skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to one article on a credible blog, 80% of government and bank data is still stored in IBM DB2 and served through banking and and business apps written in COBOL and running on IBM Mainframes.

If this is true, can we safely assume that there's a huge huge market potential for disruption into a potentially $12BB a year market which includes both servers and business apps (banking, government social welfare apps, government critical citizen data apps)?

This hardly ever appears on tech media. Even if this is not true, IBM's financial figures would reveal how much it earns from it's Mainframe lines of hardware and software business.
Tricked photo of Nikola Tesla sitting in his laboratory
Sounds cool but just a heads up, there is a mac file transfer client called ForkLift which has been around for a while at http://www.binarynights.com/forklift/

- Mark
The original quote is about mail:

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

Which itself may have been derived from an earlier Usenet quote about MIT [1]

"Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law...
Am I the only one who thinks adding "Ms." before her name every time it is mentioned is a ridiculous journaling practice? It just screams "this executive is a woman, evaluate her through that lens." If "Michael Mayer" was the CEO of Yahoo instead of "Marissa Mayer," they would've said "Mayer," not "Mr. Mayer."
Homeopathy offers remedies for antibiotic resistant infections. I had a relative who had severe infection post knee replacement surgery. She was operated 4 times due to this infection as the bacteria is considered antibiotic resistant. A classical homeopath treated her to recover from the infection.

This is the bacteria that caused the post surgery infection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii

Here is a relevant article on how Homeopathy provides an alternative to antibiotics

http://aurumproject.org.au/homeopathy-alternative-antibiotic...
GuiltFox: Well, This Is Embarrassing
There is at least one serious effort underway to collect (or perhaps, catalogue) such a body of knowledge:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok

I think SWEBOK is interesting both as a demonstration of how far we have to go before we get anywhere near the standards of established engineering fields, and as a demonstration of how much we have already collectively figured out, even if most of us aren't familiar with more than a small fraction of what is out there.
The other thread of this was deleted, Google must have put pressure on Hacker News

its interesting to see censorship at work here
"is that we'll see a re-run..." shouldn't it be: "is that we could see a re-run..."
I've been to the cinema several hundred times over the last decade. There was a period we used to go 1-2 every week. In that time, I've never once been distracted by anyones phone going off. Maybe half a dozen times I've been momentarily annoyed by someone checking their phone with an overly bright screen. That's it.

It would seem letting people have a signal doesn't have to be a problem.
Are GitHub and BitBucket having issues?
BitBucket's having some issues since around last week (http://status.bitbucket.org). And now, I see GitHub having the same issues for the last few days.

Anyone noticed this?
Worry implies 'could'. You don't need two conditionals.
Best choice for tipjar microtransations outside of the US?
I'm in Australia right now and while I'd love to use Gittip, they don't really support non-US countries that well.

Is there a tipjar service like Gittip that I can use?
Can Facebook afford a much bigger offer?
At least it's a risk that can be assessed before it's put into wide-scale production and use; in the case of asbestos, it was everywhere when it was discovered to be harmful.

Somehow I doubt graphene and nanomaterials are going to be widely used in insulation and paneling. Graphene if it's used in CPU's will be encased in heat sinks and whatnot, and waste can be handled accordingly. In production, they're already processed in clean rooms with heavy filtering, so I doubt those will be a risk.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Does anyone think it might just be an idea to change the amount of meat we produce? When people start dying at the age of twenty and thirty of bacterial infections that are totally curable today, and gonorrhoea becomes incurable, will we think our current insouciance rational? Will it be seen as a price worth paying in order to have cheap meat? A tremendous proportion of the antibiotics we use are abused as growth promoters for animals reared for meat or their products. They are used pro-actively on healthy animals outside of the EU. Even within the EU, they are used routinely in a way that is driving us towards a post-antibiotics future.

It is pretty sad to reflect that we are not able to prioritize our own health above an immediate desire to consume more meat more cheaply.
Comparing Ember and Angular
Does it have encryption yet? And is it cross-platform with iOS?
I suppose the natural follow up question is, how will this affect my Snapchat score?
That's true. And that's a real issue. But asbestos is now banned for fairly good reasons, the benefits did not outweigh the downsides in the eyes of the regulators.

And that's the right way to approach things like this, evaluate the ups a material offers compared to the downs.

People will die (for the foreseeable future at least), the question is what they die of and if you can prevent some of those deaths without a high price to society then you should do so.

Consider roads, people die there as well, but the price we'd pay if we shut all the roads down would be prohibitive so we don't. (pretty apt for me because I witnessed the most gruesome traffic accident 4 days ago in Germany near Dinslaken).
The DOI foundation is responsible for "making sure DOIs work" (I'm sure there's a better definition than that!). Like DNS, there are a number of Registration Agencies (RAs) who are responsible for registering DOIs. An organisation such as CrossRef (or DataCite) RA will say "we want to become an RA". They join, and can then register their own DOIs.

DOIs are persistent identifiers, and the main reason you want those is so you can have a persistent link from one thing to another. A normal hyperlink is subject to link-rot, which is an especially bad problem when you've got printed journals or online 'printed journals'. A DOI is a link that goes via the DOI to redirect to wherever the link is meant to point at this point in history. RAs are responsible for registering DOIs and updating the link redirect data whenever the thing being pointed to moves.

RAs exist for different purposes. CrossRef exists to enable linking between scholarly publications, so we register DOIs for scholarly publications (journal articles, books, etc). DataCite exists to enable linking to objects like datasets.

CrossRef isn't just an DOI RA, but DOIs are a big part of what we do. In addition to this we store metadata from publishers and then let anyone use our APIs to get that data.

The DOI foundation maintains a load of DOI resolution servers. They all do the same job: you click on a link, you're load-balanced to one of the machines, and it replies with the relevant redirect.

Normally when you click on a DOI in a browser, you are redirected to the appropriate URL. We introduced 'Content Negotiation' for DOIs, which means you can supply an 'Accepts' header and get more bibliographic information about a DOI. This works with a redirect.

Here's an example:

curl -L -iH "Accept: text/turtle" http://dx.doi.org/10.5555/515151

That query is answered by one of the DOI servers. It doesn't matter which.

You see you're redirected to Location: http://data.crossref.org/10.5555%2F515151

This is a CrossRef server and it knows all the publication metadata. This then serves all the bibliographic data.

So TL;DR:

1 - The DOI foundation runs the DOI system

2 - CrossRef is an RA for DOIs

3 - Every RA runs its own resolution servers to spread the load

4 - Every resolution server can answer any DOI registered by any RA

5 - If you ask for bibliographic content negotiation on a CrossRef DOI, you'll be redirected to the data.crossref.org server which will give you what you asked for

And that DOI that worked on dx.doi.org but not data.CrossRef.org might be because it can take a day for the data to propagate to various systems.

Any questions, labs@crossref.org
Collected Works of Marx and Engels
He implied that was the job of the popcorn time team, it's unlikely that they could or would be able to implement or influence renumeration (beyond the influence of producing the popcorn time platform). It's also not clear that all content creators would need to be renumerated, certainly not to the level that some are today, and it's not clear that a delivery platform has or should have a direct role in the chain of consumer->artist payments.

It's a "brave new world" out there, traditional models are changing and no one really knows what the new models will look like.
One thing not mentioned is the curious phenomena of a designer creating a blog to talk about design, and then using terrible design choices which make the blog unreadable to most people. Things like weird fonts, or very thin fonts, or either too high contrast (thin black fonts on white background) or very low contrast (light grey on white).
This is an interesting part — they're focussing so much on the product but the underlying protocol is still vulnerable to use outside of the app itself, leading the way to spambots, saving of snaps and general degradation of the "niceness" of the ecosystem.
Really? now starts a new form of vulnerability :3
personal stuff
XSS at Food.gov.uk – disclosed and fixed
Ask HN: How many concurrent users can your e-commerce shop support?
I'm working on setting some benchmarks for an e-commerce website I work for. We start to lag after a certain number of concurrent browsers. Scaling is always possible, but are there any benchmarks out there for the number of users a website should to be able to support per machine?
Creating PDF file from dynamic HTML in Android
Google Jam to Google IO for WOMEN
Yes. More info here: http://www.doi.org/factsheets/DOIHandle.html

That DOI is newly deposited, as I said in other comments, it may take a while to propagate.
I think all that is meant is that if we are lucky, the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria will be negligible in spite of media hype. Just like terrorism is. A groping comparison perhaps but a fair statement.
Programming isn't manual labor, But it still sucks.
From what you describe, WP was totally correct to ban your organization. Your business model was to inject commercial links into articles. The fact that you think you provided some value in exchange is pretty much irrelevant.
How selling websites in Australia got me arrested and deported
Oh right! I tried to figure this out, and thought protozoa were not animals. I withdraw my pedantry. :D
There's recently been a post by Mozilla themselves explaining why Persona failed.
Any words on the revenues / sales $ generated by Steam?
No, the NYT would have said Mr. Mayer. It's part of their style guide.
Undoubtedly Google has become this for most of the world, but still importance of URL can't be ignored, specially if you build your own apps :)
This depends on the jammer. They range from jam-almost-everything, to jamming only specific wavelengths (configurable or not), to jamming only specific protocols (which is more technically a DOS attack, but still functions like jamming).

Assuming the driver was using a wavebubble, it's likely that it would jam police radios as well (depending on configuration).
Probably a combo of both. You know how I said above that there are some cool design techniques to get the old waste gases out of the cylinder? Well those techniques only work over a very narrow band of RPMs, under very specific air/fuel ratios. Your problem is even worse because you're in an aviation setting. Your engines are experiencing very different air densities, and this is causing the air/fuel ratio to change drastically compared to what they've been tuned for. If they get too rich, they stall. Too lean, they explode.

The leaky oil? Yeah, that's probably just a two stroke being a two stroke. Due to the design, they aren't "oiled" like a car, you instead shoot the oil in with the gasoline in the injection cycle, and it just kinda seeps in and around the engine. That's the main reason why they're dirty - both literally and environmentally.
One of the bright spots is that it seems hard for bacteria to evolve more than one resistance, and that resistances don't confer an evolutionary benefit in the absence of the specific antibiotics.

There are modern techniques to avoid resistance issues. For example, as most diseases can be treated by more than one drug, switching them regularly in a hospital or practice.

There are other combinations of drugs which haven't been used a lot or not even been discovered yet. It would be nice for example to trick an infection into letting go of the resistance and then attacking it with the AB.
Ask HN: Want to donate an old server?
I'm starting a new project and would love an old server or 2 to get me going, if you have any I'd be happy to take them.
So I tried typing "SE1" to get south london and all I can see is a map.
While it's very nice of YC to send a detailed rejection email stating actual reasons, the reasons themselves don't seem very strong.

Isn't it true of any project at an early stage that it could, in theory, be wiped out by a well executed competing offer from an existing player?

Would Youtube exist if Google Video didn't suck? Github / Google Code? Whatsapp / Google Hangouts?

What prevented Github from inventing Docker? or any big tech company from inventing Dropbox? (etc.)
What do you want me to put on my website? I'm not an active software dev these days but I think I can fairly well be described as technically savvy and do pretty complex things both for work and for fun.

I do have my own domain, I host my own email, I am interested, I just don't see any need to have my own web presence.
> But the internet is global. It might work correctly for you when testing, but somebody in another country finds your app utterly useless.

This appears to be based on a misunderstanding; the OSM project isn't an app released by a company, instead it's a global community creating a map dataset, somewhat similar to Wikipedia.

If the data in your country or local area isn't good, then please consider becoming a contributor to OSM and edit the map. By making the OSM better, you can help solve those consistency problems and improve the experience for the growing number of people who are using it - whether directly or via companies like DoubleMap.
I could be wrong, but I think you're misunderstanding incision's comment. The way I'm reading it, he's not arguing with the fact that having a jammer operating in the guy's is pretty idiotic.

What I think he's saying is that he's got sympathy for what drove the guy to go to these idiotic lengths - the fact that a large number of drivers give pretty much no thought to safety by using their phones when they drive.

On my daily 5 minute walk from the bus to work, I will typically see upwards of a dozen drivers staring at their phones, presumably either reading or writing a message, whilst they are moving - ranging from people inching along in slow moving traffic in places that pedestrians could easily (and legally) be crossing, to ones doing 30mph+ in free flowing traffic or even pulling away from the lights based presumably on nothing more than seeing out of the corner of their eye that the car in front has started moving. I've fairly regularly seen cars meandering quite a long way through red lights simply because the driver was clearly paying no attention to what was happening on the road in front of them.
> my own Cython code has started to fail me performance-wise.

I think this is an odd statement, seeing as how Cython allows you to write pure C code without making any use of the Python C API, so by definition Cython can be as efficient as C minus a single function call from Python to C.

I think your benchmark is way too small to be interesting. You're only testing raw numerical performance, and of course C wins there. Any of these languages allow you to wrap a C library with more or less convenience. I think the more interesting questions are how well these languages allow you to build larger applications with performance-sensitive components, how extensive the ecosystem of libraries is, and the quality of debugging and profiling facilities.
Angular is best at copying and improving on ideas of MVVM in WPF. They are trying to fix the web. It's good.
Stem cell injections may take place of heart swaps
On Android the Snapchat apps keep crushing.

I know I have a fancy red phone nobody uses (I think it's called NEXUS 5 from a company named Goodle or Google, I can't remember).

So, before putting new stuff in the app, please fix it!
A graphene based aerogel would be a fantastic material for insulation!

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/153063-graphene-aerogel-i...
There is an account named whoishiring who creates these posts.
> In the meantime, maybe the society should start approaching driving cars the way they approach flying airplanes?

And the training (and reassessment) in flying aeroplanes is ongoing, unlike most countries approach to driver education.

I passed my driving test(s) 20 years ago and since then there's been a huge number of changes in technology, laws, road layout, etc and yet my license is valid for another 30+ years.
Have nothing to do with your downvoting but the author explains why - 'No need to stress out more than we already were.'. Whether or not they expensed a hotel room could strike many as tangential to what is most interesting about being interviewed by YC.
Given the latest from our 'anonymous whistleblower' I do wonder why he/she has not hooked up with someone that was robbed, furnished them with the evidence and taken the big G to court.

Taking the 'anonymous whistleblower' route is fine if you are taking on the government or one of their agencies because the government puts themselves above the law. But using 'Pastebin' to be judge, jury and executioner in this case doesn't seem that prudent. A court of law would have sufficed.
FWIW, commands like the ones you mentioned used to be possible with the ubiquity extension for firefox. Good times.
How hard is it? Rockwell's tester
"The game is built with Unity" - which part of the game you implemented yourself and which you decided to get as components?
Bloomberg’s folly: The backstory is about to be told
We don't even know if this is by the same person.

The fact is, unsubstantiated accusations whether true or not are just that - unsubstantiated, so unless any actual evidence comes to light I don't see any point reading anything more about this unless it is:

A) A response from Google
B) A confirmed googler or ex-googler going on the record about it
C) Actual evidence - doesn't have to be rock solid but something substantial. And it has to show that this was a matter of policy (whether explicit or implied) - one rogue team doing this, whilst bad, does not constitute the scandal that the poster described.
For an employee, LinkedIn is a marketing tool. For all it's downsides, it does make it easier for companies to discover" you. This is why people put up with LinkedIn.

If your personal network is such that you don't want to be discovered by people who don't already know you, or you want to handle/control all your own marketing, that's fine.
I have a connection to an interesting (to me) Palo Alto start-up that is looking for:

- AI/Machine learning specialist
- C/C++ guy to do speech processing
- a front-end web engineer

Mail me please if you want to get in touch with them and I'll pass you on (I'm not looking to get a fee or anything like that just don't feel like outing them here).
Keyboard DAS keyboard 4 vs CODE keyboard
So I am needing a new keyboard for work. I have been struggling along with a plastic piece of for too long and I am starting to get aches and pains.

So I have rounded down my choices to either the DAS Keyboard 4 or the CODE Keyboard.

Both are around the same price.

I would be interested in knowing which one you have used and like?
Are you hiring, or just looking to backseat moderate?
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CyberDusts leading app store reviews are so obviously shilled it hurts. They actually read like they were written to go in the description section.
I thought about building a mobile mesh network chat app, with the primary motivation being to enable drivers to communicate with others in range.

Seems like it would be pretty tough to gain enough user base to make it viable.
Markov Chains are really cool. One of the many applications [0] being that you can 'train' them on a text corpus, and then by repeatedly generating random numbers, create sentences that are (mostly) gramatically sound but otherwise absolute nonsense [1], [2].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Applications

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney

[2] http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
But you're not supposed to paste the URL elsewhere, you're supposed to hit that share button to share the content on one service, and one service only!

SCNR
Нова вълна от домейн разширения са достъпни от днес на Host.bg
>Most URLs are not human readable, even HN is an example

Personally I find the HN way fairly readable. I mean item no 7677898 is something I can read and understand and I note similar systems are used for quite a few things in the real world like phone numbers, zip codes and passport numbers.

It's stuff like "https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=address+white+house&oq=add... that I find going on unreadable.
You can also check out libgist at http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/libgist-2.0/
> You need to understand that underlying model before you can make it work

No, you only need to understand what the final effect is. The vast majority of drivers neither understand nor care that gearbox speeds change the conversion ratio between the engine's rotating speed and the axle's, if you did and had to gear speeds would be labelled by their conversion ratio not 1-6 (and then you'd have to include the axle's conversion ratio in the mix). And I don't doubt that a Git-based gearbox would do exactly that, and that going in reverse would require either using an inverter or would require using a completely separate reverse transmission.

> Anyway, I maintain that my analogy is apt.

And I maintain that it is not.