skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really considered list price to be relevant because it's not generally that hard to compare prices via relative means for luxury items.

For example, I know that a standard pack of chocolate digestive biscuits are 50p. Based on that I can figure out whether some fancy cake is worth buying.

This falls apart a bit in some places (is a home really worth 800000x as much as a chocolate bar?) but generally it works for me.

It does have the effect of reigning in spending which I consider a bonus.

To elaborate a bit - I don't particularly mind spending £2 for something that could have been gotten for £1.50. I mind spending £2 for something which is almost identical to a different item that I could get for 20p.

I think this is where many people fall down. Getting an expensive brand of shampoo at a discount is meaningless if it's still 10 times the cost of regular.
Could you elaborate more on why it is not wise to have someone specialize in it for you? I can certainly see how knowing accounting can help when going from MVC to capital. At what point should you rely on someone who is more knowledgeable in accounting?
Wouldn't most of those comparisons also fit with most other companies?
On Android the default is to push-notify on every message in a room. This is not sensible at all.
Yes. But without the magic 56.

(Submitted title was "The next-level future of UI dev".)
Thanks, I appear to be clear of .encrypted files.

The good of this mess is that I realized I only had one Time Machine backup going on that machine. I had turned off the remote backup a month ago while shoving backups around on the remote server to make more room and hadn't restored it. One backup is too few.

The weakness exposed is that if the remote were mounted, this malware would have nailed it too. I'll have to look at having the remote make filesystem snapshots on its end so malware can't corrupt my older backups.
I don't dispute that nuclear weapons could come into play again in the future, just that a truly global thermonuclear war is much less likely now than in the past. Sure North Korea might try to launch a nuclear missile or two (coincidentally they just threatened to do so today) and get wiped out in the process, and yeah, some terrorists would probably love to detonate a suitcase nuke somewhere, but that's not the same thing as a truly global event that threatens all of humanity as we know it.

During the Cold War there was a really good chance of that happening, and there were several instances where equipment malfunctioned (and showed impending missile launches when where there was none) and the only thing that stopped it was the right general making a smart call that it wasn't real, or several other close calls, from global destruction.

North Korea isn't likely to bring that about. The Middle East isn't too likely to bring that about. India and Pakistan aren't going to bring that in either.

Russia is still capable to do that, but I think they're not too serious about their desire to actually go into war and are more taking advantage of NATO's unwillingness to go into war to make a few small land grabs (that was a little scary, though).

The tension and complex web of polar opposite alliances across the whole world just isn't there like it was in WWI, WWII, and Cold War days. It could still develop in the next decade or two, sure, but I really don't think we're there right now.

For all the ills that Capitalism might have, I do think it's helped tie all the countries that participate in it to each other's fates, to a certain extent, and they don't want to see the other countries fail (or attack them directly) since it will now affect their own economy, probably for the worst.

Trump is a wild card, but I think assuming he won the nomination he'll calm down his rhetoric, since he needs to in order to win the moderate vote anyway. If he actually made it into office, then that's admittedly a wild card. I'd like to think that he didn't actually believe that shit he said and will be more concerned with internal politics than foreign, and/or will head the advice of people who have been there a lot longer. Hopefully.
The one thing that stuck out to me is the "resident artist". I'm curious is that the person's only role? Will more companies look at the talents of their employees and enable them to pursue their real interests? Is this even feasible to propose?

My dream job is to be a resident Game Developer for a non-game development company. Literally paid to make whatever games I want, no manager micro-managing me, no committee telling me what to make or what "they want int the game." This article gives me a small amount of hope that one day I could do this, but my question above is the big "speed bump."

Thoughts?
The next level future of UI would be something as developer-productive as Visual Basic .NET from 2007: lay out my app visually in minutes, double click to add code, build, run, ship.

It's 2016 and I'm still using a soup of hacks to build web UIs. GWT was promising but far too clunky. React+Bootstrap is almost there but I still have to write code to make wheels roll (in a parser hack called JSX!) and I still have to think about the web layer instead of having it abstracted away. As soon as I start using anything else I have to drag in a soup of hacks, so in the end I always end up with a web app with a hundred dependencies. Sorry, must have (insert hipster framework here) installed too if I want to embed BeanieCap.JS.

I would pay thousands of dollars for something as productive as VS.NET from 2007 but for generating modern responsive UIs for the web. It's okay to simplify the problem by being opinionated, but only if your opinions don't suck and only if whatever abstractions you create are elegant and degrade gracefully when they (inevitably) leak a little. Now that MS is open sourcing .NET, adding web UIs to Xamarin and making them work like mobile and desktop would be one route to this. Another would be to reboot GWT using Go->ASM.JS as the code path and do the UI in Go, then build a visual UI designer for it. Use the dom as a renderer and shit-can CSS and all the rest of that stuff in favor of an opinionated uniform minimally-themable design (as long as it doesn't look like crap).

Every now and then I go searching for this. Nope, still doesn't exist. I have a wad of cash in hand but nobody will take it so back to hacking web UIs in a text editor manually. Sigh.
StatusPage.io is nice but they charge $99/mo for custom CSS and $399/mo for custom HTML. I don't see that as being cheap.
I wish I could be of more help, but I'm the wrong person to ask. On the
bright side, the right people to ask (like YC partners) often hold
"Office Hours" to take and answer questions.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=office%20hours&sort=byDate&dat...
There's a huge difference between "thinking" something and actively assigning resources to study it in depth. And I don't see anyone calling for prosecution in this entire thread. Criticizing, sure, but wouldn't you criticize me if I spent time and resources trying to figure out how to kill tons of people? And GP acknowledges the difference between studying what would happen if the dam failed and how to simply kill massive numbers of civilians. Our point is that you can't just say it's okay to kill 1M civilians because "war is hell", "war is hell" because of stuff like that.
While I don't want to be presumptuous it sounds like you are ostensibly just super talented and, at this point, have some solid accomplishments.

So while linkedIn may have opened doors, it is pretty unlikely through something like HN or your own irl network, you wouldve ended up unsuccessful. My own feelings towards linkIn aside, anecdotally it certainly seems that it was useful for you. It certainly has the ability to provide great things, or speed up connections/opportunity.

I agree with the article in that it is a soft requirement for a lot of things:

Entrepreneur: Helpful for hiring, networking looking at competition, finding investors.

Freelancer: Getting gigs, proving reputation.

Bigcompany: online presence, hiring.

Recruiter: obvious.

Etc.

So while you certainly aren't unique in finding value in linkedIn, it is utterly painful to use and sometimes i feel like if I put my cursor in the wrong place I'll accidentally agree to realtime uploading of all my data & that of my friend.

As an aside, it really can't survive much longer:

* Users hate using it

* it is totally unpleasant and insisistant on you conforming to what it demands.

* signal to noise is so out of alignment it is painful.

* Companies have to deal with the need to be on the platform and endorse enployees who are incentivized to self-promote sometimes to the company's detriment.

* I personally, and I largely suspect this to be very common, have connections I don't know. Either we have drifted apart, were breifly engaged in something, or I was just to lenient with accepting/reaching out.

* Increasingly, it is becoming less profitable as it struggles to give away enough data to be useful, but hold back enough to upsell premium packages.

While facebook certainly seems to care little about privacy, there is a compelling engagement and feeling of human connection that is just not there with linked in.

They should just sell to salesforce, that way the data and privacy could stay just as exploitive, but they could allow users latitude to enjoy/benefit from it a bit more.
At the same time, if you want to transfer to another department, why should your boss be able to stop you?
> not really sure if, during a national wartime it's always just so easy

Yeah, borders are hard to find (they're on the outside of a country?! How inconvenient!) and it would suck to lose your important connections and your facebook account.

Not worth it. The murder option is way easier - you should totally just do that.

> And your other option which I think is jail

Hah! "My option". Yeah, I invented sending soldiers to jail right after I invented the draft.

> So the soldier either loses [...]

I'm glad you see the draft as the bad thing here. But they can choose not to kill for the people who drafted them.
Oops, I'm sorry. Looks better now?
Suppose you scanned the Ship of Thesus at the port where it docked, and then printed each board out. Would the recombination of the boards make the Ship again, or wouldn't it?

I always find it fascinating amazing what 2000-year old questions still have bearing on technology recently created.
I think we keep having the same misunderstanding in these HN comments. patio11 says "pay packages", not salaries. From my understanding there are loads of folks making $150,000 / yr salary with $150,000+ stock/options which means there are in fact people getting $300,000+ pay (read compensation) packages.
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I hope he shot a recruiting officer before fleeing to Canada or Mexico.
> Most of the rest of the world is on fixed price

No, "most" of the rest of the world is very much not, either by number of countries or by population. The original post is specifically about cheap, high-quality care in India, where medical care is completely self-pay.

There are both advantages and disadvantages to capitation, though that's a digression from the main discussion.
Not entirely the same, as self-inflicted, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lotus_Eater
Yep, I get that there are a lot of emerging edge cases that need to have the UI and experience tweaked, but at the same time, it's on us to understand the ability of the tool and how best to use it.

Don't get me wrong, Slack needs to improve and adapt just like any other tool that has a growing user-base. But the SVN hand waving about culture isn't actually about Slack at all, it's just about teams not being well set up with clear goals and methods. You could sub out "Slack" with "email" and come up with similar issues.
I wasn't necessarily referring to just the "Opulent Minorities", i.e. the rich unless you are referencing something else I'm not understanding. There are plenty of examples where mob rule overruns the rights poor/disenfranchised minorities too.
I find this to be an extremely strange attitude and I say this as an accounting major. Of course I'm biased and I don't think that the sort of bookkeeping most small businesses are going to do is actually that difficult - most of my classes involve pensions and stock options and things where most small businesses would not have to worry about that sort of thing. But I find it absurd that someone would try to go into business without so much as the ability to use Quickbooks or read a financial statement. There's a certain minimum amount of education about how business works that I think most people should bother learning before embarking on the financially risky prospect of starting their own business, and knowing a debit from a credit is one of them.
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How would you suggest budding writers improve their skills then? This tool seems useful for that purpose to me.
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Show HN: A tiny canvas (js) experiment called “Einstein Waves”
Counting molecules with an ordinary cell phone
It is way, way more than a day of work. That is my point. I expect it was measured in man-weeks.
Sounds like you should start your own game company. Which would indeed be a big "speed bump."
America would be just fine with zero H1-B workers. There is zero deficiency in IT numbers that qualified Americans cannot fill. The issue lies with companies being cheap and disavowing Americans in favor of more profit to please the ever-demanding shareholders. I left for-profit IT in favor of non-profit IT to avoid being replaced by a foreigner. I make less, to be sure, but I'm not worried about my job being handed to an outsider who has no stake in my community.

I'm deeply in favor of killing the entire H1-B program. If American companies don't want to hire Americans, Americans should not buy from them. I'm willing to bet that if enough people got angry at Apple for letting the Chinese build iPhones instead of bringing that work back home. Apple make more than enough profit to allow Americans to have those jobs. Imagine their products saying "Designed and made in California" rather than simple "designed" here.

I tend to lean far right politically with exception being made for work-related issues. I am firmly pro-union and pro-protectionism, especially as it relates to Americans and their jobs.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11238850.
Yeah, this tool seems like a pretty blunt instrument at this point. From the OP:

> It is very difficult to target a specific region of the brain, especially with simple home set-ups that use wet sponges as the contact points.

My layman's speculation is that things like cognition have complicated and fine-granted regulatory systems associated with them, which may have sub-optimal set-points for many people. To get true "cognitive enhancement" you'd have to 1) influence these systems in precise targeted ways (i.e. not with a blunt instrument) and 2) do it in a way that won't trigger counteracting regulation. Anything less would probably cause side-effects and/or be temporary with negative withdrawal symptoms.
Truth. Ran a dev shop at an F500, salary + bonus I would get $170 in a good year. Learned the game after a few years and struck out on my own (began moonlighting to reduce the risk). 1st year was $150k and fast forward to 2015 - $430k. I soon found that W2 is the absolute worst method to take compensation (topic for another day).

I am far less stressed from the dev shop days, but 80h/w still happens at times when projects go long and another kicks off. I travel 1-2 weeks month (sometimes 3) though that's an unavoidable fact of life no matter which path I take.
The example from /r/coding[1] is very nice to listen to:

awk 'function wl() {
rate=64000;
return (rate/160)*(0.87055^(int(rand()*10)))};
BEGIN {
srand();
wla=wl();
while(1) {
wlb=wla;
wla=wl();
if (wla==wlb)
{wla*=2;};
d=(rand()*10+5)*rate/4;
a=b=0; c=128;
ca=40/wla; cb=20/wlb;
de=rate/10; di=0;
for (i=0;i<d;i++) {
a++; b++; di++; c+=ca+cb;
if (a>wla)
{a=0; ca*=-1};
if (b>wlb)
{b=0; cb*=-1};
if (di>de)
{di=0; ca*=0.9; cb*=0.9};
printf("%c",c)};
c=int(c);
while(c!=128) {
c<128?c++:c--;
printf("%c",c)};};}' | sox -t raw -r 64k -c 1 -e unsigned -b 8 - -d

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/48zvn4/bash_one_lin...
I second the Bench recommendation. I did my own books for 5 years, had a VA use a (homebrew) single-entry system for about 3, and did Bench the last ~2. Bench beats the snot out of the earlier methods.

On the topic of "How conversant do you want to be with bookkeeping as a business operator?": there is zero value in having you, personally, write up that you spent $4.76 on a coffee at Starbucks. That is an actual thing your business requires someone to do; it should not be you.

Should you know what double-entry books are? I think you can safely pass that off as "implementation detail."

Should you know how to read a balance sheet and income statement? Yes. That's a really critical job function. Are some of the individual entries a little opaque if you know nothing about bookkeeping? Possibly. Member Contribution / Member Drawing come to mind.

There are some less-bookkeeping more-accounting topics which I think software entrepreneurs would be well-served by being better at. "Revenue recognition for SaaS businesses" is a decently good example. I see that bite smart people all the time.
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I don't think he's saying that the webpage attracts job offers, just that by having an easy to find presence online, people are able to find him.
> When I (an end user, somewhat skilled in software development) obtain a GPL-licensed piece of software, I'm granted the freedoms to modify it and distribute my modifications. Or hire someone to do so. Or whatever. The only thing I'm asked is to grant others the same freedoms I enjoy myself, if I'd to distribute the software further.

> I can't call "unfriendly" asking to respect another developer's will to keep their code free for everyone. Yes, the licensing makes their code unfit for the purposes of developing proprietary software, but being unfit is not unfriendly.

We are arguing semantics here. The point is, a dev cannot make use of GPL software in closed src. GPL software has a VERY BIG cost/restriciton and it will most likely outweigh open sourceness where as Proprietary/MIT/BSD does not require every confidential intellectual property it touches to be made public.

> When I obtain a proprietary piece of software, I can either curse my way through reverse-engineering (as far as it's legal in my juristdiction) or wait until the proprietors would do something. That said, I'm basically powerless.

Proprietary software can be open source. Beside we are not talking about open source here. We are talking about viral nature of GPL.

> When I obtain a BSD or MIT-licensed piece of software, it depends on the good will of the developers whenever they provide me with the source code (and license grants) or not.

BSD/MIT automatically implies open source.

> If they do, my options roughly match the GPL case

Except the big restriction.

> GPL doesn't hinder the experience of those who're sharing anyway, and simply excludes those who don't want to respect their users with "if you don't want others to use your code, then don't use my code - write your own" attitude.

This is fine attitude to have if you are the only contributing. But most open source contributors do not care.
They rather contribute than waste their time in flame wars. Case in point: GPL/share-alike adoption has been in steady decline.

All GPL does is stop devs from using it rather than create more open source softwares as GPL creaters hoped. You donate open source not demand it. But its seems GPL creaters missed that point.
You mean of course we /could/ know. There's no certainty that even if the museum's scan was stolen, that they would publicly admit it.
Presumably if you're using animated GIF you care about compatibility with exotic/older browsers, so at best you'd consider H.264/MP4 or SVG or Flash animations.
Time as a Network Good [pdf]
But this haven't been true in the 60's or early 70's.
Yes, good software should abstract the complexity away from the customer. That does not mean the complexity does not exist.

My post was motivated by the fact that the article is written as if this was a trivial change - "The designers fixed the problem simply" - and it really was not (for the developers).

"We took a simple idea and made $300million more dollars" - Yes.

"We did something simple and made $300million more dollars" - Not even nearly.
How does copyright apply to a 3300 year old statue?
I'd argue how your business receives money, pays out money, and retains money is an essential component of being in business and therefore something anyone in charge of directing a business should know enough of.

As a CEO/President/sole proprietor, it's probably more important than the creation of whatever product it is you are selling, really.
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A really biased source with an interest in the outcome.

I'd rather listen to an opinion of a good statistician, comparing psychology to other fields of science.

What Gilbert alleged implies the studies dip not provide correct steps to reproduce the conditions. This is even more damning - means the quality of studies is very low.

Alternatively, the whole field suffers from an extreme case of publication bias. This can be shown in number of publications that show no effect or disprove previous findings.
A lot of those I don't see as something that is Windows' problem. If your computer performance degrades over time to the point that you have to reinstall every year to purge cruft, maybe it's something to do with that habit you mentioned of installing things at some point?

Also, running on an SSD I don't have to do disk defragmentation anymore either.
I don't know if one can really say that.
They're just as conservative too. They'll go to .22nm from .32nm but they're not going to invest billions up front in a fab to produce a completely untested chip technology based on graphene and optics or something. Not unless someone (like the government) coughs up the money risk-free. Same with nukes.

Gradual evolution of the overgrown 50s submarine reactor is the AP1000. To really make fission work and scale would require something like the liquid thorium cycle or accelerator driven reactors or pebble beds... something not an evolution of 50s tech.
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