skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My go-tos are Lifehack (not Lifehacker) and Tiny Buddha. The advice is often very practical and has little/no moralizing.
You might want to consider naming your pricing plans differently.

There is a plan offering standard definition streaming called "Basic", and a plan offering high definition streaming called "Standard".

Those two words are often synonymous.
Kind of funny to see that programmers can only afford 4% of houses in SF where most programmer jobs are.
Thank you. It is astonishing how few people understand the distinction (public/private).
Thanks for pointing it out - title changed to better fit article content.
>I still have faith that Parliament can protect us

Well, the EU Parliament never did much for the fact that important decisions in the eurozone are taken by non-elected bureucrats (e.g. the EC) or unofficial and un-accountable bodies (the "eurogroup").
Some really interesting things may happen when you add arbitrarily powerful macros to a bondage and discipline non-Turing-complete language.
Well, you're right it looks like that from the small thumbnail, but the thumb is actually there, it's just weirdly bent

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0cu50g59r7ys1ce/Screenshot%202016-...
For my company in Australia, I'm thinking of making a US subsidiary because it's the easiest way to get a US bank account, so I don't have to pay fees from Stripe for currency conversion to accept US dollars. Also, it would let me accept ACH payments from US customers which is nice.

Next, as I'm doing some hardware stuff and buy parts from distributors in the US, it could save more in currency conversion rates there as well. Just need to talk to someone about how to do that legally (transfer pricing).

If I use Atlas, I'll probably wait for them to support LLCs because I think that would be a lot better for my uses.

Finally, incorporating the business in the US would good for founders wanting to take funds from US investors (but my startup is bootstrapped so I'm not really interested in that).
React Made Reactive: Components as Observables
React Native supports this.
Well, Visual Studio Code[1] is, so it may be coming in the future.

1: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/code-vs.aspx
HTC?
In the long run that may be true, but the same things they talk about (minus the mechanical head changes) will still hold in SSDs. The background activity is even worse for SSDs and the tail latency still very much exists.

Essentially the problem is that the HDDs and SSDs are built as black boxes and are not vertically integrated with a data center storage scheme. The major win will be when the HDDs and SSDs are slightly less self-sufficient and let the higher components in the stack manage them more in depth. Being able to tell the disk "do not bother with ecc for now" and try to get the data from your RAID and if that doesnt work come back to the disk and tell it "we really really want the data, spend as much as needed on this" is very strong in both getting the tail latency down and getting the reliability to stay at the same level.

For SSDs there is an added complication of garbage collection and the incredible amounts of over-provisioning needed to get consistent performance from them (at least 30% in an ME drive, the RI drives suck at consistent performance). If those can be reduced by more vertical integration that would reduce costs of the systems and make for better overall performance as well.
Also mention Laravel.
You realize that firefighting is a job that requires a great deal of training and education, and it's a job that's very easy to do badly?

Not only that, but fires spread, they need to be caught early, and they're preventable. It's not just a matter of performing a service for one home at a time if they catch on fire, it's a matter of performing a public service to reduce the risk of fire, enforce building codes, minimize damage caused by fires, and save lives. This is something that requires a community effort, and needs to cover the entire community uniformly.
Just as dumb as 2000 mile data path to a doorbell or security camera, but that still exists.

I personally haven't really thought about getting a IoT light bulb, but I would imagine you would program them to turn on when sun goes down, that shouldn't need direct connectivity and the bulbs can't tracks your phone moving aruond the house (or at least I doubt they can), so you either have to turn them on with your phone as you move along or just flip the switch or install actual movement sensors.

I'm probably completely missing the point of smart light bulbs, maybe you have actual use cases?
If a government agency responsible for signal monitoring and espionage suggests an encryption format, endorses one particular format over another or even just actively participates in such discussions -- shouldn't that raise alarm bells in most tech-savvy people's heads?

The reality is the telecommunication industries in UK, US and other nations are complicit with such activity because they are legally required to provide access to their partners in government intelligence. And they operate in highly regulated environments that they will be shut out of if they don't cooperate.

Encryption has moved to the OS level, which is why we're seeing similar pressure being presented to Apple with this terrorist's iPhone.
To the contrary, I believe, while it will be helpful in a number of ways, the orthography skills would likely suffer from lack of exercise as a computer takes on the task. Writing helps a lot to have to think about the spelling.
His point is valid (people should be governed in the way that the want, not as some body millions of miles away from the decides), but the examples are the worst ever.
Its not just quirks, but bionic doesn't support all the libc apis. For example, bionic does not support pthread_cancel.
The reasoning is that with Xamarin you're still writing imperative code (AFAIK) whereas React is declarative. The result from a perspective of creating UI is that it's much faster and easier to create a UI in React. I don't think anyone would disagree with me here unless they haven't used React.
I love documentaries. I am currently a subscriber to bunch of services like fandor.com, docclub.com ect.

But all of these are too America focused. I want to travel the world, see what lives are like for people all over the world. I can only watch so many food snob documentaries.

Current best bet is just going to youtube.com which has a wealth of documentaries.

Please someone make a non-america/europe focused indie flick site.
Holding Congress Accountable
Let's not go crazy here, it's 11 pages / 5.6k words. While it's unusual to have magazine articles that length these days, it's not a huge amount of time since that was more normal.

It's an excerpt from a book:

> Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and the paper’s senior editor of live journalism. He is the author of ‘‘The Power of Habit’’ and the forthcoming book ‘‘Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business,’’ from which this article is adapted.
Interesting. I have heard of that being a problem here as well, with each contract change/new company resetting seniority (even to do the same exact job) and keeping your annual PTO allotment. However, I don't know if my current situation is special, but I'm in the process of negotiating a move to a new company and was able to get them to agree to honor my service with my current company toward PTO seniority. So, it may just be something you need to fight for, that most people don't think to fight for?
Google has a new website
>Sometimes I just want to think those treaties' function is to curtail multinationals, so that countries can be able to effectively organize themselves against those corporations who have become hard to regulate in a context of globalization.

Huh? Those treaties are the wet dream of multinationals and all about further "globalization" (of private interests).

That's the very reason they are kept closed.
Getting more from enterprise data
Ace, thanks!
Oh awesome. I am in. Just canceled my netflix.
I wouldn't be surprised if they give it away for free. Microsoft has other revenue streams that it can use (VS Pro, MSDN, Office, Mac Builds, Azure).
Things British people all do. Do we all have bad teeth and drink tea?
On Tuesday Eric Brewer gave a talk on this white paper at FAST. In the talk (and probably discussed more in the paper) he proposed looking at alternative disk form factors. He seemed to be particularly interested in "tall" disks, say 2U, that had the same surface area as today, but with more platters, and potentially more heads.
If you get any response from disk vendors I'd be very interested to hear about it and be somehow involved. I've been asking them similar things for some time and got no response beyond a "we'll take a look" and never getting a reply back.

One such request that is also mentioned in your article is to get more granular responses in the IO responses, in a SAS disk you can get correctable errors that do not hamper the behavior but will get you information on the internal status and actions of the disks. SATA has a problem with this since any IO Error in SATA will cancel all outstanding IOs. Though I think that there are device logs and such now that can be implemented to provide some semblance of a similar result.
As an American, I am very familiar with the feeling of disenfranchisement I get every elections cycle. The two major parties field a wide variety of candidates, and methodically weed out all of the ones for which I have even an inkling of affinity. In the end, I am left with a choice between the stupid douche and the turd sandwich. I still technically have a choice, but my options have been severely curtailed, down to the point where the best selection criterion is which one makes me less nauseous.

In this case, the electorate is left with a choice between getting all of the multiparty treaty or none of it.

The bread is nice and springy, sliced to just the right thickness. The lettuce, tomato, and onion are all delicious and salubrious. The sauce is tangy, and a tiny bit sweet. But the turd inside is vile, odorous, and steaming. And you get the bill, and find that you already paid $100 for that sandwich, whether you eat it or not.

Now, had the public been given a chance to participate in the negotiations and debate, someone might have suggested, "Hey, how about we make a sandwich that doesn't have a giant, steaming turd in it?" And the designated negotiators look up, twitch their clubbed antennae, flex their mouth-parts in astonishment and horror, and brush down their shiny black carapaces with the knobby combs on their foremost pair of legs. Then they respond, "But the ball of dung is the only essential part of the whole sandwich!"

And that's when you realize that the world is run by dung beetles 1.8m long, who have absolutely zero understanding about why we humans don't just squeal with delight and scarf down the poop, with gusto, whenever it is handed to us.
WW3 EUROPE THE WORLD SHOULD WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE POET,
I'm not against democracy. It's just a citation from Wikipedia.

I think like Churchill that it's the best political system we've tried. You can change the government without a revolution. It's not so bad.

It think for technical problems, you're right, democracy and debates can help a lot to distinguish the good choice.
The Phoenix Project – A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Canada signed the TPP too. Didn't want to be left out and all that...
That wording is worse than absurd. It's comical. Their ability to use a thesaurus does not make them intellectuals, in fact the exact opposite.
Cool that Kazakhstan gets a Google landing page as well.

Did they have any other search engine before? I can tell from my Analytics that they are active internet users generally.
I actually think it might be somewhat the opposite; there's less messy infrastructure in smaller places and so they're perhaps more likely to get it. I know that a few little places outside of Truro got it, for example.
> go against company value

I wonder how it would go down if they said it was against their religion, a la Hobby Lobby.
I used to do that, back in the 90s in college. First I just put tons of trash paper in business-reply envelopes and drop them in the mail, then I started filling them up with gravel.

Years later, on the internet, I remember seeing some article about people doing this, and they had pictures of things like business-reply envelopes attached to bricks, which the USPS had received. IIRC, they said that the USPS didn't actually send these or charge the business for them, unfortunately.

So stick with just dropping them in the mail as-is, to make sure the business gets charged for it.
They don't have a support number on their website. Is that a common thing?
Works, gets constantly better, no JS-like fatigue, fast PHP7 engine, tons of tools, libs and support.
Another good example of CoC bullying from her: https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004

Talking to the CTO today to move our repos to GitLab :)
While Stripe team is great and it's always good to place all services under one roof, both registering US corporation and opening US bank account online is not something new, Harvard Business Services (www.delawareinc.com) had done company formation for years for startups and the fee is nicer ($250 single payment + $50/year for registered agent vs Atlas $500 single payment + $125/year for registered agent). Atlas is twice more expensive, which may be sensitive for early-stage startups.

We formed a C-corp with HBS. Then opened SVB account for free, printed standard incorporation docs, got EIN from IRS and opened account with Braintree (could be Stripe as well), all for free. We just had to use different websites instead of one, but no additional difficulties.
Lessons learned from Co-Founding two startups: Warby Parker and Harry's
I don't think those don't back up your claim, those numbers are specifically pre-rebate and are being shown there to justify the fairness of rebates as a useful market feature by showing that without them the expected returns would be negative and thus discourage trading. You claimed the average was unprofitable post rebate, showing pre-rebate numbers has no bearing on your claim.

> In a competitive equilibrium, this has to be the case.

I don't agree, the spread exists for a reason, it is quite literally the minimum cost of doing business for selling liquidity. If selling liquidity were not profitable, no one would do it.

> If the average limit order lost less than the spread and rebate, it would be profitable to mechanically copy every limit order with an infinitesimally small limit order placed right behind it.

That doesn't follow. You have no idea how much liquidity is sitting at that price so even posting at the same price wouldn't guarantee execution let alone posting behind it. Limit orders are profitable because they are inherently offering a service that the market is willing to pay for, liquidity, that's it.

> If the average limit order lost more, it would be profitable to copy every marketable order trading to remove any residual liquidity on the book at that price.

If the average limit order lost, it'd be called a market order because market orders lose the spread and limit orders make the spread, that's how it works. That is the equilibrium, market orders buy liquidity from limit orders for the price of the spread.

> Of course HFTs limit orders perform better than average or they'd be out of business (and many do go out of business).

Yes, exactly, and they perform better due to latency putting them first in the queue, that's rather the whole point of HFT, being first in line.

> Speed alone is no longer an edge in most markets.

Incorrect, speed is always an edge for the fastest trader; it's simply no longer easy to compete on speed for most firms. Dodd Frank has devastated HFT with the sub-penny rule making latency even more important and driving most out of business.

> Most are holding risk for more than microseconds or single seconds.

Yes, because they can't be the fastest, they have to start speculating a bit. This is because the hay day of HFT is over; they're being forced into speculation by the inability to compete on price due to the sub-penny rule and the inability to compete on speed due to the massive costs of doing so. But once you start speculating for longer than a few seconds, you're no longer a HFT trader, you're just an algorithmic trader. HFT is market making, if you're speculating on direction and holding for expected moves, you're not a HFT, you're an algo trader.
One of them is that, each time you read a new program, you have to learn a new language. Probably no language benefitted / suffered from this more than Lisp.
I fail to understand why in this hyperconnected age real estate prices are going up. There is no need to be in a big city anyway, the prices are absurd, houses are tiny, and immigration/globalization has made most cities look alike. Or is it because the rich have thrown their money at it, inflating prices?
Google Fiber Comes to San Francisco
Thanks for posting BLS numbers. For all of the comments mentioning aspirational high salaries, the BLS numbers give a much more accurate view, albeit with a minor time delay.
Things I like about PHP: it's not perl, which it replaced for webdev. It's very optimized, and people with fat budgets pay for that (eg. Facebook). It connects to everything. Most of its (useful to webdev type situation) libraries are more mature than the equivalents in other languages, because more people have used them for longer. It had working unicode from the early days. It runs everywhere. Loads of people know enough of it to be dangerous / collaborate, and they tend to be numerous in the young/cheap hire pool. It's pretty much web-oriented, but can do scripting fine as well. It has a relatively stable configuration. Honestly, I think it's a very Unix-like solution to webdev problems, because it lets you roll your own solution, stays out of your way (unless requested), and encourages you to code in higher level languages. Yes, a lot of the code out there is horrible. Yes, most people code on frameworks which replace half the language with ugly hanging half-implemented abstractions. Yes, the function name thing is a pain. But mostly, really always almost mostly, it just works ... quite fast indeed, and everywhere. Yay PHP!
Hopefully they'll fix it soon so people can't disable any of this stuff, and the ads get really blatant and annoying.

It's just like the old adage about boiling a frog. Except that in reality, frogs aren't actually that stupid, and will jump out of the pot when the water gets too hot. Humans aren't that smart.
> does this mean anyone can write code to perform any kind of task (nefarious or otherwise) and be protected by the First Amendment?

Yes, that's pretty much true, though actually executing that code to perform a nefarious task (or otherwise conspiring to execute the task or encouraging people to that end) may still be illegal.
I switched to Google Domains a while ago for personal use. It's a bummer that yet another important thing is centralized in my Google account, but seeing as Google already handles critical things (email --> account resets), I don't introduce an additional vulnerability by hosting my domains with them. Hopefully, by now, their two factor situation is sufficient, and their manual processes of sending scans of passports undergoes sufficient scrutiny. Anybody have any information on this? How strong is Google account security these days?
Singapore quietly censored Obama's uplifting remarks on the LGBT community
Lastpass, being primarily a browser plugin, makes generated passwords much more convenient. When I'm setting up a new account, I press Alt-G to bring up the generator dialog, and then it auto-fills when I need to log in. I honestly don't know most of my passwords (I still memorise my primary email password, so I'm not totally stuck if I lost access to LastPass).

This is a compromise, because I'd prefer to trust an open source tool and an encrypted local file, but I trust Lastpass enough, and the convenience is very nice.
I don't think you've read the comments you are replying to.

Negotiators make proposals which might seem outrageous. Nobody thinks they will get drafted. It is a step towards getting a concession from the opposing side. Just like in the movies. One side starts at 4000, the other at 1,000 and they meet at 2,500.
I think these are good qualifiers in some respects. The teams I felt the most comfortable working in were ones where I felt like I was respected by my peers, that everyone was doing their part, and that it was okay to go against the flow if you had an idea.

The problem is in attempting to attain the things above, I've also been on teams in a company where I was clearly the strongest person on the team, and was chastised for providing too much guidance because management had the idea it was better for people to fail on their own (in production) than it was for only one person on the team to be the primary contributor of plans/the way to go. Maybe they were right, but the end result was that it made /me/ feel disrespected by management, and my own contributions suffered, causing the overall team to suffer because the other team members were too junior to pick up the slack when my contributions fell off.

I think there's a right way and a wrong way to try to achieve these qualities in a team. My personal experience is that when you have a team of people who are all very strong in at least one skill set and have clear pathways to communication it works much better than having a team which is relatively weak/junior with only one or two people who are strong unless there are clear lines of seniority. It's a consequence of the idea in modern society that "all opinions are created equal" is not only true, but a good thing. It's important that either you're in a group where you can trust the equality of everyone's opinions, or that you have clear leaders that can mentor everyone else and provide strong guidance.

Basically, if you can, build an "A-Team". If you can't do that, make sure you don't actively undermine your A players. If your A players aren't jerks, they're naturally rise into leadership roles in the team and help mentor/teach everyone else to bring them up as well. Undermining the A players will end up causing the entire group to suffer and eventually the A players will leave and you'll be stuck with a group that's significantly weaker for it.

Of course my thoughts above are primarily focused on technical teams, I don't know if they apply as clearly to non-technical teams, and this Google study appears to have looked at both.
I was interested until I saw "Bitcoin" in the title. At that point, you can pretty well figure out the quality of the content.
isn't this the same as namecoin?
As a single person in London you can have a very comfortable lifestyle on 50K - I'm speaking from personal experience. Two years ago I paid 175K for a modern flat in good condition in Zone 3 - very close to a major bus depot actually, if it's the bus drivers you're worried about. I could buy what I wanted, go out more than I cared to, and was still saving money.

Fundamentally there are only so many houses and a lot of people want to live in London. Maybe the young people will push the families out, and then migrate out in turn when they themselves grow up and want a big house to raise a family in. If so then that's no bad thing in my book (and I don't think it's anything new). The young people are probably getting a lot more value out of living in London, since they're the ones going to the restaurants, theatres, gigs, clubs etc. - let them.
These tools exist in Javacript. I'm not saying C# is inferior at all, but JS is not inferior to C# here. TypeScript/Flow are backwards compatible with JS so you can add static typing to your JS at any time.

React Native is capable of doing anything a native runtime can do because it too is native.

High quality tools do now exist that bring type checking, Intellisense, hot module replacement, etc.