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How is the media reacting in Brazil? If only they showcased him alongside the famous footballers...

I come from India which is fanatic about Cricket. You would think media will understand the need to give India's chess grandmasters the same exposure as cricketers, but in reality it is mostly run as a business :(
Let me know what kind of database you want to use ? I might be able to help you out.
Africa is not some sort of homogeneous blob. The countries it is currently in have never had any cases of ebola identified there before.

It was only formally identified in the 1970's, and has never killed anything like the amount of people it is killing now.

Nobody in the world has experience of this. We are in completely uncharted territory.

Also, you are being a complete asshole. Try educating yourself about what you are talking about and show some fucking empathy.
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Seems more like complimentary rather than competition. We don't really have a dog in the fight as to which templates our customers use. Just trying to be helpful. Maybe we should do a pull request to get these templates on the sendwithus repo.
We're currently raising a VC round (we're in the current YC batch).

We've already done paid support contracts on the enterprise side and are developing the management service into a SaaS offering.
In order to understand how it's actually going to play out on a real machine in real time, you have to be able to simulate the execution (and perhaps the compiler), either experimentally or in your head.
let me know your email and would set up a demo account for you to test.
Uh, that entire article is FUD and bullshit.
Is "self hosted" considered a positive or negative these days? It seems like there is a small niche that still wants control over their data but everyone else seems ok with the cloud.
Documentation is key for adoption, creating a community and having more contributors. I hope they address this soon. :)
I tried reading most of the site and didn't understand what exactly it is. Am I the only one who doesn't have a clue on what "ops" is/are?
[author here]

I'm hoping to lessen the pain in dealing with tools like gcc and make/cmake/etc. More importantly, C libraries are scattered inaccessibly throughout the web, and Kit provides a central index of modularized units. What's most important going forward is to gather useful libraries, modify them to meet kit standards, and link them in this central registry. Any help there would be appreciated (i.e. send me your libraries!).

Please let me know if you find bugs, have questions, or anything like that.
In the simplest sense it's an open source Paas (think Heroku), but with much more flexible technology. It's designed for ops teams who can run a single platform instead of doing custom deployment work for each application and database
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What a strange comment. You appear to believe that you can sum up the human rights characteristics of entire countries by the answer to a single question about routers.

Here's a characteristic of Chinese human rights that isn't captured by that question: it is the official policy of China that the police can convict and sentence its citizens to a year of labor camp ("reeducation through labor") without a trial. I find that characteristic more important in assessing Chinese civil liberties than the fact that they have obviously owned up a bunch of our routers.
Sure, I just added a screenshot in the README.
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On BBC news a couple of weeks ago, there was some footage of lab workers in the effected area testing samples. They were wearing a plastic suit, heavy gloves, mask, and goggles.

About half way through the footage, one of them removes his goggles and rubs his eye, with a gloved hand. The glove is wet from one of the samples. I wondered if we just watched him kill himself.
This was my take away. I just figured the people who need this product would understand. I'm still really confused.
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There's no way that is sustainable. The cards generally pay back upwards of 1% in points or cashback, so any processor that can offer rates under 1% is losing money somewhere.
No, we have our own scheduling framework and schedulers inspired by the Google Omega paper.
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I was looking around for something like this, and stumbled upon it... not sure if anyone out there has any real life experience with it would care to share in the comments? :)
That's good feedback! Thanks.
The real question is what to do about it. As a species what will happen to us when we completely obsolete ourselves?
Cash handling is not free either. In many European markets paying by debit card is cheaper than cash for the shop, at least for the larger chains. That's why they offer cash back at the till.
Free 5 minute grumpy feedback on the landing page :)

Requires Javascript to display anything for no good reason.
After enabling it and reloading it takes more than 10 seconds to anything but the loading icon to appear. When I quickly scroll down to see what's there, there is nothing, then it fades in. Screenshots are tiny. When I click them they jump into my face. FAQ is hard to impossible to read with the color combination and font and centering. On the whole page I have no idea what is a link and what is not. FAQ items take me back to the top when I click them. Requiring a mail address for downloading (free?!) software is a no-no for me. The buttons at the bottom (fb, twitter etc) have no anchors set so if I hover them, I have no idea what clicking will do. I would not want them to open my mail client or something. No idea what the rightmost icon even means.

> 92five app by Chintan Banugaria is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons are not for programs. Please choose AGPL or something like that for code.

You waste a lot of vertical space, I would suggest putting elements of the top-most part of the side closer together and maybe strip some text like this: http://i.imgur.com/9MjNLvy.png
That way the full screenshot has a better chance to appear on the page.

Writing:

Don't use slashes when you can use a word instead. "No-one can see / access your todos." could be "No-one can see or access your todos.". You are using "to-do" elsewhere which I prefer. I would recommend also using "To-Dos" in that header.

You say "I am sure you will love the design.". I would not use "I" in that page unless you introduce yourself first.

Also spotted "Yes its free." -> "Yes, it's free."!

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The praise is hidden here!
The product itself looks slick and useful. Personally I am not a fan of flat design but you seem to have pulled it off nicely. Self-hosted tools are the best, thanks for doing that! I really really really suggest you make the landing page less annoying though. :P
I had a look at the source code, and it does quite a bit of filtering, particularly around making sure the words are unique, and there is a primitive character comparison algorithm.

The code could be simplified by using Python's set() and improved by doing a copy'n'paste on a Levenshtein function.
thanks for the comment. as you noticed, I am the founder of Denote. as I enjoy engagement with the HN community, my intention was to have an opportunity to introduce myself and my company to this great community and receive feedback/comments. as you mentioned, it would be wise to leave the positive comments (such as the one I made) to be written by the community. again thanks for your time and feedback
I know what "ops" is... but they do need to work on better messaging of their product (it's hard to do). I kinda missed the point of what they are doing, how are they better than AWS OpsWorks or other PaSS.
Well, at least they were able to test that they messed something up.
I use several web browsers, so rather than installing a different 'adblock' plugin for each one, I use Dan Pollock's excellent list as part of my hosts file:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

(Mentioned in HN previously.)

Works well for MacOS X, Linux and Windows, and doesn't care what browser you're using.

I have been using it for 3+ years now without any problems.

I have a script to toggle moving the file out of the way and then back again, mostly so that I can give ad revenue to those sites that I feel are deserving.
Almost all of those can be reversed by one malicious extension.
Nope i spent a few minutes browsing the site and still don't understand the solution they present.
To be fair,amazon probably isn't going to be able to supplant coffee shops any time soon.
>Considering the fact that the US was completely caught off guard by the scope and effectiveness of ISIS I have to question the effectiveness of SIGINT programs like the NSA. I have to assume honestly that these programs outlandish budgets are not for tracking terrorists but to control the domestic populace.

I must disagree with this interpretation. I think that only the American public and (some) American media were caught off guard by ISIS. However, the warning signs about ISIS and speculation about the impact of instability in Syria go back a while, for example to early 2013. It would have been difficult to determine the exact sequence of events (in contrast, Lebanon has been more stable than some would have anticipated), but the expansion of ISIS operations is not so much of a surprise given 1) stated goal of ISIS to operate beyond Syria; 2) rising political tensions in Iraq encouraged by Maliki's disregard of opposition; 3) past actions of local Sunni militias and leaders, etc.

Maybe it looks like the US government was caught off guard, but I suspect that is not the case. I think US intelligence must have considered instability spreading out of Syria, and modeled a number of scenarios off of that. I think it is likely that the US gov. has not been so quick to respond because it realizes 1) there is little support in America for further involvement with Iraq; 2) there is limited support in the region for US involvement; 3) Maliki's government has leaned towards Iran, so the US may consider the ability to sustain American influence in Iraq limited.

In short I view this as a matter more of limited policy options than a matter of failed intelligence. I also think the more troublesome matter for intelligence is the Kurdish situation, since it is one thing to predict what ISIS will try to do and another to predict what will happen with the Kurdish autonomous region as a result.
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I'd always thought of it like the "crossing out" kind of gesture such as drawing an X over something on paper.
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The page you use for crowdfunding is just a front page. It doesn't make sense to have two front pages - it's confusing to the user.

Also Kickstarter requires you meet your goal in order to get any money. It would be a shame if you got half the money on IndieGoGo and your Kickstarter failed because of it.
I'm interested to hear you back up that point about modularity coming naturally in functional languages. Not because I don't believe you -- I've worked with both Haskell and Scala and found both quite refreshing. But I've also encountered codebases on functional languages that are just as muddy and rigid as some of their OO counterparts... So I wonder how much of that modularity is actually a result of the language.
You say all of this like it's a good thing!
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It's Ops as in DevOps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devops
One thing that I really like with other PasS companies is that they package that content up -- setup, architecture, documentation of a n-tier application (I am assuming you already built something like that for contracting work). How would I create a website with database and caching ect... using your services.
[1]"Make sure the microphone on your device is turned on".

I am not familiar with the card reader hardware. Why is a microphone needed for processing a credit card swipe?

[1] - http://localregister.amazon.com/help/201549190/swiping-a-car...
Could a Brazilian chime in? Who's going 2nd in the polls? Do you expect Campos supporters to move to Rousseff or to <other person>? Do you suspect foul play? What are the main differences between each candidate's platform? Did the World Cup results play out as predicted (ie. Rousseff losing support due to loss)?

Thanks!
Ebola is a Level 4 Biohazard. Try getting into or out of a CDC certified Level 4 facility. All of this is documented and easily understood. It's highly contagious, there is no cure and and there is no telling how long the outbreak will last: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard#Classificatio...
I also think that the Dart Team expected more uptake from JavaScript people (I also thought that) similar to how the Go people expected the most uptake from C/C++ people.

Turns out that people who already are happy with an alternative solution are less likely to switch than people who are already unhappy with the alternative because they are not yet used to it/invested and judge it with fresh eyes (like people from other camps like Python, Ruby, Scala, C#, Haskell, Clojure, …).

I personally find it sad that there is such an aggressive backlash against Dart from people who did not really take a close look at Dart or dislike Google for some reason (see Paul Graham's essay on how to disagree http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html).

If you look at decent JavaScript coders who are fluent with many programming languages they tend to see Dart in a different light, take it for what it is and judge it on its own merit.

Maybe focusing on getting the JavaScript community excited was a bit too optimistic. I don't know, you gotta try right?

That said, Dart seems to have an easier time with people who come from languages other than JavaScript or with people who only briefly learned JavaScript to do some stuff and wonder why they have to avoid 90% of the language and every library out there uses a slightly different not completely compatible set of conventions to emulate classes, promises, packages …
Ops is what you do after you write an application. Deploying it to one or more servers, connecting to databases, detecting, diagnosing, and fixing problems.

Flynn is a layer of software that sits between your application code and the servers it runs on to make all of that a lot easier, especially at scale.
I was wondering about the name change from SOA to Microservices myself.

I think both monolith and microservice architectures are valid, it just requires software architects to think a bit more about the size of the problem. If you just have a slow growing self-contained app, then monolith is probably the way to go.

If you have an app that has the potential to grow quickly, or is already integrating with multiple external services, it may make sense to look at microservices.

We switched from monolith to SOA a couple of years ago, and it's been a net win in terms of price, reliability of site performance, and ease of development. There were the obvious drawbacks you stated above of network timeouts, lag, and async issues, but it's just a different set of problems.
Are you saying he shouldn't have consulted Siri, have GPS enabled or that he shouldn't have committed murder? Trying to understand the 'common sense' part.
I find it difficult to compare features as the rows are not aligned.
You have hit the pain point ..Very useful app ..great job
I'll bring my 250mm-sized quad copter to EMF; shouldn't be very difficult to replace the controller board with the MKe. If you don't mind not having stabilisation (horizon mode) you can put it together with four PWM outputs and one digital input.
Fermi estimate time!

Anagrams are just sentences with the same letter counts. The anagrams they're posting have 25ish letters... how many ways are there to distribute 25 balls into 26 bins? (25+26)!/25!/26! is ~250 trillion. The birthday paradox square roots that down to ~10 million, and the fact that we prefer some bins (fewer Zs, more Es) probably cuts it down even further to ~1 million.

So one anagram per million short tweets; hundreds per day. Doesn't seem too unreasonable.
When you say QM is deterministic except for the Born rule, I would add that a lot (almost all) of QM is based off of the Born rule [1], so as to avoid potentially misinforming the unfamiliar reader.

[1] The Born rule in QM is the rule that allows us to calculate the probabilities that a particular experiment would have a given outcome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Rule
Could you explain to me what an ops team is?

Could you also explain to me what running a single platform instead of custom deployment means? A lot of solutions solve that problem. I don't understand how your product does that.
Ok, exist a sample where the contrast between both is clear (related to this area)?
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These are great, and really simple to use. Already adapted for my latest project!

Also, if you didn't catch it in there: the [premailer][1] library is awesome, and helps make email templates more manageable (use CSS/LESS/SCSS styles like normal, then run your HTML email through premailer before shipping and it'll inline everything for you). I use the Python library with Django to preflight emails before sending. Works like a charm!

[1]: https://github.com/peterbe/premailer/tree/master

Also available in Ruby, Node, and PHP flavors
Online identity proofing is hard. When you're the U.S. govt, it gets even more complicated.
Care to elaborate on your claim? It's one thing to claim it's FUD, but yet another to refute it.
SMS is the quickest way I guess as emails are not read very frequently in that region. Isn't there a way to reply(email) via SMS?
There are non negligible costs for accepting cash. Major retailers have to have armored trucks to move cash, cash counts require more trained personnel. Even on a smaller level there is increased risk of theft or skimming from taking cash compared to credit only.
Nothing I said implies either push or pull. Sufficiently smart runtimes can do both based directly on function definitions.

Even Excel knows how to bind a displayed value directly to functional dependencies and only recalculate when necessary.

I'm not denying these techniques are useful, I'm just pointing out that a lot of what seems nice about them is actually attempts to reimplement functional programming inside languages that don't do it very well natively.
how are smoke signs implemented?
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Absolutely, happy to join forces :) More excellent templates for everyone!
I consider it a plus.

If I were developing a product like this, I'd build it for self hosting and charge a nominal cost plus yearly a maintenance/support subscription. Then you could deploy the same product yourself and offer it "as a service" for a monthly subscription. Atlassian does this for many of their products.
Great, thanks for sharing. :)
Adding a $300 lens to the Peachy Printer would still bring the total cost to less than half of the price of the typical extrusion-based 3D printer, most of which have a fixed build area of no more than about 8"x8".

One of their milestone goals is to use the Peachy Printer to build a usable sixteen-foot single-piece canoe, and actually test it out on a lake. If they can manage that, even if they have to install some specialized optics to make it work, it will be extremely impressive, and demonstrate capabilities that far exceed those of more expensive 3D printers.

I think the biggest weakness of the Peachy Printer is the specialized consumables it requires. The resin solution it uses as a build material is going to be considerably more expensive, harder to obtain, and more difficult to store in volume than the spools of cheap ABS or PLA used by more conventional 3D printers.
I'd describe Flynn as a private version of Heroku, not sure if they'd like that description or not though.
> Should we be donating their electricity costs, healthcare costs, should we be donating our time as volunteers for them to run?

Is there some point you were expecting a line to be crossed? "For profit" is an arbitrary designation created by the tax code. Should we not support researchers trying to cure cancer or generate clean energy because they anticipate turning a profit if they succeed?
Eduardo Campos was just the third in the polls, but was seen as an alternative - the first two positions in polls are occupied by the party in power and the former party in power, in that order.

The commotion caused by this accident may help his substitute, as his candidate for vice-president was a very popular character in Brazilian politics who didn't run for president mostly because of bureaucracy in the foundation of her new party.
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No, because every function you call could be depending on hidden state that's not in your scope.
Five yrs ago we wouldn't have guessed Amazon would do tablets, its on OS, music service etc. We don't know what they will do five years from now.
Oh hey, thanks for submitting this for me. :D
I have toyed with the idea of using hosts files instead, but what bothers me is the lack of daily updates. Granted, there is so much bad crap out there that it's impossible to avoid it all.

Another thing I want to do is find a router that allows host files and script regular updates. It would be great to never have to install extensions or tinker with hosts file for every box on the network. I've also said I'd be interested in seeing a proxy server that strips out all of this stuff so no maintenance on the user end is required.
Hey, I love your take on meeting minutes and subsequent collaborative task manager. I feel that your project would benefit significantly from identifying a niche and a customer segment that is most sympathetic to your user experience.

Perhaps a "Succinct Team Messaging for Developers" or a tongue-in-cheek "Meeting Minutes DSL" would be a message more inline with a general feel of the app. At least special symbols in your meeting texts demos give a strong programming language vibe.

If you are a meeting minutes app made first and foremost by engineers and previewed on HN, you really should think about paying more attention to your early adopters -- programmers, hackers and engineers. Just a customer development thought.
That sounds like a good idea :)

https://scott.arciszewski.me/contact/ - my GPG keys, XMPP handles (and associated OTR keys), etc. are all on this page ;)
We didn't stress test it so I don't know how it would react with big files and conflicts. It's a first version to say that we are compatible with it. If people shows interest in it, we'll improve it to handle edge cases if needed.

Whatever, I imagine you could find most of the answers to your question on the Remote Storage forum and website:

http://remotestorage.io

http://community.remotestorage.io/
Hm, whoever edited the title should reconsider - "Awesome Screenshot" is the actual name of the tool.
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I made the same journey.

JavaScript => CoffeeScript => Dart.

I think once you've took the red pill of "There has to be something which is better than JavaScript" it is hard to go back.

Once you've written some CoffeeScript you will start to long for even more semantic improvements beyond classes, preventing you from polluting the global namespace and being able to bind `this` using the fat arrow.
He was the third in the polls. Campos supporter were few, but my guess is that they will move to whoever substitutes him in the run, as the party now may add a new candidate at his position, and his aspiring vice-president is very popular.

No serious reports on foul play, there are no big differences between most candidates' platforms and the World Cup results did not have any significant results in Rousseff support.