skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
multiple(!) groups of people who will pay $25,000 dollars minimum to sit at a table near Nikki Minaj for an hour?

"Buy experiences, not things"

There aren't millions of such people, but in a big city with a big nightclub scene? Of course. Why do you think people complain about the 1% so much?
I probably know some horrible people, actually, that would use sarcasm. My apologies, and thank you for clearing it up.

I do agree, completely, it is torturous. I've done it many times, and only at a school was I ever allowed to sit without getting written up. Weirdly, the employees comfort was rarely an issue.
> In contrast doctors and lawyers don't even have this kind of memory load.

My father was a career ER doctor. He would not do it again because of the toll it took on him. It was very hard and demanding work physically and mentally and spiritually. Treated patients did get brought home as a load on the memory in his mind.

Even now, over 10 years into retirement, there's a weight.
So they're stopping construction in order to keep a lid on water and sewage prices?

I wonder what his constituents will say when they have no water to pay for.
I didn't think about looking at comment history as I rarely do so.
I think your use of CloudFlare might be a violation of their terms of use:

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

Specifically, see section 10, "LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING".
Out of curiosity, what did your instructor consider the most misinterpreted scripture verse?
padStart / padEnd Lands in Firefox Nightly
This episode was "The Entire History of You" if anyone is looking to check it out. It is one of the strongest episodes of all the series.
They were getting a lot of heat when they refused to copy GitHub, because a lot (most?) of GitHub's features are just obvious and helpful. So... being a clone shouldn't be your whole strategy, but you should still learn from the competition.
Which leads to my next platform, quadruple the size of congress.. We're at something like 750,000 citizens per Rep right now, it was fewer than 200,000 in the early 1900's. It would become much more expensive to buy a sizable chunk of congress and would become untenable for many companies to set up operations in every district to corrupt politics.
I would never ever recommend gerrit to anyone.
> I can understand (if not condone) the birthday party thing, where you spend millions to get someone famous at your party, as by doing so you are saying "I have so many millions, I can do this ridiculous thing, or buy a famous painting, and still be richer than you". But it seems weird that it's a booming and widespread business model.

The rich are growing richer and the wealth gap is deepening, is happens all the time until the lower classes can no longer stand the abuse and revolt, after which usually a subset of the upper classes gets power and makes minor concessions to calm the mob. Usually this is followed by increased propaganda and controls to prevent another revolt from happening which leads to the people losing more power. Most of the media and sources of information are already in the hands of the elite and allied with their interests, so revolts are less likely and usually easily suppressed. The cycle continues. A police state and an Elysium-style separation of the elite from the plebs seems closer every day. People find it easier to ignore the struggle and suffering of people far away or people they don't see, even the impoverished and homeless in their own cities, because the media mostly ignores them, but most don't realize that they will soon also be in this class of ignored, powerless beggars and the elite class will be better protected and more isolated, allowing them to ignore the problems of the lower classes even more.
Aren't passengers rated? Assuming consistent bad behavior they should be able to avoid these customers.

What exactly did they want Uber to do?
It's an unusually badly written law:

§ 24 Works of art may be reproduced

1. if they are permanently located on or at a public place outdoors,

2. if the purpose is to advertise an exhibition and sale of works of art, but only to the extent necessary to promote the exhibition or sales, or

3. if they are part of a collection, in catalogs, but not in digital form.
It's black-box modeling of perception by tweaking inputs (light) and measuring outputs (human statements of how intense/smooth/whatever it looks)
I found his comment interesting but I don't know what to think about it.

Certainly cops and criminals have plenty of reason to get into each other's heads.

Maybe a better analogy could be the rift that exists between police and the black communities in many places. Definitely these people have a different perspective about things. There is definitely a hard core of criminals who are coincidentally black who are playing a "cat and mouse" game against the cops, but then there are a lot of blacks who have surplus trouble with the police as well as situations like

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/04/the-m...

where cops feel driven to do things that look brutal, maybe are brutal, but they don't see an alternative.
Glad to hear you like GitLab! And if you want something more formal GitLab EE has merge request approva; https://about.gitlab.com/2015/06/16/feature-highlight-approv...
I guess in my particular case I don't need a dual E5-2620 v3 w/64GB of RAM.

The only way I could see needing that for our product is if we were virtualizing our own infrastructure.

But, AWS is not a 1 size fits all case. In that case, AWS probably doesn't make sense.

Side notes: you also need to consider the electricity, setup time, cost of hardware failure, networking access, rack space, etc. The hardware itself is not the most expensive part.

Side note two: where are you getting those prices? I've seen just the motherboard and 1u case cost close to that much. I'm assuming those are workstation prices not rack mount... but if they are rack mount please give me your supplier :)
Companies that provide managed hosting for hardware tend be just as expensive as cloud providers.

These comparisons tend to be, oh look you can buy the the Dell Server for cheap, and shove it in data centre and it's a lot cheaper.

If you start going route where you ask the provider to do it, the charges tend to be a lot more. It usually the sort thing where you need to do a phone call before you can even get a quote.
As a New Yorker, I agree, but this is some Chris Christie-level B.S. Not enough for a crucial infrastructure project, but enough for this $2bn glorified bus line?

http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/1-7b-streetcar-ro...
Justinmind Brand New iPad UI Assets Library
My apologies if I wasn't clear. By "go into management", I meant that the programmer reduces their programming activity from "active participant" to "observer". They use their intimate knowledge of programming to make well-informed decisions for those that they manage. I did not mean to imply that the programmer does two full-time jobs.
Is there any good advice on how to set yourself on the path to being a manager? Not merely how to manage well (I've read plenty of those), but on how to get yourself in a position where you do manage.
Yes. The illegal nature is due to the fact the pictures were held in a catalog. Use by members of the public (such as through the medium of social media) is legal.

Outside of Sweden, I come to understand, it isn't illegal to catalog the images either, this is exclusively a Swedish law.
Yeah... that's how I discovered aText, http://www.trankynam.com/atext, and I've been quite happy with it. It definitely scratches my itches.
Ask HN: Forums similar to HN, but for programmers exlusively?
I'd like to collect recommendations for forums similar to HN in terms of moderation, quality of topics, etc. but focused on programming.

(I realize HN is in part for programmers, but at the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, HN isn't exclusively for hackers. Rather, much of its content these days is of interest to entrepreneurs, marketers, etc. In other words, I'm looking for somewhere which has just programming discussion, not marketing tips, valley gossip, and amateur philosophy etc.)
First ever platform game in Virtual Reality?
A third-person platform jumping game in virtual reality? A fresh arrival on the App Store proves it’s a hit!

In today era of virtual reality’s rebirth everyone is wondering: what kind of experiences are most suitable for a comfortable VR experience? While seemingly most fitting first-person-perspective shooters turned out to be a number one headache activators, the Polish developer Tom Graczyk proposes a third-person-perspective position in his freshly released title Space Box: The Journey out of the Box. Originally developed for a “normal mode” this 3D puzzle platformer turns out it was meant to be a VR game. When placing an iPhone into any VR googles all Space Box’s platforms’ positions seem a lot clearer with a stereoscopic view and ability to look around makes puzzles a lot clearer. Guiding the main character without any hands controller, but only by the head movement provides vivid platform style action before your eyes – not in your brain causing unpleasant nausea. The amount of interface boiled down to a minimum also adds to a pleasant virtual reality experience.

Looks like “thinking outside the box” in terms of a VR experience has given a new meaning to the message of Space Box. You can a look at the game in action here: https://youtu.be/iZiFf53f-W4 and experience it right now for free from the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id961187177?pt=304757&ct=wwwYcombinator&mt=8

About the developer:
Tom Graczyk is an indie games developer and a retro games fan since the 8-bit games era. Made his first games on ZX Spectrum. Every title is made by himself – whether it's about coding, graphics or composing music.

Official website: http://spacebox-game.com
Why do you say Lua is better designed? And are you comparing classic JS or ES6 JS? I like Lua but there are some things that just annoy me like indexing an array with 1, smaller standard library, etc. I find JS implementation of inheritance, objects, and prototyping better than Lua due to its simplicity.
Is this a predominantly east coast thing, or am I just oblivious?
OTOH people I know with a lot of money have serious relationship issues. Money distorts your social connections. It's really not worth it. At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box (old Sicilian proverb).
The author gets it wrong. In the future you only will be allowed to take shot if your camera gets location-based DMCA authorisation clearance to take it. It will be blocked at all other times, and there will be pay per view from camera producer for displaying shots that were already taken, automatically sending money to copyright administration agency.
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Happy to do so, please explicitly state a question, refrain from the tone you've taken, and state what if any experience you have on the topic.
> The entire thing is a rationalization for the thinking illustrated in these quotes

What makes you say that?

It doesn't look that way to me, because (1) nothing in "the entire thing" particular looks (superficially or otherwise) like a justification for that thinking, and (2) the author doesn't cite any of the rest of "the entire thing" to justify that thinking.

It looks to me as if the entire thing is an attempt to describe how the author sees social class in the USA, and those quotes are just what they say they are: "a disclaimer of sorts".
>> As someone who doesn't need $5/month of TextExpander services, this also leaves me in the market for a new solution.

But presumably you can continue to use the pre-SAAS version of the software, right? At least until it stops working because of OS changes, etc.
Per the story the Bloomberg administration paid for the work, a least in part, by significantly increasing water bills. It implies that's part of the reason De Blasio cut back on it.

It's a bit of tangent but that's a regressive tax: It puts a greater burden on the poor than on the wealthy: $10 from someone making $8/hour and risking having their water shut off is a much larger sacrifice for the public good than $10 from someone making six figures.

The trendy idea that taxes in general and progressive (not in the political sense but in the technical sense) tax systems are somehow unfair is holding up important development in the U.S. There is a cost to failing to invest; we could never invest in anything and we'd be much poorer.
> And then when you get absurd results, it proves your originality and willingness to look past conventional wisdom.

Do you have any particular absurd results in mind?
Then how about sewage pumps For a combined energy storage and water distillation facility?
I usually call "clickbait titles" titles that, after reading the article, end up being misleading. Either because they end up having very little to do with the article, or sometimes even telling the opposite story the article is telling.

Understood that headlines are supposed to make you want to read the article, with clickbait titles there is this feeling that you've been tricked. Tricked in spending a chunk of your time to read a story that ended up having very little to do with the title that was use to "sell" it to you.
There's also this obfuscated

let f='.';o c(x:y)=x:c y;z c(x:y)=f:c y;p n='p':ap fix p(o.n)in f:f:p z

defining the `bitmap' of prime numbers

..pp.p.p...p.p...p.p...p.....p.p.....p...p.p...p.. ...

while avoiding arithmetic altogether.
How long before google replaces your google adwords with the artists if it detects the somewhere on your page you have a photograph of a public place that happens to contain a statue?
Learn to Use the Twitter API with Ruby
I work for CloudFlare.

The key part of that clause is this:

the purpose of CloudFlare’s Service is to proxy web content, not store data.
Using an account primarily as an online storage space, including the storage or
caching of a disproportionate percentage of pictures, movies, audio files, or
other non-HTML content, is prohibited

The site in question is also on CloudFlare, and so this clause does not apply. The cached assets are neither disproportionate nor is this being used as a storage space (S3 is still that).
Its free. Maybe that's the difference.
Use scarcity to increase sales by 226% in 45 seconds and with one line of text
What exactly is "DevOps" to you? I ask, because almost everyone has a different answer. I've been doing "DevOps" for more than ten years, and all of the items you listed as required skill-sets are within my capabilities and have been used at many of the places I've worked. I'd be hard pressed to call someone an ops person if they don't understand the basics of server hardware, networking, and storage. These are essential components which the system relies on, the same system you are responsible for the uptime of.

I often hear things like your statements and can't help but wonder if the general quality of ops people is so bad in our industry and I just haven't encountered it, or if the reason ops people are treated so poorly in most organizations is just that developers automatically assume we don't know anything rather than asking.
Optimizely did an A/B test that showed that customers respond better to rounded-up numbers. ;-) the real world is messy.

Years ago my team's statistician did a competitive review of various AB test apps, and reported various ways in which the UIs make statistically invalid statements to the user.
I've only taken Uber (Lyft is not available in the city where I go to university), but I find most of my Uber drivers as extremely friendly. I've had some very interesting conversations with Uber drivers during my rides, and they nearly always seem happy to talk.

I wonder if Uber drivers in cities without Lyft are happier because Uber is the only option.
I wouldn't just blame devs, I'd blame business, as much in terms of the dynamics as well as the individuals.

From a marketing perspective it is easy to see that "Adding Feature A will help us sell to customer B." It is not clear (and probably not true) that feature A will cause us to lose a sale to customer C, but the cumulative effect of a huge number of features can lead to "bloat" and "unreliability" that can cost sales to customers Y and Z and drive the cost and risk of development so high that it stops.

I think of Adobe PDF as an example. People criticize it as being "closed", which is not true, it is one of the few ISO standards which you can download for free and Adobe even scrupulously documents how their products deviate from the standard. However, it is insane how much stuff has been added to it beyond a document format (i.e. exchange of 3D models) such that when I am trying to control the size of the C: of machines I control, Acrobat is the Creative Cloud product that is the most universally useful AND one of the absolutely largest thus making it the hardest decision.

The arguments against it being "closed" and "bloated" then crowd out the real criticism you'd have if you actually read the ISO standard, such as the fact that you can't draw a circle in PDF. (I don't know what happens if you 3d print a wheel made out of 4 bezier curves that look like a circle, but I am sure some of you will find out.)
I agree. Both JS and Lua have a pretty limited standard library, but Lua is a dead simple language with a few simple mechanics that can be used to achieve complicated concepts.

I haven't got major experience in either language, but I find it much easier to read/understand/modify a moderately sized Lua project vs real world JavaScript code.
I agree changing employers is one thing to do.

What do you do if you're not a strong engineer but in a shitty situation?
I'd add the Semper Fi Fund/ America's Fund to the list of reputable organizations:
http://semperfifund.org
> That's a reasonable optimization, but wouldn't help much with runtime, since you aren't traversing any of it

Depends what data you're storing (or not storing) I guess. If you're storing all metadata anyway, you may even discard the original file name entirely and have the full path be composed of hash sections. But you may want to traverse the tree (because you're not storing much/any) data, and split things out because there's a number of APIs which don't deal well with humongous directories.
"The quintessential American quality is the belief that every person has the right to control their own destiny."

So you don't think you have this right? I believe you have the right of opportunity, but not of outcome.

I learned what this guy learned pretty early on: If you are an employee (developer or not), you will be paid to do things you are against and people less intelligent and experienced than you will be making decisions for you at some point...and you can't do anything about it.

This is the sole reason I started my own company. I was sick of being forced to go down a path of failure..after every attempt to do otherwise was ignored.

After our failure, management never wanted to look bad, so they almost always picked someone to blame. Sometimes it was me or my team, sometimes someone else. Speaking up about it meant you weren't a 'team player' and you would probably be on the chopping block during the next round of layoffs.

I was able to survive most layoffs because I learned how to play politics, but at the cost of never feeling satisfied with my job.

I've had my own company for 5 years and I don't regret a thing. It was the best decision I ever made.

"I just have to say this: So typically american"

Really? I was thinking it was typically Chinese. My wife's family is from China and they pretty much all try to one up/compare each other in terms of assets, money, or jobs.

"If you want to control your destiny, you'd better learn how to make money."

This message is pretty truthful. The more you rely on someone to support you (the government, friends, family, job), the less control you have over your life. Money gives you the ultimate power and freedom to do what you want.

Regardless of your culture, this doesn't change. If you have more more money, you will always have more options/freedom.
It's an entirely unfair comparison - Canonical only has to support a single phone model, while Google would have to support hundreds.
What about their hardware?
So, will Ingress be banned in Sweden, as that pretty much does the exactly same thing?
Am I thinking of this correctly? In PA, you start with zero and a successor function, such that > is transitive and succ(a) > a. In nonstandard models, you start with a successor function and zero, but also at least one other weird entity not reachable by any number of applications of the successor function to zero. You can apply the successor function to that entity to get new numbers that are all greater than anything reachable from zero.

OR is it that there have to be infinite starting objects? OR should we think of it as having zero and both a successor function and a weirdSuccessor function (whose applications commute) such that > considers the number of weirdSuccessor applications before it looks at the number of successor applications?
Except there are now so many photos of the crowd surrounding the Mona Lisa [1] that maybe it would be a more productive use of your time to take photos of the people taking photos of the crowds around the Mona Lisa.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+crowd+mona+lisa&sa...
This seems to be a pattern. Politicians say giving up privacy is no big deal, but only because they think the new laws or whatever wouldn't affect them anyway. So it's your privacy they don't care about.

But when it's their privacy and when they get exposed for something or find out they were spied upon - oh boy, they suddenly turn into privacy activists.

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-i...

I think this applies to everyone. Even those who think that for themselves privacy is not such a big deal. But in reality, they just didn't really think it through. And when some sensitive data about their private lives gets exposed, they also suddenly realize how much they do care about it.

I urge you to read that article. It's very insightful.
That is the same argument that typing "Avengers 3 torrent" in Google Search gives download links, so Google are liable for copyright infringement the same way Pirate Bay is. While technically true, there is a diference in intent here that needs to be taken into consideration.
That isn't entirely true. It depends entirely on how you quote your filenames. But yes, historically, there's a lot of broken Makefiles that way.
Are you responding to my comment?

If so, unclear what race has to do with my comment, or for that matter, the topic.
How Companies Like Uber and Siemens Are Gamifying Recruitment
"I am a 19 year old..." CMD+w
A lot is exactly same for me as you described, but my point is that, what factor(s) makes you to exclude Mr Andrew Wulf's personality, sets of skill and life complexity's difference to you from the equation that you ended up concluding more towards his point (going towards management)?

Could it be the fact that you were already thinking of doing such move and this story was just a push?

P.S let's see what reddit guys say about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4dle5m/the_cod...
>>Then you charge 5x the normal rate of a salaried engineer, work normal hours, and start accumulating real assets.

This is dream which happens only when you are asleep. In real life an older person is less energetic, less enthusiastic, can't do weekends, has health issues, has responsibilities, has family commitments etc etc.

Young people work insane hours, they do that for cheap, they show up on weekends and are more flexible in general.

In most cases. Like in everyday cases experience doesn't pay well as you think. Even in professions like medicine and law that is true.

The assumption that experienced people get paid well applies for a minority few people who for nearly all practical purposes are an exception to the whole rule.