skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That tends to be a feedback cycle that causes them to slowly and inevitably beat you in a capitalist society."

Exactly! That's how it should be. Saying you should do this or that is rather pointless. The hard evidence is success and failure.
Mozilla puts a development environment into the browser with WebIDE
Integrating OpenStack and OpenDaylight
Interested in switching off gmail. How are folks getting new email notifications on mobile?
This service definitely has merit and I love you guys just putting it up right away rather than building out a full-site.

A lot of founders underestimate the importance of sales people early on. Suster has a couple of good pieces about start-up sales people vs corporate sales people (they are very different skill sets). My biggest concern would be outsourcing the feedback loop that is created by those initial sales calls. The salesperson is your window to customers and your compass to finding product-market fit. It's so critical you often see founders taking on the sales task first-hand. Obviously that doesn't scale and I believe that's where you guys come in!

I would really need to see how you're providing me sales call data and feedback. A screenshot of a dashboard, spreadsheet or something. Allotted phone time with the sales people to discuss what they encountered in the field. Anyway to formalize sales feedback would be of great value. Good luck!
Ah, the good old "this hasn't happened to me so it doesn't happen" argument.
WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly
> Just gathering sensor data and showing it to your doctor at your next visit could be extremely useful, even with zero EHR integration.

I disagree. The two problems with this would be primarily from the doctor's perspective.

1. Doctor arrives to exam room, "Doc I have been using XYZ app, take a look at this data."

- Doctor has to figure out interface if s/he hasn't used before.

- Has to locate the meaningful data in this "hyper-detailed log book" and interpret.

- Doctor has to assess whether this information is valid; does this app use proper calculation methods (algorithms, formulas, significant digits) and are the sensors accurate.

- Doctor has to adjust schedule to account for time to interpret this new data, as s/he has no ability to review prior.

2. Assuming no problems with the first point. Doctor has this data and identifies a trend, let's say high blood pressure. Doctor prescribes medication and sends you on your way. The doctor has a huge liability as a medication has been prescribed and there is no documentation of the data used to make the diagnosis. If there is an adverse reaction and a malpractice suit is filed, the burden of proof is on the physician.
I made a similar proof of concept "diary" app using dropox as the encrypted data store.

https://diafygi.github.io/byoFS/examples/diary/
I've worked with systems that pre-size images on creation, and I'd much rather work with a system like this that resizes and caches on demand.

You never know when you're going to need a new size (the introduction of retina images a few years ago doubled the dimensions of images you need to serve for example, and your design team is likely to come up with new size requirements occasionally as well) and backfilling to resize millions of images is a big pain and costs a lot in terms of storage.
Well, what about other value besides time, which is pretty subjective to begin with, and it doesn't really matter anyway. Like maybe more robustness, bigger dev communities, one of your team members is an expert and can do this quickly, etc.

I think if your architecture is likely to collapse when you shop around for databases, then you built the whole thing wrong to begin with.
I share your sentiment, and this quote (attributed to Margaret Thatcher) may be relevant:

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
"I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution."

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/felix_dennis.ht...
Have you considered blogging to be not about extroversion but instead just being a personal journal that is public?

I think the type of blog you are referring to desires to engage others, while a blog that is indexable simply there to add value for other who might be trying to figure their way through the same random things that you have been.
If you have MX records on a cloudflare enabled domain you have to expose the Ip address of your mail server:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168536-W...

If that is in the same DC as the rest of your equipment [or worse, the same server] it might be still possible to figure things out and DDoS you.

The underlying hosting is just as vulnerable w/ or w/o Cloudflare.

Last week someone spinning up their own botnet threw like 1Gbps at a side project of mine via UDP at the mail server.
PC Pro was more aimed at the PC/Windows using demographic than (earlier) sister magazine Computer Shopper -- whose Linux/open source column I wrote for a bit over five years in the late 90s/early 00s. Now that was the last hurrah of the old skool British personal computing press ...! (Complete with columns on the Amiga, ST, and BBC platforms and intros to assembler programming long after every other mag in the field had turned into yet another boring infomercial for Microsoft Office.)

Sigh. Brings back memories.
Do a much lower percentage of (non pregnant) women drink? If that's true I certainly never noticed it. But I'm not from the US.
You mean like straight cash has been up until now?
I think the article makes a mistake with its use of the word "diversity" here since these days the common use its ingrained more as a matter of race/gender and not so much opinions, and really you can find plenty of groups with that idea of diversity where everyone thinks the same and there's no debate whatsoever.

The word OP is looking for is groupthink, and the problem he's describing starts with deindividuation, the process when the group cohesiveness takes priority over individual freedom of expression.

And well the problem with this "mirrortocracy" (which is just a new word to describe Nepotism) is the typical conundrum of " I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it", basically the problem wont be solved until the number of people trying to enter the inner circle becomes smaller than the number of people trying to tear it down. But the reward for those who do make it is so high most individuals would rather live in what's essentially a tragedy of the commons than a place where there is more equality at the expense of a much lower chance of "making it big".
Oh dear, if you want to accommodate for all religious preferences, it will become tricky soon. What if some religious person thinks homosexuals are bound for hell and they will be contaminated if they work alongside them?

Seems like a real problem to me: either you discriminate against the religious person, or you discriminate against the homosexual, can't have them both.

In fact if you think requiring drinking is discriminating, your are discriminating against the people who drink. There is just no way to get it right. What if the company owner is religious and doesn't want to hire people who drink for religious reasons - would that be better/OK?

Sounds like a lot of bullshit to me - better to discard all the PC bullshit and go for what you really want. Honestly, personally I'd prefer to have colleagues who are not very religious. Maybe the law forbids screening for that, but I still think it is a sensible preference to have. (I am not currently hiring anybody, so I hope I am allowed to say that...).
Yeah, and just like for telescopes, when you need several orders of magnitude more precision, you need something huge to do so. Unless we find a way to build huge spaceships in space, it's not coming anytime soon.
RabbitMQ Hits One Million Messages Per Second on Google Compute Engine
Heartbleed Still A Threat: Over 300,000 Servers Remain Exposed
The article makes it sound like there's no place at all to attach the pen on the Pro 3, is that true? I'm a heavy pen user w/ my Pro 1, that would be a dealbreaker for me.
Agree with worklogin. lets think about today.
Why the iPhone 6 will have a 1704x960 display
I would love to see a golang version of this.
Pretty fascinating. You might find out that people draw odd things with their mouse while reading your website.
Our team (YCW11) did "sales as a service" as ElasticSales for 2+ years. You can read some of our story here:

http://elasticsales.com
I think this mashed up with other "radars" like flight and ship radar would be impressive.
It's not a need to influence, it's to share and spread knowledge. That's one of, if not the, fundamental tenets on which hacker culture was built and depends on.

You do things, find something new or interesting, share it with the world so others can build on your work.
"I want to stress the importance of being young and technical.
Young people are just smarter.”
— Mark Zuckerberg

I always chuckle to myself when I read this because I realize that one day Zuck's going to say "Hey, I'm older" and by extension he'll have to also say "Ouch, I'm dumber". I suspect he'll recant the statement due to "youthful arrogance" at some point!
Quirky throws Wink into the crowded smart home arena
It would be awesome if they added a fullscreen button.

Edit: I mean, it's awesome anyway, it would just be more awesome.
I'm genuinely curious what you're testing with that. Is the idea to see how their scale of fluency matches up with yours, or to see if--assuming they use a reasonably similar scale as you--their self-evaluation if is accurate? If it's the latter, I agree overconfidence is a shortcoming, but it seems odd to structure the interview around sussing that out, especially given that the candidate may be only artificially overconfident because they think that's good for interviews. It feels more like a "gotcha!" than a genuine attempt to determine the candidate's quality. If it's the former (finding out what the candidate thinks "really good at X" means), that sounds interesting, but I don't quite get it.
Escaping from a shitty real life. Overworked and underpaid? Clinically depressed? Cut off from social contact? You can leave it all behind and step into a fantasy where you are beautiful, live in a comfortable place, and where there are people who will actually talk to you. Do it long enough and your entire social circle lives online.
One must look behind the release. It's not as if there's some kind of deception here, but more "Wait, if their main game, their bread and butter is in great shape, why are they releasing a direct successor instead of improving the main?"

It is a valid question.

Second Life is truly dying - I've been there on and off for ten years.

If not through Linden Lab's horrible mismanagement, through simple attrition as there simply isn't anything to do there anymore. The novelty has worn off. We're well past the days when a well scripted game gets ported outside of that ecosystem and turned into a Gameboy title[1]. We're well past the days where someone can make a ton of money selling virtual land[2].

The value proposition isn't there anymore. The starry-eyed excitement that surrounded both Linden Lab and the player base when the world was in its early days has been replaced by cynicism and apathy.

I'd say rebuilding the game with what they've learned in mind is probably the only way to shake things up. Hence the upcoming sequel.

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

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/AnsheChung_Bus...
Can I ask why you gave it up?
Isn't that the entire point?

I take them as two extremely different genres. Minecraft is mainly about building and exploring with friends, while second life is largely based on building close personal relationships focused on discussion and sex.

There's some overlap for sure, but I think generally speaking, the players of each game want very different things (I also expect the average age of Second Life players to be much older than those who play Minecraft).
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>> Hate to be a downer, but I wasn't impressed with Star Fox even at the time as an 8 year old boy

I had mixed feelings about it. It was a pretty good game.

On the other hand, I wasn't terribly impressed by the visuals (especially the framerate), and I think between StarFox and the coin-op Hard Drivin', a lot of gamers were left with a bad taste in their mouth when it came to polygon graphics.

Remember, at the time on the PC there were games like Doom and X-Wing. Sure, you needed a fully-loaded 486 at the time to play these to the best of their ability, and even a SoundBlaster card was the cost of the SNES console.
Am I the only one around here who prefers starting from scratch in a blank vim session?
Never met the man, but I felt as though I almost knew him after reading his books. Seems like he enjoyed the game, and was rather good at playing it.
The problem is that going to another country does not put you beyond the reach of the US Government if you are an American. Even if you move your body, it's still difficult to exit the system.

Elections don't seem to be working very effectively. Too many incumbents are gerrymandered into unassailable districts, and are barely challenged in their primaries.

I would also like to have a contingency country, but practically every one that I would be inclined to pick is cheering the US on as it reshapes itself into a police surveillance state.
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I'm using fastmail and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity... on push notifications, no issues at all. Very happy with it
I switched to Sublime from Vim because it looked prettier, but Atom looks better out the box. Also, Sublime barely moves on my 09 tiny macbook air, while Atom performs well.

On the 2014 iMac, slowdowns on big files I barely noticed, what I don't like is that if you have the editor open forever, it starts moaning like a dying whale, regardless of the beefiness of your rig.
Considering that a forum is also not the most high-traffic kind of application, I do not see the reason why you should use a high-performance K/V-store (with all the tradeoffs coming with it).
ThoughtSpot offering $20K referral bonus.
I agreed with the sentiment of this article, until I thought about it.

No one owes you a job. If you think companies are missing out on your amazing talent, start your own and prove them wrong. This is a million times easier to do with software than with a white-shoe Wall Street firm.
I never said you shouldn't have a work-sample test. But I doubt everybody who can code is an equally good hire for every company.

As for work sample tests, there are also those who criticize programming tests because they say people might just be bothered by the interview situation and in reality be much better programmers. If you let the candidate do it at home, they can fake it by letting somebody else do the coding.

I personally would certainly want to see some demonstration of programming skill.
Tech illiterate people probably aren't the ones to install a panic button application for use by demonstrators.
In smaller cities, buses are frequently on demand service, rather than planned routes (In Michigan, there are many county transit authorities, _ATAs, that do this). It's because they don't have the ridership to support planned routes.

There must be some tension between point to point service and having each passenger walk a few minutes, where the walking ends up saving time, even if it doesn't seem like it.
Yeah, this is the only form of blogging I can tolerate: recording thoughts over a period of time as an individual explores a set of topics. It takes on a decidedly different tone from the more presumptuous, link-baity "why X is the best language ever"-style of blogs. Namely, the latter has no speck of intellectual humility; it is merely a long-form tweet.
Perhaps my wording wasn't clear enough—I was actually saying that minimize-maximize time wasn't a bottleneck in my case because I don't switch so much.

But I agree with you, multiple monitors would help tremendously. Even more so when doing some web development work, when changes can be immediately previewed.
So check if uri.host matches your blacklist.
I'm a fan of pilbox [1]. It's "fast" (builds off of OpenCV + Tornado), easy to understand and does much more than just image resizing. Also, it should be simpler to deploy than OpenRoss - since it doesn't bake in nginx, you can deploy it to Heroku (which is what we do), or behind Amazon's ELB.

We use it on a fairly large production site, and it works fine. If you throw it behind CloudFront or some other CDN that supports cache busting, it's plenty fast.

1: https://github.com/agschwender/pilbox
That seems unlikely to me. Why wouldn't at least a few alien civilisation keep broadcasting radio signals just to let others know they are there too ?
True. It comes with an attachable pen holder, but it is held on by glue. I do miss the pen's ability to attach to the Surface. The eraser nub is now a button on the pen. The top of the pen activates OneNote. The pen does feel more durable and better in hand. I would check it out in person.
Nice map
Do you get why people build model trains or play golf or go skydiving? None of these are very productive uses of your life, but people do them because they are enjoyable (to them — if you stuck me on a golf course, I would definitely not feel like I was doing something enjoyable).
I have had this exact problem/need overtime on several projects, and it doesn't mean "we didn't think this through much". Products change/grow and there becomes a need for tens of different images. First it starts with a thumbnail or two, then composite images, then, etc. Not to mention you need 2x images for retina devices.

Bottom line, overtime you tend to understand that there is great flexibility in this type of architecture.
Can't speak for S-band, but Ku-band data rates are 25 Mbps Earth-to-ISS and 300 Mbps ISS-to-Earth, which is the maximum supported by TDRSS Ku-band links. Data rates may drop a bit depending on the individual satellite involved, configuration, etc.
"Even the most crippled client-side technique can do the cropping and whitespace for you (yeah, even html)."

Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus all have a feature where a URL gets expanded out to a "rich preview" (Twitter Product Cards for example are particularly relevant to a site like Lyst: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/types/product-card )

These all work best with an image that has been pre-cropped and resized.

As an added bonus, a new one of these emerges every now and then - with a different size requirement.
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well you have to calibrate it what does a 1 a 5 or a 10 look like ?
Cut-throat capitalism: Gig work drives down wages
Eliminating Zero-Progress Hours
Is there some place to get it cheaper? Just for rule of thumb checking AWS (with their new pricing) it would cost ~$72/year for the 200GB storage alone, without factoring in any cost for transferring data, requests, etc.

I'm curious if there is a way to get storage cheaper than their existing $50 for 200GB/year. And yes, I know Flickr is free, but I mean from some place where the pricing isn't in exchange for some "to be determined later" monetization angle.
Ah ha! I love when someone "gets it". Which you do. The feedback, is going to be extensive, we are still early in the process, but one thing we considered, is taping the sales interaction, and providing it to the startup, but it may "skew" the comments and feedback from the business owner. It's a problem that we are going to solve, and knock out of the park though.
Trick questions in interviews -- of any kind -- are a huge turn-off.
I was very surprised that a guy interviewing for what's basically a sales position - representing 42Floors to its clients, and asking them for money - was being dinged because he turned up to his interview dressed professionally!

I'd like to think that the interviewee responded along those lines when the issue of his clothing was pointed out. Were I in his position, I'd be concerned I was being interviewed by a group of amateurs.
Microsoft charges less for Office and 1TB of OneDrive than rivals charge for 1TB.
Taking five months off and playing Starcraft is great if that's what you really want to do, but I feel like the topic of "funemployment" would be better served by people really thinking about what they want to do with their free time.

For example, I have some friends who took a summer off and biked from Saskatchewan (Canada), through the Rockies, and down to California. It changed their lives.

Personally, I've always wanted to take a month to backpack and explore in the Rockies — instead of a four day weekend here and there.
Who says that we've terminally failed to develop "any decent AI"? This once again indicates that you don't keep up with the field.
I kept losing the pen on my Surface Pro because I needed power more than the pen. Very annoying.
I once interviewed a candidate whose resume listed his skills alongside a rating for each, from one to ten.

He rated himself 10/10 for Javascript, so I asked what he'd done with the language.

He replied "I've validated forms."

I was expecting more to say the least.
0 - 10 is a pretty horrible scale. If I was rating myself on such a scale I would have got lower as I got older. At 21 you can be a "10" by being the best in your CS class. At 35 you have to compare yourself to people with serious achievements.
Dash App also have an offline Stack Overflow access (20gb):
http://blog.kapeli.com/offline-stack-overflow
(great for developing on the airplane)
>The problem is that all cliques are self-reinforcing. There is no way to re-calibrate once the insiders have convinced themselves of their greatness.

Sure there is; don't join the clique. There is no law, private or otherwise, that says you can't play your own game and win.

Despite the hype, the Valley isn't the only game in town even today.

They can self-reinforce all they want but if they start losing because of outside forces then they will have to reexamine their assumptions or fail.
It does match a regular expression internally.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/lib/uri/rfc2396_pars...
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Have you thought of inverting the function? It's a one-to-one mapping, so it should be invertible. Use the same algorithm, but pick a place in R,G,B space as the seed location and search in concentric circles (instead of spheres/shells) in the X,Y space.
I never said I was the interviewer or that I agreed with it.

I'm pointing out it does happen and its specifically intended to locate potentially overconfident people and needle them.
howdoi uses Google to find results on Stack Overflow while I used the Stack Exchange API for this package. I'm a bit disappointed with the results returned by the API both sorted by relevance and by votes. Down the road I'd like to merge the results from Google and the API to get the best set of answers.
There's also thumbor (https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor). It's a very mature implementation of this type of server and has been very battle-tested (https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/wiki/Who%27s-using-it).

At globo.com we have near a billion images (we are a big portal). Can you imagine pre-generating that many images every time a new format gets added?

We serve everything with thumbor with a Varnish cache in front of it and we're very happy with it. It has enabled our designers to work with any image size they can think of.

If you guys need more info, please check thumbor's docs: https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/wiki/