skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't respect those who give away their labor for free.

Consider doctors, dentists, lawyers, CPAs, or other higher-prestige professionals. They engage in protectionism to restrict competition and drive up their earnings and rarely if ever give away their services for free, and they are much, much more respected than we are. And on the rare occasion that they do perform some act of charity, such as working as a public defender or providing discounted dental care to the poor, they usually still get paid for it, just not as much, and they make a big show of it so everyone knows that they're taking a huge paycut for a good cause and thus deserve even more respect than they get already.

Programmers by contrast are rapidly conditioning the public to expect software to be cheap or free, regardless of how long and difficult it is to produce, to the point where iPhone devs complain they can't sell their apps for the price of a cup of coffee.

Programmers need to worry about their future and should probably spend their 20s and 30s making as much money as they can writing proprietary software before they hit 40 and become increasingly unhirable due to ageism instead of performing unappreciated acts of charity in the form of open source for an ungrateful public.
So if 999 other men were in there farting with you, you might have all died?
I disagree that this is an argument over semantics seeing as how "Google is selling access to your attention based on what they know about you" is much less scary sounding (and more accurate) than "Google is selling you/your information".

The latter makes it sound (willfully) as if random third parties have access to the information Google has collected, which is a pretty blatant falsehood. Anyone is able to go sign up for an Adwords account and see how "targeting" works. At no point does the advertiser get to see anything about the people.

The whole "Google is selling you/You're the product" meme is a breathless, thought terminating cliche that needs to die.
As the Scala tech lead, I'm glad to learn we've finally
adopted "almost every new PL concept!" I guess by now
everyone will recognize your username and adjust for bias
accordingly, but still, how about sticking to the facts?
I'm a product VP at a mid-stage startup, you can ping me offline if you want to catch up and talk through any of this.
This is a lot of words that amount to "Nuh-uh!"

The entire point of the "if you're not paying, you're the product" spiel is that everybody already knows everything you said, but there's a fundamental difference between paying and not paying. You're not going to get that far demanding that people stop thinking there's a difference, nor are people going to stop verbalizing that difference, nor should they. What's cliche on HN is something the vast majority of the rest of the world still has not heard, and in this case, ought to.
Here's a great opportunity for a little informal HN poll. When was the last time you used the postal service to send a letter? Sure, I've got a box that gets junk mail every day, but the only time I send anything are one-off bills where they don't have an option for on-line payments.
Yes, the Sign/Up and Sign/in Page, will looking more nicer than now. i will take there soem white fonts and some ! video . I mean every month a new Voideo. like the Developer of the Month :) like as Introduction.. Full screen like now but a Video. ! :) - okey, but when i still add or list a git. It will be show up in the front.

i have added right now a new one ! http://www.gitlist.io/ ! and already a delete crud will coming in the Next Version.

in which browser do you watch the site in chrome?
How does the title of this post support your unpleasant suggestion that women who attempt suicide are not serious in their attempt (your use of scare quotes is fucking disgusting, BTW) and were doing it to seek attention or to punish people - it is this attention seeking / punishing behaviour that I'm trying to get you to support with any evidence.
Those are all just as good as justifications for why to cooperate. If you believe the officers you are dealing with are willing use illegal practices to make your life difficult when you talk to them, what's to stop them from doing the same if you don't cooperate?
Look at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. They started building in the 1880s, and it's still going on.
You can just take apart other games already out there.

Finding loop that takes 80% cpu should be simple enough and it can't be big.

You might spend weeks making stuff faster and arrive to inferior or wrong solution. Better ship it weeks earlier and enjoy lying on a beach in the sun.
That's only partially true in the case of Activision Blizzard. World of Warcraft has provided them with something that very few gaming companies have ever had: massive, dependable monthly payments.

That has gradually declined of course, over a decade. They still have ~5.6 million paying subscribers to WoW, generate a billion in sales annually from it, and hundreds of millions in profit.
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I'll let you in on a secret: I don't trust any of the code I write. I've been programming for decades, and I still keep making the same stupid mistakes.

I'd love to work with this guy. Overconfidence is not a virtue in developers.
If the Haskell fasta programs cheat, my fasta program cheats.

If the Haskell fasta programs do not cheat, my fasta program does not cheat.

These statements are made to the best of my knowledge, although someone with a definitive understanding of the rules (you, perhaps) is in a better position to make such decisions. I can make similar comments about my other submissions, referring in each case to different competitors.
> If you think the people you follow retweet bad stuff, you need to follow better people.

That's not a very good generalization - I have retweets turned off for many accounts I follow, some because I found I was interested in what they tweeted (so I wouldn't want to unfollow them) but less interested in what they retweet, but in most cases it's because I try to keep my feed relatively low-volume and some people are extremely liberal with their retweets so turning off retweets for those accounts keeps my feed more manageable.
I post mail about twice a week.
> “When you think Christian, you automatically think good[...]”

That is everything you'll ever need to know about why religion will never leave humanity. Substitute literally any belief system for Christianity, and then realize that every single human who holds that belief system also holds that refactored sentence to be true. Possibly in a more grammatically correct manner.
I'm sort of interested in what their migration process was like.

Particularly because I have seen so many HN posts "written in X converted to Y success stories". Most companies just can't drop everything and do a code conversion. They need to do it incremental. It seems with Swift this should be straightforward but maybe its not (I have to imagine its easier than going X to Golang which seems to be in vogue)?

IMO would have found it far more interesting to hear about the migration than why Swift is superior.
Yes it does. The article has some poor wording but the report itself is clear and plenty of people in the thread clarified that:

>The original report states:
Once debts have been subtracted, a person needs only USD 3,210 to be among the wealthiest
half of world citizens in mid-2015. However, USD 68,800 is required to be a member of the
top 10% of global wealth holders, and USD 759,900 to belong to the top 1%.
Which is more clearly stated and uses the same numbers as the Guardian article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493143
The Nice SSL is still coming soon after set up the Geo DNS. Step by Step. i wish i have a team here!. or two arms more. :) ! - But Thanks alot for your Feedback.

One question, are you have tried to list or add a git to the list? - YOur Question 2. ?!...
So previously you were saying them dying was your favorite thing. I don't get how this is different.
> And if you don't have the time to go out and stump for a candidate or run yourself

This is one model of government. But think about the people for whom this model works and the people for whom this model means that government is all but completely inaccessible.

Saying 'it's up to you to fix it' is one thing when you're talking to a person who already has time, money, and influence. It's quite another when you're talking to people who don't have any of those three things - quite honestly, the people whom government is currently failing the most.
IMO: once you grok how PM is viewed by a management team, you need to make a stay-or-bail decision. Don't waffle. It sounds like you've already made the evaluation.

My 30 yrs of experience says that an idiotic mgmt team is going to stay that way until they fail and/or are replaced. PM's squishy nature just makes it a easy target for "oh, they're just marketing." And your particular direct report circumstances just make the decision that much easier.

Do it. To stay just invites an ulcer.
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I think lack of ability to plan when and if you have a family is a contributor to poverty in many places. Children are expensive and time consuming.

I've noticed here in the USA young girls getting pregnant and not being able to pursue higher education. I've also met some of my family in the Philippines who had many children by age 14. The husband's salary would pretty much all go to the children, and the wife would spend all day taking care of them. They are just trying to survive day to day-- little thought was given to trying to reach for anything higher.

Most people with access to birth control have children-- just when they're more ready for it. Not only does this make them more financially steady, but they are happier, and the same goes for their children.

"I find suggestive evidence that individuals’ access to contraceptives increased their children’s college completion, labor force participation, wages, and family incomes decades later." - Martha J. Bailey, an economics professor at the University of Michigan. Here's the article and link to her work. http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/09/the-long-term-effects-of-...
These populations aren't mentally incompetent, they use chimneys. The issue is that chimney's aren't 100% efficient and only remove the pollution from the home, not the surrounding environment. The pollution becomes pervasive when an entire city of 100,000+ people is cooking with biomass fuel. Your chimney's exhaust is just another person's air when it's as concentrated as you'd find in places like those described in the article.
Seems like a "New Coke"-type publicity stunt, doesn't it?
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500px has favourites (heart) and like (thumbs up).

I believe they are one of the few who understands there's a difference; it's unfortunate that most of the social media doesn't.
This article is purely anecdotal. In theory, promoting reconciliation when possible seems like a positive, but also likely to lead to sugar-coating reality. I'd be interested in a way to quantitatively evaluate outcomes from arbitration of various types, e.g., religious, commercial, voluntary associations, and lawsuits in courts, both state and federal.

I'm surprised by the power of arbitration clauses in contracts. My understanding is that you cannot sell yourself into slavery in the US because the contract will not be considered valid. Perhaps if you put an arbitration clause into the contract, you could?
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It's an insignificant amount of money for an airline because (i) anyone buying 100 of them negotiates deep discounts from the manufacturer anyway, with Airbus and Boeing probably having more scope to offer them (ii) they borrow the money to buy the aircraft, and cost of finance on an aircraft of unknown provenance will be higher [unless a very favourable export credit arrangement underwritten by the Chinese govt] (iii) capital costs of acquiring an aircraft are a fraction of the cost of ownership, and there's a lot more uncertainty about the cost of operations and maintenance on these, as well as whether there will be an liquidity in the aftermarket when the airline wants to move them on.
Charles Alton Forsberg, Creator of YModem, ZModem
Well, it seems like it was created for the launch of Developer Edition v44, so that would have been when the stable release was v43. The current stable release is v44, so in theory everything in this demo/tutorial should work with current stable. I found a couple things didn't, though. I couldn't get the CSS eyedropper tool to apply the color I clicked on; however, manually entering the hex code for the new color triggered the completion event. I also couldn't get the event to fire in the second-to-last task.

Regardless, it's a neat little distraction to do while eating lunch.

edit: clarification
You'll definitely want to start by reading the white paper:

https://teams.1password.com/white-paper/1Password%20for%20Te...

Let us know if you have any questions after giving that a read.

Kyle

AgileBits
There is a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Duii6Yog0) at the end of the post which shows Chris demoing the chat room app.
how do you know the poster isn't blocking the ads? (or for that matter using a separate client?) and anyway, ads are stupid awful crap, so who cares if they get that part right? It's nothing like actual email messages.
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I understand your concerns, but for most people, reading their email is unlikely to "help them escape from their filter bubble" or something. Most people aren't pundits with rivers of politics in their email. It's mostly spam, offers from mailing lists, more spam, some personal emails, a couple of urban legends, etc. I mean, I guess some of the spam is political, too... did you know that Obama is the actual Anti-Christ predicted in revelation? But it's not generally of the "mind-changing" variety....
Yes, I've been following with interest the evolution of the treatment of items that some might regard as duplicates. I agree that there are items that deserve a second chance, because the HN firehose pretty much guarantees that good items (by some definition) will be missed, and sink without trace. Leniency in the definition of "duplicate" is one way to go, as is the encouragement of reposts of items you think are good for HN and deserve a second chance.

But having multiple copies of the same story - HN defined duplicate or not - means that there is less space for other new stories. I realise I'm not saying anything you don't already know, and I'm not offering a different strategy, I'm just saying that I see you're doing things (whether I agree with them is irrelevant) and so my previous strategy of cross-linking duplicates (by my definition) has been discontinued.

You'll notice, by the way, that those specific three were submitted within minutes of each other. It all adds up to my conclusion that, in effect, I've stopped bothering. I recognise that you are working on this, and I appreciate your efforts.
My guess is that they run the robotics software on the same machine they do their design work.
I actually think there are a fair number of prominent figures that have a good grasp of what's actually going on with the economy, but they would rather make money off of it than fix it. You have to divine their theories from their actions and a few oblique public posts.

The academic economics community just seems terribly out-of-touch these days, using models made a generation ago to try and explain an economy that has changed dramatically since then.
Not two centuries, four to eight; or even more than that, if you're feeling uncharitable. The Roman Empire had chimneys; in the Middle Ages, they were rediscovered no later than the 12th century, and were common in residences no later than the 17th (1600s).

Raised platforms for building cooking fires are also very 17th-century; they let you cook standing up, instead of squatting and ruining your back like the woman in the article. (There's a nice illustration of this in Braudel's _The Structures of Everyday Life_.) Smoke hoods were also available at that time.
I'm often amazed how Google still gives it staff this unique hacker-like approach to their million dollar projects.

For example, the stuff in Google labs (gmail) has had some silly things like don't hit send when you're drunk but sometimes very useful features which may be considered unorthodox like "Gmail telling you when it thinks you wanted to attach a file but forgot".

It's something I wouldn't generally associate with a very corporate design but here they are wanting to add another silly feature and who knows how it will turn out? Maybe it will be super useful and then all the other companies will start to copy it.

But the thing is they're inventing new ways that really don't fit your product development roadmaps. I really like that about them.
There's a good interview with the author on Democracy Now (make sure you watch both parts):

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/13/the_rise_of_americas_...
If you're getting hung up on the word vigilante (which has been the case for most people who replied to my earlier comment it seems), replace the word 'vigilante' with the word 'street', i.e. street justice. Note my intended meaning hasn't changed, only the way I'm choosing to express it.

Now what prevents street justice in a society without government intervention? The (simplified) answer is self-organised defence organisations. Is a mob/gang boss a preferable means of protection in a community, compared to those means that can be put in place by an elected government?
We aren't officially supporting Win64 with Firefox 42, but we are producing builds which you can find at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/42.0/win64/

There are only a few bugs left before we can officially support Win64: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=55844...
Ask HN: Best daily “get-stuff-done”/todo app?
I have a bad habit of getting off on tangents when I'm trying to get my work done each day. The tangents relate to my work, but they go off into more "research-level" depth on a subject than is really necessary to just get the work done (as a chemical engineer, you wouldn't believe how much time I've spent teaching myself group theory).

I've been reading up on this problem, and some studies indicate that making a todo list of manageable action items for each day results in modest productivity gains.

What's a good app for this? I've tried using a paper notebook, but I always lose it or forget to mark things off.

I need something that is either a mobile app or runs on OS X. In contrast with the myriad todo apps that already exist, this one needs to have task completion as its primary objective; i.e., it needs to prod me to stay on task and get things done — incentivize completion.

What all is out there?
But what if you didn't do what they want you to confess to? Or what if they want you to admit that a friend or family member did something that you know they didn't do? Do you just confess to make it easier on yourself?
I believe, at least in the US, the ideas it that arbitration is for civil dispustes, not criminal disputes. I believe your concern is that a person will be dealt with unfairly in a civil dispute... I would argue that if any arbitration clause for civil issues is to be upheld then it must be upheld for all of these agreements where there is no criminal issue; otherwise the party that feels they will do better outside of arbitration will always choose to not use arbitration regardless of their prior agreement... that seems unfair to me; to go back on the original agreement.
Navy Funds Rutgers to Develop Drone Equally Adept at Flying and Swimming
ProtoPiper is an attempt to bring the human back to material interaction, like in traditional craft practices. It is more than just a prototyping device. It helps you think about materials, gravity and structures.
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Would it be fair to say that, if one was set on exercising, that they do so for whatever amount has vested after their one year cliff, and then exercise the remainder (13/48-48/48) each month over their 4 year earn out in order to have as much of the stock covered under long term capital gains tax when it comes time to sell?

Hypothetically speaking, of course.
One of the things I gathered when reading the excellent Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong is that this 'rule of law' property of religion was a fundamental facet of early-modern history. The idea that all persons could be held answerable to one set of rules and principles is so alluring that you have people even today trying to hold secular American leadership accountable to them.

Religion, initially, came in two flavors. One for the aristocracy, which was oriented around finding meaning in the many ethically and morally awful things they had to do to maintain their territories, human capital, and privileged lifestyles.

The other was for commoners, who needed ways to cooperate and trust each other. If two people didn't know each other, then they could still trust each other if they spoke the same language, worshipped the same gods, paid tithes to the same temples. Religion was how they ordered their thoughts about what was right and wrong. It didn't matter for the people at the time what was scientifically or rigorously right, just that it was the same throughout a people.

Until the age of Christianity, rulers had no interest in how the commoners believed. But as the world became more and more connected and the scale of warfare grew to where conscription became more and more necessary, rulers increasingly started to try to control how their populace worshipped.

Fast-forward to the age of Gutenberg. Bibles getting printed in the vernacular, so that ordinary people could read them, was a game changer. All of a sudden, religious hypocrisy became a thing, people with power became accountable for how they used that power, rather than just making up interpretations amongst themselves as they went along.
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the point is that there is almost always a non-zero amount of work you have to do to file your taxes. Depending on your situation the amount of work can increase.

For a large chunk of people the IRS already knows what they're supposed to be paying. Those people are still put throughout the 'tax return' exercise.

I think the other commenters are right that for someone that's not familiar how taxes work in the US this seems overwhelming. I know I had a few people laugh/be amused when I was first attempting to figure out how it works and actually attempted going through the 1040 instructions. The reactions I got: blank stare + dude that's what turbotax is for...
Then I'm still only saving a few percent on the large amount of money I'm spending.

And in return I not only have to deal with the risk of buying a hundred aircraft designed and built by people who were pushing plows a couple of years ago based on some photocopies smuggled out of Toulouse, I also have to have the airline that people say "Oh hell no I'm not flying on that".
Sometimes 'our way' (meaning a different way than is currently practiced) is actually superior and it is a foolish 'culture' that chooses to ignore measurable improvements. Chimney != cultural bias; Chimney == physics.
Thank you :)

Might be worth noting that while it's "currently in progress", it's also 912 pages of "in progress" in the current release. ;)