skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, home prices are insane but it's not going to wipe out all your gains. I worked a programmer in NYC and could still easily save 50% of my after-tax income.

Not to mention that as a programmer you have the option of working remotely (for a healthy 6-figure salary) for whatever low-cost place you like.
"Our US congress had the chance to fix this back in 1990s and they screwed up with enforcing it properly. We could've had a better pure fiber-based national build out but it didn't work out."

Sounds a little similar to what happened in the UK, iirc. British Telecom wanted to do a full fibre deployment but the government upheld complaints of it being anti competitive, and now we have to endure copper *DSL being the default national broadband option and all the pitfalls that entails.
For a couple of years, there was a company in Lund, Sweden that offered biometric payments. It was very convenient. Unfortunately, they quit, partly because of high transaction costs of the banks.
Uh, welcome to the internet? Outside the internet you can vote with your money, on the internet you must vote with your time(youtube's product). Stop selling your time to youtube.
Twitter is giving its users new powers to block internet trolls
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/106...
Sorry to hear about the project heading in the wrong direction beside your attempts. As many suggested sooner or later things are going to blow up and you need to either be prepared to face the storm since you are acting as a team lead, or simply either move to another group in the company or find a new place by sending your resume around.
When it is going to blow up, and if you are still there I will advise you to keep track of any emails that you may have sent and shared in larger group with your concerns.
Being able to show some accounting of what happened may help you overall.

Personally I will get the hell out of there: it is not worst wasting your time, energy and stress level especially considering what they are doing to your review. Working in a toxic environment is not good in the long term.
They only recover the first stage, which is about 3/5 of the rocket right now. Maybe they'll work on recovering the 2nd stage but they currently abandoned that due to viability and cost of recovery tech.

It's going to be very hard for anyone to create a perfectly usable rocket that all comes back for reuse, possibly never based on how cargo is sent up there in the first place.
I agree, Business Insider is about as insightful and useful as Buzz Feed.
> You can build a $5M plumbing/electrical/etc business in any location and live a much better quality of life.

If the average outcome for plumbers is owning $5M businesses, it's amazing how that doesn't show up in any statistics I've seen.

Both of my parents work in the trades. People on Hacker News glamorize it far too much. It's much more frequently a case of intermittent employment and low wages—even when you do own your own business (as both of them have at various times).
I think the answer we want now is a non-mathematical one. It gets tiresome how most of the "answers" are just too afraid( or maybe naive?) to just say "we don't know" why the speed of light is the constant of proportionality in the mass-energy conversion equation.

You can answer the "how" very well which is what the mathematical derivation is, and which is what most people are answering in this thread but you see that none of those answers start with "Because..." but rather just keep on spitting out more math. And what we want is an explanation for why c^2 is there and what it means.

We don't know what it means, we haven't answered that question and we don't know how to answer it. It's similar to how pi keeps coming up in a lot of equations and we struggle to understand why.
What does today's white America deserve for  race crimes?
Roberto Saviano - The man who exposed the lie of the war on drugs
That's why I said I agree that the markets are broken. The SEC already knows that this occurs but chooses to not stop it.
Spoken like a pessimist. ;-)
> I just wanted to go off on a tangent because I don't think it's common knowledge that the large finance companies will hire uncredentialed devs.

Fair point. I've actually never seen any evidence that they do (not that I've looked closely) and am surprised.

Do you have to have prior industry experience in a particular niche to get in without a credential? (Ex. low latency expertise.)
I can understand that from most people, buts to me its a bit like the "if you have nothing to hide argument" - it woks for the majority, but there are way too many edge cases to consider. Say for example you wanted to buy some weed - something that a reasonable proportion of normal and reasonable people do - but for political reasons is illegal. Do you really need that being trackable?
I lived in Sweden (Stockholm) for a year. Here's what bothered me about the idea of "cash-free":

1. Cards are controlled by businesses that do not have the customers' interests at heart. What's more, it is not easy to become a card payment provider.

2. Current government may be trustable, but nobody knows what happens with the next one. The government has various forms of power over card payments which they don't have with cash. They can trace it, they can block it, they can know every aspects of your life. And it's not just your government, it's other nations' as well in some cases.

So putting all your money in one basket here is putting all your purchasing power and all your privacy in the hands of businesses that cannot be competed with and institutions that are easily corrupted.

Electronic payments are the future, there's no working around that. But are we going to find solutions to the privacy issues in time?
Some people like SparkleFormation (http://www.sparkleformation.io/). I'll warn you, though, that it's not a good example of how to program in Ruby. It abuses method_missing to the point that it makes your implementations difficult to debug.
I have one of those super cheap knock-offs. It's been the most trouble-free gamepad adapter so far out of: PS3 wireless, PS4 wireless, and even my Steam Controller when I first got it.
It wasn't really NeXT that they purchased; it was Jobs.

Sure, they got an OS, and they got some good people. But it was basically an acquihire. NeXT had approximately no commercial success. If Apple had only wanted a next-generation OS to compensate for their failure to develop one internally, they could have bought Be, and for a much lower price. There were no other suitors to acquire NeXT; without Apple's acquisition, they surely would have died out within a couple of years, just like Be did.

And I'll note that the OS wasn't that great a deal for Apple; it took them more than 4 years to get a consumer-grade release of it together, far longer than they were predicting at the time. I'd again put that down to the power of Jobs's reality distortion field, not any kind of market success.
Netflix’s documentary series ‘Making a Murderer’ takes a page from 'Serial'
I think you are a bit rude, I had a look after reading your comment and the vast majority is decent. But it's clear that many of them got funding thanks to some kind of connections. I'm saying that because many of them clearly "lack" differentiation and/or the barrier to entry is very low considering the funding they received. But hey good for them !
I think that custom demands that one provides a link to the actual comic: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fv02418.htm
Sure -- Jump, Tower, HRT, Citadel all have similar results.

Why do you not believe such results are possible? Do you think it's impossible for a firm to have statistically positive edge for sustained periods of time?
>they don't have any lock-in capabilities (such as collaboration features)

paper.dropbox.com aims to be such a feature.
A distribution I'm keen on is the Arch / Gnome Shell based Apricity.
If you segment production instances from develop/staging you can use IAM rules to grant specific privileges based on the entire region, instead of by tag (which is fragile). Additionally, it is less error prone when you are making manual changes in the console as it requires switching regions between production and develop/staging.
Indeed.

Even a hired CEO has a mandate and the board can fire him/her but they can't unduly influence that person beyond supplying (possibly unsolicited) advice. Otherwise no CEO would ever be able to do their job. Ultimately, whatever happens is the responsibility of the CEO and the board is a source of advise and makes sure the CEO does a good job. If the board is backed by the shareholders they can fire the CEO, but if the shareholders (and in this case that meant the original founders) don't agree by simple majority to get rid of a CEO then he/she can continue to do their job. Whether you still want to is another issue entirely.

Anybody in a CEO position would do well to make sure they understand their rights, obligations and their relationships with the various other entities they are dealing with. If you don't understand those then it is a recipe for frustration and potentially disaster.

This is the reason why you'll see board members leak to the press (see for instance Yahoo! recently). They can't win the argument in the boardroom and they can't/won't fire the CEO (maybe because they only have a minority share and the rest of the board and/or shareholders do not see their way).

This is also why founder disputes are extremely risky for a company. Founders typically hold large blocks of shares and if some those suddenly align with of non-founders then it can really break your stride or cause serious trouble.

Say a company has two founder that still hold 60% of the shares, 5% is in an option pool and 35% is held by an outside investor. If the founders no longer see eye-to-eye the board suddenly holds the tie breaking vote and this could lead to the departure of either one of the founders depending on with who the board sides. In such a case I hope your shares are vested if you're the founder that is forced to leave (and if not I hope you have a vesting acceleration clause in your contract).
Similarly, I want to use an Xbox One controller on my flatmates PS4. It seems unlikely I will have the drive to finish such a project.
Ask HN: Tldr due to startup anxiety gf has left me, how do i get her back?
My manager at work has been pushing me to the limit and as a result have been carrying a lot of anxiety home leading to a big work induced difference with my gf. Also we have not had physical relationships in months due to this. Added to this my company raised a down round and i had to pay tax on my now worthless options
She is extremely pissed and has left

What do i do ? how do i get her back?
How do you feel about macro libraries in dynamic languages?
Also being discussed on /r/cscareerquestions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/3y8ite/n...
Whoever promised an early Jan delivery date for a $700M project is insane.
On my completely regular residental broadband, built with standard ethernet almost fifteen years ago, I have 4 ms to my server in the cloud (same country, different provider). If Google Fiber is built with similar parts it should be comparable.
This. Quitting is the right option. Very easy to explain to future employers too (you've only been there a few months, mistakes happen).

What you're experiencing is a great learning experience. Reflect on it and you'll come out stronger.

For future: when you're a lead you should be focus on setting boundaries, expectations, systems, plannings etc. You'll probably only code for 1/3rd of your time, if you're lucky.

Don't feel comfortable with that? Then don't apply for those positions :)
I was a happy Gnome 2 user for years, and am now a happy Mate user. I don't think the weird GUIs aspire to be Windows 8 or Mac OS. They just aspire to be weird.
Wouldn't higher cargo density be more of a benefit if launch costs are high?
But propagating itself quite probably is a direct line to achieving its goal faster.
A tidy, linear Git history
I warmly recommend the Serverless framework for building basic web applications on AWS. It handles CloudFormation details for you, but lets you customize them if needed. Not suitable for every possible app though.
Don't the adapters for consoles work when connected to a PC? (things like this: http://xim4.com/)
History of Node.js on a timeline
how do you avoid 1 - it seems impossible ?
Check out http://convox.com/ (YC S15) for an alternative to avoiding manual infrastructure.
You are describing a great set of excuses for NASA, but none of these things help SpaceX develop better rockets.
F2 works for me in Cinnamon / Nemo.

Running it on top of Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro - so I can't say for certain that it is standard!
Since the Ubuntu/Unity/Gnome3 disaster happened I switched to XUbuntu and I have been extremely happy with it. Xfce with XUbuntu is very much like the olden days of Ubuntu/Gnome2.

The only real issue with XUbuntu is the lack of window resize control. The window borders are a single pixel wide and it can be extremely frustrating to resize a window. The only way to reasonably get it done is by using the either one of the top window corners but if you use the left window corner you have to be careful not to accidentally close the window.

Other than that, super happy with XUbuntu!
That may be true, but self-reflection is a win/win scenario. You can always make a situation better, even if you can't fix it. OP should definitely leave the job, but the GP is correct in that he shouldn't just say "It's K's fault" and leave it at that. The question to ask yourself is: if I ever get into this situation again, what will I do differently to effect a different outcome?
Why would you do this instead of using multiple AWS accounts? Different regions have different feature sets (available instance types, beta eligibility, etc.). I strongly recommend instead using multiple AWS accounts instead and keeping them in the same region.

That said, since you should be using an infrastructure provisioning tool like CloudFormation, the tagging solution should not be a particularly big obstacle.
I assume you're referring to these guys:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-23/don-t-tell...
Am on gigabit fiber here, next hop is <1ms as it should be.
I searched this page for the string "lawyer" and didn't find it yet. I hope you can see why. I would ask your lawyer about the laws about constructive dismissal in your jurisdiction, and generally what your rights are.

Ideally, you would be able to find a new workplace before suing their asses, and you would get some sort of settlement. Of course it's not a risk everyone would take, have a think about the situation. Perhaps the AWS job is still open?

I would definitely leave though. Having a person who can't code in charge of coding is a bad idea, and it can only get worse with the deadline looming. Coding is not like doing a bunch of slides, where you can suddenly cut the scope and still have something that works. (Why did I bring that up? Because if you're doing a non-coding project, you can often just chop the scope and still have something.) They've broken Brook's Law by adding people near the deadline AND they then lost those people, deservedly.

You're also being positioned for the blame, showing they simply don't know what they're doing. How are they going to deliver anything with you and an intern? The least fair thing that can happen is you and the intern produce a sub-par product, and you then get the blame. Your company loses the contract, or the bosses find some other people to do the work under a different name, and you get the boot. Sorry if I sound cynical, I just don't want you to suffer.
How to write unfancy web apps
Another, somewhat obvious one:

Be extremely careful when using public customized AMIs, a lot of times ~/.ssh/authorized_hosts contains public keys and this is obviously a huge security problem
> Is the author seriously suggesting to view deliberate terror attacks against civilians the same as military strikes (drones or planes — I don't see a difference) performed against enemy combatants, by people who are trying to minimize civilian casualties as far as they can?

Why not?

Let’s that the countries of Xanadu (“X”) and Yalü (“Y”) are at war with each other. Isn’t it meaningful to compare the number of X and Y citizens killed by each other, regardless of how it is carried out?

If X says “We’re careful to minimize killing Y’s civilians,” shouldn’t we judge X by how successful it is in minimizing those casualties? Or should we say, “Oh, well, X is trying their best, so no need to keep count or compare the counts.”

Quite obviously “terror” attacks and “military” attacks are different things. But it’s perfectly legitimate to compare them by the number of civilians killed. It shouldn’t be the only way in which we compare them. But it’s still informative to compare them.
Hi mate, thanks for posting. First of all : get her back in what ? There's no point in getting her back if it's to put her in the same mess, get your life sorted first.

It sounds like you successfully identified the cause of this issue. I'll be honest with you, if you can't change the way you feel when going to work, find another job.

If I was you, I would quit my job, and after I found another one call my gf, tell her that I realize I screwed it, that I am very sorry and that I learned from my mistakes. By doing so, you have proofs that you are serious about it and she will likely come back.

Edit : But ultimately you need to understand the benefits of changing your work environment so that even if she doesn't come back you will have no regret. Keep your life above your work, consider your best interest first.
It's never too late to do something to improve your life!

6 years ago I stopped as partner in an company that had worn me out to the point where I only was able to work a few hours every day.

Now 6 years later I have 3 employees and is building a exciting new startup.

Nothing is impossible, it just takes time and effort.
:( I was hoping for visualizations based on cute black and white bears.
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I really like Cinnamon, but I found it had a habit of randomly chewing up CPU cycles for no reason. That was a bit over a year ago, and I switched to XFCE.

Anyone had similar problems and found it has improved or not?
> Does it matter? [...] Often, the latest and greatest is defined in terms of incremental changes from the body of generally accepted knowledge.

I don't know. Some fields that's true, and some fields that's not (a book on the latest and greatest of web development from 2006 would be highly out of date). Constraint Programming isn't a field I'm versed in, so I'm asking to find out whether or not it matters.
Rudimentary Kinect with your iphone, without any additional hardware. Pretty cool
Fair enough; I was talking about the dead - like their grandmother -, which is who are usually remembered, even in the attacks against westerners.
I echo most of the author's excitements but for the ElementaryOS.

I've just stopped looking at any other distro after installing the latest, Freya, which is also based on 14.04.

Elementary doesn't have many of the UX shortcuts that the latest Mint has, and has far less developers working on it, but it's still such a joy to use.
> Has anyone experience DOCSIS services where you simply can not connect / renew IP for a few hours, and then after some reseting and messing around you will finally get your IP again.

Sounds like the ISP doing maintenance, had that every few weeks late at night when I was still on cable.
Of course, I think they're the only trading firm named Jump. Is there something particular in that article you wanted to point out?
This is the same William Paley (1743–1805) who proposed the watchmaker analogy arguing that complexity in nature was teleological evidence of a creator or intelligent designer.
no, public keys are not a security problem.
Mail the pastebin.com text to the boss of K, and if the result of that is not to your liking hand in your notice. Make it clear that you unconditionally request her removal or you will walk. This likely will result in you leaving the company but give her boss a chance to right the ship. If they don't then the situation is beyond your ability to influence.

If I were K's boss and unaware that this was happening (which I would consider my own failure) I would very much appreciate a heads up and I would make very sure that I'd do what is best for the company. Assuming you are telling the truth there are more than enough hand-holds in your email to verify this. Specifically the time-log and a bunch of other evidence. If your story tallies and hers does not the decision is clear. If it is a toss up you will have to leave, if hers is the one that I find more credible then you'll have to leave too.

Either way, I'd appreciate the notice and I would definitely take it serious, the project is large enough to be taken that serious.

best of luck.
They failed to live up to any of their hype or any of their market goals. It didn't revolutionize education. It didn't sell much hardware, despite multiple hardware versions. It didn't gain significant market share as an OS. It didn't gain significant market share in Windows developer tools. When Apple bought them, the NeXT market was negligible enough that they basically stopped making anything for it.

They definitely had some success in niche markets, I think they turned a modest profit one year, and I don't think their investors lost any money. But it's not like they made a ton for the level of risk they took.

Yes, Jobs managed to make lemonade out of his multiple failures. But NeXT was never a commercial success.
Wait, why does the field-quantum for inertia decay into the field-quantum for light?
Are they available anywhere else but Germany?

I do not use it as my regular bank account. I only use it as a cheap (fee free) way to get cash from ATMs.
Troposphere (https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere) is a mature Python CloudFormation solution that sounds similar to your home brewed one.
I still use isolated $GEM_HOME directories for each project on my dev machine, and don't rely on bundler to separate installations on production machines.

In my mind, bundler was never really needed for that - it was a complexity step further than was required - so I never set myself up to rely on it, instead relying on a simpler mechanism which doesn't need runtime tooling support. As a result, I never have to run `bundle exec`. How much you might prefer this will probably be more dependent on how much you appreciate simplicity.
We used this callback system when I worked at a call center selling products from TV infomercials, although it wasn't anywhere near as advanced as the example in this article. The dialing was automated but we had to manually initiate each call, and make sure we were speaking to the right person.

I don't even know how many times I've said the phrase "We are currently experiencing a high volume of calls". Hopefully never again.
I don't agree with giving notice without giving K's boss a chance to prove they can right this thing, and that can be done at no cost to the OP and potentially has a huge upside.
Interesting to see that many of these startups are enterprise software-as-a-service companies (NextDoor being an obvious exception). A lot of them seem like they would be very compelling demos during pre-sales, but very tough to fully implement and integrate into the enterprise.
yes, use multiple accounts. you can use STS to grant permissions between the accounts if needed.
> The default hangup action is termination because people generally don't want interactive processes sticking around after their I/O is gone.

Sure but 'hangup' is used to reload configs (which may not actually mean terminating the process).
They are if you don't know who has the corresponding private key.
Check out Fieldbook, we were #2 on HN about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752570
OK, I stand corrected.
Appreciate it that you took the time to write this explanation.