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This reminds of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borislav_Ivanov

Technically never proven a cheater but the evidence is extremely convincing.
I meant orders of magnitude, which most of the replies seem to have completely ignored.
I guess most people dont work in a Sales Job? Or they have such a decent package that they work 9-5 on the dot in office and get home very early?

Because most of my days when I am tired, the last thing i want to do is to open my month.
1. Yes, ads need to go.

2. It doesn't matter much what people want, but what the new reality absent ads will be: there will be enough free content done by people who do it for the fun of it, as is the case now. Highest quality stuff will be available for pay, with some exceptions. Any other content will either disappear or be made free - the potential customers have decided it's not worthwhile enough to pay for it. I do not see any problem with the above, the human race doesn't suffer from a lack of digital content. It's a minor issue, that's on reason why people don't pay for it.

3. No one should have their living depend on creating stuff online, this is a major social failure. We, individual members of society pay our taxes so that everyone has some degree of social support; some of those taxes will be used to help out people in need until they get back on their feet and get a job.

Ad-supported content creator is not a job, it is an accidental revenue stream that will likely disappear.

UBI could be a solution, but that's not what I had in mind: affordable state-supported medical care, financial support for the unemployed, retraining and trainings paid by the unemployment office. This is reality right now in some European countries and it could be possible in the US.
Ask HN: Is there anyway to measure the latency of Google cloud load balancer?
We are trying to measure the latency of a web request. From : user -> load balancer -> Instance Group.
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> But, for me, the big advantage of Spotify is I don't always need to think about what I want to listen to

I haven't tried Apple Music but I do listen to Spotify. What is highly dislike is that it's so terrible about suggesting or playing songs. I don't think it's good at all. Further, the shuffle doesn't seem to shuffle well enough (often seems to play in a similar order).

I'm terrible at knowing artists, song names, etc. I've noticed people liking Spotify often know the names or various artists plus create their own playlists. I think it's all terrible.

Same for e.g. listening to songs. I might be in the mood for some salsa songs. Spotify will have me listen to Salsa songs for hours on end. It should be way smarter. Some slow songs, then some quicker.. but not too sudden, etc.

I don't want to pay for Spotify because of this. It's terrible in song selection IMO.
what about authentication ?
So there is no time, we just live in a constant moment which changes according to our measurements. A "Groundhog day" with different mornings.
So, let me get this straight this is a scam because there was $214k in volume at the price of $0.17 and developer created tons of coins for himself? Couple of things which comes to mind:

First, how do we know it wasn't simply rounds of wash trading which led to this? Dev(s) selling coins to himself or friends and family to bump up the price and volume? Because it seems people get stuck up on data like market cap, volume etc in crypto which can be faked easily.

Second, the only exchange it is trading on is CoinExchange. What role, if any, do exchanges play in running these scams? Because it is harder to pull of volume and price markup without having a reference price feed.
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Maybe because your native language has roots in Latin? I know Spanish and Portuguese, and reading Latin gives me a familiar feeling.
Since 1996 I've been doing frontend work. First it was HTML with table layout, all the way up to modern js frameworks (although I prefer laravel). I've recently taken on doing a lot of backend work for the first time, and it finally clicked for me why people have had a hard time with CSS. It's a totally different mode of thinking.
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Further exacerbating that effect: for any particular silo or specific language any one programmer deals with there is already one or more dedicated language specific news hubs.

Those articles aren't just competing for attention here in a broader sense, HN is also competing for that kind of attention against core community sites.
This happened in the UK, where the government provides you with unemployment benefits and being homeless is basically impossible if you are of sound mind.

The man chose to go to work while sick instead of going to the doctor. Let’s not displace the blame for the man’s own choices.
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I agree about the software crisis, I guess I think the solution will come from a tool set that is not yet (widely) known.
What is with the whole "crypto for the masses" thing in the title? There is no such thing on the economist page.
In a similar vain, check out Open Red Alert: http://www.openra.net/ At my previous job we used to play it every Friday, excellent remake of a great game.
I think the products were better, at least in the era 2000-2010.

These days everything is bloated, slow to react, full of features that no one needs, spying on the user (product) etc.

Google peaked around 2004, Windows around 2008 (or earlier).
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It's in red just above where it says "Telegram's ICO..."
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I understand that there are two things: first, it's not just fat – it's fat plus nappies plus wipes plus sanitary goods. Second, the combination of the fat with metallic salts in the water causes saponification, so you end up with some kind of calcium-magnesium soap mixed in with it.
Facebook's value is in the 2.2bn figure - its value to advertisers is in its identity graph. To displace FB as FB did MySpace, you need some way of replicating that.

The value of that identity graph to advertisers (which is how you keep the lights on) works in exponents - if you have 10% of Facebook's graph, you don't have something that is 10% as useful, you have something that is 1% as useful.

You can get some of the way by unbundling FB's core feature set and innovating on a particular feature, but your upper limit for that is probably a product that is used by hundreds of millions of people, not a Facebook killer.

Slack's moat is that it is socially unacceptable to use Facebook at work, which is a nice one to have but sets up an entirely new set of challenges trying to get people to adopt it outside. Discord, similarly is almost entirely limited to gaming. Number of PC Gamers worldwide total tops out at about 800m.

WeChat is a special case: Owned by Tencent, operates in a market that Facebook is completely locked out of, and operating on a completely different set of cultural assumptions.
Could some of the perception be because of time of day when reading HN? I feel there is some different content when I'm awake (EU), compared to next morning when US has been awake and voted on stuff.
So you're going to ignore the United States, Hong Kong, Australia, etc?
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I'm assuming you're in the USA but geography is relevant to this question. For example, here in Ireland, older cars can be considerably more expensive to tax and insure. I'm trying to sell a 15 year old VW Golf at the moment which costs €700 per year in road tax. The same car with a post 2008 number plate would cost less than half that
London's water supply is pretty heavily chlorinated. Wouldn't that surpress bacterial activity?
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Just a quick googling for private plane bishops http://dustoffthebible.com/Blog-archive/2015/10/28/15-religi... - not Catholic, but still..
Sometimes this worries me. Am I waking up in the same reality/dream that I slept in last night? It looks like everything is dependent on how you measure it.
"I don't want to pay for Spotify because of this. It's terrible in song selection IMO"

I'm the opposite. I know their song suggestion can leave something to be desired, as it is obviously based on your recent listening instead of suggesting from your entire playlist suggestion. But then again, that also gives me ways to tweak it by simply sampling a variety of music during the week - which I do when I'm searching for new songs. I rarely know band/song names, and can still find music.

Their song selection is generally good for folks that are sometimes listening to odd music. One of my favorite artists has less than 55k plays on the most popular song - and they suggest this sort of thing to me instead of continually suggesting "popular" music.

The most jarring thing (to me) was the ads, which were solved by paying a small fee each month. Bonus points for downloads.
The difference is the type of work you do and how you feel about it, not whether you're employer or employee. There are businesses it's a grim schlep to run, and jobs that are very interesting.
Oh, this is a pet peeve of mine. Jim Butcher does this constantly in the Dresden Files series. I keep coming up with lampoons like "the witch countered with a blast of pure angular momentum that sent him spinning" or "after a visit to the bank, my wallet was bursting with pure price".
Formal verification and other protections resulting from strong static typing are less popular probably because of their delayed gratification effects - they're seen as unnecessarily constricting in small projects and their benefits are only seen as projects are grown and maintained over long periods of time, so it's difficult to justify their use early in the project when the decision is initially made.

I think that it's easier to justify rigor in traditional engineering projects (i.e. civil engineering) where project delivery dates are necessarily far off in the future - if you need to delay gratification anyway then you might as well adopt a more rigorous process. But in software engineering, where you can start delivering almost immediately, it's more difficult to get project owners and managers to see the value of rigor, especially if the project isn't yet known to have a long lifetime.
I fear that there won't be regulation against the "gig economy" as politicians are way too bought out by the big companies profiting from it... and as there will always be someone desperate enough to take even the most rotten, most underpaid job, even collective action (aka strikes) won't help.

The only thing that will help for sure is, I am afraid, massive amounts of riots.
Going also to say that its likely many of the sanitary items are heavy in medical agents too
Until you have to replace the battery
Google Play is great at this. But I prefer Spotify's UI and apps on my devices.
This seems to me a big deal, if the miniaturization of satellites turns rockets that weren't previously launch vehicles into ones that are.
> The fact that you can access it without paying for it doesn't mean it didn't involve substantial resources to create it. Acting like one should not have to pay anything to cover those costs is the essence of expecting slave labor.

I've never said such a thing.

In fact, I agree 100% with this comment which you also apparently agree with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307617

You must read my comments here with that context. I agree 100% with that comment and it also accurately describes my writing process as well as my rate of output. Nothing said there contradicts my posts.
But surely that's not stopping anyone. As someone above said, just use pyenv to run Python 2.7x and Python 3. It's not as if anyone has to settle for using only legacy Python.
Agreed. I’d like to have full voice control in the car but it’s just not sophisticated enough to do anything other than a few simple rote commands without taking my eyes off the road and/or hands off the wheel.

I can’t just ask it what the last couple episodes of a podcast are, have it tell me, and say OK play the second one. Or transparently even handle nav without fiddling.

Voice recognition has gotten decent—though it’s better with Alexa’s directional microphones. NLP and taking associated actions is still pretty bad.
The source code is on Glitch, I guess it's open. But it is literally 30 lines of code.

If it gets interested users I'll implement safer endpoints, anti-spam and other things like storing the submissions.
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I only save full page with Evernote (which is the default when you save using their clipper). Means I have it offline and available if the page changes. If it's something where I want it to update I'll bookmark instead in my browser.
If you use pyenv, it is.
>For US, the main problem is unions. The way that unions operate in the US vs most countries in Europe is vastly different. Union in US seems to be about being powerful, not so much about doing what is right or makes sense. They have way more of an impact on any productivity than calls for automation.

The culture of management in America has historically been much, much more confrontational than in Europe and unions reacted to that accordingly.

European management can be confrontational (especially in the UK) but it still relatively tame by comparison with the US - there hasn't ever, to my knowledge, been an aerial bombing raid delivered on a strike in Europe, for instance, whereas that has happened in West Virginia.
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and stats on how many times these minify and unminify sites have been used would be interesting.

I've used them more than a dozen times. Some sites get the minification just to ramp up a google pagespeed number - not really for the end users - so why bother with a build process?
Write some html, ftp. Then pagespeed numbers matter to some people and in some competitive industries - view source, web minify, ftp. done.
I don't agree. Make MLM's illegal, punish people who recruit. They will dry up in no time. The problem now is that they are perfectly legal (or can be made legal by introducing sham product to make it less like a pure pyramid) so recruiters can scam others out of their life savings with impunity.
> The company’s system of charging drivers if they cannot cover their round has been described as appalling by the chairman of the House of Commons’ work and pensions committee, Frank Field.

This sounds stupid. Wasn't the whole point of gig economy to setting personal time, working and getting paid only when the work is done?
> it must have something to do with layers and you would float an image to the top layer

Isn't it? If you float an image it does go to a top layer and blocks other non-float layer below it.
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> Isn't tech beautiful exactly because what matters is problem solving, and letting code be the ultimate super-partes judge?

This is exactly why I chose tech long before I even realized I needed to choose a career.

Some of us have had great experiences in tech and have made wonderful friends. I have blogged about mine at [1] (it's a bit rambling).

Unfortunately not all are so lucky. If it brings any solace, this is a drawback found not only in tech but in other fields too. [2]

For what it's worth, I do not believe it is a problem specific to tech but endemic to all industries. It is caused by the propensity of certain individuals (men and women) to behave in a less than beneficial way towards others due to mistaken beliefs, childhood environment, life experiences and in very rare cases psychopathic tendencies. Talking about these issues helps us learn from each other, to see the world from the others' perspective and to broaden our views.

While we may have much less impact on the society as a whole, we still can achieve greater impact within our tech community (atleast in comparison). A small step in the right direction.

The progress of women (or any other minority) is spread across the spectrum, with some achieving great success through extraordinary work while others are unable to break the glass ceiling due to lack of experience, avenues and role models. The need for role models and mentors is severely underestimated. They show you what you can do, what you can become and how.

Lets not see tech communities targeted at specific minorities (for want of a better word) as a "special" status but just as a stepping stone for mentoring and guiding the lesser privileged individuals to gain the knowledge and skills that their talents deserve, so that they can integrate with the rest of tech community as equals.

[1] https://www.minvolai.com/my-experience-in-tech-and-its-refle...

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/naomi_mcdougall_jones_what_it_s_li...
The internet exists. It takes work to keep it going. To some extent, even developer salaries are paid for by ad money. Google employs a lot of developers. Google makes most of its money via ads. Those developers are being paid via ad revenue.

This is not just small mom and pop shops and it is not just content creators. Acting like content creators need to get a real job completely overlooks how big the internet is, how many real jobs are involved in its ongoing existence and that a large portion of that is supported via ad revenue.

Facebook is supported with ad revenue. It's a large company. You may think it sucks, but it employs many coders, it isn't likely to go anywhere any time soon and it is ad supported.
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Having canceled services for a startup. They are still placing charges on my card every now and then. When I report it, they quickly refund the charges but next month it still happens. They said it's because of a software bug. I requested credit card removal, they refused. What can I do? They use stripe and braintree.
A 'high 5 figures' of £80,000 puts you at the 96% mark according to https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f....

The only argument you have for not being 'wealthy' is that you're spending all your dosh! There's nothing wrong with that, but I'm just trying to show you aren't anywhere near the median or mode.
You mean descendants, not ancestors.
This is advertisement. They use her story to promote the app. Of course she didn't write the thing, no "child prodigy" that "released an app that will change the world" in the last 10 years of apps, did.
It's either a political diversity narrative or emotional advertisement for a product.

But yeah, let's all waste our time holding 16 old kids "accountable" for their "unethical" behaviour, like big boy adults do, that'll teach them how to grow up!
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"Such kind of people give Women in Code a really, really bad name, because sweetie, it takes tonnes of hardwork, cutting through competition, persistent dealing with sexism and lot of patience to make place for yourself in this male-dominant coveted industry."

It's quite ironic that in a sentence about sexism and a male-dominated industry, the author addresses the developer by 'sweetie'.
maybe he didn't had £150 for another fine, you don't need to be that smart to see the conditions are as restrictive as being employed, wear uniform, can't work for another carrier, etc. fines, etc. yet you're classified as contractor and get no benefits.

Is clear an abuse from the company, you trying to blame the victim, is disgraceful.
It's a 16 year old girl that programmed an app, of course you're going to have a shitstorm when you deconstruct the truth of the matter.

Good post though, I love people who exposes frauds.
Seems like the wall of concrete has been replaced by a wall of parked cars.
I think you've got that last part backwards. When you have constituents with binding energy, that reduces the total energy of the system and reduces the mass. So it seems that the mass of the proton is quark mass + gluon kinetic energy - bonding energy, and most of the mass comes from gluon kinetic energy.
Thanks for the beautiful explanation, i have no math background and this was really easy to understand.

Ulterior examples than library+kitten/penguin would be great
Do you believe sweetie is a gendered word?
Very often this is true for books as well. There is way more market for a book which starts you on an application or language. But if you are very deeply into a topic, getting to the next level won't be a book. It'll be blog posts, Stackoverflow, blood, sweat and tears. I haven't bought a book since the 3rd ed of Chris Date: SQL and Relational Theory (but that's a very useful book!).
Yeah, because the £150 charge for going to the doctor had nothing to do in influencing the man's choices. /s
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Given the author appears to be female, I suspect the irony is entirely on purpose.
Unless there are loops in which case you're both right.
So you're ok with they getting away with the all lies, but if someone writes something debunking them, you criticize the guy?
In a similar fashion to the start of the article you have

1. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

2. http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

3. I wrote a slight further step for minimal forms/bootstrap http://ianchanning.com/mofoforms/
But again, if it's so important, then why leave it a manual process?

If it's critical to the business needs, script it. If you need to do it every time you fix a bug, make it automatic.
My theory is that this is not going to be a nice change when they drop 2.7. Maybe one version will be released with both installed by default, then they'll use only 3.7/3.8 for the next decade. MacOS doesn't seem to care a lot about backwards compatibility recently.

This is of course pure speculation...
Isn't 'sweetie' something you just call young girls?
That comment was actually being sympathetic to the idea that content creation is undervalued by most people. It seems rather unpalatable to me for you to use it to support your position that content creators should apparently not expect to be paid.

You seem to think everyone should be a high paid developer and any writing they do should be on the side. It spits on the idea of writing as a profession. Or other content production.

Anyway, I don't really see this as a productive or constructive exchange. So I don't imagine I will continue it.
Ask HN: Where to ask SaaS building questions?
There is a) StackOverflow - where we can't ask any broad question b) Hackernews - where these questions are not interesting enough. c) Blog posts - These do offer some interesting point of views but I fail to put them to practice. I am not trying to be a leech, over the time I've done a lot of things if I find people struggling with something similar, I will definitely help them. Where can I ask a question about SaaS architectures? I am pretty sure, many of us have technical expertise, motivation but lack experience. So, a place where people can review your stuff and provide some feedback would be cool. Is there any such place?
So shouldn't we take more individualistic approach rather than see people through the lens of the group they belong to?

This whole movement of women in tech etc. seems to me completely illogical - you don't fight fire with fire.

Unless I am missing some hidden nobility in it?
It seems to be one of those loaded words that's often used by a certain type of man to put women "in their place".