skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they had included another option in the survey. What if you were given a lifetime of free health insurance in lieu of cash? This way, some organization (the govt, AMA, some independent trust) could create a large, insurable pool of all kidney donors.
This scheme would work around the problem of moral hazard in both directions. On the Donor side, donors get a substantial financial reward but not in terms of cash. And if it's true that most kidney donors will live healthy lives on par with the general population, then this pool is no riskier to insure than any large company. In fact it might be a lower risk pool than the general population because the process of selecting the donor candidate involves intensive medical checks. Basically kidney donors are likely to be a healthier sample of the general population than random selection.

On the recipient/govt side, you get better outcomes for a larger number of kidney patients (and thus save lots of money on very expensive Dialysis costs). Financially, recipients (or their insurance providers) can be charged enough to cover the insurance premiums on the pool of donors without encouraging a black-market of organ donations.

It's most likely a win for Insurance companies too since they have to foot a large part of the dialysis bill too.
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That doesn't seem to be the actual linked page. Confusingly, there's both /writing-half-life/ (original link) and /writing/half-life/ (your cached link) on the server.

I can't get google to give me a cache of the actual article.

Edit: server's fixed
“We’re good at screening out assholes,” Graham told me. “In fact, we’re better at screening out assholes than losers. All of them start off as losers—and some evolve.”

I find this oddly reassuring.
My vote was for "Angular Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho" but the Angular team was already pretty committed to Angular 2 by then.
It doesn't have to be this way. Unfortunately, we live in a world where younger developers "show their skill" by making things overcomplicated in order to create unnecessary barriers to entry to our proto-profession. My usual response is to refuse to work on such a project if I don't have the authority to change how things are done to make them more sane.
An ex-gig of mine lost their major customer, the new agency moved them to AWS (and poached a few staff, which is how I heard this story). The hosting(inc bandwidth) costs jumped to _nine times_ the previous arrangement, and the website performance dropped.

So far as I know, the guy who masterminded that has not been fired...
Is it worth it for just one server? Also, how do you handle the database? Do you put that in a container too?
We all know the future of ride sharing is autonomous vehicles. If Juno's owner/drivers end up being able to purchase their own autonomous vehicle micro-fleets, it seems they could outpace a company that seeks to own its own fleet, like Uber. It's the same model Amazon uses to increase available inventory and externalize the risk of owning that inventory.
> Have you had bad experiences with Google Cloud platform support specifically?

Yes, and cancelled our account as a result.
The point of the post was to show how easy it is, as people seem to miss these commands or may not be aware of how easy it is to set up a listening service. It's exfiltration by definition, but you are of course free to mangle the data any way you want or use DNS techniques if you really care about hiding what you're doing, but that's a different post.
@calebmer/postgraphql is an awesome project and really worth looking into! I actually built a system on top of it which automatically generated GraphQL change subscriptions through Postgres triggers.
> Actually, pedantically, "weight" is a "force", so it makes perfect sense to say we perceive weight when we carry something.

Yes, but the "handles cutting into your fingers" is pressure not force.
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Ah yes, padphone. Dunno why that slipped my mind.
Vine reviewers are still people subject to feeling like they owe something for getting the free product. It's one of the big lessons in Cialdini's book Influence.
There are so many great response postings here that I don't know which one to praise the most. Maybe the one I'm replying to.

You have a path forward. Take it, learn from it.

When I was 10, I got into computers. You REALLY needed to be thick skinned back then as nobody got any support from anyone. If you expressed interest in computers, you were ostracised as a freak. I was bullied at school for it more times than I care to remember. However, I never let myself become a victim or give up. That's where true grit comes from.

I'l be honest and say I think the whole tech industry is over-rated. There are loads of good (great) people who start out young and do some amazing things. I think it's on a downhill slide. The same happens to any saturated industry.

Stay focused. Don't be a victim. Take the opportunities that come your way.

Best of Luck!
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According to the MaxMind dataset[1], I'm correctly in WY according to my IP. I'm not sure how the Paper Planes geolocation could be so wrong, but it places me in Seattle, WA.

[1]https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo
"At a hundred and thirty pounds, Altman is poised as a clothespin, fierce as a horned owl."

to me, sounds like a romance novel, not objective reporting. From a group that espouses the virtues of a 30 second elevator pitch, I find the down voting odd. There's an incredible amount of verbosity here that essentially adds nothing to the article. At 46 pages, that's roughly half the size of the entire GoLang specification.

Long articles are fine so long as the length is required to convey the information presented. Based on the first few paragraphs, this one appears to actively waste time with pretentiousness. Not my cup of tea.
I have said more than once that if Joan of Arc were alive today, she would be in a psych ward having hervmedsxadjusted instead of ending The Hubdred Years War and playing handmaiden to the birth of modern France.

I am glad this article is promoting the idea that forcibly treating someone is not really a means to foster mental health. Good mental health is more than the absence of obvious abnormality.
The unproven science that could propel our children into space (2014)
Even if its not a violation of a TOS I suspect complaining to Amazon will help address this issue. Remember Amazon's core value is customer obsession so they strive to make you happy. Don't hesitate to let them know when you are unhappy. :)
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The Mozilla Foundation need to clarify their long term commitment to the Thunderbird project; in my opinion this is not enough: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/12/thunderbird-act... because it is unclear what the long term plans will be.

Let's be honest, the "temporary home" solution is not really what the users' community wants to hear.
via fuse, ntfs is pretty broadly available... iirc there was a recent post about efforts to bring a fuse alternative for windows in (which should bring ext3 and btrfs)...

I tend to just use ntfs for most of my external storage and cifs for network storage only because it's easier to get on my non-windows systems than nfs and ext3 are to get working on windows... ymmv though.
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I love Meteor and hope that it continues to grow!

I've been using it since well before v1.0 and can understand peoples frustration around it. A lot of patterns and core themes have come and gone. Allow/deny, blaze, and now it is sounding more and more like mini-mongo might go the way of Blaze in lieu of Apollo.

Like I said though, I really do hope that the core values of Meteor stick around in the framework and it continues to grow. I love it :)
It may be that it takes less effort to get you to sufficient fitness at that age, but it's nowhere near your peak. Unless you follow an elite athlete training program, it'll take you well over a decade of exercise to max out your potential. E.g. for muscle strength, most peoples bodies simply isn't capable of synthesising muscle fast enough in even a decade to max out your potential unless you use performance enhancing drugs.

You may have a point about average fitness and rate of improvement, though.
as mentioned above, ntfs works, but you'll need a driver for linux and macOS, which isn't too bad, and easier than getting unix file systems on windows.
well.. it depends. You didn't really specify goals, which is the most important thing.

In many cases you are correct. Somewhat related see Vanguard's research "Dollar-cost averaging just means taking risk later" [1] which finds lump sum investing is better in ~2/3 of the cases they considered. They had a specific time horizon.

Individual's have unique situations and goals and should consider those instead of just dumping everything into an s&p index fund asap. Maybe an individual is more sensitive to sequence risk at different points in his life? There is an entire profession (financial planners) which allows you to outsource these decisions to if you want. Same for the spending part of retirement (hint: most common advice (bond/stock mix) is exactly the opposite of what it should be e.g. "Rising Equity Glidepath" [2])

[1] https://pressroom.vanguard.com/nonindexed/7.23.2012_Dollar-c...
[2] https://www.kitces.com/blog/should-equity-exposure-decrease-...
> Internalizing that has been difficult for me as an engineer.

I suspect this is because everyone wants to not only feel as part of something but they want to make an important contribution. I venture to guess accountants at Google do not feel they make a difference to search. The culmination of parts is what makes the company whole and all those parts are required.

Its hard to accept you are not as important as you wish you were. Its a great step in the maturation process of one's professional career though.
We're getting a little silly here, but I think it's both force and pressure. Any force will exert a corresponding pressure (which is merely "force per unit area"). To say that we don't feel the force of weight except as a pressure is getting overly pedantic; we don't generally think of carried objects as exerting a certain pressure on us, we think of them as being more or less "heavy", i.e., as having weight. Okay, the explanation for specific case of fingers being cut (while getting no cut in other cases) depends on the weight being applied to small area. . . :) But it is still perfectly true that the weight of the object cuts the fingers.
Could happen, but I think event sourcing (and CQRS generally) carries enough implementation overhead in the amount of code required that it's less likely to be adopted in situations where it isn't appropriate.

That isn't to say it won't happen, but I think it's more likely that teams would miss an opportunity to leverage it than leverage it inappropriately.
One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.
The sane way is to write a bootstrapping compiler, like some language implementations do.
It depends on what you value most in a working relationship. What I want in a boss isn't necessarily what you want in a boss. General questions that might apply to most people would include things like "What kind of working hours do people on your team keep", "How do you help build the careers of people on your team", "Why did you choose this project and what do you find exciting about it", "If you were to start this project all over again knowing what you know now, what decisions would you make differently", "How are relations between the tech side of the team and the business/product side of the team", "Why should I join your team in particular", "How well do the members of the team get along and what does a typical day look like -- do people sit together and chat frequently? Not interact in person much?". You see where I'm going with this.
Flew two planes on my phone. Both normal designs. Didn't see the point.

Caught one and then put my stamp on it, too. That was neat.

Still, I think there is a missed opportunity here. If I could design the plane however I wanted and compete with others, that would've been fun. But, I have no reason to go back and do it again, because there is no challenge.
We recently implemented an extensive test suite that can be run with either mocks for service dependencies or in a live configuration, depending on config settings. Before, we simply had integration tests that relied on very specific data across disparate services and running it in CI was a nightmare (to the point that we would typically only run the full suite in a QA environment shortly before a production deploy).

Whereas our integration testing has been responsible for catching hundreds of obscure bugs over the past year, most of the bugs found by our mocks have been bugs in the mocks themselves and I expect that issue to compound due to the brittle nature of mocks in general. Mocks make every change some multiple more expensive in both initial cost and maintenance.
How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
Pretty sure Odysseus did listen to the Sirens, lashed to the mast while his crew stopped their ears with beeswax. Contrary to what is reported in this article.

Getting something as basic as a detail from literature wrong when you're using it to make your point puts everything else in the article in a shadow of doubt for me. Can I believe what he's saying about kava when he hasn't got basic reading comprehension down? I'm probably being harsh, the detail probably doesn't matter. Or is it a "No yellow m&m's" in the rock band rider as a telltale for "do these guys take care about detail?"
Why do you see it as an ad rather than as an educational read? I'm not paying these companies anything to appear on Indie Hackers, nor are they paying me. And nearly every post on the front page of HN represents some company or other.

The stories on IH are generally developers talking about how they came up with their idea, what they do for sales/marketing, how much revenue they're making, what their work schedules are, etc. Makes sense that they appeal to the YC audience!
While it's common, this article is extremely disappointing. Why is their gender so important? Why is there a competition for girls only? There are some serious questions that need to be asked that aren't being asked. I really think that articles that promote sexism should be judged accordingly. It saddens me that people actively promote sexism as something to be proud of.
I am 26 and I gotta say I agree. I only just got my first real programming job. It took me knowing the right person, and they spoke to someone who got me hired before I knew it. So take your dads job, meet new people, network. People are fascinated by technology, and software development touches many many fields from law enforcement (forensics), to medical, all the way to farming, and many more. Your dad could even use a bit of sprucing up for his business maybe?

You could change his business to be modernized and sneak in some software development into it at some point? :) Just be wise about it, don't just break his company for yours haha, you might even learn a lot for your own business from and he could fund you once he sees how genuine your work is. Worse case you go back to programming with new business knowledge. Who knows you might even meet business minded people your age who could benefit your startups? Take a leap and if you don't like it after sometime, just plan to leave or reasses.
Oh yeah io.js really, really hurt the entire ecosystem in my opinion. The versions were confusing, npm was being used as the package manager for both without a good way to target either one specifically and io.js was introducing breaking changes. It was absolute insanity.
Psuedoscience.
Big pivot from free dialup.
Startup is a “rent any physical good” platform. Discuss challenges, pros and cons
I don't use NixOS, but would raising documentation bugs the same way you raise bugs against code help?
Well, you'd originally asked whether it's the customer or inventor's "fault" and pretty much suggested that it was the inventor's. I was, merely indicating that it can go either way, depending on the scenario.

But, yeah, if you further qualify it by saying that the inventor was trying to sell ferret-poop rockets, then that marks a scenario that's pretty clear-cut.
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It'll be price segmentation. Perhaps Windows VMs can't be scheduled so tightly together by a hypervisor, but it'll mainly be about charging what the market is prepared to pay.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921
Dude, your english is not great. I am Mexican myself and believe it or not, that's a big show stopper.

I applied to 37Signals back in 2008 or 2009 and my english was so bad that they won't even bother to reply (And they wrote a blog post shortly that they wouldn't even respond to poor communicators :P)

That wouldn't explain why the holagus guys wouldn't hire you, tho ;)

This is my advice:

1. Forget about going to a job you hate. I'm 36 right now and I wasted almost ten years of my life on boring jobs and now I wish I wouldn't. The tech sector has an age bias and the older you are you're less likely to get hired. True story.

2. Get involved in Mexico's tech community. Build things and show them to people. Go to conferences.

3. Work in a startup with coders that are way, and I mean way, better than you. If you don't live in a tech hub move to CDMX or GDL. I know that in GDL there are startups which are hiring pretty much everybody.

4. Don't be an asshole. I'm not saying that you are. But if you give that impression, people may not want to hire you. Please don't brag about how you were programming at 10 (we all were)

Lastly, I know some people in mx's and latam tech community, maybe I can help you get connected. Ping me at @soska.

-- And yes I know my english sucks too. But it used to be worse.
I would encourage anyone who finds this interesting or just loves Half-Life in general to also read the preceding entry Mathoms from the Lamda Files[1].

Half-Life was just such an experience. Even almost 20 years later, it might be the best game I have ever played.

[1] http://www.marclaidlaw.com/mathoms-lambda-files-c-1998/
Yep, which is why we have Rackspace actively managing our cloud setup
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To be fair - Amazon (and Google/Azure/whoever) aren't really targeting the sort of user who wants autoscaling for under $20/month... They've got different fish to fry.

There's kind of this uncanny valley of businesses who think their website/app-backend is kinda important, but keep asking about $5 or $20/month hosting when you've recommended ~$100/month for a load balanced redundant AWS setup. If you aren't prepared to pay for a load balancer, at least two ec2 instances, and a multi-region RDS instance - I don't really want to get your 2am Saturday morning phone calls asking why your site/app is down.

Advice: investigate your devops tool of choice (I like Ansible) and work out how to script the spin up of infrastructure at Digital Ocean - you'll need to invest some time to learn and get it working, but you should be able to set up a single command line script to provision additional droplets and add them behind an (automatically updated via Ansible/APIs) dns round robin set of "Floating IP" addresses (or Elastic IP addresses in AWS terminology) and use Heartbeat on each droplet to monitor the others and re-update the Floating IPs as needed. That's kind poorman's HA. For extra credit, you could work out how to automate provisioning of some HAProxy Droplets sitting in front of your app server droplets. Managing a shared database is left as an exercise to the reader who prefers not to pay for RDS ;-)
Loving the James Scott fan club on HN. Putting in a plug for the Art of Not Being Governed as well.
And then there's Azure at €11 point something. The local web hosting company does better specs for half the price, and the lowest one (only slightly lower specs than Azure's) is €3 a month.
This is somewhat surprising, in a good way. A lot of large companies are pretty risk averse, and this prevents them from releasing the source for their shopping platforms into the wild. I'm sure there are some differences between the open source version and what they actually run.

Is this the complete platform? What's held back? I would think the analytic tools for usage and sales, how they store user data, and perhaps whatever they use to build profiles about individual users' shopping behavior. But that's just speculation.
Where do you live? I would recommend looking at startups in GDL. Also, I wrote a longer reply in the main thread.
>I've worked for one company that hired remotely out of Russia, and another that hired and sponsored foreigners, though you may need a degree to qualify for that, but I'm not certain.

457(sponsored) doesn't require a degree. Skilled worker visa does though.
Im thoroughly impressed that when you throw a plane on your phone you can see it begin flying on the web browser (Same colored tail).

Really nice little touch.
You've posted the same thing every month for six months now. Are you actually hiring or just collecting resumes?
It seems to me like every company you've listed as applying to and having been rejected from is kind of top-tier elite companies, but there are lots of programming jobs outside of those. Maybe not your ideal, but may you should broaden your horizons.
What is EULA if not legal aspect? And according to highest EU court EULA is toiled paper and does not nullify your rights. Not to mention specifying its about windows license like that would change anything?

Here is another (regional) EU court result concerning exactly OEM Microsoft licenses, Microsoft didnt appeal further.

https://www.usedsoft.com/assets/Law/usedSoft-PM-Urteil-LG-Ha...