skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> operating systems are just operating systems

There is zero information in your epiphany. You can say this about anything and it will have as little meaning. Cars are just cars. Movies are just movies. The only thing that has any value is the "different and not better" and that involves a subjective "better" which doesn't apply uniformly across people. Ultimately useful measures can be based on time and money, for example productivity, deploy speed, licensing expenses, etc.

Personally I hate the click and point everything UI in windows and prefer a sane bash like terminal with familiar unix tools, but that's entirely subjective.
Horrifying. This sounds exactly like "Be Right Back"[0] from the Black Mirror series.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/
Man, I wrote a script to do this for .com names like 15 years ago. I probably should have bought a couple.
For me, I live a sort of double life with respect to this issue.

For work, I feel most productive in Linux.

For home, I absolutely cannot stand using anything but Mac OS X.

If I worked for a company that used a Windows stack, I wouldn't have a problem working in Windows, but there's a huge difference in the end user experience depending on whether you're building a web stack or organizing a photo collection.
I must second this. An excellent series with nice twists and dilemmas!
Why in heaven's name did you try that in production?
I function in this role for many of my clients.

1.) Definitely pay them. There's a lot of reasons for this, but most importantly, much like you pay a lawyer to be your most vocal and aggressive advocate, your virtual CTO is the person who has your company's back. His job is to provide you with good advice, vetting other technical staff and work, understand business climate and where your position is in the market, as well as augment your vision for your company.

2.) use them where its appropriate. The right person (or sometimes a firm) isn't going to be cheap—you're looking for the proverbial unicorn. Don't waste the budget having them work on perfecting CSS. When you have them working on code, have them build a foundation and show other team members how to leverage it. What you're paying for is their knowledge and experience. Have them review code, provide feedback, make sure you're getting your money's worth out of an outsourced team. Let them give you advice when you need it (and most importantly, take the advice! I can't tell you how many clients pay a lot of money for the advice then throw it out the window.)

3.) if you have a friend who can fill the role, that's great, but don't trust their technical skills just because they're a friend and will talk to you over beers. Advice is very much a get-what-you-pay-for kind of thing.
PynamoDB, a clean and simple Python interface to Amazon's DynamoDB
grafana is a fork of Kibana. Kibana is a visualization tool of data in Elasticsearch, and Marvel is based on Kibana.

So no, its the other way around.
Zuckerberg, that crazy Ex who reads your texts.
Anyone want to sync this up with a youtube video? Just make it scroll as the video plays.
About about using the $1 Billion in natural gas they burn off every year in North Dakota for electricity instead of just heating the atmosphere.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269517/The-picture-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/business/energy-environmen...
According to the International Geothermal Association, 10,700MW of geothermal electricity was generated worldwide in 2010

I doubt they said that.
I spoiled business users by saying "yes" way too often.
I remember doing some intro comp.sci homework on a hand-me-down Pentium 2 laptop. It sort of managed to run X11 (in 8bit greyscale!) -- but the jdk took literally 5 minutes to start up (compilation time was effectively bounded by the star-up time: It took 5 minutes until I had my .class files, or my list of syntax errors...).
Here's another one for you: distribute your s3 paths/names

Because of the way s3 is designed, the place files are stored on the physical infrastructure is dependant on the prefix of the key name. I'm not exactly sure how much of the key name is used, but for example if you prefixed all you images with imges/....jpg it's highly likely they will all be stored on the same physical hardware.

I know of at least two companies for whom this has caused large problems for, one of them is netflix. Imagine all the videos in a single bucket with key names "/video/breaking_bad_s1_e1.mp4" (a crude example I know), all requests hit the same physical hardware and under high load the hardware just can't keep up and this exact issue has apparently been the cause of more than one Netflix outage.

The solution is simple, ensure your files have a random prefix ({uuid}.breaking_bad_s1_e1.mp4) and they will be spread around the datacentre :)
These seem great to answer by yourself too.
30 years ago remember USSR used underground nukes at least once specifically for exploration of oil/gas in Siberia.
Whatever passes would be legislation that further entrenches the biggest corps. It's the only thing that ever passes congress these days.
Oh I do. You have no idea that your stance on this matter is rooted in brainwashing.
Sorry, but does this guy not realize that many of the world's richest people gave half their wealth to the Gates foundation, thus forming an engine for human improvement that could have never been attained by distributing their wealth? The wealth divide is not a "real" problem - the real problem is figuring out how to keep everyone employed in a world that is constantly evolving, where most jobs are getting automated or over-seaed (neither of which is a problem in of itself). A real problem is figuring out how to stop corrupt people that enrich themselves by being parasites to the poor/middle class, take advantage of our relatively indifferent government, or our screwed up law system (like patent trolls).
> It's neither appropriation nor misuse. They don't take the photos for themselves (or anyone) the photos remain where they were, they duplicate them.

The fact that the photos remain where they were is completely irrelevant — I never said that they didn't.

When we say "Great artists steal," we do not mean that great artists remove things from their previous location. We mean that they copy other artists' ideas and techniques. But we say "steal."

When we talk about one culture appropriating elements of another, we do not mean that they stamp out those elements in the original culture. We mean that they copy those things. But we say "appropriate."

When somebody steals my identity, I actually still have my identity, but he's using it too, and in ways that I don't approve of. But it's still called "identity theft."

The distinction between theft and copying is relevant in legal matters and some practical matters, but in colloquial use the two are often the same thing. Banging on about this every time anyone uses the word is annoying and, more importantly, contextually incorrect.
CC continues to confuse me with so many options. I'd like to use a CC (non-CC0 or public domain) licensed photo as part of my blog template header. Do I really need to put the attribution and link in my template, because that will make my web site look ridiculous.. Any ideas?
She found out about it pretty quickly due to having syslog be a constant presence in one of her gnu screen windows

I'm amazed that this is possible. How would I set something like that up? A realtime log of only the most significant events of a remote system?

In fact, I'd like to take this opportunity of ignorance-admitting to ask the community for general linux/bsd sysadmin resources. What books should I read, or what topics should I study? I want to become an expert at modern sysops. Modern deployment, hardening, backup, managing dozens of boxen, etc.

I've been thinking of going through any MIT OCW on the subject, but it seems like hard-earned experience might not necessarily translate well to an academic setting. What would you recommend I do?
You have to think it from the point of view of the potential employer/customer.

Why do they want to hire a freelancer in the first place?

1. Maybe they have 50-100 hrs of work per month that requires skillset X. If none of their existing employees can do X, they will hire a freelance just to avoid the hassle of having an employee sitting on his hands most of the day.

2. Maybe they have a project demanding 50-100 hrs of work per week, for the next 6-8 months, then they expect to drop maybe to 3-5 hrs per week of maintenance/operations. They will hire a couple of freelances to implement the project, with the explicit purpose of letting them go at the end. They may consider keeping a proven-good freelance on a retainer (small fixed fee, little or no work) for maintenance, employee training, emergency issues, etc.

3. Maybe skill X is something that is not seen as a core strength for the customer's company. It does not matter if they have demand to consume enough of X to keep one or more full time employees busy. If they see an advantage to file as a variable expense (instead of payroll), they will do so (they may be charging a different department in the same corporation for it, or using money from a government grant, or some other technical detail like those).

Those are the reasons that come to mind, but there surely must be others. Please note that none of the reasons listed implied that freelancers are more skilled, experienced, or cheaper than employees.

As a matter of fact, there is a market for freelances across all skill levels (barred crass incompetence). It is just a matter of figuring out what level fits best for you, and then project a professional image that reinforces that level.

My perception is that this is what your customers are trying to tell you. Your image is "cheap" compared to the value you end up bringing to their businesses. If you increased your prices, you probably would end up having more work (because you would no longer be perceived as cheap/rookie/unreliable). You may need to use more clues, like dressing up a notch, or redoing your webpage/contact info to project a more mature image.
Organization (by rooms, for example) and collaboration would be very useful features. Also a way to match things that go well together (maybe from other buyer's lists), and a way to add items you already have and maybe photos/videos of the rooms. But if you don't have a way to automate/make the buy easier, I still don't guarantee that I will order through you (especially if I choose 10 items from 4 sellers, I would loathe to then go to each seller's website and create an account there, place the order, add the delivery address and so on). And make sure you order exactly what you show on the website, as furniture is not as easy to return as a laptop - even if the seller's very helpful with the return, you'll probably take all the blame.

Your problem is, I only need to buy furniture once every few years, and even then only a few items - refurnishing a whole room or a house happens maybe once a decade.
Show HN: Flytenow – Ride Sharing for Small Planes
If you could ask Rob Hewson a question (Paradroid etc)...
I backed Rob Hewsons Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers to a level I get five questions to ask & they'll be published in the book (with the answers).

In case you don't remember - Hewson published Paradroid etc. etc.

I just got the "Last notice. Don't delay!" email from Kickstarter asking for my questions. I've got nothing.

Apparently I can target each of these five questions to one of the following people (e.g. one for Steve Turner another for Rob Hewson):

Andrew Hewson, Steve Turner, Mike Male, Raffaele Cecco, Dominic Robinson, Andreas Axelsson, Fredrik Liliegren, Olof Gustafsson, Barry Simpson, Stewart Gilray, Paul Chamberlain, Oliver Frey, Roger Kean Ben Daglish, Jeroen Tell, Gari Biasillo, Jonathan Dunn, Nick Jones.

p.s. I asked for help on both Twitter & Reddit - I'm hoping Hacker news can come to the rescue. I have been a LONG time lurker here. Please help.
The value of their paychecks probably remained about constant for local goods such as food and rent. They probably fell a lot in terms of things like flying to London to go shopping and that is a real change but probably one they can live.
I think we might not be on the same page as to what Real-time means : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system
Or even Gmail. Since when do they require you to guess when you opened your account and all of that information? As if I have any idea what month/year I opened my gmail account. I feel like if I ever got locked out of it or were in this situation I wouldn't know the information to get back into it.
> also they create couses with years (2 to 4) long courses

This seems to be a newer trend. The courses used to be much longer than that, to the order of 8 to 10 years.

Yeah, you read that right. Unless you took shortcuts (I had placement tests every once a while which let me skip several years), you'd spend a decade 'learning' English.

They were either creating the curriculum for the lowest common denominator, or the courses were a scam.

My brother skipped all the nonsense and learned enough English to have meaning conversations at age 8, playing Ultima Online. Then a couple of semesters after that helped with the vocabulary and pronunciation.

That, and movies, and setting the operating system to English, after some nagging on my part.
> The Fourth Amendment protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. Clearly that is being violated as the recent ruling on NSA data collection has pointed out.

In other words, clearly, The Fourth Amendment does NOT protect anyone from NSA's violations.
> There is zero information in your epiphany. You can say this about anything and it will have as little meaning. Cars are just cars. Movies are just movies. The only thing that has any value is the "different and not better" and that involves a subjective "better" which doesn't apply uniformly across people. Ultimately useful measures can be based on time and money, for example productivity, deploy speed, licensing expenses, etc.

I thought my meaning was clear. Maybe it's not to you, but it sounds like you did understand it, and just don't agree with how I presented it. And that's fine.

> Personally I hate the click and point everything UI in windows and prefer a sane bash like terminal with familiar unix tools, but that's entirely subjective.

I went from Windows to Linux for the WMs, and stayed for the CLI. Then I went to Mac OS X and stayed for the trackpad. Then I went to emacs and stayed for the keyboard. Now I'm using Windows 8 and am considering staying for the beauty.

Honestly, I don't put much stock even in my own subjective opinions anymore, since they change by the month.
What kind of "encryption-at-rest" compliance industry or standard are you dealing with?

I'm curious to where what AWS supplies suffices. As the encryption and decryption is, AFAICT, automatic and transparent, aren't you merely protecting your data from someone at AWS running off with it?

I.e. if your system that does the API calls is somehow exploited, the attacker has your AWS keys and so can get to the encrypted data. Or if there's a programming error in your data access routines that check whether user X can access data Y.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into what "encrypted data at rest" really is supposed to provide though (i.e. just data encrypted, key stored on a different system)
> Data is mismeasured, misinterpreted, misremembered, or simply made up in studies all the time.

Scale matters. You're basically arguing that because evidentiary errors occur in scientific studies, that all evidence from all sources is therefore equivalent. That's simply not the case.

However, if you insist on maintaining this stance - we'll just have to agree to disagree.
There's about the same information in the parent comment, "StackOverflow runs on Windows, really?" - like the premise is absurd, but with no reasoning made.
Using the sympygamma link also provided today, we can see why this is:
http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=series%281%2Fx%2C+x%2C+10...

Look at the equation and then plug in (-2) for x
After endless stuff on startups, basic arithmetic is a breath of fresh air.
Thats awful.. I use both GoDaddy and Paypal for my website and this has certainly made me a more cautious of securing sensitive information
Why does it have to be English? Why not Esperanto?

That let us drop the political implications, and also use an 'engineered language', with an easier learning curve.
This looks very nice, any chance you'll add per TLD filtering? Eg. only show me .com, .us and .io but not .ly Synonyms would also be great as others have mentioned

Edit: Ah I should have clicked the TLDs :)

Edit 2: And on the Desktop just noticed the filter button, sorry, that one is invisible when I view the site on my phone
How to Build Habit Forming Technology
OBL's impact wasn't that big in year one. It was huge over the next decade though. How many million man years have we spent in airport security lines because of him?
Yes recently we've (again) learned how a free market helps us all irony off.

How come you are generalizing your criticism against all kind of government involvement? It's simply not true that all kind of involvement automatically creates more problems. Why don't you simply explain how it would create more problems in this case?

I was also not talking about Google vs. Samsung. I was talking about cheap "no name" phones available in some countries vs. brand products. Products which are selling on a price where only the production costs + simple profit margin matter (old school market if you wish). Not the show that Apple or Samsung are playing where the high price makes the product artificially more "valuable". This behavior is breaking your simple illusion of a market where we all profit and the competition and other simple market mechanisms are balancing the market in a healthy way. (I doubt that this illusion has ever been true...)

As I've said: the customer has no choice here. He can't get rid of the stuff. There is no choice. Today you pay sick amounts of money for a shiny phone that still has all that bloatware. Thats why we need an external force to give the power back to the customers. And the only force able to do that is the government.

Market is not sensitive at all. If it would be, we wouldn't need a regulation. MS will play the same game as soon as they become a relevant player on the market because the method above works and they just want to make more money.
And this is usefull or simply neat?
So I would give them some of the things I've created, but it's only accessible via chat? I'm all for a time capsule, but not in this format.
> Honestly, I don't put much stock even in my own subjective opinions anymore, since they change by the month.

Mine too. Weird how that works. Having a super strong opinion one day and experiencing a complete reversal sometime later.
Good Tech Lead, Bad Tech Lead; A brief guide to tech leadership at Foursquare
Adobe Marketing Cloud Commercial
People seem to get a premium on their perceived 'time' spent at MS for being earlier employees, which often correlates with how important a system they worked on.
Question about the underlying SaaS product. I'm not understanding how a database client on the cloud can connect to a database server on my own machine?

Or am I misunderstanding what it does?
It kind of does. It's called the binary log.
I wonder if David Marcus can help here.
That page says 300,000 listings, versus ~300m people in the US, makes 0.1%. That's not a large percentage; you could find a greater number of people who believe the moon landings are faked.
There would be no extra information coming in, so the conversations would quickly become repetitive.
How to make Hardware-Assisted Virtual Machines (HVM) on EC2
Rap Genius annotates the SOTU
Zerigo's redirect servers are down
Since you're using MySQL, you can start it with --i-am-a-dummy [1]. Not a backup, but still handy.

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tips.html#safe-...
I suppose it's OK for some use cases but realistically it doesn't provide a whole lot of security.

Doing this only really protects you if someone steals the physical disks from inside AWS, whilst this is a legitimate risk it seems incredibly unlikely and i'm not aware of any such instance.

HOWEVER, it does not protect you from the far more likely scenario of someone gaining access to your AWS account. If someone is able to get your credentials (or otherwise hack your account) then all your data is vulnerable.
From the article:

> IHS iSuppli, having totted up the parts costs, has come up with a total of $372, with an estimated $9 labor cost bringing it to $381 – $18 below the recommended retail price.

So retail price is 399, out of which retailers make how much? 199 ? Tell me again how Sony is making a profit.
Great write-up! Could merge some useful thoughts from here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6991974

I'd certainly contribute to this if it was on Github :)
> In Bash, it doesn't do anything useful.

In sh and derived shells, it sets the arguments ($1, $2, and so on). In this case you end up with $1 being ‘HOME’, $2 being ‘=’, and $3 being ‘/some/location’.
USENIX Configuration Management Summit Call for Participation
I think everybody has done this at some point, and I'm sure I will not be the last person to have done it; leaving the WHERE clause from DELETE and UPDATE statements when writing SQL, I caused about 45 minutes downtime on our RDS instance the last time I did it, but since we had multi-AZ setup, no data was lost. I also frequently get mixed up between development and production environments.

Every database alias I have now has the MySQL --i-am-a-dummy flag appended. This has been a career-saver in my eyes.
What about authors using it as advertising (first of a series, short story, etc) and then only sell books through higher income sources? That is assuming it does turn into that much of an issue.
Thanks, but what I meant with the "sic" was that jQuery was written as "Jquery".
Thank you! The both of you!

I will never give up.
There's a project I'm distantly involved with to roll remotely unlockable insulated boxes out to homes for supermarket delivery, but it's stalled. :(
Only if you have recently graduated. Otherwise it's not very important and most people don't even include it.
(I work at Ribbon)

Unfortunately, yes.

I'm an Egyptian national myself, so I completely understand this concern and would love to add it very soon but given regulations, compliance and financial service hurdles, it will likely take a while.