skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my biggest reservations with a programming career is the general lack of human contact. Open offices alleviate this somewhat, and make work much more tolerable to me. I do realize that I am significantly more talky than most of my coworkers though (Sorry guys!)
In 1914, W.B. Yeats published the book Responsibilities. The first poem, "Pardon Old Fathers" included the lines "And you, silent and fierce old man/Because the daily spectacle that stirred/My fancy...".

Anyway, that's the way it reads in the Collected Poems I bought long ago. To be sure, if you Google for "Pardon Old Fathers", the versions you find will say "Because of the spectacle". Is that on account of the Internet's (because the Internet's) jealousy?
S/he was using CoffeeScript, obviously! :)
One of the comments, kinda what I already expected: "Spoiler: One of those guys used to work for Salesforce! (not kidding, they announced it during the demo). The French guys were followed around during the entire hackathon by a salesforce camera crew (I was sitting right next to them, some of the salesforce people even came over to help them submit to be sure they got it in before the last 5 min was up, kinda knew they were in from day 1). One of the finalist teams didn't make the check-in time, so they extended the check-in by a few hours (saw that one coming too). And last but not least, the healthcare app. Although I liked the app, it was way too polished given the team size, and the time allotted (I mean wow, very professional if it were true), but the fact that they were using lots of logos (with trademark) of some big insurance companies in their demo and video (specifically in the rules, unless of course all those big companies gave written consent in the 3 weeks), kinda figured they were getting a leg up. The bluetooth app, that one I thought had value, and was innovative (albeit not realistic in facial recognition). I would have voted for that one if I could.

You could tell it was just a dog and pony show on the 2nd day. Some people were helped, some werent. Then, when you submitted, all you got was a "sorry, your not chosen" -dear john- canned email... Nothing telling you where you could have improved, nothing saying what your score was, no information at all. Just a simple 'sorry'....

Turned out to be a huge waste of time, energy, and money. Wont be coming back, that's for sure."
As another non-US citizen I have to agree with Patrick. The US legal system looks like it has gone out of its way to punish the foreign competitor. Or more to the point, the jury in this case. Did anyone expect a bunch of US citizens to support a Korean company competing with a US icon like Apple?

As a New Zealander, this whole affair seems like a load of US-centric BS to me.
Ask HN: Which Has Better Tech Scene - Baltimore Vs DC Vs VA?
Please which one is better?
What you're probably imagining: http://cdn0.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/4243405/microsof...

What I'm imaging: http://www.tsemrinpoche.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20060... (a world without ads and bullshit)

What actual Winamp users really want: http://www.avinashtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/winamp...
Inspiring Letter from Berkeley Math Professor
Hells yeah - me too. Groklaw was IMO one of the biggest losses from the whole NSA spying saga.
Khalida Brohi: From Balochistan to MIT
Carambola2[1] runs FreeBSD[2] and thus a version (it's way different than OpenBSD's these days) of Packet Filter[3]. Putting the ADSL modem in bridge mode and this very cheap device as an advanced firewall can keep you safe. You have to write the rules manually, it's a time-consuming procedure (a little bit like programming) because it takes a lot of reading, etc. But once you get the hand of it, writing rules your self gives an absolute control of what goes in and out of your network.

[1] http://8devices.com/carambola-2

[2] https://code.google.com/p/freebsd-wifi-build/wiki/Carambola2

[3] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-pf.html
Did anyone think DRMed systems can ever be trusted? If you are using one, expect stuff like this by default.
I run an xmlrpc server, then have the jobs log to the server while they are running. Then I just look at the server logs as they come in (they're files, so tail works fine)

This works across the internet.
Storage company Box closes $100M round at $2B valuation
I'm not a fan of yaml but I do love Ansible anyway. Another nice thing about it is that it requires nothing on the remote side other than a running sshd and stock python. You don't need to deploy anything like a chef client to each remote system.
Small or urgent is the same level of distraction http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
eggcorn? http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

Example

> When all is set and done
Another great Manning title. I like their books for the non-BS approach to teaching the topic. Gets right to the point.. I don't have time to read a 1500+ page book.
Meta-study says too much carbohydrate, not fat, leads to obesity
What logic? What paradoxes? Debian BSD and Debian GNU would be fine with me. There is no such thing as Linux without Linux, even in android you can find the Linux goodness if you want to.
What sort of communication between your TV and these domains would you feel is important?
I know, that's my point. These funding event amounts are big enough to be great exits for most founders.
Their prize structure reflects rewards in winner-take-all scenarios, such as the tech industry. How much money is the second-best CRM system making compared to Salesforce?
Life isn't fair. I accept your unconditional surrender.
I see that it's licensed GPL, but then the "pricing" page says the open source version can be used on up to 10 boxes. Is this a code restriction (which could be circumvented) or is it an additional license restriction (which the GPL expressly disallows) ?
I've been looking into this possibility myself, as we're currently upgrading our home entertainment systems and I was unpleasantly surprised by the lack of alternatives to "smart" TVs.

Unfortunately, typical home or SOHO Internet and wireless set-ups tend not to support something like shoving all your AV equipment on a separate VLAN when it hits a wireless router. Ideally, you'd probably want either direct access from that router to the Internet, isolated from your main network, or if you've got a slightly more advanced set-up, the ability to set up a static route that will only allow traffic from the AV part of your network to your Internet router, again fully isolated from your main network. Sadly, playing with VLANs tends to need a step up to a more serious level of networking equipment and in particular routing hardware, and the price for that is prohibitive at present.

It would certainly be interesting to see some advances in basic routing coming down into the home/SOHO markets, though, and potentially developments of consumer-friendly hardware firewalls as well. As homes become increasingly networked and automated, I suspect there is going to be a growing market for dealing with these kinds of security issues but with minimal set-up and as few different items of networking equipment as possible.
Thanks, this is very helpful. We will consider this in our next iteration.
I'm a fan of pfsense:

http://pfsense.org/

It might be a little more complicated than a standard consumer-grade router, but it's powerful enough to do almost anything. It's based on FreeBSD and has a reasonably pretty GUI on top of pf.

I've used it on alix embedded hardware before, and have it currently running on an atom supermicro board - both work great.
Ansible has so far been the best software I have ever used for system administration. Love it!

After the nightmare (for me) that was chef/puppet, Ansible is heaven!!
major congrats to turian and thom!
When you put it that way, they sound a lot like.... ActiveX
IPython has to my knowledge always used those kind of labels for inputs and outputs. It just follows from the CLI convention.

I looked up how it was in version 0.0.1 from 12 years ago and it turns out the original CLI format was made to look like Mathematica [1]: "Interactive execution with automatic history, tries to mimic Mathematica's prompt system".

[1] https://gist.github.com/fperez/1579699
A whole lot? I mean, I don't have exact figures but knowing a few I hardly doubt the next competitor has 95% less profit than SalesForce. Tech isn't winner take all in most cases, it's a few take all, like say 4-5...
What are you looking for? entrepreneurial support, engineering jobs, what?

I've lived in DC and now in NoVA.
that'll make some money.
I look forward to the day when chrome is the only OS and all the proprietary OSs have finally died out.
Not to mention it cost $500 to enter, meaning negative EV, not as bad as the lotto, but still a losers' gamble.
The dangerous precedent set here is inclusion of Terms & Conditions on multipurpose electronic hardware.
Jealous? To me it shows aggressive brand management. I've never really seen Microsoft as a company above ribbing on competitors. Why is it even a bad thing? Apple did it against PC for like a decade.
While it's technically true that "a large majority of clients won’t care one bit if you code their app in Meteor or Fortran as long as it just works," I take issue with the quote, "We sell them on Meteor because JavaScript is a universal language and it will be easier to hire for later when they replace us."

When your application is built using a framework (or "platform") today, the underlying language often matters very little and you will realistically need a framework expert. Yes, you might be willing to pay somebody talented to learn, but a lot of good developers won't even want to touch a new framework unless they believe it will take them in a direction they already want to go in the first place.

I don't envy the companies that are being sold on the frameworks and NoSQL databases du jour. Most of them are merely buying themselves a limited labor pool and high salaries/hourly rates.
Wouldn't that rule apply to a Winamp fund as well?
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There is a lot of info out there on this stuff. I would suggest talking to an EE as a friend of mine was all over this 10 years ago and I suspect the field has only gotten more refined with time.

From what I recall, storage is often the key to making these things really useful. Take say a temperature reading every minute store 60 of them and burst that data once an hour and you need a lot less power than you might think. Granted, that kind of lag is not so useful for critical operations, but for say monitoring a bridge it's a good fit.
In open offices, these are the things that are problematic (when it happens from the person who is sitting next to me):

- cell phones
- chats
- social networking
- random web surfing

(when my neighbor does it)

Maybe I'm not just concentrating enough at work. But perhaps there is a way to solve these problems?
This is a shared control, interactive collaboration, similar to shareJS but WITHOUT developer integration. Not just add chat to any website. That would be lame. Had to clarify, as some people expressed confusion.
Asus Transformer Book T100 review: Bringing the netbook back, almost
Nope, Ansible is GPL without restriction like that.

AnsibleWorks AWX is a commercial UI and REST API solution that sits on top of Ansible -- and 10 nodes are in fact free there, Ansible is all you want! The pricing is for AWX beyond 10 nodes, as well as included support. (You can also get support if you don't care about AWX, but AWX is included).
Every propellerhead on the planet will buy some just because.
Do you happen to have any examples of those kinds of products? I'd love to see what kinds of small SaaS apps are being run by one or two people as a lifestyle type of business.
Same one!
Too bad Ansible will not support Python 3
I wonder if this would be a good system for backups of Linux boxes? That's $.80/mo to store 20GB. Could be really cost effective doing differential backups.
No - when most people use the term "open source", they mean something along the lines of the Open Source Definition (http://opensource.org/definition), rather than the literal meaning; this is independent from the distinctions between open source and free software, which are mostly about philosophy rather than the set of applicable licenses (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html)

I suppose that you, however, do not, which makes what I was trying to say irrelevant.
I was about to bring up the exact same thing. I see some positivies in the the text editor not IDE approach that linux / unix folks take, but I don't find this approach so amazing that programmers need to trade intellisense / auto complete / In-IDE debugging / Refactoring features for this.
I was present at Ross Ulbricht's bail hearing
just by association with inpenetrable, armor-piercing bullets, etc...

http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW118285.html

"UOW researchers have used graphene to develop a new composite material which can produce the toughest fibres to date- even tougher than spider silk and Kevlar!"
Glad to see HN is keeping the exact title, including the grammatical error.
there's an advertisement in there somewhere...
Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible. What do you use for server setup and deployment?
Proggy_fonts is dead?
Just realized that http://www.proggyfonts.com/ is down. It's a shame since those fonts were imo the best pixel fonts ever made for programming.
The website and the files are still accessible on Archive.org

RIP Proggy!
Cool! thanks for the clarification. I've been trying to wrap my head around Salt for the last 2 days, and this looks really nice. I think I might have to try it
Why growth hacking is buzz word bullshit
Feds say Silk Road suspect’s computer shows he (thought he) plotted 6 murders
The interactive command line shell of Sage is IPython.
Apple had a point, that they were cooler. They were saying, "hey, we are different". How does what Microsoft's saying about Google not apply to it? MS doesn't care about your privacy any more than Google. With the Snowden revelations and all, they have no case to make.
Publicly advertising an investment opportunity is simply not allowed.
Ok. Google now wants to shit on the browser as well
Would you like to continue using 'googlemployee1' or use your real name?

Ok! We'll ask again later.
Forget the Dow. The point is that the markets are doing well, despite all the negative coverage it gets from the media and so called pundits. Corporate profits are near all time highs. Companies are becoming more lean and mean. Innovation and the proliferation of new technology is shifting the paradigms of every industry at an unprecedented rate. Europe is finally starting to see a bottom. China has enormous potential of becoming a consumer market not only for itself but for the rest of the world. South America (Brazil mainly) is taming inflation and spurring healthier economic growth. I'm not going to go through the list of countries that are doing better than they were 3-4 years ago, the BRIICS are doing better, to say the least. The trailing P/E is at 17.6 which is below an average of 18.7 going back to 1956. Of course the markets are going experience more volatility and turbulence at times, but that's inherent. The markets can retrace 10%, which seems to be the number everyone is focused on, sometime in the next 3-6 months. The market can also run up 20% in 4 months and retrace 10% in the 5th month. How are you going to win that game?
It matters because it matters to people. It's completely arbitrary, but sometimes humans just work that way. Like it or not, there are going to be individuals watching the nightly news tonight and will hear about the Dow crossing 16,000, and they will think "Wow, it's going up, I need to get in on this," and/or it will affect their confidence as consumers going into an important time of year for consumer spending.
Wikipedia is a large wall of text with some pictures here and there. Who complains about it? Everybody uses it.
Dandy, but Chrome Apps will only ever be marginally more widespread than ChromeOS.

Q. Why?
A. Node-WebKit Apps aren't crippled with the sandboxing of the Chrome App API and easily let me target Win/Lin/OSX without requiring the Chrome runtime.

FWIW, I like ChromeOS and would buy a couple of ChromeBoxes for family members, if they had reasonably sized hard drives (200+GB)(SATA) for pictures & videos, and weren't so dependent on Google Drive. Non-tech savvy
_NEED_ ChromeOS, they don't need GDrive.

How many of us need yet another IDE for HTML5, CSS & JS? Not me, thanks though. Please Google, get back to autonomous cars and get serious about ChromeOS already.
I have always wanted to know.

What does Bill Gates want for the world?

He's in India helping Polio efforts [1] and helping distribute mosquito nets in Africa. [2]

What does his philanthropic soul want, in the end and in the larger scheme of things?

Has he ever expressed this or laid out?

There wasn't much in his AMA on Reddit a while ago. [3]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230330950...

[2]
http://www.kplu.org/post/bill-gates-vs-mosquitoes-whos-winni...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_c...
I was not sure if this was from 2013 either, since the date at the bottom of the page shows 2007.
WOW! I have a fritz box and never knew it could do that.......... mind blown!
JavaScript hasn't had simple data access for a long time if ever. Computed properties have been widely supported for a long time, there's "watch" [1], and of course there's the prototype chain. ES6 adds proxies, which makes practically everything you might want to do with an object potentially have custom behavior. IMHO, in JavaScript you might as well respect the uniform access principle, since "a.b" meaning simple data access has arguably never existed.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do
You'll still find some manufacturer who slips the nefarious content right in along with the same datastream that offers a legitimate service...

I'd rather pursue legal mechanisms than technical ones in this case.
Most aggressive marketing/brand management generally doesn't involve selling products saying "[competitor] is bad and evil!!!"

Commercials sometimes, sure, but not wearable merchandise. I think it makes Microsoft seem quite petty, especially since they're trying to coin a whole new word out of it ("Scroogled").
As someone who has closely followed the literature (I scraped and reviewed pretty much all of ACJN) - I find it fascinating that nobody has gone to the effort of doing a large-scale controlled study on this topic.

Seriously - how difficult would it be to just get a large population in a controlled environment for period of time (12-18 months), separate them into groups, and feed them pre-determined diets, and observe the results.

I'm sure there are lots of institutional opportunities where we have large populations of people who would be happy to volunteer for this type of study.
Also check customerpath.io, it was created at df13 hackathon.
Computed properties are a good workaround. Getters and setters could be better though. That way no one on the outside of the object needs to know the details at all. Am I right in saying that by sacking off old IE browsers we could switch to getters and setters (as in, native js implementation) already?
There are a surprising number of those which could potentially be useful, like 0x0B501373, 0xCA11AB1E, and 0x5E77AB1E.
I'm very glad to live in this era. I can imagine a few years from now young people will be talking about how back then they used very thick condoms that suppressed all pleasure and people still fucked using them.
He left the company earlier this year.
> It helps to have a phone that is not the computer you are working on.

Agreed. A coworker of mine rolled back to a restore point, which caused his computer to get kicked off the domain. He couldn't log in at all, so he had to call IT. The problem was his phone was a softphone on his computer.
If this is “secular stagnation”, I want my old job back
I'd rather pursue legal mechanisms than technical ones in this case.

They aren't mutually exclusive. In particular, the very fact that a manufacturer tried to do something covertly as part of another system the customer authorised would potentially make their actions a criminal offence where I am, as it clearly becomes unauthorised access and not merely a privacy or data protection issue mostly likely dealt with through regulation or a civil court.

I can't help thinking that the world would be a better place, and one with a lot fewer of these shady behaviours, if the individuals who were knowingly and deliberately arranging them at each company were personally on the hook for that criminal conduct, and not able to just turn a blind eye and rationalise the abuse away because their employer's lawyers could handle any consequences.
It reminds me of the following quote - don't attribute to malice that you can attribute to incompetence.
Bacterial antibiotic resistance increases with exposure to the antibiotic. With targeted treatment there is less exposure for a given clinical effect. Therefore lower resistance.
Hopefully the packaging is slightly different than what is pictured. :)
So I could eat 10,000 calories of fat per day and lose weight if I cut out the carbs? I doubt it.

There seems to be a zero-sum mentality that will (maybe) never die off that if one food group is good others must be bad. As for me, I'll listen to Michael Pollan's advice:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
I had the same thought. TLDP is how I got PPP working on my 28.8k modem when I first installed RedHat in 1999, so maybe the information on TLDP is out of date?
Thanks for mentioning the name of the service so I can block it on Ghostery.
I'm looking for a configuration management system since our VPSs are getting a bit crazy to manage manually.

Been looking at Chef and Ansible primarily. Anyone have a good comparison between the two?
The Bill Gates Foundation is positioning itself in line with organizations such as the World Health Organization. Or at least that's how I see it.
Show HN: My first venture at design -- I redesigned the Unicomp logo
Ahhh... a browser, a text editor (emacs for me) and a terminal. That's my ideal dev environment. I've never been able to figure out IDEs.
https://openexchangerates.org comes to mind.
Yeah the project owner should add a disclaimer.
That's odd, considering I downloaded a fresh set of Proggy just a few months ago.
First rule of taking VC funding - be aware that you're on someone else's schedule once you do.
http://transifex.com is one option
Or not. The depicted condom would provide quite effective contraception for more reasons than just the material strength.
Apple Inc. Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government
10,000 calories of fat would be extremely filling.