skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Given the fact that she mentioned multiple times trying to sell a novel and a tv pilot, I doubt that this was an earnest attempt to get a job, but rather an earnest attempt to get fodder for an overly-complicated article about being rejected from a menial job at the expense of somebody else (The Container Store).

For all we know, they rejected her to give somebody who didn't have a Harvard degree a chance to earn some income.
Amazon is way ahead of everyone else in the cloud space. Their closest rivals (Microsoft & Google) are pretty much copying AWS. Most of Azure's services are equally proprietary and I doubt that will ever change.

This just leaves the other smaller players (DigitalOcean, Joyent, Rackspace, etc) who are mostly offering something akin to EC2 and then partnering with other vendors to offer the missing pieces on top (frankly what other choice do they have? They can't get into a race with Amazon/Google on who can build the most no. of services - they will never win that race).
This page just cries out for a date. When was it written? I can't tell. The latest reference is 2012, but that leaves a 2-year period. I tried the PDF. No date there, either. Try the citations. Finally: 2013. But that's 'way too much work to answer an obvious question.

So, everyone -- including Mr. Halftaker -- when you publish anything, put a date on it!
You mean C#? Let's keep those separate shall we?

Linq makes C# much better, especially compared to java. It's a whole different story in F# though.
This article brings up a very important point that I don't think the author intended to make: do not sign up for COBRA. If the author had signed up for an individual plan under Obamacare within the 60 day period from when she lost her job, she would have at least had health insurance, and if she remained unemployed, she would qualify for increasingly large subsidies.

In the olden days (before 2013) you had to sign up for COBRA to stay insured unless you were healthy enough to qualify for individual insurance. But now you can't be turned down, but you can only sign up during specific enrollment periods. Problem is, COBRA is still around, and companies are still required to offer it to you, even though for most people it's going to be way more expensive than individual insurance (because it's unsubsidized), and if something goes wrong or you become unable to afford the premiums, you can end up like the author, unable to sign up for an individual plan because you're out of the enrollment period.

This is one of a few holes and pitfalls that were created by the Affordable Care Act.

I know a lot about this stuff because my startup helps companies save money and design health benefits programs that take advantage of recent changes in the health care law (benefitter.com). If you have any Obamacare questions, let me know.
> other than moving the data

Moving data from one instance of MySQL to another is usually straightforward as a one-liner, piping a SQL dump from the old database into the new one over the network...

mysqldump -hOldHost | mysql -hNewHost

...and waiting.
If they must be there, a smaller font size would be better. At first glance I ignored them completely, because they looked like ads.
I think you just need to hire an experienced Scala Developer for a month or two until your team gets up to speed. It'd be like a c# team having a Ruby app dumped in their lap. You're practically preordained to hate it. ;-)

The documentation for Scala is actually pretty outstanding IMO. I had a much easier time compared to Ruby. Daniel Westheide's introduction series "The Neophyte's Guide to Scala" is the single best language intro I've ever seen, for any language. It even goes into enough of Akka to get a basic chat application going. And while Akka works nicely with Scala, it's conventions are so different it might as well be a different language. In idiomatic Scala you probably don't run into mapTo or vars too often for example, but that's going to be a pretty common sight working with Akka.

At least the documentation on PlayFramework.com is mostly current, and doesn't gloss over important detail. Unlike rubyonrails.org, where even five years ago the basics were horribly dated, inaccurate, and skip important background.
I could have a big-time bias toward believing this headline is true as written. (See my user profile here on Hacker News for more details about my language studies.) But I wonder if the really generalizable finding is simply that adult learners taking on a new challenging learning topic prompt their brains to grow and stay flexible longer. For me, after learning a lot of natural human languages, brushing up and extending my knowledge of mathematics for a career change seemed to provide a fair amount of intellectual growth. Maybe now it's time for me to take up music lessons or an active team sport like soccer. There is always time to learn something new, and there seem to be a lot of benefits from learning almost anything.
I find that debatable, they are still guilty to some extent because of their inaction to do anything (effective) against these botnets. whether 'action' would refer to users installing a decent anti-virus, or an ips blocking and isolating obviously infected hosts.

Of course, this is a whole different level of culpability than if they were actually condoning large scale attacks on other countries infrastructure.

The fact remains that if I were to plot the amount of ip's that come knocking at my non-production server you'd see over 50% coming from china.
The site in question is not hosted by Mozilla, but embeds video hosted by vid.ly, which air.mozilla.com also uses.

You certainly don't have to go out of your way on my account! If you'd like help with crashes or anything else, let me know or file a bug.

Nobody has been able to reproduce the problem you hit with the video, although I appreciate knowing about it. It's pretty difficult to test arbitrary sites with different sets of addons and other local config, so I certainly appreciate if you don't have time/desire to dig in further.
i think the point is to mash the word like a piano pushing CABD all at the same time, so instead of typing 30 letters to make a sentence you mash word1 word2 word3 word4 word5, similar to 5 keystrokes instead of 30... im looking forward to trying one myself
MS coincidentially moved their headquarters to Muenchen.

http://www.eversheds.com/global/en/what/articles/index.page?...

Of course that has absolutely nothing to do with Muenchen switching back to MS.
I couldn't agree more with your comments: the innovations sama mentions are just shiny copies of what existed ten years ago, or maybe more - with a few exceptions.

This article is pretty depressing, since what he is saying is in essence "we created lots of innovation in the last ten years, and now we are going to change the world even more, because we are investing in energy and biotech". Now the innovation, as you say, if pretty artificial, and the two companies that are worth the more in YC portfolio are one that is semi illegally disrupting hotels (there are reasons why it's forbidden to transform your flat into an hotel room) and another one that built a wrapper around rsync.

I'm from Europe, and the view I have from the SV is more a bunch of hipster programmers with macbooks building social networks to share cat pictures, than a center of technical innovation, and sadly, this post is not making me change my mind.

I do hope to be proven wrong.
Have you read "mans search for meaning"? That guy lived in a concentration camp, so you probably don't have it that bad...

Hope you find something better than pills and/or paying a shrink for the rest of your life. I know you can.
Would love to see that demonstration, do you have a link for that?
While I think you're probably right about their motivation, I think a lot of companies seem to apply the "overqualified" classification in stupid scenarios.

For example, this is a job for a seasonal door greeter at retail, by definition it is temporary. Even if it wasn't meant to be temporary, is someone who is "overqualified" really more of a statistically significant "flight risk" than some high school kid, an elderly retiree, or someone who somehow has made a career of being a seasonal door greeter?

I suspect all classes of potential hires would be very nearly equally incredibly unreliable in the long-term for a job of this ilk, if you actually hired from all groups and did a study on job longevity.
As a person who's suffered from depression, and experienced discrimination because of it, I'd like to encourage you to both sue the shit out of this asshole, and name the company publicly. Don't be ashamed of your depression, and don't let people like this continue to get away with abusing those who suffer from mental illness.
Please do stop investing, AT&T
Thanks for the feedback!

I actually definitely agree with you: that pull quote in particular added no value and I've removed it.

We've had this debate internally (I'm personally not a fan of pull quotes), but a lot of writers like them for the ability to highlight key points and to break up the stories.

Would it maybe be helpful if we didn't make the pull quotes full width? Or required that they be shorter?
This is actually a really cool feature - the CloudHSM offering is both (very) expensive and not user friendly. This should help with big clients requiring HSMs or the like.

So many cool services could be built with this if there's an open API.

Edit: Sadly, it seems there's no out of the box ELB support... Would be great for TLS termination.
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Yes, all of our AWS EC2 Windows instances sitting behind an ELB with the latest AWS Security Protocols will not communicate with the ELB after this update.

I was able to fix this by reconfiguring the available cipher suites within IIS. Downloaded the IIS Crypto tool https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/Default.aspx and applied their "Best Practices" which removed a bunch of insecure ciphers. After that the AWS ELB and IIS happily communicated.
Sam left out the two innovations that have made the most difference to my life in the past 10 years:

1) the Google Library project, which scanned tens of millions of books and made them free online.
2) ebook readers (first the Kindle, and now AMOLED or super high res smartphones)

I now have access to so much human knowledge, and can take this vast library anywhere.

Much of the other great innovation in the last ten years were in expansions or second versions of existing ideas:

1) Stackoverflow is so much better than experts exchange and random forums.
2) Wikipedia is infinitely better than about.com
3) Between Crashplan, Dropbox, and OSX time machine, backups are in much better shape now. I never worry about losing my files.
4) Smart phones were not life changing, but they did save the annoyance of printing directions and then carrying a moleskin, crossword puzzle, paperback book, etc, everywhere I go.
5) Yelp and Amazon reviews are so much more extensive now, making accessing high quality products so much easier.
6) Goole maps now support transit directions. Finding the right city bus or set of stops to take when traveling is much easier.

Some things have gotten worse. I think newsgroups+AIM+IRC+blogs&RSS were better than Twitter/Facebook/Reddit. Obviously, many will disagree.

Right now, the biggest area we need innovation in is in food and energy. In most other spaces, we are reduced to solving the most minor of "first world problems". Major kudos to Sam and to YC for actually investing in energy startups in the recent rounds.
I don't think it was about the article. It was an attempt to get a job with health insurance because she messed up her health insurance situation after she lost her previous job.
An OS doesn't have to have a file browser either, yet no one cried antitrust when Windows 95 bundled Windows Explorer instead of forcing people to buy Norton Commander.

This whole argument is kind of silly anyways since it's leaving out intent, which is a very important contextual part of evaluating the action of a person or entity. Seeing emails showing MS trying to deliberately get web developers hooked on a "more standards-compliant" IE and then locking those same devs in is a much different thing than MS honestly wanting people to have a decent default software base to go with Windows, even if both strategies end up in practice with "IE 4 preinstalled".
Features we've killed to reach version 1.0
Public companies risk running afoul of US data breach laws if they don't disclose a breach and customer data was potentially stolen. So it's a matter or piss off your stockholders or break the law. The only winning move is to have proper security before you get hacked.
I'm still annoyed by the lack (or removal) of Instagram integration.

I'm sure both sides are at fault to some degree, but I feel like Twitter had more of an obligation to address the issue than Instagram did.
So, it's a carry over from glossy print magazines, which is probably an effective tool, when your periodical is adrift in a sea of other periodicals, and you need to catch the reader's eye, as they skim through 400 pages, like a flipbook animation, scanning for content.

It's supposed to be a climactic snippet of a punchline without the set up, presented significantly earlier in the article than it's actual inline appearance, so that the reader has a hard time finding it in the normal scale wall-of-text, and can't skim to it. Then the time they spend sifting through the article, they read more of it, and (if it's a good article) they become more enticed into buying the magazine, as the newstand clerk scowls at them, because what is this? A library? No reading!

But damn it! I need to know the whole joke!
I guess I'll just buy it an read the rest on the train...

That's how those things are supposed to work. But they're a little anachronistic for the internet. Some people are just attached to the look and feel of the design, probably. But on a web page that you scroll through, it's much less effective at courting the reader, and in this particular instance, the examples are intrusive, and counter-productively placed right next to the passages from which they originate.
Arthritis in the hands?
Seems to me like the author is seriously overqualified to be working at the Container Store. That's probably why she was rejected.

Also, the whole article is a great example of why single-payer socialised health care is a good thing. Living in Canada, I don't have to worry that a job loss means no health coverage.
Frustration doesn't fill your stomach as readily as you imagine.
Actually, it sounds like she had plenty of money and just ended up being desperate to be covered by health insurance.
Why even have notability be a requirement? Why can't the wikipedia just hold everything about everything?
Except that all TA 'rules' are based essentially based on numerology. The MACD camp worships 12, 26 and 9. RSI does 14, 70 and 30. They all also worship past values that wre present in the market in the past, which apparently have some special significance in the future. For example, they may be connected by a shooting star or a hanging man or three white soldiers. Either that, or they are constellations used in astrology. Same difference.
I think we've reached the point where we can start being pedantic about what "Linux" means.

I don't think the kernel developers care that much about what systemd is doing (except for the notorious clash about systemd interpreting a debug option meant for the kernel and crashing the boot...), so you can't say the kernel is copying or doing anything.

The distros, however, are possibly the ones you want to blame for pushing and supporting systemd. Which is actually funny because the way it's going, systemd is laying foundations for a new kind of linux distributions to which distributions will certainly have to adapt if they want to keep it.
Yes. It felt like there was some kind of tipping point around the late 1990s, when mobile phone + ADSL + popular internet all seemed to happen at once. 1994 to 2004 = big changes; 2004 - 2014 = not so big.

I suppose that looking back it just seems like by 2004, there was a whole ton of stuff that by 1994 standards would have been implausible - whereas here in 2014, a lot of the impressive stuff would in 2004 have been merely impractical.

Or perhaps I'm just old and tired now. Who knows. Maybe I'm underselling SSDs. Anyway, whatever. Time for my nap.
Does nvidia NSight now work with VS community edition? They say VS community is fully extensible edition.
I put on my robe and tinfoil hat...

Managing all my keys on such a service would mean trusting Amazon will not hand them over to NSA and friends (with our without NSL or sealed indictment). Which I'm rather sceptical about, tbh, considering Amazon makes quite a lot of business with governments of all sorts.

EDIT: to clarify, my comment was about keys that would otherwise not sit on, or be used by, AWS images. If you make the effort to use such a tool, it makes sense to store all your keys, not just stuff that would have ended up on AWS anyway; and that's where the risk lies.
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218 points and just 1 comment?
Personally, I view the collections library as a showcase for how that language works when you're designing an API to be used for 3rd parties. If it's incomprehensible, that worries me.

If the collections API is purposely trying to confuse people, blame the Scala team, not me.
Definitely this. They'd move to capital-intensive projects (Tesla, SpaceX, etc).
> Yeah, I know I should switch to Git, but I really like Hg.

Nothing wrong with hg. In fact, lots of good things about it:

http://selenic.com/hg/help/revsets

http://evolution.experimentalworks.net/doc/user-guide.html

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/customising-mercurial-l...
I wonder about the future of CodePlex...
From the same think tank that brought you: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/pos...
The IoT revolution is inherently price conscious. It's not that any of this stuff is new, it's that I can buy a device cheap enough to consider adding wifi to everything, including a temperature sensor on my toaster, to show me temperature graphs for the perfect toast.

It could be done 10 years ago, but spending $200 to internet-enable my toaster is ridiculous, but for $25 ($20 + a temperature sensor), it's a fun and silly weekend project.

Spark themselves make the Core, which is $40, which is the same ecosystem, and also wifi shields for Arduino have existed for a while, though they aren't as cheap, and on the larger side, Raspberry Pi's have USB, which means you can just plug in a USB dongle.

So I say yes, for $20 to go from wifi -> breadboard, this is revolutionary.
This has long been a pet peeve of mine when it comes to online articles. I see the appeal for printed magazines because, if people are flipping pages, a large pull quote might catch their attention and get them to start reading. But for an online article, the fact that I'm scrolling down means that I am reading. And if I'm reading, there's nothing more annoying than re-reading the exact sentence that I just read.

If you want to do more intelligent pull quotes, paraphrase the quotes and use them as headings. For example:

... And then, Reader, I clicked on it.

<div class="pullquote">The Container Store is my kind of porn</div>

I'd been looking for a new job for months, the search wasn't going
as well as I'd planned, and The Container Store, let's be honest,
is my kind of porn. ...

This has the advantage of piquing someone's curiosity ("Why is the Container Store a kind of porn for this person?") and they can carry on to read the following paragraph to find out why. For the next pull quote:

<div class="pullquote">A job with benefits is a unicorn</div>

Of course, it too appears above the paragraph that mentions it. The point is to set the stage for what you're about to read, not just regurgitate in a large, bold font the text you just read... which wastes peoples' time.
It gets even more incredible. The landings would have been canceled for the day they actually happened, except that the meteorology officer in Eisenhower's staff predicted that there would be a short break in the bad weather sufficient for the landings to occur.

Eisenhower rolled the dice and the weather did indeed hold up long enough for the invasion to occur. His opponent, Gen. Rommel, felt the weather was going to be so bad there was no way the invasion could commence so he was actually away from Normandy on D-Day to see his family.
I just pre-ordered! This looks fantastic for what I'm trying to do; reading temperatures of barbecues and smokers via wifi. I already have a working prototype using a Raspberry Pi, but of course I needed to add a USB wifi dongle and a sturdy case, as well as a beefy power supply to keep it all going. This will drastically reduce my overhead!

I can't wait!
In the time you've spent whining on this forum, you could have made many times your proportional contribution to this endeavor.

I'm in agreement w/ all the downvoters here - you are absolutely entitled to whatever opinion you desire to hold, but if you're going to be sharing it in a public forum, deliver sound criticism or don't bother.

Your comments are beneath the quality of conversation expected at HN.
Hello everyone! I am one of the developers. I am more than happy to answer any questions.
I hadn't heard of Genymotion having adware/malware previously. Would you mind linking a source?
On Systemd and devops
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(Disclosure: I own ether, but not XCP)

Well, both platforms require you to use a new currency (ether and XCP currency.) Counterparty will make it easier to write contracts that involve bitcoins (I think, not totally sure how that works) ethereum will have a 12 second block time vs a 10 minute block time (very different) and ethereum transaction costs should be lower (for several reasons.)

Additionally, counterparty will probably launch their product first.

Also, ethereum is only one piece of a much larger technology stack being worked on, linking contracts to things like private messages between users, a file distribution system, a webkit-based webrowser/wallet system, etc. Additionally, ethereum can support SPV, a technology very relevant for mobile apps, which apparently isn't possible with a XCP-type system.

(Counterparty also has add-on technologies, but I'm not that familiar with their stack.)
Anyone like this better than a command line issue/bug tracker?
You can also retroactively sign up for COBRA. That's what I did when I left my job; went "uninsured" for 60 days then got my own insurance. In that 60 day window if something had happened, I would have retroactively signed up for COBRA (having to pay both months) and used the coverage. It's certainly a roll-of-the-dice, but for a younger healthy person like myself, I was really only worried about freak accidents and needed the money.
Was really disappointed that this wasn't announcing a new tool to deal with harassment.
I find them annoying because I naturally "have" to read them. So I wind up reading the same-ish paragraph twice (intended?).

It doesn't help that because of the size and margin you actually need to scroll past it rather than it being a more subtle part of the text.

Something like this:

https://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/files/2012/07/pullquote_reg...

Likely wouldn't bug me because it is impossible (given the context) to assume you're meant to read it. Whereas when you stick it inline but make it bigger it could be either read or not read depending on the author's intent.

This too looks better:

https://www.drupal.org/files/images/better-pullquote-example...

Not inline also and easy to ignore (which might be "bad" depending on the intent of the pull quotes).
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