skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"on the other hand we have people demanding that we maintain every last misfeature piece of shit function in that API."

AKA I'd like you to sprinkle magic security dust on the code so I can check off "secure" on my checklist, but don't actually change anything.
Agreed - Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe deserve their own category.
Nothing about your comment is mutual exclusive with the one you're replying to...

One inverter per solar panel sounds just like one inverter per server.
Show HN: “Who's Hiring” Trends
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This is applicable even for our existing countries - US, Canada & UK!
And thats why some are pushing for it.

I don't like what they're doing, but its not like they don't understand their own actions.
> Any language that lets you spend your brainpower on the essence of the problem is a tremendous advantage and joy. This unlocks creativity and productivity.

Isn't that the huge advantage of having a compiler? I can let it worry about whether I connected function input/output correctly and only care about what the function itself is doing.
I built a tool that analyzes the frequency of strings in the monthly "Who's Hiring" posts over the past 12 months. It works with one word or two word strings.

Here's a blog post with more explanation and a few interesting trends:
http://blog.austinhutchison.com/2014/07/23/hacker-news-whos-...

And the Github repo: https://github.com/austinhutchison/hntrends
You try to make the free software project look like an obnoxious enterprise that would exploit a time of uncertainty to show off and bolster their status, for revenue.

During the wide media exposure of OpenSSL's heartbleed vulnerability, Theo quite cleverly forked off LibreSSL, started a campaign for funding, and aggressively and viciously attacked the existing codebase.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/openss...

Yes, it absolutely appears to be exploiting uncertainty for their own benefit. Both in exposure and status ("I'm here to save the day"), but also in funding. Theo, and I assume others, are paid by such funding, so it isn't quite so benevolent.

Sticking "free software" in the description doesn't suddenly remove all normal human motivations.
I don't think "enterprise" is the problem here.

When I got software engineering at university, we learned Java. So all those fancy (mostly over engineered) ideas where taught us with it. When we did some web or IA stuff, we did it in PHP, JavaScript and Python and the lecturer went for small concise solutions.
My point? What, are you feeling insulted? If so, stop. After all, I don't know him or you or anything about the project you were on. Anybody reading my comment would know that.

I thought maybe you missed the point of the article, that's all. Read it again, more closely. Perhaps then you'll see Cliff in a different light.

If you missed the point of the article and he wrote a 1400 line 'if' statement, then it's at least plausible that you're both stuck behind that first or second wall. I could easily be wrong. Then again, maybe this article has the key you need to catapult yourself far ahead of Cliff. He may well be a genius, but you could potentially be far more effective and productive. You may even be able to accomplish things that Cliff would fail at.

So, give the article another read.
Ask HN: Foursquare: Why check-ins in Swarm?
Dear Foursquare -

First off, I have great admiration for your company, how you handle your technology and your data science. I think you have much greater market potential with some of these features (specifically physical crowdsourcing and recommendation engines). With all of that said, I have a question about your branding.

Why did you move check-ins to Swarm rather than leaving them in Foursquare, and move all new features to Swarm? Anybody that I talk to about why they don't use Foursquare says "I don't care about check-ins." To the public FOURSQUARE = CHECK-INS. Changing this takes months and millions of dollars. Why not, instead, say "Swarm is our new product that takes care of <new stuff>" and Foursquare maintains the check-ins.

Thanks!
Alfred North Whitehead on notation[1]:

"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

"Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to learn that...the whole population of Western Europe...could perform the operation of division for the largest numbers....

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle---they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments."

That being said, the proper notation is very problem-dependent.

[1] http://introtologic.info/AboutLogicsite/whitehead%20Good%20N...
Though I don't use it often, I feel an uncannily strong sense of good will toward Foursquare and the company. Probably because they pioneered this stuff. And because of their other company before Foursquare, Dodgeball, which Google bought and lame-ified. I met the team once for two seconds at a conference and they were really sweet happy people.
They don't just allow anybody to enroll. The majority of these programs have experience requirements. If you don't want to spend the time with "clueless" 20 somethings just out of college or with 2-3 yrs of experience, then that is valuable. The problem is that the workload is huge. You basically won't have a life for two years. Get up at 4, do homework, go to work, do homework at lunch or study, leave work at 6 or so, study, do homework, go to bed at midnight. Weekends? Forget them.

For most, you will need to take days off work, which hopefully your employer allows for (this is actually a requirement, so without this flexibility you won't be able to enroll).

Is it worth the time, money and sacrifice to you?
- Traditional programs require you to quit your job, which is a cost of opportunity
- The network is valuable
- the learning is valuable
- You could get a bigger salary. Could. Or could not.

So the math depends on you really.
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I feel like this app would benefit massively from the touch of an actual designer rather than using default bootstrap. When you are trying to write, you want a minimal, elegant, and non-distracting interface, and those tacky and jarring glossy buttons really throw me off.

I love the app though! If you can afford a couple hours of a designer's time (it's a simple interface, wouldn't take too much), I feel like the benefits would be huge. If you want my help with this, feel free to reach out, but I'm sure any designer would be glad to do it : )
I never check into restaurants -- I don't see the point. But I regularly check yelp to see reviews of new restaurants that spring up. Then I go check out the new restaurants with good reviews. (I live in Chicago.)
They aren't enabled by default.

"requires the user to have unlocked their device and agreed to trust another computer"

and

"For users who have enabled iTunes Wi-Fi Sync on a trusted computer"
iPhone 6 to be launched in Mid-September?
I worked in the admissions department for a top 20 MBA program for two years. I'd say that if you're going invest the money and time to get your MBA, you should get it from a high-ranking school. Name/brand recognition does matter. Plus, you want a degree you can be proud of.

EMBA programs are great but as talltofu said, the travel time and costs can be brutal. There are one or two MBA programs that are comparable to on- campus programs (in terms of quality and the degree you get when you graduate)- that would be my suggestion. Good luck!
So why did you quit?

or better, why did you enroll?
What's really disappointing is that there seems to be an all-or-nothing security model here. If I pair my phone with a computer, then suddenly it has complete access to spy on me, install monitoring tools that can continue to run, etc. Why can't there be a way where I can transfer music/photos to/from my phone without providing this full device access?

You'd be pretty annoyed if the front door to your house, when you opened it, also opened up your document safe, emptied your wallet onto the floor and invited visitors to leave bugging devices to spy on you later.

Also, the defence of "just don't agree to pair your phone with an unknown USB device" can actually be tricky. On a flight, I plugged my phone into the USB port on the seatback to charge it. The phone repeatedly kept asking if I wanted to pair it with something (who knows what it was? the entertainment system, maybe?). If I had accidentally hit the wrong button only once (on a prompt that randomly appeared), my phone could have been owned, and there's no easy way to un-pair.
That is about the browser CA system, which is a mess of questionable trust. It's not an attack that is applicable to Apple's own root certificate.
Do you guys have any kind of API?
Sixth grader's internet-famous science project may have been plagiarized
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Of course, it's much worse for the people that want to take an exit before the merge, who have to now sit in two lanes of stopped traffic (or drive on the shoulder, depending on the traffic temperature).

That being said, merging as late as possible is the Nash equilibrium. Embrace it! (although it's clearly better for me if you don't).
Thanks for that! Awesome!
I don't do anything in graphics, so maybe the UI is fairly standard or at least recognizable to someone in that field, but it struck me as being different and interesting.
This is exactly the conclusion they want you to reach. Who are you to judge? Who are you to condemn anyone since you are evil too? This is the charter of liberty for evil and all evil needs to survive, even prosper. This "experiment" is the biblical tenet of Original Sin masquerading as science and I reject it. If your moral principles cannot be practiced consistently by all men then something is wrong with your principles, not human nature.
Where do you get the BIN data?
Subsidies on smartphones have traditionally been $400 to $450, not $600. Most current-generation iPhones have still required a $200+ upfront purchase on contract.
Let's not exaggerate things here ;). Java world is fine. Majority of projects are still using Maven.
Are we concerned about Apple here or just commercial phones in general?

To me that's a pretty good security model, if true. I can choose not to give Apple my phone and I can supervise them. I don't know of another commercial phone that protects us better at the moment.
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Worth adding Swagbucks (www.swagbucks.com) to the list - they give out rewards points to members for consuming ad-supported content
Someone who is a trustworthy seller may not be a trustworthy date partner, do you generate different scores based on context or just average them all?
I don't even really understand what this is saying. Is it a critique that LibreSSL faces undue criticism?

Probably, everyone was running around yelling about libressl security like a chicken with it's head chopped off. It's a brand new fork under heavy development that just started compiling on Linux a few days prior. What, did people expect it to be production-ready just because OpenSSL is?

it seems to me, as an opportunistic venture to take the meager funding and attention away from OpenSSL during its time of crisis

If we're making claims of bad faith, lets go with a much less conspiratorial thought: Some blogger oversold a bug they found because they wanted the self promotion of finding a security-related bug in the thing seen as OpennSSL done right built the guys that take security seriously. Sure, that's not a charitable reading of events, so I don't subscribe to it myself. But, where is the openbsd mailing list report of this bug before the blog post went up? If he went to the mailing list first, it would have solved faster and without unnecessary commotion.

Everything written on LibreSSL's linux port is infuriating. It's no surprise that openbsd is seen as insular and hard to work with. They're misinterpreted, misrepresented, and have really weird expectations set of them by people that don't even run openbsd. If I worked on openbsd I'd be real ornery too!
This is a very interesting phenomenon, but I think one should be wary of using it for decision-making in the absence of distinguishing principles. "Keep things simple": yes, of course, and I also look both ways before I cross the street.

Believing in this phenomenon has promotional value - those other guys just don't "get it." I worry that deeply internalising it bears great risk of self-delusion. Acknowledgement of this phenomenon, irrespective of whether it exists or not, may prove detrimental.

One need not heed the arguments of those lesser 2,000-liners; only a 200,000-liner possesses the je ne sais quoi to know the right choices.
Java and Scala are both pretty usable with Maven or SBT (my own Java projects use SBT now). Clojure is pretty much limited to Leiningen. (And, personally, I find working with Leiningen to be a huge drag.)
Installing these reduces the need for peering dramatically.
The (mobile) web version of Google Maps barely works. It's slow, clunky, and often simply fails to load tiles. It is absolutely no alternative for a standalone navigation app.
Some EMBA programs aren't trivial to get into... Especially ones like the Wharton EMBA or the Harvard EMBA.

Prestige aside, I think the value of the MBA (or the EMBA) still lies in the potential to network with other individuals who work in similar spaces as you do. This is probably one of the best / only reasons to do it.
Motorola's Digital Tattoo Unlocks the Moto X With a Tap
I think this is relevant; Apple says "diagnostic info" while others say that it's the users' personal encrypted files.

I haven't found confirmation on whether the list Zdziarsky has in his presentation is exaggerated, completely true, or false.
you need access to a computer that your target device has paired with in order to recover the pairing keys in order to pull this off.
Our API is not publicly available yet. Do you have any thoughts on what you'd want to use it for?
Lot of mistakes in this article, afair it can't hold all the movies but just the most popular.
http://oc.nflxvideo.net/docs/OpenConnect-Deployment-Guide.pd...

" Each appliance stores a portion of the catalog, which in general is less than the complete content
library for a given region. Popularity changes, new titles being added to the service, and re-
encoded movies are all part of the up to 7.5TB of nightly updates each cache must download to
remain current. We recommend setting up a download window during off-peak hours when there is
sufficient free capacity."
A world without statistics
Sorry that my point wasn't clear: it's not so much that I experience issues with in_tail. in_tail is actually solid at detecting log rotation, etc. My point was this is not a trivial problem, and a lot of the code inside in_tail.rb is for detecting and handling log rotation gracefully.
I got really excited about Basis! It looked to tick a _lot_ of my boxes, but I decided I'd hold out on one until there was a published API. I hadn't checked in in a while; I'm sad to hear it's still missing.
I don't really understand the problem, but FWIW I use vim and its Clojure support is fantastic.
Onsen UI 1.1 Reduces AngularJS Complexity, Adds Support For jQuery
Maybe it is because I'm trying it from an iPad, but the UI seems quite cluttered and behaves quite surprisingly/erratically.

I guess http://colourco.de will maintain its top priority in my bookmark list for experimenting with color palettes.
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That's great. For you. Now how about the people that have rigid job schedules?
Mistype. The point is don't take academic psychology seriously.
With my first child it was the constant background stress of "Oh my God I don't know what I am doing" that really threw me off. The second one was so much easier!
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Something about camels backs perhaps? Rather than wonder outloud, why not pop over to youtube and watch the talk Bob Beck gave about libressl, including their decision to fork.
They started out as a company making old (back catalog) games work on newer machines. So yes they were never a back catalog, they were a company that maintained and sold a back catalog.
Babies need to eat/nurse frequently. We've evolved to be highly dependent on our parents until a fairly old age. The solution that worked for us was for the baby to sleep in our bed next to mom. Then this whole wake/nurse cycles basically happens without fully waking up. I realize some people are concerned about rolling on the baby but this is extremely rare/improbable for normal/healthy people. It's a somewhat controversial topic but do your own research... As a dad that had to go to work I also took some breaks and slept in another room (mom would also sleep during the day when the baby was sleeping). YMMV. Good luck and enjoy!
I was big on Python side back in the early 2000's, on the Perl vs Python for system administration tasks.

Maybe because of the experience in using scripting languages on the server side for a late 90's .COM startup in terms of performance, I never could convince myself to use Python other than for shell scripting on steroids.

I always looked for other languages in terms of tooling support, IDE support and support for native compilation on their toolchains (JIT or AOT).
In Chicago, and cities of that size, this makes a lot of sense. It's a huge city. You can live there for decades and still not have a handle on everything. There's too much for word of mouth to render Yelp unnecessary. I'd use it, too, if I weren't in a city 1/10th the size of Chicago.
Very cool! But unfortunately the reality is most startups never capture the first 6 numbers of credit cards if they are using a payment gateway (stripe, recurly, etc). Do you have ideas on how we can access the BIN without compromising security if we're using said services?
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Android needs to evolve away from Java. It needs a Swift - something richer, more expressive, focused on modern 64bit platforms and above all open.
http://allthingsd.com/20130510/elon-musk-and-david-sacks-dep...

Buying influence can look dirty, especially when it runs opposed to your stated goals.
When I use Toggl's API, I use it for creating time entries and getting project info. If your app is RESTful, then you wouldn't need to do anything further.
I started the Berkeley EWMBA (halfway through) and am bitterly regretting it (though work is fully comp-ing tuition for me). I'm going to stick it for another year and complete it.
1. It is a lot more work that you can imagine
2. You will have to learn a great deal of stuff that you know you will never use again.
The benefits you get out of it are the networking and some basic business knowledge which you could get for a lot less if you are motivated.
I'd say don't consider it unless you are getting some tuition reimbursement. Not worth the $125k-$175k otherwise.
>'Now let's not get started on the idiots who purposely rough themselves up and get cauliflower ear just to look tough.'

Yeah, you had to expect a lot more of that sort of thing when the sport went mainstream 10 years ago. On the bright side, the level of foolisness has definitely leveled off in recent years.

>'Btw what sport do you train?'

I started with boxing and got into Muay Thai about 13 years ago, BJJ shortly after.

Eventually, work and later starting a family kill off my training. I can't complain, my career has gone well and I love my son more than life itself, but I miss training more than I thought I would.

Right now I'm just lifting and kicking around the idea of training for grip / strongman. Though, I had someone invite me to check out their fencing club the other day - that seemed interesting and really different.
In case you didn't know, there's already a special version of the `inherit` keyword for using the color value in other properties:

background-color: currentColor;

Fully supported in all modern browsers. http://devdocs.io/css/color_value#currentColor_keyword
Integration with accounting software, like Wave[0]

[0] http://docs.waveapps.io/index.html
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Looks like they acquired proper licensing. The footer of the webpage states: "Hemingway™ is a trademark of Hemingway Ltd., used under exclusive license through Fashion Licensing of America, Inc., New York, NY 10001"

Fashion Licensing of America's site states that the company is the exclusive licensing agent for Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I would like to suggest that the general sentiment here is true in some other modern scientific disciplines. In other words, I don't think it's because psychology is transitioning to a more formal scientific approach that causes these difficulties. I think it has to do with a misalignment of incentives in the present academic world, and the difficulty of the statistical inference framework.

These problems of reproducibility occur in basic cancer research articles as well. Amgen proved this and wrote a paper detailing issues [1].

Academics are valued for their papers, citations and grants. And papers are difficult to publish if one fails to find an effect. The researcher has some incentive to find the right numbers because their job is, in a way, on the line.

There's lots of writing about the tension between "publish or perish" [2] and scientific integrity. It manifests in p-values often, but p-values are the dominant statistical tool right now in most fields. I think you will see the same tension regardless of your tools for doing science.

[1] Drug development: Raise standards for preclinical cancer research, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish
I worked for a company that would have been a target client for a product like this. In the end, we didn't use one of the many similar solutions (legit.co, trustcloud, scaffold, peertrust, project trust, truly, etc..) for two reasons:

* We didn't want to give our information away. It was a nonstarter. Either to protect it from being used by competitors or because of security concerns of giving private user information to a third party.
* Each site and community has different levels of trust, and actions have different meanings. Whether someone commits sexual harassment on OkCupid doesn't matter when you are trying to buy their toaster on eBay. I am much more concerned about someones behavior when they are living in my house, not so much when they are giving me a ride in their car within the city at noon.

It would be nice if everyone didn't have to build their own trust system, but any competent company will. A general solution will either be too general to be useful, or require too much private information to be allowable.

The only way I can see a standalone product like this occurring is if a well established company like AirBnB of Facebook would build it on their existing (valuable) dataset and and guarantee data privacy.
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Is fig the authoritative way to deploy a bunch of Docker instances for a fairly basic stack - web server, DB, elasticsearch ?

I started off thinking about Ansible, but it seems most people on #docker were using Fig. But I dont know what people are doing in production
Yep - they could have just easily acted like team players instead of egoistic contrarians and joined efforts with the OpenSSL team to help improve OpenSSL along with the original developers. If they did that you'd probably see a lot less criticism today. Instead, they chose to be assholes - and this is their come-uppance.

Nothing says "This codebase is beyond repair" quite like forking a codebase and repairing it.