skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually thought the opposite.

A lot of these federal positions are military. So I assumed it was some enlisted guy out of high school that didn't want a desk job but wants to be firing guns. He's been doing it years and wants out. He's not invested in any of this analysis.

Compared to the guy that self-selected to sign up for an analysis website as a hobby. He finds it fun to think and analyze. He gets points for being right and has a score to improve.

The other factor is workloads. If a CIA analyst has to make X decisions in Y time, then they may be rushing.

I read this story as a failure of federal services to reward successful performers and remove failing performers.
(former dev)

ReactOS is an open source reimplementation of Windows NT series operating system (e.g. Win 2003 Server, 7, 2008). Similar to Linux started as an reimplementation of Unix.

ReactOS has binary compatible with Windows. This allow your Windows applications and drivers to run as they would on your Windows system. Additionally, the look and feel of the Windows operating system is used (Win95 classic style and WinXP theme support).

ReactOS is still in development, but a lot of Windows apps and some several types of hardware drivers work fine or with minor glitches.

You can find screenshots on http://www.reactos.org and even more on the following page: http://old.reactos.org/en/screenshots.html
Ask HN: Self hosted TI department manager
Hi,

I need some advice, do you know some self hosted open source solution to track and cartegorize, server, services, workstations, support tickets and a knowledge base?

Thank you!
BTW, this is exactly why the question of inclusiveness matters in global, large open source projects.

The normal state of human relations is that most societies historically and today emphasize unchosen parent/child relationships more than chosen friend and spouse relationships. This is done for functional reasons -- it allows families instead of businesses and governments to take on the primary role of caring for the elderly, and it essentially forces marriage and having children to be the norm. It also makes dissolution of marriage much harder because intergenerational obligations get messy when children are expected to care for divorced retiree parents, particularly when they remarry.

In other words, traditional marriage, as it existed a hundred years ago in the US, was a more or less permament union which assured that most folks would have children who would care for them in their old age, and both sexuality and reproduction were subservient to that goal. This is still the model in the rest of the world.

Many countries have been moving away from that model to one where government and corporations bear the primary responsibility of providing for the elderly. In such a model, yes, same-sex marriage makes sense. But if you make same-sex marriage a human right, you essentially say that no society which treats children as the optimal source of support for retirees has a right to exist. That is orders of magnitudes more intolerant than contributing $1000 to Prop 8, because you are setting up large numbers of cultural and economic differences as human rights violations. Sure, neither same-sex marriage nor child protective services are possible in a society where children are expected to be the normal source of retirement support but that doesn't make the lack of either into human rights violations. You have to look at issues in context.

So again, what does it mean to be inclusive in a global open source project? Does it mean excluding, as I think you want to, anyone who believes the optimal arrangement is for people to get married, have kids, have household businesses, and retire with their kids? Because if so, you have just alienated most cultures in the world, and that's "inclusive" only of wealthy, privileged white folks.
> Zed currently is only available as a Chrome packaged app

Sorry: this is not the kind of OSS that I want to support. Best of luck, though.
These gloves will "change the way we make music," says Imogen Heap
Yes ! I get excited because the author lists "Reduce cognitive load" at the editor's first goal. It's not an absolute and easy to measure metric but is worth having having as a first class citizen. Plus he already proves that he's moving in that direction by removing the concept of open/closed files.

For funding: how hard would it be to create a "shared hire" subscription model where participants get a vote into what the author is doing ?
This appears to be a pure marketing site aimed at getting IndieGoGo donations. Nothing really new to see here if you've looked at ReactOS in the past (no, 0.4 isn't out yet).
Yeah, that's the main question I have too. According to several PoC users it's no worse than having a small ring of keys in your pocket? Interesting concept though, and a good example of a non-tech "industry insider" (designer of this is used to be photo-journalist) using his connections to develop / market a product.
(I'm the author of the article)
HTTPS is definitely recommended. I would however recommend against using a hash of a pass phrase since it would have the same effect as an API key (you would still be able to replay it), and we all know that hashes without salts never go well :)
You can do that with Fargo.io. Concord out of the box appears to just hold a single outline.
As one of the creators, would love to hear feedback positive or negative.
> Saying that gay rights aren't as fundamental of an issue because it's not as cut and dry today as women's suffrage and slavery are today is patently ridiculous.

That's really not what I wrote at all, though.
Some insightful comments. I think another habit of successful entrepreneurs is knowing when to give up and when to power through.
They had Windows 8. Then Windows 8.1. Now it's Windows 8.1 Update 1. (Another terrible name in a long line of terrible Microsoft product names)
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I don't think it's fair to compare Ubuntu to Fedora. Ubuntu encompasses the mindset of both RHEL and Fedora. With Ubuntu versions, the LTS releases are like RHEL and the non-LTS releases are like Fedora.

I'm a proponent of RHEL/Fedora, but still, Ubuntu can upgrade from LTS to bleeding edge fairly easily. Try that with RHEL.

My experience has been to have trouble with both bleeding edges, Fedora or non-LTS Ubuntu. I don't freak out though, as I know the purpose of the bleeding edge is to suffer the bugs so the RHEL/LTS folks of the world don't have to. That said, using a release backward from current for Fedora or non-LTS Ubuntu usually is pretty stable, supposing you're on your game enough to upgrade before repo EOL.

/endrant
Libc considered harmful
What botnet?
Hi, parul. Will do. Thanks for letting me know.
I often found that music on their music service was a buck an album cheaper than Amazon.
There is no logical relation between credit vs debit cards, and fraud. You could have a bitcoin based account with a borrowing limit, which could only make payments to registered identities (equivalent of merchants), creating a credit card-like account.

And when you say that merchants find credit cards acceptable in spite of fraud, that doesn't imply that fraud isn't a huge drain on the economy, it just means that credit cards are still a better alternative than cash. But if we could get rid of the fraud, we would still save a huge amount.
They're doing a series on places trying to replicate the success of the valley, so it's understandable although quite unimaginatively titled for each piece. I presume there will be a program dedicated to comparing them all once the series concludes.
We use xero and it's made accounting enjoyable for me, and usually I resent spending time on accounts. We needed something that would handle multiple currencies well and so far that has been no problem. Being web based really helps too, especially as you get multiple users with no hassle.
You can absolutely "pick and restore just certain files of interest" when restoring with CrashPlan.
>cyber hacking

For when just 'cyber' and just misuse of the word hacking aren't enough.

Edit:
>assuming that... my husband had accidentally logged into my account instead of his own

I think this shows her attitude to security could at best be described as lax.

>3. Turn off your computer and personal devices when they’re not in use.

I... this is... wow, what.
I figured the salt went without saying ;)
Agreed. I've been following his work for a decade.
They started off reasonable. Ask ordinary people to assign probabilities to potential world events that can be verified. The next step is also reasonable. With a large enough crowd, the estimation noise around the "true" probability will cancel out. That's how the crowd mean estimated the ox weight so closely.

But then they turned left onto stupid street. They took the people who, perhaps by chance alone, predicted results closest to the crowd mean, and put them on a "team". What the heck is the point of that? It just reduces the size of the crowd and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics.

Past performance does not necessarily predict future results.

Start with 10000 coins, and flip them all. Keep the ones that land heads. Flip those, and keep the ones that land heads. Repeat until all coins land on tails, or one coin remains as the "champion of heads." What is the probability that when it is flipped again, it comes up heads? Still 50%. It isn't a supercoin. You just managed to select it from a giant group by making it the sole outlier from a series of independent trials.

Though you should probably check to make sure it actually has a tails side, just in case.
I was (and still am) honestly baffled that Canonical never went about building and marketing Ubuntu One as a home directory backup service.

Maybe automatically encrypt and backup all text files in the home directory by default, and for free. Restore encrypted backup from Ubuntu One every time a user does a reinstall or upgrade. Charge users if they want to throw in media files or binaries.
protesting him as the CEO does not imply abandoning or destroying Mozilla

Protesting Eich as CEO on grounds of his personal beliefs has very very strong repercussions for Mozilla as a community.

and it's not really my career or your career

It is my career. I'm not CEO and I haven't spoken out on gay marriage, but I have spoken out, personally, on any number of subjects. If Eich is forced to step down, I'd consider myself on strong notice that any personally made statement on any political or moral subject could be a serious limitation to my technical career, even if at the moment I make it it's the majority opinion. How downright insane is that?

and all that hiding behind Indonesian people, what's up with that

He's pointing out that there's Mozilla communities who see things very very differently from the USA-centric shitstorm that he's experiencing. Should we kick them out, or limit their careers, for being bigots?
The design is clean but think about the message you are sending to visitors of the site. Right now (ignore whatever is in the video. i''m at work and can't watch it and you have to assume there are others that won't watch it as well), you're telling them what the software does, which forces them to see how it fits in to their lives. Tell them exactly how this fits into their life/current practice/problems.

If you know someone who has successfully used this and found it beneficial include a small feature on them. Or do it on multiple people. Visitors will get to see some of its applications and also testimonials are a great way to build trust quickly.

Good luck!
> you can think the the beliefs are stupid, but you can still respect them.

I have no idea what you're saying here. What does respecting stupid ideas even look like?

EDIT: I respect people's right to hold and express stupid ideas. That does not mean I cannot discuss, at length and with vigor, how stupid they are, or encourage others to avoid financially supporting the people who hold those stupid ideas. I, too, have the right to free speech.
http://www.freeagent.com Does all my budget and taxes.
This approach to things is what killed Ubuntu (yes, killed, not is killing). See PulseAudio, Unity, etc
Preview emails for any user with Rails 4.1
I'm still confused, are the hosting it on git or not?
Yes, you're right. And the example of active defense in the article is quite social too: put pressure upon the government to get them understand that harm to the internet is harm to themselves.
Take the underscore out of the Twitter link.
On a positive note, now I have a full year before online tech media wastes an entire day highlighting products that don't exist, and why they are so funny. They don't seem to have grasped that explaining a joke kills the humor...
I haven't been super up to date with the code but yes. Lots of bugs and faster and better error handling in the newer versions. Improved for every week.
still i think you would expect the svn project would use svn :D otherwise it's a pretty treacherous admission of a codebase being legacy only
you're certainly aware that libgit2 is a reimplementation of git, largely sponsored by github since the original git libraries are binding-unfriendly to say the least. The de-facto ruby "bindings" (grit) were a mere wrapper around cli git and afaik this used to be the only way to go.

I tried to use libgit2 for a project last year and a coworker did a couple of patches and I can say that there's still a lot of ground to cover until libgit2 is at least somewhat feature complete. Back then, clone via SSH and other _must_have_ features were unimplemented.
Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?
My daughter is 12 and has expressed for years that she wants to be an architect or engineer. She's also interested in medicine. She knows some Python and likes building things. She is also in need of some inspiration. I can show her medicine but I need some help on the engineering side. As it happens, her spring break is next week, so it would be good timing about now. PM me if you are interested. I would really appreciate it. We could probably work something out, maybe meet at lunch or something. I'll buy.

Edit: SD = San Diego. And for those recommending FIRST: our challenge with FIRST is that she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal.
This doesn't seem like a particularly scalable solution, since your traffic increases proportionally to the number of versions you support.
Mining Bitcoin with stolen electricity == Money Laundering (says Dutch Police)
It doesn't seem to use Bluetooth. I guess that's not very important, and I'm not sure why FireChat uses both Bluetooth and Wifi.

In very crowded areas, switching to Bluetooth could be a way of minimizing the radio interference footprint, perhaps?
Exactly. Reading this thread, I get the distinct impression that many posters have never even interacted with someone who disagrees with them on some of these issues. As someone who grew up in the midwest, I've seen this exact exchange happen countless times.
Apparently that's for free users, for annual subscribers "[...] the service will remain available until 1 June and data available for a further two months".

Not that it changes things a lot, but two months is definitely better than one. They probably have data to back their decision.

EDIT: I misread the post, there's not difference. Sorry for the noise.
Well, if you backup your entire disk, then there is probably a fair amount of known plain text...
Thanks for the article. Have laid out my plans to move out of my current job to work in a startup within the next three months.
> However, when we zoom into the microscopic world of atoms and molecules, this law softens up and looses its absolute strictness.

Hard to take a science article seriously when they write like an 8th grader.
Is it typical at this sort of event to announce new things? I'm generally unfamiliar with these sorts of conventions/conferences or whatever you call it, but reading through the titles and descriptions of the talks just makes it sound like a super-dry advertisement for a list of Microsoft products.

Am I wrong?
I remember reading many years ago about some retailer initiatives from the likes of LL Bean to offer in store body scans. Then you could order online with confidence that what you were ordering fit on your 3D wireframe. I guess that never panned out. It would be great.
That's a very astute observation. As that Dead Kennedys album title says, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. Most people most of the time won't care enough to do anything. You only need to redirect the energy of the 5% who care enough to do more than complain.
The formatting of the questions and answers could contribute to a candidate's success as well. Unlikely events could be phrased differently than likely events with the intention of skewing the success rate to the positive.

I would hate for data from this organization to be used for any sort of real decision making process. You might as well hire a psychic.
The very fact that users see a boot up sequence goes against the idea that the PC should be as transparent as possible to its user. I guess since they know its going to take them so long before its ready to go, they show you something instead of a blank screen while its getting ready. Tablets and smartphones have shortened this preparation time enough that you're good to go almost instantly.
I think people assume you need 100% coverage at every level of the testing pyramid and so you have redundant tests. Also, with Ruby in particular, the interfaces between objects and methods are so weak that you have no guarantee that things will fit together and behave properly.

For example, in Ruby you can have a method with 2 parameters of X and Y. Maybe X should be a string and maybe Y should be a float. You can unit test the method to make sure it does the right things, but as soon as something else calls that method there is no guarantee they will call it correctly or pass in the right type of arguments. Thus, there are tons of potential integration problems all over ruby code.

I think this lack of strong interfaces has trained ruby developers not to trust unit tests and so they go down the path of integration and end to end testing. Due to the weaker type and interface guarantees of the language, you will write more tests to get the same level of confidence in your code. By compensating for this language weakness, you are falling into "The Cucumber Test Trap" or more generically you aren't following the testing pyramid sensibly.
>Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down?

Do you really find it strange that some users could rely on a service, but that service is also not worth continuing?

>If no, then why do you say they rely on it?

Which is more likely to be wrong?

1) There exist users that rely on Ubuntu One

2) There are absolutely no users that rely on Ubuntu One.
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"The average NYC tech ecosystem hourly wage is $39.50
49% greater than the NYC median (AND 44% OF THOSE JOBS DO NOT REQUIRE A BACHELOR’S DEGREE.)"
This seems like a terrible abuse of statistics. The average wage of $39.50 may be 49% greater than the NYC median, but what is the median tech ecosystem hourly wage. It is probably lower than the average. Of those jobs that do not require a bachelor's degree, how many are actually held by people without a bachelors degree, and what is the average (or better yet median) wage for those without a bachelors degree.
I read an interesting paper not long ago that discussed exactly such a scenario (stealing electricity to mine Bitcoin). The paper is titled, "Bitcoin & Gresham's Law -- The Economic Inevitability of Collapse":

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Bitcoin%20and%20Gres...
There are enough differences to warrant using different abstractions when appropriate. RAM never fails. Or, it never fails in a way that application code is expected to handle. RAM is cached, and cache is so fast that accessing small amounts of it is often negligible cost, and there's no need to count round trips. RAM is far less likely to be the connection point between different versions or implementations of an application. Are some examples.
is it that easy ? I mean, building something is one thing, but attracting new clients and making them pay every month requires "A good idea which people are in need of" AND "Good marketing skills to spread the word around".

Don't get me wrong, I am almost at the same page as of OP (though i am working as a dev but working on legacy technologies) and I also want to get out of it and move to some better opportunity but now i feel so rusted. I have been trying to keep up with technologies by reading about them but to prove that I know them, I need some thing to buiild on it and for that i need an idea too :(
Most people in the world only have access to public information so if you think most geopolitical events are brought about by "the masses" instead of by some Platoesque elites (which is of course very much debatable) it may well make sense to base your predictions on the data that is available to most players.
I'm sure they could give me a pretty resume. How can I tell if it actually works? There are dozens of factors at play[1]. While job candidates need to dedicate time to the job hunt (just like employers need to dedicate time to recruiting people) it's hard to imagine having the bandwidth and the sample size to do A/B testing of my resume compared with the "professional" one.

I can tell ugly and bad resumes. When a bunch of sentences on using Microsoft Office have been added to my resume, I can tell it's a bad resume. This doesn't mean I can tell the difference between the 95th percentile and the 98th percentile resume for a particular employer, where the latter will get me in the door and the former won't.

> but it's probably pointless trying to convince you otherwise.

Hey, thanks man!

[1] Say there are two companies and one has a "don't say anything about hobbies" hiring manager and the other has an "always mention hobbies" hiring manager.
Exactly the same. I used it as a treasurer in a small nonprofit. Worked great for me. The problem is when it comes to transitioning the books to a new treasurer. Nobody else but another command-line afficionado will want to have anything to do with ledger, so you're dealing with some kind of data migration at that point.

Edit: Meant this as a response to sibling comment by guan.
Troubling that Ubuntu One wasn't already open source.

Can anyone explain to me why every cloud drive is using their own proprietary protocols to do the same thing? Why we have to install a different client for each vendor? That's one thing that annoys me greatly, and I'll never use Dropbox as long as its syncing tool is proprietary.

Does anyone else remember when companies were proud that they were the custodians of a file format? Once things went to the internet it seems like that stuff is no longer important to companies.
Couldn't you just find any old package and install that?
What about for Android? Where is such peer connectivity framework? What about connecting Android and iOS?

What about Alljoyn SDK?
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"As programmers we don't explicitly control how our RAM communicates with the CPU; we let the underlying abstractions handle it."

Except for when we don't, because the underlying abstractions sometimes do the wrong thing. Random paper on cache-optimizing and the hassles thereof: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/trishulc/paper...

The challenge is that even the memory abstraction leaks a little, and the network is nowhere near as fast or reliable as the frontside bus: "abstracting away" a 100ms+ link latency and/or nontrivial packet loss means hitting that leak much sooner.