skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I'd answer some of your questions, as the person that pays the bill.

1. This can be cheaper on AWS. We've been meaning to move to reserve instances, paying a year at a time, for a while and simply haven't done it yet.

2. Fastly has already donate CDN usage to us, but we haven't fully utilized it yet as we're (slowly) sort out some issues between primary gem serving and the bundler APIs.

3. RubyCentral pays the bill and can afford to do so via the proceeds generated from RubyConf and RailsConf.

4. The administration is an all volunteer (myself included) effort. Because of that, paying a premium to use AWS has it's advantages because it allows more volunteers have help out given the well traveled platform. In the past, RubyGems was hosted on dedicated hardware within Rackspace. While this was certainly cheaper, it created administrative issues. Granted those can be solved without using AWS, but we get back to again desiring to have as low of friction on the administration as possible.

Any other questions?
I'm really excited to see scoobi listed here as it's something I have really grown to love over the last couple of years. I find that it's very flexible and end up using it for jobs that do more unconventional mapred things.
OMG, why am I not surprised now.
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That doesn't faze or surprise me. Do not get me started on the bigness or inscrutability of the universe.
Great points, thanks for the detailed response.

I guess my counter-argument would be that network effects will be powerful for cryptocurrencies - so as for example Bitcoin grows more popular, the incentives for using it grow, the disincentives for using anything else grow smaller.

I'll admit that that's a fairly unimaginative hypothesis (Bitcoin > everything else)...

Honestly cryptocoins make my head hurt. I think it's very hard trying to imagine how things will unfold. I don't know how to think about them yet.
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> I just can't bring myself to mundane, boring work.

The problem is that even really interesting/fun projects and jobs consist of an overwhelming amount of mundane and boring tasks. Building a race car? Someone still has to crimp connectors, run hundreds of feet of wire, clean grease off of tools at the end of the night and buy gas. You either have or develop the grit to power through these tasks so you can enjoy the fun stuff or you develop an appreciation for the mundane tasks and learn to enjoy them. Nobody wants to work on a team with the guy that gets really excited, does a few interesting parts of a project then wanders off when the rest of the grunt work needs to be completed.
Nice editor. Though I wonder with all the font links lately, is the world really short on fonts? Shouldn't Google fonts and the like just about cover any need?
"After" could be any period of time.
Vision is great but it doesn't pay the bills
>iOS users actually buy apps, use them, and spend money in them which is extremely rare amongst android users

So do Android users. Over a year ago iOS and Android phone apps were dead even in revenues. [1]

Android tablets are behind the curve still, but for the first time Android tablets are outselling iPads -- Android tablets took 62% of the market in 2013. [2]

It will take a while for that lead to actually cause Android tablet revenues to exceed iPad revenues, but it seems inevitable. So in eventually the Android tablet revenue numbers will match or exceed the iPad's as well.

>the devices themselves are (as pg wrote) just too much better designed compared to to even the best android phones

iPhones are nice, but they totally don't trump the features if that's what you care about. I have the Nexus 5 and I wouldn't give it up for an iPhone; the screen size alone makes a huge difference to me.

The Lightning connector is elegant. But I can buy a micro-USB cable for a dollar; a Lightning cable is at least $9. I can have extra cables everywhere I need one for next to nothing. And yes, getting the polarity wrong sucks, but having a standardized cable that works on ALL the devices I need to charge is even better.

It depends on what you care about.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/03/27/android...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/gartner-195m-tablets-sold-i...
Probably should get a new HR manager.
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If it was HR, they should be fired and find a new career. If it was a recruiter they should sever ties with that recruiter.
Do you know who are the biggest consumers of bandwidth? I would guess the CI servers (Travis, Circle)
This is a subjective example but... In the last 6 months I've been prescribed medical cannabis and after trying it for the first time in my life I was able to understand and analyze both film and music more in-depth.

For example, although I had seen the Xena: Warrior Princess musical episode "The Bitter Suite" before numerous times it wasn't until under the influence was I able to emotionally and mentally understand the allegory of the episode.

Basically, the symbolism of Gabrielle having a "demon" child forced into her against her will, who Xena considered a monster and wanted to kill whilst Gabrielle blamed herself for it's inception is a very clear metaphor of a rape. It took a strong emotional attachment to the journey of the main characters to truly appreciate as well as understand the message encoded in the symbolism. It may not be "profound" as the meaning of everything but realizing that with my own devices was at least enlightening.

In my very limited experience mind altering drugs seem to turn off/lessen the assumptions one makes, to step outside the critical path and analyze information more in-depth.

[Edit] Correcting auto-correct
WordPerfect was great because it was essentially a text editor with a markup language. When formatting wasn't coming out quite right it could be debugged easily with by pressing the key to "reveal codes".

The other thing that made WordPerfect great was their technical support. Free and unlimited over the phone...and they new what they were talking about and if it was a genuine bug, they would have an engineer call you back on their dime. Or at least that's what happened when I found a bug in Summer of 1992.

Microsoft Word buries its formatting. Sometimes it's easier to just nuke a file to text and reformat the whole thing than to try to solve conflicting formats overlapping.
I'll just note, that after coming back to C after a while in ruby/python/ungh, perl land everything in C99 and C11 has been a welcome change.

Seeing lack of adoption to things like just stdbool.h or even C99 initializer syntax is somewhat amusing. I understand backwards compatibility and all but there seems a general unwillingness to abandon C89 which I can only think is due to the microsoft toolchain.

As to c++ support clang has been really spearheading the implementation of new c++ standards and last I recall they even found bugs or inconsistencies. It always pays to have at least one implementation before standardizing I think.
happened to me, too, some folks from hr and finance would disclose to their friends in the office over lunch and then word just spread like wildfire. however, i work abroad (shanghai), and sure it was awkward for me personally as there was lots of jealousy and spite amongst so called peers, but the main onus was on upper management to retain people, so you'd see someone clearly not my equal get promoted twice in a year. for the record, i worked in the states for a long time so my pay scale was obviously going to be different from local pay.
A very good question. I'll see about crunching some of the logs to break it down by subnet.
If you've been in the bitcoin world since at least before the first MtGox "crash" at $40 then it would be obvious which events he's talking about.

Granted it's being being turned into a narrative but the history is spot on. I wouldn't have bothered putting in sources if I were him either, it's time consuming and those who know the history of the events wouldn't need it.
Either everyone knows you are worth it and respects you, or you are an overpaid fraud, or your teammates are underpaid. Either way, sunshine is the best disinfectant.
"Naver’s early attempts to get into big foreign markets went badly" =>

The results were miserable to say the least. The anti-pattern to the failure to foray into foreign markets has been monopolizing the local markets with its gigantic capital. This is not just for Naver, but the one shared by virtually all conglomerates born out of Korea.
I can see this being a problem if you think you are "pulling one over" on the folks making less, but if you've got some reasoning to back it up, you just own up to it. If it makes you "feel bad" then take a deep look inside yourself and ask why that is.

If your boss doesn't think you add 3X the value of one of your team then you've got a bigger problem still. One of the biggest challenges in tech is that people who stay at the same company for a long time can get 'ratcheted' up to a salary that is over their actual value. Correcting that usually involves a conversation about your future elsewhere.
Yeah, source code release for ancient games would be nice, to say the least. I don't understand why NOBODY does it. (apart from Mechner)
I just called the telephone service MtGox have (+81 3-4588-3922 ) and the only info I could get out of the Japanese girl was that all account informations are intact and it will be possible to log in on the website later some day. She was speaking a lot about stuff going on in court right now that has to finish, but nobody knows how long it can take.

Called for about 5 minutes. Queue wait time was short, below 30 seconds.
He truly belongs to the breed that Apple's 'Think Different' commercial describes:

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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
yeah, because real life totally works like that
I don't have any idea why this person would want to get into the legality of this. If you didn't sign up for an open door policy, it is certainly a breach of privacy in an ethical sense but ... You're the one making more money, is this the worst thing imaginable? OK, you colleagues at a startup may be unhappy with this fact but does this really matter that much in reality? On some level, it just seems like you should just take the money not care so much. Sure, if it bothers you, you should bring it up and perhaps the HR person should be disciplined. If it bothers you that much then probably you should move on but I don't think anyone would benefit by bringing discussion of legality here.
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I worked somewhere where I found out after the fact that I made twice as much as my peers. I also was given harder tasks and higher expectations. So you make 3x... do the work to show how you earned it. If they resent it, keep working.

At the end of the day, experience is one thing, but you need to show the value on a day to day basis, not just how you earned it in retrospect.
Yeah, I see how a lot of the skill will apply in both fields, however they feel a universe apart (at least for me). I remember trying to do a pretty simple game (think space invaders clone) in Java and if I'm honest - I struggled (a lot). Now when it comes to the web (both frond-end and back-end) I'm flying. Having said all of that, It might be just that I'm a shitty programmer.
Unless it is in a contract or some such, I am not sure that you have a right to privacy about your salary information.

Honestly though, this is the kind of thing that is probably best to clear the air with. If I was fresh out of school, I'd actually look at this rather positively, as there is room for improvement, and of course now I have leverage to ask for increases in compensation.
Did you consider using a mirror network, with servers run by external organizations, instead of going with AWS bandwidth for rubygems? Seems like that would be a good approach for the static/bulk part of your dataset, and there are lots of companies and universities who are set up to serve software. (The mirror I manage serves about 50 TB/month for several Linux distros, and many sites are larger.) Do the work and infrastructure required to manage these networks make them not worthwhile?

Edit: Found a post [0] calling for a rubygems mirror network. Otherwise there is lots of information about setting up local mirrors of the repository.

[0] http://binarymentalist.com/post/1314642927/proposal-we-have-...
First of all, sure the HR person is obviously out of line. Second of all, I hope I've never worked with any team of people who'd be disturbed with my salary. To me that's a sign that either I'm not worth my pay or they're being taken advantage of (or both). Throughout my career I've gladly told anyone who asked what I make, and ironically the only people who've ever asked are junior folks like the ones the author says are upset (because they want to understand how things go). Salary obfuscation serves injustice. I really think it's that simple.

Further... dunno what industry, dunno what market.. but in my experience in west coast software 3x a junior employee would be a bit fishy at a company that size. Sounds like someplace I would not want to work :)
Except this isn't a text editor and doesn't have almost anything in common with atom or brackets...

One thing I'm not 100% clear on who this is targeting. I have no problem using Bower and Grunt (or Gulp, or what have you) to set up my environment. It would be nice to see more support for those tools built in to CodeKit. I was excited to see Bower but it appears that it doesn't actually use .bowerrc files. Sounds like that may be coming but despite the claim that the author isn't trying to "lock in" customers, it definitely seems like he is by reinventing these things.

I'm sure the true target market are the same kinds of people buying Coda and other "simplified web development" tools. This tool just seems to start to drift into the "hacker" type who might quickly grow out of the capabilities of the tool and need flexibility on different platforms.
Your comment strikes me as a bit odd ... Are you suggesting that one should be wary about making too much money and if you find yourself at a company for awhile and making a lot of money you should discuss with your employer about reducing your salary or moving to a future elsewhere so you can make less money? ...

Software is a strange, if not bizarre, place for people interested in money if that is the case.
Four years and change later the central thesis that developers will abandon Apple en masse because the App Store is a great crime against programmers rings hollow. iOS is still the first target for many developers and for those where it isn't, they're more likely following the enormous Android userbase most of which Apple doesn't even compete for. I'm sure it has cost them some developers but the short list of big time Android first apps tells you the score.

At the end of the day hot dog vendors sell hot dogs in highly regulated NYC because people in NYC buy hot dogs. Companies sell their goods to Wal-Mart and Neiman Marcus instead of at the flea market because that's what keeps the lights on. Small publishers work with Amazon despite horrible terms because it puts steak on the dinner table.

One thing this article reminds us of it that pg has the not uncommon HN blind spot for Google who he claims has "remained true to their founding principles". I guess stabbing a close partner in the back by releasing a clone of their flagship product is not being evil. I wonder if he's also a fan of the Samwer brothers?
This is really interesting, I can see how this must cause a lot of negativity at work. It's one of the reasons we've made salaries completely transparent within Buffer to avoid situations like this: http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffe...

Do you guys think open salaries can help with this?
On the contrary, psychedelic drugs have been correlated with improved mental health in a recent study: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809724
16 year old iOS developer makes Look
Look is a social networking app that lets you share anything from vines to CNN articles (as URLs) with friends and then group message (no notifications) about it.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id814866062

Story: I always find cool things on the internet, from a cool new app to a funny vine, and want to share it with my friends. Okay simple, just text the link to them right? But its not that simple.
This method of sharing things is so unorthodox because when the user clicks the link, it open safari, you have to go back to iMessage to continue the discussion, group messaging notifications get annoying, etc.

So that's when I came up with Look. I wanted to make sharing cool things... cool. And after 2 long months of development (and 1 month of waiting for Apple to approve it), I've finally done it.

So what exactly is Look? Well, you add/invite friends, then you can share 'looks' with them. These 'looks' can be links or images and they have a post title. Recipients can then group message about the "cool thing" and favorite it to hold on to it.

I really believe this app makes a break through in social networking, at least for someone like me (teen nerd/tech obsessed.) And that's why I believe in Look, because I know it's something I use, it's something my friends use.

I applied for Y Combinator, so my fingers are crossed, I really hope they see what I see in Look.

What do you think?
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I've had order executed incorrectly in the past. Given their support doesn't respond in weeks, I didn't even bother reporting it.
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Beijing here.

Local companies are really bad about this, but international companies are more equitable between local and foreign employees, given that the environment would otherwise be quite hostile.
Some people say all salaries should be open by default. I am not sure if this would be a good idea, but it would a pretty strong incentive against cronyism.
Doesn't test flight still require you to add those devices somehow, like I couldn't just email something I just hacked together to anyone (and tell them to enable the developer mode).
Exactly, and if you include a little Powered by AWS CloudFront i am pretty sure they could drive down the price a lot.
Or, they could start talking to Fastly, I am pretty sure they can work out a much better deal while being faster.
> In the past, RubyGems was hosted on dedicated hardware within Rackspace. While this was certainly cheaper, it created administrative issues. Granted those can be solved without using AWS, but we get back to again desiring to have as low of friction on the administration as possible.

If Rackspace can be of assistance in the future, feel free to reach out (brian.curtin@rackspace.com). We currently donate hosting to many open source projects, including ones in a similar space, like the Python Package Index.
that happened at a multi-national company. nevermind hr/finance talking about it, but people also ask very directly about how much you make.
It's been discussed many times before, yes. Rubygems usage pattern by our users make any kind of mirror delay unacceptable. We currently run a number of mirrors, configured as caching proxies. I want to get us going on a CDN like Fastly soon because they provide effectively the same functionality but distributed to many, many more POPs that I will ever setup.
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Thanks! I'll bring it up with the team.
I don't think requiring as part of your employment that the whole world know your salary is a good thing in the private sector. But no one is forcing anyone to work at your company, although how it affects people that were there before this decision, to me is a bit questionable.
I graduated 2 years ago from the same school as OP. I had better GPA, simply because I learned to game the system and to be better at taking tests. When you realize the system (college now and graduate school soon) is not benefiting you, you might want to come to a different system (industry). I moved to SF after college. My day job keeps me interested in distributed system, while I spent my free time learning my favorite subject, combinatorics
Thanks! I'll definitely keep you in mind as we're (finally) getting around to setting up correctly.
> FontAwesome icons are not responsive.

That's not right. It's a font. It will be scaled properly, same as regular fonts.
Not quite - there doesn't seem to be a license mentioned anywhere.
By this measure, we should never use any term to describe any government or country. They all fall short.
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I always try to write up documentation and offload the crap I'm doing or at least teach it to someone else.

Doesn't work that well in practice but it helps to demonstrate that I am trying to get information out of my brain into others.

I hate being "that one guy" for anything to be honest. Means I get stuck with it forever. Like one linux kernel developer said, never be the last guy to update the floppy disk driver, you'll own that code forever.
Can you tell me more about your project?

Here's something I made that just got shipped today, just to give you an idea of my experience

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If you mean the npm homebrew package, then yes. If you mean npm packages, then you might be living under a rock.
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I think this is why bonuses/options were invented ... lol
How have the costs changed in the last year or so? It would be cool to see a month-over-month graph.
Did you look at the typeface? Sure, regarding serif vs sans serif in general, but the "I" and "l" in this case are pretty damn different.
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In most cases the consumers aren't even choosing Android over iOS. Apple doesn't even have a product for the bottom 50%+ of the market -- that part of the market was just defaulted to Android because MS dropped the ball for several years. Secondly, in many other cases the carriers naturally need alternatives that give them some leverage against Apple and have higher margins for them. There are no spiffs for salespeople for selling iphones.
I would collect evidence of the recruiter having disclosed my salary and bring that directly to the CEO. Legality aside, it is highly unprofessional to discuss private information in that way.