skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android: Chrome, Pocket, Press (RSS), Plume (Twitter), Pocket Casts, Google Music, Authy, Hangouts, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Daily Digest, Gmail
The terminal/console references seem to match this plugin: http://terminal.jcubic.pl/
Without IP GNOME would not care. GNOME users would know not to associate Groupon with GNOME, and without IP you could call all your stuff anything you want, and that does not mean anything to anyone else, unless you manipulate people into seeing the wrong brand in the wrong place. IE, deception.
Well, rest assured, Gnome doesn't want our funds, and I probably can't make a case for spending them this way either. It was just a thought.

So far all we've done with them is fund developer conferences (travel expenses and the like).
HP is already working on this with what they're calling "The Machine". They're writing a new OS around the new storage technologies with the understanding that it might not make sense to separate RAM from disk pretty soon here. They've also suggested that they'll be porting versions of Linux and Android to this platform.

Of course, all of this is pretty marketing heavy and not a lot of details have been released, so take this with a huge grain of salt. HP's CTO wrote a fluff piece on flattening the storage hierarchy here: http://www8.hp.com/hpnext/posts/end-necessary-evil-collapsin...
I look forward to the point where 3/4 of business application code will go the trash when we'll have a persistant memory with the latency of actual RAM disk (Memristor !!). Exit all that "copy from RAM to Disk/Network" code.
It will definitely change the way we code and look at code. That's why nowadays I think a good interface to your entities, like the Repository pattern, is a must have.
But still faster than swapping to disk. You would also benefit from the increased throughput.
It looks like those css classes match this plugin: http://terminal.jcubic.pl/
Lync to become Skype
> There's also the fact that it won't lose its data on power loss.

Does this mean that for software to take full advantage of this, the software will need to be updated to account for it? For instance, Redis loads data into memory from disk upon starting, but if something like this 400GB SSD is available as memory (and say for instance, 300GB is in use by Redis), wouldn't it make sense for Redis, upon starting, to just "remember" the state of the memory rather than reloading it from disk?
Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark against Groupon

https://gnome.org/groupon/
Introducing Skype for Business
The point is that if ligatures are used for this, no modifications to the font rendering front end is needed. Its already there - you just need to use the feature. The way to do that is with ligatures in your text..
Deep link for the lazy: https://enterprise.github.com/features#pricing
Human body: The ‘ultra-athletes’ aged 60+
You can get that today with FRAM, although not at high density. TI do microcontroller eval boards with built in FRAM; you can have your device resume automatically from power loss with all its memory still there.
I have multiple issues with this. First of all, depression through stresses and clinical depressions are very different and the introductory paragraph is extremely shallow, brushing all over this. Many mental issues can lead to a comorbide depression.

Secondly, being depressed and being suicidal are related, the first often comes before the second, but not the same. By putting suicide hotlines front and center, the impression is there, though.

I know multiple cases where "but I'm not trying to do me any harm" was an internal barrier not to seek help, although they were depressed. If you are seeking help because you are suicidal, that's already way too late.

Finally, it assumes that this is just an unfortunate side effect of startup life, without critically engaging with that statement.

If you are down for irrational reasons of in emotional flakey states, try to find contacts, post on devpressed, visit a professional. Even if you don't have a strong or lasting depression, this will probably help get more secure in your feelings again.
Yeah, as a matter of fact I do.
Analog designer experience and skills are akin to "black magic", at least as whispered in the halls of electrical engineering schools 15 years ago.

Analog is just devilishly harder when compared to digital IC design; forget about hysteresis curve cutoffs and resulting 'clean' abstractions of 0 and 1.
All these new internet options are quickly chipping away at the ISP oligopoly. Tell me again why we need a ham-handed federal approach to net neutrality?
I spent a huge amount of time trying to find pricing. Bad UI/UX.
> Here's a number, in 2012 ~53,000 officers were assaulted in the line of duty.

One of those assaults was a suspect bleeding on their uniforms as he was having his head stomped. They charged him with destruction of government property for his blood stains.

Of course, I don't think just one of those 53,000 was like this. It wasn't a fluke.
Cut/Paste for the really lazy:

"Pricing for GitHub Enterprise starts at $5,000 per 20-user seat pack per year"
Yes they are, because the storage isn't arbitrarily small. There is always the latency of distance to overcome. That includes the centimeters to your main memory. There's always going to be a capacity-latency tradeoff.
As someone who is dealing with a similar issue right now, I actually felt inclined to create a throwaway account just to comment on this. It's easy to find all kinds of talk about depression online, but that talk is less helpful when (in my case) the cause of the depression is at least in part due to difficulties in terms of sustaining normal friendships with other people in real life. And, I might also add, having nobody to talk to in real life about these kinds of issues. The last thing I need to be doing to fight depression is to continue sitting indoors at my computer reading more articles on the internet.
Build Script Support
A few thoughts on this:

- VCs got beat up on this deal. Sounds like he just handed them a term sheet and said take it or leave it. I don't know how you raise $200m and still control 27.3% as a founder and 68.3% as a company. That is great negotiating on his part - very, very impressive.

- Only raising $100m in the public markets is smart as well - small float will mean more chance for the stock to do well (not always obviously).

- Employees (below the Director/VP level) seem likely to be the odd man out here - you've got those guys owning 68.3%, VCs probably own most of the rest. Rank and file likely own very, very little. I'm wondering if that will lead to an exodus of employees.

- I didn't see any mention of their churn rate in any of the documentation - did I just miss it?

Lew and these guys have played the VC/public markets game about as perfectly as you can imho.
We're running 12.04 on github.com so made sense to sync them up.
Alibaba Singles' Day sales break past $8B
Apps for the next 3B
Presumably the deal leads to more dollars flowing into NASA projects. If leasing out space that would otherwise go unused seems helps NASA to fund other projects, then I'm totally ok with that.
If you guys could bankrupt Groupon, take all the money, and hire an army of devs to make Gstreamer, Pulseaudio, Avahi, CUPs, Telepathy, Wayland, etc great (I think the GNOME desktop itself is in really good shape, just the internals need love), I'd go to the victory parade.
If the ISPs were on-board with an acceptable compromise, they'd presumably not lobby strongly against it. The decision would likely stay in the land of wonks and be largely ignored.

So why would Obama turn that -- getting what he wants (or nearly so) -- into a highly-politicized position, essentially guaranteeing that it's strongly fought, blocked and/or legislated away in the next session?

There's no up-side for him or the hypothetical acceptable compromise and a huge down-side risk.

And given how many years the FCC has avoided this issue, and insisted on preserving the farcical distinction between "communications" and "information" networks, I see no reason to be optimistic about the terms or lifespan of any compromise short of Title II, regardless of what has leaked.

Even if something workable were agreed upon, it wouldn't be likely to last any longer than previous compromises -- such as the FCC's last stab at Net Neutrality, or the short-lived DSL open-access rules.
interstellar.withgoogle.com
/_ah/ contains internal App Engine routes, like authentication, for all App Engine apps; not just Google's. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4408042/what-does-ah-mean...
When they work (there is to much cash on the table for them not too), they'll completely change the way we think of volatile and non-volatile memory. Since all memory will be non-volatile.

It'll be a huge paradigm shift in storage and IO speed.
Yclas.com – SaaS for Classifeids sites
14.04 is too new. They probably started working on this long before 14.04 was finalized, and retooling would be expensive and slow them down. And even then, 14.04 is still rough around the edges--not all of the kinks have been discovered or fixed yet. 12.04 still has over three years of life left in it, which is much longer than the probable lifetime of GHE 2.0, and a future release of GHE can upgrade to 14.04 if and when that's necessary/beneficial.
Sleep, Caffeine and your daily schedule? poll
I've always been fascinated by the amount of sleep and caffeine that keeps people functioning and productive.

I think it would be cool to see:

What is your profession?

On average how many hours a day of sleep do you get?
What times do you usually sleep?

How many hours of sleep do you feel you need to work optimally?

How many days a week do you usually consume caffeine?

On the days that caffeine is consumed how much and when is it usually consumed?

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- Software Engineer

- ~8.5 hours

- sleep from 10pm - 6:30am

- ~9 hours for optimal

- Every couple weeks will go on caffeine binges where I drink it ~3 - 4 x s per week

- On the days I consume caffeinie I Drink large 20 oz cups of coffee (sometimes multiple), try to get my caffeine in early because I am hyper sensitive to it, and it will keep me up all night:)
Why Ubuntu over Debian, out of curiosity? I've seen Spotify switch from Debian to Ubuntu and regretting it already.
Skype and Hangouts have both proven to be difficult to use for me and my girlfriend in our long-term relationship. Given a steady internet connection, Hangouts is the preference, as I have found it drains the battery and other performance less. However, Skype seems to be better if there are weaknesses in the connection.
He was born there?
And this:

http://avc.com/2014/11/messing-with-a-competitors-fundraisin...

Not only unethical, but quite possibly a tortious interference with contract. Uber is turning out to be even worse than the worst taxi companies.
Inside Australia's coolest workplace: Atlassian
Felony network intrusion happens probably multiple times per day. There's absolutely nothing interesting about it. To be perfectly honest, I'd probably have tried to bulk download JSTOR if I had access to a network port somewhere on a campus that allowed for unfettered access. Why not?

Would I have hidden a computer in a campus telecom room to do it for me? Probably not. Were the aggrieved parties over-the-top in the actions they took? Probably.

Suicide also doesn't make this particularly notable. People in custody and under criminal charges are going to have a bad time. Unfortunately some of them do kill themselves as a response to that stress.

In the end, Aaron, and the community around him is what makes this notable.
First, Just in case is a pretty dismissive statement. If last week some scrawny kid pulled a boot knife in custody and my buddy Frank (you remember Frank, tall guy, worked nights a lot to avoid his wife - yeah the one with the dodgy leg) got cut you'll find my attitude to custody risk change pretty heavily. Every single suspect is getting cuffed and de booted because fuck them I'm not risking my life for no reason.

Second once you treat people differently based on perception of behaviour (professional judgement) you need oversight. Once you need oversight you need records. Once you need records booking takes longer. Ok. So now we've got evidence that police discriminate due to race/gender/something and bobs your uncle everyone gets locked down for booking again to undo that.

Armchair policing reminds me a lot of armchair generalling - sure is easy to say what should (have) happen(ed) when you're completely removed from the situation. Police officers are irrational human beings who are influenced by all sorts of extraneous factors on any given day. Not to mention that's with the assumption they're basically good people doing their best to do the right thing™ which probs doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Of course I don't have answers, I just think this stuff is really hard.
Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names
"Introducing a faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise... unless you wanted more flexible pricing"
How can satellites compete? They have exactly one 'cable' for everybody - over the air. That doesn't scale; its already not enough. This will be some niche market for backups or secure link or something; it sure won't be streaming Netflix for hundreds of millions of people. Maybe for hundreds of people.
My Name isn't Dan and I had a bent iPhone that Apple refused to replace
I work on an application that was originally designed to persist transactions to battery backed SRAM. It's still full of "business logic", because that's where all the value is. Copying data around really doesn't consume that much time and effort; performing logical, semantic or administrative transformation on it does.
At least here in Norway some thinks the government shall prosecute people based solely on the fact that they received a letter containing a forbidden substance. The idea appears to be that one would only spend money ordering a forbidden item to oneself (a false logic if you ask me. I have received gift in the mail several times. From Amazon, not drugs through).

If the government start to prosecute based on receiving only, one interesting counter measure would be to create a random darknet shopper that also send the product to a random addresses, thus offering plausible deniability to everyone receiving illicit substances by mail.
Spotify has been claiming to make huge payments to the industry, and no one tries to deny that. But artists constantly complain about payments to them...

This stuff needs to be more transparent, for both the artists and the fans' sake.
Oh nice, I'll check it out. It's always good to see where things come from.
Official Groupon response: https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-a...

"There is some recent confusion around Groupon’s intended use of a product name that the Gnome Foundation believes infringes on their trademarks.

We love open source at Groupon. We have open sourced a number of projects on github. Our relationship with the open source community is more important to us than a product name. We’ve been communicating with the Gnome Foundation for months to try to come to a mutually satisfactory resolution, including alternative branding options, and we’re happy to continue those conversations. And if we can’t come up with a resolution, we’ll be glad to look for another name.

We will continue to have an open line of communication with the Gnome Foundation until this matter is resolved."
Army auctions 9 black hawk helicopters
It also doesn't help that no Google apps are officially supported on the Windows store. Casual users want their Youtube and Gmail! Their lack of existence (and the dearth of other apps) stopped people from adopting the platform.
What neurons tell us about the 'hipster effect' when contrarians look the same
It will definitely change the way we code

Only on a low level, right? I have not been thinking about ram and disk in ages. I calculate with variables, I store stuff in a DB or in a file, I access the net via http. Nothing would change if ram increases I think.
In fire service mode door operations are manually controlled. So they do have a purpose, even if most users never experience it.

Source: http://elevation.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_service_mode_(EFS)
Do you imagine it would be difficult to convince a citizen the government shouldn't be allowed to steal their property?
I've given up ; I never received anything I ordered from China.
Whenever police end up using force, they inevitably attach the "assault of police officer" charge, to justify their use of force. If they did not, the defence could ask: well, why did you beat him up?
Will an open Internet policy emerge? FCC Advisor on net neutrality
This is pretty cool, especially since the data is persistent. You could put an entire data warehouse onto one or of a couple of these things, update it once a week and get amazing response time.

But I thought the main drawback of SSDs was that eventually the individual memory cells will degrade and lose the ability to write new data. I don't see anything about endurance other than a MTBF of 2.5 million hours and the disk-writes-per-day (DWPD), which I had to look up. I have no idea if these are good or bad. I feel like these things will be great if you didn't write new data a lot, or you have deep pockets to replace them when you need to.
Hear, hear. I can't tell you the number of times I've drafted a comment on HN, revised it a couple of times, and think cancelled before posting.

That wouldn't have happened in my twenties.
> No puzzle here. You can only log in if Google has flagged your search topics.

> On google search, you have the variable window.location.search = "?gfe_rd=cr&ei=XXXGyZiVNHoFcuF8Qe7wYHACw&gws_rd=ssl"

> That string is appended to the url of the iframe: src="https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search

Check this sub-thread of the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590155. Someone goes into more depth about it.
I had exactly this experience this summer, building a bunch of IndexedDB usage into my app, then adding a shim for places it didn't seem to work, and then finding more places that it didn't work (or I was doing something wrong, or there were other bugs), and finally ripping it all out and using synchronous localstorage calls instead. Bah.
Is that 10x cost per byte?
Yes and no. If you push an update and sysadmins all over the world dutifully upgrade and immediately notice programs breaking, their first thought is not going to be "oh, those programs must have had latent bugs." No, they're going to blame you. Besides, having stuff work correctly is always more fun than assigning blame, and validating flags is an easy way to avoid these scenarios.
>Likewise, I've never heard of the whole "you only remember a dream if you wake up during it".

I can't speak to its validity, but there are studies like this:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00419

> Studies in cognitive psychology showed ... nocturnal awakenings ... are significantly related to dream recall frequency

Though there are clearly many other factors too!

(link via: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/clues-how-reme... "People who are better at remembering their dreams wake up more often during the night")
FTA:

"Reduces total processing time, compared to hard-drive drives (HDDs)."

i loled.
250lbs was from the article.
Influx of records requests may force police to drop body cams
ssh into a box that is set up to use tor, install squid, set up firefox to use your squid/tor box as a proxy. Your home is no longer broadcasting that you're using tor. Your box could be outside of the country.
Given the statement from Groupon (https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-a...) that if they can't work something out with you, they will choose another name, do you still plan on raising the $80K?
intentional ui
Encounters with the Posthuman
Speaking on behalf of a subset of individuals whose family has been ravaged by the effects of alcoholism as well as constantly ships well-formed PHP code for internal projects; this clickbait piece of trash can go to hell.
Software Engineer:

Awake 6am, Sleep 11pm, typically get 5-6 hours per night. Caffeine, 1 cup of tea in the morning. Usually green.
Taking a look at the CSS code included on the page I see things related to "terminal-output" and "editor". This corresponds with what the poster says the page does. There seem to be "question_options" also; likely some sort of quiz. Also see reference to a countdown timer of some sort.

Note also that the application bounces you to /_ah/logout on deny. That is an admin URL within Google App Engine applications. I figure everything on "withgoogle.com" is hosted by GAE?

I checked waybackmachine for mirrors of older versions of the site, perhaps when it had more clues. Nothing. I did direct it to archive foobar.withgoogle.com though, since they did not yet have it cached.
What's the point of making it DDR3 DIMM compatible if they require a special motherboard to plug in?
Comments are what gets me here, for discovery. Love when topics and links are the subject of comments.

I think my CPS degree received when having to use IBM 129 and 3 runs per day afford a great HN following.

I really don't get the down up karma thing. Just glad smart people with lots of time on their hands post interesting stuff
Yes, because if there's something that every developer does, it's answer their recruiter spam :)
> Most of them are psychopaths

That's quite a claim. Demonstrate it.
That's a bit pedantic, though. The unavoidable tradeoffs are a pretty small part of the total that we're dealing with now.
You've touched on a trend I've noticed. A lot of Zen preachers on HN abuse their misunderstanding of QM to attack the PEM and other principles. I've heard "light is both a particle and a wave! Zen:1 Logic:0" quite a few times.
> Still, he now sees that it wasn’t so much the elevator that changed him as his reaction to it.

It's crazy how our interpretation of the events around us is even more potent than the event itself. Some people could have gone through this and it would have been a funny anecdote at office holiday parties, for others, complete life upheaval. (Not to diminish how terrible this must have been for Nick.)

But I'm reminded of this constantly now with a 5 month old baby. I'm exhausted. So much sleep deprivation. And the things that happen around me take a much different "color". I have to constantly keep asking: is this event occuring like I think it is, or is it simply my exhausted interpretation of it. And more often than not, it's the interpretation. When I finally get a nap in, things go back to looking just great.
I don't know who Sri Viswanath is, but I wonder if he understands the implications of "we’ll be glad to look for another name."

This has to have been run by Groupon legal, right?
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-a...

"We love open source at Groupon. We have open sourced a number of projects on github. Our relationship with the open source community is more important to us than a product name. We’ve been communicating with the Gnome Foundation for months to try to come to a mutually satisfactory resolution, including alternative branding options, and we’re happy to continue those conversations. And if we can’t come up with a resolution, we’ll be glad to look for another name."
This is widely believed and wrong.

Your registered trademark fails when you stop paying your renewal fees. The only other way is for it to become genericised, which is about public use and not about others using it for doing business [1].

Previous commercial use however is an absolute defence in trademark law, making it also impossible to steal a trademark (another oft repeated falsehood): just to anticipate the idea that "Groupon will get an RTM and sue GNOME".

[1] - http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... - Elliott v Google, trademark genericisation.
Follow-up, even more confusing post from Groupon:

https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-a...