skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you expect to get great wordpress hosting for "10 times less" than $69/mo. That's not very much spend for a commercial website. Pagely, which has the scale economics advantage of doing nothing but hosting WP sites, starts at $24/mo. To hit the baseline level of "production readiness" with Heroku is going to run you at least $85/mo (2 dynos, 1 free, 1 @ $35/mo + $50/mo postgres instance).

If Azure really wasn't sending log events that memory quotas were being exceeded then I agree the alerting leaves something to be desired. But the DB quota was clearly sending "database error" log messages. Dunno what else you want them to do there.
There is no shortage of train wreck deals out there, that's for sure. What struck a nerve with me recently was Meyer's defense of them. It wasn't even "defense", just insistence that she and the rest of management are awesome simply because she says so, despite a mountain of actual evidence that says the opposite. I see this crap all the time, some exec armed with nothing other than their word or excitement or insistence telling me everything's just super without any articulation. Here was her chance to somewhat redeem herself and instead she fell right in line with what every other idiot CEO does. Of course, based on the de Castro debacle we knew this was her character anyway...it's just shareholders' money.
Formation Mystery Of The Magnetars May Be Solved
Isn't your question then the same as: did you think you got lucky?
Yeah, exactly. If we could go back in time with just a few pieces of information, we could be gods. Predict and invest in every major startup success, write about it and look like a prescient guru, make even more money from speaking engagements, etc.

If you can't take back your knowledge and experience, then it's kind of a boring/null question- you're just back to where you started, and you'll just be affected differently by the roulette of random encounters. (Which could make a bigger difference than we might realize, but there's pretty much no way to predict whether this will turn out better or worse.)
Yahoo Weather is popular one (and an Apple Design Award winner). There's a pretty big set, most of which I've never tried. From a quick search: Yahoo, Mail, News Digest, Finance, Messenger, Weather, Sports, Fantasy Sports, Cricket, and Screen.

Then there's the Yahoo owned services like Flickr, if you want to count them.

Edit: I just installed Yahoo Weather, and it's great. It uses photos to represent weather conditions at each of your saved locations, which are all pulled from Flickr. I doubt it has photos specific to every weather condition in every location, but I got them for all the locations I tried. And the animation in the interface (parallax scrolling between locations, spinning windmills for windspeed, and maybe more I didn't notice) is smooth and well done.

Pulling up a weather app and seeing a local landmark with a cloudy sky in the background is a really neat user experience, so props to Yahoo on successfully integrating Flickr with this. I like it a lot.
This is a vague discussion that stays at a high level... I'm not sure how valuable this kind of generalization is.

The "programmer" side of this discussion certainly does not always have a grasp of the needs of the business in mind, and it doesn't help that estimations of effort for new features (or refactoring efforts, even minor ones) are notoriously difficult. Some programmers are business-savvy, but most really aren't -- not necessarily due to ignorance or inexperience! It takes significant effort & time to keep a finger on the pulse of a business, to really know how much this contract matters in the grand scheme, what's really required to land it, and when.

So it comes down to communication, and different people figuring out what actually needs to be communicated, but that's so relevant to everything it's almost useless to say.

Case studies would be more interesting -- real ones, inasmuch as that's possible without making real people look bad. The author seems to consult on this sort of thing for a living, so that's probably possible.
> What's the point in having leverage if you're not going to use it?

You act as if the audience is tied for Firefox. It's not. As soon as a user opens up another browser instead of Firefox to get access to the content, they are no longer leverage. And when you look at the audience as those with just Firefox alone, and those with a second browser, that audience dwindles to very few indeed.

You could make the argument that they then don't need to support the DRM because users can easily get around that. But then the problem there is that suddenly users are being punished. The content producers aren't suffering, just the users who are forced to switch browsers.
https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

We see a decrease since December and otherwise flatlining. And this includes the trading volume that happens on the exchanges which has increased.
Not just the stock market- he could hunt down and invest in every would-be-successful startup, and give them precisely the prescient advice they'd need to avoid making any mistakes. His success rate would shoot through the roof and he would seem like a god.
There is no linking. Each Go binary has all of the libraries it needs baked into it.

So if you have multiple different Go applications on one server, and they use some of the same libraries, then each application's binary will contain a copy of that library.

It makes things a little redundant, but also simplifies the deployment process.

edit: The only exception is if you are using cgo and liking to existing C libraries. In pure Go there is no linking.
Male. Not sexist. Equal opportunity hater for dipshit managers.
Scholastica used to have functionality that made it easy to create ArXiv overlay journals. See an older video demonstration: http://vimeo.com/36720688

It wasn't a heavily utilized feature so we deprecated it. Maybe if the community says there's a big need for this we'll bring it back?
Not really, Google has most emails to and from me regardless of whether I use Gmail myself
Thank you very much for this write-up and post. I am in a similar boat you are -- every month that passes as a developer makes me hungry to automate those repetitive tasks I do every time I develop something.

I also think this sentiment will be growing. I think there's a large disconnect between "traditional" UNIX users and people entering from the web / Rails / other kinds of worlds, and that gap is slowly shrinking. That's why we are seeing things like npm tools (bower, grunt) replacing makefiles, Docker replacing traditional sysops, the whole idea of "DevOps" as a thing vs "IT".

I'm very very excited about this transition and want to help be a part of it. I think I'm going to write a similar tutorial outlining my current mac / terminal workflow.
> It's essentially the same as Firefox with no proprietary blobs (Flash, DRM, etc.).

I had always thought Iceweasel was about Firefox branding (i.e. trademark, not copyright) issue. Mozilla had issues with some custom Firefox builds, so they asked to not call "Firefox" anything that wasn't build by them.

Maybe I'm unaware of something, but at least I hadn't seen any Flash or DRM blobs in Firefox packaging. Blobs are Chrome/Chromium distinction.

Oh, well, but if they're adding DRM to Firefox, guess that would be a new distinction between it and Iceweasel.
There's no reason to do it, but people do.
Odoo: The new OpenERP
FCC votes for Internet “fast lanes“
> The Business needs to agree that the Programmers have heretofore gone more quickly than they really can, that they cannot sustain this pace, and that to do so merely hastens the ultimate decline of the entire product line, and perhaps the company.

Yes the business agrees, but then continues to demand new features. Nothing changes until the people change, code is tossed out, and the whole thing starts over again.
These kind of handson tutorials are awesome. You can just copy/paste and run the code inside the browser console and see your transaction propagate to the network. I wish more tutorials were as easily 'runnable'.
Show HN: SchemaVer for semantic versioning of schemas
The question is about starting today though, so it's not about going back in time with knowledge of future events.
Boiler control via e-mail and image processing
The author is Rhett Allain, who is apparently an associate professor at Southeastern Louisiana University. I don't know about his background in numerical work, but I suspect he knows more about it than a typical Wired author who is not a professor of physics.
I have a minimal take on this: j <project> to jump to any directory below ~/Projects. Supports tab completion, as it should.

https://github.com/mattgreen/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/jump.z...
No, libre does not mean "free as in zero-cost" it means "free as in freedom". The word for zero-cost is gratis.
Luck could one factor yes- but its mostly a question about with enough work can everything man has done be repeated?
Fujitsu grows lettuce in semiconductor plant
I think swapping is just as bad as having the quota cut you off, both will result in your site either accepting users or not (if you're swapping you're turning users away by being slow).

Not sure what reliable hosting providers through in database for free and expect it handle 3600+ connections.
That's good, not to mention better than I expected ^_^.

But I'm replying to all those who denounce rote memorization in whatever context, and claim this is not necessary to be good at math (or for a very large fraction of children, phonics, in order to later read well).

(It's something I've recently gotten really focused on, after a sister-in-law asked for help: one of her kids is great with numbers (even deduced negative numbers on his own, and asked her what they meant), but the eldest just cannot memorize the math tables, and we're despairing about what to do.)
You don't need to have external tool to keep the AppPool from timing out: right-click AppPool in IIS Manager > Advanced Settings > Idle Time-out: set to zero. Also, you don't need the script to reset it at certain time: right-click AppPool in IIS Manager > Recycling... > Specific time(s).
FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet
I use a 39" Seiki with my MacBook, and managing windows is a relatively minor but real annoyance. I just drag and resize manually, and usually end up with overlapping windows of different sizes all over the place. I still love the display and would never go back, but it feels like I'm not using it quite as effectively as I could.

I suspect this is a gap that will be filled pretty quickly once these monitors become more common.
YYMV but I've been using Macports for 3 years and never had the impression it was finicky or hacky or had any problems with it really.
Beginners guides are a special case, the main focus is in getting something working with the minimum of fuss that you can understand. I do understand that expert opinions can help build confidence, but perhaps it's even better to explain matters clearly so you can make your own opinions.
I think this is the key avenue for progress: work to keep the perceived value of DRMed content low.

People don't mind DRM on things like Netflix because the cost is so low and the model is clearly communicated in all of Netflix'x marketing.

In contrast, DRM inspires significant outrage when people are told that they “own” something but are restricted from using it normally. Even people who don't normally care about technical issues know it's not right when they're told e.g. they have to pay a second time to watch a movie on their iPad after paying $50 for a Blu-Ray copy.

If anything is going to change the DRM trend, it'll be increased unwillingness to pay high prices for restricted content.
Suicide is the primary means of death by gun in the US, however that is not true if your black, your more than five times likely to die because of another person, usually black, killing you with a gun.

Do guns beget violence? There are those who think that access to guns makes suicide easier and while that may be true people who want to kill themselves will find a way.

Banning 3d printers won't make a dent in anything. It would be just like any new gun law, ignoring the problems that exist, especially within large cities where life isn't seen as important. Why is that? Who knows, some will point to lack of having to take of yourself or family because of assistance doesn't teach responsibility. When you only have to look out for yourself the risks get higher. Others will simply point to drugs or worse race and make claims that way.

Ban printers, why not ban knowledge. Making the illegal activity more difficult doesn't change the fact it was already illegal.
Don't waste your security team's talent – automate the repetitive
What could be more interesting than how the mind works?
Part of the problem here is that developers don't do a good job of creating a culture that values refactoring as a key part of the overall process. The underlying issues are not, at a general level, unique to software. It's not like the business folks at GE aren't asking for more features faster. However, other engineering fields have done a much better job at making things like, e.g. testing, a core part of the culture. GE doesn't ship a refrigerator without incredibly extensive testing, not just because of the threat of lawsuits (another thing software developers don't really face), but because the relevant engineering bodies have made testing a non-negotiable part of the process.

From a manager's point of view, there's a big difference between having to say "our engineers would like some time for refactoring" and being able to say "refactoring is just part of the process--any other engineer would tell you the same thing."
Anyone else worried that using virotherapy may result in those virus' building up resistance, similar to what's happening now with antibiotics and superbugs.
Yup. The English version of the MiTV link is an old content description for MiTV 1.

However, the Chinese version of the web page does mention about 4K display on MiTV2.

http://www.mi.com/mitv
I'm sorry but I just don't buy this.

I'm Eastern European and when I was growing up I still had the cult of personality around Stalin in living memory. The sorts of claims they make about "short sleepers" there are exactly the kinds of claims that were made about Stalin and other high ranking Communists. This was the reason why they deserved to rule, just as these supposed short sleepers are the digital hyper capitalists who deserve to rule the world:

" Not only are their circadian rhythms different from most people, so are their moods (very upbeat) and their metabolism (they're thinner than average, even though sleep deprivation usually raises the risk of obesity). [...] "They encounter obstacles, they just pick themselves up and try again," [...]"Typically, at the end of a long, structured phone interview, they will admit that they've been texting and surfing the Internet and doing the crossword puzzle at the same time, all on less than six hours of sleep," says Dr. Jones. "There is some sort of psychological and physiological energy to them that we don't understand." "

Yet three years later there aren't any clinical studies that have followed these supermen for any prolonged period to see how they actually act in day to day life, just more self reports.
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HN uses this reasoning all the time. For example, "I don't know how to use language x, so language x sucks for sysadmins" or "I don't know how to use language x, so it is too slow"
The question he's addressing isn't what you can do, but what is commonly being done. You don't need RVM, you don't need Docker. Hell, you don't need Rails. But those are the idiomatic layers of the stack, for a non-trivial part of the Ruby development community.
What is the difference between stashing the list away somewhere out of sight and providing a link to the Wikipedia page whose history contains the same information? Particularly since storage is not cheap in every medium (e.g. requiring my one-page flier to attach 3 pages of attributions doesn't make sense) and if you're resorting to a link regardless...
New gTLDs: Is Internationalism the Solution?
Tooling around with Grunt and Teoman
So, give in to the capitalist bullies who want to make the web theirs as a wholly commercial outlet, starting with the browser, because "they're going to win"?
They've had a couple of rounds of deleting anything that might be considered sexual, NSFW, or controversial reference or language, as well as renaming articles. This is to make the site more attractive for advertisers because the admins want moar moniez.

It's also worse on tvtropes than most wikis because there is a very limited revision history on most pages (might be the weird software they use rather than admin-imposed), and anything that falls of the end of it after long enough is gone forever.
Purposely plan regular 1:1 breakfast or lunch meetings with a long list of assorted friends/colleagues. Engage in the lost art of live conversation. It takes effort and forethought, people can get busy. That makes it all the more important.
In general on the CAP spectrum where does multi-master replication with Postgres fall in?
Not sure I follow? With Go we develop on Mac and deploy on Linux. Just change the environment variable. Linux has some great built in tools for "security management".
For Mac OS X, check out Moom (on the Mac App Store). It lets you arrange windows in various nice ways via clicks or keystrokes.
After they mentioned they were using the shared instance I just stopped reading.
I don't necessarily agree with their decision, but sometimes you've got to choose your battles, as they say. Maybe they weighed the importance of this issue against the decrease of influence in future (perhaps more important) matters that the alternative stance would have brought in terms of userbase, and concluded that it would have been detrimental to their overall mission?

What is your theory as to why they chose to not use their leverage, as you put it? Greed, vanity?
You can use third party tools for both search (e.g. google site search) and comments (e.g. discus). Of course, if you want to customize things further with user-supplied content, at some point you'll need a dynamic backend.
> Mayer has proven herself through the ranks of many prestigious technology companies

You have a funny definition of "many". She's worked at exactly two tech companies in her career: Google and Yahoo. For such a shrill critic of her performance, you're remarkably uninformed about what she's accomplished.
This doesn't seem to me like nearly as big of a revolution as the media is making it out to be. You can already buy all the CNC mills and lathes and other machine tools that you have space and money for, and use them to manufacture firearms if you want to. Granted, it takes a lot more time and money than using 3D printers.

At least in the US, the laws are pretty clear and established on manufacturing firearms, and I don't see how they would be any different for 3D printed guns. Right now, as an individual, you can manufacture and posses any firearm that meets the legal definition of a pistol, rifle, or shotgun with no licenses at all, unless prohibited by state laws. You only need a license if you want to sell them. AFAIK, you can actually sell the guns you build, as long as you aren't believed to be in the business of manufacturing them for sale, which is a bit of a fuzzy line.

If you want to manufacture anything full-auto, anything explosive, or certain other categories of weapons, then you need a special manufacturer's license for that, regardless of what you plan to do with them, and are much more strictly prohibited on who you can sell them to and how. AFAIK, currently, any newly manufactured full-auto firearm can only be sold legally to either police departments or other licensed dealers.

Nevertheless, this is still an interesting field, and I'd like to see what the 3D printing innovators manage to come up with as far as useful firearms.
The whole point of entrepreneurship is persistence, you don't need anything else. If you have persistence, then IQ, upbringing, social environment, education dwarf in importance.

If you simply never stop, try things that no one else has tried before, it's impossible to not become successful. :)
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Same thing with my @uw.edu email address.
But Google is more efficient than the specific StackExchange (et al) search if you restrict the query to that site. I am repeating myself but I think one way to compete with Google is making local search engines work better than Google itself restricted by that domain. The rant continue on Challenging Google’s Search Engine [1].

- [1] http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...
Wow, he sounds like an extremely interesting person. Is there any written documentation on him? Maybe a blog or an article or something?
waiting for upset improvement.
I'm a programmer and at the risk of sounding like an idiot - I have no opinion on licensing and could not tell you a single thing about any one license. Are there really that many people knowledgable about different licenses?
Other article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749497