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Ask HN: Share your file sharing and management for small teams
I'm looking to formalize file-sharing and permissions setup for a <10-person team.

Please share & rationalize your setup, e.g. Dropbox, Dropbox for Teams, Box, Google Drive, etc.

Thanks!
That fails in the presence of subtyping, unfortunately. A could expose a C in terms of some supertype not defined in C. Then that object gets cast back down to the more specific type and handed off to (the wrong version of) C.
> Someone who cancels isn't gone forever. [...] Reach out in a few months with a discount and they might come back. A lot do.

A lot of American companies could do with learning this lesson.

They focus on "customer retention" instead of "customer service." Which is to say they make it as difficult as humanly possible to quit, but as a direct consequence of that they make customers much less likely to ever return if they do successfully quit.

There are a lot of services I quit and re-join regularly (e.g. Pluralsight, Audible, Amazon AWS, World of Warcraft, etc). I rejoin without a second thought because I KNOW that if I want to cancel it is just a simple click away.

There are other companies (e.g. LogMeIn, XBox Live, all cell phone companies, etc) which I will only join if I absolutely have to as leaving is such a PITA. It always involves calling CS and having long pointless conversations about your reasons, why you won't reconsider, blah blah blah until you can finally leave.

My point is: That every step you add to customer exit is a step you also add to customer re-acquisition. MBAs could do with learning that.
Illumos Day 2014 Talks/Slides
Well, they claim that is splits line just like TEX, so maybe it was just an unfortunate mix of wording and font.
We had 50 servers reboot and 15... never came back. It was painful. 10 were in one AZ. We're putting servers in more AZs now, but preparing for a reboot and preparing to rebuild a redis slave, 2 zookeepers, 10 cassandras, and an API server are different things.
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Particularly looking for experienced polyglots with experience in Python or Node and ideally some Android Java + ObjectiveC (or willingness to pick it up!).

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And under what terms do you provide that service? :)
FYI vagrant can manage docker, it is more of about the same in reality.

https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/docker.html
Microsoft is an irrational actor: they will sink billions of dollars into VS without regard for direct return in order to secure Windows as a platform. Using them as an example is useless. Moreover, VS is "purchased" almost exclusively as part of the entire Microsoft stack. When I was there a tiny, tiny fraction of revenue came from anyone actually just buying VS.
Path Talk: Message People and Places in One App
There's a difference between "asking to recover an account of that's in active use" and "asking to recover an account which is in arrears and unreachable for the last two months", though. I don't think I'd mind if people were able to socially engineer the latter; they'd have to pay my account off to use it!
I had a paper published on a model for the GRB that would have caused that event!

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504158

When the GLAST (now James Webb Telescope) data came in, it pointed to a small (~1%) anisotropy of UHE GRBs toward high metalicity galaxies. Our model was completely isotropic. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to rework the anisotropy into our model's assumptions before our funding fell through.

... and that is the story of my brief experience as a scientist.
The attack surface of incorrect use of the admittedly complicated x86 privilege transition and protection mechanisms is shared in its entirety by all x86 operating systems (except, to a limited extent, by those that turn off some of these mechanisms, which AFAIK none do).
Show HN: Predicting Reddit Post Popularity Based on Comment Thread Structure
In my previous job, I worked at an advertising company in the "downloadables" department for a number of years. Basically we developed browser toolbars, software installers, mobile apps, and other software all with the sole purpose of gathering information about users in order to make money off them. We never (to my knowledge) developed any actual keyloggers, but we would do other equally insecure things with end users' data. For example, sending browser cookies, registry values, files off the hard drive, etc. in plain text to databases on our servers for later analysis.

Getting this kind of software through spyware screens in antivirus programs is not too difficult. Some of the antivirus companies have automated processes by which you can upload your binaries to them as false-positives and they'll automatically whitelist them for you. Sometimes it requires a quick email or phone call to the appropriate person at the antivirus company. Occasionally you have to make changes (usually just adding more disclaimers to an already ridiculously long EULA) in order to satisfy them and get on the whitelist. On a few occasions we just had to pay some money to get whitelisted.

Some of the more inscrupulous antivirus companies would even take money to bundle our now-whitelisted spyware applications in the installers for their products (as a checked-by-default "also install" option).

My takeaway from my time in that industry is that antivirus and antispyware software and companies are, by and large, just as bad as a lot of the spyware and spyware producing companies that they claim to be protecting you from. It's just a big circle jerk where the ultimate goal is to trick people into generating revenue by installing software or seeing ads that nobody in their right mind would ever actualy opt-in to.
TLDR: Text any business and Path will have someone call them, ask your question(s) and text you back the answers.
For Raman spectroscopy, a "cheap" notch filter won't even work. a 0.5" long pass filter made for Raman can easily cost $2000. When you have a $2000 filter, you have to use temperature stabilized laser, otherwise the laser wavelength shifts, thus, spectrum shifts. Grating and concave mirror can also cost a fortune.

Also, Raman typically is very weak, roughly 10^-6 of the laser intensity. The CCD/CMOS has to be low dark count.

The things is, if you have spent $5000 on components, why should you save couple hundreds of dollar on good optical mounts?

This 3D printed plastic base/structure will never have good stability and precision for any serious scientific application.
Me too.

There is an annoying text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px
I'm not sure if it's an inspiration for Chris but it's definitely related since a key focus for Chris seems to be on building it on immutable data structures (and hence essentially temporal.)
Blurry in firefox here, not blurry in chrome (win7, desktop lcd).
Well, the video conferencing feature is a simple link to third party services (talky.io and appear.in) you can configure it on the admin interface of the project.

Anyway you can use talky.io and appear.in without taiga, they are great services!
I like your idea of being able to defer a dollar and then donate it to another charity you like more. That way, you're still donating a fixed $30/month, but you can distribute it more to your liking.
I specifically contacted MIT about this issue, and unfortunately, we're just gonna have to out-SEO them.
Pluto's a planet, according to a new public debate
This is very similar to a feature I love about Watsi: https://watsi.org/monthly
> They want to make a better excel
> They want to make a powerful, intuitive, database UI
> They want to make a tool scientists can use to crunch and visualise data

These are basically all the same thing. Excel is generally used as a database / data cruncher. A relational DB with a similarly accessible learning curve could prevent many of the errors that riddle most spreadsheets. We add incrementally updated views to handle the data manipulation / crunching side (relatational aggregates are sufficiently expressive to handle most statistics / ML problems - http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/cs286/papers/bismarck-sigmod2012.p...).

> They want to make hypercard with modern programming languages backing it

Papers like https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master... and http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/eurosys10-boom.pdf show how you can handle interactivity in a relational model. We have enough of this working that we bootstrapped the IDE.

> They want to make a tool for professional programmers to focus on the hard problems

Most of what I do as a professional programmer is not building abstractions or designing systems, but wrestling with incidental low-level detail, lack of visibility and tools that don't talk to each other. I've had enough experience with Eve to be convinced that I would be more productive.

> ... over-promising and under-delivering.

Obviously we are suffering from http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_dista... since we have been thinking about this and working with it for months and all you have to go on is a few blog posts. I don't expect to convince you that we are right, but hopefully I can convince you that we have at least thought it through. We aren't trying to boil the ocean here - we are building a small set of tools that are applicable to lots of different problems. We've picked one problem to focus on for the first assault
Did you expect this to be enlightening? It seems you would have been able to expect nothing but contentious debate, which is certainly not why I frequent HN.
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Given that a child's laptop will likely be connected to the school's wifi, where any other child would then be able to sniff the keypresses...

Yes, it's a problem.
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That is certainly true, though I haven't seen many IDE-based consultancies. In our particular case, that wouldn't have been the right direction - none of us want to be "programming", much less doing it at other people's whim.
The English speak English, and I can't think of any serious socially-oriented sites that are popular across the English speaking world that were born in the UK except for last.fm which was mostly a music tracking service than a social area. I'd be interested if anyone can bring any up though, but I'm kinda surprised nothing like a British version of Reddit ever took the Internet by storm.. everyone I know here just uses all the American sites.
It doesn't cause problems most of the time since most dependencies do tend to be encapsulated. When they aren't, JavaScript's dynamically-typed nature can also give you some slippage: you may get an object from a different version of yourself, but as long as it has the same properties you expect, it might, mostly, do the right thing.

This is also a better fit in JS where the community seems to prefer packages that don't expose many real "objects" with methods and stuff. Packages tend to expose bare data-bags and functions from what I've seen. That makes "I got an object without the methods I expect" errors less frequent.

I personally feel that approach is too unsafe and definitely wouldn't have been a good fit for Dart, but it does kind of sort of work for npm.

Of course, it's totally broken in the presence of dependencies cycles, which is why npm now has "peer dependencies" and is right back to having to resolve shared constraints.
Shopped around, with no takers. At last count it was reported they've given up on that.
Even though the demo website expects the whole input to be a time expression, Duckling actually detects substrings inside a larger block of text.

We've mostly used it on short sentences, but it should work on larger inputs, like articles. I'd recommend splitting very large inputs into sentences though.
I've been using Target Process which is free for small teams - albeit not open source.

http://www.targetprocess.com/
From 'fourteen nights' - two weeks
I don't think there's a well-known name for it. I'd call it something like a "non-encapsulated dependency".
Flipside is that with hardware virtualization, a lot of that behavior is protected in hardware which, for whatever reason, seems to be extremely secure in practice. You don't see a lot of erratum-based exploits... the recent SYSRET bug was severe but only counts somewhat ("instruction does something different than what it does on another vendor's processors, and is technically documented to do so" is bad, but it's not like there was some sequence of instructions that would just get you arbitrary memory access without interacting with the hypervisor).
No, Linode just uses HE.net, Cogent, etc..

http://he.net/
"Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $0.45/Mbps!"

Hurricane Electric is pretty cheap. You can hit 2TB a month on 10mbps. That is only ~$4.50 a month.

There are a couple tricks with it:

1) On a $10 Linode, you aren't going to upload 2TB a month unless you are acting as a file server. Any kind of application [say, wordpress] isn't going to do it.

2) The majority of people won't max out their bandwidth usage because they are running app/database servers on Linode.

They probably take a small loss on the people maxing out their 2TB a month but on average they aren't. It isn't worth the bad PR to kick a small percentage of small net loss customers.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1292091

fyi, back in 2013 Cogent was doing sub $1/Mbps as well.

Bandwidth from the cheap providers is cheap. The difference is AWS & Google are making their margins on what they charge for bandwidth is my guess.
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cf. my answer to another comment.
Even though the demo website expects the whole input to be a time expression, Duckling -- used as a library -- actually detects substrings inside a larger block of text.

EDIT regarding 6pm vs 6am, applications will have control over the assumptions made by the system. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397113
Why do they call it "Mini"?
What's your bargaining power? Use it to get your money.
I guess your point makes sense for general university. However, there is a way to have fairly cheap education with good feedback, with skill selection. I went through the French equivalent of the Ivy League (Paris Tech): tuition was “free” (hundreds of Euros per year, paid-for for most students with economic difficulty) and tutoring was systematic. However, having consistent classrooms where groups of 15 had the same level helped a lot.

Those schools receive a lot more tax-payer money than university does, but not impossibly more. Saving on that without sacrificing the pedagogy seems doable: teachers often were alumni that could have easily contributed out of duty and prestige (I certainly did: paperwork to get paid was a maze).
It's not a matter of difficulty, it's a matter of return on effort. We could pour hundreds of man-years into catching up with emacs/vim but we would be solving the wrong problem. The reason that language tooling is so hard is because languages are not built for this kind of tooling.
Shodan[1] does just this. I guess script kiddies all around the world are abusing it.

[1]:http://shodanhq.com/search?q=cgi
"DSL" is slang for "API" in the ruby community [0].

[0]: https://gist.github.com/geeksam/24ef10be8c773a2c1bd4
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Or 0MQ to talk to Mongrel2.
Then why not buy an even bigger TV to make you even more happy?
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I also think that your problem is that you are almost done with the school, you matured and grew indepedent from the institution - you are smart and experienced enough to have your own ideas of doing stuff. And the crisis you are going through is not extraordinary, rather normal. But also a part of being mature is to be able to do things that are not interesing, not nice, and - quite often - not needed.

In the future you will have client's who are idiots, and business partners whom you cannot stand, and tasks that are just repetitive and uninventive. So treat this last few semesters as a good training. Observe your self, see how you react to these obsticles, try work out a strategy of dealing with such hardships. It'll definitely be useful and make you a stronger human being.
> This is one of many reasons why I prefer to see addiction as a learning or developmental disorder, rather than taking the classical disease view.

I always thought that myself but is the first time that I see an article on it.

Most, if not all, addiction studies/reports/data/whatever doesn't count the people that overcome their addiction on their own, or at least on their own without causing major problems.

I would be really glad if this was discussed more often.
The Periodic Table of Tech
Some of the text on the home page is extremely light. It makes it hard to read against the white background. From a designing standpoint I would suggest to darken that text up a bit. The "Did we say free..." text is also hard to read. Maybe put one of those transparent black boxes behind it?
iOS 8: Make Cellular Phone Calls from Your iPad Using Handoff
I'd love that, I'm also curious to know where this line of work headed to (in the present)!
End of an era – No more pics from Trading Floor
Sounds like a lot of vague arm-waving to me. How is Denmark's government debt to GDP ratio? Private debt to GDP ratio? Employment rate? Workforce participation rate? Economic growth?

How do all those things compare to its peer group? You can't look at Norway's petro-fuelled prosperity and decide they have the answers for you, look at nations with similar economic structures.

What evidence is there of actually unsustainable things in the economic model of Denmark? Where are the symptoms?

Legatum's prosperity ratings have Denmark at #6 in the world overall and one of the lowest in business startup costs in the world. (#2 in the world in the entrepreneurship and opportunity category!) By every objective measure it seems like a wonderful place to start a business!
Kinda. The transformation from SILE code to HTML was apparently not completely flawless.
I'm not ignoring containers at all. Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD all have some form of user mode containers. All POSIX systems also have user ids. Linux containers are probably the most functional (no citation here -- I know lots about Linux containers and very little about FreeBSD jails) and are also probably the least secure, because of the aforementioned functionality and because they're rather new. (On the other hand, a really well designed Linux seccomp sandbox is probably the most secure option of all.)

Linux on Xen also allows you to have multiple Linuxes on the same Xen machine. This is the most functional of all and probably also the most secure of all, XSA-108 notwithstanding.

(Also, I find this all rather odd. If you want to compare Linux+Xen to OpenBSD, XSA-105 and XSA-106 much bigger deals. They allow code in a Linux container or other sandbox to break out by exploiting a Xen bug to take control of their Linux host.)
My point was that the community needs more support from you in order to be able to contribute meaningfully. This involves actively finding people who would be willing to take over the project and working with them to help them get started.

Simply dropping the code on GitHub and saying that you're glad for people to get involved is not a sufficient level of support at this point. This might've worked when the project was younger and smaller, but it's just too big for people to be able to dive into now. The links I provided are a prime example of the problem.

Since you found the time to make a blog post about Eve, surely you could also make a post stating that you're looking to hand over Light Table and you'd like to help facilitate the transition.