skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had the same experience with Vagrant. Vagrant is a very general tool that makes it easy to do some fairly complex things, but that generality adds significant overhead. I counted THREE different SSH connection systems in Vagrant the last time I was trying to optimize it.

We eventually wrote our own tool that duplicates the smallest possible Vagrant featureset.

We use SSH for control, Unison for real-time file syncing, and Chef for "provisioning" configuration of the remote developer environment. Our tool requires only SSH access to some host -- so we provision an EC2 instance for every engineer, and then connect it to our tool; but we could use local Docker or even a Vagrant-managed VM. We reimplemented Chef Solo provisioning, with 100% backwards compatibility with our existing Vagrant Chef recipes, which was really easy! We leverage SSH's ControlMaster for persistent connections.

Our tool does the same things that we were using Vagrant for, but takes 1/3 of the time for typical tasks. Where Vagrant would take ~6 minutes to provision a host, our tool takes ~2 minutes using the exact same Chef recipes. We managed to shave a full 30 seconds of mystery time off between when `vagrant provision` would start, and when Chef would begin it's run.

I encourage you to think about cloud developer environments in general. We got big wins in dev productivity by moving our devenvs off engineer laptops.
What IT Managers Should Know about Quantum Computing
That doesn't seem likely. The most common failure points for iPhones are cracked screens, worn out batteries and broken home buttons, all of which Apple can repair. If it's something stronger like water damage, the electronics can't be relied on to be reused.
Competition will not resolve the issue of taxes being passed on, because all properties will have an increased tax burden.

The smallest tax/rent increase will go to those using the land relatively optimally (to be decided by tax surveyors).
Where an Uber autonomous vehicle went the wrong way up a 1-way street?
Doesn't this whole argument hinge on the notion that children don't have a right to life/medical care outside of the context of the agency of their parents?

If they do, doesn't it follow that parents denying appropriate medical care to their children (on whatever grounds) is tortiously negligent and therefore ought to be prosecuted?

"We can surely educate others without inflicting even more damage on those poor, grieving parents."

On the contrary, I think we should make an example of people like this. The penalty for doing something like this really ought to be high enough to dis-incentivize people from carrying out these kinds of actions based on their idiotic beliefs.
I see Python fan following everywhere when there is a discussion on languages!! Someone is always there to defend :P
Just so people don't get confused. Hashicorp is the company behind Vagrant, but they are not affiliated with Docker.
BBVA? I have been trying to get in touch with them regarding an app of theirs (Access Key Extranet by BBVA Bancomer, S.A.
https://appsto.re/us/4QEKfb.i) which does not properly validate TLS certificates.
I think housing crisis (what/where is that anyway?) could be solved if there was a way to own space vertically. So that someone could build over or under existing buildings.
> It's going to take 30 to convert the transport network.

I think the tech is amazing from a software standpoint, but the amount of resources being dumped into self-driving cars could be better spent fixing our broken (non-existent) mass transit system in America first. I wrote a post on this a few months ago:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
Thank you, I have posted an update to address this, including credit to you.
This is exactly the same system of ownership as now, and a type of tax that already exists in many countries, but at a higher rate. I'm not sure why this is so horrifying.

I'm also not sure what makes it so hard for people to see the obvious fact that landlording is morally unjustifiable. Ideology is a hell of a drug I guess.
All true in isolation but...

1. Sometimes "why" can lead to analysis paralysis and procrastination. Sometimes "how" is better -- as in how do we best move on to a solution?

2. It depends on how the "why" is asked. If the asker is confrontational and implies the burden of proof is on the receiver, then the defensiveness might be warranted. In other words, sometimes people ask "why" because they are being contrarian dicks with axes to grind.

3. Sometimes you need time to think it through but the "why" asker expects your answer immediately and if you don't have one yet, uses this line of reasoning to conclude you must not have a good answer at all. It can be hard to have presence of mind in a situation like this and realize this fallacy is being thrusted upon you. Not a very fair setup.
Why not both? Each has their own set of pros and cons with different values depending on use-case and lifestyles. I have collections of both, and a many books in both formats.

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eg lookups...

Ebooks win for fact lookup, like "alkyl-alkyl bond formation", however I'd go to the internet for that. Lookups that require the appendix are roughly on-par.

Physical books win for plot referencing. Pages provide a physical heuristic for binary search, and current eink tech is much slower than physical page turns. Active displays are OK but I've yet to find a UI for effective binary searching Kindle books.

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Some more pros/cons, comparing physical books against the ebook+ereader combination.

- A physical book can be purchased and immediately read. Ebooks require a devices (cheap but not free).
- Physical books can be sold by their owner. Ebooks are cheaper, but often not by much and they can't be resold.
- Used books can be purchased for dirt cheap. Ebooks are easier to steal, but legal acquisition requires buying new.
- Loss of a book only blocks that one book, and costs as much as the one book. Ebooks cannot be stolen, but ereaders are much more expensive to replace.
- Books can have form-factors tailored to their content. ereaders can zoom and reformat content, but their screen size is fixed.
- Books offer rich calibrated colors. Most ereaders do not.
- Books can be loaned to anyone for as long as desired. Ebooks can be swapped, as long as the book allows loans and both parties use platforms/devices technology that support loans. Sometimes with time constraints.
- Books do not have batteries. Ebooks rely on ereaders with long-lasting but not infinite batteries.
- Books are unconditionally owned. ebooks have fine print and vendor-lock in.
- Books can be privately acquired offline. Ebooks always leave a paper trail.
- Books are physical artifacts that can be passed down. ebooks have some vendor support for "family accounts" and such, but are much harder to pass down (plus open questions around licensing when companies fail).
- Books can withstand serious blunt trauma, including getting thrown out of a 60mph car. Ebook readers cannot.
- Books can be freely copied for personal use. Publishers are hostile to duplicating ebooks for personal use.
- Books are an excellent source of emergency kindling when camping. ereaders are not, although some batteries can be used as fire starters.
But the article's proposal is summed up here:

Income from land is thus completely unearned and thus any
income gained from land ownership should be completely taxed
at 100%.

Taxing income from land, not land itself, based on some formula to determine it's value. This wouldn't cause unutilized land to be used, because it would have no taxes (other than base property taxes), but renting it out, for instance, would net you nothing. And if you can't sell it for a decent amount, or utilize it yourself (which the essay isn't clear, would income from a farm also be taxed?) you might as well leave it empty until the property taxes (if you kept them in this scheme) became overwhelming.
These conclusions were gathered from a self-reported study of what people think are 'restful activities'. I would hardly consider the title an accurate conclusion to make. It is entirely possible that extroverts (or anyone in the survey, for that matter) picked activities that are seen as peaceful or calming by society as a whole.
Thanks for the support! So glad to see supportive people that recognize what is going on here.
The topic and language of the article makes it sound like the author, or the entity who commissioned the article to be written, stands to benefit financially from resold parts or refurbishing. The tone is too strong for something that is not a big deal, except to those who are in the business of profiting from the reuse/resale of hardware components.

Follow the money. "Won't someone think of the environment" is often a smokescreen used by those looking to seek policy changes for their own financial gain. Reading this article does not have me envisioning environmental motivations; I get the vibe of a lobbyist-like group pushing an agenda with their own financial incentive in mind.
Assessments made by estimating the value based on actual sales data from similar properties. But the value of those real sales are made based on the expected profitability of the land.

It may be easier to see in rural areas. As a farmer, the price of farmland in the current climate seems to move to where the net profit on the productive use of that land is expected to be ~2-3% of the land's current value. So, as a rule of thumb, if you can expect to make $20-30,000 per year off 100 acres, then that 100 acres will sell for ~$1M.

If the tax on profits is 100%, the expected income will always be zero. Thus, the land is worth nothing. It doesn't really matter if it is in the heart of a city, or out in the middle of nowhere.
Microsoft's new push into education is the right move – at the right time
I was in a similar position about 8 years ago - developer, net ops, DB administrator, dev ops. I programmed in C,C++,VB6,Perl, Java and did scripting with REXX. We also used both MySQL and SQL Server.

Went to find another job after being at the company for nine years thinking I was a "Jack of All Trades", not realizing that I was also "The Master of None." Except for C but that really didn't matter.

Since making that mistake, I started focusing on a fairly narrow fullstack.
I don't disagree with the authors overall premise, but I disagree that only corporations can own "property". The title is misleading as it refers to intellectual property. Anyone can own intellectual property, but I suppose only corporations have the money to defend it.
Thanks! Would be happy to help – email is in my profile if you're interested.
It gets more condescending than this. For example, nobody treats what we speak here daily as a language at all, and instead shoves what they think we understand down our throat.
This is a fairly good example of the sorts of biases one even finds among scientists: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/37566392...
I rent because I have no specialization in identifying property value, and I don't like gambling. I feel no regret in letting my landlord take on the additional risk of managing the property for a chance at higher returns.
A country specific site isn't the same as a language. Often they're doing business with people from that country. The US site might not be able to trade with somebody in Costa Rica. Different way of accepting money, different laws, etc.

The problem there is that each country's site tends to be only in one language. Ideally they would have every combination of language and country, with language being a choice and country not.
1. They are not, hence your stance is disingenuous. The death of millions would be a statistical blip in geological timescale. By saying "The Earth will be fine," you are saying you don't find millions of deaths and suffering to be important enough to warrant a solution. And then when someone proposes a solution, because you don't like it, you bring out your hypothetical Bangladeshi farmer.

2. If you want to talk about "real human costs" of climate policy, you might want to pick a country that is not built upon a coastal flood plain that is routinely flooded[1]: Bangladesh is going to be among the countries hit hardest by climate change[2].

It makes me suspect that you don't care about human costs at all. On the other hand it did help me writing this rebuttal, so I guess all is well after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Bangladesh

> In 1998, over 75% of the total area of the country was flooded, including half of the capital city Dhaka. ... 30 million people were made homeless and the death toll reached over a thousand.

[2] Same page

> The difference between historical and projected average temperatures each season throughout the world has revealed that harvests from major staple crops could drop by 40 percent by the end of the 21st century due to high temperatures in the growing seasons.
Worth noting, this article points back to an opinion piece on Wired from 2015: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
One day I entered in one of the labs in a previous company and found a few piles of "old" macbooks pro ready to trash. I would say easily around 500'
They seemed quite new to me so I asked if I could get a bunch and reuse parts to make a working one.

They told me I could get all I wanted. So I took 10. I arrived home and all of them were functional after formating and reinstalling. My family and friends got very happy with seminew laptops for free.

I guess is not only about recycling or shredding, is as well about giving a second, third or fourth life to our goods...
And lets be honest. Recycling is a very wasteful process. If we want to be eco friendly we should consume less, thats the only way.
> Economics beats morality.

I can't tell if you're summarizing the problem or actually making a straight-faced assertion.
When you set up a PC does the OS not ask you what language it should be in? I recall being asked a ton of questions by Windows when I first turned my laptop on. I think I went through a similar process installing Ubuntu. Surely the desired language is the first part of any setup procedure.
I'm not trying to suggest that there's something deficient in the approach, just that it makes it harder to answer the sorts of questions I have. I mostly want to know:

1) What does it mean for PX8 (or any other program) to be "PICO-8 compatible" in this context?

2) Does PICO-8 resemble CHIP-8 only in general concept and name, or also in structure?
For anyone interested in the subject, I would recommend they watch "Mr Plinket's review" of each prequel (by RedLetterMedia on Youtube). The humour is, shall we say, an acquired taste, but it is considered by many to be the definitive take on the matter.
If you don't have time for the whole thing (from memory each review is over an hour long) just watch the first 15 minutes of the Phantom Menace review: proper film critique at its best.
Try $71,000 for the absolute minimum: http://minimhomes.com/buy-the-minim-home/
You need around 7-8 hrs of sleeping to focus and proper brain functions. Only 3-4% of world people can survive and work perfectly with 4-5 hrs of sleep.
Silver Market Manipulation
Code for the Shunting Yard Algorithm, and More
Look, we get it, you bought an Android and you want to use iMessage and FaceTime.

That would be stupid, Apple doesn't make money from users data, Apple doesn't listen to conversations like Google does to sell ads.

So why would they support servers (and there are a lot more of android users than iOS users) for people that didn't bought anything from them? For people that bought Androids to like them? They don't need that.

It has nothing to do with open source, the open source community doesn't need this and Apple couldn't care less about the GNU types after GPLv3 incompatibilizes with their business (while Android OEMs break the license every single day, but the community turns a blind eye, because it's Google)

Also, they would lose a few of their product sales and lots of 30% shares on sticker packs and other Apps for iMessage they sell.
I don't want to maintain a home or a yard, presently. Renting out apartments is perfectly moral and ethical when there are people like me around (that is, I have a choice and have chosen to rent over own). The risk is more of the "slum lord" sort, taking advantage of people without the choice due to whatever circumstances. It's a risk of immoral or unethical behavior, but it's not guaranteed. My landlords (the company and their local staff) are quick to do repairs, have reasonable rates for rent, and have done a good job in maintaining the building (vermin free, which is a feat for an old warehouse). They guarantee protection of the commons (the building's infrastructure, safety, etc.) that would be nearly impossible to coordinate amongst the 80 or so units (about 120-150 people).
You can try Happy Hacking Linux with a custom post-install.sh; http://kodfabrik.com/happy-hacking-linux

It'll get you a very productive and fast Linux setup based on Arch Linux and Xmonad, letting you automate the setup process by auto-linking your dotfiles and running post-install.sh if exists. This way you can spin up development environments really fast. For example, I turned an old desktop computer to a ready-to-use development machine in 30 minutes :)
We've moved to an automated build system of using Packer to make pre-configured boxes for vagrant actually. It works well, and a lot faster than running the provisioners on a blank box.
Do a GPL request on Deere ;)
It depends on what they're curious about. An incurious person who only learns new stuff when it's forced on them will eventually lose relevance. Their knowledge base is literally defined in terms of their environment and the forces that it exerts on them. They are like coastal rock formations shaped over the years by the tides- they don't shape themselves, they are shaped.

A more curious older engineer with a wider skillset and knowledge of current technologies is going to have an easier time getting a job than one with a very specific and perhaps less current skillset.

I mean, it's not a guarantee, there are lots of other factors that contribute to one's employability (interpersonal skills, for example). But it just seems obvious that someone with more skills (and more current skills) is going to be more employable than someone with fewer skills, and perhaps less up-to-date skills.
Good.

GPLv3 software can't be on Apple products, yet every Chromebook ships with it, because Saint Google.
It's being moved. Drawing down groundwater on a massive scale can have massive and permanent environmental effects. The fact that it still exists somewhere is immaterial.
Because reselling old electronics involves finding buyers, which is not a zero-effort endeavor. Or maybe you're a company that is replacing a fleet of devices with upgraded models, and it will literally cost you more money in paid staff time to sell it than it will to just hand it off to a recycler.

Gazelle makes that real easy.

As far as used cars, some of the major metro areas require you to get an emissions test to renew your tag. If the check engine light comes on or the OBD signals certain errors you can't renew.
Here's what really happened. I talked with my doctors and realized that I only have so much time left to live. Writing this article was of the items about putting my affairs in order. So short term this was a good decision.

Otherwise, in court I'll be happy to defend myself. If it is necessary to spend time to defend yourself then that is a blessing. I have successfully sued the government (the US Army and Veterans affairs, no less) http://www.gao.gov/docket/B-413723.2 when they do things wrong. Just be persistent and be right. Then we came out with a nice settlement. Sorry GAO used to publish fulltext docket outcomes but I don't see it here.

Fuck Nissan. (Can we curse here on HN?) Because their cars suck and because of this case that I am well aware of. The sad thing is that Mr. Nissan spent so much money in defense. I should hope that he would be able to be more effective with less money.
Ask HN: Should you carefully choose the first company you work at?
I'm from a place where a lot of attention is paid to the first company you worked at. If at all that company is among one of the best, it becomes easier to get into other good companies irrespective of the quality of the work done in that company. For example, looking at stats from paysa.com, one can readily identify that a good percentage of people that are newly hired by a company come from a specific set of other companies. I think this to be true only for the case of the Big 5. What is your take on this?
I've gotten more than one job over the years by doing exactly that. Most people are happy to talk about what they're doing, and meeting someone who appreciates and is interested in it, so much the better!
Just look at VS 2017. A rushed IDE that has all sorts of weird quirks and bugs, non-backwards compatible with VS15 extensions, and now you have to actually create a MS 'insider' account and go through some broken web pages to get the VS15 download. Microsoft is abandoning their software just as fast as JS does now. For something that is built for actual desktops and servers that will run for years and most likely does not have a maintenance team, I think thats dangerous.

Now we take in .net core, which has changing standards and incompatible build files between various versions it has released. To even get .net core V2 you've gotta go to their github releases and grab a beta build. By having VS15 and VS17 with .netcore 2, my toolchain broke and couldn't even compile any modern .net core projects, requiring full wipe of VS. Combine that with working on projects that could be written for .net framework, .net standard, or mono, and you've got one big ball of mud that nobody wants to touch. Maybe in 5 years if things standardize and multi-platformability becomes a real goal of MS, but right now, its easier and more stable to make multi-platform applications with electron than C#. Or just C++ and QT, or really any other language that doesn't have 4 different runtime versions.
Interesting idea. Thank you for sharing. Is the goal just anonymity? Technically we already have solutions for anonymous disclosure of documents. Are there other benefits?
I think the point was that Uber's self-driving effort is located in Pittsburgh, so when the parent says

> Maybe these Sili Valley types should stop fighting over fair-weather car control stuff, and spend the same money setting up development shops somewhere besides endless-summer California.

that's exactly what Uber's done.
Why does Apple continue to publish Darwin code then? I have always been curious.
Editors cost money.
I thought I'd open the article and see war as the answer. After all, if we just killed everyone looking for a place to live, then there'd no longer be a problem. It seems to be equally ethical.
That's not at all why I posted this or where I was going. I do happen to have an Android, but don't use apps other than a web browser and whatever the SMS app is. I have no desire to video chat, or any need for SMS beyond what a Nokia can do.

I am just interested in knowing more about why Apple has the reputation it does around open source. The thread has delivered on that. Also delivered on the idea that apple fans are oddly defensive. Honestly not trolling, but the reaction seems as if I did succeed in that somehow.
What makes you think that about Julia?
Yes, this is why I don't use LastPass. As soon as I saw this I realized they must be a joke.
Absolutely, renting is a lot more convenient in many ways. Most people only buy for investment/financial stability reasons. Once you remove the land speculation incentives, I think you'd find that more people would rent.
Some time back, I saw an Ask HN post by someone who wanted to know how to become an evangelist for a language or a framework. I wonder if that's something that motivates comments in forums such as this.
The European Commission Funding Up to 50% for Independent Video Game Projects
This is not spite, please see full reply to parent.