skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is insightful when you look at something like Facebook's financials. So $200B valuation on $12B of gross revenue but profit varies around zero and last quarter was 1/2B aka almost exactly 1% annualized rate of return. Better than my local credit union savings account, but riskier. Probably a reasonable valuation.

Governments will collapse if interest rates ever return to normal, so they probably won't. But its interesting to see how cheap capital or "value" is when interest rates approach zero. If interest rates were 20% like 1980 and you needed 25% to get investors to even sniff, that would drop facebooks valuation from $200B to about $4B to maintain that 25% return. That's quite a haircut.

Low interest rates result in a margin-like whip when revenues drop. Say revenue dropped a billion at FB. That would drop profit by half and if interest rates remain constant, risk constant etc, that would collapse the price by half. And thats a less than 10% decline in revenue. Ouch. So one effect of low interest rates is making valuation/price very sensitive to small revenue changes. This will make things exciting.
Microsoft has a real hole in their stack in my opinion...

So on Linux you have SSH (for shell) and X11 Forwarding/VNC for GUI remoting.
On Windows you have RDP for GUI and nothing for remote shell.

Now, I know what you're going to say, "WMI" but WMI was never designed for use over the internet. You have to forward two fixed ports and a dynamic range (shudder). Plus it isn't security hardened either by design or through fire.

VPN you say? In theory yes. But the reality on the ground is that for most SMBs they're still using RDP or SSH directly to manage Windows/Linux servers, and if Windows wants to compete (and they are dropping RDP) they need to have an "answer" to SSH.

Essentially they need to take whatever WMI is, wrap it into a secure protocol, and bind it to just a single port, then harden the heck out of whatever process directly runs on that port (before you hit the WMI interface itself).

Or alternatively write an SSH server (literally), and after login redirect input to a Powershell process. Nobody would complain about that (plus free SFTP support!).

PS - I'm totally going to get attacked by "VPN purists" here. But really everyone knows that SSH and RDP is extremely common for SMBs/private individuals. Let's quit pretending that it is not and support the client that actually exists, not the client you wished existed.
YEEESSS! Thank you. I tried searching on and off for a while now. I owe you more than an upvote!
Yes it does. See install guide: https://github.com/digicoop/kaiwa-server
DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder with support for HD extensions
Can you elaborate? What about this new app is more 'iOS'y than 'OSX'y, and why is it a good thing?
I have a huge (250GB+) iPhoto library, and it is what is holding me back from installing Linux on a MBP and wiping Mac OS.

Now it would be possible to just copy all photos to my LAN server with a few terabytes and Gigabit ethernet, but that would make looking through and at the photos terribly inconvenient.

Even worse, parts of my photos were imported as RAW and iPhoto was doing its own magic to convert them to JPEG.

iPhoto was not bad a bad program, I actually liked it, but relying on it was a lesson for me to never again store my photos in a closed-source program.

Currently I'm still looking for alternatives, Lychee (http://lychee.electerious.com/) looks nice at first sight, but I don't want a PHP server with MySQL managing my photos.

IMO the nicest solution would be a well-defined photo directory format that gets indexed by a fast server implementing an API that you can use to access all photos through client programs. It could keep an SQLite database in the directory to store metadata, but if it is gone, the directories should still make sense.
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Also replaces some (not all) features of Aperture.

If you scroll to the bottom of the Mac store at http://www.apple.com/mac/

... you'll see that the link for Aperture[1]

http://www.apple.com/aperture/

redirects to

http://www.apple.com/osx/photos/
Akamai Acquires Octoshape
Did you have to forward ports on your router to get it to work "from anywhere in the world"? If so, you've already gone beyond the capabilities of 99% of the userbase.
> The 2008 R2 development system we have needs to be rebooted every two week, due to Windows Updates [..]

Windows Updates are published once a month (except for very critical fixes), so I wonder how that is possible in your environment?
I struggled to learn Haskell in my early thirties. I think your son has a bright future.
I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
Thanks, its really exciting to see this chip get love and start to drive down the $10 wifi cost that seemed to never lower. cough cough price fixing cough
It looks like they may be putting the container in a Hyper-V VM while allowing it callbacks to the underlying OS.

Done correctly this allows the hardware level protections to apply to the code running in the container, assuming the penalty of your OS calls routing through the VM-bridge doesn't kill your performance.
I can't imagine listening to that for long. It gave me a headache after a few seconds.
Hi Andrew!
Forever looking for low hanging fruits, I think I did stumble on something. However, the tests are deliberately artificial, designed to emphasise the effect. Unless someone does it for me, I need to set up a real linux box and run the tests on that.
That's right. Not only rapportive, but it also inserts data back to the spreadsheet.

You can try our Google sheet add-on here. We'd love to get your feedback!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wiredin-sales-lead...
It seems to me that consuming significant time and money is a fair accomplishment. Morally offensive laws, processes, and behaviors should gum up the works. It provides an incentive to remove them.
Drones stream live video to YouTube
It'd be nice if Visual Studio tooling could let you hit F5 and your app could Compile, Deploy to an On-Desktop Container after running a dockerfile, Start Debugging from a 'remote' debugger.
This. Talented young engineers should probably never work for early-stage startups. It's unlikely for them to be able to effectively gauge the quality of an employer, they have little leverage to bargain for equity, and it's highly unusual that these companies provide an environment for young engineers to rapidly grow.

The first few years of an engineers career should be seen as apprenticeship. The best way to quickly grow is to go work for a well-regarded, established company that will compensate them well and provide an environment for them to learn and grow rapidly. Engineers right out of school make $200k/yr working for the likes of Google or Facebook. After a few years of that, they can go try to start a company or negotiate a decent amount of equity at an early-stage startup that they believe in, and they'll have had the opportunity to actually save some money to exercise those options when the time comes.

Of course, this advice doesn't apply to unicorns which, by definition, most people are not.
Gohper-database: A faster method for database interaction sans reflection
Absolutely no evidence that the email database was hacked.

Tha would be like suggesting that every time you get spam purporting tone from Microsoft, that Microsoft got hacked.
He closed a bunch of issues as "dick" moves, which I can understand, but a lot of PRs were just ignored entirely, which is a little disappointing.
Also worth noting CalPERS has been slashing its VC allocations.
AT&T fined $25 million after call center employees stole customers’ data
Indeed, the challenge is users often don't know exactly what they want. They just want a solution to a problem they have.
Sorry, is ownership of your data not important? Is control over where and when your data is available, and by which means it is shared with the world, not important? Maybe this is more of a European thing, but the backlash against cloud computing is very much still in full force - there are people actually not buying computers because all this Cloud nonsense is being shoved down our throats - are these not 'the rest of us'?

I didn't realize, though, that you don't need a Mac to run Photo for OSX. That's a curious development - what I guess you mean is, all you need to buy (from Apple) is an iDevice, and they'll then own everything you do with it from that point onwards .. to the extent that they'll make it easy for you to gain access to your media/content. (Psst.. as long as you keep paying the subscription.)

Oh, and btw, I already pay a subscription for access to the Internet. Why can't I just use this to share my data, instead of needing an additional Cloud-fee to do the same task? I think people need to remove their blinkers here - we're being shafted with this Cloud culture blaring its horns.

I have a Mac. I want to share my media/content with the world. The Mac is perfectly capable of doing that - and I trust it more than any other computer in the world, because its sitting there, on my desk, in my house, under my lock and key, with my network equipment, passwords for which I control. I don't think this Cloud business has anywhere near that level of quality of service, and if only the OS vendors were aware of the demand for this sort of thing, they'd be building in peer-to-peer NAT traversal tools, sticking a nice GUI on top, and calling themselves real Operating System vendors again. Alas, this doesn't seem too hip these days, in the technology world ..
No. When you talk about containers, you talk about operating system level virtualization[0].
This means you have one kernel, with multiple user spaces.
You can run a CentOS container on Ubuntu because both use a Linux Kernel. What will actually happen is that CentOS will use your already booted Ubuntu Kernel.

So unless Windows switches to a Linux Kernel or vice versa you will never be able to run one as a container on the other.

You can however do that with Virtual Machines. But installing a stripped down version of windows in a virtual machine does not make it a container, it makes it marketing bullshit.

"Containers on baremetal" and containerizing dot net are thus a bit silly concepts since .NET has nothing to do with the operating system and you can't run a container on "bare metal" whatever you might mean by that.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtuali...
This!!!! One of the biggest things I really miss in Windows-land is SSH. Just today I had to create a SSH tunnel for SQL Server. While it's not a big issue with third party tools, it should just be built and ready for use as with every Linux distro, FreeBSD, Solaris and OSX.
Enjoyable read overall, but his ending slunk into a somewhat currently beaten path of "success but at what cost?" regarding local culture.

There have been many such articles springing up recently decrying the "damage" "gentrification" is doing to the culture of certain areas in the USA. It's a little tiring. The types pushing the narrative whining over the rapid development and investment in some areas then whine over the lack of development and investment in other areas.

Aside from that though it was a good read.
Android Lollipop is only on 5.4 percent of devices, Kitkat still most popular
Thanks a lot for your answer. We create a separate container for each application, as it seemed like the correct approach. In our company we do have several "levels" of library (even jvm) version requirements. Containers have been very helpful to easy the pain that was managing that on the server side.
SSH access to PowerShell would be a game changer IMHO for Microsoft. Also, have you seen this? http://www.powershellserver.com/download/
Yes of course it is very important in some situations.

"To survive in grand prix racing, you need
to be afraid. Fear is an important feeling. It helps
you to race longer and live longer." - Ayrton Senna.
Stack Overflow developer survey: Go is the fourth most loved language
using magnetic repulsion to shoot up a rocket into space. Have you seen how maglev trains work?
Announcing Git Large File Storage
Vesmeer – universe simulator built using THREE.js
You can use OTR or GPG on top of XMPP.
Gumming up the works tends to be the sort of thing that is both morally satisfactory and gains you more enemies than allies. So I submit that it's very rarely a good choice of tactics.
Please tell me that it actually displays a regex to the end user during installation and asks them to read and approve it.
Yes - the benchmark is neither perfection nor omniscience, rather the benchmark is the current state of affairs.
I am glad projects like these are being worked on. Desktop XMPP programs are terrible. I have had a hard time hosting my own chat service for friends,family and work because the clients never work together for file transfers.

I just wish these were easier ''FOR ME'' to install on FreeBSD.
It's not like they can just give away unlimited storage.
>Now it would be possible to just copy all photos to my LAN server with a few terabytes and Gigabit ethernet, but that would make looking through and at the photos terribly inconvenient.

What a pity there isn't some sort of operating system that can be used to present your media/content NAS to you, from anywhere in the world, with whatever front-end you desire .. seems like any OS vendor worth their salt could produce such a thing.

I guess what we need is for things like ipfs.io to take off, and get wrapped up in some ZeroConf'ism with a pretty GUI. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
I keep my photos on my laptop. With your concept, I have to think about whether my laptop is open and online. If I'm traveling with my laptop and my phone and I want to get a photo, I have to figure out how to get my laptop online. No thanks.
I'm really excited about this! These chips are incredibly cheap, and this will really open the door for DIYers and budget projects to start being a lot more ambitious with internet connectivity!
> We are improving remote manageability via PowerShell with Desired State Configuration as well as remote file transfer, remote script authoring and remote debugging

Is PowerShell not what you're looking for, or is it not implemented similar to SSH?
With Messenger, Facebook embraces cannibalization
The Google Picasa OSX app is pretty nice like that, it doesn't interfere with your folder layout, so you can store your .jpegs just the way you want them, and it will index them and let you browse them nicely. You can throw out the Picasa app and not lose much, your folders are still there with real actual files visible to Finder and the terminal.

The only downside is that it looks very unmaintained these days. They haven't even added support for Retina graphics (in a photo viewing app!!!)
I finally released all my photos from iPhoto purgatory & handle them with lightroom. Full quality & I can throw it on an external without having to hunt around for it.
To Be Human: long and comprehensive (not actually written by him, but a collection of his works).

Flight of the Eagle: short and comprehensive.

Freedom from the Known: short and practical.
I think this is the correct explanation. Can someone find a counter-example where "no" is used in the weird way the New Yorker piece is describing, but where it can't be taken to mean "No, you don't have to go on; I know exactly what you're talking about/asking"?

The example given by yathern...

> A: I wasn't sure if you'd like to go to the park - do you want to?

> B: No, totally! Definitely want to go.

...seems to fit.
I've been running the beta for a month or so and I can't imagine going back. FINALLY all of my photos are available everywhere and safely stored without me doing any extra work. Photo Stream was a nice first step, but it was a rolling 1000 latest photos—everything else just disappeared if you didn't open iPhoto occasionally and let it download the latest stuff from your stream.

Now everything is present on all devices and they don't even take up a ton of storage: by default only the thumbnails are saved locally and then when you expand a photo you'll see a little cloud icon in the corner until it has a chance to download the full res version from iCloud.

The only downside I've noticed is that now that I have 25,000 photos on my iPhone, apps that want to access the camera roll take a few seconds to open the photo browser now (most noticeably in Instagram). To me that's a fair trade off, and, if possible, I'm sure most apps will release updates to make it faster.
Have you explained what poor suckers they are?
Human Rights Watch sues the DEA for bulk records program
I didn't know this bit:

'Back when English was a four-form system, it, too, had a si—a word used specifically to contradict negative statements. That word was “yes.” To affirm positive statements, you used “yea”'

(Then continues about the similar no / nay.)

Anyway, I'm surprised the writer did not work in the joke about the lecturer saying:

"As you know, a double negative becomes a positive, but the reverse does not happen."

Voice from the back of the room: "Yeah, yeah ..."
But giving away the server software to host yourself would never happen either :-/
Ask HN: Linux Distro of choice?
Hi -

I am wondering which Linux OS the people had success building and scaling their business with ...

I know Ubuntu is popular for personal use. However, curious what people use for production? Has one had success with one flavor over another?

Yes, I do understand this question is like which program language to learn...thus subjective and potentially unique per use case. Just pulsing the community
> The 2008 R2 development system we have needs to be rebooted every two weeks, on average, due to Windows Updates that require a reboot.

Uhh they literally don't release updates that often, so you'll have to explain that one to us...

> Updates come in almost every day for CentOS and I only need to reboot once ever couple of months for new kernels.

Windows doesn't support hotpatching, Linux does, it really is as simple as that. Linux has more people working on it than the Windows kernel does, and is just a more advanced kernel in general at this point.

But for what Microsoft has to work with Windows Server is darn stable and requires very few restarts in my experience (approx. 4/year in my experience with 2008 and 2008 R2).
My position may be antiquated (I became engineer in 1995), but still valid. ABET accreditation requires that a person graduate from an accredited program and degree, the only degree that applies here is Software Engineer. http://www.abet.org/uploadedFiles/Accreditation/Accreditatio... How many programmers are Software Engineers? Not many from my perspective as a hiring developer.
So again I say Programmer != Engineer
PS For a program to be ABET the instructors must be Professional Engineers (Pass the PE Exam) go figure:
"The overall competence of the faculty may be judged by such factors as education, diversity of backgrounds, engineering experience, teaching effectiveness and experience, ability to communicate, enthusiasm for developing more effective programs, level of scholarship, participation in professional societies, and licensure as Professional Engineers. "
I have come to accept that my way of working is in bursts.
Whether this is at a 9-5 admin job (work intensely 9-10:30, slow down until 12, work intensely 1-2:30, take it easy the rest of the day unless something comes up), or working on projects (do nothing for a week or two, or a month, then push out a months work in a week).

While studying, I used to beat myself up about the fact that I could not get into the habit of reading every night, and studying a few hours every day.

Sure, sometimes if I just go and start doing the task I need to do, then it starts to flow, but mostly if my head is not in the right place to do it, then what you get is lackluster output.

Some people are the "Work steadily on a regular basis" on a project, others are the "18h days for 5 days and then done with the whole thing".

The concerning part of your post is that you feel you would sit in front of the TV depressed.
Have you checked with your doctor if you are actually depressed?

Beyond that, it took me until my early 30s to realise that I should not beat myself up for not operating the way I assumed everyone else does. Ironically, people are under the impression that I work non-stop all the time or that I studied every night, because that is how they perceive that I must be doing things. Once I found this out from talking to people that I was in awe of, only to find they thought I was doing fairly well and must be working my butt off, I realised that even though I have a tendency to beat myself up about my work patterns, I should perhaps give myself a little more leeway and look at the results.

Perhaps it comes down to pressure as well, some people work very badly under deadline pressure, others are unable to be productive until they have the deadline pressure, but have had all the details in their minds for the rest of the project.
Photos nearly matches iPhoto feature-for-feature.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-error-...
My problem with iCloud Photos is that I have 100 GB of photos that will now show up on my iPhone and iPad. I used to turn on iPhoto syncing with a 6-month window. So I'm not sure I want my entire collection with me always. :-|

Edit: I know it doesn't actually download all 100 GB of image data, only the thumbnails. My point is that I now have a 15 years of photos with me at all times and I'm not sure I want that.
.. its not like the average user doesn't have their own bandwidth, and their own means of managing storage, back home at their computer. I think Apple are doing the world a disservice by putting more focus on the Cloud nature of things, and less attention on refining their OS to make it easier for people to manage these resources themselves, using the traditional method: with your own computer, your own bandwidth, and under your own control.

Seems like a ripe opportunity for a product - build your own Cloud on top of an OSX machine, leave it all at home and administer it - safely - from the beach while you're on vacation.
Chrome extensions can do some really nasty things.. Just last year while doing adware research for extensions, I actually came across an extension monetization company who was silently installing google android apps to the users phone with no human interaction what so ever, I wrote a break down of this on my blog:

http://extensiondefender.com/blog/red-alert-dangerous-exploi...
I think it would add a lot to the Apple experience if they provided unlimited iCloud storage for your photos. It would be a much more seamless experience for a product like this.

Google allows me to back up unlimited "standard size" photos for free.
Imagine what switching to linux could do for you.