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> That's how it works with programming language communities

Not always, python has a BDFL rather than a steering committee. But nonetheless it's the people who actually maintain the language who drive it forward.

> but the whole community has a stake (and a say) in the future of the language.

Comments like "the core team are repressing me by not updating 2.7" and random people making half-baked 2.8 releases don't help the future of the language.

Look, it's simple. Core team doesn't want to update Python 2.x anymore for a large number of good reasons. For some people (including you I assume) this isn't the decision you wanted.

But this decision was made years ago. Either move to a different language, update to Python 3 (again, you've had years of warning) or pay for a supported 2.7 version. Or just carry on using 2.7, it's supported until 2020.

Bitching about non-existent repression on hacker news archives squat.
I disagree with this idea. For starters, sample sizes alone don't give you reliable results, even with large sample sizes you might have other issues that affect the results such as poor design, it may not be reproducible or (as is often the case) it may be that no one has tried to reproduce it yet.

Scientific research is often imperfect, as a practical matter due to lack of resources and many other reasons. But over time, as scientists peer review and reproduce each other's research, we come closer to scientific consensus regarding the matters of study.

Scientific studies, by their very nature, are often designed to inquire into matters of uncertainty. And no one study can completely claim to banish uncertainty and provide concrete and certain answers. The path to certainty requires the toil of reviewing and reproducing the results.

So I think anyone who puts forward a single scientific study to bolster a claim or point of view is making a very weak and unconvincing argument to anyone who understands science. Rather, we like scientific studies, not because they give us concrete neat solutions but because they offer interesting insights that may or not be conclusive.

I don't think it should be the job of moderators to determine the weight or conclusivity of scientific studies. I think that should be done by the community.

I also think the community would lose something if were to get rid of articles on interesting research just because that research was inconclusive. Research can be interesting and open up interesting possibilities even when it doesn't give us concrete truths to hold to.
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TFA = "The Fucking Article". The article that this comment thread is attached to.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13129029
It's a news site that has editorial policies about which stories are worth paying attention to and which ones aren't.
I think this is why indie magazines are starting to thrive in their niche; even younger readers are appreciating the aesthetic and value of print as a resource AND art form.
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If you take the results of soft 'sciences' seriously you've already lost. Recognize submissions like the one you linked as noise and move on. Common sense goes a long way.
Dark corners of Unicode seems to be a tautology.
Ask HN: Would any one pay for a python to objc transpiler, with iOS integration?
I am thinking of bringing the power of python's syntax to objc iOS development. Would people who are interested pay for it with a subscription models of $20 / month.
Who said anything about "all men"?
I hate these so much personally that I'm having a hard time adopting such a model.

Offering some prize at least leaves me with a choice, though I'd argue it still misleads others (no real chance of winning, no real consent to receive spam).

There is also a fine line between "creating arbitrary urgency" and a well communicating advertisement. One is manipulation, the other a convincing presentation.

Pushing people to spam/do referrals impacts me without any choice (At least to the point of unsubscribing to people on Facebook).

I furthermore think, that you shouldn't do this is your target group is tech savvy enough to be as annoyed as I am. At least be as tasteful as e.g. Dropbox.
As a scary thought, all those databases kept by intelligence services that store connection "metadata" have the clear possibility of storing cookies, and being able to hijack eBay sessions on demand based on having the stored cookie.
You want to look into participation rate. Compare participation and unemployment rate over time and it's clear '4.9%' is pure fallacy.
Seems to me like you haven't learned the right lesson. Small sample sizes can still yield useful results. It depends on the nature of the study.

Instead of closing yourself (and the rest of us) based on a fairly arbitrary criteria, you're going to have to use critical thinking. That should be applied to everything you read not just studies.
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In what country are you located? Furniture is more of a short term rental requirement, unless you've included essential appliances with your categorization.
They are worth face value in the US, but not outside of it. See for instance this question: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/25959/converting-...

Instead of simply not accepting the bills, some places take a discount to offset the risk that they're fake. The older the bill, the greater the chance that it's a counterfeit.
If patents for software required a copy of the source to be available, then I think we'd be there already.
Surely the required sample size depends on the effect size. You won't need n>100 to learn that elephants are larger than ants. The problem is in experiment design and interpretation generally, not sample size specifically.

That said, all of us who know how to read a scientific paper (and have institutional access to the journals) should take 5 mins and point out flaws when we see them.
> What's the paranoia level of this suggestion?

The kind of paranoia level that's reasonable to have, nowadays. If you're too young to have heard of Snowden, read up on him. If you're too old to remember Snowden, read up on him. The concept of industrial espionage is not just a concept, it's being done all the time.

Now you may assume that upper management would not want to have something come to light and would therefor not engage in it. The thing is, upper management does not control what employee X does. And employee X may want to get that promotion after all.

The fact that society shifts more an more of their lives onto Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. servers boggles my mind. And they don't even end-to-end-encrypt (assuming that encryption is currently not broken yet).
Some interesting facts from the article

> As of August 2015, Adblock Plus was installed on approximately 9.55 million browsers with German IP addresses. That's about five percent of the computers in Germany used to access the Internet.

> About 3,500 websites are on the Adblock Plus "whitelisting" program that allows for "acceptable ads" to be viewed by default. About 90 percent of those sites don't pay, but the largest 10 percent make payments to Adblock Plus for the white-listing.

> While Adblock Plus users can easily turn off even those "acceptable ads," about 75 percent accept the default settings and allow the ads. Eyeo determines what is an "acceptable ad." It bars all moving images and many types of still images, allowing mostly for just static text ads.

I prefer something like ublock that doesn't ask money to let ads through. I'm puzzled by the morality of that.
What do you call a meaningful yield? Ecommerce in Russia is growing. JV?
You're right. It's more like fraud. Though you could argue (as others have) that the theft is not of money but rather of work -- your time an employee has a dollar value and thus can be stolen through outright fraud.
Unwillingness to refactor and people bad habits, mostly bad habits like print 'this stuff out'... simple bad habits humans we have that a lot.
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> The argument of "the compiler can make faster code than any programmer's assembly code" - which I think is what you are repeating here

WTF. I have never said that.

I wasn't talking about the code generated by the compiler. I even wrote a message to clarify that I talk about handwritten code, not about code generated by a compiler.
Super idealistic and optimistic, but an interesting thought experiment nonetheless. It's unfortunate that modern economic obsession with "growth" as an eternal endgame is a hard addiction to break.
I'm pretty sure that #1 is against Facebook's page guidelines:

> Personal Timelines and friend connections must not be used to administer promotions (e.g. "share on your Timeline to enter" or "share on your friend's Timeline to get additional entries" and "tag your friends in this post to enter" are not permitted).

https://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php
It's a very misleading stereotype because where I grew up in the Midwest, seemingly 80% of my classmates had a parent who was an engineer.
> "Made up of 58 strokes in its traditional form (43 in simplified Chinese)..."

I'm glad I don't have to try to type that with 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. Writing Chinese with a keyboard sounds insane: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
I honestly prefer Netrunner. I'd rather keep my fantasy and cyberpunk settings a little separate.
If you're able to cover the cost and except the risks of living in non-urbanized areas, that's fine.

Americans spending billions to create jobs for people to maintain them living in areas that are not economically viable needs to stop.
And the open source drivers that do exist (and are far better than the Nvidia open source drivers) are proof that said third parties exist. So the net take away is that if you are a pragmatic open sourcer then you should buy AMD hardware. And even better support the open source coders who do write these drivers; cash, bug reports, testing, documentation, etc.
In investing terms, you're talking about a "less risky" rather than "better" idea. You'll only know if something was better after the event in question has passed.

Passive investing when you have many years before retirement means you worry about long term trends rather than short term risks.
You can be arrested without probable cause and still not be able to expunge the record at all, as in not even be able to request so in court, so I wouldn't exactly call it a right.
JS course is fantastic, but the Angular one isn't that great.

Alicea has React course called 'React and Flux for Angular Developers'in Pluralsight if anyone is looking more of his courses.
>The idea that if you want to promote software freedom you need to make tools and systems that ordinary people can modify - preferably without learning Emacs - doesn't seem to have occurred to him. It seems that in Stallman's world the public are supposed to become MIT-grade hackers before they can earn their freedom.

No, because freedom of modification and the guarantee that such modifications must also be released with a similar licence means everybody, programmers and non-programmers, benefit from that freedom, directly because they modified the source code, or indirectly because they can freely use that modified software, respectively.
"The remuneration[1] for this work is in the form of regular pay. A portion of which should probably be invested smartly."

I guess my objection was to the idea of saving "as much as possible." I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't work for a salary: but you should take some of that salary and spend it on actively building or backing businesses, not just passively.

Based on your background I think you would be amazed how much business you could create by investing in/overseeing a developer in India or China, for example. Your knowledge/background + $5000 goes waaaaaay farther than you think. (regardless of who the owner ends up.)

To me this is the opposite of the advice to passively save as much as possible!

[1] I corrected the spelling of this word - I mispelled it before too.
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I've always felt like a smart house is a solution begging a problem and this really just confirms it. I'll take my house dumb and functional. Two things I'd like that I don't have:

- A master light switch by the front and back doors,

- A heating controller that I can control remotely, so I can turn it on when I'm on the train about an hour before I get home (my work routine is quite fluid), rather than have it on a regular schedule.

Both of these are fairly simply fixed but the fact that I've never bothered to do either probably says everything about how much I really value them.

I do not and never have liked locked in systems. If I have to call someone to figure out why the lights in my house aren't working properly this is going to make me very miserable, very quickly.
It is the same crap Tim Ferriss is doing. People like the idea, think they can use it as well only to never understand that they are a part of a pyramid scheme which is ultra flat and has only him or someone like Tim Ferriss on top.
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Are you saying that it'll convince literally zero people to not pay the ransom? Every ransom that does not get paid is money that doesn't contribute to the "distributing ransomware is a viable way to make money" problem.
There are plenty of large cities in the Midwest as the comment you replied to mentioned. There's a good amount of confusion in this thread as to what Midwest means, especially because the author initially proposed moving agencies to Midwestern "cities". No one is fighting urbanization.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted.

eBay revenue, 1999: $224.7 million

eBay revenue, 2015: $8,590 million

Edit: That's 38x
It's good advice to save money and to spend conservatively, if you're poor.

On the other hand, the implicit question of the post was "what did you create to generate passive income" (it's called "Hacker" News, not "Invester/Banker" News).
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Which fund? According to whom?

SPY / VFIAX / S&P 500 has a CAGR 4.9% from Nov 2000 to Nov 2016.
You could try doing "fun" things instead of things that rely on endorphins. Bouldering, wrestling, soccer... Something that keeps your brain occupied as well as your muscles.

I don't really follow my own advice, but I used to boulder regularly when I lived in Berlin, and I liked it.
word2vec is trying to predict the co-occurence of words; if there is nothing translatable about it, then it will be effectively random. When you fit a maximum likelihood to random stuff and force it to attribute pattern to the noise, it's not going to come up with any sensible mapping.
Tech is eating the world and its changing everything. Even how we market. It takes knowledge of tech to understand how those changes happen in order to leverage them. The knowledge is also used as a barrier to entry. Which I think is fair. If you want to market tech you better know how it gets built and how it works.
No, not really. But I'm confident you could derive an analogous transformation for circles/arcs. But instead of mapping into a 2d space you'd probably have to map into a 3d space (2d for the center and 1d for radius).
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> Until the "nothing" gets filled in with the equivalent of a salaried wage, I'm not a fan of calling it "passive income".

Would you also consider creating a static "how to" site that generates revenue from ads to not be passive income? I think that's the most basic example of what HN considers passive.
> Chicago is its own beast, and most midwesterners don't really identify with it

This is certainly not true with people in the Detroit area, in my experience. Maybe it's true in the rural Midwest but in urban and suburban Midwest, Chicago is definitely viewed as an integral part as was Detroit some time ago (and possibly still today).

This seems like a case of "if it doesn't fit the argument, let's not count it."
Salaries are unsecured so employees get paid last in bankruptcy. I think he is calling for them to be paid first.
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I'm interested in eventual Google's reaction to ad-blocking software. Will they try to weld ads to web technologies or they'll accept the current situation?
I'm > 40 and have a very similar story. I mostly work alone now , have never written a unit test in my life and have a few very large mission critical apps with many millions of dollars of revenue ti d to them. Mobile, native desktop and web. I take my time and thoroughly think through a change and the implications to the systems. I only try to build reusable code if I'm on my 3rd time of trying to use it. Not trying to build a perfect piece of engineering easily cuts my development time in half
Major corporate and government networks are better able to handle it, so long as you have top-down buy-in. Just publish a policy that anyone caught paying a ransom will be fired, and throw a bit of money into PR puff pieces talking about your tough-on-ransomware policies. Ransomware makers won't try to target your network, since they'll won't get money from the CEO and will have a real hard time negotiating with people from other layers. Any incidental damage will get dealt with by various mitigation policies (backups, etc).
"it literally sickens me."

Goo thing you're in healthcare...
I prefer something like ublock as well, but I wouldn't call what AB+ is doing a morally ambiguous question. I think this is actually pretty straight forward all around. I can install or uninstall software on my computer. Websites can serve ads. Websites can block me from viewing their site if I have an ad blocker installed. AB+ can whitelist sites. A website can or can not pay AB+ to be whitelisted.
Any other verdict would be a potential legal risk to Google and everyone else in the ad business for the following reason: if Google can force its users to see ads, this basically means that they are not providing a free service any more, but that Google and the user engage in an exchange: Google provides the search service, and the user agrees to look at a few ads in return. Legally speaking, this could be seen as barter trade and result in two taxable events: Google selling the search service to the user, and the user selling some of his attention to Google. The consequence of this interpretation would be that Google would have to pay VAT on ad revenue in the country where the ad was seen. Also, receiving these "not-free-any-more" services could be classified as income for the user. This sounds absurd at first sight, but you should not underestimate the creativity of desperate tax authorities.
This is probably reading way too much into things, but the videos made me wonder what viewing modern battles might be like with drone flights with cameras, ground troops with cameras, and everyone with the occasional tracer round, or some similar technology. Would it eventually become a real life Ender's game?
Aren't most SaaS's not pure software, but sell data, communication or offline product/service, and in that way differ from installed software?

The difficult programming in games seems mostly deferred to engines (which are becoming cheaper and nore commoditized), and the game is mostly "content" - more akin to a movie than software. But you're right, games are software, and are thriving.
Plenty of despairing for the non-drug users too. A report by UK government's Drug Strategy Unit leaked to the press concluded drug use was responsible for the great majority of crime, including 85% of shoplifting, 70-80% of burglaries and 54% of robberies and cost £16 billion a year in the UK". Possibly proportionate figures for the US.
A large amount of comments are mistakenly conflating the Midwest as rural and this move as de-urbanization though the author mentioned moving to Midwestern cities.
You don't need a large sample to establish that beheading is fatal. Sample size is only one factor in statistical significance; often it's a fairly unimportant factor.
The same as it has been for the past 50 years - about 10 years before commercial use.
Direct links to the video and hi-res image by Dominic Walliman:

Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihywtixUYo
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Also the invsolvency-administrators can be thief's.
As in Lawyer-chambers, that win no matter how hard they run the company into the ground, by simply having it in as many legal battles as possible and billing it by the hour for those very legal battles they caused- bills which override the claims to the bankruptcy assets of all other Creditors.

Yes, the norwegian system is superior.

PS: The german legal system is full of those laws that cause extensive legal-battles, shipping the money of the cause to the laws soldiers of fortune. To navigate around these black holes of law is quite a art.

Take the outrageous concept of the "Erbengemeinschaft" as example.
If a companys owner does not have a last will, the company ownership gets by default split up on all descendants and their descendants, making it basically impossible to continue such a company- as this creates a hostage situation with anyone, who is unwilling to get paid out.
My soapbox was prompted by the words, which I'm not embellishing, "save as much of your salary as you can".

I don't think there's anything wrong with saving or with passive investments. But it shouldn't be as much as you can. Engineers have other very good uses of their money, which I outlined.
>I prefer something like ublock that doesn't ask money to let ads through. I'm puzzled by the morality of that.
Adblock Plus has a really weird business model. Basically anyone can write an ad blocker, and they all use basically the same lists of rules anyway. So why would an entire company with 74 employees (https://eyeo.com/team) exist just to make an Adblocker? By adding a bunch of shady stuff on top to make money.
Amazon revenue was already $1.6B in 1999. Clearly out of startup phase by then.

So it depends on your measure. eCommerce is still a relatively small percentage of GDP, 5.4% of US according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/250703/forecast-of-inter...
I read this as such dry humor, I have to ask if you are English.
I mean, given that vast majority of marketing I experience annoys and offputs me, it's hardly surprising there is a distaste.

This article popped up a full-screen covering banner. Kind of makes the point. That kind of marketing actively makes me dislike you.
> If you're too young to have heard of Snowden, read up on him. If you're too old to remember Snowden, read up on him.

Does that apply to anyone reading HN in 2016?

My asking about paranoia level was not intended to slight. Some amount is healthy in this context, as you say.

I suppose my point was that although not every employee can be relied upon, surely this fact means that such companies, not wishing to get into trouble, don't allow employees access to data like that.

End-to-end encryption is obviously a good idea. Though I also appreciate that not having it (and, e.g. "Snoopers' Charter") catches bad guys - for some order of 'badness' that isn't extreme enough that we can assume they're all up on encryption (as is the common argument for it being ineffective against terrorism) e.g. paedophiles rings.
I guess this is the source of all the misunderstanding. What makes you think that the compiler is relevant to performances?

In extreme case of optimization, it's the programmer who does the optimizations with carefully hand written efficient code, not the compiler.
There's really nothing wrong with making a concerted effort to be more polite or accepting on the internet or anywhere else for that matter. Framing wanting to have good self-presentation and wanting to be a great coder as mutually exclusive is clearly disingenuous.
Good, marketers and salesmen are basically middle-men who skim from everyone's success. Our current economy favors these types, but we need to move past that.