skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The costs aren't the same. I'm just under paying $50 per pay period for my insurance now; comparable insurance through a private exchange would've been many hundreds of dollars per month when Obamacare first started. Even the Silver plans that were around then cost around $300/month, which was out of my price range at the time (I was working at a startup then and was grossly underpaid, in addition to having no insurance), and every employer-provided insurance I've ever had was equivalent to a Gold or Platinum.

Even if the costs were the same, I live in Texas. PPOs are no longer offered on the private exchanges here. Unless you have employer-provided insurance, you have to have an HMO, which I refuse to do for moral reasons.

(and adding: my previous employer was a tiny company of 12 people, but they had to provide insurance anyway due to being a defense contractor, and I was paying $40 per month for the best insurance I've ever had. The employer I had before that was a startup of the same size and refused to give any insurance or even pay us what we were worth because the owner was stingy, so stingy that he refused to seek VC because he wanted to keep ownership)
The question is if those 20% weren't also equally attainable by improving the existing code instead of porting to a new stack.
But the average user has no idea whether a system is "using off-site backups with different trust roots not sysadmined by the same sysadmin." And even if it was like that at one time, they have no way of continually auditing the system to confirm that, at all times, that process is in place. And they have no idea that two sysadmins aren't in cahoots with each other.

That's not a good basis for a robust system.
I think the point is that even if you're 100x as "lucky" if you work hard, if x << 1, then it's also true that 100x << 1.
> While I have had a steady supply of work, because of this, I will most likely never get to work for a big company like Microsoft, Google or Facebook because I wouldn't pass their technical interview.

The stuff people complain about (big O, data structures, algorithms in theory) are stuff even us with degrees have to study and relearn before job interviews. I think you might be underselling yourself. Those big companies use questions like this (often instead of hard checks for degrees) specifically to allow self-taught coders who are good an opportunity to get in.

To some extent, as other have posted, it is kind of silly, but you might be able to look at it as a leveling of the playing field.

> I never understood how this was a valid metric for determining suitability of a candidate, when candidates have come to expect a FizzBuzz test coming up.

It's not--it's a metric for determining unsuitability.
The idea here is that there are probably -pieces- of your page that can be cached frequently in cases where the whole thing can't be.

This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes with another alternative language, it seems?
I hate to say it, but after puffing an e-cig for a couple years, it became extremely painful for my throat and lungs, to the point I couldn't even bear a single puff anymore without pain and a coughing fit. I actually went back to tobacco.
The "completely client side" thing is the killer feature for things like Skate/Knockout components.

A lot of my applications are either legacy or hybrid's, somewhat heavy JS on the client side but not SPA's, I think of them as lots of mini-SPA's (routing and such is still handled by the server), I've actually found that approach much easier to reason about and it has the benefit of clean seperation of concerns, the downside is that you have to think more carefully about synchronisation between client and server.
Title should be corrected, Mozilla is removing it, Apple is considering removing it, but nothing about any movement on Chrome. Maybe the poster made the Blink vs Webkit mistake?

EDIT: It's been fixed now, thanks.
Harvard students launch startup that uses sensors to prevent infant deaths
I would never claim that they are safe without a lot more scientific evidence, but safer is plainly obvious. Vaporizers do not combust the material. Incomplete combustion of plant matter generates tons of carcinogens. The material in ecigs is vegetable glycerine, propylene glycol, nicotine, and flavors. The first two have been inhaled regularly for decades (asthma inhalers for one). Nicotine has been shown to be mainly harmless. The only thing iffy is the flavorings. They are well-known to be safe to ingest, but there's no real data on their regular inhalation.
The meetup advice is highly contextual. If the people at the meetups/events are your target customers, it can be very valuable time (both in terms of getting feedback and closing actual customers).
It could be, but I've seen the problem as well.

One obvious reason it's different is the number of people who now have the explicit goal of doing a startup. They don't know what they want to do, but gosh golly they're sure they want to be startup founders.

This is different than, say, 2003. Or 1995. Then, basically nobody wanted to "do a startup". Starting a company was not generally seen positively. It was hard to do, it took many years to get anywhere, it was likely to fail, and you could end up broke. So the people doing it really wanted to launch a particular product, solve a particular problem. They were people with a specific burning vision that they wanted to make real.

But now you'll talk to people who see it as just another career choice. They're going to go to grad school or do a startup. They'll join an investment bank or do a startup. Their idea, their burning passion? They don't have one. But they want to be a founder! Maybe!

What that means, of course, is they want to appear a founder. It's basically like playing dress-up. Except at $1m+ per year of other people's money. That's why the failure mode involves things that look like business but are anathema to serious founders: lots of meetings (where, yay, everybody listens to you because you're the founder), lots of headcount (because that's what grown-up businesses have), vanity metrics, fancy office space, etc, etc.

To people really in business, "too many" has a pretty clear baseline: the absolute minimum you need to get shit done, to make and sell your product. That's why HP started in a garage. Every dollar you spend on vanity is a dollar you you aren't spending on something that matters to your customers.
Powering Simplicity of Certbot and Letsencrypt – Domain Verification
I second traveling the world. It helps you grow as a person and you become more human.

My grandfather used to say: there are two types of people in the world: those who simply take trips (even if to other countries) and then those who travel (and take in the experience and, hence, grow).

Here's a possible itinerary for you:

Arrive at Guatemala City

Take a 40 min ride to Antigua, a beautiful place. Stay in Antigüa as your HQ.

On day one, explore Antigua, drink the coffee and eat chocolates.

Day two: hike a volcano, called Fuego

Day three: visit a coffee plantation

Day four: go to lake Atitlán and stay in San Marcos for several days. Take in the local festivities as there is always something being celebrated.

Day five: travel by boat in the lake to other towns, like Panajachel. Go to Hotel Atitlán for a great and hefty meal.

Day six: visit a women's cooperative in a town around the lake. Use the tuc tuc service to travel around as the drivers are also great tour guides because they know their towns.

Etc etc.
Then I have no desire to work at any company with less than 50 employees, unless they're obligated to provide insurance for other reasons (I think federal contractors might be). I despise how small businesses are allowed to flaunt basic decency standards that other companies are expected to abide by.

I'm currently at a mid-size telecom with ~500 employees, and I'm really happy here. It's both the biggest and the best employer I've ever had.
Allegedly there is an extended version of the paper here: http://crcs.cz/rsa But the site is not responding and archive.org has no information either.
So, here's a concern for you: this provides for a severe security hole, since it has the ability to effectively run as root on any machine its connected to (a'la privileged mode, volumes, network, leaking secrets through environment variables). It might be worthwhile to find a way to mitigate that security hole, or add some serious access control restrictions.

I wouldn't be too surprised if your test cluster machines are frequently rooted.
Parallel ESI in Varnish
If you're younger than 29.88 years old: no, you haven't.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(727+hours+%2F+(4+minu...

This is assuming you've brushed your teeth for two minutes, twice a day, since the day you came out of the womb.
The author built up huge empathy for the employees in the article, but then decided not to let us know how they came out. Too bad. Still, great article.
Yep, correct, it comes down to acceptance. And I've yet to see a large scale scenario where it was not possible to implement software which couldn't be both correct and performant (I specialize in large scale applications for a living).

Therefore, I do not accept the premise that it is impossible to design systems which are both correct and fast on a large scale, and neither should anyone else have to accept such a thing. It's just not right.
Calling musicforprogramming music in the sense that you're probably imaging isn't quite accurate. It's much more of a soundscape.
I joke about their headline clichés, but the NYT solved this a while ago. Their standard headline format is [motivation, action]. So it would probably be "To protect consumers' privacy, web companies remove a feature"

(Actually it would probably be "In web browsers, a feature finds an unexpected use" or some such)
Completely agree with the premise here. I think some of the causes of this are worth exploring/understanding. I believe part of it is just about getting laid. Startups are cool right now, they are like the modern band. You can create a sense of "...maybe this guy is the next Zuck?" with girls fairly easily. Another part of it is that there are a lot of people in the startup community that prey on others and/or have no clue. I wasted a shameful amount of time on what I've heard YC folks refers to as "playing house" because that's what people in my community were encouraging, and I didn't know any better. Only when I stopped going to meetups and searching for validation elsewhere was I able to truly begin building a business by focusing exclusively on solving problems for clients.
Well, you can get the ingredients list for one. Like a lot of things, there are some less reputable companies making it and a lot of reputable ones. If anything, I've been pleasantly surprised at how seriously a lot of the vaping "community" takes this, sometimes going as far as to have samples analyzed in a lab and sharing the results when there's a concern about one of the flavoring agents in a mix.

Then there's people like me and the person who replied to your comment earlier who just make our own. It's surprisingly simple and pretty inexpensive. The other commenter eschews flavoring altogether whereas I only use a small amount of it and only buy stuff from companies that list the compounds included so I can make sure there are no particularly nasty components that would make them dangrous to inhale in typical concentrations.

I agree that there are no long term studies on the effects of inhaling this stuff for years on end but a lot of the things that stick out as hazardous are easy to identify and even when they exist, it's typically at a level that's a small fraction of what you'd run into when talking about combustible tobacco.

Basically it's harm reduction. Like how you read about the dangers of eating char-grilled meat because it has some of the same things as cig smoke. That may be the case but you're not getting nearly as much of it so you won't likely get cancer from eating a seared steak a few times a year like you would from smoking cigs daily.
Luck. Mostly.
I worked for an established software company (~3000 employees) that had unlimited vacation.

How much vacation people really took varied greatly by managers and which part of the organization you were in.

There were no minimums and no real philosophy or best practices around vacation. The core engineering groups had good managers and people took 4 - 6 weeks (spread over the year) and would completely disconnect from work during their vacations. People could take 2-3 weeks in a row without much fuss being made.

With exception of support, if you were in a customer facing role your manager was probably a workaholic and made it very difficult to take a vacation or even enjoy vacation when you took it. However, they would constantly trot out unlimited vacation as a perk and act like it was your fault for not taking vacation. I knew people who disconnected for a week for the birth of their baby and felt completely unprotected and overwhelmed with backload of work by the time they came back.

I'm never going back to a company with "unlimited" vacation again unless I know the group I report into strongly protects and encourages at least 3+ weeks of vacation
Their tracks are also available as podcasts. I've downloaded several and shuffle between them.
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> it's inconsistent to treat two anecdotal accounts in completely opposite ways.

I can either believe a random person on the internet peddling a rather trendy political opinion or my own extensive industry experience. I'd expect outsiders to treat both our claims with a grain of salt and instead use their own observations.
Yep. Same here. I find screaming one's reserved words far more distracting than the highlighting helps.

Another SQL habit that seems to far more annoying than helpful is putting commas at the start of next line. Great, they line up. Did you know that publishers have a term for vertical patterns in blocks of text? They're called 'rivers', and one generally attempts to avoid them, because they're visually distracting.
> Ads are responsible for about 20-30% of the malware distribution

Do you have a source for this comment?
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It would probably be more like a large vertical tower with most of its mass floating underwater than a flat barge with an antenna mast on the deck. This would mean even large waves would hardly affect it.

The bigger problem is you'd need at least 70 of them to cross the atlantic.
That is a great point in favor of it being a hit piece, because that's wrong - rndmize pointed out below [0] that it's a misinterpretation of the report.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862065
Where can I find more info on the performance work done on collections?
I don't 'discover' apps -- I always download a specific one I'm looking for (based on external reviews, friend's recommendation, etc). So these interstitial pages are rarely useful to me.

I suppose the answer might be different if I were downloading an app I've never heard of before, but I am also having difficulty imagining why I'd want to do that.
I miss the public availability of Freebase, and I used it for examples in two books I wrote, so those examples are broken. DBPedia continues to be useful. I was just looking at an application of DBPedia for work yesterday.
yeah. anything that interacts with the radio hardware is going to interact with a crappy vendor RTOS, aka 'radio OS'.

Running linux on my phone is cool, but getting away from binary blobs would be priceless.

More here: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
That seems to assume a perfectly-efficient currency, one whose value is always directly proportional to the work invested.

But there's no evidence that BitCoin actually works that way. I have no guarantee that I would spend the same cost to mine one Big Mac's-worth of BC as I would to buy a Big Mac, because the price fluctuates wildly due to all sorts of other factors such as hoarding, worries about forking, etc etc.
We have message-ids, but those only let you find a message if you already know how to find a message store that contains it. Add an imap server name and user id, and you're most of the way there...
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The mental cost is high.
Well. org-mode has its own extensible URI system of sorts.

My email links are formatted mu4e:msgid:<message identifier>. My git links are magit:<project path>::commit@<git SHA>. Remote files are just file:/ssh:<user>@<server>:<remote path>. You could write your own for whatever you want, gmail links say (although then you could just use a plain old HTTP link).
And yet their stock is down today. =|
It's true that flavorings are the biggest variable and it's a risk that people are taking because many feel that risk is extremely low.

For example; some flavorings contain diacetyl which, if inhaling too much, will lead to Bronchiolitis Obliterans or "popcorn lung", but the amount actually inhaled in e-cigarettes is 750 times less than cigarettes and vastly less than the amount inhaled by people that have developed popcorn lung.

Yes, there are some chemicals in the flavoring, but the amount is fractions of that in cigarettes (flavorings usually account for less than 10% in my liquid, and much of the flavoring is more base liquid; VG and PG). I've taken the risk assessment and decided that e-cigs are much safer. Each person must do that for themselves.
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I'm not in your situation at all, but it does not pass the smell test that you need more than one person, much less four, to work on growing a 1000 person email list without burnout.
I'm not sure how we agreed to be in the EU when we voted to leave on 23rd June.

I don't expect everyone to be happy about the outcome of votes, but I do expect outcomes to be respected.

I'm not opposed to decisions being overturned, but I don't think it's right to re-run a vote right after it has been carried out. We haven't even left the EU yet. At some point after we've left the EU, perhaps there will be grounds to take another look at membership of the EU. But not straight away.

I want as many people as possible to participate in elections and referendums (even if I disagree with them), because I want everyone's voice to be heard. That's what it means to live in a democracy. And so I certainly intend to continue voting.
Sure. Everything on these lists is something that's valuable to some extent. But it shifts into "playing startup" the moment you're doing it because it makes you feel more important, because it makes you look better in the eyes of somebody besides the customers you need to acquire in the next few months.
I'm not sure I understand your second paragraph. Could you explain further what you mean, especially about being 'needlessly inclusive'?
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*asterisk
Not really. Instagram is way more heavily used by college kids as far as I can tell.
These tracks work like a charm for me. Im the type to be easily distracted by actual music, so the kind of ambient soundscapes this provides are much closer to a pleasant white noise or rainfall. It's also trained my brain in a way to flip into programming mode
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Very interesting, I'd never heard that about male teachers quitting more often than females. I wonder if that holds true across different cultures? Here, at least, teaching is often seen as a bit of a fallback plan if you don't succeed at your chosen profession or you hit mid-20s and still don't know what you want to do.

I like the diverging behaviour angle too. That actually sounds like it could have a serious impact, and doesn't rely so heavily on stereotyping one particular teen experience across each gender.
> All I'm saying is that the EU referendum result must be respected.

It is being respected. This might be news to you, but we don't live in a fascist dictatorship where dissent is forbidden.

So, in your view, not a single thing any government has done (with the exception of joining the Common Market) has been agreed to by the population. Interesting.
>like all EU treaties, are deliberately designed to bind people to things they don't want to do by artificially tying them all together with a "guillotine clause".

I'm sorry, what?

You sign a bilateral agreement bringing you massive wealth and advantages then you try to avoid doing your part of the deal

So EU is now evil because it will not take shit from a tiny country?
> The reality is that everybody brought their laptops to the meeting and many are passively if not actively working.

Working on your laptop while you're in a meeting is one of the most rude behaviors possible.

If you have something more important than the meeting, decline the invite. If you're too busy, decline the invite. If you're not going to be utilized for enough of the meeting for it to be useful to you, decline the invite.

Don't be that asshole in the back responding to emails or working on some unrelated project and not listening to what's going on.
From PSELECT(2):

STANDARDS
The pselect() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
So the other company has (a) funding and (b) a different strategy than you. This tell us nothing about the quality of either business.
You're not the only one, but I wish you were, because then I'd have to read a lot less of it.

I doesn't eliminate your commenting problem, it moves your commenting problem from the last line of your list to the first.

Also, it is visually distracting as all get out.
I don't think you can attribute his success to luck. Yes he did take risk and yes he was a sociopath in that he didn't care much about how much he had to emotionally torment others to get what he wanted. However if you want to compare what he did to winning the lottery, it would be like he bought lottery tickets and then flew down to the loterry operator and did everything he could to fix the game so that he would win. just like how Warren buffet bought over companies and then made sure they run it his way.
> At the moment there are few enough that they could fetch a list of all of them and cache it

at which point they would be back to the annoying race conditions for fresh publishes, no?

Can you speak to why it is so expensive on the NPM side to serve a 404? Would a bloom filter like another commenter mentioned be helpful?
"runs"

Into my arms.
Exactly - so we should disregard the original referendum (a mere poll, as you put it) on the basis of which the British government signed up in 1975 to what was then the embryo EU - though only those experienced in deciphering subtexts in official documents really understood at that time that federation was the real goal not merely the establishment of a free trade area.
I made a note of the minijack thing.

Are there any wireless music protocols that allows for delay-less playing of audio? My bluetooth speaker has about half a second, maybe one second delay. Airplay has a delay as well. I don't know about the new airpots though.

I think Apple might see their notebooks and iPads as devices people will watch movies on somewhat seriously, and therefore will need a delay-less way of listening.
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