skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth trying to grind through a few months of Free-BSD after using Linux to get a feel for it. One of my favorite quotes on the differences is, "FreeBSD is what you get when a bunch of old school Unix beard brigade hackers sit down to write a port to the PC. Linux is what you get when you take a bunch of hackers raised on Windows and PCs that try to port Unix to the PC". In a lot of ways that is two sides of the same coin, but really digging in to the BSD way of things opens up a new view point on Operating Systems . . . FreeBSD old school Unix assembly versus NASM, the Kqueue vs ePoll system implementations, FreeBSD's near instantaneous embrace for ZFS while the Linux community held back for "OS theological" concerns over the FileSystem implementation.

I've jumped between Debian and FreeBSD for my development boxes for a few years now. To butcher Dijkstra, "Operating Systems shape developers as much as violins shape violinists". When I find myself on FreeBSD I make great use of D-Trace - running vagrant FreeBSD boxes, the pulling the trace output into Instruments to analyze. With the release of Trim for ZFS, ZFS pooling for logging should be obscenely fast and offer some serious performance increases for things like proper Hadoop workloads. When I find myself on Debian I'm enthralled by the ease of use around layouts and the API ( kqueue / epoll excluded ). The package management system is far superior to portsnap, though neither system really does modern package management really well imo.

Personally, I think it's worth trying to run BSD and all it's tools just to understand the system better, and to see how it influences you as a developer. The active utilization of D-Trace changed me as an engineer just as much when I first started using functional programming concepts in my regular code
Sharing Economy Startup Generator
Amazon Patents Shipping Items Before They're Even Ordered
I call bullshit.

These things are happening often enough for them to be a competitive strategy between rival VPS hosting companies.

(I happen to have servers hosted at Linode, Digital Ocean and a local provider, and always find it amusing to tally the amount of "happy customers" that pop up in comment threads like this)
Yeah, the "signalling" process is implemented by applications, and needs either a WebSocket or SSE stream.
This explains a new pricing method for developers to work with bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Instead of traditional agency pricing that never really works, this is a way for would-be startups to create an MVP in reasonable timeframes and budgets.
Exactly, they do not provide loans, or determine availability of said loans (beyond insulating risk allowing an institution to make more risky investments which as we've seen can be a catastrophic practice).

I would venture that none of these things benefit the 'average' person. Not saying its a bad thing, but the great amount of money dumped into this area of the economy, does not equate to their usefulness to society.

Edit: Actually the next section in the link you provided shows exactly how they can be a great detriment to economic stability including the recent AIG fiasco.

the use of derivatives to conceal credit risk from third parties while protecting derivative counterparties contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States.
The reason is because of the NYT paywall, which can be circumvented easily by googling the article and going to the NYT site, but that basically means that the link is broken for all people who read NYT regularly.
the security hack was always on back of my mind.

what really made me move away from linode is really their inability to accept paypal.

Luckily, digitalocean accepted paypal. Also their $5 servers cannot be beat.

Sure, linode has some good panels but it was more than I can chew and more than I needed. Digitalocean also had a good amount of docmentation to do everything I needed without filing a ticket.
You can circumvent the paywall by googling the name of the article and clicking the NYT article that comes up. If that doesn't work, try again in an incognito window.
Ingredients of an All-Natural Banana
Not sure how this made the front page of HN. Maybe someone can explain to me how this is important/impactful/insightful?
Quantcast and it's ilk are as accurate as a monkey throwing at a dartboard. It still boggles my mind that anyone relies on them.
How to use stdin and here documents for templating in cdist
Nice straw-man. My contention is simply that knowing better than to "cat | grep" is the basics.
http://thegrebs.com/irc/linode/2014/01/19 (Ads possibly NSFW)

Seems to have some logs of the linode channel today.
We might have to pass on hiring you, there appears to be a problem with the culture fit.
Stop acting so dramatic. There's no evidence that there was any security breach. People on IRC are saying this is FUD.

<gallaeaho> zectorpt: no

<gallaeaho> zectorpt: nothing was "hacked", but old stuff got posted

<gallaeaho> again
I don't really know what to recommend. Maybe An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg is a good starting point for a CS-person.

"Education is what remains when what has been learned has been forgotten", Skinner, I believe. Well what is education then? I believe it is the holistic coherent state of mind which hoovers above individual subjects. But nobody tells you how to acquire that. In school we are only taught separate subjects. Nobody guides us in making a coherent hole of it. So that we can if not fully understand then at least recognize and respect the complexity and dynamics everywhere in the world around us.
The awkward copyright collision of Fair Use and Creative Commons
less stable than release? that's news to me. have any official wording to back that up? I'm intensely curious
The numbers you cite are PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) which is not really relevant to this discussion about the size of a market as it weights GDP by cost of items/living etc.

Mine were straight from Google (e.g.https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+gdp+per+capita+&oq=uK+G...)
)

For the relevant Wikipedia link, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
"If Yale grants students access to data, the university does not have the right to specify exactly how students must view the data."

I disagree strongly with this statement. If the data is owned by Yale, they do in fact have the right to specify exactly how students must view the data.

Although it's frustrating to see copyright holders doing illogical or inefficient things with their copyrighted data, it is their right to determine the method and mechanism by which their data is consumed. Just because it is _possible_ to transform their data into a mashup, doesn't mean it's legal, ethical, or permissible. It doesn't matter if this transformation happens entirely within a viewer's computer, or if it happens on another server - if the copyright holder doesn't want their data to be transformed that way, it is their right.
Oh, thanks.. didn’t knew that. Anyhow, as you may have noticed, i am very excited..
I was a derivatives trader, and it occurred to me the world would hardly change at all if credit derivatives ceased to exist. Not so nurse practitioners.

Is this statement (from the article) true?

I'm under the impression that financial innovations throughout history have generally spurred capital investment. Innovations like fractional-reserve lending have made bankers&investors wealthy, but also spurred spending on infrastructure in a way that could be a win-win for society as a whole.

If today's financial wizards went away, would we feel a surprising amount of ripple impact, or would they really just not matter?
Yes, definitely agreed.

One of the most productive things I've done in the current crunch time has been to spend a bit more money on buying pre-prepared vegetables and meat during crunch. Extremely simple, but (given I cook all my and my gf's food from scratch) a surprisingly substantial saving in time.

I wouldn't want to do this all the time - I like preparing food, and freshly chopped onion tastes nicer - but in a crunch it's fantastic.
ok but how does this relate to the post? Oo
That doesn't make much sense. In what kind of versioning scheme does a release not contain the same code as the stable branch in a specific version?

In that case calling them "Release notes" is even more confusing...
Sure, but virtually no distros ship this by default or even in their official repos. On FreeBSD it's basically the recommended filesystem.
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Very happy Sensu user for over a year now.

You can use nagios check plugins, but it's a completely new, and IMO much better designed code base.

http://sensuapp.com/
> When messages pile up, select all, hit delete, and declare email bankruptcy.

> Email: bilton@nytimes.com. Twitter: @nickbilton

Kind of ironic
You could, you know, pay for a subscription. If you're bumping up on the limit of free articles per month, you're clearly getting some value from the paper. There are worse things than supporting good journalism!
'-STABLE' refers to ABI/KBI stability.
No it isn't. There is no such right.

Copyright holders want such a right, but they don't have it.

The entire concept of copyright in the first place is artificial - there is no moral copyright. So the only rights you have are the ones copyright gives you, and no more.

Not to mention there is no database right in the US, so they don't even have a copyright on the course database in the first place! (They do on the description of the courses, but not on the list of them.)
This is bullshit. It got me so riled up I went and blogged about it: http://calroc.blogspot.com/2014/01/love-is-power.html (It is cool to post links to own stuff in a comment like this? I'm new to HN.)

tl;dr: The idea that you can and should "do what you love and love what you do" arose as a counter to the misguided idea that work is something you hate that you do just to get the money to pay your bills and keep the lights on and the pantry stocked. To confuse the basic concept with a sort of bromide for the blind egos of a privileged elite is a terrible mistake.
What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?
curious, what do use the $5 servers for?
Design Patterns in PHP: Using Factories
Hey, Matias founder of Auth0 (https://www.auth0.com) here (we wrote the original article).

re: cookies vs xss. Expanding on sil3ntmac comment, based on my experience, it's easier to protect against XSS than protecting against CSRF. For CSRF you have to be aware of: set your cookies to HttpOnly and have a xsrf mechanism in place (which is not straightforward and not the default in many web frameworks, even worse if you start combining technologies). For XSS, you just need to make sure any input is sanitized, which usually most of the web frameworks provide something built-in.

Another interesting side effect of using JWT is that now you have a good cross-platform authentication mechanism that can cross boundaries. You can also achieve that with cookies, but you have to find the same implementation on different frameworks. We talk about this in this blog post about socket.io and json web tokens where it's very common to find PHP and node.js mixed.

http://blog.auth0.com/2014/01/15/auth-with-socket-io/

We will write follow up blog posts about pros/cons, because as usual there is no silver bullet.
Outlook has let you do this for years, you can set various flags on mail items, you can also do this for mail you send so that it will automatically flag for the recipient.

The problem of course is that if you allow the sender to specify the importance of an email they will flag things that are important to them,not necessarily important to you.
Ask HN: can I get job advice?
I'm in the bay area and I'm looking for part time work which would give me just enough money to live (say 1000$/month?). I simply want free time to work on my own ideas. I'm young and can program. I've a partial university education and have work experience in IT.

Any suggestions? Aside from software/IT, where else would I be a good fit? I don't really care about the type of job. I wouldn't mind even if it was labor, as long it wasn't the kind of labor that would give me health problems later.
New York has been about art and culture for a very long time. That's because the artists are, economically speaking, a courtier class, and the best way for them to thrive (and therefore the best way to surround yourself with fellow full time working artists) is the locate yourself near the people with money.
https everywhere for reddit is actually a tricky proposition. Mainly because the browsers have yet to be designed to handle an all https website that embeds content from other sites.

We tried running reddit in all https mode, but you get a lot of mixed content warnings, which makes for an awful user experience.

There are also a lot of edge cases of the opposite case where people embed reddit on their site.
Right, but how do they know who the best introverts are if the best introverts are not marketing themselves in one way or another?
gmail looks like to be on this path already except instead of allowing you to queue messages its trying algos to manage it for you. (Priority inbox / email tabs)
I'd recommend, on the same subject, the book The Revolt of the Masses, by José Ortega y Gasset.
Good (enough) for GUIs, bad for business logic.
Less Than One-Third Of Obamacare Exchange Enrollees Were Previously Uninsured
Your first url looks broken.
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This only works with options which are also desired by customers.
Blog post from Sam Kottler, the maintainer of nagios plugins in fedora/epel on the matter:

http://words.shk.io/on-the-nagios-plugins-drama
Class in the UK is not solely about money. You can be upper class and living in a homeless hostel, doesn't happen much but possible. You can be working class and be a multi-millionaire. It's about heritage and social [inter]actions as much as it's about money.

Class doesn't really feature in how much "better" you're perceived to be either. Some Lords are highly benevolent, clued in and useful members of society that treat their privilege as a blessing rather than a right; others are completely obsessed with themselves or disregard those without similar means. Similar contrasts can be found at other points in the spectrum of class.
A lot of merchants (e.g. Amazon) don't use PayPal because is isn't a real bank, and so isn't beholden by laws associated with banks. The terms of service state that you cannot seek any legal recourse from them should your account be shut down.

How could this affect a VPS provider? Say a customer hosts a porn site, or a gun-selling site, or something else PayPal disagrees with. PayPal shuts the merchant's account down for it. Now the merchant's funds are frozen for an indeterminate amount of time till the issue can be resolved, if at all, and there's nothing they can do about it short of appealing to PayPal.
Freedom of Speech is not a legal right, it is an ethical right. It predates its US First Amendment codification by several hundred years and is also legally expressed in many other countries. To use your words, may I suggest you do not couch your arguments in terms of fallacious claims about freedom of speech?

I don't think commentators who decried Yale's hypocrisy were claiming that Yale violated the first amendment rights of the students. They were saying that the same people who fought vociferously for scores of years to secure their freedom of expression were quite quick to trample it when exercised by non-PhDs. I think this is a valid criticism.
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> After that moment we basically stopped talking to artists for a year and built (and rebuilt) the software until we thought it was acceptable.

And there is the biggest mistake.

Just throw a MVP together over a couple of months and invite some people to have a look.

> Our first beta test was a disaster when Amazon (who was our payment processor) suspended our account for not complying with money transfer issues.

No, it was a disaster because you were focused on money. You didn't need money, you needed feedback. Working with payment processing was a waste of time.

> From that beta test we found out that our software needed to be rewritten to comply with Amazons terms. More importantly though, people really didn't really LIKE anything about our product.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Better strategy: Release MVP. Whole thing is free. Collect feedback from close contacts, friends, networking etc (i.e. no spending money on advertising or wasting time with social media or SEO). Then implement features based on requests. Continue with this for quite a while until it has some noticeable improvements. Now go public, still remain free. Amass users. Collect more feedback. Amass users. Now you have something that is actually worth something and you have leverage. Next thing you know Justin Bieber is knocking on your door, he wants to throw a few million in and release it under his name. THEN the monetization can begin.
Which is blatantly false, if it was "old stuff being posted again" then the mysql credentials wouldn't have been working 60 minutes ago.
Worth mentioning an even simpler library for newcomers: http://simplewebrtc.com/
What about the aspect of being able to move without having to worry about whether you can sell you home or not? I believe what made things worse after the economy soured was that unemployed people stuck. Even unhappy people were stuck in jobs they didn't like/enjoy because they couldn't move to another part of the country (or state). One must not forget about opportunity costs in buying vs renting.
Engineering and programming are normally not "customer facing roles". For that reason there are not many that choose to wear suits. Sales and marketing on the other hand are. As such many people in such roles will "dress up" more don't think it is unreasonable to make certain assumptions based on what people are wearing when a significant amount of the time it will be true.
I agree with the initial premise, but disagree with the class warfare premises later on in the article.

DWYL is a proverb sold by Hollywood, fiction, non-fiction, speeches, news, parents, older friends who are successful, etc.

The fundamental problem is that most work is scut work that very - very - few people enjoy. Throwing trash out. Handling DMV paperwork. Roofing houses. The list goes on. The dreams we have are far, far different: CEO, fashion model, rock star, game designer, writer, race car driver. That list goes on.

Regrettably, this is a place where supply and demand become actualized reality: when everyone (or lots of people) wants to be a rock star, the market won't support it. Worse, certain professions don't have a average high demand on good days (writer). But, what is the right choice under DWYL? Pick the thing you want to be. Then, chances of that not working are high, so then you wind up with an unwanted job. "I don't deserve this". Or, underpaid.

I saw this many times in college and high school. We - my friends and I - all had bought into the DWYL ideal. Zero of us attained it, to the best of my knowledge today. We found other things along the way that satisficed us. I still remember my old friend who has worked in a (nearly) minimum wage job at a department store for maybe ten years (I hope he has broken into management). He was going to be a rock star, so education wasn't useful. It was a waste. The conflation of DWYL and real life rarely work out.

I don't advise anyone to DWYL. I advise a grim analysis of the job prospects and likely outcomes, and determining choices based upon that. If you're willing to be paid minimum wage and have to struggle through your life and have to ask your spouse to support you and work full-time - go on - be the Creative Writing major focusing on "fine art" writing as your profession.

The author points up another aspect: Work - all honest work - has dignity. Bringing home value for value has inherent worth, whether you shovel poop at a zoo or become a director at a Fortune 100 company. Selling DWYL as an ideal removes dignity from unlovable and unwanted work.

Count the costs: sometimes selling all you have for the pearl is worth it. Inform your choices and prepare for the financial and life costs.

There's a joke - a successful musician is one who only has to be a part-time barista.
Nitpick: You're talking about England and Wales, not the UK. In this part of the UK it's not even called "libel".
Sony doesn't release anything. Because they don't want to.

Also, I would hope that Mesa drivers work on FreeBSD.
I disagree.

According to this line of logic, if I use Yale's data to find a good class, and I verbally mention said class to you, my roomate, I would be giving you a piece data in a way Yale does not sanction. Making a website that better shows the data is essentially just a large scale recommendation online.

Of course, it could be argued that I shouldn't be allowed to recommend classes to other people, but I think most people wouldn't want to go down that path. Oh you have something negative to say about our product? You aren't authorized to use information about our product, such as it's name and function.
One might wonder why it is that we have higher standards for our children than for ourselves. Maybe it's because they are born with a kind of innocence that we do not want to see corrupted. Maybe instead of lowering our standards for our kids we should actually set a good example and live up to the same standards we expect of them.

(Imagine if we did this with respect to all things that we try to hide from our children.)

I have heard all the arguments in favour of swearing and I used to believe them: I no longer do. The problem with swearing is that it becomes an unchecked impulse of aggression -- and eventually a habit that is very hard to break. The least that could be said is that it degrades the quality and content of speech to the point where some people become nearly unintelligible. What do we gain by introducing unnecessary chaos into the ordered system of communication?

Let us look above, not below, for our moral standards.
Should have called it FreeBSD X
Why should Sony (or AMD) care about FreeBSD? Chances are they picked it because it was the less licence-encumbered freenix they could find.
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>The most useful thing a person with training in the social sciences can tell you, of which the general population isn't aware, is what you should be less sure of

I'd say that is true for any expert in any complicated field. Almost any engineer will tell you a system made of a few simple components will have a much higher probability of being deterministic then a system of many complex components. Being that social sciences deal with the most complex creatures in existence they should damn well know determining anything with a high rate of probability is near impossible.
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There is a very strong push from the right in the UK towards a US-style privatized system.

The way the student loan repayments work over a lifetime, this is effectively a 5-10% income tax on middle income people with degrees, but without generating headlines about putting up income tax.
Yes, those innovations are critical, but those central concepts and the legal mechanisms that make them possible have very little to do with what much of Wall Street does, which is inventing financial devices and arbitraging the everloving crap out of them.

I think the point of "the world goes on without Wall Street" is that banks and stock markets will still provide speculative capital to expensive ventures whether or not high frequency trading is around, and agriculture will still grow and sell food whether or not hedge funds are buying and selling futures.
+1 on that! What a great little tool.
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I like it a lot better when people say it like it is. Makes me better aware of the situation I'm in and the expectations on me.
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