skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not a matter of execution. ISVs competing against platform providers have to compete against free. It just destroys markets rather than offers genuine competition.

The platform providers don't seek direct revenue, they just want to channel cattle in their hardware/advertising cages and killing off any ISV that could ever grow powerful enough to challenge them is a bonus.
A lot of totalitarian propaganda has that attractive, simple but striking design; it's not hard to understand how it can sway people. And hand painted signage always looks classy, even when it isn't hate speech...
Have you seen the movie? There is ZERO evidence in the movie that either Kaleil or his co-founder Tom are talented or successful. They're certainly, as mikek says in his comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547832, "driven"! But that's why they were seeking success by dishonest means in the first place. As IMDB says:

> The process of building the business focuses on obtaining venture capital based solely on the idea, with the actual mechanics of the website seemingly almost an afterthought, or at least one left primarily to the hired help.

Basically they were two guys who tried to capture a lot of value without creating any, basically by world-beating levels of hustle. That describes the story of KIT Digital, too.

(Don't forget that Kaleil stabs his cofounder in the back in the middle of the film, too — metaphorically, fortunately.)

I think this is a big problem with the current "entrepreneurial" ethos: you have people out there who are really honestly creating a lot of value, and then you have people like those guys who see a big pile of money and try to scheme up a way to skim a bunch off the top, making life harder for everyone who's actually contributing.
No, it means they're going to do the sessions anyway, keep the data, do the diff whenever they feel like it and then phone in an anonymous call with the evidence, then destroy the collected information.
It's called Anglo-style capitalism. It's not perfect. But it's better than every other system that's ever been tried.
Then write it.
This is really cool to watch. I tried to find this video for a long time.
:) I'm a little curious if your son would like this tune by Mats & Morgan Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9xaUBKY5I
Sure?

Because last I remember, Google is constantly shipping their Android Compat Libs with constant integration issues.

You’d assume that at least Google gets it right.
The US hasn't fallen into feudalism, but it is increasingly much harder for people with interest and capabilities to get to college because of the cost - unless their own parents "gifted them" with a good edu & economic background. I went to a moderately good southern university but was able to get a phd in cs, and then was able to work for many of the leading tech companies in the world (like facebook, google, microsoft or amazon). I followed in the footsteps of my parents, both of whom had college degrees. If instead I was the first person in my family to make it to college, and my parents had been uneducated or suffered from being drug addicted, or I had gone to a terrible public school, it would have been tremendously harder for me to succeed. And I can help my own kids to succeed.

Your parent's educational and economic background is a huge factor in your personal success. We should strive to make it so that intelligent people with interest can succeed (educationally and personally), and strive to make it so that people see this is an opportunity not preserved for the rich. We should not (as someone suggested) make it society work such that wealth is randomly moved between people, as then there would be no benefit to learning and trying to better the world; somehow this has to be balanced with a good and decent life for everyone, people shouldn't just die if they don't happen to have health care (or their parents are poor).
Government regulations are not torts.
At the moment, I donate via Payroll Giving for my UK earnings - http://www.payrollgiving.co.uk/

I can give a monthly amount in a manner which is tax efficient for me and the charities I support.
This seems to be very hot, dizzyingly close to the jackpot. Two tightly related questions:

1) The idea here is that nesters are strictly OS facilities, is it? There's no expectation that a nester can be user code—that a user can write his or her own nester application and run it as he/she would any other executable binary, or is there?

2) There's no expectation that nesters can "intercept" messages to fictitious children, or is there? By fictitious children I mean child nesters or applications that don't actually exist in the VM system's tree of VMs, and instead are just "made up" by the nester. But in truth anything that can send and receive messages is just as much a real process as any other. Think recursively-nested dynamic HTTP servers, or a Unix mount(1) that mounts (arbitrary)* processes instead of files. Or having a conversation with someone else's imaginary friend ... and then with their imaginary friend's imaginary friend. ;)

In the spirit of Plan 9ish userspace mount, some nesters do have to be fast, but not everything has to be fast to be a nester. And not everything has to be reliable or trustworthy to be a nester, either. Also, nesters should have direct access to the state of all their descendants—grandchildren and so on—at least as a matter of principle. Note that a nester which exposes "fictitious" children automatically has such access to the state of those children's descendants.

* A file being a special case of a process. (And distinguishing files from file bodies, the immutable/abstract values that may be the state of some given file at some time.)
I think this is a really good point - if we can never break a law, we can never change one.

There is another good point as we move towards more perfect surveillance and enforcement of laws; so many of our laws are designed with the idea that you will only catch x% of infractions. If we knew we would catch 100% of the violators when we created these laws, we might have chose different thresholds and punishments.

For example, take speeding - if we knew that we would catch 100% of people driving faster than the speed limit, we might set a higher speed limit and a lower penalty. We set the current penalty based on the idea that it needs to be high enough to offset all the times that we speed and don't get caught. For example, if we get caught 1% of the time we speed, then we can expect a $500 fine for speeding to cost us about 5 dollars per time we speed. If we are caught 100% of the time, that jumps to $500 per time we speed.

Also, the speed limit is lower because we can't enforce it perfectly - we need a little bit of a buffer, so that a cop can be sure the person is speeding before issuing a ticket. This means speeds are lower than they should be with perfect enforcement.

We really need an overhaul of our laws if we are going to allow automated and perfect enforcement.
Fiverr, a Microtask Marketplace, Raises $60M
Sortition
Shrinkwrap: Not just for murders
How Chemistry Is Rescuing Our Audio History from Melting
I was in the Product Development Group working on the Itanium chipset at the time. I remember an older Engineer in the group that had written his own stock trading book. He only lost a dollar per share when the market went from 72 to 18
Not by Jetbrains, but https://cursiveclojure.com/
Awesome concept. I want to help build one for the prisoner system in the US.
Investor pressure: ClearSlide employees should be working at least 10 hrs a day
“having people raise millions of dollars for new episodes of a TV show from the 90s (MST3K) doesn't do anything for local communities” dude you just strawman’ed again
I'm not aware of any countries where there exists a "pure" free market. While there is plenty written on the theory of enforcing laws and property rights sans government, I think it a stretch even with a government run court system, to refer to a court's ruling in behalf of property rights as "central planning". Even calling such a ruling "government regulation" seems pretty far from what most would consider "regulation".
Your statement is probably true for the majority of the generation after WWII (with politicians leading the way), but definitely not for "The modern Austrian" (where I count myself in). We are well aware of what happened back then and we definitely know that Austrian people were involved of the cruelties that happened in WWII and before it.

There's also a Wikipedia entry about the Victim theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_theory. As you can read there official Austria confessed the role of Austria during WWII in 1991. That's late, I know. But also, that was nearly 30 years ago. That's what I would call "modern".
Google to End Chrome Support for Windows XP, Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I wonder in what stage they are in.

I once had a side project going to make spider silk chemically. I am still in awe on how the spider developed this amazing tool: the cascade of chemical reactions involved, the spider bio-reactor that spins the chemicals into the spider silk thread. And of course, so little hope to go anywhere near that with classical chemical means.

I agree with toufka on that one: "It's hard to see unless you look closely, but this is the beginning of biological nanotechnology."

I wonder at what stage they are, and how the parameters of their material compare to naturally woven spilder silk.
Would Redis solve your problem?
> Companies get their shiny unicorn valuation (which helps with recruiting, in addition to being the vanity metric du jour)

Only losers appear to be employees in the end.

> Additionally, issuance of participating preferred stock is on the rise, having been issued in 5 percent of deals in the Fenwick & West study.

Lesson: don't join a startup unless you get preferred stock. Value of common stock awarded to an employee = $0.00 x millions of common stock awarded.

> This “double-dip” was common following the dot-com bubble, but had disappeared in the recent bull-run in VC.

Looks like shenanigans of dot-com bubble are back. Who says current market doesn't look like dot-com bubble? They should quit smoking whatever they are smoking.
Radio Spectrum Allocated for Global Flight Tracking via Satellite
And a test where nobody is hooked up at the transmitting end but the signals are still turned on... there's a lot of potential for the receiver being influenced solely by the hardware setup if it is not properly isolated room to room(electrical, light, sound).
That’s not the definition of "agile" I meant here.

The definition of "agile" is what actually happens in reality: You depend on an API from Google, and they, thanks to their so "agile" team, constantly drop or add features every few weeks, constantly move everything around, and then drop support for the API a few months later completely.

And they argue that it’s "necessary to have moving open standards for everything to be able to react to change".

That’s pretty "agile". Change! Change! Change! Who cares about consistency?
On Writing by Stephen King (narrated by the author)
Ironic article being from the CEO of Kickstarter, one of the biggest success stories of the last decade.

All this talk of altruism, Zuckerberg and Gates too, is trivial when you have it all.

The true measure is when you, like most people, behave when you have nothing to lose and nobody is watching.
Hygiene factors vs motivation factors. Some stuff will make you happy, some stuff will make you unhappy. They are not on the same scale. Pay is mostly hygiene - not enough, absolute, or more importantly relative will make you unhappy. It won't make you super happy to increase it over enough though. (Yeah yeah, it totally will for YOU, but in reality... Not really. Increases and relativity matter a lot more than what you really are paid, even me and I'm really cynical about it).

Healthcare, same deal - needs enough to not make you unhappy.

What you work on - can actually make you happier.
Wow: Visual Studio 2015 Support

I think this is one of the great results of the new Microsoft.
> if we simplified the tax code in any way, so many people would be out of work in both the private and public sectors.

This is an excellent demonstration of the broken window fallacy.
Complex problem made simple sends computer scientists wild
I feel the same. Gears of War on x360 was a really well developed product/game.
> Who is endlessly confused?

Everyone who reads or hears this sentence. I've heard 'everything is a list' a zillion times already. It's just wrong. In every way.
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You’ll also help with systems administration duties, such as helping us use Google Analytics for grant reports; and you’ll do light IT diagnostics with our web server; also some web optimization.
I know among the pfsense group originally there was skepticism that it wasn't back doored by a government agency (not because there was proof), because of the fact it had such a great feature set while being so new a project. Now that it's open sourced, I'm interested to see if people pick it up. It definitely looks legit.
What We’ve Learned from Hiring (and Almost Hiring) Engineers
I don't disagree. The solution would either be a) regulation (not going to happen) or b) build your own platform (HAH!) or c) deal with the status quo.
> At least 32GB of RAM is recommended to run cmix.

Youch! I totally get what they're trying to do here and that one day even the cheapest toy will have 10x that RAM. But still...
That was one of the main take aways of the article I found, that such powers (fiscal policy and tax policy and spending) lie with law makers, not the fed.
3.) Not all trades are created equal. Producing durable goods which last longer than nondurable goods creates more long-term wealth. E.g. the difference between a dozen disposable razors versus one high-quality razor blade.
I see evidence that inequality is rising, however do you have evidence that "the rich" is a consistent group over time and not subject to change?

As a counter example, it's incredible to compare the abject poverty of, e.g. Asian immigrants to the US with the relative wealth of their first-generation American children. That's happening alongside rising inequality, but it's definitely not "the rich getting richer."
The first time I read this headline I thought it said "Nazi Australia" which would be weirder.
I'm wondering what Parinfer would feel like if used when editing the expression to submit in a REPL. (In other words, it could be nice outside of source editors.)
Mostly quality Miele machines. They have 10 years warranty from the manufacturer, so most actually survive for 20 years. Not what they used to make – they used to survive a lifetime – but it’s okay.

Same with stoves or fridges.

We already see how hard it is to keep mobile devices updated. Android is the nightmare example, but even Apple drops devices after 4 years. In 20 years, your smart fridge will have tons of malware on it if it’s connected to the internet. If it isn’t connected, you won’t be able to get updates, so the software has to be perfect.

And the point we made in Uni was that agile is suited for situations where your requirements change after deploying. In all other cases you can do waterfall – provided you actually find out what you’re supposed to do – better.
This is an excellent point. I think this definitely had a lot to do with it. Global demand was at an all time high and America certainly was one of a few nations who could provide the goods necessary for rebuilding.

However I think we cannot ignore the fact that America itself was expanding. Demand within America was increasingly fueling GDP as our war-time infrastructure was converted to build materials for homes, highways and specifically cars. These industries are now mostly being reimagined off of American shores. The world is certainly getting tougher for American industries but I believe there is enough demand that exists within America that we could support ourselves more with "Made In America" goods than what we currently do.

I have read adding tariffs to some goods made offshore by companies incorporated in America could help out our economy, thus preventing the flight of corporations and capital outside of American soil. America still throws a lot of weight around regarding global demand so if we can force American corporations to stay in America by tariffing goods they make offshore, I think we could effectively keep jobs here, thus generating stronger demand.
Show HN: Strategic Prioritization Scorecards
One huge reason to use C++ on iOS is to avoid platform lock-in and for code sharing. How can you miss such a blindingly obvious reason?

And it is right on par with other languages when it comes to GUI building as Qt proves. However, something like QML in conjunction with C++ will be much more flexible and pleasant to use than any of C++, Objective-C or Swift.

CoreData is widely considered to be more trouble than it's worth it, as soon as you want to do some serious work. Predicate filtering... maybe I am missing something, but I'd pick <algorithm> + lambdas any day over that kind of magic.
I have used Objective-C to write production code, and with few exceptions, I would consider it anything but elegant. It's a hodge podge of concepts thrown on top of eachother that's finally and deservedly being put to rest by Apple.
Overall, things are getting better for sure, but it's going in a trajectory that will settle into a shitty local minimum where poor people survive but are stuck with low quality of life. Getting people out of extreme poverty in the world is high priority, and we've been doing a pretty good job at that, as your graph shows. But there's a big rut after that that we need to work on removing too.
> False equivalence. I never stated I wanted to mob anyone

Then I don't have a beef with you. But the students in these articles are mobbing people physically, are preventing others from speaking, are chasing people out of their jobs. That is wrong.
Ask HN: Redux: is it just me or is it complicated?
I've been looking at redux on and off for the past month. I hear something about it on the news and it always intices me to look at it. Whenever I try though, I feel like it doesn't help me simplify but complicate.

What is it that I am missing? Or what is it that it is not showing me...

Would love to hear thoughts on your experience trying to get into redux and actually implementing it on your projects. What has helped you get over the initial hump and/or what has made you forget about the framework?
Wages lag production so debt is required. The banks in this article are everywhere because they have a monopoly on credit creation and demand interest.

Take 5 minutes to read this, it articulates what the author failed to (and as a result reached a conclusion of little use):

http://www.socred.org/index.php/blogs/view/it-s-time-for-an-...

Think of the banks everywhere. They are today's churches. Big spacious lobbies. Stand in awe not at the creativity but at the sheer amount of high value real-estate they can waste.

The guy writing this article doesn't understand the wider dynamics at all. It's about money creation and the use of that to ramp land prices in order to compel everyone to hand over part of their labour.

As you note if you have money you can get more of it because you can leverage it. But that's only part of the picture.

I'd encourage everyone to read the above link and also Henry George "progress and poverty"

http://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depression...
The general improvements they mention do look good for the U.S. space industry. It says something about the recent state of congress that my first question is quite cynical: What compromises and hidden gotchas aren't we hearing about in this bill?
You mean, capitalism?
To answer these questions, I think you need to be talking to these companies that you think would/should donate. Finding out what they want or need (from you or DBIx::Class et al in the coming year) is most important. Maybe their budgets are frozen until EOY, maybe you need more time to allow for purchasing, or maybe you aren't providing enough tangible benefits to justify bringing this to their management -- all questions you could uncover.

I would say that companies need more tangible benefits here, they can't justify a feel-good purchase price of $6-12k. I don't think you'll get into marketing budgets with an ad buy on your laptop. I know it's not part of the Perl community to create a website for your library, and it likely wouldn't have the impressions needed to attract any marketing interest either way, so maybe that's the wrong angle.

If DBIx::Class et al are integral to these companies, offering more options for support retainers at lower levels might justify the spend for more companies in the middle ground.

Anyways, I don't know the answer here, and I'm going through the same problems myself. I think you need push forward with all courses of action (save giving up early). Widen your pool of possible contributors, talk to those possible contributors you have a relationship with, and give it some time.
That's what I would expect -- the more crowded the market, the less leverage you have, and the lower your eventual payoff.

There are lots of people willing to provide companies with small amounts of money in exchange for a gigantic potential payoff. As payoffs decrease, lenders will exit the market.
Bitcoin has no future, says UBS chairman Axel Weber, Blockchain does. – BC News
How to succeed (or fail) with your Apple TV app release
This is really cool! Another fun way is to use a lathe (I guess that would be called "turning" a bowl rather than "carving" a bowl). Using a lathe would be much faster and wood lathes are relatively inexpensive.
Playstation sales went through the roof that year.
Show HN: Bitcoin Smart Contracts – With Live Demo
It's not. Explain Lisp to people not by treating them as idiots who won't understand that not everything is a list. There are numbers, vectors, strings, and various other forms of syntax in Lisp.

(john "123" 1) consists of a list, a symbol, a string, an integer

|hi there| is a symbol

#*1010101011 is a bit vector

#2A((1 1 1) (1 1 1)) is a 2d array

and so on.

Also look up the current Scheme report and see its syntax definition. 'Everything is a list' is fooling the reader and treating him/her like an idiot.