skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The server costs are likely trivial compared to the employee cost. They'd need to retain support staff, both for the technical side (server maintenance) and in-game moderation and customer management.

I've worked on a number of medium-to-large systems. They're literally always held together with duct tape and prayers. The entire thing would probably collapse in a few days if someone weren't there babysitting the storage infrastructure alone.
That's a good thing IMO
This one found a 2:1 hiring bias in favor of women: https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360
Another book that elaborates at some length on non-instrument navigation and the evidence for it is Pathway of the Birds.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41112497-pathway-of-the-...
if this had edge to edge and face ID I'd line up to get it.
What I would pay for a clothes-folding robot. That is my least-liked chore, folding the same clothes in the same way every week. Yes I wear the same clothes every week - I'm an engineer.
Or working on a handful of personal projects that aren't revenue generating.
Google Discover (2018)
If he hadn’t spent the thinking time, he wouldn’t have come to this realization. By wasting time, he gained experience. It was thus not wasted.

Gaining experience is inherently an inefficient process. It’s the nature of the beast. (And it’s tweetable).
Yikes! nah.. I wouldn't take it that far. This is basically a profession with a very high entry barrier and consequently large compensation slowly becoming a commodity. That was my point. No idea about all the right-wing/left-wing stuff you're talking about.
The absolute biggest one is lying to your face :-) In Japan, it is really impolite to be overly critical of people or to act in an unfriendly manner. Everybody you meet will be nice to you and if you say, "I like underwater basket weaving" they will say, "Oh yes. That is very interesting" and smile. If you unintentionally force them into a confrontation like by saying, "Do you really think it is interesting? Do you like underwater basket weaving too", they will say, "Oh yes. I like underwater basket weaving" just to escape the conversation.

One of the side effects of this is that people can be super friendly to you, but you never really know if they like you or not. I have an ex colleague who was very helpful to me when I moved here. He looked out for me and even invited me to his home for dinner many, many times. He hooked me up with local groups, etc, etc. He even occasionally still asks me to go to some local events these days. But I'm pretty sure he hates my guts. He doesn't even send me a new years card even though I send him one (which seems like a pretty weird criteria for judging if someone likes you or not, but...)

You just don't know. People will never tell you outright stuff like this and they will "lead you on". Virtually every expat I've known who has problems in Japan loves to jump on this issue. "People here are false", they will say. "You can't trust them. They will lie to your face." There is a concept called "tatemae" which is the face that you have to present to society and it's a concept that rubs many westerners completely the wrong way.

Personally, I like it. I don't care one iota if my ex colleague likes me or not. He's been incredibly helpful to me. He treats me really well. He's been nothing other than a massive positive force in my life. Yeah, it's a shame we can't be friends, but that's life. Everybody treats me well here. Everybody is friendly. Everybody is nice to each other and treats you as if you are a friend, even if they don't know you -- even if they hate you.

But... yeah... it takes some getting used to and some people really don't like it.
It's always sad to see a community you like disappear, but I think it's a good lesson when freemium games with in-game purchasing go away. It's an evil, terrible model that uses psychological trickery to slowly milk enormous amounts of money from people. Losing that should make everyone think twice before falling for that trick again.

At least with a monthly pay-as-you-go model, you don't feel like you're investing in an asset. When a free game gets you to spend hundreds of dollars on cosmetic trinkets, you feel like you're buying something permanent.
Oculus Medium: Sculpting and Simulations Sample Code
Xenophobia isn't limited to just saying "get out of the country", but also the spreading fear, uncertainty, and distrust (usually without warrant) onto out-groups like immigrants.
Suggesting that $25/month is expensive illustrates how insanely cost-sensitive this community is.

Don’t come to HN for a representative take of how people in US businesses evaluate vendors and their pricing.

Do you know how much it cost my employer for me to spend an hour reading about Kubernetes?
I'm not sure how Stanford's economic disparity supports that there are no programs to assist people who are economically disadvantaged. Harvard, Stanford, and Yale offer free tuition for students with family income below 65,000 a year, Princeton for below 54,000, and Cornell, Brown, Columbia and Duke for families with income below 60,000.

There's no data in the article about the income level of the students applying. Are there 15 times as many wealthy applicants? Disparity is often contextualized in terms of systems of oppression and discrimination. Individual behavior, influenced by the effect being poor has psychologically, is likely to contribute to the difference in economic diversity.
It would help if you actually looked at what it is before trashing it.
So, it's a primary communication and consumption device.

Very much like a smartphone, but with a bigger and better screen.

Apparently it's the "phablet" of a few years back, finally implemented well.
> "lol it's just a joke, stop being so serious"

A tactic used by many a racist and misogynist in real life, unfortunately. They manage to make folks attempting to improve the culture seem boring and humourless.

The best advice I ever got is simply to respond to racist or other inappropriate commentary with "We don't do that here." I've used it to good effect to help shape a more pleasant working environment.
More subpar engineers means more nodejs fuckery, more golang snobbery and less salary.
We nixed ECS for the same reason, no secrets through ConfigSet.
They've proven many times that they're not.
Read through slashdot and google for "linode bitcoin stolen"
Sorry to hear this sucks. Try to look at the silver lining, you don't want to work for such a company. I hope you find something very soon.
Interesting that few of those are tech companies. For comparison, AWS's list is mostly tech companies: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
It's great that you landed a job, but basic education is more important than being capable of using React Native. Just do both at the same time, which is what I did.
For a lot of these games, and especially any social game company, a passionate base of users isn’t enough to offset the amount they sink into advertising and running the game. From their perspective it’s just not worth it. Being able to run the games on independent self hosted servers is the only way they could stay alive after their owners decide they’re “not profitable”.
I disagree. By not putting it in the subject line, the recipient can wait to open the email, and make a conscious choice about where they are both physically and mentally when they learn the outcome. If it's in the subject, then you learn it immediately when you happen to check your email. If it's bad news, it could throw you off your ball right when you need to be focused on something else.
UTXOs remain the best way to track overall market use and movement.

UXTOs can be mass produced in bulk from single users controlling and scripting multiple wallet addresses.

Looking at the Winter 2017 UXTO transaction logs, it's pretty clear a single entity was (can/is) coordinating upwards of 10%-50% of the volume, the clearest examples of this are throughout December of 2017.
Nexus and Pixel are very different. They are both phones but the market and strategy is not the same.
Transit officials checked out Elon Musk's tunnel and tried hard not to mock it
Another good source, mentioned above, is Pathway of the Birds
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41112497-pathway-of-the-...
If you have the pick between Oracle, Google and Amazon, youd likely also have an offer at a different company. So its a valid choice.
Never heard of Paradise Bay but it's sad to see years of creative effort disappearing from the face of the earth like that. A game of this quality could've definitely have been sold off and kept running on a skeleton crew which would've saved some jobs, so I'm assuming the decision to shutdown is to keep it out of competitors hands or some other corporate or political reason.

From the forum comments you can see the conflict between the Users the game has cultivated who are really emotionally invested in the game and its corporate owners who are detached from it.
It Isn’t the Kids. It’s the Cost of Raising Them
Honestly as an individual contributor not holding any stock, what more can you ask for?

Whether the company's long term plan pans our or not is mostly irrelevant to whether you're able to do your best work.
Water has a much higher specific heat. If you just want to heat up water anyway, wouldn't you just transfer the energy to it as fast as possible?
There are tricks. Most districts have local laws that say that drink vending machines must have recycling bins for the cans/bottles (and they have to be emptied regularly). Similarly convenience stores must have trash cans and recycling bins. There are always trash cans and recycling bins on the platforms for the Shinkansen, but I've never seen them in normal stations in the countryside.
It’s telling to me that they speak of bitcoin only in reference to value stores like gold and not in reference to utilities like p2p payments. Clearly no one is using bitcoin to spend, and very few people are using it as savings (at negative interest!).
I'm very much in the camp of "Kubernetes is a problem factory".

Personally, I've found very few problems that it solves and more problems that it creates. That said, its probably a great time to be a Kube consultant!
I am guessing that "before" means that the inversion persisted until the economy was technically in recession.
I picked that particular article because it wasn't especially kind to my point of view. Nevertheless, the last statement you quoted is speculation and we don't have any data to back it up.
Unfortunately, your article doesn't explain why the idea isn't taken more seriously.
Just tried CapRover this weekend for a hobby project and it was even easier to set up than Dokku. The NetData monitoring integration is great too, and just as painless to set up.

For use cases where support plans and SLAs are not an issue (hobby), it's a great option.
API Monitoring: External vs. Internal Monitoring
Impact of Fed Funds Rate Increases on Other Interest Rates (2017)
I don’t think we should “aim” to do anythinf, that’s the whole point. We should just trust grown up educated people to make their own choices. Even women!
Nice ! Reminds me of this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196378.0 using bitcoin keys for encryption in addition to handling money. https://github.com/jackjack-jj/jeeq
Being aware of what competitors are doing is a good thing I think.
I was thinking huge areas of graphene but point taken, I was just reading up about graphene after reading the post...
My point is that detection doesn't solve anything, it's treating the symptom. The solution is to stop working with bad actors, but nobody does that because it's easy money and there's plausible deniability by creating new companies, accounts, sites, etc.

Your 2nd statement is what I'm saying: no consequences refers to the lack of oversight, regulation and enforcement in the industry. That's why there's barely any prosecution. For example, Buzzfeed did an expose last year about Newsweek/IBTimes committing ad fraud, except it was already well known by everyone in adtech. People like getting paid and they're not going to stop on their own.

Btw, I personally know the founders of all those companies. If fraud was eliminated then they would go out of business. They're not interested in solving the problem even if they could.
That is a snarky way to answer.

But here, I was talking how other debugger have not the same problems.
Maybe all you need is NodeChef. Saves you time and money.
https://www.nodechef.com/
> Suggesting that $25/month is expensive illustrates how insanely cost-sensitive this community is.

I completely agree but I’m not sure “cost-sensitive” is an adequate term because it’s like a cost on hosting (or an app you’ll use for years) triggers extremely high awareness by people who are extremely blasé about hemorrhaging staff time on support and slipped deadlines.
i hope they grow to eat skype. will be justice for what MS did to skype
Higher Education, colleges and universities, are generally excellent work environments with excellent benefits. Depending on job, salary isn't always competitive with the tech sector though.
I love alternate rulesets and obscure games but this doesn't look that interesting to me.

It may be because most games are about dominance or resource building and ownership, or capture; this is about grouping. In such it doesn't appeal to any "real world" experience I have had and I feel disconnected from it.
Unless the goal is to get more ops experience, wouldn’t those be an especially tempting place to spend more time on the project and less on support toil?
>50% of phone calls made each day in the US are fake robocalls, that’s reflective of the phone system as a whole, wouldn’t you say?

Yes, I would! I think that deregulation has enabled the phone system to become a terrible system. That's not a good analogy if you were trying to prove the opposite.
If complexity isn't the reason for the steep learning curve what is?
What you're describing is general corporate culture after a company has experienced its hayday. Usually all the passionate people including original founders have cashed out, exited the company, and there is nobody left that actually cares about the company. There is a lot of room for mistakes and not delivering results because money grows on trees. People end up skating by and milking their one-hit-wonder cashcow product for years. Politics becomes rampant and an endless supply of bad hires cause the company to slowly rot to its death.
"spent most of his time in the office managing his real estate business" That is a lucky guy!
Mainly that he's a hardcore capitalist to the bone, while I tend more toward favoring a mixed economy and social democracy with an ultimate post-singularity endgame of true socialism. There are some other minor things that he talks about that don't really resonate with me, like conspiracy theories that he propounds under the cover of "emergent behavior," and concerns about AGI which I don't share.
If Google is Walmart, who is the high-end retail? Exciting startups?
Augmented reality and machine learning is one approach, but when there's a glitch, don't forget the roots of navigation found in non-instrument techniques. See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41112497-pathway-of-the-...
If for purely pragmatic reasons: governments around the world will assess your accessibility to various things based on stuff like the papers an institution will give you. If you think formal education is useless; that's cool but the world is still going to use these dumb papers. So if you're any smart, suck it up and play the game.

In any case, I don't think formal education is useless, I'm just making the argument in extremis.
only consider proportion when the problem is scale. Unless you're deploying many many projects I don't think $25/month is expensive
A third recommendation for CapRover. It's simple, it's beautiful, and it's open source. I've been enjoying it so far :)

CapRover also features one click SSL generation via Let's Encrypt, similar to what is offered on Heroku.
Its free. You pay for support.
So true - billing rates for consultants run 200+/hr. Even a small $1mm expense budget - $25 is not relevant and in my experience you can quickly be at 75%+ personnel cost (w2/1099 + desks / space etc for them)
4G was originally supposed to be gigabit before carriers started branding LTE as 4G.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned AWS ElasticBeanstalk. It supports Docker (ECS behind the scenes) and is very close to Heroku in terms functionality but with EC2 pricing.
"High quality in its category" doesn't really change my opinion that any app offering a $99.99 "speed up the game" option is exploitative and gross.
They’ve done this all the way back to 4G. I know because I used to sell cellphones when I was I college. It was 3G but they called it 4G. They’ve done that with every new iteration. It’s ATT being ATT. Why they haven’t gotten in trouble for this shady practice is beyond me.
> too deep into the Oracle ecosystem to go anywhere else

This is certainly part of it. I read something around the time of a quarterly earnings report recently that spoke about how OCI revenue was increasing rapidly, but was doing so by cannibalizing traditional revenue sources.
Also true, but these are not long-tail new entry exchanges or even just "some" exchanges, they're the vast majority of major $1M+ exchanges.

I think you misread/misquoted me. It's that 85% of the major exchanges are mostly fake volume, and that 95% of all transactions are fake volume. It's in the article.
I don’t know where you work but I’ve worked with close to a dozen software teams and in all cases the vast majority of coders have been very awkward. The contrast with other fields I’ve worked in, such as business or finance is sharp.

Maybe it’s different in other countries but i doubt it, based on conferences I’ve attended.
Raises hand.

I can absolutely with all honesty say that I would never work for a large company. I worked for a Fortune 10 (non tech) company for 3 years out of my 20 year career and I said never again. Large companies are too stifling and too regimented for me. Even if I didn’t have to move from my low cost of living area and a I was offered a job at a FAANG, I would say no.

Well with one exception, I might be willing to work for AWS as a consultant.
A good book on the history of this is Pathway of the Birds
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41112497-pathway-of-the-...
I'm on AT&T (personal phone) and I get 4.5M bits down on LTE. My Verizon LTE (work phone) gets very similar. Both are iPhones and completely up to date.

I could be near enough to the towers that my fillings start to ache and I still can't get any faster.
Yes, having a choice gives you more control than having that choice made for you.
This is not true, when I was there each team could use whatever they wanted to build and deploy their services. Go, Python, Java, C++, etc. Literally anything was allowed. I have no idea now.
A coworker and I had a discussion with another coworker when this scandal broke. We couldn't convince him that he was wrong when he said there is no way car software could "cheat" like that. Even after we came up with several things that could be done in the space of about a minute, he remained unconvinced. If you follow through the article to the reference US DoJ press release, VW's software used several of the ideas we came up with as part of their "cheat". This coworker also thought that the California drought was a big hoax, so...
FWIW did the fargate approach very happily. I know k8s getting the love but found fargate easy to get going on and set and forget once deployed
Sounds more like survivorship bias than actual good advice.
If you’re a software engineer in the year of 2019, you’re not exactly hurtinv for opportunity.
Perhaps professionally, being an "expert beginner" is bad, but in other pursuits being content with competency can make them more enjoyable.

To build on the bowling example, it is ok to be an average bowler if you are having fun with it. Anyone that's bowled casually with someone that is over competitive knows how obnoxious it is. Accepting that improvement is not always necessary to enjoyment is important.
I'm seriously thinking about refusing to take meetings on software I don't already have.

I strongly suspect it won't actually change anything, but so far I've been too chicken to actually try.
Side jab... hasn't posted on HN since 2015 but regular on Twitter? What gives?
Ask HN: Modern Stack for Business?
I saw posts before about what software people use for their ventures, like GSuite, QuickBooks, Stripe, etc. What is your preferred suite of tools to run your business?
> #2 is peculiar to U.S. government bonds.)

not really, with private bonds it's replaced with the risk of the company defaulting or declaring bankruptcy.
The preferred term is "gringx", please...
They are, unfortunately, entrenched in certain enterprise products. The major ERP products that run the Higher Education industry, for example. They mostly use Oracle on the back end. And it doesn't help that one those (lesser used) ERP systems is a customized version of people soft.

Cloud options are chipping away at the edges of this. For example, Admissions offices have largely ditched portion of these ERP systems designed for them in favor of more flexible SaaS offerings. As a consequence, if you're into data plumbing, data integration jobs are flowering in Higher Ed.
Phone a friend ? Hire a consultant... handicapping yourself seems questionable unless playing a week opponent.
The insect apocalypse is not here but there are reasons for concern
Well I admit that I lean libertarian, but I'm curious why you think it would be beneficial to society to constrain choice in this manner. Presumably if units without a kitchen were illegal, then the prices would just be higher to account for kitchens.
I use it a fair bit for development, provides a seemingly simple way to keep things organized and do 'infra-as-code' and have your ducks in a row with reproducible stack deployments, without the overwhelming overhead of k8s.

It's an absolute dumpster fire though. A serious convoluted mess. They try to indelicately cram something with incredible intrinsic complexity into a happy little (incredibly leaky) abstraction.

docker compose is really what I want, simple service management on one machine. Except, it can't do really basic shit like restart services (this isn't all that obvious at first). So soon you'll find that you need to use docker swarm on the one node, which is similarly chock full of inexplicable and unforeseeable shortcomings.

docker swarm/compose is an interim step on your journey to a better solution. in my judgement it's fine while you're developing your core apps. but once you need to do get serious and go into production, it's time to find a big boy tool
It’s not just a gut feeling though, there is plenty of scientific evidence. And given our evolutionary history and the fact that women give birth, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that women are more interested in people.

I really don’t see the point in denying this, it certainly doesn’t benefit women. Most women probably wouldn’t like to be men.
A way to charge pacemakers using the heart’s own muscle
HN requires time investment, you have to find something to talk about. Twitter is a better format if you're just sharing random thoughts as they come to you.
There is a difference between a disadvantaged person and a disadvantaged group. In my opinion that is the primary issue with prioritizing the needs of disadvantaged groups over the needs of disadvantaged individuals.
> Why beat up on the guy because reporters at the time and afterwards got their facts wrong.

Were is anyone beating up on the guy? You are imagining things that aren't there.
yes, one is academic the other is for people who “are changing the world.”