skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your wife a tenured professor? What is she thinking of doing instead?
Any recommendations for good and ready to use base boxes there?
accomplishment.

plus in many cases it simply gives many something to do. never underestimate the number of people who have nothing to do and need an outlet

its not much work if your not bored anymore
I don't know about other insurance companies, but the ones I know are incredibly bad at building software (I don't know any in the healthcare or HR business though).

Still, they're burning a very worrying amount of money.
Ripple is not in trouble for using some form of alternative currency. They are in trouble for facilitating transactions between other parties without keeping track of who those people are.

It's fun to pretend that the government is always completely arbitrary in its actions, but it isn't very realistic.
I'm pretty sure that if you abolish paper money, you'll just give rise to a strong barter economy culminating in private paper money.
Fun-Damentals of Evaluating Security Software
I wonder how many googles they get for google.
Any alternative that you'd recommend? Thanks.
Ask HN: A Datageddon survival kit?
With Cloud Bigtable coming out today,and even the amount of analytics being done it is quite evident that the amount of data(2.5 exabytes per day in 2012) is increasing exponentially.So if someone could explain why there would always be storage space or if there are novel solutions for this impending doom?
> the overhead is minimal in $$$ compared to the time you wasted debugging a scheduling problem.

Better than time wasted debugging the races and deadlocks that only threads can cause. These are much harder to debug because they are so much harder to examine without changing behaviour.

Sure, there's a trade-off - so there's no point in pretending that there are no downsides to using threads.
Show HN: Fabrik – Portfolio builder for creatives
GitHub's down?
Getting the unicorn on any pageload
Hi HN, been working on this for the past year, bootstrapped with two other founders:

Fabrik is a SaaS-based portfolio platform designed for creatives. Our CMS completely separates project content from website styling, allowing creatives to easily add their work, blog, and build responsive websites without touching any code. Intelligent themes, partnered with layouts and customisation, make each portfolio one of a kind.

Our mission is to help creatives (both fresh and experienced) to find a way to get their work out into the world and get noticed - to maintain a solid foundation on which to showcase their portfolios.

Really hope you like it. I'm here to answer any questions.
Yes, response times seem to have spiked: https://status.github.com/

Could be another DDoS?

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Update 11:32 UTC "We're seeing high error rates on github.com and are investigating".
I think binary logging is the wrong word to use. As far as I can tell it's not binary he means, but database logging. Storing things in a database sounds far less scary than binary.

At best it's a NUL separated database structure where the fields are not compressed, which IS greppable just use \x00 in your regexp. At worst he might mean BER, which is an ASN.1 data encoding structure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.690#BER_encoding
GitHub Down?
Github has been down since a while showing this unicorn..http://imgur.com/qrimVTQ
Problems with nil and how to avoid them
I think using the HBase API is a very clever move. This means that the HBase API is now supported on AWS (EMR), GCE, VMWare (Serengeti), OpenStack (Sahara), and everywhere (Hadoop, if you're willing to run it yourself).

In comparing against DynamoDB (for example), you'll have to weigh a proprietary single-vendor API against an API with a good open-source implementation (that will get even better with hydrabase), yet that is also available in managed-form on all major clouds.

Edit: although - ouch - the $1500 per month entry price-point does not compare well to DynamoDB's $5 per month minimum.
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https://status.github.com/messages

>Today

>11:32 UTC "We're seeing high error rates on github.com and are investigating".

>11:40 UTC "We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site".
> What kind of customers forbid this?

Government entities, for instance.
GitHub just went down
> with zero separation between them

the hypervisor separates unikernels from each-other.
https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/595913960538447872
At least Ubuntu can also switch the version of what "python" links to via setting a configuration.
The PR push seems mainly to be coming from Citi primarily (although other banks may be involved).

It's pretty clear why they'd want to push to abolish cash and institute negative interest rates. It would put them at the center of the economy instead of the near center. Another back-door bailout like this might help deal with their, um, insolvency.

What isn't clear is why anybody else would want it.
What if the disappointment is a surprise?
Sorry, but I hope you agree that one's web browsing behavior is a gazillion times more interesting than one's app-usage behavior.
I'm just getting unicorns everywhere. Sprint review in an hour. Damn, I love wednesdays.
To me, that looks like an angry unicorn ... does that mean it's another DDoS?

It would also be interesting to track loss of productivity in the software engineering professions when GitHub is down. Is this a single point of failure for your company?
Or you get a commodity bubble. Also a bubble in art, collectibles in general, metals... Also the old "alpha strategy" or whatever it was called from the 70s. If you know the price of TP is going to go up 20% per year (or even just 1%) if thats the best rate of return you can get, you buy a years supply of TP. Its not like you're going to stop using it anytime soon and you know prices only go up. This is the middle class version of the strategy, the poor don't have the money to buy a years supply of TP at once and the rich are talking about larger sums of money.

In the short term this "activity" is exactly what they're trying to spark. The problem is in the medium and long term all you've done is pull demand forward.
And now it's github being down !
Had to deploy an important service. And github is down.
Video games offer a certainty of outcome you can't get in the real world. If you do X and Y, you'll get reward Z. X and Y might be difficult or tedious to do, but you know that Z is there around the corner.

Work often has situations where the outcome is much less certain. We have a problem we don't know how to solve so we need to try various possibilities. This can be fun if there is room for experimentation and we can try some things that fail without failing overall, but in situations with tight deadlines and uncertain outcomes, where you have a limited chance to attempt something and you don't know whether it will work, this is a recipe for stress.
I believe the issue is politics. I.e. browser vendor A (any vendor) can't unilaterally introduce a programming language and expect others to follow. (MS tried with VBScript, Google gave up on doing so with Dart, for example)

This applies equally to any language.
Gas prices in the world
The first sentence makes sense. The rest - doesn't.
If I've understood you correctly, it's unlikely you'll find something more to your taste in the EU.

The EU population doesn't tend to equate desirable tax law with lower percentage, anyway.
perhaps a good time to reconsider depending on a third party for your important services to deploy?
The rules of real life don't contradict each other either. It's just that most of us were lied to when we were growing up. The way to the top involves scummy behavior: lying, cheating, and stealing. Bonus points for subjugating entire nations and cultures while you are at it. There is no such thing as sin and no such thing as justice.
I suppose for the same reason supermarket companies are different from food companies.
the d in github stands for distributed
Sure, but I find it quite unfair to say Apple doesn't sell Ads when they not only own their own exclusive Ad network, they control their entire platform, own many ad related patents and actively restricted access to new technologies to their advertisers in order they could outcompete anything else on iOS.
Absolutely. Faced with a choice between "deflate property prices" and "rewire the entire economy to force property to be the only long term store of value", people holding a lot of property are trying to organise the latter.
holy crap - we killed github.
https://www.google.com/work/apps/government/

Google has a dedicated cloud environment for governmental agencies: http://googleforwork.blogspot.pt/2009/09/google-apps-and-gov...
Determining hot items with exponentially decaying likes
That's probably me repeatedly trying Google's speech recognition search before giving up and going to type in the search phrase :)
Do you have a better example where personal responsibility was officialy upheld?
Yes, abandon something that's been making money for 30 years and throw away decades of domain expertise because it's not fashionable. Great idea.

Not that clojure is a bad language(I actually like it quite a bit), but compared to the professional common lisp world, it's a baby. CL has an extremely high-quality and stable specification, dozens of very good implementations for pretty much every platform(whit several ones that are decades old, and several ones that are brand new), a community that simply refuses to die, and use cases where clojure would be completely inadequate. Not to mention the assertion that non-clojure lisps are not going anywhere is completely false, both common lisp and racket(hell, even elisp) are growing in their niches and developing their ecosystems. Books and libraries are being written, products are being developed, conferences and meetups are organized, businesses are started and research is being done.
I use Ansible for provisioning my machine itself with the needed Homebrew and Cask packages, and then Vagrant + Virtualbox for setting up dev. environments.
A fella named Kevin from Zenefits sent me email once asking about our human resource needs.

I told Kevin that we have no need for human resources since our company was run entirely by strong AI. I signed it, Yours in the Singularity.

Kevin never emailed me back.
The 'one' day that I wake up at 7AM to get some quality caffeinated work done, and I can't pull.

It's all good though, I still have loco host to keep me busy until their resolve the issue.
Time for a sword fight!
11:40 UTC "We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site".
How's it trivial that the terrible design is a barrier to the content?
Not just for a company, but for developer productivity in general, professional or not...

Think of all the package managers that pull straight from Github repos as part of their installation processes..
World of Religion
Out of curiosity, what would make Lua valuable to add in browsers by default? It is similarly prototype-based, has the same closure design, is dynamically typed, has an object system fairly similar to JS (with the type of arrays and hashtables both mixed), and its number system is also based on floating-point numbers…

I honestly don't see how we can justify the cost of adding Lua to browsers. I see the merit of Lua-to-JS compilers (existing codebases or sheer love of the syntax), but built-in?
Along with the switch to the Octocat "We're down for maintenance" message.
Germing your creative projects from thought to action
Is that strange to some people? For me it's not strange at all. I'd love to do my job, after work hours, as a game. The good thing about games is that it is clear who wants something from you (you can name the NPC who gave you the quest), the result is clear, sometimes even the path to the result is clear, and success is rewarded(!!!!).

In contrast in real life it is hard to find out who actually wants the result you are just tasked to do, nobody knows how it should look like in the end and everybody has complains about the result no matter how it looks. That's why work feels like work and the same thing as a game feels good.
Yep. Down for maintenance.
If you need any help don't hesitate to contact the team :)
Zenefits are one of the few companies where the burn rate is probably inevitable. They're trying to get a secure foothold in a market that has slow-moving, largely technologically ignorant companies who are very wealthy. That wealth could be used to leverage the incumbent companies' dominant position if someone successfully starts to disrupt things. They need to get to a position where they can't be crowded out by the big players fast. That means spending a lot. Growing slowly isn't an option.

Uber was the same. PayPal was the same. They were both so successful at it that the incumbents in their respective markets have just accepted the loss of market share without any return strategy. I imagine that's Zenefits aim too.
No, but there's a Go client for AWS.
For everyone who is currently loosing productivity, perhaps your time might be well spent reviewing `git daemon`: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon
“We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site”
Yes, but these decisions aren't under me plus setting up a github kind of thing is way too time consuming with all the features that we're used to now.
Zenefits: A Lesson in Disruption
Funny, I switched our projects to Gitlab a week ago and told the team: Because we should not trust a centrealized platform to keep our code decentralized.
I agree with you here, that even for someone who loves programming, working as a hired coder to implement other people's plans can become very tedious if you don't care about the project personally, and few programming lovers would liken it to a trip to Disneyland. Also, that burnout is a real thing.

So, it sounds as though we agree that many people really DO love programming, they're not just saying they do, and would go on doing it even if they made billions, but loving programming doesn't mean loving all programming work. There are programming jobs that people who genuinely love programming don't love at all and wouldn't do if they didn't need the paycheck.
I was uploading a new profile picture sorry everyone.
Just noticed an interesting design decision on that page. An 'everything OK' message once a day. One way to push previous downtime below the fold of the page.
Damn you github. Just tried making my first push in my new company and boom!

wasn;t me
Does anyone know of a Zenefits like business that serves the UK?

I've not come across anything close and HR administration is just as big of pain in the UK as the US. I recognise the business model (commissions on health insurance) wouldn't work in the UK, but I'd be happy to pay. Our health insurance costs are so much lower anyway....
I added an ABE rule to hide "evilsocket.net##.cover", which took care of that. Very poor behavior on behalf of the theme developer, if you ask me.
SE yesterday, gh today. Bad week for dev productivity.
Or setup Gitlab for bigger teams, they even offer a Docker image.
Exactly ... we've got Ansible scripts that do that. One of the current Java rockstars (not my description), Adam Bien, recommends pulling the source code for all third-party dependencies to build them locally and put them in a local repository. I suppose you can push directly back upstream to avoid having an extra step.
Understandable, but surely the potential disruption if github was to go down for a long time or indefinitely would be more than setting up a local git server that you control?
It is likely that GH have a better uptime than the parent's services.
A GitLab droplet on Digital Ocean should run you only $10/month and literally sets up in ~10 min.
It's just git you'd go and get the code from literally anywhere else its being used.
Two interesting concepts to think about:

This is a strange "basic income" strategy. Mash that meme up against that meme and you get some weird observations. It seems to be failing, but its at least interesting. The idea of a debt jubilee, of course only for rich people, implemented as a low negative rate rollback instead of simply eliminating debt accounts, is related and interesting. Consider a novel solution to the housing bubble crisis or the death of the oil frack industry or the upcoming death of the social media bubble, don't just write off mortgages and loans but make them all neg 2 percent or whatever to not suddenly shock the economy. Its an interesting implementation idea.

This is a symptom of a dying/collapsing economy. Not the rate itself, but look at how fast people are getting kicked off the island and no longer allowed to participate as they had participated for decades/centuries. Much like has been happening in the labor markets. The way economies die is almost never a light switch (that comes from reading greatly summarized histories deep in the past) but its more like the number of people permanently kicked out of the game increases YoY until no one cares about the legacy economy so it gets unstable and the few remaining die hards watch the final irrelevant tipover. You can see a technology analogy in software versions. Windows XP never died on a certain date, just fewer people used it over time with variations in rate due to external forces (support contracts, new windows version releases, pirated releases, etc) and finally it'll no longer be relevant in the marketplace, eventually. Likewise, economies die the same way. Its not only the quantity of transactions or size of transactions, but literally the number of players.
Notice the change in the favicon.
That is Murphy trolling you very, very hard.
It's also a way to show "yes, this status check is still reliably doing its job, it hasn't crashed".
how did you rotate b?
That's when you notice how dependent you can be on GitHub.

You would think you can still develop an iOS app when GitHub is down, but a simple `pod install` requires access to repos hosted on GitHub.
Maybe now would be a good time to point out the downsides of that decision to whoever made it.
how does that help for the long long lists of external dependencies, for the bugtrackers of projects where I'd like to look up if someone else had the same issue and maybe there's a workaround, to view and compare code for older revisions of projects I'm using?

With a ton of projects now hosted on github, github being down is a major dent in my overall productivity even though we _do_ have an internal git server.
Great Engineers and Crap CVs
There's even an AMI image for Amazon ec2 hosts IIRC, which brings down the costs when coupled with a reserved instance.
I was trying to run composer ... and many composer packages are hosted directly on GitHub. Also, issues, pull requests ...
I don't really like your page:
Lot's of what feels like wasted space, too much scrolling necessary.

I can't figure out the pricing except that it is "free for 14 days".

The front page shows a picture of a woman, but then a male name as an example?

The actual pages for the users look very nice though (better than the other way round IMHO ;)) Very image heavy, but I guess that's normal in the industry.
Purescript is interesting, I've been trying to build a project in it over the last few months. Since it's still pre 1.0, it has proven difficult but understandably so. It's mostly due to arcane/vague error messages (which they're in the process of dealing with), painfully long compile times, (imo) a few missing features, and incomplete young libraries.

On the flip side, with the state of libraries and all, it's provided me with a real incentive to get involved in open source, by having to contribute patches to said libraries and getting actively involved in general discussion.

Edit:

Just so I don't come off as mostly negative, I do enjoy having purescript as another statically typed option on the client side with close semantics to javascript. It's also been nice having a some kind of parsec like library on the client side (purescript-parsing), which was the main reason I chose purescript for this project in the first place.
It is likely that the parent's services would be up while GH is down.
Breaking Changes in Visual C++
- You can stop playing any time you want, but at work you're bound by standard hours.

- You need to work to make money to buy food to eat. That introduces unavoidable stress into your work in the form that you know, if you don't work well enough, you'll get fired and then you'll starve. Or get your power cut. Or be kicked out of your house.

- You can always start again, no matter how badly you mess up. In a lot of workplaces, if you mess up a couple of times, you're fired and you can't try again.

In short, real work is less like Farming Simulator 2013 and more like nethack, but you only have one life.
OK I get what you're saying, but honestly, who is really 'losing productivity'? I suspect the ones saying they are in fact just getting on with other tasks they can do because they are, despite github, still using distributed version control and do have access to and the ability to commit to code repositories. You don't need to host your own git daemon or github clone to get that functionality.

I don't use github because it gives me a git daemon. I use it because the interface allows me interact with non-technical people when dealing with code and resources. I use github because, even though it is down right now, my stuff is backed up, I don't have to deal with the nitty gritty of ensuring backups succeed, I don't have to deal with the system when it goes down - someone else does that for me. Hence I would never want to run a local github clone.
Mutual funds in India
So in effect for any non-institutional, non-property owning individual it still feels like an inflation since increasing rents and property prices will eat up way more income than any negative interest rate could raise. Classy way to ramp up societies inequality.
https://github.com/google/google-api-go-client is the code-gen Go client for Google APIs.

It probably does not (yet) have the generated client for cloud bigtable checked in (but I'm sure it will), but you can always use it to generate a client. You pass it the API to use on the command line, it will go fetch the docs it needs to make your client, and put its source where you tell it to.
So the DDOS is basically all of us accessing status.github.com right?
GitHub is Down for Maintenance
For OS-level package management like Apt or Yum this is less of an issue, but for things like Composer, Gem, NPM and the like, is the concept of "closest available mirror" even a thing?

I guess for mission critical applications you could have a local mirror of all your vendor package dependencies (probably not a bad idea) but I would bet most people don't do that (I don't)..
Is this a recent experience? I've found the voice search to be incredibly proficient recently. It's slightly embarrassing, but I use it for search and text dictation almost constantly.
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Boxfuse falls squarely into the "generalized" unikernel type mentioned in the presentation. You are only thinking of the "specialized" ones.

In a sense it follows the same principle as OSv, just with a proven Linux kernel instead of a custom one.

Update: Why the downvote? If you disagree, feel free to say why.
Why would hardware companies not just build their own operating system?
Which IDE to use for Python? Choosing the best one
not right now you cant
>Or you get a commodity bubble.

Which, coincidentally, would help a LOT to prop up Citigroup's ailing balance sheet and let them take on even more risk, until they end up needing a 3rd bailout.

Their economist didn't mention that when they went on about how great this idea was, though.
For those confused by this: https://xkcd.com/303/