jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The upside to Nexus is that it's pure Android. These days, the downside is that it's pure Android and essentially unsupported by the vendor.

The incentive to purchase Nexus or GPE devices was a lot greater pre-KitKat, but now that a lot of stuff has been abstracted away from the core and into Google Play Services & associated apps, being on the absolute latest core isn't often "necessary".

The elephant in the room is that the vendor overlays (Touchwiz, Sense, etc) are so unique that switching device brands can be very disorienting, even to find straightforward settings and do simple things. I have quite a bit of experience with HTC's Sense, but my father just purchased an LG G3 (at my suggestion) and I had a heck of a time just navigating to and through the settings screens trying to find something easy (how to change the screen timeout).

I am still happy with my GPE HTC One M8 and see 0 need to upgrade devices any time soon, but the next time I do it will probably be to either a Moto or Sony, both of which are minimally skinned, or something like a OnePlus running an alternative ROM.
"From my experience" really goes against empirical evidence in many cases. This happens with traffic safety just as well.

The Dutch have built a system that avoids several 9/11s in traffic deaths per year. Their traffic safety policy is evidence based, more so than most places in the world. I wish local politicians here and everywhere else would learn from it more!
"I know the salary range for developers in my area is $y to $z."

This is a great suggestion. Shows you're savvy, doesn't give anything away and gets the ball rolling.
"I had a bunch of code to plow through, but unfortunately the conference rooms were full and it was raining so I couldn't code in the park"
yeah, I've worked on some big projects in my time, 100's of programmers. And all of them would have been done better by splitting the project up into smaller chunks and doing them in series.

I've never met a business problem in my 30+ years doing commercial IT that couldn't be split up into smaller problems with smaller solutions, but there seems to be a bias towards large teams and complex solutions in commercial IT.

I don't know what causes this (I suspect management ego or consultancy fees, the cause of most commercial IT problems), but it's a real problem. The vast majority of these huge projects fail, go massively over-budget, precisely because they're being managed wrong.

Programming is fundamentally not like bricklaying, because it's creative not deterministic. Better, more detailed and more complete specs won't make more successful projects.

If you have too many programmers to bring them into the room when you're specifying the problem, then your project team is too big. The answer is not to exclude programmers and create more detailed specs, because programmers working to a spec like that won't write good code.

I know, I've been there. One project in particular stands out. We had detailed specs for a range (a few hundred) of middle-layer business routines. I received a function spec, wrote the function, wrote a few tests that the function did what it should do, ticked the box. Rinse and repeat for months. There were people working in a similar fashion on the front end and database layer. The system went over-budget, never worked, and was finally scrapped. It's not hard to see why, when the entire system was being written in this fashion. Programming is not like bricklaying.

If you think about it for 5 minutes you'll see that "bringing more programmers into the room increases communication overhead" implies that there is some information that is required to be passed from the customer to the programmer. The solution to this problem is obviously not to exclude the programmer and reduce the information passed to them, because that will lead to inferior code because the programmer is missing information. Instead reduce the amount of information the team is dealing with by segmenting the problem better.
I wonder: are any of them excited about the move? Is anybody actually like, "Hell yeah... open offices!"
Like it or not, dealing with people effectively and respectfully is an important part of software development.

There are certainly vital roles for Developers who want to remain technically focused at the complete expense of human interaction, but (like it or not) it will limit the opportunities open to them.

I would suggest that acting as the public face of a gatekeeping process is the wrong role for anyone who doesn't like dealing with people and/or has trouble interacting with them politely or helpfully within the time available.

Perhaps the role would be better split between two people: a public-facing person and a purely technical gatekeeper. The gatekeeper then only has to deal with the public-facing person, who can provide potential contributors with help, assistance, and common human decency, as well as acting as a first level filter. That seems like a win-win for everyone.

Edit: Just spotted that avivo already suggested this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922331
Anyone working on such startups? Secretly? :D
I work on the relationships between hashtags and between hashtags and influencers: http://hashtagify.me

For this analysis, we collect the data from Twitter's public API
Really? What is the law?
I think he means "literally literally", and by that I mean "figuratively".
> The army uses amphetamine & provigil during long term flying missing during critical operations. So what is illegal for ordinary citizens is legal for the state.

i have no military experience, but wouldn't the army administer these drugs through medical professionals in a narrow set of circumstances, like a civilian doctor would? i doubt soldiers are allowed to take these meds whenever they want.

amphetamines (adderall) and provigil are prescribed to civilian citizens as well.
You can see this with a sim called DarwinBots. Hand-crafted code is as clever as it can be. Code evolved from zero is a bunch of gibberish that just happens to hit the right spots here and there. The key is reverse engineering what effect the evolved code is actually going after.
I work for a smaller software company (~25 employees) and basically manage all things IT (internal business IT and software development). I'm responsible for the IT budget, our software developer salaries are the single largest company "expense".

When I started several years ago it came to my attention that the existing developers and IT staff were drastically underpaid (there was one other internal developer, an internal IT guy, myself, and a few outside contractors). I brought it to the attention of my bosses (managing partners) and have made it my goal to bring other developers salaries up to par. When I was hired I was making almost double what the other two were. I realized one of the biggest risks to the company was if either one of them decided to look across the street and find they could probably get a 40% raise on the spot. If they left a lot of knowledge and investment would walk out the door.

Over that past few years we've weened ourselves off the contractors/consultants and have hired internally. We are now at ~8 developers. In order to hire the more recent developers we've had to offer market rate salaries. During reviews and hiring I've always told employees not to discuss their salary, mostly for psychological reasons. No matter what someone will feel bad. "What if you make more than them? They might not think you're worth more than them. Causing tension and friction. What if they make more that you? Same thing."

I know that some have discussed it salary with others. At times it ticks me off.. makes me want to ensure they aren't lying by reducing their or withholding their next raise. (Please note that's a immediate gut reaction and I throw it out the window) quickly.

I'm happy to report, after much effort, I've been able to show the managing partners again this year that some developers still need larger than COLA raises (some should get 20%, 15%, 10% and most 5%). They are weary but I think they finally understand the importance of this. We do reviews and raises in a few months, and when I sit down with them I will still insist on not talking about salary or raise (amount/percent) and use the same explanation as before.

Yes, no one wants to be taken advantage of and the easiest way we think about doing that is salary transparency. That would work great in a world were psychology and subjectiveness didn't exist. I tend to be a very logical, analytical, rational personal. And as much as I hate office politics, emotions getting in the way, and having to hack psychology, they exist and as the logical, analytical, and rational person I think I am those things must be factored into going about things.
Do you mean something like this: https://opendocs.github.io/texme/examples/interactive-demo.h...? TeXMe can be used in this manner but not out of the box. If you see the source code of this interactive demo page, it uses the texme.render() function call from the TeXMe API to take input from the textarea element and render it in a div element.

Providing an interactive editor was not the goal of this project. The goal of this project was to write a text file using a mix of LaTeX and Markdown (while conforming to CommonMark specification as much as possible) and then share this file with my friends in such a way that they can render it easily by just opening it in a web browser. As a result, it completely replaces the textarea element with the rendered HTML.

If someone wants to take this project and create an interactive editor with it, please feel free to fork this project and do so. If you face any problems, please let me know by filing issues on the GitHub project: https://github.com/susam/texme.
Dont use site

Moving those sliders will nuke your CPU

probably because the entire <body> is essentially just:

<script src="/prism.js"></script>
<script src="/static/js/20.c80b9d97.chunk.js"></script>
<script src="/static/js/main.635019b5.chunk.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v5.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3-array.v2.min.js"></script>
They are alaready doing so. IPv6 test enviroments has been a disaster in the ISP I work for, too many devices don't support IPv6 in the domestic market and solution to router IPv4 over IPv6 are problematic.
This still requires tapping, unlike Swype and the other alternative keyboards which allow for continuous motion within a word.
> The 60 cents Apple gains from a $1.99 app barely covers credit card fees (for multiple currencies), bandwidth fees, bank fees to send money to developer, and paying salaries for all those app reviewers.

What's your source for this?
I remember these events well and it's interesting to note that Soros and other currency traders also did the same thing in Malaysia during the same time period. This was a lesson not lost on observers like Zhu Rhongi.
May I suggest adding where you left off/what needs to be done in the readme or on a wiki page in the github project?
I'd like to be an angel one day, but I'm still plumbing away at the entrepreneur thing first. I'd like to get a few successes under my belt, and really experience starting and growing the businesses, before I jump into investing.

What are some things I can be doing now to prepare myself for angel investing?
The Germans appear to have been quite resourceful despite the number of "ball bearing factories" attacked, considering production kept increasing to the very end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer

The war was surely won not due to the efforts of western nations but simply by the massive number of lives Russia was willing to sacrifice on the eastern front.
...and if anyone makes a decision about his worth as a human being because of his actions as an adolescent, while ignoring his accomplishments -- both earlier and greater than many young adults -- well, then it's their loss, not his.
Actually, no: the article doesn't currently show up until page 8 of a Google search for alex peppe. I would imagine that in a couple of years it will be even further down the search space.
We've had a merchant account for several years, the last few on an interchange-plus plan. Last weekend, we sat down and calculated the average interchange-only discount rate, i.e., before the "plus" of the merchant account provider, for the last four months. We found the average interchange rate, including the interchange transaction fees, was about 2.05%.

Given that PayPal only charges 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction for businesses with > $10K in sales, it seems to me that it is increasingly difficult for any merchant services provider to compete with PayPal in the online space, given the high basic interchange rate.

The added benefits of not having to deal with the cost and complexity of PCI compliance and a separate credit card gateway has made us decide to switch to PayPal.
Table tennis uses a similar system. My wife used to play competitively, and people at the club would always ask each others' ratings when looking for a good match.

Of course, a single number can only tell you so much -- it's a very gross generalization of skill. A lower-score player can have a particular strength corresponding to another's weakness, thus leading to a win for the (generally) weaker player. I imagine that this is similarly true for soccer teams.
One of the major benefits of Agile that I've found is how many problems go away when the customer gets to see progress on a very regular basis.
It wasn't merely negligently operated. The safety was turned off for tests. Effectively, it was the equivalent of sawing off your brake pedal and driving full speed into a wall to see if the airbags hold. With known-faulty airbags.
So two valid arguments to have: drug discovery, & whether 'market incentives' give us cheaper & more drugs.

My main point is looking at this holistically profit is a huge % and a terrible incentive for both what drugs are pushed and trialed and how much they can gouge us to benefit their shareholders.

Gilead is 79%... More than 2x apple. [1]

That is ethically wrong.

Government already funds (most seems like this research article sats? [2]) early stage research e.g. discovery. Then the drug companies take the best looking candidates but they have gross incentives to pick the most potential profit, not the most benefit to society (like HIV a so far lifetime disease where our lives are dependent on this medicine) - why pay to research a prodrug or big stage 3 trial on a drug you cant make money on.

In terms of 'market incentive' on the manufacturing side manufacturing costs themselves are tiny [4] and if anything my intuition is it has a net negative effect on quality. these companies try to penny pinch and push the every lessoning government oversight to its limits & offshore production with dangerous JIT supply chains and single source failures. Plus Republicans refuse to allow the government to negotiate or 'interfere' with 'the market' in the name of 'market incentive' kudos to trump to buck the party though.

and it also seems setting up a non-profit is currently hostile by the system our government has concocted because of pharma lobby & their ad persuasion $ [3]

https://statista.com/statistics/473429/top-global-pharmaceut...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50972/

https://waxmanstrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nonp...

https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000571
thanks, yeah i was only thinking about service discovery
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Computer science is not science, it is mathematics. Great stuff, but quite different stuff.
Answer: It depends.

When I went to school, we began significant reading in grade 1, when I was 6. NYC public school kindergarten at that time was half day, and focused on social activity, counting, letter recognition, etc. My younger brother was effectively reading on his own at age 4 before kindergarten, mainly because my sister was a huge reader and they read together constantly. She also has a natural talent for teaching.

Remember that kids are very different. My son was born in early January, he has a classmate born in early December. Teachers have to work with both extremes, as well as kids in various family situations that affect social development. There are also brain development factors that apply and don't necessarily level out until 7/8 years old.

My beef up the thread was that some hyper-vigilant parents expect teachers to achieve the possible, but improbably, because they have decided that little Johnny is a genius. The same people will pay $10,000 for soccer leagues, etc.
But if the second question resolves the issue even when the first is construed in favor of the other party, what's the rationale for demanding the court focus on the first question?

The main influence of the Supreme Court is in setting precedent. In the absence of a ruling from the Supreme Court, the previous ruling from the Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit is binding precedent on the whole country that APIs are copyrightable. That means that the most important precedents set in this case are still an issue for the software industry.
> For some reasons it often works for Windows and MacOS, why wouldn't it work for Linux?

Is it actually working for Windows? Especially for programmers.

"Avast detected unusual, rarely program and quarantined it" - well, I just compiled it, I bet that it was not seen by AV before. That was my latest contact with AV sotware.
What do you imagine would be the consequences?
> If you accept the term "location based pay"

When did we ever get the choice?
That's good food for thought, thanks. It makes me wonder whether it'd be possible for small teams to work on Argdown (or other proposition-formulation language) collections within their domain expertise, and then provide those for composition by others (again drawing parallels with software engineering). And perhaps something like unit testing could help in terms of verification?
> "To study the analytics of the internet, a company named 'Oomuph' has been hired ...The internet data will inform 1090 team if a person is searching for porn. The team will then send 'awareness messages' to the person. By doing this, the crime will be stopped at the initial process itself ...".

- https://www.news18.com/news/india/up-govt-to-monitor-search-...

> To prevent incidents of eve-teasing, rapes and molestation, the Uttar Pradesh police have decided to monitor pornographic searches on the internet. The police have hired a company to monitor the internet searches and keep data of the people who search porn content and analyse it.

> "The data of such people will be with the police...it will help the police in nabbing the offender if any incident of crime against the women takes place in the area," she said.

> "The traditional methods of outreach have many drawbacks...we need to modernise the methods," the ADG said.

- https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/for-...
Civil law can't be fully ported to computer code, but enough of it probably can. Most contractual issues don't get anywhere near a court. They're resolved via negotiation and alternative dispute resolution (and there's normally a contractual obligation to go this route before resorting to the courts). Dispute resolution is incredibly expensive, especially when you're dealing with multiple jurisdictions. Lawyers and judges haven't managed to stop parties using mediation and arbitration services offered by people who aren't legally trained, such as economists or people with extensive domain experience.

But smart contracts would change the way contracts are written, as they're often intentionally ambiguous for a variety of reasons. There's also the problem of "oracles", but we already have a profession for translating real-world events into legal ones (notaries).
Before Glenn Greenwald met Snowden and before he seems to have lost the plot about Russian collusion (maybe I'm wrong, but it seems lately he's been less willing to challenge his own conclusions), he wrote this (in 2010) about Washington journalists: https://www.salon.com/2010/06/07/washington_3/ .

In another article he wrote about how a lot of news people are just desperate to be considered buddies by the people in power, so they can join the "elite"...
>> They felt that way because papers like the Post could offer the carrot of great exposure to those who needed it, but also, always, the stick of negative coverage to those who spurned them. There is nothing devious or ignoble about this; a powerful press, for all its flaws, is good for democracy

No, doing hit pieces on anyone is a flagrant exercise of power that deserves no respect and destroys the credibility of the press. Stick to reporting facts and not exercising power and you'll fare much better.

A recent example that was fascinating to me: during an emerging global crisis (covid19) the president of the USA held a press briefing to discuss the situation. A reporter was called on to ask a question by the president himself. That reporter decided to insinuate that the president was racist in addition to asking a question. The president's response included "you're a terrible reporter" in addition to answering the question. I'm sure that guy and his organisation were not welcome back, and rightly so. Keep your editorial shit on the page it belongs, or in another story. There is a place for that, but it's not during a press conference with "the leader of the free world" during a global crisis. And yet the MSM went wild over how bad the president was for calling out a reporter's bullshit.

Stick to the facts and the story or you will be rightly identified as something other than a source of information.
I heard Corey Robin interviewed on the radio when he released The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. I could not find that link but here is the author's website.
https://coreyrobin.com/enigma/
I was honestly gobsmacked by Robin's revelations, at first unbelieving, then acceptance after the words from Thomas that Robin had on command to back his thesis - it explains Thomas' rulings like nothing else. The New York Times Book Review quote matches my reaction exactly after listening to the author.
I wonder if an annulus would work in a similar manner.
> I did a few VB projects and I needed know two things, VB6 and a database.

Desktop apps are relatively simple if you only need to target one platform. Both windows and macOS have good options accessible from managed languages. But if you want to do cross platform then the complexity rockets.
yes, this is a starting point. I agree this topic has considerable depth which I omitted.

there are 100s of great resources (Wolfram Alpha, Khan Academy, GitHub, Wiktionary, to name a few) and techniques (Google search tricks like using quotes, site: tag, etc., good habits like avoiding distractions) to augment Internet learning

you could evenly weight this area like any other class, and expect to spend many hours on it.