skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly zprezto started as a huge pull request to oh-my-zsh that the author rejected. You can probably find it in the closed issues of oh-my-zsh.
No need to apologise. Honestly, relax - it's Sunday, go spend some time with your friends and family instead of worrying about other people on the Internet. It's all going to be fine, I promise.
>This is classic agency risk, where the incentives are not aligned

Paying by the mile is even worse. How much incentive does the company have to make unloading and loading more efficient when they get it for free?
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The personal incentive is that we could all live better lives. We have the means and the capability to directly improve quality of life, rather than gaining capital to trade it for quality of life.
24. http://www.osdomotics.com/

Important is the use of open standards, osdomotics uses open 6lowpan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6LoWPAN

I use it to control the humidity of my old piano and to automatically (presence / time) switch on / off my espresso machine, which has a very long heating time. Works very well.
Objectfying a person is admissible when the person is selling itself as an object.
True story--

I wrote an article for Byte Magazine around 1980, back when that was a big deal. It was a technical article about something I won't mention and it got a lot of good reviews and I made a minor bit of money for it.

A few weeks later, I received a postcard from someone claiming to be a university professor in Budapest, Hungary. He said he loved the article and was wondering if I could send him copies of it to read. I was a bit surprised because Hungary, then, was a communist country and you just didn't communicate such things to them.

A week or so later, I got another postcard from someone in Budapest making the same claim and also wanting a copy of the article.

Wanting to be a good citizen and patriot, I felt someone needed to know about this so I called the FBI. They invited me to their offices in one of the new, cool Federal buildings so I thought this would be fun. Getting inside, though, showed they still painted the walls that boring, 50s, pea-green.

In just a few minutes, I was escorted to a back room by an agent. On the table he had a folder with copies of the postcards and article I had sent them earlier. He was a nice guy but I noticed the cheap suit he wore; not wool but nylon or some other "plastic" material.

We talked for a bit about what the article was about and how these Hungarians may have come across it and why they were writing me. My last name is Hungarian so that may have been part of it.

He said, this is step one for such people to make contact. If I sent copies of the article, they may write back and ask me more questions, or ask me about other articles, technical info, my family, how I'm doin', and so on. One day, I may get a phone call: "Hi, I'm a friend of that university professor you were writing and he asked me to stop by and say Hi!" but that would probably never happen so don't worry about it.

So he asked me to send copies of the article to him anyway just to see what happens. Wanting to be a good citizen and patriot, I said, "Of course!". I thought it would be fun!

Weeks went by. My wife went to bed right after dinner with a bad cold. I went in the other room to watch TV with the sound turned down. The phone rang.

"Hi! Is this, icantthinkofone?". (Not my real name.) The voice on the other end said he was with a publishing company I had never heard of. He had read my article in Byte, thought it was very good, and wanted to know if I could write a book about other technical subjects ... like disk drives.

I felt like someone grabbed my chest with their fist. A pall fell over me and I started to sweat. There was an article in the EE Times about how the Soviets were after disk drive technology just the other day. Was this a Hungarian spy?! I had no way of knowing. I never heard of his company. I asked him to send me a sample book to examine their writing style. The next day, I called the FBI.

A week later, I received the book. The FBI confirmed the caller was legit. I never heard from my Hungarian professors again. The FBI never called me. What I thought would be 'fun' was one of the most frightening moments in my life. (And I never wrote the book.)
.NET is an advantage not a disadvantage. HN can be utterly bizarre sometimes.
I'm 21 years old student of hungarian philology. I'm absolutely fascinated with all the new technologies and (mainly) software startups that are presented here; maybe I chose wrong path in my life but I'm obsessed with Hungary and learning so there's that.

I hope Hacker News will grow big.
We were a gold partner. There are no reasonable discounts over what you pay. Add to that the support isn't any better than the pay per incident support.

Action pack is reasonable value but you can't use it to deploy production kit on. Not only that the definition of internal use is so vague it's a risk.

We got an audit. It wasn't cheap to sort out what we thought was in compliance.
It doesnt matter, because whiteknighting.
nothing beats self education through prospect motivation. teachers are becoming and will be outdated and software WILL replace teachers eventually if not soon. its already replacing them...you can see the trends in webapps such as blackboard and online courses etc. Anything that is repeated in a loop can be systematized through software, teachers constantly waste human resources by repeating the same things over and over again, books are also an extreme waste of resources and much harder to update. software is just soo much more flexible, its only a matter of time before teachers stop existing all together.
No investor cares about what language your product is written in. No client does either.

Use what gets the job done, think a little about scalability and modularity from the start. Don't optimise until you have plenty of data. Over thinking things like this will prevent you from the initial release.

If it works, great. But like all projects, you might have to throw away significant portions of your system away to grow. Being too tied to one specific technology will defeat you.
Or learned Perl and are too afraid...
X-10, Insteon, zwave

Look at misterhouse.

Just some ideas to google for.

Edited to add, also language has not caught up with reality. Anything with house-ish peripherals is called "home automation" even if it is a web interface for out door weather sensors like this article. The relevance is someone looking for automating insteon outputs based on insteon and security system inputs and NTP accurate time using a simple fast and easy to develop scripting language is going to be really unhappy with a very nice looking HTML 5 remote control app like the linked article. Its a cool remote control and a cool graphing system but does apparently no automation at all.

There's about three totally separate markets all called "home automation". There's web page (or sometimes more annoyingly iphone-only app, or app that wants access to my contacts list for spam and resale purposes, etc) remote controlling. There's logging and graphing. Finally there's automation as in remotely controlled devices automatically taking action based on other remote devices or rather elaborate multiple timers or the wall clock time. Also there tends to be issues with the balance of input vs output in that this article does virtually no output at all other than nice looking web pages, compared to other tools in the field. Finally there's the open/closed issue mentioned where in home automation, as in actual automation, closed "solutions" are utterly useless due to the network effect between devices. The usefulness of any individual "home automation" device scales at least quadratically with the number of other devices it can interact with. For example, a web interface to my thermostat would be pretty useless by itself, if it can't network with everything else I own, or worse, anything else I own.
I see a listing of what the link lacks. It's not the parent's responsibility to provide references without being asked to do so - gathering resources for this kind of post can easily take 2-3x the effort of writing up the original post, especially if the parent's author hasn't studied the subject formally recently. Also, he doesn't know that there's demand for more references without first posting, and if we expect all such posts to contain references, we discourage their authors from writing them.
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Well it is at the top. It's obvious that this is representative of the interests of HN, otherwise it wouldn't be there. Sorry it doesn't meet your standards.

You mention it being amateurish. A constructive response would be to take it, pull in some REST data and show everyone whats possible. Or you could just complain.
Thanks, this is the coolest thing I've seen in weeks.
Type classes are built into the language. So they are not really `design patterns' by the original definition of the word.
That's also why Applicatives combine better.
Is SMS usually the way you send data from tracking devices?
Try to find product/ market fit as quickly as possible. My personal rule of thumb is to find 10 paying customers before you can declare product/market fit.

The stack really doesn't matter and should be least of your concerns at this stage. I used to work for company whose stack was .NET. They got acquired a year back for 1.6 B dollars.
The term you're looking for is a hypothesis, not a theory, as far as I can tell, because you've provided no evidence that it is correct by way of double-blind studies, and I am struggling to find anything at all of this "Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance" past "we looked at some graphs and came up with an explanation after the fact". Statistics can be used to explain anything, the trick to avoiding the issue is to come up with the explanation and an independent experiment first.

Science doesn't operate on a basis of "I'll make stuff up and make people prove me wrong". A hypothesis is worthless on its own, and is decidedly not knowledge.
Given you are a new account and this is your only comment, are you perhaps the creator?
I completely agree with you (even though you're French and I'm Italian ;)).
I am used to metric system, but for some thing it's normal to use other measure we are used to. The example is exactly the one you're making, screen size for me it's normal to think about it in inches because it was always like this, and when sometimes I see TV screen sizes expressed in centimeters here in Luxembourg/Germany, I have to look for the conversion (or guess it sometimes from the model name) because I was thinking "42 is not enough, 50 is ok, 55 could be the right size for me, 60 is probably too much).

At the end it's mainly a matter of being used to, and being afraid of changing too
If drivers spend much time loading and unloading, and not getting paid, the amount paid per mile required to attract drivers will rise.
I would like to know if any site reliability engineer or sys-admin or someone in any (dev)ops role ever seeks the help of distributed systems theory. I have seen many of the real-life systems that are listed in the article thrown in as a recommended reading for preparation for many job interviews. I've just never managed to figure out in what situations or scenarios (especially troubleshooting-related) the knowledge of the design or the design principles behind a distributed system comes really handy for a person in any of the roles I mentioned above. Any enlightenment will be greatly appreciated.

(EDIT: I guess what I'm trying to get at is that it would be nice to read a detailed post about how someone who maintains a big distributed system handled a major troubleshooting or scaling problem and how, if any, distributed systems principle or theory came handy in that exercise.)
>It's really unfortunate because the only reason most people are against immigration, deep down, is that they fear they will be usurped by cheap labor.

There's many good reasons to be against immigration apart from that:

1) It lets companies play third world workers off against first world workers. We know that they tell the first world workers to shape up (i.e. work overtime; accept abuse & wage theft) or have their job shipped to China, but they actually do the same to the 3rd world workers too with the threat of insourcing.

After all, there are MANY times when it's a trade-off between more expensive but higher productivity 1st world workers and lower productivity, lower paid 3rd world workers. BOTH wages are driven down (often to unbearable levels) by tearing down trade barriers, because they can simply pick the workforce that is more desperate.

2) 3rd world countries often spend outrageous amounts of money to educate their workforce, only to have the cream of the cream high tail it to a high income country which gets all of the benefits of that education. This is a direct subsidy from poorer countries to richer countries that goes largely unacknowledged.
It's also an article like this how much journals' titles could be sensationalized...
"Progress has been steady, with day-to-day work on readying SABRE for test flights that Bond says could take place as early as 2018. [...] The ESA has also praised the economic model, claiming the Skylon could meet its launch cost target of €70 million ($94 million)"

SpaceX is already making launches for cheaper than that[0] (even though their manifest is already full until sometime in 2016) and hopes to be able to lower their costs by up to 90% with their reusable launch system program over the next few years.

Skylon may be a great idea, and if they were 5 years ahead of where they are now then I'd be really excited for them. But if they're still 4 years away from flight tests after 30 years of development, and will be behind where the competition are now when they get there, I for one am not as impressed as the ESA is with their economic model.

[0] http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities
Sadly, YoYoGames no longer provides a free version. Now tons of hobbyists are stuck on GM 8.0, like myself and the rest of the Gang Garrison 2 team: http://www.ganggarrison.com/
Compare this to any admin template from WrapBootstrap and you know why this is at the top.

If you look at a WrapBootstrap template, it generally looks nice -- but as soon as you look at the code, your opinion will change. They literally include any popular JavaScript library that exists, just to show off what's possible. And the code is not well-written, either. 70 HTTP requests and 5MB resources to load is the new normal there.

This one here, in contrast, is clean, polished, and shines due to its simplicity.
>If a single company has trouble hiring, they can raise salaries. However, if the pool of workers remains finite

You mean fixed, not finite.

Which it wouldn't, if you raised salaries. The pool of workers would increase in size because people like money.

We're not talking about a job that only a fixed number of people could do. Half the working population could probably be a trucker if they tried, and they would if you raised wages enough.
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LogParser[1] is not that bad for querying event log (and other types of log), even though I've never used to to be really quick querying the system. I was using it in the past on a scheduled basis to process event files and save relevant info in a SQL Server database.

Recently I found this agent: http://nxlog-ce.sourceforge.net/ but I haven't yet the occasion to try it. Probably a good approach would be using this kind of agent plus something like Logstash.

On the other hand sometimes it happened to me to find servers with event log corrupted, so log was lost (and it was not possible to log other info before doing a reset of the log). That's not nice..

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2465...
Freaky.

How do you know the caller was legit, just because they sent you a book? :)
OP, I wanna give you some advice regarding this visa thing, for future reference. As a rule of thumb never resign from your previous position until your visa has been processed. You can always apply for premium processing which is guaranteed to give you results within 15 business days.

For example,if you are doing a h1b transfer, please wait for the h1b transfer to complete before you resign from your previous position.
We're a company with a .net stack that is being acquired right now.

It didn't come up until their senior engineer said we should rewrite everything in Angular.js and Java. The tech management guys quickly said, "Sure, maybe, but for the foreseeable future, we will SSO between the two systems and plan for deeper integration later."

Hands on engineers care a lot about tech choices and sometimes have actual good reasons. At the business level, nobody cares as long as you can meet the business need.
Forget about older ASP.NET and WCF on mono. The core of ASP.NET (System.Web assembly) doesn't feature in next version of ASP.NET. WCF hasn't seen any effective development in years.

The new stuff (ASP.NET vnext) will be highly mono compatible and like the current OWIN stuff, entirely decoupled from IIS.
Full instructions for reference. Run:

wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nss/libnss3{_3.16.3-1ubuntu1_amd64,-1d_3.16.3-1ubuntu1_amd64,-nssdb_3.16.3-1ubuntu1_all}.deb
sudo dpkg -i libnss3*.deb

Create a new Tampermonkey script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Netflix HTML5 for Linux
// @namespace 0d0a3443-cc79-4f86-bf62-2dac581d2b3a
// @version 0.1
// @description Enables HTML5 video support for the Linux host platform
// @match *://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?*
// @user-agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.68 Safari/537.36
// ==/UserScript==
I prefer grml's zsh config [1]. It's used on the Arch Linux installation image. Has lots of completions and git support out of the box.

1. https://grml.org/zsh/
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Of course you cannot use the software from a partner program externally. It was only concerning development licensing.
before Process Monitor (procmon), those features where split between File Monitor and Registry Monitor (filemon and regmon). And they also have tcpmon for network connections, so maybe that why you think that it was already around before.
I'll also add that I am a big fan of Russinovich and his tools (including of course Process Explorer, Autoruns and Pstools like psexec pslist pskill etc..) so if he releases something new, it should be interesting for sure!
>this frankly somewhat amateurish project

Any links to your frankly great professional projects?

This project is better than lots of dashboards I've seen, even for quite celebrated companies. And don't get me started on freakishly expensive enterprise services dashboards...
It never ceases to amaze me how many people have bought into the idea that Google is going to bring self-driving cars to the world. The leading car companies have been working on it for decades. And in some cases e.g. Volvo in Sweden are testing it at a serious, real-world scale:

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/videos/13...
> If there were an infinite supply of desperate people "willing to work more for less", wages would be zero, or minimum wage at most.

Well, isn't it exactly what's happening? As far as I can tell, in the unskilled job market, like retail or fast food, wages are what they are because anything less is either illegal or makes it better for an employee to stay on welfare.
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This article is the best introduction to the topic in my opinion: http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Rediscovering-Distributed-Sy...

Another good reference for understanding distributed databases is: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadi-pacelc.pdf
Mainly so the airline can hire out an iPad for in-flight entertainment. They hold your credit card until you return the iPad at the end of the flight.
If "lazy" translates to "wanting to work with tools that make things easy", then I'm as lazy as they come. I wouldn't characterize that as a negative trait.

@OP: I'd recommend Jekyll, and GH Pages is great for hosting if you don't mind your blog being open-source (I use it).
> managing a toggle cookie to keep the state the same when the page is reloaded

... with @media queries? Tell me more!
Then they would stop sending you email. And, presumably, close your accounts.

My guess is that high-reputation places wouldn't feel obliged to offer large bonds, or wouldn't offer any bonds on communications for established relationships. They wouldn't have to, because their mail gets through. The bonds would be much more useful for senders with deliverability or attention issues. That is, individuals, small companies, and new companies. It could also be great for marketing. If somebody's willing to bet $20 that their email is interesting enough to me that I won't collect the bond, I'd be interested to read it.
The problem is that it will be really hard to convince managers to run Mono/linux against .Net/wserver when all resources and external support is for and based on the second one
Don't worry about suitors - worry about hiring people. Team matters much more than Tech.

But, as perspective, MS Dev tools cost about $10K per dev + $3K per year per dev after the first. Engineers costs $100K+ per year. +10% productivity covers the tools. If it costs you a month to retool or saves you a little on salary or lets you hire a little easier, you have paid for the tools. So what matters are things where you get x3 productivity or x3 better ability to hire.

Also, I think you are asking the wrong question. The problem you are trying to solve drives the platform decision and language (even DB) are only a small part of the equation. Amazon works just fine with C#/.Net and it is cheap to free at first. To get a fair comparison at scale, you need to include the price of EC2 instances against a dedicated self-hosted database server. Depending on your application, you'll get very different answers.

In your shoes (based on limited info), I would try to get into the BizSpark Cloud program. It is free MS software plus a big credit on Azure for three years. Then count on the price war between Amazon/Google/Azure to keep prices in line.
We were informed ambiguously that some development is production.

At that point we stopped playing word games and threw our devops infrastructure on Linux.
I think you've tied your entire response to SQL Server rather than the .NET stack so I'll do the same from an ASP.NET aspect..

ASP.NET is moving at an incredible pace, the new vNext bits are planned to be officially cross-platform and you can support any number of database backends from a .NET codebase.

I also challenge your assertion that better people seem to use other platforms. You can find people marketing themselves as one thing but preferring another in any stack. This is not indicative of anything more than someone needing a job and meeting the requirements of a posting.

Licensing costs can vary. Between BizSpark, DreamSpark and other programs you can get dev tools out of the way quickly. They also provide Windows licensing for the period you're in the program.

The areas where you can get in real trouble as a startup with Microsoft are the add-on product stacks like SQL Server and BizTalk (shudder). I would avoid these in a new product but do not fear building with the .NET platform.
How can someone be both a fanboy and a shill?

Given that a fanboy is an uncritical true believer and a shill is paid to claim an opinion that they otherwise do not hold, the two terms would seem to be largely incompatible.