skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though on one hand I'm inclined to agree with you regarding Nagios, on the other hand I disagree. What you're missing is the concept of developer empowerment. I am a sysadmin / operations engineer, and one trend I've noticed over the course of the past ten years is one toward developers venturing further and further into what could be labeled "traditional" systems administration. Do not underestimate developer demand. It's fueled many technological "movements" in the past ten years, infrastructure automation being a huge one.
Interesting that they name Co-CEO's in Catz and Hurd. I wonder how that will work, especially given Hurd's "tough to work with" reputation.

Interestingly Ellison will be the CTO. This could be a shit show with 3 people trying to run the show!

I mean does anyone really expect Larry Ellison to start taking marching orders. Will be interesting to watch the short interest on this company!

I think the two headed CEO is what the street expected all along as Catz has been around for ever and alot of people thought that Hurd, the former HP CEO, was promised the CEO title when Ellison resigned.

It looks like they, Catz and Hurd, will split the running of day to day operations as Hurd gets sales, marketing and strategy reporting to him, while Catz will continue to have finance, legal and manufacturing.

Its down about a dollar after the close on about a third higher trading volume than normal. So it doesn't look like anyone is "spooked" by the news.
Busy producing an Iron Man suit?
Running Oracle is getting in the way of being a Bond level supervillan?

There could be lots of reasons.
Don't forget NERD in Cambridge, MA.
Issa report paints picture of strife, factionalism in run-up to HealthCare.gov
For each area of the business we have two boards: planning and current. The planning board gets pretty messy, and is the place where we capture all the ideas that come to mind, comments and input are added to help prioritize those ideas as a must-get-to-next-week, or someday-this-would-be-nice. And the current board is the chunk of cards we are committing to getting done this week "no matter what". So, the current board stays pretty clean, and people work real hard to get everything cleared out of there each week, because then we can go to the planning board and grab some of the other high-priority things and check them off.

It isn't perfect, but it does keep us making forward progress. And sometimes those things that just don't ever make it to the current board are things that don't really need to get done.
I'm not sure how much they save with deduplication. Dropbox is very expensive per GB, so people don't back up system files etc., and they preemptively block sharing of copyrighted files. What deduplication can they do on a large scale? I don't think I have even one file in my Dropbox account that can be deduplicated.
Overall, this speaks more to an engineer's obsession with size reduction than true design principles.

The animated buttons are a distraction, especially.
I have several apps that use Enlive for templating. It's an awesome library, but reading HTML, parsing it out, and producing the templates at compile-time seems to add a very notable chunk to the startup. Better at compile-time than runtime, of course, but definitely something to consider.
Hi Domenic_S, I'm one of Papertrailer's founders!

Thanks for the good catch – there are a couple typos/remnants
from prior pricing plans there (both are now updated).

First, there is a difference between the individual and family plans –
the individual one is 15 and the family is 30. Second, it is 30 _documents_, not 30 pages per month. From looking at the use of our existing customers, it is our observation that 30 documents per month is more capacity than most need (and most end up using). However, if you find that you need more, just let us know. We want to provide plans that are actually useful to you and best fit our customers needs.
I think the rise of no-fixed-IP load balancers like Amazon ELB has dramatically reduced that.
When “free” doesn't mean free
> It lacks critical features

Like?
New Java “Interface Builder Pattern”, an Improved Builder Pattern
I'm only saying they don't have to give a good recommendation. If you send someone to a former boss, and they are neutral, it will be read as a bad recommendation.
Pressure from the board maybe..?
re high res financing: closing dates can also vary in addition to cap. i've personally experienced varying closing dates with same cap and the initial bit was much needed at the time. haven't experienced priced yet but can imagine process being a bit slower.

re less control and no board seats: agreed. though i think it depends on the board member. in your case, i'm sure he was top notch :)

re raising few hundred thousand or less: hmm, don't have enough data. but uber's initial round was $200k. https://angel.co/uber
Password variables stored as constants? In MY binary? It's more likely than you think!
I think the problem with that is it doesn't work with Flash audio. With multiprocess browsers, the Flash audio can be associated with a tab, but that's awkward/not possible if everything is in the same process.
Most people also agree that there is a severe lack of available talent in the area and that it seems to be difficult to pull in people from out-of-area. This creates a cycle where companies hire significant numbers of people from competitors in the Valley. Perhaps MS decided that the cost of playing this game was no longer worth the benefits.
It's SNP voting levels from 2012 elections - not a particularly appropriate measure in my opinion!

Edit: The reason why I don't think it's appropriate is that it is a simple "Yes" or "No" and a lot of people who may have traditionally voted Labour or Lib Dem might be voting "Yes" even though the national UK parties have all been pushing the "No" side of the campaign.
Big Cable's “nightmare” scenario looks a lot like dealing with Comcast now
Very helpful! It's good to answer those questions even if you are not aiming to apply YC very soon.

I converted all the questions to a google spreadsheet. Feel free to make a copy and answer them privately :)
http://goo.gl/r3RXck
Could you use the same PO box for multiple apps?
I imagine the short term ROI for Minecraft is much higher.

That isn't to say the SV team isn't doing great work that could eventually be of colossal importance... but if it can't be quantified on a spreadsheet, the bean-counters don't consider it.
On the Necessity of being “Useful”
I am sure that people in other countries buy Apple products.
Show HN: GiLA – Visualizing how issue labels are used in GitHub projects
Interesting map, but if the person who created it happens by, you should consider setting constraints[1] on your zoom, so that your subject remains in view. It's very easy to zoom out to continental zoom level, which doesn't show any useful information in this context.

1. http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/examples/zoom-constrained.ht...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337293.
Wow, I never knew that he is 70. I thought 40-something. But he looks really young. In this picture he is 69! [1]

[1] http://www.channelweb.co.uk/IMG/834/272834/big-ellison.jpg
> There are higher level frameworks

Like?
Good answers to those questions aren't really that easily reproducible.
Which company was that?
Shippo Raises $2M to Provide a Shipping API for E-Commerce Businesses
Just got back in from my visit to the polling station at a local scout hut a few minutes ago, with the largest population centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh declaring so late into the morning I'm not sure what large benefit is to be gained from live tracking.
SAP did pretty well under co-CEOs.
This only works if your testimony is the only evidence of the crime.
It worked pretty good for MySpace... oh wait
Awesome!! Looking forward to this.
Larry Ellison is stepping down as Oracle’s CEO
My guess is BlackBerry/Research in Motion.
I was talking about Scottish Independence today while hiking with two friends. Both of them thought that independence was a bad idea, but could not provide much reason for this. Maybe a slant in USA news media, with a pro-England slant?

I bet England does make them pay short term if there is a YES vote, but if being a small and independent country saves them money on military spending then long term it might make sense, in addition to national pride.

Way off topic, sorry, but: it is really interesting to think about the USA someday balkanizing. After the dollar is no longer the reserve currency, and when we can't afford our gigantic military expenses anymore, it might make sense to have smaller regional countries, with EU style trade and mobility agreements. Small seems more efficient.
RIM
His essays appeal to me because they feel like very direct, creative, and believable extrapolations into the near future.

See also a recording of his presentation at the Long Now Foundation.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/jul/16/history-future-100-...
Probably RIM.
That is an extremely interesting point.

I never thought of it that way, seeing series 'A' with some regularity and being a (consulting) participant in the deals I never felt the urge to invest in these deals simply because that would create a conflict of interest. But the fact that the only investments that I did do were as an angel in 3 different companies was simply due to the fact that the rounds were very early and the amounts were still low enough that they were in my 'bracket' or 'comfort zone'.

I guess if I felt the need or desire to participate in series 'A' I would join an established VC as a limited partner.

One of the reasons VCs would not like to have a bunch of angel investors join in a series A is that there would likely spontaneously combust into existence a sort of Polish Parliament and then the deal would likely fall through.

Syndicated deals have some of these aspects already, especially if the geographic and/or cultural spread of VCs is large.
This is great.

A lot of people forget that interviews are two-way streets.

If the company culture indicates that you won't be valued, look somewhere else.

In this case specifically, I'd rather learn how to provide value than use some shiny new tool. It's much easier to learn the new tool.. that can be done when you need it.
Making retro interactive art with gretro and gameloop
We are working on including more accurate and detailed health metrics into the upcoming re-launch of the npm site. We're definitely going to be including stuff like GitHub stars (but this disadvantages non-GitHub projects), downloads, number and recency of versions, dependencies (and dev-dependencies) and are considering allowing people to filter by license and passing tests. We're also adding the Collections feature which will allow people to curate groups of packages they use or think work well together, and that will feed into rankings as well.

We've barely scratched the surface of the ways we can improve npm search, and we'd value any ideas the community has. If you have specific suggestions, I've created an issue over at https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/131 for you to throw them into :-)
Sproose brings #ootd to life with SupportKit.io
Probably RIM/Blackberry.
Yep, it's like Hurding Catz.

Ok I'll show myself out.
Regarding "I do not put sensitive and important data on my computer" and "I always work on remote hosts", I must respectfully disagree. Never mind the fact that you set a bad example for newbies, being so caviler with your own safety harms the security of the rest of us. Downloading and executing random software off the Internet---the raison d'être of modern web browsers---is a good way to get owned. Just because you don't use your computer for anything important doesn't mean that it cannot be compromised and used to attack me. Plus, if you use your computer to log into other computers to do real work, then your computer is extremely important! A successful compromise would give attackers all the same remote access you have. Admittedly, that's not what your everyday, ordinary malware is after, but it's the principal of the thing that bothers me.
When did block release training or work experience start getting called co-op given that in various areas of the world a coop co-op means a cooperative like Mondragon.

I have only seen it (co-op) used in the last few years.
Was this something that was expected?
Finally somebody found a way to put html injection on to good use.
I believe a substantial portion of Clojure's startup time is just reading all of the meta data into memory.
Woah, awesome. I've used the http://dnstunnel.de/ tunneling scripts before, and they're a bit of a pain to setup (mostly because of the perl library requirements).
I suspect that's exactly the argument the government will make when a warrant canary case eventually makes its way to court. That taken to its logical conclusion it renders all gag orders ineffective.

The EFF has a nice FAQ on warrant canaries: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq But the short version is nobody really knows if you could be forced to post one or not.
I'll possibly do it. I have to think.

The issues I can see with putting the source itself open is receiving pull reqs, which quickly turn into an issue of copyrights and form-waiving and all kind of stuff I'm not comfortable running around with.

I have a friend who's currently playing with making the conversion work with far more determination than I have, though.
Show HN: Semiconductors for beginners
Airbnb CFO Andrew Swain Has Left The Company
Will Oracle then become better? Maybe as good as Sun used to be?

just dreamin'...
I hate the term "DNS propagation". It confuses people, and makes them think things that aren't true, like a new domain isn't usable until it "propagates" through the Internet.
Agreed. That's way off base. SNP voters won't make up half of the YES vote.

Its unpredictable as it's all down to how the Labour and previous non-voters fall.
For the more sparsely populated areas (e.g. Highlands, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth & Kinross) placing the marker in the "geographical" center rather than on the main town looks a bit odd to me - especially as the Moray marker seems to be located on top of the Macallan distillery rather than at Elgin.....
Dang, hope it was okay listing this as a Show HN.

Maybe it fits more into a category of its own as a good reference. In any case, let me know/ not trying to step on toes.
This is OK, but it would be a lot more useful if the low level API used the standard names from CanvasPathMethods for compatibility with Canvas and Path2D: http://html5index.org/Canvas%20-%20CanvasPathMethods.html
Aerospace is definitely a field to look into. My only problem with it is that I found the working environment miserable. All my direct experience is with massive companies (Raytheon, Northrop, Boeing), though.
Best WAREZ
Wow. Even after you said it I didn't really believe it, but googling confirms it - born in '44. And I thought he was younger than Gates - not 12 years older.

https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+ellison+age
"Colonialism" refers to the political sovereignty of a community being subordinated to that of another. Colonialism generally carries cultural influence along with it, but the vast majority of cultural influence occurs outside the scope of colonialism.
So I'm competing with my friends to get our common friend mark to wear the most ridiculous style possible without him noticing thats what we're doing? Sounds fun
I know even with my poor short term memory 8.8.8.8 is memorable
Lessons from Deploying MySQL GTID at Scale
What 2009 film is this? Sorry I am a movie illiterate.
I started digging into companies with Co-CEOs and found this: "Research by consulting firm Mercer found that as of the end of 2008, just 34 of 6,487 public firms, or 0.5 percent, had co-CEOs."
Unfortunately, many of them are so quiet you can't tell they need people like you unless you really dig around, and sometimes not even then.
I don't see any irony. This tiny layoff (~2% of the workforce) is completely unrelated to a franchise purchase to drive growth in the entertainment division. Microsoft isn't hurting, it's reorganizing.
Discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337293
I'm guessing he wants to spend more time wringing extortionate license fees out of his family?
Not really sure what to say about this. I don't know Ellison, nor do I own Oracle stock, or have any particular interest in Oracle per-se. But nonetheless, I've always seen Ellison as an important character in our industry, and after reading a biography about him, I felt a sort of kinship with him based on some shared interests.

At any rate, it definitely feels like the "end of an era" in a sense. I got my start in this industry in the mid to late 90's when Oracle, IBM, Novell, Microsoft, Borland, etc. were duking it out for supremacy, and - for better or worse - you've never really been able to escape Oracle's shadow to some extent. And Ellison was Oracle, in so many ways.

Edit: It's been a while, but I think this[1] was the biography I read. I'll just say this: regardless of what you think of Ellison, he's an interesting character and reading about the history of Ellison / Oracle is quite fascinating.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Softwar-Intimate-Portrait-Ellison-Orac...
But the site is still down for some period of time, even if it's less than a second. That's unacceptable for applications with many users that are deployed many times per day.
I'd also add to turn off mouse scroll zoom completely.
Open source community.
Kingscrusher is a user on YouTube who has a ton of great chess videos. He covered the Sinquefield quite a lot - here's the first encounter between Carlsen and Caruana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfgRWM6IfP0&list=UUDUDDmslyp...

And all of his videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/kingscrusher/videos

I know they're pretty long (often 45 mins or more), but if you're a big chess fan they're pretty awesome.

The level that these super GMs play at is astounding.
Sorry. I was not clear. Amazon is a more brutal environment, and not as cozy, for engineers. Or so I hear. I don't have first hand experience, but I hear that they ride you pretty hard there.
Atlassian is also run by two CEOs
IMHO, it's kudos to her for being honest; but... PhD and now an AP? ... uhm...
I'm not telling my setup is bullet proof. I'm just saying I gave in on some threats. I do not try to protect against all threats via all possible ways. I try to make my sensitive data to be unattractive and harder to get.

Latest part that you edited out was a question I would raise but it seems like you also think that would not hold.

Even though this setup is not secure. It's more secure than many everyday usage patterns. In a way at least..
samsung has 3 CEOs: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/14/samsung-now-has-3-ceos-with...
I doubt this'll happen. I wish this would happen. But I sincerely doubt this will happen. Sun really felt like a once in a life time company. I think the best thing we can hope for is board room infighting will just kill Oracle.
As an interviewer, if I heard

* someone picked java 1.7 because 1.8 is new and she or he wants to let some other suckers find all the crappy bugs in it (remember when 1.7 made lucene crap itself? I'm sure someone got to have some fun times with that, and I'm glad it wasn't me.)

* or she or he chose php because it was fast, easy, and had easy access to charting tools (I dunno if this is true or not) and for an internal dashboard what does it matter...

* I already know how to use it and can get the work done very quickly (always a great reason); there's no such thing as software finished too soon

* the company already has a large codebase in X and I wanted to say in the same language, libs, and deployment tools

I love people who say I like to lag versions a year, because it means they've been burned, learned the lesson, and want to let someone else do the debugging. You'll more likely than not get a strong hire vote from me. As parent said, it's about explaining why you picked something.
If you want to read about Larry Ellison's personality and his management style, you should read - "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation; God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison". (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181369.The_Difference_Bet...)

It's one of the best books written on him and the way he managed Oracle right from it's beginnings. He was damn good at selling things.
Law and Order SVU Film Permit Data
Oracle's stock has already dropped 2.5%.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/18/oracle-stock-drops-2-5-on-n...
malware authors have been using this technique for some time: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mobin/publications/2013/DNS_USEN...
> I thought 40-something

You know Oracle was founded in the late 70's. And Ellison was a co-founder.
Yes but all of their designers, developers, etc, are all in the US. Note that all Apple stuff says, "Designed in California". If all of your non-manufacturing is shut down, the company is shut down. I think you failed to see this point.
What a bunch of nonsense. TXT records were intended for arbitrary use. Why in the world are these companies pulling data from unknown sources and dumping it RAW into their output? Wow. Good find, IMO.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1464
Just a point:
Could AirBnB not lobby for something like a tax break on hotels with excessive vacancy, and then utilize the fact that the rooms are always available but often sparsely rented (and if this is not true, get a ton of signups that are horrible via blackhatcheatery and make it look that way anyways)? They could just get a huge tax break that still considers them a hotel but abuses the 'normal' understanding of the hotel business model that they are disrupting.

Not saying anyone should ever do it. Moreso just food for thought. Do they pull an Uber and look at the law, then flagrantly laugh, or play a cold calculated game as this gets bigger and their valuation climbs?
FWIW, I'm the one whose comment is quoted in step 6. Please note that the snippet I posted wasn't meant at all to be used as a base vimrc by anybody. It was an illustration of my point: Vim is very powerful even with a very minimal configuration and no plugin.
In Home Depot Breach, Investigation Focuses on Self-Checkout Lanes
I'm imagining a less-professional version, where underneath the polar ice is emblazoned: "This planet is original content and property of Yahweh, DO NOT STEAL"
More utter idiocy from the Play Store policy people. Wow.

It's almost like Google don't want people to develop on the Play Store. That's not a conspiracy, I'm putting it down to ineptitude.

For a long time I've wondered about starting something to take on the Play Store (and more viciously the Play Services library) and this might just be the kick to do it.

EDIT: btw, I'm entirely serious. If anyone is interested please contact me.

EDIT 2: Koushik Dutta posted this on G+: https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/fQh9pLw7...

I bet this is to do with them still being confused about who the merchant of sale in this situation is supposed to be and taking the easy way out, leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces.
One reason against voting yes is quite simple: having no idea what will happen. There are definitely economic uncertainties with independence, and I think it's a valid viewpoint to be concerned about them.

There's no guarantee that change will be a good thing, and the actual benefit to independence is pretty intangible - it is primarily emotional rather than calculated (Scotland already have a parliament, that will be given more powers even if the vote results in a "no")