skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"New York - Downtown, as I figure in terms of status and location that seems comparable to Singapore."

"Feel free to correct me, I've only been to America a couple of times, so I don't know the most appropriate place to search for comparison."

You narrowed the scope of our conversation to one of the most expensive and famous parts of the entire United States to compare to the average of Singapore? At least you offered that you don't know where to do the comparison. ;) In my area (Memphis Metropolitan), there's tons of businesses, restaurants, activities, service sector, events... you name it. It's not even one of best areas: actually a bad one. Yet, just around $1000 a month. Lots of areas in the South are like that where I hear some suburbs in Northeast near tech capitals are as well. West is expensive everywhere. Good parts of big name cities like NYC, LA, Chicago, etc are as well.

So, it's best to avoid comparisons with those as mostly rich people live there. The rest of us dare not try. :)

"I know people living in my building who pay half what I pay in rent simply because they are Singaporean."

Never heard of this before. How does that work?

"They are not allowed to move in (by law) until they are married, and can only buy as a single if they are over the age of (35) i believe."

That's really messed up. Thanks for telling me, though.

"I pay..."

Your house is double or more what many Americans will pay in rent. The power bill is reasonable if that comes with water. Or does water come with rent or free? The internet leaves me jealouse: I heard you had uncapped Gigabit but didn't know how many or how much. $59/mo. Wow. Corruption is preventing that here with a handful of cities having gigabit ranging from a little above that to $350/mo. Corruption puts me at 50Mbps down with a cap for $70/mo.

"Taxi in Sydney cost me $27 to get to work in the morning. In Singapore, it takes 3x as long to get to work in a taxi and costs $10."

Hmm. I've always wondered about this tradeoff but have no hard data on it. It happens here. In cities, people taxi or walk to work. Rates I paid were similar. Out here in suburbs, we mostly own cars to do that 20-30min drive I mentioned. Gas is maybe $5 a day. Car and insurance can be had for as little as $600 a month for 4 years. Interesting enough, that puts it at about the same rate per day although we pay with or without a trip to work. Ego reasons mean many people pay a lot more for their car, though. ;)

"Basically my cost of living has significantly dropped living in Singapore."

That I believe. Australians tell me the country is expensive to live in if we're talking the cities. You might have dropped your cost of living moving to... anywhere. Just kidding but cities cost $$$ in First World countries with Singapore obviously cheaper.

So, what kind of work do you do? With good hours, wages, and breaks? Is that average for your area?
While he has a point to a certain extent, it's also coming from a fairly purist POV. I respect that for diversity of opinion.
Paul Graham has done a couple of pieces on naming things.

http://aux.messymatters.com/pgnames.html (2006)

And later this from 2015: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

The gist of it is that anything will do, as the name will be associated with your product, not the other way around. Hopefully this can boost your confidence a bit :)
I was slightly puzzled what they meant by "zero-knowledge encryption", but after looking around a bit it looks to be more of a buzzword than really related to zero-knowledge proofs (besides them using SRP for password validation). As far as I know, all password managers like Lastpass, 1Password, etc. use client-side encryption of data. Does this do anything new?
Good luck and good news that at least some South American startups are being considered :)
> Maybe a lot of unhappy people just assume they're "smart" instead of depressed/mental illness, or are just asocial personality types. I've met more than a few mediocre people who have this attitude and engage in talk about "sheeple" and such, but they're not remotely exceptional intellectually

So the people showcased on /r/iamverysmart?
Great response Dr_tldr. One day vs two day shipping should not even be an issue to whine about. Tomorrow these socialist-minded activists may demand many such things (same day delivery, 1gbps internet and so on) in the name of social good and these they demand invariably at the cost of other businesses and other people. They should do that on their own. Besides, anything given for free isn't much appreciated by the receivers too.

Even the government should be cautious, as too much of tax money spent on "such social" projects is not much good for the society as a whole. UK welfare system is a good example how bad such "social" projects can be for the society.
​OpenStack: The telecoms' cloud of choice
GNU Guile has pthreads.
I use their wifi scale every day and see no issue with this - it's a good chance for Withings to move faster, and for Nokia to become more relevant
When I worked at the Federal Reserve, our vault was managed by autonomous, self-driving vehicles (more robots than trucks - basically smart forklifts). They drove standardized boxes of money around from counting rooms where humans touched the money, to storage where humans were not allowed to go. Warehouse management software knew exactly how much money was in each box. Laser scanning was used for guidance and security.

This was over a decade ago. I'm sure things are much better now.
I made this, thanks for any feedback!
For tech things I would say that just reading the documentation (or source if there isn't any useful documentation) is preferable to any online courses.

I'm a big fan of the "teach yourself by reading the docs" thing and I've done a lot of that in my career. But since I started doing a lot of these online courses, I've found that they can be very beneficial. Having a little bit of structure around the learning process, having "classmates" to discuss with, etc. have helped me as I've been (for example) learning R. Now, could I learn R by just reading books, tutorials, and experimenting on my own? Sure, of course. But the courses are pretty cheap, add a little bit of rigor to the process, and come with a minor credential from a well known / highly regarded university (Johns Hopkins, specifically). All in all, I've found that this approach works really well.

Just to share an example of one regard in which the online classes have had value above and beyond me simply doing it entirely on my own... The "R ecosystem" has a LOT of stuff in it. If I just started playing around with R, I'd have little clue which libraries and other tools to try out. But the courses I've done so far have guided me towards learning things like ggplot, dplyr, knitr, etc. Knitr in particular turns out to be really cool, and I'm glad I discovered it... but I don't think it's something I would have gone looking for on my own. Maybe I would still have found it eventually anyway, but as it stands, I feel like the course approach guided me in some useful directions early on.

YMMV, of course.
I'm ok with a mix of transparent and bespoke pricing -- it sucks to see 3 options with set prices, where you actually need something different and are willing to pay.

The ideal is some kind of pricing calculator, though. 3 packages and a custom quote generator, or "call".
As I am reading this, my reaction is "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good"
Tadashi Tokieda
I agree. I support most, if not all, the racial justice initiatives of the last 10 years, but the left is in need of better intellectuals and leaders. The language and tenor of much of the discussion is unhelpful in gaining supporters. I rant all the time that it's really a shame that BLM never seems to protest or take issue with police shooting of non-black folks. If the goal was to win, and not just to make a point, we should come up with better language and strategy.
I think that is just a rumor, though you could believe it because it is officially denied.
Pretty great, always wanted to look at the implementation.
They dropped that feature (and the ball) in Windows 10 https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/66733/project-infinite-bring-...
Because before then, you don't know enough to be an effective mentor. ("30" here is a proxy for a level of experience.)
I like and use Erlang full time, but I am very glad to see Elixir gain traction.

BEAM is really a marvel of engineering.

I've mentioned this before, but I've head experience engineers show disbelief at what things it can do -- lightweight processes with isolated heaps, with ability to have millions of them, isolated faults (if one crashes in anyway it won't scribble over memory of others), very low latency garbage collection, awesome monitoring and tracing facilities, live code replacement and so on.

It really feels like having superpowers using it so nice to see a whole new ecosystem of languages on top of it.
Let me know when humans invent something not governed by the rules the universe was programmed with ;-)
Homepage: http://dropproxy.com/
I'd argue that we discovered the earth goes around the sun, but we invented multiplication. It's a philosophical argument, however.
Singaporean here. How exactly have I given up the "ability to find truths about (my) country" and "control over my future"? Do elaborate, please!
urm, its been in the desktop client for over a year now...

it randomly indexed all my wallpapers and threw them all into my timeline... i'm still not finished with the resulting cleanup.

though it might have been Google Picasa desktop app, i used both back then
Basically 30 years after it become more and more clear that only the USSR was capable of containing such events properly. In 1986 Soviet Army soldiers with impregnated coats and shovels in just 2 weeks ensured containment of the accident to the controllable level. Something Japanese government in the 21st century cannot achieve in Fukushima with nanotech and robotics in 5 years.
Isn't it somewhat the same with humans though?
Sure, except that the Interstate + National Highway System alone have more total millage than the US railroad system.
Very helpful to know! I've always wondered why Apple didn't have a method of code delivery independent of SMS. Even Facebook's app has a code generator. Apparently I just didn't know that it did.
>We need better language.

No, you need better arguments, you can start with the ones where there's no assumption that racism towards certain groups is okay.
Functional Programming as the Pillar of Reactive Programming
The problem with agile is it's not management friendly. And since they cut the checks, they get to dictate how things get done. All they care about is when is it going to be done and how much will it cost. Oh, and make sure all that shit management promised is in there.
As I said, I do understand that. However (and I should have noted this in my original comment), I always tell them up front that I don't like to haggle, and would like their best possible price up front. I also tell them that I am comparing it with at least two other vendors (I always get at least three estimates). Therefore, when they do reduce it, they were lying the first time.

I am always very honest with them, and expect the same. Heck, I don't even hesitate to pay them when they screw something up. I pay them promptly, and then hope they will do the right thing.

While items and services don't have a "real" price, they do have a "best" price.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that, while the article focuses on consumer pricing, I am different when it comes to B2B pricing. E.g. I would quote a successful law firm more than a mom-and-pop shop for consulting services. Back when I was an entrepreneur, I actually lost a couple of contracts because my quotes were too low.
Exactly. Mosh for instantly resuming my connection, screen for resuming my sessions (and adding scrollback and such)
Digital Over-Packaging
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".

Curious about the history of its development.

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
How the heck is that a valid criticism of feminism? Feminism is intended to remedy the injustices of the hierarchical arrangement of men and women. That's literally all it is for. One may as well criticize La Raza for not addressing the oppression of Tibetans in China.

We already have isms that address class issues; they're called Marxism and socialism. Feminism isn't the mommy ideology that has to welcome all into its tent.
Does that really matter though? It seems a bit like not giving humans credit for their accomplishments since, after all, sexual reproduction evolved a billion years before humans even existed.
> a monstrous program of 'black sites' set up around the world specifically to torture innocent people indefinitely

I'm pretty sure everyone involved thought the person was not innocent. This is not a fair description.

Also, as far as I can tell the claim is just that he wasn't part of al-Qaida or some of the other stuff he was accused of, not that he's completely innocent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Zubaydah#Biography_and_ear...

>Zubaydah eventually became involved in the jihad training site known as the Khalden training camp, where he oversaw the flow of recruits and obtained passports and paperwork for men transferring out of Khalden.
And before that, wood pulp and tissue paper.

The name of the company comes from a river which is the location of that wood pulp mill (sold out by Nokia over 20 years ago).
I notice that the article places all the blame on the Bush administration--yet it says the Obama administration quietly dropped the charges but did not release Zubaydah.
What the fuck what the fuck?
Hey, great job, you just took it to the other side of the spectrum!

But seriously, it's a question of evidence, in every case you mentioned. The null hypothesis being "nothing is wrong", which you seem to be pointing at. There are definitely cases where the null hypothesis is NOT true, and needs to be rejected. To muse about whether the evidence is enough is surely an appropriate practice, which seems to be what the author is doing.
First reaction - Nokia is still around?

Second reaction - They have $200M lying around to spend?

Third reaction - dinosaurs are really hard to kill
This $6 Nerf gun has 24 parts (plus packaging) and at least 25 assembly steps
It's just so hard to believe the abundance view! I wish I could. Our economy simply does not reward people for being good or ok at things. You have to be amazing. So you are forced into competition simply to survive and pay for your existence.
This is an abhorrent view to take. "I got mine, so fuck all of you."
I have around 1500. Most are not active, though.

And I wouldn't take the claim seriously that Google Reader was fast with that many feeds; I found that GR struggled with that feeds:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2012/11/01/i-broke-google-read...
Business Success from Mental Illness: Steve Jobs, Henry Heinz, and Estée Lauder
Very sad to see the name of the city being so painfully misspelled. http://kyiv.of-cour.se
Isn't everyone "using" everything? Unless a large percentage of the code the company is currently using is in a language, I don't consider the company to be "using" the language.
Type "agra filth" in Google search. And those pics are being generous, I wish I could share the ones I took last month.
The way they've structured the learning paths with prerequisites, etc is neat. It also seems there's quite a bit of advanced material here. Thanks for sharing.
OpenStack Gets ‘Self-Healing’ with CoreOS’ New Kubernetes-Based Stackanetes
Trucking as an industry is still firmly entrenched in the 20th century. Those shipping companies do have to pay for delays, but the industry's mindset is that delays are an immutable cost of doing business... get insurance against delays, travel around areas that might pose risks (even if it takes longer), train humans to predict/handle exceptional cases, pad out shipping schedules, etc. There's plenty of room for disruption.

Truck manufacturers are onboard because they get to sell replacements for every truck on the road... it's the shipping companies that are going to be the hard sell. The market is ripe for disruption but both shipping customers and shippers will be hesitant when faced with new fangled laser-thingamajiggers.
What Scheme implementation did the code originally use?
From my perspective as an Apple fan and consumer, when I look at the current iPhone 6S offering and the current Macbook product lines, I feel as though Apple's value proposition is eroding.

It wasn't long ago when I would have considered it silly to purchase last-gen Apple products. Today it doesn't seem silly at all. Although, I am a little sore about the current state of the Macbook product line and I hope that Apple really knocks it out of the park this summer or fall with an updated suite of products, particularly in the realm of a lightweight 13" retina offering.
> Detecting and ignoring spurious inputs and extreme edge cases are one of the main reasons that I feel better if there's a person alert and at the controls of a plane

But what is more likely: a human pilot detecting and resolving problems with the computer systems, or the human accidentally crashing the plane?
That is an idea, and it would, in typical cases, avoid reading most large files in their entirety, but it is not what I read in signa11's comment.
+1 This feature would be incredibly helpful for photographers / videographers and would be much more convenient for pseudo-cold storage than glacier, etc.
As an i3wm user I couldn't be happier
Stand ups didn't suck at my last company. (My current one doesn't do scrum at all.) But they were okay because I refused to let people screw them up. If anyone got off-topic, I simply asked a pointed question and got them back on track. Everyone appreciated it, and it kept the stand-ups short, like they were supposed to be.

When others ran the stand-ups, they tended to let people ramble more, and they were more painful. I did my best not to step in and corral the situation, but I still often ended up asking the appropriate question.

My meetings went the same way, with a focus on getting things done so we could all go back to our desks. We socialized plenty from our desks and other times, and there was no need to drag out meetings.

I was thanked for my efforts numerous times, and I tried to be aware of any discord that was created, so I'm fairly sure I wasn't making enemies by doing it.

My point is that standups don't have to suck, but someone has to keep them on track. That's what the standup leader is supposed to be doing anyhow.
They had the only copy of a ton of defunct blogs and they just deleted them. That's not replaceable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572733
Except no one is talking about disadvantaging people of a certain skin color (white). We're talking about trying to help bring everyone else up to the same level.
Technically the EU cookie law does not require notification for cookies associated with the basic functions of the site.

All those annoying prompts are covering the use of nonfunctional aspects such as tracking.
autossh + tmux still. How are people getting around the lack of SSH agent forwarding?
If you're wondering whether or not to take this with a grain of salt, please note the author has a section of his blog devoted to explaining why javascript is apparently bad.

https://medium.com/javascript-non-grata
The average human couldn't invent multiplication either - it took humanity as a whole thousands of years to get to that point. Even writing was only independently invented a handful of times in history.
TMSC?
This is bullshit based on anonymous "Sources" of which we are not told their credibility or how they are connected to Android or Google. Anyone that thinks Google is going to rewrite the millions of lines of Android Java framework in a non-JVM language just doesn't know what they're talking about. I suppose it could be used for unmanaged native code, meaning games, but that's mostly already cross platform via things like Unity.
The NSA doesn't have backdoors into Dropbox. Dropbox has had the highest rating from the EFF regarding user rights, transparency and privacy.

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
Yes. Because a specialized pilot or president will always be better than a generalist at that particular task.

Part of the argument given for the virtues of generalization is about availability. Like, if you find yourself the only available person in a plane over the Amazon, you can improvise a landing. But as the network connects more things in more places, this becomes less and less important.
Headline is intentionally awful. tl;dr: the "lie" is that javascript is a bad language, and developers should not learn it.

Proceed if you enjoy programming language screeds, this one makes few technical points and focused on the argument that learning JS is not a practical professional decision.
Anyone who thinks society is actually meritocratic is deluding themselves.

And no one is using racism to fix racism. Only someone who is desperately clinging to that advantage they have for being white would say that.
Mosh to the server, then run screen/tmux there. You'll have to use the scroll features of screen/tmux. Running your stuff inside of screen/tmux is useful in any case.
Basically a big rant about javascript.

I do agree, at a high level, that the litany of frameworks, and which ones to use together...is a barrier right now.

It's somewhat amusing to compare the effort required to make a relatively simple "SPA", versus doing the same thing in a "fat client" via C#, Java/Swing, or similar.

But, it's a relatively new ecosystem. I'm sure the dust will settle sooner or later, and a reasonable end-to-end solution will emerge.
Given that your selling point is: "FOCUS ON CODING, NOT SERVER MANAGEMENT.", I think your name needs work.

"Sloppy" is almost never a good adjective, and certainly not something related to technology and security.
Generally invention applies to the first discovers. I would suggest in the entire universe both observable or not we are unlikely to be the first species to discover multiplication. Languages like English, French etc on the other hand have much better odds even if language as a concept is really old.

PS: I have even seen 'rediscovery' used for the same situations when a math idea was lost etc.
Show HN: Auto Setup Multiple Ghost Blogs with Nginx and WAF
I think in time, we will look back at the mess of "modern js" development, including the true shit-show of npm, in the same way we look back at the horrors of J2EE, XML hell, bean hell, FactoryOfFactoryOfFactoryofEclipsePleaseAutoCompleteThisBeforeRSIsetsIn, and the rest.

The only interesting bit is whether it will be webassembly or something else that actually drags us into a paradigm shift for the web.
Kotlin doesn't solve any problems for Google from a legal perspective (for example, moving away from the Java ecosystem because of the protracted litigation from Oracle).
I'd rather pay $8 a month for access to thousands of TV shows and movies I might want to watch versus paying $4 one time for a movie I know I want to watch. Especially when the movie I want to see will likely eventually show up on my $8 service at no additional cost.

I suppose it matters on whether you are willing to wait or not.
When I worked there, and I spent 2 field seasons in 1993-94 in the 80-120Ci/sq.km zone, we had two proverbs, briefly translated as: "If you want to be a parent, keep you balls contained in lead" and "You can eat apples here, but you should bury stubs at least 140 cm deep". Only the second one was true. Mesocarp of fruits was clean, but seeds were normally contaminated with Cs 137 (replaces potassium in meristema).
So nobody's really using anything unless they use it exclusively? I guess nobody's using anything then. Google isn't using Go. Microsoft isn't using C#.
I'd suggest you edit the second sentence, as that is a huge spoiler.