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No please! More sync function please!

Yes, if I'm writing a web server I want everything to be async. But, just as I want to share JS on the server and the client I also want to use JS as my build language. At least for me, I find it much faster to build using a sync style.

Maybe I just haven't learned the async way but for example I tried to make a build system using node. I needed to spawn out to a builder to build some stuff, copy files, spawn git in various ways to see if repos are dirty or clean, git add, git commit, and a few other things. I found it a massive nightmare and after 2 days I switched to synchronous python for my building. Was done in 2 hours.

If there's some articles or tips that will make me as comfortable at async for building as I'm as sync in python then please point me at them. But, for whatever reason, I'm struggling with async for really complex tasks. (and yes, I'm using promises)
No (well, probably), but there's you going to the bar yourself and watching them sign up, then paying for the cheap beer (hopefully ~$1 beer). Personal interaction will probably be a lot better for understanding your potential user base, too. I certainly don't feel close to the CEO/founders of "Claim It!" even though sign-ups have been incentivized with goods (like the beer I suggested buying at the bar). This is client acquisition and research and should be treated as such -- utilizing some super-abstract such as an app (as you asked for).
Feel free, to create one yourself on typeform.com
Just use IKEv2, and you won't be affected. Or just don't use MODP1024.
Last time I said this I was down voted. This kinda transparency needs to be there for citizens and residents too who don't have to go through LCA process.
Is there a reason registrars aren't cryptographically signing these messages? That would give everyone a relatively simple way to verify that they aren't forged. I get that not everyone who will receive these messages are technical enough to figure out PGP or S/MIME, but it would be trivial for Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, etc. to put a pretty seal on these signed messages.
The desktop isn't going away any time soon. When you have work to do, you get out a keyboard and a PC.

As far as mobile platform goes, Windows 10 mobile runs the same apps that the Windows desktop does. There's now a dynamic view engine and you simply create a tablet view or a mobile view of your app and it runs the same executable.

Businesses are going to run to this because it will bring their internal app development costs way down because they don't have to have multiple version of apps they don't care to run as web sites. Companies who develop apps for the Windows desktop will have an incremental effort to also deploy to mobile.

Additionally, Microsoft is releasing tools to cross compile Android and iOS apps for Windows, so expect the availability of apps for Windows Mobile to increase significantly as the barrier to publishing to that platform is torn down. Yes, you can take Objective C iOS app and compile it on Visual Studio and deploy it to Windows Mobile now. The same holds true for Android.
How many hundreds of millions of dollars does it take before you are no longer a "small" actor?
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That is correct. A product IS a capability to the user-buyer. What's more, certain types of products (CRM, sales, marketing, supply chain) are usually bought and implemented during certain business events. For e.g.: a company hires 100 new sales reps and now needs the capability to manage this new sales pipeline. Time for a vendor to pitch a CRM subscription!
I'm glad I have the new tab page completely blank. I hope they don't remove that option.
Handoff lets you continue your current task on another device, from where you left off (it hands off the task). So if you have a text document open or you're writing an email on a mac, it will let you continue doing that on an iphone, with the text you entered on the mac already being there.

You can also make calls or send texts from a mac if your iphone is nearby.
A stand-alone version of Tim Kadlec's (tkadlec) grunt-perfbudget plugin
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I initially read this as returning to work for Microsoft.

I actually never left their tech realm. Even though both my work and home machine run flavours of Linux, I fell in love with Windows Phone back on WP7 and haven't been able to go back to Android of iOS since. If the integration between phone and desktop are really as tight as they look to be in Windows 10, I may consider converting my home machine to Windows, but at work running the same OS on my box as I do in prod is way too valuable.
acous covered some of my responses, but I still have some stuff to add:

Holding up a phone or looking at a computer screen (or do you look at the webcam??) is nothing like feeling like you're sitting in the same room as your buddies who are themselves in New York and Toronto, while you're all playing a game on a virtual screen together, or just hanging out talking. I don't value efficiency when I want to chat, draw, beatbox or play with my friends.

Buying a shoe is not an obscure edge case. I'm not talking about shoe buyers blowing up the Oculus market when the first release comes out next year. Game players and nerds will handle that. But as acous points out, once the tech is cheaper and more ubiquitous it will take hold in other markets. Have you heard of Zappos? People buy lots of shoes online. They'll buy a lot more when they can play virtual dress-up and match things with outfits.

I think AR & VR will be so intertwined and cross-pollinated that there won't be much point in distinguishing between them pretty soon. But the IKEA furniture planning idea I mentioned could be extrapolated to "pure" VR and a metaverse-type place. I know I would much rather "go to IKEA" in VR than face the gauntlet that is their store-maze. Their whole catalogue will be a VR space you can explore. And I'm pretty confident that it WILL be - they already have super high resolution 3d models of every single product which they use to generate the images for their catalogues. They stopped using physical cameras a while ago.

You sound exactly like the people from 1970 who said "nobody will ever have a computer in their home". I bet Amazon would have sounded like a shit idea in 1985, I'm sure it had tons of naysayers even in the nineties. Same idea here only the timeline will be even more condensed. It's not just a fancier display. It's an entirely different experience. Why are you holding up an 8-year-old game as evidence when technology has come so far in that time?
Similarly, very soon after film was created it was used for "erotic" films. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornographic_film#History

I like to think it shows that we are hardwired for trying to find new uses for things.
Well...they gotta make money somehow.
Either you measure it and do a double-blind or it's just another subjective perception. See those tests that suggest people can't tell expensive wine from cheap wine without context.

I'm not sure if that is entirely comparable to what I meant. I am not claiming freshly grounds tastes better or has some other pretty subjective property. My claim is rather that I believe when doing an experiment where you'd for instance take a couple of pre-ground coffees and one fresh ground one that people would pick out that one as being different. Whether they like it more is up to them. With much more likelyhood than being able to pick out expensive wine out of a set of mediocre wines or so. Again, I believe solely for the reason that the freshly ground I drink has a completely different taste from all other pre-ground ones I drank in the last years. So yes you have a point in calling that subjective :]
No matter how great Windows becomes, until there's a machine with a trackpad on par with the Macbook, I won't be switching.
There is a "Data Scientist" at AirBnb with a salary of $1.35M.
Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies?
So I have a software company that is generating a good amount of cash. I'd like to buy another small software company and (ideally) optimize it and make some more money.

Problem - most of the sites, like flippa, have crap businesses for sale. Is there a real place that one can find $50k - $500k software businesses for sale? Side projects that people make money from but don't have the time for?
I was thinking about one. I bought a used ThinkPad X201 off EBay for significantly less money...including a replacement battery.

I avoided to jumping through hoops to get Linux installed, avoided managing scarce local storage, gained a copy of Windows 7, and got glorious hardware with a robust secondary support market.

Oh, and the keyboard. What I gave up was spending an extra $100 to get something new. For me it was worth it. YMMV. If I didn't want Linux (or Windows) The calculus might be different.
* Third-party frameworks that have been hyperoptimised for MySQL, and the PG support is half a volunteer. e.g. MediaWiki, WordPress, Magento, Drupal.

* that's all.
GitLab CEO here, I would love to know what kind of heavy is the problem you're experiencing, hard to setup? hard to upgrade? cpu/ram/disk usage? too many features?
I used it for a while already. Hard to see the conversion rate since HN people or now spamming it with bogus content.

My gutfeeling tells me that is was around 50-60%
Does anyone know how accurate employers are legally required to be with these? Is this just base salary, or are they allowed to include cash bonuses, stock bonuses, etc?
There's a whole class of problems that it only makes sense to devote resources to in the context of a large organization. Compiler, kernel, library work that makes everything a fraction of a percent more efficient is nearly unjustifiable for most small organizations, but of immense value to large companies because of the scale at which they operate.

If you happen to be interested in solving those problems, a large company can be a wonderful place to work.
on it
its so much fun on sp3
All the doublespeak is disturbing. The original post[1] about this (mis)feature was even worse though.

we started working to improve digital advertising experiences for the Web.

"we started working to turn Firefox into adware"

to show it is possible to deliver personalization

"to show it is possible to deliver advertisements"

However, it’s important to understand that no tracking is involved in delivering Tiles.

So all the content was downloaded at the same time as Firefox itself, and showing them doesn't make any requests to external servers...?

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...

(The first comment there sums up my thoughts exactly. If I open a text editor, word processor, image editor, or other application I expect to see a blank slate, not ads.)
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Do you mind if I ask why you think it's "heavy" ? I've been using it for about 3 years now and think it's an awesome tool. It's done me very proud at two different companies, as well as a personal install.
There's https://kallithea-scm.org, but I haven't tried it.
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I did not intend for it to be taking so seriously. It is more a mirror for the recruitment business and the fact that they on occasions spam people big time.
Tried to leave a few years ago, but the pain of using Xcode ruined the attempt...

All the MSFT goodness seems to be getting even better.
It's an insult to ask what the pay is?

Do you think the recruiter asks the employer? If so, there are two possible reasons: because it's pertinent information for candidates, or because the recruiter gets paid based on that info. If the former, no insult. If the latter, the recruiter is in familiar territory if so "insulted" by the candidate.
How opensource ReactOS helps to run proprietary Windows on Chromebooks
What about cygwin or mingw? They give you a pretty full-featured bash scripting on Windows.
What is the point of using bitcoin at all if a central authority is capable of rescinding the value of the coins at their discretion? The NASDAQ might as well skip the overhead of a global decentralized ledger and simply use a centralized system that they have complete control over.
1.1M in Pittsburg is more than 1.5M in Mountain View though, so I'd stand by the first one being worth more
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> I don't know what "handoff" is,

I think this refers for your phone and computer to integrate. For example:

- When your phone is near your computer, your phone ringing will pop up a notification on your computer, which allows you to answer it via OSX (e.g. using headphones plugged into your computer).

- When your phone is near your computer, Messages.app can text message via your iPhone.

From here[1]:

> When your Mac computers and iOS devices are within Bluetooth range of each other (about 33 feet or 10 meters), they can automatically “hand off” what you’re doing from one device to another. For example, you can start writing an email in Mail on your iPhone, then instantly pick up where you left off in Mail on your Mac.

> Handoff works with several apps that come with OS X Yosemite and iOS 8: Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, Phone (iOS only), Reminders, and Safari. It also works with Keynote v6.5, Numbers v3.5, and Pages v5.5 for Mac, and Keynote, Numbers, and Pages v2.5 for iOS. Third-party apps may also work with Handoff.

[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18754?locale=en_US
There are a lot of Java jobs out there.not in startup-land but government and big fortune 500 firms wrote a lot of Java applications in the 90s and early 2000's that they are still maintaining. Also, because of this they will often write new applications in Java because that's what their in house developers who were hired to maintain old apps already know.

I worked on a java server application about 10 years ago and I get more recruiters contacting me about Java positions from that one item on my resume than I get from anything more recent or currently popular.
That would be a nice change; what if a recruiters sends you and opening that is about building a system to prevent this spam :-)
Maybe you don't want another company to be able to look at your IP. Or maybe you want or need to hold yourself to a higher security standard then hosted alternatives. If your code is hosted with a third party out on the Internet, your own service now is only as secure as that third parties.
The ADA applies to the Internet.
This would be the base salary.
I agree completely.

This space engine software runs on 0 of my computers, with source and the game dev experience I have I might change that. With the binaries provided I cannot change that. This software may as well from a naive self concerned viewpoint.
Well not exactly, if we had a cost function as intelligent as a human, the cost function to train the AI, would be an AI. Or maybe I'm completely off base here...
The comparative advantage arguments are not even that great, in my opinion. https://fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/argumen...

>Ricardo took the example of trade between England and Portugal. He argued that England, by allowing imports of wine from Portugal, would expand the production and export of cloth to pay for it. Ricardo, of course, was thinking of the English side of the exchange but the analysis is perfectly symmetrical; it implies that Portugal will gain from specialising on wine and importing cloth. In reality, the imposition of free trade on Portugal killed off a promising textile industry and left her with a slow-growing export market for wine, while for England, exports of cotton cloth led to accumulation, mechanisation and the whole spiraling growth of the industrial revolution.
That is an interesting way of looking at it. The terminology of things like "first person" and "third person" can be tricky in gaming. I wouldn't count Spacewar! as first person but if someone were to remake on a modern device so that the screen showed the Spacewar! playing field framed by a depiction of a spaceship cockpit then it might be? A first person representation of a representation of the battle?
I remember Bitfinex really stood outamong the other exchanes for its approach to technology and simplicity.
Looks like Yahoo presented this at the Percona conference last month.

https://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2015/sessions/...
Nope. As long as we keep deploying on Linux there is no point in developing on Windows.

True, but in the Dockerised world we're all moving towards your development machine doesn't matter too much anyway - you can just stick everything in a VM.
Some really strange application from IBM :P

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https://ziteboard.com was one of the first web-apps. Whether it's a good example or not - you decide.
The salary information is potentially very useful in negotiations ..
> The US isn't a democracy, it's a representative republic.

Please stop this silly meme. "Republic" and "democracy" are not mutually exclusive terms. Under the usual modern interpretation of those terms, the US is a republic and a democracy.
Do you mean the amount of water you use? It's important to measure both the amount of water and the amount of coffee so it's consistent. I personally use 22 grams of coffee per 300ml. It's a personal choice though and it depends on the coffee and method of brewing too: for you that might be too bitter, too strong, too weak, etc.

Here's what I do with a Chemex. I put the Chemex on the scales, add the filter and hit tare (so it's now weighing 0g). I add the 22g coffee and hit tare. Then I add 300g of hot water (same as 300ml). It produces the same cup of coffee every time - exactly how I like it. Obviously, if I ever change the coffee I get (or the coffee I get now - currently an espresso blend which is blended for consistency - changes significantly), then I might need to experiment a bit and see whether 24 grams of coffee is now my preference, for example.
This was an interesting visualization. Nothing wrong with it as long as you understand what is being measured, but I think it does leave out degrees of density in very urban areas. Chicago and New York are both 100% urban, and that does indeed tell you something, but there's still an interesting measurement to take above the threshold used here for what qualifies as "urban".

I actually find this review more revealing:

http://beyonddc.com/?p=4808

These maps show distinctions at very high density levels, so you'd see not only how Chicago differs from New York, but distinctions within these cities at a very high level of density.
>We're becoming a 3rd world IT country real quick.

How so? I usually think of Germany as being pretty good technologically.
https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/continuity/
And "ibm corporation", too!
These large blocks might actually predate RIPE and thus not fall under their "jurisdiction".
95% of the BTC aren't online, by their admission, which means 95% of the BTC might not even bet there. They could be using a 5% fractional reserve banking method and we wouldn't know unless everyone withdraws for a few days or so.
I've been a little confused by the claims of how complex the SYN delay solution is. Is it actually all that more complex?

The original blog post wraps a restart command in two iptables invocations (and relies on a hacky sleep interval which may or may not work sometimes). The SYN delay method wraps a restart command in two tc invocations. The concepts are more or less identical in complexity as one is telling the kernel "drop SYNs now please" and the other is saying "delay SYNs for a bit please".

All the complexity in the qdisc solution is in the one time setup of the queuing disciplines. I think the largest drawback of the delaying SYN solution is not complexity but that getting it to work with external load balancers is more tricky than getting it to work with internal load balancers. Honestly, you're right that if an org doesn't have to restart HAProxy a ton, then it doesn't make a lot of sense to invest in solving this problem; although if it were me I'd just make sure I was on the latest Linux kernel so that the period during which HAProxy can cause RSTs is as small as possible and not bother with either the iptables or tc solutions.
I would like to hear some discussion on the different proposals discussed in the article on the merits of the criteria for identifying endocrine disruptors. I know there are some knowledgeable folks on HN, so setting aside the main point of US interference in EU regulations, (a disturbing matter in its own right) what about the scientific analysis of the arguments?
But this is a little different, in the AI we want the ability to form syntactically correct sentences, but also some intelligence behind the sentences too. You as a human had another foundation of intelligence to lean on, your native language, and an understanding of the world outside of learning the Italian language. If you had no other human interaction, would you have learned any language? That's the more the situation of these AI algorithms.
Isn't that because they hire a very small amount of very experienced people?
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I wonder how this compares to https://github.com/box/Anemometer
Serious question: why would you not use HAProxy, nginx or similar software which arguably are more battle tested in this domain?
What you said was sarcastic, but you make a serious point.

I absolutely refuse to expose myself on the internet to virus and other malicious digital attacks, that I do not have to be exposed to. Dropping windows entirely was one of the single best steps I took in minimizing that attack surface.

I do not have resources to dedicate to having yet another untrusted machine with expensive software for the sake of one "free" piece of software that amounts to little more than a game (even though I really like games).
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The fact that people can be saying encouraging things about the technical design or security of Bitfinex should tell you a lot about how seriously to take message boards on this topic.

Bitfinex was, according to reports I've read, derived from the source code for Bitcoinica, which was an exchange written by a 17 year old most famous for its spectacular security failures.
Especially considering that protocol will be bound to expensive, long-living and heavily certified hardware, so it will stay there for decades.
It was within 5 min of me posting. It wasn't displayed when I was typing mine in. I don't have the same points. I didn't even mention SQL DB because I don't use it. I see I also mentioned NodeJS where they didn't. I also talked about Azure integration in Visual Studio and they didn't. These points are quite typical for Azure users.
> Parliament got it's own TLD when it was a case of sending an email to be allocated a TLD

Which TLD would that be?
That is pretty much what I meant. If you can write your own confirmations, why not?
An even simpler approach would be to connect both ends with spiped: http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html
No, nginx should not have this problem as it uses fd passing to gracefully handoff connections.

HAProxy only has this issue on Linux because Linux's SO_REUSEPORT implementation unfortunately introduces a race condition between accept and close. While I haven't personally tested it, HAProxy on one of the BSDs should not have this small window of downtime.
It's just weird to combine "free" with "proprietary" in a self-hosted context. If it's free and self-hosted, why are they not allowing access to the source? Considering the possibility of your IP being leaked by a proprietary program on your server, maybe that higher security standard should include an open requirement.
Flexbox seems to serve most HTML layouts. Are there any that it doesn't work so well for? What about CSS Grid Layout? I've not heard anything about that for a while. Does that have any advantages over Flexbox?