skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lennart is rapidly becoming the new Drepper.

As long as characters like this persist Linux as a direct end user system is going nowhere, and it will remain a lower level component abstracted away by higher level platforms, as in Android or Chrome OS.
hehe.... i wonder if they will fix it or simply accuse you of being an idiot several times over before reading the bug report and realising its genuine. :P

what i find much more interesting than this kind of bug though is that there are several possible ways to expose vs bugs with one step after making a new project in the current version...
This, along with Google and others devoting employees like Neel Mehta to it should go a long way.
>investors would rather hold scarce assets such as equities and real estate than a rapidly diminishing percentage of the money supply (i.e., cash)

Do you have any data to back this up? It is my understanding that the demand-for and holding-of cash (specifically the USD) reached epic proportions in 2008 (as happens during financial crises, hence the need to print) and remains very high.
The most important line in this one is:

> I am the boss with all the perks and the quirks.

I think this is yet another example of what another HN commenter recently called "ignoring the considerable power you wield over other people and expecting them to ignore it too."

Guess what, power matters in relationships.

> It wasn't a decision I made overnight. It wasn't even my decision. We talked about it on several occasions.

Is she really saying it wasn't her decision because they talked about it on several occasions, it was somehow a mutual decision? Bullshit.

You don't get to keep all the power, but then expect that in your interactions with people it won't matter, it'll be just like relationships between peers or equals.
I have to say that I am quite impressed by their work. I spent 30 minutes earlier, walking around in the neighborhood where I grew up, and it was extremely easy to navigate and recognize roads, houses, and large buildings.

Even the train tracks through the city were there as rails in Minecraft (although not fully connected and working).

Very cool, the guys at GST did some amazing work here.. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to download the full 1TB world?
I agree with the suck it up and move on. Your time lost isn't substantial. At least you learned about his character early on.

If you would still consider doing business with him on this project. A. Get paid up front for further work or at least make sure he pays for what you already did before you doing anything else. B. Quote him higher than you otherwise would quote.
Indeed appears this self proclaimed CV/recruitment specilist has deleted the offending post highlighting how bad she is with regards to staff relations.

Short version , she fired somebody so she could save money and then had a problem and was unable to get the extra mile suport out of hours and outside the contract hours from that employee she had fired. Then took to social media to wonder how could this happen and trying to blame everything upto and including the old employee for her clear and blatant greedy oversight.
Agreed but I was confused by the MS response of "Thank you for submitting feedback on Visual Studio and .NET Framework." It seems like the bug is in VS and not .NET. Are they that interweaved these days?
Except that making certain decisions can become prohibitively expensive if it means replacing a behemoth everyone and everything depends on.
Hmm, it's still accessible for me at the original url.
Mantis Shrimp Stronger than Airplanes
See my answer to coldtea. Yes you can organize you're code to help making it load faster but I don't think it is fast enough. Maybe my terminal is slow, maybe my machine is slow (and maybe I'm overly sensitive to the problem) but the difference is telling.
Are you serious? She expected him to do unpaid overtime.
It's Wiki is pretty killer.

That may not sound like much, but it's pretty awesome. I use it as a reference on a few things even when dealing with other Linux distros.

e.g. The page on SSH basically starts with how to restrict users who can log in and disabling root. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Secure_Shell

Haven't used Arch in a while - not dealt with a non-company Linux box for a while. But it remains my go-to Linux (for development purposes) for good reasons.
Or just use Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
Hmmm... I pondered this for a bit, and I arrived here:

> [...] by the same people, with the same ideas, and the same gatekeepers [...]

Isn't this exactly what made the Linux Kernel great? A consistent vision.

I agree with you on a few points though, the systemd team should be more cooperative and start being conservative on the API changes. If the API is defined clearly, it shouldn't be hard to make proper replacements for parts of it.

I disagree strongly that there should be an independent Organisation to define that spec, because that would quickly be overrun by bikeshedding and all the other problems stemming from design by comittee. Very often in the Open Source world, specs have been defined by the first people arriving at the scene, so to speak. It all works over dbus, no? That is a fairly simple protocol to implement. I think it's an elegant IPC solution.

Anyway. cheers!
I read many comments and would not call them harsh, realistic yes. If anything rather constructive and tame to what could be worded as a reply to her post.
If they funded OpenBSD's project portfolio (including LibreSSL), they'd get a heck of a lot more out of it for their money.
That is exactly the same argument that was made when Sweden made a virtual embassy in Second Life. Not convinced that it benefited anyone except the programmers.

And also, I'm not making an argument against open data.
The bug report frontend is for both. The Thank you is just an automated response that it was seen. Generally, lots of the official replies on Connect seem to be either text building blocks or canned responses. Not terribly surprising, either, I might add.
When everything will use systemd (because all the "core system" is starting to depend on it, wayland included) how do you evolve out of it?
Rewrite the entire lower level of your system AGAIN?
That does not help evolving rapidly, in my opinion.
Their web page says OpenSSL group is their first candidate for funding. It's puzzling that they would choose to fund such a corrupt and incompetent organization over LibreSSL, which is actually fixing the code and ultimately is what will actually be used.

Or maybe it's not so mysterious, the principle companies involved have a long record of benefiting from OpenSSH and never contributing to that either.
The Developer Division at Microsoft is responsible for both and this is their boilerplate response.
The issue has already been closed as Fixed.
The dimensions of the Z1 Compact are almost identical to those of the Moto X. Most importantly to my one-handed use concern, it's only narrower by 400 μm. The iPhone 5/5s is almost 7mm narrower than the Moto X.
Really? Downvote even though I'm generally agreeing with the crowd? Not even an explanation or counter-argument?
You must not use Visual Studio (or IE). Not only do both of those already do this for JS, but VS does the same thing for C++ and C#.
Agreed - and with a more reasonable tone than the HN comments :o)
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From Developer to Co-Founder: Please advise me
Hello everyone. (Assuming this ever gets seen and read!) I have a situation where I need some advice. My scenario is that 2.5 years ago, I created a business from a side project. It's anti-piracy software/service, and it's got a relatively sophisticated back end -- spidering, automation, scaling to large data sets, etc). It's a fully functional, revenue-generating business. Growing very quickly, in fact.

But because of how I developed it as a side project, I have no ownership share, I'm not a co-founder in a legal sense, in other words. It's just a company that was spawned during my free time, at the parent company I work for (a very small, private company, in case you were wondering about which one).

I'm attempting to get the president of the parent company I work for to restructure the anti-piracy business in such a way that I have some kind of co-foundership or ownership share. She claims we would have to implement a complicated (for tax purposes, etc) ESOP system, which costs 30 to 50 thousand dollars annually, just per regulations, is what she told me. So that's out. Plus that's not co-foundership, which is what I'm looking for.

So maybe my question is: is anybody interested in seeing some very interesting numbers, having a very interesting discussion about an anti-piracy business, and possibly looking into a future venture? Maybe that's my question: who do I approach about that? I don't live in the Bay area.... And I haven't, in the past, been especially familiar with start-up culture (aside from reading about it on here =)), or the methods of starting a small technology company.

Thanks!

J
My cat once managed to launch 167 instances ;-)
This was very timely and interesting to me as I just started learning Haskell. Thanks!
A new kind of tech bubble
You'll note that the CEO at no point says that the after-hours work is actually a part of the employee's job description, she's just expecting them to do it because... "your best bet is to hire people who share your passion, willing to 'volunteer' on such occasions".

The key thing about volunteering is that it's voluntary.
Yeah. pacman is a killer feature. I always install pacapt [1] before dealing packages elsewhere.

[1] https://github.com/icy/pacapt
True, useless might be a bit over the top.

It sort of okay when you only have one system that does binary logs, but what if you have 5 or 10, each with their own log format and little tool that I need to pipe the log file through?

The binary logs also assumes that you actually know where stuff is or that you're not going to look across multiple systems in one go. If you're large enough you'll have logstash/splunk or something similar where you have already de-binarized the log and this become less of an issue.

But for may of us doing a "grep <something> 2014-04-*.log" is something that's just natural and we come a bit hostile if you're trying to take that away.

That being said I think systemd might have a way of just giving you the log in plaintext.
spot on re:

> I am the boss with all the perks and the quirks.

these kinds of comments are dangerous.

what your boss thinks they have a right to treat you how they wish as if they own you then that is a problem... if they feel it is fine to say it openly and unashamedly then you are so far from sanity you shouldn't feel safe.
I bought some graphite a few years ago to lubricate a sticking lock. The label on the tube told me that graphite is known to the state of California as a carcinogen. I reflected on the pencils I and everyone else had sharpened over the years, and wondered what if any abatement measures are present in California classrooms.

The graphite worked nicely on the lock.
Pharmaceuticals are both one of the best and worst patent examples. It costs a company millions of dollars to develop, test and get approval for a new drug. A patent makes this expensive gamble worth while for the company by guaranteeing that they are the only ones who can sell the drug that they spent the money to develop.
This is some kind of amazing.
Why do you think an implicit employment contract is acceptable or even enforcable? There is a reason job descriptions, employment contracts and labour laws exist: to stop abuse by heavily "implied" duties. If you want someone to do some work, make that explicit.
"Letting him" keep his job? I think you'll find that in Belgium, like in most of Europe, there are mandatory notice periods that range up to around 3 months (even more in some countries in special circumstances, such as plant closures). Outside of exceptional circumstances, he had a legal right to keep his job for some period of time after being given notice. There's nothing in her post that indicates that she out of the goodness of her heart had given him more time than his statutory notice period.

There's also no indication he was doing nothing during his notice period - surely if he'd been doing nothing, she'd have known already, and not expected to be able to reach him even outside of his contracted hours.
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>savers vs creditors.

Savers and creditors are the same people.
Apple's iPhone 'lock-out’ patent could end texting while driving
Change "most First World countries" to "most Western countries"; Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan are first world countries (at least in the sense 'first world' means economically developed).
I asked Zemlin (Linux Foundation executive chairman) about that yesterday. He wasn't familiar enough with the LibreSSL project (and obviously the OpenBSD guys have different goals in some regards, than the OpenSSL guys) to comment, but the idea is that this initiative would support any project that is important to the well-being of the net.

But even if LibreSSL is a huge success, OpenSSL isn't going to go away and it's important that that existing project get support from the people that use it an benefit from it the most. Which is exactly what is happening.
Are they afraid for their lives or the lives of their crews, or afraid of the liability?
"Clean benches" are pretty neat, basically just a laminar flow ULPA panel filter with fans on top, mounted above a work surface. They are used in applications like hard drive disaster recovery labs - you don't need an expensive cleanroom, just plop a couple of these benches in an ordinary "dirty room" as they are called. As long as you open up the drive on the bench and don't remove it from the bench until it's sealed back up, you're good to go!
Pocket C++
A bit of feedback: the getting started widget gives you a link but that link is neither clickable or it's text selectable.

Why not ship default widgets with the main download?
Ask HN: how do you write Internet, with capital I or lowercase i?
Grunt-svginject – A grunt plugin for injecting SVG With JavaScript
Not free but cheap(er) than a regular worker.
This one _blew my mind_ as a kid. I probably squealed with delight when I finished it.
> What surprises me is that I can't find any pages in English. So good luck navigating if you don't understand danish.

The American expat community hasn't grown large enough to form an effective separatist group and demand that the Danish government translate everything into English? How awful. /s
That's a really good point. I also think widgets should be draggable on the screen.
They're apparently the highest taxed OECD country when you add together income tax, VAT and both employee and employee social security contributions. Perhaps that's what he was thinking of.
Seriously...

I'm kinda surprised that no relative of the sr dev made the company president glad to be in a hospital...
Wit.AI (YC W14) is hiring software engineers 2 and 3
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Thank you both for your response.

Yeah, I mentioned 25% would need to be paid upfront before I begin coding.
It's (slowly) becoming impossible.
With posts like this: https://twitter.com/ingegeerdens/status/456228757569695744

Then how does anybody take her seriously? Is it the lack of women in IT and business that make people more tollerant of such clear shortcommings, like that twitter post and her major snafu in people managment skills this article outlays. Especialy for somebody who proclaims to be some kind of staff recruitment expert.
In Russia any website with 3000 visits/day require registration with state
I've been interviewing for a while now, if a candidate did that it would definitely make a good impression on me. Cheers!
Mirobot – a WiFi robotics kit for kids
Can't say I've tried it but the above-mentioned docopt has a Go implementation: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.go
Try http://www.coverity.com/
I'm completely clueless about this, but would it be possible to have a persistent python interpreter always running in the background somehow, and submit the commands to it?
The Rise of the Mobile Addict
And what happens in those countries in terms of notice period? I'm actually wondering specifically about those countries too. Otherwise, all we have left is the US + Europe, more or less, I believe.
"I know I fired this person ... It never crossed my mind that he had been FIRED."

I could think of less logical reasons to be surprised.
ARIN runs out of IPv4 addresses
Germany is a NATO country and might obey requests from NSA.
I'm now curious enough about Minetest after viewing its website that I might want to contribute. I love Minecraft and have played it since alpha, but it's always bothered me that it's built in Java - and that it runs horribly slow once Feed the Beast comes into play.
Fast following means that rather than developing something out of whole cloth, you simply copy the functionality of another product exactly, i.e. literally steal the R&D, (including screen layout and exact behavior) while changing just the art assets enough to remain a hair on the right side of the law. In order to fast follow, Google would have to fast follow something, copying it down to the layout and exact functionality. What do you think Google is copying?

Also initiatives like Google Glass are certainly not copying another product, but are among the most ambitious consumer R&D projects of any company on Earth. It is a category of product that does not exist.
Wealthy, educated and working all hours: the new 'super' working class
You can completely describe a crucial innovation without which your product would not be original or compelling, without completely describing your product and giving an instruction manual to start from nothing and build a better competitor to your business.

In that case your "whole" business process or product would not be protected, but it is possible that by identifying the one thing you do better than your potential competitors and by patenting it in time, you could still stifle competition altogether or force your competitors to license your technology (without actually producing a really useful document for anyone who might have wanted to read it once the patent expired.)
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Well, to be clear, an asset purchase transaction (ex the Fed) does not change the number of "dollars outstanding" (the money supply). To be more precise in my language, investors prefer holding assets to cash at a specific asset price. The evidence for this is in the rise of asset prices (even more specifically, the rise of multiples, since underlying values change over time). The specific phenomenon you are referring to during the crisis itself is a flight to safety/liquidity, which is unrelated.
The key here is the context of inflation risk. In an inflationary environment, his point holds with the rational investor. Most people would rather invest in something than effectively lose money by holding cash.
There were multiple variations of 'ultra clean rooms' existing around that time. The one in this article is considered the most revolutionary because of the air-cycling features.
The Rise of the Citizen Developer
How does Google News works?
At the same time as this tech boom, S&P 500 companies are (I'm told) busy borrowing fistfuls of money in order to pass it on to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks. That seems to suggest that investors are happy to have cash right now; it also puts the complaints about excess or wastefulness against the current SV boom into some perspective ...
"it was common for gas stations to let you pull up and start pumping without any payment whatsoever"

That's how it works in the UK. In many stations (at least in London) one of the people at the cash register has to press a button, but they do this after seeing you and (I guess) after they've confirmed that the number plate was correctly OCR'd.
ARIN Enters Phase Four of the IPv4 Countdown Plan
I would say the comments (most of them) were "relatively harsh", because usually comments under LinkedIn "Influencers"' blogs are limited to "thank you!", "great!", congratulations, etc. I thought they were pretty honest and not too diplomatic.
Getting started with OpenCV on the BeagleBone Black with Ubuntu 14.04
I was just speaking specifically the notion that Apple's margins as a company are eaten up by R&D spend which we agree they're clearly not. (The fact that they're doing multi-billion dollar stock buybacks and issuing increasing dividends show they have more money than they know what to do with).

Although since you brought it up, I did a quick search and found that the margins on the iPhone as an individual product (vs. the company's overall margin) are speculated to be near 70% and that figure isn't just pulled out of thin air:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/30/iphone-5s-demand-h...
Getting married didn't kill me it was having a kid. Now I get maybe four hours a week for hobby/OSS programming.
The App-Filled Future of Luxury Is Avoiding People
Let's say that a normal hour is taxed 50 %, extra hours are taxed under a different tax tabel, so more % goes to the governement. Also, if you work something more, there is a chance, you get in a higher tax zone.

So even if you work more and get more the current month. You are going to get taxed more on the end of the year.

As a result, you have earned less on the end of the year (because you get in the higher income zone, so you are taxed more).

Edit: below.

I didn't fully explained it, but it's complicated then that. If you get in a different tax bracket (didn't knew the term in English), you lose certain financial benefits.

I'd wish some Belgian accountant was here to explain it better, although i'm aware of tax brackets. They don't include some financial benefits when you have a lower income.
Busting systemd's biggest myths
Probably something to do with being an "influencer" and "thought leader."

Gag me.

Actually, when I'm feeling masochistic, I read articles on LinkedIn's Pulse section. They're so, so, SO bad. It's either "work harder, and you might become like me!" or "it turns out your employees are people too!" Strangely enough, never anything about workaholism.
You have a source for that? I'm not denying just curious. I've seen multiple decisions go against neutrality, but don't fully understand the precedents.
Looks like somebody is trying hard to prevent LibreSSL from becoming widely adapted.

> By raising funds at a neutral organization like The Linux Foundation, the industry can effectively give projects the support they need while ensuring that open source projects retain their independence and community-based dynamism.

I somehow can't imagine an organization named "Linux Foundation" to give money to OpenBSD and other non-Linux related open source projects.
Good point indeed, thanks. The problem is of course that widgets are not clickable by design - you don't want to take over the desktop. Shipping some default widgets might be a good solution though.
I was able to access it just a moment ago. I don't think it's been deleted.
LibreSSL is a fork for OpenBSD and doesn't have all the functionality of openSSL (e.g., no Windows support), so it's not a given that LibreSSL will actually become the standard. Also, despite the issues with openSSL, there is significant name recognition for it. That means that funding and improving openSSL can potentially lead to a better outcome than funding libreSSL. I mean this in the sense that funding something else (e.g., LibreSSL) could result in a situation where people still use openSSL because they know the name but that the improvements are going elsewhere. Sure, you can say that people should switch, but name recognition can be tough to overcome.
Sure. I said sci fi, not evil sci fi.

Commerce and government use face recognition a little. ATM it's at the point of "The 30% of faxes now sent using the internet."