skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
by pointing out that when companies do good, it's not because they are altruistic, but because it's making them more money.

We could argue about the exact definition of "evil" and "altruistic", but the point is that companies do do right by employees at times, and I'd argue that in reality it's more often than not. What people should keep in mind is that "companies" aren't just some abstract caricature pulled out of Das Kapital or The Communist Manifesto - companies are people, and most people aren't fundamentally evil.

I'll stand by what I said before (albeit perhaps paraphrased a bit) - when companies DO do "evil" vis-a-vis employees, it is not, generally speaking, because they have a generally evil/negative outlook towards employees or because they don't care (at some level). It's more because they are trying to strike that delicate balance where everybody wins, while using imperfect humans to manage things.

Honestly, we'll make more progress towards improving things when we get beyond the socialist/communist caricatures of businessmen as "Boss Hogg" from The Dukes of Hazard, or some "Robber Baron" and deal with the actual issues, not tearing down strawmen.
I was asked for scanning of similar data from Limestone Networks, but I've known them to never cheat anyone, so I didn't mind. But why for someone like HostGator to ask for so much identification? Their services aren't like LSN (Limestone) where it costs a lot of money, and you have to verify someone's not duping you with information they found online. Never hosted off HostGator, just not my cup of tea. Now I just use DigitalOcean, great service, for what I need it for, and affordable.
Likewise, Capitol Hill in Seattle is a very expensive neighborhood -- if you want to buy. However it's chock full of rental units. I suspect that apartment rental costs in Capitol Hill aren't anywhere as extreme as trying to buy a house. I'm not sure that makes it "affordable" by any normal definition, though.
I always associated GoDaddy and HostGator as one, just realizing they're different entities. Oh well...
If money were no object and I were to buy a Leica for B&W it would be the M Monochrom. A true monochrome sensor and a lot more choice in lenses.

http://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Leica-M-Monoc...
I've worked for a company that was acquired by EIG. Their whole support system is incredibly terrible, but account fraud is a legitimate constant concern. The fact that the guy prepaid doesn't really matter—Paypal accounts in particular are a breeding ground for stolen money/accounts.

My reading of this situation is that the person who wrote the article did something that got their account flagged as "this looks like a spammer we previously kicked off our service", at which point the automatic system kicked in to ask him for a copy of an ID because it thought he was probably some Russian or Chinese scammer. Yes, there are false positives, but even at the best hosting companies, there's a constant stream of foreign spammers and scammers. Constant. Like, multiple obvious questionable contacts per day for every single support/sales person on staff.

This is pretty much how it works at any major low-cost hosting company. EIG's awful customer service system (which is centralized across all the companies they own) means that they take forever to process everything, but any hosting company with prices low enough to have to deal with mass fraud is going to have similar procedures. It'll just at best (like it was at the company I worked for pre-acquisition) be somewhere where you can talk to a fraud specialist immediately on the phone, fax in a copy of an ID, and have your site back up in a half hour.

Also, of course the support person closed the chat. What the hell do you expect when you start talking about Homeland Security and the TSA? This is some guy in a cubicle who has no power to change policies and is trying to handle a half-dozen upset customers at once. He doesn't have time for your crap.
Someone mentioned nootropics so I'll chime in. I've been taking the nootropic Piracetam for about 3 months now, and I can say there is a definite 'sharpness' or rather what I call 'clarity' in the way I think and function now. I recently took a break from piracetam, but when I started again, I could tell the difference under an hour. Nootropics are worth a try if you are interested in an increased mental sharpness or intelligence.
In general, I think it's the government's responsibility to make sure that pro-business positions (even understandable ones like what you're mentioning) don't unfairly hurt workers

And a lot of us think the government should have nothing to do with regulating based on some vague notion of "fairness". As long as no one is being compelled to take any action, or make any choice, through coercive violence/force, the government - IMO - ought to stay out of it.
I'll send a copy of my credit card and passport over your dead body. Of course then it own't matter.

Seriously what possible reason can they have for this for simple web hosting? What are they afraid of or is there some financial angle?
Any favourite books/resources on the above?
given that the funds have already been approved for the state's alternative, I wouldn't hold my breath
http://nootropics.reddit.com
I'm fairly certain this PDF was released a while ago
I recommend reading. Set aside an hour every day and read long texts. Reading trains you to retain focus on a single thing for a period of time, which is required to understand a complicated subject or to make a sophisticated argument.

Speicifically what you read should take longer than an hour to complete, else you end up in a literary analogue of compulsively consuming sugary snacks in lieu of proper meals.
That's right tourist visas can't help forever. But "permanent residency in Thailand seems to require a degree" cannot be true, rather working visa requires it. Other migration ways such as investment visas are not so strict about degree. All you need is about half or a million dollars.

I don't have it yet but it doesn't seem so hard to me, and I believe i chose the right path. It's harder path because less people choose it. Countries' job, I guess, is to keep dangerous or unqualified people away, and degree was one of a few way to estimate how good is a person. This metric is more of a legacy than real reason to go to university imo.

@phillmv has his point, being famous can get you visitors on your website, but you still need to sell your services. A friend of mine, JS consultant, lives the same life not being that "famous".
yea this is definitely a repost
Do it, and stop reading any news about it. Talk to employers and recruiters so that your site has what they need. Include them in the testing, put their faces and names on the front page as advisers.

eHarmony is trying to get between the employment sites, recruiters and the employers. Get on the side of the recruiters and placement agencies and they will push the site for you.

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In your questions, make sure NOT to box yourself in with radio buttons on questions where it should be multiple-choice, like "Which version control system do you use?".

Many companies use multiple VCS.
I'm really not trying to be negative but it was very poorly written and more of a love letter than anything else.

"...the most hyped and anticipated camera I’ve ever seen"
"...Leica partnered with Audi Design and the result is inarguably stunning."
"...typical Leica. Simple and elegant."

Simply put Leica digital cameras are not representative of value and are luxury goods, if that is what your after well you found your camera. Otherwise there is a whole world of choices that offer better quality, function and price.
> Seriously what possible reason can they have for this for simple web hosting? What are they afraid of or is there some financial angle?

Scammers who use stolen credit cards and Paypal accounts to purchase cheap bulk hosting and send out floods of spam emails (before the account gets shut down) and/or set up imitations of other websites for phishing attacks.

Simple, cheap web hosting makes this more of a problem, not less.
Video of Regina Dugan and her team (Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP)), including Johnny Lee, at Google I/O 2014..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV8JDSO1NS8
Google isn't that difficult to scrape. I've worked on numerous projects doing it and it just takes a little thinking outside the box and a few proxies.
I think this is a function of how dependent cameras are on semiconductor and sensor design, and in this day and age, the pillars of expertise have shifted first to Japan, and now to Taiwan/Korea...and possibly in the future to China.

Leica was amazing when machining and optical precision were the key factors in how good your camera is; but in this day and age, that's a solved problem...anyone can set up a factory that equals that sort of precision. But I think Canon, Sony, Samsung and others saw where things were headed strategically a decade or so ago, and dumped money into the R&D needed for chip fabs and EE design teams.
That was seems like the most bizarre thing about this whole business to me. The collection agencies that the debt has been sold to have no real legal basis or practical resources for doing anything other than calling the debtor and asking them to pay. They have no idea what the debt was for, how legitimate it is, what the debtor's situation is, or even if some clerk at the original company fat-fingered a data entry form somewhere and the information is completely wrong.

Which conversely means that, as a debtor, you can basically convince them you have no money and ignore them, and there's nothing they can do. Any kind of investigation or strong-arming would blow their budget for turning a profit on their debts. It's not like any of the money is actually going to the company you supposedly owe to anyways
The Unity Assets Store is often cited as the one feature devs that moved from Unity to UE4 miss, so I'm curious to see if Unreal will come up with a good competing service.

The timing (one week before Unity' big conference) is also interesting.
The big bugaboo on the wall is: is it any better than the Fuji X100S....
Yep, a search for 'hyperloop-alpha.pdf' shows it was released on the Spacex site on Aug 12, 2013.
Yep http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop
The great thing about a state such as California is that there already is a system to pierce the bureaucracy: citizen's initiatives.

Given enough signatures, one could bypass the entire legislative process and appeal directly to the voters to approve a bold project like this.

Ironically, piercing the bureaucracy and appealing to the voters was what Prop 1A managed to do to initially approve the high-speed rail system, but it resulted in the unambitious, problematic plan they have now.
Also on a re-read, I note that the author was not using housing prices as a measure of affordability:

> Affordability wasn’t hard; I mapped all the census tracts in the country that had a median income within $10,000 of mine, both above and below.

I can't speak to other neighborhoods, but in the case of Capitol Hill I suspect that this measure is a poor proxy for affordability. Capitol Hill residents might be disproportionately people who are willing to pay a premium to live in the City.
And here's the HN discussion from last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6201728
Ask HN: Any disruptive startups in wealth management?
Hi,

With more and more millionaires in the world, but with more diverse profiles, this market seems like a good one to tackle.

Are you aware of any disruptive ideas / startups in wealth management?

I'm not talking asset management here (so not interested in quant startups etc.) or retail banking - here I'm really interested in efforts that have been made (or not) to reinvent private banking.

Thoughts?
Yeah, I know what you're saying. It's like getting into an old MG Roadster. Not very fast, unreliable, noisy. But damn if it isn't fun and beautiful to get around in. It's inspiring and it does what it's designed to do, give you a dramatic, noisy, wind blown time out in the country.

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/mg/b/1673922.html

But this camera seems more like something people buy who want to be seen with it, a fashion-vanity item. And I think that's an important distinction to make.
What do you think is the threshold to charge to avoid the scammer harassment? I tend to use cheap hosting for people, and I'd like to step up a notch to avoid just this sort of silliness.
The pricing is currently for a single site. No support for multiple sites as of this moment.

And not yet, I'll have to look into MultiMarkdown. Those features sound like a good idea.
Assuming that it really works, someone should convince China to build it. They have almost 7000 miles of high-speed rail and an operational maglev. It only cost China $1.2 billion to build it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train

Shanghai to Beijing is 800 miles. It's 5 hours by HSR. That's probably a sweet spot for the Hyperloop.
At this rate, beautiful things are also made in China...the expertise is there, you just have to put together the right specs in your order...

With all the manufacturing experience over there, one can argue the best craftsmanship and knowhow are located in Shenzhen at this time.

"Are you kidding, Doc? All the best stuff is 'Made in Japan'!"
"Astounding!"
It's a warm color, it has a lot of connotations (sorry if I can't be more specific) :)
Hey, there are some great things in here. I've used it for a bit this morning, and have a couple of comments:

1. I could not figure out how to change the font. I'd love a smaller font.

2. The "show" and "hide" side bar shortcuts should be merged into a single "toggle" shortcut

3. Generally, shortcuts should be more vim-y. If I wanted to do cmd + } I would be using emacs :)

4. could not find a keyboard shortcut to change focus from the editor to the sidebar, so I have to use my mouse there (bad).

5. Quick open does not have vim-like navigation. So I need to use the arrows to select a file in the list. Also, is there a way to set an ignore list? (e.g. ignore all the object files).

6. Long term, it would be amazing if gui actions could be tied to keyboard shortcuts via the vimrc.
If they dumped money into paying Audi for the design rather than improving the function of the camera, guess what you, the consumer, are paying for in its purchase price....
This is a feature I'm looking to add. It was designed to be included. When I parse the lit file, I record the line no. which will be represented in comments in the generated source file. Hopefully, this will mitigate some of the extra workflow.

The granularity will be for every macro defn, so there will be some ambiguity.
I see your point, but to be fair most of the visitors simply came from submitting it to Hacker News and Product Hunt. The rest followed suit from there.
You missed his point 1.
Haha, well, nothing against them. My Dad and inspiration is one, after all. :)

And I am a non-tattooed, non-spiked red haired girl. (That's a mouthful.)

I'll make sure to trample your pansies like I always do next time I walk by your house.
At this point the cheap LAMP shared hosting field is basically EIG* on one side, GoDaddy† on the other, and all the small companies in between getting squashed or acquired by one or the other.

* They own Hostgator, Bluehost, Startlogic, Bizland, iPower, Startlogic, Fatcow, iPage, JustHost, MyDomain, Homestead, NetFirms, and a couple dozen other companies.

† They own MediaTemple, Wild West Domains, BlueRazor, and I think a couple of other companies.
Thanks for the advice! I am definitely trying to have good content, and the blog and podcast are a part of that.

I will post the Seth Godin podcast now, thanks for the suggestion. This is the first day I've ever posted on HN, so I'm figuring it out.
I did something similar, but a bit simpler and just within one one region of my state. I used a GA wrapped around google maps to minimize total expected driving distance between the university I was attending, the office of the job I was working at the time, the home of my g/f at the time, along with other objectives.
I'm in a similar situation right now. Finished school, but have to wait until next year to go to university because of mandatory military service. In the meantime I'm honing my terrible skills in mathematics and drawing and I study the SICP lectures as described in this handy guide:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/qoxa2slbcuum2p9/13843304...
Writing, absolutely.

Challenge yourself over a variety of cognitive functionality. Challenge yourself in ways you wouldn't even define as intellectually or mentally sharp. Thinking non-critically, social intelligence, group intelligence, for example.

Challenge yourself with concepts you find impossible or impenetrable to understand. I find when I do this, my desire to understand it increases by what seems like an infinite magnitude. When I have that much passion and motivation behind learning something, I am going to throw everything I've got at it. When I run out of every way I'm used to thinking, I have to force myself to find another way. This can be incredibly painful, but it can also be incredibly rewarding.

It is the kind of learning process that can completely flip the way I perceive everything, because I have realized over and over again, that for every way I had constructed as what I called 'learning', that element which ties them together biases them together. Even now, I realize that I make the assumption that bias is capable of being evaluated in a binary fashion. I don't know what that means, but it's a new thought.

Examine yourself carefully and slowly. It is a fine line to walk, between mental independence, and feeling mentally ill. The further out I go, the longer it seems to take me to come back. But I never know what going that far out is worth. Sometimes I feel lost entirely. Sometimes I feel sharp as knives. Sometimes I have to remind myself to stop thinking about how to control my thinking, so I can get back to studying the things I wanted to become proficient in, in the first place.
What I've gotten from this is that you're shipping side-by-side diffs that are 'better', but it's unclear what it's better /than/. Inline diffs? Some other tool's side-by-side diffing?

I want to know more about "better navigation" and context.

I would love, love, love to talk with you about this. justin@abrah.ms Seriously.
There are quite a few, and they're documented on the wiki[1].

If you find that there's a specific feature missing, please open an issue. All feedback is appreciated :) This is still very much a work in progress.

[1] https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/wiki/File-Browser-Actions
Apple Should Open a Seattle Office
Having used a great many different cameras what I think about Leicas is that their primary advantage is the state of mind they create in the photographer, which isn't really connected to any tangible usability in design, or engineering marvel in the camera performance.

Just the fact that some photographers know they have a Leica in their hand, makes them feel more liberated and ... how shall I say it ... "photographery".

I think it cannot be denied that with a suitable picture style, you could shoot JPEGs on a 5D MkIII that look similar to what a Leica produces without processing. I bet you most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the JPEGs with their naked eye, and even fewer would be able to pick out which one was from the Leica, and which from the 5DMkIII.

Leicas remind me of French Wine. Everyone waxes poetic about them until they are asked to pick out the Leica photos from a lineup in a double blind test.

At that point everyone then says the Leica is about intangible things like "superior UI".

In the end, I think the Leica is a brand first, and then a camera with certain characteristics next.

A camera made from a solid carved piece of aluminum is just damn attractive. But people feel the need to imbue the Leica with more qualities than it actually has, because maybe they feel embarrassed to have chosen the tool of their trade based on its looks, rather than its utility.

I for one think designers should not apologize for choosing a camera just because it looks good. Design is their whole trade, and they need to surround themselves with inspiration to get into their creative space.

I look at Leica as the cost of doing business for a designer. That is the way their brains work.

And lest programmers develop some superiority complex about their rationality ... I want to suggest that the success of the Go programming language is about aesthetics at this point.
> "I think there's too much focus these days on what you can get for the money, and not what you can get."

Agree, but with the Leica T you're not really getting much either. Even if it was priced at the same level as the prosumer Sony/Olympus/Fuji cameras it's still a dud.

The body itself is immaculately crafted, that's to be certain - I've actually held one and it feels great.

But the software sucks, the controls are awkward, the screen is mediocre, and basic functions of a camera like autofocus are slow. It's a showpiece, not a workhorse, regardless of the price.

This isn't the Ferrari everyone likes to compare Leicas to, it's paying $300K for a Lada encrusted with diamonds.

I'm not above paying for good design and manufacturing, but it needs to hit the baseline of being a good camera first. I'd buy a Leica M (well, if I had more money) but there's no way I'd touch either the T or the even-more-cash-grabby X-Vario.

For another example of style-over-substance camera (or really just style-without-substance), see the Hasselblad Lunar.
I don't know about 'disruptive', but I know there are companies like WealthFront and SimpleBank are in the private banking/wealth management space
Wouldn't Vundle work just as well on this? Vundle is pretty decent for installing plugins.
Nikon also uses Sony chips, even in their flagship cameras. The value added by the brand is presumably the lens mount/lens compatibility, controls etc. I continue to use Nikon products because they have maintained some consistency with their physical UI. The Leica T controls don't appeal to me though, so I wouldn't consider it even at a much lower price point. Its disappointing, considering that I might be interested in a lower priced M.
Or stash up on a lifetime supply of M6 Classics and a freezer full of Tri-X and x-tol (or ascorbic acid) developer solution...I'm not sure what the going price of a M Monochrom is but I'd bet you'd be able to get at least 5 M6's for that price. Spare parts!
Part of the point of an app could be to help people to know how to properly document their interactions with police.
Thank you. I was really wondering what is so special about a GUI vim. I thought that exited for a while.