skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's look at things in perspective. Axel Springer with EUR2.8B revenue and 13,000 employees and few million readers is a modest size company, and not that important to German economy, much less to European. Certainly less important to Europe than Google is to America ($60B revenue, 50,000 employees, billions of users, facilitating foreign intelligence etc.). Further, it is likely to be even less important in the future since it's in a shrinking industry. Most of the revenue of Springer is still from print media.

Also, please note that the Germans take up less than 13 percent of the seats in the European Parliament.

I am neither German nor American. I don't hate Google and I use its services regularly.

But German interest in splitting up Google is certainly smaller than American interest in keeping it together. It's not like there is a single German (or European) company ready to take over search (or email or video or smart phones) if Google was split up.

And Google's monopoly in Europe is extreme. All web businesses spend a significant amount of time optimizing for this one gatekeeper. If you are not visible on Google, you are out of business. 90 percent of searches in many European countries are on Google. Not because it's much better than it's competitors any more, but because of habits and that it owns the platforms (Android, Chrome). The only challengers to Google that I have seen in the last 10 years is Apple and Facebook.

As I remember it, Google benefitted when Microsoft was forced to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and again when Microsoft was forced to give users a clear choice not to use Microsoft search in Internet Explorer.

The mother of all antitrust cases what that which ended with the breaking up Standard Oil, the Google of its time.

The European parliament doesn't have the authority to break up Google but the EU certainly has the authority to do so, and in general to regulate the businesses that operate in Europe.

Personally, I'd rather have EU force Google and the other digital giants to pay taxes in Europe on their vast European profits.

In a few years Google will likely be less important due to new technological developments, just like Standard Oil probably would have been less of a monopoly after WWI even without being broken up due to new technologies like electricity (instead of kerosene).
I agree with all the points, and yet at the same time I like these hackathon jam thingies.

I have a real life with real responsibilities and I live deep in the countryside to so I just don't get hackathons happening around me.

But I've started to make 'me' time to go meetups, game-programming jams, 'make' kind of things and that kind of stuff. And I love it, even if just a spectator and just for a few hours.

Along those lines I recently invited myself to look around a real rocket project (I'm an armchair enthusiast) and here's my pictures: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/102953980123/home...

I think that kind of project is like a years-long hackathon if you squint from a sufficiently high altitude.
I think it's your nifty imagination, it's just the watermark on the image :)
I never heard about reactos before. Am I right to assume that this is Windows 98 as Open Source project? Am I right to assume that a lot of people who hate that XP is not maintaned anymore will switch to something like that instead of Linux or BSD? If that's true I have to sit in a corner for a while crying my heart out...
Interesting addition to the plugin: check admin login credentials with the passwords on the list. If found, notify the admin and disable his account until he resets the password to something better.

Of course, you would have to accumulate the list across many computers and distribute it to WP servers... And be careful NOT to include misspelled passwords (invalid login followed by a valid login). :)

I am also not sure "top X passwords" list would be enough - you should probably check against the whole list, which could be huge.
The cockroaches tend to be smaller.
I'm not sure how effective this is, but I've recently started settin up wordpress in it's own directory. It's a simple procedure, which defends against fishing for example.com/wp-admin hits. All my WP sites are in example.com/example/wp-admin.

Regular users never see the example/ directory.
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Third party Twitter clients.

Tweetbot: https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Twitterrific: https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Twitterfon:
https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Echofon:
https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Am sure there are others.
Exciting. Worked on 3 of those games :)

...but where is WarcraftIII? And Heroes of Might and Magic?
Over a year old article, but I'm still curious; what options are there for backups these days?
reposting again from article comments -- I guess I'm just trying to score HN points :))
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Hi Julien! Thanks for engaging in discussion :)

Your argument is certainly reasonable and logical! What I disagree with is the starting premise of "fair == same standard of living == same % of disposable income" and your characterization of candidates not subscribing to that reasoning as "greedy". ("Same standard of living" would make a lot of sense if your company was based in Bangalore and trying to hire in London -- e.g ensuring "minimum standard of living" -- not that you'd be able to hire in London with Bangalore rates.).

You're absolutely right that ultimately it all boils down to what the market will bear, and you're happy with your ability to hire to your desired standard the way you're doing it -- which is great! I'm afraid however that it's a bit overly enthusiastic to say that this has anything to do with whether your compensation policy is fair.

As a candidate, I would expect to at least be told about this compensation policy before spending any time on the interview process -- I'm sure you'll agree, and perhaps start doing so if you're not doing so already :)

Cheers!

P
Amazon is finally becoming "the everything store"

Interesting!
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Hi HN,

I want to redesign my CV but I am no designer and have a hard time being satisfied with my own attempts.
Are there any services / template sites you can recommend?
What people never seem to understand is that the proximity of the source matters.

Compare a tiny amount of radiation coming from a long distance (say the core of the earth) and a tiny amount of radiation coming from speck of decaying radioactive material released by Fukushima that is floating around in the air of your office room. You measure the radiation in the room and sure enough the radiation is very weak. You conclude "See? Fukushima is no worse than natural radiation". Now what happens if you're so unfortunate to inhale that speck of material and it settles in your lungs? Then the picture changes completely because some cells of your lungs will now be very close to the source of radiation and these cells -- and always the same cells -- will be subjected to a long period of intense radiation.
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There's a Wordpress plugin that I used to use.

It sets up a hidden Wordpress admin page on the following URL:

http://www.youramazingblog.co.uk/wp-admin/?key=value

So you need to enter a key/value of your choosing in the URL before you can access the admin page.

Works pretty well especially if paired up with a decent key/value.
What are all those fb[0-9]+://-schemes?
Well, that's $30M in enterprise value, not equity. We actually have no idea how leveraged he is.
In the US, I'd suggest looking at Western Governor's [wgu.edu] because the value proposition is reasonable due to its not-for-profit nature and quasi-public status.
Good rant :)

As the co-owner of a hosting provider with its own data centre I might be biased but I totally reject "You can’t trust your datacenter anymore when you’re in the cloud" argument. You _need_ your backup server to do some lifting for you to make half of that wishlist work. If you can't trust your provider not to read your unencrypted some of the time data, you're using the wrong provider, and making backups much harder than they need to be.

Also a lot of that wishlist seems to ignore network realities - you can do a lot more with a backup server in the next rack, or one that's the end of a private link, than you can with a very remote storage provider, so insisting on the same tools no matter where your backups are located seems a bit hopeful.

I've worked on a backup system for our customers called "byteback" which I'm slowly finishing off and documenting - will only be 2-3000 lines of Ruby when finished.

It currently leans on rsync, ssh and btrfs's copy-on-write snapshots to keep efficient copies of entire servers. There's a server-side pruning algorithm that allows the disc to fill up with daily snapshots for multiple servers, then prunes the least "useful" ones.

It's trying to be zero-configuration, so it builds its list from a list of "local" filesystems, so that you can copy the whole snapshot back quickly to restore a system.

The only other feature I'm going to need is to automatically drive "snapshot" functionality when it finds it on the server - e.g. LVs, btrfs subvolumes and other points on the filesystem where it can make a safe snapshot, it should do that automatically.

The zero-configuration rationale is just that where we've had backup failures, it's been manual misconfigurations and misguided attempts to be "efficient" that caused important files to be missed. So I'm trying to bake in defaults and features to cover every mistake we've ever made :)

As the name implies it's made for our customers, and our defaults, but I'm pretty sure it'll work for a lot of other server use cases as well. I'm still going over a few 10s of live backups fixing problems and adding new defaults as I find them. If anyone's interested, shout and I'll try to push on with the documentation and put it up in its current state.
The reason I love C——I wouldn't like to love it but I am dragged down back to C each time so I think I've just given up——is that it costs a bit more to write.

I used to prototype things with Python by the method of sheer experimentation. When I found a suitable design, I'd rewrite it "properly" in Python and if that wasn't fast enough I'd think a bit and rewrite it in C. But that's happening less and less often these days.

Because C costs a bit more to write it makes me think ahead. And I've (once again) found that while prototyping in Python is fast it's even faster to think and then just write C. I write some boilerplate C and start adding the data structures... this could take a "long" time but once I've figured it out, writing the actual C code is a breeze. All the mental work has already been done and once the data structures are right, the implementation just follows.

Curiously, this doesn't exactly happen with Python. Because you can make a Python program run almost immediately, there's nothing forcing you to the productive idleness. In C, you'll have to write a bit of code first until you can get something meaningful up and running: this is the hatching time for what you really want to write.

I'm not sure why I haven't observed this with other languages. I suppose I would need to write hefty amounts of Java until I could get a program running somewhat, but this process of forced productive idleness mostly happens in C. Maybe it's because there are no layer beneath C and assembly and you intuitively know the tradeoffs and only a negligible delta of what you write and what the machine will actually do. Maybe it's because C feels so physical. I don't know. But so far C is the only language that gives me that process in a native, intuitive way, constantly telling me that "you must not rush, because you can't rush anyway".
There is another very interesting tool: http://www.boxbackup.org/ . Unfortunately, it looks like it is dead now, like many other open-source tools of this kind. So at some point I've done a backup script around rsync, which also works with snapshots, so has strong data deduplication. Well, it is also dead, but at least it is short enough for anyone to fix it. If anyone is interested, here it goes: http://okrasz-techblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/backing-up-with-...
Does this include food delivery?
Sadly, it does not seem to include Saas/web services
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This is URL scheme an app needs to add to their info.plist in order to integrate the Facebook SDK. The number after fb is the ID of their page/app on Facebook.
Actually this is Windows 2003\XP as Open Source project
> The hole[sic] court case was about bundling, nowdays[sic] everybody does that. Can you imagen[sic] any operating system beeing[sic] sold without preinstalled browser?

The case was in the days when browsers were much less interoperable. There was a real concern that bundling IE would make it easy for MS to make everyone buy IIS, because that would be the best server to use to serve sites for IE.

It didn't turn out that way for a variety of reasons (among them the rise of Mozilla, impossible to predict at the time, and the amazing growth of Apache), but that doesn't mean the lawsuit was wrong, knowing what we did at the time.

> Also how would people go about downloading the other browser if there was not internet explorer?

ftp.mozilla.org or similar; BSD FTP ships with pretty much any computer.
It's the same book.

I strongly recommend it.

You don't need exercises: The book is a step by step "instruction manual".

There is only one exercise (in this context; there are many other forms of meditation) Sit comfortably. Breath in. Breath out. Repeat. Now gently try to let go of your thoughts, and gently focus your attention on your breath. When your mind slips, bring it back to the breath. Repeat for as long as you want to sit.

The reason you want to read the book is because it deals systematically with the practicalities, such as how to deal with pains and aches and distractions, or how to deal with sudden intense nonsensical urges (for example, when I started I went through a period where I'd get one minute or so in and then be convinced that I'd failed to set my timer, and that I had been sitting for way too long, and that I'd be late for something, anything; it took weeks to push past that barrier).

I'd also strongly recommend this series [1] of recordings of a course by Gil Fronsdal. It covers the same practice, and fits very well with the book. And like the book, the course recording is very much kept secular.

[1] http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma12/GilMed07.html
I agree with many points of the article. I am slowly moving back from cloud-based services to simple local (though synced) text-based files. E.g. I switched from Google Mail to plain IMAP, which I fetch with isync, read with mutt(-kz) and index with notmuch.

I generally do not do presentations and documents in Google Drive of Microsoft Office anymore. When possible, I stick to Markdown and use pandoc to convert to PDF. Since it's plain files, it is easy to backup. And git provides excellent versioning. Most people can also read and write Markdown without too much trouble.

I also decided to move my task planning back to local, using Task Warrior and Dropbox for sync.

For backups of my MacBook and Mac Mini, I am now mostly using Arq [1], which can backup to nearly anywhere (ssh to Amazon S3), and has a sensible interface. The data format is documented, and they have an open source command-line restore utility for the case Arq disappears. It can also restrict backups when connected to known Wifi networks, etc.

If I wasn't on Mac, I would probably look at Attic.

[1] http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
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I've been to two "Major League" hackathons (CalHacks and YHack) and really enjoyed my experiences at both as a current undergrad studying CS. Not often do I get the chance to meet 1000+ people my age that are interested in exactly what I'm interested. It's a great time for meeting new people, and maintaining relationships after the weekend is done. I landed an internship this Summer in SF from building a hack and talking to engineers, so I'd say it's been an incredibly valuable experience.
I was only commenting on the goal-attributing phrasing you'd used, not the Physics.

Compare your electrostatic sphere example to my crater-lake example: lakes at a high gravitational potential are inefficient, it's less costly for the water to flow up the sides of a crater and down into the ocean. The reason that doesn't happen is because there is no mechanism for it to do so. If we look at liquid helium, there is a mechanism which allows it (the Onnes Effect) so it does happen.

> Electrostatic forces keep the surface of a liquid as taut as they can

Yes, but the interesting part of the sentence is "as they can"; we can't just assume that a liquid's surface will be at minimal energy, since that would allow us to solve NP-complete problems with soap bubbles ( www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf ) :)
Version control system commit comments are already very useful for many common development tasks, if done right (jira ticket number in each commit, commits divided properly, good commit messages with reasons for change). I wish there was more metadata there (like which tests failed during automatic build after each commit).

But I disagree using text as underlying data format is a problem. It's godsend. Text can be grepped, copy-pasted, diffed and versioned easily.

I cringe when I have to work with versioned word or excel documents. Working with versioned code is much easier.

you may think big red arrow would be nice to put in code, but how do I later search for all red arrows related to X, added by John between 3 and 4 months ago?

I have specification divided into 100s of versioned office documents. When I want to grep I have to know where to look (or zipgrep the underlying xml, which sometimes work sometimes doesn't).

If it was in a text format I could grep and see real differences, not edit history.

If it had embedded video I would need to watch the whole thing. And no - adding keywords isn't much help. I want to be able to search by content.
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Have you ever used a modern strongly typed functional language, e.g. OCaml or Haskell?
OP should add "Windows only" in the title.

Butterfly is developed on 64 bit Windows 8.1 Professional. However, it's actively tested on Windows 7, both 32 and 64 bit versions. Windows XP or Windows Vista are not supported. There will not be a Linux version of Butterfly, please don't ask about it.
From the FAQ:

- For example, if you install car audio, your services would be listed alongside car audio components.

The real benefit for some, not much for others. iPad Repair can't benefit from iPad sales

- Amazon creates pre-defined scopes of work based on common customer requests which you are then able to pre-estimate and offer... Before a job begins, you can review a customer’s specific scope of work and process a change order if needed.

Isn't this too complex? Also, no mention of procedure if customer does not get satisfied by the service. But anyway, it's very interesting to see Amazon trying to standardize service business. It's too complex, I want them to show me how to do it.
I don't know if you are the author but if you want to auto-evaluate yourself have a look on:

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

Less than 200Kb, lightning fast. IMHO it's difficult to make better than this. If you install (manually) the Bass library (100Kb) you can even play web radio. The only "issues" are: not open source and windows only. You can start to improve there if you want to get more than a toy app. Hope it helps somehow.
I stayed away from meditation for very long because of the "woo and supernaturalism" concern, and I agree - Gil Fronsdals stuff is great.
I commented in one of the other threads, and said,

I'm really curious what the Apple AppStore review team has to say about this.
I made a similar experience. When I force myself to sit still and focus on breathing for just 7 minutes in the morning, it seems to make me more aware of what I'm doing for the rest of the day. Sometimes I continue to 40 minutes. Too often I skip it entirely and e.g. surf the net instead, which makes me feel like a work-addicted wreck who won't grant himself just 7 minutes of peace.
It's nonsense like this that makes me really doubt whether Europe has a future. So much negativity.
Google should be broken into three companies. It's not just their search engine that is a monopoly. They should give up Android and Google apps. Apple's market share is slipping and Android growing. It's just another advertising tool and platform for them to push out their apps.
In particular, I think it's used for switching apps - your app switches over to the facebook app (if installed) using fb:// perhaps, and if the user logs in and approves the fb-app, the facebook app will ask iOS to open "fbYOURNUMBER://", bouncing the user back to the app.
> If they are invented by your brain, that makes them no less valid to observe. Yet if they are invented by your brain, then observing the qualities of those sensations is still fascinating and just as valid.

I agree, but that completely undermines your argument for dismissing thoughts about the past or future, ie. that they're "just mental constructs".
> Almost: it will compile on all future Rust releases to the end of time (unless Rust wants to commit suicide). Languages cannot ever make breaking changes once they reach a stable version (unless they have relatively little adoption).

Or nobody expects anything from them (see: PHP)
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Most people only really use their computer as a terminal to connect (via HTTP) to a computer somewhere else (facebook.com).
Thanks! Very good to know! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_%28software_development%...)
HPC code is trivially 'easy' to write from this perspective. You mainly 'only' have to worry about memory leaks, dead locks or overflows on valid or accidentally miss-formated data. It's not like an army of world class hackers are pouring over your code looking for vulnerabilities to exploit. Nor that someone will intentionally try to craft input that will crash your application.
> The future of programming should be one language for all layers of the stack,

Programmers will never agree on what this language should be.Ever.

Because different tasks require different features,a language that tries to have all these features will be regarded as a mess,and disliked because of it.
You can express "this code performs at most n primitive steps from this list". Theoretically it should be possible to express any performance requirement in that form, but I doubt it's practical to do for e.g. numeric computation. (It's usable for "no page render require more than 4 db roundtrips" or similar though).
If you are looking for cross platform, checkout [Haroopad](http://pad.haroopress.com/). It is based on node-webkit and is free. That opens up a lot of improvement possibilities.
Oh my god, I'm sorry. You ARE retarded. Go read your questions haha
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Oh my god, I'm sorry. You ARE retarded. Or worse, a chinese being paid 20cents for down-voting every anti-google comment