skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this is all remote powershell, it would be nice if MS/Windows introduced a native SSH server. That would probably help drive some conversion for people used to the posix world.
That's right. For example, you can construct the integers Z without writing all of them down. Which would take a long time ...
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson 11/10
Enemies Abroad by Luke Bencie ~2/10
An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison ?/10
> In my experience rarely is Scrum/Agile implemented into an organisation in its pure and intended form.

Well, Scrum/Agile isn't a thing, its two very different things, and if you implement either of them in its "pure and intended form", you are absolutely not implementing the other in its "pure and intended form", since Agile is an approach that disfavors rigid externally defined methodologies in preference to adaptation to the needs of the team, and Scrum is a rigid, externally defined methodology with a rulebook of specific practices which, if you aren't following, you aren't doing Scrum.

An organization taking an Agile approach may adopt Scrum as a starting point for its internal processes as it evaluates what works for the teams it has on the problems it is working on, and adjust the details from that baseline. But if you are working within the defined bounds of Scrum you aren't Agile, and if you are Agile you are not committed the rules of Scrum.

Confusing Scrum for Agile or vice versa is a sign that someone doesn't understand either Agile, Scrum, or both.
The new style .format is talked about here:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/

I guess finding discussion of the % formatting would be harder. I suspect that the discussion would have been about the tradeoff between the implicit variable insertion and simpler positional examples:

"My name is %s, I am %s years old" % (name, years)

(where there is definitely at least a tendency to avoid implicit behavior in the design of python; of course positional formatting like that is implicit, but it is quite a bit less implicit than automatically pulling variables out of the current scope)

edit: the % formatting was probably informed by sprintf.
So this is like boot2docker ... on Windows? You have a VM and you have containers inside it. This is not the same as containers on baremetal. But that is fine .. my confusion is the OS inside the VM. Is that Linux or Windows? Normally, I can run Ubuntu and Centos-based containers on my box. Can I run these as Hyper V containers? What about dot net? Can that be containerized.
Facebook launches Messenger for the Web with a standalone browser version
Mac Photos app now live on latest OS X Yosemite update
Recipe for saving coral reefs: Add more fish
Apple Releases iOS 8.3 with Emoji Updates, Wireless CarPlay, Space Bar UI Fix
Compare those 3 days to 2 years with my cheap watch.
Brontosaurus Rising
Announcing the next Switch happy hour
Apple releases iCloud Photos app
With MVC moving to a Linux compatible infrastructure in the next version, it may be too little too late, and C# people might just use Linux for real.

Literally the only C# "thing" which won't run on Linux is Visual Studio itself. Heck we might even see a Linux Powershell version here in the next few years.
Facebook launches standalone Messenger app for the web
Notice how the Apple screenshots are always full of photos? That only happens if you take a lot of shots everytime you take photos, like when you are on vacation. If not, if you only take occasional random shots, your screen looks like mine, with lonely photos on the left side of the screen, and then acres of white space to the right of them.
Square acquires Fastbite
How to Convert More Visitors to Buyers
That particular sort of disagreement is underlaid by much more fundamental agreement. If you did not share a tremendous amount with the person, such a debate would not be possible. Debate is not a competition in situations where the participants agree upon the fundamental means of determining truth, it is a collaboration. All participants are attempting to reach the truth through contributing facts and reasoning. A conflict would be if one person was of the belief that truth is determined by the intuitive feeling of correctness and another believing it to be determined by rational soundness and correspondence with reality. In that case, neither can contribute anything which helps the other person reach understanding, giving rise to competition.
.. and what I'm saying is that its the job of the operating system to make these issues less frustrating and irrelevant in terms of problems. If the average person understood that they could gain access to their content/media safely while on the road, and if the OS had a low-power mode that could traverse NAT's (it does exist and can be done easily and safely) then it wouldn't be necessary to be building secret mega-data centers in the desert to hold all the worlds data - it'd be distributed, and thus safer/better, instead, among all of the existing computers - which face it, are mostly under-utilized in the grand computing scheme of things.

Well, I guess I can see this as an opportunity more than anything else: design an application that will give users power over their own cloud. What a pity that there's no easy way for the iDevices to be gaining access to this, or maybe there is, indeed a way ..
There are synchronous versions of many blocking async functions. There's rope there to hang yourself with.
Disable all extensions? No more Tampermonkey, Postman, LastPass? Seems like a massive overkill. Extensions provide vital functionality.
For the tech enthusiast and the visionaries, you are correct; It is a very viable technology. However the majority of people that deploy software are rather conservative and unless they see a market leader such as Microsoft with a solution they don't deem the technology safe to use. This is well documented in a lot of literature like Crossing the Chasm but can be observed frequently if you work at a larger non-tech oriented company. Whether or not this notion is actually correct is debatable but it doesn't change the validity of it.
Many things that appear in Windows Server were already running as part of Azure
Meet the LinkedIn for the World's Most Successful People
Essentially, Java is already run like containers, that container being an application server of some sort. Very rarely is Java software really dependent on specific packages being installed or even which operation system aside from a particular Java VM. When you add another container layer you generally are just adding more overhead and further you have issues with correctly setting some tunable parameters like heap sizes vs container memory sizes, etc. It works, it just isn't very ideal.
"I'm not at all interested in the Cloud features of this release"

"what I wish I was seeing, instead, was a way for me to leave my computer online at home, and still have access to my media library, seamlessly, from anywhere in the world"

You're not the target market.

For most users this is a distinction without a difference -- except that with the cloud they don't have to remember to leave their home computer turned on and online 24/7, and they don't have to be responsible for their own backups.

It's not (at all) easier for Apple to move these features into their data center -- it's easier for (the vast majority of) Apple's users.

Users who know how to do what you want to do -- run a home file server -- already know how to do what you want to do.
Considering that a self-hosted and an Apple-hosted iCloud are functionally identical as far as most users are concerned, and that any user who actually cares will take the time to do what you've done, I don't imagine Apple will ever waste their time with it.
Edited my post to say "years ago", since I missed it the first time. I agree now, and I brushed it off at the time too.
From the article:

> Or maybe—and this is the theory I like best, but can least substantiate—“No, totally” is really a contraction of “I know, totally.” That is linguistically improbable; I know of no instance in the English language where a homophonic slippage of this sort has taken place. But I like the theory anyway, because it captures what is often the semantic intent of “No, totally” with uncanny precision: I understand, and I am fully in accord.
We never had any issues deploying .NET applications in Amazon.
C/C++ are going to be tied to some runtime libraries but that doesn't seem like as big an externality as being tied to a particular version of an entire VM. You may prevent certain classes of of programming error with a memory-managed language but at the cost of fine-grained control of your memory, and when it comes to security software in general and key management in particular you expose yourself to a whole other set of issues with managed memory. C/C++ are also highly portable, arguably moreso than Java (and certainly moreso than C#). They seem like the safest choice in many ways.
How can a manager earn/keep the respect of his team
How is it possible for a manager to keep/build the respect of the engineers working for him especially if the engineers working for him are stronger and better engineers than him. How can he keep the respect of his team members who actually do the work (programming), master more recent technology and might come from better schools/ companies and might develop a sense of entitlement (why am I not the boss if i am actually doing the work). There are many different cases. One case could be the engineer that was there on day#1, created v1.0 of the product and moved into a management position but created a ball of mud along the way. Another case would be a manager that is bombarded manager of a project/ organization that he did not help create in the first place.
If it's an unauthenticated call you can use a browser, but if all the calls require a header like that, I don't see a reason to.
We have proof. So far we already have detected a planet with Earth-like conditions (called Earth). Life formed on it. Possibly several times independantly.

The statistics for life on very earth-like planets are staggering.
The reason online poker isn't classified as a game of skill has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with the monied interests in Nevada and Atlantic City. If we start to see the DFS industry affecting in-casino sports gambling, you can expect it to receive similar treatment by the law.

$250M might seem like a lot of money, but consider that Sheldon Adelson spent, by most estimates, upwards of $150M in campaign contributions in 2012 alone. The total spend on political influence by the gaming industry is likely to be at least an order of magnitude higher.
> This is true but it protects against "unreasonable" searches.

It prohibits unreasonable searches. Whether it protects against them depends on the effectiveness with which its prohibition is enforced. Unfortunately, enforcement through the courts has been effectively limited to the exclusionary rule, which is perhaps a reasonably sufficient remedy against unreasonable searches for the purposes of criminal prosecution [0], but is completely useless against unreasonable searches for other purposes.

[0] though perhaps not, there's all kinds of exploitable limitations to the exclusionary rule even in the criminal domain.
Indiegogo allows crowdfunder for Officer Michael Slager, accused of murder
Bitcoin Is Not a Honey Badger
Dim, baby Amazon Echo can now control smart lights and switches
Because it makes things way easier for most people. No need for a Mac, backup included, sync automatically, etc. Dont forget setup is typing in your apple id and that's it.

This is made for "the rest of us."
Because it's not really related to the watch, they did discuss and unveil it at the last WWDC keynote though. It was also available as a beta version for developers for some time now.
I believe what they are saying is that they looked at historical security updates and saw what percentage of them would have applied. Because it has less code, there are security updates that wouldn't have been relevant.

That seems like a reasonable approach to me, if that was their methodology.
Funny you should reference this as it's been posted numerous times here on HN, and there's even a debate going on as we speak[0]...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9341146
Thanks for this fascinating post.

I'd love to read more from you about your experience learning Japanese — though it's possible you already wrote an essay about it that I missed.
I figured as much, but the fear I see in this thread overall is pretty crazy to me.
This is huge for me.

I call myself an ameteur photographer, which really just means that I have an expensive camera and took a photo class or two a long time ago.

This solves an enormous problem of safely storing all of my photos.

Sure I have come up with workflows in Aperture to sync to a cloud device, create vaults, make manual backups, etc--but this can hardly compare to a workflow of click a button to enable. Additionally, as I spend more and more time overseas it becomes increasingly impractical to lug around devices for backups.

My only worry is if this new application will be a good replacement to Aperture
In enterprise software and consulting anywhere near customer-facing engagements, the work hardly seems that much better than wiping excrement from aging people incapable of taking care of themselves. The job security is certainly much better for nurses where you get paid and everyone knows you're supposed to be helping the patient, but keep recommending something to a client they just don't like even if it's one that will actually solve their problems and you'll get fired probably. Much like being a doctor to patients unwilling to change their lifestyle in so many different ways, there's a massive industry of people making money off of people that want change but just want to spend money (and do almost nothing else) to make their problems go away. They'll still keep opting for something marketed via mass media (CIO magazine or whatever) and better-looking Powerpoints than the more carefully-thought-out solution made by people that really want a sound solution.
That's correct! WiredIn provides Rapportive-like view, and you can supercharge your spreadsheet of contacts with their social profiles, company information, etc too. Would love to get your feedback!
Maybe someone at the top makes a principled stand as well. At the very least, they get to make subjective decisions about what is "cruel and unusual". And even if it doesn't hold, at least this particular judge can have a clear conscience.

This is why I wonder what the penalties are. I can fault the judge for not wanting to be thrown in jail. On the other hand, if he's doing something that he recognizes as morally wrong simply to "follow the rules", he's a coward. "Following the rules" is not a moral defense. For sufficiently severe crimes, it's not even a legal defense (see: nazi camp guards).
Tomcat/Jboss are resource hogs and tend to not do well in sandboxed environments as it takes away a lot of the configurability/tuning that they provide/need for scaling. In addition, people tend to deploy multiple applications per application server to keep resources requirements down: containizeration tends not to lend itself to multi-application stategies (in particular resource heavy applications like those that run on the JVM). This is far from something that makes java an impossibility but it changes the techniques enterprises are accustomed to. Technologies like Jetty provide a good solution to the problem, and will probably see wider adoption as containers become more prevalent.
Apple – OS X – Print Products
IBM Tests Controversial Brain Algorithms
There's a short video on Microsoft's Channel 9 website showing Nano Server in action [1].

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Regular-IT-Guy/Quick-Nano-Ser...
80% fewer reboots

Still many times more frequent than w/Linux. The 2008 R2 development system we have needs to be rebooted every two weeks, on average, due to Windows Updates that require a reboot. Updates come in almost every day for CentOS and I only need to reboot once ever couple of months for new kernels.

Can't wait for the no-reboot kernel patches planned for a future Linux kernel.
The iOS-ification of Mac OS continues apace. A good thing, in my opinion.
So Rapportive for XLS?
Dang, I want to love this as a "just works" kind of solution, but as soon as I turn on Cloud Sharing, I get dinged with the need to pay for an iCloud capacity upgrade.

(Edit:) 5GB seems like a pretty measly free level.
More likely what comes back down is "This is a general harm, not a specific harm, meaning it's the problem of Congress". At which point your principled stand has consumed significant time and money to accomplish very little.

Activism has to be balanced against the costs and odds of success.
Totally deterministic. I think there's even an emulator which models it (though without a cycle-exact emulation of the CPU the snow won't be in the same places as on real hardware).
This is great.

Even cooler: Print Products!

http://www.apple.com/osx/print-products/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342945)

A 20 page hardcover photo book costs $29.99. This is awesome.
500 Startup's Weapons of Mass Distribution
Checker – Find out what happens to your stuff when you aren't around
Top it off with SSH access to PowerShell and we're all set? (Something something something dark side)
It's hard to use a chess analogy with poker, because poker has a lot more decision points. Winning in poker is about drawing the right money into the pot at the right time through use of deception (and knowing the odds lets you know when the right time is at hand). A game of chess is a discrete unit with a winner and a loser (well, unless it's a draw), but most hands of poker have a single winner and no losers. Folding in poker is more of a strategic withdrawal; if the cards aren't there, the cards aren't there.
> It doesn't need to be anointed by Microsoft to be 'viable'

Well, in a lot of corporations its viable when the big analyst companies say its viable (Gartner and Forrester Research) and they tend to be "nudged" by Microsoft. It once was does IBM have an offering in this space and then it became does Microsoft.

// one more soul crushing things done in corporate IT
Vague title is vague. Without the energy density of said battery this information means precisely nothing.
Yes, pretty nice, though a bit pricey. I think iPhoto has had this option for a decade.
murica.xyz - I dunno, but I thought it was funny
dinosaurpark.xyz - board game where you try to cooperatively design a park where no expenses were spared
Its good that in your post about how you hate Apple products you made sure to get a ton of things wrong and bias them all in a way that makes Apple look worse than they actually are. It seems like your own irrational hate is the actual problem here.
It's a game of skill much in the same way as poker. Experienced players will beat inexperienced players over the long-run. There are certain elements of randomness/luck (as with poker, sometimes you just get bad cards) - but DFS proponents would argue that identifying under-valued players and predicting performance to be a skill.

Surprisingly, the NBA and MLB have an official DFS partnership - as do individual teams in both the NFL and NHL. Some individual players also have "endorsed" certain sites.

Full list of DFS partnerships: http://www.legalsportsreport.com/dfs-sponsorship-tracker/
The only thing this application needs to be to improve on iPhoto, is to not be extremely slow at a few thousand photos.
Looks cool, but I doubt I'll use it: switching between modes when using shell isn't very comfy. Actually, every time when I see "vim-mode in <something>" (like shell, IPython Notebook) I wish for the opposite: <something> in vim. But stuff like Emacs or even Atom seems to be more flexible for that purpose, usually all these "<something> in vim" don't really work (or even couldn't be implemented due to inability to show graphics inside the vim (gvim) window). It's a shame.
Everything you need to know about HBO's standalone service
Actually, having met a few of them, a surprising number are using PHP, which made me quite angry lol.
This is too perfect.

http://i.imgur.com/WOQGknl.png
How do they do proof-of-work?
On the other hand, Earth is a very dense planet (in part due to the accidental formation of the Moon), so bigger planets might still have a lower gravity on average. Also, if they spin faster, getting into orbit will be easier.

Maybe Earth is indeed at a comparatively bad place in the gravity spectrum of habitable planets. Getting things up there is difficult enough that we can't have big payloads, but it's still easy enough to justify not building a self-sufficient infrastructure out there.
First half of this video will get you fully up to speed https://www.joyent.com/developers/videos/docker-and-the-futu...
Wasn't complaining. I'd be interested in a ref for this, most popular science I've seen has skated over the limitations of data collection and made lots of assumptions.
Ask HN: How do you handle survey results which shows strong bias by your manager?
If you receive the results of one of those workplace intelligence surveys which your direct manager disagrees strongly with you, do you keep quiet and try to change their perceptions or do you discuss how their view needs reconsideration?
In Bitcoin we can make a pretty concrete statement about computing power that one can reason about; the blocking attacker will not be successful without a majority of it.

Whats the similar statement for 'trust' which is sufficient for security? Obviously "attacker is partitioned from the network" is sufficient, but not very plausable. I'm sure there is a better statement possible, but its not clear to me what it is.
Yeah, but by all accounts physical gaming in traditional locales is shrinking rather rapidly. Atlantic City lost many of its major casinos to bankruptcy last year, with more to follow this year. Nevada is in slightly better shape, but Las Vegas is transitioning into more of a family-friendly resort town as there is simply a lot more competition for gaming dollars from places like Macau, regional Native American casinos, and cities across the US granting gambling licenses to a limited number of urban casinos.
Yeah, I remember thinking in 1999 that the Internet was going to be huge, but it wasn't going to be huge yet, and there would be a helluva reckoning for dot-com investors when the inflated expectations didn't pan out.

With this bubble, I'm bearish not because I don't think that the general investment thesis of tech disrupting existing markets is wrong, but because I don't think these particular companies will be the ones left standing when the dust settles. Basically, I'm betting that technological progress will be more dramatic than we expect, and that these are early market leaders that will then fade away into obscurity as future technology changes the assumptions they're built upon. Uber and Lyft, for example, are dead as soon as self-driving cars become viable. DropBox is vulnerable to the end of the file; in recent devices, the filesystem is quite hidden and peoples' workflows just don't involve creating files, they involve inputting information in some specialized cloud service provider. AirBnB may end up being eaten by itself: as it becomes more viable economically, you'll see more purpose-built construction being built to be listed straight on AirBnB, and at some point it becomes worth it to ignore the consumer sellers entirely and just act as a broker between commercial property owners and travelers.