skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "far more". I was basing that off of the numbers "110" and "160", which are square feet per employee for open offices and executive offices, respectively, and the yearly price of $100 per square foot. All of these figures are on the high side of the range for those figures- you can easily find office space for $20-$60 per square foot outside of SF and NY.

Now it's true that if you're dedicated to taking care of your employees, you might have to split the office earlier than you would with open floor plans, but to be frank you were looking at the need to do that anyways, just at a slightly higher employee count.
It all depends. From what the parent posted, the issue was the software and hardware combination didn't work. If this was a 'known' issue and it was sold anyways then this is definitely something within the sales organization. It perhaps was a 'known' to the parent but never communicated out to the management or sales staff.

However want to point out that the purpose of a sales organization is to sell. typically a sales organization will sell every and anything to the client. It is normal to sell features that are not implemented, or configurations that are problematic.
> Sorry for the long read

Didn't feel long at all; it was concise and had enough detail to satisfy a casual reader (me) with links to more detail if I wanted it.
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One reason Freemium works for Pandora is because, according to an employee I've talked to there, the advertising revenue from a free user can be nearly as much or even greater than the 4.95/month from a paying user. Granted, I don't have a source other than the person's word and I doubt Pandora reports on their revenue split that way.
This is pretty blatantly a book ad...

FTA:

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Good for you.

This is why the last console system I purchase was the PS2. I can't trust myself not to binge on games.
The S in SMTP is a bit ironic. It's very hard to run SMTP now a days.
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>If that's not extreme NIH, I don't know what is.

Worked well for him though...
Words mean what people use them for. Sure it's technically only 65534/65535 of an ISP, but that's not a very useful way to communicate with people about the issue.
This seems a lot like Looking Glass just without Tor.
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The indicated that they emailed the exploiter and basically told them to stop playing. They have the right to refuse service, it was circumvented by making new accounts. I don't see any reason they would need to pay after refusing services.
I do the same but in the last few months I have noticed strange latency on my Hangouts calls. There seems to be a very short delay that causes conversations to be more difficult than they need to be. It's probably my home internet (since this is the only place I use Hangouts to call) but I am pretty sure I have a good connection. I haven't tested latency thoroughly but on the bandwidth side of things I have something like ~80mbit/5mbit through Comcast.
Although I've not yet set them up in production, there's a lot of heat these days using a fan out architecture through a message broker (i.e. Apache Kafka), and ingest that data and transform it into different data models through a stream processor (i.e. Apache Spark), to some file format which will be later be queried, and processed, into an even higher level data model; a much more layered approach than before, which makes sense from an economical point of view since data acquisition is more expensive than data processing and storage.

Here in Spain some private banks are making heavy use of those technologies to replace their reporting originally based on mainframe technology.

Perhaps a more business analyst oriented concept of the data lake may be the semantic layer [1]. This concept may differ from Fowler's in that is not so data oriented, and augments it, but underneath, some of the goals, as providing self service querying facilities to analysts, and making use of as much of the ingested data as possible, are similar.

[1] https://www.veroanalytics.com/blog/its-time-to-unleash-the-s...
That's a tricky approach for an international organization like uber to rely on, as the cultural attitudes toward tipping vary.
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Keynesian?

You're projecting.

US currency is and always has been backed by the US economy and military.

Not gold.
Personally I would have thought that the RAM was somewhat similar at each power up. But Voja's research definitely proves me wrong.

I wonder how this would stand up to liquid nitrogen cooling to hold the bits in RAM between resets? How much do you think one bit flipping affect the randomness?
Not sure why companies are still obsessed with obtaining millions of cheap/non-paying users? Fantastic, you've acquired an audience of people so cheap they refuse to buy your entry level tier product.. Sounds like an awful problem.

At the very least, if you're going to offer a free tier, make it a trial and capture their credit card up front. Charge it after 30 days. Make the user get serious about whether this product is for them. And in turn, it makes your company get serious as to whether this is a viable business model or not.
In these circumstances I support snarky sarcasm with upvotes.
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These replies are getting super annoying.

I found the page completely readable, and the content interesting.

If you're that much of a snob, get a browser plugin and fix it yourself. The other 95% of us are tired of the complaints. The discussions here are supposed to be about the content.
How come no-one broke into the Bitcoin Piñata (in the other story) then? A networked computer can be confidential. Have you tried not writing your networking code in C?
Apologies for a off-topic question : isn't HubStaff from the same guys as Hubspot, which is very well funded marketing platform? if so, isn't Hubstaff a distraction from Hubspot? Or is this the proverbial pivot ?
All contracts are the government's business -- an agreement that doesn't rest in some way on the power of government (and thus, is not government's business) is not a contract.

OTOH, civil marriage in the US (the religious institutions sharing the name are separate concerns, even when they happen to coincide with a civil marriage) is in many respects not like a contract in the usual sense, since many of the legal effects are not to create legally enforceable obligations of one party against the other, but for the partners to agree to jointly share some treatment from, and as offered to couples by, the government. (There are some features of marriage that are either contract like, or which could be mimicked by normal contracts, as well.)

Forming a marriage under the laws of a state is more like forming a corporation under the laws of a state than it is like entering into a bilateral private contract.
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I'd probably prefer something allowing everything to be defined from the Ruby side (other than the images themselves, of course, or at least other than the raster ones), similar to how Prawn works.

Pretty neat regardless.
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A waste of time.
Why not use the model of offering the first month of a premium account for free, and then converting those users?
Some terrible websites limit the characters you can supply for passwords (for telephone password input reasons, sometimes).

Also, someone who's trying to take advantage of a low-entropy password probably doesn't know what the character-set of the password actually is. In other words, they'd have to know this is where your password came from in order to recognize that special characters are off the table.
3 off-the-cuff: Ordering and Provisioning of large telecom product catalogs, converting BMC Remedy apps to modern stacks and reliable fast address validation. In IT telecom, where you dig, you find.
I always wind up in the back of the plane, and I would give a lot to not have to stand in the aisle watching person after person in front take their sweet goddamn time- talking on the phone, unpacking their luggage, having an argument, or just daydreaming- as they block the entire disembarkment.
What are some examples of digital tasks you'd like to outsource? Do any of them require access to your personal information?
How is this any different from when tobacco companies fund studies that say that smoking isn't bad for you?
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This is why we need to implement everything in JavaScript

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To me, the whole point of C is to enable one to take advantage of one's system architecture. Thats not really possible in higher level languages.
Exactly, it's enjoyable working with people who value my time, not wasting it on boring calls or long emails. With a high rate, clients are VERY careful not to dick around.
One of the skills I truly want to learn is game development (not just for games, though). I'm learning Unity at the moment. I find that to be much easier to do on a powerful PC, although it wouldn't be a total obstacle if I just had a laptop.
The programmer in me loves how accessibility auditing enforces best-practices around semantic HTML, and my business-side loves making it cheaper to reach a wider audience.

Great project!
make it a trial and capture their credit card up front. Charge it after 30 days.

FWIW, I personally refuse to do business with companies that utilize this kind of flow - it feels like a scummy dark pattern, where they're banking on people to forget they've signed up and they can get at least one month's worth of charge out of it. That goes double when you can sign up online but it requires calling in (and talking to "retention" people) to cancel.

"But we don't want to interrupt your service.." goes the salesman.. yeah right.

If you're going the free trial route, fine, but it should require affirmative action after the trial to begin billing. You don't need my credit card until I've actually bought something from you.
Perhaps a better term would be "popular"? As in, what's in use by Java and C#.
I've written a clj/cljs app with source sharing, and there are many downsides. Tooling, lack of progressive enhancement, debugging, download sizes.

I feel the benefits are worth it for my use case, but it's not all roses.

But hiding the client server architecture is just a bizarre criticism to me, because it's not at all what writing one of these projects is like, and I'm not sure how you're even getting that impression.

The degree to which you share code depends on how much functionality you are replicating, and is code that you would literally be cut paste porting if you were using another toolset. Or just avoiding writing altogether, like speculative updates.

Just because you can theoretically attempt an antipattern doesn't make a tool bad; you can write shit in any language. And many do.
Pandora properly embraces the philosophy, "If you aren't paying, you're the product." If you can't monetize free users, then they are a liability, not an asset. Especially when they are eating up resources like support time. I have no idea why free users would even have access to the same support as paid users, as seems to have been the case here.
Don, go read these two articles in full and you'll have the answer you already know and don't want to face, preferring to straw-man and spew abuse at me, and make me "the issue":

http://discussingmarriage.org/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/you-will-be-assimilat...

Your abusive approach since 2012 when you learned of my donation leaves me very much not willing to walk you gently through the arguments that I'm sure you know already, as if you were approaching me in good faith. You are, and have been, approaching, detracting, and abuse-spewing (from fake FB accounts, even) in very bad faith. Find another target for your anger, or better yet: find some help.
> If you're going to run a casino (whose entire business model is based on exploiting weaknesses of others for profit),

There are plenty of casios, and many of them comply with the law. People who choose to gamble there might be exploited by some definition, but it is consentual. But Primedice is a casino that uses bitcoin to allow users to circumvent local gambling laws, and thus exploits weakness in criminal laws.

(I will not discuss the morality of current anti-gambling laws in the US, as any rational person can see the hypocrisy in the current system of state-sponsored lotteries and state-granted casino monopolies)

> don't be surprised if people try to exploit your weaknesses for profit.

Primedice reusing a nonce/seed is like a casino dealing blackjack from a marked deck. It is so incredibly stupid that you are guaranteed to have someone notice, and clean you out while still playing by yor rules.

Note that they are offering a reward for the "return of the [bit]coins". I assume that means they are offering that if someone hacks a bitcoin wallet and gives them the proceeds, they will share a fraction of the stolen assets. I would happily make the same offer; paying random people who give me bitcoins from hacked wallets some of the stolen bitcoin, except that I'm not an exploitive, criminal-minded narcissist rationalizing theft to support the operation of a gambling site based on a cyber-currency designed to facilitate extra-legal activity.
Uhh not in public. I did a lot of dumb young-person-train-wreck myself as a youth. As analogy it all boils down to things like how we relate to fellow students (or work alone) in school is mostly not how we communicate with adults at the office.

"This is bullshit" in the source code comments makes your TA laugh and is appropriate at school, but at work the execs and customers who get source access don't think its funny especially if you make fun of the customer. Some of the most trivial basic management skills that often aren't applied in school at all, but are applied at work, like compliment in public and blame in private. At school in algo class culturally all that matters is getting the best O(n) behavior because thats kind of the point of the class, possibly work culture is not so interested especially if there is a basic physics reason or financial regulation reason n can never exceed 3. (edited to emphasize its not that these specific examples were right or wrong, but that it wasn't "gotten" that they were wrong at that work team, but the new guy genuinely, incorrectly, thought it was a cultural fit)

Its not so much being right or wrong in an absolute sense the problem is thinking they know the culture better than they do leading to innocent inaccurate behavior decisions.
Advertizing -
Everyone is trying to get more and more information about the users without their permission by building free services or hacking it with cookies etc. So users can be better targeted with useless ads.

On the other side, its very hard to find good products online since the search results are full of SEO optimized junk.

If only there was a way to combine these two together. e.g Users could enter what they are looking for in an app and they only get very targeted advertising from business big or small inside that app. Matchmaking algorithms help make the initial connection. Think of a combination of Magic and Tinder.
I guess one of the things that occurs when one becomes aware of realisations like his, is the idea "oh my god, it's not just me, it's everyone!"

This happened to me too, years ago. And then I realised, "wait a minute, maybe I am just focusing on that side of my life." And of course on the side of life where more of like-minded people can be found: the Internet. And thanks to this realisation, the idea that everyone is like this, waned.

I do agree with what you're saying - not everyone is like this. I for one am not, I keep focusing on my belief that being in contact with others is not something you do with gadgets - it's what you do with focus. So I don't put much value in the technology, and the older I get, the less importance all this tech has to me.

But that's just me, and I do still often feel like the odd one out. And not only that: I'm also really disciplined in the pursuit of my idea, that the less you have, the more value the things you do have, are. Most of them immaterial too.
I see a small market for this: bundled with verifyable co-location space.

At home, it's simply not going to work unless they also offer a VPN service for the ports in use. SMTP on an eyeball provider IP is simply dead these days.
Hell, even in a day where jet fuel is very expensive, daily miles is still a key factor. Your margins might be smaller thanks to jet fuel, but more flights still means more revenue.
I think is obvious that Wolfram won't use anything that he can't take full credit...
Link popularity in general, pagerank in particular is transitive. A link to a page with no ads will result in greater ad revenue from some other page.

That is, if I link to Alice and Alice links to Bob, my Alice links generates more traffic for Bob.
Drivers also rate you as a passenger. If they rated you 1-2 stars, you would never get picked up again. By doing what you're doing, you're making your drivers less likely to keep their jobs, just because they landed on some OCD individual who thinks (s)he's capable of restoring the average rating to 2.5. Uber and Lyft drivers need to keep their ratings in the 4.3-4.7 area in order to keep working, so please stop doing that.

Also: end up, they're, response, rating, thing
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I used to fix these all the time. UK schools were kicking them out by the skip load in the mid 1990s. I was there snagging them before they were collected. I had 30 BBC Bs and 12 Master machines at one point and a 1.5m tall pile of cumana disk drives.

Managed to shift them all on yahoo auctions and ebay between 1998-2001 making a small fortune.

However I really couldn't be bothered with it all today. Found something much smaller and easier to fix and post!
Just curious, why did you make the change? I've been building apps in Angular and Ionic for a bit now and haven't played with React yet.
"To understand how Hufflepuff beat our system, one must understand how our provably fair system (RNG) works."

"Our database had seeds that were both inactive and in use at the same time all connected to Hufflepuff."

To me it sounds like your company simply didn't understand how the system you created worked, it sounds like you merely understood how you wished it to work. Gambling has always favored people who actually understand the system in place, by not understanding the system you yourselves were implementing you created the opportunity for a customer to understand it better than you. What you describe with your database having seeds that were both in use and inactive at the same time, sounds to me like you did not do a good job managing concurrency on records which were crucial to your business.

While I can not say whether the users did anything illegal, the post you have created to call attention to this does not make an adequate case for wrong doing on the users part. However your response does make an amazing case for you having responded to an implementation issue in your software very poorly, and I think would make future users who are aware of this less likely to use your service.

That is just my opinion given the information you have presented, as you seem to focus more on maliciously providing information of the person you are accusing as opposed to proving your accusations that the person in question committed a crime while doing so.
All laws should be written in German.

The German language is much less fuzzy than English.

Yes, I'm attributing a big chunk of the law imperfection to the language it is written in.
React literally does this out of the box. Om does it (based on react). Reagent does it (based on react). Using js/React (raw js interop) does it. There is actually nothing to do. You exec your js in a nashhorn thread. That gives you some html. You ship it your browser on initial GET, then initialize react on it.

This is identical to what you'd be doing on react+node. With a macro or two, it's easier than anything node provides.

As an aside, isomorphic isn't a new anything. We were rendering pages on the server, rendering updates on the server with the same templates, sticking them in xml representing jquery dom manipulation, and pipelining those in a single request since at least 2007 (when I first encountered the technique and shipped with it, I believe we used a javascript library called Taconite, maybe since 2005 from looking at the sourceforge account). Progressive enhancements were rendered off the same templates and inserted asynchronously, automatically, based on whether the controller on the server detected it was an ajax request or a bare GET. This incidentally made things very cacheable.
> I don’t want to offend anyone, and I’m saying this with absolute care and humility… but if only they hadn’t had that much stuff then they would have had an easier time evacuating their homes and focusing on making sure their families are safe.

I've never understood these "I'm not a racist, but"-type comments. This is offensive, and does not demonstrate care and humility. Someone who learns from such a tragedy principally that others shouldn't have so much stuff is, I think, learning the wrong lesson.

EDIT: To be clear, I don't mean that I don't understand the purpose of the disclaimer, but rather that, if not always then at least in a modern rhetorical environment, it seems like a poor way of achieving its goal. For example, if the author correctly recognises that his statement sounds offensive, and absent care and humility, why not explain why he thinks that perception is incorrect, rather than trying simply to deny it by fiat?
are you old enough to remember how hard it was to adjust the color on your TV?

I used to use an oscilloscope. Living Color every time.
Liquidity of an altogether different basket of securities (or a somewhat overlapping basket) isn't relevant to the point.
Interesting that dropbox is not as "desirable" from the finding even though apparently they have harder interviews than google and the "father of python" is also at dropbox
I agree. Ticking time bomb on the account is fine, and a series of triggered reminder emails should be sufficient to prevent the dead switch surprise. Asking for payment information before I even begin a free trial leads me to assume that you don't believe your product is good enough to withstand the trial period on its own merits, and you are hoping to catch me just forgetting about it. Makes me wonder what other questionable actions might be taken, especially regarding hard things like security. Does not make me feel safe at all.
Agreed. I remember first reading an overview of Lisp [1], and my reaction was, "Ah, okay, just like they do in Mathematica ... ah, right, just like how Mathematica does that. Huh -- he must have done it in Lisp then."

After that, I didn't even suspect it didn't use Lisp until today.

[1] I think in Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas
You're missing the most important part, which is there is far less square feet / person in open plan than with individual offices.

The cost per person is much cheaper open plan than with offices.
Now, do it in 9!
Why are smaller boutiques family friendlier? I assumed the big all-inclusive resorts were more family friendly because you can just let the kids roam around in a contained environment.
Not that I'm any expert in this field, but how does your position rhyme with the observation that almost every big-time saas / paas / *aas platform out there uses that model?

- Github

- Heroku

- Cloudflare

- MS Azure

AWS perhaps being the biggest one to charge immediately, although that's so incredibly low, I wonder if it still even counts. And even they have a free tier...