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Azure: Compute and Storage Full Service interruption in West Europe region
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What cool stuff do you do?
We help big-ass enterprises like Samsung, EA Games, Pearson Publishing and Sage deploy and manage their systems on multiple clouds. We launched in 2006 shortly after AWS started, and built the first multi-cloud platform that works with the AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware... Since then, we've built Cloud Analytics and Self-Service that with our Cloud Management product have thousands of users.

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Not a fan. Almost everyone I know has stopped using Snapchat. Its servers are god-awful - don't work 50% of the time here and people have got tired of seeing friends' sushi pictures & selfies 24/7.

Also, choosing not to support Windows Phone (and apparantly not even recording WP users' requests) is a really stupid move in my opinion.

Furthermore, I see no reason why Snapchat should be preferred over Facebook Messenger. If you want to share a moment with a friend, you might as well share it for more than 10 seconds. Messenger always works reliably for me. Snapchat doesn't. Case closed.
Julia's comprehensions are multidimensional array comprehensions so allowing filtering doesn't make much sense because the result needs to be rectangular and filtering can create arbitrary holes.

For a one-dimensional array comprehension it does make sense to allow filtering and this can be easily expressed in Julia by making a coroutine that produces the values and collecting its output in an array.

Multidimensional (here multi=2) array result:

julia> [i+j for i=1:3, j=1:3]
3x3 Array{Int32,2}:
2 3 4
3 4 5
4 5 6

One dimensional array result, with filtering:

julia> collect(@task for i=1:6; if i%3>0; produce(i); end; end)
4-element Array{Any,1}:
1
2
4
5

Notice that this last technique is more powerful than typical comprehensions, since it doesn't just add the possibility of filtering but arbitrary code to generate the elements.
The whoishiring account does the postings automatically, I'm not sure if that is done from YC/HN or through an outsider but it's a good idea to have only one of these threads.

What bugs me is how every comment in this thread is being downvoted.

Edit: it's an outsider but a pretty good setup, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828
I wonder if he was jamming or doing something else

There has recently been a crackdown in China on people driving around with a device that can hack and spam cellphones.

I think the way it works is by spoofing a basestation.

It's range is short and it has to be kept on the move to avoid detection so the scammers drive it around busy areas all day.

I'll try to find more info if anyone is interested.
NTP doesn't use unix timestamps but an other format. It will hit the bug 2 years earlier.
I found this ~14 minute interview with Theo de Raadt from ruBSD very interesting and apropos OpenBSD's approach to trail-blazing "painful" changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8

tl;dw: Changes that must be done, must be DONE. The only way to see the ACTUAL impact is to just do it already and get feedback from real users. When the dust has settled, less brave projects can follow suit. I'm donating.
New York, NY. Full time. We're looking for vp engineering, jr & sr python engineers, jr & sr frontend (js/backbone) engineers + jr. & sr. android & iOS engineers.

As you can tell from the job openings, Percolate is a very quickly growing SAAS company in NYC. We are building a platform that helps companies manage all their marketing. We recently raised a $24 million Series B lead by Sequoia.

We're looking for a VP to lead the team of ~30, as well as backend (all levels), frontend engineers (we run backbone.js alongside our RESTful API) and mobile (iOS + android). On the backend, we're especially interested in folks with good experience working with lots of data and excited to build real-time systems.

Here's thirteen reasons why you should come work here: (1) Our goal is to build the best engineering team in NYC (2) Every employee gets salary + equity (3) As we get bigger, you will be able to focus on what you are good at (4) We are all different and we love it (5) GPL compliant company (6) You choose your workstation (7) You choose your tools (8) No worries, free your mind: NY salary + medical + dental (9) No vacation policy (we don't count the # of days you take in a year) (10) Company invests in you: Fly to PyCon and other conferences (11) We prefer quality over quantity: Focus on clean code and test coverage (12) Your voice will be heard (13) We just got a cold-brew coffee keg for the summer

Lots more info about us at our new about pages: http://percolate.com/about
If you're interested email us at jobs@percolate.com or apply at http://percolate.com/about/jobs/
If you have any questions you can email me (I'm co-founder and CEO) directly at noah@percolate.com. Thanks.
Definitely enough to start a company, though I don't think anyone would argue that is a very high bar.

Good luck.
Also, Facebook itself, not taking into account its Messenger, is dying out - 90% of the newsfeed is covered with posts from sites like The Verge or any other sites that you follow.
The actual amount of stuff that you care about is 2% of it all. Can't honestly remember someone posting a legitimately interesting status update. Instead, I see selfies and news.
Many people don't know where to put the URL anyway. They type it on Google. You would be surprised how many search queries start with "http".
https://status.github.com/
https://status.bitbucket.com/

Will answer your question better :)
Except x32 systems, as that issue had to be tackled before integration into the linux kernel.
I recently talked to nearly 100 entrepreneurs for my book titled "How We Did It". One thing that I asked most of them was how to validate the business idea before embarking on it. One common answer was to set up a landing page and advertise it using the right keywords on Adwords. Are people proceeding towards the purchase/download from here? In that case, there is a market and you could work on your idea.

Incidentally, the chapter about idea validation is available for free here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0evrb66hvg4ucoy/Preview-copy.pdf

This is the Amazon link for the book : http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-entrepreneurs-struggles-experi...
Get a good CV
Get a good agent
Get a Linked profile
Get a good accountant, preferably one that uses FreeAgent
A beginners guide to terminal aliases and functions
I do think there should be more of a focus on URNS rather than URLs, and his could help.

URLS are pretty rigid. If tommorow http was swapped out for a different protocol what would happen?

You'd be better off referring to the article posted as Allenpike's article on removing urls (or some such).

Fuzzyness feels more natural. I can bookmark a rigid URL, but what if later it moves? I might be better off bookmarking a signature of the article (a very basic form might be Author and Title).

The search engine's have a signature of articles, and if you are lucky that signature will be matched somehow against your loose search query. The success of search engines depends upon how well they order and match against your input.
I would say full on attack against Whatsapp
If Facades Ruled The World
"It was of course completely illegal: working on a tourist visa and not paying taxes."
RapidSSL gets an F on SSL Labs
CSS is bad and hindsight is not required. Consider all the obvious page layout things that everyone wants, such as centering, columnar text, non-moving navigation elements, footers, and so forth that are either unsupported or require rocket science tricks to get half-working. And that's without getting into the inobvious requirements that they've had at least ten years to grapple with.

To be fair, some of CSS's shortcomings follow from HTML design errors that are equally egregious (and in some cases have been magnified by HTML5). E.g. It ahould have been possible to create decent looking navigation elements in HTML with no CSS or Javascript, but still isn't.
From mining engineer to startup CTO: How and why I learnt to code
How we test our mobile and web apps at Rounds
You can track drones with cameras.
Title from Google translate:

> A new wave of domain extensions
> are available from today Host.bg

The first paragraph reads:

> Eleven new additions of domain extensions
> give you a better opportunity to express a
> creative and affordable way your brand,
> campaign or interests.
How we hacked National Judiciary Informatics System of Turkey (UYAP) ...
Okay, but it still took alien technology to raise them, right?
eVision Industry Software - The Hague, NL

We're looking for JavaScript library developers to join our R&D team here in The Hague. Contact details in my profile.
VividCortex - Charlottesville, VA and Montevideo, Uruguay (FT or INTERN)

TL:DR - Go, Angular, Database Performance Management

Systems Programming

Our agents, backend systems, and infrastructure are all written in Go (it's awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment.

Operations and System Administration

We’re hosted in Amazon AWS and looking for people who do developer and sysops types of work — writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Ansible code, and so on.

Front End Development

The web app is backed by a small amount of PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by Angular and D3.js, CSS (Less), and HTML5. There’s a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex single-page user interface with rich data visualization that’s key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We need people who can work in Angular, D3, design, styling, and so forth.
Except given the recent trend, too many decisions like that would likely result in LibreAlloy or something similar. They have a lot more breathing room to behave that way with gmail and Youtube and similar, where the value they are providing is in serving the content, as opposed to Chrome where the code is more or less available and their value is in developing the open source environment.

Clarification: I'm not sold on the "Upstream goes sour? Time to Libre$thing" trend as a good thing in the long term, but I doubt the potential for it to occur has escaped Google's notice.
$152 billion market cap. They produced $922m in free cash flow in Q1 and had $12.63 billion in cash at the end of Q1 (so they have plenty of cash as well). Zuck can use it all at his discretion.

They could drop $20 billion on Snapchat tomorrow morning and there's nobody that can stop Zuckerberg from doing it if he thinks it makes sense.
This state of affairs is completely arse backwards. In hard sciences, where direct quantitative measurement is made (e.g. the sulfur isotopic composition of a mineral in a rock), those measurements, and details of how they were made are published in the paper. If you have the paper you have the data.

How is it that 'sciences' that do not make direct measurements, and instead rely on statistical analysis to separate weak signals from noise in very very indirect measurements can get away _without_ publishing raw data? The burden of proof must be higher for such weak signals, and that must include the raw data (e.g. all the survey results). I am unsurprised people get away with making shit up in these disciplines if we esentially are taking their word for it.
DRM for drones...

Not going to happen. There's nothing special at all about the hardware to fly one so if anyone can make their own there's no point even trying to put DRM on it.

This is the same as trying to ban certain 3d printer files the gov. doesn't like.
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You have to be able to adapt to a fast changing environment where multi-tasking is a must. You will be required to design and develop functional user interfaces as well as keeping the brand consistent across the organisation and a range of different products.

Akvo creates and runs open source internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development work online. We focus on project and programme dashboards, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and making data easier to share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world.

We are looking for someone to be based in Helsinki, Stockholm or Amsterdam, but could also be REMOTE. You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.

Please send your CV along with a cover letter to loic@akvo.org Looking forward to hear from you.
Clicked this thinking it was about the real-time dashboard, mystified as to what could be not all good about D3. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/jondot/graphene
If sites embedding video would simply post links to the YouTube content, that would help markedly.

I had the same problem FWIW: absolutely nothing on Slate's page evidenced that there was video let alone where it was hosted. Thanks HN for pointing out the sources.
Ask HN: Desktop browser market share among HN readers?
Google is loaded with conflicting data on desktop browser market share among the general public (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers, etc), but I'm curious what that breakdown would look like among HN readers. Here's my semi-wild guess.

Chrome: 50% (incl. Chromium)
Firefox: 25%
Safari: 10%
Opera: 7%
IE: 7%
Other: 1%

Assumptions and questions:

- Assume major reduction in IE, but how low does it go?

- Assume Safari = to general public. (Higher % Mac users, but offset by higher rate of Chrome/Firefox/Opera installs.)

- My Opera guess is 4-5x general public, but still only 1/3 the rate of Firefox. I actually have no idea on this one.

- My Chrome guess is slightly more than general public, but could it be even higher than 50%?

What's your guess?

p.s. If a HN moderator were to, you know, share the ACTUAL data, that would be awesome. :)
Droplet lens turns a smartphone into a 160X microscope
The Das Keyboard and the CODE keyboard are not answers to having aches and pains!

What kind of aches and pains are you having?
Hmm, so I guess their stats are likely to be skewed. Being based on the choices of those that don't know or care how the web works.
"Mystery meat navigation", as that is commonly called, makes it sound so ugly.. I have a happy name for it, "the bit in Maniac Mansion where you have to find something in a pitch black room".
In Sweden we are. After a big storm a few years ago knocked out the phone lines to some remote homes, the telco calculated that it was cheaper to let them use 4G than to repair kilometers of telephone poles.
Android Modders, Your Ultimate Flagship Phone Has Arrived
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If you're an experienced Python developer willing to solve interesting problems and you're not afraid of releasing high impact code every day, then we'd like to hear from you.

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Three Quarters Of The Corporate World Is Still Exposed To Windows XP
This job post is going to confuse everyone today.

Hopefully a mod deletes this Who is Hiring in favour of the regular, organized one.

Kudos to this OP for trolling it.
Apple's new EarPods
This is big VCs and big scientists getting involved what you have previously only heard about in DIY forums...
Here is Wikipedia page on PLATO: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
what happens if you directly paste an URL? does it still perform a search or the browser will go to the URL (and then hide it)?
AirHelp (YC W14) Gets You Money For Flights Delayed, Cancelled, Or Overbooked
This is a discussion playing out in our development team at the moment.

The one thing we've observed that he touches on in mentioning that Angular is backed by Google but doesn't really go into as much as he might, is that it feels like Angular has more momentum generally in the developer community - more posts on StackOverflow and more Git activity, plus more job ads.

If you're in it for the long haul that may be a significant factor.
Sorry, I didn't know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828

@Mods, can you please delete this post?
Wikipedia is both a website for editing and creating a free encyclopedic, and for providing accessing and reading to that content.

OSM is not both. It is a project for editing and creating a free map database over the world. The site, the community and the wiki is all geared towards attracting editors and making the data they contribute as high quality as possible.

It would be good if we had a project to make it easy to use and develop application on top of the free data OSM provides. Its not OSM goal for now, so the spot is open for anyone who feel they can make a difference.
Damn just as I was reading that our corp firewall blocked the domain for hosting malicious content (it's usually over zealous)...
Wouldn't that carbon aerogel be incredibly combustible?
I wouldn't say we just "let very many people die". Vehicle emissions have improved dramatically over time[1] and will likely continue to improve.

Unlike asbestos, banning cars cold turkey would have had too large an impact on society. Could we have tried to improve car emissions quicker? Yes, but just like the asbestos industry fought regulation, the car industry did too. Yet still, as anyone who has tried to breathe in a major American city can tell you, things have gotten better

[1] http://theenergycollective.com/jamescoan/85164/vehicle-emiss...
Russia says YES to building super-rocket in to get to Mars by 2030
UK slips down global press freedom list due to Snowden leaks response
> URLs aren't high tech any more than the address to your house is

When you stop by the local coffee shop, do you take note of what its address is?

The users have an idea what URLs are, they just don't care.
SEO Is Not Dead: But It Just Might Kill Your Website
May 1st, nobody's here to fix it.
SousChef – HBS Startup Creates The Killer Google Glass Cooking App
Markov chains can pop up everywhere. Not shown in this excellent intro is that the stationary distribution can be calculated as the eigenvector with an eigenvalue of 1.

I have used them in practice for load testing. Have thousands of bots randomly take actions using a transition table. The aggregate behaviour can predicted and converted into the frequency domain using the above trick and some other stuff (http://edinburghhacklab.com/2014/03/taming-randomized-load-t...)
Direct link to the announcement:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/?q=node/11...
@Mods: or better yet, merge it with the other one when it does it's thing!

Quite a few good posts in here already it would be a waste if they got lost.
I've enabled it to try it out.

First impression:

It doesn't make any sense to hide the protocol when you reveal the URL, and I found myself looking for a "Copy URL" button. Since copying the URL is what I most often try to do when selecting a URL, it would make sense.

It makes browsing feel much calmer, and I'm pretty sure I'll keep it enabled for a while.
>Did not a single engineer step up and say "Hey, uh, guys, do we want to at least take basic steps to obfuscate this stuff?"

Of course they did. But they eventually learned to be "team players", or they moved on to another project.
Let's not go for malice where being uninformed would do.

I'm pretty well informed about all things HN and I had missed the original thread where the whoishiring policy was established.

What would be good is if a title of 'Who is hiring' would automatically trigger a review or if those postings would be limited to the whoishiring account. And even better still if that were an actual HN/YC supported feature.
We are having the same discussions, and a lot of the developers seem to lean towards angular, simply because of that momentum that you mentioned.

> "The project I'm working on at Netflix is extremely ambitious, ... solving pretty interesting problems in Ember, that are actually a lot more complicated than problems I solved in previous Angular projects"

This is a key point that I keep running into. It seems that more complicated applications can benefit from Ember's very opinionated nature and more backbone-like structure...

I could be totally off base, as I've not created a large-scale app in either of these frameworks (yet).
The Extreme Food Challenge
Ironically, it was Taleb who inspired Rumsfeld to use that line [1], even though Rumsfeld's actions showed he had no true understanding of the concept, since he dramatically increased the exposure to these kinds of risks while having little personal skin in the game.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/28/society
Depends. There are cases in which small inventors have prevailed, others in which they haven't. Filo Farnsworth comes to mind among the latter.
If you are going to use it on a DVD drive or otherwise then make sure your update it regularly (ie: download and burn a new DVD etc) to make sure your OS and various tools have the latest patches. Otherwise you are much more vulnerable. All the time people forget and end up using a very old version.
At a guess, yes (it's carbon after all), maybe we could cover it in Asbestos?
That's a poignant observation.

Just on my front page, 5/20 apps can send direct messages.
I can actually imagine a lot of users liking that - many people I've seen using a browser will just type stuff in to Google's homepage search box and then follow links. The classic example, yes I've seen it, is people typing Hotmail/Live/Outlook in to Google and then following the link rather than typing in the address [my 8yo did this recently for another site].

For many-many users the web entry point is the search engine they use as their homepage, that is "the internet" for them. This was the paradigm that AOL developed and there are vast swathes of users that cut their teeth on AOL.
Single inheritance is possible and used extensively in Julia. Multiple inheritance is not (currently) supported, and there are a few places where it would be useful, but it is surprising that this would be a show stopper.
MonkeySpace Europe 2014 schedule is out
People do this already - they type "facebook[.com]" in to a searchbox (or addressbar with search enabled). They arrive at a SERP and click on the first link in that listing. Occasionally the first link isn't the right one, occasionally they'll notice and click the correct one!

Ordinary users.

It's right to address this behaviour in the interface design. Rather than somehow telling users they're wrong Google can work with that behaviour. Yes it has benefits for Google in tracking and profiling user behaviour too.
BinPy – Virtualizing Electronics