skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nginx is also non-blocking which is the main difference from Apache. I don't agree Nginx is less flexible, from my own experience it's quite the other way around - try configuring Apache as a reverse proxy, you'll see how "flexible" it really is.
"unable to reproduce / not enough information" -> close.

If users want you to fix a bug, they should assume you're an idiot and can't extrapolate what their problems is from the title alone.
And the comments... All these sociopathic-type managers living in the comfortable fantasy that employer/employee relationship is equal to equal. Crazy.
Samuel L Jackson, "Have You Got Balls?"
lovely. I had a consultation with an Amazon rep after reading this http://aws.amazon.com/application-management/ and they confirmed their own incorrect documentation.
> High-quality healthcare

That's mostly just the US, this is in Belgium. But yes, your point still stands.
59 Year Olds  56 Year Olds
You're never forced to use decorators, they're just syntactic sugar.

Their example:

@click.command()
@click.option('--count', default=1, help='number of greetings')
@click.option('--name', prompt='Your name',
help='the person to greet', required=True)
def hello(count, name):
for x in range(count):
print('Hello %s!' % name)

Could be written as:

def hello(count, name):
for x in range(count):
print('Hello %s!' % name

hello = click.option('--name', prompt='Your name',
help='the person to greet', required=True)(hello)
hello = click.option('--count', default=1, help='number of greetings')(hello)
hello = click.command(hello)
It provides a set of JavaScript functions. It doesn't try to parse formulas. You probably could go back and define aliases for each function
Java Tutorial Through Katas: Tennis Game (Easy)
Wow, finally auth_request is an official module. Thank you!
Yeah, you brought up a good point. Does "no plans to commingle data with Facebook" mean "your Moves data won't show up on your wall" or does it mean "Facebook Inc will not use Moves data to build your dossier" ?
Ask HN: What icons would you use for "past", "now" and "future"?
What icons would you choose or make?
Their announcement says 4 million downloads, so some fraction of that as daily actives.
Indeed. And the privacy policy says:

> Sharing data with third parties

> We do not disclose an individual user’s data to third parties unless (1) you have given explicit consent to each such disclosure, (2) we are required to comply with a legal obligation or (3) if our business or assets, or parts of them, are acquired by a third party. [...]

Then goes on:

> Third parties will be bound by applicable data protection legislation and/or this privacy policy concerning the disclosed data.

Well, of course they will be bound by data protection legislation, which makes me feel the whole sentence is disingenuous and meant to give you the warm fuzzies while meaning nothing at all.
Heh. yeah. its worked for us so far internally. we're scratching our own itch. and it certainly could use a lot of polish. but we think our core focus on docker collab could help us fine tune it and provide a fantastic service with all the support devs need.
I'm a Docker newbie but, don't private registries go against the spirit of Docker and basically every infrastructure automation tool created in last 5 years? I can't even see enterprisey companies finding this useful because their IT policies are so strict that having config on someone else's servers, private or not, is against their wonky rules.
This is the most honest article that I've seen from a mainstream financial figure about why valuations are so high.

ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) means that money is near worthless to financial institutions that can run the carry trade on Treasuries, or other carry trades involving foreign exchange. VCs manage money for those guys, along with pensions and other enormous concentrations of capital.

What you want are equity stakes (control) of productive assets. The cash that you use for that is not that useful except to normal suckers like you and I who need to hand over a bunch of paper tickets every month to the landlord, the grocer, and the government. The guys who issue the tickets are generally above those concerns, but they still need to get a return on their capital.

I would rather own stock than a pile of green tickets. Stock is, again, just another kind of ticket, but they're more expensive tickets that grant you rights to a productive asset. It is a safe bet to dump your green tickets into speculation because, while the speculation may work out, you know for a fact that those tickets are going to depreciate.

You will not see interest rates go up if the Fed can help it, because to do so would provoke an immediate fiscal crisis. Bubbles result from rational allocations of funds based on a certain set of assumptions. It is a good assumption that the US government will not permit rates to rise as long as there is zero public appetite for a major reduction in government spending. Once that reality changes, the structures that rely upon that environmental state will either need to adapt or will fail.

Startup-land is a greenhouse arrangement that thrives so long as the temperature remains high. When the guy who owns the greenhouse cuts the power, most of those plants are gonna die. If you want to be resilient to that risk, you must leave the hothouse. However, the hothouse plants have a lot more access to capital in the near term, so it is rough to compete with them directly. That is the trouble with bubbles: you can't really escape their effects by being 'prudent,' because low interest rates make prudence imprudent.

In order to raise rates, the US would probably have to either confiscate a lot of assets (which would harm its international status as the cleanest dirty shirt), raise taxes, raise retirement ages, implement means testing on medicare + social security, and cut military pensions/VA expenses. There is no real solution that does not involve provoking some sort of major crisis, so it is much easier for everyone to keep the carnival going as long as possible until something snaps internationally. The federal government can't afford even a slight rise in rates without having an immediate cash flow crisis.
I stopped using Moves a while ago when I noticed it absolutely hammering my battery. It was unfortunate as I used it almost as a journal (easier to remember what I was doing on the day when all that data is available).
Decomposing Web App Development
Nobody bought Dropbox.. In fact Dropbox purchased Loom last week. I haven't seen news about Facebook buying anyone since Oculus.
Yeah, with 3G (at the time AT&T didn't have LTE in my area). Once for an experiment, I kept it in airplane mode and only turned the screen on to check the battery, and it went 13 days before it died!
By "flexible", I primarily mean Apache's module system vs nginx's "compile all the things" approach. Upgrading a component in nginx means recompiling the whole webserver, whereas Apache modules can be managed separately from the httpd executable.

I'm curious about the reverse proxy comment, though; mod_proxy_balancer generally does the job just fine. I do agree that nginx is easier to set up as a reverse proxy, though.
But he is getting paid to look for another job, instead of getting fired without any notice, which is the usual norm.
DataScript – Datomic in ClojureScript
Armando Ianucci has said that one of the reasons he stopped writing the political satire "The Thick of It" was politicians were now doing things that they'd written off as too implausible for the show.

Also I suspect Veep pays a lot better for basically the same idea.
I wonder if the technology and the knowledge will ever be at the point where "life hackers" are extracting their own stem cells, applying home-brewed telomerase, and reinjecting them. It seems like the sort of thing that a subset of HN folks would do.
> One interesting thing about the high valuations of tech startups now is where the money is coming from. It's not stock markets.

See, I think that it is coming from the stock markets. These valuations are there because the investors think that they can dump the stock onto the market for above that amount. Look at KING--investors in KING knew that the jig was up, they dumped it onto the stock market and got out.

$10bn valuations are possible because of the public markets. If the investors weren't extremely optimistic that the stock market will eventually buy their stock for more than that valuation, they wouldn't do the investing. That's the only time they'll get their money back. Make no mistake: they're (VCs) not in it to keep it private and to keep the profits to themselves. They're in it to take it public or get bought by someone even bigger. That's all it is.

The stock market is their end-game, and that's what they're targeting with these investments. The intermediate money isn't coming from it, but ultimately that's where the money comes from, in my view.
Meta: I love that lately there have been more health and biology related submissions here on HN. Dovetails nicely with YC new shift/interest, and matches one of my great personal interests.

Do other like this as well, or do people wish that HN would stay focused on software, VC, and traditional tech? Just curious. Obviously it's getting upmodded, but still curious to hear if there is another side.
Introducing Prime Pantry
I used it for a few weeks until I had a good sense of my average daily activity. After that I turned it off due to the battery drain as well. It wasn't a horrendous drag on battery life, but enough that it wasn't worth using when daily stats didn't change much.
Changing things dramatically for the better always seems to involve "forgetting what you know", ditching everything, and starting from scratch, doesn't it?

In relation to the other post about the Core Infrastructure Initiative here, you could use that principle and realize that funding and improving OpenSSL, will still keep things more or less as "secure" as they've been until now. But to truly improve the security of the infrastructure of the Internet, we need to rethink things from scratch, and fund and adopt those, too (in browsers, operating systems, etc).
Is Google X the way aliens share their technology with us?
Humanco Inc's Human App

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/human-make-moving-fun-run/id...

http://form-d.findthebest.com/l/25508/Humanco-Inc

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/sn...

Unfortunately, Humanco requires you to set up an account and store your data on their servers. Moves was great because you could store it all locally. I think the best option is to stick with Moves, and never update it again.
A tour of coworking spaces in Berlin for startup developers
I used it every day for just over a year. It didn't seem to be to big a drain battery-wise (I charge my phone every day anyway, so it lasted "long enough"). It's a very nicely designed app in that it doesn't try to do too much and what it does do, it does well.

I exported all my data and closed my account following this news as I feel I already give Facebook enough data by simply having a Facebook account.

Thankfully the exported data is in multiple formats and looks to be very complete. Hopefully I'll be able to do something with it someday.
Lawrence Lessig learns there are no laws on his son’s Minecraft server
Slightly OT: Does anyone know if packages for Ubuntu 14.04 are coming soon? We're using the official (mainline) repository[1] on Ubuntu 12.04, but Trusty doesn't seem to be supported yet.

I've always preferred the official repository because I didn't want to start compiling nginx just for stuff like SPDY support.

[1]: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
I would use visual metaphors from a music player.
Back (<<) Pause/Present(||) Forward (>>)
Oh, i'm completely aware of that. I was just really talking about this document, didn't mean to spark the debate.
4chan doesn't need good code. Of course it wouldn't hurt, but if the main point of good code is test-ability and organization for complicated projects... Well, 4chan just isn't a very complicated project. The simplicity is a design decision from what I've read moot say.
Graduated Experiences in Golf and Programming
As of 2.4 Apache also supports event-driven serving thanks to the event MPM.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
Local Motors Begins "Testing Phase" for First Ever 3D Printed Car
Hi,

gcr makes a number of excellent points here. I completely agree about the human performance comments. Human performance on LFW is 99.2%. While some people claim this is "not fair" because it includes some background of the picture, this is the way the benchmark has been defined. There is no universally accepted way to define the face verification problem, and when we built LFW we chose to define the task on these images (without cropping them closely). Not surprisingly human performance goes down when the images are cropped more closely to the face. My response to people who say that it is unfair to use the whole image is "go ahead and write a program which takes advantage of the whole image!"

I have not read the paper carefully yet, so I cannot comment on the technical content. However, people have raised the question of why it's not yet on the LFW results page. First of all, we don't put up results until we received the results file from the authors yet, and we haven't received such a file yet, so of course the results are not up yet. Second, even if we receive results files from an author, we require that the paper either be published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal, or, alternatively, that if it is commercial, that an executable be available so that the system can be tried by other experimenters. If we are sent results from a paper that has been accepted but not yet published we sometimes show the results on our results page, but highlight it in red to show that the paper is forthcoming.

Additionally, Gary Huang, who does a fantastic job maintaining the LFW site, is redoing the entire results page to better present the information, and so results may experience a short delay while we are working on the new page.

One interesting thing to note about methods that are getting very high accuracy rates on LFW is that they typically use enormous amounts of outside training data (like the recent DeepFace method by FaceBook researchers). Part of the purpose of our reorganization of the results page is to highlight better the differences between methods that use outside data and those that use only the LFW training data.

The community should remember that a K-nearest neighbor classifier is the best possible classifier for any supervised learning problem when you have enough training data (as proven by Stone, 1977). Thus, it shouldn't be too surprising that many different methods work very well when given massive training sets. We saw the same thing back in the 90's with the MNIST data set.

I agree with gcr that moving to new data sets makes sense, although performance on LFW with limited training data may continue to be interesting for some time.

-Erik Learned-Miller
What's so complicated about:

ProxyPass url1 url2
ProxyPassReverse url1 url2

Can it get any simpler than that?

Of course, if you need to fine tune it for performance you are in the advanced category and should know what you are doing, but these two lines are all it gets to configure reverse proxy with sensible defaults.
Warhol specialized in (and originated) the art of pop culture, celebrity, and personality. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason you've ever heard of him.
The volunteering line really reminds me of the post from the github founder's wife.

In both cases, a founder essentially guilted someone into spending extra, unpaid time working on a "world changing" (read: not at all world changing) new startup idea where they would retain all ownership while the people working for them were expected to "volunteer". How do founders get so sociopathic that they do stuff like this?
Perhaps. But being "on call" 24/7 to deal with emergency situations should not never be an implicit expectation.
runit (from daemontools) might not start things up in parallel, but it's a whole lot simpler and reliable. Phusion uses it instead of upstart in their base docker VM.

Also a lot of enterprise shops use daemontools and runit, because they just fucking scale.
Every time I read some comment about how people shouldn't use excel for complex calculations and should use relational databases or Python or whatever else, I'll know why it will never happen.

It's really easy to implement the easy parts of spreadsheets, getting the hard parts right is why Excel continues to dominate the space.
How to Solve Heartbleed in 10 Minutes
what did Moves do? never heard of them before today.
There's an export button built into the app. You get a link to a zip file which has all your data in a range of formats (CSV, GPX, KML etc)
The journal feature is the thing I missed the most when jumping back to Fitbit. It had an uncanny laser-like accuracy for figuring out to the minute duration for when I was at a location. I miss that data a lot.
Novel Ways of Using Dokku for E-Commerce
First Men on the Moon
backbone port of 2048 game. Added one more level of complexity - now along with the numbers, at least one symbol also has to match for the tiles to merge.

Source: http://github.com/vraa/2048
Not really - much like private repos on github don't go against the spirit of github's public repos. The kind folks at Docker, Inc. the company behind this fantastic technology, themselves recently announced a commercial private registry service too. They kinda beat us to it ;)
A Great Experience After the Sale: Air Canada Mobile Case Study, Part 4
The Danish government does translate a pretty large amount of stuff to English, not specifically for Americans but because it's the lingua franca used to interact with anyone non-Danish, even fairly nearby people like Finns and Germans (Finns are officially supposed to know some Swedish, which is similar to Danish, but in practice English is used even for intra-Nordic communication). Not everything is translated, but it's sort of trending in that direction. I would guess most "scientific" type stuff, like this data, will eventually join that group.

On the other hand Google Translate tends to work pretty well with Danish anyway, because sentences are fairly short without complicated German-style clause structures that confuse the translator, and the grammar is not too different from English.
> And now that you brought it up, why should I pay your full wage if you are only working at half force since you aren’t motivated anymore?

I think this is the reason why "openness" is tough to achieve. Most of the time, the stakes are much higher for the employee than the company-- the business can probably continue operating after separation, but the employee might not be able to pay rent without a paycheck. All information is power in the relationship, so I don't think an employee should ever feel obligated to share more than what is necessary. I wouldn't expect to be informed that my department's budget for salaries is $X or that I'm going to be let go, effective three months from now.

> Don’t come into the office one day telling me out of the blue that you haven’t been happy for a while, found someone else and will leave me as soon as possible.

Some people just prefer voting with their feet.
I don't see how this is a burden on the employee. If he gives 2 weeks notice, he still has the option of not finishing the 2 weeks of work. You can give two weeks notice and if the employer treats you poorly anytime during those 2 weeks you can stand up and walk out the door.
Thanks. The answers I'm getting are scattered, but I'll keep making calls.
Good luck using something called 'Gandalf'..
It's somewhat confusing. The structure is MIT licenses but the individual implementations have different licenses (for example, many functions were copied from OpenOffice (which is under Apache2 license)
Why there isn't a flashing red warning label at the very top of that page, I have no idea. This is one instance where I would actually sanction using the <blink> tag.
It depends on how 'exact' exact is. For a brain, there are a finite number of neurons with a finite number of dendrites and axons. A quick search suggests 2.5 pentabytes (2.5 million GB) of storage http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory.... So about 2.5 thousand hard drives, so not an unreasonable amount of complexity to deal with today.

Your argument seems to suggest there is some finite level of complexity which is the limit of engineering. What is this limit and how is it justified?

If our ability to scale to complex systems scales linearly, this could take a very long time. If it follows a power law (like Moore's Law), it could be feasibly much faster.

The trash argument is weak because the pile serves an identical function regardless of how exact or inexact it is.

Probably the challenge is not in making an artificial brain, it is in reading a current one (especially one that is living without damaging it).
> Ten years ago they didn't have any of these tools that they now claim are indispensable to do their jobs. How did they do their jobs back then?

To be fair, ten (well, twenty) years ago people did all those things in a way that was much more visible to the police. People would go get film developed at the drug store, people would use pay phones, etc.
VC is private equity, so generally we do not know who invests in whom. But many of the ways that VCs receive investment are through highly diversified means.

VC is some fractional line item allocation for diversified investors. The Sultan of Brunei or whatever is not calling Fred Wilson to yell at him about how USV is performing, unless the Sultan invested directly for some reason. The Sultan has 7% of the 5% of his funds that he handed to his asset management guy at investment bank X to handle.

It's possible that the asset management guy will yell at Fred Wilson about Zynga being a turkey, but not likely, because that fraction of the Sultan's money was supposed to be high risk anyway. It is playtime fun money for him anyway.

Similarly, CALPERS bureaucrats do not actually need to show a stupendous return -- they just need to maintain the appearance that their allocations have the possibility of providing a stupendous return. They won't get fired if they tried to hit 8% and can show that some model shows that according to previous decades of performance they were on track to hit 8% until some act-of-god prevented it from occurring. Their VC allocation helps them maintain this appearance so that they can maintain their 3rd wife to the lifestyle she has become accustomed to and continue to golf.
It is extremely common for companies and organizations to bail on relationships with people and other companies when there is even just the suggestion of a controversial issue. To act like this behavior is somehow exclusive to "radical feminists" or that it means they "always assume the female is 100% in the right" doesn't make any sense.

Also this fits pretty well: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Innocent_until_proven_gui...
They had lots of active users, reported numbers are in the ballpark. Lots of users loved it, despite the battery problem. I use it. My main use case is not the steps/activity tracking, but the automatic daily log and especially location tracking. Once a month I combine Moves and git logs and they give very good visibility to my daily work behavior. I've even used them even to make accurate hour reporting for some customers.

The battery consumption isn't a problem if I don't move around the city all day long, but if I do, I need a mobile battery charger.

Having worked with similar apps before, I can guarantee that the battery problem is hard to solve well, I know that Moves team did the best they could and their solution is world class.
They might, indirectly. OpenSSH would seem like a good candidate for funding from the Core Infrastructure Program.