skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL.... BIG LOL! Only who lives here in Brazil should know that software engineering skills is not the requirement to be accepted in SERPRO team. And, considering the corrupt chain of outsourcing related to most of IT projects here, maybe would be safer for us to stay being spied by NSA and other agencies.
It does, Gatekeeper has gotten a little more restrictive as the seeds have gone out (at least compared to where it started). If you don't have "allow me to install whatever I fucking want" checked Gatekeeper will refuse to load unsigned Kexts...which I suppose is ultimately not a bad thing. The majority of users have no idea what a kext is or recognize the security implications of them
I signed up with DreamHost a couple of years ago and they sent me my password in plaintext in the confirmation email.

Am I wrong to have walked away immediately?
You're not very good at explaining it either. Plus, selection bias may not be the only sampling effect here.

Selection bias is when a developer from Big Biz is more likely to go to conferences than a developer from smaller business. Do you have any specific reason to believe that? Not knowing much about conferences, I don't. So until you tell me of those specific reasons, I have no reason to believe in selection bias.

Now, there's another sampling effect: maybe Big Biz simply hire (much) more developers than smaller businesses. If 5% of Big Biz devs work on Ruby, and 10% of startup devs work on Ruby, but 90% percent of developers work for Big Biz, then your Ruby conference will still be 80% full of Big Biz devs without selection bias, even though Big Biz is twice as hostile to Ruby.
That is correct. The adapter is continuously improved and is at a very stable point now.
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Inspired by that post[1] on Go a few days ago, I made a few animated parametric plots:

http://i.imgur.com/gUm1T5S.gif

http://i.imgur.com/xR5uqle.gif

http://i.imgur.com/SVvuRII.gif

[1]: http://www.pheelicks.com/2013/10/intro-to-images-in-go-part-...
That's what happens when you realise that it costs more to acquire a user than you can make money off him/her. There'll probably another layoff in 4 months and another one and then we have an acquihire, yeah!

Ugh, I tried to like it, but I just dont like Path. If I can think of a vanity startup with vanity PR, vanity founder, vanity metrics, it's Path. Ugh.
In that case, it's not an article, it's an advertisement.

the term "sources" and "poorly sourced" are also often paired with "source confidentiality", "source checking" and other similar terms are often subjects in press and media establishments of notable quality.

I imagine Wikipedia has co-opted this kind of standard operational diligence in an effort to not suck. Unfortunately, in my opinion, this article does not burden itself with such impedimenta.
They are making the claim that they are doing it for security reasons, why wouldn't they want the code audited? A gov't employee could write a backdoor just like a private sector employee.
I have a good chunk of the frontend up at https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace. As for the APIs, we will never see that code - Healthcare.gov reuses a large number of critical government systems that will likely stay closed forever or are paid vendor systems, like Oracle Access Manager.
Same boat here; we switched to Wave (http://waveapps.com) a month ago and it's been great, even with the multiple currencies and offices.

Love it. Recommended.
This really makes little sense. The service was designed so that the data was encrypted.

He could just let people download their data and decrypt it locally. Instead the site is prompting you for a password which it could freely capture.
If you don't shop on price, there are some excellent hosts out there.

But you do have to be willing to pay $20 or maybe even $99 for your completely business-critical, complex infrastructure, rather than merely $2.99 pm.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: Let's say that I want to manage my clients' accounts using Xero, but my clients have no interest in using Xero themselves. Does that mean I have to pay around £19 per month per client?
I've been using nginx for a very long time, but I am getting a bit nervous about it. As an example, the nginx Plus feature of "Application health checks" has me concerned. This is the feature that performs an HTTP request on a backend server to determine if it is healthy.

That's such a simple and necessary feature of any reverse proxy that it should obviously be included in the free version.

So, are they going to avoid ever implementing it in the free version? Would they turn away patches to add that functionality? I know there was an open source patch that never made it in, but I don't know why.

And what about staging/dev environments? Do you really have to pay full price to get basic features for internal testing servers?
> I love not having to use the shift key every two characters for expressions.

Just customize your keyboard layout, and reverse shift behaviour for the number row. There, better symbol access.
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I'm pretty sure the female NASCAR driver was a knowing and willing participant who received compensation for her actions. So, not exploited.

Not that this discounts the scummery of GoDaddy.
I've been with them for quite a while and one thing I've noticed they do differently is that they will upgrade your service periodically while not changing the price. For example, I've gone from 128MB to 512MB of usable memory for my vhost without paying anything but my $9.99 a month. There are other anecdotes (awesome control panel, good support, etc...) that make me think it's unfair to group them with other hosting providers that never do anything but the bare minimum.
Thoughts on GoDaddy buying Media Temple
The only difference being that once those markets are consolidated to a few key players, they become very different.

You can't just start an airline overnight. It requires massive capital upfront. A hosting company simply requires a server.
Count me in. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get local credit unions to adopt SFIN: http://simplefin.org/
It feels it almost instantly (speed of sound in matter), because the tension in the cord is lower.

In a slinky the inertia of the slinky itself resists things, but not so in a light bungee cord.

You can try a weight at the top and bottom maybe.
I can't speak for Nginx, but it seems to me their enterprise product is very reliant on their open source product. Their customers will probably users of the opensource product that seek a little extra.

If they would slip up and let another open source software be better than their open source product it would eat in their customer base and eventually cost them money.

This is why this business model is so awesome. It is both excellent for the users, who benefit from having the core contributors be paid and highly motivated to improve and maintain the project, and good for the contributors who are finally able to work on the project they love without the distraction of having to do other work for money.

That's not even mentioning side effects like the fact that paying customers are more likely to give feedback and report bugs/missing features.
Success is not about finding what you think you want to have but realizing of how much you already have.
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I would love to see a visual representation of the relationship between pitch deck length and successful raise. I was surprised by the length of this deck.
The End of Hitler’s Family Line – The Pact Never to Have Children
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simpler explanation?

when you hold the slinky in the air by the top, the weight of the bottom is equal to the force of the tension of the spring, otherwise the bottom wouldn't remain stationary.

once you let go, the force from the spring should decrease as the top falls downward. But the top gathers up more of the bottom as it falls, so the smaller bottom needs less force to hold it in place. Apparently the decrease in mass of the bottom and decrease in tension of the spring exactly cancel each other out.
Fair point - I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone who doesn't get to play with the proprietary tools :)

For the animator in the street, as it were, Clarisse looks pretty impressive.
It is worth noting that if you don't use the new features and running VirtualBox on old hardware there probably is no good reason to upgrade at the moment.
>Who is that someone?

That someone is Glenn Greenwald.
No worries - your service kicks ass. I like not having to manage my WP installs :)
yep! Just got one a week ago, their pricing is cheap, and their servers are great.
Greenwald is definitely non-partisan, and in fact he goes to great lengths to point out that the people who supported him when he reported on government abuse during the Bush administration have become some of his strongest detractors when he reports on the same things under Obama's administration. He doesn't really hide his own personal ideologies but they're certainly not loyal to any particular political party.
As a supplement to your comment, the Philanthropy section of their Wikipedia page is around 285 words. The Controversies section of their Wikipedia page is around 1542 words. Of course links to edit the page and footnote links make these numbers slightly off. Linking to the Controversies section seems rather appropriate considering the disproportionate nature of the two sections.
Original and only prior to ICANN.

Original price of a domain: free

Next price point a bit later $100: 2 years min ($50 per year)

Next a bit later $70: 2 years min ($35 per year)

Then came competition and prices dropped.

Little known fact: The first registrars that were accredited
had to certify that they had no criminal record
(any of the officers) and had to be a corporation
and post $100,000 bond as well as other hurdles
which were all put in place by Network Solutions to limit competition.

Out of NSI came Verisign which had to erect a "chinese wall" (iirc) in order to separate the "registry" from the "registrar". Verisign of course ended up selling off NS.
I always point people to Rands, a veteran technical manager whose advice I've come to trust quite a bit: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/04/11/the_busines...

HN regular patio11 wrote up a longer, more detailed post as well: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

But, start with Rands.

One other thing, I don't think Amazon negotiates much. They are famously thrifty. A friend recently interviewed with them, and they offered only a 5% bump over his current salary (expecting him to relocate to a higher cost of living) and would not negotiate further. I've heard similar stories from others.
Kite, the easier way to deploy your code, launches private beta
Path originally touted the idea of having a limited friends group - only your closest. I thought that actually made sense.

Then they started spamming people in your phone book, completely ruining the entire point of their original pitch. Now they seem to make money selling stickers? I'm not sure why any self-respective developer would still be working there.
Your blog is now on my (short) reading list.
The way that a slinky moves also demonstrates the question that some ask about the giant stick and the speed of light.

To explain, if you had a button a light year away and had the option to press it via a remote hand, the fastest we could tell the remote hand to press it would be one light year.

However, there has been the question of whether a long stick that is one light year in distance in lieu of sending a signal to the remote hand could be faster. The way the slinky moves would demonstrate that the giant stick would not move faster than the speed of light as the motion exerted on one end would actually travel much slower.

The slinky is quite useful for demonstrating movement of objects. :)
I originally started using MT because it was what Techcrunch used at the time when they started and iirc a few years after.
If you were to use this, would you really want to give all your detailed financial information to someone else? Who else do you give that info to? So desktop definitely good idea.
Hypothesis 1: He wants to give low profile users, the kind that use it for mundane things (because why not use cryptography?) the chance to recover their mail at the cost of a privacy leak. In his hurry he forgot the minor detail of PFS. Fetching their email now is not for the paranoid anyway. The alphabets have root.
Hypothesis 2: The alphabets set it up as a trap and simply forgot to turn on PFS like before.

Interestingly, in both scenarios the activity will be very logged and the alphabets will get all your data, but absence of PFS is unrelated to this.
I've written what you are talking about for my own personal budgeting (http://www.allocateapp.com). I've never taken it into full production for the same reasons that you are mentioning. It currently supports my banks and anything OFX and works great. But something like Yodlee is what is missing to make it production worthy. It is too expensive for what I want to charge. I'd like to talk to you more. Send me an email - jason@jasonfunk.net
Does this mean we know longer need Congress because we can legislate through version control? Cuz that would be awesome.
For an invite code:

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I didn't get any skittles. :) But seriously, statuspage.io is amazing. It solves a problem that startups don't have time to execute on correctly, but having a status page is a must. Well done Scott and Danny.
I think what happened here is that Cr-Content-JavaScript is the wrong/outdated label, so V8 team was not automatically CCed. It should be Cr-Blink-JavaScript these days.

I have pinged relevant people.
Yes, but that isn't changing continuously.

You get one build that is targeted to a specific compiler. Sure, upgrading the compiler might change what you need to optimize, but that happens when you, the developer, decides to do that, as opposed to when the user decides to upgrade their browser.

You can say "the JS sitting on the server, being served to clients, is fast with asm.js" That won't change until you re-compile it. With the JS jit, you can't know that.
Could someone please list the equivalent systems this is could replace? (linux or windows)
This is interesting since I'm sure the feds want cooperation from Amazon, and hence Bezos. If Bezos is behind it, then that might make some sense - NSA forces Bezos to comply with whatever they want, and this is his way of fighting back.
> If there is no kludge exists and no real competition exists, then does the need even exist? (Probably not)

And even if the need exists, people probably don't think of it as the kind of problem that has a solution ... the hardest part may be getting them to realize that a solution could exist.
Brace Yourself. Christmas is coming.
I understand that it's not worth the cost to cleanup the history, but it's always frustrating to see such a project come with a 100kloc "initial" commit.
Thanks :) Makes much more sense now. Also, is there any way to pass metadata to a markdown file?
Neither? The address book debacle was a big deal for a little while, but the bad press faded quickly.

I also don't think Facebook's position is unchallengeable. After all, Facebook wasn't the first social network, and it looks like the youth today aren't using Facebook nearly as much as older generations, preferring newer apps like Snapchat.

In all likelihood Path destroyed itself by being a not-very-good Facebook competitor. This says little about the feasibility of toppling Facebook.
On skim, I do not see any hard definition of the "outstanding success" you envisioned for Nickler. If you never defined it, you cannot achieve it or know if you have. What gets measured gets done but, also, you need a measurable goal to know when you are done.

So I think what you had in your van were easily achieved and easily measured or recognized goals. Things get harder to see when the goal is larger and seems nebulous. You need to make it tangible somehow.

Best of luck.
> going to be funded by a particular backer

Somehow, when I read this, I imagine this guy :)

http://i.imgur.com/IF7omHj.jpg
Who do you rent from?
Is a 0% return better than a -100% return for the equivalent rent?
Poll: Which Startup Compensation Plan Appeals to You?
The topic of reviews and raises came up at work today, and my coworkers all had different ideas about what compensation plan appealed to them. Some liked a high base salary, some would prefer bonuses, others liked stock options. It got me thinking, which would be the most popular plan on HN, assuming a software startup wanted to hire a new engineer and pay an average of roughly $110k in total comp per year for the first 3 years.
$105k/year to start, annual review with unknown increases
$100k/year to start, up to 10% annual bonus, annual review with unknown increases
$90k/year to start, stock options (assume 50-50 chance they're worth $100k or $0 in 3 years), annual review with unknown increases
$100k/year to start, $110k 2nd year, $120k 3rd year guaranteed
This idea that science and philosophy are separate things needs to be killed. Philosophy isn't limited to navel-gazing about imaginary things. The scientific method is something that was determined through the application of philosophy throughout the ages. It's the application of logic and the reasoning around how best to determine robust results - this was achieved through 'applied' philosophy. Science and the scientific method relies deeply on philosophy - science could be described as being the business end of philosophy.

And the highest qualification you can get in science is a PhD - a doctorate of philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
PHP has HHVM, Symfony, and Composer; it does not suffer from any of these problems. Ruby is dying, PHP is the future.
well, it was a good run, MT.

I wonder how many of their employees will leave MT
I've been doing some robotics stuff using my arduino and ruby via the dino gem (https://github.com/austinbv/dino)
> in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.

This has as much to do with schools hiring "staffers" and "instructional assistants" as a cost-cutting measure as it does with top-heavy public school bureaucracy. It's akin to the "associate/adjunct professor" fiasco in a college environment.
My worst experience was with Joyent. I paid a few thousand for web hosting for life that helped get them off the ground. But when I called in one day to get support they kept cutting me off. I was very patient and tried several different avenues but they would not help me. Finally I lost my temper and used the "F" word in their forums so they killed my account completely. I even was able to talk to the founder, and I've got to give him kudos for being a great boss protecting his team - but he would not listen to my side of the story and I Lost all my data and never received any refund. They do NOT know customer service.
"But it’s also highly commoditized: hosts can’t differentiate their products very much, there’s effectively no barrier to entry, switching at any time is fairly cheap and easy, and most customers buy primarily on price."

I don't agree at all that for many website hosting customers the process is "easy".

A typical web hosting customer is not tech saavy they either have it being handled by their "tech guy" or they can't even remember how their files got onto the server in the first place with their static site and sometimes they don't even know who is hosting their site [1].

[1] Source: We're a registrar and we get the calls and emails of confused customers who have no clue where they are hosted. They don't even know enough to look at the whois and see the dns to give them a hint. Actually you'd be suprised how many times someone will access our whois and think we are their registrar.
What about the old saw that population is increasing but square miles are not?
So, if he's launching his own thing, then it's going to be like Democracy Now, except Greenwald's project will be privately (?) funded. That's good, I guess. Greenwald has my respect as a journalist and I can't wait to find out what he'll do next.
> It's just hard to hire Ruby developers, who are getting more scarce every year.

Citation?

Why would Ruby developers be getting more scare? Are they retiring earlier than Java developers?
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I don't know about Amazon, but big companies usually have standard compensation including relocation that they can't easily depart from, except for "stars" or upper management.
its a nice post, and the note that MT was planning for exist since day one is insightful ... i didnt know that

but i cant help but feel, the MT story was forced into this post to make the much general point that most hosting companies are horrible

also, he does seem to miss a smallish fact MT or he doesnt raise it clear enough .. MT was not a great host .. it was an expensive mediocre host ... but i think he probably did downplay this a little to make his louder statement that things will get worst for MT ... mainly because the founders left

i have to disagree, MT wasnt, he sort of admit it, the founder was never a believer he admit it ... MT didnt loose much

plus if hosting is such a comodity and MT wasnt good .. the customers should feel they really lost anything

again i believe marco used MT story as just an excuse to make this post ...
I would suspect the general counter would be that the capital required for home ownership is substantially higher than that for rent.

If you're going to have this money there are many better ways you could invest it than taking a 0% return from buying a home (and hopefully also overtake the cost of rent).
Awesome! I'm signed up for alpha! Thanks!
She doesn't deny that she was discriminated. She just didn't notice at first, because it happened on a closed mailing list. And by the time she discovered it, she's already proven the bigot wrong.

She's absolutely fortunate to be in that position, compared to other women who get more publicly demeaned, and don't get the opportunity to prove the bigots wrong. But it's also important that her story gets told, and that she doesn't get labeled as "the problem" simply because her experience is more positive than that of others.

We need more women with positive experiences in tech. Denying the positive creates the impression that it's hopeless, and there's nothing good regarding equality in the tech world. The good examples exist, and we should see them as beacons, rather than deny their existence. In the end, I hope more women get to experience tech like she did, and more misogynists get their comeuppance.
You know, when you pay rent you generally receive a place to sleep and keep your things. Just because you aren't making money on it as investment doesn't mean it's a loss.