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> pointed, accusatory comments

I don't understand -- the parent comment [0] seemed quite NPV, fact-based (albeit lacking in citational support), and non-argumentative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11297491
Funny how soda is targeted by politicians but sugary coffees are not.

I suspect it's a class issue: politicians see soda as something that poor, obese people drink, but a white chocolate mocha is not.
Unfortunately, the article is down right now, so I don't have the context for that quote.

But in "Thinking Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman makes that same point that most of our reasoning is kind of heuristic pattern matching. There are lots of experiments that show evidence of this behavior cited in his book. Certainly people can turn it off and logically reason about things when desired, but it's slow and taxing, and the heuristics people live by mostly work, so it's frequently unneeded.
It really depends on how elastic your workload is. Imagine, if amazon had 1 day/week/month minimum for the VMs. You'd run into the same issues (you wouldn't respond to a spike in demand if it was only going to last 2 hours).

I think the point is: Smaller billing windows allow you to be more responsive to your load and be able to shut down faster and save more money.
Rundown? Can you use that in a sentence?
He may or may not, but I wouldn't doubt their PR team already pinned HN as a source to consume. Plus there is https://twitter.com/newsycombinator. #twitter, definitely.
Yeah, document.org in the repository is a reflection of that post.
>Why is it clear that he "overrode" his original judgement by adding films, rather than simply being reminded of some he hadn't considered?

The films that he was "reminded of" all happened to be directed by women, after a bit of a public hand-slap about that exact subject?

Possible, but not probable.

Again, what the hell does the director gender even have to do with this? What sort of person reads Spike Lee's List of Movies that Every Aspiring Director Should See and says, "Boy, I hope everyone is equally represented here!". The fact that it was even a "thing" is ridiculous, and yes, Political Correctness gone overboard.
+ YARN :)
Distelli Announces Pull Request and Docker Private Registry Support
Tax to alter people's behavior ? That never ends well for anyone.
Amber: A new language and live environment made for the web
The choice of a package manager is on a project by project basis. It's not as if you were required to use Bower or NPM to manage your dependancies.

Those are simply two tools used by the JS community to manage its dependancies. There are a lot[1] of them.

Where I work, everything was pushed by the back-end guys for a long time. This made the front-end developer dependant on them. With tools that use front-end languages (JavaScript), the front-end team is now free to experiment with package management and build systems (Grunt.js, Gulp.js). This made it so that we now have a very complex but quick and useful front-end workflow. We wouldn't have this if we had not freed the front end team dependancy on the back end team for builds, dependancies, etc.

[1]
https://www.npmjs.com/
http://bower.io/
http://duojs.org/
http://webpack.github.io/
https://github.com/componentjs/component
http://enderjs.com/
http://jamjs.org/
http://volojs.org/ etc.
Inside Facebook's New Audience Overlap Tool
Its a very common pattern to underpay market rates in exchange for equity lottery tickets. Thats what he means "employees got nothing" .
Would like to think that our little concept qualifies as novel -- it's an AI-powered workplace culture consultant (http://worknice.co)

His name is Charlie, you interact with him like you would any other consultant via email or Slack, and he's focused on executing culture initiatives that make people happier @ work.
>I don't think this is the same problem you would address by rent control.

Of course not. Rent control is fundamentally a tool for getting political benefits at the expense of economic ones. It explicitly creates winners in the voting district that implements it at the cost of losers everywhere else. It's in the same moral class as dumping toxic waste into a river.

>And yet, there are many people living in rent-controlled housing who would disagree with you.

I'm not at all surprised that the beneficiaries of political favors support handing out those favors.
run·down

noun

noun: rundown; plural noun: rundowns; noun: run-down; plural noun: run-downs

ˈrənˌdoun/

1. an analysis or summary of something by a knowledgeable person.
"he gave his teammates a rundown on the opposition"
Android N adds features for developers
I'm doing research on something more general. What you describe is one use-case of a general discussion and collaboration protocol I think we really need. I'm tackling this with a hypergraph discourse structure combinend with community moderation. But a lot more research needs to be done.
I totally see your point. My counter-argument would be:

If Twitter is a neutral platform, a fake account is not distinguishable from a real one and it doesn't matter. It takes an incredible amount of work to make a fake account seem like a real person.

By creating content leaderboards that do not remove fraudulent network effects, Twitter has created an incentive for fake account creation. Its own ad-sales model benefits from this too, since many of the platform's top line numbers include fraudulent engagement data.

Also, Twitter has not made data/tooling available for third party providers (like SimplyMeasured, Radian6, etc.) to do meaningful fraud analysis, so companies are paying for social media engagement numbers that include bots, sock puppets, etc.

But my larger point is that as a network Twitter should not care about spam and should instead let others determine what content is "good" vs "bad" for their particular use case.
At best you are only going to be able to patch the security hole that having key escrow has created though. You can never to better than that, and it's quite likely that the system would be less than 100% secure in practice.
I have not. That's super neat and I'm glad people are making progress! Is there anything happening on the animation side which will push past mocapped movements?
Are you including Groupon in "these sites"? What they offer are essentially promotional deals, just like sales or coupons you get in the mail or from a newspaper or, these days, from online websites. Why not? It draws in new customers who might have been on the fence about trying your product/service, puts butts in seats at restaurants, boosts the sales figures, and gets your name out there. If it didn't work, Groupon would go under.

I suspect Living Social's main problem is that it's a me-too service that doesn't offer much of an advantage over Groupon. Google ended their Offers a year or two ago; also a me-too effort, and I think Amazon Local also shut down.
There are so many of these stories of wealthy founders turning down bird in the hand offers and then losing it all X years later even though the company got 'big'. I too got burned by one myself.

I advise friends now to avoid those companies as employees, because an exit that would be very good for you might be turned down by wealthy founders. Joining a startup with a wealthy founder means they will go huge or bust, and nothing in between. Great if you want to do that yourself, but you usually want to be wealthy already.
> Twitter exists to make money.

True, but for a platform business there has to be a correct recognition of the relevant time horizon. Amazon's profitability numbers in its first decade illustrate this.
I'm confused how it's associated with the FMLA. The FMLA benefits apply equally to men and women (12 weeks unpaid in 12 months).
Media's culpability in the rise of Trump is that they have spent the last 5-10 years squandering their reserves of trust with increasingly transparent and dishonest propaganda.

There are two important consequences. First, the most obvious is that since they've lost the trust of large segments of the audience, they have exceptionally limited their ability to influence those people no matter what. Trump won those people without a fight.

Second is talent atrophy. Since media has taken the trust of their readers for granted, ideology has replaced integrity. Image is still important, but trust is seen only as a function of ideological pandering. This means many of them have no idea what to do, even if people were inclined to believe them.

It would not have mattered one bit when the media decided to get critical. They have to rebuild trust first.
It's terrible! Those drinks seem to be a socially acceptable way to eat a pint of ice cream and whipped cream at 8am. Because it has "coffee" in the name.
Sorry, yes, that could have been more precise. There's a common trope that executives have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value, but that's not actually written into any sort of law for the reasons I mentioned — business is all about judgement calls trying to balance risks and trying to balance short and long-term prospects. I'll edit that to clarify.

That doesn't mean that cost shouldn't be considered, only that there's no support for the assertion that “cost is definitely a more important factor” because reasonable people can quite legitimately come to different conclusions. I might think the overseas call center is reasonable, you might think that you'll be able to offer a better customer experience by keeping it in-house or with staff who work for you rather than contractors, etc. and only time will tell how true those predictions are.
I started out with simple flex, then moved to a flex based grid library because it solves subtle gutter/margin alignment issues that appear with out of the box flex rows.
"It's like no politician ever read about crime. Staff can't be blackmailed or bribed. "

More likely they know their audience (most voters) don't know about crime, terrorism and encryption to know how bad the plans are.
Actually, what I'm saying is that bin packing is a hard problem so separate the work from the machines, make the bins smaller, and then bin packing becomes easier.
I don't think politicians routinely target soda either.

Bloomberg targeted sugary drinks, there was no exception for Starbucks. What soda banning events to you believe constitute this pattern?
Ive had both a call center job and a job making sandwiches all day while teaching myself programming on the side. I progressed way further during the sandwich-making years. It was hard to come home after being on a computer all day dealing with real problems (call center) and sit down to program, whereas after working in a restaurant I was physically exhausted but desperate for a cognitive outlet.
Not to nitpick with the spirit of your point, but I wouldn't say this satisfies the requirements for socially acceptable. What you're explaining just means owing money to the IRS is an easier situation to resolve than owing money to a bank. Before you and Patrick explain the nuances of these scenarios (such as in this thread), I'm willing to bet most people look at it more like this:

John owes the bank $50,000

Hey, John is almost done paying off his mortgage. That's just swell.

James owes the IRS $50,000

Did you hear about James? What is he involved in and why doesn't he pay his taxes?

I think social acceptance is more or less positively correlated with what's common for the middle class. Taking out $50,000 in student loans for a degree with poor ROI is inarguably a bad financial decision, but it's fundamentally sound in terms of social signaling.

Conversely, not paying taxes is something that would be unthinkable to the anxious fiscal sensibilities of the middle class (but notably, not necessarily the upper class if they can benefit from it, and not necessarily the lower class if they can't afford it).
Yeah, it's incredible to me that legislators can just throw their hands up and pretend there is absolutely nothing they could possibly do.
> Tech companies don't have to be in Vancouver.

Agree with you 100%, but they are. And a good portion of those are in downtown or in the city proper. Why? I can see if your an Amazon or Microsoft and need to hire 100+ developers but the majority of Vancouver startups need nowhere near that many people. Why would you locate your startup in Vancouver?
Of course the compiler has no problem understanding them, but humans aren't that good as parsing.

The purpose of a syntax highlighter is so that the human knows that the computer agrees on what the sentence/code structure is.
why would you select any candidate at random, though ? When sifting through candidate pools, (i.e. stack of resumes), isn't it a given that we should only call the best-qualified candidates ?
+1. Preemptible images are insanely cheap. If you can tolerate the possible loss of the machine (video processing seems like it would fit) they are a bargain
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-2315
The article covers this for the case of UTF-16. To recap, UTF-16 has surrogate pairs, which are a sequence of two 16-bit values in certain ranges. A high surrogate is in the range 0xD800–0xDBFF and a low surrogate is in the range 0xDC00–0xDFFF. This is used to encode values beyond 65,535. If a high surrogate appears without a following low surrogate, or a low surrogate appears without a leading high surrogate, the sequence is not valid UTF-16.

For UTF-32, only valid code points are allowed. Values above 0x10FFFF are not allowed, nor are values in the range used for UTF-16 surrogates.

UTF-8 is more complex. It's ASCII compatible, which means all values with the top bit set to 0 are allowed. Bytes with the top bit set to 1 must exist as part of a multi-byte sequence. The first byte in such a sequence must contain 2-4 leading 1s followed by a 0. Subsequent bytes must be of the form 10xxxxxx. The total length of the sequence is equal to the number of leading 1s in the first byte. Any deviation from this is invalid UTF-8. Further, any sequence must be minimal, meaning that the value it encodes can't be one that would fit into a smaller sequence.
SEO Google results update for Ireland
You're absolutely right. What I'm trying to say is that beyond the smallest scale, one hour is so small it doesn't make a difference.
Doesn't e.g. Dropbox do this?
It's not what you say, but how you say it.

How to disagree: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
On the other hand, they seem to be going down the road of what other image hosting sites have done in the past. Large, intrusive ads. Most recently, that cat that pops up on mobile that covers the content with a large paw encouraging you to swipe to see the next picture. Focusing on building a community instead of focusing on image hosting. Building value-add stuff like their meme generator while continuing to avoid the actual difficult problems. Like having constant infrastructure issues that keeps their site inaccessible for hours at a time more often than they should be.

I appreciate that it's difficult (costly) to do image hosting, and it's nice that they accept hotlinking and other activities that produce no revenue for them, but the Imgur that we have today is a far cry from the Imgur that was promised seven years ago.
Yeah, I think it must drive some people at Microsoft crazy that they have a better technical solution and no one uses it
Doesn't look like it's quite there:

"I saw changes were pushed in master, so I thought the next version (which was 2.7.1) would be the one which will include the fix.

But as pointed out on https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2324 no versions including the fixes were released yet, and even 2.7.3 still include path_name(). I didn't checked the code (Sorrrry)."
As you mention, having a client pipeline is the easiest way to find contracts. My last fulltime job came out of a contract - they wanted me on board. Worked for a few years, then they changed direction.

I thought work might have dried up. But I got a call the next day from somebody who had dug up my number in an old rolodex, desperate to get me to pick up the slack on a project. So, right back in the saddle!

That works better if you have 10 or 20 years of experience at different places. So there are people out there thinking of you.
Solving the Mystery of the Tully Monster
Because without ammunition there are no guns, without guns there is no second amendment. If you believe restricting "true arms" has been effective, why do you think it is necessary to restrict ammunition?
I may have derailed my comment a bit by mentioning lambda. My point was more about separating work from machines, which Lambda helps with, but you can also do on your own.
If it's not served from the domain I've visited, I don't want it. If it is served from the domain I've visited but not over SSL, I don't want it. Then the certificate owner should be responsible for any damage resulting from the stuff signed by their key.
Anyone old enough to remember TheDraw from BBS days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
I wouldn't go so far as "I totally meant to." More like, "On further reflection, these features starting with the letter Z have merit and belong on my list."
Wrong way round, when I go to the US I generally don't bother looking at the price of things as it's all so cheap. Even if the exchange rate was 1:1 it would be cheap (decent clothes are amazingly cheap, petrol/diesel is laughably cheap and eating out is great) but with the exchange rate being the way it is it's even better. The was a time before the crash when the exchange rate was $2 to the £, so long as you could afford the flights over you could have the best holidays in the US.

This is only true when being a tourist though as you are thinking in your native currency and basing purchasing decisions in that frame of reference, when you actually live and work in the respective country then (ie if you move to another country) then that stops being an issue as you are earning in the new currency.
The meaning to the reader is not encoded. Maybe something like book to book-review or book to cliff notes mappings could try to capture that.
I once owned the domain deadherring.com (with the idea of something like FC with more in depth analysis). I regret letting that go.
Replace natural balance with equilibrium if the term natural makes you uncomfortable. My point is that there are innate differences between men and women, and these are reflected in their preferences for different types of work. There is a reason there are more women than men in nursing, that there are more male plumbers than female, and wishing for a different reality doesn't make it so.

>Second, saying tech businesses are going to become 'increasingly discriminatory' against men is like saying that after desegregation and the civil rights movement we got 'increasingly discriminatory' against white people sitting in the front of a bus.

The difference between my example and yours is that nobody is preventing women or minorities from applying or working in the desired positions. Nobody has legislated away their rights. The position you're advocating is quite similar to segregation. White men are only allowed on the "bus" after the front fills up with women.

There are many evolutionary reasons why men might spend more time building tools. I've noticed that it is politically acceptable to say that women make better caretakers or that they are more sociable, but that it is no longer politically acceptable to do the same with positive traits in regards to men.

To address your last point - "In 2002, Gerianne M. Alexander of Texas A&M University and Melissa Hines of City University in London stunned the scientific world by showing that vervet monkeys showed the same sex-typical toy preferences as humans. In an incredibly ingenious study, published in Evolution and Human Behavior, Alexander and Hines gave two stereotypically masculine toys (a ball and a police car), two stereotypically feminine toys (a soft doll and a cooking pot), and two neutral toys (a picture book and a stuffed dog) to 44 male and 44 female vervet monkeys. They then assessed the monkeys’ preference for each toy by measuring how much time they spent with each. Their data demonstrated that male vervet monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the masculine toys, and the female vervet monkeys showed significantly greater interest in the feminine toys. The two sexes did not differ in their preference for the neutral toys."

Wishing for a different reality doesn't make it so.
I have been thinking about Yishan-style CEOs for a while now, and I would like to fix the problems with firing this way.
Will it be worth it/extremely hard to learn C++ just to use Qt? (I always read here and reddit about how hard/inefficient/easy to fail is everything is in C++)

(Eng. background and software dev full time)
I think the author is taking firing too personally. His rant about "Fire fast" seems to indicate that people who fire employees are somehow devoid of empathy for the person. Fire fast does not mean you fire at the first instance that someone didn't agree with your opinion or some trivial reason like that. Fire fast means if you notice a general trend with the person that is harmful to the company or the team then stop giving the person chances and fire them. I think the sentiment is expressed very well by the culture doc by Netflix. [1]

It's not personal!! Don't take it personally! Unless of course it was personal.

[1]http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664/23-Were_a...
Most PIA users pay yearly, so it's completely understandable to feel ripped off I think. However, this is really just a matter of a few big providers implementing stricter geofiltering, blocking datacenter IPs, etc. Nothing PIA could do about it though, it's a risk you take if you understand how these things work.

Many of these same providers have just blocked VPN IPs and you can still use a cheap VPS to circumvent though. Some nice docker openvpn containers around...
Yeah, imgur's primary raison d'etre was hosting porn from nsfw subreddits -- including the worst of the worst like jailbait and creepshots.
I can't wait to live in a tenement with my coworkers and getting my daily rations of soylent and coffee from a dispenser in the wall.
They have to comply with the new laws -- it's not betrayal when they don't have a choice in the matter.

Not complying means they would face severe enough penalties to sink the business (notwithstanding the risk of jail-time.)
The sugar tax money doesn't go into general taxation, it is ring-fenced as extra funding for school sports.
Nobody is without bias. Assuming bias is only the worst if you assume it's conscious bias that they refuse to acknowledge or resist.
Nuclear risk has been reduced. Can be reduced further. Including the holy grail of Thorium, which has a negligible future risk (almost entirely consumed and made harmless in the reactor).
Author here. To be clear, I don't believe I deserve free or special access to anything. The point I was trying to make was actually more in the opposite direction: I wouldn't want to receive free/special access as an exception now simply because the project has become "famous", if the same opportunity doesn't exist for other independent developers when their projects are starting out -- I just want to encourage a level playing field.

(When Emojitracker originally received elevated access 3 years ago, the project was not famous or well known at all, it was just a slightly more formal version of Me saying: "hey check this out, I think this might be a cool hack but I need access to 900 keywords instead of 400, that ok?" and Twitter: "yeah cool, no problem dude.")
In what languages do you work? Would you like to be a mentor? Like for me.
Isn't Zach Holman the guy about whom was written "He ... even admitted to plotting with Theresa Preston-Werner to get women at the company fired."
Or fruit juices. Orange juice has almost as much sugar as coca cola.