skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"big banks charge only cents to send large amounts of cash internationally"

This is utterly false. The entire reason the remittance industry exists (Western Union, etc) is because banks don't offer cheap ways of sending money internationally, and/or recipients often don't even have bank accounts. In fact, remittance fees are so high[1] that this is precisely why many analysts see Bitcoin's potential to disrupt this industry[2].

[1] Average remittance cost in the world: 8%. Average to Africa: 12%! Nigeria to Ghana: 22%! Source: http://www.irinnews.org/report/99977/remittance-rip-offs

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-08/will-migrant...
I have been using juju for some time now and I think it does pretty much this and more.

It is a cloud agnostic service orchestration tool developed by Canonical. So of course you're using ubuntu images here but it allows deployment and service integration just like we saw on the video. It does not uses docker but Linux containers which is a level lower on the stack.

The magic happens in reusable components called charms (a bit like cookbooks in chef but with different purposes) which defines the installation logic and hooks to run when you want to integrate another service.

I really liked the concept behind juju and was convinced when I saw how I could deploy and configure a MongoDB cluster with replicasets, shards, config servers and mongos with just a few commands.

Anyone else heard about it? It looks like they're not communicating too much about it. And with Docker becoming the de facto standard now, I don't know how it's going to evolve in the near future.
One could argue that increased government funding for science is more likely to fund basic science and other "non-sexy" but still important and likely to pay dividends research.
Well, I think my point is that I wasn't one of the "lol" people, and I should have been one of the people to say "Hey, that's not cool," and this post is me promising myself that in the future, I will speak up.

I don't disagree with you, though. An official policy is great, but I think sometimes people just say things without thinking, and I don't necessarily think punishment (beyond public shaming of some kind) is really necessary in 100% of cases, which is kind of what I was getting at. If it was something blatant and clearly intentional, then absolutely get HR involved, but sometimes people just say things unintentionally.

I dunno. It's a very, very tricky, complicated topic, but in the end, I think we both agree that those with the power (socially or professionally) should absolutely step in and stop inappropriate behavior.
@fancyremarker, great use cases. We are working on adding support for webhooks and pagerduty integration in the next version.
It's not a misconception.

It doesn't say "thou shalt not kill unlawfully" or "thou shalt not kill without social sanction". It says "thou shalt not kill". Period. Nowhere in the Bible is any condition or qualification placed on this commandment.

Reconciling this commandment with all the killing in the Bible that God has no problem with is not as easy as you want it to be.
Most people don't want to live like that, but health insurance companies profit from the current system and they have deep pockets to influence the government to keep it that way.
Hopefully things work out better for him outside of Microsoft. Microsoft is just another big company these days, and their policies and products reflect/have reflected that for quite awhile. Work for yourself, or work for a small company, you'll feel more rewarded and hopefully like a more important part of the team.

My 2 cents after having worked for a huge company and now working at a small company.
+1. great for sharing snippets and i almost learn something new everytime i visit.
Perhaps size is a proxy for cost? I imagine many cost factors scale with size, such as materials cost, shipping cost, installation cost, etc.

Or perhaps tiny inverters could be a good example of disruptive innovation, an invention that looks bad along traditional dimensions but opens up nontraditional applications.
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The Industrial Revolution, probably. You can't simply "go to sleep when you're tired" when you have to allocate x hours to labor per day - everything you do is synchronized to either education hours or work hours for most of your life. So 8 hours of sleep with 8 hours of work and 8 hours of leisure per day.
PHP is a funny thing, started very very low (https://twitter.com/agumonkey/status/488432654577303554), and nowadays it's got a lot of very positive improvements (linguistic features, faster interpreter, principled community). Who knows how long it will survive ...
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Interesting, I would be more interested in learning the "why" in addition to the "what". This Feynman story is instructive in that sense: http://www.haveabit.com/feynman/2
I'm starting to think it's being done on purpose.

1. Write a rant about how women are harassed.

2. Fill it with offensive, sexist remarks and anecdotal evidence.

3. When people get rightly offended and disagree, use their reaction as further evidence to "prove" your point.
You are not wrong, but I would like to talk to a father who's NOT concerned about that stuff. Just because reality differs from my mental model does not mean that my brain will automatically say "Oh, the odds are overwhelmingly against this, I'll just ignore it." ;)
You also use post-tax money to buy an individual plan.
I don't think that's the case if he is one of 17k others.
+ 1 for svbtle, it is a nice minimalistic design that really concentrates on the content.

Octopress / Jekyll are sort of annoying at times specifically if you don't use ruby. For example, on my mac, i've had to deal with weird ruby related issues when upgrading OS X.
How about ordering a high-cost item from an attacker who sells on Amazon? How about AWS? How about Amazon Payments to order a service from
the attacker's site?

In order to trust you with credentials, it is necessary that you show you have thought everything through. The user needs to know that you will not leak credentials. It's a very high bar. You have simply failed to clear the bar.
Simply having a Tumblr account you post thoughts to is being "in the public eye"? If so, then that category must include nearly everyone who works in tech.
Could you please provide some decent examples that would convince a Firebug fan from the beginning to uninstall it? :)
I only have two personal anecdotes, one 3x and one > 4x. Both for people in their 20s, and I don't know the math but I can imagine that in group plans where rates are flat, young people cost more to insure than individually and older people cost less.

Couldn't find any good data but here's a post representative of the top few google hits for COBRA vs. private:

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/unemployed-cobra-vs-individual-he...
You can still do that, but it is a little complicated.

https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/665057-synt...
Not saying its totally worth it, but the upside is that they take care of power costs, physical space costs, networking, and if the hardware fails they'll put your application on a new server. Basically you take all of the risk out the equation.
It's making sweeping, disparaging generalizations about the male gender.
You can install Wordpress for free and easily on OpenShift. Setup some simple caching (or even just cloudflare) and it will be able to handle basically any amount of traffic. Install a plugin to display code nicely, or embed the code from elsewhere.

(for more tips, see my kickstarter project: http://kck.st/1sYmezD )
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Makes me wonder if anyone has created a video game for software management where the player must minimize defects in the shipping product while making the most money possible.

Edit: better yet, close security holes, but not at the expense of profits.
Another fan of Pelican here. I've also written a theme for it [1]. One let's you use IPython Notebook for your Markdown + code.

I use S3 to host my blog. It's super cheap and it's really easy to push out changes with S3cmd [2]. Just a simple:

s3cmd put mydir/* s3://mybucket/

1. https://github.com/gjreda/gregreda.com/tree/master/theme

2. http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
Ask HN: Two prototypes developed, how best to find a business co-founder in US?
I've two prototypes which need sales done in US to test the market. I'm from outside US. One is in the fitness space and another in the tuition space. I'm considering finding business co-founder in US but I'm not sure where to start and I want to avoid having a business co-founder who couldn't do sales. Any advice from HN?
pretty heartbreaking piece about an sf resident and her family who have made the decision to move away from the city - both by pricing, but also by a bad airbnb neighbor.
Agreed -- it shows a materialist/consumerism bias.

There are many environmental and psychic benefits to requiring/desiring fewer possessions.

If we want to sustain a growing population, we're going to have to confront the bias the title of this article shows.
It's at least worth noting that it's only within the last decade that such an approach has become viable -- we're still entirely unable to establish any relationship between genetics and psychiatric illness via theory, so massive, inexpensive genetic analysis was a prerequisite to this sort of study (which still relies on correct diagnosis in order to find genetic correlates).
I think it's somewhat hard to necessarily point to the direction of association pointing the way the paper asserts its pointing, even leaving

I would have been much more impressed by using sleep as a time-varying exposure, rather than a time-fixed exposure, but the study is a rather old one.

Lumping all reports from 9.5 to 16.5 hours makes me a little nervous however - that's a range from "sleeps more than average" to "sleeps the vast majority of the day, and enough that a full time job is impossible". I'd assert those are very different people.
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> But it seems US citizens want to live like that. Why?

Only "god" knows for sure, but I have a strong suspicion you answered your own question, at least in part:

> And still this system is generally not exploited: People work hard here.
Where did Tumblr come from?
What you did say, and are saying, is that it's banter. You then go on to give qualified examples of banter that apply to the other gender ("don't (usually) get rape threats"; "do get death threats"; "do get comments that they're 'fat', 'dorky'"). Whether you intended to draw the equivalency or not, that's what your phrasing achieved.

Secondly, I agree. I don't believe it's constrained to women, but at the same time I don't think the volume or impact is the same when it's thrown at men. A few per month is, apparently a very low volume ("Feminine usernames incurred an average of 100 sexually explicit or threatening messages a day. Masculine names received 3.7"[1] -- although I need to find the actual study).

This isn't a topic I particularly enjoy discussing. I'm not in a position to speak for those who are threatened, and there are myriad reasons and subtleties why I'll never truly understand their plight. I'm sorry you feel like you were misunderstood.

[1]: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-ar...
Thanks for the tip on that attack vector- guess I should be shredding those invoices then.
He's not comparing the two. He is not saying "DRM is like a police state."

He's saying that both DRM being a bad thing and a police state being a bad thing are self-evident truths.

(I'm not taking sides, just hoping to clarify.)
While I am aware that this is the reality, I find the attitude underlying this reality rather unfortunate.

As an interviewer assessing a candidate, I would like to believe that I'm thoughtful enough to see that corporations lay people off for any number reasons. The macro-scale conditions at Microsoft likely have no bearing on the candidate's quality.

Imagine if the candidate were from RIM. We'd hardly question the reality that RIM has to lay off people, many of whom are competent.
I really think the future is schema-based.

The evolution of technologies goes something like this:

1. Generation 1 is statically typed / schemaful because it's principled and and offers performance benefits.

2. Everyone recoils in horror at how complicated and over-designed generation 1 is. Generation 2 is dynamically typed / schemaless, and conventional wisdom becomes that this is generally more programmer-friendly.

3. The drawbacks of schemaless become more clear (annoying runtime errors, misspelled field names, harder to statically analyze the program/system/etc). Meanwhile the static typing people have figured out how offer the benefits of static typing without making it feel so complicated.

We see this with programming languages:

1. C++

2. Ruby/Python/PHP/etc.

3. Swift, Dart, Go, Rust to some extent, as well as the general trend of inferred types and optional type annotations

Or messaging formats:

1. CORBA, ASN.1, XML Schema, SOAP

2. JSON

3. Protocol Buffers, Cap'n Proto, Avro, Thrift

Or databases:

1. SQL

2. NoSQL

3. well, sort of a return to SQL to some extent, it wasn't that bad to begin with given the right tooling.

If you are allergic to the idea of schemas, I would be curious to ask:

1. isn't most of your data "de facto" schemaful anyway? Like when you send an API call with JSON, isn't there a standard set of keys that the server is expecting? Isn't it nicer to actually write down this set of keys and their expected types in a way that a machine can understand, instead of it just being documentation on a web page?

2. Is it the schema itself that you are opposed to, or the pain that clunky schema-based technologies have imposed on you? If importing your schema types was as simple as importing any other library function in your native language, are you still opposed to it?
I went into the opposite direction: my sleep schedule now wants to be 2am or later and yet I still have to be up by 7:30 to make it to work on time.

I will agree though that I have to be in a state where my body just can no longer stay awake before I fall asleep. I can't lay in bed. I can't read, I have to literally go until I can't any longer. I'm currently in a month or so of terrible sleep by it being broken up into 2 intervals where I wake up in the middle of the night and stay up for a few hours until my body wants to shut back down again.

Insomnia is an insufferable bitch for the most part. I will say YMMV on anything you change regarding sleep habits. I personally need to be in a massive amount of slept debt to properly fall asleep but it can easily backfire quite easily if I'm not careful.
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Not exactly. I'm saying the signal-to-noise ratio inevitably drops below a threshold where anything useful can be derived.

I will admit this site is better than most. I've been accused of actually being a rapist in other discussions, amongst other indignities.
BTW, your sign-up form doesn't accept anything other than US phone numbers. Nice of you to at least give an example fake phone number to put in, but not a great way to leave a first impression, even if you think you're only interested in US clients for now (btw I think you should make the phone number optional anyway, I'm sure I'm not the only developer who doesn't appreciate getting dragged out of the flow by a sales call!).
The other problem with COBRA is that the insurance company has zero interest in customer service. Insurance companies are famously horrible to deal with, but if your employer's plan gives you trouble you'll probably complain to HR. If they get enough complaints, they could lose the contract next time around. They have at least some incentive to keep you happy (or at least non-furious)

When you're a COBRA customer you're basically on your own. Good luck getting them to pay up on anything.

Can we have a single-payer system now? Please?
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I'm guessing they're saying that "women working in the industry don't get rape threats for working in the industry. Women who do get rape threats are women with twitter accounts"

Maybe that's true (I don't think so), but like you said so what? It doesn't make it any better.

One thing that's often missed is that it's not only men making the death and rape threats - one of the people jailed for threats against Caroline Criadoperez was a woman. It'd be interesting to see what portion of the "troll"[1] population is women.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/twitter-trolls-is...

[1] giving in and using modern version.
German here who lived in the US for a year. I lived there during the time when obamacare was presented and I had a lot of discussions about this. The main reason which I heard over and over again (and sometimes word for word) "The German system is communism. We don't want that here!". I am not even kidding, there are people who truly believe that a german insurance system would be the beginning of communism in the US. One guy who told me this broke his arm and had to pay about 15000 dollar because he had no insurance. An other couple paid 75000 dollar behause at the birth of their first child there were some medical problems during birth and they did not have insurance. And still both got angry at me when I told them that I'd prefer the German way.

After hearing this stuff for half a year I am really glad to be back in Germany. I am funemployed since a few months and I pay 150 euro per month. Next week I have an appointment at the doctor because of my severe hip problems. I might get some xrays done and perhaps some MRT. What will this cost me? Nothing! I am so glad that I live in a deeply communist country...
Perhaps people are disagreeing with you because you are the worst kind of sexist - the kind who thinks their sexism is justified because women have special needs.
>50W/inch^3 is soldering iron level heat dissipation

...we'll 50W/inch^3 is the throughput. If you assume 96% efficiency (which is common for COTS inverters), you'd have 2W/in^3 in waste heat to dissipate. And 50W/in^3 isn't very high on just a per-piece level. Here's a Vicor DC/DC converter that has 1240W/in^3 power density:

http://www.vicorpower.com/promotions/AC_to_PoL/ChiP_Technolo...

...of course getting rid of the parasitic heat isn't included in that example.

> Which is to say to take something which is 90% efficient and make it 99% efficient.

99% efficient isn't completely unheard of:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=377536...

...to me it seems like the catch is FCC Part 15 B compliance. That seems like that'll be the biggest thing to disqualify smaller entries.
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If inverters were smaller and more efficient, they could be placed on a per-panel basis ("string inverters" or "micro inverters") for significantly better performance, particularly when some of the panels are shaded. See this paper:

http://tec.appstate.edu/sites/tec.appstate.edu/files/micro%2...

(EDIT: The above point is valid, but I was wrong about cable sizes improving when using micro inverters!)
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This CSS should do the trick:

.tab-close-button { visibility: collapse !important; }

Or addons.
> It's impossibly expensive because US health insurance is impossibly expensive.

And US health insurance is impossibly expensive because US health delivery is impossibly expensive. I believe 75% of the real US problem is not insurance, it is the cost of delivery.
Disqus does code comments just fine. See other response.

Other things missing from a static site generator though include being able to post from a multitude of devices. To post to a static site generator you generally need a full desktop. Or at least that's my experience.
I like WordPress for the basic use case, and if you're self hosting it's super easy to get up and running.

The downside is that it's popular (thus a target), and left unpatched or unprotected it's easy to mess something up and become part of those Viagra ad rings ;) I've hosted, set up, or fixed dozens of WordPress blogs, and a few have been compromised for one reason or another (you find lots of PHP shells in upload directories).

Not to mention the fact that once you get outside the basic use case (blogging), and/or you start using plugins, things get convoluted FAST. There're a million plugins for WP, and if you're lucky the one you pick will do exactly what you want. But chances are it won't, and you'll spend hours digging through spaghetti code to get it to work for you.
> JSON does all the things Transit does, with fewer types. (And less stupidity)

I really hate comments like this.

These guys took the time to show the world this thing they created to fill a need they had, and this comment takes a dump on it without its author first getting any experience using the system. As though the author understands Transit's purpose better than Transit's authors do.

Hey, I get it: Transit /does/ (at first glance) seem largely redundant with all the other serialization libraries out there. But before we assume that its authors spent all this time on their project because they're "stupid", it behooves us to try to understand their motivations.

In the end they're not hurting anyone by releasing this thing they built. If it's bad, you don't have to use it. There's no need to be mean or get upset.
> They're Lightspeed Fellows this summer (like myself)

Is iit associated with Harvard in some fashion?
http://lsvp.com/summer-fellowships/
Targeting me with ads is absolutely an adversarial situation. I and most of the population would rather not see ads at all. I do not want advertising agencies building a profile of me so they can sell me stuff. Do you?

Maybe you'll come back with a completely-bogus, typical hackernews-ish response, deluding yourself, saying that yes you like it when advertisers target you based on the data they collect about you because of reasons X Y and Z, something something "better for me". Ads targeted at you do not benefit you in any way unless you work for an advertising firm.

And are you seriously arguing that NSA et al do not peek into cloud storage? Have you been living under a rock?
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Is this an isomorphic set up? Or does the front end do ALL templating?
Thanks!

Pythonista and 'Python for iOS' are good apps, with quite different goals than my app. They allow trying and exploring the language and learning to write programs, whereas I aim to teach basic reading skills of programs. Both are important skills.

There nowadays seems to be 'Python x.x for iOS' for almost all recent versions of Python :)
I really like python-based http://tinkerer.me/

It uses Sphinx markup which is great for embedding source code snippets and extending the blog with own extensions or pre-built ones.
Decent summary, and I'd also encourage the watch-in-full. Even play in the background without visual aids, as the presenters did a great job enhancing the data via presentation.
The author has actually responded to this on his blog: http://johncbeck.tumblr.com/post/92502108047/so-what-did-you....

So what did you do after you got fired from the embassy?

What I didn’t say is that it was the last day of my summer internship. The next summer they invited me back again. Everyone understood it was a mistake, but by officially firing me, someone had been punished … :)

So I guess it wasn't a big deal after all.
I was the exact opposite of "alienated" by the trigger warning. It's a useful tool for people who have to wade through this every day to know if this is going to be viscerally upsetting, or just musings on a theme without the clear content.

Also, you want her to show examples, but if she leads with a strong one, she's writing "extremist hysteria"?