skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is outraged because Adobe makes money. That's quite a ridiculous assertion.

What some people want is pay once and be done with it. Ownership vs. Rental. When a consumer can afford to own but is forced into rental, then there's going to be resentment. If Adobe had offered a choice, then the number of complaints would be minuscule.

My work is a perfect example. I paid for InDesign years ago. Since I only use it for very occasional jobs, and semi-occasional hobby stuff, I don't need the constant upgrade cycle. Because I bought it, I don't have the sinking feeling of my wallet being opened every time I decide to start a new personal project.
9.99 is only if you just need that one app. For the average business customer they will be paying 49.99/month per user.
Did they invent that labyrinth pattern just for this, or is it an existing technology?
Police 911 Thousands of Calls Florida Mass UFO Explosion? [WTH]
Cable TV Decline: Cord-cutting is accelerating
Aye, I understand. The impulsiveness is a big part of ADHD. I believe you should continue to work with your psychiatrist. Point this out to them specifically and let them know that while you are seeing improvement in some areas, this one is particularly bad for you and that you would like to explore some other medication options - either dosage change or new medications all-together. Worst case scenario is you go back to the medication you're on now which at least helps somewhat.
By that measure, those open source devs are the stupidest of all.
This rings true to me. I work at a young company outside California with plenty of revenue, no debt, employee owned. It was all started and run by older engineers who knew their market. Nobody asked anything of the VC circus because the VC circus has literally nothing of value to offer such a company.
It might not be hard for them to do it, but how is the end user meant to know to ask if they do?
being hypervigilent about downvotes on your throwaway

Well, FWIW, it's working. At this instant his total karma is +10, he only has 2 posts, and the 2nd post is slightly greyed. So that means that his original comment is now in the range of +10.

Sadly, the fact that I'm replying here probably means that I need to get a life!
So then they simply start pulling the stats over which demographic group does worse after going to a big school. I'll bet you on average its the lower income people.

The perspective from an eastern european friend of mine: "everything in the US is a business, and every business has a thousand middlemen making money". Education should be a service provided by the government of the people, so that accountability is the responsibility of the people.
That won't help when they send part of the plaintext home. Which any antivirus program does from time to time
an inability to filter irrelevant information

So, you're telling me that daydreaming is a bad thing? And what if I'm perfectly able to do so, but choose not to? What then?
Awesome product! Do you mind giving more information about how long have you been building this, and how much do you make?
Not sure what your dream job is. But pulling a few tickets off the backlog is a pretty normal way to ramp up new hires.
The reason is because of the anthropic principle.
> transistors are already dirt cheap compared to what you pay for IP and market segmentation.

Transistors are dirt cheap in volume.

In reality, transistors have a megabuck+ NRE (non-recurring expense) that prevents us from making effective use of the global oversupply of transistor manufacturing capacity.

So, just like plastic injection molding is dirt cheap in large volume, but 3D printed plastic is way better for small volume; silicon transistor manufacturing is dirt cheap is large volume, but printed transistor manufacturing would be good for small volume.
A sun-conscious sleep pattern in Wisconsin implies a 9-hour waking day for a good chunk of the year. No thanks.
Frivolous example, I know, but you'd be amazed how different Star Wars and Star Trek fans can be!

Their differences have tended to be less in recent years as both franchises have become "cool".
I actually really like this hypothesis. There is definitely a distinction between long-form content and short-form content, and programming certainly lies in the former.

That's not to say that short-form content doesn't have its place, I'm pretty sure I would learn less if I didn't browse Reddit or HN during lunchtime, and for some reason I feel like reading a book wouldn't fit in that 15 - 30 minute period. But it's still a period I can put to use.
Costs of under-confidence
When I was first diagnosed I did not really believe the psychiatrist. My impressions of ADHD were all wrong. Once I understood what ADHD actually was, everything clicked. 30 years of my life suddenly made sense. ADHD isn't "the crazy hyper kid in the corner who does bad in school and can't concentrate long enough to form a coherent thought because SQUIRREL!" the way I thought.
$500/month to live in a San Francisco crawl space
I think they're called flexi discs.

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400369975/its-thin-its-plastic...
> Out of interest, in what way do you consider Swift a Wirth-influenced language?

In the context that system programming languages shouldn't sacrifice safety, except when needed and be explicit about it with constructs like unsafe/SYSTEM and so on.

Swift is very explicit when doing C style tricks, e.g. UnsafePointer<>.

There is more to Wirth school of languages than just syntax.
Bay Area swiss army knife here. That sounds awesome!
@jamespshields
And they'd have to be updated for every build of Chrome.
Unfortunately, the click-bait title of this submission doesn't say anything about what it's about. A more informative title might be: "How memes propagate (and mutate) over the internet". It's a fairly interesting and thought-provoking 7-minute video.
I'm pretty sure Valentin also invented it, but perhaps as a separate project and is using it for this.
Exactly. An 80% chance of zero and 20% chance of millions is different than an 80% chance of zero and 20% chance of 70k.

And a lot of people fail to identify the difference.
No, unfortunately. I can't rule out the possibility of physical bus errors (like cable going bad or poor physical connection - in my case, there is one fairly expensive SAS cable per 4 drives, as I'm using a bunch of SAS/SATA backplanes with hotswap caddies); I do think that's probably more likely (or non-ECC RAM bitflip) than on-disk corruption.

But the exact nature of the problem is a distinction without a huge amount of difference to me. If I was copying those files, the copies would be silently corrupt. If I was transcoding or playing videos, the output would have glitches. Etc.

With this many HDDs, there are necessarily more components in the setup, and more things that can go wrong. Meanwhile, I'm not a business customer with profitable clients I can sell extra reliability to, so it's not the most expensive kit I could buy. I went as far as getting WD Red drives, and even then they were misconfigured by default, with an overly aggressive idle timer (8 seconds!) that needed tweaking.

The main thing is: more and bigger drives means increased probability of corruption.
Start with consulting agencies. That's companies that acts like brokers between independent consultants / contractors and companies.

Later on, you can get business from LinkedIn, mouth to mouth, previous clients who now contact you directly etc.
I would kill to hear the explanation behind these downmods.

Because apparently it's cool to employ violence whenever you think it might do some good.
Not always. I wasted a day interviewing at TrueCar (well, some faction of TrueCar) and paid for my own lunch. Never heard back from them or the recruiter. Talk about a real waste of time (with footnote I clearly learned I never want to work for TrueCar).
Why physics needs art to help picture the universe
A knob that changes functions..

I feel old fashioned saying this but.. I think I prefer my objects stateless.
It's way easier to connect and talk, with a better interface and profiles, there is inline image and video support, emoji support, responsive design for mobile...

IRC is dying and people are switching to Slack, but Slack is not here to replace IRC, is annoying to enter a separate login and email for each group, and it's more complicated to do simple things, they said they have no intention to satisfy that audience[1].

[1]http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/24/slack-is-quietly-un...

>“it’s great that people are putting Slack to good use” but unfortunately “these communities are not something we have the capacity to support given the growth in our existing business.”
Some state of what devices are available lives on the HomeKit supporting bridge (in this case on the device you're running HomeBridge on), but the controlling devices also maintain state as to which devices in the target home you've paired with.
This looks very interesting. My friend has been telling me how C++ had improved recently in terms of "pleasantness" to write, and now calling it from Python makes it all the better:
https://github.com/wjakob/pybind11/blob/master/docs/basics.r...

This bridge will be great for numerically-intensive projects like implementing ML algos. I wonder how easy it would be to interop with scikit-learn data structures from the C++ side.
Common San is a typeface that replaces the word refugee with the word human
I think with connected devices, a central machine that figures out the patterns for me and others in my house and then automagically creates the patters (the drawing of lines on the app) would be way cooler.
There is nothing clever or special about how you or other chefs treat and abuse your employees.

You seem to have successfully, in your mind, justified verbal abuse ("it's OK if they can handle it and I gave them a hug last week").... let's call that "enlightened bullying" verses straight up bullying.

The ability to put up with bullies in the workplace do not make a better chef (I would prefer to see a study if you disagree, not just hear about engrained culture). It selects for psychopaths, not good cooks. It's not the military, it's a kitchen.

I train people everyday. Failure for them to learn is my failure. But I never insult or belittle them in private or public. That achieves nothing.
True, hence I wrote "for performance reasons or perhaps out of sheer laziness". There are better ways to handle it but they are not always the easiest.
>Many view reading as a waste of valuable time

Who thinks that?
In my experience "getting along" is a large spectrum and working with someone professionaly isn't the same thing as going to a beer with them. I've had extremely productive professional relationship with several people I wouldn't go out to grab a beer with (mostly because they were at different stages in life and we didn't really have much to talk about).

Filtering via non-professional social occasions is pretty much the worst part of the bro culture.
Yeah, I know why. Problem is, it is a bad design. I don't work for the API, the API works for me. Conceptually sorting a list is the same as sorting a vector, so it should look the same in the code. The fact that it may require a different algorithm underneath is what the API is there to figure out for me. Other languages and APIs (including Qt) don't have problems like this, hence my complaint.
Logic tells us those two statements are equivalent.

p = "reading books"

q = "success"

p => q is equivalent to ~q => ~p
I had covered the issue of AV mitm-ware a while ago on my blog:
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/869-How-Kaspersky-makes-you-...

It is not superfish-bad, but it's still bad. But AVs are full of security problems, it's really just a broken concept.
There are many industries which require degrees to get into in the first place, especially Biology/Chemistry/Physchics and many other hard sciences. Some of those especially those that require labs and materials have a huge capital cost that keeps them within existing institutions. The rubber stamp at the end is just an agreed upon way to say "they have this basis of knowledge". If there was a way to get that basis of knowledge in other settings and a standardized way of testing whether you fit the professional criteria (such as the Bar exam for lawyers) there's no reason you couldn't go into it. Prestige matters SOME, but its more about the connections you get or are perceived to have after coming out of a big school. The info should be generally the same.
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One of the best app I've ever had on my mobile device. Extremely useful when you want to stay connected with friends on low quota plan or traveling aboard with roaming network.
I'm bit worried with this getting too popular, because of fire safety. Fire safety of a material is about two things:
Fire load(kJ) and fire-resistance(hours). Wood increases fire load, but it has surprisingly good fire-resistance. Better than steel. The elevated fire load is usually compensated by sprinklers, and so far wooden skyscrapers have been safer than concrete ones because of this. Currently fire-resistance is lot more important, because that pretty much dictates loss of life in regular fire.

But imagine city where you don't have just few wooden skyscrapers, but like 90% of the buildings are wood. Then earthquake hits. Now the sprinklers don't work anymore, and the fire can spread from building to building. Whole cities burning was relatively common before 20th century, partially because they we're mostly built from wood.

>"So wood structures make sense in seismic-heavy regions, especially in the Pacific Northwest, where a 9.0 magnitude earthquake is expected to hit in the next 50 years."

>"Ideally there comes a day when people can choose between mass timber, steel and concrete. We don’t see mass timber replacing those, it just becomes another option when certain parameters and goals apply to a project."

I hope these cancel each others out. And there will be regular buildings in between to act as firewall of sort.
You forgot gender from your list, as per your story.
"Reverse engineering" makes it sound as if the .apk format is obfuscated or protected. It's just a zip file with files inside.

It's not a reverse engineering tool any more than unzip or tar are.
The homepage for the QR-ish codes is here: http://hrqr.org/

It was an earlier project by the same researcher.
If you're not the leader, you're waiting quietly for the leader to take action, but more often than not, the leader is enthralled by the exhilarating debate taking place before them. A non-technical leader takes it as an opportunity to learn, which is a great attitude to have, but the rest of us are dying.

Other times they know they need to get things back on track, but they don't know how to stop the runaway train that is a developer ruminating on something that gets more convoluted with each syllable.
An Auden poem very relevant in today's world:

Refugee Blues –

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/refugee-blues/
Got it, thanks. Surprising that the admin stuff takes so much time. I guess they want to make sure that the money is being well spent, i.e. you are running the business "properly".
every time there is an article about elm I have to fight my first impulse which is to wonder at it still being developed, I guess I spent way too many years typing elm to get to my email to ever be able to associate it to anything else
Work-life "balance" isn't... there's a finite budget of seconds that goes to this or that; so it's how you spend them, how impactful are their results... whether it's enjoyed / "success" by whatever is your interpretation of it's meaning. That said, maybe some people find some reward while simultaneously killing themselves to fit in like Walmart executives (whom jockey to arrive earliest) and newbie startup founders (hopefully they keep enough equity and retain/sustain passion to ship something people love and don't shut/meltdown when they succeed out of fear of the unknown) ... the two former conditions aren't necc. mutex. (It's only lack of self-awareness anticipating likely outcomes that would be a failure.)

It's not how early one comes in or late, how may hours, ... these are all "process people" behaviors that aren't focused on the content impact of their effort.

Finally, inspired by Sir Branson's take on work-life... it's the same thing, act in a globally-consistent manner. Much easier than the insecure, naïve person trying to wear "boss" or "worker" costumes... it's value-subtract business theater.

I could just be old or completely full of shit, either is fine.
This is pretty interesting. What if our housing wasn't built to last indefinitely, but had a life cycle of maybe 50-100 years? As cities change, their housing stock could more naturally change with them.

That said, I'm not sure if this style is appropriate for Manhattan today. We don't need more ten-story buildings in Chelsea for multi-millionaires, we need more 50-story buildings (still for millionaires, but hey).
It probably depends on what you study, but I feel most professors realize this. It's why open book exams and take home exams exist, and why you're graded not just on exams but also on assignments.

Nothing wrong with just using Anki for things that you, personally, feel you'd like to remember.
Every single manager I have had in the SF Bay Area is at least one position up from where they would be anywhere else in the country. This area has a reputation for being the best place to start a career. Well it also should have the reputation for being the best place to jump into management.

Unfortunately, all of these managers also got in through networking not demonstrated ability. So to the person that wants to jump into management, you need to focus much more on networking and less on applying to open positions.

If you can't get in through networking, you need to put in the long slog to get in through working at the same employer (and likely suffering on the pay front until you make it into management and have enough experience there to jump).
I'm not criticizing Rust. I'm on the Rust core team and I think it's the best choice out there if you want or need the performance that low-level systems programming offers. In particular, I think it's pretty much an unmitigated improvement over C++. ;)

I just happen to like dynamic languages too, as well as managed languages like Swift.
They printed a microcontroller die using organic semiconductors. The feature size is 2 microns. The technology is somewhat comparable to burning optical discs.

What you can imagine out of this technology is a moore's law type reduction in feature size. Not too far off you could imagine a box where you could print arbitrary chips on a whim.

What it is is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster production of complex microchips.
Damn, I have to be in the US to watch the videos :(

Oh well, guess I saved some times.
Yeah what the hell? Anybody who thinks that gets an idiot stamp from me on the head.
Subsecond dopamine fluctuations in human striatum encode errors about reward
So many... so many.

me: (up all night fixing bugs in production due to technical debt and mistakes from overworked and tired devs. Sleep from 5am to 9am, show up to office at 10am)

CEO (sales background), walking by as he sees me enter the office: "Hey tone, I want butts in seats, including yours. We have a culture of hard work here. Set an example."

...

CTO: "We don't need to hire expensive devs. Just hire from overseas and promise them an H1B. They'll work for the minimum."

me: "That's not only unsustainable, it's unethical. H1B is a lottery, we can't promise that!"

CTO: "I don't expect them to know that, and you're not going to tell them! Get them on-boarded and working a.s.a.p."

me: (goes home, writes resignation email)
Is there a GitHub Issue and/or FreeBSD Problem Report for this? Could you provide links for them?
If you are using photoshop for web design, consider switching to Sketch 3. I recently made the move and it is not only a reasonable alternative, it is better and cheaper.
No, people assume safe deposit boxes are secure so they don't pay for insurance. There are no taxes on assets, or requirement to report them to the government.
> Key point: a chunk of the evidence against the thieves was collected via wireless bugging devices.

They continued to talk about it. Mistake, period. Just, no. If I ever do something illegal, I will never talk about it after the fact.

I have even had conversations with friends when I was younger:

"Hey, how did you manage to get away from <place that got busted>?"

"<incredulous look on my face> Why would you even ask me to admit I did something illegal that actually got busted by the police? And, even if I were there, why would you expect me to be stupid enough to answer?"
Don't have strong opinions one way or the other on Knewton. That being said, I generally feel that enterprise software where you sell to institutions and publishers is fundamentally disconnected from software that's targeted at the users directly.

I would greatly prefer to hear students raving about a learning product rather than their instructors. In your case you seem to be a bit underwhelmed by what they offer.
Good point about size_t, although technically it's std::size_t.

I agree, STL has done the "right" thing with sizes; of course negative sizes are meaningless. The problem is, Qt's way is so much nicer to use, even though it is obviously "wrong." Type three characters, done. Putting "int" in your headers, it's obvious what's going on--you're getting a number back. I suppose std::size_t is obvious, but it's hard to read, and I hate typing underscores. Again, more correct, but I hate doing it, which is just another reason why Qt is such fun to use compare to STL.
Community College. Half the cost of State College, half again the cost of Private College. The problem is (a) talented students don't choose community college, so they don't get the economy of scale of filling a classroom with likeminded students, so you don't get advanced classes.

It's still an amazingly great solution for students to do 2 years at Community College and then 2 years at a State College, especially at prestigious state colleges like Washington and Michigan. But it takes a thick skin and a lot of initiative to overcome cultural biases and pressures.
Thank you. I think that. In fact I know several people who holds that point of view.
Helping an old lady cross the street, helping the public and helping some cheap asshole get rich. Are all of these equally stupid in your opinion, if done for free?
Ask HN: Is anyone using the new online bank Number26?
I signed up and verified for a current account with Number26 today. They're a EU (in 6 countries) online-only, mobile-first bank:

- https://number26.eu

I have to say I'm very impressed with this. I was able to sign up within 10 minutes and have an IBAN. This involved using the app to start a video call with a representative and take a picture of my password as well as verifying some information. I'm now waiting for my Mastercard to arrive.

Has anyone else set up and used an account day-to-day?
> A collections agency that continues to contact you after you demand they cease contact starts to owe you money very quickly.

How do you collect that money? Do you have to hire an agency?
The customer version already exists:
http://clientsfromhell.net/
Deconstructing a Pony echo server
I find it funny that an SV darling like Stripe offers its customers no anti-fraud measures like companies like Authorize.net do.
Yep. And that's not weird.

I work where I do now largely because my friends do. I mean, if you're going to spend 60 hours a week in close-ish quarters with people, it'd be nice if you enjoyed it as much as possible.

Granted, there is an extreme, and there are discrimination laws, but I do want to spend time with people I get along with.
Don't think I've seen a talk that long held at any conference before.
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