skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be entertaining if the NSA could use blockchain data as an aid to cracking systems which employ SHA-256. It would be doubly fun if bitcoin was originally some off-the-cuff gamification scheme to help generate lookup tables for the NSA.
The core problem with Google+ is that people don't want everyone to know what they Google. What goes in the search box is treated as private (even though we know governments can see it, we expect that our neighbours cannot) and now anyone can just skim to our Google+ profile to see everything we've ever done.

I miss the anonymous Internet.
I really don't understand why practically no other sites have adopted the slashdot moderation system. It isn't perfect, but it is by far the best moderation system that does not require large time commitments from the site owners.
Neither the government, nor the people of the United States, are alone on this planet.
The only reason I can see for this being this high on the front-page [18 points and only one comment(from a googler)] is the google employee block vote (apparently tech-savvy isn't a prerequisite in the google upvote marketing department):

1 million requests per second is 20 times greater than the throughput in last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, which served 125 million users in Europe No, r/s != Gb/s.*

(Cue the down vote from the google up voters)
CS 6964 Image Processing: Image Mosaicing
> They'll far surpass AWS for performance, ease of use and cost.

Most likely. But those aren't the only things developers care about when looking for PAAS.

There is that whole "Platform" aspect. And AWS destroys Google in this respect. It has far more offerings and more importantly it has a very large ecosystem of companies who will be in the same data centre who you can leverage e.g. Iron.io.
As a viewer I've already eliminated it by joining their Feather beta.

As a video producer, I'm forced to keep comments enabled so I can keep in touch with my fans.

Thankfully I use two separate Chrome identities.
>> it's a matter of science and objectivity. If we can't reliably measure it, it doesn't matter that it exists, because anyone can claim to have, or not have, the condition.

> Does this apply to people experiencing pain?

Yes, because pain has been shown to be very subjective -- disappearing when a pain-relieving drug was claimed to have been administered but wasn't, as many studies have shown, or appearing out of nowhere with no empirical cause.

So yes -- most certainly. Pain is not a reliable form of scientific evidence, because it relies on self-reporting (among other reasons).
Ask HN: What do people use instead of Jira?
I run a product team using agile. My company uses Jira. It feels like a bloated piece of software with a ton of unnecessary features. What alternative do people use and love?
Angular-pickadate - simple datepicker for AngularJS
Although the ipv6 addresses are all technically globally routable, my (ISP-provided) router defaults to not routing new incoming connections through to addresses on the LAN. Outgoing TCP connections work fine. So in effect you get the same security as NAT.
This is the reason that our site. http://plexisearch.com uses Google App Engine.

Google has allowed us to run "Code" rather than worry about infrastructure. Because it is an "Engine" we don't have to configure much, and the autoscaling is fantastic.

Google Edge Cache means we get Better than CDN performance on static assets.

There are limitation to AppEngine, but because we can also leverage virtual servers we can create a hybrid environments that let us do things AppEngine won't like install C Libraries, or run Windows (we aren't doing that, but we could).

We have been very happy with Google App Engine and since we are running millions of pages a day through our Natural Language Engine it has worked out really well for us.

-Brandon Wirtz
CTO Stremor.com
Python+Numpy+Scipy+Spyder/IPython have made headway around these parts in displacing MATLAB/Simulink.

Simple single installers (Python(x,y), etc) have certainly helped.
TigerDirect would keep selling there. This does nothing to stop the tide.
It doesn't seem that out-of-the-ordinary in how horrible it is, but there is something really unsettling in the "yeah, this is going to be terrible" attitude of the job poster. There's an arrogance there that I don't think is earned by being part of an only sometimes funny publication.
In the United States -

Abortion, religion, health care, gay marriage, immigration, welfare, guns.

To name a few.
There an RSS feed or any other way to poll the site for updates?
I keep checking to see whether or not I can run my own images yet but Google Compute Engine so far supports less things than even Digital Ocean.

What if I don't want to run your version(s) of CentOS/Debian, guys? Hmm? (I hope somebody from there reads this) :)

Still, its a very very interesting offering and something to keep an eye on. I bet nobody here is using it yet because its still early days and the thread devolves into such old classics like "you'll never be able to reach a human at Google" and "they changed up their pricing with Google App Engine that one time and my app was no longer free to run all of a sudden!". Sigh.

I personally think it would be great if you could spin up the same instances on either cloud and load-balance/fail-over as needed/cheapest. Docker makes it doubly exciting.
That seems dramatic. I was struck by how low the numbers were.
"Even PhD's and extremely driven & accomplished people could not find jobs. "

That's definitely something that people usually don't take into account when they have a great job currently or pursue a "great" career.

Something in demand today that gets you in a great lifestyle will also put you in a super specific niche that, with all you qualifications, you can only do a very narrowly defined job. That may only exist in one place (the place you are currently working).

Otoh, if you are in, say, less glamorous job "sales" and you lose your sales position you can always find a job making money and selling something else. Not that there aren't super specialized sales jobs (say jet engines at GE) that would be hard to duplicate but you could probably land another high paying industrial equipment sales position.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry reading that.
Isn't this a reason to replace the syslog daemon rather than the webserver?
The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage
I knew it! Thanks for making this clear.
> For psychology to become a science, it would have to study an empirical organ like the brain.

No, it could just study an empirical thing like behavior (which, incidentally, it does.)

> Instead, psychology relies on self-reporting by the owners of the minds under study.

Some branches of psychology study the relationship between other empirical facts and people's self-described experience of mental states, but both the other fact and the descriptions are empirical facts.
A movement cannot outgrow its charismatic leader until the leader dies. Satoshi would find it very difficult to retire if he wasn't anonymous.

Also, Satoshi mined ~1.5M BTC, now "worth" over $1B.
But that covers all days of the year, right? So the corresponding number for just Black Friday would probably be 0 or 1 deaths by lightning.
Finally, a flagship-worthy phone that lasts for a day!

I think there's a major discrepancy between performance and battery abilities in the current flagship market. Specs are being beefed up with little care for power consumption.

Moto G cuts the crap and gives us a full day experience on a quite capable hardware with great screen. I'll take two.
Remember the 90s? More specifically Windows & Linux? One was completely network oriented but sucked for graphics/sound on the desktop, the other was the complete opposite. Both moved towards each other, but with massive growing pains - some of which still linger today, a few decades later.

Google does ads. FB does social. They're moving towards each other. These G+ problems? Mark my words: Google's Achilles heal for ever.
Better Than Unit Tests
Fring acqui-hired Walt. He built a business for distribution and sales, then acquired the competing company for their brand and talent. (Fring ostensibly had a cook pre-walt, but it's never addressed). He gave Walt a salary instead of ownership. He saw that Walt was a bad cultural fit, and intended to replace him with Gale. Once Fring was gone, Walt and Jesse went back into business, selling their product to Declan, who only had a distribution and sales organization, and, unlike Fring, was not focused on vertical integration.

The metaphor doesn't work around equity, non-competes, etc., unless you know a start-up that uses violence instead of legal documents and arbitration.
I am completely sincere and I was referring to all manner of artistic creation.

Are you familiar with the concept of poetic license or has your digital life completely beaten out any sense of art from your world?

The main problem here is the age old dichotomy of Dionysus and Apollo... er, I'm sorry if I resort to stories, shall I instead delve in to the labyrinthine machination of modern philosophical thought? But then don't you see the amount of wasted effort that poets have to go through to "convince"? Again, the burden of proof shouldn't be on me to convince you that "seeing is not believing". I can't ever prove that to you, or to anyone. I'm not choosing the life of a missionary, rather a story teller.

If this doesn't make sense, I'm sorry, but I guess I need to enter your maze...

I think the main issue in Silicon Valley is the emphasis on rationalism. There is no art or love. There is rampant irreligious sentiment. There is rampant disbelief in the magical nature of our reality. You can say it isn't magical and it is completely rational, but the truth of the matter is you can't ever prove that. You can only theorize. The problem arrises when you start to put your misplaced faith in to science and technology. That's the fucking problem here!

Misplaced faith, faith in the creations of men, and not faith in fellow men, is the fucking problem.

Faith in Seasteading, Transhumanism... faith that men will become transcendent, hero worship... it is all signs that people have turned away from humanity!

Put your faith in to your fellow men directly, not through the lens of something else.

Stop building fucking mazes for your desires to get lost in to! Online dating sites? Social networks?
I'm glad someone spoke up about it. I was rather insulted as a developer myself who feels undervalued that a business is doing nothing to help improve conditions for developers, this is why the industry is plagued with mental health issues; we aren't sleeping, we are drinking a lot of coffee, we have no time to socialise or even spend time outside in the air/sun. Workplace conditions as highlighted in the job ad for Penny Arcade are what is wrong with the industry as a whole.

Don't get me started on the ridiculousness of expecting someone with a computer science degree for such a job. After spending tens of thousands of dollars on a CS degree, I'm sure said developer would love nothing more than to get a job that underpays, has no perks or offers real value. Surprised they didn't list they wanted someone with knowledge of plumbing and performing complicated electrical work with experience working in a commercial kitchen and being able to cook 500 meals in the space of a couple of hours...

There aren't many developers out there who would meet even half the requirements Penny Arcade listed in their job ad as a self-taught web developer with no qualifications, I would be on that list as well.
Good call. The Internet Archive cowardly refuses to archive the page due to linkedin's robots.txt file.
Got it. Disagreeing with someone is a reason to down vote.
I'm happy for Rethink, but sad that it has caused Marc to quit DOTA. Someone tell him to log on!
> I doubt the real identity of Satoshi will ever be revealed.

They should include revelation in their will. For history's sake if nothing else.
Hapijs as an alternative to expressjs
Have you worked extensively with ELBs? They need pre-warming in advance of significant traffic changes, they can't handle spikes well because they take many minutes to respond to changes in traffic volume, and they use an ever-changing set of IP addresses for your load balancer nodes.

The GCE load balancer has none of these problems, which makes it a huge advantage over AWS and ELBs.

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Heroku. We manage dozens of ELBs for ourselves, and thousands of them for our customers.
Anaconda and Python(x,y) on windows help out a ton. Similarly for Homebrew on OSX. On Linux, if you have a package manager you're probably good to go.
Those are analytics databases, also known as data warehouses. Optimized for batch reporting. InfiniSQL is geared for operational/transactional (OLTP) kinds of workloads.
I don't think it's really necessary, since there's only one day a year that I can update it.

Quite a few people have been calling it a 'real time' service, which is a bit silly once you actually think about it.
Which wont happen for a while. This kind of crap has been going on even when Henry Ford was trying to sell his Model T.
Sucks that you're being forced to apply, huh?
Sure, it's easy to see things in terms of "gimme" or "fuck you, I got mine." But there's also "we're just talkin' here, no judgement is being made. They built on a BSD library, why not submit a patch?"

It's not hard to read the judgement into the question though. Especially if you consider what the handful of popular viewpoints that show up on HN tend to be.
Bonus points if you can you make the drops dribble downwards like so: http://www.netanimations.net/water-rainy-day_window_animated...
That's a pretty ginormous readme.
Ok, how many times does lighting strike the US every day? How many Black Fridays are there every year?

Let's just assume that this level of violence is constant, and there's a Black Friday every day of the year (which doesn't make much sense at all): Multiply those 4 deaths by 365 and it's not hard to see that this is more fatal than lightning. However I think the nearly equally disgusting part is the fact that people are getting hurt at all. You're lining up to spend your money, calm down.
"how does one know what was sold and for how much?"

For example with domain names sales prices only a small amount of transactions are public. For example I've been doing it for 16 or 17 years and have never made any of my data public nor have people that I've consulted for.

Another example might be commercial rents. You can track asking rents but you can't really get a handle on actual rent paid since there are many deal factors (renovations, free rent, triple net etc.) that would change the numbers significantly.
Not to be that guy, but... it's "posterity" and not "prosperity" :)
In a bit of life-imitating-art, Penny Arcade also co-writes a side webcomic about poor conditions in the gaming QA industry: http://trenchescomic.com/

The Tales from the Trenches section is less hilarious in hindsight.
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I've heard of it but thought it was for the domain of python development...which is not a downside, per se, but doesn't always fit the project requirements of "here's some data, now throw some javascript on a page and show that data"
When is each sorting algorithm used?
< The DSM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manu.... ) was created by the psychiatric profession and psychiatry is quite different than the field of psychology.

Not really. Psychiatrists and psychologists receive the same psychological training. Psychiatrists hold a medical degree, psychologists don't. Psychiatrists can prescribe drugs, psychologists cannot. In a nutshell.

> Psychiatry is only useful when the person's biology is definitely out of spec and most people's aren't.

Wait, what? If a person's biology is out of spec, a mental doctor is the wrong choice. The mind is not part of biology, but biology can certainly play havoc with the workings of the mind. Therefore if a biological problem is suspected, one would want to consult a real doctor, a practitioner in the biological realm.

Treating a biological problem with mental therapy would be like giving a cancer patient a more comfortable pillow -- someone will surely argue that it's beneficial, but it's equally obvious that it's missing the point.

Also, surely you have noticed that more and more "mental" conditions have turned out to be physical ailments with mental symptoms, yes? There will be more of those, and I predict that, in the final analysis, no purely mental illnesses will remain.
How sad is that I'm stunned death / injury counts are so low? I assumed 1+ people trampled to death every year.
AFAICT this article is talking strictly about Google Compute Engine and its GCLB load balancer product, not about App Engine.
I don't understand what you're saying. If a person expressed the opinion that Somalia would be a good place to live because it has no government, it's pretty reasonable to ask why they haven't actually moved there.
last i heard cheltenham was actually somewhere inside the uk.
It isn't a question of whether it is possible to have interesting conversations that do not involve those topics, I enjoy discussing a wide range of things. It is more that having forbidden topics as an indication of correct manners enforces a weird kind of false sterility on human affairs and I feel cheapens and narrows the culture that these manners claim to protect.
I don't know man, someone's codepen with some pretty CSS is pretty high on the front page with 10 pts and 0 comments.
Not having to deal with a NAT is a godsend. I know. I've had a block of publicly routable IPv6 addresses for five or eight years now.

I notice that you haven't addressed the question I asked in the first comment of mine that you responded to, and again in the second comment. I effectively asked "How is uPnP more insecure than giving the machines on your LAN publicly routable IP addresses?". I've heard people say that uPnP is insecure, but I haven't heard anyone back up that assertion with any information. Even something as weak as anecdata! I asked the question that I did in order to understand the reasoning behind that assertion.

> You can close ports with a firewall, by not running services on that port or via NAT. I know which one I'd rather deal with.

I don't. I'm curious, which one you'd rather deal with, and why?
I feel like this isn't terribly demanding position. How hard can it possibly be? They're websites aren't very complex and the system is already in place. Sounds like a full-stack-engineer-gone-maintenance position.

Honestly, sounds like a fun ride for about a year, I wouldn't mind, even if the pay is a bit low. If it's really that bad of a position, then quit. We're pretty much immortal when it comes to finding jobs anyways so it's not like you're putting your life on the line, especially if you're a single, young bachelor.
> Just like this is your opinion and NOT fact.

Well, if that is your opinion, I do apologize.
Oh cmon. There are thousands of tech jobs that don't pay that well and require all those skills. The difference is that when those companies go to find someone, they lie in the ad. How is being honest insulting?

I'll bet there's plenty of young developers out there who don't mind working long hours and would love to spend their time flying around with the Penny-Arcade crew keeping everything running - admittedly they won't be hiring the best applicants in the industry with the rates and conditions that they're offering, but I doubt they'll have much trouble finding someone who fits the bill.
As your comment is 3rd from the top of page:

You could investigate that with a few minutes of googling -
the 'student' has been writing CS papers since the mid '80s [0]

This reminds me of when someone on HN described both the authors as 'some Israeli CS students' [1]

Whatever you think about this particular paper, the authors are experienced researchers.

[0] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dron/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209356
South Park fan, I assume? :)
> This is everything wrong with tech-startup culture

In my experience, this isn't really tech-startup culture, it's entertainment industry culture. If you know anyone who has ever worked in film, music or videogames, it's a fairly typical thing.
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This, by the way, is the reason we artificially prevent docker from running on multiple archs. If half of the containers you download end up not running on your arch, and there's no elegant way for you to manage that by filtering your results, and producing the same build for multiple archs (and what does it even mean to do that?) - then all of sudden using docker would become much more frustrating.
Touché :) I'll just check it out on Saturday. Fingers crossed no one dies this year.
"a person that can do four jobs"

"terrible at work-life balance"

"on call 24/7"

"potentially offensive environment"

"being pushed to your limit is part of the job"

"sometimes tedious work"

That, and Penny Arcade's history of avoidable and frustrating controversies (http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/21/download-code-p...), and their terrible responses to them?

Where do I sign up?
Apparently you don't know much about lightning if you are multiplying by 365.
One of the few things to make me audibly laugh today. They expect you to know everything(to be THE MOST CRUCIAL person in the company), but I let it go thinking there was some perk I was going to read next which justified it.

Perks include:
on call 24/7
low pay
work is your life

But I guess we're not the people they're looking for, and when they do find someone they give them a high-five, a latte, and scratch their hipster beards and laugh at how materialistic we are needing money and free time.
Haven't we beat this subject to death already?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803059
That's (IMO) pretty terrible default behavior.

1) Is it easy for a somewhat technical person to change?
2) If you don't mind telling, who's your ISP?
I'm not defending PA's job listing, because I do agree that it's absurd, but it's also important to remember that job listings tend to be for "ideal" candidates. Actual hired candidates are often far less qualified than the ideal candidate listed in the job requirement.

For instance, ideally, I'd love to hire a dev that has 5+ years of professional PHP experience building web apps and has experience with machine learning systems specifically relating to fraud. But in all likelihood I'll be lucky to hire someone with 3+ years of professional PHP experience with zero experience doing machine learning. The hired candidate will likely be simply interested in machine learning. The hired candidate will likely have no experience with fraud-related topics.

I can train you. I can teach you those things. But ideally, I wouldn't have to.

Likewise with PA's job listing, ideally, they want someone who can do all of those things. Practically, they'll hire someone who can do a very small subset of those things.

That said, it's a bit unrealistic to expect one person to do the job of four people (which is what this listing wants), especially for low salary, so... yeah, it's a bit ridiculous.
This is the ... third (maybe fourth?) article on this topic today to get up into the top few posts on HN before disappearing into oblivion. Some people really don't want to have a conversation about how young tech folks are being exploited.
Penny Lane: Gitmo's other secret CIA facility