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Is anyone aware of any good open alternatives to Evernote? I've been reluctant to try Evernote for that particular reason (and lock-in factors). Ideally something like: 1) open source format; 2) you host the files e.g. on Dropbox; 3) markdown; 4) searchable (and entries can be tagged). Happy to pay for the app but the files need to be self-hosted in an open format.

What? Are you trolling? I think most people would agree to the contrary. The media is rarely asking critical questions to the politicians and have been widely supporting the mass immigration, to the extent that many people are losing confidence completely in the established media outlets.

Would anyone be able to give more background on the controversy?

You could use Sqlalchemy + alembic. This would require you to declare a schema in python. You would not be forced to use sqlalchemy in the application though.

Regarding caching, fastcache is a faster drop in replacement for functools lru cache: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fastcache/0.4.0

Three things are needed IMO: 1) autonomy 2) upside 3) minimum red tape

2FA

Awesome. Thinking about it, the tube map is actually something that might benefit from some crowd sourcing. There are so many intricacies that can be taken into account (how long walks are between interchanges etc.), connections that are better made by walking etc.

Because you always learn something from the comments.

Much needed, but a momentous task (regulatory wise). Good luck guys (I mean it)!

It would be interesting to know how much work is required to keep the business running. The multiple is quite low (3x profits) and to me the business seems already established (or even 'finished' if you allow the expression), so either I'm underestimating the amount of work that is required to keep it going, or there is another reason why patio11 would be so keen to offload it?

I wish Bitbucket would invest some time implementing 2FA. It's 2015.

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/5811/support-two-fac...

GNU Hurd 2.0 will be released and will be a major success.

Wow, amazing. Would be interesting though to know which hacks make the emulators fail

It will be hard to find any investment options with better risk/return characteristics than paying down your mortgage. It's also quite tax efficient by construction compared to putting the money in an investment where you have to pay tax on interest/gains (though some countries allow for interest rate deduction from tax anyway). An added benefit is that it makes you more resilient to temporary loss of income etc.

Even though I think it's important for developers to have some understanding of the underlying SQL, I still believe a good ORM can save time and make code more readable. I think SQLAlchemy does a good job here - and it's close enough to SQL such that you are typically not surprised by the SQL it produces.

For more complicated queries, I often hand write them in SQL first and then translate them into SQLAlchemy's methods. It's still worth it, since it's both easier to build dynamic queries (e.g. dynamic WHERE clauses) and it makes the parameterisation trivial.

My problem with stored procedures is that you can end up with a lot of business code in the db.

We should be. It's amazing that it's available free (x2). I remember when my choice of programming language was determined by which compiler I could get hold of. So I ended up using Turbo Pascal. The local library had some C books but I couldn't find a compiler. (TP had an amazing IDE though for its time...)

Because time 'configuring' is time not coding...

Python. Great eco system. Beautiful code. Lists, sets and dictionaries are native data types, and list/dict comprehensions are a joy. Metaprogramming is easy.

What's the best way to try out Open BSD? I have not been able to find a VMWare image. Which VPS providers are recommended for OpenBSD?

This has been submitted previously. Seems like a ? has been added to the end of the URL which mitigates this being flagged as a duplicate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8408291

Any recommendations for London/UK based startup lawyer? (Incorporation, shareholder agreement etc)

At what stage do you fail? Do you have issues getting interviews?

You can get (almost) anything you want, but you can't get everything you want.

To balance it out, mb is the worst vps I have tried. I found the vps unstable and their status page constantly out of date.

Also in easier to read format: https://sites.google.com/site/michaeldgodfrey/vonneumann/vne...

Agree, but there is one interesting example of where this went wrong: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania

If you are interested in prediction market type betting and got friends who like the same, you might like http://www.bespokebets.com which lets you setup your own market easily and for free (play-money - and yes talking my book)

Actually, I don't think they are looking to build a business out of this? From the web site: "This is the Mailpile business model. As long as members of our community are willing to fund development (we will ask you to renew your membership in a years' time), we will dedicate ourselves to Mailpile and build the secure web-mail client you want."