skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying it wouldn't benefit anyone. Just that the friction of paying for anything at all, assuming a reasonable level of security, is such that if I'm willing to pay $.01 I'm probably willing to pay $1. If I'm willing to pay $1 I'm more than 20% likely to be willing to pay $5. So the optimal pricing strategy would never be a micropayment.

This is why there's nothing funded by micropayments. (Unless you count free-to-play gaming where, for some reason, people refer to a $14 average purchase as a micropayment.)

If it were possible to lower the friction while maintaining security, that presumably would already be the case, as there is a HUGE financial incentive on the part of sellers.
These seems worring indeed, are some bubble poping now? Maybe it's just overreacting, but hopefully the trend won't continue.
"I'd also like to welcome prominent community member and Package Control mastermind Will Bond to the Sublime HQ team."

Or he's getting paid to manage packages. Your point makes assumptions not backed up by evidence.
There's a subtle but important difference. They're not necessarily tied to each other anyway. For example in Python you frequently have lots of named functions that capture some variables in an outer scope, and are closures but not lambdas.
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Yes, even socially.

Maybe some fellow countryman would speak otherwise, but in Portugal if after 40 you are not a manager of some sort, it is like you failed at it.

It is also hard to avoid such situations when quite a few companies use senior developer, technical lead or technical architect as synonyms for team manager. So you only discovered what you really applied to, after being inside.

After a certain age if you want to stay in development it is like dodging bullets.
Interesting discussion, I'd be keen to try such a formalistic approach if you ever have a need for a remote critical eye.

Regarding the quote, I don't think you quite took the spirit of it: the idea is that, given a replaceable component with failure expected, we can manage reasonably to achieve the same outcomes for less overall cost - ie. do not build the one true system to solve all availability and security challenges (which would be very expensive (the old "pick two" adage)), but rather build a system which makes use of the properties of components intelligently to reduce overall hassle (as measured in thought, hassle, time, cost, third party dependencies, untested code or processes) to achieve the same objectives, just as reliably/securely.

I think the main reason there are less modern systems running for 15+ year timeframes is that the centralized models of yore only remain valid within traditional large organizations that are slow moving: finance, government infrastructure, military, etc. Even there, they are being dismantled, as COTS hardware + FOSS topple traditional mainframe vendors through cheap and highly scalable clustering. The paradigm has shifted: today we have components like the Linux kernel and sqlite which despite not generally running a single instance for >15 years (though they are definitely capable, and with Linux it has been done; sqlite is not old enough yet!) they do run in harsh environments with limited resources in hundreds of millions - nay - billions of instances, extremely reliably.
I also write Haskell in production. Haskell's strongest strength, in my experience, is the confidence I have when refactoring. I've never experienced that kind of confidence making large changes to working code in any other language, even with fairly exhaustive test suites; and without the overhead of maintaining a fairly exhaustive test suite.

In light of that, I would definitely recommend Haskell over other languages for any use cases where you expect you're going to be wrong, repeatedly, about how best to structure your program. Especially in domains that aren't known very well or when the demands on the program are likely to be highly dynamic.

Though really, at this point I would tend toward using Haskell when there is not much reason to pick something else.
btw, what does "VHS" stand for? It's an awesome name. :)
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It's likely just random, with the human bias to read patterns into randomness hot on its trail as always.
You are massively underestimating the magnitude of this screw up. You seem to be implying that this was a mistake and changes had to be made, but it's time to move on. Non-compliance can put everyone under you at risk of going to jail. "Compliance" is short for "compliance with the law" and "non-compliance" is short for "breaking the law".

I'm not exaggerating here, Sacks is making a deliberate decision not to mention Conrad and act as if he's taking this as seriously as possible. It seems that nobody was hurt by this non-compliance so I hope deeply that nobody goes to jail for this - but that is what is on the line, make no mistake.
Thank you for this informative answer.
Other than your time, how much did you spend on making the apps? (e.g. graphic assets, marketing, etc)
No, the web isn't going anywhere...many have come and gone, as you correctly point out...and will again...

It's very likely that only so many "home runs" can be hit...that doesn't mean you can't do very well for yourself by focussing on a niche need, a good product, and excellent service...

A winning business model since mankind first began trading and bartering...

You make a very, very good point...
Sorry, locate is not even comparable to what Spotlight does. Do a search for mdfind(1) to get an idea of what is does. Recoll is the only thing I found on Linux being actively developed that comes close, but it's definitely not as polished or flexible. I'm primarily running Arch these days, but there are some things that Linux just has no good equivalent for.
You might be willing to give them a mulligan on their recent design choices, but I'm not. Apple has historically had smart, sensible designs -- even Apple haters can't deny that.

The amount of time required to charge doesn't change the fact that no reasonable person would consider the pencil or the mouse charging method a good design.

>> Same thing for Magic Mouse. You think you can design it better? You have a better place for that port?

Well, there are already mice with charging ports where a cord would normally go. It's a solved problem.
Thanks for checking it out. Yes, it has the option to use your own url. Currently we're using full page iframe. We'll also add subdomain support soon.
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Generals are always fighting the last war. There definitely seems to be a correction happening, and that's fine and welcome (and a perfectly normal feature of a healthy business environment) but to expect a full-blown implosion of an entire sector just because it happened 17 years ago doesn't seem warranted, mainly because the fundamentals of the majority of the players are totally different (well-tested and scalable, if not necessarily fully profitable, operation models that drives substantial revenue from a substantial customer base).
I haven't used gnusocial, but I'd imagine they have a ignore/block-user feature.
It actually is possible to infer causality from statistics. That's (partially) what this author's work is all about. For a brief explanation of how that's possible, see this post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ev3/causal_diagrams_and_causal_model...
> So, clearly, you instead just directly pay the authors/etc when you can, right?

Yes, if the content is good enough to warrant paying for a subscription.

> Or does that all conveniently fall by the wayside in your crusade?

Nope, and there's no reason to muddy the waters with terms like crusade.
Obvious question: How is that worse than

I(tried(once(in(college(but(c(is(not(my(style()))))))))))
You'd think so... I signed up for flattr (https://flattr.com/) with some credit shortly after they launched. Over half a year, I found one website (https://lightspark.github.io/) I went to which wanted to receive my money (and they did). Everybody else served ads (which I blocked).

Hell, putting a bitcoin address on my blog gave me actual couple of cents. :)
Those are probably subsidised by ad revenue.
Specialize in something (pick 2/3) new, hot, or rare. Be willing to move. Apply to lots of jobs. Ask for quadruple whatever you think you're worth. Chances are, something will pan out.
MiniGL actually.

In the age of APIs like Glide.

Even if Microsoft cared about OpenGL, the API never had any love from console and graphic card vendors in terms of tooling and support for game developers.
http://tjheeta.github.io/2014/12/24/elixir-external-process-...

Someone has also written a library for this, but I've forgotten where it is.
Sure, there is less weed smoking where it's illegal. Aside from the factors you mention, there is an obvious one: people not doing something simply because it is against the law. People do make decisions on that basis.
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> I have a hard time seeing it from an "anti-capitalist" position.

The FSF position is anti-capitalist in at least one technical sense -- in the domain of software, it morally opposes capitalist model of property rights (and, in practice, uses a hack around the mechanism by which that model is implemented to subvert it.)
your comment is the only comment on HN that mentions the company you mention and either of the terms I mention. see for yourself -
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=reputation.com%20mafia&sort=by...

I've edited my post to reflect that I'm talking about companies that actually routinely get discussed here, sorry I wasn't clear originally. If you change the above to be abut Yelp you get sooo many hits using that language and verbiage, it's a very common accusation that many people are very angry about.
Atom is the third in a succession of hipster text editors

What an unbelievably pretentious thing to say.
Who's hiring interns? (Canada) (Feburary 2016)
I am a electrical engineer studying in the US currently and I want to go back to Canada for summer internships. However, there doesn't seem to be a list in hackernews for that. Thanks a lot!
Western messaging apps are a joke compared to their international counterparts. If you want to see some fierce competition and cutting edge features, you need to look towards LINE and WeChat. (For US messenger apps, I actually like FB Messenger the best but it might just be because the Pusheen stickers are so damn amazing.)
Bitlocker and Applocker are among the exceptions, but I stand by my statement they are just that - exceptions to the rule.
They missed a big opportunity by not just linking the $1 ad-free sign up page.
Since you're here, I just want to thank you for the most thorough, accessible, and pragmatic Erlang writing I've run across. Cheers!
"now I can be confident you don't know what you're talking about."

I guess your original comment made clear that you weren't really interested in an answer beyond dealing with "unstated assumption" and that you want to persist in thinking of logging from a centralized point of view. You just wanted to be "confident".

But if you're seriously interested in discussing further to see what I'm working on, feel free to drop me an email on joran@ronomon.com and we can setup a Skype face-to-face.
I don't know if you've ever read an MIT press release, but they overhype and misrepresent the science coming out of their institution like it's going out of style. It's endemic in nearly all universities, especially the big name ones. This should not be a surprise.
> people not doing something simply because it is against the law. People do make decisions on that basis.

Conversely, people also make decisions on the opposite basis -- doing things because they are prohibited.
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Unless, of course, your company goes through multiple rounds of layoffs and paycuts, as does all the other companies in the area. Then you're too scared to buy a place because you're worried about getting saddled with a large debt and possibly losing your job.
Responsive design can trump that still.
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Also, you can trivially define something like:

(<- I tried once in college but lisp is not my style)
Interesting, what I would like though is "$1 a week on the weeks you read wired" so lets say I start with a $52 budget, read some stories this week, my balance drops by $1, if I read nothing for a month, nothing happens, then I go back and read some stories it goes down $1 for that week. The when it gets below $10 it sends me an email suggesting I top up, and if it gets below $5 then every time I read a story it reminds me I only have 'n' weeks left.

THAT is a system I would sign up for in a heart beat.
Doesn't (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) capture +? You could evaluate (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) in a scope of, say, (let ((+ *)) (lambda (x) (+ x 1))) - in some lisps.
Of course there's a reason for the low cost of living, namely that few other people want to live here. Few other people want to live here because it's one of the most dangerous cities in the world per capita. Number 19 this year, in fact.

You might think that as a startup founder in a line of work other than pharmaceutical sales, you'd be insulated from this kind of violence. That's mostly correct, but not entirely, and the difference isn't negligible. More than half of my family, for example, has been victimized in some way, often repeatedly. Even if nothing happens to you--and I hope nothing ever does--you find yourself thinking about risk and public space in a way that is barely intelligible to outsiders.

As a lifelong resident of Baltimore who is leaving at the first opportunity, I would strongly advise against moving in. Anyone so tempted should take a careful look at the fundamentals.
This same thing happened with Textmate and it looks like history is repeating itself.
(Rant warning.)

Apple products have always been buggy. If you do anything slightly unusual, you quickly find that everything breaks. It's as if they don't actually systematically test anything and instead only fix the bugs that the developers themselves happen to notice in day-to-day use.

Here's me ranting about it in 2011: https://jx4slc83qru3hgkkkt1v.oasis.sandstorm.io/

Here's me ranting about it in 2014: https://plus.google.com/+KentonVarda/posts/FEUGQ7mxkUL

And here's me ranting about it in 2016: My wife's Macbook has a fun feature. It scans the network looking for audio receivers. When it finds one, it hijacks the receiver, switching it away from its current input and over to the Macbook's audio. This happens for example while watching movies, while the Macbook is in the other room with no one touching it, even though it has never been intentionally asked to use the TV room receiver for any purpose (though there is another receiver in another room that she uses regularly). As Denon receivers have no apparent access control, there is no way to stop this except to set up some sort of firewall between the Macbook and the receiver. (I do in fact use the receiver's network protocol, so disconnecting it is not a good option.)
You should have watch it all. He covers all.
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It will be interesting to see if the post "queue" persists across switching accounts. (Many users achieve it by posting in airplane mode to the let the upload fail, then they can make the post later at anytime with the same edits and text by clicking the retry button.) However, logging out of the app today erases the queue, and it is not an officially documented or supported feature.
Anyone notice the top 3 posts on HN are about CXOs stepping down? http://imgur.com/TUKnHpU
Just so people know, there is a competing/complementary approach to causality in statistics, called the potential outcomes or (Neyman-)Rubin causal model, which as I understand it is currently more popular than Pearl's graphical/do-calculus approach.
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> who's to say what's going to be loaded after the site gets hacked

Never mind even getting hacked. Ad providers routinely violate the trust of content providers by activating audio, throwing up full screen overlays and who knows what else. I'm not an expert but I'm given to understand that it's hard for content providers to quality control these sort of ads. The whole delivery system is gamed to a ridiculous degree.
ah nope, they still do the floating horizontal bar, eating the PRECIOUS vertical screen-estate

ah well, we'll see how it goes, nothing uBlock Origin can't handle :D

p/s: does anyone from Wired is here? to at least read / respond?
Why some large-scale responsive website revamps fail
Adblock detection is like client side DRM it copy protects the article from being viewed unless you disable your ad blocker and see ads and get tracked.

There are scripts that foil ad block detection as well. So some people are fighting back.

It reminds me of file sharing sites like bittorrent sites that people use to get DRM free versions of products at risk of having their IP scanned by DMCA bots sending them a C&D letter.

It comes down to when you buy something you don't own it you only buy the right to use it. Now you only have the right to read articles if you get exposed to ads and tracking. If you block ads they can take away your right to read an article.

It is all about rights and how corporations control what you get access to.

Facebook, Google, and others use ads and tracking as well to earn money. Their sites are free at the cost of your privacy rights.
I always saw intellectual property rights as a hack to try and encourage the production of non-rivalrous goods. The scarcity is in some sense enforced and artificial, and there's a strong argument to be made that they aren't they aren't "natural" property rights in the same sense as you get with rivalrous goods.

I think pro-capitalist (mostly libertarian) thought on this matter is divided.
The hype is real but I won't put Atom in this category : it's probably the most hackable editor since Emacs.
I am not talking primarily about Stallman's free software work; have you ever read his political notes? It seems that he is very critical to capitalism (as a description of the existing economic system, contrary to free market, which describes - somewhat different - ideal). In fact he also seems to be critical about free market, in particular in environmental and social issues.
I don't get it. Why is it no one has invented a safe JVM for ad execution so the site believes they are executing even though nothing is actually getting through? Is the coding required just too insane to handle?
Wonder if they've considered Instant Articles. Loads instantly for users and has ads as well.
Their $1 per week only says that they won't serve ads to you as well, it says nothing about all of the other rubbish that still tracks you but doesn't display ads.
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Based on that rationale, how did you come up with another app of yours: Flix? I mean, how did you figure out to create a $10 app to stream Netflix? What market would do that rather than use a browser?
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It seems like we won't be able to access anything without ads or without fees in future.
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Reading the comments here it seems that people are missing the point by just joining one of those instances.

It is not about just using some alternative to Twitter, the real advantage begins when you host it yourself so that you can own your own content and post whatever you want (not what some company wants you to) and (perhaps) syndicate to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.

I just gave a small talk about all this last week: https://jeena.net/media/2016/IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf
But at what cost ? What about the mdworker slowdown effect which can quite arbitrarily bring your workflow to a standstill ? On your hardware does mdworker increase the probability of experiencing a "beachball of doom" depending on what else you have running ?
I used to go with Makefiles maybe two years ago but there's really no point on using anything else other than npm scripts if you already have a Node.js set of tools (therefore an npm manifest).

One great thing about npm scripts is that every time you run a command Node.js will export the binaries path to your $PATH so you don't have to manually add absolute paths.
Where can we talk about flaws in the Hacker News forum/comments?
Actually, even though in the language spec that usage is refered to as a "closure", when configured for a release build, that will compile to exactly the same code as if you had written a static funtion and passed a pointer to it.

Rust is very good at optimizing away closures to have as little overhead as is possible for the semantics they describe.
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I used to be a big Indent.ca fan, it used to run on status.net foss. Apparently now it is pump.io, a foss micro-blogging service.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatusNet
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The question if video games are art or not has been pretty solved, and the question has moved on to emulation accuracy versus impacting the original experience. It's a very tricky, subjective thing, especially in a medium that is often designed to be mass produced.
That's a step further away from movies where a unit is produced for a platform based around a common standard with multiple implementations, but for console games and other fine tuned implementations, it's a tricky question.
There are many new C ripoffs, but nobody seems to acknowledge Cyclone (https://cyclone.thelanguage.org/) which is a lot older. It was even backed by a corporation (AT&T), but never succeeded. I wonder why.
Pluralsight have an introduction/overview:
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/meet-elixir

There's a great list on GitHub of various resources, books, libraries etc:
https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir

A step-by-step guide to building a website with Elixir & Phoenix:
http://phoenix.thefirehoseproject.com/

And a paid introductory course:
http://elixirsips.com/
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Me too. Unfortunately, it only is able to block DoubleClick ads, but I agree it makes the web a nicer place, across all devices, without having to deprive websites I go to of revenue.
For now, yes.
https://github.com/weaveworks/weave/issues/1925
https://github.com/weaveworks/weave/issues/1931

The developers are friendly, helpful and responsive. But in my testing, Weave simply wasn't adequate. I hope they'll get there.
That was my point. The intro site may have "anti-capitalist" in it, but at the end of the day, it's up to users what they do with that network.
Not even close to Visual Studio on Windows, that's the point (I know I'm repeating, but it's sad that I'm having to do that).
As stated above, Google's Contributor network essentially does this.
My usual counterpoint is, I've been installing Linux on a wide variety of hardware, desktops, random laptops, etc., for a long time with virtually no problems, but I'm a little particular about the distro I use...

Since Mageia broke off from Mandriva in 2011, I've used them exclusively (and I used Mandriva before that, since 2009).

I'm not sure how they do it, or what the magic is, but they have been absolutely flawless for me. The last several laptops I've bought, I've dropped a Mageia CD and everything just works. No futzing with command lines ever.

I've forgotten nearly all of my old arcane linux knowledge. I wouldn't know how, for example, to fix pulse if I had to, but you know, I've literally never had to!

If you are even a little curious about Linux anymore, I'd suggest downloading the Mageia KDE livedvd and giving it a go.
In the update, how did you continue the full functionality for the people that had already paid the $5 up front?