skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtual DOM is "just because"? Huh, guess I imagined those performance benefits.
You haven't lived (or driven) in Boston enough yet if you consider Boston having "a lack of commutes." It most definitely has them, you just are one of the very few lucky people who live there and can walk to work.

$2400 is not getting you into a 2 bedroom in any nice / "managed" building in Boston. Thats the going rate for a 1bed in the nice high-rises. So your in a small apt complex or converted house (duplex,triplex, etc.)

1. Minimum to park a car in the city every day is $250-$300 / month. Realistically $350+

2. Even living inside the "128" loop(so minimum500K house) , expect 45-90 minute commute (snow, rain).

OR you can use the train

1. Commuter Rail passes are expensive, $250-$350 a month (add some parking money to park at the commuter rail station ($1-$5 a day).

2. Hope the train runs on time and fits into your schedule (they run on the 30 minutes or on the hour)

3. Takes the same amount of time as driving (45-90 minutes easy).

Boston has many of the same problems as SF (housing, commutes), its just been that way for longer and people are used to it.
And how do we as a civilization in the 21st century prevent foreign meddling and funding of armed groups?
I think what the article missed is that content creation is the most profitable business model. Jobs' first billion was due to a creative invention whose equity did not end on opening night, foreign distribution and DVD sales but rather through trademarks, copyrights and of course the conquest of different markets such as toys, books and clothing.
Sure. And you could do that. It's just that a lot of services doesn't make sense in such setup and the infrastructure cost per person is few times higher than in a dense areas. Usually this means higher taxes.
And the humidity.
> He won the sociopath lottery; he was able to take enormous risks because they didn't particularly faze him.

I'm not so sure about that. Having been around during the period when he was canned from Apple, founded NeXT/Pixar, and subsequently came back to Apple Jobs had changed considerably.

I think that (and he has stated) that getting canned from Apple was a bit piece of humble pie for him, that he was lost and had to do a lot of self-examination before he picked himself up and founded new companies.

Acknowledging his weaknesses and mistakes doesn't strike me as sociopathic, or as being an unfazed man. What he shared with the public regarding his personal struggles is a whole different story. He was never particularly public, especially after the Great Firing.

Your other points regarding survivorship bias are point on.
Until it is.
Containers vs. VMware: Which Is the Best Fit for You?
FORTH Programming as a Learning Experience
PaintCode 3 adds support for Android, Swift 3 and JavaScript
There is not supporting insecure protocols and then there is living in fantasy land away from everyone else.

You can't drop all of these things and end up with something generally useful.
Are you working hard at not referring to ships using a feminine pronoun (i.e. "this is her maiden voyage")?
>the purpose of life is to be your best self

That is a tautology if I've ever seen one. "Best" is meaningless without some preexisting standard.
I'm running emacs on android using termux, and using dropbox for syncronization.

It works great, emacs run better in android than in my desktop.
Assuming every person replaces their car with a self-driving car, how much would roadway throughput improve as a result of smarter communal driving? The assumption is that the self-driving cars are a 1:1 replacement of human-driven cars and ride sharing does not increase or decrease.
Other than the iPhone none of that would look like a big bet if they had failed or not taken off.
Could you shed some light about the shady practices in the Advertising industry?
> China

I don't how does China come into picture. I don't expect China to help India in space programs.

Second, technological investment in space program is not mass production.
Haha, yes, for a month!
Many real time systems and applications disallow heap usage, because they have formal verification requirements that can't be met with dynamic memory that may "run out" depending on run time state.
A lot of other people met Woz too. HP turned Woz's idea down. I think it was Woz's luck he met Jobs.
We've all done that exercise in school where the professor tells everyone ahead of time to bring a coin to class. Then he has everyone stand up and flip a coin. Everyone who flips tails sits down. Those remaining standing flip it again, those flipping tails sit down, repeat until there is one person standing.

Then interview that last person and ask her what her technique was, how could she possibly flip heads 6 times in a row? What hard work and practice did she do ahead of time to make her such a good coin flipper? What daily habits produced this proficiency? This is essentially what we do when we try to be successful simply by asking successful people what they did.
> We're growing fast

Are you growing faster than 5% per week? If you are, that'd be fast.
Try visit Zurich. It's very much like village-city by an America' standards. Slow life, quiet, know your neighbours etc. with all good inventions from XXI century ;-)
Why was the title changed from the original one? Bad decision IMO.
For a well capitalized company that can afford to take well-researched risks, you're absolutely right. But shipping costs for some retailers can be $1 at the first percentile and >$100 as low as the 80th percentile. Any shipping pricing strategy that is purely policy or rule based has to have a very well analyzed foundation to it, or you risk wiping out your profitability with even a handful of poorly predicted purchases. Smaller retailers have a hard enough time pricing their products, let alone pricing their products under consideration of all of the possible shipping costs they could possibly face. So in the end they just defer on shipping price by passing it off to the customer.
An Anti-HFT Success Story: European Exchange Bans Frontrunning Algos
Because you can't get anywhere without a car here. At least in San Jose. And to be honest, I would not ride a bike here after seeing how people drive around here.

How do you get your stuff home from Costco? I mean there is delivery, but still.
Your point on density is a good one. And one could argue (and I have tried to at times) that cities could benefit by sending transit to their "density points" preferentially. That would maximize the value for commuters. When I see plans for a station or train stop with fewer than 10,000 people within a mile of it, I wonder if that will be useful or not.
AngularJS vs. React When Working with Ruby on Rails
Thanks for the explanation, great job doing the v0 to v1 transition - the Polymer world is still waiting for the 2.0 release to come out
For my personal blog (raed.it/blog): Very little traffic, around 50 visits per day.

But I don't publish that often.

I used to have another blog running on a shared hosting plan; it went down when it got to the front page [0], so I'm guessing a fair amount of traffic.

[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339841
Just choose where you live carefully (and pay the big bucks and sacrifice space) and work close. I've never had a bad commute in SV but then I don't live in a palace.
You are right but if you are in a meeting where only 5 minutes are relevant for you, you can either spend the rest sleeping or at least doing some work.

Yes, the problem is one of poor management where the system starts working against itself.
Optical amplifiers has been the standard for quite a few years already, especially for long haul dwdm.
We should assign the problem to engineers, instead of politicians. Are there any such efforts? Or have they given up just because of the costs?
Some doctors are more open minded than others. I use an ecig to deal a smoking relapse after being quit for 7 years (sadly, the addiction never really leaves you), and from my unscientific and informal poll of pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, and others in the medical field, they largely think of ecigs are harmless (especially when compared to cigarettes).

Of course, they won't recommend them to patients because the science has yet to fully establish their safety, but what science HAS come in is promising and the anecdotal evidence from countless users is also promising. Even so, doctors want to promote quitting altogether, not crutches or replacements, as it simplies treatment plans and eliminates variables. Plus, many of them have never been smokers, so they just don't understand what it's like to be a smoker, depending upon both nicotine and the comforting ritual of smoking in a society flush with stress.
I've thought about putting all my code on github, just for kicks. My code is a nightmare though, because I don't have version control, and Office VBA doesn't allow inheritance. As such, the amount of code that has been copy-pasted is bonkers.

That being said, the amount of VBA I've seen that doesn't work with Option Explicit is a little staggering, so maybe I should be so self-conscious.
Lockheed takes next step in moving F-16 production to India
I'm wondering why this isn't on github
I'm definitely valuing that over "being in the industry".

You ARE in the industry.

For every programmer in Silicon Valley, there are x of us not in Silicon Valley. And there's probably little correlation between whether or not you're in Silicon Valley and the coolness and value of whatever you're building.

I love visiting but I can't imagine living there.
Somewhere around the house, I have a copy of Samuel Johnson's prefaces to Shakespeare's plays, edited by an Indian professor. Now, I can't at all speak to the case of China.
That is where I am planning to move to in May or so. Currently still in the US, but I am missing home :P So back to Europe it goes.
A step-by-step guide on how to use NPS to prioritize features
Docker is the way to go in my POV
> I love visiting but I can't imagine living there.

That basically sums up my feelings on the bay area too.
Well, not for nothing but it's a GREAT title for a self-help book :>
Getting Lucky - Embracing the randomness of luck for a definite success.
From where to where exactly? The CalTrain goes through the South Bay and San Mateo. The VTA pretty much connects all of the Valley with bus and light rail, and there is always the ECR that goes along El Camino...the only way I can think of there being an issue with commuting to the South Bay via public transit is working in a more remote area of the Valley.

That said, public transit is indeed slow, but it's mostly available in the area if you absolutely must take it. It covers a lot more than I think you're giving it credit for based on your choice of workplace and specific area of living though.
There's no denying the connections in that part of the country. I guess that's what I was eluding to. I'm just finding it's not worth it for most.
Now I don't think GDS walk on water, but their work really is much better than how things normally get done in the civil service.

The press focussed on, "This bureaucrat paid market rate for in-demand skills! Disgusting!" Rather than, "In house experts save tax payer being ripped off again!"
I was impressed with that too.
A rocket is an intercontinental ballistic missile with a different flight plan. So every nuclear power want to stay ahead in the game.
I've looked into the market for Sr. DevOps positions lately and unfortunately found exactly that to be the case. No one is willing to offer enough to lure me away from my current gig, where I'm reasonably happy. The employers that don't immediately scoff at the proposed salary tend to give me grief about it, which makes it not worth the time.
Live completely off-grid for a year (or at least for a summer). I understand there are so many lakes in Canada that you can get flown to one and have it all to yourself for an entire summer of camping, fishing, whatever.
Thanks for your response! I'm going to shoot you an email, I would be interested in helping you with this project.
Since when is having an opinion a bad thing? If we all delayed putting out theories (like Good to Great does in explaining commonalities of companies that made it huge) until all existing theories like Survivorship Bias were covered then no new theories put out.

Survivorship Bias has a place but it is not the be-all-end-all.
Computational Science Reproducibility Syllabus
I think you think Rochester is somewhere near (and has similar weather to) NYC. In the 5 years I lived there, there was about a week of nasty-hot/humid weather per summer. A big improvement on NYC or Philadelphia.

Edit: For a better description of the problem with Rochester's weather, see GP's name.
Why bother with TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 anymore? I imagine by the time this project is "stable" Google would have already deprecated those two in Chrome.

And 3DES?

https://sweet32.info/
I don't know on what you are basing the destabilization threat on. India has a no first usage policy on nuclear weapons [1] and has shown no intent of using the weapons. Also in all the wars in which India was involved, it was never the aggressor.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
Preferably both things should go together. You plan the neighbourhood and the same time start planing the transport.

There is a lot of books on what makes city good place to live this days on. I found it fascinating (as SWE).
BART janitor’s 2,485 hours of OT worth $162,000
The original article is completely wrong on this point.

Maybe some startups sponsor but don't attend? That would be foolish.

Alternatively, spending any money on marketing before you have anything customers can actually buy or use or trial would be foolish.

But if you've got something even a little bit useful that's ready for people to try, and you plan to attend the conference, that $5,000 is a smoking deal!!!
John Malkovich Win Libel Suit Over False Tax Story as FATCA Disclosures Continue
Green startups?
Why aren't there so many green startups and companies interested on environmental and planet causes?

In a moment where everyone is destroying the planet shouldn't there be more people interested in preserving it?

I'm interested in startups that try to help the cause, so if you have anything please share :)
Ask HN: Have You Ever Hired Developers to Work on Your Personal Projects?
I've always had this idea in the back of my mind that I could find some talent on vworker or whatever to work on the miriad of personal projects I've wanted to do. I've never actually done it though. Have you done this? What was your experience like? Was it successful or a complete failure? What was the project?
Here's a link to the first T0 code I found, for the interested readers out there: https://bearssl.org/gitweb/?p=BearSSL;a=blob;f=src/x509/x509....
I think you're cargo culting. If their stack doesn't work well, it's badly programmed. That can happen with any combination technologies.

Listen to how silly you sound:

"They were writing it in some language that had to be "compiled" to another language, "bytecode" or something. And then, get this, the "bytecode" runs inside a "virtual machine" on the client's computer. They had 18 different libraries, and another program to download more libraries for them!
In practise, it means that holidays days are simply not accounted for.

Otherwise, it's like usual, tell your team in advance and write the days on the calendar.

There is no abuse. If anything, most people don't take enough because it's not accounted for && there is noone to remind them of "you gotta take 10 days before January [or your current quota be lost][and you're gonna burn out because you work too hard]"
As others have mentioned, what you've described is survivorship bias and it's prevalent in many places. I found the following to be an excellent and very readable article on the topic.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
I'm wondering specifically about the Warm Springs District in Fremont. This is where:

- A new BART station is set to open shortly, and,

- Across the street, a new single family housing development with 4,000 (yes, four thousand) new housing units is under construction [0],

- And, next door, Tesla will be building 500,000 Model 3s annually with 3,000 additional workers.

The AM commutes via I-680 / Pleasanton and I-880 / Oakland are already Hell on Earth. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.

[0] https://www.fremont.gov/1515/Warm-SpringsSouth-Fremont
At a high level, isn't this like implementing your own "malloc" and "free" that just pulls from your process's own memory pool instead of the OS? Or is there more to it than that?
Show HN: Convert Website Visitors into Customers
Sounds like it would make tuning your RF for durability a pain in the ass if you run multiple cassandra nodes on the same box. Cassandra uses non-JVM managed memory for a fair amount of work and relies heavily on the OS filesystem cache (much like Pg), unless you are consolidating multiple Cassandra clusters to one box I would keep one node per physical machine for durability reasons alone.
Nice, I like writing things under constraint; especially without internet and manuals. Seems to take away a lot of stress and open up creativity, at least it does for me [0]. I am flying to AUS soon which will have me without internet for around 21 hours again and I will try another constraint game at that time.

[0] http://brainfisheatfishbrain.com/2015/03/writing-a-game-with...
Did Y Combinator Company Vote.org Just Admit to Being for Hillary?
Question for the author: in terms of running X apps, what's the advantage of this over using a third-party x server, like VcXSrv?

Using VcXSrv and just two tweaks (setting DISPLAY to :0 and setting dbus to not use UNIX sockets), I've gotten gnome-terminal, gvim, and Plank dock working perfectly. Firefox, Nautilus file explorer, and various Gnome programs seem to work fine too.
Public transit works best for young healthy people. If you have kids or move a little slowly due to health or old age, public transit is a straight up no-go. And certain jobs necessitate a car. You won't convince a salesman to carry a projector, screen, and a box of pamphlets on the bus and train.

And this says nothing of "comfort", which along with Time, is a rare commodity for working people. I'm not sitting on a rough seat crammed next to 5 other people for 2 hours. I'll take my car, with its 8-way adjustable seat, climate control and cup holders, thank-you-very-much. I'd rather sit and wait in traffic in my car than stand outside in the rain or snow waiting for a bus.

And on top of that, transit for me would be about $400/month. A car lease, insurance, and gas per month would be about $600. I will happily pay $200 more per month for the massively increased mobility and comfort that a car provides. The value proposition for public transit really sucks.
I think (as someone who hasn't touched a cigarette in two years, and hasn't touched an ecig since February) that the most important part is that you have to taper down the nicotine content of the ecigs, otherwise you're just replacing one nicotine delivery system with another and not making any progress. The leap between being nicotine and tobacco free and a cigarette is far greater (mentally and physically) than between a nicotine supplement (ecigs) and a cigarette.
But the point is, in lot places - San Jose - the roads are huge, I mean, the small road between houses is of a size of many european 4 lane roads ;-)
Most people outside the JS community look in with horror.

https://medium.com/@wob/the-sad-state-of-web-development-160...
Certificates and handshake messages are nested structures, and I want to process them in a streamed fashion (e.g. I don't buffer a complete certificate, I don't have the RAM for that; BearSSL can decode certificates and messages that are larger than the total RAM is uses), so without coroutines, I would still need some sort of decoder with a stack of states, so I just accepted it and pushed the idea to its logical conclusion.

Despite the horrors implied by a Forth syntax, this actually made writing the code easier. As a bonus, it turns out that T0-generated code is very compact, so I could pack more behaviour into less bytes.
I do incident response for a living. Disgruntled employees/former employees do sabotage their companies' networks, but it is incredibly rare. Not because most organizations are well-defended against such attacks; its because most people aren't willing to destroy their lives simply because they were laid off. Especially in a rapidly growing industry where a talented person can generally find a better job than the one they had in a week or two.
to 1: The About page is not always targeted towards the customer but it's important for investors and other businesses. You just have to look good, the first impression counts. It also doesn't take a lot of effort to create it, so why not?
But I get what you are saying. If the website, videos, and social media posts look awesome and the startup has more swag to offer than real progress, they obviously spend their money and time at the wrong end.
The time I was top link on Hacker News and Azure killed my site: lessons learned
What kind of murders are you talking about?

Historically, most people have been killing each other for resources.

Ultimately, food and water are the most important ones, so there had been historic precedents of cannibalism among groups of people in harsh conditions where resources were very scarce.
posted in wrong thread!
Not offended :)
Stop funding and meddling with them?
elect donald trump
Surprisingly, no one here seems to be using white board and marker or just sticky note on desk.

While I do use todo.txt or Task (CLI) but I also rely on sticky notes or whiteboard for keeping my Todo list always in front of me.
ISRO salaries straight from glassdoor:

Scientist/Engineer ₹802,100
Scientist/Engineer	₹798,473

So, 800k rupee is about $12,000 USD. NASA's avg engineer salary is 10x that.

edit: NASA employees also get generous government benefits like pensions and such. Federal employee benefits are the envy of the nation. Not sure why you people are arguing against basic facts here. Salaries, cost of living, etc are a fraction in India compared to the states. Thus you can't compare project costs.
Responsive images and Image CDNs seem to belong together
And you are Dmitry!
We use your TweetNacl-js implementation for https://github.com/wallix/PEPS!
In a recent analysis by the ultra-leftist junk news site Buzzfeed, they've found that right wing sites are worst than left wing sites. Wow, that's some great journalism right there. That kind of reporting is why we should ignore new media and stick with the old.

Definitely agreed. People just need to learn to only visit news sites that carefully align with their own personal biases. That's what makes the Internet nowadays so great. It's much easier to ignore people ignorant enough to disagree with you.
Looks like some big bloated money-wasting federal contractors that are seeing their margins hit by 18F caught the Post on a lazy day and had their Press Sec feed the Post a pre-written piece so the reporter could get to happy hour early. I expect better from the WP.
No, it's just placing the appropriate structs and buffers on the stack (when not provided by the caller).

It does eliminate a certain couple classes of errors, and makes some others less likely.

I didn't read all the code, but I don't think it's using alloca or the like. So the stack allocation sizes are known at compile time, and bounded unless there's some recursion going on (which is unlikely).
A good marketing manager with a few years under her belt should be able to do this without breaking a sweat. Unfortunately, like a non-tech company hiring programmers, non-marketers seem to be pretty bad at recognizing good marketers.