skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were better than Smalltalk, not in terms of the language, but in terms of availability to developers. C++ and Java were free, Smalltalk during the time it could have risen, had no free implementations and cost a fortune to use. It's still a better language than either of those, but lost network effects gained by Java by being free.
Swiftype launches Enterprise Search for modern businesses
"Well the beauty of one-liners is that they're quick and dirty. They don't need to be portable, you don't usually maintain a one-liner for years."

Given that description, I'd agree. Now I understand the crux of the problem, problem solved using disposable code in terse language or script.
As long as you're regularly making decent money, 1040-ES is a requirement every quarter and could/might/will be penalized if skipped with a fee the next year after filing taxes.

Roth IRAs are my preferred way to save for retirement.
For anyone interested in the intricacies of fine wine trading I would suggest the documentary "Red Obsession". It interviews a lot of Bordeaux producers and shows how the economic explosion of China led prices to skyrocket.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2419284/

BTW, one thing that always troubles me. What if you start collecting wines but you lack the infrastructure for storing them? Can you rent storage at a cellar? If someone could build a subscription service for that I'd certainly pay for it.
Zenefits is laying off 45% of its workforce
1. Usually debts are paid off first, then preferred shareholders get their money back, before regular shareholders get a chance to sell. I got a 1099 for $0.00 one year thanks to this!

2. When new shares are issued, usually preferred shareholders get shares for free to maintain their percentage in the company. Other existing shareholders do not, of course.
Galaxy S7 asks you too. I remember now that you said it.
Ideas are utterly worthless. Execution is everything.

I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) I've ever had away for free. Because I know if someone is better at implementing it than I am, they are the ones who provided the world value. Not me for dreaming it up and then doing nothing about it - there are millions of me's, and ideas without execution are not interesting.
Invest some of it, save some of it, and then buy something nice for yourself.
I appreciate your trying to help, and I don't mean that in any kind of a condescending or patronizing way. I shouldn't have been so quick to disregard what you're saying. And it's certainly true that variations of "binary thinking" are a hallmark of depression - although I guess what you're describing isn't quite binary thinking even if I think it comes from the same place, an absolute certainty of negative aspects of something and bottomless doubt of anything positive, or anything else at all about it. I'm glad you found CBT helpful to you and I wish you luck and happiness in your future.
All independent and freelance workers are required to pay 1040-ES every quarter and could/might/will face penalties if they don't make payments in a timely manner or underpay. Estimated payments are a way to balance out the taxes you owe to the government.
The progressive loading of these pages (at least in Firefox) looks really neat. It's as if the page is being drawn as I scroll.

Anyway, love this. :]
Thanks for signing up! You've raised more questions than I can answer but it gives things to think about.

I've thought about the milestone system (it was the first thing that came to my mind) but do consensus based software have unchanging requirements? More importantly how is consensus reached? I think that for smaller scope like libraries or plug-ins it makes sense where there is one clear purpose. ex) write a scraper plugin that returns data.

Community driven requests would most likely be function or feature requests. It's exactly how you've described where you can put up a bounty for specific features where a developer will come along and implement it. If it's not worth their time (amount of work is far more than the money raised) than a few things could happen:

- another developer could do it for the purpose of building a portfolio or gathering resumes etc.

- the requester/backer can advertise it to his peers or companies, if it gets enough backing it would entice more developers to work on it.

Finally, the Patreon model where a lone dev or a team will work on maintaining an open source project on an ongoing basis.

It gets me super excited just thinking about the possibilities but I'm grossly overlooking the pitfalls and challenges of bringing people together in the first place.

I'm going to do some brainstorming and maybe lay it out in a blog post this weekend.
I've never had such issues with postgres personally. I know mysql is awful for schema migrations.
I have nothing but respect for your willingness to take these hits but it's not just about you.

This post is now fodder that can be used against me the next time I advocate for remote work at a company.

Edit: it took 10 minutes for two people to pipe up on Twitter, one specifically suggesting remote work made the ops failure more likely:

https://twitter.com/paul_snively/status/829850449247297536
Trust but verify.

Microsoft has changed over the years and is not the same company in 1997. It used to hate FOSS projects and now they contribute to them. MSFT used to hate Linux and now they embrace it adding Ubuntu support to Windows 10.

Sure never forget, but if you see changes for the better, learn how to forgive. If they go back to the way they were in 1997, just speak up about it.

Microsoft adapted to tablets with Surface and they seem to do well for artists using pressure sensitive pens.
> types are not enforced well in SQL

I'm not sure what you mean. Sane RDBMS do enforce types strictly.

> language integrations, thus we end up with the quagmire of static schemas that can not be reliably type checked when you use standard tooling

Languages that don't have static types to begin with maybe.
> tables withh heterogenous schemas that is supported by page/row-level cersioning

Can you give an example of what you mean?

> on line schema alteration.

> Having to rewrite a huge table only because you want to narrow a couple field for future data, it gets old quickly.

Postgres doesn't need to lock the whole table for many types of alterations. It won't rewrite the table for null default fields.
Because it's radiating the heat out into space, you need to consider the entropy of the complete Earth-Space system, which is actually increasing.
Sharing your password most likely violates the TOS and could subject you to felony prosecution under the CFAA.
> The problem with standard'ish SQL+RDBMS and their schemas is that types are not enforced well in SQL and most libraries and language integrations, thus we end up with the quagmire of static schemas that can not be reliably type checked when you use standard tooling.

This used to be an issue with MySQL (and not really any other major RDBMS implementation), but with STRICT_MODE and the default settings on other implementations, SQL is fantastic at representing and enforcing static types. Furthermore, ORMs and tools like Apache Spark have really upped the integration between types in the database and types in languages. Practically speaking, RDBMS is really the only way you can have sane static typing in most applications (esp. ones that are built on dynamic languages).

> Also lacking in many DB systems is integrated support for tables withh heterogenous schemas that is supported by page/row-level cersioning and/or on line schema alteration. Having to rewrite a huge table only because you want to narrow a couple field for future data, it gets old quickly.

This is just not true. All of the major commercial RDBMS systems support both online schema alteration AND flexible/semi-structured types (JSON, XML). Again, MySQL and Postgres are behind the curve on this (although they both now support JSON). Commercial systems like SQL Server, Oracle, and MemSQL all have both.
That might be possible, but I still have a spark of hope that what Trump did - basically "burning" the idea of a muslim ban by having it rejected by the courts - is just him trying to get rid of a campaign promise that cannot be fulfilled without violating the constitution. He now can simply claim "I did all I could, the nasty courts stopped me though" when someone tries to hold him accountable.

Same for that wall idea. Mexico won't pay a dime for it, and it's going to cost a boatload of money that has to be allocated by Congress first. So, the wall won't be built as there's no money, and Trump can claim "nasty Congress stopped me".
most time I only care about the bill..
That's what banks do. They compute the net flow, and each day, there's a settlement payment between the banks if there's a significant difference.
I'm surprised no one's yet answered the obvious and common "they can't afford to."
Ask HN: What API Is Siri Using to Pull Cricket Scores
The macOS Sierra 10.12.4 update

• Siri support for checking Cricket scores, schedules, and player rosters from the Indian Premier
League and International Cricket Council
there is so called drug rehabilitation center, not prison.
The Internet and Your Brain Are More Alike Than You Think
A "reverse pool blanket" made of this material would be great for places where swimming pools get unusably hot in summer.
Literally 80% of my friends now live with their parents. It's not really down upon like it used to be. People enjoy living at home and actually brag about how nice (and cheap) it is.
My dad is a meth addict who lives with his mother and my mother is an alcoholic who works at a grocery store. Not everyone has that opportunity.
And yet their database gets blown away, and now their redis is acting up. Go Gitlab.
When I was young (1980s) it was normal for parents to provide the downpayment for the kids' first home.

BTW, cars are an enormous cash sink. I saved a ton by buying beaters and doing most repairs myself. I still drive a beater :-) and fix it myself and it's amazing how little it costs.

I've had my current beater for 25 years now, and it still starts as soon as I turn the key. It's a fairly simple car, and easy to fix.

Being a beater also means I don't carry comprehensive insurance. Adding up those premiums saved over the years would probably buy a purty nice new car.
Not just POTUS. You'd also need Congressmen/women, non-profits, journalists, etc.
looking zine (lol)
Invest it in something other than a YC startup.
Falcor is a very interesting approach, and as others have mentioned GraphQL is very similar. I can't go into any details, but we have been using Falcor on my team as the basis for our own work. We are gradually moving away from it though as it has become clear it is great for Netflix's use-case but less so for a more generalised solution. Particularly when you throw in streaming data.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the open sourced version of Falcor also isn't the version used internally. This is certainly true of their Prana (a sidecar used to allow a node app to talk to the rest of the Netflix stack). And the repo has had a massive slowdown and basically ground to a halt in the past year - https://github.com/Netflix/falcor/graphs/contributors.

So saying that, I'd have reservations about recommending it for other developers to use. The concepts are great, but GraphQL is more widely supported and discussed. Also the Falcor docs could use some serious work for clarity.

Though I also believe there are better ways to declaratively describe your data requirements against a graph than either Falcor or GraphQL.
Dude, it's an os, a container, a thing you write and run apps in. You want it to select a hosting plan for you and help you if you forget the password to the box it runs on?

Look, if you're a hacker, and you've got some time to kill, just download it and run it and spend an evening with the "Getting started" doc and writing a little bit of hoon. You'll figure out what it is and what it might be a lot faster than by asking questions on a forum. And if you're not, ignore it, it is nowhere near being useful for end users yet.
Especially if they help your sibling and not you...
It was my goal before I even finished college to be as independant from my parents as I could be. Most of that came from a need/desire to not give them anything they could hold over me (preemptively). The rest from hating the idea of living subsidised and being dependant and a drain on them. That said I know I am extremely fortunate to be able to lean on them if it came down to that and I hate that many people don't have that safety net there. I understand some may abuse it but I've not been great managing my money in the past and it's caused extreme stress for me but I can't imagine how much worse it would have been if I didn't have my parents to turn to if things got really bad (thankfully they didn't).
Elixir deployment on AWS
Yes and no. Say I'm a billionaire (I wish). I've got all this money. It's not going into food and rent. (OK, a tiny amount is going into food, but I can only eat three meals a day. And "rent" is more likely buying multi-million-dollar homes.) My money's in investments, maybe some luxuries.

Now we go to BI. Now millions of what used to be my money are going to low-income people. They're spending it on food and rent. No, it's not new money, but it's new to the rent market in whatever city. Will that tend to drive rents up? I think so, yes.
It worked for IBM. It then worked for Amazon. It worked for AT&T GoPhones. It can work for you, too. :)
> I also stopped caring about my total productivity per day for the same reason.

I'm not sure how much it'll be worth, but I stopped worrying about any
productivity of any particular day. Instead, I choose to write tools that
are placed strategically: server config distribution system, data bus, data
storage system, command issuing tool, things like that. I make my colleagues'
lives easier (or so I like to think).

Though I'm in a somewhat privileged position, being a half-sysadmin and
evading the most repeatable and/or customer-facing work.
Donald Trump exhibits every defining factor of being a fascist. He's authoritarian and very pro-military, he's nationalistic, he paints other religions and ethnicities as being evil, he paints other nationalities as being evil, he is protectionist, he's anti-media, he's anti-independent judiciary...
Assuming you're into startups, you should start a company. Read this post - https://blog.kissmetrics.com/built-and-launched-a-saas-compa...

You could actually do this for less than $40k if you had a co-founder. This guy just paid retail price for a developer and designer but if you either knew how to do it or got a co-founder you could do the same thing for less than $5k probably.
It's an interesting balance. I'm the same as you, I received an incredible amount of help to pay for private college. I paid my way through grad school and now make a professional salary in an expensive city, entirely self supporting. I'm moderately proud of living below my means and also living "well".

I'd also be proud to be able to help my theoretical children, so it's easy to see the "other side" of the argument as such.
Invest it in your education
USB WIFI antenna for Linux recommendations?
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to have a reliable USB WIFI antenna in my bag for times when I'm installing Linux on a new laptop, or for when I'm out somewhere and can't get a good signal. A balance of speed, distance and future-proof Linux compatibility would be ideal. What do you recommend?
Your first point of contention is invalid, because there ARE two distinct and DIFFERENT interpretations of what "dark stuff" is really telling us:

Either 1) there are genuinely a whole class of particles that remain completely invisible to us except for their influence on the entire universe mass/energy balance, and yet still fit the current model of SR/GR

--OR-- 2) the current model of space-time (GR/SR) is fundamentally broken (as if relativity, and even spacetime is 'emergent', from something more fundamental), and there is genuinely NO SUCH THING as dark energy or dark matter.

All leading physicists agree those are the two scenarios that are very likely. You may be familiar with Einstein's "Cosmological Constant" which he called his greatest blunder. It's along those lines of reasoning that I go for door #2 above.
I'm pretty excited for the new Tuples features in C# 7.
HMRC went after just free tea and coffee at British telecom back in the .
My house is actually about 50 meters to the right of that river. So I guess I'm from the Balkans.
It is good for customers to enhance the competitive of small companies.
To be honest, I'm not sure which of those two options is preferable.
Don't CPUs not usually play friendly with water?
49% of NYTimes site traffic comes from China. Two months ago it was 5%.
Old article from 2003:

http://www.bus.umich.edu/KresgePublic/Journals/Gartner/resea...

I wonder how many of these are/were TLS version or extension intolerant.
Not OP but same situation. Two reasons:

1. Parents can't afford to help (although that doesn't stop them offering).

2. I don't feel good about it. It's my choice to live in an expensive city - there is no reason at all I can't live somewhere less expensive - so I should be able to do it on my own. This is partly a pride thing but also I just wouldn't feel good taking money from family so that I have the budget to enjoy myself and socialise more. The people I know who have their parents help with rent either have decent paying jobs and want to have a really nice lifestyle (i.e. they really don't need that money) or are students who refuse to get a part time job (no excuse for that particularly when you're on your first or second masters).
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as an insensitive employer (I was an underpaid dev before so I know the frustration) but I really can't afford a full time US/UK/AUS developer who makes 2~3 times my current revenues.

I'm willing to pay top dollars if I could but right now I need to make my bootstrapped stuff stretch with every dollar. Once you take the helm of a business, it's painfully clear how expensive hiring people is.

I'm trying to build something like Patreon for open source developers where you get paid to work on open source projects the community requests.

I am actively trying to help people get paid, there's not much money that goes into my pocket, I'm doing this because I believe that 1) Open source is going to eat commercial software 2) Developers should be able to easily find side income or full time income without having to drive their wages to the floor on freelancer websites.

I've hired people from Ukraine, Romania before and they were every bit as good if not better in some aspects. The cost of living there is different and the USD goes a long way in many parts of the world.

I also think it's great to give people meaningful work all over the world, especially in places where they are rare due to structural economic issues.
Agree 100%. So many people make lip service to SCALE at my company, but out of 20+ teams we are the only team running real scale tests against real defined limits with real (obfuscated) customer data.
Containers don't haver separate kernels.
SMS isn't archaic any more than writing is archaic. They're both not brand new, and they're both widely used today.

VHS is archaic.
I think many or even most appreciate your stance on this. Please don't get discouraged by the vocal but petty minority!
The 140-character limit was INITIALLY because of SMS, but now it's just the standard format for the medium. The whole point of Twitter is the 140-char limit.
Supporting streaming in such a system is tricky. I think David Nolen in Om.Next wants to explicitly support it. He mentioned it in some talks, but I cant find much about it.

> Though I also believe there are better ways to declaratively describe your data requirements against a graph than either Falcor or GraphQL.

Om.Next used Datomic Pull Syntax, it seems really powerful. Im not sure how it compares to Falcor or GraphQL.
Every dollar earned by advertising prescription drugs to the general population is a dollar that shouldn't have been earned in the first place.

See the Opioid epidemic that is still taking lives in the US for more than 20 years. Imagine what an economic benefit it would be for the populace if all those average middle-class Jane and John Does wouldn't have had their life shattered by addiction and instead would be holding down a steady job paying taxes.

Or imagine how much cheaper it would be if the US' reckless abuse of antibiotics in both humans and livestock wouldn't cause such a rise of multi-resistant strains of diseases.
Microsoft to release Visual Studio 2017 on March 7
Quality Engineer
To keep it polite and short, that's really not how the world works anymore. These days your (at least financial) success in life is very much correlated with the wealth of your parents. If you're from Sweden (as your username would indicate) you can take Stockholm as an example. My non-independent friend (and their parents) there are millionaires from housing appreciation and savings, while my independent friends are are spending all their salaries on renting short lease 3x normal rent sublets.
I think this is the jargon-y-est comment I've ever read.
>Conservatives of the flavor you are talking about consider trans-women to be men.

This point is not lost on me. I noted it in several of the posts that you're replying to.

>They don't need to differentiate

To enforce the rule, they need to differentiate between transwomen and cis women, since they do not consider the former to be women, and think that cis women, but not transwomen, should be allowed to use the women's restroom. You acknowledge this yourself in other parts of your post.

>In practice, if they wanted to enforce their rule, they could just require ID to use a toilet and require that the ID specify gender at birth (as verified by birth certificate). The current state of the person's genitals does not have to play into it.

This is a weird and pedantic objection. You're saying that they care about whether or not the person in question was born with a penis rather than whether or not they currently have one. Ok, but so what? Then you have to ask everyone who goes to the women's bathroom whether they were born with a penis.
In larger organizations it is very easy to not have any idea what version is currently deployed. I worked for a company that cut SaaS releases every two weeks, but for various reasons the deployed version might be 1-4 months behind current repo HEAD in engineering. It got even more cumbersome deploying different versions for US vs EU and GOV environments.

It's definitely not ideal, but I'd bet it happens more often than we'd like to admit as professionals.

Another thought - at that same company there were I think 5 or 6 different maintained enterprise mobile apps. Jumping between repos and dealing with the various app stores/approval processes it was easy to get lost regarding what was in production.
Why would they be ashamed? If you have a family with sufficient means and close enough ties that they're willing to help you and make your life a bit easier and less risky, why wouldn't you embrace that?
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