skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the purpose of this project just to guarantee that bug fixes will be supported with projects? For example, I use martini, negroni, gorm and mgo on a daily basis. If I switch to your repos, is it that there are no concerns that the repo will ever disappear, or if there are critical bugs you will help fix them if the project developer disappears?

I think the issue I can't get my head wrapped around is, at what point does your service become relevant? What happens if one of the libraries updates something in the original repo or adds a new feature, is that a dot release for you?
You're right, the protocol is also required. I didn't link to it in my comment, but it is also open and well-defined. I've updated my comment. Thanks!
Looks like a great project.

Maintaining a stable set of libraries for a complex project is incredibly time consuming. I would imagine many organizations would be interested in this, much like they purchase RHEL.
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Hopefully this trend will pass at some time.

I wouldn't save my photos on a platform that changes every few months (Google Photos/Plus/Drive), might be gone in two or three years, analyses images, builds face databases, and keeps your pictures ready for the NSA to access, for any purpose other than sharing images with other people.
But this line of thinking eventually leads to Fermi Paradox.

The apparent size and age of the universe suggest that many technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations ought to exist. However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
If staff are consistently having to work overtime to hit targets then there's either:

- A problem with the staff - there's either not enough of them or they haven't the skills to do what is required

or

- A problem with the management.

I've never worked in a role where incompetent people were hired and couldn't get what needed to be done done, but I've worked under plenty of incompetent management.
This also means a lot of Microsoft shops who have a lot of Docker enthusiasts will be able to pitch this to thier bosses, who might not have been on board prior to this since it wasn't an enterprise MS product.

This will open a TON of doors for everybody.
> You basically trade the ability to have diffs (nearly meaningless on binary files anyway) for representing large files as their SHA-256 equivalent values on a remote server.

That's exactly how Mercurial's largefiles works too:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LargefilesExtension#The_lo...

Also, you don't need any kind of special server. Any hg repo can turn into a largefiles store by just flipping the bit in the repo configuration.
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Yes, Yes, and Yes
I just bought a HP Elite X2 1011 G1 hybrid with Core M-5Y71 not too long ago.

Its very subtle but audible fan noise annoyed me quite a bit until now (since I considered Core M a fanless chip), but after reading this I realize that I'd prefer this over the alternative.
Apple Quietly Buys Dryft, a Keyboard App
Sam Hartman is an extremely competent, blind developer.

http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/24/people-behin-debian-sam...
Wow, I'm all for not wasting food, but that's really tacky.
"Be careful what you wish for: you might just get it."
People still pay attention to this guy?
You'd have to pay me in time off. Preferably about 20 hours a week.
Could anyone who tried this monitoring tool compare it to Munin?
One listserve (can't remember which) made up a list for people who complained like this instead of following the unsubscribe instructions. The admins would remove complainers from the normal lists and add them all to one mailing list, where the only emails they got were each others' demands to be taken off the mailing list, with unsubscribe instructions added to the beginning and the end of every single email.
If you're paying for the same plan regardless of whether you upgrade, then it is nuts not to get a free upgrade.
I've used btrfs (at several-petabytes-of-data scale) and wouldn't trust it any more than HFS+.

Use ZFS if you like, or XFS, or even ext4 instead.
In "Becoming Steve Jobs", Tim Cook says the following in regards to Apple's collusion scandal:

"I know where Steve's head was. He wasn't doing anything to hold down salaries; it never came up. He had a simple objective: if we were working together on something, like with Intel, where we threw everything in the middle of the table and said, 'let's convert the Mac to the Intel processor', well, when we did that, we didn't want them poaching our employees that they were meeting, and they didn't want us poaching theirs. Doesn't it make sense that you wouldn't, that it's an OK thing? I don't think for a minute he thought he was doing anything bad. And I don't think he was thinking about saving any money. He was just very protective of his employees."

Ed Catmull of Pixar, a seemingly gentle person, is similarly unapologetic about the issue. Why is it that, at a certain level, intelligent company leaders seem to stop thinking of their employees as individuals and instead start thinking of them as company assets?

(I don't mean this as an anti-Apple comment. In fact, I want to give Jobs, Cook, and Catmull the benefit of the doubt, in the sense that they probably did approach the issue from the perspective of doing what's best for their companies, not as a quick way to save some paltry money. But that's kind of the underlying problem, isn't it? Once you've internalized the idea that your employees are company assets — that they aren't hard workers who make the company tick, but that they literally are the company — it's easy to slide down the slippery slope towards incredibly unethical and shady dealings like collusion. I wonder how this can be avoided.)
I definitely think the "startup life" culture is something a lot of people will eventually consider a downside. I recently interviewed at a place with an open floor plan, and I found that a big turn off to the position. While free lunch and dinner are nice perks, sure, they also suggest you're still at work for lunch and dinner. I want a job, not an overly-attached workplace.
I had organised a day off recently where all my family were visiting me from interstate. Despite this I had agreed to dial in to one conference call as the audience attending was ‘important’. Well it seems Important but disrespectful, as the audience never even turned up, yet I was still made to ‘dry-run’ the whole meeting from start to finish for an hour and a half as if there was full attendance and interest in what I was saying. So, as the food I had prepared for my family went cold, there I was stuck on the phone role-playing a fake menial meeting to satisfy managements ego.

Oh god. I would have hung up. The concept of a "dry run" for a meeting is insanely offensive and counterproductive. If a meeting needs to be scripted and rehearsed, it does not need to happen.
This is a great article! very excited to what we will see at Dart Developer Summit 2015
From this announcement:

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/08/microsoft-unveils...

I read:

> Nano Server provides just the components you need – nothing else

And that's exactly what I do not trust MS with.

With a well documented history of backdoor ridden bloat ware products it is not quite the company that I accept any non-opensource release to have "just what I need and nothing else".

Though I must admit that the opensource train they are riding lately allows me to look at them them from a very new perspective. But still, MS if you are listening: if it is not opensource, I do not trust you!
Imagining they had first-class support for it (a major undertaking, I'd guess, but anyway) how many people would use it? I'd guess it'd be about the same people who use Cygwin now.
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I like spy.co. If you were planning to let that one lapse or had an interest in letting it go.
One possible explanation for his experience is that he was what they call "managed out".
Seriously? 5,888x or 5,888%?
As far as web tech, I don't recall seeing any Safari web evangelists at any conf I've ever been to. Wasn't there a post a month ago about trying to track one down? Someone said one did exist, and that they were only ever seen at WWDC.
Periscope update makes it easier to stream with friends, stops spam
I'd agree with these numbers in 2012 or maybe 2013, but engineering comp has gone bonkers in the Bay Area.

Uber has published comp for engineers[1] that put them starting at $110K/yr + $410K in equity. Presuming a 4-year cliff that's $212K/yr. The top end of that scale is $170K/yr in cash + $2M in equity, or $670K/yr. My guess is that Uber also pays decent-sized performance-based cash bonuses or has other cash-like benefits (401k matching?) that aren't included. Uber is also not some kind of iffy, fly-by-night startup.

Apple, Google, Facebook, and myriad other companies all have to compete in that market for the same talent.

[1] https://angel.co/uber/jobs/57827-ios-engineer-uber-multiple-...
Caching for one. I just don't see a reason for moving as much as possible to POST since this seems to go against what the different methods (GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc) were meant for.
Yes they are structure top down.

In contrast Google is more bottoms up / crowdsourced or "Darwinian" as Elon Musk would say. Meetings are more cross functional, shorter, and to the point this way.
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I don't know whether we're in a repeat of 1999 or not, but I know that this article is not very convincing.

"In short — and I’m not the first to say this — it’s less that valuations are unnaturally high than it is the fact that there is a completely new capital market — the growth market."

No, you're not the first to say this. Down through the ages it is usually phrased as follows: "this time is different."

I'm not yet convinced that we're in a bubble, but a few more articles like this and I will be.

(And as others have pointed out, the attempt to draw a distinction between a "risk bubble" and a "valuation" bubble is hand-waving nonsense.)
Debian if I have to support the system myself. RHEL if it is a business with money to spend on support contracts.
Possibly stupid question: does the demo run inside DOS or is it completely self-contained? (I would assume the latter.)
What a heartbreaking story. I'm glad that the author quit, and I'm yet again reminded how fortunate I am to have a boss who comes relatively close to understanding me and has my back.
>At a recent interview I mentioned I like tinkering with code on the side and was told I'd have to give that up and stop contributing to open source.

I faced similar in my last company (not with Apple). Now find it very difficult to get working on a side project or similar at home after having not done anything in that regard in a few years.

Ideas I once had to develop are long gone. Bleh.
Really? I must be an exception then. I love what I do and wouldn't want to stop doing it. That said, I can imagine myself in a few other jobs too, so it might be my attitude towards work that makes me happy.
Zappos is one that comes to mind.
Someone dear to me worked in marketing there. Was basically the same drill, though not as directly abusive because she reported to good people.
It is pretty trivial to translate distance to time for something like this, so I wouldn't consider the wrong direction at all.
dang. i spend an inordinate amount of time on youtube. i'd spend even more time there if they didn't poison my experience so often with all the damned ads.

i am all for this. take my money, youtube.
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Shadow Chaser by Alexey Pehov
You are ignoring Windows Remote Management, Microsofts implementation of the WBEM standard protocol for remote management of devices.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384426(v=vs.85).a...

"Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management Protocol, a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based, firewall-friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems, from different vendors, to interoperate.
The WS-Management protocol specification provides a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across an IT infrastructure. WinRM and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), along with the Event Collector are components of the Windows Hardware Management features."
Zappos may be a candidate for that type of case; their entire value proposition is exceptional customer support. There is no other reason to buy from them -- they aren't the cheapest or the sleekest, but they have the reputation of going above and beyond for their customers. Their motto is "powered by service". This may be more of a marketing lesson than a customer service one, though.
Amazon Echo enters the smart home with support for WeMo and Hue
And some people may not... leading to the whole team missing their lunch break on a regular basis because of that One Guy who won't shut up. Guarantee that would have happened in the last team I did "Agile" with.
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They finally got this right. Photos, for me, was a major upgrade to iPhoto. Allowing me to have full resolution copies on numerous machines, and size optimized copies on mobile, secondary machines with no syncing effort on my part.

May not be for everyone; but I love it.
However, the prevailing wind in Europe is from southwest. Paris doesn't get smog from the Ruhr, mostly it is vice versa.

Of course, occasionally the wind is the other way round, but overall, any bad air in Paris is due to Paris.
Zappos built their brand on high quality customer service: http://www.businessinsider.com/zappos-customer-service-crm-2...
Popcorn Time now available for IOS, no Jailbreak required
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I just tried installing this on a test VPS. PCP went well, but whenever I tried to input a "hostname" in Vector's UI to get stats, it just kept telling me it couldn't connect and to check hostname, regardless of what I put in the box. PCP was available and of course ports open and whatnot. I'm not sure what the problem was, but that was a bit frustrating. It looks like a slick product otherwise, especially for a first version! Thanks for releasing projects like this! I'll be trying again in the future, for sure.
And if you want the simplest solution (ie store blobs with the rest of your code), gitlab offers git-annex compatibility (https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/17/gitlab-annex-solves-the-...)
In a time of Silicon Valley assholes, is Yahoo just too nice to make it?
The most interesting stories about Apple, or Amazon, or a few others, cannot be told in public.

Most of these former employees feel legally threatened by their former employers, and that's what prevents them from sharing more.

I wish there was a way.
Ask HN: Which food delivery services you use in restaurants and from your home?
Have you ever seen that restaurant has application which from which you can order your food while sitting in a restaurant?
Pachyderm (YC W15) is hiring our first engineer to build a modern Hadoop
We're building an open source ecosystem of infrastructure tools for collaborating on large-scale data analytics. Learn what we're about: https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/lets-build-a-modern-hadoop...

We're looking for our first hire (company is just founders right now). Smart, ambitious engineers who think there should be a better alternative to Hadoop. Our codebase is written in Go, but Go experience isn't required.

pachyderm.io
github.com/pachyderm/pfs

Email: jobs@pachyderm.io
Consulting is just a different beast.

You get a lot more freedom and typically a higher pay, but sometimes management uses consultants to be the fall guys or hires consultants to confirm their existing decisions. It takes a lot of business savvy (read: empathy) to understand why you're really being hired as a consultant.

I don't think OP here would be happy consulting. (Just my 2 cents.)
>Uhh they literally don't release updates that often, so you'll have to explain that one to us...

Microsoft most certainly releases reboot updates more often than the once a month patch Tuesday. I'm not sure if they apply to the OP's specific system, Win2008 R2, but I am rebooting my various computers more than once a month.

My system's update history shows two fixes around Mar 27 (KB2976978 and KB3048778) and one of those required a reboot. I remember because I had to do it. This pattern goes back in time quite far - bunch of fixes for patch Tuesday (requires a reboot), and a handful of off-cycle recommended/optional fixes, which often require a reboot too.

If you apply updates as they appear (and take the optional and recommended ones) you will DEFINITELY be rebooting more than once a month.
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Yeah for some reason this is one of the few places online where I don't feel like trolling. It's weird.
Toxic management in Silicon valley seems to be becoming a force to be reckoned with. Time and time again I hear horror stories like this and from first hand experience I can confirm all this mind playing is in fact happening by certain managers. I've worked with managers that worked at top tech companies in the Valley and their resume lists one company after another, it goes to show how easy it is for them to jump ship if things are going sour without anyone at the new company really noticing that in the interview process. There seems to be a strongly connected network of toxic managers swarming the valley more and more. It's not just Apple.
But I don't want my photos in the cloud.
Switch professions.
Agh, damn. Just removed Awesome Screenshot due to your comment and I liked it as an extension too. Not enough to leak information to third parties though..
Yeah, the overwhelming impression I got from the actual description of the tour was that NYC hadn't changed much in 17 years, with the obvious exception of the WTC.

The title reminded me of an ancient backpacker guide I picked up in some Asian hostel which warned that Malaysia deported people for looking like hippies, and suggested that Ko Samui was the sort of place where you might be able to pitch a tent on a beach or share a hut with a fisherman.
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> I just don't see a reason for moving as much as possible to POST since this seems to go against what the different methods (GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc) were meant for.

Arguably, HTTP-based RPC with consistent use of POST is a lot more straightforward of a model than the kinda-sorta-REST-without-HATEOAS that a lot of APIs use, and arguably for APIs whose scope is a particular server and not the kind of generality that the web as a whole itself (the archetypical REST service) provides, POST-based HTTP-RPC is a more natural choice than REST.
Very nice - both this page and the overall site.
Sounds like an interesting project, I can see it being appealing for some companies, here are some thoughts which popped into my head when reading your page:

Do you have a provisional list of packages you're planning to include?

How will you make money, or is this a labour of love?

One of the main benefits here is actually that someone has gone through publicly available packages and vetted them for code quality - that might be one of your bigger selling points, even above stability (which is relatively easy to achieve with vendoring). This could potentially be a sort of 'standard stack' for go for corps who want to try out the language.

Do you have permission from the package authors for this? I realise you don't need it, but it might be nice to involve them in some way, or even make sure it benefits them in some small way if you make money from it?

Perhaps you could even act as a broker between corporations who want features/fixes and package writers who want to get paid for their time? EDIT - oh I see you do suggest you might do this on your page lower down.

Are you planning managing patches/bug fixes yourself for packages which fall into disuse?
Apple is actually probably the best example of a company taking a cost center (in this case, manufacturing and logistics) and turning it into a strategic advantage. Apple wields its supply chain like a weapon. It's very difficult to compete with Apple because the world has a limited supply of high-quality parts (flash memory, LCD screens, etc.), and Apple can just outbid everyone else for the entire market supply for 6 months at a time and still make a profit thanks to their fat margins and high volumes. They've done the same thing with advanced manufacturing robots, and likely again with the metallurgy and large-scale 6-axis CNC manufacturing tools. The manufacturers of these devices can only make so many of them per year, and Apple just buys all of them. By the time the market catches up, Apple has moved on to monopolizing another factor of production for some new manufacturing process.

This is why Tim Cook is CEO: he was the architect of their supply chain strategy which basically ensured nobody could build a phone at the same level as Apple. But he took what was once a pure cost center for Apple and turned it into the engine of their dominance.

I can't say I've seen the same for customer support though. It's just not a strategic advantage in most industries because only a small percentage of your customers ever call in to support in the first place.
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> A bit-exact differ for, say, jpegs, probably wouldn't work all that well.

Depends. For some uses (e.g. a change in one corner of the file, encoded by the same tool with the same parameters), the diff of JPEG would be fine, differences will be restricted to the 8x8 pixel blocks that were touched by the change. Other changes (e.g., changing encoding quality, trimming a row of pixels off the edge of an image) would lead to more complex diffs.
In other words, if you want to run a Linux based Docker container on Windows you're still going to need Virtual Box.
Huh. I just found out about Goofy (http://www.goofyapp.com/) a few days ago as I was looking to break the chat out of Facebook as I don't use it much otherwise, but this may work just as well.
Even the first option is a problem with management. They either need to hire more people, fire people, or train people.
As a poker player, I recognize that you can be ruined both by making plays with a negative expected value (= valuation) or by making plays with positive expected value but which you are not adequately bankrolled for (= risk). Doyle Brunson wrote in his tome Super System from the seventies that he would gladly bet his entire net worth on a 51% chance of success. Even though this is technically a bet with an expected positive outcome, its clearly very risky. Modern gamblers recognize this and pay attention borh to the expected value and the variance.
Yes, everyone refers to jails, but I think most people would agree that jails weren't really containers. They didn't provide true isolation for a set of applications. I guess you could argue they were the original prototype for them though.

Solaris containers are the first "lightweight virtualization" technology that I'm personally aware of that provided true isolation of one more processes from the host operating system and host processes.