skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with that at all. It's up to him to set the price for his improved product, whether it's 10% more or 100% or 1000%. It's unfair though when an old version of his product is presented at an old price point using present tense verbs on TV. Of course viewers are going to think it's a bait and switch when they try to buy it. It harms his business.
Angular is a google project, why is it separate?
Rule #1 of advertising: Don't pay for your advertising...
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There is risk involved in doing that. I've seen a lot of people come back to their former employer after trying out a new place and not having it work out. If you give a real accounting of your opinions in an exit interview, that escape hatch from the new gig would probably close.

The amount of leverage you have is heavily dependent on the perception of your bosses. If your bosses know how rare a good programmer is and truly do value you, then you shouldn't have these problems anyway, and I'm sure they'd rectify them ASAP if you brought them up. Many of us don't work for such enlightened people, though.
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The risk that favors Roth IRAs includes the risk that the tax code will change to include higher rates than the current tax code.

Also note that any increased or decreased "need" doesn't factor in to the calculation.
This is a pretty naive approach in most cases.

There are tons of companies (I'd argue most) where firstly there's no "next big salary" to be received (it's a slooow upwards trajectory) and secondly promotions are not based on who works harder than everyone else.
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Arguing that present technology is insufficient doesn't prove that all future technology would be insufficient. The trajectory of improvement rather suggests the opposite.
Slowest weaponization ever. If they'd just let modders make money, they would have already stolen legions of devs from iOS.
It's interesting how nowadays a founder of a public company could become a cash billionaire with his company always losing money. This was not possible even 50 years ago, at least not typical.
Twitter is useful to break "news" of public relevance: be it a natural disaster, political news, celeb news etc.

Personal news like new job, birth, marriage, etc already has a network: FBK.

> the central gathering place for journalism.

An unmoderated place of journalism.

The difficulty lies in the interesting development of news outlets increasingly moderating their boards or disabling them completely for certain posts to combat abuse by trolls, racists, etc, the very problem Twitter has not been seen to do much to counter.
I believe so, and with his conditions it seems a reasonable suggestion. The judge seems to think he can go on suicide watch. We'll have to wait for appeal.

McKinnon had wide support in parliament and media, and seemed to get a much higher profile than this case has. May's politics are complex - she's a liberal tory, but very right on some issues. The forum bar is probably window dressing - it looks designed to change little, and adds a prosecution certificate that can negate it (not sure how they get that certificate). Love just failed the forum bar. She also removed, in the same act, the ability of the Home Secretary to intervene on human rights grounds - passing that to the High Court. IANAL but that would see McKinnon extradited under current rules.

So, coalition or May? Can never be sure, but I think the coalition will have moderated.
I would prefer everyone to contribute to education out of a kindness rather than wanting money for it. If companies looked towards the future, more might survive. Being known as someone that just wants money or gets money from tax money causes a hostility. Being known as benevolent instead of evil would be a great thing for any company (excluding hidden and niche companies).
Just a thought: what if I only ever buy secondhand DVDs. I can only afford (read: justify the expense of) secondhand DVDs and CDs.

The content makers / publishers / distributors never see a cent of the secondhand DVD market.

Downloading pirate films is similar in that sense.

Ok, the argument could be made that the secondhand market props up the primary market, but I don't buy it. I don't think people buy new DVDs with the thought of "I'll be able to sell this for $2 to the pawn shop after I've watched it" as a motivating factor.

And, there is no secondhand market for digital media. Media piracy is the flea market of digital downloads. So an argument could be make that media piracy severs that sector of the market we would only buy secondhand DVDs anyway.

Also 2x adult theatre tickets, AUS25 each, costs as much as my monthly Internet connection bill. I know there are a lot of Australians who would not be able to justify that expense.
That's quite the blanket statement. Refactoring is just as much of a problem in statically typechecked languages. I write unit tests for a large C++ codebase and find them incredibly valuable when refactoring. Typically each class has a responsibility. The unit tests verify they are carrying out that responsibility correctly. Acceptance tests validate behavior across multiple units (the hard stuff). I fail to see how unit testing in languages like C++ wastes time. We spend far less time finding and fixing bugs than when we didn't have them.
> Thankfully, I've not felt the need to even consider this approach for the past 20 years.

That's because of all the branch predictors, probably. ;)
"The non sequiturs rationalizing piracy (most likely as a proxy for rationalizing their own) in the comments is amusing, to say the least."

That's what I responded to.
I've never had a LinkedIn account, and I've opted out of receiving "<Person> wants you to join their professional network on LinkedIn!" emails, and yet I somehow manage to get 2-3 messages from LinkedIn per month.

https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617 rings true.
Sounds wonderful! I was recently working onsite at a Scandinavian bank that had office spread all over Europe. We had people fly in from Sweden and Poland to meet in person, but I loved how all of the remote teams were tied together. At the office I was in, every employee was wearing a Jabra Evolve headset, they were tied in to Skype, and had the Linc (I think?) LEDs sticking up from their monitors to show availability status.

The headsets had a little pad that sat on your desk for changing volume, music tracks, accepting/cancelling calls. They were noise-cancelling headsets, had a flip-down mic that stowed in the headband out of the way when not in use, and had a push-to-listen where you press in on an earcup to cancel the noise-cancelling functions and hear what was going on in the office around you.

I think most employees worked with others from remote offices regularly, though I'm not sure how many actually worked from home. It just felt like a very seamless system that allowed everyone to be connected to each other.
Nice try, Jack.
+1 for documenting intent.
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80 MWh. 20 MW.
Where is the research and what are the arguments that support Minecraft's educational utility? I haven't devoted a great deal of time to seeking them out, but so far I haven't found very convincing literature. Don't get me wrong, it seems like a great creative outlet, but why should a school prefer this over alternatives like music, art, or writing? I've seen a number of references to Minecraft's ability to simulate circuits and create logic gates, but how is this better than another logic board simulator or cheap electronics? For as many interesting lessons as Minecraft offers, the video game aspect of it necessitates a lot of "grinding" and virtual physical labor that doesn't seem particularly enriching. There is real intellectual meat buried within, but to this outsider it looks like "mostly entertainment" rather than "educational and entertaining".
A small fry is unhappy things didn't work out after he went for a swim in the _shark tank_, eh?
You can't build and install pumped hydro in 3 months.
Uber's insane valuation hinges on growing from a cab service into a Dominoes competitor? A Peapod competitor? A Zipcar competitor? An Amazon competitor? All of them? It just seems so improbable that one company would capture every single market segment that falls under "Cell phone app to get things in near-real time"
>The problem is that Twitter has taken ~$2.8 billion of investors' money and has never made a profit.

I see this type of thing all the time about various companies, i really dont understand the thinking behind it.

Why is it Twitter's fault that people handed them 2.8 billion dollars?

The investors were the ones who created the terms of the agreement, they wrote the check - how could it possibly be anyone but their fault that their investment didn't work out?

If i bet on 33 black and lose a hundred bucks - is it because 33 black did something wrong?
I don't remember the Apple context perfectly, but I think a key difference here is that Microsoft is selling it to educational institutions.

Alright, I had to look it up:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/apple-launches-coding-camp...

But yes, Apple was doing the bootcamps pro-bono. Yeah...I don't really mind the use of "weaponizing" in this context.
Should a well-designed codebase contain special places where "things really happen"? What about the other places then?
> 1) Always be invested in the market. Corollary, don't time the market. This is by far the largest mistake people make.

The easiest way to tell if someone understands financial markets is to find out whether they believe they can time the market. If they believe they can predict the market, they don't know what they are talking about.

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Or it just exposes Uber's strategy to throw money at the problem to capture the market first and solve details like legality or profitibility later. Which is kind of what you have to do when you have billions lying around and investors that expect you to multiply them.
Make no mistake, the lifelong servitude of Mandela and Gandhi is so far beyond the work of a businessman, however groundbreaking and amazing Musk is, that it's a societal disgrace to humanity to reference them as equals. I write this as someone who respects and admires Musk as much as anyone in this forum, if not more.
I get emails on addresses that don't have linkedin accounts. I've opted out in every way indicated in the emails. They keep coming. AFAICT the only way to stop those is to actually create an account on that address.

On the address that does have an account, I've opted out of every kind of email. They just keep adding new kinds of emails every few months that I then have to opt out of again.
I was able to work through the first three chapters using racket in Emacs, including the part dealing with pictures http://i.imgur.com/fwCUUZI.png
Or, more likely, because they're behind the eight ball.
Those things should also produce artifacts that can be reviewed by someone knowledgeable in tech.

Besides, it's not a day by day review, it should be week or month. If you haven't produced any artifacts in a week or a month then...
Right, but the person you replied to was giving the counterfactual that not all jobs are like that. It didn't need to be rebutted; they were not instead stating that ALL jobs are flexible, just pointing out not all AREN'T.
Problem in the US too, "Being Declared Dead By The Social Security Administration Is Very Inconvenient... the Social Security Administration accidentally declares about 9,000 people living in the United States dead every year."

https://consumerist.com/2015/05/04/being-declared-dead-by-th...
FWIW I was using R to produce Unix system-utilisation charts about 15 years ago — I never thought it was particularly esoteric.
I've always sort of been inspired by his project, and how powerful crowdsourcing can be.

We built a physical version of the million dollar homepage using 3D printing and crowdsourcing. A few thousand pieces were printed around the world and mailed to us for a crowdsourced sculpture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/printtopeer/sets/7215763613331...
Sounds like using quantum computers for decrypting data is a real thing if there is such an investment to prevent it.
Number Twelve: What was the Treaty of Adrianople?

Number Six (looking puzzled, but answering automatically): September... 1829.

Number Twelve: Wrong. I said "What," not "When." You need some special coaching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_(The_Prisoner)
Maybe if the other members of the international community invested as much into it, they'd get an equal say. The split is something like NASA 80%, Russia 10%, rest of world, 10%. (Although it depends how you adjust for inflation)
There exist many people on HN (of course not a consensus) who disagree with the FSF's position that proprietary software is unjust.
The real trick is to shoot from a location with low light-pollution. Urban and suburban areas are incredibly polluted and equipment can't fix a view that just isn't there. In dark-sky areas, the Milky Way is easily visible to the naked eye.

The red Hoya Intensifier filter helps somewhat - it cuts out the spectrum that is emitted by sodium-vapor lamps commonly used for street lighting. It's not perfect but it helps.

You either need to use a fast enough shutter speed that you won't get star traces from the Earth's rotation, or get a tracking mount that can follow the rotation.

High ISOs (high sensor sensitivity) are really helpful for keeping the shutter speeds down. Modern cameras have made huge progress on high-ISO performance with good noise levels. The Sony A7S is particularly good.

For Milky Way photography you will want a fast wide-angle lens. Astrophotography is considered one of the most challenging tasks for a lens because you'll be shooting near wide open. Modern computer-aided-design lenses with exotic glass and aspheric surfaces significantly outperform older lenses. I am a big fan of Samyang's lineup, their lenses are top-notch for reasonable prices.
If his product improved enough to price it so much greater, he should have versioned his product. If his "improvements" were just a farce and he just wanted to increase the price, then it is a bait and switch. Either way, this boils down to him being bad at business.
But with reruns, they should include a disclaimer that says the original date and that prices may have changed.
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The novelty of the idea helped a lot.
What about the code for this python regular expression engine that is filled with goto statements?
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/sre_li...

Or the code for the OpenSSL handshake that interleaves preprocessing directives?
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/test/handshak...
Seems Ning has been taken over by Cyndx LLC.

http://creators.ning.com/announcements-from-ning/exciting-ne...
>> "...but they are profitable..."

They're probably not profitable in the usual sense of the word. Instead they're just required by the regulators that enforce the utility monopoly and set the utility rates such that the power company doesn't go out of business.
Nest is planning this.
2.x and 3.0 are not deprecated at all. We're working on another release of 3.0 in fact (hopefully a beta before we go to final 3.0.0). We plan on supporting that version indefinitely, as there is a whole ecosystem of projects and libraries that depend on it. We're not pulling the rug out from underneath anyone and running 3.0 isn't "running the old version".

4.0 represents what we think is a great building block for routing in React applications. But it is not a hard requirement to use it. We think people are going to be more jazzed for 4.0, but there is so much stuff built around 2.x/3.0 that it would be moronic for us to force you into this new structure.

Please, keep your deps at "react-router": "< 4.0.0" if you want to. You won't be penalized for doing so, I promise you.
TL;DR: Bigger taptic engine.
>I imagine the legalities of being declared "not dead after all" would be pretty difficult.

This exact situation happened in Ohio a few years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/us/declared-legally-dead-a...
Sounds like someones feelings got hurt.
I think it's incorrect to compare marginal rates as well. It makes more sense to compare your Effective Rate in retirement versus your Marginal Rate of today. This article explains the math: http://www.gocurrycracker.com/roth-sucks/

Your effective tax rate is likely to be much less than your marginal rate.

Also, for anyone interested in financial independence and simple investing with your 401k and IRAs, I'd like to recommend the Stock Series here: http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/
Probably not much BBC around in russia?
I wonder if they just thought that when they had enough market share, they could pressure regulators into folding? That seems so shortsighted and unlikely though, I find it hard to credit the idea. I'm not sure what the alternative explanation is though.
$50 is expensive for personal software. Many IDEs are free for non commercial use
It won't be as pretty, but I deal with large data models all the time, and like to use SchemaSpy [1] which generates an interactive page in HTML and can be used on the command line (I guess you could always modify the CSS to make it pretty). It's literally one of the most useful tools in my life, and the output is good enough to show to clients.

If I'm designing a DB or even just an SQL example, I'll run the code on my local machine (psql + the Postgres app [2]) or if I'm lucky, the client already has a server running Postgres and I can run it there instead. All SchemaSpy then needs is access to the DB and voila, interactive example.

[1] http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://postgresapp.com/
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http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html

Look for the section heading "Catching Up with Math".
Those were all orbiters (plus two impactors).
They are believed ti have tested at least once, in the South Atlantic in 1979.
Actually, the argument was that "most" jobs in the US are flexible on hours. I really doubt that's true, given that there's a good many minimum-wage or close-to-minimum-wage jobs out there, and a lot of traditional 9-5 office jobs, and the US still has factories and lots of other companies which need to run to a schedule. And the idea that a single person could state that "most" jobs are anything based on personal experience is probably incorrect.
US income taxes are at historically low levels too.
I had this too, it's what started me going with programming and I use visual studio till this day. It probably laid the foundations for my later job in information security.
I think this is the most effective way to get people's attention at this point in history. The current waves of migration from Syria, North Africa, and from Central/South America are just a tiny foretaste of what's to come if climate change goes the way we fear.
> If the US withdrew from Europe and NATO, Russia would aggressively bully most of eastern Europe. Do you remember a few years ago how Russia invaded Georgia? Or how they are currently in the process of invading Ukraine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

Germany, UK, France, and Italy as a subset of NATO spend more than double Russia's expenditures and have a relatively narrow focus on Europe/North Africa/Med security in general.

If you think Russia could actually win a war against the European members of NATO, you've completely lost sight of realistic military capabilities. I'm sorry.

The reality is the Aegis of the US has more to do with Japan, India, Israel, Australia, etc. than it does NATO countries. China is a very real threat militarily to our Pacific allies.

The fact you somehow think NATO stops Russia from bullying non-NATO countries is hilarious, largely because of the fact the US's power wasn't enough to stop Russia from bullying those countries because the US doesn't respond militarily to Russia and never will short of Russia invading a NATO country.

Look, the reality is, military muscle only helps to the point you are on the same level as everyone else. Past that point, there isn't alot of intimidation factor due to the nuclear power of countries like Russia. They know exactly where the line is on their use and they won't cross that line. Short of that, they are going to do WTF they want.

> It isn't an accident that the Poland is one of the most eager participants in NATO and is the only other NATO country other than the US that is meeting their 2% GDP membership requirements.

http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2016_0...

There is also Greece, the UK, and Estonia.

There is no legitimate need for the US to be substantially over the guideline of 2% of GDP and it would allow the US to invest in things at home.

Why are you trying to paint me as arrogant & ignorant when you repeat bad propaganda that is publicly verifiable as false based on NATO's own publications?
Seems interesting. Quick question:

Some background on myself first. I am a financial consultant (only 1 year since graduating) and am planning to do a PhD in Accounting in the next 3 years. Currently working through the GMAT, but once that is complete, I will find myself with 2 or so years to do things that will help prepare me for research. One thing I have considered is taking a course/reading books on data science and such to prepare me for the advanced stats/data analysis that will go on during research. As someone with no coding experience, and with solid quant background (I was an economics undergrad), would this book be a good starting point for getting experience with this stuff? And is R the appropriate language to learn? I don't mind learning to code, but it is intimidating.

Thanks!
"A number", as is usual with Chomsky, being a bunch of stuff you're not going to quote, because you'd likely end up eating all of it. There's gotta be a nest somewhere.
Sure, I was making the comparison to the UK.
Articles and books about the software engineering labor market?
I'm an academic researcher trying to understand the software engineering labor market: how coders are hired, how and when they move between companies, etc.

I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good books or articles that discuss how this labor market works?
And when there is a swift to driveless cars the business model economics is totally diferent, Uber will have to spend billions on a fleet, drivers costs will be replaced by fleet costs.
20-30%? Lucky Hungarians (although I believe your numbers are off). Median net salary in Poland is about 415 euro. More than half the population doesn't feel "welcomed" by these standards...
Why?

As a non-American, I would much rather have the US in that role than any other country in the world. In diplomacy and international relations the United States has conducted itself with fairness and honour, and is generally regarded outside of her borders as an honest broker.

If you want to know what the world would look like without a strong, democratic, law-abiding nation as supreme military power, read up on recent news about the South China Sea and the 11-dash line. Look at the honesty and even-handedness with which America has approached border disputes with it's neighbours, and then look at what Japan, Vietnam, and the Phillipines are up against. In the world view of China's leaders, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
> So what if taxpayers are paying for it?

People are not getting it for free, as you argued.

> Is there a specific reason why the price is unreasonable?

It is a clear case of price gouging and a harm to public health.

> (don't anchor the previous price)

Do I get to forbid you from making arguments too?