skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks very compelling. There is huge demand from large (enterprise/govt) companies for cloud solutions they can run on in-house hardware. I'm actually not that familiar with what you get from OpenStack out of the box, after the Nebula has provisioned everything, can the customer just start writing over HTTP? NFS? Is Active Directory integration supported? What is done to ensure data integrity on the storage long term?
By plenty you mean "plenty if you accumulate all the legacy kernel versions", right?
Canadian Startup Dandy Launches Open Beta for Community-based App Development
> A few months ago, a startup developer friend said to me "I don't understand why poor kids, ghetto kids, don't do startups to get out of poverty."

I've got just about zero tolerance left for people who don't acknowledge their privilege.
Two Governments, Both Alike In Dignity
How well does Dart work with node.js? Should I even consider Dart if using node.js?
Why SubToMe is better
Are porn sites really that easy to make money from? The impression I've had from here is that while there's lots of money to be made, there's also lots of competition and the business relationships you need can be difficult to obtain and keep.
I think this is an excellent idea for Microsoft, but this web site has cratered under the load.

I'm assuming they're using Stripe from the little message on my JS console, but I'm having some serious trouble getting it to accept my payment (in Safari on Mac OS X, Chrome isn't connecting at all).

EDIT: I am getting "something went wrong :(" after clicking submit, two or three times now.
Yahoo Mail + Dropbox
Completely agree, great article.

There are a lot of companies working on a lot of very small problems these days. It's natural, since the economic imbalance makes it more worthwhile to solve small problems for a large number of people who have disposable money to pay for small solutions.

But there are big problems out there that we should be inspired to solve.

Let's solve the meta-problem: what's holding us back from being able to think of solutions to the bigger problems facing humanity? What's the cause of our collective myopia?
"Sequence, selection, & iteration."
These are the foundations of software, so how should we not be iterators?
I might be completely wrong but Visual Studio's static analysis for C++ is not very smart
> JavaScript is not the problem, it's how terrible our community is at sharing/creating modular things. Classes and shitty syntax wont help you there

How would you switch communities without switching languages? As far as I can tell, it's actually much easier to switch tech than it is to convince a million existing users to change their culture to something different.
If SElinux actually made sense to mortals it might be more widely used. It's dizzyingly complicated to configure correctly.
Akiban is Open Source
Tweets when major movies switch from DVD only to streaming on netflix
Some gas pumps ask for your zip also. Is it for security or marketing?
I don't know if Google does not use it for their own stuff and you don't supply references. That's not the same as saying Google will not use it for their own stuff. That would be quite surprising. In fact, I'm assuming they are developing it primarily as an internal tool, hence the disregard for a reasonable time line for shipment of 1.0
Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox To Add File Attachments
Perhaps the word you are thinking of is apocryphal. But I do like what the spelling apocraphyl implies--it sounds like some kind of plant compound. May I borrow this spelling?
First, Windows 8 runs fine with secure boot disabled, so there no need to "disable-reenable-disable-again etc. to switch between operating systems".

Second, how many folks that are able to install and configure Linux are unable to turn a setting off in the UEFI menu?

Third, you need to balance this difficulty against the problem of bootkit malware across the PC ecosystem. Why should the hundreds of millions of technically not savvy not be protected from bootkits by default?

Is there a way to make it less complicated for Linux users while still maintaining the security that Secure Boot provides?
I feel like the author somewhat contradicts himself when he implies the poor ghetto types will never be innovators but says the rest of us are all blinded from the "very real problems that the rest of humanity faces." If you really felt that way, wouldn't the ghetto types have a big advantage if they can get over their resource problems.
This is the kind of post that happens when someone gets so wrapped up in startup land that they lose all context of the "real world."

These "first world problem"-solving companies he's talking about are really just B2B companies made to help the ACTUAL, real-world problem solving companies do their jobs more easily. No customer cares about MailChimp. No consumer thinks about Twilio. They're not solving first-world problems, they're solving BUSINESS problems.

Downplay the importance of those companies all you like, but making one company's business operations better in turn allows that company to reach out and help more people.
If I had to guess, it might be related to this:
http://www.cloudlinux.com/blog/clnews/sshd-exploit.php

The details on that page are weak and there are all sorts of problems with the content in general (namely asking users to run a script blindly), but it seems to mimic what is described.
Congrats on the release. I can think of at least one big organization I've talked to that was chomping at the bit to try pandas but had too much of an existing commitment to Scala to take the Python plunge. [Disclaimer: brother of OP]
I've read that it may have entered through various control panels (Webmin, cPanel, Plesk). I found more info here: http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-bac...
for example, 'The Hunger Games' just switched from DVD only to streaming today. Never would have known that without the tweet. And it just switched today.
It's true. It is very hard to draw a line through what is "innovation" vs what is "iteration." All the tiny things we build sit on top of the other tiny things built by those before us, and in the grand scheme, everything is quite small.

However, this makes me wonder if maybe we shouldn't be focused on "innovating." Maybe it's not the goal (or it shouldn't be the goal). But then, what should? What should we aspire to build or create? Should we aspire to any particular thing? Maybe we should just do what we want and ignore what others have to say?

I don't really know, and I'd love to hear what others thoughts are.
In the market I think they are aiming at, $100,000 is quite reasonable or even cheap if it can deliver a plug and play private cloud that can scale out to 5 PB.
You could write the back-end in Dart, too. The Dart VM can do IO out-of-the-box. Just like the Node executable, it can be used to run command line scripts, web servers, or anything else you can think of.

Anyhow, since the front-end only communicates with the back-end via standardized protocols (say, HTTP or WebSockets), it doesn't matter what's used on the server-side. These two parts are completely decoupled.
I understood your point but I disagree that, when you have a stutter or a lazy eye, all that's wrong is lack of confidence. I didn't have surgery to fix my self image, I did it to be able to better communicate. When you're teaching or speaking in public in general, your eyes are very important tools. With strabismus, you can't communicate to someone in a crowd that you're watching them. Jack can joke and quip all he wants, but that doesn't change the fact that he has a handicap.
Not really just stop using/promoting bad design like jQuery plugins, eventually people catch on.
Opening a Gateway for Girls to Enter the Computer Field
I made a drag & drop image/file hosting site for myself & fellow developers.
The author may have used the words innovator and iterator, but I think the stronger message is just we need to stop valuing useless but addictive technological feats and go for what actually make a difference.
It doesn't work at all for me. Been trying for 15 minutes. :-(
Correction: zero tolerance for a system they've spent their entire lives within that never taught them the right way to think about their position in society.
To be fair, he can't be that honest.

It also has Biz' wallet. If it wasn't for him, this wouldn't even be mentioned. Developers joining are probably guaranteed a year or two salary, no matter how bad it is. Beyond that, we have to know more about it
Throwing out fallacy names doesn't address the problem with your statement.

You mentioned a Social Contract requiring healthcare. I'm asking you what the limits are of that supposed contract. If there aren't any in your view of morality, then be honest and say it. If there are, then throw us a bone and let us know where you think they lie.
For many corporations, the legalese related to things you create while under the employ of said corporation is rather extensive. Truth be told, there is a lot of boilerplate in there and most corporations are really only interested in stuff that competes with them, so it's more for defensive purposes than anything else.

That said, the language used is rather deep and entirely one-sided to the benefit of the employer. I would be surprised if any major corporation didn't have a clause of that nature in their standard agreements.
Very motivating and enlightening. You took the words right from me. It definitely hits home, and should be strongly considered by many.
Cheat Sheet for AIX User-related Commands (Infographic)
How WunWun Stops Amazon From Stealing & Creates 100 New Jobs
"business relationships"?
Your comment seems to imply that services like "Dining-In" and other Seamless providers that have independent delivery services require the blessing of the restaurant to engage in that activity. Is that actually true?
Yes, I think we both read that article correctly.

I'm saying that a rack full of servers is all hooked up to a single controller. You then have multiple, interconnected controllers, each one connecting a rack of servers. This is meant to give you HA and resiliency.

However, that is only true if the switch control plane is separate from the x86 hardware running in the controller (because, here we're getting HA and redundancy against the risk of controller hardware failure). I'd hope or expect that to be the case, because Nebula has smart people, but I don't see any material to that effect, yet.

(Typically a DC server farm will have two switches per rack of servers, with a dual-homed server having a connection into each. Therefore if one switch dies, you still have a redundant data path (though, only half the bandwidth)).
Funny thing is that I was a consultant before, and was brought into a company to look at their procurement decisions. And lo and behold, they actually had a helicopter. Needless to say, we said to get rid of it.

Other than that, the first two paragraphs made me think of my own startup, and how we can get users to engage more often and get more users. Immediately transported me into the head of our main users, and I had to message the developers on the team for thoughts.

Great post, and thanks for sharing!
The point I was kinda getting at is without a well informed consumer (good luck!) the best free market you can hope for is something rather like the process gamblers use to select a specific slot machine from a bank of slot machines. Or maybe a better analogy would be selecting a poker table in that you can select to sit down at the $5 ante table or the $10 ante table. Oddly enough given the strong asymmetry of knowledge and capital, the house always wins. Not much of a free market.

Although I would agree that in the extremely limited area of price discovery of certain procedures, I'm sure they do better, mostly because we do so poorly its almost just statistically likely by random chance to be better.
I think you're wrong. JavaScript has a great community with tons of talent. JavaScript is the problem. You don't see nearly the same level of problems in the Python community for example.
I didn't mean to imply a single factor. The ad spending may be the lighter fluid and the match, but community referrals are the fuel. They did a good job with that part. I've never seen an ad from them and I refer them to hundreds of thousands of language learners.
At long last!
This is all well and good, but I think the point is that there is an imbalance, and very few tech startups are going after the big problems these days.

There are some notable ones, but it seems to be the road less traveled.
Agreed. If netcat is the swiss-army knife of network tools, socat is the complete utility belt. I discovered socat because netcat simply wouldn't bend in all the ways I needed it to. There is NOTHING ad-hoc network related that I haven't been able to perform with socat.
Some background, this database stores data in a hierarchy data structure using a B+tree. I did some writing about this a while back, and talked to some of the developers. What's interesting about this database is that for specific use cases, it'll blow a plain old RDMBs out of the water in terms of performance because they've written a query optimizer and an execution engine that can take advantage of the proximity of related records.
It is easy enough to write a small bookmarklet that anyone can paste into the window to flip off the disabled field. Once that gets into the wild, I can't imagine this offer will last.
I've also lost count of the number of times the solution to some problem was to disable SELinux because we can't make it work any other way.
And obviously most advertisers don't want to be associated with inappropriate content. I remember in moot's TED talk he briefly alluded to the problem.
You touch on a good point, but I'm not sure it has to do with this particular piece. Rather, the author seems really confused:

There are great projects like Underscore, Sugar,
Prototype, jQuery, CoffeeScript and many many more that
help to work around JavaScript’s language quirks.
Unfortunately they don’t mix and match very well. Also,
which map() or forEach() implementation should I use if I
have multiple available?

That's like comparing barricuda, rubberbands, and bolts. Only one of the projects he mentions has anything to do with "JavaScript’s language quirks," and that's CoffeeScript. Just another person who did not know JavaScript/frontend development, expected it to be like any other programming environment, and bailed rather than stepping back and reconsidering his original assumptions.
I read it as "(cloud control) (freak appliance)".
Hi, first off...the Nebula One looks great, really hope to try it out someday at work.

Regarding the underlying framework, I'm not very familiar with OpenStack (we use CloudStack right now), but is this a proprietary fork of OpenStack or are you guys moving the project forward upstream?
Close.io (YC W11) Raises Funding To Improve Communication For Salespeople
Do you have any recommendations for literature?
Thinking about it on the other hand I suppose that is indeed true. I'm with a couple other posters on the other threat though and wondering how they plan to have this truly HA.
On the flip side, it also drastically changes the typical errors.

In imperative style, most of your mistakes or carelessness will usually mean that the machine makes a wrong result or crashes in the process - a bad 'what'.

In declarative style, most of your mistakes or carelessness will usually mean that the machine will take a bazillion times less efficient way trying to make that result, possibly taking 'forever' or running out of memory - i.e. a bad 'how'.
In some countries this is the way the law works
Why Apple bought WifiSlam, why Indoor Location will be huge
As with the others, send over what you want to me via email (in my profile) and I'll see what I could do for you.
For replacing ssh they need a priviledge escalation anyway, and after such escalation SELinux makes no difference.

Unless, of course, you run apache as root. Bu then, SELinux won't protect you either.
The Hidden Costs of Contract Work
They don't offer new subs anymore, and have not for a while. My boyfriend has Instacart Express while I don't and I was looking to sign up several months ago but was out of luck. Curiously enough, he has never actually been charged for the service but it's in his account. OP may want to check that too.. and for what it's worth, I know 3 people with Express that are all annoyed by this change. I think it's incredibly dumb to do this to your earliest adopters, since these three people are the ones that got me to try Instacart in the first place. At least give some kind of notice.

If anything I'm kind of disgruntled by the all-over-the-place pricing, availability, and quality Instacart seems to be offering nowadays - $7.99 for under $35 deliveries (was VERY hard to find mention of this number anywhere other than on the delivery selection page until recently - even when reported in the press was mentioned as "deliveries from $3.99" which was the usual line that also included the faster delivery service for, iirc, $15), $3.99 for over, free delivery ranging from, I don't know, $50 to $70 spent depending on the weekend, no mention of when deliveries are unavailable for the rest of the night, mistakes made when picking items... I want to love the service but after a point it's kind of just like... for $7.99 and the markup on most items to be delivered tomorrow morning because they're all out of slots a few hours early, I can just grab a Zipcar or walk and get exactly what I want from the markets I want (e.g. bi-rite). I hope Instacart improve quickly.
I Germany there is a small island called "Helgoland". It has like 10 inhabitants and can only be accessed half a day (tide). BUT they have their own zip code.
I have this zip written down in by purse and in the case a German retailer were to ask me for my zip I'd give that zip to them.

This prank is called "Ein Supermarkt für Helgoland": Trying to make them build a supermarket on that island based on the supposedly demand that people from Helgoland's zip code need one on their own.
Sure, but I think Red Hat has done a good job of simplifying things -- the SELinux booleans are pretty straightforward (e.g. "httpd_execmem" is probably something you want to keep off), the included users/roles are fairly useful, and the labels more or less make sense. For desktops, the sandbox tool is pretty handy.

If you need something more complicated, I can see it being difficult (having sweated through the process myself).
Robotics Competition: Tomorrow's Tech Talent Has Game
I'd like to know how they prevent plugins from colliding and polluting the $ namespace.
I fully agree and would be happy with this solution.

I am however more concerned that I am not the only person affected by this changed nor was the only person that didn't receive "notification" of this change.
There was competition. I got several price quotes, though I rejected the city hospital due to dirtyness rather than price.

I have no idea where this "you can't shop for medicine" meme came from. India prove it false.
Cool Pizza from Secret Library
I apologize if I implied that poor people will never be innovators, that wasn't my intention. I meant to suggest that those of us who already have these skills share them with people who don't...including, I probably should have explicitly said, teaching them those skills.
it all starts with thinking a green, bizarre little troll could actually build a profitable company that is easily repeatable by anyone with 2 years of university
The app is both on the web and on mobile (iOS and Android app). When you use it on the web, we advertise the mobile version, with the option for the user to give his phone number to receive an SMS on his phone with the install link. It serves as a reminder and ease the experience of finding us on the app store with a way better conversion rate than an email.
A long as you provide a little care, a type of support, (i.e bamboo canes) and lots of good soil, i.e., horse manure, is perfectly ok. In fact, it is much easier than in a garden full of snail, slugs, and other pests.
Hi, I stutter, often badly. Think this way - it is the fear that does this to you even more. I have learnt to live with it, make it your way of doing things - make people to accept you as you are, you will see you will overcome it - I worked in UK before. The card idea is perfect. When I public speak, I declare that I have a speech impediment and offer to re-iterate when needed. I taught a bunch of college kids in a classroom, all saw me, not my stuttering
Who are you criticizing exactly? The article is specifically about Window's Secure Boot, so it doesn't make much sense to bring iPads and other devices into it.

If you're talking in general, there are those who blame them: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
Having a hardware device reduces the number of things you have to worry about not being under your control.

For example, what networking are you going to use? Arista? Great. What's their latest supported APIs for Quantum? Well, they just changed (as in, last I heard they had a pull request open to OpenStack Quantum for support). OK. So Arista's API is now stable, great. Do they actually support what you want to do with your end devices?

What are you going to install Glance onto? Is the hardware going to be good enough? SSD? How fat will the pipe be into the switch? Dual homed? Quad? Is that going to fast enough if you want to spin up 100 VMs at once?

etc. etc.
As a long time lurker with a (self-diagnosed) ADHD I read quite a few comments telling people to seek treatment. Is the general consensus that the medication is necessary in treating ADHD?
(I'm not trying to avoid meds, just happen to live in a third world country where lack of focus and motivation is dismissed by psychiatrist as just laziness)
You said you emailed a dozen of people, where did you get their emails?

If from popular blogs freelancers have, most of the time these freelancers have their schedule full and tired as many others pointed of getting contacted with bad offers so they just ignore them.

I'll be glad to take a look at your email as well and give you feedback, and if it is a small project (can't take full time projects at the moment) I may be able to help you.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

You'd be surprised how many big strategic decisions are made on top of a mountain of opinions. Try to be guided by what is happening not what should happen.
This is very common. I think the key is that most of them wouldn't bother acting on it, UNLESS you were successful and for me, that was the biggest reason I was afraid it -- it scared me to start anything at risk for success.

Of course its a red flag, but when you're coming out of college, being told that jobs are hard to come by, do you really have balls to throw out red flagged opportunities? It's up to us as individuals to know and accept it as a stepping stone rather than a career.
TL;DR: Journalist decides to actually write about the professional life of the scientist rather than their private life and private properties when asked to write a professionally-focused profile.

Question: Why the hell did this take so long? Nobody writes ‘X is a great role model for people with Y hair’, even though there might be few people with Y hair in a given field, nor does anybody think it appropriate to write ‘Even though X is shorter than average, X still achieved enough to serve as a role-model for other short people’.
But they are failing by most accounts?
Microsoft is generally viewed as having been slowly failing since Ballmer took over, at least, AFAICT.
Dissecting the 1K Minecart JS Demo
It's also the type of discourse many of us would prefer to keep off of this site. Keep it to reddit, please.