skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
evil-mode lets you do things like "insert this text into the same position in a block of consecutive lines" using rectangular selections. I find it occasionally very helpful. It's a little clunky though: you make the selection, press I, edit the first line, press esc, and then the other lines get edited the same way. (I'm not sure what "the same way" means if you delete a bunch of text or move the cursor around while editing.)

I haven't used multiple cursors, but I imagine they'd let you do that, but with the other lines getting updated in real time, and without requiring the insert points to be neatly aligned.

Maybe other stuff too.
I always hear there's lots of caveats to this. e.g. sometimes the water, electricity and internet aren't available. Or the house costs $10k but you need to buy the unpaid taxes, too, plus pay property taxes on a home that's valued at 50k+ when it's worth a fraction (I think in this case it's also listed on zillow, property valuations for tax purposes being 2x the listing), etc etc.

I mean absolutely, it's a cheap deal, even all this considered, but not as good as it looks. The final cost is probably a multiple of the listing, and you're still in a neighbourhood that's sketchy. Lots of interesting stuff has been written about Detroit and the various initiatives to buy a fixer upper, things like 'if you call an ambulance or police, they don't come, or they arrive 30 minutes late', feature commonly in such articles.
This. I usually make a list of things I know I want in a job and use those few "ask me anything" minutes to make sure a company ticks all these boxes (or as many as possible).

I mean, if we're lucky enough to work in a sector with lots of offers available, better make the best of it by finding a place we truly enjoy.

Maybe it ends up being one that pays you a bit less but has an amazing crew or great benefits or work/life balance. Find out what matters the most to you and make sure you get an acceptable answer (from several sources if possible) before committing to a company.
Same reason as "too many men", I would hope? Diversity cuts both ways.

But I somehow doubt that's what OP meant.
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Amazon has a history of hiring MBA's - they hired a ton from HBS before the crash - when other tech companies didn't. Maybe it's Bezo's Wall Street background.
"In their communication with me all these people have been civilized and polite, without weirdness or negativity. All in all the top scorers seem to confirm what has slowly been dawning to me over the past years: that, within the high range of intelligence, higher I.Q.s tend to come with a greater likelihood of being psychiatrically and socially normal."

http://iq-tests-for-the-high-range.com/statistics/iq170.html

Also, please read about IQ and rational thinking: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrat...
> I can understand why many people will avoid using commandlines. The part I don't understand is how they're quite comfortable when those commandlines are surrounded by "Forward", "Back", "Stop" and "Reload" buttons; or when they have an "I'm feeling lucky" button underneath.

Are you sure you apprehend the differences between the look and feel of a browser and that of a command line?
I'm assuming OP means data not related to the blog. In other words, if one chooses to run Wordpress, isolate it and its database on to a separate container, away from anything mission critical.
Has anyone ever calibrated these levels with actual n-th graders?
Yup. You really need some momentum, or some hope of momentum. Cheap prices ain't gonna do it. Right now Detroit is essentially competing with rural areas in price, but giving none of the benefits of a city: proximity to jobs, vibrant culture, amenities. It has many of the disadvantages of a city, in excess, like crime. And the momentum is not positive.

Can Detroit rebounce? Surely. But I don't think a smart investor would make a bet on it, outside of specific neighbourhoods and projects.
Good lord you are the most boring person in the world, we all read technical manuals all day and some of us enjoy playing with language.

I suppose you watch TV and moan that it's fucking entertaining with amusing puns and clever use of language (fuck Bill Shakespeare eh?) No no NO NO! TV should be a series of facts presented as white text on a black background. You sir are an arse. Why are you even on the internet spewing your hate? EliRivers is a boring bland person. No sense OF FUN and not at all interesting in any way.

I bet a lot of people respond to you with tonal grunts. Is it that they all just wished you'd go away and leave them alone? Huh? Yep. 'fink so.
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> Very few online stores give you a choice of delivery service.

The ones I'm now using all do.

The different options of exigency are usually different providers, which is very convenient.

> Oh?

As a quick experiment I built a bike from components and accessories last year and couldn't find any of the items I wanted on Amazon, but have just tried again.

No Rohloff hub, Enve rims, Gilles Berthoud mudguards, Schmidt dynamo hub, etc.

Only the brake pads for Hope brakes, not the brakes themselves.

The only bits of an entire bike that I managed to find was the Carradice bag and the Fizik saffle. No other part was on Amazon.

> Amazon options are good enough a lot of the time

They're only "good enough" if having them means that you do not have the Netflix, Spotify and other things in place. A quick survey of the people sat around me with Prime is that every one still has those subscriptions elsewhere.

It's not a saving if it's in addition to other costs.

> If they're not honouring their warranty, do a credit card chargeback.

A warranty period is measured in years, a chargeback period is measured in days... 60 days is usually the upper limit.
They don't pay as well as most companies in Seattle, unless you're only looking at tiny companies or something.

Maybe the new hire offer is market rate, but at 1+ years you are definitely going to be paid more anywhere else.

Amazon's job levels are also structured to have higher requirements and lower pay than equivalent positions elsewhere.
I agree to some extent, but normally they would expect there money to be spent on marketing etc. rather than to cover my household bills?
ditto to the max... several years implementing your exact solution... wish I could share the knowledge... I hate to say it but you may want to find something a little more exciting to work on (done as a 501c3)
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You know, they could go to south Texas, where there's plenty of inland areas with low population density east out to the Gulf. It'd be on the same, or lower, lattitude than KSC. It'd also be closer to Johnson Space Center, where they already have Mission Control and astronaut training.
It's probably cheaper to rebuild/move everything from Kennedy than to try to save Florida.

The only thing that might be a problem is if the political pork-barrel process can't stomach not distributing NASA money across two areas instead of one.
Yes. In urban areas housing is, almost by definition, not affordable any more. Yet there's still a cultural stigma coming from living in mass-produced housing like trailer parks or high-rise projects like the late unlamented Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago.

Just because le Corbusier's brutalist mid-20th-century vision gave urban manufactured housing a multigenerational bad name doesn't mean the whole project is stupid.

I wonder if Habitat for Humanity or some other experienced org with an ethical core could have something to add to this project.
Not to mention that despite being "exciting", most people would probably prefer they didn't happen, as when they do occur, they can be fatal. I'm talking mostly about F1 here, as that is how I personally feel. I mean, when a crash occurs, naturally I do want to see it, but it can be an exiting race without crashes...
It shows a fundamental disrespect for you and your time. No doubt Facebook gets away with this because it has an endless line of applicants, but if they disrespect you so much before you even work for them, what are they going to be like as employers?
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One missing feature is that you cannot run the same code in the browser and on the server (which is very useful).

Is there a language that compiles to both Erlang and Javascript?
On campus, eh? Maybe the big companies who attract lots of well paid workers to certain crowded cities should make themselves customers of these projects, and put some of their vast resources into making them work well.

I'm looking at you, Google and Facebook.
It does better when, for example, you have a field called 'id' in both tables.

SELECT
*
FROM table1
JOIN table2
ON table2.rel_id = table1.id

will use one of the 'id' field from table1 or table2 (depending on the join type).

SELECT
table1.*
FROM table1
JOIN table2
ON table2.rel_id = table1.id

will use the 'id' field of table1 and does not include data from table2.

But I agree with your other arguments.
Phew, I thought it was just me.

I found http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ far more accessible.
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Have you ever contacted Amazon about the delivery firms that you've had issues with? I contacted them on 3 separate occasions about CityLink - they refused to leave parcels either in my porch or with a neighbour and their nearest collection depot was at that time 3 bus journeys away in a different county.

After the third one, I said I would be cancelling my Prime if they ever delivered (or rather didn't deliver) again. I don't know if was coincidence or not, but I don't think I've had an attempted delivery from them since.
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Yahoo Japan has about 40% of the search engine market in Japan, which is pretty impressive:

http://returnonnow.com/internet-marketing-resources/2015-sea...
There's no foolproof way of detecting bad bosses and environments.

What you need to learn is:

(1) How to deal with difficult people. It's very likely that you'll have to deal with personalities and egos like this at some point no matter how carefully you attempt to situate yourself.

(2) How to make yourself marketable enough that you can easily walk from uncomfortable workplace cultures. At some point you're going to work with a colleague or in a company that you cannot stand, so be ready for this.
That's a good point, and they've also been my concerns with using them too, which I overlooked with my comment.
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Not to be morbid, but at some point in my mid-late 20's I considered how many Sunday afternoons I have left in my life. The thought made me a lot less likely to want to spend them dealing with xorg.conf or fiddling with drivers. Though for me, the solution has been to use plain-vanilla desktop Ubuntu on a laptop that ships with it (XPS 13).
There is Armstrong's thesis (google it) which explained all the major design decisions much nicer that this arrogant "Erlang matters".

The foundation principles is not only in selecting a functional language and enforce immutability, but explicitly rejecting all sharing (threads in the first place) and providing a theoretical basis of why JVM is an unacceptable target for reliable, soft-realtime systems, (no matter what Scala guys might tell you) - a crashed process would affect none other, no data corruption, no locks, no messed up stack. This is what is behind the "let it crash" meme.

Erlang is not "matters", it is a masterpiece of software engineering to study and learn insights from. Especially, how to make ones own decisions based on right principles and rejecting sectarian dogmas (run everywhere!) of wast majority.
re: what do I need in terms of capital at this point

I was able to purchase the land incredibly cheap, currently my business partner and myself have a few contracts for enterprise support that keep us afloat.

I do need capital to progress this project quickly - if I don't get any investment soon, progress will happen but at a slower pace. The biggest thing is the team though. The feeling of working with a genius team is amazing and getting some YC support will help me get some more people on board.

Things that additional capital would help:
-small drilling rig to put in deeper wells, also each well requires $200-$500 for permit fees
-additional building permits and materials (already have all needed air tools)
-legal consultation
-a very modest marketing campaign
-Investment in other small nearby parcels at the county tax auction (in may - thousands of area properties being auctioned)
Any ideas on how? I have tried Facebook/Google/LinkedIn Ads' and didn't get much response, it's a high touch sales process that involves pointing out the problem they have, most are aware of social media, have created accounts but then do nothing with them.
More info here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9512919/getting-around-ch...
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>The current design looks transitional to me.

That's the point, it's transitional not functional. It reminds me of the Lincoln Mark 8's old rear trunk faux tire hump:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Mark_VIII#/media/File:...

I would have thought Tesla would have skipped the transitional and re-thought what a frontend should do and look like when there's no need for a grill anymore.
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1) What legal risks are you taking on in providing this service, and how will you offset them? Providing the wrong information (two people with the same name, user input error you didn't validate, analytics calculation error, etc.), downtime at a critical moment, client or other confidentiality issues, etc.

2) Where do you get the data from, and how scalable are those sources (e.g. does it vary by municipality)?

Just want to echo others saying it's great to hear how many customer interviews you've done.
Half of these things can be done with FFMpeg.
A suggestion. Try to take an iPad or other tablet into a courthouse. Those devices are forbidden in the courthouse in my neighborhood, as are mobile phones.

You probably need strong use-cases that DON'T involve in-the-courthouse access. Or you need an influential chief judge or court-clerk department executive in some visible jurisdiction on your board of advisers.
The one I love is being asked for an estimate cold on some feature/requirment I've never heard mentioned before.

"How long will it take to add a feature to frobulate the fribbers?"

"What's a fribber, and what, exactly, does it mean to frobulate them?"

Handwave "How long? We need to schedule this."

"Can I do some research about frobulating fribbers and how one goes about doing that?"

"No, we need an estimate"

"Ok, five minutes? Six weeks? Six years? Who the hell knows? What do you want me to say?"
I'm in China and streaming youtube videos is mostly out of the question, due to the very unpredictable and usually too slow nature of connectivity (I gave up on VPN long time ago and use a number of strategically placed cheap virtual servers). Over the years, youtube-dl has been a godsend. I ssh into one of my servers, download the video and then rsync it over to my laptop. Most of the time I don't really need to have the video stored locally - if I was at home I'd just stream it again - but for some niche applications like mine it's next to nothing. The buffering built in to youtube itself too often just stops or throws me into 'an error has occurred'.
There's a lot of motte/bailey'ing[1] going on in the climate change debate.

There is tons of histrionics and scare mongering out there. I particular remember during the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen, art installations illustrating how the city would be under water if sea level rose 7 meters, which is the estimated rise if all of the ice on Greenland melts. The Day After Tomorrow, not to mention An Inconvenient Truth.

While there certainly are and were voices critical of these things and their dubious relationship with the science (whether settled or consensus or not), their usefulness in advancing the agenda appears to be appreciated more than their role in misrepresenting the science. This is an actual quote from a scientist listed in the "criticism" section of the "The Day After Tomorrow" Wikipedia page[2]: "I'm heartened that there's a movie addressing real climate issues. But as for the science of the movie, I'd give it a D minus or an F. And I'd be concerned if the movie was made to advance a political agenda.". This is an actual scientist on the record believing that TDAT is "addressing real climate issues". That is like applauding Swordfish[3] for addressing cyber security issues. That is the Bailey.

Then, years after, when these things perhaps look a bit more absurd (and some very specific predictions turned out not to come through, at least not as unambiguously as expected), we get "The IPCC's 2001 report was for <1 meter rise over the entire century ... Do you have evidence that it wasn't just kooks saying what you suggested?"

That's the Motte.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If it was only kooks saying it, certainly none of the non-kooks bothered throughly rebutting them at the time.

1:http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/09/motte-and-baile...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow#Critici...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(film)
It is somewhat similar to that, but also different.

For discussions sake, let's say my books bring in $100 a month today. As a self published author, I keep 100 percent of my royalties. I take 10 percent, and create 10 shares, offering each for sale for $100 a piece, each entitling its owner to 1 percent of my future monthly royalty payments for as long as they own the share. Right now each would be paying a monthly royalty of 1 dollar, assuming my sales stayed at the same level, more or less. As my stock as a writer grows, and I get more sales, those shares pay more, and maybe the original buyer resells them to someone else for more than they bought them for.

I think there is a market for it. I'd sell some of my future royalties for some cash to live on while I grow my author platform. I think a lot of authors would.
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logstash and rsyslog do different things. there is some overlap.
i love youtube-dl. i've been interested in doing the same with soundcloud, but i have no idea how to go about learning how their streaming works. any advice for where to start?
The Erlang garbage collector is a fascinating topic; here is a discussion on HN about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218343
Thats why i thought about a third party. Not sure where you would find such a person/company but you are providing a solution for a very specific need which is most likely not easily advertised to. Basically i think you need a sales guy.
Perhaps the assumptions that cause people to aspire to a McMansion are the ones that "enslave". "Here, have a bigger container, so you can collect more things."
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Yes, I have.

It has not resulted in any change. They prefer their own drivers, and these are what we have issues with.

We live in a high-rise, one of several, and have a concierge from 8am through to midnight. Even so, the items are seldom left with the concierge, and frequently we get "attempted delivery" when the concierge is on-duty and open or whilst we are in (no delivery attempt is made at all).

Sometimes the driver gets to our door and leaves the item without knocking. We discover the item the next morning as we head out to work. Which explains why so many items don't get through as next door to us is a drug dealer with a lot of their customers coming and going at all hours.

All we want to achieve is: put it through the letterbox or leave it with the concierge. Neither seems to be possible.

No amount of complaining to Amazon has resolved it, but shopping elsewhere means the Amazon delivery network isn't used and every item then ends up through the letterbox or with the concierge.

I can graph my non-digital orders for the last few years, I've gone from 5-10 orders per month 2 years ago, down to 1 order every 3 months last year.

The only thing I still order from Amazon are Kindle books, for everything else, I now look elsewhere first.
Basically, you have to treat the interview as a two way process - they are interviewing you, but you are also interviewing them. You need to look at how the company has treated you from the moment you applied, and pick up on any indicators that the organisation you're applying to is toxic.

I would look at the following:

(1) How has the company communicated with you since you applied to the position? Has it been a single person communicating to you, or several, or an automated process?

(2) How did you find it – personal or completely anonymous?

(3) Was there a telephone screening interview with HR?

(4) How were you tested technically? Were you sufficiently tested?

(5) Did you have to write code as part of your interview process? If not, this is a major failing. If the company doesn’t know if you can code or not, what is the point hiring you?

(6) How large was the interview panel? This is most visible way of assessing how important a company views recruiting developers.

The interview itself:

(7) Were the questions asked relevant to the work you believe you will be doing?

(8) Did the questions asked match the advertised job? If it doesn’t, it is likely that the job advertised won’t be the job you will actually be doing.

(9) The interviewer’s personality and behaviour. Were you treated with respect?

(10) Would you like to work with these people? Remember, in an interview, people are on their best behaviour on both sides of the table. If you come out of an interview thinking that one of the interviewers was a pain, then they will be most likely be a complete bastard to work with. You need to trust your gut instinct about people.

(11) How was the outcome communicated to you?

I've blogged about this previously at http://www.andyparkhill.co.uk/2015/04/the-software-developer...
Wouldn't get_iplayer be simpler?

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
not exactly "realtime" if you press "scan" but still, I love the idea
For me it's about time. When I was a kid / teenager I had tons of free time for experimenting, and I didn't really care much for school. Now that I'm employed, I feel like those 8 hours are in fact the whole day. So I have less patience for things that are only tangential to the goal I'm trying to achieve.
Amazon stopped selling players that don't support Amazon Prime Video. That can been seen as first-order customer unfriendly, but second-order customer-centric, if you take the view that Amazon Prime Video is a consumer benefit overall. (I do, but I'm still annoyed that I can't get Apple TV on Amazon.)

Context: I'll admit to being a fairly rabid Amazon fan (no other conflicts, other than as a retail shareholder). I still cross-shop NewEgg (to support anti-patent-trolling), Ebay, Aliexpress and others, but Amazon wins more than its share of my purchase traffic.
You could also just pay a service that uses human workers in third world counties. It's a little over a tenth of a cent per captcha.
Could you be more specific, what are pain points in AS compared to VS2015 when working with NDK?
Some people call sugar a poison, some call pornography a poison some people call stress a poison.

Consenting adults not harming others should have the right to poison themselves as they see fit.
It could do, or it could imply that they want to hear how you would "sell" a given improvement to upper management (and whether you understand the benefits to the business). Whether or not its a warning sign depends on whether or not they currently do tests.