skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's big pipe is nothing more than a client-side hack to work around a limitation of their server-side architecture.

Both Yahoo and Amazon - that I personally know of - have an infrastructure where components on the page are rendered separately and in parallel, and are stitched together on the HTML layer. The render time is then down to the rendering time of the slowest component, or the slowest dependency chain of components.

Loading content in with JavaScript after the HTML page load is always going to be slower, and perceivably so - look at both Twitter and AirBnb, both have written about how much faster they get content to the user using progressive enhancement.

If you decide that the HTML layer isn't the right layer for content, you are working against the strengths of the Web. And of course, that leads down a path where you are sacrificing SEO, sacrificing robustness.

Your time is better spent figuring out why it takes your server too long to generate content, and put in steps to reduce the server side labour.

The JavaScript include approach isn't quicker. Bustle.com for example, takes 10 seconds to show the first page - that's horrific.
I'm not going to convince you otherwise, but I can try:

* I think prosecuting tax evasion is one reason. It's hotel tax actually and not income tax, but tax evasion is tax evasion. However, I don't see why AirBnB host should play by different rules than a b&b-style guest house.

* Same applies for zoning restrictions. We can debate if the current restrictions are sensible or not, but that's the playground and the rules and we all play by the same rules.

* Hotels are cesspools. Yes, some are. Even chain hotels are. I don't know about NY hotels but I've seen quite a few and they range from "great in all regards" to "glad I'm far away". All in all most hove been acceptable. B&B rentals are on the same scale. At least with hotels there's a place I can report violations to.

I fail to see any reason or moral right that AirBnB host should not have to register as a B&B place, not pay the applicable fees and not adhere to the applicable rules. They're totally free to do that and then advertise on AirBnB. However, the implied reason a lot of hosts don't do that is because their landlord won't allow them to sublet the apartment - but that's a totally different problem. I fail to see any moral right that your landlord has to allow sublets. It's also none of the states business.

There's a lot wrong with governments and corruption and often they're incompetent and played by interested parties, but I think it's wrong to always assume that as the primary cause for government action.
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They both look pretty good, thanks for the suggestions!

As long as its price is reasonable, I don't mind paying for a CMS, but it looks like Anchor fit to my needs better than Statamic. All I want from a CMS is to have its own search and markdown support. That's it. I don't care much about themes and all that. I'm perfectly fine with having white background and black text on top of it centered on the page as a "theme".
I disagree. Don't take me as a "hurrr corporations" person, I am not - hotels, even chain hotels, are at the end of the day run by real people. Your local Best Western is likely run by a family, not suited, faceless corporate officers.

The difference between reviewing them and reviewing an AirBnb isn't how faceless they are, it's how much they can afford it, and how much they can actually use the review as an impetus to improve. That review does no good if it simply means the business folds.

> "The thing is Airbnb originates from the couch surfing and hostel ecosystem"

Ehhhh... I'm not sure if I buy that line of argument. Couchsurfing.org originates from the couch surfing and hostel ecosystems, where the focus is on experience with the host/guests instead of a plainly quid pro quo exchange. AirBnb has no real focus on this experiential exchange and instead has always been very firmly in the "make money on your place" camp.

AirBnb likes to portray themselves as being related to the populist communities of couch surfing and hostels, but I don't see any evidence that they were ever in that space. They certainly aren't now. I was initially an ardent supporter of AirBnb, but their persistently dishonest PR positioning has really turned me off lately; that includes their persistent and annoying efforts at positioning themselves as some sort of populist revolution.

When's the last time AirBnb ever marketed themselves as "find a place, meet cool hosts, go adventuring with your hosts/fellow guests"? Because that's a fundamentally core part of the hosteling and couch surfing ethos. AFAIK this has never been an AirBnb angle.

In fact, if you look at the featured properties (curated by AirBnb themselves) you will see a dramatic dominance in luxury properties, not cute little bungalows where you're likely to hang out with a cool host. The descriptions are also always strictly about the property, not the host, and the photographs are also strictly of the property, not the host.

The host is a small-print detail in the AirBnb model, which makes it almost entirely antithetical to hosteling or couch surfing.
If you fire them fast enough yes. Otherwise, young people expect to work for less but to rise high. Otherwise all the energy you see in the beginning is very fast disappearing.

Also, not all young people actually like to be in tech. They don't know it yet that they should be in sales, business analysis, ... You lose them on a regular basis. Older developer on the other hand are going to be at the place they want to be.
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The thing is, you have laws and tax laws and, for how unjust they might seem, a State has to enforce them, full stop.

Well I just don't think that's so.

A tremendous number of technically illegal things are routinely ignored, downplayed, or considered low priorities for enforcement. Everybody goes a little over the speed limit; everybody jaywalks; genteel, expensive drug-dealing and prostitution are common enough; domestic violence and abuse in all its permutations is unpunished more often than not; and so on ad nauseam.

Law enforcement is always selective enforcement. There just aren't enough executive resources to do anything else.
If that's all you're taking away from these criticisms, then yes - you likely are.
In Sweden, the most visited local site is the #1 tabloid (aftonbladet.se).
See, 40k to his personal pocket and I'd totally believe you. 1.5% of the campaign costs with more donors matching or eclipsing the donation, no, I don't buy this. It's money he never touched.
Not sure why you think that C# is MS-centric. There is nothing about the language that is particularly MS or Windows specific and the .Net Framework was written to be general and cross-platform.
So I'm happy to agree that outsourcing to bad programmers is done by bad managers. That doesn't mean they're not still bad programmers.

And, y'know, even the best organizations make mistakes sometimes. If a company tried outsourcing to India once, for good reasons, discovered the results were bad and has sworn off ever doing it again, it could be there's nothing wrong with the company - it just made a mistake. Less than that in fact - it did a worthwhile experiment and got a negative result.
Scala's compilation was really slow the last time I tried. It's also a really complex language and I found some parts ugly.
It sounds like you're using AirBNB for a longterm sublet...I didn't even know that was possible! I've had nothing but great experiences using it in NYC (>5 times), but then I've always used it for a weekend stay.

Can I ask why you used AirBNB for something so far outside the "normal" zone that it's pitched for? Why not just do a craigslist search for longterm sublets?
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> It's going to be on put to a vote under so called "fast-track" rules; where it's not available for mark up or public comment and will have to get an up or down vote within 24 hours.

Also not true. I'd be interested to see your source for this.

Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, also known as fast track) has expired. It could be renewed before TPP is submitted to Congress, but that is very unlikely. Without TPA, the TPP will be treated like any other bill in Congress.

Even if TPA is renewed, the committees have 45 days each to report the bill, then each house has 15 days to vote up or down. Hardly 24 hours. [1]

If you're looking for a precedent, review the timelines for the Colombia and South Korea free trade agreements. Each was submitted to the Congress under TPA rules...nevertheless the negotiations and debate and revisions took another 3 years before they were passed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Promotion_Authority
I don't get the number of free/paid mummifications? Seems very low, space or bandwidth are abundant.

I think, and with respect to original developer, this is more a feature then an app and probably would help if it would be developed further to target more specific problem/group.

Having said that, I wish you best.
When can you call yourself an app developer?
One consistent thing I've seen on the outsourcing front is there are those in the management chain (and thus the ones who sign off on outsourcing) that will insist on setting up some form of outsourcing -- first just the non-business critical stuff; a little later on more and more will be outsourced. This can be fine and a good way to grow.

However, many of the times I have encountered this there was a desire to do more outsourcing where the quality of prior work didn't merit the expansion. More often than not, the one insisting on the outsourcing had some sort of personal relationship with the group the outsourced work was going to.

This happened with a couple of different regions/nationalities.

Why relevant to this article? It's not just about pay, but specifically with outsourcing, you need to look at whether or not the decision makers are listening to feedback about the quality of work produced or insisting on steaming ahead regardless.
What I find fascinating about the video is how "human" it looks when trying to stay upright. I doubt they've tried to emulate human behavior as such, it just emerges when trying to redistribute weight.
This is just straight Debian, with no ChromeOS, on a Chromebook Pixel. <http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt>

> When the boot screen appears hit Ctrl-L, SeaBIOS will come up and say "Hit ESC to choose boot device" so hit ESC and choose the USB device you plugged in.

[...]

> Every time you boot up you'll need to do that Ctrl-L song and dance, since unfortunately you can't make SeaBIOS the default 30-sec timeout selection.
I used Masscomp's version of this, it was sort of neat.
They did it (if I remember correctly, long time ago) with a symlink that contained an environmental variable.

/usr/lib -> /usr/$UNIVERSE/lib

or something like that.

It was a little disgusting having the kernel grok env vars but it worked quite well.
I realize this may be slightly off-topic, but is there something like this that focuses on building cross-platform apps that have native UIs?

I've obviously seen wxWidgets, but I'd even be interested in commercial offerings.
"Digital hoarding isn't just backing up your family photos"

It could include that but doesn't require it.

Analogy would be crazy cat lady doesn't have 100 of anything with fin fur or feathers, she's got 100 cats. That doesn't mean crazy home zoo guy in florida with 10 aligators and a tiger isn't any more or less whackier if its messing up their lives just as much.

Also the criteria is not the useful or not, its the impact on life and human happiness. I have a full digital set of all star trek episodes from all TV series... ever... if I lost them I would be pissed for awhile, but I wouldn't cry freak out drive around looking for backups in a panic and get in way over my head technically (which for me would be way more extreme than the guy in the original story). Kinda like some folks without an alcohol problem can drink a couple beers without negatively impacting their lives, but a pretty good working definition of a guy with an alcohol problem is he drinks the same beers and his life totally falls off the rails... the problem is the impact on life not specific ethanol molecules.

Everyone likes your second paragraph. The problem is for some/most people its exclusively a positive activity, and for others the positive comes with epic legendary freakout mode. The problem is the epic freakout mode not liking pix or putting in a reasonable non life impacting effort to curate their pixs.
Never said it would actually happen. Just said I would love it if it did.
Totally agree with the post. I see lots of software professional in this field who really don't want to code.
No, but if someone accepts to be paid very little, you can be almost sure he's not one of the best.
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And a prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5831512

There are many others too, but with few points and comments
If that's the case, I don't know how any accused drug dealer or mafioso ever gets a lawyer. Or what happened to presumption of innocence.
I can't read this site; (very) light grey on white background is invisible.
If it's something personal, I use http://archive.is with their bookmarklet in Chrome (free; unlimited archiving). It immediately renders the page, saves a copy with a unique url, and gives me a .zip link to download the archive.

If it's something I want to submit to the Internet Archive, I use wget with WARC extensions (http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou...), submit the archive to the IA and notify them it needs to be merged in, and keep the .tar.gz archive.

Eventually I'll webapp/one-click the whole thing, with an archive to S3 and/or Glacier.

Disclaimer: archiveteam participant
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Our startup http://www.powerlancer.com (business management tool for freelancers) went live a few weeks ago. Months ago, when we were just a sign up page and a video you guys gave us some advices, some of you even signed up and gave us feedback. Just wanted to thank you all for your support: Thank you :)
Some of my experience on hiring "older" engineers (I currently have over 10 years experience in software eng/dev):

1. They have a family with responsibilities, sick kids, and dance recitals, etc.

The bad:

Leads to, less professional growth outside of work, more personal days, more sick days, more personal phone calls during work.

The good:

Once comfortable, they rarely leave the job unless forced out.

2. They attempt to solve every problem with the same set of solutions. Few attempt to find new technologies or try different things.

The bad:

The implementation may not be the best one available that will set up the business for future success.

The good:

Solutions are generally predictable.

3. Lack of motivation to prove themselves.

The bad:

The project deadlines are just met. They do just what's asked of them and not more.

The good:

Deadlines are met. They don't try to tackle mroe than they are capable of by expanding the problem domain.
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No, it'll make all other bitcoins more valuable, so long as the market believes said bitcoins are permanently out of circulation (not likely though, as the Feds will auction / sell them off as they do with other seized assets).
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> It's not an ageism problem ... Old people by their nature ...

Sums it up. Very well said.
Lyrics sites have been in the copyright crosshairs for 15 years now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Lyrics_Server

It's not super clear to me how someone like Rap Genius is getting around this. Their policy page says they respect DMCA requests, but if they are unlicensed, they would get a DMCA request for every single page on their site. So my guess is some kind of blanket license to someone like the Harry Fox Agency. They have the money for it.
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We all use 1Password; up until the new version it was a PITA to share passwords though. Tended to be a 'shout it out across the office' thing.

So we built a little hackday prototype to help out: http://shhare.io/ . Would love feedback!
You returned rubbish for rubbish. Younger people have to work more because they don't work efficiently? Absolute garbage.

I've met my fair share of older devs writing terrible code and taking their sweet ass time to do it. They just clock out on time and go home, safe in their assumption that their mission-critical piece will need their personal maintenance for another decade.
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First I had to make an account.

Then it doesnt work. Stuck at "caching page".

I hate you.
Yes, Ghost is, at least to me, superior in numerous ways, and especially for that awesome editor, but I also believe it depends on usage.
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> I generally use 1Password standalone, but it's a bit weak for sharing.

1Password 4 introduces "Shared Vaults"
That being said, cultures on the asian subcontinent seem to have a certain way of avoiding the word "no".

So while they will charge the $20 per hour, they will assure you that their work will be completely up to par with the $200 per hour work of experienced developers.
Usually there will also be a problem with quality/time estimation. I've seen a few "will this be done in two weeks?" questions result in a "Yes, certainly answer" although no engineer I knew would have said this was possible.
At least that was my experience in a few larger projects that had to outsource some of the programming.

I know that agencies in the US/EU tend to market themselves pretty aggressively too, but not QUITE as aggressively :)
Because there are never "not enough men" in some field, it's always "not enough women."
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And it's not just tenants renting out their apartments without their landlord's knowledge, I have friends living in a loft building in Greenpoint where the owner no longer rents out the spaces long term. Instead he furnishes the units and rents them out to tourists on airbnb whenever he can get a unit to vacate. This takes units off the market -- in an already scarce market -- and forces normal people to live in buildings run as hotels.
:)

Our study group has done two Scala tracks (and currently studying Akka and reactive programming).

Ruby and Scala make my head hurt. I don't have a mental model for what's happening under the hood. Unlike LISP, Forth, Java, etc.

I really do want a refined, simplified Java. My wishlist of features are gleened from Boo (minus the duck typing), Nice, and Kava (lightweight objects).

http://boo.codehaus.org

http://nice.sourceforge.net

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.3...

Honorable mention for Frink (preserves units).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frink
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>> Second, no one has 20 years of relevant experience.

Depends on what level you're talking about, I suppose.

I'll grant that nobody has 20 years of experience in JSON. However, a guy with twenty years of experience in services through CORBA->SOAP->REST and could be invaluable on an API project, for example. Especially if it's a project that should be built to last.
Croatia is pretty nice actually. But the "no extradition" days are over now that it joined the EU.
Boris from http://meldium.com (YC W13) here. We've built a solution to help teams do just this and our customers include companies like PagerDuty and Hipmunk. Ideally, you never have to share passwords as everyone on your team would have an individual login. Major cloud services like Google, Salesforce & co handle this well. However, there are still thousands of web apps out there that have yet to build a multi-user experience (it's a lot of work). Meldium allows you to bring all of these modes together: whether you want multiple people to access your team's Twitter account or you want to add/remove an employee from all your cloud services with one-click.

Unlike a lot of other password managers, you don't have to share a whole vault. You can choose exactly which applications various team-members should have access to. Even better, Meldium automatically logs users into their apps on Firefox and Chrome (more to come).
> Very young employees can sometimes be too aggressive about "what is this legacy garbage?

The flipside: I'm old now, but can remember when I was young in the early 2000s.

At the time I was in the Unix space. Older engineers were adamantly pushing Solaris 6 and 8 on incredibly overpriced, poorly performing UltraSPARC over Red Hat on Xeon, for the blindingly obvious reason than they didn't really like learning anything new.

Of course, that was private: to anyone unfamiliar with the platform, they'd simply say that 'you couldn't get support for Linux'. They knew this was false - IBM and Red Hat were banging down their door to sell support contracts (still far cheaper than Sun's rubbish hardware + good support contracts), and Red Hat had hired a lot of Sun's staff - but if they made enough noise, they thought they could slow things down.

It worked, for a couple of years.

(Later on I realised that enterprise architecture purchasing choices are frequently based on dinners, golf tournaments, and straight up dropping cash into your account, but that's a separate story. )

Short version: older engineers can be overly change averse, much like younger engineers can be overly enthusiastic about change.
Perfect! you will find lots of developer charging comparatively, but the quality of work they produce is real crap.
Except there are 70's languages (Modula-2), 80's (Ada) and 90's (Turbo Pascal/Delphi), that offered more powerful compiler toolchains.

However, given C++'s requirement to be kept compatible with UNIX toolchain model, we suffer from a 70's model in C++.
As far as rent control's end of it, I call bullshit. There are fewer than 40,000 rent controlled apartments left in NYC. Rent stabilization is a lot higher (~800k) but it's not as good at keeping the prices down.

There are much worse problems constraining housing supply like how NY is zoned (though Bloomberg did a lot to change this). Zoning that controls the Floor-Area Ratio in many neighborhoods keeps old 4-story tenement buildings from being knocked down in favor of denser housing.

Worse still are minimum parking requirements where landlords are forced to build or provide parking to tenants when it's just not possible. Sunnyside, Queens is the perfect example of this problem.
As a Croatian, living in Croatia, I can re-affirm your position. He would get extradited with a complimentary cake for CIA in no time at all. Our ties with US are deeper than the ones with EU, and we are a EU member. Hell, even our chief intelligence officer has dual citizenship (US and Croatian).
Kind of weird how he wrote his own string class, as well as rewriting some other perfectly good standard library stuff.

His version of scoped_ptr seems to fake rvalue references without actually using rvalue references, but does so in a copy constructor. IMO this is a bit bonkers. If you're not going to use rvalue references I think move semantics is better done from a method, not a copy constructor.

Still looks like a handy library for wrapping things that are otherwise not portable.

Edit: I was mainly basing that comment from looking at juice_core... There's a crapton of other stuff too. Impressive for a one-person work.
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No worries. I've doubled check on the apple UIKit - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...