skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put only a backup copy (not the source file) into Dropbox or Tarsnap. Don't delete the file on either system. Same boat.

Scripts can copy out from the Dropbox to both negate your issue and proliferate backup copies to many physical locations.
It has been speculated that the threads set off the flamewar detector by having more comments than votes.
Does anyone know what Kare did for SGI, as in 'Silicon Graphics'? I had her down as having designed the icons for the 'Indigo Magic Desktop' however there is barely a mention on the web.

For those that can't quite remember, the SGI icons were special in that they were vector rather than bitmap. They were also a lot more classy and polished than any other icons available anywhere else, at the time the SGI desktop was deluxe compared to normal computers, and I thought Susan Kare's work was part of this now forgotten chapter.
Thank you for this, thank you.
FYI in case you haven't seen it: https://github.com/BioJulia/Bio.jl

(nascent bio community with some good people onboard already; there are a handful of other bio-related things in the Julia pkg repository that have not migrated under the BioJulia umbrella yet)
I think Patrick is usually right on the money but I have at least 2 gripes with this post:

1) $50/month is WAY too much for the opening tier. Maybe $50/year. $50/month may sound OK to someone who already has a business generating meaningful revenue. But $50/month would be a show-stopper for most bootstrappers (which I imagine is a core audience). Especially when compared to something like Digital Ocean's $5/month.

2) The site design proposal looks pretty horrid. No doubt the current web site is also lousy, I think he could stick with something that still "speaks" to geeks. That "new" site design looks like one of these terrible templates which I think actually could send the wrong message.
I'm commenting on this thread because it's the only one I can comment on.

Whether or not it's appropriate for the duplicates of a controversial thread to be deleted, you've effectively squashed all productive conversation on a massive, contemporary topic.
I don't want to sound like a douche, but what is good about tarsnap as it is? (besides the price)?

Is the encryption or deduplication somehow unique? Or isn't the only unique element exactly what the author of this post proposes to eradicate?
They hadn't updated Mono for licensing issues. Hence them hopefully being able to take advantage of this.
You're saying that if an opinion is such-and-such, shut up. All I'm saying, is that the antecedent is irrelevant. You should shut up either way. Why?

You have an opinion. It is not shared by all people.

In circles where your opinion is disagreeable to many, it can be very easy to rally them against you. We've not (yet?) progressed beyond this. You may one day find yourself in such a circle, or near it. And one day your expression of that opinion, "hateful" or not, may be used against you.

So whatever your opinion is, keep it to yourself. It's a jungle out there. I do not envy Brendan Eich.
How this affects the (pretty high) Xamarin prices?
https://store.xamarin.com/
Ask HN: How can I invest in tech startups with as little as $50k?
I am a long time developer who has put together a little war chest that I'd like to invest. I'm looking to invest between $25k and $75k into new tech startups but I don't know how to do this. Are there funds that invest exclusively in high-tech startups? Can I approach companies directly? What other options am I overlooking?
Microsoft’s security products will block adware by default starting on July 1
This is great. There is a really interesting lesson/insight here. Programmers are expensive.

There are a number of things people are doing, based on Linux, which are basically using Linux as an OS and then layering on some custom drivers or such into a product. Whether its a web 2.0 company using it as the server OS or an embedded signage company. All of these were "impossible" when you had to have your own OS team to support them, and Microsoft benefited from that. Now the OS "maintains itself" (such as it is) and so businesses get everything they got from employing Microsoft tools but at a much lower effective cost. They don't need to pay big license fees, they don't need to hire programmers to maintain a lot of code that isn't central to their product, and they don't have to spend a lot of money/time training people on their own infrastructure. That is a pretty big change.

Its nice to see folks realize it isn't the software that is valuable, its the expertise to use it that has value. By open sourcing the C# compiler Microsoft greatly increases the number of people who will develop expertise in using it and that will most likely result in an increase of use.
I would absolutely take that position. How is it relevant to his position? Can't someone pragmatically act as is appropriate to the world that is, while working to remake it as they believe it should be?
I think you may have unwittingly proved ACow_Adonis' point just now.
Now that I notice you've edited in some arguments, let's clarify these points:

- We ran a bot that, upon explicitly being asked to by a user, would convert a post to HTML5 video

- Yes, we upvoted the bot. We didn't realize it was a problem, and stopped once it was pointed out.

- We don't remove any posts where we get negative press.

- I've shared some choice words about a few moderators who I've had a bad experience with. However, I've qualified myself every time, providing plenty of reasons for why I feel the way I do.

The bot was a problem during the first few days of launch. It's hard to argue that it was spam when it only worked when summoned by a user. The vote gaming argument has merit - but we did stop once we realized that it was a bad idea. Even with all that in mind, these problems were only relevant during the first week or so of our lifetime, and doesn't really justify the relationship we've had with the admins from then out.

You'd think that when the users of Reddit were clearly so excited about the service, the admins would take a moment to get in touch and talk to us about it civily, instead of taking such a hostile (and really, anti-user) stance towards the service.

Side note: there are numerous bots that arguably generate much more spam for competing services - bots that don't wait for a user to request their help. These bots haven't had a negative impact on the competing services.
Well neither did he say or imply that it should be prevented, so again you're being fallacious here.
It's really no different than any other special interest group.

GLAAD has had lots of success in the past and done a lot of good, but now I feel like they are trying to find things to be outraged about, which has become tiring to hear about. When you're going after Dan Savage and Alec Baldwin for "saying the wrong things" when they are clearly LGBT allies I think it's time to reevaluate what's really important. Reading the one "gay news" site I follow sometimes feels like I've stepped into the Women and Women First sketches on Portlandia.

I don't really see big divisions other than with the GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans sorts. Most of gay politics seems to be centered on the civil rights issues, otherwise gay people span the political spectrum like any other group. Obviously they lean more towards the Democrats, but I know a fair number of gay people that are Republican.

As far as civil partnerships go, my impression (and also my opinion) is that most of us think that while it might be a step in the right direction, it's not really an acceptable solution at least in the US. There are a lot of rights civil marriage brings that civil partnerships don't.

I do personally think that if the federal government decided to just not recognize marriages as anything other than a religious ceremony and searched-and-replaced "marriage" with "civil union" in all the laws I would be fine with that.
Keep in mind that many HFTs are market makers and have specific agreements with exchanges that pays them 0.005 cents per share traded, regardless. The other side of this is that they MUST stay in the market, no matter what.

Thus, when trading volume went down over last few years, many HFT firms had less income.

(And to answer another commenter in this thread, No, other investors are not "wise" to the ways of HFT, all traders save for the brokerage firms who used to collect $0.10 on each share traded (the spread before HFT) benefit.)
I wonder how long it will be before someone creates a 2048 interface to tarsnap.
Well, this is exactly what people wanted after the learnt about this stance and his reactions. I don't understand why you find this worrying. It's mob justice but justice nevertheless. As a CEO, he simply has to accept and support popular opinion and views. That's how people in top management survive.
This happens a lot. Mods don't like heated discussions. I've spoken out about this before but didn't get much traction.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7527229
I would hope he would be able to maintain a good position there, he seemed to be a very valuable fellow to have onboard - he did create JavaScript (for better or for worse, but still - 10 days to create a language is insane). And as the CTO he cherry-picked Rust as a project worthy of devoting resources to – something I am extremely grateful for. I'm sure has done a great deal of other good things at Mozilla too – those are the just the ones I am most familiar with.

That's not to say I wasn't uncomfortable about the CEO appointment though.
Its not the filesystem thats the problem, but the terrible partitioned-backslash-ridden namespace. Come on MS, embrace the forward slash already.
> I trust us, but I trust Colin more, so I wish there was a simple “In case of emergency, get Colin on the phone and have him securely transfer a copy of the key files backed to me” option in case disaster strikes.

If Colin has your private keys then he could be compelled to reveal the contents of your data to a third party. This seems to run counter to the design goals of the system.

Otherwise I found the posting to be enlightening. I learned quite a bit from reading it!
This is one of the best thing came out this days.
Dropbox preserves history of the file even after file was deleted.

Especially with Packrat feature.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/11/en
Could this then be why the English hate the Scots?

In fact, do the English like anyone at all..?
But the unspoken claim is that all events with a lot of men are unbearable for women (and decent people).

Sure if some girl wants to go to girls only camp, whatever. Although it seems a bit unfair that the same wouldn't be granted for boys.

I'm waiting how this plays out in 10 years. Either it'll fail because a majority of women simply don't want to code. Or there will be women-only companies desperate to hire men. There would be a slight difference in the women only companies likely having started out as women only deliberately, so I think working as the only man for an all women company might be even more unattractive than the opposite thing.
>Does that make them all homophobes?

It does.
Sysdig creator blogs about motivations for project
One version of the core libraries (micro framework) are OSS too, along with a bunch of other stuff, but by no means everything or even everything in the base class library.

See slide: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkT9oBcCQAAHIAV.jpg:large
I, personally, have an issue with witch hunts, with McCarthyism, with bigotry.

Eich's persecution for his beliefs was bigotry.

Everyone complicit in it is a bigot.
I have asked similar questions myself in the past; I agree that it's a fascinating (and fascinatingly uncomfortable) topic. Like you, I don't have a conclusive answer.
Newegg and friends crush a patent troll
I do sort of feel as though this was a "fish in the barrel" target that people are feeling good about. Yes, everything small matters in large numbers, but I don't think this is really much to show in terms of LGBT rights progress. It has the veneer of the armchair activism you see on Tumblr.
I can't speak for IntelliJ (can never get the damn thing configured correctly), but Eclipse's autocomplete leaves a lot to be desired. This may be configurable, but my experience has been that it's finicky about when it will trigger.

I appreciate Eclipse's openness (and I tend to work with open source languages), but I must admit that purely examining the quality of the tool, Visual Studio is leagues ahead.
> And just who decides that?

Presumably, Mozilla Corporation's board and its sole owner (Mozilla Foundation).
Ask HN: My consulting business is overtaking my day job, lost on how to manage
I'm currently working a day job as a software developer. At my current job I'm unsatisfied with the environment and I'm no longer learning new things. I have put in my notice and leave at the end of the month.<p>On the side I have 2 startups, and 4 projects I'm managing. That means meeting with clients, doing all the UI/UX for 6 projects, handling payments and invoicing, and managing 6 people full time.<p>My questions:<p>a) What software do you use to manage your projects
b) What software do you use to invoice
c) How do you manage people?
d) What resources do you have that would be a good read in relation to project management<p>Thanks!
Pension funds are operating more cheaply now than at any time in history. It is a myth propogated by large bank trading desks that HFT profits come from pension funds. Instead they come from trader bonuses that are no longer necessary.

As for flash crashes there are 2 answers to that question 1) they correct so fast that they impact very few people. 2) if exchanges would stop busting trades during crashes the practices that lead to them would stop.
Fair enough. There's still a fair amount of AutoLayout magic I don't understand, but it has made my life a little easier. I also really didn't expect them to show anything, and it drives me nuts how blown out of proportion WWDC has become. It's a terrible day when developers can't get access to engineers and training because executives and the press want a front-row seat to the Keynote bail by Tuesday.
Everyone has a right to opinion. Brendan has his opinion. The internet also had it's opinion. Nobody is right or wrong here, just the way it is. OKCupid was well within it's rights to denounce firefox - just like brendan was within his rights to support prop8.
Thanks for pointing me in a direction to make my terminology more accurate. (Sincere.)
Once you have a $500/month enterprise plan that is popular, you are going to have competitors that offer more for $400/month, and VC's will be plowing them with money to hire salespeople to go after these $40,000 LTV customers.

And most of your $500/month clients won't move. You won't get so many new clients, but your existing clients have 'something that works' and 'we're doing something else now'.

An enterprise-level client - one that the article characterises as being able to employ lawyers, and specifically not the cheap ones - isn't going to change from a vendor with a working system to a new vendor just to save $100/month.

From the sounds of it, Tarsnap isn't trying to own everyone's backups and expand at the speed of light. It's been a 'take me or leave me' product whose income currently satisfies the owner. Not getting new customers because of undercutting competitors will only happen when the level of income is much higher than it is now, and one assumes the owner won't have a problem with that given pricing history.
"Twitter for iPhone API compromised?"

Is that supposed to... you know... mean something?
A bit more on this, from the abstract at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6179/78:

"We determined the quadrupole gravity field of Enceladus and its hemispherical asymmetry using Doppler data from three spacecraft flybys. Our results indicate the presence of a negative mass anomaly in the south-polar region, largely compensated by a positive subsurface anomaly compatible with the presence of a regional subsurface sea at depths of 30 to 40 kilometers and extending up to south latitudes of about 50°.

And a little more on methodology, from the full article:

"The design of the Cassini spacecraft does not allow radio tracking from Earth during remote-sensing observations. Therefore, only 3 of the 19 flybys of Enceladus completed so far have been used for gravity measurements. In these close encounters, the spacecraft was continuously tracked from ground antennas while flying within 100 km of the moon’s surface, twice above the southern hemisphere (in the flybys labeled E9 and E19) and once over the northern hemisphere (E12). We determined Enceladus’ quadrupole gravity field and degree-3 zonal harmonic coefficient J3 from measurements of spacecraft range-rate.

And further detail on the effects modeled:

"Microwave links between the onboard transponder and ground stations of NASA’s Deep Space Network enabled precise measurements of the spacecraft range-rate. In addition to gravitational forces, our analysis accounts for the main nongravitational accelerations, most notably neutral particle drag exerted by the substantial gas plume formed by the jets of the south-polar region. Flying by the moon at latitudes below –70°, the spacecraft interacts with the plume at distances of up to 500 km from Enceladus’ surface..."

Amazing results. They're flying ~100 km from the moon's surface, while at a distance of 1.3 billion km. And getting very accurate velocities due to the mighty Doppler effect.
Should We Close Part Of The Ocean To Keep Fish On The Plate?
My own timeline was compromised, so I started looking into this. A fake tweet was posted on my behalf with "Twitter for iPhone" as the source. I don't have an iPhone since quite some time, but I used to have the app back in the day and never revoked access until now.
Isn't the stagnation of the Cuban economy atleast in part attributable to the US embargo?

Castro himself didn't expect the US to snub him as much they did. He naively thought that the US would recognize his liberation of Cuba in the same light as the US Revolutionary War. Cuba had no choice but to turn to the Soviet Union for assistance.

Again, I know Castro is not a saint, and modern Cuba is not a paradise. I merely want to point out that American interests in Cuba have rarely been aligned with the interests of the majority of Cubans.
I'd rather see C# across the board and write once run anywhere (eg release a linux distro with .net support built in).
The Hacker News community wants to discuss this story much more than the Hacker News mods want to allow it to be discussed. They think they've reasonably allowed the community to discuss it "enough", already, so they're intervening. Not annoying at all, is it?
You are overlooking the most obvious option: Start your own company. That's what I did and it's pretty awesome so far. More work than I ever imagined but awesome all the same. :)
I have said many times before having bought NEST thermos and returned them on multiple occasions, these products DO NOT WORK, and are in fact a scam.

I feel sorry for anyone who was bilked out of 3X times what a functioning device costs, and instead bought anything NEST produces.

NEST is experimenting on its customer base with prototypes that are so poorly made as to beg the question, why havent regulators already stepped in?
An interesting way might be to slowly grey out messages when they approach the threshold and allow users to increase their radius (by either a small or totally arbitrary amount)

also the grey amount would be updated in real time if the user is say, travelling on a bus. so messages can change greyness dynamically.
Most of these sites I have never heard of.

Someone should make a launching site for new startup launching sites, to make sure that the new startup launching sites are able to get off the ground quickly.
I don't really have any objections, or really any opinion on whether Colin should or should not charge more.

I was just pointing out that it is a good thing that there are smart people who are "bad at business", who are "irrational" as you put it. Many good things we have came from such irrational people (that was the point about Linux parallel) and many ugly things come from people who are only following the bottom line.
I guess you don't quite understand how HFT works? The HFTer is the one offering to sell the shares for $50.00 on exchanges X, Y & Z. He's also offering to buy for $49.99. His goal is to sit there all day long trading with dumb money making 1 cent per share he transacts.

The HFTer has a problem though. If a big & smart trader comes along with proprietary knowledge that MSFT should really be trading for $50.10 he could take a big loss. If that HFTer buys everything up for $50.00 and then the price moves to far too fast that's bad.

So the HFTer works as hard as he can to detect when this might be happening so that he can update the prices he's offering. A really big signal this might be happening is when someone eats up his whole order book on one exchange all at once. So when that happens he trys to react as fast as possible to updates pricing on the other exchanges.

He's not injecting himself into transactions, he's trying to get out of the way as fast as possible.
> I'm suggesting that people aren't being paid enough because, structurally, they are in a poor bargaining position

But how do you define "paid enough"? Enough for what? I'll agree that they aren't being paid enough to improve their situation materially, but that doesn't mean they aren't paid enough for the value they actually create, doing the work they're actually doing.

> The only reason that people accept the low wages is because they have nothing else

Yes, but again, that doesn't mean the low wages aren't an accurate reflection of the value those people are currently creating.

> once things improve enough to drive wages up the industries that rely on low-wage labour move on

Yes, by automating their processes so that a single worker is much more productive and therefore can command higher wages. Not by paying people higher wages for doing the same work they were doing before.

> uprooting an industry is expensive, so they are incentivised to stop people attaining economic independence

This is true, but note that it only actually works if the manufacturers have no competition. Which basically requires governments to be complicit in stopping their people from attaining economic independence.

If there is free competition, then there is economic value to be captured in helping people become more productive, because the limiting factor in how much wealth can be created is almost always human productivity. So the manufacturer that comes to a poor country and builds a factory where people make T-shirts by hand won't last very long in free competition with another manufacturer that comes to that country and builds a factory where people make T-shirts by machine...and then builds a factory where people make trousers by machine...and then builds a factory where people make bicycles by machine...and so on, and so on; and thereby makes much more profit than the manufacturer who couldn't be bothered to invest in increasing workers' productivity.

> I've enjoyed the discussion btw! :)

So have I. :)
A script to back up and upload your MongoDB data to Amazon S3
It's fuzzy and instant. If you type "flow" it will treat it as if you searched for "stream". You don't need to know what things are named. You just search for what you think it may be and 9 times out of 10 intellisense will find what you're looking for. It's like having Google doing autocomplete for you.