skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This line of thinking is spot on. Face it, European salaries are just extremely low.

I personally know of several awesome EU engineers working remotely for bay area startups, earning bay area salaries. Now THAT is attractive. Usually it means they're self employed, but they're easily making €8,000 after tax (+ they can tax deduct all their tech goodies!)

Now, why would I take that €40,000 gross/year job again? (this doesn't just apply to startups, btw, it applies to most tech jobs in Europe)
Confidence, in the sense that what used in the article (not as in the grade of confidence in a probabilistic sample), has an emotional component. Optimizing a function is adjusting the free parameters to maximize a desired output.
With over 1B people you can bet China has drug problems too. You just don't hear about it because there's no free press there.

See:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/despite-a-crackdo...

China and HK have long histories of drug use and opium was widely used there prior to 1949. The Opium Wars were fought in China.
Amazing.

"I caved and sent him a message asking him to please stop messaging me so much or I’d block him."

... "so much or I'd block him." <--- the stalker?
How is what I said not true? The bar is said to 60%. I said 70% so it's actually easier than I thought.

You came up with a number that was close but not enough and you think that proves a point? Get the additional 20 out of every 1000 votes. The reason it's not 50% is because people don't want flip/flopping every few years.
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We quickly developed the prototype, and after just a few months our web app went live! We were the first to use the app, then we told about it our friends, they shared with their friends and so on. The result was a viral effect, and several thousand people registered on our website in the next few days after the release. Our first users left us comments and gave us kind advices on how to improve To Round. At first, we made To Round just for ourselves, but we were so touched to find out that people really do like it, that we decided to continue developing the product. In the summer of 2015, we managed to attract a private investor, which gave us additional resources and allowed to expand the team, launch the Telegram bot, and release iOS and Android apps that our devoted users waited for.

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If you look at the YouTube user thumbnail, it's actually producer Mike Dean who's logged in. Kanye and Dean work closely together, and it very well might be a photo of Dean's computer.

Speculative and sensationalist reporting by Ars.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/user/deanslistproductions
>The high resolution needs to be only at the center of the field of vision. Outside the center, low res will do fine.

It sounds like you're describing foveated rendering[1] which requires that the headset also track where your eyes are looking, not just the direction of your head. It's a very exciting possible future direction for VR/AR but I think it's still a bit off (and likely still requires very high resolution miniaturised display for the foreseeable future)

[1] http://www.roadtovr.com/hands-on-smi-proves-that-foveated-re...
I don't like how everything looks transparent.
Yes, I asked him a similar question a while back when I was investigating the language. I recall the response was something along the lines of that he wrote the language primarily for research into type-safe web APIs, and the language's features were a means to that end rather than an end in themselves. This is unfortunate because as a language it's one of the most exciting that I know of, but like you I have little interest in web apps.

In fact with its current compiler (AFAIK) it can only be run as a web server, which means it's not even possible to write a program which just writes Hello World to stdout and exits. This was frustrating enough to me that I soon gave up on the language. :(
No, you missed the point. It's not that men and women are the same. It's that men do understand societal pressures and it's sexist to imply otherwise.
> The high resolution needs to be only at the center of the field of vision. Outside the center, low res will do fine.

The problem with that idea for goggles is that the "field of vision" doesn't have a fixed center relative to the display, because eyes can move independently of the head (and do in normal human interaction with the environment.)
Right, I do python for living though... so I'm out of luck :P
I think you've hit on an excellent point that Zynga is missing. Zynga's missed an opportunity to brand themselves and build out their community of die-hards.
http://spinnaker.io : deployment software made by netflix (king of daily prod pushes), google, and the community for aws, gce, azure, etc
"The production costs are, again, not significantly lower in ebook than print."

...depending on how many copies are sold, at the minimum. (Physical production and transportation will come to dominate at some point.)

...and, of course, this means that mass market paperbacks should be priced at the same level as first-run hardcovers.
It's too bad Notch's (who made Minecraft) blog got lost. He blogged almost daily when he made Minecraft.
It's basically an instruction book on how you should do it!
That's not what is being called sexist. What is sexist is claiming men can't understand societal pressures.
> Also, Meta has a terrible habit of copying logos. Their old logo was a blatant copy of MIT's "M" and their latest is eerily similar to Mazda's "M" series logo

Not really disagreeing since you have more experience with them than I do but if you asked me to write a cursive M, it would probably come out pretty much the same as both. It's like the laziest logo.
meetup.com

There you go!
Interesting. How did they find the roles? I'm self employed and operate my own UK limited company as a contracting vehicle. Working for Bay Area start ups sounds attractive...
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It's not actually true that you can "lose the copyrights to your music" if you use pirated software to produce it, is it? That doesn't sound at all true.
This is cool, IMO. My main ClojureScript experience to date has been non-web (mobile, bootstrap, etc.), but this fiddle even makes it ridiculously easy for someone like me to quickly try an idea out and just experiment.

No need to run through the ClojureScript "Quick Start"—this is just "Start". :) Bravo!
If You Speak Up, Speak First
I'd want to see deliverability numbers, and "free forever" is probably what got Mandrill into this situation. They had to roll back that promise. No credit card required means spammers just register a new account for every 25k emails they want to send.

I'd rather pay for something sustainable.
Trinket: run code anywhere
It broke down halfway through on Android Firefox =(. Reader mode forever.
For internal use, OK, fine. But what part of the following is not "just text"? "Don’t be naïve. £100 is a lot more than €100—and Hélène knows you know that."
I've been shopping for the same thing for the past 2 years. All I want is a decent picture with low input lag (for gaming) at a reasonable price. That's it. But it doesn't exist anymore.

Every TV comes with enough bloatware to bring Watson to its knees. And the ones that manage to display a picture quickly despite that all extra processing start at $1,500, which is twice the price you would've paid 10 years ago.
From how Zynga HQ looks, that HQ would cost them a really lot of costs.

In my opinion, the problem with Zynga was the social games bubble, years ago I used to read on tech news websites that Zynga is really big to the point that Facebook own 25% of its revenue to Zynga, Facebook was just started monetizing their business. Sometimes you shouldn't "look big" as much as others expect you to be.
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I knew two women who were being stalked online. Both took physical violence to end their stalking.

The first woman I told a friend about. We worked together as landscapers for a local company. He was a low level drug dealer and had some sketchy friends. The more I talked about her and the ongoing saga, he finally told me for a few hundred bucks, he could get it to stop. A few weeks went by and I didn't think much about it, until she said her stalkers messages started going up a notch just like in the story.

I never told her, but I found out the guy's name and after a quick DOXing, I found out where he lived and some other useful information like the bars he frequented. I paid my buddy $200 and turned the information I had on my friends stalker over to him. A week later, my friend said she stopped getting messages from the guy. I found out much later he sent two of his "associates" over to talk to the guy at work. They got him out in the parking lot and assaulted him pretty good. Broken nose, busted lip and several broken ribs. They warned him they would come back and pay him another visit if he didn't stop stalking my friend. It did work and less than a year later, she graduated and moved out of the city.

The other situation was very similar. Another friend of mine was being stalked by a college ex-boyfriend. He was unrelenting, showing up at her work, following her to the bar, and other strange stuff. She finally told her father about after almost two years of him stalking her. Her dad was an ex-marine and had done several tours in Vietnam. He was a quiet guy, but you could tell you didn't want to cross him.

She lived in the city where we were going to college, so most of the time, she lived at home. Her stalker made the mistake of following her home one day. She went in and her Dad asked why there was a car parked down the street. She went to look out the window and knew it was her crazy ex and told her Dad to call the police. Instead, he told her to call the police and hurry because something bad was about to happen. He took his handgun and went through the backyards in order to sneak up on his car. He yanked him out of the car (he later said, "You should have seen the terror in his eyes!") and slammed him on the ground and put the gun in his face and told him he knew who he was and if he ever came near his daughter he would make sure he would walk with a limp the rest of his life or worse. He make it clear not to mess with him or his family ever again. The cops showed up a few minutes later and arrested him for an outstanding warrant and thanked her Dad for calling them. Thankfully, that was the end of her ordeal.

I would never advocate violence in these situations, but when you feel helpless, sometimes there are no other alternatives.
https://archive.is/UBMCT
My point is that I think it's a good bet that they make at least one more game that people like at some point in the future. If they spent 50 million dollars a year running their business they will be around for another 20 years, and in that time span the chances are good they will make another decent game. Then when their stock jumps I will sell it for a healthy cash out.

Another scenario is that they get acquired by a different company. In this scenario it is also likely their share price would jump and I would cash out as well.
Teapots are everywhere: http://www.google.com/teapot
I know and the post did mention such a firm rejection. I'm just stating that the problem is rather that there are people who don't take no for an answer.
Having used the one of their special SPARC dev phones, the OS is actually very very good. Like every device it had limits but it just cruised along like a champion for 90% of tasks and had freakishly good call quality.
I spend a lot of time worrying about this because I consult on accessibility issues, I an an accessibility advocate, and I am a low vision computer user.

Provided that developers use the proper HTML tags and ARIA roles, there shouldn't be any different issues here than with other JS libraries.

However, I want to stress that React, Ember, and Angular are amazing tools for apps, but if you are using them just to render static content, you're just inviting all kinds of accessibility issues that server-side rendering solved years ago. Web servers are optimized to serve static content quickly. Sending JSON to the client so the client can render HTML for a blog post or news article seems pretty wasteful, and again, invites accessibility issues that don't need to be there.
And this is one of the many reasons why these ad networks need to see some movement towards better security, and that will happen as first-party integration becomes necessary (to overcome ad blocking). Not that I like the idea of ad-blocking becoming something that just won't work, it will happen.
What I've read from the article, beside the obvious, is how unaware people are about how technology works.

"With Apple and Google unable to help ...".

She thinks Apple and Google should help with spoofed mails b/c an Apple mail client is used and the spoofed email was from a Gmail address.

Also not understanding identity theft:

"including Danny’s latest identity theft."

Also not understanding the difference between civil legal action and crimes.

In most western countries education about technology and how it works is insufficient. Same goes for law basics that help with life.

Edit: I don't blame this in any way on her.
And <Cmd Shift 4> <Space> lets you take a screenshot of a window!
How is emotion not a feedback system for optimization other than the European prejudice against taking it seriously?
That just means that from all the projects on GitHub that use react-native, 10% of them also use moment.
http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/1997...

Keep in mind that in the 1990's it was rare for Windows uptime to exceed 24hrs and Microsoft demos of new features barely worked if at all. Not to mention that "security" was not yet on the PR agenda.

Gates' home, replete with low quality software a la Microsoft, sounded silly if not scary back then. But what do I know? Maybe it was all very stable and reliable.
How are they descriptions of the same process?

If you understand "optimizing a function" as "getting better at a certain task": A human can get better at a certain task without gaining confidence, and he/she can gain confidence without getting better at a certain task. The two things might be correlated, but they're not the same.

The most important difference is that "gaining confidence" is a feeling, and that simulated optimization algorithm does not have feelings.
You don't need any Wi-Fi to turn the dial up or down. :)
How are you completely open? Can I run a dexter server on my own hardware instead of using your service?

I noticed at https://www.producthunt.com/tech/dexter someone said dexter was "more open" that https://bip.io/ but I don't think that's true. You can find their server code at https://github.com/bipio-server/bipio

I don't mean to come across too harshly, looks like you've built a great product and it is an open platform. Something about seeing it called completely open, while an open source competitor was being downplayed, rubbed me the wrong way.
I'm assuming he means that they have enough money to keep going until they come up with the next cash cow at which point the stock will skyrocket again like a yoyo.

Wether or not that's a good bet is debatable considering their track record to date.
> Where does that leave Jumpshare?

Promoting six-line pull requests on a fringe news website.
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> The demand for high quality weed has never been higher.

That's my point too. And I believe that this increase in demand for high quality weed made many street dealers that sell shitty weed go for heroin. Now heroin is a cheap and common option at your local street corner.

> (...) those types of dealers have been selling every kind of drug they can get their hands on and will never stop.

Exactly. As you put it, they will never stop. It's time to realize that and include them on the equation. Why there aren't policies coercing the typical street dealer to sell safer drugs rather than weird dangerous experimental stuff (like on LSD vs Nbomb)?
Xfer records is very small, its just 2 people really (Steve and I). It's nice seeing this get so much attention. We are a very small company (if you can even call it that, I'm not even full time). Every sale is a big deal for Xfer, and piracy definitely hurts us. We don't have the resources to combat it, and we don't put restrictive copy protection on our software because we don't believe in hurting paying customers to slow down piracy.

It's always a sad reminder for us when we see people (who can obviously afford our software) stealing it :(
Then search for "Large Format Display", for example:

http://www.newegg.com/Large-Format-Displays/SubCategory/ID-6...

or just big monitors:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_hi_eb?rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541...
What you want is a display panel, like what they install in an airport to show arrivals and departures.

These can be purchased individually, but unfortunately they tend to be more expensive than a "smart" TV.
No, that is trademark, and that is only when trademarks are in open consideration for having become "part of the common culture".
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I wonder if they consider how reliable the official schedule is. For example if a bus is supposed to come once an hour on the hour. It would be a bad plan to arrive just 1 minute before the top if the hour since the schedule is probably an approximation.
While you can't represent that as plain ASCII, I think Windows-1252, an 8-bit single-byte encoding, can handle that quite well.
Fascinating! The Swiss government implemented Chris Rock's suggestion for bullet control. I see a fair number of U.S. second amendment supporters citing Switzerland as an example of a safe society with high levels of weapons ownership, but I've never heard them mention this.
Thanks for the research! If they're signing the ECID using an interactive signature algorithm, then it sounds like they've thought it through pretty well.

> And I think the IMEI is more commonly used to identify the radio, not the device itself.

Across manufactures, I'm not sure another quasi-unique identifier in common use.

> Every time you update an iPhone it generates a nonce, called APTicket. Apple signs that, your ECID and the firmware.

This is one variant of interactive signature scheme.
Your English is good enough that I understood your question. With use, it will probably improve over the many years of your career. I guess the answer comes down to whether studying English is more attractive than getting a job right now.

Good luck.
Hopefully they fixed that before attempting to add tea.
Way back (well, just shy of a decade ago) in my CompSci Signal and Image Processing course I got to know this teapot very, very well. Even created a 3-dimensional solar system of orbiting teapots that mimicked the exact orbits and rotations of the planets. Think I posted it on GitHub somewhere, too.
The societal pressures tend to be different, and it is not sexist to say that members of each gender may not immediately understand the particulars of the pressure they receive.
Nice post as alway from Kenneth.

However, this workflow has a little drawback. If you have a dependency not from pipy, e.g. `pip install git+ssh://github.com/kennethreitz/requests.git@master`, it won't work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207658
"Nobody becomes a drug addict by accident."

If I choose to take drugs without the intention of becoming addicted, and I become addicted, then yes, I became addicted by accident. Even if I was aware of the risks of becoming addicted.

Much like how if I decide to drive my car without the intention of hitting anyone, then if I hit someone, it is deemed an accident. Even if I was aware of the risks of hitting someone with my car.
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When I was in high school the U had a summer school where you would use their alpha_1 software for graphics modeling.

alpha_1 was a system going back to the 1980 designed specifically for modeling with NURBS: https://www.cs.utah.edu/gdc/projects/alpha1/help/man/html/in...
I2P is similar to Tor and torrents are a first class citizen in it. There is a thriving filesharing scene and speeds are often alright.
> The demand for high quality weed has never been higher.

A minor point, but cannabis use has gone down.
Both genders receive societal pressure. But they receive different societal pressure. It is not sexist to suggest that members of a gender many not understand the particulars of the pressure experienced by the other gender.
You're confusing anthropogenic climate change (pollution) with natural climate change (end of ice age).
> is the antithesis of the United States, in which freedoms reign

Perhaps compared to Singapore, but my main reason for leaving the US after just 1 year, was the police state feeling that country gave me.

So many draconian rules and heavy fines and penalties. So many aggressive cops who will go after people for the smallest things: under age drinking, jaywalking etc.

American border controls are like an imaginary communist police state. Ironically old east block countries aren't like this presently.

In America there are just rules for everything. I went to an American university and compared to a European one they are total control freaks: no drinking on campus. Boys and girls can't mix. I mean they even got people patrolling the dorms to make sure rules are upheld. It is like some nazi kindergarten for adults.

I left for University in the Netherlands. Instead I got a bar on campus right outside my flat. We lived boys and girls together and nobody was walking around monitoring us.

I even heard from American high schoolers coming on exchange that public display of affection is not allowed. I had never even heard such an expression before. So kissing, hugging etc apparently isn't allowed in American high schools.

Although that sounds so crazy I am willing to believe that is a gross exaggeration.
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We created Bouncelytics[1] after seeing many blogs complaining about how bounce rate is a wrong metric to optimise for. We wanted to create a platform that gives better metrics regarding bounced visitors and why they might be leaving.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

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I think most software (like programming languages) has actually switched to UTF-8 for internal representation, because it has low footprint (for most applications).

You give up efficient O(1) indexing, but I don't think you typically need that. Indexing is far less meaningful for Unicode compared to ASCII.
Fun idea, guys. Good luck to you!
s/meaningful//

Any ASCII text is ipso facto UTF-8 text.