. Instead it seems it's halvfjerds, which sounds like half a fjerd, except a fjerd is not a number. ;-) And even more confusingly, 50 sounds awfully like half-60.

From what I've read, it used to be "half four twenty" (halvfjerdsindstyve), where "half four" is an archaic way of saying 3½, so 3½ 20 = 70. Which later, I suppose, got contracted into halvfjerds. Admittedly you can just treat them like opaque symbols to memorize, so I doubt anyone thinks of 75 as "5 and 3½ x 20". But the Norwegian numbers seem more orderly...
I'm sympathetic to this - I don't have a CS degree and most of my last jobs have been through references from people I've worked with before, so I haven't had to answer any tough programming questions in an interview in quite a while. I'm sure if I tried to interview at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc, it would be a little tough for me.

At the same time - any reasonably experienced developer should be able to whiteboard something as simple as fizzbuzz without a problem. The more complex the problems, the more you worry about the whiteboard effect, but you should be able to at least walk through your thought process and come up with some reasonable attempt.

Having a candidate build something outside of the interview process probably isn't bad (as long as you follow up by going through the code with them), but I think something like a blog application is both too big (unless you really constrain the feature set) and too simple to work in some cases. Something that requires a bit more thought and a bit less time would be better, IMHO.
You would have switched from Github 4 years ago? Not me.
Humans probably compensate for some movements, but they are nowhere near as good at it as birds.

For examples, see http://www.cogsci.nl/blog/bird-brains-and-fish-eyes/177-stab...
Sambals in general are ridiculously tasty. I especially like the ones made with shrimp (belacan/shrimp paste), which are a standard condiment for sauteed vegetables here in my part of Asia. The combination of extremely rich savory and sweet tastes with the burn of chili is addictive and enlivens even the dullest food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belacan

I haven't tried Sriracha but will look out for it if it's in local supermarkets. I hear from Americans that it's basically crack in bottle form and they slather it on basically anything.
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Shorter version: TV is light entertainment, even when it pretends to be something more.

Why? Claim: There is in effect a rule not to be violated: Whenever content passes through a video camera, the work must be under the control of a producer, director, writer, set designer, camera operator, and, if not 'live', editor all with the techniques and values of entertainment TV and Hollywood. Proof: Look at the video clips done for high school math and science. Done. I know of only one exception, the 30 minutes or so on plane geometry done by A. Gleason with some help from T. Apostol.

In one step more detail, the main technique of TV is from formula fiction. The interview in question? Sure: Notice that the interviewer kept returning to the issue of what she sensed was the 'drama' and 'evil' of the situation of hundreds of young entrepreneurs who enter accelerators but end up with businesses worth $0.00.

Why the drama? A central pillar of formula fiction is drama from the threat of evil. E.g., just now in my computer's DVD burner is a CD of the Puccini opera 'Tosca' with the two lovers, sung by di Stefano and Callas, and then too soon facing the evil Scarpia. Sure: I can like light entertainment when it has singing of Puccini by di Stefano and Callas! What is on TV shows on finance is closer to 'Tosca' than to Black-Scholes, the Sharpe capital asset pricing model (CAPM), how portfolio rebalancing in an index fund works, tests for Brownian motion, or how James Simons made so much money.

Am I the only one saying that TV is so bad? No: Recall the N. Minow statement that TV is a "vast wasteland". And recall the explanation from M. McLuhan "the medium is the message", that is, the narrow bandwidth of the then few TV channels ensured that the best ROI on that bandwidth was essentially one size fits all light entertainment.

Of course, Graham and Hornik kept talking about the challenge of seeing the future. Well, with the above, let's now do some of that: One size fits all doesn't fit. It never did fit very well. It doesn't fit in shoes, shirts, restaurants, home furnishings, cars, or personal interests. Instead, with more variety, can get on average better fits. So, there is value in more variety.

Can we have that variety? Well, with the Internet McLuhan's limited bandwidth of the TV "medium" essentially no longer applies. Instead we are free to have highly specialized content for particular personal interests. So, we can have specialized blogs, fora (not that I can think of any just now), long tail Web sites, etc. And maybe eventually I will be able to get some good lectures in quantum mechanics, that emphasizes both the physics and the mathematics, the actual, 100% genuine, died in the wool mathematics, hopefully from a guy who actually knows what a Hilbert space is. It would also be good for him to know what a random variable is, if that's not too much to ask.
Looking at the image I see 5 floors. Is counting done differently, the image not right or the headline wrong?
Hackers Hit Microsoft's Mac Business Unit
Google Public DNS uses rate limiting and some heuristics to reduce the likelihood of being used in a DNS amplification attack [1]. I presume OpenDNS does something similar.

Even if public DNS resolvers didn't exist, you could still run your own private recursive name server (either on your computer or on your home router) and avoid your ISP's. That's what I do.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/security...
They are probably planning for their NASA merger/acquisition.
The thing that stops me starting to use apphb is the paid hostname, it is very backwards to feel like geocities all over again to host a simple Nancy blog. The service itself is amazing and congrats on the platform.
You're growing like crazy, you could be a billion dollar company, you have fierce traction... IMHO you're either misjudging the situation or your co-founder is crazy.

Also, if you really are growing like crazy, why are you having trouble raising money?
Is it just me or is anyone else finding it weird viewing a thread on Discourse from HN? It's basically the same thing IMO (although obviously this is a Discourse site announcement). I just hope this doesn't become a "thing" as it's just essentially same as linking to a forum post.
Thanks. So in theory something like this would not have happened with Rethink? https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mongodb-...
It's the annual February Azure meltdown. Last year they had a leap year bug that decimated Compute in multiple regions.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/azure-leap-year...
In pandoc you can also use raw mode, which will just pass through all tex commands you use in your markdown file.

pandoc text.md --parse-raw -t latex -o text.tex

Then you can proceed to compile this to a pdf with pdflatex.
It's called not being in a tornado zone. :P

Or I'm sure some of the suits ordinance disposal techs wear are probably tornado proof.
This was a great listen, and it's a shame that many people are not aware of the severity of violence occurring in Chicago. There are, of course, numerous solutions to the gang violence, however, I feel that the powers-that-be cannot agree on a potential resolution.
>You wouldn't use sambal in a Bloody Mary.

I wouldn't knock it until I tried it.
Some data crunching servers, some VMs, some Azure SQL DBs.
I worked with MS (for a consulting company, first few years of my career) back in "the day", and I got to witness first-hand the craziness of this system. But rather than blab about my own experiences, here's a recent article that sums things up pretty well: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-dow...
> It's a shame, because there's an increasing amount of research that shows that people are happier, more productive, and even healthier when they can work from home.

Can you please link this research from here? All the research I read said that collocated teams kick remote teams asses.
Aside from the latest issue, been happy with the experience. Easy provisioning, scaling, plus Git deployment with easy rollback for web apps.
No need to read this. Another whine post.
That's definitely a possibility. I might be misjudging the situation.

The feedback we've been receiving is that VCs believe, that even with our growth, we can not beat our competition as they are much more heavily funded and have a lot of mindshare at the moment.

However, even with insane growth, if your CEO does not pitch with conviction, he will not convince a VC to invest. It's as much about passion and conviction than it is just about numbers.
I think the advantage of this project being open source becomes really clear in situations like this: I'd imagine js2coffee[1] will cover most of their bases, but in the situation that it doesn't, they have a (pretty active) Github community to fall back on for the finicky bits of conversion.

[1]: http://js2coffee.org/
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Sriracha is for asian food. Tapatio is for mexican food.
Acupuncture is difficult to study, because how do you administer placebo acupuncture to a control group? Until someone figured it out, you would see these perceived benefits and assume that acupuncture is working. When they eventually figured out that you can administer a placebo by essentially faking a needle entry with a pinch, they found that the placebo worked just as well as the actual acupuncture.

For that matter, you're the one making claims here about Qi, so you provide the data. The burden of proof is not on me.

If you're saying that people who think they're talking to God, or have been abducted by aliens might be right, then I have no further desire to try and have a rational discussion with you.
Doing good work does not compensate for being allowed to blow off meetings at will, allowing such behavior decreases morale among the group and can lower productivity as a whole.
Desckit - like Conky or Rainmeter that let's you use HTML5 and Nodejs
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I'm sorry, I don't know the answers to your questions.

he thinks the best path is an acquisition so that he can take the team and start a new company

Most acquisitions are for the team, so if the company gets acquired, its unlikely that he can take the team to start a new company.
Without the signature, the app would just go slower.
So is he planning on modifying the blog post to be of higher quality, or is it okay to be sloppy because he'll totally explain everything in the next chapter?
Ah, yes that is weird once you start thinking about it. As a native speaker I've never given it a second thought, but I can certainly see how it would be confusing.
A. You need to talk openly and honestly to the co-founder.

And frankly if you are in a disagreement you need to have constructive suggestions rather than abstract disagreements like "you don't have the passion". And yes a statement like "This could be a million dollar company" is wonderful, but it doesn't mean much if you run out of runway. If you're running out of runway is there any revenue coming in? Are there areas you can cut back on? Are there better ways of investing the resources you have left? Maybe the CEO shouldn't be doing the pitching at this point — maybe that's gig goes to another person?
This implies that the reader should understand the behaviour of whatever particular blogging engine/platform the author is using.

How is understanding that clicking on a face in medium does one thing any different than understanding that clicking on the header in a tumblr does something else?
Yes, we put an enormous amount of effort into building a rock-solid architecture. However, any software has bugs, especially early on. We're working hard to make RethinkDB production ready, but it will take a few more months until it gets sufficiently battle tested that we can recommend running it in prod. environments.
As much as people are snarky about them, it's good to see that some petitions actually result in action!
The most beautiful office I've ever seen is that of ILM in the Presidio... about where Starfleet Academy is supposed to get built. ;) They have a "cafeteria" overlooking the Golden Gate, Bay, forest, etc.
Back in my early 20's I applied for a job (which I was basically invited by the manager to apply for) and was extremely nervous in the interview. I got the job and turned out to be one of the most experienced in the department. They later asked me why I was so nervous in the interview, I said I thought I just really wanted the job.

I've come to enjoy technical interviews. How often do you get to spend a whole day talking one-on-one with people in your field who you can learn something from? I enjoy giving technical presentations to groups of 1000 people or so and been not nervous at all. But I have to keep water with me because some reflex makes my mouth get really dry. So I'm fine with public speaking (the most commonly cited phobia).

On the other hand, the prospect of sitting down to pay a bunch of paper bills or do taxes makes my body want to hyperventilate. If, in a place where there are only people around I know well, and I remember an event in my past that involved a social interaction in which I acted suboptimally while at the same time someone is crinkling a plastic bag, I will startle to the point of crying out "Aah!". It's true :-)

My only point here is that people are complex critters who change with time and environment. So attempts to think of others as a box of predictable glands and cortexes (cortices?) can easily turn into a pseudoscientific projection of one's own preconceptions. (I find it very helpful when thinking about myself, however.)

Has anyone ever tried asking candidates to design their own interviews?
Yes, we've 5x'ed our revenue since last year. We're growing at roughly 40% month over month.
Authoritative DNS servers are used in attacks too, they are however a lot smaller scale. Querying one big zone across 10,000 recursive servers vs. querying the same big zone against 2 authoritative servers.
Looking to do some open source lawyering myself but I don't have any engineering/cs background, just self-taught
There are issues with chip and pin, one of the major ones being it puts the onus of proof of fraud on the consumer. Hey, your card couldn't possibly have been used if you didn't type in the PIN or give it to someone else so you are liable.

This sort of thing reared its ugly head last decade in the UK with phantom ATM withdrawals. The banks claimed the consumers must have made the transactions as PINs are required and banks are perfectly secure. It turned out that the banks weren't as secure as claimed. (Search for [ross anderson phantom withdrawals] for more details as well as attacks on chip and pin systems.)
I've been telecommuting for 10 years. When I'm the only remote employee, and there isn't a culture of remoteness, I believe it's my job to have the discipline and do the extra work to stay connected, not the rest of the team's. It's a challenging dynamic, but it's not impossible, and I just don't think it's reasonable to expect the entire team to adapt to the exceptional case, instead of the other way around.
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I imagine it couldn't be that hard to change the title from "r/startups" to "HN", but that's just me. Interesting project nonetheless.
It's not really that hard to run Wordpress securely enough to deal with the sorts of automated attacks that target Wordpress sites.

As I understand it, the danger in custom code is not just that it will be architected insecurely, but that simple oversight can create a vulnerability that won't be found until it is too late. If only one site is running your code, then that site will go down if a vulnerability is found.

One advantage of running Wordpress is that Automattic is leveraging a network of millions of honeypots (the other bozos running Wordpress) to find new vulnerabilities fast. You have keep on top of the patches though.
The irony of calling this a scam is that this is almost the same format as RIAA/MPAA copyright violation notices.
lol Running Linux/390 or z/Linux under Hercules just slows the thing down, without offering any mainframe benefits.

Not even educational benefits, as you can not license z/VM, VM/ESA, z/OS or OS/390 to Hercules to run a Linux in the same environment as it would on a real iron.
Suggestions for cafe/bars to work, hangout and network in Vancouver?
Hi guys,

I'm traveling to Canada and wanted suggestions on good spots to work (cafe) and places to have a drink and network with entreprenuers, hackers, makers, etc.. Can someone suggest an area to explore?

Thank you.
Admiral Hyman Rickover (the "Father of the nuclear Navy") had as one of his basic principles that "if you can't point your finger at the person responsible for something, then no one is responsible for it".
Agreed, Tabasco does not work with everything but there are some things that that it is great with. In my opinion, there is no hot sauce to rule them all.
We're using it for a bigish platform (10mm monthly uniques). PAAS Deployment is really nice. Also, knowing servers will be automatically patched in a timely manner is awesome. Support was very good but I've heard it's going downhill. SQL Azure is underpowered but highly durable and manages itself. If we really needed to scale up SQL the federations feature would work well. We've only had one brief SQL Azure outage in the last 2 yrs. We also have a DR site on AWS. AWS has a lot more bells and whistles and also had a nice head start. E.G. low-tech conveniences like sticky sessions on a load balancers or IP whitelisting on a variety of services are missing in Azure. Both services have had outages and we wouldn't feel safe using one exclusively.
I just can't go over how bad their website looks!

http://www.copyrightlawenforcement.com/home.aspx
Yeah, I drive a moped, and I get something like 95 MPG.

But a moped has a low top speed, and weights nothing compared to a car.

It's impossible for something that heavy to have better mileage than a moped.
Wow, that's a really good question. Thinking about this a bit, I don't think authoritative servers pose as big of a problem in practice. DNS amplification attacks require that the size of the response be much larger than the size of the query (which is why it's an "amplification" attack). Right now amplification attacks query for the same large response via lots of different open resolvers. However, I suspect the majority of authoritative servers out there only ever return small responses, which would limit the number of servers an attacker could use in an amplification attack. Furthermore, the attacker would need to tailor a specific query for each server rather than using the same query for all of them, making the attack more difficult to pull off.
Ah this reminds me of Aaron Swartz on "The Gmail Launch" for launching applications.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howtolaunch
HN sometimes links to reddit, too. Is there something wrong with linking to a forum post if it's a compelling forum post?
It's a pretty good app, but I had the advantage of getting in within the first couple days. Admittedly, if I had to wait more than a week or two, I would've deleted it by now. It has some snazzy UI tricks and adds some smart task-based stuff to your email, but nothing life-changing. I haven't experienced any slowdown yet – I'd love to see them double, even triple the acceptance rate. I would be fine with taking a speed hit if it meant the massive queue started to speed up.
In my experience:

- No
- Yes
- You have to put other things on hold and come up with something non-stop code worthy, which may be frustrating.

There's a solution I like though - work on a known bug or new feature in some open source project, potentially of the candidate's choosing, but preferably not one either the candidate or interviewer is already a major contributor to. That way both people come to the problem with a similar low level of expertise and have to work together to come up to speed (which is a great real-work-like exercise). It also makes it obvious what to work non-stop on for that time. Bonus points for being way more useful than a make-work wheel reinvention project and for not being free work for the interviewer's company.
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