skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. It almost feels like google/gmail wants us to buy their service for emails as they tag a majority of emails from other servers into spam.
It's great that more and more toolkits are being released. But my biggest gripe with Microservice architectures and toolkits are that they ignore transactions across services.
GoDaddy?

No thank you! http://www.businessinsider.com/godaddy-ceo-videotapes-himsel...
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Google, stop teasing us and release a free Linux desktop OS and compete with Microsoft !

There is no reason to fear Microsoft since they already have you in their cross hairs. They have been losing loads of money trying to compete with you [1]. Windows 10 even has a search field on the task bar !

It can't be anti-trust concerns. Microsoft got away with bundling IE with Windows cutting off Netscape's air supply. Its hard to imagine you being punished for giving away an OS for free.

Every dollar that does not go into Microsoft's coffers is a dollar they can't spend competing with you. Seems like some fiduciary responsibility to me :)

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-reorg-earnings-repo...

EDIT: No, Chromium OS doesn't count. There are still plenty of people who need/uses desktop applications.
> Have you ever heard lawyers say "Everyone should learn basic civil law" and then offer free classes for the same?

Really, the foundation skill in the law is to read and write. Lawyers are the most technical users of language, but we teach everyone to read and write on the taxpayer dime. And we teach everyone mathematics through at least algebra, even though it is mostly used by technical professionals. So we need to teach everyone to code.

Not everyone will end up being a professional coder, just like most people don't become lawyers. But if everyone has experience reading and writing code, they will be more informed and productive in a society that is increasingly computerized.
Conversely, I find it annoying to have to chase down menubars that follow their parent windows around on large, high resolution screens. The principles of a global menubar (being able to throw your cursor to hit it) still work on large screens... I just crank up cursor speed so hitting it takes roughly the same amount of physical movement as it did to do the same two or three decades ago.
except this is on top of that. nobody does a phone screen, checks a sample of code and says "tada, you're hired"

we were going to get together in a room anyways.
Those all seem like good points, which the article does not explicitly make.
Sounds eeriely similar to my own situation, without the CEO turnover. Godspeed.
Georgia Tech is a no-name school? Ridiculous.

I did not go there but all the engineers I've had the pleasure of meeting from there seem to know their stuff.

Which is far, far, more than I can say for my alma mater.
No reason. It's probably a good idea to implement that even if you don't need the volume, so you can quickly switch if an offering changes or has issues (downtime, delivery problems for an important provider, ...)
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But in your example, the act in question would be sex - which is not itself a criminal act.
Yes, your loyal customers who already have your $75,000 car can buy one on a whim, but the point of a $35,000 car that can net $7,500 in federal tax breaks and even more in state tax breaks is that it appeals to people who are in the market segment for, say, a Nissan Leaf or a Toyota Prius.

Most people that buy those cars, while they can afford to spend a little more than your average car buyer, cannot and do not buy cars on a whim. They buy them when their previous car is giving up the ghost and they need a new one. Paying $1,000 to be on a waiting list for two years behind those that can buy a car on a whim is not appealing to that crowd and does nothing to engage their demand, especially since they can go down to their local Nissan/Toyota dealership and drive off the lot with a Leaf/Prius today.

So expecting the enthusiasm of your Model S customers to spur demand for your Model 3 works if and only if the people the Model 3 is targeted at can get one, and if the Model S customers are ahead in the queue when the delivery target is over two years out then their evangelism won't mean anything if the target audience needs to replace their car in the short term (< 2 years) and medium term (> 2 years and < 5) because you're too busy prioritizing your customers for a car that is below their segment.
I usually ask "What are you interested in?" and just let them speak, then ask them to elaborate a few times. People who find this frustrating are usually low-openness, as are people who become noticeably indignant after being asked to share more.

Also, I ask what are the most important things they are looking for in the team they will be joining. Some people are interviewing because they dislike their current job so this is a good clue about their morale and what kinds of situations can lead them to give up and start interviewing.

By this point, after talking to someone for a few minutes I usually have a sense of whether they are easy to talk to or whether the conversation was draining for me and a notion of how smart I think they are. If both of those feel good I focus on selling the team and what it offers so they bring their A game to the in person interview.
IRIX UI displays were based on Display PostScript, before SGI switched to X.
I'm able to save about 20% a year at the moment. Once I am out of debt (close!) that figure will thankfully skyrocket
actually it does, right on the box it came in
https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/cloudflare/jobs/enginee...
That's not what physical dependence is.

Note that cannabis is not listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_dependence#Drugs_that...
Sativa is still usually high in THC, it just has a different high. However, I still found even Sativa strains would give me 'couchlock' most of the time! It is the third strain 'Ruderalis' that has a high CBD content and low THC.
If you are lucky enough to be able to grow, i'd advise trying a strain by the 'CBD Crew' who specialise in these high CBD strains. Med-Gom was the strain I tried so I can certainly recommend that one :)
And this is why Americans have such an issue with socialism, it's the exact ethos that makes people want to reduce / remove the welfare state. An able-bodied 30 year old, who has never had a job, lives off the state, and feels justified in this situation.
mailgun seems the one to go to. Used Sendgrid for a couple of apps but not super impressed with their dashboard and analytics. What do you think?
A thousand times this. Do any of these providers not have the intermittent periods of 6-10 minute delays on emails to Gmail like Mandrill?
Thanks for compiling the list!

A column for incoming API yes/no would be awesome as well.
This is the worst web page I've seen in recent history. I'm stuck using IE11 with no ad-blocking or anything like that, and I can't even read it. If I scroll down too much, it just turns blank, if I keep scrolling down it just goes into some kind of infinite loop. It is completely unusable, and I mean that literally: it is utterly impossible for me to read this article. I got as far as the part about the indentations in the glove box door and past that I'm stuck.
>the transfer was done legally in good faith

This is precisely the point that I'm disputing, not the notion of property rights.

You still haven't given any definition of the terms you're trying to use to justify a distinction between the two. You claimed that any time someone requests something over http and the server sends data back, the person cannot have been doing anything illegal. You have not given any principled difference between that and the cases where courts found differently.

I've linked to lawyers making the same argument as me; I don't believe you've found any lawyers who agree with your claims here.

Re contracts: as I've said, that applies to scenarios when you've agreed to TOS. If you know a website has certain terms, then accessing it is agreeing to them. So your point is only valid if you can credibly claim that you didn't know the website doesn't allow ad blocking. If you think you can convince a judge that you had no idea some websites don't allow ad blocking, and that you therefore had no intention of breaking any agreements by browsing the web with your ad blocker installed, do whatever you want. But the very fact that we're having this conversation and you aren't telling me "no website would ever outlaw ad blockers in their terms" means that you recognize it as a possibility. It would be an interesting legal question as to whether mere probable knowledge (i.e. negligence) can suffice to be liable, or one would need to demonstrate actual knowledge: if the latter is found to be the legal interpretation, then I suspect ad blockers could be required to recognize when a site refuses to be viewed with an ad blockers, and not show the site at all then. Installing an ad blocker that doesn't do this would then be malicious.

This is admittedly speculation, although it gets closer as to what the actual legal question would be here. If you can cite precedent that bears on this directly, that would be better.
Limited time makes it immensely difficult. However, I've found my prejudices against people not like myself have gone way past the interview. I had one intern for 2-3 months before I realized I was really lucky to have him, and it was only because someone else pointed it out.

This person didn't have the right education (classes, not pedigree) nor did he project a passion for coding on his sleeve, but it turned out he was disciplined, a fast autodidact and had a very good sense of priorities. I couldn't have been more wrong about his potential.

It's not just that. I think we too often discount people's ability to grow. My suspicion is we probably place too much emphasis on keeping the wrong people out and not enough on developing the people we have.
My experience with these providers is limited to Mailgun, but after I followed their instructions of setting SPF and DKIM records, I never had any issues with Gmail delivery. Hotmail however sometimes flags my messages as spam. I also never had any issues with delivery delays. When I send a mail using Mailgun, it ends up in my inbox within a second.
Sure you could do that, but I think the maintenance cost would by far outweigh any price advantage you could get.

Honestly, Mandrill's pricing with 0.2$/1000 mails puts you at 200 $ for sending 1 million e-mails, which corresponds to maybe 1-2 hours of developer time. Designing, building and maintaining a system that sends mail through 4-6 different APIs will likely be much more expensive.
14+ways+to+save+money+on+textbooks
It's nodebb with the default theme ;)
Curious if the Raft implementation from scratch or based on an existing one. If a new implementation, how was that process?
The camera service is built-in. The Synology series is really good at getting you started. You don't need Google it has wizards that will walk you through it.

This is from a few years ago, but their cloud service consists of punching an outgoing port from your home or office and giving you a permanent address to access your files from. There were some backup synchro options as well but I only used streaming videos and music which I replaced with Plex.

Also it has SSH access if you want to install packages through that method.
Apparently it is, a couple of sites that test connectivity from behind China report failure to connect as well.
While it's interesting to look for the latest changes in this project, even if there were none, it would still be a very valid submission since HN isn't specifically a news website.

In fact, I see so many "what's the news" posts that I sometimes think they should change the name!
There is lot of tasks when you need only to read data, 3-rd party API, log processing and lot more. For sure this lib not for everyone, but if you care about performance, and especially memory consumption, this could make sense.

Can you a bit clarify about your expectations?
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Market value takes into account all the dimensions of the job, including location and whether you need to be in the office or not.

The article doesn't mention price pressure from outsourcing, that is another issue.

What I am trying to say is that we shouldn't accept a salary bellow the average of what other people in the same situation are payed because that will hurt you and everybody else by bringing down the average.
Yes. But our society have had so much freedom for so long they can't imagine that they need to make an active effort so that it remains that way. It's not limited to freedom. Ecology is the same. Resource managment is the same. Weigh loss is the same.

When one is quite ok right now and that he/she needs to spend energy and think, and take responsability, for what's going to happen way later, it's rarely done.

So "privacy but" are going to win. Because it takes thinking and effort to fight it. And what for? Righ now, i'm alrigh.
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Wow. That's crazy. I too agree that these cars should just be leased.
I struggle with this as well and it worries me. I tend to be painfully realistic about things I can and can not / have not done. However sometimes I feel like I need to do a better job of selling myself. Walking the line between 2 extremes is quite difficult.
This is a nice idea in theory, but setup.py and requirements.txt are not the same, and you cannot particularly generate one from the other:

https://caremad.io/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/

Also, unfortunately pip's parser for requirements.txt isn't public, like much of its internals at the moment, which means AIUI it's likely that the parsing code here is going to be brittle if it uses it, or miss edge cases if it doesn't. (I haven't read this carefully yet though).
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I read a lot of criticism, but no "hate". Can you show me a comment here that you consider hateful?
+1 for Sparkpost. They're the service that most closely mirrors Mandrill.
Parent said METERS, not feet. So parent is saying maybe 8mil for a mile. Not insane to assume low volume work in a presumably remote area will be double or triple the price that the entire state of Florida can get.

Especially for a previously unpaved roadway with bridges that probably also needs widening, leveling, etc. That isn't patch work cleaning up existing paved road...

The number is high but not unfathomably so...

Anyways, either parent is telling the truth or not. But I find it hard to believe parent helps maintain a 2 mile private road and also you know better than him the cost of paving that particular road.
No one takes this argument seriously because the people who use that argument usually want the government to do so much that roads are tiny fraction of what they do, or in a lot of cases, are outright hostile to roads altogether.
Not only is it dirt cheap, it's so easy to do everything right to maintain a good reputation. If you're using Route 53, it's one click to set up DKIM. It's also painless (and cheap) to handle bounce notifications programmatically.
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Coorporate phrases and 'enterprise' words turn our stomach. Unfortunately other people write them, but with technology we're not completely helpless! We've devised a Chrome plugin to replace the terms we're so sick and tired of hearing - to an equivalent (that we're not).

Repository: https://github.com/serverdensity/Fluffify
I would guess Google Apps might be a good choice for that. It does have limits on the number of SMTP relay calls per day though: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2956491#sendinglimitsfor... (see the limits per customer section first)
They should all work well with Gmail, since it's the most popular recipient, and all popular solutions have deliverability statistics. I'd guess that using Gmail itself via its SMTP service [1] would be the most reliable overall.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en
I'm not sure I agree here.

A car is network of serious computing, including proprietary API's, busses, and signed firmware. You might change the tires yourself but you won't be putting a third-party sensor in there. The talk of bricking your car is no joke.

See also John Deere giving its farmer customers a hard time about self servicing big tractors.

The only question is, does the customer have the right to tinker?
> How do I become a Sales Engineer?

Start by reaching out directly to individuals on your company's Sales Team. Tell them that you're interested in learning about their end of the business and what they do.

A great question to ask them - 'From a technical perspective, where are you guys struggling? Where do customers seem to struggle?

Then offer to assist. Imagine a pilot project where Sales gets special permission to enlist your help with a customer sale. It builds from there. Eventually, they might create a role just for you.

Incidentally, a great primer to read up on sales- Mike Weinberg > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863998-new-sales-simpli...
There are a lot missing from your paid only section, such as exacttarget (salesforce).
> some of us

truly, these are challenging times for spammers
You are not describing the facts on the ground.

http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/03/flexib...
It's not that they're ignoring transactions across services, it's that it's a difficult problem that shouldn't actually be solved by a toolkit. It's something that has to be addressed on a per use case basis and most likely modelled differently based on your architectural and database choices. At Hailo we used Cassandra which was replicated globally. An eventually consistent database. We then used Zookeeper at a regional level to do locking for parts of the system that required consistency and serialisation. We made tradeoffs that allows to scale a global system. Data modelling and transactions were no easy thing but the benefits were clear. I did not envy the payments team and have a lot of respect for what they accomplished with said architecture.
But can we use that for arbitrary domains that aren't operating under the Google Apps system? Been looking but haven't found the answer so far.

Edit: Looks like you can, but Google says it's "not recommended." Also, you need to be a paying Apps member to use the service from what I can tell. Not sure if you can if you aren't a paying member.
When I interview, I start with a description of the couple of team members they'll be working most closely with, for, or leading. After that, I like to ask "With your limited understanding of where we're strong right now, what do you think your biggest contribution to our team will be? what will we learn from you?"

I've not done any validation studies on the answer, but it's certainly the question that has led to the best conversation.
I can see HR's desire to follow some sort of procedure though. If you let any manager hire anyway they so desire, it could open the company up to discriminatory hiring practices. By having a codified (if ineffective ) "procedure", they can use this as a defense in a lawsuit and say "look, see ? Everyone gets hired the same way at this company, and the plaintiff was subjected to the exact same scrutiny as everyone else."
I have heard there are MRI studies that back this up. Basically people make instinctual decisions and the rational parts of their brains light up afterwards to rationalize the decision they have already made. I am on mobile but that should be searchable.

Humans are very good at pattern recognition and we're optimized for it. Real calculation takes time and energy and might make us less able to survive.
Something that is missing/would be nice to add: with Mandrill I could pay to get a dedicated IP address (ensuring that I don't get impacted by other parties on the platform). Do these other services offer that?
The Tesla has contactors in the battery that isolate the HV and a facility to lock them out - and they'd better be reliable even if someone accidentally steps on the brake pedal and the car's in pieces, because rescue workers have to rely on them in order to avoid electrocution when extracting people from crashed and mangled Teslas.

Besides, a lot of the failures are in low-voltage systems like door handles that are covered by a much shorter warranty than the drivetrain and HV.
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well yeah, it's just one question. programming and devops proof is in the pudding. we just ask for code samples and a walkthrough, and go with our gut. maybe a few technical procedure questions.

in my experience it's the other things that will make or break an employee, like whether or not they have an actual work ethic, or is a closet drug addict, or gets too drunk and touches women inappropriately at company events.

these are things you can't test for in an interview or background check, and i find it strange that nobody ever mentions this kind of stuff because personal problems are the most common kind we run into. it's rare to hire someone totally incompetent if you yourself have extensive experience in the work you're hiring them for.
I'd be pretty curious to know which programming languages aren't fundamentally broken in a way that makes securing them pretty difficult. Rust may be the first language to really advance in that area.
Indeed. As it says, I'm preparing HTTP mode for Android at the moment.
There's some evidence that a related effect may not be real: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
In the end it’s all the same story, you get nothing or very close to nothing and meanwhile the owners of the company will get the product of your work and will make bank on that.

Nice post (as usual) Jacques. My experience is similar but my conclusion is the opposite.

Yes, I've been taken advantage of by almost everyone I've ever worked for and they got the product of my work.

But I didn't get nothing. Far from it...

I became a better programmer. A much better programmer. In fact, I'd venture to say that there was a direct correlation between how much I was taken advantage of and how much I grew.

Funny, I grew much less on the projects where I earned the most.

I pretty much knew what was going on all those years. I didn't like it, but I accepted it because I knew that in the long run, I'd be much better off.

They may have gotten the product of my work back then, but they didn't get the product of all the great work I've done since, which is worth much, much more.

In life I really believe the greatest growth comes from the most suffering. I believe the same thing is true with programming.
"When I started programming, I heard a lot about how programmers are down to earth, not like those elitist folks who have uniforms involving suits and ties. You can even wear t-shirts to work!"

This alone dates the author to beginning in the eighties :D

Today, you basically must sport the "lumberjack" look to be cool :D :D :D

But seriously, yes, now as the industry matured, there is a dress code. It might vary from area to area, but it's there.
Huh, I did not know that! You're right, looks like DPS and X got merged in during IRIX 4.x.
I sincerely hope we won't see "Android" desktops with tighly locked-down bootloaders, and a unmodifiable pre-installed OS with a bunch of unremovable junkware. You know, like it's with phones and tablets now.