skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on this: if the book can provide value above and beyond its selling price, it is a worthwhile purchase.

Your examples of "how to price" are all focused on what the author wants (or what he can get away with). The way to justify a higher price is to focus on what the READER wants, and the value they will get out of the book.

An ebook about learning React, for instance, might be worth $39 because it will save the reader HOURS of reading through random blog posts. How much is their time worth? (source: I wrote and sell an ebook about this. People actually buy it :)
This was what I came to comment on; when introducing ES6 features, this always trips people up. Thanks for "constant pointer to a list, not pointer to a constant list", I will use that next time I explain this.

This also means that objects defined with const can be mutated:

const x = { y: 2 };
x.y = 3;

Doesn't error. However with types that are immutable, like numbers and strings, const really is a constant: const HELLO = "hi" will never change.
This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see
Apologies for this most gratuitous of bikeshedding, but if you're going to use proper superscripts, please sort out the line-heights.
It's like paying for a WSJ subscription doesn't even cross HN's mind. At some point people should acknowledge the frequency of paywall complaints might mean there's lots of quality content.
After seeing what Project Veritas has revealed, it's abundantly clear that the left is perfectly okay with using this kind of domestic terrorism as a tactic against their opponents. So while there's no hard evidence in the North Carolina case, I think it's a safe assumption. They've earned that reputation.

Like it or not, this is pretty much a game between two teams. Independents have no reason to lash out like that. I wish we had more than two major parties - I really do.
I found this statement amusing too.
Somehow, regulations enacted in the 40's took over 60 years to impact the industry? Seriously?
The 80's and 90's, under the same regulations, where able to ignore those regulations and have tremendous growth and positive effect on the economy.
Sounds like an economist who doesn't actually know what is going on so he's making shit up.
Well we know for a fact that they were paid, because they recorded the payments in the FEC filings to get the tax write off. What exactly they were paid for is more open to interpretation. We know for a fact that they were paid to go to the rallies to try to create violence, and it's strongly implied that they were supposed to start beating up minorities themselves if they couldn't provoke actual Trump supporters into doing it, but it's not explicitly stated.
For me, it's definitely Ribbonfarm:http://www.ribbonfarm.com/

I stumbled into Venkat's blog about two and half years ago and I'm still trying to find my way out. The rabbit hole gets even deeper when you look at his list of recommended reading. The material on John Boyd and OODA loops in particular has been bouncing around my head for about a year. Ribbonfarm quickly turns into a choose-your-own-adventure type of experience as it's very easy to bounce between articles and start looking everything that you don't know.

If you're interested in getting below the surface level of how organizations, teams, and business cultures work Ribbonfarm is the best place I know of that really digs into the details. If you're expecting the typical "be a leader, not a manager" platitudes, then you'll be disappointed.
My current rabbit hole has been the world building stack exchange (http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/) which is (ostensibly) for writers working out scientific or historical justifications for the worlds they invent.

Some of the thought that goes into answers is really cool. Good ones from recently are:

- http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59175/what-...

- http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59171/is-th...

- http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58745/stand...
I agree. Humanity has been distinguishing between "murder" and "killing" for millennia. It is sophistry to obtain a pre-concluded end result to pretend otherwise.

I say this not because I'm pro-death-penalty; I say it because it's a terrible anti-death-penalty argument. There's much better arguments than such word play so simple a child can see through it.

(Cards on the table: My personal position is that, actually, I'm OK with the death penalty in situations where a society can not afford to keep the murderer alive, or the society does not have a reasonably expectation of being able to keep the murderer from murdering again. But I do not merely mean "the society would be inconvenienced", I mean, the normal state through history is that the society literally can not afford to feed a murderer or have a realistic expectation of holding them; a tribe 5,000 years ago of 100 people literally can not afford it. However, in the 21st century, every major civilized society in which we might even be having this debate is very far away from that problem, having both abundant resources to feed and house them, and very realistic expectations that they can indeed keep them away from innocents. Prison breaks today are big news, and still don't happen all that often.)
> To say "If the percentage of people wrongly convicted is > 0% then we can never have a death penalty" is too idealistic.

1) That's how it is in many first-world countries, so it's obviously not too idealistic.

2) If you don't see the death penalty as a deterrent, what is that supposed pragmatic reason why it's needed (that makes absence of it idealistic)? That doesn't make sense.
If you really want to start a startup the only way to learn how to do it is to start one.
Nuclear certainly keeps the CO2 emissions down. France has a pretty low CO2 footprint based on 80+% nuclear electric power. However, nuclear is not only controversial, but going forward, expensive. For new installations, wind and solar installations are cost competitive if not even cheaper, with little environmental or economic risks attached.
my company pays 2000 dollars a month for our insurance premiums. This is a plan with a 2k individual/6k family deductible per year.

We are saving 1.37% next year by going to a plan with 3k individual 9k family deductible. If we didn't do that premiums were going to rise by 10.4% next year.

Our rates have gone up every year since I've been working here.

The total EOB (Explanation of Benefits) costs value for the medical care my family got last year was under 6k. This was unusually high because we had two minor surgeries. The two years prior were much closer to our baseline of about 3-4k of medical care. This includes shots for the young kids, regular checkups, the occasional prescription and one semi-emergent emergency. One year a kid broke her arm, the other my wife needed an MRI.

I know I represent a young family with relatively few health problems but so far, just since being on my current plan, we have paid 90,000 dollars (costs were slightly lower than our current premiums in prior years if you are doing the math) and received (at the high end) 18,000 dollars worth of medical care. I have paid 72,000 over just 4 years for insurance against catastrophic illness, disease or trauma.

As I sit here writing and calculating this I have this question in the back of my mind - Is it worth it?

I don't know. I think that question is ridiculous but I don't know what other question to ask.
This is not always possible via remote methods; doubly so after the devices are hacked and cut off from the previous open methods manufacturers might have used which allowed the attacks in the first place.
Awk, Grep and Piping in the CLI
Econ 101 for Presidential Candidates
That is a lot of money. :-( So it is true, the bad US health care system really is a startup limitation.

Maybe it is time for countries with nice weather and cheap health care to woo Silicon Valley...?

Something like: "Get here for less than a month's health care, do Skype meetings and you'll need a telescope to see the end of your startup's runway". :-)

Kenya and Tanzania have some good beaches and they got OK Internet now? Or most places in Asia? How cheap is it to live in a small fishing city in Japan?

I smell a business opportunity.
http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/

The Digital Antiquarian - a very well written running history of computer games, especially adventure-y ones from the beginning to about 1989 now.
This has been suggested numerous time since I published. I had not previously considered this solution and I think it's a fine solution for people to make if they know the tradeoffs.

It's worth noting there are a number of reasons this JavaScript could possibly not execute beyond people who have JS turned off. I've seen a number of sites fail to execute JavaScript when an Ad Blocker is run, for instance.

In this case, there are a number of server side fixes available that wouldn't require any JavaScript. They're not terribly complicated and will always work. For that reason, I'm still comfortable with the server side fix, but think the JS fix is a decent alternative.
The elephant in the room that people don't talk about is population growth. If we don't get that under control, there really is no chance of us avoiding catastrophic consequences, like melting of the methane clathrates.
Put another way, you have absolutely no evidence a particular team you dislike was responsible for a specific event, but you're more than willing to blame them publicly for it based on something totally unrelated and even more flimsy because a reputation has developed in your mind (and the minds of those like you), and you're willing to surrender all logic to arrive at your position. Then, ironically, you talk about partisanship while missing how partisan your own remarks are.

It's disgusting to watch people attack "the left" and "the right" as a boogeyman. It's "you're not on my team, so you're part of a grand conspiracy to take down my team," which is a line of thinking that has never, ever been dangerous in American history.

I'm from "the left" and I find your examples abhorrent. What does that make me? Did I miss the meetings where we gang up on the poor folks from "the right?"

Please prove your accusation regarding, specifically, "the left." I'm still waiting. One question I have is how all the parties on "the left" coordinate. Do we all have dirty tricks operatives who meet between all the parties over here? Or is this a unilateral Democrat conspiracy?
Can you still do so reliably on a compromised device?
Why the Internet of Things Will Destroy Everything
What is an "AP DBQ"?
Depends on the industry. If your firm needs to buy heavy equipment for example, it's relatively common to get a loan for that from a bank.
>>...would only need to gain access to that account, which is probably much less guarded..

So "that account" you mention, is it the Google analytics account or the web application (leaking urls) account? Why is it much less guarded?
OpenSSL SSL3_AL_WARNING undefined alert remote DoS
Security Breach Affects Deutsche Bahn Business Customer Data
Isn't he kind of ruining Windows?
Your typical landlord is someone who bought a unit or two as a personal investment, or who was lucky enough having ancestors who did so (in this case it might have grown into a full time commercial operation through decades of reinvestment). New developments, even quite large ones, tend to target this kind of investor because a big institutional one would be much more capable of telling a good investment from a bad one. This does not even matter so much to the small, private investor, because he mostly uses it to hedge against a collapse of the financial system, something that indirect investment in real estate cannot provide.

An exception are (formerly) communal companies, companies that have been spun out of "company town" arrangements and of course those that operate formerly "people's owned" buildings in the east. But all those are not really into expanding.

Edit: and one thing I forgot: some units are actually owned by renters. Liking the solidity of a real estate investment and liking the flexibility of living in a rented property that you can easily swap for a different one are not mutually exclusive. For example it ie not terribly uncommon for occupant owners who need to move or scale up or down to keep their property and rent both ways (e.g. when they know that their new demand is not permanent or when their new demand does not match their investment volume).
Thanks for sharing.

My big question, which I'm still struggling with, is how much to specialize.

I'm one of those guys who wants to do everything. After a few years of Java development in financial companies, I now work on real-time web UIs. I'm now eyeing distributed, soft real-time systems with Elixir, and a bit of applied machine learning.

If you look at my blog, you'll see stuff on Clojure, React, and a few other things. So far, the React stuff has helped me land a client.

My question: Is this counter-productive? Should one specialize? How does one adapt when the specialization wanes and a re-branding is required?
TV Tropes is amazing. I have some experience writing short stories but diving into the tropes has been a real mind-expanding experience. I can't watch TV shows or movies now without automatically deconstructing the screenwriting. This, ultimately, has become a real time-saver, because since gaining that super-power, I find most TV too boring to watch, and so don't feel at all bad about saving my time for better things.
At least, SQL injection won't work! :P
Sure maybe cutting emissions can be cheaper than scrubbing - but the article says the CO2 levels are already too high. If we magically stop all emissions right we should be scrubbing as well.

So maybe we should be reducing emissions where its easy - and scrub
Oh let me tell you a story about a function named *recursive* on a tragic and faithful time,
It was called with 3 long ints, popped the stack and set a jumpbuf, called itself on the SGI.

But did it ever return? No, it never returned, and its value is still unknown,
It may run forever on the SGI mainframe, it's the function that never returned.

Well that function ran a check to see when the stack would overflow, it ran almost past they say,
But when it got there the function called a longjump on the jumpbuf,
It just wasn't returning that day.

But did it ever return? No it never returned, and its value is still unlearned
It may run forever on the SGI mainframe, it's the function that never returned.

Man, GLS makes this look so easy. It's actually kind of hard.
This is a really cool idea! I do find it a bit ironic that it's a Chrome extension though (because Chrome is made by Google, probably the biggest threat to privacy in human history). If it were a Firefox extension, I'd use it.
Shadertoy! http://www.shadertoy.com
At least shaming the manufacturers into considering security is a good thing if it makes them avoid being shamed in the future by caring about security. But I doubt most people who bought and use these devices will care as long as they still work.
there's currently no post on openssl.org but i expect them to publish one soon. Also, now with all the OpenSSL sh*tstorm this year, I really wonder if LibreSSL is vulnerable to this security problem...
Show HN: APIs for event ticketing system
Plant a hell of a lot of trees?
The company issued the recall, it could be hugely expensive for them and is the right thing to do. Looks like they do care to me!
Who was even talking about letting them free?

And do you also propose that organ recipients be ranked according to how good they are as a person?
> For new installations, wind and solar installations are cost competitive if not even cheaper, with little environmental or economic risks attached.

Citation needed.
So by subsidizing each webcam by a dollar or two, China is able to deploy millions of pieces of hardware to the U.S. that can be used to map and destroy our infrastructure for a total cost of a few hundred thousand dollars. If done purposefully, this has to be one of the most efficient military spends in history.
The benefit of any productivity hack / book / app is ephemeral before you are back to your "mindless" browsing (I wrote about it sometime back [1]). It's a great business isn't it? Write a book / app about procrastination — something that everyone is looking to "fix" and start raking money. You can write daily / weekly / monthly goals for all you want but a "guilt-creating" laundry list of tasks doesn't really help.

Although, I do have my share of procrastination but I have gotten a lot better than I was an year back when I used to spend all the free-time on movies. This weekend, I read lots of New Yorker articles, a small book, and finished writing an article. To an extent, I think I can do better by working on a small side-project but then again, there is always room to feel guilty.

You just have to hate wasting time and gradually, things will get better. There is no secret sauce towards working; if we had Facebook wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar company.

[1]: https://shubhamjain.co/2015/06/28/why-productivity-tricks-do...
Well, when you charge per day it is assumed you charge for 8 hours, isn't it? For small tasks (2-3 hours) it can be better (rounding by day), but for long-term, undetermined timespan tasks (several months/years+) charging hourly also gives you a freedom to not to work 8 hours per day.
The greatest power of virtual reality is to make our eyes override our brains
To influence people don't try to persuade them, use ‘pre-suasion’ instead
I used it two weeks ago for the first time, got a hotel reservation two hours before arriving at 2 am for a fair price. Paid with Apple Pay and avoided thinking about currency exchange rates, etc. Very convenient iOS app.
That's a dreadful comparison and makes no sense.
Matt Levine's comment always stick in my head: 'I say sometimes that the tech industry is about moving fast and breaking things, while "finance is an industry of moving fast, breaking things, being mired in years of litigation, paying 10-digit fines, and ruefully promising to move slower and break fewer things in the future."'
That is generally true.

BigCo has billions in profit from existing products. They can't task big risks. What big innovations have the BigCos done in the last X years?

Startups do crazy stuff. Many fail. Some succeed. End result: Innovation
It's not a legal argument. It is an argument about the morality of giving the state the right to kill.

And it is one I agree with. Personally I consider juries that convict in capital cases, and prosecutors that seek the death penalty, to be no better than murderers.
Tim Cook is a "Bozo" - He has moved the focus away from computers and the companies core professional users and turned Apple into a fashionable health services company. They will coast for a while on their dominant mobile market share but eventually the stagnation and lack of new products will catch up to them.

He built a watch, which was a "me too" product and answered a question that no one asked. Jobs would never have done this because of the marginal increase in utility that smart watches provides users.

He also wasted company time and resources on trying to build a car, which is completely outside Apple's skill sets (the supply chains and profit margins are radically different). It seemed like he was just trying to do something innovative instead of actually looking at the needs and demands of users inside the computing industry where apple should be focused.

Its unfortunate that Jobs didn't see his lack of product development skills when he made him CEO - Jobs always talked about how product companies falter when marketing/sales/supply chain guys run the company and not product guys.
> I think that standardisation should happen at the level of the stack/component (not at the application level). Most application developers don't know enough about specific components like app servers, databases, message queues, in-memory data stores... to be able to effectively configure them to run and scale on K8s (it's difficult and requires deep knowledge of each component).

Can't agree more with this, but I would add that its not limited to the specific components listed like databases, message queues, and others. Getting any component or service configured to autoscale on K8s and work its way into a larger infrastructure can often require far more working knowledge than should be necessary. Standardizing the interface these components use to publish themselves would help K8s take on this responsibility more fully. I can only speak for myself, but I for one would happily adopt an interface like this if it meant seamless distribution, autoscaling, and consumption for peer components.

The last part about consumption for peers is important as well. Though the standardized interface would empower a higher level of scale automation, the standardization of this automation could be translated to interface assumptions for external components as well. In the Redis example above, a standardized interface for the service would mean that K8s can deploy it automatically, but also that other services can make similar assumptions about it's location in a deployed environment.
No. Java messing things up as usual, doesn't have any broader impact on the usefulness of the concept.

Error handling with null is wrong and broken, regardless of whether the null is "typed" or not.

null might have some very limited other uses, but they will never compete with those structures designed for error handling, because they do something fundamentally different.
Well, yes, kind of.
I find people often over simplify things like this. Sure, free trade is good. The issues is that we've never had a free trade deal. Our "free trade deals" come with thousands of caveats where we are the partner country agree to all kinds of rules, regulations, etc. I think true free trade would be the best, but failing that I think straight-forward protectionism is better than what we get now with "free trade".
Well, TIL. Musk wins again, then. NASA with this huge budget, and I hear nothing. Then Dear Elon does ONE reddit AMA and I doubt I'll hear the end of it before 2023 ;)
analysis, IDS, etc.

The inability to analyze traffic at this rate is a serious problem. How do you study it to see how protocols can be improved? A lab environment cannot compare to real world traffic. How do you detect attacks (not DoS!) if it's hidden in a link operating at this capacity?
It was worse before Obamacare. If you had a common prexisting condition such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure you probably could not get health insurance at all on the individual market.

It's a problem with "Health Insurance in the US" as opposed to Obamacare.
Not if you unsub from the defaults, which are garbage.
Even if I generally agree with disappointment at the apparent "maintenance mode" of Apple's product line, I am not sure Ballmer is the best analogy. My understanding is that Tim Cook actually is responsible for many of the supply chain innovations behind Apple's dominant product lines. This is an incredibly hard technical feat, not just blustery MBA crap. I suppose it remains to be seen whether Apple can put its enormous cash hoard to work in R&D and new product development. It could be possible for Apple to go the way of RIM but I think it would be very hard to kill them given their unique supply chain efficiencies (not to mention brand and balance sheet).