skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One does not often see this quality of writing and thoughts combined into a singular document on internet sites

Maybe because you're a visitor from reddit.
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Ulysses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft)) was sent into a polar orbit around the sun.
Not only that. Overreaction goes both ways. It swings like pendulum. It went one way, Adria's and this guy's employer's way. But I am afraid it went to far, and now on the way back it might damage them more than it damaged this guy.

What do I mean? His employer before evaluating the situation jumped the gun and fired guy with 3 kids to support. That is fucked up.

Adria's online presence will forever be marred by this. It seemed like a win first, and her intentions were perhaps good, but it turned out to be a bad decision. I think she will regret this when the dust settles.

Anyone know the name of the company, I couldn't read it on the badge, so that next time I see them a at conference I have a nice 'pleasant' talk with them?

Some from the tech community might be immature and like to make stupid jokes. What else they don't like is bullying and irrational and bureaucratic decisions. I have a feeling this will come back and bite them harder than they expected.
Installing Backtrack on the Chromebook
I had previously submitted the article on a .xxx domain but people were unhappy... here it is on a .com.
Yes there can be scientific determinations done on ayurvedic treatments and some are done. I should not through the baby with the bathwater as they say. Ayurveda is largely about lifestyle and diet. But varies from person to person. I am sure there will be more sophisticated tests done which can show efficacies of the results. A gross example is heartburn. if you have heartburn do you just take a pill for it or adjust your lifestyle and diet? I am sure there can be more sophisticated experiments done which can show efficacies of treatments. You are right that we cannot through out logical thinking.
I read "Solve the problem in a single separate .java file which compiles and runs with JDK 6 or 7." to mean that the entire solution has to be in one Java file.
I think curation and code review should really be an important part of the theme and plugin repositories.

Perhaps they need 'approved' and 'Open' directories for the repositories?

There used to be this issue with people having issues distributing plugins; now with github, that is much much easier.

There is just so much bad code floating around, people not following best practices and loading JS libraries that core includes, conflicts with other plugins, etc. Its a mess.
dude, don't put your tail between your legs and run away. that lady is a freaking tard!!!
>NO JOKES ALLOWED

Evangelist?
please.
Yes. I hate when they have a recently released book and the talk is basically just to promote it, and then often if you read the book it has no additional material.
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My aunt was a linotype operator in the 1950s. One day I visited her at work and she typed my name into a slug. The machine was amazing. It was something like 8 feet tall, maybe more, with a gazillion moving parts. Typing was fairly slow compared to a typewriter, but every time a letter was pressed, I could hear the cast being selected and moving down to its place in the line. Finally she pressed a lever and the line went off to be case in lead. A few seconds (cant remember the speed) later the lead slug with my name on it appeared.
github: tomjohnson3
There is nothing stopping you from forking your own version of WordPress. It is GPL and as long as your derivative work is also GPL you should be fine.
While I generally abhor the talk about "privileged" groups, there doesn't need to be a "mens rights" movement. We dont need it. What we do need is to get on the bandwagon and propagate the "3rd wave feminism." The sub groups that are repressed/oppressed need the special exemptions, leniency, and attention. If you're worried about mens rights, get on board with 3rd wave feminism. It leaves the focus where it needs to be but also includes that ANYONE should be allowed to be whoever they want to be. Mens rights should be an after thought, tagged at the bottom in small print.
kolektiv on GH too.
| Also this is probably first HN thread that everyone seem to like what they saw, no nitpicking at all. This must tell you that you guys are on the right track.

That's definitely true.
Take it from someone with 11,734 unread (not spam, but not useful) emails in GMAIL...I need SquareOne
Yes, of course. I even considered the USA and SF in particular (health insurance, immigration and rental costs all deterred me), Chile (distance and isolation from my customers deterred me), elsewhere in the EU (language deterred me, but I did think that Greece would be a very good option at the moment) and finally elsewhere in the UK.

On that last one, a lot of the ability to survive on barely sufficient income is in making it go a long way. The majority of my users are London based and supporting the startup and keeping me personally just the right side of the line when it comes to money related things (they don't give me cash, but they help out in other ways). I've been helped out with feedback, customers, the friends investment round (where friends = very dedicated users who have become friends), coffee, cheese, washing powder (damn that stuff is expensive when you're only spending £40 per week on groceries for two), and then there's more than one dinner that has been cooked in different parts of London.

I knew all along, that if I were not somewhere the costs were dramatically in my favour, or that the opportunity is dramatically the wind in my sails, that I should stay where the support is greatest. And the support in London is extensive, not just from my users but also from a very intense and growing startup ecosystem (one of the computers in use in the office came from the one of the users of the freenode IRC room ##LDNstartups ).

So yes, considered it... weighed options, stayed put.
Benefits matter, or why I won't work for your Y Combinator Start-up
We know a single side of this story.

Unless someone has the actual story. There may have been infringing content.
I had previously submitted this on a .xxx domain but some people couldn't see it... So, here it is on a .com domain.
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That hosting company is pretty pathetic for not having a lawyer even glance at the poorly assembled and obviously toothless complaint. That kind of notice is only good for sharing for laughs, and certainly didn't warrant passing along as a threat to the customer.
Instead of beating around the bush, why don't you tell us what agency you work for, what department and what is the most selective criteria to TS work.
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I'd love travel companies to start trying their luck with this market...
> ...what? How much effort do you put in to finding everything sexist?

Less effort than you put in to dragging out absurd strawpeople.
This url would be banned since GoPro would use the same argument for not using *&tm; with GoPro
I am a bootstrapper as well. And I have found that using outsourcing (or more specifically near-shoring) has helped me a lot. I am technical, but sometimes I need help.

So I setup a development shop in Mexico to help me and other startups get off the ground fast. If you are interested let me know. :D
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I've been dragging for the past couple months, but seeing this beautiful product has just pumped me up.

Freakin gorgeous!
I would like to say "nothing is easy"; a mentor taught me that long ago. Also, when I read on the Ember home page that Ember is for building ambitious web applications, right a way I though I better read all the docs, the source code, and the tests to get to know what Ember does.

Since nothing is easy I would say that the Ember community is totally aware of that and very helpful. I was very impressed by the guides and the api docs. Reading the Ember source and especially the tests has helped me to begin to understand how Ember works.

For me getting started with Ember was not about completing a TODO app or just watching a tutorial video and then pounding out some code. But instead has been about studying existing applications like the Discourse application or the Travis app. I recently say I sweet Emberpress app much like the iOS app "Letterpress" and was amazed at how well the code just makes sense.

Getting started with Ember takes ambition and IMHO is well worth the investment.
Who said it was permissible? I said it was an overreaction, just like the boss firing him for it.
github: fgrehm
I only made it to the third page - if the article makes a sharp turnaround of what TED is doing, then it's seriously burying the lead.

Quality is not important for TED, it is everything. And like potatolicious, I no longer bother with TED talks because their brand has been poisoned for me. It's a perception problem.
TED is forcing the speakers into promotion mode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwLMBdnbXk
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Wow, it's easy to forget how much complexity there is, even for a technologist. This post reminds me to step back and appreciate everything that's going on under the hood. For a similar effect on non-technologists, see Louis C.K's bit about how even the shittiest technologies are a miracle[1].

I disagree with the conclusion though. I think the reason Steve Jobs' death impacted people more than Dennis Ritchie's is that Jobs was taken in his prime. Who knows what the world lost by his premature death.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk
Wow, beautifully executed! Quite an achievement. Looking forward to trying it out.
While the company is definitely to blame, Adria should not have blown this issue up to such a big proportion.
Is this the same vlad from vladstudio.com ? I always loved his work there. probably not considering vladstudio.com is more about photoshop designs and not about web development.
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Nope. Any takedown notice or C&D that can't even keep straight whether it's talking about trademarks or copyrights is an empty threat. If this kind of thing were sent by a lawyer, that lawyer would need to be disbarred. There's just no room here for another side of the story to demonstrate some kind of competence on the part of GoPro.
Well, this is a good first step in the "free market" standardization process, though: get a public implementation out of what you would imagine standard-conformance to look like. Then, let the other guys (e.g. Heroku) get out their competing implementations. Then, find the similarities, resolve the differences, and write it down. Now you've got a standard.
> The forking joke set the stage for the dongle joke.

What actually was the 'forking joke'? Because he seems to claim there wasn't one, but you think there was. He's made a claim about what he said, do you remember what it was?
github: mharris717
And that's bad for the customer how?
Any idea when posthaven will actually launch? I signed up a while ago, and am a bit concerned that it won't go live before Twitter screws me.
This is one of the most misogynistic posts I have seen in a long time.
It declares
-Woman are delicate, and the mere hint of bawdy humor will cause them to faint dead away.
-Woman are weaklings, who need to be supported in their fears.
Both of these are BS. These are excuses people used in the 70s to keep women out of the workforce.
This whole incident will make life worse for everyone involved.
I enjoyed this comment:
"Maynard says the current generation of startups should be more patient than he was. “Englebert's law of technology prediction says that all technology predictions overpredict what technology will do for you in the short term and underpredict what technology will do for you in the long term," he explains. "I have seen this curve over and over, and lots of startups fail in that gap because they don't keep at it long enough. They think the technology will be there before it's really ready.”
Github: jwhitlark

Looks really useful.
For those users, I guess we'd hope they don't install their own certificates and Microsoft/Apple/Google/Canonical can invalidate the Bonzi Buddy certificates for bad behavior.

You're right that it's a difficult problem and probably unsolvable but IMO that doesn't mean we can't reduce it to much less than it is currently.
github.com/radim
In case the videos aren't working for other people, too, here are the direct YouTube links:

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHFkA9gsG0Y

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glWFDGBJq0
or use OpenVZ which has been designed with security in mind ;)
I liked Concrete5 when I was playing around with it. I was very excited by its potential; especially looking at projects where maybe WP was overkill.

Where the bottom fell out was in two areas:

1. Paid plugins

I cannot rationally tell my clients 'this software might have a few cases where it is easier than WP to use and manage; but you'll be spending several hundred dollars replicating free functionality available on WP'.

Its a non-starter.

2. The software still looks kind of 'hokey' compared to WordPress

WordPress has lots of issues and there are a ton of other great alternatives. But, its like Facebook vs. all other social networks -- you go where the people are because it makes everything better.
How does the aiming work? Do you send separate emails to move the gun?
Also swearing, mentioning body parts, gay people, violence, and unpopular views.
All very very bad..
> LXC DOES NOT PROVIDE SECURITY

This is out of date. As of Linux 3.8, or with out-of-tree patches in older kernels, LXC puts each container in its own user namespace, so that root in the container has no privileges outside. LXC also uses network namespaces, so the user inside the container can only do on the network what the admin allows them to do.

Because root inside a user namespace is unprivileged outside it, it can't scribble on memory or load modules, etc., either.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LxcSecurity for a decent summary of the situation in Ubuntu's releases. Several Ubuntu contributors are also among the main drivers of LXC upstream.

It's true that user namespaces and other kernel features LXC relies on are beginning to get much more use than they used to, and probably still have flaws, though I think you exaggerate how many CVEs are actually being found. Ubuntu's LXC support also uses apparmor and seccomp to provide further isolation. Conservative users will probably wait a while more to see what bugs get shaken out.
All good points. I think the real takeaway here though is if the price of a diamond really floated to its fair value, we'd be buying rings with something else on them. Which satisfies most of your list, but in addition, it would be more rational because what you buy could actually be justified as some sort of investment and not merely burning your money in essentially a grand century long con job.

Imagine instead buying a plastic ring for your beloved which would have engraved the account number and sum total of your engagement 401k you bought for the love of your life.
Nor should we live in fear. I'm 41, and still doing quite well (as measured in both happiness and dollars) coding every day in a comparatively senior position. I don't expect that to change any time soon, though obviously I recognize that it can.

Do what you love. If you're good at it and willing to compromise reasonably, then the market will accept you. If you're not good at it you will have trouble sustaining a career for the simple reason that "junior" hires are made with the hope that the employee will improve; that prospect seems much dimmer for middle-aged candidates.

And the willingness to compromise is important too. If you are focused on a very narrow field, you may find it dissolve due to technological progress and market conditions. If you are focused on progression inside a single large employer, you may find its culture doesn't want senior hackers. Be broad, be flexible.
One thing that I couldn't understand from the openvbx documentation was how it fit in with the phonelines in your business. How would a business with a PBX with 30 extensions replace the PBX with openvbx?

Would the employees only be able to call through a browser or is there something else available?
Exactly. No matter the cause of WHY diamonds seem to be valued so highly in societal worth, the fact is, well, they are.

You COULD not get your wife a diamond ring, you COULD not take her out for Valentine's day because it's a made-up holiday, you COULD not get her a Christmas present because you think it's a commercial holiday, etc. But... well good luck with that.
Hi! Sergie, the designer here. I'm glad you like it! Everything was designed in Illustrator CS6. It's the fastest prototyping tool IMO because you don't have to worry about layers (Photoshop) - you just click and edit. Exporting to Hi-DPI is super fast too!
Would there be any chance of getting early access to a developer version, maybe on loan? I'd like to add support for these to my automation equipment (see my profile for a link).
Can't you see that that, in itself, is a response?

To not respond would be to not post at all.

Edit: After reading the FAQ you linked elsewhere, your response is explicitly tone-based and unhelpful. I believe that violates the polite discourse rule more than anything the original poster said.
Blogspam. Why don't you engage in this discussion here instead of promoting a private website which is semiblocked anywhere but a tiny part of Northern America?
From another perspective this is a modern view of the classic "I, Pencil" - which Friedman gave an great overview of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlTRau_XgGs
dotCloud engineer here.

LXC lets you use cgroups, i.e. setup memory/cpu/IO limits per container. If you setup MySQL with more than database, you can't do that.

Also, we DO use LXC and SUPPLEMENT it by something providing security such as GRSEC (in the current version in production at dotCloud) and AppArmor (with docker) :-)
Though I agree, there are only a handful of Array.prototype methods, and I believe Underscore falls back to them when they are available. I imagine you could read fogus's work, then substitute where appropriate if you're already well-versed in JS. "I know I can use [].forEach instead of _.each."
That might be true, but the documentation is fairly comprehensive and well done. The docs were indispensable for me when learning how to use it.
Omit.js - single page app templating engine with built-in css preprocessor
This question is one of my favourites when interviewing front/back-end developers and sysadmins. It gives candidates the chance to talk about the part of the stack they find interesting, so I can see what they are most knowledgeable/passionate about as well as judging their overall level of background knowledge.
Show HN: Rails Landingpage/Lead Tracker
> "I don't mean to come off the wrong way, but did you even read the article?"

IMO, there is no way to say the above and have it come off the right way. It falls into the same bucket as "with all due respect..."

> "Most of it was about past transgressions and what they've done to tighten the brand."

Yes, and my contention is that it will never be enough. This is not a unique problem - large, spread out organizations are almost universally unable to consistently maintain a high quality bar. The difference is that for TED the quality is the product.

There is IMO no way for TED to reign in its TEDx partners to an extent that will restore the trust in the brand. To do so would basically involve TED taking over the curation of the content, in which case we're talking about an expansion of TED, not a franchising of TED (which, despite being non-profit, is what's occurring right now).

> "I also somewhat reject your characterization of their mission, because their mission first and foremost is about the spread of ideas."

No, it's about the spread of some ideas - as they say themselves, ideas worth spreading.

If our goal was to spread ideas without curation, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Tumblr, etc are all doing a far better job. TED's mission, both explicit and implicit, is to highlight particularly poignant people and ideas.

It is also how they rose to fame in the first place - they didn't predate Vimeo or YouTube, and they certainly haven't predated the format of the academic talk. What they did do was have razor-sharp curation and the ability to assemble a lot of great content in one place.

> "TEDx has irrefutably made TED more popular and mainstream and thus more effective as a vehicle to spread ideas."

TEDx has increased the profile of TED, it has also decreased its reputation dramatically. As I've pointed out above already, quality is core to the raison d'etre of TED.

> "People who complain that TED is not curating its content are ignoring how selective it is when posting TEDx content."

And yet kooks still make it. Nobody is saying that TED is sitting back and doing nothing - is that that they are either not doing enough, or that the structure of TEDx makes their task all but impossible.
You can email in links to Instapaper and then have them delivered to your Kindle. You can even have Instapaper batch them together for you and deliver them at certain times.
Moon rocket engines recovered from bottom of Atlantic ocean
Other benefits: docker images are basically tarballs, which means they are much smaller.

And, importantly, Docker maintains a filesystem-level diff between versions of an image, and only needs to transmit each diff once. So you get tremendous bandwidth savings when transmitting multiple images created from the same base.
HP Labs's Glasses-Free 3-D for Phones and Tablets
Canadian man to sell house for Bitcoin virtual currency
Oh, absolutely. It basiclly comes down to having a proper dialogue instead of one party dictating to the other what to do. It's just that in practice nr 1 seems more common.
LXC is actually the work of the OpenVZ team.

When they were tired about seeing their patches rejected from the mainstream kernel, they decided to try a different approach, and that approach is LXC. In other words, LXC is a reimplementation of OpenVZ concepts by almost the same team.

LXC is actually more secure than OpenVZ, if only because it went through more scrutiny than OpenVZ.
Custora's (YC W11) new platform lets retailers test any marketing strategy
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