skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>because of the 2% deflation those widgets are worth 2% less every year.

Also, the value of your loan increases in real terms, as does the labour-share of input costs (because the workers aren't going to give back wage gains in times of deflation). Your return is hampered.

These are some of the problems with deflation.
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> Not all tools operate on stdin.

So pipe it to a file and operate on that. Or give the broken tool /dev/stdin as its filename. Or give it a fifo as a filename and "journalctl | /path/to/fifo.

> All the binary logs are going to do is make people have a cronjob to extract them regularly into a readable format.

For those who insist on that, yes. Most of them will presumably have logrotate set up anyway, so it's hardly more complexity. Or you can run a syslog, and trivially set up systemd to forward the log entries to that.

Meanwhile the rest of us will enjoy the ability to do things like specify a start and end time with command line switches when trying to find stuff in the log, filter by priority, filter by user, filter by pid. seeing only data since last boot, get the journal as JSON instead of having to rely on brittle text parsing of entries that contains less information.

Regarding the last point, here's an example of an entry from journalctl -o json-pretty:

{
"__CURSOR" : "s=56750fa36ad94eb99c00e7fd6854c400;i=2;b=2f533403d7a041e7a389e3a7090942de;m=172e6e4;t=4f7c809a2f61d;x=79a98b8a5116658a",
"_SYSTEMD_CGROUP" : "/system/cron.service",
"_SYSTEMD_UNIT" : "cron.service",
"SYSLOG_FACILITY" : "10",
"SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER" : "CRON",
"_CMDLINE" : "/USR/SBIN/CRON",
"MESSAGE" : "pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root",
"SYSLOG_PID" : "2398",
"_PID" : "2398",
"_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP" : "1398345421294046"
}
Language barrier may be a problem, but offering premium wages might find a surprising number of russian and english speakers.
That syntax is usually meant for packages that you want to edit after installation (with -e).

If you plan to release your stuff, the dependencies in your req.txt should be as pinned as possible. The classic example is Requests: when it changed the API fairly significantly, umpteen installers broke... just because people did not bother with specifying a version for that lib.
Can you provide an example of what you're saying? I've found that argparse.ArgumentParser.parse_known_args() and sub-parsers can do everything I can see click doing. Including lazy loading of plugins and the like.
When they take up a substantial fraction of the time playing a casual game? Yes, they become important. If I can't pick it up and quickly play N games whilst I'm on the train of a morning, I'm not interested, sorry. If I wanted long load times and faff between games, I have a whole Steam library full of that.
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The cost is much higher than the filing fee. You should usually plan to spend about $20k to hire a patent attorney to help get a patent filed. If you are doing this yourself you can keep the cost much lower, and try to do all of the work yourself, but a company usually spends tens of thousands of dollars getting a patent filed.

At Boston University they have an office of about 5 people that evaluates university generated IP to see if it is worth patenting and if their market research doesn't show that it is worth $50k over the next few years they won't bother.
>> I value the group's wellbeing over an individual employee

There's the problem. Yes, you should not value an individual employee over the group's well-being, and yes, if he agreed to work until he found another job he should work until he found the job (although I don't know when he's expected to find that job in any hurry outside of work hours). But it's like she has no idea what that conversation would sound like to an employee. Your CEO brings up the fact that things aren't working out. You hear a prelude to being fired. In some situations, maybe you just agree rather than argue. If you've actually been under the impression you've been working hard, it looks like you can't win and you would be better off else where. Now that's a motivating thought isn't it?
ominous answered this but was marked as dead. Not clear why, but my best guess is that people use Google Translate to bypass spam filtering?

Here's the link he posted. I'm leaving out the google translate link: http://gst.dk/emner/frie-data/minecraft/download-data/
Little unfortunate naming. Isn't Click a trademark of ASF? http://click.apache.org/
For hourly and contract employees that work in operations? You sure about that?
Is there a repository somewhere of really great bug reports like this? Something along the lines of "commits from last night".
Yeah, plenty:

- Cliff http://cliff.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

- docopt http://docopt.org

- argparse

- optparse

etc etc etc...
JetBrains (of IntelliJ fame) is a prominent software firm founded by Russians in Prague. I'm sure that Russians in the tech community are at least semi-aware of the Czech Republic being a good place to move to. If the Czechs are smart, they'll use the current turmoil as a chance to brain drain the Russians. There are a lot of good technical people in Russia who unfortunately don't have a political and economic environment that would enable them to flourish. There was probably a lot of hope after the USSR collapsed that things would get better, but if I were in Russia, I would be losing hope at this point for any significantly positive reform in the foreseeable future.
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But they don't want to run OpenBSD.
IRR is one of those things that is remarkably simple to calculate and grok, but is made difficult in the number of horrendous instructions across the web, many of them simply wrong. Until I corrected it the NPV entry on Wikipedia (NPV being a dependency of IRR) sat with incorrect input / result data.

It all makes me think that some in the financial industry think this is some sort of trade secret.
Linux Foundation rounds up vendor posse to save OpenSSL
> Before systemd I knew exactly what gets executed, when and why -- which is exact reason why I switched to Arch many years ago. I don't know the same thing after systemd introduction.

Funny thing. For me systemd has turned that around. I had no idea what was going on in my system, but systemd allows me to easily visualize it, control it and optimize it.

systemd may not be the ultimate init system which all Unix/Linux versions will end up using, but I have no doubt a future init-systems will take a queue from all these things which systemd has done well.
<font>? <table>?

Man, 4chan is worse than I thought.
I use Safari, and I find it to be better than Chrome because it's easier to sync with my iPhone and iPad, and with iCloud keychain even my passwords are synced.
> I am the boss with all the perks and the quirks.

As an ex colleague used to say to his 'boss': You are not my boss, you are my employer. My boss is at home.
> The proof, hard work, should come first. Donations might follow.

Part of the problem with funding open source is that an agent acting only in their own short term interests is going to say: "ok, someone already did the hard work, the results are free!", and won't donate anything.
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Facebook Buys Fitness Tracker App Moves
I'm a native English speaker and I find Goethe easier to read and understand than Shakespeare. In fact, although I love Shakespeare, it takes less mental energy to read Faust than it does to watch a performance of Hamlet.
I got the sense that the employee was being paid for the 3 months, and spending time mostly to look for a new job -- not to do actual work for the company.

As a result, the CEO probably thought it was reasonable to ask him to help out with an emergency. Although it was after hours, it was hardly "overtime" in the sense of being hour 41+ of work he did for the company. Probably more like hour 2+, in her mind.

I'm not saying her expectation was realistic, I just don't think it was a "caricature". I suppose I think you're not understanding her point of view, much as she didn't understand the employee's point of view.
I find lots of unexpectedly interesting things on HN. Interesting bug, inspiring-ly excellent write-up. I wish I got more bug reports like this.
I do, they are entertaining.
Physical protection, not legal protection.
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I think it's great :)

On a serious note - you'll find the Haraka developers more friendly and active than any other MTA out there. Just join the #haraka IRC channel on freenode and we're happy to help anyone.
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> It's customary to give your employer two weeks notice that you're leaving, but it's by no means a legal requirement. There's no such custom when the employer takes the action.

That seems incredibly unfair. Sure, by law neither party is required to give notice, but a sufficiently ingrained social more can be just as much of a burden (for the employee, in this case).

It's brilliant, though - lull employees into an informal gentleman's agreement, then pull the rug out from under them if things don't work out. If verbal agreements aren't legally binding, then the employee can't even appeal to the law, since the law is fair. And maybe the former employee blames herself for not agreeing to get this in writing, instead of blaming the overall culture of this kind of asymmetric relationship.
How exactly are they corrupt?
super interesting !!
When the fed raised rates the last time ,stepwise & slowly it didn't work as planned and I think they're going tohave a helluva time normalizing.
2)Keeping savings is putting money to work . (sure I'd rather be a VC) I just believe Peter schiff on this.

That notional value didn't help AIG. The pt. Is that nothings changed in the financial system. 1 quad means things are riskier than ever.
The only time I pulled a free week end at a company I worked for out of niceness, my boss was sitting in our office evidently having nothing to do beside support me and bring me a coffee every couple of hours.

At the time I thought that's not needed go home, but with retrospect I respect him a lot more for that.

That might sound dumb, but that's one of those things that stick with you when evaluating how you are treated by someone
The original didn't come up no the click-through, but I get it completely.
How could those two things be different? Profit per unit = total profit / number of units
Apparently, we're now calling it a "challenge".
"Job" was getting a bit stale so we changed it.
Love it - treats kids as serious makers/inventors without dumbing down. Open design; no sealed units - all the parts out where you can see them. You assemble it yourself! Then program it.
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Thanks for the link introex.

Taikipi looks good, but it seems to be a cloud/SaaS product.

Stack Hunter on the other hand sits on your servers and keeps your data in house. No sending potentially private data to the cloud.
Ummmm.... When you fire someone, they take it personally and look for a new job. You can't expect overtime passion from them. What a dingbat!
very smart guys !
OpenBSD is great but it has its own agenda. Linux Foundation does have a Linux in it, maybe that tells something.
Plus, Libressl can pull in whatever changes future openssl will have. I think it's a win-win for both sides.
I used OpenBSD in the past, but nowadays it's all Linux for everything, from server to desktop to my cellphone.
> There's nothing wrong with a world where :

> "We need you to work this weekend"

> "No thanks, see you Monday"

> Is perfectly reasonable.

This is likely to lead to another conversation later in the year:

"Why did John get the promotion I was up for?"

"He provided more value to the company by working those two weekends when we were delivering to our most valuable customer."

Do you consider that reasonable as well?
Fortunately for the makers of the Danish version, the highest point in Denmark is a hill 171 meters high, so this particular problem didn't arise.
Seems like Facebook is completely unaware of how the public perceives their disrespect for user privacy.

If I was a competitor the first thing I'd do right now is to make a way to migrate users' data from Moves to my app.
If my business relies on it, option 1, because ugly code tends to be less maintainable and a business should not depend on magic numbers and "LOLOLO...".

If it is for personal satisfaction, option 2. I guess I don't need to explain this one.
It's not multiple instances running at the same time, step 2 kills an instance. It's one "main" instance running continuously, then opening and closing a second instance over and over.
Note this is from 2004.
You might be conflating Angular with Javascript. I can't blame you given its coverage on HN.
### addendum ###

Recent systemd doesn't seem to realize that ethernet and the serial console device are actually there, it's waiting for dev-ttymxc3.device and sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device ... but both are statically compiled in. So there is some issue with kernel 3.0.x.
That's funny. So what you're saying is that we shouldn't rewrite the lower level because it'll be harder to rewrite it later on.
It’s been a good time to be in the VC and startup business and I think it will continue to be as long as the global economy is weak and rates are low.

The discounting is what's propping up the market. It's a strange phenomenon in that the market is betting that earnings will hold or grow, but the economy will be weak enough to discount future cashflows at a low rate. This is why signs up recovery that suggest tightening cause the market to tank.
amazing. congratz!
Sadly, such wordsmiths are far from rare in the world of business. Very often they will go through linguistic gymnastics to make every action of theirs sound good, and justify things they shouldn't have done as okay. In my personal experience, salespeople are the worst about this, as their entire job is really to bullshit people into buying a product.
I don't think you understand how tax brackets/tax zones work.

For example, say there is no tax up to $50000, and a 50% bracket starts at $50000. If you make $50001, you only pay a 50% tax on that one dollar over 50k, the first 50k remains untaxed. This is how pretty much any tax regime in the world works.

So while you may have to pay a higher tax rate on extra overtime money earned, it would be just on that money, not on your base pay. It's impossible for you to make less money at the end of the year because you worked overtime.
Title should probably have [2004] added to it.
>> For those of you that use the Moves app – the Moves experience will continue to operate as a standalone app, and there are no plans to change that or commingle data with Facebook.

I don't believe this for one second. Glad I have my Withings Pulse now so I can drop the Moves app.
"I can be very flexible and friendly, but I always put the company first and I value the group's wellbeing over an individual employee."

Translation: "Of course I'm not a narcissist - I value the whole group of people that make me money!"
I'm with you on this. I liked Codecademy a lot, but felt it left people off with too few skills to be useful - like the MVP was underdeveloped.
Loved the app, but I'm hitting the delete account button as we speak.
Aaaand I do not feel comfortable using Moves anymore.
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The post talks about data not going anywhere. Will the app itself continue to be updated? I recently stopped wearing a fitbit in favor of just using Moves and couldn't be happier. I hope the app continues to live on.
Strange, I'd say it's the contrary, people in .cz generally dislike hearing Russian, especially in Prague, because here you can see Russians everywhere, tourists or residents. I also don't remember anyone ever claiming that CR has a good infrastructure (when it comes to roads). As for homophobia and Prague being beautiful...well, that's arguable.
I'm not defending the people who pay to climb, but some simply don't want to train and would rather pay money than training time. That way, you can sneak ahead of the Joneses by saying you climbed Everest.

But what's wrong with tourism as a core part of their economy? That would make it easier to create something in the near future.
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We just released Gandalf.io, a private docker registry-as-a-service. We've kept it really simple and affordable. The first private docker is free and the rest come in plans all priced at $1 / docker.
We built Gandalf.io as an internal tool to manage and access our dockers and liked it so much we're releasing it as a service.

Gandalf.io is built by a small team of developers for fellow developers. We're eager to do more like managing trusted builds, continuous integration and continuous deployment, as a single pipeline using only dockers on our platform. For now though we think empowering teams to get started with dockers by sharing them easily and using the standard docker cli will do.
I'm not aware of any common tax regime that results in a marginal tax rate of over 100%, which is what you're describing there.

Even if your additional income pushes you into another tax bracket, you will only be paying additional tax on the amount made over the lower threshold. In the UK, for example, the top rate of income tax is 45%, and this is charged only on earning over ~£150,000 annually. If you earned £150,100, you would be £55 cash-in-hand better off than if you'd earned £150,000.
> It doesn't qualify them to work on the algorithm parts.

Since they also develop OpenSSH, wouldn't that qualify them to also work on the algorithm parts?
I really don't understand copyright.

Warhol created these images in the 1980s, but the images are copyrighted 2014? And the copyright is not Warhols butthe foundations?
This is not how Belgian income tax works. Your pay gets divided up into tax brackets, and you pay a certain tax rate per tax bracket. You will pay a low rate for the first ~8.5k you earn, a higher rate for the next ~5k, higher still for the next ~10k and so on.

The result is that while you can be taxed more on additional income if it bumps your total income up to a certain tax bracket, you will only ever pay more money on the part that's actually above the lower limit for that bracket. This will never ever cause you to pay more taxes on the money you've already earned.
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I second this sentiment. In part because a good business person should be someone who listens and synthesizes multiple views prior to speaking about something. You'd be amazed at how much 'business savvy' is just listening and keeping one's mouth shut.
Nice to see we once again have a stable nginx release that supports a version of spdy that browsers currently support!
Interesting that they used a KryoFlux [1] (just visible next to the laptop in the third image) to recover the data. I used one earlier this year to recover some source code from some old 5.25" floppies that I'd last used in the early/mid eighties and which were otherwise unreadable. This was some of the first code I ever wrote, and it was fascinating to read it again and run it under emulation. The KryoFlux software is definitely not simple to use but it did the job for me.

If you've got any old floppies that you might one day want to read then get the data off them now because, if they've not already succumbed to entropy, they soon will.

(If anyone in the UK wants to buy a slightly used KryoFlux then my email is in my profile.)

[1] http://www.kryoflux.com/
As an employer, I'd consider it out of line to ask an employee to help in a crisis out of hours, unpaid. More so if they'd been effectively fired weeks before. As noted, the time to find other work isn't out of the goodness of her heart; it's the law in Belgium.

Employees giving their time for a panic, outside of their normal hours, is a privilege earned by employers through treating people right. Expecting those who've been shown the door to do so is twisted.
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Or they don't care, think they can get away with it.
For me the most important sentences are these:

"I had to let go of an employee"

"we need the assistance of our colleague urgently"

Same guy. So there is a bus-factor of 1 and you fired that person. Since said firing was "a few weeks" ago, all critical stuff should have been out of his hands.
Thanks for clearing this up. It's funny how in the US, people rarely ever (only in high up enough roles) get any kind of a notification. Getting a 3 month notice is pretty awesome, at least you're not left out on the curb because of some layoff.

Outside of that, you hit the point right on and I think a lot of comments echo your sentiments:

- Any kind of "volunteering" for free, outside of working hours is preposterous as it is. Expecting an employee to continue doing so after given a notice is even worse. You're basically expecting favors after you told the employee they won't be able to cash out on those favors.

- And so, when the CEO has a 24/7 support of volunteers and used to it, and then cuts the volunteers, there won't be anyone there to handle it. I understand that Belgium sucks in terms of overtime (high taxes, finicky contracts) but if it's mission critical, you may want to have at least one person on your payroll that can do this. It's a necessary cost.
StackOverflow has, for as long as a I've been using it, been a sewers of low quality questions.

What got me to stop using it on a regular basis (twice) was the unwillingness of the devs to provide tools to ignore the trash and the inability to ask any even remotely useful question on grounds that they're opinion-based.
Upvoted you. Just for the hell of it. :-)
I have a very similar library for the Dart programming language:

https://github.com/seaneagan/unscripted

Checkout the github issues there for some features I want to add, like bash completion support for example. I think we can steal ideas from each other!

One nice thing about dart's annotations vs. python's decorators is they can be placed on a function's parameters as well, so it allows the option/flag/argument declarations to be a bit more DRY.
Based on the figures an OpenSSL developer tweeted, their old funding was approximately ~$2,000 per year. (I can't find the source at this exact minute).

Hopefully this means OpenSSL will finally be able to afford a few security audits, refactoring, and everything people have wanted.
That's not a problem with funding open source. That might be a problem with getting money if you start doing open source and expect money in return.

What other people do (or don't do) doesn't really matter. If I refuse to donate to a project, and Apple makes a non-free derivative of that project, that project is still free and you can still fund it.
Micro services: It’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use them
Stock apps, disabled Google+ (it was causing CPU usage spikes on both phoens randomly), minimal/no services running in the background.
My daily usage usually consits of (accumulated): 30min browsing, 1h hangouts, 2h podcasts/music (though pre-downloaded by wifi), 1 minute calls (yes I sometimes use it for calling).

Let me say that 2 days is when I am gentle with the phone, otherwise it is around 1.5. In any case, a huge difference to how were the first smartphones hardly surviving until the evening.
Last week: Dropbox

This week: Moves

Next week: Gmail... oh wait.

sigh