skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't this functionality be implemented at the level of the MTA, for example by a milter that autoresponds with payment instructions to any sender who attempts to contact the recipient without having paid? Then users wouldn't have to look at your web page at all and you wouldn't have to apologize to HN readers for its appearance.

An MTA level solution also avoids the obvious potential problem of creating an aftermarket for high value email addresses. Enterprising brokers could acquire them initially by paying the money to solicit a reply, and then they could recover their investment by selling the email address at a discount to whoever else wants to contact the recipient.
This similar to our setup with the slimfast-plugin. We use the maven-jar-plugin to add the Main-Class and Class-Path entries to the manifest. At build time, we use the upload goal of the slimfast-plugin to upload the dependencies. It automatically reads the configuration of the maven-jar-plugin to make sure the paths it generates match the classpath in the manifest. Then it spits out a JSON file that has info on each dependency, including its location in S3, file size, checksum, and relative path where it needs to be copied to match the Class-Path in the manifest (the JSON entries look like this https://gist.github.com/jhaber/3029dc55a568f0954b1c4b459657e...).

On deploy, the simplest way to get up and running is to use the download goal of the slimfast-plugin. It reads this JSON file, downloads each dependency (using an optional cache folder), verifies the file size and checksum, and copies it to the correct relative path. The application will then start up happily with java -jar.

At HubSpot, we instead integrated this download step more transparently into our deploy process. At build time we read this JSON file and store the dependency information in our build database. Our deploy infrastructure already accepts S3 URLs and handles downloading, caching, verifying checksums, and copying to arbitrary directories so we just piggybacked on this existing functionality to have it download the application plus all of its dependencies for us.
While your skepticism is easily justified and I share it, I would just point out that:

> Plus, its an opportunity to build brand allegiance at a young age.

If this leads to other vendors like Microsoft, Google, etc. launching their own coding camps geared towards youth I think it's a net win and results in competition in an area which is currently under served.

I also think it's a little unrealistic to expect a corporation to just throw money at philanthropic endeavors...as nice it might be to think about/wish for.
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Believe it or not, some of us don't want to be vegans. I quite enjoy the taste of meat. I harvest my own by ethically hunting when I have the time. No I do not want a vegan substitute.
According to that chart's definitions, a San Francisco household where there is one child and in which the husband makes $65k, and the wife makes $35k, is upper middle class. This is not upper middle class as traditionally defined.
Sure, you can build highly reliable supercomputers. But the majority of us are running on google style networks of mostly-reliable boxes. I worked for a company that built distributed ML software, and even at eg hundreds of boxes you will regularly see failures. Customers will be very unhappy unless your code tolerates that.
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It's interesting how you want to take those who worked hard, got a degree, bettered themselves, and who are using their skills to better society (programmers, doctors, lawyers), and reward them with higher taxes.
Yes - they were correct. Just highlighting that you're an idiot.

dana is a girls name.
> Its easy to imagine a version of our world in which children learn to interact with computers without GUIs, if CLIs were the norm. Children would learn them faster than adults.

Do you want those children to hate CLIs because they are boring and they have to learn it just like all other boring stuff such learning how to read and write? If we offer children a way to enjoy what they are doing (i.e. make it fun to use/learn it), they will look forward to learning how to program. And making a task harder while it could be easier is not the answer (and children are not stupid, they would realize that a GUI would also be possible these days).

Furthermore, CLIs are hard to use in many environments. Would you want your waitress type "start paying; add product NAME [QUNANTIY]" instead of just touching the symbol a few times? There are many advantages with CLIs, especially when doing "traditional computing tasks" but in the real world, which is becoming much more digital, CLIs are not useable and a touchscreen with buttons is quicker. So why should the general public know how to use them – there are outside of our "edge cases" not really useful.
> as popular as Trump

You mean hated by 70% of the electorate?

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/15/politics/washington-post-a...
My theory is that the max output of the average worker has been eclipsed by an order of magnitude by people who can communicate with the 21st century machines. i.e programmers. Programmers are just modern day factory workers. They are leveraging their natural ability to produce more with machines. Unfortunately society hasn't realized that programming is a core skill, like math and english.

Until everyone knows how to leverage their output with programming expect the gap between the upper middle class and everyone below to grow.

If you're currently in the upper middle class and above and you are not leveraging software either directly in your role or as an manager / owner, then you're at risk of falling in class.

When the industrial revolution started, factory workers were paid very well, relative to other workers (i.e agriculture). Once society realized that math / english was a core skill required to live in the new world, factory workers as a group grew and became the middle class. I expect the same thing to happen with programmers if we as a society get our shit together and educate our population correctly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796612

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697678
Completely expected as soon as they took money. They are exactly what organic "success" stories online look like. Now they want some of reddit's traffic and so reddit is fighting back at first by embedding images directly on the page and now hosting the image themselves. Reddit is also looking to maximize profit.
Well, in Africa chicken isn't regarded as meat, to give one example from my own experience.

In western countries, there's some ambiguity around eggs, fish, and possibly lard but only as far as vegetarians can't all agree on those either.
If there's any information that's extremely sensitive, we'd work with you to find a good way to anonymize it to the workers. Other than that, we don't need to store your files so you could completely control the content. :)
The FAA has in the past sent demand letters and attempted to subpoena documents related to payments from youtube videos.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/man-who-built-gun...
I spent several years as a vegetarian, and then a few as a vegan, and I wouldn't/won't touch any of those products, either. I've tried them, and they're gross. They don't taste like or feel like meat.

There are enough delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes that it makes very little sense to go vegetarian and then eat processed imitation meat. I found being vegan significantly easier when I just looked for recipes that happened to be vegan.
I agree every billionaire has some insanely cut-throat business activities behind them, and they shouldn't necessarily be absolved of their sins by philanthropy; but on the other hand it doesn't mean they were parasites either, I mean Microsoft made a ton of software, much of it quite good.
I agree that the preference (or demand in this case) should have been communicated upfront. The interviewee should have known well in advance how the interview would be conducted. Waiting until the actual interview just ended up wasting everyone's time for no reason.

Though, honestly, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place here. One of the tenants of interviewing is that candidates have to be evaluated fairly and equally - you can't have one candidate go through one evaluation process and another go through something completely different. As a company, you could easily be sued for this (you could be seen as showing preference to one candidate or the other).

I think the biggest issue is that companies like FB and Google and other tech giants use these interview techniques, so all other companies argue that those techniques "work" for (or at least do not hinder) companies that have literally billions of users and billions of dollars (in other words, you can't argue with the results).

So, until we have solid proof of a better process that scales I think those types of interviews are going to be a consistent part of the tech job industry.
Lots of science fiction stories have this concept, but usually they talk about Slower-than-light, multi-generational space ships that takes centuries to reach the next star, only to find that during the last 100+ years, the destination planet has already been settled by humanity.
It's not just taste. These alternatives are loaded with carbs and just aren't practical for a low carb diet. This is coming from someone who eats a ton of fiber loaded vegetables. It's really hard to find a reasonable substitute for meat proteins that is as efficient and delicious as meat. Protein is not a huge portion of my diet, but it is very important.
Headline is modestly inaccurate.

>Tencent and its partners will together buy an 84.3% stake in Supercell for $8.6 billion from Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank Group Corp. and the startup’s current and former employees, the companies said Tuesday. The deal values the closely held Supercell, maker of some of the world’s highest-grossing mobile games, at $10.2 billion, nearly double its valuation a year earlier.
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Do you not find it unethical to serve your in-laws fake meat without informing them?

Wouldn't you be upset if your in-laws served you seitan that was actually chicken?

*edit: I bring this up because many people do not react well to meat substitutes. Gluten and soy intolerance affects many people and serving soy or gluten-based meat substitutes without prior informed consent can induce adverse reactions. I do believe that veganism in morally superior to carnivorism, but that still doesn't grant the right to trick others into consuming meat substitutes without their informed consent.
Absolutely, you're still Superman.
> What exactly are you trying to achieve by calling a candidate as popular as Trump "extreme"?

Trump is the single most unpopular major party nominee for President in the history of opinion polling, and was able to win largely because of the structure of the Republican nomination process being designed (and refined over several cycles) to lock-in the early advantage of a candidate able to most effectively appeal to particular extreme activist constituencies early in the process by creating large delegate majorities from small electoral pluralities, a design which has particularly extreme effects when the field of candidates early in the process is crowded as it was this year.
No, he is saying King was trading at valuations close to steel mills prior to those same steel mills going into bankruptcy.
I haven't seen any evidence of carbs in general being evil no. Just lots of the common sources of them in our modern diets.
For SaaS it's easy, you just treat the payment as a success. If it ends up failing, you treat it as a chargeback.

For selling goods that you hand over (e.g. irrevocable product keys) it's much trickier and depends on the specific business whether it makes sense to have the customer wait.
It cripples not just delivery or beyond-1km remote sensing, but also very local stuff like "We want to use a drone with a camera to inspect the condition of our warehouse roof".
My understanding of it is that it all goes to crap when outside observers manage to see the outcome of your event before they see the event started. Therefore, to be safe, keep your faster-than-light travel a secret.
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Hmm, interesting. Perhaps involvement in a community of 'givers' and making a public statement, counter-act the 'values erosion' of working with people who are more focused on themselves.
While I agree that Slack's value proposition is tangential/complimentary to e-mail, the more that comes out it sounds more and more like Slack want's to replace e-mail/reinvent business communications.
I think they try to do something similar to what the cow does when growing muscles (chaining proteins or whatever). So I think it browns the same.

Why chuck? Once this gets cheaper in production than meat burger, but still tastes exactly the same, the big fast-food chains might join the boat. So I guess they try to stay close to that.
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We have a small React/Elixir/Phoenix webapp in production, and we deploy it using https://github.com/bitwalker/exrm, https://www.go.cd/, and https://saltstack.com/. I'm not the devops guy myself so I don't fully understand how much work was involved in getting all this set up, but I am extremely pleased with the results!
> dystopian future in which the only people who need to know about plaintext and file systems are the full-time Apple programmers

We're heading into a dystopian future where the only people who need to know about manual transmission and fuel injectors are auto mechanics.

There are plenty of non technical people who benefit from increased abstraction. I'm personally happy as long as it doesn't impact productivity for power users.
It would allow you to send information backwards in time.
However it should surely be up to the fan, that has paid her $200 for a front row seat, to experience the show as well as capture the moment which in some cases may be a once in a life time experience.

Whilst greatly diluting the actual real-life experience of that moment not only for themselves, but for everyone else who paid $200 a pop for their front-row seats, also.

EDIT: "And not to mention, for the performer also."
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Although they are representational of all islands, Tonga and Samoa disagree.
>Sorry but that is terrible advice. Most people would be out of a job with that kind of attitude.

I agree, and I've had to learn this the hard way after leaving 4-5 separate gigs that went fine for several months until someone new came on, or until an issue came to a head, etc. As software engineers, we have a lot of mobility and it's almost too easy to throw in the towel and move on; in any career, there are going to be conflicts, and you have to learn to confront and neutralize them in a positive way that doesn't involve the departure of yourself or the person with whom you're conflicting. "I'll quit" is too often the go-to and can stifle the development of individual professional conflict resolution skills. That option should stay off the table practically up until the point of complete collapse.

>Sure, that looks excellent on paper, but I have found that it doesn't work with actual humans who are actually very _human_ with all of the associated (incl. negative) traits that humans have in varying amounts including pride, pettiness, jealousy, egotism and others.

Right on again. This is another thing that I had to learn in the crucible after years of reading idealistic navel-gazing in trade outlets and message boards. There was a time I believed that while it required being highly selective, you could get a team together that would hold these values and function without pettiness. I now believe that's not really possible long-term and we must accept the petty and political nature of man as a fact of life (and we should be aware of this nature within ourselves as well, instead of naively claiming that we are above all of it; only regular rigorous self-analysis can reveal the influence of these natural tendencies). Not only is that political nature a fact of life, but it is exacerbated and brought to the forefront by the economic structure and corporate culture that we've developed in the West (which is not to say those things are necessarily bad).

I'd really like to see more content about coping with the reality of what we have in the real world, instead of the fantastic idealistic drivel that makes some tech writers popular.
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Normal today or normal 200 years ago? Eating non-processed food is difficult for a large segment of the population of the US and many other parts of the world. Processed foods have drastically change our nutritional intake balances of the years. So 'normal' is something that should be defined.
I've not heard that Mars had life at some point in its history. In fact I've not heard mention of any planets hosting life in their past, do you have some sources that you can point me to?
When I was a kid I learned programming by going to the library and borrowing books on programming. This was, of course, before the days of the Internet where you can use google to find those resources. My biggest challenge was trying to find the tools I needed, i.e. a C/C++ compiler, PASCAL interpreter, assembler for my Commodore 64, because it wasn't like I could go on the internet and download them, and there were fewer free open source tools that I could get my hands on. So I would have to had the money to buy them, as well as find a store were I could purchase them because it wasn't like I could go online and order them.

Anyway, the point I want to make is that I was a pretty self motivated learner, I didn't need someone telling me what to do, but it would have been nice to have the resources I needed, and an "expert" I could go to who could help me when I had questions or didn't understand something.
I'm a vegetarian on principle, and have no problem eating GMO anything.

OTOH, I've been vegetarian for 15 years and most meat flavors and textures have worn on me.
Classic HN commenting.
How does it imply any sort of loss of ownership? They removed Linux support in an update. The update was not forced. You got the choice to install it or not.

If you wanted to decline the update and keep using Linux, you could. All your existing games would continue working, too, but you couldn't play games released after the update (which require the newer firmware). Nor could you play online, as having all updates is a requirement of connectng to their online service.

I have a 60GB PS3, but I agree with the grandparent that a legal obligation to maintain support indefinitely would set a bad precedent.
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I won't presume to speak for Alan, but my understanding of what he's said is very different historically. As I recall, he said that the first Macintosh was "the first computer worth criticizing" (something like that). When Jobs introduced the iPhone, he asked Alan whether it was "worth criticizing," and he said no, but if Jobs were to make it a certain size (I forget the dimensions he mentioned, but one of them was 8"), he would "own the world." This suggested the iPad, which did become very popular, though arguably the iPhone became even more so.

I remember one thing Alan said (this was a couple years after the introduction of the iPhone, but I think it was before the iPad), which relates to your question is, "I wish they'd allow people to program the darn thing," which I took to mean, "program on the darn thing!"

Tablet computers existed long before the iPad, though they were bulky and expensive. I used to write software that ran on Telxon tablet units back in the mid-1990s, which used WiFi. A bit later they got enough memory and processing power that we were able to run Microsoft Windows on them, though they cost several thousand dollars each (not a consumer price point). I remember in video of a reunion of former Xerox PARC employees (around the year 2000. It's on the internet), Chuck Thacker held up a Tablet PC running Squeak, and he said, "This is a Dynabook right here." That sort of thing is more of a Dynabook than the iPad, because the software development licensing restrictions for iOS don't even allow people to share code from one unit to the next, because it's considered a security hazard. Apple let up on the restrictions such that people could write code on them, in an environment such as Scratch, but they're not allowed to share code from unit to unit. Instead, they have to jump through hoops, posting code on a web server for others to download.

Part of what the Dynabook was supposed to do was allow people to share code without the thought that it was a security hazard, because it would be designed to be a safe environment for that sort of thing. The iPad has the hardware form factor of a Dynabook (if I may say so), but its system ideas are far from it. It's designed as a consumer product where people are supposed to use it for personal interaction, gaming, consumption of digital content, and little else.
They are both subsidized, clearly - but since it takes 8lbs / 3.6kg of grain to produce 1lb / 0.45kg of beef [1], and the livestock then receive additional subsidies [2], the effect is magnified.

1: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic...
2: https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=live...
Yeah, i'm conscious that the open is a bit too lambastic. At least it's honest.
> Birth control must be a right or we will outbreed our planet's resources.

I would argue Education / stable society reduces rate of birth more than birth control.

What do most all 1st world modern economic countries on this list have in common? https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... The birthrate per woman is under 2.
Won't programmers just program something that just puts programmers out of jobs.
ex. Google Deepmind being trained to program itself https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429932-200-computer...

Personally I think the speed of technological progress is just too much for a multigenerational society to adapt with.
Hitler was popular wasn't he? Did that make him moderate?
You don't own the airspace over your property though, the FAA does. I can stay at up to 400 feet over your property if I'm not over a densely populated area. Flying a drone over someone's house is plain stupid as well and should be avoided, but I can see a future where Amazon flies hundreds of drones at 400ft over someone's property as long as it's not densely populated, and destroying a drone will land the property owner in jail charged with a fellony, punishable up to 20 years: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/shooting-drone-will-get-you-20...
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