skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know why they can't present it like hey guys it's not a good idea

Because there is a huge-ass economy hidden under 'green' politics and without the drama nobody would vote for governments that impose penalties on people using old equipment. Haven't you noticed that most 'fixes' on climate rely on buying new shit (German automotive market as the easiest example) and favor developped economies over the troubled ones?
I don't think it does really. Sites like leanstack.io exist but are not the same thing, they just provide lists of tools without the great context and human contact that usesthis has. Other sites have long interviews with founders without too much emphasis on the tools used.

I am currently adapting the usesthis approach to an idea that I have and would be very interested in chatting with you, or anybody else who's interested, to brainstorm on how to proceed with your idea.
I propose "anticipated lifetime consumption."
lobster?
Howlingly Unrealistic Hollywood Portrayals of Law Enforcement Using Computers
it doesn't have to be a pos! :) http://www.shopify.com/pos

obviously biased, because I work at Shopify. but this is a sweet product, and it works with your online store for inventory tracking, reports, etc.
It proves the opposite at contrary.

Corruption is the enemy of free market. The article explains that this situation is due to Vladimir Poutine giving away taxpayer money in huge amount for control and loyalty. Doesn't sound like free market.
>I'll invent a position from whole cloth then present it as a quote the parent comment to turn him into a straw man, then I'll have a debate with that straw man. Then I'll kick a puppy!

Why would you do that?

If you read my comment you'll note that I said "many hands go up" "most hands go down." I'm not saying everyone who dislikes PHP hasn't used it, merely that there's a large number of people here who dogpile on it for no reason other than "it's popular to do so" or "I'm half way thru _why's Poignant Guide so I'm pretty sure that qualifies me to comment on every programming language and why it isn't as good as ruby."

Please note that: a) I use PHP but I'm not a slob, I critique bad PHP freely[0] and b) people are coming out of the woodwork saying 'yeah I don't use PHP but I downvoted it'[1] so I think it's fair to say my original assertion (many people are "disliking" PHP from an uninformed position, merely because it's popular) stands.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6510051 < note how this thread goes from (in my opinion) a salient, relevant discussion of the codebase and how to improve it to "durr php suxx" circle jerk in approximately 2 comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528073 "I voted dislike to PHP despite not having used it."

EDIT: trigger warning- more sarcasm | Here are some more thoughtful, informed, salient comments about PHP that really add to the discussion and aren't just "lol php suxx amirite??":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527280
The irony of this is that lack of 'proper processes' occurred because the new government had to do this ASAP, before the 'red managers' (actual management of properties in question), backed by labour collectives, assume control over the means of production in the country and reverse the 'democratization', privatization and whatever new shiny things reformists intended to do.
The ACE Problem Solving Method (I use this)
I hope SSL is a fad.

I haven't once seen an intranet renew it's SSL certificate on time so it means at least once a year there will be a period of a week to six months that you have to click through a warning message.

Google switched the search to SSL and now nobody gets referrers for Google searches anymore.

When Google switched to SSL now I have trouble when I connect to public WiFi networks that want you to agree to something or log in to use the network -- it used to be you got redirected but now search just breaks without a sensible warning message.
A law fining Americans for not buying health insurance is not a "tax", it's a fine. It's a civil punishment. Double-speak. The sky is still blue even if the Supreme Court rules its green. The individual mandate is a civil penalty just like a parking ticket. The supreme court is a joke and the commerce clause crap has gone beyond the absurd.
I agree. But like virtually any site of which I am aware, Lavabit didn't force PFS. It's browser-negotiated. The "funny" thing is that there's a good chance that any one user might have been using PFS, so it's less likely that they can get a specific user's data (Snowden) and more likely that they can get a random sampling of other, non-target users' data.
C# chose to leave this up to the JIT/VM to implement, rather than compiler. Both Microsoft and Mono's .NET runtime will choose to inline functions based on some heuristics. (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473782/inline-functions-i...).

However, the (old, forked) version of Mono used by Unity does not appear to inline functions - at least not when using the ahead-of-time compilation required to run on iOS.
I voted 'like' for erlang, but what I really meant was that I really like elixir :)

Thanks for creating such a fun language Jose!
You know that not all government websites are public facing, right?
Voted up: Scala, F#, Ruby, Python.

Voted down: PHP, JavaScript.

I do not like weak typing or silent errors. I do like functional programming.
Agreed. Unfortunately its posts like these that have become the norm here.
Local cooling doesn't contradict global warming any more than the existence of glaciers contradicts summer.

Regardless of where you fall on the scientific spectrum of accepting the conclusions being drawn from the evidence, or where you fall on the spectrum of proposed political changes (if any), that's just basic logic and reasoning.
I would agree with this except for the, "you don't have to worry about it." If it scales by a huge amount over a weekend when you get some exposure, for example, then the costs can surely increase very quickly?

I think I would rather have things overload and go down than have a remote service be able to handle it but charge me a fortune.
Dropcam's new $199 Pro model aims to be the smart home hub
How we managed to get revenue before product launch
You're right. So how else could this problem be solved given the power constraints?

(P.S. I do have to mention - It's very likely that my critique is completely invalid because they may have performed measurements of these birds in flight Vs. these birds on ground, and the accel data may show completely different characteristics for both. It's also likely that they may have chosen the sampling rate and data duration based on these experiments, but since this is HN, it's fun to speculate on how this experiment could be improved.)
Media Training is an OPSEC skill
For internal resources, there's no good reason at all to use browser-CA certificates. Just set up your own internal CA (it's like 3 openssl commands), add its certificate to your trust stores, and sign your own certificates.

If you know you're only ever going to have a couple-three boxes using SSL, you can also just use self-signed certificates and a static whitelist. Self-signed certificates don't work at all on the public Internet, but they're just fine for internal resources, as long as you can somehow pin them.
Kickstarter: Control your sprinklers with your smart phone
Almost all the world's new millionaires are in the US
Memo to the Next Microsoft CEO: Hire Leaders Eager to Experiment
I asked about something like this on the sec.SX[1] and at the time it was vaporware. I am glad to see that it is now available. This is a lot better than "openssl s_server"

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/q/38084/4564
> Amazon trying to get startups drug-dependant on their stack

That's a silly (and predictable) criticism. Of course this is Amazon getting their product into the hands of potential large, future customer. Business Development 101.

What isn't clear is why that should be considered a bad thing? Startups have little money and little time. If this allows them to get a product out faster and for less money than otherwise, why not? Every little helps. As others have pointed out, they're not locking you in any more than any other external provider would.
I love how a discussion of climate change brings out all the armchair scientists. Who knew HN had so many lurking PhD's?
thanks for the link. it was a good read. however, i see nothing in there that suggests that using a pepper is necessarily a bad thing.

i think the answer from rory mcclune puts it well: "Another add-on I've seen to this is to also add in what was called a pepper value. This was just another random string but was the same for all users and stored with the application code as opposed to in the database. the theory here is that in some circumstances the database may be compromised but the application code is not, and in those cases this could improve the security. It does, however, introduce problems if there are multiple applications using the same password database."
I would just like to point out that this is quite possibly the only violation of Betteridge's Law I've found on HN in... gosh, quite some time. Maybe ever?
hahaha - very true
Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 to make an appearance on October 15th?
Weather != climate. I can't predict a coin toss, but I can say that odds will be 50:50 on the long run. If we load the coin we still won't be able to predict individual tosses, but we might estimate that the odds changed to 40:60, eg.
Heroku has a free tier, Amazon has a 'first year free' tier for a lot of their products these 2 I'm using at the moment.

No idea about MongoHQ.

I think the free stuff is basically for making and running an MVP, not for running at scale...
Data is the new oil, privacy the new environment, mental illness new cancer
University builds 50' bigfoot spotting blimp-drone
Twitter’s Silent Chairman
I didn't say anything about "american made" goods specifically.

"effective" can be measured multiple ways. The more money that's spent on US companies keeps the money in circulation in this country longer than sending it directly to a Canadian company (even assuming they have some US-based contractors on the project).

More to the point, the project is primarily code development, which isn't substantially cheaper in Canada than here (again, not sure where the work was done, and by whom, explicitly). All things being somewhat equal, services money should by default be spent with US companies.

From what I understand, this was a no-bid contract, so how could CGI being "most effective" ever have been the case? Unless, of course, the overhead of a bid process was factored in to the equation; then, sole-sourcing can always come out ahead.
> Poverty/wealth is, on the whole, a consequence of chosen behavior.

That's very true, but an equally important factor is compound interest, which tends to amplify what might initially be very small differences in wealth. I once wrote an article (http://arachnoid.com/example/#Compound_Interest_Example) in which, as an example, at age 20 a prudent person invests an inheritance of $20,000 for his retirement at age 60, expecting to withdraw $45.00 each week for walking-around money. In the experiment, if the investor withdrew 38 cents more each week, he ended up flat broke at age 60. If he withdrew 38 cents less, he doubled his money.

Another factor is that being poor is expensive, there's no other way to put it. When a rich person uses a credit card, he gets a free 30-day loan. That service is being paid for by those at the bottom, who have a constant balance on their cards.

A poor person has to buy insurance for his house and car, because they're both on bank loans, and the banks require insurance (and the bank loans sometimes double the cost of the purchases). A rich person can buy things in cash, and then self-insure using his assets to cover accidental losses.

Let's face it -- overall, being poor is a very bad business policy. But the point is that an old adage about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is backed up by simple economics.
Free Amazon Web Services for startups
Akercocke's entry is wrong. I choose death, and it says:

>WRONG! IKEA Item...Akercocke is an English progressive blackened death metal band, known for their Satanic and sexual lyrics.
Because i dont need async programming to generate files or optimize images.And nodeJS RDBMS libraries are a joke.
That fact that people are disliking languages they've never used is one of the reasons I'd agree the poll is meaningless. Sure, it's reasonable to dislike a language for whatever reason, but that doesn't mean that the results of such a free form poll can be interpreted in any meaningful way.
Please do not let this discourage you. The stories are, sadly, quite accurate depending on which company you work for (there are better situations than bodyshops) but we can't afford to give up.

Dive in and help change things. This is a monumental challenge that requires more people that know a better way and are willing to act.
>It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension

If a project compiles down to Javascript and is intended to be used as such, a .js name suits it regardless of the source language.
Fitbit Force Released with display and upcoming call notifications
I went straight ikea and got the same score (sample size=1)
CAFFEINE AND TEA: Myth and Reality
http://i.imm.io/1i2eK.jpeg

19/20. Trve kvlt.
Yeah, that's the value of a "benevolent dictator" in business. Skunk Works had one, Apple, Python, Ubuntu, and SpaceX too, and all blazed incredible trails in their fields.
This pricing? http://www.mailgun.com/pricing

Curious what the attractiveness is, considering both Amazon SES and SendGrid charge 10c/1,000 emails from the start. You have to push significant volume at MailGun to reach 10c/1,000 eventually, but at that level MessageBus is pretty competitive.
Ah, didn't realize that. I'm a solo dev so I didn't run into that limit haha.
The like:dislike ratio is a metric with some information, as well as the absolute numbers of votes (for mindshare).
It doesn’t matter what, but do it.
I'm not sure where the idea originated that readability scales with the number of parentheses, but I wish it would hurry up and die.
So is this really just another rant about PayPal - which would be hardly unique or unusual.

Or....

Is this just a ploy to get yet another stupid social media site some visibility traction on HN?

Hmmmmmmm?
Really interesting. If I'm reading it right, every release (e.g. a homepage refresh) gets packaged up as a separate Lucene Solr Index. Interesting approach. One drawback is that they don't appear to keep previous indexes lying around, so it's not possible to see what your site looked like in the past (though there's always the Wayback Machine).

Having implemented a very similar system (albeit one that relies on SQL as a key-value version store, caching queries heavily and invalidating those caches where appropriate), very impressed with their implementation.
How to monitor site performance from your user's browser
Gets on hobby-horse

For the jobcentre site (as was), 'Start with needs' means IDS needs to be able to monitor these shysters for not getting a job.

Gets back off
You make a very good point. But I would rather have a business model in place which means that if things overload, so does my bank account.

I wish more startups would start up with this premise in mind, as at the moment I'm looking for specific services for my company, and I have the added task of trying to determine if the cool startup I'm looking at has a business model in place so that I don't have to worry about looking for a replacement for them next year when they close down.

(And yes, I'm looking for stuff which my company can pay for, not freebies)
"It's just metadata" is an absurd rationalization, nothing more. Here is what that type of information can leak about you, http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention/.

Also, $3,500 is 2.3333 days at $1,500/day rate. Trivial.
How to Turn an Idea into a Startup
My first thought would be to scoff at your criticism. Would the birds' travel patterns be any less impressive if they were resting for very short periods during these 200 days? The sensor measures acceleration, so the only potential confusion might be with light movement near ground / trees.

But according to another study, some migratory birds rest for only seconds at a time during their flights:

http://www.livescience.com/1045-migrating-birds-hundreds-dai...

At 4-minute intervals over 200 days, you have 72,000 datapoints. There are 1,920,000 9-second intervals (avg nap period from other article) over 200 days, so given their data collection spans only 3.75% of this time there's a chance they missed one of these naps.

Nevertheless, this is still very interesting.
You can go with Mandrill by mailchimp and get 12K free per month...
https://mandrill.com/pricing/
But these books do not present the geostationary and geomobile models, and explain the differences and how the data fits.

They put out a book "GEOSTATIONARY: The Blah of blah blah", and they talk about a tiny subset of the supporting evidence. They won't mention geomobile, or if they do they won't accept that facts at the time are explained equally by both but to destroy geomobile and the gullible saps who believe it.

Your quote argues persuasively against the books of Gladwell, which are semi-truthy, using Science to sound authoritative and accurate but without accepting any of the fluidity of actual science.
Ocean Acidification: Did the Seattle Times Get the Story Right?
So you're angry at google because by them adding security, you now get warned about insecure content rather than being immediately redirected to a site without your choice because your content has been hijacked?

This right here is why security will never be mainstream, because consumers value convenience over the ability for their browser not to run arbitrary code.
I don't dislike Java as a language I learned OOP with it, actually, Java made programming exciting for me when I was learning. But what I really dislike are some tools around Java, maybe this is totally subjective, but I don't like its most common IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse, JDeveloper), I dislike the look and feel of its default desktop GUI libraries (Swing, AWT) (I know I know, who the hell still develops desktop apps these days?), but what I really dislike(almost hate) are the web frameworks from Oracle.

I'm sure there must be several great tools out there that replace those that I don't like, but I haven't had the time to explore.
Ah, I didn't know they wanted that information as well. Does seem like a hefty task.

I wonder if there's a precedent for paying people for this sort of work.
Hear hear!

I'll never forget reading a blog post [0] by Brendan Eich in which he addressed upcoming ES features that were influenced by or emulated Coffeescript syntax.

It was a pretty solid Krusty the Clown reference on his part.

[0] https://brendaneich.com/2010/11/paren-free/
Is this in response to the problems with the website or the system as a whole?
Gov.uk is, amazingly and surprisingly, well run, and I think this advice is solid. But broadly speaking, it's not like the British government has done much better with large computer projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health
Introduction to Multiple Regression
The only services with my payment information are Heroku and Amazon. On Heroku, the first dyno is completely free and it doesn't increase the number of dynos automatically. But when you have heavy traffic, you can easily scale the number of dynos.

Amazon does charge automatically and doesn't have a limit on the maximum amount I want to spend, so there is a risk there. But then, its not too expensive even if I get a lot of traffic.
How much of numpy can you use in pypy?
Body hacking and losing weight.
Beautiful 3D elevation maps of San Francisco
Personally I'm ready to start filtering anyone that prefers JS over CoffeeScript. Its just about superior in every way. Maintainability goes up as the lines of code drop precipitously and significant whitespace, come on guys. I use bracey languages all the time, and moving to one that doesn't isn't that big a deal.

The real problem is there are a lot of "developers" that came up just doing simple Javascript functions. They know their functions, and they dont want their world to change. They would rather accidently reference closure or global and type significantly more code than learn a slightly different way to code Javascript.

Complaints such as "extra hassle due to compilation" are laughable honestly. If adding a build step is an extra hassle, this might be the wrong profession. Tinkering should be in your nature!

CoffeeScript super charges Javascript. Any truly competent JS programmer that gives it a try for a few days would realize it.
I posted my reply prior to reading yours, but that's exactly what I missed, as well.
If you feel you cannot do it then don't do it. There is no reason to torture yourself psychologically and physically if its not something you want to do.

I see a lot people writing comments about how to improve your speaking skills (which could be something good to do but...) while ignoring the fact you're basically worried about breaking down again from the pressure.

Please take care of your basic needs and mental stability before worrying about satisfying others. If you feel you can do it, give it a shot. If not, save yourself (and the organizers) grief and bow out now.

Please be well and take care of yourself.
Am I the only one that felt uncomfortable at how this journalist felt the need to make his biological dad aware that his long-lost son is Jeff Bezos? Not appropriate at all, and completely unnecessary involvement in their private lives.
Increase Java app's throughput by 20x with Asynchronous Servlets
Apple: "It's what you buy"
Personal Drones Fly Above Burning Man
There is OWIN for .NET which is the equivalent of Connect / Rack / WSGI. So hopefully in the future it won't be reliant on IIS.
Same here. I must have unsubscribed.
>We should share what we’re doing whenever we can. With colleagues, with users, with the world. Share code, share designs, share ideas, share intentions, share failures.

…and also share data about the interactions between UK citizens and their government with a foreign corporation.

Who on earth thinks it is appropriate for Google Analytics to be informed about my interactions with my government? Or for Google Analytics to be informed when I anonymously report a crime[1]?

[1] http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/47069/is-it-et...
Ask HN: What do you use for sub-contractor payments?
I have a couple of sub-contractors doing some work for me and I need to pay them. This will be a regular arrangement, so I need something that is easy and quick. I don't like PayPal and my bank is slow about things. I'd rather not have to deal with checks.

Is there an online payment system that any of you are using to pay your subcontractors?
MongoHQ also has a free tier. Good for getting the MVP out
It has no useful relationship to reality. It relies on a self-selecting group of people to download and run their app to collect data, and then presents that data in what I'm sure is a precise but utterly inaccurate form.

If you believe it, there is no signal from any carrier at either my current home in Washington, nor my previous home in Santa Clara. And there is certainly no T-Mobile, AT&T, or other GSM carrier signal to be found anywhere near my current home (my AT&T iPhone stubbornly insists on working regardless).