skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we're in agreement then. Its easier to work on these small superfluous apps than to work on something like curing diseases (which is being used as an arbitrary example of something more "meaningful" than say, a sexting app (another arbitrary example)). The cool factor is also something to consider since computers are cool these days.

I took the side of the issue that I did because its what was discussed in the article; I definitely agree that the medical cartel system we have in place here is also a huge problem. Its the only industry I can think of where the number of new practitioners allowed to enter the field is a function of the number of existing practitioners.
There's no alternative here.
I estimate an upper bound on the cost to be about $11 million/year:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqWtA_3af-R0dE5...
Definitely unbundle your life insurance and investments. The only reason I can think of for coupling them is just shy of fraud.

-- someone who once got sold a whole life policy
I've also provided three links...
It is a plugin, just happens to be one of the bundled ones that's installed by default to provide a nice out-of-box experience. You can still disable it and install your own VCS plugin. One of the great things about Atom is that absolutely everything is a configurable plugin.
I like the Rackspace cloud offering a lot too. We use it exclusively for our business. I see Rackspace as being in the middle of the spectrum if DO is at the bottom and AWS is at the top in terms of more features/higher price.

Also the VPS up-time we have experienced on over 20 nodes for the past 3 years on Rackspace cloud has been pretty great, all things considered.
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I would check with employer and insurance policy. But I believe legally they don't have to keep this policy active after you quit.
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1. do you really think that dropbox sends everyone home and shuts off the lights? That's a joke and you know it.

2. These files are all on our computers. I suspect that if dropbox blows up and does just go home and shut off the lights, we'll hear about it and notice. We can then take those files and move them to google drive or whatever.
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Sure, the device is mentioned in the link I cited. It's a remedy applied after the fact. It limits drunk driving after someone has already demonstrated poor behavior. While I earnestly want a safer world for everyone it must not be like the dystopian Gattaca.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
I suppose the pitch for such a service could be:

"crowd-sourced bus routes".
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We (rsync.net) appreciate your reasoning.

We've been doing this since 2001. Email us about our HN discount.
This is called the Dial-a-ride problem or pickup and delivery problem with time windows in optimization literature in case anyone is interested.
I agree. I would pick 1 dirty branch with continuous builds and tests any time over several branches. I have worked with several branches too and it is always messy, lots of confusion and too many overheads (including the Release Manager guy).

I love trello... but I don't like the branching model... :)
Yet another discussion about chairs without any mention of active sitting/seating.

Based on my own experience with standing desks and high-end office chairs (the most recent being a Herman Miller Embody, which I ended up selling), I've concluded that I need an office setup that allows me to move throughout the day and not just stand or sit nearly motionless for most of the day.

After trying out all the chairs at my local office furniture stores (yet again) and enjoying a Swopper stool that one of the stores had in their showroom, I'm now planning to order a Swopper Air. The Swopper is the most comfortable active seating solution that I've tried (but I haven't spent hours sitting on it yet).

I hope the Swopper Air works out for me. If not, I'll finally pull the trigger on a LifeSpan TR5000-DT3 treadmill for my standing desk.
I think the point is that it should be user-configurable. Most of the competitors' desktop clients (including Dropbox) have a setting for that, so you can choose what suits your needs.
Everyone's pedagogical requirements vary, and decorators are notoriously hard to explain[0], but seeing something like "A decorator in Python is a function that accepts another function as an argument." as a flat statement at the beginning of the article is an immediate turn-off for me, since I can easily see someone who is still learning about Python in general extrapolating from this to conclude, say, that map(), reduce(), and filter() are decorators as well. It's just a bad start to the article IMO and I didn't bother reading much further.

[0] http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/py...
Yeah; a lot of the solutions you see pushed here on HN don't really scale past a startup-sized company. A lot of times if you have a very large product, you have multiple engineering teams working on a layered architecture. For example, the product guys will hand off a requirement as a user story that describes "As a customer, I can push the green button and it orders a pizza sent directly to my desk." That user story involves the front-end team (UI mockups, interface implementation, etc.), the back-end team (now has to support storing and retrieving the user's pizza preferences), the billing systems team (now has to ensure the pizza billing process has the proper audit checks, etc. on it), the deployment team (who now has to ensure pizza-order messages are allowed through the firewall to the pizzeria), etc.

It's a bit of a contrived example, but you get the idea. Unless you have a centralized management function, all of this doesn't happen and your glorious pizza button either doesn't work or fails deployment. Usually the onus falls on the product manager to do this, but with so many teams involved it can be a nightmare.
I got rid of Chrome months ago over NSA spying stuff. Not only does this not work in Firefox, but it won't work in Qupzilla (which is WebKit). I'll wait for a new version with better browser support.
First link on google has a good definition[0].

tl;dr He probably got flagged for being a day old account (and being argumentative). I try not to say anything too controversial on here since I do not want to meet the same fate.

[0] http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ
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You still own your files. If they shut down just get another service and check them in there ? If you don't have local copies it's a risk regardless of who you go with.
As someone who has lived in Los Angeles (which has actually horrible public transit in that it doesn't exist really and is expensive), and now Austin - while our public transit here is sub-optimal, it's far from the worst in the country, and you actually can get most places with it (I lived here for 18 months with no car, so I am intimately familiar with it).
And he did the walk in 2007/2008...
What good alternatives exist to Google/Yahoo finance? Anything specific to recommend?
I think you are right that the AMA often ends up helping insurers in a number of ways, much like the California prisons guards' union which has interests that coincide with those of the prisons.[1] The way I look at industry-wide unions, they act as a tool for the companies to collude without direct communication.

[1] http://www.policymic.com/articles/41531/union-of-the-snake-h...
During the PC boom in the 90s many of the hot products were productivity apps that allowed non-programmers to do "computing" (for lack of a better term).

- Access/dBase/Filemaker

- Word/WordPerfect

- Excel/Lotus

- Photoshop

- Harvard Graphics (if anyone remembers that one)

- Pagemaker

- Corel Draw/Illustrator

These were the types of apps that many young programmers, myself included, wanted to work on.

After the internet happened effort moved away from productivity apps, and towards communication apps. That's where all the hyper growth was, so that's understandable.

In the meantime, not much has really changed with productivity apps. The big apps from 90s are still the big apps of today. But as browsers have improved significantly in the past couple years, I think there is going to be a resurgence in web based productivity apps. Webflow is a good example. They are basically building a traditional style productivity app in the browser.
I heard that to renounce your citizenship you need to pay some one time tax on cash and valuables you own.
That would be extremely dangerous.
Not completely orthogonal. The way Trello is set up, client and server releases are completely unrelated and don't have to know about each other. The web app is almost as separate from the server as the iOS/Android apps, which isn't really possible if you're rendering html in the server.

That said, I agree that making something into a single page app just to get this separation isn't going to be useful.
kind of interesting you posted his twitter instead of his phone number.
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The primary benefit is that it creates a single point of communication for the developers, the designers, and the QA. It also helps with prioritizing changes that could be conflicting and, in the same vein, helps prevent bad releases or merges. And, of course, anyone can do this job. If I'm not available, someone picks up the slack. I just volunteered because I was interested and available.

All that said, I think that letting every developer deploy would not be a bad idea at all. The problem is that our team is too big to do that without creating more robust deployment tools and too small to dedicate enough time to doing so. My hope is that one day we can get there, though.
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This looks terrific and is absolutely what someone like me needs. I'm excited to see where the development of this editor would go next. It's like a breath of fresh air.
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We've tried to build this concept when we've built mysimplegrid. http://www.mysimplegrid.com
It's very conceptual. Is it closer to what you're thinking of?
You don't design city policy on the assumption everyone will behave responsibly. That assumption is false, and while education can amelliorate the issue, it's improtant to know some people will make bad decisions. Having good public transportation makes DUI a lot less appealing, and as such it's an important policy in a city where it's easy/normal to get drunk.
"Virtual reality and telepresence can eliminate the 'AI problem' for robots"

Yes, I suppose it's easy to eliminate any unsolved problem if you simply give up on it.

PS Maybe take it easy on the Adderall.
That's not the amount that trickles down to those needing the social programs. Most of it is lost in the skimming off the top done at each of the many layers along the way.
Half price and SSDs are pretty compelling advantage.
I did not know this was a thing I wanted until now...
So where should the non-us company be registered if you want to avoid IP headaches? Canada? Ireland? BVI?
It worked fine with drugs while the Silk Road was running. No reason it couldn't work with medicine as well.
Here's one more alternative to consider (not necessarily cost effective, but all the features in the world), get yourself an unmanaged VPS from a reputable ISP (me, I like http://cloud9.net), or a dedicated machine if you've got the dough, pay up for however much space and redundancy and horsepower and bandwidth you want.

Then you can access your files not just through some sort of third party client or web interface but over SFTP or SMB on a VPN you could configure. Or some web interface, I'm sure there are plenty in every language I can think of. Like a custom rom for your Android phone? Show your appreciation and make the developer an account on your system and let him mirror his most recent few builds.

Make websites, start a little business, learn how to implement SPDY, SSL, HSTS, PFS, learn how to migrate a bunch of sites from Apache to NGINX, grab pyloris.py and learn python, figure out how to use iptables, learn for yourself if vi is better than emacs, learn how to generate a web certificate, configure different databases, learn the hard way why you shouldn't run the likes of phpmyadmin and so on.

That's all quite valuable to offset the cost ineffectiveness of going this route for quasi-cloud storage. On the other hand, 1TB for $9.99 ain't bad... so get both and maybe find or write some python script that syncs up your Google Drive to your VPS, bam!
"detroit" (as in the community, not the municipal government) is doing something similar, except it's privately run. http://thedetroitbus.com/
How do you test the fixes? Which branch gets deployed to the test environment?
>In the United States, we fought an entire war over the question of whether or not a state had the authority to secede from the federal government (the Union). The seceding states lost that fight.

So wars decide what is right and what is wrong?
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Unprofitable? Really? It's one of the most successful (if not the most successful one?) Y combinator companies (it's not a startup anymore). PG said it was a black swan. Besides, what do I care whether Google will exist? We are talking about Google Drive, and we know very well it could be gone just like that.
I recently switched to this approach and it works very well. No more "I want to push out this quick fix, but I have to wrap up this other thing first so I don't break the build".

With github it is especially nice. I push to a remote branch, which I can see when I go to the project page. When I click merge it shows whether or not the TravisCI build passed. If it looks good, then I click to auto-merge and it's all set. It is possible to even automate away that part as well and have the whole thing merge and deploy on push if the build passes, but I am not quite ready to take the plunge yet with that (too easy to botch a production release IMHO).
arq supports, as one of its transport mechanisms, plain old SFTP.

rsync.net, by default, has daily[1] ZFS snapshots enabled on your account. It's basically time machine, but more space efficient since the snapshot "diff'ing" is block based rather than file based.

So a very simple solution would be to arq your data to an HN-reader-discounted rsync.net account, and let our back end do the time-machining.

As a bonus, you can do neat things like this:

ssh 1234@usw-s001.rsync.net md5 some/file
mysqldump -u mysql db | ssh 1234@usw-s001.rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"
ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe

[1] You can specify any time interval, but >7 dailies counts against your quota...
What is that blue thing on the floor near the right front of the desk?
> There may be other times where whole life is appropriate but I don't know what they are.

$80,000 for cryonic suspension, which is most likely to be successful if you die of a terminal illness; which is most likely to happen when you're old enough that term life insurance is ridiculously expensive (but could happen when you're young, which is why to go whole life instead of just investing and then paying up front for the suspension).
> I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time?

Feel free to quote me on this: Dropbox will not be Dropbox in five years. It will have been acquired, gone out of business, or at least slipped into irrelevance.

Dropbox does not stand a chance against competitors like Google, Microsoft or Apple.
Exoscale is much more like Rackspace Cloud than AWS.

Which is unfortunate. A real AWS alternative would be nice.
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I've already got this set up. Looks like New Relic are going to be monitoring all the things! Soon
I don't think that this search has any smarts behind it -- it just matches on strings. So .net would include both the framework and the tld listed in the posting. For example, check out what happens if you replace .net with .org:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=javascript%2C+objective+c%...
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Does this mean that Facebook messages/inbox is encrypted?
Not to mention 'Drive' / file storage is a much more fundamental and 'core' service than those Google has shut down.
I created a droplet that I was going to use for the production site. It is currently sitting in a totally crashed state. I have no idea when it crashed, or why, I just know it happened some time in the past month.

I am now nervous about moving to them.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows it corresponds to the release date of windows8 and server 2012. Must be a product release correlation.
LOL, I have no dog in the fight. I just think that if you're going to call something a "pump and dump scheme" that gave you "terrible IO performance" when practically nobody else has such issues, you might want to add a bit more information. Maybe try helping someone who has your similar conditions where DO is not the best way to go.
This is public service that is subsidized by goverment and its not profitable and its goal is to help elderly get around in the city. It has some additional stops beyond normal bus stops, and it has far more limited service area than normal busses in the Capital. For instance the air port is outside the service area. Its also a nice complementary service for public transport on uncommon trips that would take too much time to change between 3 different busses or more.
I'm surprised they removed 2tb and everything between 1 and 10tb?

Was this to keep pricing cleaner?
Google making meaningless changes in the direction of minimalism like always. I find the google search of today no more usable or intuitive than that of 10 years ago. Minimalism is such a plague. It assumes people can't deal with the mildest hint of non-mission-critical information on the screen, which is false, or at least it used to be; if it catches on too much people's minds might get so rotted that they get confused navigating a web page with more than two buttons. Arguments about "visual noise" are such bumpkis. We've been good at dealing with visual noise forever, before computers, before civilization.
What kind of nonsense is this? All this would lead to is hundreds of thousands, if not more, Ukranians heading to the US with a visa waiver and never going back.
I don't want to take away from how awful this was, but in 2010 there were 10,228 people killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes[1] - that's 28 each day.

So no, I don't think we'll be hearing about this case for the next year - it's actually depressingly typical. It just happens to have occurred at a large event that Hacker News has a strong connection to.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...
Is it just me, or does this seem to be a sideways admittance/accusation that the US Government has been essentially 'attacking' Facebook attempting to extract data outside the normal channels of requests from law enforcement?

Either way, this needs to change. We're not on a slippery slope of losing privacy- we're going downhill like an avalanche.
Wouldn't an exercise ball chair solve the same issue and be cheaper?
As someone who had to license CPT codes for my own (now dead) medical billing app I can say unequivocally that the AMA is laser focused on getting their money. We had to pay a fee per user just so clerks could more easily process Medicare claims. Without a doubt the U.S. Federal government created a state-sanctioned monopoly in the AMA. That a private organization gets to profit from a public program (and much more) by having control of what amounts to an index table is nuts.
My CPA opened me a bank account in the USA (he's from USA too) without me having to visit the states, is this legal? Or is there any risk to this approach?? I'm in the same case as the parent question you have answered :S
I feel like he's focusing too much on the speaking part and too little on listening. I can make myself understandable in Danish, German and Spanish but it is impossible for me to follow a conversation in any of them.
I didn't know that Firefox was consider the speediest browser last year. http://beta.slashdot.org/story/188257
Overemphasizing high school sports leads to a schedule which causes sleep deprivation for most of the students and subsequent drop in academic performance.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case...

"During football season in particular, the focus of American principals, teachers, and students shifts inexorably away from academics. Sure, high-school football players spend long, exhausting hours practicing (and according to one study, about 15 percent experience a brain injury each season), but the commitment extends to the rest of the community, from late-night band practices to elaborate pep rallies to meetings with parents. Athletics even dictate the time that school starts each day: despite research showing that later start times improve student performance, many high schools begin before 8 a.m., partly to reserve afternoon daylight hours for sports practice."
> Android cons: Emulator is for all purposes unusable.

At least on Windows it is quite usable for OpenGL ES emulation, when using Intel's virtualization driver.
Yes, good point. You don't have to store everything forever, you can have tiers of interestingness — capture everything, read it looking for certain patterns, store anything that matches those patterns forever, store stuff that matches [secondary, less important but still useful pattern] for a few years, and store all other calls for a few months or a year.

Phone calls are quite low quality audio, but I don't expect the NSA to be limited to consumer grade text-to-speech technology, so at least for calls in some languages, they could store the transcripts forever.

EDIT: Apart from processing power, another expensive problem with such a setup is memory to store the firehose temporarily.

EDIT 2: If you were wondering, 200TB/day would run at $7500 for 50 4TB external hard drives at $150 each, assuming you wanted to use a Backblaze-like setup. In a year, that's $2.7 million. (This doesn't account for redundancy.)
Interesting, I had no idea! Thanks for the correction.
I... don't understand.

I'm not a facebook user, so, is it possible to use Facebook completely privately? Without anybody else than your friend seeing your information, not even third parties?
UIViewControllers fall somewhere between an Activity and a Fragment.

In particular if you use any kind of view controller containment (custom container view controllers), you can only do that with fragments, and only then with Android 4.0+.

As someone who's looked at building tablet apps, the containment is a good thing to consider. In these cases, iOS makes it easier to combine your existing view controller hierarchies, while there are some idiosyncrasies (only 1 action bar across the top of a "split view controller") on Android still that don't always make things easy (in my opinion).
I used to think I was not the "80 hour a week" kind of person, because I typically only sit at my desk from 7-5, Monday-Friday. But once you start counting the time you check and respond to emails (which I do constantly), take calls outside of hours, have meetings with people outside of working hours, etc... it's really not hard to imagine 11.5 hour days being average.
I don't see many job postings on HN for C# developers. When I do it's usually for senior developers and doesn't offer remote.
Hardly. It most probably means Zuckerberg is kind of concerned of the growing pressure to the point where speaking up is smarter than obeying.