skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with much of this. I work a solid eight hours and go home. When people are impressed at my abilities, I wonder how much of the difference is simply that I get a full night's sleep and so many people don't.

But I write code at home. Not work-related code, and not to the exclusion of other hobbies. But coding is something I enjoy, something I sometimes like to do for its own sake. I won't apologise for that.
The video was pretty, but it didn't tell me anything about the app. Felt vapid, like a TV commercial for pharmaceuticals.

Then I scrolled down and skimmed through. It's Instagram with categories or something I think?
How are you going to sell it? There's an age-old issue with making money with social networks. Either you allow people to be free-loaders and make it totally free, or you sell your users to keep it afloat.

Why do I want it? It seems like... Instagram. Just, that. Let me illustrate by analyzing the main value prop:

"Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing, and sharing new experiences across the world."

So:

* free: (above)
* lifestyle: so like, anything from awesome to anodyne? I would think you'd only want to reward things that other people think are cool, as a social network.
* recommendation: you can't sell personalization as a product. You can try after five years of having a product, maybe. But as an MVP you have *literally no data.*
* capturing, sharing: so, Instagram.
* new experiences: so, just photos? Or do you have a cool trick up your sleeve? This spot could be your saving grace: if you find a new way to capture events like Snapchat did with 7-second videos, then *everything else written here is invalid.* Otherwise, *yawn.*
* across the world: these three words are wasting my time. Don't waste time. With the advent of the Internet, basically every startup could say this. Why don't they? Because it's a waste of time.

Hopefully this doesn't come across as ranty and horrible because I would like to see you succeed. (In fact, I'm being somewhat nice. If you caught a YC partner on a bad day with something like this, you might get something a little worse. ;)

I wish you luck.
More like everyone has investors who demand a large return. That's the problem with taking VC cash - you're at their beck and call. You could build a perfectly good sustainable business, but VCs want hockey stick growth and an IPO.
SSL Certs are the biggest racket on the internet.

Can anyone tell me why certs can't work in the same way as DKIM, where you include the certificate fingerprint in a DNS text record? Is DNS not secure enough? and if not why is it good enough for email?
Also: http://data.gov.uk/

The real problem is finding the useful needle in the data haystack, because there is an incredible amount of open data out there.

I've had exactly this on my ideas list for a long time, it's something that interests me.
I'm passionate about programming. But not for my employer.

I work as a web developer. In my off-time, I like to play with technology. Usually, that involves writing code. This code is not meant to be perfect or useful for anyone else, so I never share it. It's my own work of crappy art, made for the fun of writing it.
"But what if you’re writing some Android app, maybe you’re building the next great iOS game or in general, you’re writing some code that you don’t want to be exposed to the general public ?

You could certainly purchase access to private Github repositories, but most certainly you’d rather want to invest your capital in more pressing matters."

... BitBucket!
UX is trending by why isn't CX (client experience) trending too?
That seems unfair. Those platforms don't even attempt the functionality being posed here (from what I gather).

All those platforms allow photo sharing, true. But the ability to categorize photos into experiences for reference isn't even covered in those other applications.

It's like saying snapchat isn't a step-up from twitter. It doesn't have to be... it isn't the same category.
That pricing is for Individual accounts, not Organizations. $25 for 10 private repos is accurate for the latter.
> Did Wozniak not Did Linus only work on Linux for 8 hours a day? Steve Wozniak has a story bout staying up 4 nights in a row working on the Apple computer.

Heh.

> Should you burn yourself out on 20 hour days because your employer forces you? Hell no.

Agreed.
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It might be interesting to look into creating a service for form-letters for various real-estate complaints. I know that previously, I've had to deal with landlords who were withholding my security deposit, or refusing to make repairs, and a way to quickly generate official, legally-correct letters for requesting what I am legally entitled to could be useful.
Here's prior art from 1997 (with a bunch of reference to earlier work):

https://graphics.llnl.gov/ROAM/roam.pdf
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I have a short book < under 50 pages , files are currently OpenOffice,full-justified ,doc files.. is it possible to import these into gitbook ?
Fully agree. I've been deleting Google apps off my phone and replacing them with apps using the Holo Dark style UI. Far superior to what they create now.
Well, it's still out there. The main selling points were:

- it's safe

- it's fast

- it's stable

- doesn't break the web

All of that in contrast with IE of that time, which failed all four of the above. Currently it's trying to stay somewhat safe, and ditched the other three in the process.

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
You should check biicode (C++ deps manager) which will be compatible with VersionEye soon allowing you to know about updates in the libs you depend.

https://www.biicode.com
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Graphics will tend to want 3D spatial queries, though, and this gives the impression of being optimized for, if not restricted to, 2D or 2D-plus-curvature. The article consistently talks about "polygons" as opposed to "polytopes", for example.

Have I got the wrong impression?
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It truly is, but the Google fanboys are full steam ahead on it.
>First class Java support is possible,
but most hard core emacs users
could care less about Java.

This is surprising to learn considering the two languages are similar in so many ways. Why is this the case?
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Unless they can force me to download XCode from someone other than Apple, or somehow hack Apple or force them to support this (not likely), this is a pointless exercise. If you distrust all software that isn't open source and validate it yourself, then I suppose anything is possible. I don't wear foil hats though.
Mike from CertSimple here, from my old openid account (as I'm replying too fast with my other one):

> $469 USD per year?

No. All certificates are two years - the big price is the total. I've made this more apparent on the front page.

If someone wants a non-EV cert we also recommend https://letsencrypt.org

We could easily sell non-EV certs - they can be generated in seconds as they don't require manual ID verification to make a quick buck, but I think poor identity verification is what got SSL into the current mess we're in. You'll note GitHub, Stripe, Mozilla and npm have EV certs. Make of that what you will.

Unfortunately letsencrypt doesn't do EV certs.

We compared Symantec (whose brands include GeoTrust) when deciding on a CA partner. We picked Digicert based on the issuance speed and business practices. Symantec upsell IE5-level export encryption as a security feature. We don't want to support that.

The CA we chose to partner with - Digicert - who we have the same prices as - sits in the middle of the market. They makes the certs for GitHub, Facebook, Intel, Yahoo, and Nintendo.
Because most folks don't use more than a port at a time. Stroll through a university campus and you'll notice that most folks with a Macbook pro/air aren't using even 1 port (the charger) as the battery life has gotten good enough such that you can charge in your dorm and then be good for mixed use throughout the day.

I remember how much pushback there was about getting rid of the CD drive too, but the truth was they weren't being used that much anymore anyway.
>419 scammers are not from India

But 420 scammers are! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_420_of_the_Indian_Penal...
This seems to be a study based in statistics and correlations, and I spontaneously started wondering if the increased mortality rates among those using supplements with large doses were similar people who lived sedentary lifestyles. That is, using supplements in a vain attempt to offset not going outdoors all too often (i.e. physical exercises for at least 30 minutes a day), or simply in order to offset bad conscience. Those will probably have added health risks due to their lifestyle, and voila, high D vitamin == added mortality rates.

The problem with these studies is to exclude all factors poisoning the results, and I think this could be one of the relevant ones that are also hard to track down accurately.
In Material Design, Google branding is king. Those nasty features detract from Google's brand image.
Java vs. Node.js: An epic battle for developer mind share
Of course. The fact that it has not worked until now is that all the calculations were wrong!
How does they rate limit this thing?
When I lived in Boston, I had this problem. When I visited London, I had this problem. Now that I live in Austin, I have this problem.
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What does an individuals action's have anything to do with the general population?
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Not necessarily. I've had security deposits where only a certain percentage is refunded after any necessary deductions. Depends on what they signed in the lease. But still, it was never designed to actually be collected, just a number to scare someone away. Not much more to look into it.
Yeah, I won't accept the update, and I've disabled most of my Google apps, where they shove Material on you even if you're on KitKat.
IPv666?
Congratulations, you have rediscovered a problem described in a 14 year old RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3135
I have been in the industry for a while, almost every time I see "passion" coming from HR, it is as an euphemism for "we like devs that crunch and don't complain".

Never saw it otherwise, not even in startups.
Except most pro athletes train 3-4 hours a day, not 16.

If I'm not mistaken (been a while since I read the book), Michael admitted he would get up early to practise, but before school, not before normal practise. When he turned pro, he would be (according to the coach) the most hardworking guy there, but he would leave with the rest of the team and do whatever he had to do.

Can't remember where, but recently read that pro football/soccer players train on average 26 hours per week, which seem about right from reports I have from friends that play. Boxers also practise at around 3-4 hours per day as well.
Currently I'm only pulling data from package managers like rubygems and npm, I couldn't find a C++ one yet, although https://www.biicode.com/ looks handy for that, I'll investigate.
I'm not interested in an EV cert at the moment, but just for curiosity: which information is required for an EV cert? The front page only has "business name", "country", "city", "state", and server names. I'd expect it to ask at least for a CNPJ (the Brazilian tax identifier, every company has one, it's the "primary key" for businesses in this country) when the selected country is Brazil, for instance.

Is there anywhere in the site which lists what one should have before requesting the cert? Something like "have these documents at hand" (followed by a list of country-specific documents).
Zero-salary but all expenses are on the firm account, that is actually brilliant tax strategy.
I keep repeating (and keep getting downvoted for this obvious truth) that even 8 working hours are too much. One can only keep decent levels of concentration on a mentally challenging task for no more than 4 hours a day. Good if you have something less mentally challenging to fill the remaining 4 hours with, but even better if you do not need to.
Saw one of these in person the other day. I was impressed with it. It definitely looks better than most laptops. And, honestly, it looks like they blatantly made the designed based on the MacBook Air. Even the keyboard.
Maybe it's just me, but I found the copy insufferable. I don't think I'm the target audience, but there's some irony in hitting a wall of text complaining about how people write too much and think they're Shakespeare. It could be a lot clearer and more direct.
IIRC it's a very fresh research. From what I heard It's definitely possible, but I don't think there are any working implementation of a turing complete machine on this.
Tool for double-spending Bitcoin for replace-by-fee nodes
Something like zfsnap? (https://github.com/zfsnap/zfsnap) No special GUI but you can just browse to /.zfs/snapshot/<timestamp> and manipulate the files like normal files.
Careful. Even saying that this sort of thing might be the case is now classed as terrorism in the UK. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31809453
This has been submitted many, many times. The most significant discussion I could find is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614198

Here's a search showing previous mentions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=what3words.com&sort=byDate&pre...
Internationalization of AngularJS Apps
my biggest f-up happened during a 4AM call - I deleted an entire filesystem... twice...
This article conflates passion for programming with working insane hours for an employer. This is pretty dumb.

"It’s one thing to suffer when you’re an obscure artist, or a spurned lover, or a soldier facing his death, or even Jesus H. Christ himself. But don’t suffer for a paycheck unless you’re the CEO."

There is some room between Jesus and your CEO.
1 BILLION records of personally identifiable information were leaked in 2014
> How do you know, and thus conciously choose, if a site has a facebook widget without visiting it ?

Black-hole everything coming from a Facebook domain?

> Also if you're an iOS user you'll just have to live with it or abandon Safari for more limited browsers, and avoid opening any webview from any app ever.

Convenient, then, that I don't use iOS. (I use Android, and I do have an /etc/hosts file to kill some things I don't want to see.)
Yeah but I imagine for most of them it was about more than making money for an online parts catalog company.

The author is confounding two things..having a crappy employer who pushes for people to work extra hours and truly being passionate about something like programming.
DNS is not secured in any way (by default, DNSSEC is not that widely deployed yet and also not without flaws), therefore putting the fingerprint in DNS does nothing for protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

DKIM is vulnerable against that, but the impact of doing so is lower (breaking anti-spam vs being able to intercept HTTPS)
I haven't seen Gitblit before - thanks for the mention. I will check it out and see if it offers me any wins over GitLab.
https://github.com/zeromq/malamute
Google have been bundling Chrome with widely-used software like Adobe Flash for years now, there's probably many people who've installed it and set it as their default browser without intending to.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Back In Time[0], especially since a lot of people have mentioned rsync.

Back In Time is basically just a GUI wrapper around rsync that manages snapshots for you. I used to have an rsync script that did the same thing manually, but it's great to have a tool that manages the snapshots for you so you don't have to remember to update the symlinks individually.

Unlike rsync[1], Back In time does incremental backups, so you save on storage space if your files don't change often.

[0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Back_In_Time

[1] by default, that is - you can use rsync to achieve incremental backups, which is what BIT does
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I was wondering the other day: is it possible to enjoy coding, be good and employable, and still leave your work at work? I code at home too, but yeah, other passions take priority. You rarely hear about programmers who don't live and breathe code, but there must be a huge number of them.
Also after the first apartment it's a little less overhead because you get the money from one landlord and give it to the next.
Anecdotally, at my university (graduated 2013 so still a recent experience), a lot of CS students took the intro to programming course. In fact, it was (and still is) a requirement for a BS in CS at the school. The only way you could get out of it was if you had taken AP CS in high school and passed the test for the credits.

A large majority of my CS friends in that class had all been programming for either a little bit or quite some time, and the class was mostly a joke for them. Lectures were optional, and a bunch of friends (including myself) only attended three classes the entire semester: the first class (where we found out we didn't need to go to class except for tests) and the mid term and final.

Of course on the other side of things, I had friends who had never programmed before and found the course grueling and struggled to pass.
absolutely god awful video, seems like the same old tripe done again. and im sure we will see it again another 5 billion times yet in our lifetimes.
I couldn't agree more with this. I've developed the same approach to work. In fact I go out of my way to avoid doing any work where possible now and balance everything in favour of, for lack of a better analogy, collecting slack. Life is in the most part, pretty bloody good since I switched to this mode of working and stopped giving a shit about my day job.

During the day, I spend my entire time cranking the cogs on enterprise crap that really doesn't do anything other than top slicing some cash off some data flying around. I really don't care if the product burns in hell. That doesn't mean to say I don't do a good job, but I don't use the best of my energy on something I don't enjoy and aren't passionate about.

The company on the other hand suggest that passion is mandatory and that you're owned by them and you will attend every social event and be part of the "family", which a self professed narcissistic control freak manager explained is simply their control method and they don't give a fuck either. In fact everyone wouldn't piss on the place if it was on fire but hey everyone is making some cash and until that happens, who cares?

This is a recent development due to two separate medical near miss on myself and my wife. When shit gets put into perspective, your priorities are corrected. Before that I bought into it all and was the 80 hour a week slave. Now; 20-40 hours a week expended.

If it all goes to hell, as you say, smile, nod and GTFO, then do the same elsewhere.

Now for something I really enjoy, I spent a couple of hours writing some deduplication software for Google Drive in python the other day. It solved a real problem I had and was interesting. Note: I've even contracted out giving a shit about files to Google.

Anyway back to learning postgresql (something I am interested in) and watching the tomatoes grow on my window sill instead of cranking out Java EE model classes which is what I'm supposed to be doing. They can wait for the people who do care or have a large enough ego to pile-drive each other in the meeting rooms.
> to be among the absolute best at something [...] 8 hours a day just isn't going to cut it.

As I understand it the case studies do not bear this idea out. The masters in most competitive fields follow a schedule more like three separate two hour practice sessions a day.

I mean, Carl Lewis trained something like 30 hours a week in total in the year leading up to his world record.
We compared [..] GeoTrust [..] when deciding on a CA partner. [...] Symantec upsell IE5-level export encryption as a security feature. We don't want to support that.

Didn't you rather mean to say "The DigiCert referral program pays us much better than GeoTrust"?

Or would GeoTrust somehow force you to participate in that IE5 upsell if you were to sell their EV-certs instead of DigiCerts?
Where are you from? What job(s) do you do?
> If they will use Github to develop Gogs, the potential audience may think why should I not use Github itself?

Because you have to pay for private repos and pay even more to host your own deployment?
A country with any level of unemployment, already has a bigger workforce pool than it knows what to do with.

I am not saying that xenophobia isn't bad, but it's a bit of a leap to say that Japan is in any danger of a shortage of workers.
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This protest got a lot of people with different opinions together. As ridiculous as it sounds, some of them even want the military back in power. Some people had swastikas drawn on their flags. Some others just want someone else on power.
All they have in common is their hate for the current president's party, who won the last election with roughly 52% of votes.
Finance doesn't have the same allure to many as it used to have. It's partially due to salaries being overshadowed by stories of start-up founders but also the increased regulation and stifling of financial innovation. Whatever you think about the benefits of new financial products, being on the cutting edge of a new product like subprime mortgages or collateralized debt structures would be exciting to some and attract a lot of A-players. The profit potential was also there as groups getting in on the ground floor of these products would be able to charge a large premium for creating such products and specialize early on. That and financial transparency are reducing the ability to leverage very specialized product/market knowledge to make a large personal return (not to mention the threat of lawsuits).

Although the salaries are still high, I don't think most people working in finance really believe they will become millionaires staying in the conventional banking route. The idea held by many is that tech start-ups offer more upside.
>if you want encryption, then use a LUKS encrypted filesystem on the target

If you control the server the main purpose of encryption is to protect the backups even if somebody gains access to the backup server. An encrypted filesystem isn't a good solution because by design the backup server has the key. This only protects against intruders that are foolish enough to power down the server. As long as the server is running, an encrypted filesystem offers no protection at all.
"You cannot charge while you are connected to..."

I hear this repeated a lot but I don't believe it is true. You could either:

1) Connect to a monitor or other USB-C peripheral that supports sending power down USB-C, or

2) Use an adaptor that exposes HDMI or USB3, and also provides a USB-C passthrough like:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av...

I realise that it is inconvenient, but I think its misleading to repeat the same inaccuracy over and over.
Reading the comments provides more information. One commenter even called the plane a widow maker.
Feedback taken, thanks! :)
Care to share how did you get it working on Synology? Thanks very much.
We usually only restore revisions a few weeks old. That said, rdiff-backup works by taking the current mirror file and applying past diffs, so you could probably keep an older mirror (and current_mirror file from the rdiff-backup-data directory) to speed up the process.
How does it compare to rtorrent performance-wise?
You can never be great at whatever you do if you aren't passionate about it, and put in the necessary hours. This article is pretty dumb.