jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
GUTS Tickets | Junior .. Senior Frontend/ full stack developer | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE €35k-€60k p.a. depending on experience, part-time/full-time, equity plan available.

Are you a developer who loves live music? And do you want to join the ticket revolution? At GUTS we’re not only building a product, but as a team we chasing a common goal: Stop disgraceful secondary ticket prices and ticket fraud. GUTS is a ticketing system which uses blockchain technology to register ownership of SMART-tickets. GUTS makes ticket fraud impossible. The ticket can only be (re)sold at a fixed price, so no more disgraceful prices for secondary tickets.

GUTS Tickets is looking for extra support for our frontend team. For this we are looking for a junior/medior/senior frontend developer, preferably with EmberJS experience or willingess to learn.

Our current stack consists of

- EmberJS (2.13)
- Python 3.5 / Django / Django Request Framework
- Ethereum / solidity / blockchain technology
- react native

To expand our team we're hiring for different roles:

- junior..senior frontend developer. Experience with EmberJS (>2.3) is preferred

Of course full stack frontend/backend/mobile developers that have experience with a mix of the above technologies are also very welcome to apply.

We prefer people who can be onsite so full remote working is not an option right now. We also cannot provide visa's or relocation services at this time. We can support expats with applying for the 30% ruling.

We can however offer you: A competitive salary based on your experience. Part-time/full-time options. Friday drinks and kroketten. Table tennis or Playstation matches: your choice! A desk in & committed team-members.

If you're interested in working with us, please send your CV to jobs@guts.tickets

https://guts.tickets/we-are-hiring
Sounds like a good place to work. But that's in no way typical. At every place I've worked (granted, not all that many) meetings are "free" and when you don't want to be at the meeting you're "not being a team player."
Probably just as simple as a lack of willingness to put an engineer on the feature. Mozilla killed of the RSS reader in firefox for similar reasons.
What is "highly committed"? - is it scaled by reputation, or is "highly committed" defined at a particular reputation level, question count, or number of answers?
> The ones that seek to know more are the ones they want to engage.

GWT is a solution, not a community. It might have a community behind it, but some poor soul might land up on that page with the only intent of getting shit done within the scope of their own job.

The ultimate core goal of GWT is to save people time: that is why developers write frameworks. Why should someone have to waste time [struggle to learn the purpose of 'framework X'] in order to save time [use 'framework X'].

Saving people time starts on your landing page. They need to be able to accept or reject your framework with as little further research as possible. "This is what our product does, here are some people who use it, this is what people say." Once people know that you can carry on with the more floral explanations.
johansch, you were wrong in such a fundamental way about this subject that it is hard for me to believe you know anything about it at all.

If you have any suggestions about how I can phrase this in a way that makes you both comfortable, and that still makes it clear that I do not believe you have any business speaking on this subject, then I am 100% happy to listen to you. :)

I'm sure you're otherwise intelligent, but this is an area where you should probably just listen.
I have been a happy customer of Transferwise since beginning, they are smashing it in every regard. Their zero fees for startups campaign was a great way of spreading the word.

Good luck to them and fantastic to have more currencies available.
That looks really cool. Any chance you can share the code? Or share more about what you did? Like what does those micro services look like and what do they do?
Also what you say about type errors makes me think about static typing. Does it relate to that concept?

I too have been diving into writing raw SQL some while ago and I liked it.
Agreed. It would seem that unless your system is totally free of all forms of dependencies (including the human kind), arguing that patching is a bad idea simply because it shouldn't have to be patched in the first place is just poor advice.
If it weren't for the spelling, i would assume bvanslyke was a British English speaker. In British English, "no offence" means "I am going to offend you now". It's generally felt to be the decent thing to do to warn people, you see.

http://www.bellenglish.com/EnglishBlog/2012-09-04/No-offence...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802316
My God, my point was whether NK hacked or not. My point is NK is famous for threatening other nations.

If any nation that doesn't deserve any benefit of doubt is NK. Kim doesn't deserve the title of 'head of a nation state'. I'm sure you are a good liberty minded person and if so, you shouldn't waste any energy defending little Kim.
Is Aral Balkan involved in this?
You specify the tip in the app at time of your hail, so the drivers know what you are willing to pay on top of the meter (my WP app provides 5, 10, and 20 kuai tip options; the iOS app is more flexible). The taxis are responsible to replying to your hail, and you are given 120 seconds per request, so if no one replies, your request simply fails. You are supposed to hail when you need the taxi, so there is no time/price tradeoff to be made. There is another service (didi chuanche?) that is higher end and more expensive (they come in nice rental cars) that you can reserve ahead of time, but the government has made it basically illegal (its still going, but they have to be smart about where they drop you off).

Note that tipping is not a part of Chinese culture, you aren't usually expected to tip. This is more like an incentive for them to come pick you up. I was already tipping 10 kuai anyways before I started using the app, it just felt like the right thing to do.
You might enjoy reading this counter-argument: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/why-save-a-...
I believe on x86/x64 CPUs there's an advantage to doing these operations via SSE rather than using the old x87 opcodes. For instance, you don't need to move data into the x87 registers.
Haven't used weibo for a long time.
So it's basically Japans version of a Vegas wedding?
> (Also, I'd love to find reviews of critics about the "squared, industrial" design on the Droid and their opinions on the "squared, industrial" designed iPhone. But I digress.)

I think you might be confusing an industrial look with industrial design. The latter is a practice, not a style.

The Droid has a more squared, industrial look. iPhone 4 has a more squared industrial design relative to its predecessors, but not so much an industrial look.
"Notwithstanding the foregoing, with Apple’s prior written consent, an Application may use embedded interpreted code in a limited way if such use is solely for providing minor features or functionality that are consistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application."

Apple's prior written consent? Limited way? Solely for providing minor features of functionality?

IPhone developers, I laugh at you derisively. All of the five guys that actually made some money while sharecropping for Apple need not respond.
Rider, your response is right on target - especially the last sentence. I'm trying to figure out an optimal path instead of "accruing random math stuff". Will get the graph theory book(s) narrowed down first, and then ask for further help.

Thanks a lot.
It's not just because they lack healthy alternative career options; at this point, scamming Western white people out of money has become part of mass-cultural lore and is quite an important social differentiator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQ2tB_Mcu4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ1YLL9mvBU
>Which leaves me to ask, is the Nigerian government doing anything about this [the 419 scammers]?

To be cynical for a while:

It's actually quite possible this is a net benefit to the country. The money coming in obviously "drips down". Officials maybe also take bribes, I don't know.

It may even raise the profile of Nigeria for aid - "look how desperate Nigerians are to stoop so low, if we address poverty there then it will also address this problem" (squeaky wheel gets the most oil, etc.).

Of course 419 refers to the article of Nigerian law that prohibits such actions.
Whether or not it has been proven to be unhealthy, I personally feel very strange after consuming even the smallest amount of aspartame. I become nervous and jittery, and feel an odd sensation in my jaw that tempts me to grind my teeth. Others may not have the same symptoms as me, but I steer well clear of anything containing the chemical.
I was told that the display of the Nexus One is not so great, with problems like oversaturation and bad color reproduction : http://www.displaymate.com/Nexus_iPhone_ShootOut.htm

(this is from the same guy who criticized Jobs for his presentation of the iPhone 4 display)
I have had family members be tortured and die because of US intervention and coups

Can you not mock serious things? Please?
I strongly don't think we're at the bottom yet. While I agree you should buy and not time the market. There's no way we're at the bottom.
Thank you so much @fajarsiddiq :)
Market in Prague has been flooded with new cheap offers.
The catch - It is always just for maximum 6 months.

I doubt this will change anything longterm unless it becomes proof for policy makers to ban airbnb.
>> How do you accomodate the fact that while your routine is running someone could be redefining all your methods on another thread?

You accommodate that by not doing that because you’re not an idiot.

It’s like asking “why do you need static analysis tools when at any point in time your RAM bit can flip and now you need to model that, too”.
Given where they could have been if they’d followed the same trajectory as Italy, I’d say the strain should be visible if it was there.
In train stations and airports where I’m at, they are sanitizing handrails regularly, because even though there is “No evidence” that unsanitized handrails pose a risk of transmitting the disease, we do have hard evidence that it stays for long periods on metal, and the rest is a no-brain’er. “No evidence” is not a valid argument against this practice.
Yes the best way to detect if zoom is up to no good on Linux is to listen to my fan or check if my battery is draining unusually fast. Same for Discord.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... is two years older
Sony yanked linux support from PS3s after thousands of users had already paid for it. Tally that in the "Reasons to no longer support Sony" column.
You can also join using a standard SIP client.
One thing is brick is not so good in earthquake prone areas.
People saying that we should not bother colonizing Mars at all are clearly wrong. I can buy the argument that we should not yet do it, but come on.

The Earth will one day be dust, whether by astronomical disaster or by the sun's natural lifecycle moving to later stages.
We live on the Earth. If we do not go elsewhere, we will be dust at that time. So for self-preservation, we'll need to go elsewhere eventually.

Mars is elsewhere, and is much easier to reach/terraform/colonize than say... Proxima Centauri B. Mars is a good "practice" shot at being elsewhere.

So obviously, we should go to Mars. It's just a question of when.
Uber is just a scam to launder saudi blood money through softbank. There is zero chance that human driven cars will go away. And self-driving cars cannot drive on roads with human drivers. Uber is in the later stages of the scam now and have "sold" (actually, they gave 400 million USD to the company they "sold" the division too) their self driving setup. They've admitted the only business model that would make them profitable is impossible. It's over. They're just trying to take the money and run now.

That their "app" is large is irrelevant to the scam.
I previously managed my companies Kubernetes clusters using Kops on AWS. My company switched to Google, so I had to move everything to GKE. I miss Kops, it gave me more control and made life easier. I don't want to use the old crappy deprecated DNS server, but with GKE that's what you get. I don't get to control what goes on the masters on my clusters because they're not mine anymore. Having GKE do the masters means more headaches and complexity because I no longer have control. I love K8s, but GKE does a pretty poor job implementing it. It boggles my mind that the main company behind K8s is so incompetent in implementing it.
My problem here is google's attempt to correlate incognito users to their non-incognito history.

The intent of the user is clear.
> Being prepared for all of them takes all your time and resources - more than all, in fact.

Most of the time preparing for most disasters has a few common features to it.

- Food

- Power

- Transportation

- Housing/Shelter

These are common issues with every single possible disaster that can happen. So instead of preparing for "every disaster possible", you need to prepare for the outcome of "every disaster possible."

These four things can reduce lives lost by a significant amount, and as a 21st century society we need to limit our growth to the point where we're keeping up with the potential disaster situation, less we regress a thousand years because we didn't.

So no you're absolutely wrong. You don't need to plan for disasters at this scale. You plan for the outcomes of it.
I’d argue that Apple executives realize that privacy is one of the unique USPs of Apple compared to their main competitor, since the value exchange between Apple and their customers is simpler (customer pays Apple money, Apple delivers hardware/software).

Now that so much news has spread about these privacy additions, Apple selling out will actively hurt this image they have spent a lot of time building. It’s going to have to be an extremely lucrative agreement between them and Facebook for it to be worth it.
What's the point of syncing tags to your mailbox if no other client understands them?
> Terraforming Mars is a long term vision and not one we'll see in our lifetimes.

If you define "terraforming" as "engineering a planet for safe long-term mass human habitation", I would really rather we focus our terraforming efforts on Earth. We're currently not doing a great job at that and it's a several orders of magnitude easier problem.
I'm curious if any sane investor would be interested in acquiring Gox and promising to pay, say, 20% of its debts.
In that case, a large percentage of customers may simply sue and the investor will be in a real bad position. So, if the 700K BTC figure is correct, this scenario is basically impossible as you can't buy that much BTC for reasonable price, right?

Much better for potential investors would be to just wait for Gox bankruptcy and pick up the pieces. I'm not familiar with bankruptcy law, just theorizing.
More info here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=175...

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxmkr_Hj5OQ&feature=playe...
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/02/spirit-level-is-ju...

'Blogger Danne Nordling pointed out a strange fact about the book. Its measure of inequality, the most important factor in the book, is not gini, the standard inequality result. They seem to use 20/20 richest and poorest ratio. Why make this strange choice, when their source (UN Human Development Index) has gini? I smell data mining.

First for fun I did a simple regression of life expectancy on income inequality and per capita GDP for all countries the UN has data for. The correlation between inequality and health is not statistically significant. '
Piracy is not theft. Theft requires that one is deprived of some tangible benefit. Downloads cannot be strictly correlated to lost sales, because many download to sample, or download things they wouldn't spend money on anyway.

This doesn't mean you have to agree with filesharing, or think it's a good thing, or participate in it, but calling it "theft" is scaremongering.
I guess we have here the Adobe Flash Studio for HTML5. Nice job!
The main reason for what you've observed is that those smart folks that could be a good fit for the project probably are a good fit for many other projects, including many which use the technology they do like.

Good tech people generally have an opinion about technology (duh), so they like some technologies and dislike others. If I can make $X from working with PHP or make $X from working with Rails, why should I work with PHP when I dislike it?

You should consider whether you really are in a position to determine the choice of technology. If they are smart people, and they know tech and you don't, maybe they're aware of more problem constraints than you are, and you are actually the short-sighted one, not them. You don't hire an expert musician who has mastered a dozen instruments and then tell him he's only allowed to play the oboe for the next two years.

Being able to make your own technology choices is one of the attractions of running your own business (as a technologist). By imposing that externally, you take away a lot of the positive. Another thing you might want to think about is what else you can offer these people to entice them on your project. Always assume that they have many other similar options that you're competing against (this will be true for the good ones).
Here's my approach, which may or may not be of interest.

All CVs are read by me -- presuming it is my budget -- and one other from the team; that team member is at liberty to discuss a CV with another if they wish, but ultimately it is their vote. Occasionally, we go back to the candidate for more info.

CVs are graded: yes, no, or maybe. Two yes-votes and the candidate gets an interview. No yes-vote and that's the end of it. All others, we discuss starting with a "defence" from the yes-voter. At the end, only those with two yes-votes get an interview.

(I always keep records of this process for later review for when we get it wrong.)

That's the sifting process.

The interview is then focussed on what we do and what the prospect believes they can bring to the party. The CV is rarely put on the table. They are at liberty to take the conversation wherever they want. They can ask whatever they want; it is made clear that there is no expectation that they know anything concrete about the business or how we work. Questioning, inquisitive minds are good.
Oh, I have criticisms for Microsoft, but not because I think I'm too good to work there. I would need to read a lot of very good reasons to make me want to work on one of Microsoft's many dying product lines and how to cope with their smug corporate attitude, etc...
For a well-reasoned counter argument, may I recommend the excellent Fooled by Randomness? "Doing things" is necessary but not sufficient condition to becoming great.
If Twitter has no sustainable business model, I'm curious how Google is going to make money with it.
I think even more surprising than that was the hackish way that they put together the telestrator system. Instead of digging into a native iPad application they loaded on a VNC client and connected it to preexisting software.

I respect and admire their ability to see the simplest way to do things and do it, but I'm also worried that my World Cup viewing experience is held together by duct tape.
I wish I didn't know hex notation so I could figure it out by myself like you did :)
FYI: the demo doesn't load for me. Using Chrome on MacOSX 10.6

All I see is the little X as if though a light box is going to appear

Edit: now its showing, it was just slow loading.
Whenever I've had to bring my computer in, they've always told me to create a new account called something like "Apple" or "Apple Store", and they probably should have asked for the same thing from her.

I suppose there are times where the computer won't boot and they really don't have any other choice besides asking you for your password--the employee might have just mixed up their protocol, though that's not to say that it excuses that mistake.
This is why I only write open-source apps -- then I can reply "but it didn't annoy you enough to send me a patch? #fail".
I very highly recommend the graphic novel The Incal by Jodorowsky and Mobius.

After Dune fell through, the pair went on to use their Dune inspiration on an incredibly epic and beautiful story. Jodorowsky is known for his mysticism, the story of the Incal is loosely based on the Tarot cards and mixes elements of fantasy, sci-fi, satire, and metaphysics.

Jodorowsky doesn't mess around with his stories. This is a man who released a movie in Mexico which caused full scale riots, and was subsequently banned for its corrupting content.

The Incal may be a little hard to find these days, but it is worth the effort to find and read just to see the work of two men brimming with imagination.
I certainly hope this wasn't the author's software that was being tweeted about. Because if so, this is about the worst possible way to handle it. In fact, this is a really good opportunity to make things better.

If I ever make an angry tweet about something, mediocre companies ignore me or never find it. Good companies will say "We're sorry you're having problems. What can we do to help?" I'm probably happier with those companies than if I hadn't tweeted about them angrily. What does it look like when a customer (who may genuinely have a valid complaint that won't fit in 140 characters) is obviously angry and the person who publishes the software's only response is an angry blog post? And no, issues involving Michael Arrington don't count. That's a special case. :-)
Does the 'B-heap' PHK describes already have a name in the literature?
When I was just starting in the software development business, I worked under a project manager who liked to say - "in order to get a realistic estimate of a completion time, take what the programmer said, multiply by two and shift to the next time period" meaning that 1 day translates to 2 weeks, 2 weeks to 4 months, etc. Cynical, but accurate :)
> The group that develops tech, ends up totally screwing over the group that doesn't.

That's how natural selection created us. If we have a biological or technical advantage, we use it to a large extent, enough to put our species (or group) at a strategic advantage, which allows us to grow faster. If we didn't use it, we wouldn't advance as much. That's hardly a problem, it's just life.
The M1 MacBook Air should fulfil your stated needs: https://youtu.be/53xBuFfz6H8
Soft Dorothy agrees.
I love these videos from 60 years ago. It is exhibit A of how unintelligible today’s public dialog is in comparison.
We're not talking about giving loans to people who can't afford it. We're talking about giving loans to black people.

Nobody is arguing against fairly assessing an individual person's ability to pay off a loan - the issue at question is whether it's okay to use race as a statistical proxy for that.
Microsoft is selling it as a package deal. .NET and VS go hand in hand.

The current LTS release of .NET Core 3.1 has a broken socket implementation that can lead to deadlocks on Linux and macOS.

Microsoft will not fix it in 3.1 LTS and recommends using .NET 5, which is not an LTS. If you are a company that is deploying multiple times a day, that's probably fine. If you are a company that keeps the lights on with about 5 devs for a few hundred customers with on-prem setups, this is just unacceptable and doesn't even have anything to do with legacy libs.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/31570
> During one meeting, they used pens, topped with a feather, to evoke the quills used by the Founding Fathers.

Such delusions of grandeur...