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My experience is that the Real Names policy was hated by a small but vocal and influential group of users. I never heard about it from any of my friends who aren't reading sites like HN. Those people still don't use Google+, but it's because none of their friends were there, they found Circles confusing, and they didn't see any real benefit to taking the effort to learn about it. Social networks have a lot of inertia for users who aren't early adopters. If they already are connected to all of your friends on Facebook, a new social network would have to be truly amazing (or Facebook would have to really screw up, in ways that "regular people" care about) to get them to move over. I think Real Names was a drop in the bucket compared to other issues.
Yup. I've done enterprise Rails consulting, which is almost a contradiction in terms. But it's possible and I've brought fixes like net ldap to work with AD.

Edit: Can't take all the credit, client hacked together the first version but we managed to extract it for "the greater good." Also fun stuff like XML-RPC (Xen API -> gem xenapi, VMware (gem rbvmomi)), which wasn't bad and worked OOTB. Wished MS exposed their APIs as RESTful endpoints, because WinRM + gem winrm just doesn't cut it with some products... generated powershell run by an agent instead. For some products, even having the (.someextiforgot) files that describe the API, there's no MS docs on them, so lots of trial-and-error in PowerGUI to find the right objects and methods (Yuck).
Is there any indication that the posted link was already submitted? I would have expected some sort of warning.
Do you know of any apps like https://hakiri.io that automate security scanning and serve as a security monitor for any future disclosures?

Also, how would one use bundler-audit if a Rails app is not actively maintained?
Makes them susceptible to enemy navies, IMO.
Yes, definitely. I got burned by this very recently myself. I'm developing a Rails app (my very first!) in which users need to be able to enter and edit content in a WYSIWYG editor. I found a very popular one that also had a great user experience and started using it. Once I tried to deploy it though, I ran into various issues - turns out the app was quite out of date as its author had moved on to other things a year and a half ago. So I had to rip it out and switch to an alternative.

I'm now much more cognizant about stuff like how many contributors a project has and whether it is in active development.
g+ was garbage from the start and could not compete with facebook. And anyone who used facebook know how trash it is... In terms of UI. But google made it worse experience.

Google will try to recover now :)
Is anybody here using nginx as a REPLACEMENT for varnish ? I'm not an expert in devops, but will be deploying a webapp pretty soon - I was wondering if anyone is replacing varnish with nginx cache (memcached backed?)

nginx seems to be increasingly irreplaceable (with ssl caching,etc.) - so was looking to not having to deal with varnish.

I did some google searches, but was not able to find anything - including nginx configs, etc. Nginx Plus claims to be an accelerator, but again there isnt a lot of info around that.
It actually makes for pretty good power plants, usually they're called some variant of 'solar power towers'. The plants use a bunch of adjustable mirrors that focus sunlight in order to heat water and make it into steam that powers a turbine. There are also ones that use molten salts as a heating element, but that technology is a lot newer.
I logged in with a username that was a few hundred kilobytes long. Couple of seconds later the service goes down. Could just be a coincidence.
I love how it amateurishly it crashes. could be a handy HN hangout place to vent or troll.

PS. Don't get me wrong people, i DO love it, but it just seems to crash too easily. These things happen to all of us. It could still be a cool place to hang out and vent on HN.
I remember reading about such a device being planned to "send power" to remote US army outposts e.g. near front lines.
I think the big thing here that threw me for a loop is just how many gems are pulled in by projects. 133 seems like a ridiculous amount of dependencies for a single project. Our entire company runs on Python in the backend and we don't even have 50 (and that's including ones I use for command-line utilities or corncobs, for example, which aren't in our public-facing software).

Even if the Python modules we have had the same number of vulnerabilities as gems, our exposure for a given system would be 1/10th, just from not using so many external libraries. Couple that with the fact that many of those gems are outside of end-user control, of generally unknown quality, might only be pulled in for one small piece of functionality, and might themselves depend on other gems which you weren't necessarily aware of and haven't necessarily vetted.
Streaming video doesn't seem to be working. I'm on Windows 7, tried with Chrome and IE. I clicked the link for the presentation that should be running now but it just says "waiting for presentation to begin."
Ask HN: What can I do to raise money and continue my work?
I am a full stack web developer who quit his job 4 months ago to pursue his dream into making it on his own and building a great startup. Sadly I am based in Europe so my options in raising capital are somewhat less than in the US. I think I am building a great product and I am doing a lot of work with Angular, which I love it and I enjoy every day coding. The problem is my savings are nearly gone and I do not know what to do because I do not want to go back to employment. I have some potential customers who want to buy my application, but they want some features that need some time for me to build and they only want to pay for the end result. What can I do to raise money so I can bootstrap it and continue doing the work I love. Should I look for freelance gigs? The problem is I am scarred that this will take a lot of my time and will not have enough time to focus on coding.
The sharing economy: Remove the roadblocks
Hacker News requires that the original article be submitted. Unfortunately, WSJ/The Information are good at getting exclusives.
I'm working on something similar to what you mentioned right now @ stirplate.io

However, to "make it mandatory for publicly-funded ..." is the difficult part. I'm with you 100% (I'm a neuroscience PhD) and this needs to happen,but it needs to come from the financial groups such as NIH/NSF who really just aren't good at dealing with this kind of stuff. They do make it mandatory, but they don't provide real resources for scientists to access these tools. Either that, or they are insanely difficult to use, so people don't do it.
I'm shooting for getting raw data from scientists, populating a huge f'in database that is linked and categorized, and if/when the group makes the data open, allow scientists to work off of that huge database of raw, unedited data. (this is specific to life sciences)

I've learned the following when talking about my company:
1. Investors don't want to hear about open science because they immediately get stuck on "what if they don't share". That tends to end the conversation.
2. Scientists themselves complain about the system, but are unwilling to change behaviors. So we have to address their fears in order to start making change (that is what I'm working on now)
3. Schools and funding agencies are using technology from 1996 and thinking that is sufficient. People need to be educated, and this is hard to do.

This isn't impossible and it's happening slowly...the mindset of academics just needs to change. (IMHO)
A blank Rails app installs ~40 gems last I checked.
No, which is why projects like OpenStreetMap are so important!
The two-s possessive is largely a stylistic choice.

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Po...
I don't know if the connection really exists, or why it might, but I am reminded of the connection Neal Stephenson draws between Babylonian Shaman and programmers. Like how programmers utter incantations which have a special power not fully understood by the rest of society, maybe hardware designers create patterns and layouts which have special power. The general concept appeals to them, so they are attracted to ideologies which incorporate similar ideas?
Netbooks, round 2?
Also you don't pay a lot of money to post to Facebook or Reddit. You do when you publish (Cheapest publication I have was ~$500). Publishing a paper is expensive.
>IMHO Google+'s principle problem is that it's multiple efforts all under the same name umbrella. This is confusing to users and seems to have been confusing to Google.

Totally agree with this. I made some effort and still can't figure out where photos I post to google+ go. I used to use the picassa page which was pretty good about making albums and sharing, now I just use Flickr.
I think that diversity is good in user software. Base system (OS) - kernel + process management should just work good and be portable.
It's possible some of these are false positives, at least with regards to Rails, as most of the recent vulnerabilities I can remember come with workarounds and patch files. Some people need to stay on a specific Rails version, but may have fixed the problem.

I'm not ready to speculate which is more probable.
No, you have to read maybe 10+ books at a minimum plus a lot of other stuff.

I would start from federalreserve.gov and go from there. There's also an educational site set up by the Fed here: www.federalreserveeducation.org/about-the-fed/structure-and-functions/

Once you get it straight from the horse, you can go out from there. When people ask me this question I start there, because it has official authority and is usually more direct than other more opinionated sources. If you talk about it from sources other than the Fed most of the time you'll get a lot of incredulity because the system is counter-intuitive.

If you want to duel perspectives, you can read both 'A Monetary History of the United States' by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz (http://www.amazon.com/Monetary-History-United-States-1867-19...) and 'A History of Money and Banking in the United States' by Murray Rothbard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Money_and_Banking_in...), which draw nearly opposite conclusions, although both agree that the pre-Fed eras were rife with major crises caused by poorly managed banking schemes.
Try Seed-DB (my site) for lists of YC companies and every other accelerator I know about globally: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators

3700+ companies, >$4Billion in funding, and an investor graph of thousands of investors
Can Microsoft's new Mini tablet save the Surface?
I agree, and I'd even upgrade your "a bit clickbaity" to "very clickbaity". I happen to work at JPL, and elements of the Parsons story are generally known to people at the lab. I just don't think they're that interesting. Certainly, complaining that the oddball philosophy of one of the four founders is not featured in the lab tour is ridiculous. People come on the lab tour to see robots and rockets, not to talk about occult side-interests.

If you want interesting side stories, how about Qian Xuesen, who was also one of the original handful of JPL founders, and who was hounded from his position and went on to found the Chinese rocket program. (Discussed on HN previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905862). That's a historical figure who has actual significance, not just odd/occult tendencies.

The other interesting back story, besides Wehrner von Braun, is that of the principal founder of JPL, Theodore von Karman, who was a Hungarian Jew who left Europe in 1930. Von Karman was the first Director of JPL. Another founder with a back-story of considerable significance.
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That doesn't tell you much about access to medicine unless you can exclude the other relevant factors. Maybe the 60th percentile worker went from working as a factory foreman to working as an office manager but the 10th percentile worker was still mining coal. Or womens' liberation saw the women entering the workforce take a disproportionate number of the safer unskilled labor positions, increasing the proportion of unskilled men working the more dangerous jobs. Any way to rule those out?
This really isn't difficult to understand (again, just read the link above, the people actually involved go into it). The systemd people believed there were technical flaws in Upstart. They talked to the person in charge of Upstart, who was amenable to their points. They looked into collaborating, but the CLA stood in the way of that.

If there was no CLA, the folks who went on to develop systemd could have decided that the benefits of collaborating with an existing project were greater than the benefits of writing systemd from scratch. And everyone involved seems to agree that that's what would have happened. Yes, as a purely technical matter, the systemd people decided starting from scratch was better than forking Upstart. But the reason it was a purely technical decision was their refusal to sign the CLA, which meant the ONLY considerations were technical. But there are other considerations that could have swung the decision the other way if not for the CLA.
As Amazon becomes larger and larger, it makes more sense to vertically integrate.

Assume half of AMZN's 2013 net shipping costs of $3,538 occurred in U.S. and profit generated thereon was ~10% of revenues (UPS 2013 operating margin was ~13%), AMZN has a guaranteed (and growing) chunk of change to go after. Not to mention the custom delivery options and probable long-term improved delivery metrics. Of course, this is a somewhat capital intensive business (relative to our estimates of the existing core businesses at least), but still could generate attractive long-term returns.

A much more interesting thought experiment is to do the same calculations on credit card exchange fee savings AMZN would generate if the company processed its payments itself. The savings would be into the billions of dollars and would be incomparably less capital intensive than any physical delivery system.
There is none, OpenBSD uses CVS.
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1. Start collecting state sales tax.

2. Build warehouses in state close to customers.

3. Use your own delivery trucks for shipments from those warehouses, since same-day local deliveries are the simplest part of the delivery chain.

4. Profit!
I am already on this. Not gonna stop till I read up on all of his code.

Its a plane, its a bird, No its kick ass python programmer. :).
I can install it on my Nexus 4, but not my Nexus 7 (2013), despite it clearly being tablet optimized. What's up with that?
I got stuck verifying my assumption that the sticky was real.
Your stirplate.io mail server is rejecting emails ("kgonzales" from your HN profile). I was going to invite you to irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap (we do some non-academic do-it-yourself neurophysiology stuff on occasion).
Are the OpenBSD people still saying that money donated for OpenSSH will be used to develop OpenBSD?
Will IFTTT have traffic triggers in the future? I've been wanting a way to get traffic alerts before leaving work for years. I've found a few places that offer it, but nothing has been reliable.

In a perfect world I'd tie traffic conditions to when my alarm clock wakes me up!
I too think it's impossible to make it work without giving an incentive to scientists. When so much of your career depends on where you publish, your whole career centers around how to publish and please editors, not how to solve problems. I am pessimistic that "if you build it, they will come". This needs to come from academia or in collaboration.

p.s. coincidence - i 'm doing a compneuro PhD myself
But this article does not analyze that. It's only scanning CVE's and most have already been patched when the CVE is issued. Of the 53 mentioned for Rails for instance, all have been patched.

This article is incredibly misleading.
so so messy ... not sure that it really accomplishes that much either, except to make Ms Horvath seem really undesirable as an employee. I just feel like this could have been handled more maturely.
For what it's worth there are a ton of details in a blog post that keeps being killed in HN's new thread queue. Probably autokilled by hostname. https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/459405044920500225
Read the article. It's not massively powerful; the beam will deliver about a kW per square meter (that's a GW per square kilometer).
Toshiba launches 15nm memory process
and they don't even do proofreading or formatting.
There's another book about him, called Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. Anyone read both books?

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/09...
The stylus/digitizer is really the killer feature for me. I'd looked at the Surface Pro, but it's just too bulky for what I want.

A 7-8" Windows device with a 1080p display and stylus would be perfect for me during meetings. I'd be able to leave my similarly sized 5x8" notepads in the office and have access to my systems when needed.

EDIT:

I had previously looked at the Note Tab line, but couldn't get over the cheap build quality and god awful Samsung software.
The danger isn't from "overflow" radiation when the microwave beam is on target. The danger is when the microwave is off-target by a couple hundred feet (teensy fractions of a degree, considering the distances involved) and suddenly your concentrated 1GW beam is pointing at an apartment building.

That beam is WAY more powerful than the sun per unit area. If not, we'd just use the sun.
Technical meaning software, hardware, or both?

Software side we need better graphics and ways to make those graphics. Laser scanning and imaging could be a lot better than it is today. I suspect by the time I die we'll have a 3D model of the vast majority of the planet, much like we have street view now.

Hardware side we need better interaction. Providing tactile feedback and textures is a big one. I think the next logical step from Oculus is a glove with motors on it to simulate resistance when gripping an item, or force when something in a game moves your hand.
Inspired by Brown's modularscale.com, I built another viewer for golden ratios for my own use. I use them all the time in css. http://gelform.com/golden
your margin is my opportunity... Considering that government is a very high margin business...
That's great, but is it really so common for HN readers to have WSJ subscriptions? I mean, unless people are upvoting things without reading them...

It just seems unusual that so many WSJ links are getting to the front page lately.
I refer you to the awful and smart patent troll promoter Gene Quinn:

"How long will it take the Federal Circuit to overrule this inexplicable nonsense? The novice reader may find that question to be ignorant, since the Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States. Those well acquainted with the industry know that the Supreme Court is not the final word on patentability, and while the claims at issue in this particular case are unfortunately lost, the Federal Circuit will work to moderate (and eventually overturn) this embarrassing display by the Supreme Court. This will eventually be accomplished the same as it was after the Supreme Court definitively ruled software is not patentable in Gottschalk v. Benson, and the same as the ruling in KSR v. Teleflex will be overruled. I have taken issue with Chief Judge Rader’s statements that nothing has changed in Federal Circuit jurisprudence as a result of KSR, which is not technically true. What is true, however, is that the Federal Circuit continues to refine the KSR “common sense test,” narrowing the applicability in case after case and tightening the ability for “common sense” to be used against an application. We are almost 5 years post KSR and there is still a lot of work left to be done by the Federal Circuit to finally overrule the Supreme Court’s KSR decision. It took almost 10 years to overrule Gottschalk v. Benson, so we are likely in for a decade of work to moderate the nonsense thrust upon the industry this morning."[0]

No court is subordinate to any other in the American system. Higher courts can overrule lower courts, but cannot subordinate them or force them to follow dictates or discipline judges. So-called precedent is an artificial social convention among judges that the CAFC judges reject. [1]

The Supreme Court doesn't have the time or interest to assert itself against the CAFC. When it does take a case, the Supreme Court often overturns decisions unanimously and expresses frustration in its opinions, but that doesn't mean the Supremes are about to start taking 50 or 100 patent cases a year and making any real difference.

[0] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/03/20/supreme-court-mayo-v-pr...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea...
One might say that low-content comments will tend to come in a topic that people feel very strong opinions about. I think this is true.
How to get data from MongoLab into Hadoop
As has been pointed out many, many times, it's very easy to circumvent the paywall by searching on the article's title. Yes, this is inconvenient, but if the story is newsworthy and the publication is the primary or only source, then it's a tolerable inconvenience. I don't have a subscription to the WSJ or NYT either, but I can dig up the article or wait for it to be summarized elsewhere if I don't feel like dealing with the paywall.

I don't see any great rise in the frequency of WSJ links. It has always been a popular source on HN and the paywall has been in place for years.
This is such a natural extension for Amazon to move in to. I've never had a consistently good experience with UPS, FedEx, or USPS. The success rate varies but all three have caused packages to get lost, sent back to the shipper, or I'd get a "we don't know where your package is". Needless to say my confidence in the current shipping industry is low.

Amazon could gain a leg on the current shipping/logistics companies even if they focused on just a few key areas:

* Real-time shipment tracking
* Cardboard-less / eco-friendly boxes
* Neighborhood locations to deliver packages to

Real-time tracking I think is the easy win. Setting up some form of eco-friendly packaging could be as simple as shipping your items in a reusable plastic bin, and then leaving you with the individual items you've purchased.

However, one of the big problems particularly in NYC is reliability. Most people don't have a doorman and rarely will the postman leave the package for you. Even if they did, a lot of people don't like the idea of having their Amazon box sit outside their door for anyone to steal. Amazon already has their locker system and I think that could be the difference-maker. If I could ship to a convenience store, or a reliable place then I'd be able to grab my deliveries on the way home from work. Plus Amazon could reduce the number of deliveries they have to make in dense cities.
Someone got it working on a Mac.
I'd guess that Amazon gets very very low fee rates for payments. Amazon's not going to start competing with Visa, and it seems unlikely they'd be a bank, so I doubt there's a huge amount of profit to be made in taking over their own payments processing.
There is a "the" Denmark Minecraft server? It looks like the map data is just being provided. Is there an official server hosting a live game?
More alarming than vulnerable gems is the the number oh high severity vulnerability found in Rails itself: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-.... Compare this to Django (http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10199...) per year.