skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" I kept asking the same question but continuing to burn myself out while I considered what to do."
-This is exactly how I feel right now and fear I am headed towards blowing up at my current job because I am just so overstressed. I really like these people I work with and think I need some time away in order to salvage the relationships. Thank you so much for solid advice, you description is spot on to where I am at now and where I want to be.

Thank you!
I will definitely check that out, thank you for the advice, too!
No no, it's a monthly fee. I bet it's not small, either. But if it really makes the design that much better then it's probably worth it.

I reckon that even if they removed the font and somehow reduced the syncing costs, it still wouldn't be worth it to keep the service running.
Do you honestly believe that? Would you say "psychology is not much better than throwing bones" or "epidemiology is not much better than throwing bones?" Because the demands for statistical rigor in economics are far greater than in those fields. http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
It's $299/y I think?

http://www.typography.com/apps/

http://www.typography.com/faq/category.php?topicID=17

If so, kind of surprising that's of an order of magnitude to be an issue.
Large population, favorable demographics (entering its 'demographic surplus' phase), lots of untapped potential?

Also: English-speaking, personal and professional ties to SV? Solid educational system, history of in-sourcing US-based IT and tech development?

Or maybe it's just a big love-fest for Narendra Modi. I have no idea.
As the user of large websites I don't care. I'm not going to read the TOS and I will continue to scrape what I like since it makes my life more convenient. Like OP when blocked I'll just drive my scraping through a web browser which is the same as I've done for years on various sites that never provided APIs.
Depends totally on the licensing cost – some are very cheap, but anything from Hoefler & Co is going to be very expensive, probably prohibitively so.
Did not know about him before. Thanks!
LLVM JIT is a lot better now, but it is also quite suboptimal. Even LLVM's fastest code generator is slow compared to other JITs. That's why Apple's JavaScript engine abandoned LLVM JIT: https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...
Corporations will abuse your personal integrity whenever they get a chance, while abiding the law. Corporations will cry like babies when their publicly available data (their livelyhood) gets scraped. They will take you to court.

They consider their data to be theirs, even though they published it on the internet.
They consider your data (your personal integrity) to be theirs as well, because how can you assume personal integrity when you are surfing the internet?

I have high hopes that the judicial system some time not too far from now will realize that since the law should be a reflection of the current moral standings it will always be behind, trying to catch up with us and that those who break the law while not breaking the current moral standings are still "good citizens" unworthy of prison or fines.

I guess Google won this iteration of the internet because of the double-standars site owners stand by, to allow Google to scrape anything while hindering any competitors from doing the same. There will only be a true competitor to Google when we in the next iteration of the internet realize that searching vast amounts of data (the internet) is a solved problem, that anyone can do as good a job as Google, and move on to the next quirk, around wich there will be competition, and in the end that quirk will be solved, we'll have a winner, signaling that is it time to move on to the next iteration.
The Solow model is a model of capital accumulation, not endogenous technological change per se. Romer (1986) is a better example.
Why did they target all the apple devices? What drives a decision like that?

Don't you want to target the largest demographics first? I would imagine there's a ton of Linux and windows and Android users?
Hmm.. the complementary and problematic fact here is that technology has also shown that on a long enough timeline this will spread.

Seems like the only way to halt the spread would be to criminalize it. But since the justice system has repeatedly upheld specific cases of aerial surveillance, that has a good likelihood of becoming generalized without some executive or congressional action? Would anyone step up?
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In your example it's art imitating life, and there is indeed a neutrality problem:

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
That's interpolated though - I wonder what it'd look like if you had an actual 200fps source (and the ability to play it)
When researchers stop using Excel as their main "database", this problem might be solved.
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> It's interesting by the way that you keep using product names "Lambda", "API Gateway" which aren't concepts but Amazon products. That's marketing. It's like calling all social networks "Facebooks". "Serverless" is a marketing device to sell Amazon services, I think people get it by now.

Amazon is a leader in this area right now but let's not use them. We can talk about Microsoft, IBM, or Google. They use "serverless" to describe their products. Google calls cloud functions a "serverless platform" and "serverless microservices" (https://cloud.google.com/functions/).

Azure functions talk about "processing events with serverless code" and so on. I only meant to use Amazon is an example because people are more familiar with their products.

Serverless is just a descriptor for these kinds of technologies and patterns.
Discoverability is horrible, searching for the exact name of some apps doesn't return that app in the first page of results sometimes. Likewise, why are apps with 2 reviews ranked above apps with 2000?

I've completely given up on using the app store app for finding apps, I just google and then hopefully there is a direct link to the app I'm looking for in the app store.
People always say to get help but how specifically do you find a psychiatrist/therapist? Try them at random from yelp/yellow pages?
Essentially no capital gains on the sale because you expect no price movement over the time period. It may be non-zero but should be insignificant.
I almost lost it at "We hope the date and floating-point conversions will be made non-default options – in deference to the large bioinformatics and biotechnology communities if not for other users."

Sure, the vast biotech community outnumbers those few people who work in some other jobs (or use Excel for private stuff) and enter dates or floating point numbers.

Excel is trying to limit the effect of sloppiness on the part of laypeople. They usually don't set cell formatting to date or number. Excel really does the right thing there.

And if you're a scientist, presumably with a respectable degree and professional responsibilities, learn to use your tool correctly.

Nice how the correct ways to use Excel are listed as cumbersome workarounds.
I strongly disagree with most of what you have described.

A lack of interest in certain topics or unwillingness to engage in particular activities does not automatically imply that I think those are below me or that I'm superior. I'm simply indifferent.

This is a popular misunderstanding that people keep repeating over and over again "Oh he doesn't like X he must think he is too good for that.".

Second I disagree with the notion that complying with the social norm is "social/communication skill" while an unwillingness to conform, or being slightly different from the norm somehow means defective or low "communication skill".

I know damn well how to conform and make everyone approve of me and praise me for "communication skills" but I simply don't want to.

If I don't dive into the smalltalk that's because I have no desire to do so, not because of my communication skills.

It's like a bunch of introverts blaming the others for not having good "solitude skills".

How come we don't fault extroverts for not being able to shut up for a while?
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I buy your argument that we value children too highly in relation to adults, but I think the connection to religion is under-formed at best. If nothing else you need greater specificity of blame: surely there's a common theme with higher correlation than whether people follow a church that split from Catholicism 500 years ago, given the huge variation within that category.

Myself, I'd argue that the way we've built towns has lent itself to destroying community and wealth. We put people in cars so they don't interact with their surroundings. We put the cars on massive road networks we can't afford to maintain (to say nothing of the sewer and water out to the edges of towns.) Then a downturn cones and we cut services because the maintenance is crushing us. We build places that aren't meant to last, and then only the rich can afford to move to the next generation's good suburbs. Everyone left behind was too poor to get out, and now they'll suffer decreased services and accessibility as the local government spends on the new growth areas. Given such a miserable setting, people are unable, by fact of their patterns of life, to look out for one another. Culture breaks down, because there's no community maintaining it. The earth-conquering strength of human teamwork is not utilized in these places; the new suburbs are full of people wealthy enough to overcome that, but the aging ones have no such strength.
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You no longer control your destiny, so making promises you can't control is just rude to your users.

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Hi folks, I produced this project. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
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I made the jump to smartphones late, and I've always used Android, so I missed out on a lot of what iPhones bring to the table. However, I have owned an iPad mini since 2013, and got a few games and (vaguely) 'productivity' apps for it, all free (EDIT: nevermind, I paid for Angry Birds)

But reading contemporary accounts of what Vesper was [1][2], it sounds a lot like yet-another-notetaking app, like Evernote, and lately, Google Keep, albeit one with nice typography and pleasant UX. I sympathize that the price pressure on mobile apps is intense, but could it be that it just didn't offer a compelling enough value, or differentiation from better-known competitors? Perhaps the question is, is there truly space for a dozen different apps that on the surface appear to do the same thing?

[1] https://www.macstories.net/reviews/vesper-review-collect-you...

[2] http://drippler.com/drip/best-note-taking-apps-iphone-and-ip...
You're incorrectly attributing the failure of paid productivity apps to the app store's structure, when in fact it is entirely unrelated. It just so turns out that the market for paid productivity apps on iOS is small, no matter what Apple does with the app store.
What's the alternative?

Remember, these are people who don't understand data types, or if they do they are to lazy to declare them.

I don't see them formulating a correct SQL query. Or use any kind of programming language that has strict typing.

It would have to be a custom-tailored system that knows about nomenclature in the field. Sounds not very efficient.
What I Learned from a Successful Launch
Pros:
1) .Net has strong interop abilities with Excel via COM objects. Where I work, the Operations department basically uses Excel to run 80% of all automated processes. They just need to upload a spreadsheet, press go and everything runs. This is probably .Net's biggest strength.
2)You can run everything out of Visual Studio including Azure integrations
3) Unlike Eclipse, Visual Studio is fast and frankly is full-featured unlike Sublime. It's really nice.
3) Microsoft stack (SQL Server + .net) works well together
4) C# has several frameworks like Web API for REST apis and WCF for SOAP that really make development nice and easy.
5) You do get support
5) The main languages are well-written and full-featured. C# and F# are actually a pleasure to use. C# also gives you LINQ which is really has few if any equivalents in the open-source world.

Cons:
1)Very little is open-source compared to other stacks. Be prepared to pay for everything including deployment mechanisms. This also includes tutorials and other learning resources.
2)Anything outside of Visual Studio is difficult. This is improved with Powershell, but there seems to be a lack of Powershell knowledge among Windows sysadmins/.Net developers compared to BASH knowledge among linux developers.
3)You may need to have 2-3 different versions of Visual Studio installed.
4) If you're doing something unusual that's outside the traditional software stack or requires something that Microsoft hasn't built yet, you may be in for a world of pain

In Summary: .Net really shines when you're using it with the entire .net stack especially if you're using Microsoft Office. Additionally .net has the nicest IDE I've seen so far. If you're used to the open-source world it could be a painful journey. There are tons of libraries without free equivalents in .NET and certainly learning resources are limited.In java or python you could easily switch out parts of your stack, that's not the case with Microsoft. Everything is fairly well-polished but there are missing pieces, especially once you start to stray away from the Microsoft solution to the problem.
This latest shutdown inspired me to write a blog post in response[1] when I first heard about it. Although the reaction is understandable, it's a shame that developers feel compelled to adopt a scorched earth policy when they no longer wish to (or are no longer able to) support their products. These indie apps are often marketed as beautiful, wholesome alternatives to grimy corporate or open source software, but how could I possibly rely on these products for essential tasks like note-taking if they're just going to disappear out from under me in a few years? The idea that software has a lifespan controlled by the developer is, in my opinion, toxic to the market. It's just one of the many things pulling the App Store down, and one of the many downsides of living in a walled garden.

As time goes on, and as I see more and more apps simply disappear off the face of the Earth when developers deem them no longer worthy of their time, I find myself switching over to software that's either backed by large corporations or open sourced, regardless of how clunky it might be compared to "designer" alternatives. My hope is that we soon find a way to collectively monetize the latter. It's simply awful that an app can just "pop" and take so many years of developer and user time with it.

(None of the above is meant to blame Vesper or even comment on the sustainability of the app economy. It's just my sad reaction as a user and, um, app enthusiast. And props to Gruber for the introspective and humble post-mortem.)

[1]: http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/08/21/tool-reliance/
This kind of makes me happy, that this exists.

This must be the saddest AI ever, though. Or at least the most pessimistic about humanity, being trained on YouTube comments...
Three months ago, I shared what I learned from an unsuccessful launch. With those lessons in mind, I built and launched a new product with more traction.

I'd like to again share what I learned in the process.
* Before allowing 1-star review, suggest the user should contact the developer and give 24hrs for a response.

* Allow users an option to either post a review or submit a public question.
Disallowing JIT due to security. That's something I'd like to understand. What might I Google?
What does gut biome have to do with type-1 diabetes?

Three-week-old PAT males, for instance, had a nearly
complete loss in their intestines of certain bacteria
shown in past studies to normally train the immune
system.

The working theory is that bacteria in the gut is involved with training the immune system to not attack itself. I wonder if lack of gut biodiversity in infants could also be leading to increased incidence of other autoimmune disorders?
There seems to be a negative reaction to apps using IAP as a paid upgrade, though.

I, personally, like the business model as long as the app is very clear about what is offered with and without the IAP, but I have rarely seen a review mention this practice favorably.
It's largely an artifact of the cloud dependency of mobile apps in particular. Every app has a bill someone must pay and a server or other cloud presence someone must maintain, patch, etc.

App stores also contribute in that an app without a dev account ceases to exist and can't be easily installed by anyone. So if the maintainer goes away so does the app.

In the PC era software could live forever. Even closed source PC apps can still easily be run today on emulators.
There is no need to ignore anything. Emotional bias is precisely why we have brains to balance them. If you can recognize you have bias you're all set. And lo and behold, next time you won't get as angry in the same situation, etc.
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I found mine from a referral through an email to the author of an article on Psychology Today about issues similar to what I was going through, describing the kind of qualities I was looking for (specifically, I asked if they knew someone who'd be able to understand when I use movie and TV analogies to describe how I'm feeling).

The author must have forwarded my email to a colleague (who may have, in turn, forwarded it to further links in a chain - all the intermediary addresses were duly absent from the final referral I got, as should be expected from professionals), because soon after, I got a response from a new contact, referring me to a therapist who turned out to be a good fit.

Looking for a therapist can really suck (I'd had somewhere around eight months of trying at least five different bad-fit therapists before I tried the random-midnight-email approach above), so I figured I'd mention the approach that actually ended up working for me.
This site consists of deliberately plagiarized content. The site owner hypocritically admits the plagiarusm and keeps promising to remove it but all remains in place.
I agree with you that I am, for some reason unknown to even me, more likely to spend $20 in increments on things I will never use on iOS than I am to spend any amount on the Mac App Store.

On that note, however, Mac Apps do seem disproprotionally more expensive for similar functionality but that is a different topic.
I wish I knew that before

Which is directly due to NBC being the exclusive licensee for Olympic IP in the US, so the Vue could not advertise itself in terms of providing Olympic coverage. You could have come across one of the many articles and howtos for watching the games without cable, but it never would have been advertised to you.
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I went to a top tier school. Lot's of people would pop ADHD medication, received from friends, to cram before exams.

I've heard from doctors that it's not supposed to work like that, but here we are, friends are still taking it to get an edge.

Also it seems kind of prevalent in Wall Street. It does seem like a lot of people benefit from it, but I think a lot of people think: would I be working in Wall Street if I where doping? I think that's the crux, we are all competing for the highest salary/status in either small or big ways. I'm not saying it's wrong. Might be good for humanity that everyone that shows any effect starts to take it. It's the insecurity of not knowing if we should take it that makes people become frustrated at the doctors and patients. I don't think anything can really be done about it as long as we are competing. The next question would be: If this doesn't work, what medication will work to make me better than the best? Almost everyone says than we shouldn't care about that, but their actions speaks louder than their words, how many do you know that moves away from big cities for example? No one. Have a nice watch? Brags about working a lot?
When I saw this title, the thing that jumped onto my head was child car seats. Beyond infant seats, child seats don't provide any significant benefit over sitting in the back with a seatbelt. The difference between those two is an often-perceived, but infinitesimal, risk.

On the other hand, we don't judge parents for driving their kids all over the place, or living far away from things so that they're forced to drive many miles with their kids. But that's a highly risky behavior.

If you live in a place that's walkable for your kids, you've probably sheltered them from far more danger than child predators ever pose.
Agree 100%. I use the built-in Notes app on iOS with no problem. And it has a macOS app. Gruber is overthinking it -- his app simply wasn't compelling.
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I think the IOC might be shooting themselves in both of their feet here

They might get a piece of the vig kicked back to them, but by the time the games started the IOC already had their payday.
Interviewing is like dating and there is a certain amount of randomness to it. For every interview you might as well roll some dice. A certain percentage will reject you NO MATTER WHAT. It happens. Especially at large companies like Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc.

I've done a fair share of interviews as well and would be glad to give you a bit of feedback as well.
Ken White is an (arguably) highly successful lawyer(partner in his own firm, happily married with two children, etc), who runs the law blog popehat.com. He has been diagnosed with major depression, and a lot of people have said his posts on it have really helped them re-evaluate their position: https://popehat.com/tag/depression/
Its compile-time performance is unquestionably its biggest problem for JITs nowadays. But there's a big difference between being so buggy it's virtually unusable and its performance being suboptimal.

It's also worth pointing out that even "long-running" in JS terms is often considered "short-running" in more general JIT terms, so compile-time performance is even more critical in the JS case than elsewhere.
Hope this makes it into Wikipedia instead of here.
(Disclaimer: I am writing about 0.1% of Americans/Germans, not about 99.9%. And I assume you do to.)

> So next time someone tells you that american banks are responsible for screwing up the world. Point them at the Germans and the Swiss :)

Yes, that sounds plausable when we read the OP. And I am not here to defend Germans, but the largest shareholder of DB are Americans at BlackRock:

https://www.db.com/ir/en/shareholder-structure.htm

(6.05% held by BlackRock Inc., New York)
I disagree. What do you see so different in that blog post ? OP is struggling with interview puzzles not concepts of data structure, common algorithms. I think it is far too easy to devise a problem that even most current interviewers would fail. I'm saying this after being hired and seeing the level of knowledge most interviewers possess.
I suspect that this will lead to students paying taxes on scholarships (and other graduate student funding) at some point in the future. It was a "feel good" win in the short run, but it will be harmful for students in the long run.
Points for communicating and being honest. But it still scares me a little that a process like that can be so easily skipped.
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