skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like an excellent start, and definitely fills a needed niche under OS X. As far as feature feedback, and perhaps for 2.0, one possible addition you could consider for your idle detection or tracking capabilities would be Bluetooth device reads. When I leave my system I take my phone, so in turn that can act as a useful automatic proxy for whether I'm in the area so to speak or not. I use that already to automatically do things like change my away status on IRC or activate the screensaver if I've forgotten and change display timeout. It's a niche nicety and not really necessary but might be worth considering. Alternatively if Qbserve was AppleScript-able enough that could just be handled via scripting same as anything else.

As far as marketing if you decide you'd like to just get it in front of a lot of possible seats you might consider picking one or more of the application bundles, particularly "productivity" focused ones, and see about getting it in there. You won't make much money on it directly, but it is a good way to get a lot of people who wouldn't necessarily risk it otherwise to give it a spin without actually giving it away for free, and in turn sell paid upgrades from there. I wouldn't necessarily suggest doing that vs pure organic, at least not for a while, and how much economic sense that'll make for you depends on existing sales and what sort of major upgrade schedule you're considering. It's an option to consider though and can be one of the better forms of advertising, in that it goes right to a naturally more targeted, self-selected audience for low outlay. Qbserve certainly looks plenty quality enough to fit in. Best of luck to you!

Edit to add: While you specifically contrast this to business software for controlling employees, nevertheless I think a number of small businesses in particular might find this interesting, more from the employee empowerment/knowledge point of view rather then control. To that end some form of basic multiseat discounts might earn you some more bulk orders (doesn't even have to be much, 5% off 5-10, 12% off 10-50, etc, or whatever makes sense to you). Similarly, things like Educational/Non-profit discounts and Family seats are tried and true ways to get people on the train.

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Also a small bit of extra kudos postscript: thank you so much for going to the trouble to actually choose a distinct, unique non-word name for your software. The trend of picking single standard words for application names (acknowledging that modern Apple is the originator of evil here) has been incredibly irritating as it makes searching and discussion entirely unnecessarily more difficult.
This is a good article about different wrapper types in Rust http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/27/wrapper-types-i...
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The title should probably reflect the fact that the study focuses specifically on Tweets containing the words "slut" and "whore"
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> The cruel irony of this kind of job growth is that it doesn't benefit the people who are being displaced

That's because they're being displaced. Because there is not enough housing.

There are a lot of benefits to being in a wealthy area even for those who are not the ones with the highest paying jobs, as Enrico Moretti explains in "The New Geography of Jobs".

And if you want to see what an actual bad economy does for people.... check out Greece, or even Italy (which isn't nearly as bad off). It's not pretty.
Headline seems a bit misleading. "Half of online abuse" seems to suggest that this study is representative of the internet as a whole instead of just twitter. While the findings are still worthwhile, I think we'd see different results if the study could have included sites like 4chan, reddit, tumblr or even facebook. Of course, there are practical challenges to getting accurate demographic information on those platforms, but I suspect that fact also factors into the nature of abuse that persists on those sites.
It's been much more than only disappearing images for a while.
Equality between genders is unlikely, there will likely always be imbalances one way or another. Studies like this to me help counter myths related to gender though, which is important; aka science is good.
Sorry but I can't understand your first paragraph since I can't figure out the pronouns and specifically what objects you're measuring/looking up the wattages of. Can you clarify?
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Sure, a light-bulb does not destroy any energy, it uses electricity and increases Entropy. If you want to say it consumes something then a light bulb consumes the potential to create Order by transforming electricity into heat and light.
> His point though was that SF isn't particularly suitable as a city for startups; there's no magical "tech gold" that you can't get elsewhere, like West Virginian coal - people go there just to be in the game, because that's where the VCs chose to be. Historical and geographical factors in fact make it a particularly unsuitable place for a bootstrapped startup to exist.

While I agree with that I don't see any of that in the parent's post. It's actually pretty frustrating so many VCs insist that companies need to be in SV as there really isn't a real need to be and I know start-ups that would be much happier if they could get VC funding but not be in SV.
You are 100% right! I am guilty of the same thing even though I lived in those days.
Interesting. The first click brought me to the imgur page but a second click brought me directly to the image.
It works completely offline, so feel free to block it with firewall.

WakaTime works only with developer apps.
don't worry, females are probably responsible for half of that other stuff too.
The females of the species have a most unfortunate habit:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150223-mysteries-of-canniba...

The males are kind of accustomed to being eaten.
The article says they had revenue of $59m in 2015, so A) they're not profitable and B) they probably aren't even thinking too hard about trying to be. For now, growth numbers are enough to get them buckets of cash, so that's most likely what they're focusing on.
If you take the argument to those extremes, you'll end up not eating anything. Or you'll spend your entire life trying to work out what impact your actions might have in order to justify whether to take them or not. The OP clearly stated their criteria. You also have criteria for what you choose to eat which could just as easily be picked apart with similar reductio-ad-absurdum 'reasoning'.
It makes sense.

A 'whore/slut' women in a society has the most destructive effect on other women's sexual prospect. So I am surprised that there is a taboo against that - the only thing that surprised me is when men think its a bad thing - since it doesn't hurt them having many sexually adventurous women around.
Not really, you have much better hardware for that, one that could actually do hacking (not that many people still use WEP these days since it's not the default anymore on pretty much all routers).

There isn't that much use for it, it's very small so people find it cool and spystuff like, it might have some uses like a cheap rogue access point detection system in places where you don't want any wireless networks but beyond that kinda nothing.
Easy to spoof. Pinboard is listed as dead, though the healthcheck url on their site is Pinboard.im, not Pinboard.in
Make sense. Women are very prone to backstabbing and degrading others as a way to boost their own power and self-image. Look at any middle or high school female clique.
Scala's type system is also turing complete. They sometimes use type lambdas to get around some of the inexpressiveness of the type system.
I downvoted it because it is not relevant to the submitted article. I would rather see discussion on the actual result - Java generics are not decidable. A discussion on whether or not Java generics are good is, in comparison, boring.
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lol you mad bro?
These boards are dirt cheap. 2 dollars cheap. It depends if you'll be running these devices from an outlet or battery. The ESPs will do exactly what you want but there's a learning curve. I don't know your experience with all of this, but I recommend picking up an arduino starter kit, some rf shields, a good soldering iron, and misc wires/caps/transistors etc. Play around with that stuff first and it'll be easier to transition into the ESPs.
Nordic Semiconductor have a nice set of devices for this kind of thing. Or have a look for Zigbee or 6lowpan if you might want to mix vendors.
Yes, it's until June, 30.
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forget the valutation, what can a social media app possibly spend nearly $2B on? not like it's uber where they need money to enter new markets. maybe google appspot bumped up the bills lol

only logical thing is founders taking a load of money off the table
Nobody wants to be the last person to invest in Snapchat.
I think it has more to do with the fact that the article starts taking a topic that's completely orthogonal to everything before it. There's some good technical advice beforehand about getting into compiler hacking, but as soon as you break into the "On Free Time" section, the article for some bizarre reason delves into how most compiler hackers are privileged.

Sure, like anything in tech most people doing it are likely male and probably white, but I think the entire section is for a different article entirely. Reading it, it appears that the author cares more about making a point about how compiler hackers are mostly "privileged" and how you need to find a code of conduct so you can avoid the assholes (the author admits it won't be a silver bullet, but that's not the point here). In any case, the whole section doesn't really give much advice to people who _already_ want to be compiler wizards, but sounds more like trying to sell becoming one to somebody who is nervous about getting into tech in general. As I mentioned before, it comes off as orthogonal to what the article introduces itself as.
Wow, this is kind of scary. Snapchat is so clearly a fad, I don't know what to say to these investors. Most of their users are youth, who will drop Snapchat in a second once it isn't cool. As soon as moms and marketers get on it, the service is dead.

Having your messages disappear was kinda cool, but they're starting to ease up on that a little (you can re-view some snaps, always possible to screenshot the app to save the picture). The whole dog-face, barfing rainbows thing is getting tired now, everyone knows how these work, it's nothing special any more. They have some sponsored content, but the user is under no obligation to view it.
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Ask HN: Any Devs using HubStaff for time-tracking?
It's obvious, but not addressed in the pdf: What about motorcycles and bicycles?

Based on the effect that smaller vehicles have higher frequency increases, would we see a bicycle as the highest? Also, if I am a cyclist and I want to trigger a left turn arrow, for example, should I pay attention to where in the loop I stop to wait?
People did say that and they were right. Facebook is currently valued at over $300 billion.
Nothing I wrote indicated that it was, "ok to out him because he's a billionaire". TFA doesn't explicitly advance that proposition, but that's the subtext. Meanwhile, reasonable people would like to see some media entity that is not deferential to billionaires, with respect to important topics. So long as its only focus is the sexuality of semi-famous dudes, Gawker is not that entity.
I'd like to know what percentage of online abuse was directed at women. My hunch would have been 50/50 for dealing it out, but I am not so sure the split is even for taking it.
Good point, Edited - I meant what it launched as.
Yea. Slap on a pair of dog ears and a filter. And then disappear.
In the comment above, I try to clearly lay out that my conclusion rests on the assumption that for a given candidate, avg views per article and number of articles are independent.

I agree that if you reject this assumption, and instead assume that there are 'diminishing returns', then the conclusion I arrived at could be wrong.

There probably is some kind of diminishing return effect, but we don't know how strong it is. It could be weak compared the the effect that 'readers will consume whatever journalists write'. It's pretty interesting the all of the last four leading candidates (Trump, Cruz, Clinton, and Sanders) all had roughly comparable numbers for pageviews per post. That's evidence that readers just pretty much read whatever is published (with the exception of Kasich, a long shot).

It's also true that if you're a journalist right now, faced with the current distribution of articles, you're likely to get more page views by writing your next article on Clinton. This claim doesn't rest on any strong assumptions. That could change if many more articles on Clinton are written, but it's true for now.

If you look at the data in the dashboard, it's also interesting to see that Bernie Sanders gets way more social and search referrals compared to Clinton and Trump.
This is one of the worst piece of advice, IMHO. Here's why.

1) You can't add housing without adding proper infrastructure (transportation, sewage, power, etc). Adding infrastructure is expensive and takes a very long time. There will be no budget for proper infrastructure increase if the population keeps rising - remember that hundreds of thousands of people work for companies that offshore their taxes.

2) Most people need financial advice on what real estate investment means. If there's another bubble burst, a lot of average income people will have their life ruined. They would have bought an apartment for, say, $1M, with 200k down, only to see its value decrease by 30-35%, essentially wiping out their savings and forcing them into unsustainable debt.

3) I wish there was an easy way to fix the housing problem in SF. There isn't. Let's be realistic about it.

Please don't downvote me just because you disagree with me. Instead, tell me why.
More and more it seems the entire excersize is just elaborate cover for Evan and Mark to have a dick measuring contest.

Evan: "I'm coming for you, you know you'll have to buy it all sooner or later, try not to insult me with your next offer!"

Zuck: "In your dreams kid!"
Limited audience. Limited monitization potential. It's a simple utility app so there is limited IP. I think this valuation will be as fleeting as the images they send. But still kudos to the founders for making hay from something so simple.
>needing 2 billion

They probably don't need 2 billion but can grow faster by making use of this money instead of going for some aggressive monetization. I don't get why everyone acts like Snapchat is unable to monetize the platform — they just don't want to if they don't need to yet.
I can't wait for the ESP32 to become generally available. Bluetooth, way more IO, dual core processor. Basically taking all the lessons of repurposing the ESP8266 as a IoT board and applying it to a purpose built chip that is still supposed to be dirt cheap compared to things like a Particle Photon.
> I am afraid world has already forgotten.

Forgotten what?

I think I'd like Chelsea personally, and I'm sorry for all that she has had to go through. But what is it, exactly, that we are supposed to be remembering and talking about here?
YES! to both parents here. Type erasure is a bitch.

Need to pass in a class type, but it's of a list?

List<YourType> list = new ArrayList<>();
yourfunc(list.getClass());

C# got all this junk right.
Two important points here.

#1 Gawker did not out Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel outed Peter Thiel. Back when Friendster was a thing he had a public profile which featured him shirtless on a boat which clearly advertised his interest in handsome men. So on the scale from Closet Queen to Totes Obvious, he was more on the side of totes obvi. It was also the worst kept secret in San Francisco, particularly if you had any latin friends. So Owen Thomas was right in concluding that Thiel was already out when he ran his "Peter Thiel is totally gay" piece because it wasn't news to anybody.

#2 if Hulk Hogan is claiming injury and embarrassment from a sex tape, why did he make a sex tape? Yes, Gawker is muck raking trash (I just read it for the comments!), but they trade in such material. Unless I am missing something, Gawker didn't trick him into making a sex tape. Common sense would tell you that if you don't want your sex tape on the Internets, don't make a sex tape in the first place.
Some people at the margins are gifted, but hopelessly self-destructive. The point I'm making is, in an age where being non-married well into adulthood and even as a parent is accepted (even incentivized!), consciously choosing to get and stay married may be a proxy for other successful characteristics, which the middle of the bell-curve could afford not to have when social pressures toward the stable marriages was stronger.
Well, Mark Suster and Justin Kan are just two examples of gorwnups using Snapchat successfully for video blogging.
I paid 10.
Not only a product with minimal apparent value, but one that is incredibly difficult to use. It's been suggested that a poor UX and ugly product was actually what helped it take off [1]. That young users knew their parents wouldn't "get it".

1. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/01/...
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Just curious what your feelings are about this level of 'tracking'.

Do you feel comfortable with it?

Is it too obtrusive?

Would you walk away from a project if this was required of you?
I know there is some kind of community on Imgur, but I wonder what percent of it (or the content it enjoys) only exists because it was the unofficial image host for Reddit.

Once Reddit is largely gone, will the community survive?
I'm not sure if you articulated your overload beef correctly. What you wrote is trivially possible so charitably, you wrote it wrong.
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I would kill to finally get an Android alternative on Verizon. Good luck with that though.
This looks like a great tool. Im testing it out now.

I regularly use multiple computers for personal/work. Can there be a way to cross sync data across systems using an external host? I'd like to use Dropbox or some similar solution to keep the data files up to date.

Would that be possible?
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What is your long-term monetisation plan here then? One-time payment won't last forever, as we've seen from different programs lately.
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> One reason the marriage rate may be is dropping is that it's become fairly disincentivized for men.

The business relationship is rather pointless, for both sexes, these days.

Marriage once existed so that, traditionally, the woman would stay at home to care for the household and children allowing the man to focus on his career. The idea being that the man would do better with help than he could all on his own, thus the woman sharing in the proceeds she helped create. This is why divorce defaults to splitting assets 50/50.

Now that men and women are much more apt to work independently – each working both in and out of the home – there is little need to solidify a legal partnership to protect the partner not collecting the income.
i dunno, it sounds to me like you get it just fine.
What amazes me the most, is that they likely new passwords were probably compromised way back in 2012, and might have suspected it was a far worse compromise, but only forced the password reset for most users now, after they leaked. "Durzy said it was not yet determined whether the email addresses that corresponded to the hacked passwords were also stolen."
- http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/fbi-to-help-l...

Why would they think/assume only the passwords were compromised and not all of the associated email addresses?! Why did they assume only the number of leaked passwords were the number originally stolen?

The only reason why the millions upon millions of unsalted SHA1 password hashes leaked now, is likely because they stopped being useful for attackers. People working in the incident response space know: the 2012 breach quickly resulted in hundreds of follow-up breaches, some of them known, some of them not public. How? Likely from shared passwords due to the linkedin breach, also likely why linkedin was targeted in the first place... as a precursor for follow-up attacks targeting Google apps accounts and VPNs without 2FA (which leads to more passwords, and repeat.)
Sorry I can't offer much advice but I hope you find a way out of this rut.

How long have you been with this company? If you've been there for over a year (and/or have a good portfolio, github profile, etc) I'd say that would help your chances to be hired without a CS degree.

However, if you're not close to that and the job is really bringing you down that much, don't stay just to get to a milestone like that. Sadly overlong days do seem (in my opinion) to be quite prevalent in IT, though, so try to get a good feel for the work/life balance at any new job before moving on.

I'm afraid since I don't do hiring and am probably in a different country (I assume you're in the US) I don't know what the market will be like otherwise, but hopefully someone else will reply soon...
Web apps did not require c/c++. Plenty of ASP, and Perl/CGI sites in those days. The burn rates were insane but it didn't have a lot to do with the developer resources required. For one thing there was no AWS so many web companies built their own data center an exhorbitant capital and operational expense.
This is self-published research by a think-tank, not a peer reviewed scholarly publication; also, the actual paper for this finding doesn't yet seem to be available, just summaries by news organizations. This article does link to some older papers by them, which go into very little detail on methodology.

As such, it's really hard to say what kind of abuse they are talking about; slut shaming and rape threats, while both awful, can be quite different. Also, I am curious about how they accurately determine gender of Twitter users; there are many fake accounts on Twitter, and I don't believe Twitter even reports gender identity of users.
Curious how different teams on HN settled on their product development process.

For us it was a painful journey—we weren’t able to get much done at first, everything was always ‘almost ready’. We ended up having to part ways with a PM who could’ve been great but wasn’t experienced enough to put the right processes in place.

Things pickup up as soon as we stripped our process down to bare minimum, measured our productivity and worked on improving it every week.
If you're simply replacing cheap housing with an equal number of expensive units, yeah, that's not doing much good. The idea is to add to the total number of units.

Filtering does work, but as you point out, it takes time: https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2016/05/25/housing-does-f...

But just because the best time to build more was 30 years ago doesn't mean now isn't a good time to start.

Also: if you are adding expensive housing it takes some pressure off of the cheaper housing that would otherwise be the 2nd choice of those going into the expensive housing.
And most likely if you parsed specifically tweets containing the n word, you'd find most of said tweets are authored by black people.

Not sure what the point of this article is.
Sorry, no, it will require complete re-write and the app also heavily relies on OS X accessibility.

But I remember using ManicTime on Windows, give it a try maybe.