skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here actually, except a bit later if I'm not waking up to an alarm, I will drift towards waking up at 1-2pm and don't have as much trouble getting to sleep. Even then I can easily make myself stay up later than usual, and would take advantage of that fact to "flip" my schedule when needed over the course of a week by just going to bed "later" and getting up "later" every day until it was early instead of late. Good enough for making it to some important early as hell meeting or flight or whatever, but my schedule would quickly fall forward back to my normal preferred time.

Unfortunately for me, just 30 minutes or pre sleep routine isn't really enough, any time I allow myself to encroach on that 2 hour wind down period too much, I have a much harder time falling asleep. Things like chamomile tea and melatonin do help with falling asleep, but not with staying asleep, if I use them to fall asleep early I'll just wake back up 20 minutes later. Ambien works wonders but I try to only use it when I'm really desperate, a few times a year.
To add on the simplification, throw technology at the problem.

Research cloud services, compare prices, at the "cheap level", you can swap Digital Ocean for Vultr, OVH or even others (http://www.hostingadvice.com/reviews/vps/)

Throw more technology at it, find a PaaS that can rack docker instances (Flynn is my preferred one) and mount local versions of your expensive cloud services (Redis vs ElastiCache), (MariaDB vs Aurora), (Riak-docker vs S3). Every penny you save in your "infrastructure" setup can be put towards keeping the lights on.

You can run a company that makes $5,000 a month on $20 worth of Digital Ocean droplets (it's sketchy, but it can be done)
Using flags for language isn't really a great pattern. It kind of works if you only support a few languages, but when you support a lot you get into tough issues where many flags relate to a single language and many languages relate to a single flag.

http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-re...
I'd say that if one has 25 (yes, I counted...) essential duties, none of them are essential.
Soylent and Ensure have different ingredients. They are made for different markets, yes.. But their price is similar.

I think you should either rename your effect or rethink its meaning.
> At some point

And instead of letting the market decide when a laptop is bound for replacement, let's force people to destroy it. Of course! Makes perfect sense! Apple is doing this because newer laptops are more energy efficient! How great of Apple! Such environment, so wow!
I think possibly the point of confusion is that very early versions of MacOS X (the original MacOS X server, and some of the MacOS X DPs, anyway) used UFS by default, not HFS+. UFS is case sensitive.
While Pico-8 itself isn't open, the creator has been pretty accepting of emulators for running the game.

I'm pretty interested in open source as a whole, but having pico-8 be a steady stream of revenue has let zep concentrate on it/voxatron, and help do things like maintain the BBS or run the monthly picotachi[0] events to help the community.

Though I wonder if there's more success in a patreon-style model...

[0]: http://www.picopicocafe.com/?id=picotachi-en
It's a similar story with Windows, due to continuous backwards compatibility as demonstrated in videos such as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ
It's probably far, far worse than that. How do you count things like when someone suggests using a database/structure/system that is very poorly suited and spends 3 months or more before giving up versus someone that can figure out ahead of time it won't work? Or when someone suggests an approach that is error prone and continually introduces faults, yet had a slightly lower startup time? Or when a system is designed and needs 20x the hardware? Or requires literally 1000x the processing?

While in some very constrained, straightforward coding challenges it might be hard to find orders of magnitude improvement, a lot of designing software has a huge range of solutions. It might be the case that a single org doesn't get to compare.
"Millions of years" is an eyeblink in the history of the earth. In fact, the CO2 level has been much higher than this level in the past (like, orders of magnitude higher). The earth was fine.

And no, this isn't the era of the "highest disappearance of species". Not even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
ZX Spectrum Next, the modern version of the Speccy Kickstarter campaign is on
A public indication of the popularity of each project is a great way to winnow down the number of valid options.

They could whip something together just from their server-side analytics so it was more honest rather than a popularity contest.
Maybe they should start making storage removable again.
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Juicero need to sell only the juice packs, that's where their business model is. The machine is probably a loss leader so they can sell the packs. Now we know it's useless, so they should move to selling the packs only.
Yet they said the same about Swift, ResearchKit, etc. Those are successful open source projects. FaceTime is the only recent project they said they would open up and didn't...and that arguably wasn't their fault.
There are costs related to recycling. A lot of energy, water etc. It's not totally free to retransform material. Reusing and repairing depending on age, condition of electronics is much more environment friendly. Use it as long as possible is the optimum (on computers and phones at least).
Sounds horrid, but this is the reality of many poor countries - we literally still have people around the struggling to find enough food to eat. Many of them are from countries with ongoing conflicts/wars, which likely cost more than the the food the people need to be properly nourished.

To clarify - not saying it should be that way, quite the contrary.
Since there are also subsidies for fossil fuels, renewable subsidies are necessary just to bring the market back in line.
Yes - people start optimizing on the metric, and metrics where correlation doesn't imply causation degrade. The other thing I've seen is competitive pressures degrade metrics. If "A customer using us for X is 95% not likely to churn" is true in 2015, competitive pressure will push it to 85% in 2016, and 75% in 2017.
Reusing is more efficient than recycling can ever be.

The resources used to refurb and resell are a tiny fraction of those required to go from raw material (recycled or mined) to a new phone.

As far as data goes, soft tools will stop anyone but the NSA. If you're worried about the NSA you don't toss your phone in a collection box.

Yes, you are missing something.
I appreciate your intent, but to me the concept of google operating as an arbiter of truth is unsettling.
Yeah, it looks like they want a QA automation engineer, a web dev, and an ops person, all rolled into one. Oh, and someone with no personal life, so they can work all those extra hours on "high visibility" projects.
"a VM built as a set of Lua APIs and memory constraints. However, the creator seems to be doing a Java-like push where the language, runtime, standard library, and development tools are all marketed as one "technology", so it's not especially clear to me"

Look beyond the technology and you see a tool that allows you to; play games other people make; let you tinker with; or build your own.
"Additional job-related responsibilities" == We don't want to define this role so we can throw the kitchen sink at you.

(As if this weren't obvious already from the job requirements.)
This just feels irrelevant to me. Ageism is directed towards older individual contributors, not higher level executives whose job is mostly strategy. (And unofficially, providing meaning and perspective to the younger workers)

It even seems to provide proof that being an older IC makes you irrelevant because the success story is not a coder. The lesson is that as you age it's either up or out. You either learn higher level skills or slowly fade into irrelevance as your ideological baggage acts as an achor distancing you from keeping pace with the now constant supply of young grads. (Now that coding is "cool")

At the very very abstract level, companies are divided into people seeking meaning and those that provide it. Upper level executives provide meaning in work for the ICs. For the middle level executives they provide meaning in the "company".

As you age, you're expected to be more wise and knowledgeable. Staying as an IC is a black mark of sorts that you've plateaued at some point. You either need to move into a meaning providing (or meaning enforcing) role, or stay as an IC but provide meaning in the form of technical wisdom. Otherwise, all else being equal, you stand out amongst the younger workforce.

Previous rewarding specialization does not mean future rewarding specialization. The world can shift in a way so that your skills and ideologies and perspectives are useless. The ageism prevalent in silicon valley is that it's unkind to equally skilled low level people with one lerson being older.

If your an older person and your skills are actually in great demand but low suppl(strategy and meaning making)y, the ageism doesn't apply.
This ground is covered in the duplicate Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167935
It's almost as if marketing has a purpose.
I assume because Trump was just making up nonsense, as per normal.

> About 599 million birds are killed annually in the U.S. when they fly into windows, trailing only loss of habitat and cats as the top causes of bird deaths, according to the National Audubon Society. Wind turbines account for about 234,000.
AFAICT it did not start in html/js. it's C or C++ with lua. it exports to all kinds of formats including native executables for windows/Linux/Mac/iOS/android as well as html/js. the js impl uses asm.js
One thing that people don't seem to talk about is that with age, usually comes a broad network of colleagues and people that you know in an industry. Never underestimate the power of a network.

A 50 year old engineer sitting alone in a remote location on the other side of the world is going to find employment and opportunities much harder to come by than a 50 year old engineer who has lived and worked in Silicon Valley for decades. (Ask me how I know... ;-) )

Just the power of a warm referral, or someone in a meeting to say "Oh, I know so-and-so is really great with database security - I worked with him about 10 years ago...We should get him on board for this project..." can work wonders for a career.
To be honest all of this and more (I also do devops and database work) is asked of me at my job. This doesn't seem like to outrageous of a job list to me.
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That is specifically a scientist that got heavily involved in the climate change movement. Not every scientist would agree with those methods.
Coincidentally, these are my favorite resorts to stay in, in Mexico / Cancun. If I can go this year, I want to stay at Secrets in Maroma Beach Riviera.

Maybe I should apply; odds of scoring a free or discounted trip? haha.
Word processing was a huge market even if design was not.
Ah, that is a reasonable suggestion. I would but unfortunately I don't feel technically competent to do so. (I'm more the type of programmer who would rely on MDN rather than write anything on it) It's too bad there's no discussion page like other wikis have. Under the feeback tab in the navbar, there is "report a content problem", but that requires filing a bugzilla. Don't get me wrong, overall I'm quite satisfied with the quality of MDN (it's so much better than w3schools which I was using before), it's just the tone of this particular article.
Assets than can be created ex nihilo which will drive inflation.
People are acting like they're shredding last year's iPhone models. Apple products have great resell value and they're passed on as hand-me-downs often. If something got back to Apple, chances are reusing parts is not plausible. Not much you can harvest from an iPhone 3G other than the raw materials.
Must have 5-7 years experience with a technology that has been out for 4 years.
The market doesn't have a great track record on environmentally friendly best practices.
$28k for a shack with what looks like a wood burning stove?
Unlikely without annoying my other tenants.
Reading the different comments here it seems there are two ways to look at this job listing, is it 'all at once' or 'any of the above'. I read it as they wanted someone who was pretty broad in the web stack and could write clean testable Java code. My guess is that on any given day you might use two or maybe three of their 'essential skills' while you worked through re-plumbing their technology on top of AEM.

By my reading its pretty much the Web developer equivalent of the system administrator job.
I believe it's entirely possible. Remember the feeling you get when you're pairing with someone who's hunt-and-pecking curly braces on their keyboard? Or searching for GUI sub menues for the simplest operations that would be instantly done with a keyboard shortcut?

Or people typing in "google" into google's search box? Or how it feels watching someone copy&paste data in Excel instead of using a simple formula?

That's what's happens on a software architecture level as well.
I've just been informed that in re seagate got over turned last year. Bad news.
where did you get your stats? I agree la has large communities of immigrants but > 50% of LA residents don't speak English in the home? that's certainly not the impression I get there.
Since we are playing with words. Startup idea: the meta-internet to restore humanity to its previous intellectual glory.
Classic HN here that no matter how obscure the topic, we have posts from 3 different people with real world experience.
This one is classic:

"Willingness to contribute extra effort or hours outside business hours for high-visibility projects"

Yep. On top of everything else they want to dump on your shoulders there they also want you to work overtime for free.

Hilarious.
The problem is you never know how people are going to be unless you really know them. I can't afford to take that kind of financial risk on a stranger. The city will fuck me over if anything goes sideways with the tenant.
I doubt that it looks that way as a peon inside the newspaper and/or music industries. It is certainly true that there is more listening to music/movies and more reading of newspaper articles than ever before.

And yet, journalists, musicians, and ... have it much harder nowadays.
Imagine if the first time you opened your browser it had a big grid of flags/languages to choose from. This would be trivial to get users the right Accept-Language. You could even have it do this every time you open the browser if the computer is used by multiple people.
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OP> Copyright terms have been radically extended in this country largely to keep pace with Europe,

Over the decades, I've talked with at least one government-side principal of the negotiation which resulted in the 1976 extension act. They reported knowing the act was bad public policy, but considered themselves engaged in damage control. Because of Disney's political might, and the "crazy" policies being sought. They considered the act a success - as public interest damage control.

I can't speak to the 1998 extension. My now vague impression is "no one" thought it was a good idea, simply an exercise in brute force political power.

So one possibility is the author James Somers is simply being clueless. The closest I can come to an alternative is this: the increased regulatory capture of the last three decades, and the long-term narrative of reconciling with European law, might hypothetically have created some institutional momentum independent of the prime mover's financial interests. I don't see it for 1998, but maybe for the upcoming copyright extension. But this is a stretch. I think he just got suckered - it seems to happen to a lot of journalists doing drive-by reporting on the area.

Sidebar, a life lesson: When people ask you to keep information confidential, ask them for how long - how many years or decades. It becomes a long-term irritant, not being able to garbage collect such restrictions.
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Literally shitting in it?
Some would strongly disagree that these phones don't have use. One great example is this: https://rfcx.org/

These phones are only cheap because the consumer market is giving them away (high supply). That makes them very good for specific applications and given the presense of complex sensors, battery backup, and small form factor you have a very attractive package for potentially important use cases. That's also just setting asside the idea that someone might want to use these pieces. Some third world countries may benifit from a huge influx of cheap technology every year.
That's a good point, but the experience to do them proficiently would be worth a lot and to not have it potentially costly.
I can imagine that quite a few broken phones get recycled even though 90% of the parts are still usable.
Well, regardless, if one of my sheep walks to the end of a 20 foot fence and around it to the other side, then wants to come back when I wave a bucket of grain at it, it stares at me through the fence in utter consternation as to how it can pass by this impossible barrier, then starts pacing back and forth anxiously as though lamenting its misfortune at being caught in such a complex trap.
As wasteful as your idea sounds.. hopefully you have a plan to reuse the raw materials?.. your idea reminded me of this person that invented a sock printer and uses it to ensure new socks for the homeless

https://youtu.be/Kvi-0879Nuw
Also known as Goodhart's Law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?
I've been using Vagrant for about 5-6 years now to automate the setup of development environments. It was a great tool for spinning up environments that were similar to production and easily shared across team resources that jump in and out of projects.

The number of issues we're dealing with daily with Vagrant is rising. The productivity boost it provided is entirely gone and the support is taking a substantial amount of time.

We love Hashicorp and, I don't mean this to be a slight against them, but I'm curious what alternatives people are using to:

- Automate building dev environments (Linux-based) with dependencies etc.
- Ensure that your development environment is similar enough to production to reduce/eliminate potential issues moving to production.

I have done some googling around, but it still appears that Vagrant is the top dog in this space. Willing to accept that it's us and not the tool, but issues with NFS sharing, port collisions, support for Fusion, deprecations with legacy Chef setups and more is just more than we can handle right now.

Bonus points for tools that can be re-purposed for automating deployment as well (Terraform). Parity between development and other environments is important.
I get the point that you don't like this line of inquiry, but "something more risky" isn't "definitely lose your competitive advantage". And, again, it's a question, not an accusation. I'm curious...trying to understand the Apple reputation in the open source area, how much of it was deserved or not.

Certainly, Android is more open than Apple's mobile OS. Google does hold some important bits back. But, still, it is "more risky". Hence the question. I may be missing other areas where Apple was open sourcing things that were more core to them.
When I started getting burned out at work, I made a rule for myself. The general rule is no work outside of work. For me that means I am allowed to write code but it can't be currently work related code. I've been much happier and productive at work since I made that rule.
You're comparing the usage of an entire state to the demands placed on a single aquifer.
John Deere has turned itself into a poster-child for the DMCA
The original web rendering engine code was originally licensed under BSD. Apple could have forked it and closed it.

JavascriptCore was also based on BSD code, but was then rewritten by the WebKit team and made GPL.
Old Apple parts are worth quite a bit. If yours is broken, part-it out. Even a Macbook Air.

I was able to part-out my old Macbook air (with broken battery and power adapter) and put toward the proceeds and ~US$200 toward the latest's model:

Apple just has that tight control over its parts pre- and post- use.
Darwin was originally based on BSD code - there is no requirement to keep BSD code open.
My favorite was the person who happened to be burning a boat for fuel when it was being debated whether a crew could survive a shipwreck for years by using the ship as a fuel source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803552
I take it you never had to figure out how to translate your OS to allow you to google your issue and then figure out how to translate the solution back? Add to this that most computer concepts haven't existed long enough to have one unique clear translation in either language, and you're in for a fun afternoon of interlingual troubleshooting.
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And to be clear, saying "don't use it in production" isn't the same thing as saying it doesn't work at all. Your change is irresponsible, because it doesn't work at all.
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The best analogy I can think of is that .NET has gone chasing after the Node.js development experience. (And, much more speculatively: has at least the potential to keep a lot of the worst from both what it was and what it is trying to become.)

In any case, the current transition has pros and cons, and even these are categorized differently by each dev.

In addition, there are new alternatives that could cater to a particular dev's exact style.
you know what this entire industry needs?

a professional to help you permit and utility-ize this thing as part of the purchase cost or an add-on service. make me feel warm and fuzzy that i can actually execute on this project of buying some land and changing my living situation.

anyone can build or buy a nice little luxury shack. actually living in it on a piece of land legally is the challenging part.
They probably do need some help.

The exposed raw html in their job description is probably a sign that whomever made it was so tired it just looks normal to them. I know the feeling.
DCFS is the main reason not to raise children in cramped conditions?

No. I was never advocating for raising children in cramped conditions. Remember, the person I was arguing with lumped family into "other stuff".

I live in Waterloo. I've seen more than one person on HN argue that you should leave as soon as you get your degree here. I don't want to do that. I think Waterloo has some wonderful neighbourhoods for raising children, complete with top notch public schools within walking distance. The real estate prices here are not nearly as bad as Toronto, let alone SF. Even if you could make 3 times as much working in the Bay Area as you could here; I would assert that it's easier to buy a 3BR house here, have 2 kids, get them both into university and keep them healthy the entire time than it would be in SF.
I agree. However that is not a price issue. Further the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality site specific review said it was okay.

I am genuinely confused why people think this is an issue.