skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went on vacation last week and didn't bring a laptop at all...a tablet was good enough. At one time, that was unthinkable to me. My family members aren't upgrading their laptops because they never use them, while the PC was gotten rid of a long time ago for space. Of course, I'm a programmer, so having a laptop makes sense. I'm sure it will make sense to many people, just not everyone like before, and perhaps fewer and fewer people overtime. No one would say it is a growing market. And if you are a company like Microsoft that wants to grow, that's a problem (disclaimer: MS employee but talking for myself).
Microsoft's strategy is quite clear. One Windows app, deployed everywhere with a focus on productivity and smart services. In no way has there been any capitulation. In fact Microsoft leads the space. Does Apple have universal apps ? No. Does Google ? No. And does Apple or Google have an equivalent to Azure's strategic analytics plays ? No.

The platform game is not short term. And I would be turning my attention to Google who look in far worse shape long term. They are still very much an advertising company dependent on search revenues. And they haven't demonstrated much ability to expand into other markets.
Payday loans might be used for leveling variable pay, but the impression I've always gotten is that they are used more for addressing inconvenient expense timing for people that have neither reserves nor more conventional credit available; Even doesn't really help with that.
When I was a teenager I was in Boy Scouts. Every year we went to a summer camp that was on the edge of a large pond [1]. And one of the strictest rules there was that you were not allowed in the water until you'd passed the swimming competency test (and you had to pass it again every single year), and the main swimming test was that you had to swim laps in their roped-off section of the lake without pausing until you'd swum for at least half of the distance across the lake (thus ensuring that if you were to be dropped smack dab into the middle of the lake, you could swim out). We had to do this even though most scouts never even had a reason to go outside the small roped-off section and thus would never be required to actually swim to shore.

I also remember one year doing a lifeguarding merit badge where we did various things like tread water for an excessively long period of time, practice towing other people to shore, and even a bit where we had to jump into the water fully clothed in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt and learn how to float regardless (basically by inflating our shirt with air). That stuff was hard. Also one bit where we started on shore, fully-clothed including jeans, socks, laced-up boots, etc, and had to ditch as much clothing as possible and run into the water within an extremely short period of time (the idea being if we saw someone drowning, we had to be able to get in the water to effect a rescue as fast as possible).

[1] New England has a habit of calling large bodies of water "ponds" even though most other places would call them lakes
No room for preachers in Deadwood
45 Questions Reddit Users Asked Stephen Hawking
1. They calculate the average. I'd imagine they'd like you to be "over average" more often than not.

2. All "overages" go into an account they control. Sure it's yours, but they are pooling money from all users and investing it in the meantime. Bullshit they aren't making money off of it. It isn't sitting under their mattress, that's for sure.

3. They promise no interest either way, but the amount they "loan" people is more than covered off in interest earnings on the pooled "overages" from all users.

4. On top of all that, they charge $12 a month.

I think they've got the profit side down.
Then they are almost assuredly in violation of some type of regulation. They can't just charge interest, call it a proprietary average algorithm and avoid all the regulation regarding publishing interest rates and such.

Also their about page is throwing red flags in regards to regulation. First off, it doesn't look like anyone involved has experience in either finance or the law. Secondly it says "We're not bankers. We're not a payday lender or a credit card company." That isn't up to Even, that is up to the law and this sounds a lot like those laws are being completely ignored.
> How is it different from using a credit card and paying the balance once the paycheck arrives?

You have to pass a credit check to get a credit card.
There's two possibilities.

- Rocket has no automated build flow that checks whether committed code is synthesizable.

- you aren't using the same flow as them. I struggled to find what synthesis tools they used just now so I don't blame you!
SRAM?

I'm only half kidding. As a complete industry outsider it doesn't seem ridiculous to think that SRAM could do to DRAM what SSDs did to HDDs. Alas, I have no idea what the economics + trends are and I never did more than dabble in semiconductor engineering/physics so I will only ever find out after the fact.
I looked up the history of complex numbers and probability theory and both predate Leibniz. Even so I don't think he cracked that one.
I appreciate your rant (and someone else said, I sound like an "alpha male" jockeying for position - that's a first in my career, but I guess I'm grateful for the disguise!)

I think it's difficult to defend what's gotten me to even consider this question - after months of looking for better solutions - without getting too detailed.

Without this co-founder the company was literally NOTHING

I just want to give this as an example -- this is not nearly the origin story of the company. I know you are picturing a classical founder and founding story and, well, it's different.

Thanks everyone for the advice!
Looks very similar to Cloudinary (http://cloudinary.com) which I use for my startup. The pricing at lower end of images looks better for Imgix but doesn't scale as well. Still, I think cloud-hosted image processing is a great service and I'm glad there is competition in it. It let us skip huge amounts of dev work related to constructing image pipelines and organizing assets: we pay $40 (plus more for some addons) and get a massive image layer. Imgix, Cloudinary, and others let you focus on the unique parts of your own software at a really good price.
I have had good experiences with optical4less.com (based in Hong Kong, but ships everywhere) and spex4less.com (UK-based). I've bought ~10 pairs of glasses online.
I would imagine it's hard to convince people who live paycheck to paycheck to pay $3 per week on this. That's the cost of a meal at McDonald's, where many of the target market members probably get at least a meal a week.

Wouldn't it make more sense to try and get the employer's on board this program? It allows the employer to offer a more reliable compensation to the employee, and they can just pull the fee out of their salary anyway?
Phones have already supplanted pcs in many forms of creation, photography, messaging, data gathering, gps, and many many more.

The phone is now a primary photo editor for the majority of users. It's where I'm authoring this comment right now.
Benedict's comment on this thread:

> I love how conservative and backwards-looking Hacker News can be. PCs rule! Phones are toys!

Source: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/626173995566497792
They should be 'fully transparent' and publish the algorithm in a simple layman's formula
some truth has been spoken - broken features should be fixed first - then we'll look again towards the future.
AP tracks slave boats to Papua New Guinea
70% of payday loans are used for predictable, recurring expenses.
AWS Mobile SDK for Xamarin
From what I read that's where Docker Swarm comes in. Could be wrong though.
Running your own hardware is always going to be cheaper - but you also need to employ folks with hardware management skills. That's fine if you already have those.

Similarly, cloud offerings give you remote reach easily - one company I work at has it's production servers almost literally on the direct opposite point of the globe. You can do datacentres with remote hands, sure, but it's another layer of complexity. Hardware also has a mild barrier to entry in the form of cost - for small shops, doling out the five or six figures you need for initial hardware is a pretty sizable chunk.
75 is not high in NY and SF for entry level. Probably low for even average candidates.
"Good code" is often a euphemism for understandable code.
Pretty sure it would be illegal for employers to withhold salary in this manner, even with the employee's permission.
Hmmm, maybe I'm naive, but I really don't see anything to suggest that things are headed this direction.
@run4yourlives2 You're pretty bullish on the idea (no harm in that..). Do you know things here that we don't know?(Again, nothing wrong with liking the idea and the company.... just wondering if perhaps you can be source of further knowledge).
What's so bad about that? If you can recognize that your money management skills are such that this $150/year can result in a net improvement to your money management, it seems like a solid product.
Another good place to start would be OpenCV, a library for computer vision. It'll come in handy if you wish to build robots that are aware of their environment.
They claim they don't earn interest on the savings. From their FAQ:
"Money you've saved with Even does not earn interest. To be candid, if Even savings did earn interest, you would only earn about a dollar per year. For what it's worth, Even doesn't make any money off your savings."

So they do that all for $12 a month?
I totally agree with you, it is highly unlikely that the draft will be used any time soon. But then maybe we should get rid of the selective service altogether.

It would be a symbolic fight, to include girls in the selective service, but don't feminists fight symbolic fights all the time? It would be a very strong gesture, that proves that feminism is about true equality, to take a stand against an inequality that does advantage women. Nowadays, when feminism and feminists are highly criticized, I think it would be a great PR move.
> No one would say it is a growing market.

Sure. But I disagree strongly that it is a significantly declining one.

Desktops no doubt are disappearing quickly in favour of laptops. But I fail to see how PC computing is going anywhere. Businesses still have 99% of their employees at a desk. People may not be writing Word documents as much anymore but they are interacting with complex web apps which are ill suited to phones/tablets.

IMHO we are moving to a mobile world. Not a purely phone/tablet world.
Notice that nowhere in the article is there any mention of what a good architectural choice is, nor any mention of the perception of debt in relation to the size of the system[0]. My personal experience with architectural choices is that all of them are great early on when the code base is small. As that code base grows, they all suffer under the weight.

[0]: 100k-1M is a very large range. Kudos to them for filtering out small code bases, but a graph of these perceptions measured against code size would have been helpful.
What do you stand to gain by going ahead with this?
I was pretty surprised to see they're charging $3 because I figured they would give it away "for free" and make money on the float.
4.4 is KitKat. 4.0 is ICS, 4.1-4.3 are Jellybean releases.

For native apps, anything Jellybean or better is reasonably easy to deal with (and ICS isn't that bad). But for webapps, the system webview was the horrible default Android browser up until KitKat, and didn't get auto-update until Lollipop. Android Browser has a number of outright bugs in its spec compliance (when I was developing for Google Search, we thought of it as the new IE6), and you lose any sort of GPU acceleration or fast JS engine that you might want for animations.
Well, the Canadian method involves the parent going on Unemployment for the duration of the leave, so it's not 100% salary. Still, a better option than a child missing out on key parental bonding time.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on multi-process microservices?
I maintain an open source microframework for building and running realtime apps/services.
It is designed to run on multiple processes out of the box (That is; it spawns and manages multiple processes internally - So it handles worker failures and respawns child processes for you) - Basically it handles the full responsibility for running a particular realtime/messaging microservice across multiple CPU cores (including the process management/coordination aspect of it).
Many database engines have also taken the integrated multi-process approach.

There are a lot of different trends unfolding at the moment and I need advice on what direction to take for my project (might be looking to Dockerize it at some point).

I noticed a slight trend towards single-process microservices (this is particularly true in the Node.js community) - In this case, typically, services are managed independently using a process manager (e.g. PM2) - The process manager takes care of launching and restarting individual processes and allows you to make use of multiple CPU cores that way.

The challenge with this approach is that sometimes there are cases when you want two or more tightly-related processes to always run together (and launch in a particular order for example) and they have to share information like passwords/secret keys, or each process needs to know about how many other processes are running (in order to interact with each other - Possibly using a consistent hashing strategy).

There are tools like docker-compose which aim to handle this coordination aspect but it's not yet clear whether or not this will suffice to completely remove the need for fully integrated, multi-process microservice solutions.

With all this said, what is your position on integrated muti-process microservices?
Should a microservice be responsible for its own scalability across multiple CPU cores or should that be delegated to a process manager?
Put on your product designer hat for just one second.
My favorite is Stealth Mountain:

https://twitter.com/StealthMountain/with_replies
Money you've saved with Even does not earn interest.

For YOU. Not for them. They say it goes into an insured bank account. The moment you put any money into a bank account, it stands to reason it earns interest.

For what it's worth, Even doesn't make any money off your savings."

That isn't the same as saying they don't earn money off of these accounts. It just may not make them any profit, hence the $12.
> Then they are almost assuredly in violation of some type of regulation.

Quite possibly, not like they'd be the first startup to do that as a core feature of their business model.

> They can't just charge interest, call it a proprietary average algorithm and avoid all the regulation regarding publishing interest rates and such.

Sure, but what they're actually doing is charging interest on loans, they are holding money from your paycheck as a deposit before you need the loan, using the undisclosed proprietary "average" algorithm. Then using the same algorithm to determine when you are due a "boost", and paying that boost to you out of your own deposits that have been kept from prior paychecks, only giving you an interest-free advance if their undisclosed algorithm says you are due a boost and you have exhausted the deposits previously held-back from your pay by the same algorithm.

The customer's superior knowledge of their likely future income situation can't be used to game the system without knowledge of the algorithm which sets the rules of the game.
> I doubt any kind of setting in Firefox would disable JavaScript controlling videos as that would break custom controls.

True, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I usually prefer the default controls on HTML5 video players to whatever the site wants to cook up. Somewhat similar to scroll bars and form elements. Native, please.
Any product the serves people with uncertain income or abnormal financial lives (freelancers, contractors, poor, etc) is met so predictably with comments that criticize the audience by proxy of criticizing the product. "How could someone be so stupid that they need to pay someone $60 to smooth their income" is what I'm seeing here. Look at what people pay financial advisors and then calm down.
Well your first link reads like media extrapolating a nationwide trend from next to nothing, and only really talks about the danger of doing it to yourself.

The second link doesn't mention timing except the standard 'five minutes' thing, while holding your breath for two minutes is probably going to lead to somewhere between 60 and 0 seconds of oxygen deprivation.

So I'm still unsure where the risk of dying comes from.
What we do at work is that we have our containers be in charge of talking 'out' on a given address and format for logs, and have things configured so that entire sets of machines end up speaking with the same log server (an ELK stack, in our case). The process monitoring is done per host: There are docker-aware tools that look at the host, and can peer into the container, to do this basic tracking.

People are not kidding through, when they say that everything gets very complicated. All the things that we did by convention and manual configuration in regular VMs that are babysat manually have to be codified and automated.

Docker is going to be a great ecosystem in 3 years, when the entire ecosystem matures. Today, it's the wild west, and you should only venture forth if having a big team of programmers and system administrators dedicated just to work on automation doesn't seem like a big deal.
I think it's a buying fish versus learning-to-fish thing. There's nothing "wrong" with paying $150 a year for someone else to manage your money, but it would be better to invest in getting better at doing it yourself.
Intel, Micron Claim Chip Breakthrough
This is great news for people like rsync.net, anyone using zetaback, or people using znapzend. I suspect cloud storage via ZFS will see the most benefit, as they'll be sending full datasets over lower bandwidth links. The zfs backup solutions will have less benefit (except with restores) as most backups end up being incremental.
Yes, but ed's statement still stands. Payday loan APRs often reach into the hundreds of percentage points.

https://www.scc.virginia.gov/bfi/files/pay_guide.pdf

http://www.in.gov/dfi/2366.htm
I'm inclined to believe you, but how would you something something close to 15-20%?

For 1 week: 3 / 360 = 0.8%

For 52 weeks: (3 * 52) / (360 / 52) = 0.8%

Or is it that Even is holding on to effectively a weeks worth of pay at all times, and we're calculating interest based on $360 of principal? Or is compounding coming into play somewhere?
So should a lot of industries. Tell me, what's the spread on a Big Mac? A new car? Anything, really?
Mostly gaining positive reputation inside of my country as a security researcher.
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/multimedia/data-visualizations/2...
It would be better if it could consider exchange rates. Lets say I receive in USD but in the end I get it in BRL. Right now, 1 USD is ~ 3.40 BRL but last year it was ~ 2.80 BRL.
I disagree. I feel like the people that would need this idea the most can't really afford to throw away $150 using this service
Thanks but no thanks to any and all instructional videos.
Bernie Sanders: The Vox Conversation
> There are just some things you can't do on a mobile - plug a HDMI cable into it, play half decent games, torrent, write your disseration

Yet. People said the same thing about PCs, and then about laptops.
Let's Build Karatsuba Multiplication
So this is imagmagik as a service?
I'd like to see a creationist response to this. They tend to either reduce to "No, because the book says otherwise" or be legitimately inventive.

Wonder what a creationist lab would look like...
> 70% of payday loans are used for predictable, recurring expenses.

Even if that unsourced figure is correct, it doesn't really address the issue: if they aren't used to deal with "I was short because my pay was lower than normal this week", Even wouldn't help. That's its a predictable, recurring expense doesn't mean that its not a recurring pattern of timeshifting a mismatch between income and expense, rather than dealing with irregular income patterns.

Even (at best) deals with irregular income patterns, but nothing else.
If This Then NodeJs: Extending IFTTT with Node.js and Webtask.io
If this is PCM have they "perfected" it to the point that it won't wipe itself if it goes over 100 degrees C?
The post is neither good or bad. You just happen to disagree with the author.

I for one have been bitching (my colleagues know all about it) about the state of affairs in web dev for about year, and so far most people tend to agree. And my current project (mostly heavy Javascript) just reinforces that view, it's a total mess for little real gain.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9964230.
Nope, no idea. First I saw of it was this post. I work in employee benefits software outside of the US.

The more I look into it though, the less bullish I am on it.

There is a lot of black magic here that creates that "too good to be true" product. It's still a great idea and will likely have many fans, but this is a pretty capitalistic product.
We don't make money off savings. Not sure how to be clearer than that.
Let's Make Offline Web Applications Secure
He always acts in a very mature way when people disagree with him. ;P
You really have to appreciate bacteria that live on other bacteria :-). I come back to "Cells are just organic nannites." We really are just a collection of very small organisms working together to reproduce.
Another proof that this whole web debate isn't going anywhere useful. Lot's of old places are full of amazing content. Maybe restricted communications channels allows for smarter conversations ? You have to tailor and curate the ideas. Mailing lists for instance are still used by real developers everywhere, IRC. Add a few blogs and old boards and you get 80%.
You should always have sufficient unit tests and integration tests for your code base. so that you can confidently upgrade all your libraries whenever you want if the tests pass.
A little OT, but the contrast between SpaceX and The Spaceship Company is striking. Elon Musk is pushing for interstellar travel, while Branson is pushing for space tourism. Seems so petty in comparison.
Israeli Spy Pollard Will Be Released in November, Lawyers Say
Finance is a little bit different. There's a reason the SEC exists.
> "very much like the video, and suddenly found herself struggling to break the surface of the water."

I am unable to view OP's site at the moment so I'm not sure if you mean there was something on top of her.

Anyway, in open water "being able to swim" should include a "rescue/recovery float" ability. AKA, the ability to float indefinitely with little or no expended effort (ideally no effort at all, but some people have body builds which make light sculling necessary). If they can't do that, they aren't ready to swim in deep water.

That is the standard we used when I was a lifeguard and swim instructor (well, instructor assistant).
Oh that is awesome. I wish Brad would answer my email.
I'd agree if they were talking bout "top" developers. But, not everyone needs top developers. Lots of people are simply saying We can't find developers, period, which is baffling, until you find out what they're offering in terms of comp.
They should just do all this in software. Anything that that's complex and life or death should be autopilot driven.
Building a Community Driven Company in Four Stages
It's really interesting to think about this in the context of the "1099 economy", especially people whose sole income comes from contractor work for some combination of Lyft, Uber, Postmates, Handy, Instacart, GrubHub, etc.

This product seems like one way for "dependent contractors" to make a predictable wage. That's a real problem in that line of work.
Using Investors to Find the Ideal Startup Job
A note on US and Australian culture