skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're definitely right that we don't actually know what checks they're prioritizing, but it's hard for me to believe they're actually doing any quality checking when this is the #1 skill you see in the app: http://i.imgur.com/Qp4Cv6k.png
In Windows world you are very wrong.

Run "Process Explorer", Options -> Color Selection -> check ".Net Processes" (Yellow).

In all consumer Windows up to Windows 7 no dotNet processes run (by default) at all. [Longhorn was meant to bring a dotNet shell (explorer, etc) but failed big time.] I have lots of common applications and all are coded in C/C++ with the exception of IDEs (VS/Eclipse/IDEA) which eat memory like no tomorrow. I couldn't care less about the brave Win8/10 world.
Just to be clear kestrel benchmarks at 1.2 million requests per second. You'd need 10 of your servers to match 1 of theirs.

That kind of scalability difference does still matter.
How much in losses can you write off from the losing tickets against your winnings?
There's a particularly interesting quote in this article that doesn't have much to do with the subject, but really struck me.

> The late 1960s was a time in which just about anything seemed possible. The stars – man was moving ever closer, using his knowledge to realize dreams that had been held for centuries.

As someone at the comparatively young age of 28, I simply can't think of a time in my life where there was ever the same general feeling across the USA. Maybe the 90s, but the exuberance feels more calm.
It’s a lot easier to kick Google to the curb when they’re not shipping a product and likely never will.
Before answering...what do you see as the problem today and what is your goal?
A Start-Up That Aims to Bring Back the Farm-to-Vase Bouquet
Hmm. I'm not sure what is wrong. I don't have a Google store developer account, otherwise I would have published it there.

Try this as a workaround:

- clone the repo
- go to chrome://extensions/
- enable "Developer mode"
- Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the cloned directory

The advantage of this method is that you will be able to upgrade the extension in the future with a git-pull!
I've been thinking about this topic a lot recently, as I've been self-medicating depression and anxiety with Kratom leaf powder.

In my opinion, the line between self-medication and proper medication is ethically blurry. Yes, clearly it's better to have a doctor supervising your treatment, but it's also important to find relief from debilitating psychic pain. It can be incredibly frustrating when the best psychiatry has to offer simply isn't good enough.

If someone is dependent on "recreational" drugs to soothe their pain, it's labelled a "crutch" and seen as a weakness. If someone is dependent on prescribed drugs (SSRIs, etc.) then it's just considered proper psychiatric treatment.

I agree that if someone is keeping themselves "buzzed" to mitigate dysfunction, there is definitely a problem. The solution, however, is often unclear. Could this person find relief "naturally" (exercise, diet, therapy, etc.)? Could a regular regimen of a different drug help, and if so, which one would be best? Would a drug that's currently illegal help more than drugs which are currently legal?

The state of medicine in 2016 is clearly strong, but psychiatry has a long way to go. I applaud the work MAPS is doing to promote the medicinal application of psychedelics, I'm encouraged by the research being done with Ketamine, and I'm eagerly watching the development of ALKS-5461, an antidepressant that incorporates Buprenorphine (an opioid).
That was my qualm with this piece, too, although I realize we're in the minority re: putting a premium on time spent with the self. There wouldn't be much difference for me if my additional "free time" coincided with others being off work as well. Actually, it may slightly reduce my satisfaction with it, because then everyone would be flooding all the typical "off time" spots (gym, market, laundry, etc.), which I try to avoid at (almost) all costs.
We stopped caring because it didn't matter. Except when it began to matter it was too late. Somethings you have to plan for from the start. You can't go back later and fix it after the fact.
First with Smalltalk, then with Java, and eventually Objective-C as well.
My car tracks engine hours and rpm over the lifetime of the car. It is in the console with a couple of clicks.
The urge to violence is built into our DNA.

Citation needed.
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Funny fact, this is used as Lorem Ipsum in a lot of npm packages.
You my friend, got burnt out. You need to take some time away from it all. Go on travel for a while then see how things turn up.

I once got burnt out and didn't want to know anything about programming anymore. Time later rediscovered my passion for it again, was like a second falling in love and have been enjoying it since.

If you want to talk my email is in my profile.
What has helped me is playing with the combination of OpenCV and iOS. None of the issues of enterprise configuration management or change management or project management. Just thinking about how to solve a problem using software and doing it.
It's a placeholder, and talking about it is distracting from the point (the "point" being maybe we can have both privacy and safety, and that the dichotomy is false). There is undeniably some activity that we can both agree is evil, and therefore we can talk about Evil without having to figure out exactly what that activity is.

Or rather, we could if you were being intellectually honest.

Most people, if given the choice, will nearly always pick safety over privacy. It's simply not enough to say you can't have both, because privacy will eventually get thrown out by the electorate, of any country.
No more "goto fail;"?
I have been through the same! :)

Back in high school when I started programming with the LAMP stack I was totally hooked. I spent most of my first two years in high school doing the same. As I entered my third year I was kind of burned out and wanted to try something new. I shifted my focus towards doing other cool stuff. There was still that tinkerer in me who wanted to break and fix things.

One thing that kept my interest was my desire to break and fix things without thinking about the outcome.

My email is in my profile if you want to talk. :)
Even with that explanation I am not convinced of the soundness of that notation. For example, if you think you have a particular row that is causing you some problem and want to add a print statement for the row number, your code becomes, if you are too quick and forget to add braces:

for(y=0; y<ymax; y++)
printf("y=%i\n",y);
for(x=0; x<xmax; x++)
{
//...
}

And it will not work anymore as intended.

Granted it's a small mistake and it will not take more than 5 minutes to fix, but it still add a small load to your already busy mind.
This analysis is just a first step. I plan to look at the impact of specific actors/directors/publishers on Box Office Gross as well.
Actually, I don't like le Carré's books. I think his writing style is tedious and overly obsessed with painfully drawn out descriptive language. There are good stories hiding in there somewhere. But the packaging isn't for me.
Maybe they should add support for the certification process. They could price this in nano-seconds using utc time based on the region of the developer (except u.s east virginia). If you are rejected you could get max-support integration (4 pico dollars a parsec) to resubmit.

Overall, amazon's coherent pricing strategy and simplicity make it a pleasure to work with
Hi! I'm an engineer on the Dataflow team. I'd love to understand the issue you mentioned about size of intermediate files, and help make Dataflow work well for you. Could you send a note to dataflow-feedback@google.com and elaborate?
But that doesn't refute the parent's point: since the content at a URL is inherently mutable, they could judge that (at time of submission) some app is the type of content they want in their ecosystem, and then seconds after approval, it no longer is.
Have you tried simply just making an effort to ask around more? Especially at college, that should net you a fair bit of connections fairly easily. Good developers are really sought after in my area at least.
Its means. It's reads as "it is means . . ." or "it has mean are not proper" which is gibberish.
So, Uber:

>Provides the same service at lower costs

>Pays more to drivers who drive at peak hours, by charging more at those times

>Is (gasp!) not charging its drivers hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privelige of having someone barf on their seats

Okay, the accusations of driver-poaching and underhanded tactics are bad...but then again, the driver poaching could just be drivers going where the better money is.

In fact, I'd say this is capitalism at its best. It's providing a service where the service is needed at a fraction of the cost, and without having to wait for anyone else's say-so.
Maybe you think about snuggling up a bit closer ?

https://stable.mtier.org/
Many people get to that point, and I agree with other comments that it might be depression or just fatigue.

I'm going back to work tomorrow, and I'm not looking forward to it because the project I'm on isn't going well. A few days ago I asked myself if I'd be feeling different if the project was going well, and concluded that I would be. I'm 26, and can still change a lot that I dislike. I'm going to stick through the project, but after it ends (if it ends) I'm moving on to something else.

I've dealt with depression a lot as a kid, and also a bit in my short working career. Doing something different definitely helps, making new friends and forming new habits on your own or with them.

I have a cooking/baking/movie partner, she doesn't understand half of the things I talk about at times, and I also don't understand a lot of things she does. So we teach each her about what we do when we meet up. Talking helps, but also doing something to spend time off the monitor and keyboard helps me.

I hope this is useful to you or someone else.

EDIT: typos
That idea sounds similar to The Deck: http://decknetwork.net/
It is part of the AX.25 data protocol, not meaningful communication between humans.
"8 trillion (@ 60 percent of GDP) in ephemeral housing equity"

"loss of 8 trillion in housing wealth"

Is this true?

How do you create 8 trillion in wealth?

If it was "lost" then who has the 8 trillion now?
Why Americans Work So Much Despite Keynes's Prediction
Its not f1 its small batch production of sports cars - f1 you effectively build a pair of new cars for each race/test.
I try to take this kind of approach with my own work. My workload is really light, so every task I get, I take the opportunity to dig into the task and the business needs surrounding the tasks so that I can come up with a solution that works, is stable, can be extended when needed, and doesn't require a lot of maintenance.

When an issue comes up, the first thing to do is to put together a workaround, a way for business to continue in absence of a proper fix. I then, without the need to rush, dig into the issue, figuring out a way to reproduce it, then isolate it, then fix it in a way that makes the whole system more robust and not less.

Having worked on the codebase / infrastructure this way for two years, my workflow is pretty-well refined. For my current issue, I'm devising a command-line tool to download and parse the log files to give me exactly the info I need to run down web issues. I can yak-shave to my heart's content.
I'm the author.

Ad Age is obviously an ad industry publication—-probably the biggest one--but within that there are a diverse audiences it caters to. You can google the term "lumascape" to see a ton of images showing just what a chaotic mess of companies and kinds of companies are involved in digital advertising, but there are typically four groups involved: the brands that are paying for all this marketing, the agencies who they hire to help them reach their customers, the publishers that produce the content, and the ad tech companies that provide the tools to get the ads from the brands and agencies to their potential customers as they spend time on publisher's sites.

One criticism I've gotten on this piece is that it's not ad tech's fault, it's the publishers who use these tools. I think that's like saying it's not the drug dealers fault that his user OD'ed.

A key point I was trying to make was not that the tools themselves are the problem, but that the environment they've emerged in is. All of those audiences I've described play a role in that environment.
Or Amazon video on Android device I have -- in order to have play prime videos it told me to disable app source checking and side-load some .apk file, which will then help me get the Amazon video apk file... or something.

Yeah forget that. At first I thought it was a joke of some sort. But I guess that's how you are supposed to do it.

I'll just stick to Netflix and watch videos there. Somehow that manages to work without side-loading a bunch of crap.
Now that makes me wonder whether there's an extension that will let me add that header and randomise the reason. Sounds like an interesting thing to shove into someone's log.

On the other hand, I probably wouldn't use it. I would stick out like a sore thumb to people tracking me.
Nielsen wired me with sensors and exposed my CES tech fetish
Having boxed for 2 years, and fought in the streets as a kid, I am not in denial about violence being a 'core' part of our current humanity. I think we can evolve away from it. For the record, it is about the individual for me, no groups or groupthink or tribalism as hinted at by "our group is better than your group", which I think should only be a sentiment for when we are immature and do not know better. Now in my older age, I apologize for something more readily and sooner than when I was a teenager, even if I have not convinced myself I am at all wrong. Maturity, and in my case sobriety, help me greatly to try and grow, and redirect or solve my personal or interpersonal issues in a less violent, more creative and positive manner including eliminating abusive, berating, or condescending speech. I am not 'PC' by any means, but I am more human, I think by finding compassion and empathy where I once looked as might as a last resort in a failing intellectual argument. We poison ourselves and solve nothing with negative rage, or energy. Turning upset into a personal challenge. I am but a naive fifty-something hoping to one-up myself. Fortunately, my children are already more emotionally, and intellectually mature than when I was their age, and I am this in comparison to my father. This is my 'empirical' evidence of evolving away from violence without violent substitution.
Here are slides on the topic and the full math paper. But we dont go from a credible interval to a single number - we just report credible intervals. We find that to be the only honest choice.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/gilt_bayesian_ab_2...

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/bayesian_analysis_co...

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/310840/VWO_SmartStats_technic...
Exactly! The auto industry works like it does because it HAS too, not because it is better. Software design is much better and more advanced, because our industry allows us to choose better practices.
Most accurate software company name ever.
I see this exact sentiment all the time. Even people who have a favorite brand will gripe angrily about getting ripped off on the purchase and how repairs are so needlessly expensive.
The OP is mistaking manufacturing for design. The manufacturing phase of software - compilation - is hugely efficient, reliable, and cheap. The industry certainly does "drop tools" and see what has happened when a compiler like GCC screws up, which is a better analogy here.
Snapchat wants to manage your money
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have no intention of spamming users or of publishing their info. I will take another look at the text when time permits.
Writing a Language in Truffle
Why is this app so overhyped?
Catching on != taking a sector by storm.

Let me make it simpler: While it is unlikely that every vendor will instantly switch to FirefoxOS for IoT devices, it is likely that more than zero will find it useful.
+1 for Travel.

I'm guessing you're in your 20s and have saved up a bit. You could travel awhile in India, Southeast Asia, South America, etc. You'll have some crazy experiences and reset your views
Exactly. In addition to what you listed, the ability to quickly roll-back to previous releases with a single click on Heroku has literally saved me from losing paying customers. I don't know what I would have done this past week where I had to do just that after a bad release.
I don't think they would be any more happy getting back any less of what they invested. The average (good) investor cares about getting his money back or more. Anything else is a sub-optimal result. $500k is plenty of money to give a core team 1 year of runway to pivot and find something else interesting enough to purse (or to get at least to revenue and profitability). My $.2
Reddit Challenge: Procedurally Generated Pirate Map
"And it's Gone..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg
Challenge yourself. Get out of your comfort zone with something completely new to you.

Why not going in a random place, with no phone, no laptop, no device? Learning mediation is something unattractive ? You might have found something then!

I think I'm a really young person, my opinion is biased because of my poor perception of your problem. Although I hope you might find an idea or a challenging way to deal with your "re-building".
Dogs make me happy
Yes. And any tall building in SF's Embarcadero stands in defiance of the need for bedrock. A lot of the land there is just old, accidental landfill.

Also, I think, but, I'm not sure, that they built this extremely large, heavy structure right over the bay itself a few years back, something about helping cars get from Oakland to SF and back. I don't know how much bedrock they found underneath the supports for that thing, whatever it's called. Can't seem to remember its name ...
GM's Launches Bug Bounty Program Minus the Bounty
Yes it's bigger which is why I was commenting on it since parent seemed to try and dismiss the essays claim by pointing toward some rational inconsistency.

At least that's how it read to me.
There are around ~400k people born every single day. If we expand our habitat to other planets, we'd need the capability to launch a million people a day to have even the remotest impact on population in the near future. Unless anti-gravity or some new weird physics is invented, this isn't ever going to happen.
Ask HN: Is 30 too old to work at Google?
This post shows a naive, or intentionally distorted, understanding of animal behavior. Relative social status exists and will be pursued and aggressively defended in every sexual species. If you want that to stop, you better get rid of males and/or females (reader's choice). Barring that, I'd suggest acceptance.
Ordinarily I would agree with itbeho and advise you to move on with minimum fuss. However, given that you are paying the hosting bills, you probably have the right and obligation to shut the thing down gracefully, perhaps with a month's warning to the users. It does seem reasonable to answer any emails saying that you have not been contracted to provide support. I think it is best no to mention that you havent been paid. It is probably wise to contact a lawyer, because I am certainly not one.
It seems to me that we have been doing this more and more as memory has gotten bigger and bigger, we care more and more about performance, and more and more people are writing more and more code that will be used for shorter and shorter times under tighter and tighter deadlines.
Presumably, statement (emphasis on effective) was based on the inference that content would be more relevant given additional AIO/behavior parameters. But programatic opponents could cite URL masking and other fraudulent practices that are rampant across ad-tech.
Don't do work, inform the user that they can expect a fix in the next 7-10 days. Send a notice to the client saying services will shut down in 7 days unless the outstanding invoices are paid in full. Then close it down and if they want it back charge a setup fee.
Workers are a must for any minimally sophisticated web application. You cannot degrade HTTP response time (and whole app server performance) just because you are performing work synchronously before the request finishes.

Similarly, if the work you are performing has any value for your business, it must be retryable, and the queued items must be safely stored (i.e. don't use a single Redis server - use something distributed like SQS instead).

All of that calls for a 'proper' architecture. I'm not talking microservices or anything fancy - just a webapp/worker/db separation and the like. Which is exactly what dedicated server (or DigitalOcean) users tend to lack at early stages.
When you say die from time, do you mean time turned on or just age?
FIND A LAWYER. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. The last thing you want is to trip over your own shoes and wind up stuck with liability and/or unable to recover what you are owed.

Do NOT tell end users anything without consulting with your lawyer. Laws regarding defamation etc vary broadly.
I think the winning solution could be Nix-like package management (like NixOS, GuixSD or to a lesser extent GoboLinux) PLUS lightweight containers.

You get the best of both worlds, good package management within containers, reproducibility, etc.

With Docker or apt you only get half baked solutions.
> I couldn't care less about the brave Win8/10 world.

Still supports C++ ;)
No one has any idea how to run an App Store. Even Apple's App Store is vastly inadequate to sell the gigantic number of apps available on it. Top N apps make out like bandits, everyone else is basically dying. It will always be power law, but IMO the tail could extend quite a bit further than it does today.
It makes sense that Florida is one of the states aggressively allowing the testing of self-driven vehicles.
The alternative doesn't take into account:

- The time and money it takes to find and evaluate providers like Heroku

- The risk (and therefore potential cost) if the SaaS solution doesn't handle your needs as advertised

- Unknown costs that crop up both in paying the provider and handling stuff outside the provider.

- Overhead spent managing cloud applications

- Potential that local Internet or cloud startup experiences downtime.

There's a reason dedicated IT people exist and have been successful, and these are just a few of them.
Did you test your server with 1.000.000 connections?
Nothing new here, On-demand charter flights and empty-leg market arbitrage as been going on for years, the UK as a very strong market.

The fundamental problem is lack of inventory on the supply side and high costs.
I did not say to put javascript on a microcontroller -- this is precisely why I mentioned form factors that have MORE than a simple microcontroller, which would make JS more viable.

Also, the numerous choices in the embedded marketplace also imply numerous specialized choices for display, sandboxing model, API conventions, etc. I think FFOS has an edge in this area because it just reuses the work people have already done pushing the web forward.
As others point out, shooting someone is an ideal route to take when the courts cannot get involved.

This sounds like an interesting take on the matter.
Good. Maybe we'll get "silicon valleys" everywhere else as well when situation becomes completely untenable.