skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, one of the points that Eric Evans makes in the article is that programmers should set out to create legacy systems, because that means that they are really good at solving the business problems they are supposed to solve for a really long time.

I used to think that an open source project that hadn't been updated since 2002 was inherently bad. Now I've realized that sometimes this means that it is just done and it's so simple that everything that has changed over the past decade is addressed by ./configure and make.
Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO
Not sure who huntaub is - there's an hl involved in Namecoin already that I know of but I don't think that huntaub is him.

Anyway, there's a somewhat detailed blog post that I helped write about light client design up on the Namecoin blog.

http://blog.namecoin.org/post/109811339625/lightweight-resol...
Yeah we definitely want to provide the service to any organisation that is struggling with hiring / workforce issues. Our focus is startup for now - its the market we know - but we'll get to enterprise and beyond, sooner rather than later.
They are transitioning to SAAS. Windows 10 upgrade will be "free for a year", but I take that to mean after a year you'll be paying $10 per month for Windows 10.

Office 365 is doing well already.
What you say is absolutely fine. But sometimes being comfortable can mean that we have not adapted to changes. In your case (and mine), technology seems to have circled back to what our preferences are - emacs/vi as the editor, terminal/tmux as a conduit into the work area. And a screwdriver, or a pair of pliers never went out of use.
http://www.element14.com/ has 377 rPI2 model Bs. All are $35+shipping.

I don't work for them in anyway, it's just where i bought my current PI.
Why universal apps won't save Windows Phone
> $3 or pounds per hour in the UK?

USD.

> If you have enough brains to learn coding or a web technology, you have enough brains not to do that.

I'd rather do that than a non-coding job for more money. In the long run, I think I'll be better off.
I am curious what people on Hacker News feel about ("public", traded) companies that don't re-invent themselves? I have heard 2 conflicting arguments about this:

1.) as one sector dies, and another grows, a company in the dying sector should give all possible profits to its investors, so the investors can invest in the growing sector. Maximizing profits in the short term, and allowing the company to go bankrupt, is the responsible thing to do, since the goal is to maximize returns for investors.

2.) as one sector dies, and another grows, a company in the dying sector should re-invent itself, investing in those sectors that are growing. Making long-term investments in fields that might become big in the future is the responsible thing to do.

Some examples, mostly offered as counter-arguments to each proposition:

Possibly relevant to #1, I have heard people complain that Microsoft has wasted billions on Bing, all of which was money that could have been returned to investors, at which point the investors could have used the money to invest in Google.

Possibly relevant to #2, I have heard people complain that Jeff Bezos is being irresponsible by chasing growth, when he should instead be developing profits, which could then be given back to investors.

Possibly relevant to #1, I recall there were people who complained about KMarts (failed) attempt to re-invent itself in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Harvard Business Review had a write-up of this, as an example of "pre-mature abandonment of core business". The money that KMart spent trying to re-invent itself is money that could have been given to investors, who then could have invested in Wal-Mart.

Possibly relevant to #2, some Western "activist" investors have tried to pressure Japanese companies to focus more on quarterly profits. I recall this was a big thing 15 years ago, there were complaints that Toyota was investing in itself too much, rather than giving back to its investors.

Possibly relevant to #1, some stakeholders have complained that General Motors has continued to pay out dividends for most of the last 40 years, when that money "really" should have been used to re-invent the company so it could better fight against Toyota.

Possibly relevant to #1, Barnes and Noble continues to pay dividends, when the money might be better spent re-inventing the company.

Possibly relevant to #1, The New York Times continues to pay dividends, when the money might be better spent re-inventing the company.

Possibly relevant to #2, in 1997 Apple re-invented itself, when it might have been better for its stock owners if it had maximized payouts, gone bankrupt, and allowed its investors to take what cash they could get and re-invest in Microsoft.

So which should be condoned? Should the law favor one of these options?
1) It wasn't for Danish customers. It was English customers who were trying to paying using Danish currency.

2) Booking buddy is advertising the sale.

3) "Bizarre Groupon-esque marketing ploy" depends on marketing.

Companies don't intentionally, and without advertising, discount shit for 90% off, but only when you find a backdoor method to get there.

You're either really grasping at straws to legitimize this, or you're completely clueless about how the world works.
The House That Jon Stewart Built
we don't have a magic wand and

Many of the problems he describes do not need a magic wand. In fact, many cases of horrible tech are were created by making an arbitrary choice between several possible options which contained far superior solutions. That's what why the situation is infuriating. Fixation on bad technology is often presented as equivalent to consumer-grade standards (wall plug, lightbulb socket) when it is absolutely, totally different in nature.
Just checked them out - but on a first glance I have trouble getting any meaningful data from the first few user profiles I clicked.

Generally what I look for on a CV or whatever a potential applicant sends over:

- Where have they worked? For how long? And what did they do?

- What did they study?

That's it - I have about 5-15 seconds to find and read that information. If there's something there that I like, then I dive into the rest of what they've written. Am I still interested? Now I'll start digging through their portfolio, web presence etc.

What I am not interested in (until much later in the hiring process) is the random blurbs / thoughts that make them who they are which I think somewhere.com puts on the forefront. It is something I'd glance at to get a feel for who they are as a person, but it really doesn't solve the "CV" delima (if there is one).
https://stamperlocalphotos.herokuapp.com/
How I Created 4 Startup Explainer Videos for $11 – Software by Rob
That's a device that you probably don't want to use with your solar installation since it will not handle the grid-present resynchronization at the end of a power outage correctly which could cause your renewable energy system to be re-connected to the grid at 180 degrees out of phase worst case when grid power is restored. The result will be a big bill for a large number of power FETs or IGBTs depending on the tech used in your inverter.

So you can't just add an automatic transfer switch to retro-fit this to an existing inverter, but there are plenty of inverters where an option for an external module can be purchased or where an automatic transfer switch is built into the inverter itself:

http://ww3.wholesalesolar.com/newsletter/MAGNUM-AC-COUPLED-L...

These inverters will first synchronize with the grid before they connect.
Why is it arbitrary? every species on that planet is "programmed" to reproduce and thrive, and we are no different.
3 good reasons for not making Backups
There is some truth in what you say. Variations both good and bad will exist.
All eye candies, no insight. It is a good idea to have more accurate match between positions and people, but only if both sides are honest.
Tempted to apply and send them some NSA-ridden hard drives to get them started.
New International Robotics Challenge Announced
I'm curious, have there been bugs in VLC which would allow arbitrary code execution on linux? What about the video player in google chrome?
Most people die from heart disease or cancer. Why do you assume the chance is slim?
Map: Where You're Most Likely to Get Hit by a Car on a Bike, or on Foot
I may be old school but I am not keen on paying monthly fees for software that I use. That is part of the reason I refuse to upgrade to Adobe's Creative Cloud.

Microsoft can't even keep XBOX live up when someone wants to DDOS it, I don't want software that I'm renting that cant run if their servers are down.
I have also had many stack overflow commenters come to critique my code for style but no one actually answer the question[1], and it can be rather frustrating because I know that what they are saying will not solve my problem. But I would suggest a little patience. Hopefully someone will come and answer the question after the initial criticisms die down. My question was eventually answered after all.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16227877/how-to-update-a-...
"If Android & Cyanogen both run Android Apps perfectly, and Cyanogen doesn’t have to come bundled with Google’s suite of services….well….hmmmm…do the math."

Android: hate the new GUI and every game prompting me to sign in to stupid G+ or whatever it's called. Anyone tried Cyanogen on Nexus 2013 tablet?
Introducing DataFrames in Spark
> A couple 15-minute light walks to and from the bus stop and the apartment/office can bring one's energy expenditure up to 3000 calories in a day

Those numbers seems off. A 10km running session (~1 hour) burns approximately 800kcal. You would need quite a lot of "15-minute light walks" to go from 2000kcal/day to 3000. Way more than 4 times a day.

I do agree that the 2000 calories/day, or 2500 if you exercise moderately, is not the whole story. However, I think it is a very decent estimation for most people, as long as you're not a professional athlete or deviate from the norm one way or another.
Microcenter has the B+ for $25, but they are in-store only.
Here is the introduction blog post: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599698621/prototypo-str...
The article makes some good points, and I'm glad it didn't just rail on one single part/component since linux distrobutions have so much variety. ZFS is really a killer FS, and unfortunately Linux just doesn't have a native answer just yet (although BtrFS does have some promising parts).

There's a lot of people either threatening to switch or are switching to one of the BSD's as a result of being dissatisfied with the systemd debate outcome -- apparently not realizing FreeBSD (and others) are in the early stages of working on their own systemd/launchd-like init system. Everyone seems to realize the need for a more modern init system...
Anyone looking for more ideas on statistical anomaly detection. Check out this talk:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/conference-program/...

Specifically the section about 20mins in where he talks about KS windowing.
Honestly, let them! They'll go bankrupt soon enough. And they'll achieve peak shaving in the process.

Lead acid batteries cost about $100/kWh of nameplate capacity, more like $200/kWh of usable storage. At a 50% depth of discharge you're going to get about 1000 cycles out of the battery.

http://www.mpoweruk.com/images/dod.gif

So assuming 100% charge, discharge, charger and inverter efficiency (reality is more like 60% through that whole cycle) a person stands to make about $0.06 per kWh per cycle (in the UK anyhow) and they can only get 1000 cycles.

$0.06 * 1000 = $60 per kWh per battery lifetime

That's only 1/3 of the cost of the batteries, completely neglecting the capital cost of the charger and inverter and the time spent to set the whole thing up. Further, once you take the realizable efficiencies into account, it's more like $40 not $60 so they're losing money even faster.

This is a problem that -- at least for now -- LITERALLY solves itself.
Nanomsg API is crafted in such a way as to allow for network-level zero-copy. This is much unlike other messaging products. However, I know of no implementation that actually uses that.
Interesting: In "normal" times, adding a dollar of government spending adds 50 cents to GDP, that is, it's inefficient.

I don't find it surprising that things changed in 2008 - we entered a very different economic environment then. So austerity was a bad (even disastrous) policy choice starting in 2008. But it seems reasonable to ascribe the bad choice to the troika being unfamiliar with that new environment, rather than to "pure class warfare". (Except once they learned that the conditions changed, doubling down on a non-working policy is less easy to justify.)
GitLab Annex solves the problem of versioning large binaries with git
طريقة إستلام ارباح باى بال فى أى دولة عربية بدون وسيط
Just did a quick 'whois' on the second domain mentioned (COUTURESHOPELA·COM) and see it has never been registered. I bet some enterprising developer could register it in less than one hour and sell it to them for a bit more than $12.

Any takers?
I don't see how that can possibly be taken seriously when, in the US at least, politicians openly take donations and swear allegiance to foreign interests. Additionally, if money leads directly to terrorism, then why not also investigate the companies that stand to make money by exploiting these resources? There is a long, bloody history of companies committing violent acts (in the US at least) to protect their economic interests against peaceful activists and protests.
How the Apple Watch will work, as explained by the people making the apps
It's not entirely unreasonable that a fare would be priced lower in another currency / country. Try booking a flight from LHR - JFK in GBP and USD in the UK and the US and tell me if the amounts correspond at all.
I was thinking user zgm's comment [1] in the current Ask HN regarding large code bases and it reminded me of this InfoQ talk by Evans and Foote:

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/eric-evans-brian-foote-desig...

Mud flowing into a project scope is a powerful image.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9061217
If we define expertise in all the things this post lists at the same level of depth with which the person who posted it understands web design, my semester of Scheme and DrRacket makes me overqualified!

I'm almost tempted to email them and just ask them to define some of the terms they used in this post.
As noted by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9063463 tabling a bill is not getting rid of it; Tabling a bill is the first step to passing it.
This is true but not entirely accurate. The use case that he's mentioning, an application like Dropbox, that relies on a good file system watcher wouldn't be totally feasible with kqueue, since you're pretty much limited by the number of open file descriptors the OS allows to handle, if i don't remember wrong this number in FreeBSD is below 10000 by default, so it's limited for that use case. And that's also why OS X have FSEvents, because kqueue falls short for some use cases.
I've worked on a multi-platform file system watcher ( https://bitbucket.org/SpartanJ/efsw ), and i must say that the kqueue implementation was by far the worst to work at. On the other side inotify is super simple and just works ( but sadly it's not recursive like FSEvents and IO Completion Ports ).
My favourite is the upvoted "You should have Googled this" comment with an accompanying, and equally upvoted, "Google sent me here."

SO seems to have not awakened to the fact that it is the defacto programming information site for all languages and developer capabilities and no longer the purview of elite.
If there wasn't a bottleneck, then senior devs wouldn't get paid as much. The bottleneck is similar to an economic moat[0]. Economic moats and durability are attractive.

[0] http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/120912/what-is-an-econo...
I like that MSFT appear to be attempting to reinvent responsive design for the native world ;)

It will be interesting to see how, if at all, this dovetails with their SmartGlass efforts as I can see some merit in a framework that makes it easier to split views with a shared model and controller across multiples screens/devices.
CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 added to our list of free licenses
Chart of similar operations with sed and awk
My windows box will still happily run unsigned binaries, so I don't see how code-signing would help it there. Unless you were not referring to regular windows/linux as modern. I'm not sure if there's anything special with regards to replacing signed binaries with unsigned ones, but if so you could just put the binary elsewhere and replace the shortcuts.

With regard to the ad-ware like toolbars, is that really reason enough to lock everyone into a walled garden? I'd rather deal with the occasional toolbar than only being allowed run blessed extensions.
A Surprising Comparison of Male vs. Female Microbiomes
How good the signatures are if they are served from HTTP as well? It only serves as an integrity check, but it still won't guard you from a malicious person putting a virus into the package and adjusting the signatures.
Isn't Bitcoin already a key-value store? One private key can store millions of dollars of value.... :)
GitLab CEO here, we're really excited to solve this problem. I'm really curious to know how other people solve it and what they think of this solution.
Good Lord. The sense of entitlement it takes to use language like that and _then_ post it here and expect people will be supportive of your argument. This is a side topic but one I see often. I think it's very important that Europeans/UK/Aussie's realize the "c word" is one of the few swear words that doesn't travel well in the US. It's never used here and is extremely vulgar. So I would not use it on the web unless you are sure that your audience is primarily European and specifically the UK. (Grew up in Australia through University. Lived in Europe. Have lived now in the US a long time)
Mhm, they seemed have swapped the master/slave relationship between the smartwatch and the smartphone that most recent systems use. Now the watch unit has the data and the connectivity interfaces, instead of the other way around. Looks promising, if battery life of 'the Hub' is somewhat decent.
Office culture or the lack of it
Yes, yes you can. Easyjet / Ryanair / other low cost European carrier pricing policies were extremely predatory for years, in completely arbitrary ways.
FreeBSD has been in the early stages of working on a launchd port for 10 years now. It seems like progress with openlaunchd is going well, but there are certain things related to Mach IPC that need to be ported to the upstream FreeBSD kernel to get it working. I do recall some old version of launchd entitled launchd_xml was ported to pfSense, but it's one that puts the XML parser into PID1, so it's not desirable.

IMHO, I wouldn't count on any major init changes in FreeBSD any time soon. It's been protracted enough already, and Jordan Hubbard giving a pep talk doesn't mean all that much. I could very well be mistaken.

The differences in scope between launchd and systemd are pretty big, too.
SlideMail – an email app that can think
A note on locking: Locking prevents edits and comments on an individual post. The reason for locking a post is nearly always spam edits/comments. Locks are finite in time. Questions that rank highly for popular search queries receive a lot of traffic, and locking is often necessary to prevent vandalism.

On question closure, this is rarely done by moderators (users with a diamond ♦ after their name), but by 5 votes from regular users. Only moderators can lock posts.

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In wake of Drones/Robotics for Good, UAE announces $5M int’l robotics challenge
You can still get generic sets of bricks as you have always been able to. It has been rebranded as the "Classic" line:
http://www.lego.com/en-gb/classic/products?ignorereferer=tru...
Mobile apps when you're not a tech business
If you don't mind me asking, where are you located and what is your general skill set? Do you do web dev? Are you self taught?
It does. You will receive a notification in your inbox saying which post was edited so you can review it.
Share Your Local Web Server Publicly Using Ngrok
Isn't this essentially the model for wearables already? Except with the opposite relationship: the phone is the smart device and the watch is relatively "dumb". This makes sense since it is easier for my phone to be much larger and more powerful, I can also take it out of my pocket if it gets too hot, etc. It looks like in this case they've made the watch smart and the larger screen dumb, which is novel, but I'm not sure I see the advantages. Also, I am much more apt to lose my watch than my phone, but maybe that is just me.
Pepper delayed until summer
noVNC is similar to what I'm working on, yes. Except it implements the VNC protocol in JavaScript which isn't the greatest when it comes to bandwidth efficiency. It's also not very flexible; it only works when sharing an entire desktop (not individual applications or windows).

As an example of the efficiency difference, when viewing an entire desktop with a single terminal application running 'top' Gate One used up 1/10th the amount of bandwidth as noVNC when I last performed benchmarking (I had them both displaying the same exact desktop; both Gate One and novnc running simultaneously).

Also, noVNC CPU utilization goes through the roof if you try to do something like play back a video. When playing back a video inside Gate One the gateone.py process only eats up about 8% of a single core of my laptop's i7 (4th gen). That's with loads of debugging enabled (I tested it just now with SMPlayer playing Big Buck Bunny somewhere at ~1024x768 resolution).

My benchmark goal is to be able to play Minecraft @30fps (~1024x768) remotely using an AWS/Rackspace/OpenStack server. I've already achieved that except the audio delay sucks (~2 seconds) so that's what I'm currently working on (had to write my own Opus/WebM audio encoder).
There's a difference between "lower" and "first class ticket for $80."

Airlines price discriminate a ton, but they don't sell trans-Atlantic first-class seats for $80.
Even in the glory days of Radio Shack, the real money came from CB radios and “Realistic” brand stereo equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_(brand)

A Radio Shack-manager friend once told me that his whole business was supported by WWII-era grandparents who refused to buy “jap” stereos. Their business didn’t just die; their customer base literally did too.
AWS uses health checks to solve this problem. When one of your load balanced instances does not respond to a health check often enough for a fixed size window, AWS automatically takes your instance offline. It works pretty well.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...
"All the processing happens within the SlideMail app itself. Whether you're syncing through Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, or any other IMAP based email service, your emails will never be stored outside of your app. If you delete the application from your phone, your data is gone for good."
This is interesting.
Yes, it's totally a dick move to misrepresent your intentions in order to exploit someone. I agree with you. (BTW: I'm from a small village!)

My comment was aimed at those men who feel "entitled" to things because they somehow imagine that every woman is a prostitute and it's just a matter of price. It's a question of respect and empathy. When someone tries to use the "law or reciprocity" for gain instead of being genuinely generous, they shouldn't be shocked when someone sees through their attempt and shuts them down.