skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relative comparison between slices of the stacked area or column chart is a difficult cognitive function, however, and is imprecise. I'd have to disagree with the article's author on the value of the stacked bar chart, as, while the step changes are more discrete, point-to-point comparison is still encumbered. The even more un-sexy clustered bar chart is yet more appropriate.

A solution, when the designer needs or wants to reflect total volume of that whole, is to underlay the lines (in this case) with an area plot representing the total volume over the same time interval. In this way, the two pieces of information (individual performance and total size) are encoded in distinct and easily understandable ways.
Would you say from her perspective, the issue was as simple as "Let's try extort some more $$ as I leave, because I can.", or could it be more complicated?
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I would have linked to the official site (https://qabel.de/), but unfortunately there is no information there yet
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> When I use black cabs here in London, I'd much rather use an established and local product from a company with less questionable ethics. That's Hailo.

What!? Hailo now does private cab hire firm booking, which led to lots of Black cab drivers removing support for it
Isn't the same thing already available on stock Android? I don't use it because I find it pretty inconvenient, but every time I swipe on the keys it appears.
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I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.
From Wiki
"For the time being there are no good technical means to counteract misuse of NTP servers"

Sigh
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Traffic Snarls Expected in Europe as Taxi Drivers Protest Against Uber
Print still exists, you know.
The irony is delicious, you'd have fared much better with the first sentence alone.
Uniform access principle
I have the stats from the Uruguayan Chamber of Software (CUTI), for the average salaries here in Uruguay (which is admittedly one of the better paying countries in South America) based on 330 companies (most are small, low-paying shops), and from my experience, they're what people are actually getting (in the IT industry, service companies pay more):

Monthly salary before taxes (take home pay is between 80% to 60% for the highest salaries)

Junior Dev (0 to 3 years): U$ 1000/month - U$ 12.000 year before taxes (but almost untaxed, maybe 10% in taxes)

Intermediate (3 to 7 years): U$ 1250/month - U$ 15.000 year before taxes

Senior (> 7 years or exceptional): U$ 1850/month - U$ 22.000 a year before taxes

Tech Lead/Super Senior: average U$ 2500/month (before taxes) so U$ 30.000 a year before taxes

Project Manager (Dev Lead or actual manager, not PM role): average U$ 2500/month (before taxes) so U$ 30.000 a year before taxes

Many of the better and smarter developers either open up their own consulting shops (making a lot more than those averages), or work remotely.

The best developers I know of make about U$ 40.000/year before taxes.

I'm currently stuck at the "senior" level, the thing is the cost of living isn't that much cheaper than in other countries so I really want to make more, so I must start working remotely if I want to break the salary barriers here.
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Omega is an Open Source distributed space simulator which serves requests via JSON-RPC over a variety of transports (TCP, HTTP, Websockets, and more).
Must admit I was quite put off by this assertion:

"She cared for my alimentation. Lot’s of cod and healthy food in general. I had my first bag of chips around 10.

And that’s also why I remember so much about my first years."

Seems a somewhat bold extrapolation.
Cost is the big one, If you can manage your own metal you can save a LOT. 50K AUD of gear would cost us ~ 10x PER YEAR for the same VM sizes (many are 32gb of Ram, 8+ vCPU, reasonable IOPS).

IP addresses is another. AWS gives you 5 before you have to start applying for them. We do email marketing, so we need a lot of IPs (we give dedicated IPs to each customer). With APNIC (Asia Pac) we have a /22 and a /23 range (1536 IPs) for ~ $2900 per year.

Legal reasons are a whopper as well, Australia has some tight laws around privacy and liability if an overseas partner leaks your data.

We still host a lot of things on cloud providers (Rackspace & AWS in both Sydney and US) sites, but at the end of the day our VMs out perform cloud VMs and are considerably cheaper.
Uber started with boat services in Stockholm today. I thought that was bigger news :)

You might want to translate this somehow but here:
http://blog.uber.com/UberBAT
I guess this just goes to reinforce the fact that the US is a very hostile environment for business, particularly web based businesses. Incorporate in the EU!
I have tried many different Android keyboards: Old and new stock ones, swype, ultimate, tons of non-qwerty ones; but I always end up coming back to Swift. It's just the only one that is Precise and Aggressive enough to support really fast typing.

Good luck to them now, on iPhone!
Lost in court

> We stopped returning calls from his office. We ignored requests... we simply ignored the situation and continued to grow our business.

Really?
Agreed, i'd probably go if it was FOC..
Also, in the UK taxis can go many places where regular motorists aren't allowed, particularly in big cities like London. It seems unlikely that a satnav, even one that provides some sort of real time traffic information, will provide accurate information about expected journey times taking restricted routes into account.
This is the perfect time for Uber to announce the new option
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Is this the extension?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-music/eheb...
Off-topic, but...

> as if there were such a thing as British Summer

Have you not looked outside lately? We're having it right now!
Could the article link be changed to that?
Yes, but for the blackmail part, not the DDoS and then only if the perpetrators are in a country that cares to work with the laws of the victims country.
My business partner and I disagree a bit on this part. If you asked him, he'd say it was definitely a case of her looking to get out of it what she could. Both of us agreed, though, that it seemed like the lawyer was really pushing/driving the issue towards the end. She looked/sounded like she was done with it and just along for the ride at that point.

I didn't think she set out to screw us. After we'd given her paid leave and she was so stressed out with some of the employees (internal bickering) she likely went to speak to an attorney pro bono due to some prompting from friends/family. When she heard what might be possible she got greedy, IMO. She also hated my business partner - there was some bad blood there, especially towards the end of her working with us.
Is there an easy way with KDE4/dbus to get functionality similar to KDE3/dcop?

Example task:

1) inspect running konsole task to find exposed interfaces

2) find one related to background colour

3) script up "change background colour to red in current konsole" command

Last time I looked at the KDE+dbus situation (early KDE4) it seemed this was really hard.
Can't see where you buy it or the price; just the remote test drive option. Is it actually a product yet?
Your server is co-located with other customers' servers.
These sites have some good startup jobs listed on them:

http://workinstartups.com/
http://3-beards.com/jobs
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So why is it bad for Hailo to do private cab hire booking?
to be honest StackExchange has very little to offer me or colleagues working on minis/mainframes. The few attempts to contribute to questions that looked platform independent to me didn't leave me with a good feeling
Construction workers are making more than developers here in Uruguay at the moment, because their union is among the strongest in the country (while developers are not unionized).

But they'll all be out of work in the next economic downturn (on the other side, they didn't spend 3 to 8 years studying)
Especially if they want to keep non-USA clients who have to obey different laws with their own businesses data.
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As someone who jumped from Android to iPhone (it was curiosity, not a "I'm fed up with this! ARGH!" thing), I've been seriously missing the ability to use different keyboards. I cannot wait to be able to use them again.
Try a different heavy DE and see if you can even find the settings these days. I hadn't used KDE since back when they first released 4 and have just started using it again. I'm loving it - a heavyweight DE where things are properly integrated (sorry XFCE and similar) and that you can actually personally tune the settings for. The settings can be a little difficult to find... but at least they're there to be found :)
They seem to give you the 'premium' pack, even if you were only a trial user.
Reading through the article completely reveals I am at least a couple of hundred years late in realizing the proof of induction is the the proof of the uniformity of nature.

Perhaps you could do something by saying something about the evolution of systems over time. Dynamical systems, fixed points, etc
It boils down to the simple question:

Would you rather live in a world where the service, its quality, reliability, cost and professionalism is that of the current taxi services or the newcomers like Uber?

I have personally been ripped off, deceived about the route and pricing and forced to put up with rude drivers and operators so many times and in so many places that I cheer any competition, be it public transport or car sharing.
Because they are more concerned with satellites.
It is? My girlfriend uses KDE, and I never found difficult to find stuff using the integrated search. On the other hand, if they would recreate print settings, I wouldn't have to explain that typing http://localhost:631/ in a browser is the most intuitive way of managing printers.
Alpaca [1] is similar project.

http://www.alpacajs.org/index.html
You could but I want standard storage per node (PCI-E FLASH), redundant PSUs and the TDP of a hefty FPGA going flat out is a lot larger than that of the ARM core.
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If you were a former Google Reader user, you might like Feedbin. I've been with them for the last year or however long and have been fairly happy.
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Let me also say that comments about vm size on EC2 almost never consider that bare metal performance can be magnitudes better.

If you can build a redundant system, and don't need the extra 99.999999s of hardware resilience, but can have 99.995 network uptime, dedicated is great.
Cab drivers is just one small segment. That is a very good point to consider and even we, as a collective hivemind, on the HN don't pay enough attention to the problem of extreme rate at which jobs will diminish in the future. Start-ups won't solve that.

If we don't find a scalable, sustainable, viral business model to disrupt capitalism and focus on positive externalities humanity may be heading for a disaster and this one won't be a surprise.
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Well, not exactely. When you try stock Android keyboard and then switch to Swiftkey, you realize that Swiftkey is intelligent. Stock keyboard becomes... hmm, ok, at best.
> But why do you think KDE is "losing ground"?

I used to see it everywhere that linux was being used, 50/50 or so with other desktops, I don't even remember the last time I saw someone use it.
I run ZFS with ECC now, but for about 5 years I used it without ECC, and all else being equal, given the choice between ZFS without ECC, and forgoing ZFS altogether, I'd still go with ZFS. Memory errors can happen, but they seem to me to be relatively rare; I've no knowledge that I've ever suffered from one except when the DIMM was very definitely faulty (and ECC won't necessarily save you from that, though it will give early warning of the problem), and I don't think I've ever actually heard of someone's ZFS system being wiped out by one. (There appears to be a certain amount of folklore grown up around ZFS, perhaps as a result of people repeating recommendations without really knowing the justification for them, so I do appreciate it can be difficult to gauge these sort of concerns.)

On the other hand, disk electonics failures, disk controller failures, backplain failures, all do happen. Frequently. To me. (Well, more frequently than I'd like), and when they occur intermittently, these classes of failures will produce on-disk corruption, but that ZFS can withstand, even without ECC. So I would gladly take ZFS's protection against these, even at the risk of whatever it is that a memory error might produce.

Lastly, consider that if the data is important enough to warrant worrying about memory errors, it's important enough to have backups.
He may be referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7115177
14:00 BST is 13:00 UTC, not 15:00 UTC.
I don't know, but why would there be any difference?
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I'm sitting in an office with 120x 8.1 systems at the moment so...
If all the ddos goes through a botnet, and the blackmail is done using Bitcoin, it could be really harsh for the authorities to find who is behind the attack.
Cloud flare is a protection racket. Some people don't use them on principle. They are the vendor selling chastity belts to stop rape. It is in their best economic interest that these attacks continue.

It's sad that to run a service now the expectation is to shovel money to another service to absorb UDP packets.
At least in Sweden, to be a cab you have to clearly mark your car as a taxi, clearly post your rates in the window and have a verified taxi meter in your car to make sure you actually charge the posted rates, and Uber doesn't want to do any of those things.
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Heavily depends on company's presence in media and how much pressure the owner puts into it. The reports I submitted with evidence of DDOS and traces to the blackmail'er through IC3 form[1], none were replied.

On another side, as bliker mentioned, those are usually kids. Replying to them that you have submitted an official IC3 report usually stops them, and some were even asking to cancel the report.

[1] - https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
The stock android one is pretty poor compared to Swype.
This screenshot: http://kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0-beta2/plasma50b2-netw...

Is this supposed to illustrate the "beta-ness" of the release? Because it's an atrocious UI. Two different-sized "wrench" icons next to each other? What are those checkboxes for? What does the little blue bar above the wireless symbol supposed to indicate? The blue lock is lost in the wireless icon in the network list (the eye is terrible at distinguishing blue shapes on a noisy background like that). It goes on and on...
Interesting hypothesis. I've been lamenting, especially lately, my own memory problems identifying faces, scents, and sounds. My first surgery which had me placed under general anesthesia was at 1 yr.
That's not me, that's a well known general design principle: "It seems that perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."

I did a lot of Linux desktop stuff 10 years ago. Now I feel most of the action takes place inside the browser. KDE's biggest contribution to computing will always be KHTML.
Couple of bits of advice to anyone doing this:

Firstly get your own IPs from your local RIR. Have your co-lo provider publish your routes, but they will be YOUR IPs. if you co-lo provider sucks, you can move and keep your IP space. (This is vital for email, but I recommend it for everyone).

Secondly buy a Out of Band Management card with your server (iDrac for Dell, iLO for HP, etc) these cost fairly little and will save you hours of access / remote hands. They will pay for themselves, you can even boot an ISO from your laptop over the internet. Get your co-lo provider to give you an extra uplink for this and give it a separate IP (use one of the providers range)

Thirdly consider Mission Critical support on the servers from a solid vendor (In australia I consider the enterprise vendors Dell, HP, IBM and Acer, and of those I will only use Dell or HP). 4 hour response means you don't need as much spare hardware, and you can have things fixed FAST. I have only lost 2 disks in a rack of servers over 4 years. Both had a replacement in place within 4 hours (once at 1am).

Fourthly look at a good Virtualization solution. We initially went oVirt (Open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) but ended up migrating to VMWare. VMWare Essentials Plus costs us $15K for 3 years in extortionate australia prices and is worth every cent. It provides Backup (VMWare Data Protector), Failover, Virtual SAN, Live Migration and a heap of useful features that save huge amounts of time.

Finally if your going to grow consider getting a rack (or half / third of a rack). This will likely give you unescorted access to the data centre, and is often not that much more then a few RU of servers (depending on the DC and racking availability).
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So how will they make money now? By selling people's data?
What sort of machine are you using that causes a desktop environment to use a non negligible amount of system resources?
Not trying to dissuade you or imply this is exactly the same thing, but I wanted to make sure you're aware of Amazon WorkSpaces [http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/], "a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud."
How about dynamic periodic tasks?

For instance, server side exponential backoff.
I love Konsole too, and really like Klipper (the best clipboard manager for Linux in my opinion).
Only my opinion and probably wrong BUT

KUbuntu = Worst KDE integration and the cause for why so many people have a negative view of KDE!

OpenSUSE = Best KDE integration
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I am so glad I live in a world where I will never have to do this again for anything but large infrastructure projects. I've colocated servers at major POPs like 111 8th Avenue in Manhattan, Equinix in Seacaucus, One Wilshire in LA.

For smaller projects, the convenience of the cloud is absolutely worth the price. For a larger build - like over 10k a month in infrastructure cost the cloud starts to make less sense economically but 'colocating your first server' is not a right of passage anymore - its unnecessary and a huge waste of time.

All of the functionality/services you have to provision yourself in colo like - redundancy, backup, remote hands, environmental monitoring, hardware maintenance are just not worth figuring out until there is substantial cost savings to realize.
The problem with the other responses is the original concern was rot. Poorly installed wood will only survive a decade or two at most, often much less. Properly installed wood will never rot. Its not an inherent quality of wood to always rot. The discussion topics are revolving around historical wood structures having failed due to generic building lifetime issues like fire, warfare, mostly economic obsolescence, poor or no maintenance, nothing to do with the material itself.
Normal people don't think "how many CPU cycles does this DE use?". They look for familiar, frictionless, easy to use and pleasant to the eye interfaces. If you're happy with dwm, good for you. I'm happy with xmonad. DE are made for the majority of people, not for nerd.
What do you use to control application volumes and audio routes when using dwm?
One of the main benefits over Hailo is that it doesn't appear to have Hailo's minimum pricing: https://hailocab.com/drivers/blog/2013/02/04/minimum-fares-s...

I imagine it will also have different drivers, so it may be worthwhile having both apps. I often find myself with a 10 minute wait for Uber when a Hailo taxi is 2 minutes away, and vice-versa.
Yes that's exactly my problem and I can't find good resources that focus on that aspect of iOS development. The actual syntax of Swift looks fine and really easy to develop, so I guess that won't be a big issue for me.
Possibly, but that won't help the flora or fauna since young, planted forests have completely different ecosystems than the rainforests we're tearing down. Arguably it won't help co2 emissions much either since old forests capture enormous amounts of carbon in the ground, which planted forests don't.
It is a protection racket ONLY if they are aiding or doing the attacks. I don't see how protecting a company from DDoS attacks is a protection racket by itself, care to elaborate?
I think it's just supposed to illustrate that this is KDE.

Speaking as a past KDE user (and with zero experience of KDE in the past 7 years or more) I would say that each wrench is for a different purpose. Maybe one leads to Network Settings and the other lets you configure the widget. At least that's how using KDE used to feel back in the days.
It's 23 C outside. Maybe warm for London, but not "summer".
To me, it sends the opposite message actually that Uber pretty much is the same as a taxi; they can incorporate taxis into uber in a way that works pretty much the same for the end-user (but with regulated rates).

With legal threats to their attempts to make an end-run around taxi regulation, it makes sense they are trying to diversify and have an income stream via regulated taxis as well.
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Stay tuned / conferences that you should know about
Nowadays is really difficult to be up to date with the latest technologies, concepts or tools. There are several ways to accomplish this. You could use RSS, check blogs regularly or follow as many people as possible in Twitter/Facebook. My way is to watch videos from various conferences.
Wow. FYI racket is defined as offering to solve a problem that does not exist, or that would not exist if the offerer wouldn't force it upon you.

Unless you're claiming the blackmail group is made up of Cloudflare employees, you should choose your words more wisely.
Thanks for the tip, we are working on it. :)
If have any trouble with it, we'll def contact you, thanks for the offer!
Do you mind if I ask where you are from? I have noticed that Yahoo mail is very common in Asia, but I (almost) never see a @yahoo email in the US.

Short term I think contacting yahoo support is the only solution.

Long term I recommend spending the few dollars per year on a vanity domain for your email. My last name is Stockbridge, and all of my personal emails have been going to an @stockbridges.org email address for the last few years. My dad set it up, and it just forwards to whatever you like. I have previously used an account from my school's alumni association, but I have recently moved to an @icloud account, and no one else can tell the difference.

I also know that a lot of people love using the web based email, but I am not a fan, and one of the reasons is offline (or locked account) access to mail. If I lost access to my mail account right now then I could change the forwarding address, and be back in business in a few minutes since all of the old messages are saved by my desktop mail client. Even gmail supports this although it seems I am in a small minority that access gmail via their imap server.
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