skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're going to need to name names if anyone's going to believe you. I've only seen ONE employer from RAC at your scamtablishment. Perhaps exaggeration is your strong point?
Nuke TLS from Orbit
I would also love to have this running on a free Heroku process.
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Exploiting CSRF under NoScript Conditions
tl;dr: there's a problem here in software, and I don't know what it is, lets fix it by acknowledging its existence and then going back to what we normally do.
For me it helps taking short breaks from one problem (like, ~20 mins every couple of hours) to lay the foundations for tackling the next problem, drawing diagrams, doing some research and letting a project 'normalize' conceptually. Small context shifts kind of count as 'breaks' (to me, anyway) Its much easier to get into the zone when everything already fits into place and you have a clear purpose, than having to battle with minutae frustrations and rollbacks of badly planned work sprints.
I think if you just rush into a problem it creates a kind of impedence mismatch between your expectations of productivity and what's realistically possible and kills the mojo. So be Zen. Take ya time and do it well :D

... and if you get your meetings and lunch done and behind you by 1130am that's like 6 hours of a straight
working afternoon with no planned interruptions :D
> Easier to write concurrent programs

Yeah, sure.
Roku Command Line Remote with VIM bindings for Linux/Mac
It is not worse than AWS, but it is different. OpenStack is a collection of python programs that abstracts the physical hardware, such as cpu's, networking, storage and combines them to form a single interface over the top of the bare metal. Essentially you can turn many machines into an easy to use environment that looks like AWS.

In fact, all communication is done via web API's and there is even a compatibility API that speaks AWS. So if you have scripts that work with AWS, they will most likely work on OpenStack as well.

OpenStack is different in that not only can you choose an OpenStack provider, such as Rackspace, HP and others, but you can also run your own instance of OpenStack. All the software is released under the BSD 2 license. It can be a little tricky to get setup, but there are some projects out there to help get a working environment setup, DevStack in particular is very easy to use: http://devstack.org/
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What non-startups are trying to hire jack of all trade generalist devs?
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I'm inclined to think they're 'doing it wrong', especially when you cross in to the "keep it running in production" territory.
YCombinator is like a reverse link aggregation for businesses. Instead of readers coming to this site for information, people troll with their latest business bullshit and expect free solutions in the comments.
It's about more than just "unix duct tape". It's about 'Infrastructure as Code', treating servers like programming objects.
It's about using configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet instead of writing bash scripts which only work on one system.
Be the upstream project.
Why would you build it down here? You go grab an asteroid, move it into far Earth orbit. Eat it to make your cable then get that runners down to earth while spooling one the opposite direction.

So yeah, once we can grab an asteroid or two, chop them up for materials, then I think we can have something like a space elevator. Heaven help us if it ever does break/fall (not snapping of the cable but destroying the anchor point)
Anyone know why this project encourages using a private fork to do contributing development?

> "Make a public fork of Huginn. [...] Make a private, empty GitHub repository called huginn-private. Duplicate your public fork into your new private repository[. ...] Checkout your new private repository. Add your Huginn public fork as a remote to your new private repository[. ...] When you want to contribute patches, do a remote push from your private repository to your public fork of the relevant commits, then make a pull request to this repository."
Ask HW: Best practice for styling inputs?
I have a quick question about styling inputs. What are some best practices for input css? I have always gone with un-styled for accessibility, but is there a standard for what can and can't be style (i.e. can change background-color, but don't change shape)?
As someone who is moving into more of a devops role from a pure development role. Here is my learning list so far.

1. The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference. http://www.amazon.com/The-TCP-Guide-Comprehensive-Illustrate...

2. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley...

3. A systems programming language- I choose golang.

4. GDB/makefiles

5. SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide http://www.amazon.com/SSH-Secure-Shell-Definitive-Guide-eboo...
It seems to me that the OP's real objection isn't to "DevOps" but with the reality of the software industry. He's upset that developers often are asked to do "lower" work. I find that a bit simplistic on his part. If anything, DevOps at its best is about elevating the ops work (by recognizing automation possibilities).

The issue is that employers are horribly inconsistent. They demand specialism in hiring, but refuse to respect specialties once they've pulled people in. Thus, you end up having to interview like a real computer scientist, only to find that most of the work is mind-numbing for a serious programmer, but that there's no one around at-level for it because "we only hire A players".

DevOps didn't do this. The problem is the industry, not one concept.
Speaking of many connected computers, greenArrays sells a chip (GA144 [0]) that has 144 cpus, and the interior ones are connected 4 ways. They also have a simulator that runs fine in wine. While the official eval board is $450, there is a poor mans option for $60 [1].

[0] http://www.greenarraychips.com/

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/budget.html
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Thank you for the detailed feedback. Yes, most of the exchanges allow to download one's personal transaction history. That does make CSV the next must-have functionality.

The challenge for us is not to loose simplicity. It is very easy to end up having bloatware as the result of implementing all of the IRS guidelines. So, we will take a careful one step at a time.
Is there any way to share a board via URL, without requiring users to sign in? I don't want to make it public or have it show up in search results, I just want to be able to share it with people who just need to view it but wont want to mess with creating an account.

If that's available (and I just can't find it), then this would be a great solution for me!
Strange, no writing about the idiot people with money who keep wasting money on this guy. Don't hate the player..
A few suggestions:

* Make it possible to "Tab" between fields, same for using "Cmd-Return", "Cmd-A", ...

* Inserting an image is really ankward, as soon as I upload it, I expect it to be in the article/product/... but it's not, I have to "Select" it, and then choose some kind of dimensions, and the UI/UX for it is not user-friendly, I think you should show the image in the article images sections, and then have small icons for differents sizes, or just when clicking the image, then we can edit it.

* When you use the terms "Publish", "Live now", ..., I expect to see something publicly accessible, like even some kind of raw template of a website, or show me the API urls, because now I'm like hitting the "Publish" button and then nothing seems to happen.

* Also when clicking "Publish", "publish now" should be the default (eg: always have defaults for select inputs)

Otherwise it looks really good and I like the ideas.

Do you plan on translating it? Also, you say it's free, but then there is a billing section, etc..., do you have a idea how much it will be?
I did read the article. Your gloss of it makes even less sense than the article itself, since tight oil and fracking have changed the energy market already and methane hydrates have had no effect after forty years. The actual thrust of the article is that fracking worked, so methane hydrates will work. And as I pointed out, this has nothing to do with oil. The author explicitly defines "petroleum" so as to include natural gas, which is simply an error. If this article had been posted to a forum of chemical engineers instead of one of software engineers, it would have gotten nowhere.
The coolest takeaway is that they didn't really dismiss the idea, just waiting for better manufacturing of currently feasible materials.
Edmund has good prices. That is probably your best bet in small quantities. One of the nice things about ball lenses is that they are made in batches, so large orders scale well.
Not sure how one can achieve ACID on distributed system without limiting scalability. In addition, these system are limited by the CAP theorem. Therefore it is bound to have problems, would be interesting to read the high level architecture.
Most coders I see would be useless as sysadmins...
It's frustrating as this product looks like a great idea and looks well done, but you're leaving out all the important bits of information that I'd want to know immediately.

Do I have to request the the content from prismic with every request? Is it done client or server side? What kind of caching will I be able to do my end? What happens when you go down?

That website and especially the video are terrible at communicating (pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, arghhhhhh). I thought it was because I was watching it without sound. Turns out there is no sound.

It visually looks great, but the content itself is practically useless, classic style over substance.

And the API documentation is bad. What does the first section of the documentation even mean?

/api is the single endpoint of your content repository. You can learn and browse everything else from there. You should never forge any API URL in your code, as all usable forms (that define what URLs you can build) are available in /api (and the URLs might change as features get rolled out).

I (finally) found the api which is hidden in the help menu of all places and kinda can guess what you're supposed to do, but I think you've a few rough edges to sand off in the usability.

Gratz on the launch, but get someone in to help you write the copy and overhaul those API docs.
Amazon phone?
Bitcoin is a Tax Nightmare, But LibraTax Has Got You Covered
Because your body is in motion the entire time.
I work at a large enterprise company and for a while I was part of the DevOps team as a software engineer.

Some of our goals included:

- Building the continuous integration/delivery pipeline

- Moving codebases from one source control system to another

- Creating programs/systems to automate tagging of builds

- Automating the deployment processes of multiple applications onto non-production servers

- Implementing and maintaining the functional testing frameworks and server grids

The more I look at these goals, the more I realize that the developers who work on feature delivery should not worry about these anyway. So I disagree that DevOps is killing the developer. In fact, DevOps is helping the developers focus on what's important.
I couldn't disagree more about his portrayal of DevOps. There are companies misusing any and all paradigms of development. Google "cowboy coding agile" to see what I mean.

When I think of DevOps, I don't think of having everyone know everything. Ops staff have to know enough code to write deployment automation scripts and dev staff need to know enough system administration to step up and help when the monitoring or deployment automation breaks.

It's meant to be a partnership to maintain a system rather than the old practice of throwing code over the wall. It really harms morale to have the developers all enjoying wonderful weekends while ops is on red alert because app changes they don't understand broke everything in production.
Switzerland basically says what you do in your own time is yours.

California does not, and does not say what most engineers think it does.

It says companies can own inventions that:

(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of
the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably
anticipated research or development of the employer; or
(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the
employer.

#1 is read fairly broadly.
Most think it just says #2.
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http://codeandlife.com/2012/07/03/benchmarking-raspberry-pi-...

I was wondering this too, but I never took the time to find out what this guys numbers could translate to in terms of actual throughput.
So... venture capital? The difference between angels and VC is that angels are investing their own money and VCs are general partners investing on behalf of their limited partners (investors). Not a new experiment at all, it's just smaller scale VC.
> It's mostly a CWOT

For a moment I misread that as "Mostly a CMOT", which seemed appropriate. CMOT Dibbler is a salesman from the Discworld novels. Somehow he maintains a crude existence convincing people to buy the most terrible products.
It seems there is a straight "no" to knockout even after used in Durandal , what you guys think.
This is like comparing apples and oranges. What technique do you use for benchmarking?
Are any other companies besides (well funded) startups actually hiring people as "full stack developers"? I mean, yeah, it's normal to look for candidates with full stack experience, but not to hire them in an actual job position that requires them to do full-stack work... it's a big difference.

(sorry if the q is off topic, I don't really understand what OP is ranting about with the devops problems, so I'm referring to the only part of the article that makes any sense to me, that about the full-stack devs...)
Thanks for the idea! It's not available right now (you can either invite or make it public), but seems to be a good addition, so it's possible to see that in future.
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What was the process like for elevated access? I'm deciding between using Gnip or Twitter's streaming API today actually.
> Buying a house with potentially wild inflation of tax costs is about as attractive as buying a house with a variable APR.

The one and only reason the US has 30 year fixed rate mortgages, with no prepayment penalty, available levered 5-10x, all at less than 100 bps over the risk free rate is because of massive government implicit and explicit subsidies.

Absent distortions it doesn't make sense for most people to buy a house -- it's inherently non-diversified, low liquidity, high transaction costs. But American society has for some bizarre reason decided that home ownership is the sine qua non of human civilization and so every level of government intervenes to distort the market in favor of homeownership.

Instead of recognizing this extraordinary intervention, and perhaps being grateful, homeowners tend to either: 1) refuse to recognize that such massive subsidies exist, or 2) see as entirely natural -- and bitch and moan if even the slightest modification is proposed.

It's yet another example of the American phenomenon of socialism for me but not for thee (and none dare call it welfare).
How one Apple employee survived product reviews with Steve Jobs
Found this site, apply to New York City's startups in 60 seconds
The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies
I added a few screenshots and examples to the homepage if you want to take another look.
The Structure of Security Software Organizations
While that sounds good, Portland is getting expensive very quickly for exactly the reasons you are talking about. This problem is not specific to San Fransisco.

You are just going to push good people in Portland out of their homes as they do not have the same rent controlled protections some have in San Francisco.

I assume you make plenty of money, so maybe you would be doing the world around you a better service in staying in San Francisco as that one is already ruined and you can afford it anyway.
I'm sorry, but what you are saying just does not match my personal experience, nor what the empirical studies suggest, which is the exact opposite:

> When a child is praised more substantially for trying hard, you get things like staying up all night studying for a test. When you emphasize being smart and not needing to study, the child is more likely to push themselves such that they can land good grades without needing to study.

The way I've heard and personally experienced it, kids who get praised for being smart are more likely to procrastinate ("eh, I already get that anyway"), then try to cram everything in in the last minute.

> And the same thing applies to sports. If you emphasize effort, you might get a child practicing repeatedly something that they are already good at.

Similarly, studies suggest that by praising talent, you teach kids to stick to what they are good at immediately ("that's what I'm talented at"), instead of putting in the effort to learn stuff that they don't get immediately.

EDIT: Perhaps it depends on whether you praise below-average, average and smarter-than-average kids?
There is really a need for a simple cms out there. I really prefer the selft hosted open source solution. There is quite a market of client that need only minimal manageability, where wordpress/joomla/typo3 is way too much for what they need. I was reading about Cloud Cannon service too that offer something similar, but again the paid service, we own your data, is somewhat less interesting. Looking forward for a minimal self hosted open source node.js/json cms in the near future ;)
I'm Thomas from the Webpgr team. I'm happy for any comments!
Francis does have/will have a more far reaching effect than Edward Snodwen

How much more?
I think it will require a bit of tweaking, but I would expect the other BSDs to adopt it once it is reasonably complete.
I think what you will see is not a "detroitification", but a seeding, where every important city in the world has some footprint in software. Detroit's problem was it was a single industry: automobiles. Software is now all industries. This is such a relevant topic, where as in the past migration was triggered by where the jobs where, now an individual (typically unmarried and without children) can choose where to go based almost just on quality of life.

There are some very interesting concepts around what you are talking about:

What are the most desirable places to live?

Are there cities that are somewhat broken that could fixed?

Are there cities that are totally broken that could flourish?

Should we take cities that will survive massive climate change more seriously than those that will vanish beneath the ocean?

How critical is the cities' level of individual freedom?

Then there are questions regarding software and technology's impact on the very nature of the city -

Will better remote work diminish the networking advantages of a place like NYC or SF?

Will self-driving cars spread cities out?

Will people if want to live in a densely populated area after all of these changes?
Each asset has ownership costs and risks associated with it. The uncertainty of the future cost of ownership is a risk you take on when you buy the asset.

It seems fair to me that the risk of the future variability of the cost of ownership of a property is assigned to the owner of the property.

I understand why you'd rather have someone else take on the risks, but newcomers are an unfair pick. How about an insurer or another financial counterparty? I'm sure it's possible to come up with some synthetic instrument which mimics the price movement of the property and can serve as a reliable hedge.
So if I had seen this article, I probably would not have posted it to HN.
Is it free to use the beta? for how long?
Surprised that Coinbase just doesn't offer this.
> We will be sure to include postgres

Yeah, right. Come back when you do.
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You don't do things for tests. You do the tests because you want to change something.

That said, the kind of results startups could get by tests are usually obvious at the balance sheet (or some other big metric) anyway, without any kind of formalization. If you have one of the rare situations where it isn't, go ahead and do a formal test, but I wouldn't recommend anybody to lose some sleep over it.
"A DevOps person isn't someone who develops, and who does Ops. It's someone who does only Ops, but through Development."

That's not true. There are many scenarios where devs also understand ops and do both. It's getting rid of the "throw it over the wall" mentality and incorporating ops within dev itself IMO. And devs love to automate things so we have created a lot of tools for that.
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It is a bit annoying. Arthur C Clark suggested using nano tubes in a space elevator over 20 years ago - so what exactly did google x bring to the discussion?
relatively low volumes? Nearly every machine in every factory in the world has an electric motor of some ilk.. Have you ever been in a factory?

The novice operator and put the machine itself in a situation in which it will not operate correctly, extreme cold, flood, etc. Steep grade + Lead Foot = burnt coil. While I do agree with you to some extent... there is some user input... but motors in Tesla... are still pretty complex..
I'm a little biased because I do practice yoga. But I also walk. And, for me personally, yoga is always a more vigorous workout. I can't imagine how walking could ever approach the level of intensity yoga provides.
If you like the Stevens, his TCP/IP Illustrated is kind of a 'bible'.

Also, not sure what you're getting into but usually for sysadmin for scripting you need to know one of: Bash|python|Perl|Ruby
The OP has a point, but his choice of DevOps as the bugbear is clumsy. Maybe the bastardization of it by the business is what he's mad about. "Full stack" is, perhaps, a better target. It's a completely meaningless, useless phrase.

The problem is that employers demand specialists, especially for senior positions. At the same time, once they've acquired an employee, they refuse to respect specialties from that point on. Machine learning expert? Sorry, but we need a ScrumDrone over at desk 21-B. Being a software engineer means resolving the fight between your job and your career, which is probably a big part of why this industry is so political.

Employers are remarkably inconsistent in this regard. They want sharp people who can interview like real computer scientists, but get in the way of their continuing sharpness (by assigning smart people to dumb work) as soon as they're on board.

The insight that the OP has is that employers over-hire for crappy work, and he's completely right, but DevOps didn't do it.
My fiance made the point that praising a child for his hard work (rather than smarts) is actually praising his tenacity -- a moral virtue.
What do you mean when you say Ubuntu is the distro of choice? Looking at openstack's install docs, they list install guides for Debian, SUSEs, Red Hats, and then Ubuntu (in that order). Is there some place on the openstack site that indicates a preference toward Ubuntu?
This is the Alexandrian calendar, proposed in 238 BC and adopted in 25 BC. (Previous Egyptian calendars had a fixed 5 day intercalary festival.) It is still used by the Coptic church and parts of Egypt.
So the solution, as 'raldi insightfully suggests, is simply not to consider the lien due and payable until the house is sold.

I'm not enough of a lawyer to know exactly how that should be structured, but it's a great solution.
Elm's Time-Traveling Debugger
Because dreaming gives us infinite scrolling bullshit "ux"