skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you feel low when friends are doing very well in a career you love?
I don't mean monetarily, but meaning wise. As in they are doing well what you truly love, while you are doing average. Again, money is not in question at all. Some of my friends are technology evangelists and absolutely nailing it. You (I), on the other hand, are just doing the basic stuff repeatedly. You have tried to break free several times, but only moved a bit further. What do you do when such feeling engulfs you?
praxis makes me think of the dutch diy store chain - if you go to one in amsterdam they play reggae and you can buy a bhudda for your garden (or balcony more likely)
Calling it "free" is somewhat misleading; it's effectively a part of the salary. The only difference is that most companies pay for the transportation of their workers in cash, instead of in kind.
It still takes me a few beats from thinking "I need a flexible grid layout here" to remembering I can just use display:table, having spent so many years discounting it off-hand because of Internet Explorer.
Poodle Test
I saw some posters (I think for West End tickets) on a Southern train a little while back using a .london domain. Though it wasn't prefixed with a www so I wonder how many people didn't recognise it as being a domain name.
Exposing the hidden history of computer hacking
Jam Handy
It's a real problem. I really like to use QT, but I found that is problematic if you aren't using C++. For example on C, D or Java. There is bindigns, but or are lagging behind the last version of QT (ie Qt 4.8 or more older) with very few support or are abandoned some time ago.
If it's not taxed - then it's not part of their salary (though the IRS is working on that).
No. Some people (especially the FSF) objected initially to the FreeQt license (which did not meet OSI and FSF definitions) and then the QPL[0] for a few reasons, most importantly because it was not GPL-compatible.

Qt/X11's release under the GPL came quite a bit later after GTK+ and GNOME were well on their way to becoming established projects.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Public_License
And what use are COM components on another OS that doesn't have them?
The Ebola Crisis and Where Big Data Can Help
You use Diesel Trains in San Fran. What the hell.
+1 for SyncBack. I use it for in-home backups to a NAS (Synology) as well as another PC on the network. Works perfectly, very configurable, and the Pro version has various cloud options.
ASO tips for iOS8
In my personal experience, Qt can handle buggy graphics drivers better that Gtk . In special with the Radeon drivers, were with GTK you got an unusable screen with deformed menus, and with Qt was fine. Or that with the SVGA driver (yep, not acceleration) GTK runs painful slow when with Qt you run soft and with alpha effects.
Ask HN: I'm thinking about building an open source voting system
Hoping people can tear this apart... The general process is as follows:

Before voting day:

* The user registers to vote following existing processes.

On Voting day:

* The user logs into the system, and requests a key. A hash is generated which is good for 60 minutes.

* After the key has been delivered the account is marked as unavailable.

* There is no association in any form between in the database between the account and the key.

* The user votes. using the key to complete the process.

Available immediately, and held for as long as the system lives

* A public facing page that let's anyone query the raw voting data including, deidentified data detailing how many people requested keys. Which keys voted, and for who.

This is my first stab, and i'm sure a bunch of people have thought about this. What might I be missing?
To be honest, I don't care what language Qt is written. As long as there is a binding for my language of choice, as long as Qt does what the documentation says it does, as long as the developers seem to know their stuff, and listen to people's problems with agency, then that's good enough for me.
How do you discover books on there?

Even when you know what you want, Amazon will make it difficult or impossible to figure out what you need. My wife enjoys a few popular fiction offers who publish different series of books. Amazon has no obvious way to search for a book in a series. Even used book thrift shops figure that out!

Then you have the issue of third party listings cluttering up search results. If you want to buy a Mac Mini, you'd better be familiar with the Apple model numbers, because you may have a 3 year old model land at the top of the stack.
You say that like making money is a bad thing.
I also use Crashplan. The software is nice, although there are (Crashplan) ads if you aren't a paid subscriber.
Though this is more a recognition rather than an optimization problem, it can be modeled with optimization modeling languages. Here's an example in Mosel (disclaimer: I work for the company that develops Mosel). Here, a and b are the am/pm price, while (x,y), (u,v), and (t,z) are the am/pm chickens sold by each farmer.

model "chicken"
uses "mmxnlp"

declarations
a,b: mpvar;
x,y,u,v,t,z: mpvar;
end-declarations

x is_integer
y is_integer
u is_integer
v is_integer
t is_integer
z is_integer

a*x+b*y=35
a*u+b*v=35
a*t+b*z=35

x+y=10
u+v=16
t+z=26

a>=b

end-model

The solution can be found by a non-convex optimization solver in a fraction of a second.

Spoiler: scroll right for the answer. a = 3.75, b = 1.25, x = 9, y = 1, u = 6, v = 10, t = 1, z = 25

[edit: clarification]
You can find them on SoundCloud at soundcloud.com/nasa - nice white noise. Also mix with Sunshine OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7mzT48J4k
Which is in turn neutralized by the loss of productivity at said startups due to their reading HN compulsively.

So it's done for the community after all!
Flambe – rapidly cook up games for HTML5, Flash, Android, and iOS
It's not. That's the point.

"Tables for layout are bad" applies only to use of <table> HTML markup for layout. `display:table` achieves the same layout, but without presentational markup and accessibility problems that html-tables-for-layout caused.

If it was called "display:stretchy-box", nobody would mind.
What happens if, say, a user loses their key? Or the delivery mechanism fails after the account is made unavailable?
Visualising an Asynchronous Monad
Qt came from Trolltech, KDE was originally just using it. KDE developers being major or majority contributors to Qt has been a more recent and gradual phenomenon. I haven't followed closely, but I imagine it also got a big boost with the governance changes in the last year or two.
Is the CA Security Council doing a good job of providing information about what they do and why we should still trust CA's?
The first argument is also a limitation of HN and an opportunity for alternatives. Actually maybe even the first two.

HN community, culture and politics (and also its moderation) are very Silicon Valley / US centric. This comes through especially on non-technical (but relevant) topics, like regulation. But also topics like company culture are extremely US-centric.

Localized topics (both in terms of content and culture) is probably the only reason why an HN-like site would be viable.

From my perspective it's definitely desirable, and just the current frontpage of technews.london confirms that there is a lot of stuff that will never make it to SV-centric HN.
This is useless. Electronic vote systems are put in place so they can easily cheat. An open source one would prevent it, so it will never be used.
Exactly. Google is an Oracle: we pose it a question and it provides the "right" answer given it's near infinite amount of information. That perspective is built so deeply into Google that it's one of the few things it will never be able to change.

I also think that will eventually be its undoing because can we, if we draw a parallel to real life, think of something more valuable than someone who always has the "right" answer? I certainly can and I'm convinced that will be the end of Google's dominance.
Yes, here's the official tutorial link for the lazy: http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/76741-how-do...
He doubts network gaming would have taken off?!

I spent many hours playing Doom and Warcraft 2 on exactly this setup! (Feeling a bit old now...)
'I absolutely dissent HTML table-layout'. Don't you have to dissent from?
Another Crashplan user here. When I reinstalled Windows, I restored a whole account (user files, not system files) from a previous backup and it worked fine. It's not very fast on either direction, but I never had any issues with it.
And just about every retailer does the same with their planograms/floor layout.
Whiteboards: snap a pic and collect your thoughts
> I wasn't for one second trying to trivialise North Korea's problems - in fact I was thinking more about the Soviet-era - and I find it odd that you connected the two, and found the time to pick out that one sentence and make an issue out of it :)

Ha, that's interesting because I actually first picked up USSR but since the soviet era is over I chose to go with NK for dramatic effect.

Recently the elections gave us a full liberal right political landscape in my home country and everyone is bashing the previous leftist and green parties with derogatory terms such as stalinism, gulag, dictators, etc. so the lexical field has been making me go on my high horses for the last few weeks because frankly it's not comparable. I'd rather label thing as they are when comparisons are too far fetched.
Office Tour: SMB InnoLoft [Slideshow]
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I I swear by Backup for Workgroups: http://www.backup-for-workgroups.com/

It contains two pieces, a server and a client. You have to setup the server yourself. This server can be local within your network, on the same machine, or remote over the Internet.

I use it for full machine backup; and the two times I have had hard drives die on me; I was up and working [with all programs, files, etc.. ] in under a day. That included purchasing a new hard drive.

It backs up on schedule, so I don't have to think about it. It can send email notifications of any problems, with your running out of space on the repository, or when a backup is complete.

My backup server is on-site; I've never had the bandwidth to mirror the repository off-site; although you could do so in theory.

My offsite backup plan was to send a hard drive to Amazon S3 so they could pre-load the data to a bucket; then use a S3 to Disk Drive mapping program--such as JungleDisk--and set that as a sync drive within Backup for Workgroups. But, I haven't gotten around to setting that up.

http://www.backup-for-workgroups.com/faqs/faqs-mirroring-dat...

I backup five different machines; and my repo is about a half a terabyte.
23:48 - http://youtu.be/HhdDZk45HDI?t=23m48s

My attention perked as I expected to hear a familiar phrase from Pinky & the Brain, and it would have fit the context.
>> E8 and IE9 still make up 32% of the browser market share and that is a lot to give up if I was to revert to the flex solution

Yes, if you have an even worldwide visitor share. Can I Use[0] puts USA IE9 usage at 3.86% and IE8 at 7.28% (11.14% in total). If your user base is different it would be wise to examine the data before discounting flex-box based on worldwide stats.

If anyone has access to netmarketshare's USA[1] (used in the article) data, it would be nice to see what it is.

EDIT: Also the article's stats[2] are for desktop only. It seems[2] that mobile support is relatively high with Can I Use[0] stating that total USA support = 86.46%.

[0] http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri...
[2] http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpri...
You're dead right on your last point, and I think Play Store revenues ever getting substantial is amazingly unlikely.

The thing is this is why the Chrome development strategy is backwards: by going on about "apps" all the time the Chrome team is encouraging data walled garden style web app development which if successful would be equally dangerous to Google as mobile native apps are. How they convinced the higher ups that this was strategically sound is beyond me, and anyone would be tempted to think it was just a corporate turf war.
> On the other hand, it is incredibly easy to go around Amazon.

It is tiring to hear that kind of argument all the time to determine if a business is a monopoly ( monopsonist ) or not and then it is supposed to be business 101 to know that people do not optimize their finance to the last cent and can be hooked into a company by habit or convenience.

What matters is if amazon clients actually do go around Amazon or not and based on what criteria. Google thinks of Amazon as a threat to their ads business because people use Amazon as their search engine for stuff to buy. I would say that a pretty good indication that the original author may have had a point.

> Setting up online stores is not rocket science ( to compete with Amazon )

Sorry but I can't read past that. Beside being insulting for anybody that has tried to put an online business together, can a economy journal be taken seriously when publishing that kind of statement in 2014 ?
That's not what he's saying. He's saying they're good at times but he took ages to realize that because the old table based layout using <table> used to result in extreme tag soup.

If you are looking for reasons why they're actually not that great anyway, this succinct post on /r/webdev reminded me why I haven't unsubbed from that highly variable sub:

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/2k8ud2/why_does_no_o...

In this case, the example the OP gave at the beginning, a dashboard, can't work with a responsive layout using display:table, which is a feature you'd kinda expect in this day and age.

So they finally release a half decent display:table and it's too late as we now need responsive designs.

Pretty much sums up how pants the W3C process is.
Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider
I remember when I first mount a network on my house to play with my brother DooM , with coax Ethernet and with a few ISA network cards that I got for free...
In my opinion, it might be related to Qt being a huge framework and ecosystem where GTK is "just" a GUI toolkit.

I don't know if things have changed recently but at Qt at least used to require custom C++ extensions. This requires you to use custom toolchains or the recommended way of using the Qt Creator IDE. This isn't necessarily bad (I've only quickly tried it out, I don't really know) but it certainly makes me look at other alternatives first.

This isn't perhaps a big problem if you use other languages than C++ and there are decent wrappers available. But having to use a custom compiler/preprocessor just to get a GUI up isn't what I really want.

Qt is a pretty intrusive framework and ecosystem, where you have QStrings and QSockets and QEverything. GTK is perhaps a bit more lean and mean library than a full ecosystem.

I've also noticed that Qt applications do not work very well over remote X connection over slow networks. Apps built with other GUI toolkits work much more fluently. (I understand that this is not very common these days but I still do work on remote X on a daily basis).

I am sure that the Qt frameworks solve practical problems in cross platform development, but I'd rather not get involved in a whole ecosystem when all I need is a GUI toolkit.
Just a thought: maybe KDE is the reason why GTK is so popular.

I've been a Linux user for roughly 14 years, and every time I try KDE, I can't seem to give it more than 5 minutes. The KDE UX is like kryptonite to me. I feel like a senile old lady when I use it, unable to grasp what the hell is going on.

I briefly tried KDE again when GNOME 2 was killed, and I uncomfortably went back to GNOME. I deeply disliked GNOME 3, but at least I found it usable. (I eventually switched to XFCE).

I know KDE is a mature, large, beautiful project, but ultimately a desktop environment is about user experience, and KDE's doesn't click with me. I'm aware my experience is entirely subjective, but I suspect there are others like me who just can't get used to the K. So we end up in GNOME, and by inertia resort to using and developing GTK applications.

I think it'd be very cool if there was something like XFCE for Qt. Maybe LXQt will play this role in the future.
The author is a FreeBSD user[1], so doesn't have access to systemd.

1: http://kouk.surukle.me/2013/11/06/my-linux-os-history/
The new republic piece is interesting, but misses a large segment of the book industry: academic material. My father published a few non fiction books on an academic press, after years of work, they paid him less than $2000. Hardly worth the time, and due to the nature of how they published it, the price was far too high to gain much traction sales wise.
Amazon vs. Hachette is increasingly one of those battles you'd like no-one to win.

The discussions around the conflict have, to me at least, shown pretty clearly that book publishing as it currently is isn't a model which stands up to too much scrutiny when you look at how well it works for anyone outside it.

On the other hand I think we'd all rather it wasn't Amazon, a company who many seem to like using but don't trust much further than they can comfortably spit a dead rat, giving it a kicking. The old metaphor about frying pans and fires springs to mind.

Maybe we just live in a more cynical time but it would be nice if our disruption was something people generally felt optimistic about.
So, how much does this differ from my camera app that comes standard in ios?
Facebook did to Google what Google did to Microsoft, which is to tangentially hit the old guard hard enough that their ability to move into new areas is severely hampered. (Facebook have been quite good at buying up anyone that might do this to them, but it's not clear how long that approach will last).

No one is going to displace Google in search for a long time, but a lot of that moat is going to end up being eroded.
I like HN's minimalism.

The London site isn't minimal. It looks distractingly busy and over-designed.

Unimpressed by the content too, but I think that's maybe more a function of the infamous forgettability of the Shoreditch scene. (I find it hard to get excited about startups that help you get your ironing done. But maybe that's just me.)
https://www.nitrous.io/ does something like that, they're not open source or free however (though they do have a free plan).
He's offering photos which he presumably retains copyright for, to people wanting them for business use and not a personal collection or their kid's lemonade stand.

I raised a legitimate issue, offered realistic and superior alternatives, and wished OP good luck.

If this offended your sensibilities or came across as negative to you, I think you should re-read my comment and reconsider. Maybe we'll just agree to disagree.
Don't expect real conversation regarding bitcoin, most of the people that comment on bitcoin related threads are trolls and bank shills.
Isn't a snippet basically just a chord that requires you to input the characters in sequence though?
Not even that, so long as Google is "good enough" and the better search engine is only a bit better.

One thing that might hurt a bit is if Apple launches a search engine that people are happy enough to use and makes it the default on OSX & iOS.
Ed Smith, Facebook Boston Tech Lead: Making Engineering World a Better Place
>You can't possibly imagine that lawyers, legislators, or judges are the least bit qualified to design an operating system.

No. Of course not. I was pointing out the irony of HN user enupten's criticism of the lawyer deposing Gates, while knowing little about being a lawyer. My remark relies upon my assumption that enupten is more likely to be some sort of a techie than a lawyer (and not both).

OTOH, you can't possibly accept MS' weak argument that their hands were forced by engineering decisions, rather than engaging in illegal anti-competitive business practices for the sake of harming their competitors. The mere fact that the government's lawyers and judges were not well suited to create their own competing software products isn't proof that they were wrong about the legality of MS' conduct.

>That was my whole problem with the antitrust trial... it amounted to a bunch of anklebiting by well-intentioned but hopelessly unqualified people.

I was disappointed in the results of the trial as well. What outcome(s) would you have preferred?
Isn't it pretty much the mantra of most hackers to build trust less systems?
Yep, it's a case of my disliking of hyperbole. Central cabal has a certain ring to it :).
Brilliant video. It's definitely a lot better to see the basic principles and evolution of those principles in action.
> (I understand that this is not very common these days but I still do work on remote X on a daily basis)

It's probably more common than you think. We also use it.
Practically Accurate Floating-Point Math
Reminds me of this:

- http://gaearon.github.io/react-hot-loader/

- https://github.com/gaearon/react-hot-loader
When you add hardware to cryptography, it becomes physics. Just think about various side-channel attacks.
A Report Card on Toronto's Startup Ecosystem
>> Setting up online stores is not rocket science ( to compete with Amazon )

> Sorry but I can't read past that.

Come on - setting up an on-line store is trivially easy - Amazon can provide services covering you for ordering, payments, fulfillment...
I've restored over 100gb from cp without issue. The most important feature is multiple offsite backups with their free p2p system. My data is in my basement, across town at 3 different friends' houses, and another copy across the country. Nothing short of a meteor strike will cause data loss at this point. And it's free.
> How do you discover books on there?

Click "Recommended for you". Their "search for something specific" interface may have problems, but their "suggest me something new, I don't really know what" interface is top-notch.
When I put HomeDepot in the search bar, I'm searching for HomeDepot products so putting a targeted search bar for HomeDepot in there is a feature, not a problem. Thank you, Google!

"scores of young people, mostly male (70%) mostly white (61%)," Is this article about age-ism, sexism and race, too? Having 61% white employees is far above most companies and hardly "mostly white". If you say "mostly", I'm assuming 90% or more.

But what's the problem with that? are These authors saying white employees are bad? Or that a 60% white force is bad? I'm sick and tired of the "white people" bashing for no good reason.

"...the same set of top universities (in that order: Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, UCLA…). They are pampered in the best possible way, with free food, on location dental care, etc. "

Again, he's bashing this as if it's a bad thing. They don't mention the reason for the so-called "pampering" which isn't at all for what they're trying to give the impression it really is for.

"In practical terms, they fire first and reflect afterwards. "

This is an absolutely, thoughtless comment. In the restaurant parlance, it's called a "soft opening", where you open the doors and let people discover your place while you learn what works and what doesn't and what breaks. It's a smart thing to do when you can afford it or have the time but these authors think it's a problem that will ruin the company and an example of bad communication.

I'm not reading the rest of it. There are more important things for me to do.
Clicked through ~20 of them and the analysis was completely off in most cases.
I've currently backed up over 400gb but have only ever had to restore about 100gb. That experience was fine, with no issues. I guess I can't say I have ever done a full restore though.
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The Extraordinary Painting