skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a shame that Ubuntu's Juju has been passed over in this space. Their charm store is designed to make it easy to mix and match recipes, have the community endorse and improve them. See the 'features' tab on https://jujucharms.com/sidebar/search/precise/postgresql-71/... for a nice summary of what is offered by the most popular postgres charm.
Ugh. You're replacing a thing with silver in the tagline, and you're using Go to do it, and you don't go with golden in your own?!
There is a large and vital medical device corridor in the suburbs east of Los Angeles. It stretches from the Anaheim/Yorba Linda area south through Irvine and down toward San Diego. For instance, some of the best work in the world on ventilators goes on in this area. Two of the globally dominant medical device companies that specialize in this discipline are headquartered here. I was involved in a medical device startup in this area, and later switched to software R&D at a larger company. By contrast with the media glitz and general buzz described in the article, this industry is a bit straight-laced or "square". However, personally I have found that nothing compares to spending a few months on a project that will improve outcomes of premature babies in neonatal ICU's. This LA-based concentration of medical device expertise is a low-key hidden gem in this area.
I have a MacBook White Unibody (13-inch, Late 2009) with 8GB of RAM.
This have a 64-Bit architecture and I can run the latest OSX without any problems.

http://support.apple.com/kb/sp579
You guys should come by Thursday Lunch some time.

http://promenade.thursdaylunch.com
Regulators wreck Uber innovation
The plan is to be global, so SF Bay Area is definitely on our radar.
Krita need help funding 24 new features | OS X Stretch
550 GB, is that all? Or do you mean 550 TB?
> I get the feeling it would be financially better to start smaller, and then incrementally add to the house as we accrue the necessary capital to do it.

From my experience with other people who have thought like this, this is a mistake. One person wanted a 2 story addition, but couldn't afford it - so they put in a 1 story addition, but built the foundation so it could handle 2.

Needless to say they never added that second level even though they had funds - once you've paid for the roof, and the equipment and everything else (i.e. startup costs) adding that second level would have been just a small addition, but doing it now means starting over and the expense is no longer worth it.

Others have done that, but found the interface where the two connect to shift, which is unpleasant. Or the styles don't match.

Instead, build all the rooms you want, with exterior walls and roof, but don't finish the inside - no wires, no drywall, no doors, nothing except insulation, not even windows (when it's time for windows you just cut the exterior and add blocking on the inside). Close that section off from the rest of the house, and then when you have funds, and need, build it out.

The interior costs a significant amount, but the startup costs are much smaller than for exterior.

Note a possible problem: The inspector may object, I don't know.
I work/live in Venice (on Westminster)!

I've met many people at js.la, laruby, and events at General Assembly and CoLoft.
Every mentor is being screened during the interview, but if someone wants to call himself a growth hacker, we are not going to decline him just based on that.
Would it make more sense to modify the core library and send off a patch?
Funny, my friends built this company two years ago (and called it lifeswap). It was well received, but the challenge was high turnover amongst mentors due to the work involved--it's much harder to mentor someone than just rent your spare room on airbnb, and probably pays worse. In the end they discovered that the only way it would work is as a headhunting firm for tech companies, and decided to build a new company instead.
Which has zero to do with what the dominant industry is.
As someone who does a bit of embedded stuff here and there (professionally), this.

I cannot fathom why anyone would even poke this with a stick other than to appease the maker crowd who to be honest scare the shit out of me. And the price. Kill me now.
Invaluable advise from Dave McClure
Find out the answer on the eternal question “How to pitch to Dave McClure?” and even more from the super angel investor and founder of the business incubator 500 Startups.
Predict WorldCup match outcomes and brag to friends
> There are strict rules regarding this situation to avoid conflicts of interest, btw.

And those rules don't work in the slightest. Both agents have incentive to increase the cost of the house, but really the buyers agent should help reduce that cost.

Additionally both agents have incentive to get the deal done, even if it's not financially right (for either party) so they'll tell the seller to reduce the price, and the buyer to increase it, even though they should each really be working in the other direction.
ln -s pt au?
> Santa Monica is getting a lot better for startups. LA is not.

It depends on how you define "LA". Some people are referring to downtown LA, while others are referring to LA county (everything between Orange and Ventura County, including Santa Monica).
I want option 3. A 4U rack with 32 completely isolated embedded stand alone quad core ARM or PPC systems, a network switch and an FPGA on each connected to the switch fabric.

Then we can start doing some interesting stuff past finding new ways to chop computers up.
Can Language Influence Our Perception of Reality?
Last time this story was posted here, I commented "I hope I never have to work with this guy, he sounds ghastly!"

This was a new account and I suddenly found myself with -7 karma points. I had to consider if I should throw that account away or keep it and earn those points back.

I kept it and now have a little under 3k points. He still sounds ghastly!
Nice! I love the first-class Windows support. Did you do any effort specifically for that or is it "just" that Go libraries are awesome?

Even console colouring works out of the box, and since that's pretty rotten to get done on Windows [0], I have to assume someone somewhere did a lot of effort for that :-)

[0] https://code.google.com/p/googletest/source/browse/trunk/src...
The huge spread out nature of Los Angeles makes it hard. I used to help run an iOS/Cocoa dev meetup on Tuesdays and half the argument was where to have it.

Meetup is pretty good, and just trying to connect with people as much as possible is very helpful. I'd often find a group just by talking to others.
Sure, but I think people who live in LA know that referring to LA as a location is pretty meaningless.
No mention of nuclear weapons.

I'm not sure I can treat this seriously.
Show HN: My simple meditation app
Online Video to Make Up 84 Percent of Net Traffic, Cisco Says
Hackers use weak passwords
Twitter for email
Roman Verostko, the grandfather of computer art
How they do that? SMS brodacast in one room
Netflix will end 'crowded network' warnings after fight with Verizon
Start using Puppet with the help of Golden Images
Ask HN: OS X Snippets Manager with Gist support and keyboard shortcuts?
Can anybody recommend a good snippet manager for OSX?

My two killer features are:

* Easy keyboard shortcuts for quickly inserting snippets
* Some way to backup and share snippets between my computers

I found two that are based around Github's Gist service, which would make backups/sharing very easy: * http://www.gistoapp.com/ * http://www.gistboxapp.com/
Gistbox is a online web-app, and Gisto is a pretty simple OSX app - however, neither seem to offer easy shortcuts for inserting snippets.

On the OSX native front, there's Dash, which has shortcuts for inserting - however, you can't use Gists as your backing store for snippets. (Although you could store your library file on Dropbox).

There are also quite a few other paid snippet managers for OSX, but I'm curious what people's experiences with them have been?

Do you have any personal favourites?
I find it quite interesting that most hacker-type people would like to try out a life without computers and/or with much more physical activity. Someone here said truck driver, someone else said lumberjack -- I searched for 'bicycle messenger', my geek friends usually followed similar patterns.
I don't understand why this needs to be limited to Zero-Emissions vehicles. Any new car manufacturer will have difficulty implementing the dealer model.
Show HN: Go HTTP Request Router Benchmark
That needs a POC, I'm really curious if you can get that to work reliably. You may even have the ordering problem solved.
Women In Technology
No reason, really. :)
UK gov gives AirBnB free rein in London: abolishing decades-old property laws
Ask HN: What Should I Do With One Hour Of Free Time Per Day?
I have approximately 1 hour of free time scheduled in during my very busy summer, and I'm wondering what sort of productive/programming/money-making thing(s) I should spend my time on? For instance, is that enough time to say, develop an app fully in during the summer?
Ask HN: Downtime. What was changed?
VICE Magazine: an oral history
Crucially the market for email providers is really broad, easy to enter, doesn't have explicit lock-in (although it's a potentially huge job to change your email address, this can be made easier by having your own mail domain), and doesn't have one or two big players making the rules.

Most systems including gmail will let you whitelist senders. You can't whitelist apps onto an iPhone without jailbreaking it.
JetBrains Newsletter, June 2014 – Releases, EAPs, Webinars, Resources
Well it couldn't hurt to try, to at least make it easily accessible to them. The success of Alcoholics Anonymous is a testament to people's willingness to seek help where its available.

Considering how willpower is a predictor for success in many facets of life, techniques (scientifically verified ones, not the mumbo-jumbo ones) that improve willpower and concentration would seem like perfect candidates for addition to school curricula. Meditation is generally quite a subjectively pleasant experience, so if people could be taught to do it even once they might decide to keep it up in future purely for the sensation it brings them.
Swift Is A Lot Like Scala
How To Change A Drop-Down List Into A Text-Box On A Selection Using JQuery
Well, what is the point so? You're dropping Google Chrome because you think google should control you more?
Can you supercharge your brain?
Some Emerging Possibilities For Space Propulsion
IOS 8 – Apple’s Hidden Agenda
The first 30 days of my "iTunes for newspapers"-startup
> all emails are shown in your feed with no need to open threads to read or reply.

Do people just sit and read email all day, surely you then have to "action" them at the very least? In which case you then have to go merrily scrolling back up to see which ones you missed whilst you weren't intently staring at your news feed of emails.

I'd be interested to know who the devs are targetting here? Is there a certain business area?
To each their own.

I lived in Santa Monica and Malibu for 14 years. Left last year for family reasons. Wish I was back.
It was already shown that attacking the other side (even claiming that this other is the computer) is a good bot practice. So even there Scott can't obviously score. Analysis it ain't, is just "it's the first sensitive thing you say" and "it's the second sensitive thing you say." You, as the human involved in chatting with bots and humans in parallel, would have to evaluate the probability that the particular statement is actually only sensitive thing etc. Without the hindsight and knowing that offensive behavior is very bot-like, it's harder than you imagine.

A lot of human behaviors online can in fact be replaced by scripts. There's even a T-shirt:

http://www.kleargear.com/1474.html

"Go Away Or I Will Replace You With A Very Small Shell Script"
"It Doesn’t Work" and the Art of Reporting Bugs
Killing a Patient to Save His Life
Is A Viral Strategy Worth It – The story of Bride Price App
I hear the Wikibook also has a good introduction.
Global hacker productivity rose by 25% as a significant outlet of procrastination was temporarily placed out of reach
Tech Conference Turns Into Shouting Match About Inequality in Silicon Valley
Downtime message:

Changing how profiles, passwords, items and votes are
stored on disk.
My productivity this morning.
How Buffer uses MongoDB to power its Growth Platform
Refresh. Nope. Refresh. Nope...
I really think it's a disgrace that HN is down for hours just to do some (probably important) back-end work. Here we are, talking about scalability, high-availability, what have you - and the medium we're using to host those discussions is built on 90s web technology and operated as one.

I understand that Hacker News is probably run by a small crew, but I think it's a disgrace anyway. If you guys need money to make these things go away, then I'd be more than happy to pay. But to have such an important forum go offline for what is basically internal plumbing - that won't do.

EDIT: To the down-voters: please explain yourself? I know this message is harsh, but the truth is that having a site go offline for hours for internal maintenance is highly unprofessional and unbefitting to a high profile outlet such as Hacker News. Also, I'm offering and more than willing to pay (on a subscription basis or something) to make sure they have the capacity to properly deal with things like this in the future.
Would be great to see a benchmark of how much time is actually spent in routing compared to all the other disciplines involved in responding to a HTTP request. For any interesting application, I suspect routing will be the least of your troubles in regards to performance.
Things from Python I'd miss in Go
You most definitely have enough time to develop an app
I literally can't think of a single reason why I'd use this... Maybe it's the Next Big Thing but what's the target market?

* Who is the customer?

* What is the pain point?

* How do you make money?
Really slick looking but way too expensive. Might buy it for $40, tops.
Swift Arrays – The Bugs, the Bad and the Ugly (and a best practice suggestion)
Not to mention the dreaded "Unknown or expired link" message.
For some of us this disturbed the whole working day: Having to log into twitter at work to check what is happening with HN.. no good.. ; - )
Which is it?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/netflix-refuses-t...
IiNet (Australia) calls on consumer fight back to piracy plans
Invoker – A Process Manager
Keep in mind this seems to be an analysis directed more towards script kiddies, based on the kind of files they were looking at.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. The site is free, and free from ads. They owe you nothing and they are free to maintain this resource as they see fit. You have no business calling it a "disgrace."
What about Revel framework?
I'm sure the team that runs HN will happily refund your subscription fee in full.
I suspect everyone is linking to this based on the Das Referenz PR piece.

While this looks ok in context in the iPad app, it is not as great in Sublime Text for real coding.

Echoing what I've seen elsewhere, it's a little less usable. For example, comparing to Andale Mono, the line height is taller, for fewer lines on the screen at a given character width.

Despite the taller lines, the letters are thin, and it's hard to track lines or glance quickly for code, as compared to Andale Mono's thicker characters that draw your eye along lines and help you spot your place in the code more readily.
Netflix responds to Verizon
Yep, the downtime is hypocritical.
_Crackers_ use weak passwords on shells and such for machines they are actively exploiting. Pretty different in more than one respect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651301
How to Start Learning and Teaching Code
If you use Sublime Text, you can use the Gist [1] package. You can open, save, update gists within Sublime Text.

[1]: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/Gist
It's a forum. We come back. They don't lose revenue when it's down. Why would they do anything any differently? HA when it makes sense, sure, but were I running the HN stack, I'd tolerate 1% of downtime happily. On our eCommerce platform, 0.01% downtime is an unmitigated nightmare, however - because it generates revenue.
I think it's hilarious how angry people get when a website goes offline for an hour or two! The bane of any experienced webmaster is suffering this sort of criticism.
In Turing's original paper, the Test is intended to be a "new form" of the question "can machines think?". It is explicitly a test of the machine's intelligence, not of humans'.
Revel is a bit too magic. It is hard to benchmark the routing alone.
Who on earth would ever want to limit characters in an email. Am I missing some subtle lampooning in the copy that explains this things existence?
I agree with the content of your message, but:

> free from ads

It is not, to insert news to hire hackers for YCombinator startups is an incredibly useful thing who run this site is getting back, and it is a form of advertising.
They're really not. You still have to have someone pass your type into something expecting an interface. It's no different than passing a string into something expecting a path when you pass it an html document... at some point the programmer needs to decide if passing the value into the method makes sense.

In the canonical example:

type Boat interface {
Launch()
}

func LaunchBoat(b Boat) {
// do some boat stuff

b.Launch()
}

type NuclearMissile struct{}

func (nm NuclearMissile) Launch() {
// launch nuclear missile
}

func main() {
rocket := NuclearMissile{}
LaunchBoat(rocket)
}

Sure, this compiles, but the code doesn't make any sense. Lots of things compile, that doesn't mean the code makes sense. At some point it's the programmer's responsibility to think a little.
Sorry. I'm busy with other things at the moment.

It may also be better not covering everything if it keeps performance and simplicity but I just like to understand the trade-offs.
I wrote this. I'm trying to start a blog series communicating the ways of the software engineer to non-tech folks. Not sure where to distribute this other than HN at the moment or how to find an audience for the subject matter, if anyone has any feedback or suggestions, I'm all ears. Thanks!
I put in astronaut. :(
"No one ever reads it" is a standard negotiation tactic. You are being weird by trying to negotiate at all, so stop it, let's just move on okay?
Interesting, I'll check it out.

However, I'd like something that works in other apps - e.g. Chrome browser, Terminal etc.
How not to be a digital nomad
Hello,

This seems like a nice program that we definitely may need in our current company (we do internet-based loans and use a support@ email which is shared between several people.

Unfortunately, it is not clear what features your service can provide; what problems it can solve. I opened an account and played a bit with it but just couldn't find something that I could show my colleagues to tell them "look, we need to use this service"

I would recommend showing one of those 2 minute video marketing overviews of what we can achieve with your service. If you put that in the homepage, it will be easier for people like me to sell this to other colleagues.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#time-limits-required-behaviors
It's hard to take this seriously without mention by the OP on whether the weakness of the passwords were affected by the ephemeralness of the usecases here. For example, I use pretty weak passwords to signup for throwaway services or to try out startups that force you to do a nominal login...because I'm not going through the work of creating a "real" password for such one-time use cases. Are the revealed passwords discussed by the OP for utilities that are meant to be throwaway?
We just got a web site takedown request. Not entirely sure how to proceed:
I think this shows that scalability and high-availability can be overrated. HN is back online and so are the users. No harm done.
Like some of the other commenters, I remain a bit perplexed by this. I realize we all live busy lives, but the idea of long form communication going the way of the dodo seems counterintuitive to me. There will always be a need for someone to send me a message longer than 350 characters periodically. I don't understand how this actually changes that need.

I'm also not so much a fan of the fact that this service will auto respond to people saying they should send a shorter email. That's kind of... jerk-like to be honest. I can see how it would be desirable to someone who just gets too much email, but I would posit that the better solution is to reduce the amount of email you're receiving or exercise more aggressive filtering.
Who on earth would ever want to limit characters on a blog. Oh, wait..
Online voter registration launches in the UK
For most web-apps this is definitely true. But an efficient router doesn't hurt either.
If the router scales well, the routing part will never become your bottleneck. If the router is also memory efficient, it can reduce the amount of time the Garbage Collector needs.
Apple users buying Android Phone by mistake? Not true according to their users
The worst part is the lack of fresh content in my morning.
Not any human programmer, at least not for some tasks. The handcoded x86 SIMD code in x264 (the software video encoder used by everyone who cares about video quality per bitrate) beats the output of any compiler trying to compile the pure-C fallback function. Same for a bunch of other code you use (indirectly) like memcpy or strlen.

But the optimized handcoded routines take weeks to develop while a compiler would be done in less than a second. For almost all code, a programmer's time would be better spent on something else.
>I looked at 40,000 samples of hackers’ passwords and found that nearly 2,000 were unique and 1,255 of those were in plain text. Another 346 passwords were easily cracked from MD5 hashes, because they were shorter than 9 characters. That gave me a total of 1,601 passwords and 300 hashes

If a significant fraction of his sample is "hashes he could easily crack" isn't a biased sample? Because it seems likely that the longer, properly hashed passwords are more likely to be the stronger ones...
Not sure why you were downvoted, but I completely agree. I get the 'Unknown or expired link' message all the time because I'll write long comments, or write part of a comment, get sidetracked, then finish. There's no reason for this error message, and to have tokens time out after what feels like a matter of minutes.

Then of course this happens on the homepage too, when you click 'more', after being inactive for a while. Why?

And why is there no pagination?

Why do a click reply on a comment and get redirected to a completely separate page, instead of replying inline? And then when I submit that comment, it just redirects me to the top of the comment page, so I have no idea where I left off, and now the comments might be shuffled since votes have changed.

These feel like critical changes that benefit everyone, and require little work. Why are they never addressed after years?
DVNC: Facts or Fictions? What is it?
These Amazing Kids Nailing Every Musical
Dash* has a pretty good snippet manager with keyboard shortcuts and placeholders. No gist support.

* http://kapeli.com/dash,
Winning An Argument
I fucking loathe the attitude that HN should be anything other than what it is. If you like it, use it. If you don't like it, don't use it (and hopefully make something that you do like).

But don't, when someone has spent a few hours tinkering to fix some stuff, complain about unprofessional. Or do, but don't then complain about the downvotes.
changed how passwords are stored on disk is something that might be worth elaborating on.