skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you picked some poor choices for examples. I work in healthcare and I can assure you that the future is increasingly going to depend on mobile devices. Doctors in many places have been lugging laptops and crappy Windows XP tablets around for a while now. The push to electronic health records will drive mobile adoption even more.

I have no firsthand experience with the business of painters and plumbers. But thinking about other types of contractors, they do spend their whole day going around to customers (i.e. they are highly mobile). My last HVAC service call involved the technician using a tablet to enter my AC unit's serial number for a real-time warranty check. He then ordered a new part right there in front of me and I signed the sheet with my finger. I expect lots of plumbers would do the same thing with a hot water heater or similar complex repair.
Ansible is generally designed around being maximally auditable. For instance, an IT manager said he can write a list of tasks and take them to someone and it's easy for him, not knowing Ansible, to see what is going on. That's important to us because they are quick to prototype and don't end up looking like Perl.

Generally we discourage templating except in playbooks, because we don't like the idea of playbooks turning into code, and I don't like the idea of mixing a lot of Jinja2 syntax along with YAML syntax at the same time.

Playbooks can be broken up into small files if they get long.

This also keeps them machine readable, so if you wanted to later write a script to analyze them, you could. So it's very important for us that our files are actually valid YAML.

Because they are, they aren't a description that gets compiled for one server at a time, but are instead a process, so it's easy to have the steps on one server influence a server later on down the line.

I'm not sure of an example of a 'busy' playbook you've seen, but I'd suspect it's probably just needing some whitespace in between lines.

To me, while they may have taken some interesting choices here and there, I don't care for their format since it seems to have taken Puppet syntax and made it more obscure -- and the idea of mixing template loops and such in there and having two interlaced languages is too much.
That depends on how far you drive to the airport versus how far your plane trip is.
"the NSA/CIA could just have agents infiltrated at Google, to get access to a lot of that data" -- this would be really difficult, because no single person at Google can just sudo in some system and feast over sensitive data. Any access to user data or other highly sensitive data needs to go through a stack of authorizations, the granted access will be scoped, and we have obsessive amounts of logging in place even for trivial stuff let alone sensitive systems and data. One thing that surprised me with the Snowden leaks is that the NSA's "checks and balances" seems to be orders of magnitude inferior to what we have at Google; something like that is unimaginable here (esp. if you can believe the NSA in that they don't even know which documents were accessed). Even a conspiracy involving several infiltrated googlers at the right places couldn't do it without anyone noticing, because they'd need to sabotage code and configurations that live in repositories that thousands of engineers have access to (and have enforced code-review workflows); the internal openness of our systems is in fact among our best defenses against sabotage.
> pretty good

Depends on you feel about sex and drugs and rock'n'roll and homicidal transvestites. Worth catching as a cultural artifact. Cringe-level is very, very high for 2013 viewer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/
> If your company has 10 teams of 10 people, your most important action is not saving $500 a month. You're (hopefully) earning a proportionally higher amount for your 100 people and you should continue to focus on that. If the software stack helps, don't fiddle with it to save a few bucks.

This type of thinking is prevalent on HN, but it's not always realistic. Most companies of a certain size have financial controls, and even if $500/month is not a lot of money in a relative sense, the number of $500/month line items for nice-to-have, this-helps-a-little products and services is reasonably limited.

Getting a budget for something that isn't in a "checklist cost" category can be a real headache, every vendor relationship has overhead, and instituting a new SaaS for 100 people (and getting them to actually use it) may have its own costs (staff time, etc.).

> Make iDoneThis better at managing the ever-growing complexities of syncing information when you have 100/1000/10k staff members and you have no damned idea what they're doing.

That's a fundamentally different product than what iDoneThis has today. To support development of that product, it will need substantially more than $1,000/month in recurring revenue, or it will need additional funding.

> Especially because quite a few hackers are thinking "you know, I could make that app and sell it for a few bucks less." Don't race them to the bottom, because Twitter is at the bottom at $0p/m.

If you build a business around a simple concept that requires limited functionality, you can refuse to engage in a race to the bottom, but it doesn't change the fact that you will almost certainly be undercut if others see a worthwhile opportunity.

In other words, iDoneThis can keep its $5/user/month price point, but if this is an appealing enough concept, it will have competition, and cheaper competition, before it ever obtains enough revenue to "re-invest the highish costs" as you have suggested.
if any one is looking for lightweight alternatives, checkout SQL Buddy (http://sqlbuddy.com/) .
It's inconsiderate because they got all the men thinking about tits at a mostly tit-less conference.
A good mate of mine owns a fibre splicing business and has been doing predominantly NBN work for the last couple of years. He's fairly ambivalent because about the prospect of FTTN because much of the copper network is in such poor condition that it will need to be replaced. In essence he doesn't regard the FTTN plan as cheaper or more deliverable -- and he'll quite happily bid for the work.

NBN Co allegedly signed a an awful lot of new contracts prior to entering caretaker mode. During the election campaign Turnbull promised that these contracts will be honoured. I'm more concerned that this will result in a two-tier NBN, with over a million homes with FTTH, and the rest left behind on a 2nd tier system.

Perhaps Ziggy will set the Government straight...
I'm sorry but that was a load of horse-sh*t. Meaningless.
And if he weren't killed travelling he'd be stuck in traffic for 6 hours a day. London traffic.
Hi SlavD

There's no jumping through hoops, but a few things to be aware of. You can't deposit funds through one payment method e.g. credit card, and withdraw funds through another e.g. wire transfer. This is money exchange and we are not allowed to provide this. Refunds are different from withdrawals. Refunds can be for any amount at any time. Withdrawals have a minimum because we have people trying to withdraw $10 via an International Wire Transfer and they then complain either why the wire was not sent (because it costs $25 to send) or because no funds turned up at the other end after intermediary bank charges.

The support team and dispute resolution are well trained. If you would like to email me the ticket IDs I will be happy to send them to quality assurance to review.
This promo site is a bit blurry on what it actually does. A browser with a focus on gestures sounds like it could be very useful, if done right. I haven't seen that many apps or platforms get gestures "right" though.

I wonder what this browser is built from (Blink? What JS runtime?)
Why would you need SSH login option in phpMyAdmin? It was designed for single-server setups where the interpreter sits next to the database.
I'll just leave Shaun Micallef's segment on Tony Abbott's NBN here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-6E5yX1E0U
If you buy a TV with an on-board computer, your going to have to replace it like a laptop computer.
I initially checked out iDoneThis and liked the idea, but $5/user/mo was a little too much for my bootstrapped startup.

Hence, I just created a mashup of Google Calendar + Docs and Gmail to create a solution does the same thing as iDoneThis for zero dollars.
Indeed, "God will oversee this transaction and make sure everything goes smoothly for us faithful." Ka-Ching.
I guess 9/11 has been a benefit for Amtrak.
Not necessarily for 'Interested in Open Source', seems like tips to anyone who isn't using a repo alone.

I don't get it the part 'Updating Master to Reflect Trunk'. What is trunk? I remember trunk from the SVN days (trunk, tag, branches) but nowadays with git I don't see this terminology anymore. Comparing to SVN trunk is the master branch. Maybe I missed something, but I don't get it this trunk remote.

Also I would put a more flashy warning on amending something that is already pushed.
There's also the school of thought that you should be using the hardware configuration you expect most users will be running and make sure your product runs acceptable on it.

This might have been true for desktop software development, but not in this case. In the context of mobile apps, it's the testing devices might as well be low-end ones, not the development machines.
Freshbooks.
The fact that PGSQL doesn't shit all over your data due to bugs (like Mongo) or lose it if you haven't checkpointed it to disk recently (like Redis) was a pretty big win for PG to start with...
Guess what? People I don't know in a porn video performing sexual acts as their profession in order to sexually arouse people watching them are "impersonal objects". So are male and female models who exist as clothing-racks or make-up canvases. Musicians and actors exist to entertain and their dignity and personality are not relevant. My garbageman is a guy who exists to make my cans of trash go away.

Even you, as highly as you must regard every human interaction in your every moment of existence, surely deal with a great number of people on a regular basis who exist simply to perform a function that you benefit from.

As for "you can essentially do what you will with them"... I think that speaks more to you than anyone who enjoys porn, strippers, pinup posters, musicians, dancers, actors, or anyone else that they have no personal regard for. That statement is kind of like a religious person finding out that I'm an atheist and incredulously responding with "if you don't believe in god, how come you're not out raping and murdering people?!".
Shameless plug (just wrote it yesterday): Getting Started with Ansible on Digital Ocean - http://procbits.com/2013/09/08/getting-started-with-ansible-... (instructions will work with just about any remote Linux server)
Cue the "Joe Biden caused 9/11" conspiracy theories!
Why is Disney hiding Infinity?
We have a collection of semi-structured data that we've been storing with the JSON features in 9.3.

Very cool to build a full text search index based on things inside of JSON fields with about 10 minutes of time.
exactly... Xcode runs fine... we save moolah for new iPhones and Android devices as needed.. Im long overdue for an upgrade but Im not as important as some of my dev partners - and I save the cash for their needs / software hardware and rent payments. ;)
Why You Need Alignment and Focus to Produce Great Work
once i get someone on the phone, i can tell if they know what they are talking about, i can also assess their social skills - which is extremely important to me.

depending on how big the project is, i typically use trello to project management and i've built my own invoicing system. i usually use git labs for private repos.

but again, my main concern is whether they can get the project done. for me that comes down to communication. i've noticed that in other cultures, if they don't accomplish anything, they'd rather not tell me. it's taken time, but i've been able to really pound it home that it is vital that i know exactly what is going on in case i need to jump in.
Google search results show the Google search bar over the results. At least the first time.

It's pretty fast though!
Requests 2.0 coming soon with proxy support and bug fixes
Are we talking about iOS now? I just replied to your

> If you're a developer, you should have the best development gears you can afford.

generalization.
Another mind trick is to tell yourself a few minutes after takeoff that you're now very safe for the entire journey until the landing.
I wish SequelPro could have multiple SQL Query tabs open.
Google is changing its logo
Google offers new concessions to avoid fine in EU antitrust case
Thanks for the tip! This seems to be an interesting alternative to MSSQL Server Studio.
I read the original Cornell paper which attempted show the effect of security measures on demand for air travel (http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/gb78/wp/airport_secur...), and frankly I didn't find it very compelling. But even were one to accept its conclusion that security measures (and not an economic downturn or a change in preference due to a percieved risk) caused the change in demand, no one presents any evidence that the air travel was replced with car travel. It seems quite likely that many trips would have been simply forgone, or along the BOS-NY-WAS corridor replaced with the train.
SMTP-TLS should fix that, but then the problem is that many email providers don't support that.
I have asserted that it's not so much that it in itself is disrespectful. It is disrespectful that they would not take into consideration that some of their audience may be made awkward by it (and a person can feel awkward about many things which are not necessarily bad in any way).
WebKit. Or else it wouldn't have been approved by Apple (or it's using a server-side engine, which I doubt).
I first heard about this from the book, the "Science of Fear". It's unfortunate that fear of something like flight, can lead to death by other means.
That’s one heavy-handed promo video for a web browser.
Personally I prefer the old one - I don't find it to be garish or over the top, and I find the new one somewhat lifeless.
I always wanted a matrix of code in each language for accessing an API, the way that Rosetta Code shows examples for performing a calculation. I was shocked that there's no REST api category on rosettacode.org (although in fairness there's no http either):

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rest

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rest_api

http://www.google.com/search?q=REST%20api%20site:rosettacode...

I would very much like a language-agnostic way to tie all of these APIs together!
Also http://www.reddit.com/r/brokengifs
Nice :-) One can do something akin to this by using Radamsa -- https://code.google.com/p/ouspg/wiki/Radamsa (shameless plug) -- to fuzz bitmaps. Similar imagery is common when fuzzing browsers with image-containing samples and can be quite mesmerizing to observe. Fuzzing other media formats (such as MIDI or audio files) can also yield "interesting" results.
so you are creating an elite set of hackers at hackerlist? how are you finding and assessing them? how do you ensure that they will stay?

i hope to see a cross between a dev shop and a job board in the future.
Apple's app store doesn't allow apps that execute downloaded JavaScript without using the system WebKit library.
An intern's alternative for the Yahoo logo design
Male sexual desire is healthy. Heterosexual men like tits - deal with it. There's nothing "objectifying" or "misogynistic" about it. Jesus, what's wrong with you people? Is a man allowed to even look at a woman or is even that considered misogyny? I like women and no amount of buzzwords will make me ashamed of it!
Likewise. This is "the TV in the kids' room" device.

The Wii made a mint betting on casual usage and I'm constantly shocked nobody has jumped in. Sony is right on the money here.
Trunk is normally called origin in git nomenclature.

git push -f needs a big red box round it, not as a normal thing to do.

If you want to fix a pushed commit, do a new commit! If you keep pushing dodgy commits, try waiting between committing and pushing, or get better at reviewing your changes.
The domain is pretty unique and memorable.
Mongo - Sure. I'm hardpressed to find genuine reasons to use MongoDB these days. Postgres provides everything I need in a persistent data store and has a ton of other stuff I didn't know I'd need (till you do!). Mongo was great to use with something like node.js where the async/schema-less model translates perfectly but using Postgres with the async driver[1] isn't bad either. Add in hstore, JSON support, plV8 ... and what exactly would somebody use Mongo for? :D

Redis - No clue what you're saying here. If you're using Redis then you're keeping your data in memory and dealing with low level structures. It's for completely different use cases. A classic example is rate limiting for an API. Doing it in Postgres with a disk I/O per request would cripple any semi-popular API. The data doesn't need to be exactly persistent (if we miss a few updates due to the server crashing we don't really care). In exchange for that it's blazing fast for individual writes that we can batch together to backup to something like Postgres (or Redis's built in persistence like AOF).

[1]: https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres
If you use "git rebase -i" a lot, you should give the "autosquash" option a try. Basically, it enables "commit --fixup <commit>" that will display the commits in the correct order the next time you rebase. (A bit hard to explain, sorry)
Good to see this one up on HN.

I've been running http://www.weneedthenbn.com/ since Saturday night, and it's been getting a bit of traction, too.

My phone call to my local MP wasn't exactly promising - while I couldn't talk directly to the MP (although I didn't expect to), the person who answered seemed generally uninterested in anything that I had to say, and was unaware of the technical differences (other than "the LNP plan is cheaper").

I hope we can make a difference here, and there seems to be a lot of support for it. Even if 1% of the people who signed the petition called/emailed/wrote to their local member, we might have a chance of making a difference.
//"rockstars" wash up, burn out, fade away or simply die and the fall is as quick as the rise."//

So exactly as most of us have come to know the industry over the last two decades. :/
Reducing Raspberry Pi footprint
There quite a few tokenized BASIC dialects: http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Tokenized_BASIC
http://tradeshift.com
Sounds like an ad for a Dior perfume or something. Very strange.
what economic incentive does the healthcare world have to adopt something like this?

Not much, which is why this service should not be offered through the standard healthcare system. I can see two other ways to do it:

(1) I walk into a drugstore, sit down at the testing machine, select the tests I want, swipe my credit card, and the machine takes a drop of blood from my finger, runs the test, and gives me a printout of the results.

(2) Home testing kits for every common lab test, not just blood sugar.
Nowhere did I say that I "know what the whole group of Women is thinking". It's a bit ironic that you precede that with "Women find tit jokes funny" which could be interpreted as you saying that you in fact do know.

But I do know for a fact that some women, in fact some people do not find them funny. Which is what I did say.
Sexism is not a problem for men as long as men hold most of the power and are afforded most of the best opportunities.

Equality is not about uniformity — it is about the overall balance.

You are picking small examples where women outnumber men and are claiming cause and effect. Show me a genuinely powerful organisation or occupation that discriminates against men and I'll fight it with you.

Looking at Kindergarten teachers is a red herring. Look at board members, police & army chiefs, presidents, government minsters, nobel prize winners etc. THat's where the power is so that is where the sexism is.

Power & opportunities; not uniformity.
Redis has AOF persistence that does not need any checkpointing to ensure your data will be there. PostgreSQL is awesome and I love it, but it has nothing to do with you not reading the Redis documentation :-)

\o/ for PostgreSQL, anyway.
Python 3.4.0a2 released
>> "Globalisation is first and foremost the method for rich countries/companies to outsource their workload to a cheaper provider. "

>The largest result of globalization has been dramatically raising the standard of living of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people.

Doesn't change anything to the fact that it wasn't intended. Companies promoting globalisation aren't doing it to raise standard issues of living. Quite the contrary.

>> "You can't equalize level of life without social rights and globalisation don't push for that"

> When you raise people's standards of living they begin to demand their own social rights.

Same as above. Once the economic situation has been enhanced it will not bring social rights unless people (almose litteraly) fight for it. Globalisation by itself doesn't guarantee social rights because it's not architectured to do so.

Moreover: people with low standard of living still demand for social rights (see brazilian tribes, north american natives, etc.) even when they can't participate in a more rewarding economy.
Well, the Ouya still has some selling points over this device - we've got the Apple/PC division going here, since Sony is notorious for being one of the most hardcore we-control-your-device DRM fans while Ouya prides themselves on openness. With ease of porting from Andriod and very low development overhead, Ouya will still have some selling points for developers too.

I hope the marketplace has room for both devices. But yeah, Ouya will have to take this as a serious challenge - they'll have to move fast and get any outstanding flaws in their devices and libraries locked down.
I think all the "You are missing X" comments suggest that the OP is on to something. Great idea!
Weird story. I bet he died or something.
Less than 1 in 1,000
If I talk about a tree branch, does that mean I think the whole tree does not exist? Am I "objectifying the tree" by reducing it down to one branch?

That's why it's ridiculous to say that joking about tits is "objectifying women". It's not. You're wrong.
Fixing Fukushima’s water problem | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
TyPiCal: provably deadlock free execution via static analysis
Definitely some useful notes in this one. Didn't know that SD cards were so small!
Gravity variations over Earth is bigger than initially thought
I am not a tax attorney, but I've never heard of employee benefits being treated any differently in an LLC versus an S or C corp.

Edit: After looking it up, benefits paid to employees receive the same tax benefits as other structures, BUT shareholders/partners are taxed individually on the benefits they actually receive. Non-ownership employees won't have the problem. But again, I am not a tax attorney or accountant.
Flask-Migrate: Alembic database migration wrapper for Flask
I got a polo from these guys during the original kickstarter campaign and am going to order some more.
It is Webkit powered.
And perhaps the TechCrunch article can help you get a sense of what Opera is going for: http://www.techcrunch.com/2013/09/09/opera-launches-coast-it...
So then what's your point?

Don't joke about anything that anybody could possibly get offended at?
Harvest seems to accomplish what you are looking for. You'll have to use either Paypal or Stripe to accept payments. And there is add-ons to integrate with some accounting software but you'd to check for your accounting software.

http://getharvest.com
If they get support for PS4 gamepad, you've got a touchpad pointing-device right there. Obviously it's not nearly as good an experience as the Vita, but it's there.