skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
apt-get works for system libraries but not really that well for high-level apps which have different requirements and release schedules, specially the less mainstream ones. We also support Windows and OS X, which do not have anything like apt-get. In those cases we use regular installers or the OS X App Store
Is this a reasonable interview programming test?
That said, if you can, use PostgreSQL for the good of your head. Transactional schema migrations mean you can save yourself a lot of headache.
I know I wouldn't give a damn.

If your goal is that nobody on earth would bat an eye, that's a pretty high bar to clear. Keep in mind that some people (and a healthy percentage of them represented here on HN) find the existence of Pyladies troublesome. I suspect a similar percentage would find the existence of Pygentlemen troublesome.
Comcast is doing something similar, they have banned advertising from legitimate, legal gun shops, but of course continue to carry copious amounts of programming featuring glorified, gratuitous gun violence.

I want to cancel my Comcast account; they used to be my only option but very recently AT&T is now offering their "U-verse" internet in my neighborhood.
Kives are just as lethal as guns? Hey, good news, armies of the world! Stop wasting money on complex mechanical weapons and ammunition, just buy knives! Your soldiers will be just as effective!
I guess its all about perception. Personally I don't perceive this as something I would ever consider paying for. Its nothing I haven't seen before and it looks like its executed as a hobby project.
http://gandi.net, never had any issues.
Tell HN: Tee shirts have started arriving
Arrived via USPS this afternoon.

Looks sharp. Runs a little toward an athletic fit - I ordered medium in black.

Just in time for application video for those applying.
You're misunderstanding me. I'm not advocating that everyone be exactly like me. I'm advocating professional conduct in professional contexts.

My dream environment is one where everyone is aware enough to know that immature dick jokes might not be a welcome contribution to everyone within earshot. The same way that most people just know that cigarette smoke isn't a welcome contribution to everyone sharing the same air.

Be as edgy and imaginative and courageous as you want, on your own time. Thanks.
Yes, commercial apps are coming soon to the platform. We already provide commercial versions of Liferay and SugarCRM in our Cloud Hosting product
I disagree. Just as many startups fail because they don't have an actual business to be the foundation for their product. It's important to have someone on your team (founder, advisor, investor, or whoever) thinking about how to build a business, as well as someone thinking about the product. If you do, then you're more likely to succeed than if you're just focused on product. IMO.
People laughed at Dropbox because Coda/rsync/Subversion already existed.
great f*ing advice man... that's what I am worried about and I am glad you validated and confirmed my fears.
What's wrong with a whitelist?

"Example.com has requested 1KB/5MB of your disk so it can remember its place. [Allow]"
Personally, I really like to be able to drag the splits between terminals, use my scroll wheel, and click between tabs.

Maybe these things can be enabled in tmux somehow? I know on a mac tmux/iTerm can do these things, but I'm on linux.
Either you're intentionally misrepresenting my position or your reading comprehension needs serious help.
Xavier Niel founder of Free ISP to cofound a new tuition-free developer school
Very good post. Still, I hope we'll be more and more able to just build our startups in the EU.
That's not remotely what you were conveying in your original piece, despite whatever intentions you may have. Go read your original words about offering a hug vs what you just wrote as the parent of my comment -- they're just plain not the same.

That fine-grain material, your incorrect use of the word "sexist"/"sexism" and your stated desire to create a COMPLETELY de-sexualized environment in places that have thousands of people (PyCon this year had a larger population than the town in which I grew up) just makes this stuff really hard to read.

We're missing out on REAL sexism by people complaining about getting hit on and hugs and shit. It's depressing.
Personally I've moved from tmux to a tiling window manager with urxvtd. Less fiddly day-to-day and doesn't get locked up and horrible.

Tabbing and whatnot are something the WM (in my case, i3) handle far better than a specific program.
Vote Up: Command-line (Unix console) Spotify app
You've shown that the organizers thought that sexism was a factor, which isn't the same thing. But you are right, since we fundamentally disagree about the rules of logic, further discussion is pointless. (example: I said truth doesn't follow from many people believing in something, you interpret it as 'everything many people believe is false'. Very basic logic mistake)
Like I said. I haven't opened a ticket that I haven't seen fixed. This is why I enlightenment. Thank you!
There's definitely a little more work involved in directives. I don't think there's much boilerplate in writing them though. There's certainly more work in understanding how they work initially, but that's a small price to pay for the reusability they give you.
Startup's first two hires
One problem is that S3's object availability is only 99.99%, which sounds good, but if your site has 20 assets it needs to load (html, js, img, fonts, whatever) then 1 out of every 50 non-cached loads could be expected to be missing an asset which can be a big problem for JS heavy sites.
Say what?
Isn't Firefox a high-level application? What about LibreOffice? Or Apache HTTPD?

Isn't the distro maintainers the ones who define the release schedules? Doesn't Fedora or SuSE, for example, release the newest versions for Firefox, KDE to the latest on their current distro for example?

I think an Application Store for servers is something redundant, re-engineering the wheel.

But that's my 2¢.

EDIT: And I'm even talking about similar tools to tasksel.
Would it be like just providing you the complete package and installation steps or is there some kind of integration required?
Our clients usually have a lot already running on InnoDB so we always have similar setups (preferably identical except the same volume of data) to what they have on the side. Can't tell you how many problems we've caught that way and how much it simplifies things during deployment. If starting anew, it's Postgres.

Our internal stuff is almost all running straight Postgres but a small part of our application stack is abstracted on top of it to provide document DB functionality.
I had to apply for an EB5 visa, and since I was opening an office in non-TEA city, Austin, I have to put over 1 million + expenses for it. I'm still in the process of making enough to enter here and open a company, but its hard for people from India. India is not a treaty nation so tech-founders from here have an extremely hard time entering here to start a business.
Has the startup taken any money? I'd go through a lawyer, but probably a good way to convince the entrepreneur to be sane is through his investors.
Seeking tech cofounder for medical crowdsourcing platform (prototype built)
Elevator Pitch: HealClick is a crowdsourcing platform that suggests medical information & reviews from medically-similar patients. Later milestones apply data-mining and algorithms to provide increasingly useful suggestions.

Beta planned for beginning of April, but amassed several thousand followers/subscribers/fans/landing-page signups. Current tech stack: java + mySQL.

What I bring: Passionate health 2.0 business developer, marketing expert, and patient advocate. Involved in the healthcare industry on both patient and provider side for 6 years, and have accumulated a vast network of industry connections, alliances, potential sponsors, & investors. Award-winning medical blogger and cofounder of health 2.0 site for autoimmune patients.

Offering: significant equity and salary upon revenue. Won't pretend technical cofounders aren't lynchpins to a tech startup. Revenue expected upon completion of next milestone. Business plan, cashflow projections, mockups and HTMLs of long-term roadmap are all ready for review post-NDA.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/joeytuan/
Email: joeytuan@gmail.com
Plus (nearly) all security has trade-offs. The trade offs dont necessarily trump the added benefits of the security.
Thank you for your feedback!

I was dealing with Matthew Schulz at Baker & McKenzie in Palo Alto (http://www.bakermckenzie.com/MattSchulz/) and it worked out pretty well.
I never heard of ppa-purge before. Thanks for playing! :)
Oh wow, this is an awesome post. Thanks so much. I will study it in detail this weekend and let you know when I have something new. You rox, Thanks.
Show HN: Track errors in your JS apps while engaging affected users
Rackspace Cloud Sites DDoS'd
Nifty. I'll buy some.
The biggest problem would be the homeless breaking into the machines for cans and such.

Followed quickly by better-equipped thieves taking the solar panel,
the batteries, or the whole apparatus. If this seems unlikely,
google: "metering lights" "wire theft" "bay area"
> No one using a knife as a tool is going to buy an assisted opening knife.

Bullshit. I did.

> having it trigger unintentionally

There is no way in hell. Do you even know what assisted opening knifes are? They are not switchblades.

> This is product sold only to teenage boys desperately seeking that high of invincibility.

They are sold to anybody that wants to have a knife that is safe but can be opened with one hand. In other words, damn near everybody who has a use for a non-kitchen knife.
How do you interpret "Your point?"?
Useful post. How was your pitch, particularly the question: How do you make money with Moosify?
Apparently not. It's the other guy wearing the PH shirt, on way far out in the picture.
Nothing. The pins were allocated such that plugging an imp into an SD-card slot won't hurt it or the device, and putting an SD card into an imp slot won't hurt either the card or the device.
Kickstarter rewards wrap-up
Bitnami (YC W13) app store for all server software, delivers 1M downloads/month
(nesting maximum reached)

I don't think I'm misunderstanding you at all. You said that "juvenile" humor is pervasive. Wouldn't that indicate that the general consensus is that this type of humor is OK?

Let's get it straight - the (very small) minority here want to make the environment more comfortable for themselves.

(Also, nobody has ever explained to me why a joke or even a conversation about this one particular body part qualifies as "juvenile".)
You misspelt:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
setw -g mode-mouse on

setw -g mouse-select-window on

setw -g mouse-select-pane on

setw -g mouse-resize-pane on
Machine Learning for Humans: K Nearest-Neighbor
One question daily SCRUM
tough love is sometimes the best, thanks
http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checkin...

4.8 murders per 100,000 in the US vs 1.2 per 100,000 in the UK.

The figures _do_ take size into account.
Three Cheers for the Nanny State
I made a simple tool to upload a local directory to S3 called s5tool (https://github.com/etaoins/s5tool). It's useful for managing static sites such as the one mentioned in the article. As a bonus it will attempt to pre-gzip assets for faster load times.
Because almost every site uses cookies, and almost all cookies are friendly (not "tracking cookies.") It would be a large decrease in user convenience to make them have to accept every cookie ever.

Not only that, website owners are incentivized to actively subvert whitelist-based policies: shady sites would paint arrows up to the "Allow" button saying "click this to continue!", doing iframe AJAX ping-pong to verify you've given them the persistence they want before they let you through, and so forth.

And even if they didn't, the request would still become one of those things naive users think you just "have to click OK to if you want the computer to keep doing the thing"--like Windows UAC elevation.

On the other hand, giving users an equivalent option to a "hellban" on a website--the ability to make the website think it's persisting, but then it turns out not to be--has far fewer incentives. It only ends up being something you click for a reason, rather than a "mother may I" you have to just click all the time, and since getting off the blacklist wouldn't be exposed directly through the browser chrome, there'd be nowhere for a malicious site to "point an arrow."
I suspect the short question + answer is: are you buying Amazon or Walmart levels of AdWords? No? Well, congratulations, you're SOL.

It's no wonder that Google has started pouring large amounts of effort into lobbying in the last few years, because it's precisely this combination of de facto monopoly combined with poor treatment of customers who have no-where else to go that leads (eventually) to legislation or possibly even break-up of the company in question.

To paraphrase a famous quote: you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you, whether you like it or not.
From the OpenBSD ports email list:

Subject: NEW: MariaDB
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:55:07 -0400

Here is a new port of MariaDB.

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL maintained in the open. The development
environment is so much better than what has become of MySQL AB since
Oracle took over Sun. They deal with security issues in a much better
manner and don't try to hide the tickets or any details regarding the
issues. Bugs are fixed much quicker and tickets in general are dealt
with in a much better manner. MariaDB 5.5 will replace the current
MySQL 5.1 port for the next release.

...
How to build a "code-less" Mobile Bacon Browser
"Rehashing of the same things (from the same author no less) must give PandoDaily some page views or something"

PandoDaily is all about the page views.
>>>> They have an obligation to the shareholders. Turning down paying customers because of some moral objection to pointy objects is a little bit crazy.

Happens all the time. For example, Groupon recently dropped all firearms-related deals on the wave of the craziness that is going on. I, personally, cancelled my account with them the next day and would never buy from them anymore. I am completely certain them and the shareholders don't care too much. Same Google - losing couple of ad dollars from some independent shop is nothing to them. If their deals with Amazon would be under threat that'd probably be different business. And the government probably has absolutely nothing to do with it - if it were government-enforced, it would apply to Amazon too.
There is an implicit "of the scale of gun murder in the US"

Murders in the US are currently sitting at 14k, ~11k of which are from firearms. The US only has 5 times more people than the UK, which would turn your stat into a rough US-equivalent of 1.7k.
My feeling was the exact opposite. I have long been dreaming of rich media - especially video - playing within my terminal without having to awkwardly set screen splitting and resizing VLC to minimum.
NZ$ - Bitcoin
But the name is not that important, is it? I mean, at the end we use an email client, no-matter-whatever-the-name

Brands are important for the companies not for the people.
I like it. Looks great. I'm not ready to spent $5 a month on it yet.
Hi! One of the creators here. We're creating an easy way for you to track and get notified of your JavaScript errors in your front-end heavy apps that use Backbone.js, Ember, etc. We also are developing a method to engage your users when an error happens so they don't feel lost (you'll see the model popup). I'm applying to YC with this concept and would love to know your thoughts!
Redistore: A session store backend for Go's gorilla web toolkit
Thanks a lot! Could you perhaps explain this a bit more in detail:

"The investment has to be made by the people applying for the visa."

Let's say that we're a 2 year old company in a treaty country (EU) with ~$400k in the bank, founders have ~50% of the company. Not having a US company yet. Would this situation require some tweaks before applying for a E2 visa?

Also:

"Your employees can also move to the US under this visa."

Under which circumstances can the (EU) employees transfer? The same time frame as the E2 holder? Would it be sufficient for only one of the two founders to get the E2 visa and let the other move as an employee?
Rockville, MD - but they axed the office here after the AXI-540 was discontinued.
This is a lot of rationalization to essentially say "I think that public shaming is acceptable behavior".

That wall of text is required because the simple truth is unpalatable to most observers. Instead, you must engage in an exceptional rhetorical dance to draw a parellel (not equate, as you say, despite the fact that you then use rhetoric to draw an equivalence, and use that equavalence to justify behavior) between sophomoric jokes and very serious topics like racial and sexual violence.

From that position, you can then justify almost any of Adria's actions, since she was facing systemic sexual and racial violence due to an overhead 'dongle' joke.

Where does personal responsibility, proportion, professionalism, and consequences factor in to your worldview? After all, there may be systemic "microaggressions" as you state, but would you claim that someone reacting disproportionally to them should be absolved of the professional responsibilities to which they committed themselves?

How far does your logic of transference extend? This appears to be an application of homeopathy to personal responsibility, where some root justification, no matter how diluted by reality, can provide justification for inappropriate reaction to a perceived or actual offense.

To approach some individual points:

> Twitter and blogging are totally available to the gentlemen in question. Public shaming is not mob justice.

I don't expect that they have 10k followers, and even if they did, responding would not be likely to improve the eventual outcome for any involved.

Some things, once said, can not be unsaid or countered. Negative public discourse is a tar baby, and the internet has a permanent memory.
Interesting:

Geary is written in Vala

http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/

Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

https://live.gnome.org/Vala
Blur is absolutely the key to transparency. I've found it's a balance: you can go for less blur, but you have to make the window more opaque. With more blur you can go more transparent with the same amount of readability/non-distraction.
Heads up if you rely on NewRelic disk usage alerts
We just learned the hard way that the NewRelic disk usage alert will never get triggered if your user level process fills up the disk until "no space left on device". Unless you change the defaults of either the alert threshold or your ext4 filesystem that is.

Issuing df on a "completely filled" disk will give you this:

$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9611492 9123252 0 100% /

Notice the difference between "Used" and "Available"? That's the space reserved for root processes, so that careless users can't crash their system just by filling up the disk. See stackexchange for further discussion (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7950/reserved-space-for-root-on-a-filesystem-why)

While df does Used/(Used+Available) to calculate the disk usage percentage, NewRelic does Used/1K-blocks.

This means when our disk got filled by a rogue process which wrote a huge logfile, the NewRelic disk usage measurement got stuck at 94,9%. As the NewRelic default threshold for disk usage alerts is 95% the alert never got triggered, the alert email never got sent and we had a service outage because the streaming server process crashed when it couldn't write to the disk.

End of story (to put it in NewRelic support staff words): "[…] you should really set to threshold under 95%, or tune your filesystem so that you have <5% reserved […]". For them the current state is intended behaviour. So heads up if you rely on NewRelic disk usage alerts!
"Scala is a pretty terrible language to be learning it though. Subtyping makes things far more complex and difficult to learn, just for the benefit of java compatibility (which doesn't matter if you are just learning for the sake of learning)."

Functional and OO programming are complementary and is the point of Scala. The class explains their relationship.
Three major revenue streams - Premium (In-App purchases), Affiliate & Ads.

In the interview at the Consulate we've been really talking about details here I guess especially because we're a quite young startup.
According to themselves, they are fine with the pre-existing ban on switchblades and balisong knives, so I'm just refuting the argument they're making, as opposed to the broader one.

Google is a corporation, so I don't see how the views of anyone besides their shareholders are binding. i don't agree with the premise that you have to use adwords or you're stuck; if people think that's he case, then maybe they should raise the issue with the FTC.
> I don't remember the company, but I was inspired by a fresh fruit+veg box-delivered-to-your-door founder.

Could it have been Manuel Rosso of Food on the Table? He was the "Concierge MVP" example from Ries's book. They started by meal planning for a single family. If I'm remembering this right, he and his chef co-founder walked the grocery stores each week looking for the best food values, then drew up the week's menu...for that one family.

http://www.foodonthetable.com/

It worked, and they automated things as they scaled.

> I started my B2B company the same way... Now it's completely automated apart from support.

It's great to hear this. A film industry friend and I started a company last year with a very similar approach, but we're earlier along than you are. So far so good!
Hasn't Bitnami been going for years, though? (At least 4-5, I think). I'd be interested to find out why they took the Yc cash now.
I remember when the Phillies got into world series the police had to go all over the city grabbing these things, so they could switch them out for the oldschool wire-frame cans, so that night when the riots hit there wouldn't be as much dmg.

Do they add in these kinds of unexpected costs in their calculation?
Things are happening ... see http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-262_en.htm
Because backgrounds (or movies) like the ones shown in the video make the terminal text completely unreadable and reading the text on a terminal is kind of the whole point of it.

Edit: That sounded a little more negative than I meant it. I'm actually a fan of transparent or backgrounds, but I think they need a lot of tint/blur to them or they become distracting and/or make the text unreadable. This was evident in the video where I couldn't read a lot of the grey text once the background picts were enabled.

Though the use case for video still eludes me. :-)
I think the problem here is the expectation that completing the course would automatically get you a job. So much more is required, and I think the Starter League is a fast track to obtain that knowledge, not an airplane ticket. It should be sold as one, but students also need to be realistic.
All these bookmarking services, including yours, don't allows the importation of Google Starred Items, Gmail Starred Items, Chrome Bookmarks, Firefox Bookmarks, or Evernote extraction so that you can reorganize then, download them, THEN sync them across devices AND you want $5/month?
Do Global Climate Tipping Points Exist?
Show HN: Noted, a note-taking web app inspired by Vim
Did anyone else notice that when their CEO was listing out the things that people expect from an email client he was basically just describing features GMail popularised.

Good luck to these guys though.