skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate to this very much - all gizmos measuring various attributes seem to effectively remove the most important aspect of these sports/activities - fun, and hence in long term much of the motivation.

Suddenly you have some metrics, you see that last week you improved, this week you perform like cr_p, and that guy is so much better than you. It's some sort of obscure facebook effect when sport becomes very competitive. Its all great if you're a pro and you have to improve, you have to track progress etc.

But for mere mortals, it's worse than useless. I just can't imagine the mindset I would have to have to really benefit anyhow from these devices. I use some old crappy Suunto watches that barely measure altitude (for hikes/aki alpinism), compass stopped working and I used them mainly for time only. If they die I definitely won't be buying any other. On my bike, simple computer died 2 years ago, so I have no clue about speed, distance etc. Again, its great, just road and me and the bike.

Being very competitive in my book is a quite negative personality trait - never happy, always comparing themselves to others. On the outside it might look great, but inside it's not. I have no need to support this behavior.
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The sentiment here is a response to a minority opinion that has deeper pockets than the majority opinion.

It is interesting because VC math forces a level of intensity that Basecamp doesn’t have to contend with. So in one sense, the message can be interpreted as “don’t take VC funding”.

The more obvious interpretation is that, regardless of financing, work should never dominate your life. But this is can be argued against, since some forms of financing like venture take away your control of work intensity.

The act of ceding voting power in your company is a step closer towards the work style that Jason and DHH are protesting.
The first programming job I had I was actually promoted from being a "front-line" worker answering calls and processing forms all day, and I was pretty much able to write the software with no requirements explanation at all. So there is some value there.
> A really good question to ask for a task is "How do you know you are done?"

One of the more valuable things I learned in product management is defining what success looks like. It's tempting to just put a product out there/work on something, and think it'll pan out, and you'll know when you're done.
Thanks. Didn't know this UX came from Smalltalk, I always assumed it was kinda-exclusive to macOS' Finder/iTunes and heavily patented by Apple.
Unless there will be many capable developers who stay. If you're the single guy who has a clue then yes, don't do this if you don't have a reasonable plan for those who stay.

It also sounds like maintaining a haskell code base is some rocket science. It is not. There are both extreme, but also conservative ways of doing things, and if you pick the conservative, then the people staying won't have that much trouble coping.
I think you'll find many people are not in favor of universal anonymity, and most people are in favor of strong guarantees of identity. They are separate issues and useful in different cases.
Actually, he is correct. MasterCard process payments on transactions related to MasterCard branded cards. This is different than Amex, which acts as the network processor and the issuing bank.
Ask HN: What are the best gamified education systems you are aware of?
I am looking for non-traditional education systems such as video games, VR immersion or some other types that help teach concepts - paid or free.
You shouldn't sign something like this.

Over here (Montréal) there's right to work laws and precedents that makes it so that those clauses are pretty much null if they keep you from working.

Non-compete pretty much only protects the employers from having a direct competitor recruiting their employees.
Location: India

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Swift, ReactJS, PHP & NodeJS

Resume: https://www.mobilefirst.in/resumes/Arpan_Desai_Sr.pdf

Portfolio: https://www.mobilefirst.in

Email: arpan [at] mobilefirst [dot] in

I have over 9 years of experience working as a Software Developer and Architect on enterprise & consumer systems. I'm looking for a short-term & contract opportunity where I can provide value and grow with a good organization. My expertise is mobile (iOS & Android), Web (Node, MongoDB, Laravel, ReactJS). I can offer startup friendly rates.
Who’s Doing the Glue Work at Your Company?
Our infrastructure is in house - research group in a University setting. Public cloud would be an absurd option for our needs economically, considering that we run our servers practically 24/7 albeit with convenience of scheduled down times, and that our servers tend to live longer than even 4 years in service. For example, some of our compute nodes after 5 years of service are now servicing users as "console servers" for users doing scientific work in the command line. We run bare-metal servers for performance intensive workloads and databases, and KVM based virtual machines for other services.

> Can you go touch your boxes? Who can add a new one and how long.

This is surprisingly not that long. I can order new machines and they are delivered for me to use in just 2 weeks. With a little bit of planning, I can squeeze a lot of performance out of them. For example, I can avoid noisy neighbours because I can control what is deployed where physically.

Another benefit of non-cloud is that I can customise the machines for their purpose. I recently built a FreeBSD/ZFS based server and chose a cheaper CPU and a lot of faster RAM to deal with. For DNS servers, queue servers and such I chose a CPU that has a higher single threaded performance at higher clock rates than ones with more cores and slower clock rates.
Please please study the tools and the principles you use. No schooling will offer these things you learn then through experience. If on your own then that takes a long time. To expedite find rules like Sandi Metz's rules and S.O.L.I.D. principles, Learn OOP patterns and code smells. Don't worry if you don't understand why these rules and principles are in place just follow them. You'll eventually get there and the code you produce will not cause catastrophes later on.

But if anything this simple rule is the best: K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple and Small) Make small things. If you ever find yourself saying "do this and then do that" your talking about two things and make them two things (separate functions/objects) and name them.
There's no reason to introduce subjective terms like charities into the tax code, unless you wish to create a loophole and jobs for lawyers and accountants. Charities can exist with or without tax breaks. The whole point of democracy is to get together and decide where to focus our resources, and letting people get away with directing funds to their personal causes is an avenue for fraud.
I mean the guy using robot gardener takes the same pay for the services, not the robot, sorry for confusion.
Not at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
No, but we pretend it is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_United_States_citi...
Invest 10% or more of your gross pay into a low cost index fund. Do this without fail for your entire career.
This, plus do only 9-5 jobs. Do not work longer than 40hrs / week.
Open source is too successful: there are nowadays too many sources to review and debug!
Half of U.S. Uber drivers make less than $10 an hour after vehicle expenses
Hi this is Tim. I made this website. It's currently running on a $5 droplet on DigitalOcean so conversions will take a while. I'm testing out the waters here on HN to see if there's anyone interested in it. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding it.

Github: https://github.com/TimDaub/ipfs-hls-converter

Edit: I haven't chosen I license for this yet, sorry.
What's a lambda user? Sounds like I might be one. I only keep a few tabs open at a time.
In my experience, Win 10 updates are still very much a crapshoot as to whether or not any given one of them will break something important to your org.
That is a somewhat idiosyncratic definition of post-tax.
What language / framework / technology stack would you use to make this?
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>RedHat quality

caugh

https://www.openshift.com/
Rolleiflex cameras were extremely expensive and not in any sense consumer oriented.
They can. But without a tax break, people will give less.
Wi-Fi now has version numbers, and Wi-Fi 6 comes out next year
Have the mentality that what you are going to code will be used for at least 5 years, that helps in improving coding patterns, tests, corner cases, etc..
Better yet, tax donations but don’t tax specific expenditures from charities meeting necessary requirements.
The burden of proof would be on the charity, and the specific spending would have to be monitored.
> Importantly, I think, when there's a higher barrier to content theft, the remaining sources of pirated content are fewer and easier to track.

Except DRM on end-user devices is done with security by obscurity and it's never ever worked for media. And never will.

So there is so many sources of pirated content that attempts to track of stop them never succeeded. Fortunately NSA and other government spying organizations can still have their backdoor because "Hollywood needs DRM" bullshit.
By 'different domains', I don't think he was implying specialized financial applications as the only good domain for Haskell.

Haskell is a very good general purpose programming language for the reasons the commenterd gave in the thread. It is great for all kinds of general backend tasks. The kind of tasks one would associate with Java would also be a great for for Haskell.

Python is also general purpose. It's dynamic typing is especially good in specialized domains of rapid prototyping and exploratory data analysis (perhaps useful at investment banks too).
I thought Bare Metal meant dedicated hardware in the cloud. E.g. Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/pricing/baremetal/) distinguishes VPS vs bare metal as you getting access to entire physical servers without neighbours. Not entirely sure if this is standard nomenclature though.
It's a "good charity" because Bill is actively involved in deciding what are the highest-impact projects. Once Bill dies, it'll be managed by a succession of people who probably aren't as effective.

Also, the Gates foundation funds projects that create benefits that continue indefinitely, such as eradicating diseases. Better to do that now and have malaria-free populations contribute to their own increasing prosperity than to keep the money in a bank for later.
I think he means "native", as in native to the host (regardless if it's virtualized or not).
It's also a good way to give high paying jobs to friends, family or other people you want to give money to.
Now Google is hiring Goldman Sachs technologists for its sales roles
I'm trying so hard to move my email away from Gmail. I have a paid proton account by the syncing for desktop and the mobile app is terrible. Are there any other options out there? I switched to Firefox and I love it so far.
Percentiles are already normalized to group size. So no: it's just as hard to be among the top 10% in your field in Billings, Montana, as it is in all of the world.

Of course your mechanism works in absolute terms, but then it rests on the dubious case that for any chosen activity, only one person in the world can be the best. That would relegate almost all people to helpless inadequacy, which I find not only a rather depressing prospect, but also not quite supported by actual lived experience.
Thank you very much! I didn't even know such a thing existed.

I'll download the extension tonight and give it a shot.
That is not true. Kids who develop abilities or inclinations at an earlier age than is usual or expected don't necessary follow obsessions. Their brains often simply develop a bit faster then brains of other kids, hence sooner abilities and inclinations.

It does not mean they will end up more skilled in adulthood nor that they are necessary obsessed types.

Conversely, obsessed personality types are not always that much better then others if their obsession is not channeled in an effective way. The obsession is not necessary combined with larger talent or effective learning methods.
Oh, ok.

I think the point-free J (ie. without any explicitly named variables) can be called concatenative in spirit, too. If you stick to expressions composed of monadic verbs and nouns and squint hard enough, you could say it's concatenative (but with prefix notation).

On the other hand, it has these totally crazy rules of composition - called hooks and forks, different for monadic and dyadic verbs - plus adverbs which modify verbs and gerunds, and other things which together make you feel that parsing PERL is sane and straightforward in comparison to reading J. Lots of fun, though, it really feels like you're learning a language some ancient alien civilization left inside pyramids on Mars :)
ISTR (I worked there over three years ago) Growth rate spikes after new versions are released, The 2012 jump is Basecamp 2 and that really moved the needle, and late 2015 is Basecamp 3. There's interest and publicity and articles and stuff, and that trails off to a more "normal" growth rate. The leveling off you see from 2016 to present is likely an artefact fo this, the longer term growth rate is probably approximately a line fitted to the graph from 2012 and onwards.
It's not web-based.
Evolution? That has not even been proven yet.
Calling VMs/VPS bare metal is unusual from what I see.
> Similar thoughts cross my mind every time I'm passed by a cyclist with a $2,500 bike wearing technicolor corporate spandex.

To each his own, but I can't imagine getting much enjoyment out of road cycling.

Now mountain biking seems to me much more interesting.

And my friends and I don't compete to go the fastest, we try to 'clean' difficult trails. To clean a section means to ride it without putting a foot down or stopping.

You need to watch your line, and traction becomes your most precious resource on climbs. Apply too much power when your back tire is over a root and you'll blow the climb. You have to keep a constant awareness of where the contact patch of your back wheel is at all times. You can't just mash up the climb and 'win.'

It's like the difference between saying: "I'll ride this trail faster than you" and "I'll ride this trail 'better' than you."

I myself ride a pair of $2500 mountain bikes, but they are a mix of ghetto old components (one frame is 20yrs old with gripshift!) and high end parts (Chris King rear hubs).

I put the money where it makes the most difference.

Also, re lycra, I've been known to ride wearing a mechanic's jumpsuit when the stinging nettles are bad, but I do sometimes wear the lycra stuff too.
Why not? Are you referring only to the donors? It seems like the article quoted some people who’d prefer at least a slightly different outcome: the charities would rather have liquid donations than assets on paper they can’t touch, right? I can imagine several other groups who might also prefer various fixes.
> It's not clear to me how DHH gets the money for his auto racing hobby.

That unclarity can be solved pretty easily. David is one of the two partners of Basecamp (formerly 37signals). That company delivers a service in the project management space, basecamp.com, and some other web applications. They charge customers a fair amount, and they have thousands and thousands of customers, mainly in the SME segment. With around 50 well-paid employees, a nice office and significant (leased/owned) infrastructure, their costs are still way less than their revenue, so they make a healthy profit. I guess that profit is paid out as dividends to the stakeholders of the company: at last David, Jason and Jeff Bezos (for a minority share). Those dividends are sufficient to buy a nice house, own some sports cars, and enjoy a racing hobby.

Additionally, Jason and David have written some popular books. The author's share of those sales could pay for some other interests (photography, watches) as well.
You should try to add a bit more depth to your mental model. Most of us recognize differences between private citizens and public officials and government agents or between not wanting to be spied upon and wanting to know who the fuck is calling you so that you can rationally choose whether to ignore it.
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> Curious... I always read 'America' when people from USA talks about them.

Not just americans talking about the USA. Most of the world. From Britain to Japan, america is used to denote the US and americans to denote citizens from the US.

> What about the people from the rest of the continent?

North Americans ( for US + Canada ). South Americans for people in south america. There are even Central Americans for everyone in between.

In a geographical sense, mexico is also included when people talk about North Americans ( like NAFTA for example ). But from a cultural or general use, north americans primarily mean americans and canadians.
"If you’re not being billed for hours, why wouldn’t you keep expanding your workers’ obligations until the cracks appear?"

I'm amazed by the sibling comments "benefit of the doubt" view even with the hindsight of the game industry, among others, that uses this fact systematically. There's obviously skewed incentives to over-scope when the crunches are culturally normalized together with costs offloaded to the employees since there's no OT pay. The incentives to the individual manager is obvious too. No costs to report for their own incompetence, instead their feature list is completed - and maybe their bonus or promotion goal reached.

Where I live this no overtime pay scheme is usually compensated by an extra vacation week per year. Like clockwork however - every single year - this credit is collected through overtime multiple times over.

This will be repeated as long as they can get away with it because there's simply so much money to make from it.
Yes, that's true, but there are also plenty of cases of them making mistakes (the amount of money lost per year to mistakes in Excel spreadsheets is something obscene) and getting in way over their heads.
True, sure, but American capitalism is not set up that way. We are not a centralized economy, but one way the government can get more of one activity and less of another is through tax breaks.
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This has been my stance as well. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem over anything google and have started moving all of my activity off of google. (Firefox, Proton Mail, iOS, Pi-Hole) Google is a top contender of mine for most evil tech company, right behind Facebook.
"No one knows anything in big companies"

It's important not to so thoroughly explain the problems that big companies have that you argue them right out of existence, because they clearly exist and as others point out, actually routinely pull off feats that no startup could dream of.
I used Kubespray on Container Linux with Calico. Maybe I got lucky but I had it working perfectly almost first try. I think I needed to handle like one error in the entire Ansible playbook.
There must be some people interested, charitable remainder trusts had their strings brought in quite a bit at some point, and the old rules made for a pretty amazing tax avoidance tool.
Not sure "charity" is a subjective term? (Or, more accurately, I know that "charity" is not a subjective term for the IRS.)

You shouldn't try to play fast and loose with tax breaks for charitable giving because the IRS actually keeps pretty close tabs on that stuff. As far as they're concerned, an organization either has charitable status with them, or the organization does not have charitable status with them. There is no middle ground. Trying to argue that an organization is a charity, and therefore your gift should be tax deductible, is a losing proposition where the IRS is concerned.
The Leica lenses were better than the Nikon lenses that were better than the Canon lenses that were better than the Pentax lenses, on average (there are exceptions to this). It didn't really matter at normal print sizes for usual focal length, but for example a 21/3.4 Schneider Super-Angulon for Leica from 1963 was a vastly better ultrawide than what you could have for other 35mm systems.

If you try to print big (let's say A3+) you'll rapidly find the limits of the m43 system.
Lately I've heard a lot of people complaining about magazines photoshopping women and Facebook posts that depress people because they just show how great other people's lives are.

This is the same thing. This is people deliberately creating an unrealistic scene and trying to play it off as real.

People can do whatever they want, but I'd much rather follow someone who showing their own home instead of faking it to this extent. (And that goes for the people who rent a hotel room or pose in furniture stores, too.)
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There is a reason. Charities are able to do beneficial work for the people of the country, and are able to organize themselves to accomplish the work in ways that the structure of the government cannot. Incentivizing the behavior of giving (or rather, removing part of the disincentive of taxing the money a person intends to use in an altruistic way) increases this behavior and helps more people.

If your argument is that many of these charities aren't actually doing useful work, and that they only exist as a way to get tax deductions, is shaky when you consider that you still end up poorer when making a charitable contribution than when you don't (in no case does the deduction exceed the amount donated).
Pipe it to a websocket, or curl to some update-account API. Or a mysql/psql/whatever CLI in CSV upload mode so you don't have to worry about injection.

If you want to batch on more than lines, use sponge, or write another few lines of mawk/perl/whatever.

Those are limited examples, and may not always be The Right Way (tm), but there are certainly easy, old, simple ways to take shell pipelines and make the data available quickly in some other store.
From my experience with amateur photographers (the ones usually most outspoken about who's not a real photographer), I recognize this as well.

> Anyway, my point is this: to be perfectly honest, I doubt the ability of the field to choose standards based in technical merit.

Well, here in the software industry we have the same problem. I wonder why that is.
Link updated, I thought it'd be clear enough I'm referring to the "online" product.
It gets thrown around a lot and in my opinion for good reason - I've switched to Fastmail[1] myself. I've got the $5/mo account because I wanted to bring my own domains.

Had it for a while just forwarding everything to my gmail but have now cut the forwarding and switched fully. If you're in the Apple ecosystem the app I attribute to finally moving was Spark[2], which I discovered after Google announced it was killing off Inbox

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/
[2] https://sparkmailapp.com/
Interesting. I haven't used Windows for about a decade and I switched to exclusively using this view in the last couple of years. I just find it much quicker to use with my keyboard etc as I don't want to be using my trackpad to navigate.
In general the New Testament preaches the idea of being a servant to others (Acts has the apostles living in what's basically a commune). This is a little different than the more unidirectional model of most workplaces.
Yes! It was a mistake not to mention Chainer since it’s an exceptional package. Honestly, it presently fulfills the PyTorch mission better than PyTorch!