skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that IBM is the 3rd largest software company in the world, behind Oracle and Microsoft, with around $28 billion in annual revenue JUST from software (out of their total $100 billion). Revenue has been mostly flat for the past 7 years, though they've been squeezing out more profitability. That's a big ship to turn around.

That said there are plenty of examples of IBM doing new things, just the question is whether it's enough...

- IBM BlueMix, and IBM is actively contributing to Cloud Foundry (particularly the new Diego runtime): http://www-01.ibm.com/software/bluemix/

- IBM Watson analytics is also fairly impressive: http://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/index.html

- The Jazz.net products for agile requirements and development tracking are fairly modern and has a happy customer base (replacing the older crap Rational ClearCase stuff): https://jazz.net

- They've also acquired some good software, such as Urban Code, for automated app deployment:
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ucdep

Pretty much the entire software sales force is pushing cloud/devops, mobile, and analytics, which are the bulk of their new license streams. Their maintenance stream is still the large annuity from the mass of WebSphere, Tivoli, DB2, Lotus, and mainframe legacy deployed out there over the past 30+ years...
Hear, hear. I seem to be in the minority, but I loathe sites that require SSL without good reason. People overlook the massive added complexity at the client end as well, because it's hidden from the user most of the time - but I've lost count of the number of times I've been trying to get something done, usually in extremis and restricted to busybox or somesuch, and been unable to fetch a resource because curl/elinks/whatever wasn't built with SSL support.

By all means set up HTTPS on your little site, but for the love of god don't require it.
2014 SaaS Survey (Part 1)
I tried to integrate git into this with per-file repos once, but I never really used it much: https://github.com/fmoralesc/vim-autogit This commits on writes.

> I think commiting should be done for a more meaningful unit of work than a single edit, something logically 'complete' akin to a transaction.

What do you think would be a good set of criteria for what should count as a meaningful unit of work?
I think you're mistaken about Dropbox sync, I'm still using it as well as several friends and family that I've turned onto 1Password.
Salary seems on the money, but equity is not - at least for a senior engineer, I have been offered around $60k * 4 (standard 4 year vesting - value at offer) typically in my short time around.
I've done some analysis on 360 secure browser's SSL handling in the past. I don't have my notes handy, but it can easily be taken advantage of by anyone, not just the Chinese government. I'm somewhat confused by this, as it would not be difficult to just bundle MitM CAs with this browser.

It's also not as popular as frequently reported. It is widely installed because many orgs are required to have the security software that bundles it, but when I was researching it the consensus I got from several Chinese people was that few people actually used it - "only old people who don't know computers use it".
I've got an MBA and a HND in CS (slightly lower than a degree) and it makes for an interesting combination.

Some days I'll sit down and work with other devs on code even write them some examples to illustrate what I want, and then the next I might be talking to senior business people from our customers.

I didn't do my MBA until I was in my 30s and had already been a CTO, biggest thing I got from it was the ability to think differently - literally turn an argument around to see it from the other side, and a lot of friends who done various masters degrees say similar things
It is back in the new version, yes. But not anymore with the deprecated API from Dropbox. When you were a user of 1Password v3, they made that very transparent and also wrote[1] about it on their blog.

Also note that 1Password needs you to sync via Dropbox for secondary vaults.

1. http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/08/08/1password-3-dropbox-syn...
It says Sweden a little further down the article. I've read that Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) is very popular in Sweden. They even have a LCHF magazine. The dietdoctor.com blog is written by a Swedish doctor.
IntelliJ, when you combine the internal version control and the undo log, manages it so that effectively there is a commit after each piece of typing -- without any need to save or even compile. That turns out to be a nice way of working.
Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe
In your assessment I would switch out GOOG with MSFT. To me Microsoft is the better one at doing retail cloud than Google. Even Apple is using MSFT for their cloud backbone.
Apple is not selling cloud directly to consumers, but every app/device sold has iCloud backing, which developers can use for their apps for a ton of services.
The US bureaucracy is vast, and although POTUS has the ability to directly appoint many, that ability is neither unilateral (since the Senate must confirm most of the most important appointees) nor wide-ranging. Civil service hiring rules has much more impact on the makeup of a bureaucracy than the President himself does. It's simply not possible to "recolor" the public sector at a whim in the USA.
Compression Benchmarking – Postgres vs. MongoDB vs. TokuMX
I thought these days it was more of a services consulting company?
Also Udacity has "Applied Cryptography"[1].

While coursera focuses on theory, it is a bit more practical. I'd say they complement each other nicely.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/cs387
This is the best comment so far. I (~40) got out of development because the compensation/lifestyle, which was great for someone in their 20s, doesn't fit anymore. I'd go back in a heartbeat for the right package, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. The real career path is in management or the business side, so a lot of people I know have moved over to that side. I love writing software, and still keep my skills up to date on toy projects at home, but I can't imagine a company where software development is actually a long-term career option.
I suspect you would quite enjoy the game Journey[1]. You're paired up with another person but given only a rudimentary form of communication.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQ7KKoYfeU
Patent holding company...
Not Your Typical Hardware: The R/GA Accelerator's Class of 2015
Does anyone else find it strange that there was no benchmark comparison with Rails?
A slight tangent to the parent topic, but should HackerNews be about nutrition as much as it has been in the last few days? The comments are frequently woefully ignorant of any current nutritional science and often anecdotes of how one trend diet or broscience factoid helped them achieve their goals.

As much as the discussion can be interesting its not really on topic for what this site is for no? What gets worse is when a group of people uneducated on the topic begin an echo chamber of poor advice and "it worked for me!" mantras we get a pretty sickening discussion that would be frowned upon if it was regarding an actual technology topic.
QWERTY was designed so consecutive keystrokes are usually on opposite sides of the keyboard, to prevent jamming on a typewriter. Switching sides often doesn't actually slow down typing.
Are these related? https://github.com/garybernhardt/raptor
Your team can do whatever they like on their own machines, before they push to the remote, unless you really are not fun to work with ;) so there's no reason to prefer the stash, temp commits and temp branches provide a more structured and better documented stash. Stash should just be for little things, and ideally things which are not very branch-specific (because there's only one stash, for all branches).
At the moment (for the next 36 days?) we can't evaluate it on anything but the name and a bar chart.

Sweet bar chart.
Show HN: Crypt – Secure Configuration Storage in Etcd or Consul
> Google isn't even trying (it's web only- the equivalent of iCloud.com without the numbers, pages and keynote apps for mobile and desktop.) That's not a slam on google, the web is what google does. It's just the closest competitor.

Really? Google syncs docs, photos, music, and all sorts of stuff from mobile devices. They have a Drive desktop client (for PC and Mac).

And you say it doesn't have the equivalent of Numbers, Pages, or Keynote, but they do. It just so happens that there's a web client for all your word processing, spreadsheet and presentation needs in Google-land (with very cool features like simultaneous multi-user editing and Javascript scripting with a script repository).

Anyhow, Google does have equivalents to what you listed, they work great, not sure about iCloud (don't use it), just wanted to clear that up.
I don't think so. Have you checked out seaborn, blaze and bokeh?
The Real Amazons
Why Ruby is not in the list?
That gradient, though.
That's why I don't like 2FA with SMS. How can you trust a password that's send in clear through multiple carrier.

A good 2FA doesn't require anything else than the local time to generate the current password.
Rails isn't a web server.
Lions Gate to offer streaming movie service in 2015
I discovered the joy of (real) cream in coffee a few months ago. Immensely more enjoyable than sugar.
In that the new Raptor team has 36 days to convince Gary Bernhardt to yank his 'raptor' gem, yes.
It's a classic MITM which includes switching of the SSL certificate. In regular browsers the user would need either to confirm that they know what they are doing (Firefox) or not get to the page at all (Chrome).

I'm not an iOS dev, but I do not think that the iOS SDK would allow for invalid certificates. Then Apple could just go ahead and not use any encryption at all.

The 'hack' in the article works, because users ignore security warnings or even use a browser that is clearly made to easily snoop on people.
Most interviewers/companies understand that you work during usual work hours. That said, you should be able to step out for 15 minutes to take a call during work. If you get questioned about it, just tell them that it was an important personal call. And you could try to schedule these calls around lunch or your usual afternoon break time.

You can always schedule job interviews on Saturdays. Again, most interviewers understand the circumstances and usually do hiring on Saturdays to accommodate those who are working.
The article is a pretty clearly a plea to third party developers, not Apple, asking them to not force him to use iCloud as the only syncing option. Turning off iCloud, and disabling sync altogether is not really a "fix" (hobsons' choice more like it).
You are absolutely right, if you have a better way of saying this (while still being short) be my guest!
At this stage, irrespective of how well intentioned the project is, this is vapor ware. Please don't treat software releases like some Justin Beiber concert with hype and and a countdown.

Is there a solid explanation about what exactly is different and how it's better?
Well shit. I start a new job working on it ... on Monday.

Any suggestions for books on it? They're training me, but the more I can learn on my own, the better.
Plenty of software that uses make and other tools is buildable on Windows.
The Hidden Privacy Threat of … Flashlight Apps?
I quite like Jake as a make-equivalent in Javascript and was relieved to discover it after experiencing 20s grunt build times.
If you're living in a squat with no running water, your job is not improving your lifestyle. People can do the same thing working zero hours per week at a regular job.
What do you expect Apple to do in this case? What action can they take against a government-performed MITM?

Seriously "they've gotta do something" sounds good but I'm not sure what options they actually have. If the user clicks through a clear SSL warning, that's Apple's fault?
Docker 1.3 arrives with improved security
If your ticket priorities are "highest" or "high", "high" is just "normal".
I think the point is that the information you learned isn't exclusive to degree seekers. Every book you read in class could have been read outside of class, and for most people the only difference in their ability to learn on their own is motivation. Paying to be motivated is not the same as paying for education. The cost of the education is $200 per book, anything more than that is free money for people who tell you to read the books.
I am finding a bit difficult to understand the "I am not good at networking" angle. Assuming a job change every 3 years, and 2 people to vouch for you at each, one would have a 10 people "marketing team" after 15 years. I am not talking about schmoozing with higher ups here; just impressing peers with the quality of work.

Am I missing something?
I did answer to a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8482497
Taking a look at it, I would do something similar to what compose.io does with its pricing model (https://www.compose.io/pricing/). Giving out a free tier, gives the best introduction to something like a database as a service.

It was what brought me over to a paid plan at compose.
Sometimes HN is priceless. I can't tell if this brilliant satire or not.
Use the CNC to move the stage, not the head.
Rails is not a web server, you can plug a discrete web server into rails. By default I think it uses WEBrick, but you can also tell it to use e.g. nginx and presumably in the near future raptor.
If they got caught it'd get removed from Firefox and Chrome. I am more surprised that they don't have common Chinese software install a set of MitM CAs.
If they abuse CNNIC, they lose CNNIC.

So they just get the gullible.
I read that several years ago, some farmers figured they could fatten up their cattle by feeding them more fat, so they fed them a bunch of coconut oil. But instead of getting fat, they lost weight.
I did 5 weeks on 4HB (only 5 weeks due to my schedule, it's not easy when you have all 3 meals a day out of the house...), and felt fantastic. Circulation in my legs seemed to improve, more energy and lost about a stone in that time.
Shall we fork Fedora?
here's another great one from Alan Aragon: "Avoid food avoidance."

I think the salt thing is somewhat a problem of causation vs. correlation. If you have hypertension it can be a good idea to limit salt intake; but salt intake does not cause hypertension.

I'm wary of any health advice that stems solely from epidemiological study. I'm not sure why we so easily take a hypothesis as a conclusion, and epidemiological study, while valuable, can only produce a hypothesis that requires a controlled experiment to test. Yet it seems 90% of the "red meat causes diabetes!" articles we see are usually framing a hypothesis as the result of an experiment.
>Math system is fully polymorphic

Does it have fully polymorphic other basic functions, like setq, eql (or however they are named)? I guess not? Do you plan on introducing some parts of CLOS?

Lack of OO integration in CL is one of its biggest drawback for me... for me CLOS was the most powerful thing in lisp, not macros (mostly because they are not dynamic).
Agree! The real spy agencies can do it smarter - signed with its own root CA, etc.

It might also be other 3rd parties who is doing the MITM.

Anyone can setup a fake free wifi, reroute the DNS system. Some percentage of those "free" service users will press "OK" to let other sniff their "secure" connections.
Indeed, if no .jshintrc was present, check-build will fallback on https://github.com/FGRibreau/check-build/blob/master/default...
Why do you expect Firefox and Chrome to take patches as opposed to saying that patches should wait for specs from the TLS WG which waits for the CFRG to bless something?

The political problem is that unless there's an authority whose blessing can be appealed to to justify inclusion, how do you decline curves from Microsoft Research and so-called NUMS curves? (Of course, it's not like the CFRG is a politically spoyless authority...)
Lots of employers want to pigeonhole you in the "same year of experience, 30 times" group. You can sometimes tell this during the interview; one warning sign is that they want someone with their exact technology stack experience they are using right now.

But I've always thought a team of generalists beats a team of specialists, which is swimming against the current tide.
No, Rails isn't a web server, its a web framework.

All these are servers that you'd use to run apps built on Rails or other frameworks, not alternatives to Rails.

Of course, Torquebox is a lot more than a web server, so it may be odd that it is included in the comparison. Once we know more about "Raptor", we can discuss the appropriateness of the comparison more intelligently.
OT: the domain name crate.io confused me into thinking this was about Cargo, rust's package manager, which is documented on crates.io
The Real Cyborgs: Should we stop them or join them?
The OP mentioned that he _had_ to buy the AppStore version. That was back when 1Password switched from v3 to v4. Then, they also disabled the legacy Dropbox support. They made that very transparent and also wrote[1] about it on their blog.
Also note that 1Password needs you to sync via Dropbox for secondary vaults.

1. http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/08/08/1password-3-dropbox-syn...
best way to fatten livestock is to feed them carbs (ie corn!)

grass fed cows grow much much leaner than those on corn
Lately I've been on a diet of vegetable fats and proteins, almost no carbs (only fiber). Lots of avocados and seeds (chia, flaxseed, sunflower, sesame) which have approximately 50% fat content 45% protein 5% fiber. I lost body fat while eating as much as I wanted of that, along with yoghurt, eggs, cheese and veggies, the only thing off the table is bread, although I eat some once in a while.

People eat too many carbs in their daily life and don't even notice and they carry lots of long term health risks.
Farmers do use polyunsaturated fats for fattening purposes.
We have to be more strategic with our votes. Even if there were an anti-NSA party, it's likely that there's another deal breaker there (see: Paul, Ron). It'll take several steps before we can steer government in the direction we'd like, and the first step is to get a government that's more responsive to our vote.

Hence, I give money to https://mayday.us, and the issue that I primarily vote on is reform. If my vote "doesn't matter" (whether it's because I can't tell the R and D candidates apart or because it's not a close race), then I vote for the most viable third party.
The New Kid on the Block for Ruby Servers: Raptor
There are police "fusion centers" all over the US doing similar data acquisition. The DHS is not only militarizing local police forces, they are turning them into mini-intelligence agencies.

I highly recommend reading this investigation by a redditor into Fusion centers:

https://pay.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1h3pc2/how_poli...
His book is basically a glorified repost of exercise science and nutrition research, and not all of it is true. Like anything else, it works just fine but obviously fails to meet the hype.
This is also very common of people in Massachusetts who live near the NH border. The state run NH liquor stores are significantly cheaper than in MA. They also conveniently place their stores all along the border on major highways. It's less that an hour drive from Boston.
I knew one young guy in particular who prized indirection over all things. Debugging his code for something relatively simple involved jumping up and down at least 10 rungs of indirection or "abstraction" and was by and large a nightmare to extend or maintain.

But, he always, without exception exuded confidence and delivered new features quickly. He was hired as a senior architect at several startups before he turned 25.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this subthread, my heading for this section is "Recent Relevant Experience". So I can leave out things like PHP or Perl if I've decided I never want to use them again. Or to indicate I'm a programmer who likes/is willing to do some system administration, but not indicate I'd take a pure sysadmin job.

Or not cluttering it with no longer particularly relevant technologies. E.g. programming Windows at the Petzold level (although some discussions on HN have given the impression that right now that might be the way to go :-( ).
If you want to get it running again without too much of a headache, Good Old Games has it for $6.

http://www.gog.com/game/simcity_2000_special_edition
Apple Pay Is Too Anonymous for Some Retailers
didn´t know this. thanks for noting.
I approached with the attitude if this random dude says I can lose 20 pounds in one month (more weight than I could conceive losing) I was going to do exactly what he said to see if he was right. And I loved it. Anyone I suggested the book to has told me it changed their lives. For me, I went from eating 2 super sized fast food meals a day to lean and local and I think the 4 hour body really helped to re-introduce me to eating correctly more than anything.

Don't let the marketing ruin the book for you. It's a great book, everyone exaggerates a little.
I'm a schmo who bought a Google Glass and accept this was a bad purchase. I bought it for one app ... the ability to cast a video to my parents via Google hangouts. Google took this feature out after my 30 day return was over. Now, Glass is a paperweight for me. I know there are other apps out there that do video casting but I'm not going to force my parents to learn yet another app again (was hard teaching them hangouts the first time).
Entirely algorithmically generated music album is now on Spotify
"A Rose Smiles for a Man" (https://play.spotify.com/album/3vCyoGxNzaI8MB1QUOLN1U), probably the first music album entirely composed and performed by a computer algorithm, is now on Spotify.

I developed the algorithm over the past few years, Computoser (http://computoser.com) Now some of the best pieces are packaged in an album with a name that is also algorithmically generated.

Computoser is not the first composition algorithm, and "A Rose Smiles for a Man" is not the first album to be said to be algorithmically composed, but it is most likely the first that required no human input whatsoever.
Developers, IT continue to rack up high salaries
I see no entry barrier caused by those Kindles - a book from Amazon appears on the device just as fast as a book from any other supplier that is willing to email that book to myname@kindle.com .

If your service doesn't give easy access to drm-free ebooks in standard formats, then any barriers are caused by them and not Amazon.
Scope and Closures was very instrumental for me in capturing some JavaScript's slippery concepts. Recommended.
If you get the parts cut via the linked online place ( ponoko ) it costs $48 just to get the cut parts. This obviously doesn't include the rest of the parts. Buying all the needed parts for this would cost $130 ( am including the $48 here ) each if you build them yourself. You'd have to build at least 5 to get this price. Realistically making one of these would cost around $200.

It will never be sold commercially, since the designs are CC by-nc-sa.

Unless you are hardcore about building cute expensive tech toys, best move along.
The whole point about adding fat is to make you full with less.

So if you drink milk or eat yogurt don't go for fat free go for the full monty that way you will be fuller.

I lost 60 pounds over the last 6 months and mostly by running, swimming and staying away from bread/pasta/rice without being religious about it.
Not yet as far as I can find. I saw Laurent Sansonetti (of RubyMotion fame) tweet about it, but whether he’s had a play or not I don’t know. Fabio Akita’s apparently run some benchmarks against the beta ( http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl... ) but seems almost too excited so maybe take that recommendation with a pinch of salt.