skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience with GoDaddy. The magic trick was to put it in writing. An email was sufficient, make sure you are explicit - "Thank you for my free trial that commenced on xx/xx/xxxx. I do not wish to proceed. Please cancel my account"

Then, when / if they reply with whatever upsell they offer, I replied with - "I sent you this email on xx/xx/xxxx. Again I repeat, I want to cancel my account. If you charge me, I will raise this with my bank as an invalid transaction"

When I got charged, I printed off the emails (there were 3 incidents, 12 - 15 pages per incident) and I emailed this to the bank. Like magic! The bank reversed the transactions.

Keep the emails somewhere safe. If a collections agent were to call, I would supply them with the 12 - 15 pages.

Remember, when you initiate the chargeback, it is the vendors responsibility to prove you initiated the purchase. Not the other way around.
A web GUI.
Nice and truthy, but backwards: company success causes hiring of the Guild, not vice versa. Sun didn't die because neckbeards left. Neckbeards left because Sun was dying.
We also have bad weather. Right now, where I live at least, a top 10 metro, it's around 90-95degF and 80-90% humidity or it's raining. Suppose I decide to ride to work. Google puts that at a 1 hour and 13 to 1 hour 23 minute ride depending on my route. It sucks but it's doable.

Now I arrive at work and I'm soaked either from sweat or rain. Now what? I can stink up the office with my B.O. all day while I desperately try to dry my clothes. Or I go through the indignity of getting to work, waiting an hour to cool-down and dry off, then trying to change out of my riding kit into some decent professional work clothes in a dirty stall in the men's room after giving myself a paper towel bath in the sink.

Then at the end of a long work-day, reverse this absurd course of events? Now instead of a 10 minute drive and 8.5 hours at the office followed by a 10 minute drive home (total time commitment under 9 hours), I've succeeded in turning my 9 hours of work time into a 10.5-11.5 hours of work time so I can put myself dangerously out in traffic, exposed to the elements and be uncomfortable the entire day and can't go anywhere else once I'm there?

Even if the stars aligned and I had door-to-door bike trails, I wouldn't partake in this uncivilized madness. I'd much rather just get home earlier, not smelling like exhaust fumes and body odor and go do a leisurely jog around my neighborhood park for a half hour or go to one of the 3 gyms next to my house where I can ride a stationary bike in a temperature controlled environment while watching TV.

Edit: for the record, I support dedicated bike lanes and infrastructure almost everywhere because of all the side benefits it brings. But I'm also not treating it as a religious issue, mindful of acute practicalities that explain the world better than assuming one of the most technologically sophisticated countries on the planet doesn't like to ride bikes to work because they're too stupid to do so.
In this presentation that lane ends at the intersection after it's been made "safe". Not sure how well that would work as a traffic lane.
>> Their biggest worry seems to be that if they make an adjustment for one person then everyone else will demand one as well

Though this is true, but its come back to you in some other form though.

Salaries are never a secret, and generally once you get to know a new hire's salary, hired at your level and experience being higher than yours- What follows is resentment. Generally if you ask for a raise you won't get one, and will likely leave.
In the bay area the bike lane becomes dashed at intersections meaning anyone can go anywhere.

The disadvantage with going into the lane is that cars have much shorter stopping distances. I had an accident a few months ago where I had just managed to merge into the lane (had to be going at the speed of traffic to do this) when all the cars in front of me slammed on their brakes and skidded to a halt -- I hit the back of the car with my head and smashed my helmet (and got cuts in my head where the helmet cracked; but I'd have been severely worse off without it!).

But right hooks are much more common than what happened to me. We just have a really bad road infrastructure in the US (even for driving -- I'm amazed every time I go back to the UK and can drive for miles through densely populated areas without stopping, all because of the roundabout -- the lockless n-way intersection).
Except there is no "the real world implementation". There only are lots of implementations that are incompatible with the spec as well as amongst each other. Inventing yet another variant of your own that also isn't going to be compatible with anything is not going to help anyone. Deviating from the formal spec because everyone practically agrees how to do things, albeit differently than in the formal spec, is something quite different from making shit up, and actually tends to be even harder than building things to spec, as there tends to be no easy reference to look things up in, but instead you might have to look into the guts of existing implementations and talk to people who have built them to figure out what to do - and you would normally start with an implementation according to spec anyhow, and only add special cases for non-normative conventions lateron.

Also, what exactly is the problem with email addresses? There is a very unambiguous grammar of those in the RFC, and there are lots of implementations of exactly what the spec specifies. Just because some web kiddies have made up some shit about email addresses and use that for validation, doesn't mean that postfix, qmail, or exim are written by morons.
M.U.L.E is my one of my all time favourite game of the 80s. It inspired me to dive into technology. It is still impressive even by todays standards.

I am proud to say that I still own a Commodore 64 and my original floppy still works after 30 years. Shocking frankly.

Ironically, my teenage son become so good he can beat me fair and square. :)
While I do agree there should be less "activation energy" for the newbies to enter the Erlang community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djv4C9H9yz4), I don't think "identify ways to expand the scope of Erlang and Elixir to other potential use cases" is the way to go. Each language has its strength and weakness, being highly concurrent and fault-concurrent is the design goal of erlang/elixir, and erlang/elixir achieves that. Making them a general-purpose language seems a bad idea to me (think message-passing a large size of message in a non-concurrent situation where the shared-memory should be used. it just deteriorate the performance of the general-purpose program). Being able to built a great concurrent system is enough to make a language become popular in industry, the problem is really not about more use cases, but is how to make the barrier of entry lower. Also, it does matter to have a warming community, like most of Ruby communities I know.
Perhaps a real commonality is membership of an informal guild i.e. all know each other.
I am curious why iPython-like tools are not possible in Erlang. As far as long you have a REPL, is that not a solid base to start an iPython like project in any language?

(Notice I said base, not the whole enchilada; I recognize that would be going too far.)
This is funny coming right after this: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/21/welcome-to-extremistan/

Technology is concentrating wealth, not spreading it.

Letting folks download some source code won't help; that's not where the value is.
Is there a club for people like us? I, too, do a bunch of work at two startups. I'm in the same exact situation, in fact.

Thanks for sharing.
Here's the documented version: https://gist.github.com/dperini/729294

We should get a port to every language.
I think it was the lack of a stronger Type-theoretic approach to classifying the 'world' of computation. This categorical 'program morphism' is ill-defined when taken back to the world of computation (is it supposed to represent sequential execution?). It is also clear that every object within the closed category will have an equivalent morphism and vice-versa (and thanks to the nature of Type Theory, it will also be infinite and still allow for crazy paradoxes like the entire Category being an object of itself). I guess it's the categorical approach to Type Theory?

Some other things as well. But this is what I collected after a quick review. :)

EDIT: Oh yeah I also find this statement abhorrent:
>While
a Turing machine can be seen as an idealized, simplified model of computer hardware, the lambda calculus is
more like a simple model of software.

It should be removed :/
Just because it isn't your personal preference doesn't mean no one should think about cyclists. There are many pro- and con-cyclist arguments, all of which are irrelevant to this discussion.
Killer Apps may include: CouchDB, Riak, Whatsapp, RabbitMQ, Amazon SimpleDB, etc. You can also go for specific companies that are using it like telco stuff (Ericsson, T-Mobile, Motorola), Yahoo, OpenX, Huffington Post, Amazon, and so on.
What photo storage hell? flickr offers 1TB of online storage. Free. The only downside is they are limited to .jpg uploads, but I doubt Apple would do RAW anyway. Seriously, $50 a year for 200GB is pretty sad. Almost as sad as being restricted to 5GB of iCloud backup space no matter how many iDevices you buy.
Gadget Rewind 2008: T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream)
Great idea. Perhaps turn this into an xml feed. If it resonates with you, it's worth pursuing just for the learning experience, which is priceless.
This still seems better than a normal intersection, because of the curb extension island which forces a tighter turning radius for cars.
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>What a red herring.

I don't think that means what you think it means.

Regardless, it seems strange to me that people are pushing for advertising coding to women in the name of gender equality, but then they seem not to care about the number of women in fields that aren't perceived so highly. I think it really throws their motivations into question.
I think some idiotic consumer products will always require advertising--like soda, candy bars, figh fashion, etc.?

There are some industries like auto insurance where
I think it's a waste of time. Every year I call around and get the cheapest insurance. I face had good luck with Mercury(last 4 years). Esurance only quotes for 6 months--that's why they seem cheap.

As to Internet advertising; my biggest grip lately is having to watch a ad video before the intended video.(I
turn down the volume and look away for 20 seconds).

I have a feeling Google tracking works too well. I am
waiting for the day DuckDuckgo is King. I don't like to be
tracked. I don't like my house photographed.(Google put up
previously requested blurred homes, cars, persons without
any notice. If you think you have a blurred out house--check again.)
Walking through 100k lines of code I've never seen before - I feel the denser the code the harder to grok. Code needs to be concise, not short. But that's just my opinion.
There is no perfect URL validation regex, because there are so many things you can do with URLs, and so many contexts to use them with. So, it might be perfect for the OP, but completely inappropriate for you.

That said, there is a regex in RFC3986, but that's for parsing a URI, not validating it.

I converted 3986's ABNF to regex here:
https://gist.github.com/mnot/138549

However, some of the test cases in the original post (the list of URLs there aren't available separately any more :( ) are IRIs, not URIs, so they fail; they need to be converted to URIs first.

In the sense of the WHATWG's specs, what he's looking for are URLs, so this could be useful:
http://url.spec.whatwg.org

However, I don't know of a regex that implements that, and there isn't any ABNF to convert from there.
You cool off for a bit and then take a quick shower before starting work proper. Most offices that I've been to have shower/changeroom facilities, and the people that cycle to work use them.

Of course if your ride is over an hour you may want to consider alternatives, such as catching a train for part of the journey. I have known plenty of people that have 30-50 minute rides, and also others where riding a bike takes exactly as long as being stuck in traffic.
>>I think that's pathological for managing developers because developers aren't interchangeable.

Actually in most cases we are super easily interchangeable. Java related technologies, that involve interacting with databases and presenting data in some way(HTML etc) is what most business software is out there. Developers working in such domains are pretty easily replaceable. Almost like cogs in a wheel.

Pay is based on title because managers are perceived as decision makers, who direct the overall direction of the company. Maintain business contacts and relationships and are supposed be the one's who replace the cogs in the wheel.
In a city with half-decent public transportation, bikes don't take cars off the road, they take people off the trains/buses and pedestrians off the sidewalk (on nice days).

I've lived and/or worked in Boston/Cambridge for 20 years and can't think of a single person who ever took a bike that would have otherwise driven (as evidenced by the fact that they would take the train during the winter or bad weather).
These are city streets, not highways. We want to encourage more pedestrians and cyclist, not merely bow to the demands of automobiles. Being auto-centric creates poor urban environments.
Because in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo or Singapore the weather is amazing all the time - this must be a reason for all the bikers there...

You prefer comfort over bikes - we get it. But bicycling is not "uncivilized madness". Its common way of transportation in most of the world (with exception of majority of the US). Healthy as well (much more healthy than gym).
Adults don't play games.

Adults write hymns for God. The Bible says "Sing a new song" 9 times.

Use the Psalmody application to randomly make a melody. Make a few, choose good one. Generate a random word for the title with F7. Create words for the song in psalmody. When finished, edit the program for the song and make animated graphcs.

When finished with your offering, get God's response with F7 and SHIFT-F7.
Nearly half of the article regarded simply not jumping to answer texts and emails.

Want to REALLY make more efficient use of time? Just read my two line summary and skip the article.
Live Google transit directions change the value of transit
What an amazing game. I still play it from time to time with my kids. It does teach a lot of things, including a taste for gambling (and not at the pub.) When you learn to hold crystite to wait for a high price, but the pirates haven't hit yet....
We could start one?

I think that's what HN kind of is...
Shoot me an email at casey at roost.me and we can coordinate.
From first hand experience helping startups:

If your app has the remote possibility that it can be abused by fraudsters, scammers, con people, ask for credit card at the start of the trial. This will save you a lot of hassle later down the road.

Otherwise, you can ask at the end.

Keep in mind that a qualified user will sign up for your service even if you ask for the CC up front. As a business owner, your job is to get users, yes, but also to get paid for your efforts. Hopefully this will help you decide what to do. Remember, it's much easier if you just treat it like a learning experience.
Major problem with people on bikes in the cities is not safety caused by cars (its issue, but not major for regular biker that drives from a to b at regular speed). Its the fact that most bikers ignore laws. They drive through red lights, use side walks as their own, change lines like crazy...
I am a biker myself and I see first hand all this people getting themselves in dangerous situations by ignoring road rules and then complaining how bad and ignorant car drivers are. Bicycle bays wont help much here...
This design is like all others that involve separated, segregated facilities: Cyclists are at extreme risk of getting right hooked by turning drivers who will assume they have the supreme right of way even if they do see the bicyclists they mow over. Little tweaks like moving the stopping positions around have no effect on oblivious cagers.
I doubt that commuting by car is 8 times faster than cycling, even if you live way out in the suburbs (which exist because of the assumption that everyone drives a car). My commute in city traffic takes 10 minutes by car, or 15 minutes by bike.
I note that the app store reviews[1] mention that it does a lot of forced ad-watching. One says "must sit through a 10 second bright full screen ad for bladder medication upon opening". This seems counterproductive for an app that you may want to glance at during the film, to say the least...

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id450326239?mt=8
That is pretty shoddy, but bear in mind this is an undergrad thesis, and so (apart from teaching very bad ethics to future researchers) this has no bearing on research that will ultimately be published.

As an aside, I first misread your post and thought you were describing the process of taking your own survey, while putting your self in the mind-frame of the person filling it out, in order to imagine what goes through someone's head when they fill it in. This seems like an extremely good idea.
The perfect job doesn't exist, so I'd recommend finding an outlet for creative self-expression first in your after hours, and quit your job only if you are having health issues related to work.

Life is short. Be happy.
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This is probably true for marginal cases, but I expect it's not true on average.

Bikes, trains, buses and walkable neighborhoods all offer alternatives to cars. If a city only had the last three but not bikes, I expect more people would have cars.

Some people uses cases would be fully covers by the final three, but some might find it more difficult and drive.

For example, I live in Montreal. I walk, take metros, and bike. I don't like buses, and can't be bothered to figure out schedules.

Without bikes, I'd just walk and metro. But if I didn't live near a metro, and couldn't bike, I'd probably use the local short term car rental options more often.

All four options are complementary. Remove one, and you'll harm the ensemble.
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I live in one of the worst cities for cycling in the US and I do all of those things regularly.

I bike to Costco and Ikea all the time, but sure you do have to get big stuff delivered unless you have a trailer (https://www.bikesatwork.com/blog/move-it-by-bike-moving-serv...). I used to commute to downtown from the suburbs daily. When I was young my dad used to bike me to daycare/school all the time. If you need to be somewhere in a suit you bike in pants + undershirt and add the rest when you get there.

All of these things are possible, admittedly there is a real limitation of needing to live within a 15-20 mile radius of work. The best data I can find suggests about 23% of commuters have a commute of more than 20 miles. So I would say cycling is a perfectly reasonable solution for the majority of people.
Here's a great talk[1] about all the clever bike infrastructure in the Netherlands, and how it can be adapted to work in Seattle specifically. It's a great in depth look for anyone interested in this stuff, basically a tech talk for urban planning.

Edit: Here's a similar talk[2] I just found talking about adopting Dutch traffic planning to work in Vancouver.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GA901oGe4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrIlB6C8uqs
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> to oppressively optimize profitability at the expense of human happiness

-

> Through these new means, companies have found, for example, that workers are more productive if they have more social interaction. So a bank’s call center introduced a shared 15-minute coffee break, and a pharmaceutical company replaced coffee makers used by a few marketing workers with a larger cafe area. The result? Increased sales and less turnover.

In that instance it sounds like adding a 15 minute break would make employees happier, a possible contributing factor to reduced turnover. Optimizing doesn't necessarily put them at odds with happiness - decreasing happiness would increase turnover.
Well, that seems to be unwanted trade-off :)
You all have heard of sneckdowns, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneckdown

Road geometry goes a long way to influence driver speed and perception.
I assume you mean grep -C 50. Lowercase a and b are ascii and byte offset rather than lines after and before.
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If the bike lane were sidewalk-side of the parking lane in USA, 10+% of parked cars would intrude on bike lane. :-(
I have some of the higher end GE stuff. It is crap.
People should try to save early however for most people working a "normal" software development job being able to retire after working for 15 years is unrealistic. Learning to live frugally and to invest wisely are useful traits though.

I've never switched jobs to make more money. In every situation where I switched a job my current employer was willing to match my offer. I will switch jobs to work with smarter people, to work on more interesting problems, to work with newer technologies, or to fight boredom. In theory I would switch to a job with lower pay to satisfy other requirements but luckily I never had to do so.

I don't think there's much to the professional athlete analogy. There is virtually no "demand" for more professional athletes while the demand for good software developers is ever growing and is unlikely to show any sign of slowing down. There are cycles but the trend is up. It is also really hard to be a good software developer and requires a combination of aptitude and attitude.

I work for a US startup and I know we do not discriminate by age (if anything older developers are over-represented). In companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, more experienced developers (in their 40s and 50s) are pretty well represented (keep in mind that as you go back in time the % developers is naturally less simply because the industry was much much smaller). Saying that I realize that in some places simply being a bit older would be seen as a poor fit and definitely someone who is just starting to code in their 50s is not going to be looked at the same as someone out of MIT.

Another thing to realize is that software development is an immensely wide field. I think your advice is reasonable for someone who has only started writing code in school, works in relatively "easy" areas where a lot of expertise isn't required, is really in it for the money and approaches things with that sort of cold success driven attitude. People who have talent, go deep into their fields of study and are highly motivated are probably looking at a much longer successful career. [EDIT: In other words it depends on what types of software you work on, your abilities and passion, and your further ability to maintain your abilities and passion and expand your knowledge.]

That said there's absolutely no way to project what the world economy or job market will look like 20 years from today. There are likely to be pretty big changes. One can imagine a much larger % of the population working remotely. One can imagine some breakthroughs related to aging that will make the entire age issue moot. Who knows. My advice to juniors is to strive to be the best at what you do. If you're the best you'll always have a job. Professional athletes don't always stop working when they're 30-something, they can become a higher paid coach. They can work on TV. Lots of options. By the way the average age of athletes has also been creeping up.