skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fav part:

"b. come to the office every time a line of code is written."

Not sure how you would get anything done at all, if you had to run to the office every single time you hit the return key.
I think maybe you're viewing hostesses from a decidedly western pov. I have lots of hostess friends or x-hostess friends. All but one of them saw it as a pleasant experience.
They talked a lot and got paid very very well. They didn't have to put out and some of them gained amazing social skills that have helped them in their current careers. All of them (except 1) go back from time to time for extra cash.

My point being its not seedy to Japanese culture where as to westerners it's often associated with strippers. It's not or at least a large percentage of it is not
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Something I'd be really interested in that adds to this is : How do you find someone to shoot/produce your video?
> Higher home prices get locked into the tax rate if the property changes hands so I'm not sure what the link is to Prop 13 creating higher prices....

Prop 13 has several provisions, the two most important being:

1) It limits the nominal rate of ad valorem property taxation.

2) It limits the increase in the tax basis value of property except when a reset to the full assessed value is allowed for certain qualifying events (changes of ownership and certain improvements.)

The first directly increases property values by making it more attractive to own property because of lower cost of ownership and less tax risks regardless of length of ownership.

The second restricts mobility (and therefore, both supply and demand) because it discourages exchanging one property for another, because doing so increases almost always increases effective tax rates (and total tax costs for like valued properties.) Because the it affects supply more than demand (insofar as some demand comes from people moving from out of the state, who aren't affected by Prop 13 on the demand side), this also increases prices, though its main effect is to reduce market clearing volume independent of price and thereby increases price volatility.
I'm not familiar with the volume of data that balance collected at signup. But I am familiar with the volume of info in the PCI's "Know Your Customer" initiative. I i'm going to speculate wildly that balanced got to know their customers during onboarding, rather than waiting until after they started processing payments.

Additionally, I think that a company's level of trust with their customers involves some 'coefficient of risk' regarding potential losses to chargebacks against a low or non-existent reserve. I find the topic interesting, especially the consequences at a federal level if you guess wrong and the "customer" turns out to be laundering money.
You can have access to jar libs from Common Lisp with ABCL too.
http://abcl.org/
If you can provide more details on the kind of EC2 instances you were using and the kind of issues that you consider issues that would be great.

In my limited experience, I've rarely faced any significant issues with EC2. I assume your threshold for issues must have been very lower than mine.
I think we actually agree on point [2] ... using the hard-earned knowledge again while solving a new problem (of sufficient complexity) still requires significant problem-solving (puzzle solving?) skills. I've also mastered making web interfaces that perform CRUD operations against databases ... I don't want to spend my career reliving the ground-hog day of CRUD interfaces.
Actually, it depends. Stability and performance wise, I'd say our Lucene-based search layer has seen the most impressive jump. But yeah, Mongo instances loved the new fast IO as well :-)
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It's not necessarily sexism to point out an (unfortunate) demographic fact (at least, in the US [1]).

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm

(Don't get me wrong; I'm not a huge fan of the wording of the grandparent comment either, as it could be taken in a normative sense. I just dislike kneejerk PC callouts more.)
"Must is a free lifestyle photo recommendation app for discovering, capturing and sharing new experiences across the world."

"DISCOVER. EXPERIENCE. CAPTURE. SHARE."

I'm having a hard time understanding what this app does. The prose is too long and hairy for me to parse. Does it take pictures? Show them in a feed?

What am I going to do with this app? Where will I be? Why will I be doing it? Why will I want to, and what is the increment of improvement over my current technology this will provide? Put that as concisely as possible in the first two pages I scroll through. If it's hard to do in words, make a video or take some screenshots of someone using the app the way I would use it.

This is some solid advice from pg I like:

"Better to start with an overly narrow description of your project than try to describe it in its full generality and lose the audience completely. If there's a simple one-sentence description of what you're doing that only conveys half your potential, that's actually pretty good. You're halfway to your destination in just the first sentence."
It applies to individual decisions aimed at maximizing a utility function. Groups don't have utility functions due to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (except in special cases, e.g. cardinal preferences/prices for private goods).

But I imagine that if I did view democracy as a meaningful decision procedure, then I suspect I would view close votes as a belief that both outcomes are almost equally good. Both decisions are not similar, but the utility attached to each decision is.
First of all, I disagree.
Being passionate is not bad, It becomes bad when you dont consider improving other parts of yourself.
For example, there was a time where I was working a lot and then when I looked myself in the mirror, I felt horrible because I was fat and ashamed of myself.
That alone burned me out.
However, studying about diet and fitness.
I fixed this problem with Intermittent Fasting, bodyweight workout (4 days a week) and vegeterianism.
Now I dont feel bad, and I work straight for months without feeling burned out.
Was 2015 Boston's worst winter yet?
Leading criminologists were inferring criminal tendencies from eyebrow type well into the late 19th century in Europe.

Specifically, Cesare Lombroso's[1] theory of Anthropological Criminology listed, amongst a number of other characteristics such as large ears and (if I remember my criminology class) supernumerary nipples:

"bushy eyebrows, tending to meet across nose"[2]

as a physiognomic feature useful in identifying "criminal man."

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropological_criminology#The_theory
I expect dog-fooding by people making tools for other people. There is no reason they can't self-host (without publishing the interface to the entire 'net) and then just use GitHub as another remote to handle external collaboration.
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This would be a great place to include lenses if OCaml allowed for higher rank polymorphism. I don't think you can jerry-rig a Functor-based lens solution into an object like this...
include [0] lists reusable Qt libraries.

[0] http://inqlude.org
I know your blog post is only part 1, but your example doesn't show hot module reloading. Adding that will complicate your build file even more.
Nothing specific. Anything that has mechanical design, electronics or software development. I think research topics should be left to the academics themselves. I am interested in supporting infrastructure / software / hardware.
I guess I don't understand what you mean by a PE not being government-regulated licensing? If you mean that a software engineering PE isn't mandated for work, then I agree that's true but I think that's short-sighted in view of the trends for safety-critical projects. Regardless of government mandates, I see it as problematic from a liability standpoint to sign off on safety-critical projects now that the cat is out of the bag.

Bringing it back to the top of the thread, I think that willful ignorance is a bad recommendation, would not help in a legal situation, would be negligent, and would be contrary to a professional code of ethics. Maybe you feel that a consultant or someone working on areas outside of the safety-critical domain doesn't need to follow a professional code or act in a professional manner? Completely disagree if that is the case.

As far as IEEE-CS and ACM being "obsolete trade associations", agree to disagree. I'm not aware of a better trade organization than those two.

Honestly, I don't understand the backlash against professionalism.
"Majority" on this issue is high dependent on how you define "developed"
That is a horrible example: a physical product that was assembled by third-world clock-punchers in mind-numbing, depressing factories.
One question. If real hardware was always 50% cheaper then AWS wouldn't have been such a success. Can you please explain in which scenarios it makes economical sense to use AWS compared to real hardware?
No one said "take everything literally" either.
In a free market yes, but not in a speculation market that does not respond market demands (combined with macroeconomic mechanisms and manipulations from the Federal Government). Going beyond simplistic supply/demand, high speculation markets have constrained economic growth, and many governments, such as HK or South Korea, have taken measures control it as well. It's not that the cost in the area rise, but also startup cost for new enterprises becomes to high, making it difficult for startups and new innovations they create.
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We are still a loyal customer for some of their services. For example, we still use S3 for off-site backups and Route53 is still our primary DNS provider.

For load balancing we have moved to a Route53 (health checks and round-robin) + a group of nginx+haproxy+lua-based frontend boxes.

Everything else was either built in-house or used open-source components and wasn't really tied to EC2 infrastructure.
You've just described a failing startup. Killing yourself to make something work only gets good results by luck, and is a poor business strategy no matter how many shiny startup words anyone uses to dress it up.

Likewise, working large amounts of free overtime on someone else's project is for chumps. If you don't have a meaningful financial stake in the business and still do this, someone is taking advantage of you, and following the money/equity will quickly tell you who it is.

The only people who reliably win under those conditions are investors who are playing a statistical game and don't suffer any of the adverse personal consequences themselves.

Edit: Obviously this doesn't apply to genuine volunteer work, such as contributing to your favourite OSS project or helping out your kid's school or a charity whose goals you want to support. But I don't think these are the kinds of work we are talking about here.
Citations?

The Carl Lewis point is totally moot because some athletes are so great that they hardly need to train. When I was in high school, a 15-year-old kid came in and did 5 reps on the bench press at 200 lbs. He'd never lifted before in his life. Not only that, Carl Lewis is just an absolute freak of nature. You can't say "Carl Lewis did this, so it works for most other people, too."

It also doesn't matter how many hours masters in competitive fields practice. They may be working, so they can't practice. They may have diminishing returns from practicing and simply want to live their lives. They may be at the limit of their talent.

What we're saying is that a developer who codes for 8 hours at work, then comes home to code some more, is going to be better than one who doesn't. It may take a while, especially if there's a big talent gap, but eventually the practice is more important than the innate talent.
Unless you are working for yourself or equity if the work can't be done in 40 hours a week it's a management problem, not a programmer problem.

Programmers who consistently work over 40 hours a week are enabling management to misrepresent how much work can be done over a time period and are covering for management's flaws, and paying for it with their uncompensated time.

Management has perpetuated the mindset that if the tasks can't be completed with the resources _they_ have allocated (including time) then the problem is a lack of programmer skill, and insecure, young, and inexperienced programmers pay for it with their time and ego.

Experienced programmers who want to take advantage of this will trade their time for respect, pride, and influence.

Management should respect programmer's free time, but doesn't have to as long as there are programmers willing to sell the others out by giving it away.
I'd be much more interested in using Python-Style Objects in Javascript...
> In my experience, I've never found an issue with an application on AWS that wasn't caused by either a misunderstanding of what was being offered (e.g. not provisioning enough PIOPS for database volumes), or simply issues with the application code.

You haven't been using Amazon long enough then.

Amazon is great for proof of concept. No upfront costs, extremely scalable, etc. Unfortunately, its expensive compared to physical hardware once you get to scale, and you may never solve underlying performance issues due to it being a shared tenant environment, even if you're a Netflix-sized customer.
> I think sometimes people who enjoy programming and also get paid very well to work as a programmer forget just how lucky they are. Most people don't love their jobs.

I forget this all the time, except when I'm programming. I really do love to code, but when I'm away from the computer and I don't feel like coding, I'm actually typically really depressed. At some points in my life, I was lucky to be able to say that I was still alive. Just because someone can get super excited about math and computers doesn't mean that their life is perfect and full of luck either.
Stackoverflow was specifically built for the first type of questions: those that you have to google all the time, but which have a simple answer.

Before stackoverflow, the answers to such questions were buried in forum discussions. Worse, sometimes the top google result is a forum thread where the answer is "google it"!

Detailed/advanced questions don't really belong on Stackoverflow; it wasn't designed for them.
Good luck with that. I applaud the sentiment but implementing it is seriously challenging.
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Not to mention biases in data collection. "Garbage in, garbage out" certainly applies, and the situation probably worsens as datasets get bigger.
We'll entertain your fervent opinion of the best way to represent a date as soon as you put people on the moon.
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..in an ideal system with completely rational actors. People will sit on properties that are not selling and not touch the price.
"BASHwards" is a bad word to use for this, since the natural interpretation is that it is a combination of "backwards" and "BASH" meaning thatn xonsh is an "upgrade" that is backwards-compatible with BASH.

It seems to be more intended to be not backward-compatible, but to have some attention to minimizing the pain of transition, which is valuable, but needs different language to communicate.
I found gitbucket after trying (unsuccessfully) to run gitlab on my 512mb RAM VM.

It has satisfied all the needs of our small group, which is essentially keeping a visual track of our git repos and permissions.
My wife got me this poster (framed) for Christmas a few years ago - I have to say its one of my favorite pieces of art.

http://benfry.com/distellamap/150dpi/advnture-illus-150dpi.p...
Sure I will email you in a bit.
Still one of my all time favorite approaches is the DIY-style snapshot-based system with rsync and hard links, which keeps snapshot sizes small:

This example keeps the days worth of filesystem backups:

rm -rf backup.3
mv backup.2 backup.3
mv backup.1 backup.2
cp -al backup.0 backup.1
rsync -a --delete source_directory/ backup.0/

More details: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Trinkup is a script that automates this approach, somewhat like rsnapshot:

https://gist.github.com/ei-grad/7610406
Additionally, redirection of stderr with 2> doesn't seem to work. Can you describe (or point out in the docs) how to accomplish this? Thank you.
People traded in the Middle Ages? Not the biggest surprise.
And ugh, its medieval, not ancient.
My experience was vastly different and that's the problem. These aren't guidelines they are laws and you're at the mercy of whoever is investigating you. I'd rather not give too many details but one of the companies I worked for was fined a large amount of money after a security breach that was the fault of the hospital and not our application.
As a native, but former Memphian, while I've always thought that they get plenty of things right, it's hard to compare it to San Francisco.

For one, there's the freedom to sprawl, while San Francisco proper is constrained to a much smaller geographic space. That alone skews a lot of the comparisons.

I was reading this today, and it struck a chord especially after yesterday's "rent in SF" article, and while I feel that the Houston approach is indeed the enlightened one, I don't know that it's appropriate for every particular place.

http://joshblackman.com/blog/2015/03/15/the-economist-housto...

Beyond that, of course, as much as it pains me to knock my home town, we left Memphis because of the rapid rise in crime, and that hasn't seemed to improve terribly. Since we've left, they've apparently done a fantastic job of buggering up the schools.

The draw of home pulls strong on me, and I frequently contemplate moving back, especially with the craft brew scene producing what I believe are some of the best beers in the nation (especially High Cotton), but between the things I've already mentioned and the oppressive summers, it's a tough sell.
AWS is always going to include a premium because they take care of the DevOps portion of your infrastructure. There are plenty of virtual hosting companies that cost significantly less than dedicated hardware, if you won't need all the bells and whistles.
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Korea? The NSA? Anonymous?
The phrase you people is generally understood to have racial tones, e.g. http://mashable.com/2012/07/19/ann-romney-you-people/ or http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-penwell/why-you-may-be-a....
I've got Gitlab running on a DigitalOcean droplet, and even if you choose not to use their pre-built images, setting up Gitlab is very easy.
What are other countries where you are allowed to possess marijuana for recreational usage? Also, what about other substances, like lsd, psilocybin, or plants like peyote?
Clocks are expensive to replace? ;)

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There's something called "work to rule" that unions apparently do sometimes instead of striking, where they follow all the rules exactly and this causes nothing to ever get done.

I imagine being overly strict about your hours would have similar (but much smaller) effects. But, this should go both ways... if I'm going to stay 15 minutes late to finish something I'm in the middle of, I'll expect to be able to come in slightly late or leave a bit early on other days as long as the time more-or-less averages out.
You'll see some dead unicorns this year
I have half a dozen of the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboards sitting in a closet because I got tired of them discontinuing previous versions right around the time my keyboard would start to have issues or an unfortunate accident would kill one. Really the only ergonomic keyboard they made that I didn't like were the second version of the original ergonomic keyboards labeled with elite. They used a layout where the arrow keys were placed i a + pattern rather than a ⊥
Oh bare metal reloaded :)
And those people will eventually go bankrupt and the rental rates on their properties will reset. The market can stay irrational for arbitrarily long times, but not forever.
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I've seen reference to Alibaba and China in a lot of these kinds of articles about Etsy. Seems like a bit of a dog-whistle thing to me, though I concede I could be totally off base.
The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming an overwhelming one
The talk title goes on to the next slide with "...least."

Don't worry, gotcha titles are the norm these days.
ZFS is a also a good way to get consistent fast backups of databases by snapshotting. By ZFS copy-on-write its incremental by nature as it you only have to send over deltas incremental streams. Thus for site-to-site backups its usually very fast! Another advantage compared to rsync is that you do not need to directory traverse the whole file system in order to find the differences, I believe its similar to BTRFS in that aspect.

Then there is the feature that ZFS has checksums, so that when you write to disk you know what you get otherwise you can get corruption. RAID5-60 for me is a gamble that you can get hidden write disk errors unless there is checksums in software on a higher layer.

Always scrub your ZFS source and backup pool.
Looks like the font itself is OFL and any code is MIT, so reuse is perfectly reasonable.

https://github.com/github/octicons/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
You can use abstraction layers to isolate yourself from issues with the underlying metal. For example, I had a good thread the last time the maintenance reboots happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9120289.

Solving multi-tenancy issues is hard, but not impossible. I think it's a lot easier with live migration. If a box is giving you problems, just move the load to a new box while maintaining the same IP addressing.

With respect to cost, yes, AWS gets expensive at scale, but if you're at scale your servers are generally not your major cost center (it's usually payroll and licensing).
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> don't code to exhaustion to satisfy some sort of Asperger's or OCD issues.

... why not? What if nothing else works?

> But however you slice it, you cannot get past this one fact: it is an unnatural thing to sit in front of a glowing box for 4, 6, 8 hours a day pecking on little things with your fingers. This type of work has never existed before in the history of our species, and we were not made to do it. I think that's why we have to be very careful not just about the amount of time we code, but all the other things that go with it.

Agriculture and medicine are unnatural too. So are exercise machines, standing desks, and memory foam beds. So are books, ships, planes, trains, and bicycles. So is math - thinking about math is very unnatural.
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Yup.

Right along with the "we've processed the payment for your flight on your credit card" click here.

A friend of mine noted that they had a card compromised in a recent breach, they changed it immediately of course, and then got an email with their actual old card number in it with a bogus attachment. We were tempted to let the trojan run to see what sort of group is so interested in spear phishing him but we decided to pass, we don't have a malware aquarium to run it in sadly.
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Hi all,

We are working on a new service to help you share your plans and also find plans going on around you. Any feedback or criticism is welcome.

Use Ploono to share what you're going to do. Friends can't join you if you've already checked in. Currently in Beta.
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Yea I have no idea why this is on the homepage. It's so mundane.
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I thought this was something implemented using metaclasses to not have to use dictionary-style field access... (e.g., obj.field instead of obj['field'] )