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December, 10. It's DD-MM-YYYY formatting.
Naturally, I'm not implying they are Noam Chomsky. Your rhetoric is very aggressive yet not really saying anything. I provide a source, and you don't.
If I ever campaign for something you'll know it's me after recognizing that cruelty/compassion line ;)
This is partly because the private security force employed by the wealthy Bass brothers forcefully (and sometimes violently) discourage the homeless from existing in downtown Fort Worth, especially the Sundance Square area.

I used to work downtown (Oil & Gas Commerce building) and became friends with the night-shift security guard, who told some really shocking stories about how the Bass goons would drag the homeless into alleys and beat them, simply for existing in downtown Ft. Worth.
It's not surprising intercom has raised their prices so much given intercom has raised close to 300M, they really need to push their pricing up into ACVs where they can pay for the sales organization they've been building, and grow top line revenue.

I expect drift to adopt a similar pricing approach (raised 100M) to justify their valuation and push their ACVs up.

I appreciate the shoutout for http://www.olark.com (raised 85k total including YC) and noticed a few comments about the visitor UI being a bit dated -- I agree with the sentiment, or did, but we recently updated the visitor UI and it's currently live on Olark.com and will be rolled out to all customers by January. Probably time to update that review ;)

Live chat software was instrumental in helping me compete when launching my first hosting company, and a must have for startups, glad we are still hitting that niche well :) --- also have a bunch of really exciting things in the pipeline, I'll drop them on a Show HN when they are ready.
Docker compose is too dang easy to use. It took me like an hour to get all the services like I wanted them, and it’s reasonably portable if I ever need to move the services to a different box. And I’ve had stuff break on apt upgrade before, but I haven’t had trouble with updated containers (if I build them or get them from hub).

K8s at home would make me wake up in a cold sweat at night to make sure I didn’t break something though. That’s way too much.
I used to TA and have seen several of these essay farms in the most amusing ways.

- Embedded metadata in the PDF of a long, foreign name that was not the student's (as Author:)

- An email to several TAs + prof for the course with the student's personal information sent by the essay farm because the student was harassing the essay farm over payment/cost/speed, including live chat logs of the student calling them "pakis" (the essay farm was based in the Philippines)

- Two students purchased and turned in an identical essay except the words were re-spun (bullshit synonym replacement, automated) to the point that both were unreadable to a native English speaker. It was clear neither of them had even read through it before submitting it at 23:59

A fair chunk of bought essays (under $100-150, probably, not the truly bespoke "pay2win" type) are nearly just the Wikipedia article regurgitated with irrelevant citations or sources that just vaguely match the keywords.
It's surprising that you can't conceive of a tax being confiscatory instead of merely being for the paying of something.
Who buys products when 1% of the population has most of the resources? Henry Ford was a capitalist, be he recognized that production required buyers. Buyers need money. Income inequality concentrates that money.

I am excited to see a new generation of corporate leaders rediscover stakeholder capitalism and reject shareholder primacy. Pay employees more, reduce leadership pay and watch markets expand as a result.
OpenDroneMap 2.1.0 – The Biggest Update Yet?
You're off by almost an order of magnitude [1]. Even if we say the official estimates are off by a huge margin and there are actually 20,000 homeless in SF, that's $30K per person, on top of however many millions are given out via begging and other programs. It's insanity.

[1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population
I think incangold was implying you were spouting ad hominem.
Liberal politics, Covid-19, and a high CoL are fueling a new CA exodus
Sir Peter Venkman: "He slimed me. I feel so funky"
What I took away from the Amazon pageant was that companies choose locations mostly by access to natural or social resources (educated workers, in Amazon's case). Same as always. But big companies can humor more towns to gin up bidding wars.
Having similar feelings about prezly
Bingoooooo. If his code is so crucial to your company, you should probably be donating to him to help pay these bills so then companies aren't the bad guy for giving thousands of dollars away for free so you can benefit off other peoples work.
The other states haven't finished counting either, they have a large margin for one candidate, so the remaining uncounted votes are extremely unlikely to changing the leading candidate.

In swing states however, the probability of uncounted votes
changing the leading candidate is much higher, which is why the news is focusing on them.
> You can purchase a 5K sqft lot outside of Austin for $2,200

How many miles away from the city though?
This was the most thorough article I've seen on the topic. They cover various reasons people are leaving, where they're going, and how they're being received. The only stone left unturned is what impact this might have on CA real estate prices.
Maybe if other states could be blocked from buying one way bus tickets for their homeless citizens and instead be responsible that would help.
> The approved 2019 Department of Defense discretionary budget is $686.1 billion.[34] It has also been described as "$617 billion for the base budget and another $69 billion for war funding."

You don't think it possible the US military could be any smaller and still defend its nation? Invading Iraq hasn't really had any fruitful outcomes, but absorbed more than a trillion of dollars of tax payer funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Aftermat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
It’s a Great Idea to Move to a Small Town in Europe If Your Candidate
Some of these city measures are carefully created to funnel money into the general fund. Our Prop I says it’s for something, but the board of supervisor who’s pushing the idea admitted there’s no guarantee the funds will go to what it was put on the ballot for. The money from Prop I will go into the general fund. Why is this important? The city has a huge pension liability they’re not able to renegotiate and keep from obligations to keep paying it. The city’s budget for next year is somewhere near $13b. Yes billion. For a city of 800k, our budget is $13b.
> Olsen claimed that Miami University had accepted the company’s terms and conditions on behalf of Johnson, and that Johnson allegedly violated those terms when he tweeted about the code.

Universities have authority to bind their students to 3rd party contracts?
I rather this then let those suffering live a poor life. I'll gladly pay my taxes to help those in need.
> I think it's more likely that Apple's new frameworks don't require any fancy hardware features

Mojave and higher isn’t “supported” on the cheese grater Mac Pro’s despite it running more than fine, including with FileVault 2 enabled on the boot volume (which an Apple exec tried to claim was technically not possible).
There was a lot of emphasis on interpreting what the snail represents. I didn't see mention of it possibly being that the snail is just and snail and the imagery is a commentary on the aristocracy being self-important and braggarts. One might imagine a tin-pot knight going on at length about his great battles and duels, with a scribe in the background chuckling to his friends, "the only armored opponent he's ever seen is a snail".
Would Microsoft care about youtube-dl? Aside from their recent gesturing towards open source, I can't see a scenario in which they'd even say anything. Considering how often youtube-dl has to be updated and re-downloaded, they might even be happy to get that load off GitHub.
It also pays for education, and you don't need to look at the US for long to see why it's worth investing in having literate citizens.
Ask HN: As a junior to mid level engineer what advice do you have for seniors?
What would you want to give as an advice to senior engineers / management?
I am not sure that this is much worse than the US. The government gets about 44% of what it costs to employ me (that is, I'm including taxes that the employer pays the government, but come before the negotiated salary, if that makes any sense). I then pay about 9% tax on everything I buy (8.875% technically). This doesn't include any healthcare, housing, food, or savings for my retirement.

The cost of having a society is high. The big difference between Europe and the US is that there is some sort of safety net if you become unable to work. Here, you get a cardboard box under the highway and a stern lecture to try harder next time from a 104-year-old politician that's never had a real job in their life. It's good when it's good, but it can get bad fast.
The only downside is that k3s takes almost half a gig of ram. That does bump up the minimum VPS side a bit. It is overkill, but, in my mind, it is wonderful & greatly liberating overkill.

It feels a little silly setting up a webserver the first time with a 45 line yaml file, but as you continue to make your way in the world, kubernetes is just such an amazingly pleasant top-down way of controlling systems, where it's so easy to see what you have, to see what is behaving and what isn't, and it's so easy to talk & share & communicate with other people about what you are doing versus trying to understand some handjammed nonsense a previous sysop scratched together 4 years ago.

I'm rapidly planning out how to extend my Kubernetes life further. I've spent years writing Ansible scripts to automate setting up workstations, but I'd really like to switch over the bulk of the things I rely on to being more Kubernetes based. For example, I run prometheus's node-exporter to monitor the health of my systems. But if the config changes, or if I add a plugin, or if I start using a new laptop, I need to go re-run the script, and any other scripts. With Kubernetes, I can create a daemonset and it's fire and forget. It'll run on every node, and any changes I make will get applied to all nodes, whenever the node comes online or joins. Also my prometheus server wont need to be manually updated to point to these nodes when they get added.

Quick note: K3s embed kubectl and helm in it; the install script symlinks helm and kubectl to the k3s binary. Also crictl for the container runtime tool. If you ask for k3s, you get these other things.
Congrats on the first OSS repo. Looks great. It’s a pretty interesting and slick way to go about it.
Did I say the two compared?

You implied that they were starving while we were not. That's simply not true.
50 miles is really far. You can get the exact same prices in California if you're willing to drive 50 miles outside SF / Bay Area proper.
My kids really enjoyed The Hungry Caterpillar and Puppy Peek-a-Boo. That was when they were too young to have preferences or choose their own books.

Adults at a loss for something to read might choose to read the classics. They’re called classics for a reason.
If you spent time reading the article instead of leaving lies, maybe you'd know:

> The CEO tax is expected to generate between $60 million to $140 million per year. Haney said he wants most of the money directed towards health services.
Many torpedoes are wire-guided. Using a fast, loud torpedo as a counter attack will make the enemy strongly consider cutting those wires and immediately changing course in effort to save themselves.
That might be 0.1% of the city’s land area. Not really a significant cause. If you applied that exact same factor to Austin there would still be a ton of homeless people everywhere.
This is because USA is a real democracy where every ballot is properly validated before counted to ensure there is no electorial fraud going on. This is in contrast to those of other countries we hear about on the news such as Belarus, Venezuela and Bolivia.
They have ambulances in the US too. Also, isn't Finland a country where you pay health insurance? If that is free, a lot of things in the US suddenly are free as well.
How many billion dollar start ups came out of the Austin ecosystem? SF is expensive because it is productive. It’s producing wealth so prices go up. If you want to raise money, recruit talent SF adds value which is paid for with hire expenses. I would rather own equity in a high growth start up than 3 rental houses; at least from a growth perspective.
The people posting here are the ones who are going to be taxed, that's why they are complaining.
Oh my. I feel like I will never understand California politics. Such blatant corruption and such a large vulnerable population, but also such a huge 'woke' electorate. It would take some crazy mental gymnastics to reconcile these things.
No lie one of the big inspirations for this post came from a time I was stuck waiting in a bank teller line where both tellers were blocked by long tasks, and noticing how much faster things moved when one of them freed up.
Invaded twice, but not occupied. Indeed, I believe Helsinki and London were the only capitals of non-neutral European countries that were not occupied during the WW2.
I believe this is an opportunity. Say anonymous/private recaptcha software or services.
> What this does is, it collects money from today's FAANGs while disincentivizing future startups from starting here.

So you're saying entrepreneurs wouldn't start companies in SF because some day their companies will pay 0.1% tax if they make 100x the average employee?

That's all it takes for founders to get discouraged? Well then maybe they should not start up in the first place.
It's amazing... amazing to me the confused looks I get from people when they start telling me their venmo credentials or whatever and I just hand them a 20 dollar bill for my share of lunch.

It's exhausting explaining to people that I am fine with them having an extra dollar and two cents over what I owe if the alternative is giving my fucking banking password to some california cowboy company that doesn't have to follow banking regulations.
This is an entirely reasonable concern and I agree with it. If you're not in the US (or you're young / otherwise don't know people with horror stories) it may not make sense to you, and yes, it's awful that it's realistic, but it's still realistic.

1. Coverage by medical insurance, in the US, does not generally translate to 100% coverage. For a variety of reasons, including coinsurance, copays, out-of-network coverage (especially common if there's some sort of emergency), in-network coverage beyond what's covered (e.g., the doctor says "this is medically necessary" and some bureaucrat at the insurance company says "I disagree"), and so forth, you can have a medical insurance plan and still be on the hook for large amounts of money.

(I don't think you implied this, but just to clarify, "making good money" is typically not strongly correlated with having good insurance. Because of how byzantine medical insurance is, it's hard for a potential employee to figure out what their offered benefits will actually cover, so it's generally not a factor in negotiations at all, unlike actual salary, and in turn higher-paying employers don't have a particularly strong reason to offer better insurance plans.)

2. You can have a "life-threatening condition" that is easily manageable via modern medicine. Take diabetes, for instance - life-threatening if unmanaged, but very well-understood in how to manage it. I have a friend with a chronic condition that requires taking an (expensive, only partially covered by high-tech-employee insurance plans) injection once a month. As long as they take that injection they're fine; their body becomes effectively unusable without it. I know multiple people who have beaten cancer; I don't think any of them would say that the actual process of beating it was easy (or cheap). The whole reason you care about medical care is so that "life-threatening conditions" stop being life-threatening.

Also, we have this pandemic going around which absolutely can be life-threatening, but even among the people who get very sick with it, many of them come out of it fine provided they have immediate high-quality medical care.

3. Beyond the assumption that the person you're replying to is treating family poorly... the amounts of money in question are generally larger than can even be pooled across many family members and large support networks, even if they all have substantial savings on their own. And even if technically I can manage to pay off a medical bill by exhausting my life savings and those of my extended family, what happens when someone else in the family gets sick?
Small plug: consider using Toast [1] to define your CI jobs. It's essentially Make + Docker. You define whatever targets you want (build, test, lint, etc.) and the dependencies between them in a YAML file, and Toast runs them in Docker containers. You can run your jobs on any machine that has Docker—including CI systems like Travis and GitHub Actions. You aren't locked into any CI system, and you can also run your jobs locally.

[1] https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
Apple did something like this with A/UX back in the day (their variant of Unix which apple sold for its 68k machines). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX The tool that did this was called Commando; I'm not sure if it was hand-crafted, or automatic.

A huge part of the problem is that `man` pages really are only softly standardized, and just, commandline options in general are just softly standardized. They don't all obey the same rules for spaces, capitalization, usage of dashes, etc - they're close, but it's far from consistent.

What we ought to have done at some point, would have been to rebuild the whole suite of commandline utils - to make them all do an ironclad standard, and probably even make them all spit out a totally normalized data format like JSON, man pages included, so that external tools could be built around them way easier without everyone having to write their own parser (or - having to write a generalized parser with tons of 'special-case exemptions' for all the CLI tools that break the rules).

There have been several attempts, but nobody's been willing to do the big "rip off the bandaid" and take the pain of breaking legacy scripts.
For folks who don't know, Tobias Lutke is a CEO of Shopify. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_L%C3%BCtke

BTW, I am not surprised. A technical, programmer, CEO can always write code. Nothing wrong with that. It's just like an exercise. It is amazing that is able to do that.
I bet 99% of people think they are actually securely logging in to their bank.

I wonder what the fallout will be if plaid eventually gets hacked.
Here in Australia it's not uncommon for Tutors to do the assignment and exam marking (usually these are post graduate students, I think they call these people Teaching Assistants or similar in US).

So from the Professors point of view it doesn't make much difference which method they use, the grading will get palmed off anyway.

An Oral exam similar to what you have to go through with a Thesis defense is an interesting option, I don't think has been considered. Instead of giving out a take home test. Why not give each student a 10 minute skype call with the professor while he grills them. Would make it easy to see who really understands the topic and prevent rote memorizations etc.
Sure all the systems suck currently (except hire by internal reference, that one works great). Just because all the systems suck doesn't mean that something better might be possible. And part of finding the something better is understanding what doesn't work about the current systems.
If bad actors could derive $10 on average from 1MM phones, vulnerabilities would cost substantially more than $2-3MM.
"DMCA 1201 says that it's illegal to bypass a digital lock in order to access or modify a copyrighted work."

No, 1201 says, among other things, that it is a violation of the Copyright Act (which may only carry civil liability, so not necessarily "illegal") to share the means to circumvent access controls to a copyrighted work. That is the part of 1201 the RIAA cited in its letter.

It is the sharing that is the alleged 1201 violation. Not any circumvention.
This one is
In the paper, the hacker news, every day I am
If they are an authorized representative of the company that does own the work, put that work in the public domain.

If they have no public work, fines or jailtime.

Wishful thinking in all cases though.
Perhaps trying to balance the “capture” of SV engineers? We wouldn’t want the world to fall over if the population balance got out of whack, right?
> a word in their language that sounds like "football" to refer to soccer

Isn't that word, "football"?
I don’t think they’ve done things right; they were granted access to the global trade network and had wages at pennies on the dollar from other countries. It would be almost impossible not to grow under those circumstances. Let’s see if their decisions are as effective when wages are more on parity and they are competing as peer economic levels.
Depends who owns the shopping mall
We call them cache keys. We use a hash of entirely arbitrary data you want a cache item to invalidate on when that data changes.

For example, a cached snippet of HTML for a related products section should invalidate if the product IDs change, so you hash the Item ID with the product IDs and bam, you got a cache key that will let you know when you need to reprocess that snippet.

Put that bad boy as a child of another snippet and you can cache the whole lot. It's cache keys all the way down!

Caveat: not worth the engineering effort for simple systems, just use an FPC and call it a day.
Quite right. The us$ is up with a large support of the 20 aircraft carrier you have. As said you cannot pay the firman when there is fire.
Thanks for the feedback! Here's a little blurb about us if you're curious https://papercups.io/blog/story

And we'll get on setting up an About page soon :)
This is only true of Marketplace plans (which are, increasingly, very bad deals is you're not actively using your insurance - even back in 2015 when I was looking for Marketplace plans for myself, I could easily spend close to that amount on the premiums of plans that had high deductibles/coinsurance/etc. and it's not like the Marketplace has gotten more competitive since then), and I think it's only true of expenses that the insurance company is willing to cover - if you get treatment out of network, or if you get treatment beyond what's insured (e.g. you get "elective" surgery on the medical advice of your doctor to avoid a bigger problem later), I don't believe those are covered by the out-of-pocket max.
Stripe Dashboards Are Down
I don’t think there are any open implementations of data type aware DVCS yet (would be glad to be proved wrong). However, I believe a reliable file/line DVCS based on sound patch theory would be a step in the right direction. A type-aware DVCS not based on sound patch theory would probably be a disaster.
But which is which? A proper massage both takes longer and is more uncomfortable than a prostate exam.
Is there such a thing as SVG but where you can define a subshape and reuse it elsewhere in the file?
In addition to what sawjet mentioned with wire guided torpedos, I think they might also have hoped for the nuclear warhead the VA-111s originally had to destroy the incoming torpedo. By being particularly fast, the supercavitating torpedo may have intercepted the enemy torpedo soon enough for that to work.. maybe.