jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Xamarin prices are quite good when one takes into account developer salaries and saved time.

Personally, I would also like more Qt Widgets love, but only due to binary size.
According to a friend who had cancer as a child, chemotherapy causes you to lose sensitivity in your extremities over time (nerve issues?). I'm guessing the feel of the 'f' and 'j' keys don't help him much.
Or just let the market handle it.

If people stop tipping, restaurants would be forced to increase wages, because nobody is going to work for $3/hour.
>> I don't DVORAK, but the included keypuller makes it simple to swap keys around if you are so inclined.

Unfortunately you cannot swap the keys that sit in different rows. You couldn't swap a "Q" and an "A" for example - they have different profiles. See here for more information (picture on the right if you just want a quick visual):

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Keyboard_profile
On Monster.
Other than some basic HTML, the first true programming language that I mastered was that of my Texas Instruments "TI-83+" calculator.

I would make little programs in 7th and 8th grade that helped with the math that we were learning at the time. I then proceeded to sell these programs to friends and classmates. It was awesome.... until I got caught!
Finding the official mobile seems like a moving target as Facebook's API is constantly changing.

This is latest QT thing I can find:

http://gitorious.org/qfacebook (supersedes Google's port of an iphone library).

But access might depend more on permissions than the library. Information on this would be GOOD to have.
Now, it would be very nice if the website displayed the actual time on the alarm clock.

Or even better: what about streaming the video from a webcam pointing at the alarm clock?

Talk about meta...
I gave up this idea for couple of reasons and instead am negotiating for whole package which I just assume includes some amount of after hours / on-call work.

After a lot of thought, asking for on-call is a loose for me. First, there are many people willing to not ask for on-call. Second, I don't want to be associated with the ones that do. Third, even in best case the on-call doesn't seem compensate me enough for spent time. Fourth, it makes it hard negotiating my base salary which is where the money are. Fifth, it puts some unhealthy motivation to spend even more time at work rather than be more efficient with it (for example, work to create environment where I don't have to be on-call or have to spend less time after hours in general).

So, instead, I am showing I take ownership of the area I am working in, I am willing to sometimes decide that the project requires me to spend some extra time, that I am happy to do what is needed to get the job done, and I try to sell it to my company as a complete package.
100% agree that these are questions that should be asked, and if you're in position to, hard-balled as a condition of joining something.

It's more complicated in practice than it sounds though because before you join, you'll get a manager well-versed in giving you either non-answers or "soft" lies. For example, they'll say, "Yep, we have an on-call schedule. People go on every few weeks (probably meaning: 3-4 days every few weeks), and it gets a few pages, but isn't too bad." They'll generally refuse to get into specifics, and most people who are excited about the new opportunity, won't drill into it.

After you join, it's kind of too late. Best case you've got a team who's also willing to go to bat with you to get some fixes in, but more standard case, you'll find yourself on the wrong end of a pager without a huge amount of negotiating power unless you include the nuclear option of just getting out.
Exactly right. A consequence of the US tax code being so complicated is that regular people (even very highly educated regular people) do not understand even elementary tax concepts.
The problem with inverters is that they have no inertia to impart on the grid. When you have a gigantic spinning turbine, the amount of power it takes to change its speed is immense. This has huge implications for grid stability when we are talking about renewables.

The resolution for this is something called a synchronverter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronverter
Who is the "creator"? If it is someone who composed a song or wrote a book, that word makes sense; without them the song or book would not exist. (Ironically, copyrights for songs are often not owned by the people who composed them, because contracts with publishers often require selling the copyright to them. At the end, you may be forbidden to sing your own song without paying.)

But in patents, sometimes it is just a person who noticed that existing technologies X and Y could be used together, and filed the patent first. If not them, someone else would have noticed it somewhat later. Even worse, someone else may get the idea independently a few weeks later... and then be sued for using it. Actually, if you invent something, it is always risky to use it, because you can never be sure whether someone else didn't patent it before you. (Did you do an expensive research of existing patents? Maybe you used a wrong keyword.) (By the way, patents also sometimes do not belong to people who had the idea.)
Thanks for the explanation. So even without the fix described in the sibling comment, I can still have programs that link to OpenSSL and programs that link to LibreSSL, but I can't use both (even if transitively) in the same application.
Yes, sorry, I was getting ahead of myself, mixing in the M1 stuff.

But my point still stands: it's hard for them to do their own design with the numbers they sell. They started with desktops, because it's easier to do them custom. I hope they will be able to grow into being able to do custom laptops as well.
Hey, author here. Good point, I did look at it some initially but because it's now separate from the rest of the categories on the App Store I must've glossed over it in the end. I'll make sure to include it in the follow up post that I am planning.

EDIT: You we're spot on. I added the Games(Free) data and it dethroned Shopping(Free) as the worst chart with a mean number of data types collect of ~13.7 vs ~11.9. There's also only a single game(out of 169 with data) that doesn't collect any data in Games(Free). In third party tracking Games(Free) stands out even more with a mean of ~6.1 and median of 6, the closest other chart is News(Free) with a mean of ~2.7 and median of 3. "Scrabble® GO - New Word Game" is the 13th worse app in the data set(in terms of data linked to the user) after Facebook's apps and LinkedIn. There are also several games in the top 20 third party trackers
huahaiy, are you familiar with the work of William D. Wells - he created the psychometric Lifestyle Survey run for many years by the ad agency DDB Needham? I had the opportunity to study with Bill after he 'retired' to academia.

Anyway it was fun in looking through your site to see you referencing psychometrics, the big 5 and NLP - it was like I was back in grad school.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? You explicitly mentioned four multimaster key/value stores:

Rethinkdb, Redis, Riak, ElasticSearch all do.
(them not being relational is irrelevant to replication)

I argued that those are not RDBMSes, and that their replication model was much simpler, something you still seem to be arguing against.

I don't disagree that Postgres's replication could be much nicer, but you're not articulating your position well. For one, bringing up these completely apples-to-orange comparisons makes no sense.
In my experience, assembly is hard to read and reason about. Harder than C, much harder than python. It doesn't operate in terms in abstractions I, as a developer, am used to; it doesn't have easy syntax that correlates to logic flow (blocks and event statements). May be if I spent significant time with asm, I'll change my mind.

Also, thanks for the disclaimer, although I don't mind if you criticise my opinion and/or comment. Even if you say that I'm just "too stupid for assembly", I wouldn't really mind.
Same here. A file that can be copied infinite times without cost is not worth much. I put 2 years of work into a book that gets pirated all the time. I have no problem with it at all.

I think we would be better off reevaluating business models rather than suffering the effects of trying to preserve out-dated ones.
I sold 2 legitimate sites on Flippa earlier this year. One was a Wordpress blog that jus published RSS feeds of deals from commission junction and linkshare. It cost $50 to build and sold for $850, largely because it ranked well for a few long tail keywords and made a few bucks per month. The other was an ebook site that cost $250 to make (including the cost to have the ebook and a dozen blog posts written). I operated the site long enough to break even, then sold it on Flippa for $300.

From my limited experience, I would say that the lower priced auctions (under $2000) seem to be legit, but I have a feeling that the big ticket sites ($5000+) that either don't have verifiable histories (traffic, keywords, revenue) that sell are being sold back and forth between scammers. You can sell a fake site between 2 or 3 scam accounts for $3000, $5000, $7000 at a cost of a few hundred $, then sell it to an unsuspecting person for $10000, pointing to a history of being sold on Flippa as proof that the site is "legit"

For a legitimate site to sell on Flippa for a decent amount, it should have healthy organic traffic, preferably a high page rank, and verifiable revenue. But then the question would be, why would you sell it?
The advantage for using DDG for technical results comes from its !bang commands. Need python code? !python. java documentation? !jdk. ruby? !rails, !ruby, !rubydoc, !rubygems. HTML? !w3c. When you already know where you're going to go looking (as it sounds like you do from "avoid search engines") then DDG becomes the portal interface to get quick access to them out of a browser.
When the word of an officer is worth more than the word of a member of the public being able to record the officer in the course of their work is the only way to defend yourself. Yes this might lead to an increase in people getting off on technicalities but saying that is a good enough reason to turn law enforcement into an entity above reproach is very dangerous.

The ability for the courts or police to shutdown any practical oversight by members of the public turns changes the power dynamic completely. Any person is one pissed off cop away from having to deal with being arrested. It becomes a big game of chance. The (vast) majority of the time we don't interact with cops/the courts, the (vast) majority of cops are concerned about the general good and protecting people but even 1% of 1% in a country this big leads to a lot of hardship.
Rather than legislate the current providers into a revenue box you compete with them. Collectively form your own cable company in a high-revenue market, and force the cable companies to innovate to protect their margins. As a collective you have the votes to compete in the political arena.

Forming "collectives" providing desired services for a large group is the origin of the farmer's collectives that ran grain silos at collectively acceptable prices. The same needs created the "populist" movements of Teddy Roosevelt and the Grange (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h854.html).

Farmers started as fiercely independent freeholders who were being charged usurious transport fees in the late 19th Century. They eventually took collective action against the railroad barons (http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/163/farmers-the-populist...).

The similarities with highly individualistic entprepreneurs is striking. The modern railroad barons are the accesss providers. The farms are web sites in server "farms" throughout the world and the content must be delivered to the (mostly) urban centers world wide.

The troubles between farmers and railroads is recurring in Asia now (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870338900457530...).

The problem of course is regulatory capture (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Regulatory_ca...). The answer to this is, I noted above, "populist" movements are popular and can drive policy by petitioning the government. Should that not work then voting to change the government has worked in the past.

tl;dr - as was done in the 19th centry, form collectives to get product from the "farms" to the consumer.
To be clear, the evidence seems to be that your outcome is still in the minority of cases. Some unknown but double digit percentage experience no symptoms at all despite testing positive, another large proportion only experience upper respiratory symptoms and never get a lower respiratory infection or pneumonia, finally there are so called "mild" cases which I believe are "a bad flu." What these proportions are exactly is unclear, but it is clear that the vast vast majority people are not at risk of death. The data is unreliable and all over the place, but it's trending in this direction: in otherwise healthy people, this isn't particularly lethal.

I am not a doctor but you should probably get tested.
Love it. FFmpeg is so powerful, but so opaque. I think there could be a whole vertical of startups dedicated to tooling built to simplify using it. Looking forward to seeing this develop.
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NOTE: you can poison yourself with quinine, so do not drink liter after liter of it: https://www.finanzen.ch/nachrichten/aktien/the-quinism-found...

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Dr. Nevin noted his concern that members of the public may even attempt to obtain therapeutic quantities of quinine through questionable channels. "Tonic water, whose bitter taste is produced by the addition of quinine or related naturally-occurring quinolines, is limited by U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations to 83 mg per liter of quinine and related cinchona alkaloids," said Dr. Nevin. "However, drinking several bottles of tonic water will result in consuming pharmaceutical quantities, and therefore potentially harmful, amounts of these drugs", said Dr. Nevin. "Tonic water is a prescription medication masquerading as a cocktail mixer."

Dr. Nevin emphasized the importance of recognizing and properly reporting adverse effects from these medications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "While it may be tempting to attribute anxiety, depression, paranoia, or other mental health symptoms to the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, " said Dr. Nevin, "these symptoms may be an early warning sign of idiosyncratic neurotoxicity, and must be taken seriously."

Dr. Nevin noted that adverse effects from chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, mefloquine, quinine, and even tonic water may be reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's MedWatch program, at https://www.fda.gov/safety/medwatch-fda-safety-information-a....

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> it goes against the official hysteria promoting big pharma narrative

Well yes, it fell afoul of the conspiracy. :eyeroll: Also it's crap.
Here is the Wolfram|Alpha announcement: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2011/04/18/wolframalpha-and-duc...
This article does apply greatly to HN, being a discussion board. Like the author states, I often tend to find myself reacting emotionally to arguments made. But one thing I do find that I also do is synthesize the arguments over time.

It has happened several times where I've completely flip flopped my position over the span of a week or two. It's rarely apparent in the context of a given thread, but I do try to really consider the arguments when "offline".

In politics this rarely happens as the ideology underlying the politics is usually more important than the political issue at hand. In tech though, there is a greater chance of discussion actually having real change.
I understand the glamor of writing posts like this -- Yeah! Look at us (or them). We/they don't even care about money. It's all about building something incredible...

You won't often find these types of posts from people or about people who aren't wildly successful already.
Yeah, I'm aware of that, but from my experience the code can end up uglier than it needs to be, either because you need to pass through proxying views further down the chain, or need to duplicate functionality.

I guess I just dislike the convention of interacting directly with collections from places where it shouldn't be done, e.g a todoView removing its own Todo from the collection (hence the risk of duplicating functionality throughout your code), instead of asking a proxying controller to do it. I think this is the reason as to why I've seen a lot of Backbone code where a reference in to the view is stored in the model itself (e.g http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/todos.html), which disgusts me since it completely misses the point of MVC.

Also, events passing feels more complicated than it would need to be (even if you can always include Backbone.Event).
Your post will definitely get a lot of attention. I'm sure you know that. It's a good discussion we need to have. However, I think you could have used a little less irony and a lot more balance if you really wanted to get something across besides a rant.

Ultimately, one person's "triviality" is another's passion. The problem with social networking isn't it's triviality. It's that to consume what's important to us, we have to find it through all the "noise"--whatever that may mean to each individual. It used to be that we didn't have this problem because when two people meet, or a group for that matter, they immediately find a middle ground and talk about what's important to all. Such context breaks down when we broadcast information online.

This problem I feel will be solved in the years to come. Disclaimer: I'm working on it.
We're definitely going off-topic here but I just have to ask:
I heard that there is a strong anti-EU sentiment in many member states precisely because people feel the same way you do about EU. But obviously, EU worked out quite well for the majority of citizens of those countries.

Why am I saying that? Well, it seems to me that if the majority was genuinely dissatisfied with their country being a part of the union, they'd petition for a referendum, the government would be obliged to hold the referendum if enough people petitioned for it (certainly if the majority wanted it), then once the referendum is held, the people would vote against staying in the union and presto - they're no longer a member.

So why didn't something like this happen in any of the member countries? There are countries trying desperately to get into the union, but I don't know of any country that desparately wants to get out.
Zillow (http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/18/zillow-ipo/)
That said, I still fight feelings of being poor. It's a mindset, not a bank account balance.

This is very true. Even though I have money these days, I still own very little. I just don't recognize the need to own anything valuable, have no desire to own property, nor feel the need to eat at a fine restaurant. Even though I can afford Starbucks with no problems, I still feel like it is an "expensive" place.

The last time I made a lot of money, I went off the deep end, told myself I don't deserve it, and blew all of my success. Growing up around the mantra "The root of all evil is money" had a long-term effect on me and generated a ton of issues that I wasn't prepared to face the first time around. I feel like I'm over those issues now, but it always lurks and I feel like I'm standing on the edge of an icy cliff back into the world of poverty.
If you're comfortable writing object-oriented code in Python and PHP, you should be fine. The object-oriented parts of Swift are thoroughly ordinary.

One major concept you will want to become comfortable with (that doesn't really exist in dynamic languages AFAIK) is the concept of protocols: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...

If you're not comfortable with anonymous functions and closures, I'd recommend getting familiar with them as well, since they play a major role later on in the course.
From what I saw for up to three people: http://hackfwd.s3.amazonaws.com/system/documents/4bd998/97ae...
The problem with the rape-example is that it's overly idealized - it's a tautology: If you're asking to get raped, then, yes, you're asking to get raped. But you're not. The majority of street-rapes (the actual majority of rapes are between people who already know each other) aren't of people "asking for it", it's of people who maybe didn't take all the precautions they could have, but all-in-all were just in the wrong place in the wrong time. And then it's not so simple - I don't think very many would think that a girl who walked three blocks alone deserved to get raped, even if it could have been avoided by taking a taxi or walking with a friend.
often

Torvalds, Stallman or Jobs aren't exactly average.
At least some of the problem is that at least here, cost is prohibitive. It's ridiculously expensive per minute compared to normal calls. I don't know if FaceTime is going to be a hit or not, but I definitely see myself using it more often than the built-in 3G video phone call capabilities I used to have.
Developers hate frivolous and silly names for protocols and software packages. Just look at Cocoa, Groovy, Sinatra, PubSubHubbub, and acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.
I'd rather it not count. AdBlock originated out of a deep annoyance/hatred for distracting, exploitative ads - but has since grown to cover just about every advertiser out there, good and bad.

Many people install AdBlock without seemingly realizing this difference. What I would like to see a much more discerning ad-blocking solution that punishes scammy, distracting, or otherwise abusive ads, and rewards advertisers that create consumer-friendly ads.

With a load-then-hide system the website owner has fewer effective metrics on whether or not people are actively blocking his ads. Perhaps when his impressions start dropping precipitously he would be much more compelled to act.

Of course, all of this hinges on the existence of a trusted adblock source that takes upon itself great pains to maintain a list that bans only abusive advertisers. I'm not holding my breath.
Exactly. That is why public transit needs to be funded by Value Capture. https://vimeo.com/32548658
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Honestly, if it ends up working out, that's the very least I can do, so absolutely :) Thanks once again!
Finally, I really dislike the author stating that "Unfortunately, the paper was nearly unintelligible!". I've taken a quick look at it, and it is immediately clear that the authors put a great deal of effort into it. Further, it looks quite packed, but perfectly organized and written in a clear-enough language...

It does not matter how much effort is put or how clearly is a paper written, to a someone without proper background it will always sound unintelligible. Put yourself in a position of a person who never studied formal languages theory and try to read it. It is utterly impossible. I do not say that it is a bad thing (had researchers needed to put everything in layman's terms, they would not have much time for actual research left), it is just understandable.
The iTunes Store works the same way. In general, if you offer content on reasonable terms, people will pay for it, otherwise they will pirate it.