skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fallacy of presuming the market (in this case labor) has to be efficient, and that any irrationalities would be arbitraged away (better employer swoops in and eats Bloomberg's lunch by providing better workspace) and so therefore whatever we do happen to observe must be the rational, efficient, market clearing condition.

This is absurd of course. If true, then literally every aspect of employment in every company would be the 100% optimal condition as expressed via preference negotiation between employers and candidates and there would be no components of working life that are systematically worse off for the employee. Surely you can't be claiming that? If employment is efficient, why are there things like Occupy Wall St? Not that Occupy is right or wrong, but why would it exist? Why wouldn't those companies, with policies people find socially toxic, fail to find enough applicants and be forced to change policies in response to the market?

Their ability to find workers and make money is not very related to whether their practices are unhealthy or destructive, as is the case with open-plan nonsense too.

Why do any market irrationalities persist? Often there is an aspect of market manipulation. In the labor market this can occur by focusing on hiring visa-based workers and using their visa status as discreet leverage to force them to never complain about conditions. Many companies also do actively illegal things, like threaten employees with retaliation if they discuss their salary, in efforts to prevent collective bargaining and depress employee negotiation power over attributes like workspace.

The more disconcerting thing is the way that younger generations of programmers, basically my generation and younger, have been psychologically manipulated into believing that "dynamic" and "collaborative" are synonymous with open-plan, and they are afraid to express any dissatisfaction lest they are downgraded to "not a team player." It breeds what Michael O. Church described as "macho subordination" -- a desire to compete to be seen as most "loyal" by making a public display of willingness to bottomlessly compromise even basic dignity in the work place, so that anyone who stands up for realistic, humanity-affirming conditions is immediately labeled "toxic" and exiled. The workers enacting this don't even know any better, and few of them have had to take a phone call during the work day about a family tragedy, or discuss an awkward medical condition as they schedule a doctor's appointment, or something, and they place low value on such privacy mostly from a position of naïveté.

Anyway, the circular logic of saying markets must be efficient, therefore whatever we observe in markets must be proving their efficiency is patently ridiculous.
Our heuristic for this is that if we're personally the first to add it to the Internet Archive, it's probably new.
and use dht_rss for management of versions over bittorrent?

http://libtorrent.org/dht_rss.html
still on thefront page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510
Finally a way to make all your friends agree on which bar to go to
Ah, I was just thinking about doing something like this for a different package manager. I'll be interested to see how this works out.
can i kik it?

RIP Phife Dawg
Engineering Proteins in the Cloud with Python and Transcriptic
> SpaceX has brought reusability to space travel

Err... is trying to bring?
The 2600k cost about $350 new in 2011. For the same amount of money you could get a 5820K which is about 1.5x faster than the 2600k (or to put it in your terms, the 2600k is 52% slower). Still probably not worth it, but I looked up the numbers and might as well post them.
I was thinking the same thing. It's not fairly common for anybody to just casually ask me for my zip code unless they're going to mail something to my house, or are trying to figure out an estimated distance for a trip. Outside of that I don't see people casually asking for your zip code.
This looks pretty good. I built and use something similar called ish: https://github.com/grahamc/ish

Seems like maybe we all just scratched our own itches :)
Here you go, absolute proof that Microsoft collaborated with the NSA:

https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/712691802084651008
Well, for one, the "when it explodes, there are people in it" problem is likely arise much earlier in the process than with the SpaceX rockets
I bet that '=' is now used more in programming than in math. In that case, isn't its original meaning the wrong one today?
Smartwatch company Pebble is laying off 25% of its staff
I'm just glad that companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Boom, Faraday Future, and others are taking on hard, interesting problems. To be fair, SpaceX and Tesla are much (much) farther up their growth curve, but as for the inherent technical challenges, why draw the comparison? They're all awesome.
Bravo, you've illustrated the whole problem
Instead of taxing soda, offer weight-loss tax credits to the obese
My assumption is that drag (esp lift induced) is a function of weight. The more fuel you must carry, the more drag you incur. The more drag you incur, the more fuel you must carry to over-come it.

I know this is certainly true of subsonic flight. How much it affects supersonic flight it unknown to me.
Ridesharing Algorithms in TransLoc OnDemand
I think the idea is to let Java and Spring developers be hipsters, too.
AR is modestly successful, but needs to buy three things at the moment: my family's living expenses, my attention (via hiring reasonably complete replacements for me), and my contribution to Starfighter. It can afford roughly one of them.

"Why sell AR?" is pretty straightforward: I'm CEO of Starfighter. I signed up for 5~10 years of my life building stock exchanges and getting devs better jobs, and that's more than enough work. It does not need to be interrupted by e.g. dealing with the Lithuanian hacker ring which found a novel way to route calls to Caribbean phone sex numbers. (A great story for another day.)
I am pretty excited for this release. I worked a bit with ZURB Foundation for Email 1 (Ink) and you still had to deal with this terrible table structure that reminds me of 1990's HTML. I think there are some really good ideas here, most importantly an abstraction that allows you to quickly develop branded and responsive HTML emails using some simple html structure that masks a lot of having to deal with those tables, TDs, etc.
I could have sworn I had read this post before, but googling doesn't show any strings from it showing up anywhere else.

It's always disconcerting to get slapped in the face with clear evidence of a memory error. Did I combine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589223 and http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year-... somehow? Who knows.
(I meant to mention this is an nodejs NPM replacement, specifically)
Last time I played with JHipster I thought it was really neat, but it couldn't readily be deployed to a free Heroku instance. The memory requirements were just too high even for a Hello, world app.
It's marketing - you pit the have-nots against the haves to make the have-nots want to have and the haves to want more.

If that makes you angry, then you need to upgrade your thin skin.
The War on Internet Piracy
I feel that in almost any discussion about slack, someone pops up with essentially my parent comment's message -- listing the ills of the app, which I interpret roughly as "people's communication styles are a bother, and interruptions are my bane, therefore slack is bad"

Each time, I'm inclined to dismiss these messages. They make me think "well, I don't want to work with you because you sound like an uptight asshole who insists on everyone wearing a suit to maintain decorum, and no hats indoors". I end up feeling that we would not get along at all in real life, and I (usually) ignore the message and (sometimes) scoff.

But every time, there is a minor host of "thank you for expressing exactly how I feel about this" messages beneath, and frequently the comment is highly upvoted, so, I am now forced to confront the facts: that you are not a bad person, that you probably aren't as rare as I imagine, and that you (and authors of similar posts) are probably a perfect pleasure to know and to work with. We just hold different preferences -- both of which are equally valid.

To express my own: I like most of the structural elements of slack. I am not bothered by the interruptions it can cause. I send short streams of messages sometimes because I feel it can convey useful information about how the thoughts were chunked.

I am also (hopefully) not a bad person or a pain to work with, but might come off as such to you, were I to merely state my opposing preferences as fact or to note that slack's support for them makes it great.

Perhaps slack should change, or another product should fill that gap. Perhaps there are other groups with preferences that don't align with you or me at all! Either way, I find these thoughts much more interesting and healthy than imagining that I might dislike you, which was my former attitude. So, thanks. :)
I'm saying that if the FDA orders a drug company to conduct post-approval studies and the drug company doesn't actually conduct them, then in how many cases has the drug been pulled off the market?
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why? If you were building an aircraft like this from scratch, why design it to require a present human pilot? Satellite latency too long?
My browser tab says [Y]OLO!
With today's web apps, I can only sympathize with the examples that deal with file size. The others still apply to using web services.
See also: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2945#restOf2929
Yes I agree. Even on my Mac I have seen it take more memory than Spotify and Spotify these days is basically running a Chrome instance.

I use VLC for most quicktime/itunes things these days.
Ask HN: Is the Apocahipster near?
Seems like dem hipsters will finally take over the world, no?
Thanks for letting me know. I tried with Qr Droid and it did not recognize it.
Such a long article but no mention of how much he sold it for.
According to GEB, humans have an internal model of their own mind, ergo a conscience. This is what allows them to step out of the system - they can step out of the system within the model.
Because AR takes mental space, even if someone else you hire is managing it.

Focusing on one thing is best. I recently sold my SaaS for the same reason — I wanted to eliminate needing to worry about it while working on growing my other (more profitable) business.

(Lastly, as things that probably make Patrick excited to get out of bed and work, I'm assuming Starfighter > AR.)
This looks great! I've always wondered why there's no universal package manager and although we all know about Nix, I've always wanted something simpler and lighter!
Very cool. Have you heard of gittorrent: https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent
Would it be fair to say ...

... they're switching to Tic-Tac-Toe?

(Thank you, don't forget to tip your waitress) ;-)
> Satellite latency too long?

Yes. Also, regardless of the human pilot, this is intended as a passenger aircraft. That necessitates people on board for it to operate as intended.
SSL CA's are broken in some sense in that it's currently relatively easy to acquire rogue certs because it's a Tragedy of the Commons of the unaddressed issue of a single-source of truth, trust and cert issue authorization for cert management for a given domain.

Perhaps all CAs for should be married to internet-facing domains with an encrypted, authoritative, non-repudiable cert discovery protocol... perhaps something like DNSSEC+DANE or something else.

Likely the only way to fix the situation is make some nonrepudiable proof-of-domain-ownership mandatory before any CA can issue any cert... although that doesn't solve the other issue of clients figuring out which certs to trust, although there have been some web-of-trust efforts to improve it (un-authoritatively).
FEI still has the original listing on their site:

Yearly revenue - $31,000

Yearly net profit - $19,000

Asking price - $57,000 SOLD

It's fascinating what a small amount of money we're ultimately talking about vs. the influence of the "cult of Bingo Card Creator fans" on HN - which I am card carrying member of.

(1) http://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/3745-software-busin...
I'm not an aerospace engineer, so don't read too much into this, but: In James Fallows' China Airborne, there's a paragraph or so where he talks about how building a modern airliner is harder than building a rocket ship. Roughly it's because 1) rocket ships are allowed to fail on occasion and 2) planes are subject to constant use and are not subject to the kind of preflight inspections rockets are.

In the case of SpaceX, consider their last launch failure. The general consensus seemed to be "well, rockets are really hard. And it was the strut manufacturer's fault to some extent. They'll do better next time, and they're still changing the world. Anyway, SpaceX rockets are 4x cheaper than any competitor so even with the occasional launch failure it's still the best option!"

Can you imagine the reaction today if e.g. a Boeing plane blew up on launch? In fact, recall all the criticism Boeing received after issues with the 787's batteries...

But again, I certifiably don't really know. Someone could write about energy requirements and wet/dry mass and how thin rocket skins are and aerodynamic forces and easily convince me rockets are harder.
> once Instacart has their own (automated) warehouses and can cut out the middleman supermarket

So now they're running a delivery-only grocery chain that has to compete with the well-established brand and distribution network that is popular among their not very price-sensitive customer base.

>Add in self-driving cars, and they're set

Don't hold your breath for door to door that also somehow has to drop off bulky and potentially fragile packages.
Meet the tech exec who wants the cloud to be Google’s moneymaker
Intel retires “tick-tock”, introduces new “Process, Architecture, Optimization”
gx is a language-agnostic, distributed package manager. It uses IPFS for package retrieval and publishing, and git-like hooks for per-language/ecosystem implementations (like Go: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx-go).
'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do
Kik responds to recent NPM fracas
Complaining (passive-aggressively) about downvotes is both not in the spirit and against the guidelines of HN.
Does everything that gets posted here get added to the Internet Archive? Or just stuff that hits the front page?

Either way, that's kind of awesome.
If you would be willing to trust blendle, they could group your payments and do something like a monthly bill per customer and per journal.
Is this in response to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343985
Fireflies and Hummingbirds
Georgia License Plate Reader Bill: Bad for the Public, Bad for the Police
Wow, who's doing the marketing? Pretty savvy. If they had launched with this notice, we'd be thinking, "Oh cool, Virgin's making a supersonic airplane with some company!"

Instead, with this tiered announcement:
Three days ago, nobody knew about Boom. Within the last two days, they have lots of new press, and and thus lots of skepticism. Today, they 'announce' an effective endorsement with Virgin. Brilliant.
That's pretty good - thought because of your salary it would mean working crazy hours. Do you think you are a very talented programmer or average?
What do they mean with "zero chill"?
What to choose – web design or web development?
Hi everyone!

First of all, i'm sorry for my english :) But i need your help and recommendations.

It so happens that I am equally well aware of the coding and have creative abilities. The last couple of years doing the sites, writing the code (html, css, small part of jquery) and do the design.

But... I can not decide which direction to choose?

Serious web-development requires maximum immersion in it (it's not just html, css, js, but php, ajax, mysql, etc). And many people believe that there will be no time for design. On the other hand, a lot of opinions think that a web-designer should know html, css, js and even a little more. What is the truth? :) I'm from Russia, i was born in Ukraine, and we have a opinion, that web-designer - is a person who is engaged in design only. He does not write the codeб does not know the php and only creates design.

Is it possible to be a man of the two in one? (web-design and web-development)

Is it worth it?

Or is it better to choose one thing (web-design or web-development) and to deal with it all?

Thank you for attention!
> I wish I could login, comment, maybe even receive comment notifications?

AFAIK authenticated user actions (logging in/commenting/profile management/etc) are simply not exposed through the official HN API. I don't think there's much third party developers can do about that, unfortunately.

But yes, web apps have come a long way. Apple treating web apps as second-class citizens will probably still pose a huge barrier to widespread adoption for quite some time though.
The team as a whole was still accountable. The tech lead/PM were still accountable. Internally, members were accountable.

Certainly, if there was a specific problem, it could be raised to management. But generally, if we were in a weekly customer-attended meeting, or dealing with a bug discovered after a production release, no individual could be singled out as responsible for a particular blunder.
Just like most similar tools, this lacks indices. For example, if you use ASGs (Auto Scaling Groups), all instances would have the same name tag, so, you need to be able to specify an index if there are multiple instances under the same name.

Edit 1: Created an issue [0] already.

Edit 2: Added a request [1] to integrate fwknop [2] for full automation and better security.

[0]: https://github.com/mikery/ssh2ec2/issues/1

[1]: https://github.com/mikery/ssh2ec2/issues/2

[2]: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
This makes sense. What you get with most magazines/newspapers works as a bundling discount, basically.

Let's say you buy an issue of the NYT. Are you actually going to read every bit of it, or are you going to focus on the articles that particularly interest you, skim the headlines for sections that are less important, and so on? If you only have to pay for what you read, suddenly the paper is making a lot less money.
Same - just took a generic fexofenadine, in fact. Of course, 5 years ago, everybody thought diphenhydramine was safe, too.

But is there a "safe minimum frequency"? Generally, I try to avoid taking any medication more/longer than necessary, and my bottle of diphenhydramine is still mostly full after many years...
In all this discussion of npm, I wonder how PyPi stacks up. Once I tried to fix an issue with the source distribution of one of my packages on PyPi and found that I could delete it just fine, but uploading a new file with the same name failed. I tried re-uploading the original sdist, but that failed as well. Apparently once it's gone it's gone.

I eventually just uploaded a different format then quickly pushed a new version, but I was kinda disturbed that I could irreversibly break a dependency like that.
I think the highlight of this story is that the company had the culture to reward you instead of burying your achievement under policy-violation blanket.
Great insights!
After Withholding Mail, Army Allows Chelsea Manning to Read EFF Writing
Yeah! I guess the bad name that was criticized here a few days ago didn't stop them! I think it's very nice to see that kind of involvement so early from virgin and co!
The Kindle Fire ships with the Amazon Silk web browser, a Chromium/Blink fork which supposedly tries to serve all content via SPDY tunnel to Amazon's CDN.
It is a overt threat of lawyers attacking if he does not comply.

Nothing "amiable" about it. It is a threat, pure and simple.
~20 years ago I was working for a relatively small banking software company (in Hungary) (it was a really good job from the learning point of view, but was really underpaid).

One Monday afternoon one of our clients just called that the banks officer's suddenly can't log in, random strange errors are getting displayed for them, etc.

OK, our support team tried to check, we can't login either, strange error.

"Did you do anything special, [name of the bank's main sysadmin]?"

"Well, nothing special, I just cleaned up the disks as usual."

"How did you do it?"

"As usual: 'mc', sort by file size in the INTERFACE/ folder, marked the files and F8".

That's normal.

OK, since we had the same user account (I knoooow), launch 'mc'. Looks normal. Except... In the left panel the APP/DB directory is opened... Check... Appears normal... At first... But... WAIT. Where is the <BANKNAME>.DB1 file?

"<ADMIN>, how long time did it take?"

"Dunno, I went for my coffee, etc."

Apparently he deleted the production systems' main DB file. It's got resolved by restoring the backup from Saturday and every file and input transactions had to be re-inputed based on the printed receipts, the officer's stayed in late night, etc. He is still the head of IT at the same bank. (Yeah everyone makes mistakes, but it wasn't the only one of hims, but likely the biggest.)
If you haven't upgraded your packages in 10 years, you've got nothing to worry about ;)
If appropriate for your use case, you can get your domain added to the public suffix list [1]. Then the restrictions no longer apply.

This has side-effects with browsers and cookies so you wouldn't want to do it on a domain without understanding the impact.

[1]: https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/blob/master/public_suff...

P.S. In the unlikely event that someone involved is reading this, PLEASE make this a DNS attribute that is set on the top-level domain instead, in a TXT record perhaps. It's silly that we have to have a globally coordinated and distributed list for this data.
I'd love to have more startups like this to watch, people solving REAL problems and making REAL things, not just a new social thingy or toy for bored suburban residents.

Plus I always wanted to fly on the Concorde but the fleet retired before I got the chance.
But regular posters can't.

That's why they should fix the article themselves, by reposting (rather than leaving it to the mods to both notice and fix the errant title).
I must say that's really the most transparent way to handle a downtime I've ever seen.

I would be scared shitless to expose for all to see what really happened and what is happening, even more so when it's makes them look like they don't know what they are doing.

I must applaud them for that, I wish if I ever get into such a nasty situation, I'll be able to do what they did.
Obvious fiction. Nice story, but I don't like fiction masked as real.
Basically any antihistamine that doesn't make you feel drowsy/loopy doesn't have much anticholinergic activity
The shuttle was reusable, it had plenty of other issues. IMO, mostly centered around how bad government procurement is. ex: polar orbit
I got in touch with FEI about selling one of my web businesses and they couldn't help due to our UK focus. Sucks for us, I've heard good things about them.

Can anybody recommend a broker that assists UK based and focussed web businesses?
Just for some context 787 cost $32billion dollars to develop.
Boom is probably my favorite new company in a long time. I wish there were infosec concerns :)
This morning I backed up my iPhone with iTunes. Once finished iTunes said backup was successful.
Then formatted my iPhone, and went to restore. It say's the backup was corrupt.

Tried some closed source iTunes Backup fixer, didn't work.

Pretty heated right now, but oh well, what can I do? I guess I'll just have to start over. Thankfully I am a iCloud Photo Library subscriber.

So yes, can confirm, "It's not the backup, it's the restore."