skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say you are being "low balled" here.

I also work full-time remote for a US company and I bill through my company in Germany. You could be hired as an actual employee, however they would legally need to follow the law re employee tax/benefits of the country that you reside in. This is obviously a pain to manage between both parties, which is why "digital nomads" bill through their own ltd.

You could negotiate extra for benefits, but it sounds like you will have the work locked-in (i.e. you're not a typical contractor who can charge a premium as the work is fixed).

Where do you live? For me, the difference in being taxed as an ltd is trivial; actually, it's better as I can claim extra back as expenses through the business, like electricity, internet, etc.
>The discussion we're having here is because there seem to be no repercussions to their failure.

What do you mean? There are massive layoffs, a falling share price and lots of bad press. What other "repercussions" should there be? Should the government come in and shut the place down? Should it force IBM to keep all employees?

Again, what sort of "repercussions" should a company have when they make bad business decisions? The shareholders and employees have suffered, that's the punishment.
Yes, but getting people - enough people - to pay for content is the challenge here, not having perceived quality content / discoverability.
I think that it is lose lose situation with the paid content, at least with current state of online payments.

With paid content you lose your privacy and you lose your anonymity and you become more easily targetable and more attractive to the ads.

If we take the paper magazines then there are the ads, and you pay for it. I believe the same will happen with the online publishing.
You're welcome :)

Don't forget people don't usually switch because of support, more because something is not working or they've upset you. People can switch utilities or bank easy enough, yet they almost never do, unless they're really upset. Better the devil you know, I guess.

Good support can pay off for word of mouth referrals, especially if they've had a bad time elsewhere. I think it works best for techie things like web hosting, or a SaaS where you're integrating and likely need a little support. For an ISP you never phone support, until you hate them because it's broke, then they switch to the next cheapest, which will be just as bad. (I stuck with a small ISP who gives astonishing support, they cost only a little more) :)
Checked Firefox and Chrome, with uMatrix in a typical configuration that blocks all but first-party requests and external images and CSS by default and a default set of common AD and tracking hostnames blacklisted. "No ad blocking detected"

Allowed site do to third-party requests to fetch jQuery. Still says "no ad blocking detected".

I guess just testing that /css/ads.css (a first-party resource) fails to load isn't a good measure.
I didn't get that impression. I was trying to say that I admire the author without also advocating putting a bunch of clever hacks into production.
Is the page all flash? I'm on a phone and have no idea what the author expects to show.
> Good luck to those with the "eye for an eye" mentality.

It's about what you put in, not what you get out.

> You will never be happy.

This is where I think people mess up. They think that relationships somehow magically equate to an immediate jump from miserable to bliss. This couldn't be further from the truth. You need to find your own happiness before someone else can step into your life and make it blissful.
This is what https://flattr.com was supposed to sort out, isn't it?
I really like the initiative of UWP but I agree with the author that you should be able to install UWP-apps from any source. Is it really true that you can't?

Maybe it's time for game developers like Epic to support Linux and make gamers choose linux as their desktop, that would probably create a surge of new users and contributions to the linux desktop development and maybe finally provide a "real" alternative.

Why I am running Windows is mostly because I can't stand all the issues with Linux desktops and that graphic drivers and games barely exist on the platform, I am loving Valves support though.
No, the the fact that ads entail a surcharge on most products is fairly self-evident (companies pay for it, and price it in), and does not rely on those assumptions.

My take on your argument is that despite the fact that products get cheaper when you remove the "ad portion" of the price, the consumer markets would get more inefficient, and hence the price would increase (or products would be worse, which is basically the same thing). Which is a fair point. But if that were true, it's still not clear which of the two would have a greater impact.

However, I don't think it's very hard to come up with mechanisms that serve the same function as ads in terms of market transparency. You don't even have to be very creative about it, since they already exist (e.g. consumer reports are a thing, and vaguely 10% of the Internet seems to be dedicated to discuss the dos and don'ts of buying shit). Ads are already one of the worst ways to get information about products, particularly in non-niche markets.
Aha, I had overlooked the switch stuff, so yes, it's like Core.

I imagine that if Rust plugs in full CTFE then a lot of compiler optimisations can be written at the MIR level, which should simplify the compiler.
And it sounds like FreeBSD support is on the way: https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/Week-of-Mon-2016...
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TBH, I'm not at all surprised.

Look at Skype, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix Linux, Oculus VR and so many other cases of partial/broken Linux support. Linux is not a business priority. Even Valve, who jumped in with SteamOS and the Steam Machines, seems to keep Linux aside lately.
But the previous employer has to approve the transfert.
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hey - I'm just interested how much your comment resonated with the HN crowd. Do you mind telling me how many upvotes you got for this comment bsharitt?
Curious, if Scrum makes you get into this mindset that you have to commit every hour ?
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> Nobody disputes the usefulness of some ad(vert)s.

I do. Some years ago, I've read an essay where the author, among other things, considered banning paid advertisements, i.e. getting paid to promote someone else's work.

I sadly didn't save a link at the time, and I can't find it on Google. The author argued that today's social networks are effective ways for word-of-mouth advertising, which is why classical advertising is not strictly required for a new product to take off (esp. when combined with crowdfunding).

Furthermore, advertisements regularly create requirements that are irrational and even harmful to the people involved (e.g. sodas and sweets) or the society or its natural resources. I can see how banning paid advertisement could help in transitioning to a zero-growth economy, which I consider one of the most remarkable challenges of our generation.

I would love to see these ideas explored with scientific scrutiny, because, as always with economic policies on this scale, it's near impossible to estimate their effect in advance.
Thank you for the report. Yes, we'll include other measures soon.

For anyone interested, in our tests with uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus and AdGuard for Android - the default installation (which we assume most people use) - all included the rule which blocks ads.css, even if it's same origin.
If you have a human assistant who does that job, he also listens 100% of the time.
> Binary Format Support: ELF, PE-COFF exe, DOS exe, a.out, MachO, raw binary, etc.

Sadly as far as I aware hex-rays is almost useless for DOS exe since it's not support 16-bit code and many applications are 16-bit. Is something changed in past few years?
Medium is banking on the other alternative: most sites die off and a natural monopoly emerges because no one wants to pay for access to more than say three sites. They want to be the facebook of long form comment.
The SIP isn't currently required to be consistent in the CAP sense of "consistent", but that is something people complain about. I think rightly, they point that the audit/compliance components of RegNMS are very troubling in the face of N inconsistent SIPs.

Similarly, people complain about the SIP feeds being latent and I'm sure it would be a very real problem if any single exchange being unavailable made the entirety of the SIP unavailable.

Its a fascinating problem because the engineering trade-offs are relatively static and well known, but each and every decision you could make provides an opportunity for arbitrage market activity that someone would consider predatory.

That we've layered a regulatory requirement that is pretty vague on some of the edge cases on top of this, just adds to it.
Well sometimes it's a matter of thresholds. Someone upthread was talking about millenials – as a matter of fact we balk at spending any money on online content.

This added to the fact that Medium is basically a glorified blogging platform makes me not want to pay for it. Seriously, if you were to ask me or anyone else back in 2006 what would be the hot new area for monetizing in 10 years, I doubt anyone would have said "blogging with paywalls".
Would you have an example for someone who doesn’t know anything about higher-kinded types?
Go does have some nice, clean resources, provided by the core language group and users. I find golang.org to be quite helpful. If you're interested in learning Go, I suggest Go's A Tour of Go to start: http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

There is a previous discussion of Go by Example if you want to mine the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7075515

There is also Effective Go for learning about, well, idiomatic Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

And there is a previous discussion of Effective Go if you want to mine the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285461
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Here's the potential I see. Imagine if it was routine to write an application stack entirely in a repl language. Not just the application code - everything. You'd write your application code. Then other functions would dispatch the tree of application code to the LLVM API where it would be compiled. Then other functions could take the resulting artifacts and push them through to deployment.

Doing this at the moment would involve writing fiddly wrappers around lots of layers of technology - dynamically constructing makefiles, and shelling out to call things.
EasyList[1] already contains various per-site adblocking based on CSS selectors, with several packages for different languages and site type. I think the community is big enough and motivated enough to manually lists any ads on most websites.

Also first-party advertising is complicated because it prevents the advertising company from publishing the ads it wants, since the ad would be delivered by the site itself. While this is the business model of Google and Facebook, most sites don't have the analytics power to publish the most relevant ads to their users.

[1] https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
I started keeping personal one page notes on Github for languages I want to learn so that it's easier to be effective when I start a small project. Here are my Go notes:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/go....

My OCaml notes are a better example of what I'm trying to do:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerLanguages/blob/master/oca...
let me tell you, moving away from all friends can be tough for a kid. some cope with it well, some not at all, most are somewhere in the middle. I know I didn't enjoy my experience to say at least...
As you were already saying, it is not our goal to make it seem as if we were the only ones out there that work with RISC-V. We want to share our work in the hope that others find it useful and maybe be able to use it for their own projects.

In fact we are very much aware that there are others that have implemented RISC-V based cores and we have learned a lot from their work. PULPino is not limited to just one core, but also provides a bus, peripherals and so on. What we published is using the RI5CY core that we developed in-house, but the PULPino platform can also be used with any other RISC-V based core. For example we have made some experiments with Z-Scale which only took us a couple of hours to integrate with the platform.
That was only obvious in retrospect, and has very strong survivor-bias: it might as well have sunk the company, and IBM would have been completely unknown today.

Also, things are a bit different today: IBM is largely a services company, which doesn't lend itself well to inventory building. Also, they have struggled on the merit of their offerings, not the economical climate, for a very long time. Doubling down right now is not obvisouly going to end well.
> Why is it called insurance?

You actually want insurance for this because you don't want, for example, small businesses avoiding fertile women because they "already have too many pregnancies right now". If all the employees had kids simultaneously (an irrelevant random event), it shouldn't cause a bankruptcy.

In practice, people aren't typically so fungible, but the insurance at least hedges the salary portion of the risk.
about time.
I'll pay for content, but the value has to be there. And in this age of click bait headlines, non researched articles of no susbstance or value, I'm not about to pay for someone's low value opinions. Sure they have value, but it's like $0.02 of value. And it's not scarce. When everyone can create content and publish, and many are willing to do it for free to create their own brand, it creates a market where ideas and words are not monetizable. I don't even mind ads, when done right. A trailer for a movie I want to see is an ad, and I'll seek it out when I want the content. But ad agencies have done this to themselves by becoming a virus on content pages.

Besides, why should I have to pay? I create and consume something far more valuable in the form of OSS. No ads, no price.

To say monetization has to be ads or paywalls is excluding hundreds of other ways to monetize content. It's lazy, and won't succeed in the information era.
Yep, but nobody has managed to lower the friction with microtransactions enough to get the masses on board. If someone gets that right it could be a new paradigm for web publishing, but that's a big if.
Maybe, but I think it's more of a continuous-delivery thing than a scrum thing. I just commit after I add anything meaningful to the codebase (to get it out to users as quickly as possible), and that usually ends up being once an hour.
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Serious businesses with algos that need snapshot "now" views of this information will probably get this information from a financial data provider I imagine, Bloomberg? Reuters? or give relative infrequency of change (max few times a day?) perhaps internally by feeds managed by their own researcher/analysts.

I can could see some use for non-trading researchers and analysts, or even on the trading side for very small shops, by being able to grab historical information, perhaps applying some aggregation over the data too, but surely it's already available. Where do you get the data from?
I really wish people would look into patron funding (eg: Patreon) instead of paywalls.
I'd say Rust is a generically sensible language, in terms of the modern state of the art of language design (that is to say, it has a powerful but lightweight type system and is designed in ways that are amenable to writing correct programs) - this sounds like a low bar but is surprisingly rare (at least for a language that qualifies as at all mainstream). Distinctive things are that it compiles to native code and has manual but safe memory management (i.e. you have to tell it what the lifetimes of your values are, unlike a garbage-collected language, but you'll get compilation errors if you do it wrong, rather than silent memory leaks or crashes).

It's a reasonable first choice for when you absolutely need to avoid GC, or need code without a runtime (e.g. for embedding into another language). IMO a lot of people overestimate their performance requirements though (or assume that all GC languages must be as slow as Python/Ruby, or as slow to start as Java), and would be more productive overall writing in a language that doesn't require manual memory management and then spending a little time profiling. So for general-purpose programming where the target is native code I would recommend starting with OCaml or Haskell (if VM languages are suitable then also consider F# or Scala), and only falling back to Rust if you've spend a bit of time profiling and optimizing your app (or a representative benchmark/example) and find you really can't get the performance you absolutely need.
I doubt that. What I think we'll see is that the content producers will inline the ad-industry adverts & tracking code and send the tracking data back to them. Which amounts to routing the advertising machinery through the content producer's network rather than directly to the client. I don't see where the vetting process will be vastly improved or how it would lead to fewer trackers.
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Like the current cable package except it's more a la carte type
some time ago I read a study (sorry no links around) that people get used to almost anything, positive or negative, over time. With 2 clear exceptions:

- pets like dogs/cats always tend to raise happiness levels
- daily long commutes to work tend to make people more unhappy (and of course it helps if you have the time for yourself and are nto constantly stuck at traffic jam)
I believe this is being discussed here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29754
I fail to understand what medium adds to any other blogging platform. Especially us technical users have dozens of self-hosted alternatives (in addition to the weird beast that is GitHub pages) that have existed since, like, forever.

Why lock yourself in a proprietary platform that then, invariably (like we are seeing now), is going to have to monetize your content?

Why aren't more people bothered by the fact that more and more previously decentralized/self-hosted models are being transformed to monopolies?
Keeping track of PDF's is a mess, so nice to see someone trying to deal with it.

I would like to better understand where the PDF's are stored. In their cloud?

It's nice that the introduction video uses a "generic" OS, but I would like to see how it looks in the real world. The UI in the video is very crammed.
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I feel like for many of those people something like OCaml/Haskell/F#/Scala (which have been around for many years) would be better options. It's very rare to actually need the very last ounce of performance you get by moving to a non-GC language compared to a fast typed GCed language, whereas there is a real cost to having to manage object lifetimes in Rust.
That's what sparked the creation of SteamOS. Let's hope developers get onboard and hardware vendors start (seriously) supporting the platform.
How do you deal with the risk due to FX rate? Your salary is probably constant in dollars but not in euros the currency you use.
>We need to upend the idea that family care is solely the domain of women

"Solely" might be a bit strong, but I don't think this is merely an "idea". It's reality. Women do the majority of child-rearing, pretty much across all species. When it comes to us humans and our bizarre, work-driven lives, their careers suffer for it. I never understood why that is so hard to understand, or why it's controversial.

>We need to de-stigmatize flexible schedules

Totally agree. But I'd put much of that blame on "us", not our employers. If we weren't such a consumerist, money-driven society, perhaps more people would be willing to work those flex-hours at less pay, but increased happiness.
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I've never understood what's special about medium.com. It seems like any other blog, Wordpress, Blogger, etc. Plain text articles with some images. Or is there something more to it?
Yep, but it's not exactly widely adopted. I think they have to have an arrangement with each site first don't they? I can onl remember seeing it on small blogs, not a publisher.

Google's contributor might have had a better chance, but like a lot of G services it's completely unpromoted, and hard to find by search unless you know the name already.
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For years I wrote all my ideas down in a spreadsheet. But once the list got into the hundreds of lines I figured "I'm never actually gonna build most of this stuff..." so I stopped doing that.

Now I keep a top-10 list only, in an evernote file. If I want to add something to the list, I have to delete something else. And the next time I have spare time to build something, I'll just have 10 good options to choose from, instead of a thousand terrible ones.
For people with just some basic computer graphics background that don't know what this "deferred rendering" is: when this technique became popular, these [1] slides were popular and inspired many.

[1]: http://www.slideshare.net/guerrillagames/deferred-rendering-...
The site is aimed at people who want AdBlock but don't know yet that a) it exists or b) how to get it.
Could this perhaps be solved by anonymising the data? For negotiation purposes you only need to know whether you are at the top, middle or bottom in terms of income.
Their Pro series drives have not been affected by any of the EVO issues to my knowledge.
I don't think your point is the same as mine. The p-value only tells you how likely it is to see a deviation at least as extreme as the data you plugged into the equation, if the model you are testing were true. That's it.
> We are going to take things down that are unsafe, that are hate speech, that are harassment. It's not a legal obligation, it's an obligation to the ecosystem of the site.

Censorship, it seems.
> Why lock yourself in a proprietary platform that then, invariably (like we are seeing now), is going to have to monetize your content?

Same reason why people use Gmail instead of their self hosted email - convenience. It's even more surprising to see hackers using that kind of service (at least for Medium, Gmail is at at least a superior product in some ways) - while perfectly good self hosted, easy to deploy alternatives exist for years.
My preference as a person would be to spend as much care-free time as possible (care-free as in not having to worry about earning money).

FTFY.
True, but hacking an ad network to distribute malware has a much better Return On Investment since it will distribute your malware from potentially thousands of websites, instead of just one.

The same reason why exploits for Windows and Windows software are more common than for other desktop operating systems.
Do you think homeless people are homeless with smartphone because they value a smartphone MORE then housing ?

Or is it because the cost of a smartphone is 1/100 of a month's rent in a shitty apartment.

Or to put it in another way - they can afford a smartphone but cannot afford housing.
Oh, what an awkward blunder. I know two's complement (that is why I talked about the degenerate case of minvalue). Why did I think this would work?
OK but they have nothing going for them. The next time I see a paywall, I'll just avoid it and look for content elsewhere.