skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When all you are obligated to do is man a cash register, yet you are required to stand up all day, it says more about what perceptions people have about other people in these roles.

Sitting implies to other people that you're lazy and lack a work ethic, because anyone with a drive wouldn't be a cashier. In reality people just need a couple moments relief from the back and foot pain. Not even slightly taking some weight off by leaning against a stool is permitted.

This type of perspective can easily start to infiltrate technology. Someone already made a comment about how they thought this would be about managers forcing people to use standing desks. Do you want to be passed over for a raise by management because you sat down at work while coding for most of the day, compared to co-workers using a standing desk?
No, you said it is safe to assume they can't read your messages, which is the exact opposite to what Snowden said. What you personally think is true, likely etc is irrelevant. Facebook could be compelled to release private keys/data to the US government and not tell anyone and you'd be none the wiser.
The nature of the application means that any sort of semi-complicated update has to be applied manually to some degree.

Think of a database, but instead of a database you have some weird mix of MS Access and irresponsible use of EAV. That's Drupal.
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I think that Mike Bostock did a fantastic job with his cubehelix rainbow. It really does look visually less-jarring than HCL.

https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/310c99e53880faec2434
>finite is rigidly defined

Set theory have infinite number of models, each model having different kind of "finite" ordinals.
One thing I found surprising on reading this is that they essentially spent $10k and two months ($5k listed as saved * 2 months) to figure out they weren't using their logging infrastructure any more. Wish I could be that gung-ho with resources!
> > If the number of active devices is too low

> do you really expect the company at the end of it to be like, gee, let me buy the gadget back off you?

Yes. If it is cheaper to migrate (or compensate) a handful of existing customers for free than to keep running a legacy service, the company should be making this call.

I mean, come on...

I knew that when I bought it. Just like the people who bought Revolv 3 or 4 years ago.

You don't really know what every person knew that bought Revolv, do you?

I work in tech

Especially since it is your business to know more about this than the average consumer?
You bring up a very good point. Towns with more long term residents are going to have a lot more people who feel the need/desire/interest to get involved. I live in New Jersey, and a lot of towns are filled with more transient folk. Partly because everything is on top of each other - if I move 5 miles away I might be 2 towns over.

The result is that I never planned on living in my current town for more than a few years and we just passed our 10th anniversary. Maybe it's time to get involved!
Does anyone know if there have been research about a possible genetic mixture with vikings and american native tribes?
Reminds me of a short scifi story I read in the ~1992, cant remember the title of the novel or the book it was published in :(

Deep space mission is send to a distant solar system where signals of civilisation have been discovered. As they approach the planet all the signs, radio waves, artificial lights, etc progressively disappear. Meanwhile on the planet we are introduced to the civilization that solved all of the world problems by providing everyone with a job, all thanks to invention of a timed catalyst able to disintegrate any matter after coded period. Every item on the planet is programmed to turn into dust when expired. Clothes one year, car 3 years etc, perfect planned obsolescence on a global scale. Unfortunately there is an accident at one of the catalyst producing plants at the time deep space mission approaches. Giant spill creates chain reaction eating everything on its way. Narrator goes back to the space mission, now landing on a barren planet, with astronauts embarking and looking around confused at the sight of an empty world.
Fair enough, I'll check out the link.
Do elaborate how people would find out if Facebook simply used this data internally.
We better get used to hardware-as-a-service.

Cars will soon be all-electric, self-driving and pretty much unrepairable.

IoT and smart devices will push everything to subscription model.

Your television and the Internet will no longer be the only place you are served ads. When you reach into the fridge for your store brand dairy product, the fridge will say, "Start living healthier now with almond milk! It's currently on sale! Just tap OK on the screen to order a gallon!"
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It does present a vaguely plausible justification for why you can sell that bottle of champagne at such an insane markup.
The Constitution is not binding, in that people can leave its jurisdiction at any time--by renouncing their U.S. citizenship. If a person doesn't like the contract, they can terminate it.

It is a contract, though. That means that terminating it will also terminate the many benefits of U.S. citizenship. This is a point that, IME, is often lost on people who want to talk about how the Constitution doesn't bind anyone. They want to live in the U.S. with all the rights and privileges of a U.S. citizen, but opt out of taxes, rules, regulations, fees, etc. at their discretion. That's not how contracts work!

So how do people enter into this contract? They are entered into it by their parents when they are minors. Minors cannot execute contracts, but can be subjected to contracts by their parents.

If one wants to look at U.S. citizenship as a contract, then here is the answer. Just like swim class, summer camp, or private school, your parents get to tell you what to do, and that includes being a U.S. citizen. Once a U.S. citizen is 18, they are free to terminate the contract as described above.
Might take a big longer, but I expect people running and testing ads would discover correlations with image posts.
Could be worse. Google has me training AI to do the same thing every time I choose all the pictures with train locomotives in a reCaptcha.
Show HN: It is too easy to get your private data stolen if you are a traveler
Having traveled with my older brother in Italy, I realized there is no good app for finding travelers who speak your language. For example, at Naples, we couldn't find many people who speak English at all. When I moved to the Netherlands I've got a new problem - it was hard to find people who speak my native language.

So I decided to develop an app.

But before doing it, I analysed market of existing products. I quickly found a bunch of competitors and started to research them. I was surprised that a lot of applications share private data of users, some of them share even passwords.

Here are a few examples of iOS apps, and the pictures will say everything for themselves:

backpackr
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sd5txstnwagzsb/res_back.png?dl=0
You can get email, facebook ID and password of any user over cleartext http

travelmate
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xopdo2rx0tem30r/res_travelmate.png?dl=0 http, email, facebook_id

booola
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8y811yfupeuo1b/res_booola.png?dl=0 emai, facebook_id

trippers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xkh62i5pg5rbe1v/res_trippers.png?dl=0 emai, facebook_id

outbound
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjw1fpts5xaeons/res_outbound.png?dl=0 email

party with a local
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hunjtgvo46p24b7/res_party.png?dl=0 email

Is it a normal practice?
You were most likely looking for the word propriety, which is also the word I was looking for. I noticed you made a typo, thought about it, then made the same typo! But there is a difference, I think, between propriety and shame. One does something "for propriety" because they value their actions' impact on others. Rather, I think he was more embarrassed and ashamed, and he left office because it was best for himself. It's a subtle distinction, one which we can never know who is right because we're trying to infer the motivations of another person.
I started coding at the age of 10 with Timex Basic, Z80 and everything evolve from there.

On my first internship after high school while waiting for university applications to come out was done in Clipper and Access/Visual Basic. Also starting OS/400 backup jobs.

Not the set of languages that I already enjoyed most, but it kept myself busy during the Summer.
You're right.

I will not be changing my behavior. ;)
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Or, to put it in terms of the article, there are costs to being honest - both in terms of numbers of viewers and readers, and in reputation.

But readers are a lot less interested in serious news than entertainment.
Can you give more details on the spaces/startup scene in Melbourne please?
This is how people watch fireworks these days: through small screen of their phone while recording the scene.
> But it doesn’t do so by hacking into Tinder, or even by “scraping” the app manually.

So it does scrapes everything manually. I am familiar with their non-public API, and there isn't any other way to find someone specific. You just have to swipe non-stop until you find them.
I've been using bandits in my mobile apps for the last 3 years and am now packaging them as a saas REST API. Message me if you want an early look.
So they put a team of engineers on a problem and managed to save an amount roughly equivalent to the salary of one of those engineers? Also, don't AWS resources generally get cheaper with time?
Compare this approach with Google's - github sticks to the git-compatible 'loose' repository format on vanilla filestorage, while google uses packs on top of their BigTable infrastructure, and requires changes to repo-access at the git-level [1].

[1] https://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/sites/eclipsecon.org.2013/fi...

Interesting how Github is sounding like Google and Amazon. They're probably hitting the scale where it makes sense to build internal APIs and infrastructure abstractions to support their operations, eg. Bigtable and S3. In fact, DGit sounds like another storage abstraction like Bigtable and S3, albeit limited - eg. a git repo must be stored fully on a single server (based on my cursory reading of github's description of DGit), but in Bigtable, data is split into tablets that comprise the table might be stored on different places, which would allow higher utilization of resources.
Why did you consider buying the Kindle version rather than the paperback? Because it's more convenient? Maybe that's why they're able to charge more for it.
I'm still doing my home development on a $500 PC I bought in 2010.
Who said it was Nest's?

Maybe it runs on Oracle. Maybe it has third-party stuff licensed for their use but not open source distribution.
Problem I have: I need my banking app, my bank id app and instant-bank-money-transfer app that doesn't exist for Ubuntu Phone.

Without those apps, paying invoices takes too much time. I can't transfer money to my CC when I need it and I can't transfer money to my friends.

But worst of all, I can't login to 90% of all the governmental services that require bank id. They all exist for my Windows Phone though, which is an underdog enough for me.
Why does anyone need to be "the asshole"? Neither of them seem like assholes. No one is doing anything wrong... One guy is saying "What if?" and the other is saying "Perhaps that wouldn't happen like you imagine it?".

These are both perfectly valid ideas and thoughts and I don't see why anyone has to be wrong.
Ask HN: Best API management solution
Considering features such as:

* throttling
* rate limiting
* authentication and authorization
* API usage analytics

What are the experience of the collective HN crowd regarding the plethora of paid and open source tools out there? What are the pitfalls to look out for, and with which one(s) were the best experiences had?
You joke, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
Something for Rails Devs Struggling with Image Processing
Social engineering 101 (or how to exploit startups)
> Because they actually derive their entire income from work done and assets owned in the USA

How many people does this even apply to, compared to the vast number of US citizens abroad (some of whom are not even aware they are US citizens) who owe US taxes on income from local sources? If you really think this makes sense, then tax it, but that isn't how income tax works today for expats who are taxed on all of their income sources (globally) above the exemption.

> don't even really live in Singapore

There are laws in place to establish residency with a reasonable degree of enforcement.
Curious which router you're using. Time for an upgrade, and am open to advice.
Wouldn't this be the case for the commonly stolen laptop where you had the only copy of your signing key?
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You couldn't be more wrong.

Lawyers take their work home with them every day. They never have any rest at all, because they have to respect certain deadlines and they have multiple clients breathing down their neck. Next to that, there's also the question of morality: Sometimes a lawyer has to make immoral decisions to get the right outcome. This is especially true in penal law.

Doctors have to face the consequences of wrong diagnoses. If one of the patients dies because of an error the doctor made, you can be damn sure he'll carry that mistake with him for the rest of his life. Not only morally, but also legally and it could be a possible career killer.

Programmers have it the easiest, they only have computational problems to worry about. While programming is without a doubt strenuous on the mind, it is by no means affected by morality and therefore incomparable to practicing law or medicine.
Allow me to recommend the 1972 documentary series "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger. It is an astonishingly prescient examination of our changing visual culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk&list=PLlhSx0L1hp...
If you're the one person an entire business depends on, it doesn't matter the least what your job title is, you're going to be carrying around some weight.
Money in most cases is the best motivator. A 10K bonus might not be relevant when you make 400K but is crucial when you make 20K..

Paternalist employers try to subvert this common sense idea and add cheap perks to motivate employees. Of course most times it doesn't work.
Valuable input...but if you say that there is nothing written in the article that is wrong, I am not sure how you can say that the article is wrong.
Who needs an Engineer? (Here is my CV)
What does "33 minutes talk time" on http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/devices mean?

Why does it show that on the lock screen?
What's a "real world language"?
Looking at his comment history he is not the sarcastic type, and honestly standing for 8 hours every day do sound like torture, at least for me.
Plus, with 3-9 month contracting gigs, part time freelancing, and remote work, we have more semi-retirement options than any other career field I can think of.
I use ubuntu on my phone the other way around, using Linux Deploy I chroot an ubuntu or debian root image and connect to it with ssh or vnc on android. It came in quite handy when streaming mp3 through icecast through the wifi accesspoint on my phone for a dancewalk through town.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wXHR-lad-Q

It's impressive that people don't really connect the dots and see that as a huge threat to their freedom.
I think people who are picking up on the 10x assets thing are missing the point... Money can help you feel better about things when things in general aren't going well.

What he says about missed opportunities, and working for idiotic management, that's the big thing here. You work your ass off, the management does dumb things, so the thing you're working on never really pays off, in money or fun.

The fact that his sister has 10x the assets is kind of an insult after injury kind of thing.
Why not incorporate in Delaware or Nevada? Both seem to be ideal for startups/personal projects, no tax until you hit $1M revenue (only personal income tax), you pay only yearly sales license or franchise tax, you don't need to reside there (you can even reside outside US, so you can live happily in Costa Rica). What's the benefit of incorporating in CA?
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The fact that on the summary page there isn't a number showing the significance is very worrying. As the whole reason for it is to make a binary choice, there could be a 2 line chuck of js that just says "B might be better (60% probablity)".
Gay Talese is a great storyteller.

However, there is something slightly off about the story, most fully exhibited by the lack of verification of the murder that Foss claimed to at least partially witness.

Also, there are some convenient events that sustain the narrative, such as the fact that he was able to follow one of the guests home and see her crying through the window.

One wonders if what Foss was telling him, however train-wreck compelling, was only about half true.
Ironically, the only way to fix this is for conscientious programmers to go into management, where they will have the power to actually change things.
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If saving money and giving your users a better experience are priorities then, in general, moving off AWS is worth considering. When it comes to EC2, spot instances or maybe you're doing it wrong.

Conservatively speaking, without bandwidth, you're looking EC2 costing 2-4x more than dedicated while being 2-4x slower. This does depend on specific workload, and the gap has been closing (conversely, I've seen specific workloads be worse than 4x slower).

I know RDS is convenient. But learning how to setup and manage your own database is actually a fundamental skill that will serve you well. All learning can be seen as an opportunity cost, but this is one that will let you save money every month, and give your users a better experience.
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Possibly. For Pfizer that would surely mean eliminating patents on medicine.

Apple for example, that would mean eliminating patents on software and hardware, copyright on software, design-patents etc.
You didn't answer my question -- do you have any sort of proof that "discretionary spending" was actually invented by radical leftists? That was your original claim, remember? Do you stand by that claim, or no?

So, let me summarize your argument: You think that we should re-engineer the language to get rid of the distinction between discretionary and non-discretionary spending, in order to achieve a policy goal you find favorable. The situation is simple -- people like medicare and social security much better than the rest of government. In order to undermine support for popular social programs, you wish to change the language. I get that you believe there isn't really a distinction because of the way the government has borrowed from the SS trust fund. I don't entirely disagree with that. But you're still arguing for dumbing down the language to alter how people feel about government programs.

That sounds pretty Orwellian to me. It's a classic case of accusing one's opponent of the very thing you are doing.

So. Please refrain from these ludicrous, childish accusations about radical leftists and whatnot when you don't have proof and are in fact yourself engaging in Orwellian language games. Take 5 seconds to appreciate what an asshole that makes you look like, OK?
Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose is what we all want. Bad leaders are getting in the way of his Autonomy so he feels like he lost his Purpose. Hence the longing for an objective metric like money. It's a poor substitute.
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Here's what everyone is missing. Don't use bandits to A/B test UI elements, use them to optimize your content / mobile game levels.

My app, 7 Second Meditation, is solid 5 stars, 100+ reviews because I use bandits to optimize my content.

By having the system automatically separate the wheat from the chaff, I am free to just spew out content regardless of its quality. This allows me to let go of perfectionism and just create.

There is an interesting study featured in "Thinking Fast and Slow" where they had two groups in a pottery class. The first group would have the entirety of their grade based on the creativity of a single piece they submit. The second group was graded on only the total number of pounds of clay they threw.

The second group crushed the first group in terms of creativity.
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Imagine my surprise to learn that this utopia of privatization literally dumps shit on the poor people who live there.
Uber now accepts cash payments in Singapore to ward off regional competitor
Seems doubtful, simply because of the really, really small numbers of Norse that ever would have been in North America. Between the stories in the Sagas and the size of L'Anse aux Meadows, I would bet that you could put the ceiling on the number of Scandinavians who set foot in Vinland before 1500 at about a thousand, being generous.
I think what you're describing are trains :)
And when people talk about how companies skirt taxes, there is rarely any discussion about the major costs to the livelihoods of the people doing this financial work.

It isn’t just about finding creative ways to not pay money, it is about companies practically working their tax accountants to death in order to do it.

I knew someone who worked in taxes for a huge company and it was utterly insane: he worked, nearly literally, all the time: like 6 am to midnight, 7 days a week, for the entire damned quarter. Then the company thinks they’re doing them some kind of favor by giving them like ONE day off before they start feeling pressure to begin work on the next quarter’s numbers. All about the numbers. He described all these tricks used to shuffle things around the world. And those people were suffering mentally as well: I heard about constant screaming matches at work, colleagues on average ending their relationships in divorce, etc.
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Ask HN: Resources to learn marketing?
What resources (e-books, videos, on-line lessons, formus, etc) can you people recommend to learn on-line marketing?

I have a couple of projects that need a marketing boost to get more clients, but since I'm programmer, I'm struggling a little bit with the marketing side.

Thanks in advance.
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Do you mind me asking, at what times did you feel the pain?

I've been having something similar but always during the night, so I had not made an association with RSI.
There is also the issue of access. A political reporter's career is essentially over if sources won't talk to them. Habitually 'calling out' politicians is a very easy way to become a persona non grata inside the beltway or in Westminster. The risk of losing access is the sword of Damocles hanging over every political journalist.
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Previous discussion related to Kong [open source product from Mashape]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451947