skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber Agrees to $20,000 Fine and Controls on Data in Privacy Probe
Free basic internet may include Google search, Wikipedia, email of choice, access to all pages that Google suggests in first two pages. But I think Facebook should not be part of basic internet.
Kikr- Real $ for purchases made by you, your friends and follower (Launch)
Thanks very much.

- Increasing price. Yes, it started at only $10/year, and I've gradually increased it as the product has improved. It's very difficult to know the optimal price. I use split testing for some things but it feels wrong to do this for price, and with current conversion rate it would take ages to get meaningful results anyway. I'm hesitant to push price too high because lowering it back down would be tricky. Existing users paying a higher price would be annoyed. Also, at this stage I think increasing the user base would be more valuable long term compared to milking the current users for more money. I've been wondering if I could add a higher priced tier in future for more advanced features.

- Yes! I definitely want to recommend texts to people based not only on difficulty, but also on interest. This is something that will become more valuable with more users and a larger, higher quality library of texts. It isn't highest priority right now, but hopefully in future.

- Yes. I developed some features to target at teachers managing a class of students: http://blog.readlang.com/2014/02/12/readlang-for-teachers.ht.... I got a bunch of teachers using it with real classes but decided to abandon the idea because: 1. The response was positive but usage wasn't what I'd hoped. 2. Focus. As one guy I've got enough on my plate making an awesome product for self motivated individuals. Diluting my focus and the focus of the product seems like a very bad idea.
I wouldn't be worried about it: your app is useful to a lot of people and I can't see that changing soon. It's one of the few extensions that I keep instaled even without using it right now. And again, "it's only because the lack of time/motivation". It's for sure something I'll come back to in the future.
dotnet cli is a new project.
It use some good ideas from aspnet/dnx like project.json, but it's more easy to work with, less magic, more language agnostic.

c# is used to bootstrap all tools, so it's the first supported language and the default.
Nightly, dev build have f# support, but it's a beta ( merged last week, but it's ok ).

f# dotnet cli (the wrapper for f# compiler) is a beta, but moving fast, not much todo.
For example the f# support in dotnet new is in a pull request.

The F# compiler built for coreclr ( bundled with dotnet cli, so ready to go ) is working pretty much, some stuff missing ( portable pdb for example ),

f# coreclr is open source https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp
In terms of file path, windows seems to always support \\ or /, both in API or in software like Explorer. That's still true for Windows 10.

That leads to some interesting answers on stackoverflow sometimes about cross compatibility, where the correct answer of "use whatever constant your language has for directory separator" gets down-voted in favor of "use forward slash everywhere".
That's great. But according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844, this is quite recent, and not standardized yet.

Do you have any information on which CA's already support this, or whether Let's Encrypt (intends to) support this?

I'm still hoping for DANE to gain traction, though. Not necessarily as a replacement for CA's; there is value in thorough, third-party validation of certificates, but not within the current ecosystem.
>They should tie up with ISPs to something magic
That would break net-neutrality which is currently a hot issue in India.
A lot of today's developer have never done it with another language before and so knows it as "the thing that go does".
If you have the time, Hubspot offer a free "inbound marketing" certification course. It's about 4 hours worth of videos and might help you with your marketing planning. It's totally non-product focused so you can apply the methods they teach with any technology (although theirs of course does it all very well).

Good stuff with your software and I enjoyed reading your post. You need to increase your pricing though - and it seems to me you haven't fully figured out the true value of your product, so that you can "value price" it.

Email me if you'd like help putting the value proposition together. (My contact details are in my HN profile). I'm by no means an expert in what you do but I've been in sales for 15 years... so can probably still help you a bit.
So in other words - in the US, bankers fuck up and the government has to pay for it. In China, the government fucks up and bankers have to pay for it. A strange world we live in.

I guess I'll be moving to Iceland.
> Oracle, Microsoft, Autodesk, MathWorks, Native Instruments

These companies were generally fulfilling a niche which required a certain amount of complexity at the core of the application. They were also difficult to replace as they fulfilled a very specific need.

Evernote, a note taking application, has no reason to be complicated and can be easily replaced. They're trying to appeal to the masses but have overloaded the app with unnecessary features which are not core to the application.
Yeah. I would have used more sympathy for the article if he had used left and right wing examples. As it is, it just comes across as politically motivated (or at least slanted).
Learning the tooling is a very hard barrier to entry. Not that it's difficult per se, but a lot of people will try something to "see how it is", and being able to just get it to run, right now, no multiple command no nothing, that let them concentrate on the interesting parts.
Just to counter your #2

I don't think the compensation argument is a good one. First of all its wielded as if work somehow is valuable in it self and thus warrants "compensation". Which cannot be true, there are many things not worth doing, and even some things better not done at all. In reality though not even copyright ensures any work is compensated. Which, even further makes the connection between copyright and creative work incentives weak.

As others in this thread has pointed out, there are other motivations than monetary. So it's not even given that "compensation" is needed at all (whatever we mean by "needed")

But even if we deem compensation required, what is to say that a free market would fail to provide compensation? As a developer most of the code I produce is paid for buy clients with no specific dependency on copyright. What makes other creative industries different?

So not only do I question your #2, even #1 is suspect in my mind. I don't believe copyright in general is a good thing, and in my mind the burden of proof that it is lies on those promoting it.
Just wait until the field of nutrigenomics catches on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrigenomics
Yes, Let's Encrypt does support CAA. Not sure about other CAs.
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> I assume that you can collect data about which pages and texts users are browsing

If a plugin tangential to browsing history collects all my browsing history, then I'm not going to install that plugin.

If it was changed to do that, then just outright making the plugin free and selling browsing histories might be more profitable than trying to sell the plugin.
Can you share your experience on what worked/didn't work for you (medical and non-medical) and why?
I ask 'why' as most ADD/ADHD people have similar symptoms, but their root cause can vary. Your answer can give insights to some of us out here!
I'm not really debating the popularity of football. Here in the UK it's popular - I'd guess that about 30% to 50% of adults watch it regularly (in a pub or going to a game), with maybe 1/4 of those being interested enough to pay for a TV service to watch it at home. It definitely isn't even close to "all middle to upper class families" as thegenius2000 suggested might be the case in Kenya though.

An interesting related statistic: Almost twice as many people go to the theatre in London as go to all the major Premiership football games[1]. I doubt many people would guess that if they were asked.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/11001177/Almost-t...
Yes, there is some similarity in expressive power of Lisp macros and Haskell monads (edit: raw Lisp macros are even more powerful, since they may glue and transform anything to anything). However, there is a huge difference in the essence: Lisp macros work on the syntactic level, monads compose on the semantics level.

Lisp macros are not bound by types, so they can be combined irregardless of a program semantics, potentially producing any kind of incorrect code as the result. Such errors get especially tricky with several layers of quasiquotation.

In Haskell, the program meaning is partially encoded into types, so the compiler can understand your intention much better and assists you in programming it right. Also, getting some kind of inter-part optimization is much easier in Haskell: you know exactly what kind of pieces you are gluing up.
Did you consider adding an option for a one time purchase? I really don't like re-occuring subscriptions if I can at all avoid them, but I'd happily buy something like this (like I payed for sublime, etc).
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You could spin up a DigitalOcean droplet in the London region around once a week and use youtube-dl to download the bits you're interested in. Cost would be like $0.10 per month. You could even make a script that sets up an OpenVPN droplet and automatically tears it down, would still be very very cheap.
mixed in same project ( project.json ), no you cannot do that (i mean c# source and f# source in same project ).

You can have multiple project (same repo, different directories ) and reference one from another

you can have each project.json use a different compiler setting the compilerName property ( csc for c#, or fsc for f# ) .

A project can reference another project, so you can reference a F# project in a c# project, or the other way around.

like now in .net with msbuild or other tools
SNL?
If they really wanted to they could open source Silverlight GUI framework. That was basically WPF lite. They can take out the video/DRM stuff and just put the GUI layer out there - it was ported to OSX so it's at least somewhat portable.

It would be nice to have something like JavaFX for .NET - resurrected Silverlight could be it.
When I worked there support was under intense pressure to respond to tickets quickly.

Not nearly as much pressure to respond correctly.

To clarify and reiterate--employees who responded to tickets quickly were praised, even though there response contained half truths or outright falsehoods. If someone took 15-60 minutes ( or more ) to deep dive into an issue for a real fix for a customer, they were shamed and got a talking to.
We are building Bouncelytics[1], an analytics platform to give users more insights about when and why visitors are leaving. We built the landing page about two months back after we had finalised the features we are going to include in the first version. My co-founder is a designer so we didn't have a problem in building the page and we used Github Pages + Mailchimp + Cloudflare to host it for free.

Our expectations was we would just start an Adwords / FB campaign and leads will start pouring automatically but it didn't happen - either we don't ran the campaign well or it isn't easy to target for early adopters.

What worked for us, was posting on subreddits (30+), Betalist (100+) and a bit of manual reach out. In the end, we managed to about 180+ emails who were interested. Now that we are almost ready, we have about 20 people whom with we can get started in polishing our product and get initial sales which sounds encouraging (although still quite low).

So my advice would be, to build the landing with minimum saleable features you can build in a short time, promote the landing page in relevant subreddits and among people who might be interested in the product and take feedback from them about what problem is they are looking to solve with your product.

[1]: https://bouncelytics.com
The technical achievements put the McLaren F1 at the top of the charts, but it was the artistic choices that made put the McLaren F1 poster on kids walls.

My favorite McLaren F1 related story: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y0XtNGuijqc
In what way are Chinese "immature"? I suppose you don't mean they're all bunch of children who hadn't adapted to the reality yet, because that is factually untrue. Could you elaboate on your intended meaning?
But can I trust a nutrition article about the need to avoid trust in nutrition articles?

It's the liar paradox all over again.
No, with Let's Encrypt you would have to have full control over contents of login.wifiprovider.com to get a certificate for that domain. Specifically, you'd have to be able to serve a token at

http://login.wifiprovider.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/random

Verifying ownership of wifiprovider.com that way would not automatically allow you to get certificates for subdomains too.
AWS(China) has been in preview for more than a year. Not sure when that will reach GA.
Yes, Hitler was an excellent speaker and a lousy writer.
"Mein Kampf" is horrible to read and really needs an annotated version, which is still forbidden to purchase. And the millions of poisonous "Mein Kampf" books, which every couple got when they married are still in thousands of boxes.

The new foreign policy book from 1942 looks really interesting to me, foreseeing the US war, as the US industrials were major Hitler backers before the war and just had to back down when Hitler started attacking Great Britain. Also the ally Japan threatening Singapore didn't help winning the war.
Would be interesting to see how he thought of holding "his friends", the US out of the war. Even Hitler knew that this would not be winnable in the long end.
Man, Africa looks really sad. I was looking through their region list (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html) and everything is in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Africa's nowhere to be found.
Tried one. It was lame.
For emacs, we have Rudel, which is even compatible with Gobby.

http://rudel.sourceforge.net/
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel
there are multiple executables

the dotnet is like git, so `dotnet compiler` just call `dotnet-compiler`

the first level tools ( dotnet-compile, dotnet-restore ) read the project json ( the only supported project file atm ) and pass argument to second level tools.

for example:

- dotnet compiler call dotnet-compile

- dotnet-compile read source files, references, defines from project.json and call dotnet-compile-csc with the source files as arguments.

- dotnet-compile-csc call csc

- if --native, another .net bytecode to native tools is called

and csc (csharp compiler) is bundled with the dotnet cli package.
The film 'Big Fish' is a great example of this.
>> The point is: are you really interested in what those people are working on? If you are, then you should communicate with them much more often than once every 24 hours

I don't believe this is true. I can be interested but not directly involved all the time.

>> And you should already know what your team members are working on

This is exactly what the standup is for.
On the whole, I think I agree with Scott's advice in this post. However, there are some real challenges that come with the choice to be 'good at a few things' instead of the 'best at one thing. Namely, if you're not starting your own business, I think it massively reduces your employment mobility.

I am fortunate in that I am valued within my organisation for my 'generalist' spread of skills (including communication, development, analysis & sales). It's clear to me how useful it is to be able to approach a problem from several angles and engage with specialists from different areas effectively.

However, if I ever want to move out of my current organisation, I feel as though I would end up taking a significant step backwards in my career because almost all advertised jobs are specialised roles.

This creates a constant pressure in my mind to specialise and focus more on a single area.
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Don't forget that there's also tons of misinformation spread by companies that have an interest in it: coca-cola spends millions to tell us that drinking as much cola as we want is okay as long as we exercise enough. But they don't tell us the ridiculous amount of exercise we would need to do to burn the calories of a small glass of cola.
That escalated quickly...
I was under the impression that anything created by anyone was implicitly copyrighted (?)
Isn't that putting the cart in front of the horse? That is, isn't poorly conducted nutrition research getting in the way of doing proper nutrigenomics research, meaning nutrigenomics can't really catch on until that is fixed?
I did put it into maintenance mode for about 4 months in 2014 while I did a freelance gig. During that time I did no new development, just fixing the odd bug and user support.

I wouldn't consider a full time job at the moment. I'm not sure how people manage to hold down a full time job and build a startup on the side. I can imagine doing it while working a job which wasn't mentally demanding. But people working as full time programmers, I can only guess that they don't give 100% at work, or perhaps they have more energy than I do!

I've considered taking on the occasional short contract. But I'm not actively looking, I've got enough to keep me occupied with Readlang right now. (Plus, I've got a 1.5 month old baby, and they tend to reduce your free time!)
Cracow office is pretty cool. It's located in a (not very large) historic building, so there's no open space. Also, the location is amazing - it's right by historic/touristy Market Square, with hundreds (thousands?) of cafes/bars/restaurants within a short walk.
Not wanting to nitpick but the baby shoes story isn't Hemingway's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_wo...
Just checked in Poland, and 3D version in English(with subtitles) is 25PLN per regular ticket, so around ~6.2USD. IMAX version is 28PLN so about 7USD.
Ha, indeed forgot about that. Good point!
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As I said to the other response like this, I dislike team meetings as without strong leadership (something I have found lacking in a lot of places) it usually degenerates into an hour or more of griping and grandstanding.

You don't really need to remember exactly what's said in a standup, IMHO, participate in it and offer your skills or resources to help other people who are stuck, and get an idea of what's going on.
Thanks. I was assuming it would work the same as other CAs in that respect.

I'm still not sure about this mechanism of verification, but good to know that my example scenario cant exist.
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Although some seem a bit squeamish about it, any good firewall/filtering solution should do SSL MITM --- especially now that encrypted connections are becoming the norm.

Given that Trend Micro themselves provide AV software that does this, it's particularly ironic since it's already no problem for them to decrypt and scan encrypted traffic. It's likely just their CA division that dislikes Let's Encrypt.
I've increased prices gradually from $10 / year to the current $48 / year or $5 / month.

It's really hard to give you good data since the numbers of conversions are relatively low. The conversion rate from signup to paid has stayed at roughly 1.5% the whole time. But the product has been improving too. If I charged the current price 2 years ago when the product wasn't as polished, the conversion rate would probably have been lower. But I can't know for sure.

Didn't have a full time job. I saved up and have lived fairly frugally. I did take a break to do contract work in 2014.
You misconstrue. Those hypocrites that agitate against NC (or Iran's) nuclear weapons programs on "moral grounds" has no such thing to stand on.

We are in violent agreement.
When did facebook become non-profit to give away things for free? fcuk zcuk, stay away from India.
From my perspective, the best "hire" does 4 hours of work per week.

So for other readers here overwhelmed at "hiring", it doesn't have to start big. It doesn't have to get big. But it can still free your time.
The content of your app is also subject to Facebook's Terms of Use:

> Developer participation on the Free Basics Platform, including the information submitted with your application, is otherwise governed by our standard legal terms. Collectively, our standard legal terms and these supplemental terms are the entire agreement between you and Facebook relating to Free Basics, and any terms of use for your service will not apply to Facebook.

Which essentially makes FB the gatekeeper of the internet.
Wow, the guy is a legal powerhouse these days, impressive stuff http://banzhaf.net/
TypeScript(and even C#) is a huge step backwards compared to Clojure and ClojureScript. Immutability is a clumsy thing in TypeScript whereas it's concise and natural in Clojure and ClojureScript.

I doubt a bright person such as David Nolen would like to work with TypeScript as it is right now.

IMHO of course.
Interesting, this comment says the exact opposite. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10851727
As evidenced by the comments here, the people that count, that is system admins and developers, don't see a problem. Just more FUD from the traditional security players trying to remain relevant.
Wouldn't Frankfurt or Ireland be closer than the USA?
I could certainly do that. But even though it's a very useful app right now I don't consider it fully developed. I have a huge list of improvements I'd like to make. And I don't expect the current growth to continue if I just put it into maintenance mode.
David Chapman wrote about the pseudoscience of nutrition in context with scientism:

http://meaningness.com/nutrition

An older essay on a similar topic, with a critique of cognitive science too:

http://meaningness.com/perfection-salad
In line with the point of the article, I can attest to the difficulty of tracking food intake. It's an experiment I've done several times in the past 20 years. The idea is not only recording everything eaten, but weighing every item consumed to assure accuracy. Doing that for a week is a lot of work, but also highly educational.

What's interesting, on repetition the experiment has shown 2 somewhat contradictory results. Day to day there was wild variation in diet, always found surprises in what or how much I ate. OTOH at the end of the week, the average daily calorie intake was very consistent/predictable at 2100 +/-100 kcal/day. Of course there was a wealth of info about my diet composition as well.

I'd understand how very difficult it would be to scale up my experiment to the point of having enough participants to make it scientifically useful. In fact I'm not at all sure I'd recommend it to anyone unless the individual was so committed to the project to willingly put up with its arduous and tedious process.

However, as a personal nutrition learning tool nothing else I know of could possibly ever beat it.
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> I use split testing for some things but it feels wrong to do this for price

You can do the A/B testing only on the pricing page. For ex, A would display $5 and B would display $10. When the user get to the checkout display always the lower price and tell the user he got a discount. You can measure the % that get to the checkout and the bounce rate at the checkout.
You're doing a good job. I've spent 10 years building a product in a very very saturated domain and I've made about $400 out of it. But that doesn't really matter, since I primarly wrote the application for myself.