skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did you pick Eve as a name? I thought you were working on the game Eve Online until I checked out the resumé site in your profile.

[Oi downvoters, legitimate question and cheeky check to see if they did have all the answers! Would it help if I called it "the dumbest thing ever"?]
> You are competing for valuable pokemon, which IS the point of the game.

I'm not. The coworker next to me and I routinely catch the same Pokemon at the same time. Watching it on the map made it clear: if someone catches it, it doesn't just disappear. It's there for a set amount of time. When the time is up, that's when it can't be caught by someone else.
I can't speak for other large corporations but Oracle does not follow this practice. My experience with small businesses (which employ more Americans than large corporations) is that they too have not followed a practice of guaranteeing a minimum wage increase every year to keep pace with inflation.
Ben Laurie was probably the first to do this back in about 1995/1996:

http://www.thebunker.net/about-us/

Earliest Internet Archive mirror from 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000302134946/http://www.thebun...

It was a silly gimmick then, and it's a silly gimmick now.
The C# implementation is a wrap/unwrap of the Task class, in F# it is using computation expressions to lift the synchronous code to an Async monad.
The async construct is much easier to reason about, especially with nested tasks.
But UI's have to be async if they want to be responsive, while the HTTP request-response cycle (which is what Node is predominantly used for) is completely synchronous.

Sure, things like WebSockets are changing this, but you don't really need an event loop if you have proper threads or a multi-process server (you know, like Node clustering, which you tend to need anyway once you outgrow the limits and pains of a single event loop).
They have a pretty silly DNS reverse proxy setup with cloudflare.

Silly because their backend servers appear to still be on the internet, e.g. ns1.linode.com at 69.93.127.10
Unfortunate that you didn't mention it was a "pro" feature, of which there seems to be no easy way to obtain it. You need a call to action and an automated process.
Funny this thing to blame just the side that gives but not the one that accepts.
This works (being good at understanding, anticipating and addressing criticism) until you realize it's turtles all the way down and at some point the returns of keeping up with the criticism become diminishing. One has to realize that:

1) People like to criticise for the sake of critising, there's never gonna be a scenario where you don't have haters unless nobody likes or uses your product/company.

2) People are often irrational and emotional, there's only so much you can do with logic and reason when one just wants to vent and shout.

3) People don't understand that you have to make compromises to be able to run your service/product/company and those compromises mean you can't please the entirety 100% of uses cases they come up with. As far as they are concerned your product/company should do everything all the time at no cost.

By all means, don't ignore criticism and the haters, but keep a level head and understand that it won't always take you somewhere to argue about it.
Maybe it's also the effect the multitudes. Like that famous story of the woman stabbed to death outside the apartment building and no one calls 9/11 because everyone assumes someone else will do it.

Also in Bushwick my neighbors were very vigilant over their children, but they also knew all their neighbors as well. It's nice when the community is actually a community.
That's when you start removing things from your resume!

Or just put down a large early timeperiod as "software engineer" without elaborating on it to much, and only focus on recent experience.
I have never played Pokemon Go, but i'm curious what mold it broke? Ingress was around a long time previously and as far as i've surmised contains essentially all the features of Go plus some more. What it lacked was the compelling and nostalgic branding that Pokemon has. Genuinely curious.
What were Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina positions at the University of Illinois' NCSA when developing Mosaic? Even the name Mozilla points to the acrimony over that dispute over intellectual property.
> That's a weakness to be overcome not a trait to be embraced.

Embracing the fact that feeling this way is normal means you can and should brace yourself to overcome this "weakness".

It's interesting that you seem to agree with the essence of this post: Don't let random haters drag you down. Yet your comments come off as oddly negative, seemingly because you don't understand the "pain point" (you obviously would never get hurt by random commenters, but some in the target audience probably would).

Analogously, people hating on startups often don't (want to) understand the pain points addressed by the startups they're hating on either.
Actually it's been held that TOS violations are NOT subject to the criminal provisions of the CFAA.
I send this message to the current YC batch this afternoon:

Don't Read The Zen Stories

- Zen-sama
Thanks for the recap. I was curious if global output peaked at 0400 UTC, but that's all.
Isn't Google search based off of Google "scraping" the web?
Higher education is ironically one of the least regulated industries in the US. Classifying employees as contractors (adjuncts and grad students), importing cheap labor from overseas, sky-high compensation for administrators who add little value, easy loans to barely adult students without any collateral - the list goes on and on.
That's an interesting analogy - though you're allowed to take photographs of whatever is in public view in many jurisdictions. Now if you wanted you could take this argument to the extreme, but surely there's some parallel between sending and receiving photons across the border of someone else's property (perfectly agreeable) and sending and receiving requests?
Some years ago I started my day at 4 a.m. to exercise. While it worked, this kept me from having any social life outside from talking to coworkers. Getting a drink with friends in the afternoon is impossible if you want to keep this schedule, so I stopped. Being productive isn't everything in life. I'm only 30 but I doubt I will ever look back wishing I worked harder alone in my room instead of being with my friends.
To further clarify:

> Even for senior developers you still have to stop and think rather than trust your gut.

Not that I'm a senior developer, but I don't trust my gut. I use formal logic.
And a bunch more https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
Long-term coding program: an alternative to the model of how education is funded
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ - free, but the ODbL license requires attribution and has restrictions on mixing data sets.
Were you writhing, vomiting and weeping before you ever took a hit of heroin? Did you continue writhing, vomiting, and weeping for months after quitting with no reduction?

No?
Your characterization is accurate. It's a feelgood email, probably meant to help people be cheerful for the stressful presentations.

All that said, you would've had a better post by talking about what content you think should've been in the email or by talking about why you found a simple "Folks, don't let the bastards get you down" to be insulting.
It's not really new though, see for example Omniauth for Ruby.
I am a night owl as well and I share your sentiment: Time seemingly stops when everybody goes to sleep. It is like a freeze button has been hit for the rest of the world, and the universe is mine.
Bittorrent, Freenet, IPFS.

I know there are a lot of sheep to be shorn in the centralized httpasture, but that shouldn't prevent us earnestly appraising how various technologies effect society.
Lets turn the question around: When should you prefer HTTP/JSON:

At the moment as long as you want to use the endpoint directly from a browser. gRPC uses some HTTP features that are not [yet] available from within browser JS APIs.
Event/conference apps
Are there any event management apps for smaller event venues?
Sounds more like detox.

I'm regular drug addict and know the feeling.
"These are you new values and reasons for being!"

Shocking that that doesn't work. And I don't understand how people take seriously the "need to be passionate about x industry". No, you just need to pay money and the employee needs to do acceptable work
Hopefully you see this. The biggest reason I stick with Pocket (despite the privacy implications) is because of its text-to-speech functionality. AFAIK, Pinboard is a website only, so TTS is out of the question. However, might this change in the future?
Yep^^

In addition there is a major encoding downside to this. If your encoder can grab a whole 2-10s chunk of video it can produce a better quality stream. This is actually _super_ important for producing good video quality (especially on things like sports streams).
'Artificial atom' created in graphene
Our entire medical system was founded as a reaction against snake oil salesmen and quacks who preyed on desperate people. If you support capitalism and the free market in medicine, you must acknowledge that monopolies can and do arise.
> they have to stop selling it as a supplement because now they know it is a drug

Couldn't they continue to do both even after it's certified as a drug?

Instead of a supplement, perhaps they could make a lower dose over-the-counter version of the same drug. They could still sell millions without prescription.
You and the original author must also not forget that most startups do suck and will invariably fail, and the critiques are aware of that. I still remember fondly when I got my first life-long free email address from USA.net ...
Have you ever thought about your body and mind were not designed to do things that need constant focus?
IP to the edge (of a CMTS) and then it's flipped to QAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system

Also systems like AT&T uverse (fiber to the home) use IP multicast.
This idea is stupid and you should feel stupid!*

* Not necessarily true, who filters for the filterers?
Wow, that's not very much at all.

In comparison, I've been using a bit over 600TB with a budget of less than $500/month. With double the budget I could easily transfer olympic amounts of data!

Really puts to perspective how incredibly accessible bandwidth pricing is these days.
The issue with this snarky comment is that it fails to take into account the limits of modifying cheap cars. There are cheap cars that may be modified to go faster than an expensive one without modifying the original structure (no tube chassis). But not all cheap cars can achieve that. Only a small list of "cheap" cars can do so. Such as the miata, civic, mustang, etc. In fact, the word cheap is not even the right way to address these cars because price does not define a cars performance or potential.
I think it's safe to say that whether annual pay raises died or not depends highly on the company/industry/country. I'd say it's been a thing at maybe 50% of the (U.S.) companies I've worked.
If your skill set is not improving over time, you are in serious trouble. When the next lay off bus comes around, they gonna throw you under it.
I only get PAID for working 20 hours/week.
It doesn't really matter who they'll provide service to, it matters how they alter the architecture of the network.

The two ends in a communication are the user and the site publisher [0]. Cloudflare inserts an intermediate proxy. It doesn't matter that it's woven in using IP, just how it doesn't matter that CableCo's proprietary VoD service delivers over IP.

[0] Or even two users wishing to chat or whatever - the same applies to the whole "web 2.0" bubble, but slightly less egregious than Cloudflare.
"Human longevity embiggenator candidate #318621"

And I can promise you I'm posting this in good, er, spirits.
Instaparser, when it was originally released, was priced competitively with Diffbot: https://www.diffbot.com/products/automatic/#article

Which is a nice API for extracting metadata from a web page, although I understand it might not be worth the cost.
It's marketing. I saw some discussion on social media, people expressed a preference for the Epipen because they expected other people to be more aware of how to use it.

Same with parents, they expect the school nurse to be more familiar with the Epipen (and I guess the other way around, the nurses prefer Epipen because they are familiar with it).

If asking the pharmacist for a specific type of injector isn't onerous then neither is asking the doctor.

I'm willing to concede that US medical regulation has lots of problems, but there is also clearly some problems with the way people in this market are behaving. Patients should care about saving $1000-$1500. Doctors should care about saving their patients $1000-1500.
Testing Toasters and Testing Software
Money laundering != systemic instability.

While this is an interesting article it seems hard to draw a direct connection between the alleged money laundering activity described and the systemic instability created by DB's gargantuan derivatives book.
OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing
How do you know whether the whole shaft was equal in width to what's now closest to the head and something was cut away or whether it was smaller to start with, and something was added?

Or,is your argument that this could be a screw:

/\_/\_/\_/\_
\
_ _ _ _ /
\/ \/ \/ \/

but this

_ _ _ _
_/ \/ \/ \/ \
\
_/
\_/\_/\_/\_/

cannot be because the outside isn't sharp enough to 'bite' into the material it is screwed into?

I can see the latter holding in rubbery material that tears easily.
>>Who criticizes any great general or conqueror in history for leaving his family behind, and why not?

Many people (mainly pacifists) criticize such great generals for being war-thirsty or violent.

I think, Buddha is rightly criticized for not performing his duty towards his family and then going on preaching other people to care for all other people.

Other point, I think, Buddha is rightly criticized for is to do with non-violence: too much insistence on non-violence actually resulted in tolerance of even the intolerants and which is not good.

It reminds me what Obama rightly said while receiving Noble peace prize: "But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism -- it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason." [1]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-presiden...
Pokémon Go does have a competitive element to it (or you could say it's possible to play it competitively).

You can compete over who can fill up their Pokédex first (okay, just the 145 that are currently available). You can play the game for longer to catch more Pokémon. You can go out of your way to catch rare Pokémon. Even when you and a friend are in the same place catching the same Pokémon, you're not guaranteed to catch it — you can use Razz Berries and choose which Poké Ball to throw.

There's also Gyms. You can compete over who can control the most Gyms. If you're on opposing teams, you can compete over who will take control over a Gym. Or who will be Gym Leader.

There are many different aspects to this game. Whilst one particular aspect (Pokémon not disappearing when caught) may not be competitive, that doesn't mean the game as a whole can't be.
I agree. I realize that I'm in a field (software development) that is still a great market and this strategy might not apply everywhere but I do believe there are a lot of other industries where this attitude can still work. Most of my "non-tech" friends just don't try to look for other opportunities. I don't know the reason. Possibly my anecdotal experience is just full of outliers? Or is that in general, the software industry "culturally" breeds workers that value their own work more than the average worker. Or is it simply that as a software developer, I am sent requests from recruiters for new jobs on a near daily basis.
Actually, such database laws are rare. The US and Canada don't have one. See Feist v. Rural Telephone for an example of databases getting scraped & the scraper winning in court.
Something unexpected happened when Seattle raised minimum wage
Emotions exist for a reason. Deny them at your own peril.
Fitbit cleared from Jawbone lawsuit
Perhaps Crocker's rules [0] is the one you're thinking of? Someone shared the link with me recently in a thread on optimism and feedback [1].

> By declaring commitment to Crocker's rules, one authorizes other debaters to optimize their messages for information, even when this entails that emotional feelings will be disregarded. This means that you have accepted full responsibility for the operation of your own mind, so that if you're offended, it's your own fault.

> In contrast to radical honesty, Crocker's rules encourage being tactful with anyone who hasn't specifically accepted them. This follows the general principle of being "liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send".

[0]: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Crocker's_rules

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298898
Why is it a double standard? Google scraping usually benefits the site with increased traffic and revenue, in a way most other scraping does not. Saying "you can scrape me if it benefits me" isn't totally in keeping with the principles of the open web, but it's not hypocritical.
Most people aren't born with the gift of equanimity, and a lot of "those guys" are just starting out, so it seems reasonable to me.

I wonder why some of us get angry when we hear others being encouraged this way.
We Just Lived Through the Hottest Month in Recorded History
If I did that, I would not perform anywhere near the requirements at work.
I have it publicly on Github, but nothing is documented.

https://github.com/artursapek/artur.co
That's not a good sign. Most of the time when a tech company or app fails they're based in SF.
Is this a copy?

http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html

That ashida kim zen koan site has been on the interwebs for a long time. The story order is the same, and the names look the same too.
Map of NYC vacant storefronts
When my kid brother was in 6th grade (11 years old or so), he was a crossing guard, helping younger kids cross streets safely on their way to and from school.
Look at Formula E. They last 20 minutes or so.
If you think I would pass dumb comments along, don't ask me to read comments for your company.

I agree that this is the worst startup idea ever.
Well, I'm a day late, so no one will ever see this, but I have to disagree with your disagreement.

After reading lots of hacker news and Slashdot, following my friends in the Valley, and getting rejected by Google 3 times, I too thought that I was worthless if not a Ninja or Rockstar who does all those things you mentioned.

But recently I had a recruiter friend pass my resume around and my current office has begun hiring. I've since learned that there is a huge section of established corporations with projects that just need enough 1xers to get the job done. They'll pay competitive rates without even seeing a Github portfolio of outstanding breakthroughs in machine learning.

Anyway, I think you've been focusing on the same small circle of hiring that needs the best of the best to turn their crap idea into the next Google through spectacular algorithm design, or Google themselves, who has so many applicants they have to reject all but the very best just to whittle down the pile of applicants to manageable size, but like everyone else has been discussing, mediocrity is still the norm out there; there's a whole world of mediocre developers making mediocre progress on non-earth-shattering stuff that still needs getting done.
I concur.

It looks like a great idea, and we've been waiting for years for someone to do this. 'Serverless servcies' is a big deal.

That said - there's too little information regarding how it works. For server side stuff, we need to know how many transactions it's going to handle, how often - so things like cpu+memory - or some way to measure it ... are going to be important.
In terms of frequency, yes, but not expected value. I think Sam made this point in his post.
Hate = non-constructive criticism

Criticism = constructive criticism

"This service sucks, I hope your company goes bankrupt" vs "This sucks, I tried to upload a pdf to the dooberywhatsit file storage service and it error out because the file had DRM on it and it couldn't read it. It should just store it as a standard file instead of rejecting it as an invalid PDF"

Example made up, I don't even know if pdfs have DRM aspects.

Generally the line is around the "Can I use this information to fix the problem (even if I don't want to)" mark.
The breaking of the feature was seemingly a response to try and break maps to begin with - the data used in the footprints is what the mapping applications used (along with millions of accounts giving off false coordinates) to triangulate 'mon.

The root motivation of the bug was the stressing of the servers by "headless" accounts that existed solely to make mapping software possible. It's unfortunate that they chose to try and combat that activity rather than just understand it's what people wanted and make it less taxing on their server (make a mapping endpoint on an alternate server).
Well, once you're researched and understand the the other side of the argument, presumably you should be in a good position to determine whether the argument has merit, and additionally whether it makes sense to make a change in response to it (because merit does not imply the change would be right for your product). Sometimes the right response is "Yeah, I understand. It would be great if we had something that addressed your needs, but that's just not something we have the ability to focus on right now given the other priorities we have. If that means you choose something else, that's unfortunate for us, but we wouldn't want to be serving you in a substandard way anyways. Maybe at some point in the future we'll be the right fit."

Sometimes respecting your customer is realizing they shouldn't be your customer, for the benefit of both of you.
It seems especially egregious when we are talking about a dispenser versus the drug itself.
This was just the kick in the pants I needed to set up secondary DNS at Route 53!
It's easy for someone viewing some logs to say "ok this is very likely automated scraping", though it can be harder to automate detecting this. In the same way that porn is obvious to a human, but not a computer.
When the rules themselves are wrong one should not feel bad violating them.

Prisons are full of people who think this; just because you don't like a law doesn't mean it's not illegal.

Which perspective should take precedence in a functioning society?
A room facing east that gets plenty of natural sunlight is key for waking up early.

For a while I lived in an apartment where my bedroom faced east, and my bed was placed such that the first rays of light hit me straight in the eye. During that time, I miraculously became what's called a "morning person."

Then I moved to a house where my bedroom faced north, and the blinders on the only window in my room were a pain in the ass so I left them shut most of the time. I quickly reverted back to being a late-riser/night-owl.

Not everyone has control over the direction their room is facing, but you can still simulate daybreak using artificial sunlamps that are programmed to start lighting gradually at a designated time.
On the other hand, it did motivate me to find a way to stream NBC Sports. Something I wouldn't have done otherwise.