skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even have to read this to know it's bunk. Apple is the world's most profitable company and among the best marketers around.

Ergo, the valley respects marketing.
It's a cat and mouse thing. If they add some js to check for ad blockers then ad blockers block that too.

They could check over time if a user has seen as many ads as page views and block them then but users would just need to delete their cookies.
> But over time, as scientists peer review and reproduce each other's research, we come closer to scientific consensus regarding the matters of study.

That's the problem though. These small sometimes poorly run studies are conducted, then published, then a press release is issued. The press release sometimes over hypes the paper. Then newspapers sometimes over hype or misinterpret the press release, and rarely if ever link to the actual paper.

And then that news paper link ends up on HN, where people talk about their interpretations of a misinterpreted press release that hyped up the original paper.

It sucks.
It's too risky, not worth it :)
> (TIL: Germans swear by saying "Fuck!!" in English)

There were studies about this on HN. Has something to do with foreign words being stored/associated at different points inside the brain and therefor being less offensive to foreign language speakers.
Good thing we have video conferencing now.
Giving a single example based on personal experience without context isn't strong argument or support for your claim.

Beyond that, sounds like you're blaming sales & marketing for customers not being willing to pay for your code.

Ever thought that just maybe the issue is your code?
That might be skimming.

But this is exactly what the author highlighted in the article and Suster in his tweet.
It's hard to find people who don't suck at it.
Based on other cases, I guess the "unicode-style" solution would be to add a new codepoint DUTCH CHARACTER IJ OR ÿ which is cased and sorted accordingly.

Of course then you'd have to teach people to use that character when writing instead of just typing "ij". And one day, there will be someone who, for stylistic reasons, needs tight control over when it's rendered as "ij" and when as "ÿ"...
I expected some pushback on that. I probably could have made the same arguments in the past. However, if you ask women, you'll find that thinking about these things is a common thread[0] - likely from the women in your life as well. At the very least, women in my life worry about accepting drinks from men, meeting them for the first time, and saying "no" to men in general. As they say, the "crazy ex-girlfriend" will key your car, but the crazy ex-boyfriend will murder you.

The reason it matters in this particular context is because, in general, women do not think men are safe and dating apps must address this. To specifically counter your arguments about being in a public place with someone, that still opens the doors to: personally invasive touches when no one is looking, invasion of privacy (at this point some contact has occurred), and a physical knowledge of where you are, not to mention being in public hasn't necessarily helped: The murder of Kitty Genovese[1] comes to mind, as does most women having experienced being followed on the streets by men[2] a situation which isn't necessarily helped by public protectors[3] and if you must hear some stories themselves, here are some stories from reddit[4].

So, to answer your question, it is "okay" to operate under such an assumption because, in general, women feel unsafe around men, especially in the context of a dating app. Now, you could make the argument that women are illogical, or you could acknowledge that ~50% of the population might have some reason to feel that way. I personally prefer the latter, but if my opinion doesn't make a difference to you, I would recommend inquiring of women yourself, in some form or another.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-biggest-%E2%80%9CIve-neve...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

[2]: http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/2010/01/75-percent-of-wo...

[3]: http://www.revelist.com/viral/portland-woman-stalking-office...

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/3suj0m/ladies_wha...
> That's too generalized. To an American, a British accent conveys prestige and sophistication.

'Respectable businessman' Badger from the Firefly universe probably wishes that were true for all 'British' accents!
I run a number of side projects and have done since the mid 1990's. I started in business when I was 21 and I'm now 47, so definitely considered 'old' to some of you on here! I've been o reader of HN since it came out, but rarely a contributor. A few comments from me and a link to some of what I've done and how they have done in 2016:

- Rich Dad, Poor Dad got me into the idea of 'passive' income. Nothing is truly passive of course, but it makes me think about what I do

- SourceGuardian. This is encryption software I set up in 2002 as I had a need myself and the nearest product was $6000 at the time. It has generated a great passive income since then. Enough to pay all my bills. 2016 was no different. I work with 2 other people on it, one of whom I've never met (he's in Russia) and it works well

- Competitor Monitor. This used to be a side-project 5 years ago, but it has grown significantly and in the past year we are up by 35% and we have grown our team. Strangely this has now become passive in the sense that I have created a structure and systemised the business (read The Emyth Revisited book) and that has allowed me to step out. I am not more of an investor than a day-to-day contributor

- UKscrap.com. This one died in 2016. The site is still there, but competition and my lack of interest killed it

As I said, nothing is truly passive, but you need to have a passion for whatever you do and I would try to create a 'passive index' for your ideas. How much time will they take to get off the ground, how much to run monthly, what is the product life cycle (if you can work that out!). From when I started there are a HUGE number of resources to help you also. Feel free to ask for help or advice, for what it's worth!

EDIT: I actually met my SourceGuardian partner once in Prague for 2 days. Forgot that when I wrote the above!
IMO. The article shows two things.

1) The author is much better at writing ASM code than at writing C code and optimizing it for performances.

2) Even people who read blogs, write blogs and try pretty hard are still struggling with advanced optimizations. Guess that's why I could make a living out of that and why there are so few of us.
Active investment is essentially a second job. Not everyone has the ability or desire to spend even more hours working.
Just a data point: I founded a Lisp startup together with a bunch of experienced Lisp hacker buddies from the SBCL community. Sadly and reluctantly, we found Lisp awkward and ended up rewriting everything in C, and then never looked back.

These days I am developing such software with LuaJIT and that is working much better for me than either C or Lisp.

One thing I learned along the way is that many tales of Lisp heroism are actually anti-paradigms. Once upon a time when I read about ITA Software rewriting CONS to better suit their application I thought it was impressive; now I see it as a farcical workaround for having chosen an ill-suited runtime system and sticking with it (and generally an indictment of Lisp not providing a practical performance model for the heap.)

Lispers are too expert at spinning bugs as features. "It's insanely complex, every line could be an interaction with undefined behavior or a race condition or an unexpected heap allocation" becomes "suitable only in the hands of trained specialists, like a chef's knife or a surgeon's scalpel or a Jedi's light saber."

I feel like we need to have a shared "our emperor didn't have any clothes" moment with regards to Paul Graham's essays.

(I say this as somebody who does love Lisp and will probably do a lot more Lisp work in the future but only on a project that is a peculiarly good fit.)
Money in the bank, made me well over $100 over the whole year.

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Since this submission relates to blocking ads and trackers, I think it's worth bringing up that uBlock Origin [0] is better than Adblock Plus in (all?) ways (see the README for more details). I migrated to it a few years ago and overall I've been very happy with the outcome.

I'm opposed to all tracking that isn't opt-in by default. I haven't thought about the topic at great lengths, so there may be cases which I'm failing to consider, but I've generally found "opt-out by default" to be highly hostile to users. e.g. In the US you're only allowed to digitally opt-out of credit card prescreening [1] for five years unless you're willing to mail something out. This considerably raises the burden on the user, even though I'd conjecture most people are not interested in receiving this kind of mail, and they'd largely consider it spam. I make a point of blacklisting any service that mails me spam, and I encourage others to do the same.

Additionally, I'm also opposed to ads because I've found they're generally against the user's best interests. Humans are more important than companies.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[1] https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
Show HN: Freeciv 3D WebGL version available for testing
Ask HN: What podcasts do you recommend?
Within the last year, I started to spend more time listening to podcasts than I watch TV or listen to linear Radio. What are your favorites? Tech or not, English or other languages.

My current favorites include some well known stuff:
Planet Money
Freakonomics
Recode/Decode
NPR From Scratch
Tell me Something I Don't Know (New show by Stephen Dubner)
[GER] Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti - Weekly Travel Reports
I have released a beta of the 3D WebGL version of Freeciv-web. Please post your feedback about how to make this game better. Thanks!
To the commenter who deleted their question:

Customer experience and technical debt concerns always take a backseat to marketing in ecommerce. Marketing is, by far, the primary dictator of priority in this industry.
I agree with much of what you said. I self-taugh that way (Codecademy). I teach my nieces this way. However, If I had it to do again I would have started with iOS - my current profession - or Android, simply because the IDE is more defined. Web technology is all over the place.
Unless you wrote vanilla JS, you could spend more time fretting over if AngularJS is the way to go if XYZ is better... Sure it was difficult to go from JS to C/Objective-C but if I had considered that from the start I wouldn't have lost the first three months confused about differences between Ruby/Python and JS.
Blocking ads is the only reason that makes me depend on root. I built a script[1] that generates flashable zip and from time to time I update it on my phone.

[1] https://github.com/zant95/hBlock
I understand that customer service reps do a hard, yet important job. However, calling them "heroes" is a little too much kool-aid for me. It reminds me of every startup claiming that "this changes everything".
So, I loved this game during the first few hours when people didn't know how to play it and I won most games.

But, it turns out, I suck at this game against people who know how to play. I can usually come 3rd, but can't seem to do better.

I think I need to be a bit more aggressive in capturing other players, and a bit better at expanding my territory.

But, even though I'm not very good, I really really enjoy this game.
> In a stellarator, nested toroidal magnetic surfaces are created from external magnetic coils

What does that mean? What is a 'magnetic surface'?

> Each magnetic field line meanders around on its magnetic surface; it never leaves it. In general, if one follows a field line from one point on a magnetic surface, one never comes back to the same exact location. Instead, one covers the surface, coming infinitely close to any point of the surface.

Does 'magnetic surface' just mean this, the manifold generated by following a field line?

In that case, is it really meaningful to call these 'nested'? If what they're saying is that at any point in the field, following the field will trace out a surface, then there aren't actually discrete surfaces here, and it's not entirely meaningful to call them nested. It's like talking about the contour lines on a hill being nested, when what you really mean is that the hill has a smooth gradient.
Think about it, though. You type phonetically in one script, then select a character in another script that might be pronounced in a similar way. That's like entering Hangul syllables that sound similar to what you want, then choosing the right English character sequences.
This is why unions were formed.
Unless the traffic increase is a DDoS, then you're spending money on people who are attacking you...
This is also how biology works. The neural circuitry for walking is a fairly short loop between your leg muscles, spinal cord , and nerves handling proprioception, with some input from the brain for balance control, and the more intentional behaviors are layered on top (start, turn, stop) by the conscious systems.
Smart Passive Income by Pat Flynn!

He interviews various entrepreneurs.

It's of a high quality and he goes really deep with his questions. An episode is usually around 45 minutes.
DC itself is an example of a new planned city for a government capital. It just happens to be pretty old (for a US city).
bond etfs have been sold off, so they are cheap and yields are up.
I think the issue with subsumption is that 3layers aren't enough. It would be interesting to combine recent deep neuralnet architectures with the Dr Brooks overall subsumption design (so multiple layers of individual deepnets layered hierarchically)
Slavery never struck me as something that one believes in.
Domain sales, over US$ 2M/yr that could have been mid 7 figures easily but still holding onto those other gems. With all the new extensions valuable .com domains is where it is. Brokers managing sales. Also not sure if falls into passive or not, sold a business few years ago and did the financing, still getting paid monthly for few more years.
2016 isn't over. Ask in 3 weeks time.
This isn't helpful, really.

The hardest point of learning programming, especially doing it yourself, is going from "OK, I understand the basic concepts and I can easily do exercises in the textbooks" to "I can take some sort of novel problem and decide how to solve it and then implement a solution." Unfortunately it'd take someone more clever than me to figure out how to actually teach that skill to beginners reliably. I think that's where many quit.
I like to dig in deeper about how computers and software works. It is fun, I learn a lot and it have given me many jobs even without an exam. You could learn more about Linux, UNIX, cloud services, http etc. I don't know how the job market for Windows based desktop applications will be in the future.
Truckers think their jobs are not going away for at least 40 years
It seems that everyone and everyone's mums have their own Kubernetes PaaS platform these days. It's such a competitive area.

That's actually quite surprising considering how complex the technology is.
kinda feel like there's so many quality podcasts out there, that this is increasingly hard to answer. Favourites from me at the moment :

codepen.io podcast - nuts and bols of how codepen is run.

Starship Sofa - SciFi stories

Tales to Terrify - Horror stories.

The Allusionist - podcast about etymology of words.

Reply All - Internet focused podcast. Very fun.

The Bike Shed - developer podcast

Richard Herring's RHLSTP - Interviews with comedians

No such thing as a Fish - Weird facts comedy podcast
I work remotely and moved into an RV to travel around North America with my wife. Started blogging about travel and working on the road at http://therecklesschoice.com and using Amazon affiliate links whenever appropriate that pull in about $50/month.
I'd say if you learned some basic stuff about complexity/algos/data structures too it'd put you firmly in the above-average category.
You're talking about market timing which is incredibly hard (some say impossible) to do over a long period of time. Sure, you might miss the down here (if there is one), but then you also might miss the move back up. There is a saying that time in market is much better than timing the market. If you consistently put money in, you'll naturally also buy the downs. At that point, you just need to periodically rebalance, and with age start to shift to less risky investments.
Marketing is like makeup. This is why "putting lipstick on a pig" won't make the bacon better, but it might make you think the pig needs a wig and push-up bra to match the competition.
I want to be able to invest in solar projects. These projects often have internal rates of return of 10%+.

However, this involves 20 or 30 year contracts to buy power from you after you have made the initial investment to purchase /rent land and install the panels.

Wish there were a way to securitize those deals & allow us to trade them like bonds.
Thank you very much for your insight :)

Unfortunately too late. My sister has had her first drink a year or so ago. She was 14 iirc. I had mine at 11 - 12.

We can shun alcohol. I have a bottle of Jaeger in the fridge untouched. I got it last Christmas.

In effect, being stupid with it when I was a kid made me realise I have a point where it isn't pleasant at all. It also made me realise that I hate the idea of me under the influence - I hate feeling like a fucking idiot.

That plus the damage it has done through other means has left me a non-drinker. If alcohol became a class A substance tomorrow and the day after consuming it was punishable by summary death, I would not care (except maybe about a right wing govt). I wouldn't give a shit about losing booze.

I also have young children. If I won't jump in a car after 1 drink, how can I look after my kids? What if one wakes up?
How are they planning to extract energy from these reactors, and how will they refuel them?
How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer
Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but I'd find that unbearable.
Its a bit immature at the moment, but here's a shout out for Julia. If you are used to python, numpy you will not feel out of place.

BTW, as far as I recall Nim is statically typed, please correct me if I am wrong.
Step 1 - Fill out your hacker news profile so people can contact you

Step 2 - Think of an absolute minimum MVP and evaluate it

:) Contact me if you would like to talk
I prefer not to. I think it would be more productive as a private thought experiment: what would you expect a Smalltalk hacker curse about if you forced them to use Common Lisp? a Haskell hacker? a Rust hacker? I think they would miss some really valuable things, and that you could easily miss the value of those things if you took them out of their original context (e.g. considering only whether Lisp would be improved by adopting those specific features.)
System is funded by X.

One day, some smart people fed up of paying X invent a way of evading. «It's not fair to pay X!» they say. Most people follow them, why wouldn't they?

Next day, same smart people: «Humm, how about people paying X/? to us instead of paying X to the system? Let's make a compelling argument explaining the fairness of it as some people feel that evading is somehow immoral. They will bite.»

-- Devil's advocate
Don't bother reading this, it makes a bunch of baseless assumptions and arguments (Google Wave failed because of marketing? No market need can be fixed with marketing?). It has no substance other than the catchy click-bait title.
MOOC or are you at Harvard? Was the course worthwhile?
I don't think self-study in other fields is actually frowned upon.
https://mises.org/blog/which-states-rely-most-federal-spendi...

The current situation is that 39 of the 50 states get back more in Federal spending than they put in in Federal Taxes.
"The border" runs along the great lakes and includes a lot of large cities in the midwest.
It is subsidization, on too many fronts to name. If anything it has been too effective because it is quite invisible and taken for granted by the recipients, which then allows them to see their own life narratives as stories of succeeding in the market economy due to hard, honest work.

The work may indeed be hard and honest, but it only succeeds at the costs and prices it succeeds at due to vast subsidies, which again are taken for granted (if even seen as such--or seen at all).

The worst part is that even with this heavy subsidization the cost difficulties of modern infrastructure under sparse settlement leave non-urban residents feeling shortchanged despite the disproportionate spending they receive.

Here's how that usually goes: basic infrastructure (roads, power, water, communications) has costs that scale roughly linearly in terms of how much you build: your build and maintenance cost are roughly proportionate to how many miles of road or miles of pipe or miles of wire, and so on.

Thus as you have a population that is more widely spaced-out your effective per capita infrastructure costs go up: you have more road per person and more wires per person just to deliver the same level of capability.

You often wind up, then, needing as much as 5x or more the per capita budget in a sparsely populated area to build and maintain infrastructure at a comparable level to a denser area (whether this is done or not is about administrative competence but that is a separate issue from the cost themselves).

At a state level, however, it is hard to have wildly disproportionate per capita spending: you can maybe get away with spending 2-3x per capita on infrastructure in non-urban areas versus urban areas, but not 5-10x.

But this spending-effectiveness discrepancy means that even with heavy subsidization--eg non-urban areas effectively getting 2-3x the infrastructure spend of the urban ones on a per capita basis--the spending outcomes will likely be better in the urban area because the cost efficiency is that much higher.

This thus leaves the non-urban areas feeling neglected--the infrastructure isn't as well maintained etc--even though they are in fact already given disproportionate resources...they just aren't given resources that are disproportionate-enough!

Ironically the "decaying small town" is the best proof of this effect: you go from comparatively well-maintained state highway to a city of 10-20k with crumbling streets and broken street lamps, etc., back to well-maintained state highway...because the state highway is subsidized by the entire state (and often federal funds), but that small town is on its own fundingwise, and reveals what the surrounding area can actually afford, sans subsidization from outside money.
To add to this, I wonder how much better sitting in a lecture hall listening to a professor explain something actually is than watching a recording of that same lecture.
One thing I don't see mentioned, though the other reasons are fairly valid -- the 'deflate' compression that was actually a non-backwards compatible update to PKZIP was superior to 'compress' -- gzip uses it, though not the PKZIP format.

There was for a good while a bit of a "compression arms race" with folks looking to find the most optimal compression to save precious time on BBS dial-up. For a while 'ZIP' won, then 'ARJ' managed to squeeze out a bit more, and so on -- though I think diminishing returns kept things from going too far beyond ZIP/ARJ on many BBSes.
Nope. But fortunately most chips have widely available datasheets. Except Chinese knockoffs which can involve lots of sleuthing and black-box testing. Had to write a camera driver for a clone that had spotty support (a poor copy of a better device), took a month to get it right.