skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never understood people who believe this

You can think of your death as a hard-and-fast deadline to achieve all your dreams - this is pretty motivating for some people. Steve jobs had this to say in a 2005 commencement speech[1]: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important".

Other people's death's can be a gift as well: tyrants don't get to rule forever, and out-dated ideas die with their generations. Immortality would be a good thing in a "Culture"-like society: i.e. if we manage to solve all the other human problems (like greed and poverty) first

1. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
I call my README files README.md and they show up.

Never tried it without the .md extension since that was the Github default (IIRC).
Google photos is really quite cool (sometimes almost magic), with one exception. You can't put a caption on a photo. (to my knowledge) That's ridiculous.
Yes, support for light rail is increasing. Construction is now starting on a new rail line from Seattle to Bellevue/Redmond, although it won't open for many years.

I attended many government planning meetings in the 1990's, and people were definitely anticipating the steadily increasing road congestion we've been experiencing since then. One of the big issues is that the topography in this region drives up costs. The densest urban areas are wedged between Puget Sound, Lake Washington, and Lake Sammamish, and in between there are steep hillsides and environmentally sensitive areas. Transit expansion therefore involves building bridges, purchasing land in areas with expensive view homes, and tunneling. We could raise taxes to pay for more rail expansions, but higher taxes combined with the rapidly increasing housing costs would price out many people, especially families.
It is unfortunate, but just create a new branch and run autotools, and mark a release there.
Hmm, in my case at least with a bunch of companies, they had laid out the interview process (say, 3 or 4 steps) and they stopped communicating after the 2nd or 3rd step (with more to come) so I don't think they had me as a secondary alternative, I don't know why they can't just say "Sorry, you are not the right fit for us" and _then_ stop communicating for the legal / time waste reasons the article gives.
Why refurbished Apple products are really „as good as new“
Incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
I have a question. I'm wondering why big companies buy smaller companies but don't keep their branding. For instance, if Google bought Picaza, why not just make Picaza the de-facto image storage app? They'd replace their Photos app with Picaza, and call it a day. Something similar happened recently with Songza.

Is there any reason in particular why small companies are bought out by big companies and their brands are dissolved rather than building on top of their initial branding?
> this led to Win10 spying on _everything_

and no one is complaining about that /s
Which is what squatting is...
When this first launched in India a couple months ago, the realization of what was going on really hit me. I was already opposed to it for net neutrality reasons, but in practice the program just rolled out Facebook and a few apps without data charges to everyone, not just the unconnected, which was extra flagrant. I wrote this: https://medium.com/@firasd/facebook-s-internet-org-free-basi...

Also see this: A data-driven argument on why Marc Andreessen is wrong about Free Basics https://medium.com/@sumanthr/a-data-driven-argument-on-why-m...

The reporter in the main linked article couldn't find one person using Free Basics who hadn't been on the internet before.
Even assuming everyone bought in at today's low cost base; who would agree to this? Would you voluntarily lose $15+/share for...for what exactly? Greater good?
Ah damnit, what?!

Due to my intense procrastination, when people say "something that most people don't know" [1] I've usually at least heard of it. But somehow this has completely slipped under my radar. Makes me rethink a lot of how I understand motivation.

[1] (On the Internet, in certain circles, for certain topics.)
I took a brief look at the paper scanning for multiple hypothesis testing corrections.

"Neandertal variants have been hypothesized
to influence many phenotypes in AMHs, including
lipid metabolism, immunity, depression,
digestion, hair, and skin, on the basis of the enrichment
of Neandertal variants in regions of
the genome relevant to these traits. Accordingly, we first tested these hypotheses
using genome-wide complex trait analysis (GCTA)
to estimate the phenotypic risk explained by 1495 genotyped common (minor allele frequency
> 1%) Neandertal SNPs for a set of 46 highprevalence
phenotypes from the hypothesized
categories, using age, sex, and eMERGE site as
covariates."

When testing these 46 traits they controlled the FDR < 0.05 (false discovery rate). Then they replicated the associations in an independent sample.

The effect sizes are pretty small (1-2%), so having the explanatory variants won't have much bearing whether or not you'll get these complex traits.
> You can think of your death as a hard-and-fast deadline to achieve all your dreams

For it to be useful as a hard-and-fast deadline, you have to know in advance exactly when it will come. Otherwise, its just knowledge that there will be a deadline at some point in the future, which is very different than a hard-and-fast deadline.
And it takes longer, so more billable hours.
As of the middle of 2015 GitLab was hosted on a single c3.8xlarge AWS instance in Frankfurt.

See https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/09/moving-all-your-data/

Perhaps their scaling strategy has improved since then.
Its the exact same thing here in Vancouver, there are even protests because someone is going to tear down a small house that fits one family and build a bigger house on the same property that fits multiple families.

We have a low interest rate fuelled asset bubble and 1%'ers are complaining that they can't afford detached housing in Vancouver, never realizing that if everyone in Vancouver live in detached housing we'd need 150% of the available land in Vancouver (like no roads, offices, parks, pools, etc just detached housing)

It's stupid to expect to be able to live in detached housing in a world class city. The other thing is that Vancouver isn't really a 'city' in the way that many others are, the 'burbs are separate cities so we get this 'most unaffordable' label when its really much better than many other cities.
Good idea. Actually moments should ask you what you're interested in. Kind of like Google Now. I don't need a feed full of celebrity news
This is an insufficient explanation. Canada's debt to GDP ratio is in the 60-70% range where that of the US is in the 90% range. Yet the situation in Vancouver is significantly more acute than those of New York and San Francisco.
> Which ignores the waste disposal externality and alternative uses of the resources used for replacement. The whole point of the slogan is to address the fact that being wasteful has costs that you don't see up front.

It is a rare person who will pay >100% to repair a broken device rather than pay 100% to replace it with a newer, possibly superior product in order to avoid the (more or less abstract in our minds, despite being very real) cost of all the externalities of that decision.
What part of the parent's post makes you think he/she agrees with the GP?
That does seem a bit rude.
Political Correctness Killer for Social Media
They could be as transparent as possible and tell us what they have. This seems like just a stopgap to prevent leakage of the more popular OS repos.

Damage control is not a replacement for answers.
The site looks neat.

I get the concept. It seems very useful.

At first glance, I couldn't actually get it (I didn't know what it is suppose to do).
I asked some of my friends by looking at the landing page, if they got it at first glance. They didn't as well.
No. Watch a few science fiction films. :p
And yet if you ask the average person in the street, they will blame 'interest rates' or 'Chinese buyers', and not once look at the ridiculous blockage on supply.

I think that this is the other dimension to the Vancouver housing problem that no one is talking about yet. Vancouver is separated from the rest of the province by the Fraser river to the south-east, and regional development policy for about 30 years has been fashioned to make it difficult for anyone to live south of the Fraser.

If we put more bridges across the Fraser and built more highways, I think most of this problem would go away on its own.
And so castles made of sand

melt in the sea

eventually
It'll be 1 at first. It's likely to then gradually be increased over time, probably to 2, then 4, maybe 8. Not sure about beyond that.

I'm currently working on reducing memory usage to help with this, because that's the main downside of increasing the content process count. There are all sorts of trade-offs here: performance, memory usage, address space usage, security, crash-resilience, and they all tug in different directions.
Yeah, I can see it and I don't have a Gitlab account.
Introducing the Resin CLI
> In some states that may be true.

If by "some states" you mean "some (most?) parts of the Western world".
Solid advice.

I moved to Vancouver shortly before the .com crash. Worked for a number of companies, primarily doing low-level system programming, climbing from 50K to 120K in 5 or so years and periodically trying to do my own thing. One of the attempts worked, got a good exit, at which point started looking at upgrading from our pretty decent Burnaby condo to a house.

Being a true nouveau riche, we scouted everything, including most expensive areas like UBC, Point Gray and West Vancouver, talked to the agents, looked at the building lots, spoke with architects - the whole shebang. It became absolutely crystal clear that the Vancouver real estate is just one big parking lot for Chinese money. And they don't just park them there, they also bring their gambling habits with them, constantly flipping what they have and perpetually warming up the prices. It is in-your-face obvious once you take a close look at what's going on. You don't even have to prompt agents to relay the stories of how they guide groups of Chinese government suits through dozens of properties, all of which they end up buying above asking. It is absolutely INSANE. As it is ultimately disgusting.

In any case, we looked around once again, said "fuck it" and moved elsewhere. Mountains and good restaurants can't offset the fact that you feel like a lower middle class even when you don't have to work ever again in your life.

It's a nice place when you are young, renting and have no attachments, but I would strongly discourage from trying to settle there on a more permanent basis.
I think I just preferred multiplayer over collaborative as a term, risking the misunderstanding. It's a design tool, it doesn't have a game-loop, but it is built on a game engine, and was intended to be more physical and provide more tangible feedback similar to games.
Right, I'm saying that when you are out of shape it takes more physiological and psychological effort to reach the same level of exercise intensity as a fit person.
Unfortunately, Himawari's green filter is a different wavelength (color) than the green reflected by most plant life, so very little of it is captured, skewing the "true color" composite towards red. NOAA has an image product which attempts to correct for this - more details in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978249
Yes, you do hold coins on each side of the fork; there's no plausible technical way of merging the two sides again.

Having said that, with sufficient consensus on the hard form, it's likely that the other side would have so few blocks mined as to be worthless and useless; one or the biggest disagreements between the Classic devs and the Core devs is the latter generally advocate much higher miner support thresholds, e.g. my own 99% support vs Gavin's 75% support.
That's likely what'll happen eventually. But we're starting with 1 content process because even that is a huge change and is going to cause disruption and will take a while to iron out the wrinkles.
This may actually not be true, if rent prices must be competitive.

Georgist taxes have the interesting feature that land rents taxation ( not rack rent, which is what you pay the landlord ) cannot be passed on.
Never rely on a Google product that isn't used by at least 80% of their user-base. It days are numbered.
Or remote communication.
Congrats, you just violated the GPL. You were already violating the proprietary license if you're using his for commercial purposes without paying.

Not all free software is free.
The default setup for LXD is to create a NAT bridge which is what you seem to be asking for.

Maybe something went wrong with your install?
How much cabling and how many APs could FB have deployed with the resources spent trying to propagate this program?

If someone gave me free Internet, I'd probably check out their page.
The domain in parens next to the title says "medium.com", but the link is actually on "https://backchannel.com/how-india-pierced-facebook-s-free-in....

Curious how that happened.
The best support (the only real support) I’ve ever gotten for Google products were

(a) partnersupport-de@youtube.com (support for youtube partners, monetized, back in the days, German),

(b) This very website. Start an angry thread, get it to the front page – or post a comment on a frontpage thread about a dev topic – and suddenly some Google dev ends up fixing it, and in the same moment, your comment on here disappears.

Support methods I have also tried:

(c) Buying Google Apps for Business (the 30 day free month), then calling their support, after the support call was successful, cancelling it again (doesn’t work, Google doesn’t answer Google Apps for Business calls, someone takes your call, you say hi, in the same second they hang up on you)

Support methods I have not tried yet, but plan to, in case the previous ones don’t work anymore:

(d) Just arriving in person at their nearest Google office, getting entrance somehow, and then directly providing my complaints to the next manager (at risk of getting sued for entering their office illegally)
There are two things that might be relevant to your request. In GitLab you can star repo's and show that, obviously this would mean only one list. And we would love to see nested groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2772 although this would require you to move the projects under the chess namespace.
Are you sure the extrinsic motivation was what caused your decreased intrinsic motivation? Exercise motivation slides downward for just about everybody for many reasons or no reason.

And do you mind sharing your age? Lots of people hit a point of metabolic change somewhere between ... 20-40?
https://github.com/fiji-flo/mozilla-berlin/blob/master/fxos/...
Thanks for you advise. I appreciate it.

One of the problems with setting up Stripe/credit card payments for us is the amount is close to 5K. Most client would prefer a invoice as opposed to a direct debit.

Clients on a 1-2K retainers generally ask for an automated payment. Clients above the 2K mark generally pay but are usually much slower.

We email them after 10 days and then a personal call is made every 15 days.

We have never had a non payment issue as such but the invoices are always waiting for the directors or someone's signature to go through.

We have tried the following so far

1) Automated payments.
2) Personal email after 10 days
3) Call every 15 days.
5) SEO invoices are month in advance yet payments come 30 days after service is delivered.

For ongoing clients that have been us with over 6 months it may be difficult to stop services. We know they will pay as we have a good relationship.
Don't Set Your iPhone Back to 1970
Whenever I return to Seattle on visits, I find the traffic to be quite reasonable. Also, the housing market seems much more sane than where I live now (Bejing).

Washington state is the worst state for taxes and governance, except when compared to all the other states. It works out well.
For sure, we have 94 servers in checkmk now, a significant portion of which is used to run GitLab.com
Build me an MVP in 2 weeks for $2k?
Trying to validate a mobile app idea; have a single interested customer, but have a limited window before they purchase a solution.

I have wires and specs, just need someone to build it for me. I don't have a platform preference but it needs to run on iOs (iPad).

I was outsourcing this previously, and it fell apart spectacularly, and I'm kind of up against the wall.

Leave me your email and I'll get back to you.

...hail mary!
France says Facebook must face French law in nudity censorship case
> Does anyone have a convenient way to convert this to a bind9 config format?

If you use BIND RPZs, you can convert from /etc/hosts format to BIND zonefile format, (or just pump the new entries to nsupdate) which should be pretty trivial. Some information and useful links are in this comment and subsequent commentary. [0]

IMO RPZs are substantially easier to manage than an ever-growing set of master blackhole zones, especially when you have slave DNS servers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085521
Mine, at least, dynamically adjusts my daily goal based on what I usually hit, plus a "stretch" factor to give you something to strive for. Like, "You hit 7,000 steps every day last week, let's see if you can hit 7,500"
They can always play the political game , like UBER - maybe building a solution and advertising it straight to patients and/or politicians(and legally bribe them if needs be). Once patients groups and politicians will be in the mix , it will be much harder for the healthcare system to resist change.
Kinda related - I wrote a library to hook up file system monitoring to Akka actors: https://github.com/pathikrit/better-files#akka-file-watcher

Here's a Java article describing its internals:
http://www.javaadvent.com/2015/12/reactive-file-system-monit...
1. http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/immigrate/business/investors/in...

2. Proxy companies that maintain RE portfolios for overseas clients

3. Complete unwillingness of the government to do anything about this. That's the root of the problem.
Something I have been looking
Jeff Weiner Discusses LinkedIn's Stock Drop
Code Speaks
> If you can't write a test for it, you don't understand it well enough.

While this statement is generally true, I'm amazed how often people rely on
substituting good architecture and composability of modules with tests. Like
testability was some kind of magic chicken that made software good once
somebody waved it over the codebase, while the tests are mostly useful for
detecting regressions.
Yup, Lightroom was tailor build for exactly this.
> so does this mean I am "naturally" fit without really trying?

Doesn't mean anything. Could even be the case that you have an existing heart condition which causes brachycardia – this is why many doctors will ask for exams if a patient has a heart rate that low. Or could mean that your heart muscle is stronger than what would be expected with your lifestyle. Only a specialized doctor would know.
I'd guess the usage of [Waits on client to provide specs...] in the software scenario is a bit facetious.

Often clients can't produce specs sufficient to build an application. Some clients may produce 'specs' which are incomprehensible, making them impossible to estimate.

The crude part is, that such projects may still go on, and worse, the client may believe that the application is actually being built to the specs.
https://backchannel.com/about
I have a lot of love for Vancouver, but the strange insistence on low salaries in an expensive housing market, with serious traffic and physical natural barriers to transportation, is a real problem.

I know of several developers, whose advice and preference is to move out of the city (closer to skiing/biking/etc) and work remotely for a US company.

There is plenty of evidence of the foreign property issue, and the willful ignorance of the government. Besides everything else posted, here's an academic case study:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/in-a-six-month-peri...

http://www.slideshare.net/ayan604/ownership-patterns-of-sing...
For browsers, multiple sites such as caniuse.com have statistics on browser usage, which can help determine compatibility requirements.

Does anyone know of similar statistics for email client rendering engines?

For that matter, I don't see anything in MJML about how to handle plain-text email clients. (No, "here's a link to the HTML on a website" is not OK; the text version should have all the same content as the HTML.)
From the slide deck:

Our full name analysis methodology follows accepted practices in the fields of epidemiology, demography, and political science. This study wanted to see if any distinct patterns occurring when non-Anglicized Chinese names are isolated from the rest of the data set. It is a primary assumption of this study that a non-Anglicized Chinese names may be an indication that an owner may be an recent immigrant to Canada and that an Anglicized Chinese name is an indication of a long time immigrant or non-immigrant and/or multigenerational Canadian of sole or mixed ethnic Chinese ancestry. As a course of experimentation, there may be names missed for new immigrants who have Anglicized Chinese names and long time immigrants or multi-generational Canadian with non-Anglicized Chinese name to may be in the wrong catagory, but, with external reviews, this risk is minimal.

Within this data set, the name patterns were exceptionally and surprisingly distinct as they lacked ambiguous names like “Scott Low” which could be a Chinese or Scottish name or “John Li” which could be Chinese, Vietnamese, or Korean name. These names did not exist within this data set. Non-Anglicized Chinese names in the study were either in a three or two name sequences that our literature survey suggested were Chinese with no ambiguous names. Without direct measures of immigration or citizenship status and property ownership that are publicly available in Canada, this is an indirect measure of how globalization, non-localized wealth, and immigration, particularly from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan or Chinese global diaspora are entering one portion of the real estate market in Vancouver.

It's not perfect, but it's all we've got.
I can understand the concern about tax dodging, but how far does this go? You could make the argument that any non-profit arrangement that throws of monetarily-beneficial goods below price is dodging taxes.

If I call up an old mentor and he gives me useful, money saving tips that I employ to amplify my business's profits, should he be taxed "as if" he billed me as a consultant?

If employees of a for-profit startup ask questions on a mailing list they're members of, should the mailing list be taxed as if it were selling consultancy services?

And how (too tired to come up with an answer myself) would this case differ from Vanguard? I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that the Vanguard investment management company is charging other people market price for its advice, but what if my mentor did that? Are we now in a world where, if I sell a good for-profit to anyone, I must pay taxes on the income I would have gotten, any time I give that good to someone else for free?

What if my wife's a professional childcare provider? Do I have to pay taxes on the imputed income from when she's alone with our kids? (There are non-G-rated versions of that question, btw.)

(Honest questions, all. Don't know if I'm missing something here or misunderstanding the tax threat model.)
Silly little hipsters with nothing better to do ~ this is really newsworthy?