skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise. Several of these are on my current wishlist of tech books to get, and I've heard good things about several others. But reading tech books digitally kind of sucks. They're not fun to read on my eInk Kindle, on my iPad, or my computer screen.
Sadly I feel that this is one of those cases where it's impossible for the correction to ever overcome the initial misinformation. On average, People do not accept new info when it refutes their existing knowledge base. This is doubly so in tribal areas like politics.
These used to be popular in San Francisco even [1]

"Todd founded Rent Tech in 1995 using text pagers to alert clients of new listings. Clients would receive a pager after they signed up for the service, and when a new listing came on the market that fit into their specifications, Rent Tech would send them a page about it. Within two months, the two began to look at how to distribute rental listings on the web, which is where all the company's business now takes place. "

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/1999/09/20/s...
Right, so if there is similarly an artificial shortage of housing as the comment I responded to suggests, what's the fundamental reason the problem couldn't be solved by technology (e.g AirBNB)
Please don't. I agree that the comment was unpleasant while pretending not to be, but this takes a strong turn for the worse.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305558 and marked it off-topic.
http://i.giphy.com/3o7TKy8FveNIcy8t6U.gif
I stand corrected. It was my belief that he made much more from the acquisition because of how much I thought he put into SpaceX and later Tesla, and therefore would have had a much higher equity percent then 11%. He seems to have had a much higher business acumen then I thought [1] (not to say I didn't think it was already pretty high).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Zip2
> What happens to that segment of the population when/if Airbnb completely kills off hotels in a particular geographic location?

Someone makes Airbnb for folk with mobility problems and makes a killing.
This is a ridiculously low limit for a SaaS provider.
Appreciate it. Now that it is in my github history though, it is probably more effort than its worth. But I may as well remove it from the live site. If you are ever in the neighbourhood come on over for a beer.

Thanks
Thats an interesting point actually. Their customer oriented subdomain doesnt accept comments in either. Also is pretty inactive. Perhaps this has been a long time coming and is only now happening to the bigger names

http://taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/about/nta-blog

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVcm9Phi1c

Edit : Fbi alo doesnt accept comments

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/alaska-man-wanted-federal-a...
I agree. So simple, so awesome. Well thought.
This happens so often, on so many different sites, that I can't just chalk it up to unfortunate coincidence. I used to think it was conspiracy-theory territory to call it deliberate, but on reflection - could blind A/B testing in the unthinking pursuit of "click-through rates" and "conversions" actually push developers towards this behaviour, even inadvertently?
Can you disable Cortana? Last I heard you can't
Many web apps are indeed suited as a logic sprinkled atop several *aaS endpoints. Music streaming, social networking, collaboration and such.

This client-side logic can be made to run really fast with the evolution of JS engines and now also WebAssembly. Meanwhile communication cost is always bound by signalling over wires times number of endpoints. More time waste comes from data redundancy invoked by a physical separation of services (severity depends on the app nature). Within the fastest client side possible, overall latency will be capped by messaging.

Still all is well while you have 3-4 endpoints to mash up: probably staying within 1-2 seconds of psychologically acceptable latency so that your user won't switch to something else too fast.

Things shall not be that funny once you need to integrate more than 5 endpoints. Messaging overhead turns into seconds and tens of seconds. A good example comes from business software. Parts of a typical ERP suite are tightly coupled on data: should you have a person, it is the same person for accounting, CRM, BPM, project planning etc. Integrate these parts the SOA way and obtain irreducible chatter between endpoints and thus slow UX.

It was observed that up to 40% of total system workload in typical SOA-style ERP suite is in data exchange between the core ERP system and the satellites. One has to control the flow between endpoints transactionally, hence aggressive caching is not only very complex there, but would not actually work.

Having that in mind and thinking of the enterprise software, I am personally in big favour of approach that SAP HANA guys took, where the business re-unites all the apps on a single platform and lets them share data in transactional way. This is contrary to the widespread belief that future enterprise systems should be a collection of SaaS components integrated through standard interfaces.

The management of redundancy is prohibitive, and extra workload from shipping data back and forth creates a bottleneck. And, by the way, there is no need to implement physically disjoint microservices to achieve great system modularity, neither should you build monolith anymore to address performance problems. Leverage the capabilities of modern software platforms and "do microservices the right way".

In the world of enterprise software understanding comes right now that data integration always beats messaging in total cost of ownership.

Surely there is no sliver bullet, what is good for enterprise software might not suit other domains. But just imagine when one builds a game engine where polygons are rendered on one machine, physics calculations are done on the other machine, multiplayer logic is on third, and all flows and mixes up through the user machine. Wouldn't it be kinda slow? But enterprise software done via messaging-based integration isn't really far from that.
I went to one of those "pitch nights" a few years ago. Honestly, because I heard there was free pizza, and it seemed interesting. I think maybe 10 startups went up to practice their pitch. A few of them were really impressive and had some traction already, I was personally impressed. Who was the only one to get one of the investors business cards at the end of their pitch? The MIT kids with the only idea that didn't have a business model. I left that night feeling pretty bitter. I always felt like the great part of tech was the possibility of upward mobility, but it seemed like an illusion that night.
I'm quite heavy user, about 100GB data, some hundred k files, constantly synching software projects over 3-4 machines and also work with those on different machines. Since I got rid of too long paths, there has been zero problems with sync. It just works and it is fast.

My only complaints currently are the slow initial sync and the stuff infinite will fix.

For professional use I don't see the price as a problem. For personal use I would love some "cold storage" with cheaper per GB price, but familiar interface (just drop pictures to some folder and they would disappear from disk and end up in storage).

With the Dropbox brand there might be more opportunities in business world. Companies are for example still moving lots of stuff via (S)FTP.
> WalMart can't effectively compete in the middle-income market. It has image problems

It has image problems because it competes in the low-income market. If that weren't a profitable space for them, they would change their image overnight.

> If it leaves the low-income space it will leave a huge opportunity for others to enter.

If Walmart can't make it work, I doubt any other company could.

> Nothing can legislate away the low-income market and as long as it exists there will be companies who want to enter it. Laws can shape what that market looks like and what environment is for the people in it.

This is just objectively false. Of course you can legislate away the low-income market. It's done all the time. The state can absolutely strangle a market with too many policies and regulations or take it over completely.
Great resource!
Can we have something similar for Redux/Flux? I'm having a hard time getting my head around those.
Researchers 'Reprogram' Network of Brain Cells with Thin Beam of Light
Can we get this unflagged? Seems like a decent piece of investigative journalism IMO.
Subways, sure, but the sidewalks can be made better by removing lanes for free parking or so-called "car" lanes in general. It's actually the way it used to be!

http://www.streetsblog.org/2016/07/01/the-new-york-of-2016-n...

The subway problem could be partially solved with true dedicated lanes for buses/trams and offboard fare payment. It's not hard, these are both incredibly common in Europe.
What an unfortunate domain name, my first thought was "Fuck My Life Nerd", not "Fantasy Movie League Nerd".
Url changed from http://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-tesla-taxi-held-up-after-100..., which points to this.
You get a year of mind bending with this book.
Is there any means to mask packets as being VPN from an observer? I mean, without resorting to complicated scenarios like using SSH tunnels or such.
What if it's not profitable to do that on its own? The "free market takes care of everything" argument is an idealistic position, not something based in reality.
I've worked for a no fee apartment rental company, RDNY.com. I can assure you that no fee apartments available through this company are priced exactly the same as apartments brokers take you to.

How can I be so sure of this?

Easy. RDNY.com has a "to the trade" division, Acmelistings.com which provides NYC real estate brokers and agents with rental apartment listings. About 2,500 agents and brokers use this service. They are aggregating listings from over 1,000 landlords and selling that info to agents to use in renting apartments to their own clients. The rental prices of apartments on RDNY.com are exactly the same, to the penny, as the information fed to brokers through Acmelistings.com.

So there is such a thing as a true no fee apartment. Saving the broker's fee represents a very substantial savings up front - when your expenses for rent and security deposit are highest.

After 21 years supplying no broker fee apartments to thousands of users, they must be doing something right.
IPFS does not, and does not try to, solve the sybil attack, which has been a hard problem in securing decentralised systems for the past decade or so.

So using "uncensorable" here is talking it up way too much; it will not survive attacks by nation-states. More research is needed in these security topics, and the IPFS guys don't take those seriously enough. At the very best, this is highly-resilient to random errors; malicious attackers, not so much.
If serverless is a paradigm shift, why did FB killed Parse and left the business? A question that remains unanswered...
they just HAD TO use the same name, hadn't they? XD
Paris runs smaller trains at greater frequency (especially on weekends), and it's so much better. I wish we'd run G train-sized trains on the weekends, twice as frequently.

Also, merging LIRR and NJT and through-running RER style is so obvious yet never brought up. Penn is not intended to be a terminal and it shows.
I came here to say exactly this. Because it's not served in the form of a culturally accepted brewed drink, it's "cheating." Assuming a safe drug, the next country to embrace the drug will immediately be at an advantage, and then other countries will have to amend their laws just to keep up economically.

It's the same situation as genetic modifications. Right now called "designer babies," but the first country to embrace it will cause that negative connotation to fall to pragmatism as everyone will have to do it just so their kids can keep up.

It's the inevitable march towards the future, regardless of how it's viewed.
"i have heard them blast people on the left plenty of times"

I used to listen to NPR religiously (>4 hrs a week) before my apostasy from the Left. I could probably count on one hand the times they came down on someone on the Left e.g. bringing up to Coates his threat to assault his teacher and even in that case it was kind of a lob with no follow-up mean to allow self-exoneration (no push back in the absence of a mea culpa either).

So, no. I think this statement is disingenuous.
CGI tried to hire 7 public relations specialists, 2 community service managers, and 1 fundraiser. CGI is in NY State where I live. Hilary as NY Senator promised to increased the number of jobs in NY State by 200,000 and she should show by example.

Trump has admitted it was a mistake for him to abuse the H2-A and H2-B programs and he is against increasing H1-B (STEM) H2-A and H2-B. Whereas Hilary is for increasing the H1-B program (her backers want it increased).

Sanders agreed with Trump's position of not increasing H1-B, H2-A, and H2-B Visa programs.

The truth is that the position of Trump and Sanders care more for the jobs of professional STEM and working class than Hilary.

Be analytical and not emotional.

"... you're shit." ~ Louis C. K."

Don't know Louis C.K. but he's a jerk.

The IQ curve is a normal distribution around 100 and it takes an IQ of around 110 or so to get into college and get a degree. Many people lacked the intelligence/intellectual endowment that readers of HN has. That doesn't mean they're shit. It means that they struggle in this world in ways that many here can't fully understand.
Numbers from the NPR Fact Sheet:

http://www.npr.org/about/press/NPR_Fact_Sheet.pdf
[video] Tech TopX: In-Place Hypervisor Conversion
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/joke
I'm only aware of servers up to 12TB. Care to elaborate?
> 3. you might as well keep it around until your next renewal of that particular certificate and remove it at that point

That does seem like the best workaround for now. Idealy in the future I hope we can synchronously make a LE API call on the spot instead of having to manually manage a revocation queue.
Researchers Develop Safer Opioid Painkiller
> It seemed to me that their post needed to distinguish between Gb, gigabit, and GB, gigabyte.

I disagree: the post makes perfect sense either way.
SCOTUS seems to disagree with you[0][1]. I try to read or at least skim what I agree to. Some companies have an opt-out of their binding arbitration (eg. Ting), which I try to make use of, but most don't allow you to opt out of the class action waiver.

If you don't like the terms, email them and tell the company why you won't sign up. I rarely get a response, but someone on their staff knows there's at least some push back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRECTV,_Inc._v._Imburgia
Based on my opinion, the reason MS is doing this is to implement "Implied Consent." The information MS is collecting is being used by MS and also by the US Government. MS hands this information over, or at least has it readily available.
There's no other purpose for this information to be sent back to a company, other than to build a profile of the user which can be used for anything and everything.
The slashdot system for categorising comments seemed to work really well at making the highest quality comments stand out, I wonder why other sites haven't tried something similar, I don't think I've seen it used elsewhere.
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Well I was thinking the hackernews model is better than the reddit model.

I'm still researching how important is it for companies to have control over their own site.
Er, so, are they using a separate database application to abstract the mysql operations? They don't mention it in the article. Not abstracting your database leads to major issues from unusual load and operations. And there's a lot of performance, portability, release engineering, etc wins. I don't see what other companies are doing so i'm not sure how common it really is.
Or you can just relocate
When I was delivering newspapers as a small child many aeons ago, the best page of The Guardian was 'letters to the editor'. The rest of the paper was pretty good back then, there was no email, so anything printed in the 'letters to the editor' had to be posted in, to appear some time after the events in question.

Needless to say an event happened and was reported the next day, so it could be a whole week between the Trump-of-the-day saying something and comment appearing about it. All of this would be filtered by the 'editor', however you did have frequent letters by the likes of Keith Flett, who somehow got his letters published more often than the other 3-5 million readers (as it was back then, just UK sales with poor distribution in places like Birmingham).

There were no 'likes' back then so you had to have something to say to bother writing in.

How do we get a digital equivalent? I don't buy the dead-tree paper these days so no idea if 'letters to the editor' still exists, but, back then it was good, very good.
What you're saying is that because of Walmart's business practices, that they somehow deserve to be robbed on a consistent basis. That's not how things work, this isn't an eye for an eye civilization.
I don't know about OP, but I know that I often don't use my (personal) laptop once a day. I think I went a month earlier this year where I only touched it twice, and that was to move it out of the way so I could write a letter at that desk. Setting up something like this that's so inexpensive is a reasonable selling point for hobby projects that fit the model AWS has been designed for.
There is nothing quite as pleasurable (with reference to technical work) as sending large amounts of obsolete code to the bit bucket. I often judge my refactoring decisions based on how much code gets removed. If a change results in the removal of code at many locations then I take that as confirmation that I made a good decision.
That's an incisive question. My impression, which may be mistaken, is that a cronjob would be used to move data (pages compiled from templates, chart images, etc.) into the PHP host on a "batch" basis. To me, that implied the existence of other systems that handle the data in their own way, but I guess in this thread the salient difference between micro and mono is that the former connects components via a web stack. Are there more agile interfaces available for cronjobs? If instead we're only considering transformations of data already resident on the host (as what, flat files?), I don't imagine that cronjobs are the best solution available.
(My own story: I had my gallbladder out in 2004, and from that time on was denied personal health insurance for BS "pre-existing condition" reasons...until Obamacare.)

Probably you were denied personal health insurance not for BS reasons, but because the insurance companies knew they would (probabilistically) lose money insuring you. But now under Obamacare, if they participate on the exchanges, they are obligated to sell to you. So, shockingly, we see that most companies operating on the exchanges lose money doing so.

Your inability to get coverage before and the problems that Aetna is having today are very closely related.
Or the college version:

"Lol I get that you're only here for 9 months but we only do 12 month leases and we own 70% of the real estate property!".

My personal favorite (actually happened):

"Our software is really shitty and we can't modify the leasing dates!"
So I agree the US health care system is pretty crap - but as a trans person it was still better than my options in my home province (and by options I mean option). I think we can all agree that there are corner cases for each system where they outperform the other.
Honest question here: Why tech community is so hard with Windows mandatory updates, and kind of flexible with other companies? Maybe its just me, but the ratio of posts and articles blaming Microsoft for this practice seems to be disproportional. I mean, my Mac asked me 875 times about accepting something about iTunes. No matter how many times i click on decline, it keeps appearing there all the time. Same thing with Chrome: It got silently updated (just figured it with last update that brought Material Design to the interface). If avoiding updates to a system is kind of a user right, then it would be fair to have an option to stop updates in cloud based systems as well (IE: My email service).
Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers
One distinction that should be made is when some elements are the same intentionally while others are the same by coincidence. I see no problem with duplicate code in the latter case.
Cisco Statement: The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANAS and EXTRABACON Exploits
We definitely experienced this starting Open Listings. We thought that to begin with we would only be serving the 2/3 of transactions made by experienced buyers, but it turns out that over half of the buyers we attract are first timers. In retrospect, this makes sense: our savings is appealing to young families, and first timers don't have attachments to the status quo of getting driven around by a realtor in a Cadillac. Rather than saying no, we embraced these clients and have retooled our product to be more educational and broadly accessible. It's working so far in terms of ramping up revenue, staying default alive, and we're stoked to make homebuying more affordable to people who really need it the most. Our finding is that first time buyers don't actually need more service but they do need slightly more education and reassurance, which we try to accomplish mostly through UI and documentation.
Maybe, maybe not. Being too far ahead of your time is just as bad as being late.
I think requiring the user to boot a Linux live CD and do some voodoo would be enough. Computer would have to self destruct if you failed the steps tho.

"Do not turn off your computer, 5, 4.."
NSA: There's 'a lot of panic' over what's been exposed by this massive hack
I say just be honest. Ask if they have any policies that forbid moonlighting in case you want to run this on the side. Focus on the fact that what you're hungry for are interesting problems to solve, not necessarily being your own boss. Something along those lines.
Currently:
I'm working for a startup and I get a solid 7 hours of coding per day

Previously:
Anywhere from 4-5 hours a day, the other time was spent answering questions and supporting other team members.
ot: I saw the title and thought some crazy fool had ported the enlightenment window manager to reactos.
I suspect quite a disjoint venn diagram of target audiences.
The core of the article is saying that you can't satisfy everyone, and the point of the replier was to point out that, if the need is that great, and there are such large amounts of people with the same issue, the free market will produce an alternative.
Tinymce is not a WYSIWYG editor for creating HTML sites. But a text editor implemented in HTML.