skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comparison with Luxotica breaks down for two reasons. First is when you consider that Paypal has network effects and iOS and Android are platforms. Pushing glasses frames has neither of these impediments for upstarts. The second is the ridiculous markup. If Paypal increased their transaction fee from 3% to 30%, a competitor would kill them. Cargill didn't bump food prices 10-fold even though bio-engineering is at least an order of magnitude more complex and costly than molded plastic in a pretty shape.
>Next comes one of the worst and one of the best parts of D&D’s character system. D&D’s Race system is, frankly, kind of gross. The idea that a person’s race tells you something about their character is a sign of the racist elements in the fantasy tradition before and around D&D.

...Really?

This type of thought coming from MIT makes me question my sanity.
Wondering how this differs from the SemanticVectors package? Will have to look into word2vec further.
You should add the story of your son's scare to the site - gives it a more human and personal vibe and give potential customers something to relate to.
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I have a chromebook (samsung arm7) and a MBA (2011). Comparing the too, if you're not a highschool student (which your only needs are Youtube, Facebook, Spreadsheet and Doc editor) you're comparing a toy with a very powerful laptop. The difference of the OS is so big that talking about HW doesn't make any sense.
Either way you pay for it.
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Hey this is rad, I LOVE the UI and love that I have a source dedicated to EDM without having to sift through other services.

The only dealbreaker I have are the lack of keyboard shortcuts, I imagine this is on the roadmap? For ex my keyboard has a play/pause button that works globally-even in browser. Similarly, if I'm on the tab with playing media-spacebar pauses and plays respectively.

Otherwise, bookmarked and jamming now :)
And it's not like these people are useless. I knew a guy like this in college, and he eventually settled into a decent job. Not everybody needs to be passionate about their work.
Huh? That’s just an incoherent statement. You are inventing false dichotomies. That’s just so absurd.
Sounds exactly like Github's policy that got them in trouble. Hopefully it works out better for you but somehow I doubt it.
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For chromebook pixel to be successful among developers atleast, following needs to be done

1. Provide a good terminal like iTerm
2. Google cloud should provide a free standard instance always powered and run chrome in headless mode with remote desktop enabled via chrome remote desktop app.
3. Provide a ebs worth 100GB at least on the cloud.

Standard instance costs 0.045 per hour i.e, 345$ per year.
It's a thermostat that lets you set a dollar budget for the energy you use to heat and cool your home. But wait, there's more! It coordinates energy use with other units to reduce your carbon footprint by reducing peaks in energy demand. And, Thermoneystat alerts you if your system fails. This way you avoid costly repairs if your water pipes freeze and burst causing flooding in your home.

Here's the deal: thermostats on the market now are really primitive (even "smart" ones). Using energy is expensive, and the side effects of generating it are even more expensive.

We really need to be thinking directly about _how much_ energy we are using. And about _when_ we are using it.
"Any significant org is going to have have some process that sounded good at the time, but is now ridiculous."

And yet, it's still there. Understanding why that's the case is a pretty important part of ensuring that it actually changes. In other words, correctly identifying problems is the easy half of the problem. Dealing with the problems behind the problems is where things get tricky.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, etc.
Yeah, I think the real value here is not in B2C, but B2B where you specialize in providing regulatory information to retailers in actionable form, like correlating SKUs with product URLs and so forth.
I purchase all expensive electronics on my AMEX card. They offer an additional year on all manufacturers warranty at no additional cost, along with 90 day purchase protection for any accidental damage. Its fantastic.

Visa Signature offers similar coverage, however making a claim with Visa vs Amex is a much bigger headache.

I've submitted multiple warranty and purchase protection claims with AMEX and its about the easiest process imaginable. Highly recommended.
Android port of the two apps I had mentioned previously, like Sublime and/or Eclipse

I believe the Eclipse folks think that Orion (http://www.eclipse.org/orion/) is the path out of that jam. I'm super stoked about that project, and think it may have real legs if they don't lose focus.

That is their solution to your git need, also, unless one requires a dedicated git client to do rebases or other ninjary: https://github.com/creationix/js-git
Volume printing is best suited for applications that cannot be mass-produced.

Eyeglass frames can be described adequately by overall width and length of the temple pieces. One machine can produce several similar styles of frame in all the most common sizes before you can blink. If they don't have a brand name on them, frames are dirt cheap.

The lenses are the unique element. If you're not including either the lenses or the unique shape of someone's face in the printing process, there's just no point in doing that instead of going to Costco or Walmart for a frame.

Or you could create a style so alien to current styles that it could not be produced with current mass production machinery. Perhaps it secures the lenses with nose and eyebrow piercings, or a hatband-like ring around the entire head, or a pince-nez style that puts silicone hooks over your nostrils.

The lenses are still the majority of the effort.
> 2) it's GPL

Backblaze is a web service, so for better or worse, the GPL doesn't apply here, since we never have access to their binaries. The AGPL would apply, but that's not the license used.
Yes, you bought it and you 'hacked it' in order to make it 'usable'. Most developers will buy a MBA which is an order of magnitude faster with more powerful CPU and feautures MacOSX which has tons of software to enhance development (especially for CLI users).

So definately no, developers are not a niche market for this toy-device althoguh I admit that I like my Samsung Chromebook (and Iinstalled xubuntu too on it...).
And there are other models to choose from, even if you're an Apple diehard. Yes, Apple is incapable of making the perfect machine for your needs at this precise point in time, but it's pretty good for some group of people. I'm in the group of people that will get the MacBook Pro version of this with a stunning array of two USB-C ports.
Basic 5th Edition rules are provided for free online by Wizards of the Coast. Providing anything else would likely be a copyright violation.
Get your designer eyewear or sunglasses from a competitor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safilo)

It's not really any cheaper, but at least you can go with the "underdog", as it were.
are u the gateway?
I think the biggest problem I have is clicking or the wrong link because some banner thing finally loaded at the top of the page and pushed everything down. (I don't have great internet at home.) It drives me crazy, because then I have to back up and wait for the page to reload again.

Another tip for helping people with slow internet: don't break your article into multiple pages! I think the primary reason for doing this to get more ad traffic, but I promise I will leave when I see that your list of ten items is separated into ten pages.
Have you thought about a "read at timestamp" construct in RethinkDB?

It's not really an MVCC thing, and you can work around it in data model, but for lots of reports (say, running in a cronjob), I want to run a query "as" the database saw things from at midnight UTC, even if i start running it at 2am? It would also make reports a more reproducible... but maybe this is really a datamodel problem. I felt when I read the Google Spanner papers that it was a pretty potentially useful feature for Read-Only queries.
I think that we should expect employers to allow open source contributions where it is appropriate. Breaking out general purpose stuff into libraries is more maintainable code anyway. If your current employer is hurting your career prospects, you should quit.

I'm not really concerned about whatever supposed "hidden biases" there are in open source, the simple fact is that the best way to judge someone's work is to see it.

If you're concerned about hidden biases I would direct you to the status quo brainteasers used today, where the interviewer simply has a blank slate to project whatever personal biases they have onto the candidate in a highly subjective, highly unrealistic situation that has nothing to do with actual programming.
This is partly speculation, but from everything I've read, the NSA appears to take its regulatory compliance a lot more seriously than the contractors that serve it do.

I'm not saying contractors are hives of abuse or anything, just that if there is abuse, it seems far more likely to happen there.

I'd also say the more senior the position, government or not, the more likely they are to be able to get away with it.

Most worrisome are the well-connected people who sit at the intersection of state and corporate power. For example, former intelligence officials who frequent the revolving door and take high-level executive positions at major contractors. These are people you wouldn't want to cross.
People are - just not for anywhere near the cost of a pixel. Schools and parents of kids especially. They're super cheap and everything schools need to do is online.
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I guess you have the results of a detailed poll which checked the Portland public's knowledge of the issues or are you being a tad patronizing in your assumptions?
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This is pretty cool. So, I am using Stripe, which is great, but has a few drawbacks right now. I'm also using churnbuster, which is nice (does your "chase" feature do what they do?)

Here's my problems:

1. Some of my customers pay by check

2. Sometimes my customers have an out of date credit card, or haven't given it to me yet, and Stripe won't let me change their subscription to one that charges them.

3. I occasionally do both charges, credits and invoiceitems for in Stripe

4. I have written a lot of Stripe specific code, and would prefer to gradually try out your solution (it might not work, no offense) Can I try it out without moving completely over?
Perhaps I am just lucky but I out of principle never buy any insurance if it is not required by law. If something breaks I either try to fix it myself or buy a new one. I never calculated it but I don't feel that I miss out or pay more in the long run. Quite the opposite, I have almost no running expenses and can invest the money others pay the insurence companies into new stuff.

The only exception of that rule are insurances which cover stuff I might accidentally do to other people.
I always respect the choice to prioritize readability over flashy gimmicks, and this site is a perfect example of that mentality, imo.

From a quick glance I know who he is, what he does, and how to contact him. Great!

I found this to be interesting. http://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html
The madness must end.

How the hell can anyone make that money back?
If one is examining D&D and fantasy tropes in the context of society's attitudes towards race at large, as well as Tolkien's cultural milieu

> If you read Tolkein, it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that the tall pale people from the north are good and the dark ugly people from the south are bad. This reproduces the attitudes of the colonial era in which Tolkein came of age and its one of the worst aspects of his legacy (and that of many other contemporary and prior fantasy writers).

It seems rather par for the course. And it makes sense. In both fantasy and sci-fi, inhuman species are often caricatured by their "race" and usually don't get enough time to flesh out three-dimensional characters. Because it's hard to imagine completely alien societies with personalities that span as full as range as humanity's.
What? Rent control did not originate in San Francisco, and has been around a lot longer than Proposition 13. Its history in modern economics goes back to world War 1, and the concept of economic rents and the need to regulate them originates with Adam Smith in the 18th century.

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"The Cloud" Can Go Fuck Itself.

Addendum; If you ever want it to be taken seriously you must urgently fix two things.

1) Telcos. Being constantly subject to obscene per megabyte usage charges with miserable reliability and speed for access to your bulk storage in the cloud vs $100 per terabyte reliable and fast subscription for life easily portable local storage costs is utterly unacceptable.

2) States. Being constantly subject to unlimited invisible invasive personal data theft without oversight or justification is not an acceptable state of affairs. The existence of states guarantees that they will always insist on being able to do these things. The only potential solution to this problem without actually destroying states (Shock! Horror! ROADS!) is easy and perfect homomorphic encryption.

Until you fix these two (quite possibly unfixable) things, "The Cloud" is pipe dream marketing bullshit.
So your solution to the problem is one that likely won't result in the customer getting their money back and involves a lot more work on their part? It also requires that the company screw up repeatedly with many customers(to get the FTC to investigate), and is still operating?

If you are still honestly convinced that is an acceptable replacement for charge backs we will never find agreement here.

>I have never had to issue a chargeback, yet I had a few mistakes happen on me and the merchant always resolved them in my favor.

You dismiss completely the possibility that this is because of the existence of chargebacks? The fact that you have the ability to reverse the charge, cost the company a charge back fee and potentially raise their payment processing rates if they don't help you out satisfactorily? You don't think that has anything to do with the way they act?

Google tiger direct bitcoin refund for some examples of how a company handles these things without that threat. People spending days trying to resolve the issues bouncing between multiple companies. The alternative is calling their credit card company and having the funds available again in a few minutes.

Or look at all the people waiting >1 year past their expected delivery date for miner shipments and in some cases having the company go out of business before they arrive or send them used equipment.
Most of the engineers I work with live very far out, to find affordable housing/good school districts. If denser housing allowed them to afford to live closer to their job, they would.

I agree with increasing building density, but there is a large group already employed in SV/SF that will move into that housing from a 4hr radius around the area. Still would be interested to see a projection that would model this possibility.

Good modeling of the possible outcomes is the first step on the rocky road to getting Bay Area zoning changed. Not holding my breath.
It's just an invoicing program. There are lots of those. Intuit's is widely used. Oracle is also in that business. There's "Anytime Collect", "Zencash", "Esker", "Celtrino". and many others.

The more advanced players support electronic data interchange (EDI), where your accounts receivable system connects to the buyer's accounts payable system. Many large companies require EDI for suppliers who generate a lot of invoices, so they aren't re-entering invoice data into their own systems.[1] Any new system should have EDI interchange with at least all Fortune 1000 companies.

There are "gateway" companies which handle talking to large numbers of other companies.[2] Once you get this all working, your invoice goes out to the gateway, the gateway formats it and sends it to the paying company, the paying company's systems validate the bill, and they do a funds transfer to your bank account, which is matched to another EDI transaction indicating payment. For most routine transactions, there's no human intervention.

Make that all work for small/medium businesses, and you have a unique product.

The API is "dead simple" because it doesn't handle any of the hard cases.
Like "We ordered 1000 but 200 didn't arrive. We're paying for only 800".

[1] http://www.aepedi.com/apay.htm
[2] http://www.b2bgateway.net/
This is really cool and awesome, but after seeing the slow pace of JVM development over the last 6 years I really despair of doing major systems/database work in Java. It just feels like we are 10+ years ahead of where the VM is at.
Thanks for posting this. As a father, I struggle with my roles. There are a lot of them, and "ultimate authority" is unfortunately one of them. I believe most developmental specialists would agree that children do need some negative feedback. The frustrations come in deciding how much? When? Where? Who? For which reasons? When is negative feedback definitely inappropriate? When is punishment delayed punishment confused? When is my spouse or a grandparent disciplining more than I agree with? How to handle that? When is a conversation with spouse, in advance or in review, appropriate. And then trying to separate the authoritarian from the nurturing parent I try to be otherwise.

I'd say these sorts of questions go through my head 20 times a day on workdays and 100 times a day during the weekend. Usually in flurries. Maybe there's only a couple of corrections that actually need to be made, but the introspection goes on.

And what to do when I did it wrong? How to atone to my child? That's perhaps the most important part, I think. To see that wrong is wrong even when dad is the one who's wrong.
I'm not sure if the author of this page understands what "race" means in D&D terms. It's basically species. Dwarves aren't just little people. They're literally not inter-fertile with humans. Now, fair enough, much of the "race" difference manifests itself as differences in cultural background - cultural norms, language, etc. But it's not the same way people use the term "race" in the real world.
I never claimed that developers are the niche market. And I didn't have to 'hack it' other than turning on dev mode. Ubuntu runs in a tab, just like everything else.

It fills a niche in my life, I never claimed it would help anyone else.
Roy says[1] that to be truly RESTful, your resources (documents) need to be linked between each other, just like HTML pages. There are no definite standards yet (that I'm aware of), but JSON HAL[1] seems to be on the IETF standards track to be the one solution we settle on (just like we "settled on" <a href> in HTML). See also [3] for a broader overview on links in JSON and [4] for more information on resource linking and stuff in general.

[1] http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

[2] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

[3] https://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/11/25/linking_in_json

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
Why?

It's a fairly common criticism of fantasy—that entire races and ethnic groups are pretty commonly stereotyped.
"in a large company “fear of failure” inhibits speed and risk taking while in a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency."

I thought the conclusion from that was so obvious that Steve Blank was surely going to talk about it later in the article, but he didn't...

In a startup, the "default" state - if you do nothing - is that you run out of money and starve. That's why fear of failure drives speed and urgency.

In a big company, the "default" state - if you do nothing - is that you collect a paycheck and live a relatively comfortable life. That's why fear of failure inhibits speed and risk-taking.

I recall a comment or an essay of PG's where he said that poverty seems to be a necessary condition for startup success, and without that incentive, startups frequently die. (There are counterexamples like Evan Williams or Travis Kalanick, but in both those cases they picked up their habits while fighting for their previous companies' lives.)

I read that and thought "It isn't so!", and then got a job at Google hoping to do the intrapreneur thing, but with the risk/reward balance slanted toward the big company. I found that there were managers willing to give me nearly carte blanche for finding & fixing new problems, but that didn't mean that I could actually launch or grow anything new or revolutionary. The problem wasn't actually with me or with management or with any corporate structure, it's that for a new idea to take root, you need many peoples' help, and each one of them needs their incentives biased against the status quo. That's why Silicon Valley works: there is a critical mass of people here who get nothing if the startup(s) they back don't take off.
which part?
that racist elements exist in a game that characterizes and increases/decrease stats depending on race
or that different races in D&D simply don't operate well together?

these all seem true to me
these all seem racist to me
these all seem reasonable given the fantasy aspect of D&D and what I am used to from stories
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> Every laptop stops working when the charging port breaks

That is true, however if you are using the same port for a multitude of things (plugging/unplugging USB sticks, monitors, etc...) it's going to get a lot more use, and therefore increases the likelihood of something breaking.

I've broken USB ports before on laptops, usually by crushing the floating center plastic thing (USB cable gets ripped out weirdly or something), but I have other USB ports so life goes on. USB-C has the same center floating plastic bit -- just waiting for it to get broken off.

DC ports tend to be pretty robust, but do break from time-to-time. Apple's solution to this was the Magsafe connector, which avoided the issue for the most part. Seems like a step backwards for laptops to now rely on a single, potentially fragile port for everything.
Also, on skimming through this again... I think this author would have enjoyed making the students create a GURPS character much more.
You assume Glacier uses tape storage... But the same principle still applies, they're trying to prevent people clogging up the network so when somebody does need to do an emergency restore there is lots of spare network capacity.
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So are they trying to say an Orc could be just as good of a ballerina as an Elf? This is much more likely to be true in 5th edition anyway (which they chose) than 2nd edition where things like Dwarf wizards can't even exist. So we have made some progress in the realm of D&D racism (should probably be specism anyway though)
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Food for thought. Thank you.
Excellent analysis!

99% of jerk behavior I know is done towards people who are not in position to push back.