skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, though I think the "Push for it to get fixed" part is more important than you are giving credit for.

Bugs from Arch are urgent, simply because all their users are stuck waiting on the fix which means affected users will be interested in updating and communicating about the upstream report. Also they are probably on an unpatched recent stable release, which makes a good baseline -- either the bug was fixed in master since the recent release, or it is still present and real. There's little question whether a bug is caused by a distro-specific patch or not, because Arch linux packages are more or less thin build scripts around unpatched sources. You find things like .desktop files and systemd unit files in the Arch package repo, but not many source patches that might introduce unreproducible bugs.

It's easy to see why running Arch is painful for a sysadmin: You get stuck with all the variance in maintenance quality of upstream packages with not much recourse other than building a fixed package from source yourself (thankfully this is pretty easy with Arch's build system). On the other hand it's easy to see why this is great for the linux ecosystem: A popular distro running recent unpatched stable binaries means a lot of testing of releases soon after they come out, which surfaces upstream problems faster and encourages faster maintenance cycles and better upstream releases that benefit everyone.
>Are you implying that these panelists prefer pageviews over progress?

That was the view I came away with after reading the article.
First of all, congrats on the launch guys!

There are several people within this space and going beyond the fact that, they’ve got a nice generic .com (important for this type of product) which the public can easily remember they actually have an interesting product which, so far appears better executed than the others in this space. As well as that they also have an interesting team behind them as well for instance their CEO Thejo Kote, was previously a founder of NextDrop[1] which provides real value to people in India by informing them when nearby water is available (In case you’re not aware of this, despite having water pipes to them, water in India is only available for a few hours (usually once or twice a week) at a time and they have no way of knowing when that time actually is).

The product is useful for some of the reasons listed on their website such as the Crash Alert, Engine Health, Where You Parked etc. Although the biggest interest they will receive is through, external parties such as Rental Companies and Car Insurance providers etc (In otherwords, I predict their market is far bigger on the business than the Consumer side although, in some instances they overlap). The Car Insurance feature may actually become their biggest ‘feature’ for consumers in the future going forward “With Automatic you can get an Engine Health Check, Remember Where You Parked, In The Event of a Crash Inform the Right People and more importantly save $100’s on your Car Insurance!”

For instance, in the UK there are a lot of car insurance providers who give discounts to drivers who get a telematics policy aka install a “black box” within their car (something similar to Automatic without the additional features). These telematics policies in the UK are offered in 3 categories (the Behaviour-Based is the most common):

- Curfew-Based Policies – if you don’t drive between 11pm – 5am you get a discount

- Low Mileage Policies

- Behaviour-Based Policies (which Automatic does with their “Drive Score” points system) which considers how will you corner, brake and speed etc so the better you drive your insurance becomes cheaper, you drive badly you get penalised with higher rates etc.

[1] http://www.nextdrop.org
Ten time employee who quit every company because someone got promoted over me even though I did 3X the work.

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When friends & family saw how much money I made, they all wanted in on it until they saw the sacrifice I expected from them, then every one backed out.

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Rejected by prospective cofounders who didn't want to make the same sacrifices I have made.

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I thought it would be different in the tech world, but it's not. It's still a beauty contest based primarily of superficial subjective perceptions. People are still often too lazy or unable to dig below the surface to find the reality.

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Please don't misunderstand. I'm not bitter.

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Have you stopped to consider why you're seeing these results? Do you feel that your perceptions are an accurate picture of the situation?
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Yes, I saw that reference after posting it here. It makes sense. I also see it is understanding combination of 2 and 3 words together, very brilliant!

Recently I have dabbled into d3 and used your site for lot of inspiration. I created something very similar to analyze text from web pages but using bubbles

[ http://bit.ly/WFTxf5 ]
I have used 7 pretty extensively and no... as a user and a software developer (not writing GUI'd apps I'll add) I've not seen much difference, no.
In this era of wikis, online docs, and the like, I definitely find myself reading very few books on programming. And if I do have a problem, Google is faster than thumbing through a book (even if the book is sitting beside me, and how often does that happen?).
I don't think one can actually beat depression but instead only really cope with the symptoms. I know that sounds awful and kind of defeatist (and I could be wrong) but I think the idea that you can actually conquer this disease sets you up for failure.

I first noticed my own depression when I was just a 13 year old kid and first sought help just before the end of high school. I've been through the entire range of emotion from hopelessness to being suicidal and through it all I was always most upset that I couldn't actually beat it. I would try and fight so hard to make it just go away permanently and be like "normal" people but it just never happened. I eventually took to self medicating and became a polydrug abusing heroin addict for about 5 years.

Five years later I realize that, for me, there is no "beating" it. There's just learning to cope with it. Before I realized this my main focus was trying to make the terrible way I felt just go away and to be happy. Now, rather than fight it, I work around it. I realize that a negative mood or feeling of worthlessness is not objectively true but instead just part of the sickness just like the author here says.

In addition to most of what this post talked about I would say the most important thing is knowledge of self. To recognize and realize that what you're experiencing at any given time is really a complete distortion of reality is step one to recovering. Then to know what triggers those thoughts and knowing what works best for you in terms of mitigating them is the ultimate goal (with the understanding, of course, that you may not be able to completely defeat the experience but certainly minimize it). I learned these things and now, five years later, I still have depression but it's not debilitating. Whenever it decides to come around I'm able to push it aside completely or mitigate those symptoms and I've been able to do that because I've built the kind of lifestyle where people rely on me and I'm often running from one activity to another. Some might say it sounds like running from the disease but really my busy lifestyle is what keeps it at bay. Rather than having the time to dwell on how awful life is and how worthless of a person I am, at worst I'll have thoughts like "shit, now I have to go do this thing and I totally suck at it and everyone hates me" which isn't exactly a great thought but certainly beats being alone thinking of killing yourself and when I finally reach my destination and do whatever I need to do I've proven to myself that whatever I was thinking before was just plain wrong. Again, that's a worst case scenario. I've gotten to a point now where thoughts like that are the minority thankfully.

So I'd just hope anyone else struggling with clinical depression is able to take a step back and evaluate their own thinking, understanding their own vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms in addition to seeking out lots of professional help (and yeah, exercising is amazing for this disease).
Not open source, IIRC.
Eh? Pull requests are just a way to track work on a branch.
Many shops will give you the code free of charge. It's up to you to take the codes and diagnose it. It's not always easy.
Simple paxos implementation · cocagne/paxos
That typography is beautiful! Looking at the source, they seemed to have created their own version of Cheltenham called "NYT Cheltenham".

font-family: nyt-cheltenham, Georgia, serif;

Good stuff!
Except the issue wasn't with the entire company, and it rarely is with things like this.
Pull requests are very convenient for code review; I've seen them used like this in closed commercial projects.
I'm having similar problem on firefox 19 on ubuntu 12.10 x86-64. After some seconds it says "Hmm, that email address doesn't look right...".
Not really. For example if 51% (or even 99.99999999999%) of miners decided they wanted to go back to 50 BTC block reward (or even a new 5,000 BTC block reward) that would simply create an incompatible fork. A fork which would most likely be promptly rejected by the consensus of users, merchants, exchanges, and service providers.

One can't simply force a change to the rules. All you can do is make a hard fork in the network. If nobody adopts your hard fork well you can keep mining worthless coins but people can continue to use/mine the existing fork.

Bitcoin is highly resistant to change (almost to a fault). It is a common myth that the person who controls the majority of hashing power can change the rules.
See all the "Show HN" posts. As long as you actually have something to show, and not just a landing page.
I will confess to being somewhat concerned regarding the author's legal plight. He's making a claim of bad faith on the other party to his contract and saying, "due to it many breaches of contract, O’Reilly has no choice now but to surrender its rights to the book, so I’m free to publish the second edition of Information Dashboard Design through Analytics Press."

While I believe that he would probably prevail, the author is building his future plans on the assumption that O'Reilly won't sue him for breach of contract and, if they do, the courts will rule in his favor. If I were Analytics Press, I'd be very uneasy being the third wheel in this sort of relationship with the unresolved matter of breach of contract still in play.
Wow, this is quite different from their usual clean and "safe" default themes. I think I like it though. I also like that WordPress is putting an emphasis on different post formats, that is a feature that is underused IMO.
MVP all you want, but launch to maximize first impressions
Extensible php "functions"
How is the "social interaction around pull requests" not just a synonym for "code review?"

Now, I recognize that much code written in a "business environment" does indeed ship without review. I just don't think that's a good thing.

If what you're saying is that you've yanked code review tools because customers don't want them, my only reply is that I'm afraid I'm unlikely to be a customer.
>> why do people chose to waste their very precious time writing software to deal with EBS failures (and other AWS deficiencies) instead of just not using AWS?

1) Proven Scale. Netflix. They're bigger than I will be until such time my company can afford to buy it's own data centers. At that point, I can re-evaluate.
2) Operational overhead. Startup, running hundreds of hosts, thousands of requests per second, 5 developers, 0 sys-engineers.
3) Lock in. We use Cloudwatch, Dynamo, RDS, Beanstalk, S3, EMR and more. We also use Heroku. No one else out there has the full suite of offerings. Not using AWS would require us to stitch together offerings from several vendors, some technology wouldn't be feasible having to hop across the internet (do you want the lag to get to your database from one data center to another?)
4) Billing. We get 1 Bill which we can predict. AWS takes credit cards, will do Net 30 billing, and are generally pretty flexible.
5) Customer Service. Don't get me wrong, support at AWS is ... not it's strong suit. We also don't spend enough to be a "big fish". However, if we used 10 different providers to get our infrastructure together, we'd me a minnow to each one. By consolidating, we're a small-medium sized customer which is enough to get into beta's, info on their roadmap ahead of time, and some personal service.
6) Excuses for downtime. So many high profile companies are on AWS that if we have an outage directly attributable to AWS, the odds are a lot of the rest of the internet is down, too. Seriously. It sounds stupid, but it's a huge reason. 2 years ago we were raising money. Right in the middle of our final week (when all our investors were visiting our site and making sure they really wanted to sign on the dotted line), we had an outage that lasted several days. This was the AWS outage that took out Heroku for a few days, and ours was one of the last databases to get restored. If we were using almost anyone else, investors might have been like "oh, this team doesn't really know what they're doing, they're not really that technically competent, I'm not going to invest". But since Netflix, Foursquare, and dozens of other companies were all offline at the same time, the investors were just like "they're using AWS, if Netflix can't keep online with hundreds of engineers, then I'm not going to expect that this little startup is going to do better".
7) Could I really do it better? Is anyone else doing better? AWS is the leader, so we all see the warts ... but at least they keep their certs updated (ahem microsoft)
Exactly, they were named to point out that they "both possessed integrity and practical minds."
From O'Reilly's So You Want To Write A Book(1)

On working with authors:

We won't do anything without your knowledge and consent. We regard the relationship between editor and author as one of two people working together to create the best possible product. If the two of you can't agree, we may give the editor the final say because we know our editors are all reasonable people! But this doesn't mean that we'll run roughshod over your material and surprise you in print.

Marketing:

at O'Reilly & Associates, we publish only one book per topic, and we promote it as long as there is still a need for it. Our books complement each other, so the sales of one book help the sales of others on related topics. While we do sell a lot through bookstores, we don't think our job is over once the bookstore has ordered. We continue to support the book with clever promotions, advertising, and publicity.

One important aspect of our marketing strategy is that we work to create demand with the ultimate consumer--the reader--rather than just with the bookstore. Mail order advertising through pieces like our award winning catalog, ora.com, is an important part of that demand creation.

Royalties:

We will pay you a royalty of 10% of all net income we receive as a result of our distribution of the book, in any form, printed, electronic, or other, or from the license or sale to third parties of any rights in a derivative work.

1. http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch03.html
What if you're depressed because you're afraid of death?

In that case, you shouldn't take any advice from HN unless that advice is to talk to a professional.

It's a lot like legal advice, sure people on the internet can talk about the issues, but they're probably wrong and even if they're right it's still unwise to take what they say at face value. The people with the professional capacity to help you can't do it well online for all the obvious reasons.
"unless you’re a celebrity, publishers do nothing that you can’t do on your own just as well or better for a fraction of the cost."

Man that is a powerful takeaway for authors.

I'll add a few points:

(1) I learned you can buy your way onto the New York Times best seller list for $50 - 70k.

(2) We saw Tim Ferris A/B test his title for the Four Hour Workweek with astonishing results.

(3) A self-published title became the best selling book (in the UK) since they started measuring.

(4) Amazon sells more digital books than paper books.

Not sure what my point is, other than I am a student of marketing and am enjoying watching how the traditional value of publishers, having channel access, is being massively disrupted.

Refs:

1 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/22/heres-h...

2 - http://weijiblog.com/2010/10/64-the-4-hour-workweek-escape-9...

3 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9459779/50...

4 - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/technology/20amazon.html?_...
Town Car Version Control
Ford Sync and OnStar somehow already do this. I'm just guessing, but it probably just makes a phone call like "Air bags deployed at xxx lat yyy long location. This has been an automated call."
Simply having a [paid for, up-to-date, active] data plan on your phone kills the battery?
Do animated gifs still make webkit browsers hiccup for anybody else? (known old bug, I'm surprised it is still happening)
Except we're not talking about policy, we're talking about this generation's Vietnam. The average American knows about Vietnam. The average American knows about 9/11. The average American does not know about Manning, nor is likely to in a year's time.
OnStar offers that. Not sure if it's able to be added to your vehicle, but I can lock/unlock/start/trigger alarm/etc. my car from my iPhone.
Social Media Marketing Tools
I'm not sure that apps are easier to find than sites, I find google web search much easier to use than the google play app search for example.

Plus I know that when I see a .gov.uk website that I am definitely dealing with a government system. If I see an app on the store called "UK Tax App" or whatever it's less obvious whether this an official app or something pretending to be.

You could probably bridge the "home screen" gap by simply producing an app for each platform that just starts the default browser to some particular site. Probably good enough for most cases.

There's also the cost angle. Since the government is supposed to be inclusive they shouldn't really favour one particular mobile ecosystem over another. So they are likely going to have to produce apps for iOS , Android (and test on a lot of versions/devices) as well as Windows phone and potentially Ubuntu phone, Firefox OS etc in the future. And they have to keep all these in reasonable lockstep regards features etc.

The most cost effective way to do this is to use the web which is the best cross platform system out there.
But that's not the author's point. He says that even if we stipulate that working at home is not productive, he should get to work at home, and indeed that making him work in the office is like demanding that he take Adderall!

Pivoting from there to, "But actually maybe he is more productive at home" isn't defending his point.
The privacy policy seems to boil down to "We're not planning on selling your information to anyone, but if it leaks or someone hands us a subpoena, tough noogies."

That makes me itchy, and I'm not even planning on doing anything illegal.
Meteor is like how web should've worked in the first place.
Not really. There was no fraud going on and they double checked their results as they were supposed to. Their only sin maybe here was having over zealous PR.

The Internet these days makes potential findings hard to keep secret as well as easy to disseminate and misinterpret.
This is a good self help programmer article.
Can anybody explain why tech circles are so prone to doomsday predictions? I don't see so many proclamations of impending demise in other industries, but in tech, a newcomer would be forgiven for thinking that most of the large incumbents are poised to drop dead and 'die' tomorrow. Why so anarchist?
To be clear, doesn't the typical second edition fit the term "derived work" precisely?
I full-on ditched Reddit about 3 months ago and haven't looked back. Any sort of criticism I lodged against the site for its insipid circle-jerking nature, to the small-minded, deep-south like approach to cultural issues were met with extreme hostility, or simply downvotes, so as to keep unpopular opinions ignored.

I was a user of that site for 6 years. I had over 85k karma points for comments, and several thousand story karma points. It seems like the audience has changed greatly in more recent years, and I want no part of it.

The users who evangelize that site, or are so devoted to it as to attend meetups are pathetically biased, and contribute nothing to the advancement of internet culture, or the culture of idea exchange.

I feel very sad for the site, as I thought, at one point, it was a great bastion of freely-exchanged ideas. And now it's just a great place to espouse radical views for worthless internet points.
Cool project, two criticisms:

- Nobody is asking for this. Why would I want my team to use two different DVCS interfaces to work on the same project?

- It is difficult to trust that a Frankenstein DVCS will handle corner cases well.
Science Hack Day Ambassador Program
An Energy Coup for Japan: ‘Flammable Ice’
I don't have a source, but I was also advised a couple of years ago that it is mandated to be under the dashboard on the driver side.
Don't know if I'm doing something wrong with Android, or whether it's just because my phone is currently restricted to ICS, but I find the notification system appalling compared to iOS.

On iOS, I get a notification and (if I choose to make it appear there) it pops up as an alert on my lockscreen which then goes into a list of alerts since I last unlocked my phone. If any of them interest me, I swipe over it from the lockscreen and it takes me straight into that app.

With Android, I get nothing on my lock screen at all. What I do get, once I've unlocked my phone, is a little icon at the top telling me that the app wants to tell me something. I then have to pull the notification window down to see what it wants to tell me, at which point I can tap it to get into the app.

I have installed "iPhone Notifications" on my Android phone, which helps a little - at least I get a pop-up message on my lock screen - bit it's still some way behind what I'm used to on iOS.

Custom keyboards - thank god for that on Android. I found it almost impossible to type on the stock keyboard, whereas I've rarely had a problem with the iOS one.

As for settings, again I personally find iOS much clearer on this.

Everything is clearly not rosy in the iOS camp - I certainly miss widgets/live desktop when I'm using my iPhone for instance, but many of the other "issues" you list are subjective at best.
37signals are primarily North American so North American market share is more significant than global. They're also pretty well paid I'd imagine so you're likely looking at high end market share.

High end, North America, Apple is still kicking butt. Also worth noting that for North America over the past 12 months Apple's market share grew faster than Android's and Android's market share dropped in both January and February this year.

Installed user base overall still favours Android (about 70m to 50m against iOS) but I'm not sure it's reasonable to say that there has been a "reverse".
"Maybe you lack imagination" - maybe you lack computer skills, it certainly seems so. There are plenty of ways you could avoid having 100 tabs open. However, if you feel like that's something you need then stop whining and buy a machine with enough RAM for your usual use case.

the ideal number of tabs roughly corresponds to the human stack size, plus a couple for on-going apps like gmail. If you need more than that, you should consider a better mechanism than the browser. Since you haven't found any, I posit that its you who lacks imagination. If you found my comment insulting then I am sorry.