skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small companies as in 5-50 people can be really stable and proffitable. Ramp up in good times, lay off in bad etc. the trick is to proffitably get there a soon as possible. Being a 1 person consulting shop is much more of a grind and has less upside.
Don't push _me_. Read Piketty; the explicit goal (and solutions) are aimed at leveling wealth inequality.

Yes, good governance is better than bad governance. But problems of inequality -- and reduced social mobility, and the role of human labor vs capital -- are real, and require real solutions.

That said, Piketty's proposed solutions aren't currently practical. Did you see the recent estimate that 8% of global wealth is parked in tax havens?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/01/14/parking-the-big-m...

Yes, the problem is large, and does involve good governance. I was only sharing one proposed solution. The sad fact is, the best solution looks intractable. I'm open to suggestions.
After a lifetime of encounters where it's clear that what goes on in your head is not what goes on in other heads, you start to feel separate. Alone in a very real sense. I've not seen Einstein's description of the "glass pane" but it's a decent way of putting it.

And by the way, the lack of empathy tends to be a two-way street.
I find C#/.NET and Xamarin to be comparable for developing cross-platform desktop applications. This allows a single codebase that interacts with native libraries and APIs for each major operating system as well as a native looking GUI for each.
> I think we have to accept that the real world usage is now so muddled that on a general forum such as this you can't fall back on that anymore

I don't want to accept it. I don't accept it with respect to other words either, such as hackers or democracy (despite GDR calling itself democratic).

> Both see the state as evil. Their morals are pretty much the same. Their only difference is in how to structure government to protect the interests of the individual. One is right while the other is left.

I am not really all that familiar with them to be the judge here, but if their morals are pretty much the same, then one can hardly be left and the other hardly right according to my definition. I think this may be a case of misapplied labels, but I am not sure.

> There's obvious examples of authoritarians on both sides.

That doesn't mean anything. Just my opinion - left/right moral distinction is used within your ingroup, but authoritarianism resolves to what the ingroup is.
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Is openage ready enough to allow you to actually play games?
They spent the last 10 years conducting massive studies of what people like to watch.

If they weren't able to come up with some hits after that, then they weren't trying.

Somewhere behind the scenes, Netflix is applying sabermetrics to Hollywood.

Except it's worse than in baseball... Unlike Oakland, all their competitors (except maybe Amazon) can't just copy their approach, because all their data is private, not public.
Java is less popular among startups because:

1) It's not "cool"
2) It's still saddled with performance FUD, although people are finally realizing it's really fast
3) The ecosystem is huge
4) It isn't suitable for everything, e.g., it often just makes more sense to use something else for the front end (client-side) and use Java tools for infrastructure (search, messaging, etc.)
5) Java's "true" home is the enterprise, and it's pretty well-suited for that: it's well-known, ubiquitous, performant, and can interface to anything

You're looking at self-selected jobs, which skews your perception of what people are looking for. As a counter-example, I probably get 2-4x Java emails compared to other ecosystems combined. To be fair, most of those emails are for boring jobs, but a lot center around big data.

With the switch to client-side frameworks Java web apps are a dying breed outside of the enterprise, but the back-end API can be anything.
I have a 50'' 4k tv and can definitely notice the increase in resolution when watching from close enough, and deeper blacks.

However, it's not that big a deal when watching from 5-6 meters.
> I still haven't figured it out.

Pray you never do. This is the sort of pointless "metric" that is used by clueless management to withold a raise for the "underperforming" programmer who spends his time tracking down critical bugs with minimal code changes rather than producing volumes of new code.
As an end user of IDEA, not writing any plugins and already got java 8 installed, will i notice anything by this?
I think BBC (and it's siblings in other countries) will do well.

They aren't burdened by paywalls or quarter-capitalism. As long as they do a good job (ensuring that the public want them funded) I think they'll be around.

In Sweden, SVT (public service channels) have done a good job providing all content online, on Apple TV, etc. It feels like they have a modern mindset.
That totally depends on a number of factors. I'm more productive in RoR than in Java because I don't have to type as much--but I'm not that familiar with the newer Java web technologies, so I'm biased.

Hugely more productive? Probably not; modern Java web development is pretty speedy, and the tooling (primarily IDEs) are better for Java because of its relatively static nature.
Yeah I'm with you.

But you know sometimes people protest because they're upper-middle class brats with a raging sense of entitlement, and they see some middle-ranking international trade conference with an agenda they know nothing about, as an excuse to rip down street signs and smash them through shop windows, or roll ballbearings under the hooves of police horses, just because they can.
It'll get interesting when they make the first play for sports rights. Not because I think it's necessary or anything but that would be a pretty strong signal for the general audience that the paradigm has shifted.
I think streaming quality isn't quite there yet but there's plenty of not super premium content they could try.
yeah, to believe or not, 'user generated content'
Show HN: A friendship-centric journal
It is interesting comparing the divergent chains of evolution:

Rails inspired ASP.net MVC inspired Laravel inspired Adonis

wrt.

Rails inspired Sails inspired Trails

Good to see the spirit of CoC and elegant pragmatism being carried forward.
You most definitely can sniff traffic between Google and students, this is widespread and completely normal behaviour at schools and also on many corporate networks. School computers have a MITM certificate installed which allows decryption and re-encryption, usually for the purpose of content filtering and malware detection.
Sops – editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON and BINARY formats
Portland's New Pipes Harvest Power from Drinking Water
The irony here. You write a comment to put things in perspective with respect to herd mentality (yes it was not a lynching, but it was an over-the-top reaction), and the mere act of putting things into perspective gets downvoted exactly because of this herd mentality.
Hi all, creator here. I've been using this program for a year now but it's definitely in its early stages feature-wise. I'd love to hear feedback!
I was hoping for a scale on the "temperamental sensitivity" and "rich inner life" quiz at the end.

I found myself at 18/24 and anecdotally, I'm highly sensitive to abrupt noise changes and lighting in physical spaces. Presumably I'm not the only here that keeps their home office only dimly lit with consistent white noise from the central air fan.
Because it's fucking expressive.

Because programming can be fucking annoying.

Because programming can be fucking amazing.

Because the fucking fucker's fucking well fucked.

FTW!
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"...Instagram is one of the most toxic internet substances out there are the moment..."

Social is the weapons-grade plutonium of online design; you can use it as part of a stable fuel source, or as the components of a weapon, but it's most likely to end up carelessly scattered around your community poisoning it for generations to come.

In Instagram's case, its social enablement is relatively anodyne, but it illustrates some common problems: comments are higher-bandwidth than content, and comments are easier to create than content. Thus, low-value information is added to the system at a much higher rate than high-value content. Solving this is, to put it mildly, not easy.
Game of Thrones author George RR Martin misses last TV deadline for new book
The only way Darwinism can be considered zero sum is from a energy perspective - there is no beating the laws of entropy. That perspective is not very useful in the context though, as the darwinian perspective fueled the growth from singular cells living off energy from geotermal vents in the sea to photosynthesis to plants and animals living above ground. This has greatly expanded the amount of resources in the ecosystems and the abilities to use accessible resources.
I get shocks "all the time". It's when humidity is low and I build up a static charge, which happens in the winter because outside air hasn't got much water in it, then it gets heated to room temperature and has very low humidity. There's no mystery here. I bought my first wireless router simply because I was frying my wired routers; I'd systematically walk through all the ports, destroying them one by one, then I'd have to buy a new one. I realized it was cheaper to pay much more and go wireless than keep buying wired routers. I cringe when it happens now because I always know I'm frying something, I just don't know what. Fortunately, I've got a house humidifier now, which mitigates the problem.

Alternatively, as others say, you've got a grounding problem. But that's a different sort of shock.
Fair enough. I like to think of math as an art form, and I think on some levels it certainly is (as much as I'd also consider Einstein an artist in many ways). The end product is different than an "artist" but I think a lot of the thought processes overlap and cause similar perspectives.
You'll never stop forgetting "things". It's just impossible, unless you suffer from having an eidetic memory -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory

Although personally, I used to forget a lot of things :( you can learn mnemonics to remember/recall more things easily. Reading this book really helped me(fun to read too) http://joshuafoer.com/moonwalking-with-einstein/
I thought you had to pay the tax for any screen, regardless of where the content comes from?
Visicalc was the software that caused the term "killer app" to be _coined_. ...And I'm such an old fart that I remember it.
Yeah, once the full spec of ES6 is supported by all _browsers_, we will see that overnight, all legacy PHP will disappear and everyone will stop developing with PHP. The PHP runtimes magically transform themselves into Node.js and all is well in the realm of web. Behold the day of the rapture.js.
On bigger screens and/or ones closer to the viewer it's definitely a noticeable improvement. It's obviously compressed and not up to the standard of a really high bitrate 4k video file but I guess it's equivalent to how "HD" on cable doesn't look as good as HD over the air but it still looks a lot nicer than standard def or DVD.

One major downside is that you can't stream 4K Netflix or Amazon to your browser so even on my 27" 2560x1440 monitor (or if you have a fancy 4k or 5k display) you won't get the option. It's only available on various streaming "sticks" or TV-based "apps" at the moment. As far as I know, it's only really meant as a roadblock to casual ripping of 4k content since it wouldn't be difficult to determine whether a viewer's computer had the proper hardware decoders to ensure smooth playback. Unfortunately for viewers, it means you can't get those higher quality streams without buying a device or using a "smart" TV. And last time I checked, there's no shortage of pirated 4K content out there. It's currently one of the only ways to do it if you don't want to rely on a Fire stick, another set top box, or some possibly-secured TV app platform. Not a huge deal on my 2560x1440 monitor since it's not too big and 1920x1080 looks fine. But I'm likely picking up a 4k TV in the next month thanks to a $500 gift card and wanting to game at those resolutions. It's a shame I'll have to either pirate 4k shows or plug in the ethernet cable to the TV when I want to stream legit.
I think you're missing the critical tone of the parent's comment.
Which isn't linked from the blog. If you click on the main blog title, it takes you to the main blog page at kivy.org/planet. There is a link to the website in the actual post there but it links to the download page, which doesn't have the description. From there you can click to the main page which has the description.

Are they ashamed of the software or something? I honestly can't comprehend why so many projects are so shy about telling us what they actually are!

Every page should have "an open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps." on it. There is no reason not to. Put it in small text under all main titles or something.
Depends on the book, why I'm reading it, how soon I need to apply it, how interesting it is, how much mathy stuff I have to parse out, how it engages the reader, how it tests the reader's knowledge, etc.

Unrelated, but reading a coding book without doing any of the coding guarantees lower retention and understanding.
BBC income last year... From the license fee, £3.7B GBP; from commercial activities, £1.0B GBP. Details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/repo...

The BBC is in a difficult bind. It can't charge for license-fee funded content in the UK where it's best known. And if it had to make all its income from its commercial arm, it would only make Doctor Who and Top Gear, none of the classical music, news, or drama that it's best at.

How the BBC is funded is intensely political, being argued a ton right now as the charter is up for renewal in 2016. The BBC in 2017 could be much smaller.
I love reading the deconstruction.

Those apple copy protection schemes. Pirated software always had a "cracked by" load screen.

The most interesting thing to me were the hardware copy cards. Since most software fit in RAM, and the whole software would load at once, these cards let you push a button and make a bootable disk of whatever your computer was running.

When a disk failure meant trying to find another copy somewhere there was a legit fear of loosing your software.

central point software made some of these cards. A little info is available online. (Being before the internet took off, the names aren't search engine friendly.).
Alaska Card Advert (why settle for copying the lower 48K.. Before they called it backup..)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e2/70/cd/e270cdd90...

Bottom of this page has some interesting pictures and history of these card:
http://retro.icequake.net/dob/
Cue the Java haters in 3, 2, 1
Old fashion sleuthing, interviewing, etc?

My point is the insinuation that Google or other tech-ed companies are inappropritely classified as "school officials" which the allows them access to data to profit from is made. It's all speculative what-if without any substantive reporting. No where in the article is a comment "Google declined our requests for information" or "Google declined to comment". The closest thing is a general quote from an EPIC associate about tech-ed companies being hush about how they use their data.
Perhaps you’re too freaking busy and that’s your real problem, not forgetting per se. I’d suggest you take some time to chill out. Go for a long walk. It always works for me.
I used to use an acronym: KWiK (Keys, Wallet, Knife)

Have a single place you put things, and put them there as soon as you're at that place. I put a small shelf by the door for the wallet and keys, the knife/multi-tool is an always-carry.

Now that I also carry a small flashlight at all times I'm in search of a new acronym, but mostly for completeness--once the habit was built it's almost never a problem anymore.

The phone still gets forgotten on occasion, but it's rarely an issue.
Sky (in Germany) has a service called Go which streams to cell phones/tablets.
They also have Anytime for the box. No need to watch at the time if you don't want to + you can always just record it and watch later.

They've been pretty aggressive in rebuilding their platform content wise. If you use a regular cable (not wireless) the online archive is actually pretty big and they have all the latest blockbusters.

They even offer a DRMed download of content which I haven't seen on any other platform (quite convenient if you commute via train through low-bandwidth areas :D).

That being said...Netflix is awesome and they have excellent developers and understand software. Their original content is amazing, very bullish on them :)
Waiter, I'll Have the Crowd-Pleaser (2011)
Hi trevyn, great initiative from you. I have email you about myself and my project. cheers
Only if the content is "live TV" or you record live TV, which Netflix doesn't fall under.

Source: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one which I assume would have the broadest possible definition
Totally agree except for the jobs offers for java :)
Yes, when people return from their holidays we'll go back to our regular schedule of marketing blog posts disguised as technical articles.
In theory yes, in practice on a project that uses both PHP and Python I find that having phpstorm and pycharm open on different parts still feels better than having intellij w/ plugins, I have the "full" package so I gave it a try.

That said I'm still really happy to have intellij available as well for other stuff so I don't mind that much :)

EDIT: Just tried again with 15.0.2 and the PHP and Pycharm plugins and actually it seems way better than it did, setting up various framework specific bits actually worked.

Nice!.
I want to add on that my partner is right in the sense that having 20% but able to expand to overseas might be much more than having 70% locally. However I still feel that we should start our steps small then proceed forward.
It's interesting to note that many public intellectuals were publicly shamed for their opinions, and it was later pretty much reconsidered. Two examples come to my mind, Noam Chomsky and Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.

Also interestingly these two guys have very strongly opposed most sorts of elitism, while the phrase "herd mentality" is often used by elitists to justify their beliefs.
Only if the screen has a tuner and aerial I think; a monitor wouldn't require one.
What is the political line of this website ? I've read different articles and it seems to lean towards far-right opinions
Have less stuff.

This may seem like a snarky answer, but I'm deadly serious...

Your mind should be spending it's energy processing important thoughts, not constantly doing read-seeks for the "frivolous". It's trying to tell you something. Listen.

Do whatever you have to do to make that transition as much as you can. I did years ago and it's probably the best thing I ever did to improve my ability to get things done.
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Only if you're going to watch live TV on it. Doesn't matter where it comes from (iPlayer live or a bit of wire on top of your house).
0ad started as a AOE mod then they started their own engine and assets. I've been playing a lot of 0ad lately, I recommend it.
We will be locked in if we were to take the 80%. So even if there's full exit, we are still required to work inside or can't proceed a startup straight after that.
The BBC's big threat just now is probably not the Internet, but the current Government. It's already lost £.75bn of its budget, and some conservatives would like to ban the BBC from producing popular content.
Cool project!

But i'm confused. On http://openage.sft.mx/ they say this is a reimplementation in C++14, but seems to be actually implemented in Python [1] ?

1: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/tree/master/openage
Re: owning the game - so very true.

I'm going to date myself here, but I remember picking out the box for AOE2 with my kids at CompUSA. We played that game a lot, and it was a wonderful bonding experience that we still talk about.
I addressed your idea specifically in the parent comment.

The most prominent webapp-on-the-desktop example that I can think of is the Atom text editor. It runs like crap, and its installer is roughly 20 TIMES fatter than Notepad++ or Vim's. You could ship the Java-based "jEdit" application, along with a full embedded JVM, and still be 25% lighter.

And the desktop app is written in JavaScript.

If that sounds like a great idea, then there's really nothing else to talk about from here.
Sure, but you'd think that with all of the market research done by TV and cable over the past several decades (and it's not as if Comcast and Time Warner don't track what people watch on their digital cable services) they'd have some inkling as to what's currently in demand and what may be underrepresented.

Perhaps it's just more efficient for Netflix to commission content or buy it and then distribute it themselves. The on-demand model means no concerns about finding the right timeslot and that's something even NBC has to deal with despite their Comcast ownership.

Or maybe as the newcomer, they have to take more risks whereas the older networks are more risk-averse. Right now Netflix reminds me of nothing so much as it does HBO. It's got older movies and content that it's licensed from others and it's got its own content that often seems less concerned with getting the broadest and widest appeal.

Netflix streaming is basically the evolution of premium cable and all they really did differently was jump straight to online-only delivery.
Ask HN: Why does podcast discoverability suck?
I may have missed something major here but I can't seem to easily find the podcasts I want by genre/content/listener base via Google or my current podcast app (Overcast). Am I looking in the wrong place or is there something holding back discoverability of podcasts?
The general metrics I've observed on Instagram to show success:

- have at least twice as many followers as you follow

- have at least 10% the number of followers as likes per pic

So, you could have 700 followers, but follow no more than 350 people, and must get 70 likes or more per pic. That's "success." Granted, as you get into 2,000+ followers, it can get harder to maintain the 10%.
I've just found-out about this project and it looks very nice especially to guy coming from Laravel/Symfony background.

A question for the JS experts: Between this and Trails(Sails) how does one make a choice?
Mom.js vanilla js module system
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No, you're wrong. A person using a laptop to view live tv on eg BBC iPlayer would need to be covered by a licence.

The licence is needed for any "live broadcast tv". The equipment used is not relevant; and the source of the signal is not relevant. So someone in England watching French satellite TV still needs a licence.
I actually have a lot of respect for C#, but isn't their cross-platform desktop story basically just GTK?
I don't think anyone has a problem where they lose stuff so quickly that they need to make a thread about it (though it is getting upvoted).

My best tip is to put ur things next to things u can forget. Do you go outside without shoes because you forgot to wear them? Didn't think so, so put ur keys or "ATM" inside your shoes.

Simple stuff like that... put things u keep losing next to things u never lose.
It uses both. C++14 for the engine, and Python for the convert script and some other things. Check the README for more information.
Are they going to pay you for staying in, i.e. salary?