skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like in a lot of things: Context matters.

I can look at SV salaries and only shake my head. Random 'jump between jobs every 6 month if needed to improve your net worth' advice from single mid-twenties (not talking about the author, no clue about his background. But it feels that this is the general attitude around salary improvement here) is not globally applicable.

And the author basically says 'invest in the company and THEN ask for the reward'. He's ignoring the 'or else' part. I am 100% sure that a healthy portion of envy and fear is part of my rejection, so let's say I'm coming in with a rather negative attitude. But that article is completely and absolutely devoid of content.

"Work harder, then ask for a better salary based on your excellent performance" isn't exactly worth a blog article. Writing down the year over year effects of N percent in salary is trivial maths.

He's followed by Patio on Twitter, so I give the author the benefit of the doubt and believe that he has sound advice to offer, a decent idea about negotiation (with the 'context matters' caveat). But this article seems .. a fluff piece?
Are you implying that a CEO is more valuable than a good engineer?
How can I as a startup CEO encourage people to vote?
While it may often be true, it is a bit like saying "the only good artist is a miserable one". In reality, the good artist is driven by their passion and misery is a passion life often hands us for free.
Apple would not have to release their keys. They would have to make it possible for users to run their own modified versions of software. This can obviously be accomplished in many ways.
Chuckle. Nobody will go from vaping something that tastes like candy to sucking on something that tastes like an ashtray.

Even if they were having a nic fit they'd still vape - you can get stronger fluid and vape more than you can get via smoking without feeling sick.

> I do appreciate that vaping is probably safer than cigarettes, but that's a very low bar indeed...

There's no probably about it. Smoking kills, and we don't see Vaping doing that.

> Just because it may be (and who knows until there are long term studies), doesn't mean as a society we should be encouraging, or even allowing vaping.

So you'd recommend we pursue measures known to kill tens of thousands of people just because there's a vanishingly small chance of harm sometime in the distant future?

You're mainly just demonstrating the problems with democracy.
Hopefully you will be learning C++ and not straight up C. Modern C++ has pretty much solved all the shortcomings of C, and it's sad that people are still stuck learning archaic C for no good reason. If you are actually learning C++, do NOT even look at K&R C. It is extremely outdated and straight up teaches bad practices.
If you want it to not sound like a comedy of errors, you'll have to wait until we figure out Strong AI that can understand sarcasm in the works of Shakespeare... And be able to carry on a coherent, deep philosophical debate.

The difficulty is not in modulating the voice to create intonation, but in annotating prose with intonation.
Sketchware – Friendly Android IDE on Your Smartphone
Sure, probably the best way to get in touch would be the contact form here:

https://www.wpcommandcontrol.com/contact/

thanks!
Adobe Voco 'Photoshop for voice' causes concern
Being let go (not fired) is awesome though. You get severance pay on top of your new higher salary. So you go and find an even higher-paying gig.
I think there's a really interesting point brought up between Blender's UI and this 'pro' conundrum that's been going on lately.

How do we design effective UI's for 'pro' users?

At what point is an application 'pro' enough that it requires a couple hours and some video tutorials or a user's manual to actually get a sense of how the tool works, versus how much effort should be put in on the developer's part to make it 'intuitive'?
Precisely. I've been implying that it's a waste of effort to try to please those people. They cannot be pleased, and there are other uses for those resources.
Is it really a "purge" if they do it over a decade? Seems like more of an "obvious preference".
It's a shame only the most extreme proponents tend to get traction. I've gotten a lot of value out of minmalist advice, but mostly as a way for clearing space for other, more useful things.

You didn't really reply to the parent comment. They said much minimalism is due to people living in small spaces. I live in Montreal, where up until very recently I didn't have that much space.

At one point, things were too full. So I systematically reduced my possessions. Sold some, gave others away. What did I do with the extra space?

* I bought certain items in bulk. Paper towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, etc, thus reducing my trips to the store
* I got more useful things. Over the years I had to add more business equipment. I had space for it based on decluttering.

I do periodic declutters whenever things start piling up. Mostly, what happens is something was once useful, but then no longer is.

Using the principles people talk about in minimalist posts, I've been able to reduce and better organize my living space. But I still have a decent amount of stuff. It's just on average more useful than it used to be.
That would be a really shady thing for an employer to do, if you've seen this happen please call out the company by name.
Millimeter Waves Travel More Than 10 Kilometers in Rural Virginia 5G Experiment
So now i have to google every author because journalistic / scientific standards are not cool anymore?
And WebVan needed a distribution network and warehouses.

I'm not saying they're not making an awesome product. I'm saying it's possible not enough people will want to buy it in order to justify building a factory and campus.

It's not my money though and I've never seen the product. This is obviously a HUGE gamble that will either be a raging success or will become a joke about the follies of venture capital (i.e. WebVan 2.0).
All I really need personally is glasses that can show me text when I look at someone reminding me what their name is.

That Terminator tech - seamless glasses that let you assign and view little annotations on things.
So we are OK with creditors asking for payment in sex?

I think that ignores many realities. Those deemed sexually attractive, mostly young women, will be the target of any number of scams meant to force them into a financial corner so that they work off their debts. That may happen often today, but we use words like blackmail or rape to describe it. Nobody should want to legalize the practice by saying it a perfectly acceptable way for a young women to satisfy a creditor.
What's the best way to start freelancing? A few years ago I used a few freelance sites such as upwork but the pay was fairly low and the work was just around building wordpress sites. Any recommendations? Specifically for backend or fullstack projects?
When my contract was up for renewal, what worked for me was to mention to my manager that people doing my job in other companies were being paid $20 more per hour than I was. I was hoping for a $5 increase or maybe even a $10 one but he gave me the whole $20 and made me promise not to tell anyone.

Six months later, we got a new CEO and my contract was terminated because I cost too much.
For those who might be interested, I run a website called SideProjectors.

https://www.sideprojectors.com

It's a marketplace where you can post and sell your side projects to those who might be interested.

Also a few months ago, there was a post regarding "tips on selling your side projects"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254484
> Why do you need anything more than an acoustic guitar and some picks?

Because maybe your style is best complimented by a Strat running through a Big Muff Pi into a Fender Twin?

And then there's the tuner, cables, guitar stand, cleaning & care products, a good case, a toolkit for making adjustments, maybe a few other pedals, some chord books or tuitional material.

And of course, most serious players will have more than one instrument anyway...
90 x 1.4 = 126. If you were making 126/h in a salaried job, why would you consider 150/h an out-of-the-ordinary high wage when consulting?
Unfortunately, you're right. :o(

Thing is, you don't even have to have a whole lot of money to set up multiple accounts. I started doing this when I was still a student, because I got freaked out by how easy it was to skim cards back in the dizzy. (Maybe it still is, but in the EU most cards seem to smart cards these days so you can't just do the swipe skim anymore – at least, I don't think so.)

I had four accounts:

- A: current account, where I would receive whatever little money I'd make on the side every once in a while, and benefits

- B: savings account, where I'd move most money I received in account A; this account had full freedom but pretty much no meaningful interest

- C: second savings account, where I'd actually put savings; some restrictions but better interest

I also had a mixed debit/credit card connected to A – it had terrible limits (something like £250) but it was enough to make purchases throughout the day. At the end of the day, I'd move funds from B to fill the credit back up, thereby never getting any penalties. It's important not to actually use this credit for more than whatever the allotted free time is. (I think I had 30 days free credit, but always paid it back immediately anyway.) A almost never had any money on it, and if I needed to make larger purchases than the credit allowed I'd just transfer it when I needed it. This setup worked well, and I had a couple of scares where my card had to be blocked, but I never lost money. My savings were abysmal (living hand to mouth) and it was the same funds moving around all the time – I just made sure that my exposure on the card was almost always the bank's money. They're pretty quick in settling things when shit hits the fan then.

This setup breaks down if someone manages to hack the bank or you though, since it's all in the same bank. This is why I use multiple banks today.

Obviously mileage varies by country, but my experience with banks in the EU is that once you've got an account, they're more than happy to set up more stuff for you. (Ye olde Wells Fargo trap, I s'pose.)

Most banks like to insist that you use them exclusively, but I've never heeded that advice and so far I've never had a problem with it. If anything, they seem to work (ever so slightly) harder to get all of your business.
Do you have sources? I was of the opinion that all of this stuff is heavily regulated by the FDA. What makes you think Soylent really criminally negligent, or at least any more so than any other food manufacturer?

FWIW, the ingredient in question is "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA: http://investors.terravia.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=89...
Well it's an interesting group to single out.

Speaking as a moderately zealous skeptic. Yeah, we can gang up on people, and sometimes talk down to them out of exasperation. And those are bad things.

But...

Unlike a lot of internet public shaming (and probably unlike these witchcraft cases), there's no sexual element or threats of violence.

Scientists don't blow up people for not believing in thermodynamics.

So, I'd say there are probably better candidates.
At a certain point, it becomes hard to market yourself in a way that maps to what people understand.

Imagine having a toothpick, saw, wine opener, knife, and other various tools. Now put them all into the very first Swiss Army Knife and try explaining that to someone. Who are you going to explain it to? A carpenter who needs full size professional tools won't need that, but maybe a soldier in the Swiss Army looking for handy tools to cart around in the field would!

Figuring out who needs your services is the first challenge. Maybe high availability systems and full stack web development intersects where people need a front end that ties into a reliable backend (querying a database, visualizing a system, real time analysys, etc.) That's your target customer.

Does your target customer have a name for full stack plus high availability already? To make something up, let's call it Full StackOps. Sell them your Full StackOps wizardry. If target customer has a different name for Full StackOps, you'll have to try to figure out how to tailor your message per customer. If there's no name, try making one up!

Or just generate referral for yourself, so anytime customers need a Full StackOps-like person, their first thought is to call you.
And this is why we can't have nice things :(
Can't set a shortcut for own apps ? Laughable. Seems more of a launcher for 3 Google apps + added value of Trojan horse for data collection while driving.

I wished for Android Auto to get released in this form, but this isn't something I thought a multi billion corporation with talented software engineers would come up with.

Here's some real usage info:

Gavin • 4 hours ago
I just finished driving to work with this (I navigate to work every day for the traffic information). Having not read the article (just the headline) before heading out, I was somewhat shocked that it didn't respond to "OK Google" commands.

I also found the message overlay extremely annoying. My wife sent me a text message, and instead of the topside "heads-up" notification normally containing the message body, I got a gigantic "NEW MESSAGE" popup that covered my navigation (so if you were about to make a turn in an unfamiliar location, you might miss it). And it didn't even contain the message body - so instead of just reading the message hands-free, I had to tap the screen to "play" the message. And even that didn't actually work. [1]

There are couple car apps way more powerful then that, like Automate[2], Car Dashdroid[3], Drivemode[4].

[1] http://disq.us/p/1dfwfl6

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitspice.a...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nezdroid.c...

[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drivemode....
Blender: reinventing their UI wheel, never making it round.
cool, this was helpful.
Is that actually what it means? The question asks about repealing an ordinance and replacing it with a new one. I thought "for the ordinance" meant for the new one which would also repeal the old ordinance.
The best thing is to do is to build out your network. Keep reaching out to the people in the USA. Make sure your english is impeccable, as that will help build your perceived level of trust.

I suggest also getting out there more. Blogging works but you have to market your posts, and it's more long term. Teaching for notable learning platforms works, as well as helping to write public courses.

Anyway, the key lesson is to get out there and meet people. Then as you talk about what you do, and if you are good, you'll find work.
I am absolutely honest about that. Those weird vocal people weren't born that way - they became disenchanted with a system that has failed them and failed to make their lives better. If political radicals are the only ones who propose solutions that make sense they will vote for political radicals.

economists and experts keep telling them that they're "wrong" to blame free trade or immigration (just like the linked article). Even though most competent economists would actually say, like you said, that free trade is not beneficial to everyone everywhere.

To answer your question directly yes I think the economics of the system must include the "externality" of the discontent it generates in populations.

It seems like you're saying that although some people might lose their jobs and see their earning potential collapse, free trade is "more efficient" for some majority (+50%) of the population therefore it is good. I would say whatever benefits that come to the majority doesnt really balance out with the suffering of those left with their wellbeing destroyed. Their backlash against the system that destroyed their livelihoods is only natural.

markets are supposed to serve us, and our societal wellbeing. If they fail do that, in my view, they are a failure.
Good lord. The percentage of people who 'got sick' by Soylent was less 0.1% of all consumers. If we went into panic-mode for that kind of result for every product, we wouldn't have any products. The variation in humans is too great to test for everything.

"The Lawyers" aren't going to shut anyone down because no one is suing, and if they tried I doubt any judge would allow a class-action lawsuit for a few tummyaches.

Soylent lists the ingredients on the box. That the consumers were unaware of their sensitivity to algae is not evidence of misconduct on the part of Soylent.
That's the puppy. You have to have a card, you have to be willing to play it, and they have to believe you are willing to play it. And they have to value you. That is base camp for negotiating.
OS (or computer graphics) courses aren't necessarily mandatory for CS degrees. In fact, if I'd put my mind to it, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten a CS degree without too much programming at all by loading up on as many math and theory courses as possible.

Personally I did study C via a couple of electrical engineering courses I took.
> Gimp’s development is also closely tied to both Richard Stallman’s GNU values and the GTK+ widget toolkit

Gimp is indeed tied to the Gimp Toolkit+, but it has almost nothing to do with GNU anymore (and it never had much of anything to do with rms, so trying to smear Gimp by association is kind of mean). In fact, the Gimp developers themselves are quite hostile to the idea of doing things like changing the language to fit GNU recommendations. When I suggested that they shouldn't refer to it as "open source", they were the ones who shouted "POLITICS", refused, and ran away.

So, if you dislike its UI, don't blame GNU or rms. Probably shouldn't even blame GTK+. Just blame Gimp.
Since Oct 2012, I've gone from $32k, to $44k, to $75k, to $85k (and killer benefits) now. None of these were in SF, NYC, LA, Boston or Austin. All from switching jobs.
It's a headline problem. Typically these issues are labeled as "all of IoT is terrible".

For as many of these REAL security issues we face, there are many stories published that have no real-world impact.

Examples:
The story from defcon (or blackhat, cant remember which) about installing ransom-ware on your smart thermostat.

The headlines were all "Hackers make thermostat ransom-ware" or "Your smart thermostat is now vulnerable to ransom-ware"

A few points:
- It required local access
- It required an SD card reader
- It also required the thermostat run a local HTTP server

Another decent example were the SmartThings security holes from earlier this year:
- It was mostly an oauth2 authorization issue (applications requesting grant types it didn't need)
- The apps were actually independently developed (not ST official) and took some technical knowledge to deploy yourself
- The rest were known security issues in the Zigbee protocol that SmartThings has little control over. Similar to this article.

Or the botnet of cameras which is probably the most high-profile example and most relevant are labeled as "The IoT brought down the internet"

That's a lesson for the makers of those cheap DVRs and Cameras, it was also a lesson in user documentation to avoid them doing stupid things. That's the only example in recent years I've seen that goes anywhere, but the problem is it's drowned out by nonsense and clickbait headlines.
>. So if a product is intended to be consumed as 100% of your diet

Soylent isn't marketed as being intended to replace every meal anymore. I know some of their earlier press focused on the founder replacing all of his food with Soylent, but they've transitioned from that approach more recently.
Ask HN: Pay per Use Pricing
I am making an application for one of my clients. Its a web based tool which helps my client achieve within a few minutes, something that would take them around a day if done manually.
Client has proposed to pay for the development cost, anything after that would be on a per-usage basis.

How do i come up with an appropriate price range for my application usage ?
Great to hear you are happy, but I do think you're being exploited. I'm pretty sure you can flip burgers for £12.

I hope this motivates you to ask for more.
Sorry - should have quoted the specific thing I was calling out-of-date, which was from a few comments up-thread:

> Brains (read: humans) can learn from very few examples and in very little time. [...] Those are all things that ANNs have proven quite incapable of doing, as has any other technology you might want to think of.
What's great about this argument is how versatile it is. Climate change got you down? How about deforestation, or antibiotic overuse? Tired of people telling you not to write web applications in C? Your one liner seamlessly shuts down discussion in any of those debates!

In fact: the finger-waggers have been right about this issue since approximately 1988, when Paul Graham's friend shut down much of the Internet with a tiny C program that shouldn't have been possible to write back then, but is in fact still possible to write in 2016.
I should have mentioned I'm in the EU, and the single market makes this a lot simpler – apologies.
Definitely recommend billing by the day (or even week). It can make a huge difference in your relationship with the client and helps get them past thinking about how much you work and focus more on what you accomplish.

On a side note I actually offer billing by the half day, but price a half day at more than half a full day. This is intended to encourage clients to batch up work rather than feed it to me in dribs.
Looks really nice.

Given that this is yet another place to run code, I would be very interested in a third-party security review. The result of that, and any other Certs or regulator reviews, would strongly define what sort of work loads can be run on it.
When is a computer program patent eligible?
I'm not really talking about when I want sunlight. I'm talking about the ability for sunlight to affect you. In the morning? That's half an hour through a window. At lunch? Slightly longer, still not much. In the evening? You can go outside and really soak in the sun. Evening is the only part of day where people are consistently both awake and able to go somewhere sunny for an extended period.

Alternatively we could shut everything down for a while starting midmorning.

Or keep going as we do now, with the sun not being a priority.
If you're in the EU (and a citizen of an EU country) it's not particularly difficult I've found.
Although we might refer to the 1953 agreement between North & South Korea as an Armistice (and North Korea claims to have invalidated that in 2013), it is really just a

_glorified ceasefire with a Nuclear Power!_

So I hope that one works..
In business terms, a screw up like that would rank as far worse than a data security breach. If Tesco Bank can't negotiate an insurance policy properly, it's a wonder the organisation has survived for 19 years.
> So why, why, why should I switch? What's the promise now? What problem am I having with Ruby that it can solve?

All good questions. My personal answers boil down to "no need" (to switch), "see the rest of this thread" (to read what promise Perl 6 might have), and perhaps https://docs.perl6.org/language/rb-nutshell (to read how someone familiar with Ruby explains how to map Ruby knowledge on to Perl 6).
Same here. If you're somewhat good, getting a new developer will always be expensive and it is a risk for the company.

The new developer needs to familiarise himself with everything and what happens if he's actually worse than you?

Of course no sane boss will ever tell you this. Just nag them and don't accept "no" for an answer.