skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replace DevOps with QA and an equally valid article.

Dedicated QA teams should be avoided unless truly necessary. Otherwise, you have the same problem of developers throwing over under-tested code to a group of separate people that are smart but treated poorly.

A QA guy who loves to write automation gets the same promises... "oh you'll be programming mostly; manually test maybe once a month". But when they get into the door, it's the exact opposite.

Developers should all be passionate about QA (read as: the quality of their product), as well as how their product is actually deployed (read as: executed in the most important of environments--production!).
Looks like a pretty good way to break the USB connector off. Wouldn't a short length of wire be better?
Starting up in Kansas City
> The implicit conclusion is that to make things "fair" we should socialize risk AND reward. How convenient for the socialists.

Straw man. Fairness means:

public funding -> public benefits

private funding -> private benefits
I doubt we will see the sidebar ads disappear very soon though. Even though our eyes do not focus on the ad we are still aware that the ad is there. There are many studies concerning subliminal media being successful. In fact Derren Brown made a career out of it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/6232801...
Perhaps it's time we stop beating around the bush and just release a StarTrek communicator already. Looking for screenshots, I found someone already did: http://www.orionlabs.co
I'd argue the real freedom fighters are the ones trying to make policy changes rather than exploiting the current system for a quick buck.
FYI - I've written some bundles/extensions to DW 0.8.0 that support SOA. http://soabase.io - Service Discovery; Load Balancing REST Client; Distributed, Scoped Dynamic Attributes; Jersey-based Admin APIs; Administration Console; Configuration Utilities; Guice Integration
I'm sure if you were on his hit list you'd have a different view. Typically people who care about human rights and civil liberties aren't causal murderers over drug turf.
If a company is sponsoring a visa they are NOT looking for you to be remote.

Remote working and a visa are pretty much mutually exclusive.
Obligatory rebuttal whenever this video is posted

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
The CIA Says It’s Time to Up Its Cyber Game
How would you model timeseries on top of Aerospike?

Using 1KB chunks of datapoints as simple K/V?

Or using Large Data Types [1] like Large Stack [2]?

Large Stack

A Large Stack collection is naturally aligned with time series data
because the stack preserves the insert order.
Stacks provide Last In First Out (LIFO) order,
so it's a convenient mechanism for tracking "recent" data.

Usage examples include:

Show me the last N events
Search the last N actions with a filter
Show me all documents in reverse insert order

[1] https://www.aerospike.com/docs/guide/ldt.html

[2] https://www.aerospike.com/docs/client/java/usage/ldt/ldt.htm...
My team leader doesn't think in sets, and it gets a bit frustrating when he describes queries like and imperative program with lots of ifs, and no order to them.
Yeah. I have a hard time losing weight at 2,000 calories a day at a weight of 272. This person is either some type of endurance athlete (burns a ton of calories) or has a crazy metabolism. I run about 2 miles 2-3 days a week and do weight training 4 days a week. Although I will add that I have low T and am not on testosterone right now. When I'm on a low dose of T I can shed fat much easier. So obviously hormones come into play.
I have been referred to as a devops person since I have been developing distributed systems since 1998 and liked knowing and working the full stack, including hardware.

My definition of devops: small teams totally own their project, iterating on design, implementation, deployment. I have no experience with one giant devops team for an entire company.
Yes, software only, but thanks for the link.
Wedium – Comments for Medium
May be.

I read the article twice but had the exact same reaction on both occasions that somehow we used a "big" bat to kill a small ant when some easier solutions would have sufficed.

Though, it's looks very likely that I might be missing something really minuscule.
Estonia's Weekdone faced with $37B worth of non-productivity
Macbooks are indeed great at this. They can output 24 bit 48khz IIRC. And I'm pretty sure there's even DSP in there to model the resonances of the case and cancel them out when using the speakers.

And BTW gaming motherboards now commonly have audio interfaces with isolated power rails and stuff.
What are your opinions on DX12/Vulkan/Mantle?
It seems you are already one step ahead of german law enforcement: http://www.express.de/image/view/2015/1/23/29952904,31875408...

m(

(From the german tabloid article: http://www.express.de/koeln/eingemauert-in-einer-fassade-bom... )
We are working on this ;). Stay tuned.
Show HN: New OpenLoopz Landing Page Based on HN Feedback
Hi everyone,

This is the new landing page for OpenLoopz:

https://openloopz.com/welcome

It’s based on the excellent feedback I received from the original post. I know it’s far from perfect and there is still a lot of material I haven’t had time to add yet, but it’s a start. I plan to iterate and improve on this over time as I learn more about marketing and promotion.

I hope it gets the message across about what OpenLoopz is and why you might want to use it! I will be adding more pages soon, such as testimonials, pricing info, FAQ, use cases, etc, and more detail in general.

Please let me know what you think and thanks again to everyone who took the time to provide feedback for the original post. It really made a difference.
The printers people can afford for at home, yes. 3D printing companies like Shapeways will do your designs in many other materials as well, including steel.
I'm not even sure you can call what hershey makes chocolate.
That's about 5 times the size of a StarTrek comm badge and far uglier, still, at least it's a step in the right direction.
Retaining Software Developers
I'm glad it's not just me.
looks like he changed it to something else
And I bet management have no thoughts about giving you a pay rise....
"prosecutors first responded that a misconfiguration of the site’s CAPTCHA had leaked its IP address when FBI investigators typed some “miscellaneous” characters into entry fields on the site’s homepage"

Yea right? Tor was hacked, or was finally given the backdoor key by the NSA? I imagine the NSA held off for years, but finally knew the FBI would never stop the site--so they reluctantly helped out the FBI? I do wonder why the CIA didn't just assassinate Ross? (Personally, I think it was
a mistake to let Terrorists question the security of TOR?)
Does this aggregate postings from different sites or does it only show jobs posted there? A blanket search on Colorado doesn't return any. :(
It's all about ad views. Twitter's investors are interested in the MAU (monthly active users) which is measured as number of users who log in once in the month. Showing a growing, active user base means the company is seen as more valuable by said investors.
Same here. I used it on a couple of mobile-only projects. But 99% of the clients want IE support, and it is way easier to skip flexbox in that case.
Original, on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2y9q55/fbi_...

No one's quite sure why the FBI would be logging exit node traffic in an investigation aimed at the SR1 hidden service.
There do seem to be multiple approaches to these zombie accounts. Lots of different ways to avoid Twitter's rate limits and spam detection.
I would allow the setup to force me to carry a computer screen around, as long as it rolled up and fit inside something the size of a pen and had touch input when unrolled. As long as it had no local storage.

Sounds just right, though I'm not entirely sure about the networked data, I guess that is probably the way the world will go. If everything is on the network, there's not much need for local storage.
Sounds like what has been around since the mainframe days and batch computing. Or maybe one could liken it to Star Trek, with ops being the people keeping the warp core going even when faced with borgs and black holes?
I don't know if this is a common sentiment — it hasn't been brought up at all in the Apple podcasts that I listen to — but my primary interest in getting a smartwatch is customizable faces. Watches are interesting because they're little mechanical microcosms that sit on your wrist; with a computer, you can simulate the movement and do so much more on top of that. This also has the potential of opening up a whole new app market.

Pebble can already do this (albeit imperfectly) while the Apple watch is years away from having an always-on display.
I don't really notice withdrawal. I do have cravings for about a week then they go away. What I really notice when I'm on a keto diet is if I have a cheat meal with carbs I get a kind of high feeling in my brain. Seems like some kind of dopamine response because I equate the feeling to how I felt taking Wellbutrin once (which has a dopamine effect). Drinking alcohol has even a worse effect. Where I could normally drink 4-5 rum and coke before really feeling drunk. Now two of them will make me drunk enough that I wouldn't drive.
There's no need for a Tesla to be a second car. Lots of people just own that, and nothing else.

As for an affordable, long-range Ford/Chevy EV in 2017, I'll believe it when I see it. As far as I know (and I certainly could be wrong), battery price and production capacity are the limiting factors for an affordable, mass-market EV at the moment, and Tesla is the only one taking steps to remedy that.

Tesla is also the only one solving the problem of long-distance travel. Ford and Chevy may produce EVs that can go 200 miles on a charge, but they'll also go about 200 miles in a day. Tesla's Model 3 will go 200 miles on a charge but 5-800 miles in a day (depending on how hard you want to push it).
I actually look at from another perspective:

It seems to have stemmed from Ops teams saying "What can we do let dev teams build what they want, but in a way we can support it"

e.g. - a system needs an entry in the /etc/hosts file (a bad example I know, but a nice simple one for the basic use case)

old method: Dev files a Jira ticket, and the Ops team make it part of their golden images for production.

new method: Dev makes a change in the Config Management DB. Gets reviewed by a member of Ops, who either approves, or makes a suggestion to change it. Change gets tested against staging, then merged, and the system gets updated.

Ops know what the system needs, Dev knows how long it will take, and has an understanding of how it is deployed in real life.
When you hire a lawyer, do you test him with imaginary laws? If not, why are you doing it with engineers?

Engineers solve problems. That's it. They use tools, they try things and they provide solutions. Asking an engineer to solve an imaginary problem on the spot is idiotic. You may have glided through school memorizing stuff and barfing them during exams. But engineers didn't. They understood how things work and why.

So when you ask an engineer to write a skeleton class for a linked list, his answer will always be "Why? What problem are you trying to solve?". They don't have it memorized. They build it as they go along, based on the specified requirements.

Unlike you, most engineers are friendly people. And not as aggressive. All they want to do is build something or help you do it. You on the other hand seem to have some envy problems. The "AHA! Not so smart now, mr VP of whatever..." attitude is exactly what's wrong with the tech industry.

Leave it to a bureaucrat to fuck things up.
15 brilliant women of science and math you've probably never heard of
"But it's not that hard to hit a 1-3% CTR on FB now -- especially with the newsfeed ads."

Facebook introduced newsfeed ads in 2012, and this article might (?) date from as far back as 2011, going by the statistics and dates cited in it. I might be wrong about that, but I do know it's an older article. Andrew doesn't date these blog posts, but I remember reading this article years ago.
No aggregation is being done. I don't have a lot of jobs yet.
I went to NYC for the first time last year when I went to a conference. I wouldn't mind visiting the city itself, but I wouldn't live there for anything under seven figures per year (and not just because of the high cost of living).
Focus Is Critical for Building Profitable Software Side Projects
This is nice. Anything to tag TV Shows and Movies?
It depends on what your alternative is and how much you drive. If you're buying a Tesla instead of a Toyota and you drive like a normal person, yeah, you're not coming anywhere close to saving money on gas. But a fair number of people are going to buy something in Tesla's price range anyway, and drive a lot, and for them it can save a lot of cash. I don't think these people are numerous enough to make a big difference, but it's there.
I mean in the sense that, primitive load balancing is implemented as Round-Robin in that, one DNS name maps to several IP addresses, and the client chooses one at random to ask to serve up the request. That is not the hard part here.

The problem is that a URL in an HREF has either an IP or a hostname, and there are more hostnames than IP addresses by some orders of magnitude. So, when running a web server, we will conventionally map more than one hostname to a single IP address, leading to several different hostnames that all have separate potentially unrelated content trees.

So, if Google will be pre-fetching DNS queries and passing the results onto clients, how? What I'm saying is, <a href="something", the form of links, and you have to set that href to something specific and concrete, and the browser is going to honor it and send the client request there. That's how web links work. You're suggesting the server should tell the browser what hostname to send in the server request (so the server knows what content to provide), but give it also (unchecked) a pre-calculated IP address to send the request to, so the client saves time looking up that result in DNS. How? And how should the browser client know to trust it?

You can't make the browser check if the mapping is valid, or you lose the speed benefit that you hoped to achieve. Also, browsers don't have a pathway to receive this information separately or out-of-band. So, where does it go in-band? The standards weren't written to pass this information apart from each other, the answer is that doing it that way would present a new threat vector and there is no place for it in any standard that exists. (Correct me if I am wrong.)
I know people that have done it the other way: moving from EU to US with kids and mortgage... So, it is more difficult but not impossible! ;)
Sorry I misunderstood your comment. Was just wondering how you are doing OCR in Paint.Net. Thank you for your clarification.
> For Apple Watch, all application code lives on the phone and every interaction on the watch requires a round trip to the phone and back.

IIRC this is just for now, and they're going to have native apps soon, but the SDK for that isn't ready yet.

I wonder if the (current) Apple Watch approach is better battery-life wise, given that it avoids any data syncing and does any and all heavy processing on the iPhone rather than the watch.
I switched back to the "2010" theme, hopefully people will have a better reading experience now. Thanks for letting me know (letting me know in private without the snark would have been better, but beggars can't be choosers, so I'll take what I can get).
You've essentially described bitcoin in its early days. No matter what quasi-currency you use in such a system, once it becomes large enough it will be taxed and regulated.
Remember, though, that we only absorb a certain proportion of the calories available in our food. Our rules of thumb about estimating caloric needs based on basal metabolic rate are approximate and work for many people, but not all. Digestive and metabolic disturbances can result in some folks not absorbing calories and nutrition (classic presentation of celiac) or extracting calories much more efficiently. The preparation of food also influences this processing: the energy required to digest your food starts to become a non-trivial factor. If you're struggling with weight despite tracking your intake, it might be worth switching your intake to foods from which you absorb fewer calories and for which you expend more energy in digestion: nuts, raw vegetables, and less sugar etc.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/27/th...
Google is getting it butt kicked, why are they so poor at financial search?
Why is Google so poor at financial search? When I do a side-by-side comparison of Google Finance search results for the following terms, I'm totally confused as to why small search teams can simply outperform on this level:

'peanut butter'

cymetica: http://cymetica.com/recommend/app/hidden_connections?query=peanut+butter&db=all

Google: https://www.google.com/finance?q=peanut%20butter&ei=79T3VIHwLouGqwHH2oCQBg

'car battery'

cymetica: http://cymetica.com/recommend/app/hidden_connections?query=car+battery&db=all

Google: https://www.google.com/finance?q=car%20battery&ei=79T3VIHwLouGqwHH2oCQBg

'graphene'

cymetica: http://cymetica.com/recommend/app/hidden_connections?query=graphene&db=all

Google: https://www.google.com/finance?q=graphene&ei=79T3VIHwLouGqwHH2oCQBg

'solar power'

cymetica: http://cymetica.com/recommend/app/hidden_connections?query=solar+power&db=all

Google: https://www.google.com/finance?q=solar%20power&ei=79T3VIHwLouGqwHH2oCQBg
> In other cities you can get around with public transportation

In a lot of cities, the quality of public transportation lies somewhere between non-existent and abysmal.
Show HN: Looking for Airpair reviewers for Node article
I've also suffered a lot of pain in trying to get libraries that were not design for OSGi (i.e. legacy) to work well.

However, when having the luxury of implementing a clean set of services from scratch, OSGi is lovely. We run a large OSGi based system in production, and the modularity, hot-deployability, strong-typing-with-contracts, etc is just lovely.

I certainly won't try to say that OSGi is simple, but for complex systems that have to evolve over a long time span, it solves problems no other environment even nearly does.
Is the Chevy Volt too pragmatic to be considered a competitor with pure EV?
Credit Where Due (1983)
One interesting thing is to see who Apple is targeting their watch. So far it has been featured in high profile fashion magazines. I think this is clear distinction from Pebble and maybe also from Android products.
> Can google put the DNS results into the links directly while keeping the hostname as well?

No, that's the problem. They can't. Links have one target, an address of either a remote hostname or an IP address. The browser would need to change to accommodate passing them back separately, because that's not something that current browsers do.
The article summaries as 'we eat too much sugar', 'here's some science that suggests it can be bad in rodents', and finally 'maybe you should swear off sugar'.

I agree, we eat too much sugar. However, it is a step to go from rodents to humans and they have not addressed it.

We're apes that lived in Africa. We spent a lot of time in trees eating fruit all year around.

We have eyes that are adapted to find fruit - so much so that while most of our furry mammal relatives, like rodents tested in the article, are red-green color blind (dichromats) [1] we are mainly trichromatic, color vision. Trichromatic helps you to pick out a red fruit from a green background [2]. So, for some reason, our ancestors that could see fruit, did better than those that didn't, which was not the case with rodents.

I suggest we evolved on different diet than what rodents evolved on. Before comparing sugar to an addiction you should reproduce the results on primates - I'd be happy to be in the control group and snack on a Snickers bar ;-)

[1] http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatVision.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_color_vision
If you take your definition as "ops people who code and automate", you get a really efficient ops team who can orchestrate several hundred or thousand servers.

You still then have a friction point between "dev" and "ops" relating to hand off. Ops could go full PaaS, but more than likely you'll end up with a "cloud" infrastructure where your dev team will have to learn ops, or the traditional model where stuff gets thrown over the fence. Good luck deploying that service because there was no capacity planning and it'll take 6-8 weeks to get hardware from the vendor, regardless of whether ops can rack it and build it in under a day.

It's far better to have an org overlap so that ops is involved in dev planning to help address roadblocks, assist in capacity planning and management, as well as help reduce friction in tasks.
Never thought of this personally. But after reading your comment I agree this is pretty cool. I'd want the watch to be much thinner than current iterations though. Especially if we are going more for aesthetics than practicality
I haven't tried sharing, but Paw saves everything to normal files, so it seems like not only can it be shared, but since it's just text, can easily be stored in something like git for easy management.
Yeah, come on... one of these can be had from about $5 (and they're prime) http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=usb+extension+cable
I guess it's striving not for "good" but "authentic", ie as close to it's "supposed" to sound.

Which is also deeply flawed, of course.
DevOps is not a job. It is marketing speak.

Sure, there's this general idea that development and operations teams should work together, or of a programmer also having some experience adminning systems or vice versa. But this is as much a job description as "non-domestic car mechanic" is a job description. Generalized ideas that don't say anything but an indication of the background expected of the person.

"DevOps" or not makes no difference; all corporations face the same problems with multiple segregated teams and people doing whatever they want in order to get their jobs done, as well as a sort of tunnel vision that prevents one from properly supporting your teammates or a product. To this end, there is only one thing that will make a significant difference in the work done, no matter what you call your team or position.

The best engineer in the world becomes a janitor under the wrong leadership or teamwork.
It's not legal advice.