skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> two days a month of guaranteed availability, $3k a month

How do you manage this wih multiply clients? Heartbleed comes out, and all of your clients want two days of exclusive work fixing their issues. Is it first contact, first served?
Whoa, that seems amazing. It is great that someone is trying to reduce the pain of dealing with Wordpress. At the other side, I secretly wished that Wordpress was a little worse so programmers would stop using it.
Ooh, pretty! That's going to convince non-technical managers to use this service. Put that display on a big screen in the manager's office and they'll think they know what's going on.

A display application like that would be useful for AWS, so you know roughly what's going on in your rented subcloud. With, of course, both big screen and phone app versions. From the other comments, it seems that this startup has a poor container management system but a great visualization tool. There are lots of container management systems (one written in Go was announced on HN yesterday) but many are still at the command line level for monitoring. Maybe this startup should pivot and do "cloud management visualization".
By that time you'll simply include the whole infrastructure in a 'web'-served container, running in a 'sandbox' of sorts on your 'browser'. Quotes where terminology is an unsure fit with whatever you'll be using by that time.
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Every time I find something like this and click on "Select Your City" dropdown it keeps reminding me all life happens somewhere else. Ah, so depressing.

Really great idea, I mean. Good luck with that.
Without a precise, concise, exhaustive contract, it risks conflict and litigation that can get real, real fast.
Educators Say Free Community College Is Out of Reach
Machine learning is not heavily used in Google search: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-machine-learning-used-heavily-f...
I completely disagree with the assertion that controllers should be as lean as possible, but I agree that the specific example that he gives is atrocious.

When it comes to controllers, I only have a few rules:

1. Never, EVER use $scope.$digest or $scope.$apply in any controller method. If you find yourself needing this, then you're missing a call in a spot higher up the stack ( event handler, websocket callback, etc.. ).

2. $timeout is acceptable if you legitimately need a delay - don't use it for control flow, ever. $evalAsync can be useful for coalescing multiple calls to a function into one during a digest cycle.

3. Minimal DOM manipulation. I will not say there's never a use case for DOM manip, but it should not be your first instinct most of the time. If it is, then take a step back and grab some coffee, go for a walk, and then look again. Often times, I'll use a variable instead and add a watcher on it in my directive to do the DOM manip. One can argue that it's needless overhead having the watcher, however I feel it's more in the spirit of Angular and does not contribute excessive overhead. If it does, then you can start making optimizations in the future after it's been proven that they're actually a problem.
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The Sci-Fi channel miniseries was not terrible. At least it matched up with what I imagined when I was reading the book, unlike the movie.

Seriously, weirding modules? What the hell was that?
http://making.teawithstrangers.com/github

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Cash is somewhat traced and regulated. A note has serial numbers and $10,000 withdrawals from a bank triggers the Bank Secrecy Act whereas you have to produce an ID and the withdrawal is reported. Crossing a border with large sums of cash has applicable laws as well.
http://finance.zacks.com/federal-banking-rules-withdrawing-l...

Cash transactions are taxed at the local level (read as gas stations, sales taxes) and reported or maintained as running record when deposited or withdrawn for the IRS to see.

Yes, cash is unappreciated by most governments.

The Bitcoin protocol or a variation will remain but changes will be made to it that the governments will agree too.
That shouldn't even be a Promise imo. That should be an expression on your directive that is called with the selection.

`on-select=handleSelection( selectedItem )` or something.
I knew a guy who had moderate PTSD. He could work and keep a steady job. His number one issue was loud, unexpected noise and sudden surprises. Slamming an office door, for example, would cause him to jump under a desk, run outside, etc.

Once we all learned of the issue, making his work-area a quiet place and letting him know to expect loud noise before it occurred, helped a lot. When walking up behind him, we let him know we were coming, start humming a song, but start it at a distance in a calm manner while approaching. These little things made all the difference.

So don't throw a 'surprise' party for someone with PTSD where everyone in the office jumps out from hiding yelling surprise! Everyone else may get THE surprise at the reaction.

And if you have PTSD, it's a good idea to let your co-workers and friends know now, otherwise, they'll continue doing things that cause problems for you. You'll find that most people are very helpful, some even understand it just like you do, but have never said anything about it.
Developing LlamaDB – The pet SQL database
has anyone tried lime?
So, I agree that summarization is very useful, precisely because it allows you to focus your attention on interesting things.

However, I also think that the phrase “too long; didn’t read” represents a dysfunctional attitude that turns this blessing that is the abundance of information into a curse: if you spend three hours reading 100-word abstracts (let’s say, 300 of them), at the end you will probably have learned almost nothing. If you instead spend three hours reading 1000-word articles (let’s say, 40 of them), you will probably have learned a small amount, which is an improvement. If, by contrast, you spend three hours reading 50 000 words (say, a few chapters of a Murakami book), or a quarter of Olin Shivers’s dissertation, you will probably acquire some new ideas that will stay with you for the rest of your life. There’s a point at which this becomes counterproductive; if you read a book in a day, it won’t stay with you as well as if you read it over the course of a week, and the week also gives you time to reflect on other connections.

My thesis: being able to focus your attention on interesting things is only valuable if you then do actually focus your attention on them. The attitude expressed in “tl;dr” is that focusing your attention is itself undesirable.
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Pro-Israeli Jewish Press Website Hacked by ‘Gaza Team’ Hackers
Basically the judge agreed with the defendant that the FBI breaking the internet and then pretending to be repair techs sent in to fix it was an illegal search and thus anything they saw during their visit was in admissible (suppressed).

As there were a couple of instances of that they have to file a few more motions to suppress the rest of the FBI evidence but basically it looks like the judge will come down on their side.

In general I am glad that the judge decided that way, it should never be acceptable for law enforcement to go snooping around without a warrant. However, I've also noted in such cases that when the government loses like this they often put pressure on the property owners to avoid such losses in the future, and so I would not be surprised if Cesar's and other hotel chains will start including in their room contract, language clauses that allow them to grant access to the rooms to third parties with "reasonable need".
This is really interesting. When I work on Wordpress stuff I switch from emacs to PhpStorm because I like the autocomplete, features, auto formatting etc. This would be a really nice replacement for that.

However the Wordpress project I work on has to have access to node to run gulp to compile coffeescript and sass. How would that work in this scenario? I also keep the dev/staging sites in sync with production using wp-cli import/export -- could I run commands remotely? I suspect not, but am curious.
Sheep is a great, underrated novel.

I love its structure, and how it constantly undermines narrative expectations through bathos and dramatic irony; every character in the book seems to be positioning themselves for misfortune and irrelevance. People you've been led to think are major, leading characters are suddenly and unceremoniously killed off (I like to think that George R. R. Martin read Brunner years before he used the same tactic in ASOIAF), while the novel's ostensible hero, Austin Train, a legendary environmental activist leader who has gone into hiding and spends the book preparing to mysteriously re-emerge, turns out — well, I don't to spoil things; not what I expected, anyway.

Even more than character development, the sense of impending doom lies thick. My favourite part of the novel is the tech guy who for years has spent spare computing processing at his computer company to build an accurate socioeconomic model of the world, and his conclusion is summarized in a single sentence which seems to be playing out in real life exactly as he's uttering it.

Some of the "environmental" predictions are admittedly a bit off and dated; sonic booms from hypersonic airplanes posing a danger to avalanche-prone mountain resorts, for example. But it's forgivable in a novel that, 42+ years ago, got so much right.
Very interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing a live demo or video. Code completion for the Wordpress Api would be a real time saver.
Nice. You will never run out of material. That's for sure!

A few off the top of my head:

Uber for Facebook: on demand outsourced upkeep on your boring but essential social media presences

Snapchat in talks with Twitter: merger could set new valuation record of over 17 trillion dollars!
Yeah, a quality CPU cooler with a large fan makes a big difference in noise level. Getting that and the GPU setup right is key.
Did they find it?
"Here, the government disrupted the internet service to the
defendant’s hotel room in order to generate a repair call. Government agents then posed as repairmen to gain access to the defendant’s room and conduct a surreptitious search for evidence of an illegal sports betting operation. By creating the need for a third party to enter defendant’s premises and then posing as repairmen to gain entry, the government violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights."
> "The government needs to protect children before they're maimed by careless or stupid parents."

> "Here's a story about a woman who left her 11 year old boy alone at home while she went on a three week holiday."

Nice sleight of hand. You need to work on it though, it's still too noticeable.

We're not talking about cracking down on parents that maim or abandon their children. We are talking about parents that allow their children to walk around their own goddamn neighborhood.
Ahhh... being the webmaster, brings back memories.

I do remember going to imdb in those days and making a screen shot to show my relatives over xmas break. Haven't seen it in about 10 years though.
When you're an Orrick customer, most of their documents come from their standard internal library. If you need something custom or have to negotiate terms, that gets more expensive because legal drafting and review needs to happen with a human in the loop.

It is likely there is a master agreement with them that outlines use rights beyond customary client-attorney rights and responsibilities so custom and standard deliverables such that customers don't warez them to BitTorrent or sell them to friends. (The lawyer or law firm always retains copyright unless otherwise ageed.)

http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... [pdf] see "Copyright Owner's Consent" Also, the section on "Joint Productions" is especially worrisome.
You keep saying this but your use case isnt the necessarily the same as everyone elses. I work on three python files thats are all greater than 50K lines at work sublime text opens them in under a second AND i can instantly go to any definitions with no lag.

I tried the same in atom and it felt like my $3000 workstation was a netbook.
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Interesting, and fucking sad. You go with whatever brand you brought the last time, or whatever is cheapest.
What's wrong with me? I'm really just saying that if business ideas were buyable, we could buy them.
> I see so many job applications that are exactly a laundry list of achievements, and nothing about what the applicant could do for me.

There is another side to this, which is that many job ads don't provide anything like enough information for candidates to do that.

Most job ads tell us what skills are desired, and a tiny bit about the industry the company works in, and even less about the specific project the candidate would be focused on. It's difficult for me to tell you, "I can bring your galambosian robotics framework to the next level by applying the latest Fibonacci refactoring techniques!" if all I know is "we're a leading-edge company working on bringing killer robots to the masses!"

Furthermore, the cover letter will in many cases be screened by an HR wonk who isn't qualified to judge any of that.

So the approach of a cover letter that points up specific expertise that may apply to the position is often the best a candidate can do. "My work on galambosian robotics frameworks has definite application to the world of killer robots" is at least as much "pointing out past achievements" as "telling what I can do for you", but without a lot more information than companies are willing to give, it's difficult to make it better.

The hiring process is profoundly broken.
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I was into this idea until I actually read The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The book's template for the "monomyth" is extremely vague and has many optional elements, so many that any given pair of myths might consist of entirely disjoint elements. Campbell's evidence only comes from a few myths, which makes me worry about cherry-picking. I was sad to realize Kurt Vonnegut's summary of the monomyth is probably correct: "The hero gets into trouble. The hero gets out of trouble."
The first nine lines of the first page. Legal documents are good like that. :-)
Show HN: Filtering product images by color
Ask HN: Tools for tracking bills, domain/cert expirations etc. for many websites
So I'm looking for a tool, presumably a webapp, that could track the dates of next bill, domain and certification expiration, and such, for many websites.

This can be done in a spreadsheet, of course, but is there something shinier for the purpose? Of course you'd need to add the details yourself, but then you'd get a complete view of the upcoming events easily.

This doesn't even have to have anything to do with websites - could be just a general app for the same purpose. I can add the cert expiry dates, the app doesn't have to look them for me.
There's an official thread on the 1st of every month submitted by a bot -

April posts:

1) who's hiring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303396

2) who wants to be hired: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303599

3) freelancer & seeking freelancers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303589

The bot itself, although april was submitted by a different account afaik cause of a DST changeover glitch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
You say "assign copyright" here, but earlier you said "work for hire". These are not the same.

Copyright assignment is the one you want. It's very unlikely that a contract purporting to create a work for hire situation would succeed.
As an American, some of these were difficult for me to relate to.
Hey - Sam here, CTO of BitMEX.

We aren't a spot market, we are derivatives only. So if you are shorting Bitcoin futures, someone else is going long on Bitcoin futures; you never take a position against the exchange itself.

Therefore all contracts are verified by the central counterparty; us. There is risk involved for the exchange when you offer leverage, which is why we offer sane leverage (3.3x to 5x, not 10-20x like our Chinese competitors).

There are a few schools of thought for managing this risk. Our competitors simply do their best to liquidate users when their equity gets too low. This is tough to do without loss; on 20x leverage, a 5% move will wipe out all value in an account. Bitcoin moves by more than 5% in a day very regularly. These exchanges simply take the loss and spread it out among all their customers. The customers that have made money on a given (weekly,monthly,quarterly) settlement simply have their winnings deducted by the amount of money the exchange has lost.

This method is great for gamblers and unscrupulous investors, but in the end it is not much more than a slot machine. It is utterly useless for businesses; you can't properly hedge if your profits can be docked at any time because other users have gone bankrupt.

Our view at BitMEX is that Bitcoin needs a proper derivatives market so businesses can hedge. Most Bitcoin companies simply sell at spot exchanges to hedge risk, but this has significant downsides. We manage our risk through limited leverage, limits on price movement, and with an advanced liquidation engine that can incrementally liquidate positions in a safe way to prevent major price movements. Our competitors simply place a market order for the full position's value, which leads to the dreaded "margin call cascade" (of course, "margin call" is the wrong word here, but on most Bitcoin exchanges there is no distinction between "margin call" and "liquidation").

These and other unique buffers give us the ability to guarantee settlements.
>$10,000 withdrawals from a bank triggers the Bank Secrecy Act whereas you have to produce an ID and the withdrawal is reported

that's not because of cash itself, it's because of storing money in a bank account
It is more of an issue of scale - kodak was set up for huge volumes on huge lines, while Ilford was set up for smaller runs and is doing ok. Black and white film is over 100 years old, and is fairly well understood tech, you can make your own if you really want (glass plates are relatively easy), although colour is much harder.
> Cash is somewhat traced and regulated.

So is Bitcoin.
https://blockchain.info/

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

Enjoy.
Author here - I wanted to learn react and had this colour filter idea kicking around from about a year ago.

I really wanted to be able to filter by the full range of colours. Initially I looked at making a histogram of the HSV values - but obviously that's a lot of data.

So in the end I just took a histogram of the hue, sat and value and then in the query multiply them together - this seems to give a pretty effective result.

I've been doing a lot of angular recently, so it was good to have a go at react and try out the flux architecture.

Happy to answer any questions on what I've made (assuming it stays up!)
Coming soon: Coffee with strangers.
How Does it Work?

NebulaDB manages a c file that is full of structs that have arrays of pointers to links. When you save a query new structs are added to the file along with c functions that configure the links. When you query the data, the function that corresponds to your query is appended to the c file, the file is compiled and the output is parsed into JSON downstream.

Seriously?
It really bothers me that people living in 1911 (and even before that) understand more about the physics than I do.

Gosh, I am dummy.
> Create a fully functional web app

> Do not use anything but standard library

Is this a high school homework or a realistic real world challenge? No thanks.

I'd say it's not just a bit over top, but ridiculously over the top. Maybe it's just me.
It sounds like you might want to host:

http://www.teawithstrangers.com/hosting
You do those when not looking at photos, or reading books, or watching films, or going to the theater, or flicking through a load of comics, or complaining in the comments section of a specialist news aggregator about people wasting their time looking at photos.
Maybe in a big company that doesn't have a majority of remote workers or somewhere that remote is a new concept. The company where I work is ~70% remote and has been since the beginning and there has never been an issue with promotions dependent on being the office or not. A lot of this may have to do with our relatively flat hierarchy though, a "promotion" with us is mostly a raise and going from Junior dev to Senior dev, and the only positions "higher" than that are executives. I definitely could imagine PM type positions being harder to get as a remote employee.
It basically is Reenskaug's and Coplien's obsession without real-world traction. IMO, the architecture is conceptually flawed.
Browsers do not provide immediate visual feedback on some things for which they should. When you click on a link which exits the page, something visual should happen immediately, long before the new page loads. The browser knows you're leaving. Dimming the page, or some other visual transition, would be a good start. That would make a clear distinction between page-exiting actions and ones which keep the page active.
Umm holy crap. I get annoyed with 3k line files. Why in the hell are those files 50k lines?
Retro throwback: beer with strangers
Could it be that the world is safer, because we are behaving in safer ways?

Ways like keeping children closer to home, and under better supervision? This being just one aspect of a safer world. But if our world is safer, that didn't come about through magic. It came about by doing different things.
Is Startup Investing Right for You?
Hey Animats - Sam here, CTO of BitMEX.

We don't assume that anyone suffering a big loss can or will pay up - instead we proactively take steps in real-time to liquidate traders in a controlled manner to ensure that no trader can reach bankruptcy. This way, traders are force-exited from their positions well before they are able to reach anywhere near negative equity.

We are indeed incorporated in the Seychelles, but we are open about who we are, unlike some others. Arthur Hayes (our CEO) and I are very proactive about risk, and we use our team's significant experience in finance to ensure that our exchange is constantly minimizing its risk.

This is a gain for our customers as well. If BitMEX does not sustain any systematic loss, it can guarantee settlements. And since it guarantees settlements, it is finally an exchange where businesses and traders can actually hedge risk in Bitcoin, without having to simply sell coins.
Twitter has a fundamental problem Facebook solved years ago
Recently a playground near my apartment got torn down. I was talking to my mother on the phone recently, and mentioned how tragic it was that playgrounds were being torn down across the nation in the name of "safety" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19tierney.html).

To my great surprise, she disagreed. She thought it was a good thing. This is a woman that took me to countless playgrounds when I was a kid, and let me roam free in hundreds of acres of forest whenever I wanted. Somehow, after successfully raising me "free-range", she had a change of heart. I couldn't tease anything out of her besides "it's dangerous, kids could get hurt".

I don't have a root-cause for her about-face. I suspect either the influence of media or that something happens when adults who have raised children become elderly. Maybe without kids at home, parents start dwelling on the past and fixate on everything that could have gone wrong.
Nobody would care today. But then, it was a huge scandal.
“We must ask ourselves how we reached the point where a parent’s biggest fear is that government officials will literally seize our children off the streets as they walk in our neighborhoods,” he said.

I think the quote speaks for itself.
So this is it, then. The "Microsoft GNU/Linux" distribution that slashdot kept joking about? Who'da thunk. :)