skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the EU citizens wanted security of living in London for as long as they want, why not apply for permanent residency after five years and then citizenship? Doesn't seem like that big of an obstacle.

Why is London the only prosperous city in England? Does that seem right? Germany has many prosperous cities.

And what is it that makes London a world capital so much more than Paris or Frankfurt? Perhaps it is due to something uniquely British? If so, perhaps that's worth preserving.

As someone living for years in one of these "global cities," they are all hype. They are modern feudal estates. Look at the mentality of so many of these expats who come into London... For example, the French. Do they treasure British traditions? Doubtful. They want to make their money and resume and go back home as soon as it's feasible. They want to stick to their own enclaves in London. Does anyone else find this odd and unappealing from both sides?

How did London become a global capital? Mostly money laundering for the world. They call it finance, but it's really just banking (not a lot of PE or hedge funds), which is really just money laundering when you talk about the top end of that industry. Screw banking and finance, every city they dominate ends up sucking. Leave and we can build a city based on something real.

I just saw this in Sydney too. Everyone openly says, the (white) Aussies have sold their property and bailed out to regional towns or what not.

It seems abnormal because what all the immigrants were chasing was the place, culture and system those people built.
>I find this argument mind-boggling when the people who have done the most to undermine workers rights are exactly the same people who support Brexit.

The people against Brexit were all major political parties that ruled for 50+ years, all mainstream press, all businesses, the financial sector.

The deep establishment, in other words, that is, precisely those who have done the most to undermine workers rights.

>but the British government refuse to do anything it in the name of 'labour flexibility'.

Yes, but the British government was all for bremain. So who are those people you were referring to?
I do recall this submission and commenting on the ridiculous nature of it. But I wouldn't say it was voting manipulation so much as people who may not be familiar with markets voting up something they saw that used neural nets.

The disappointing part was that Allen chose to be defensive instead of admitting a mistake on his submission vetting process.
Very poorly written summary of a good paper. Feels like the author has no clue what she's writing about.

Here's the link to the paper instead: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00847
> I don't think that is a realistic request.

Hm? How come? Is there a mental barrier here that I'm not understanding? (C and Rust are "hard" languages?) I taught myself to code on my parents' hand-me-down Pentium 100Mhz in the early 2000s, and I started with the K&R C book. Python and C were my swiss army knives at the time. I really can't see this stuff being super difficult, I mean I was a teenager and I had no understanding of algorithms.
Alan Kay might have something to say about all this.
Thanks for sharing! For anyone interested, GET PUT POST is all about API platforms and killer app ideas. You can check out a recent interview with Flexport here: https://getputpost.co/how-the-flexport-api-enables-global-tr...
Awesome, Looking forward to seeing what the deal was worth! Would be a real shame if this was hidden behind an NDA or what not.
Take a massively complex complex topic and smash it into bite size blurb. Check! Semi believable. Check! Mirroring. Check! Signaling an "understanding" at lease one layer greater then common knowledge. Check! We got ourselves a high quality upper class meme.
Or when you are the sole owner of the fruit of your passion, instead of stupidly giving it away.
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& alternative to flippa http://alternativeto.net/software/flippa/
It's only talking about religious people; extrapolating religious norms to the whole ethnicity is kind of unfair.
The mission of NIH, EPA, NOAA and many others is science. Science seeks facts, not beliefs. These agencies only practice advocacy to the extent that it is 1) based on scientific fact finding, and 2) to the overall benefit of human health and safety.

It is "the perspective of very very conservative people" that has forced these agencies to be politicized by failing - or refusing - to accept the findings of scientific research.
Congratulations, Courtland! Your work has challenged silicon valley attitudes that success is measured by funding. It's refreshing to read about how achievable a profitable, lifestyle-supporting business can be. Good luck at Stripe!
> What are the chances that the US will cut CO2 emissions by 50% in a decade or two? I'd say that it's about zero.

I agree. But so does everyone else. So why point it out unless to argue in favor of despair?

Placing a sufficient price on CO2 emissions would probably do it. Odds of getting our legislatures to do this may be slim, but why not try?

> Exaggeration doesn't help the argument that anthropogenic climate change is a serious problem.

I'm not exaggerating. The EPA's forecasted temperature increase over the next 83 years is a confidence interval with upper bounds at 12F for the USA and 8.6F for the global average. (https://www.epa.gov/climate-change-science/future-climate-ch...)
A change of that magnitude will have tremendous consequences:

- Changing rainfall patterns and foundering marine ecosystems might threaten public food and water supplies.

- The resulting economic fallout might create large migrations of people who will have to compete for space in regions of the world already overfull.

- Large regions of the country would become unpleasant to reside in on account of the temperature alone.

- Violence and poverty could become widespread.

These seem to me to be genuine threats that it is realistic to believe that people alive today might face in their old age.
What was foolish about the purchase? Just the fact that repairs had to be done? It looks like a nice, quaint house.
Mattermost is an excellent open-source Slack clone. It would be interesting if someone could add a feature to publicly host chat logs for indexing by public search engines.
Software dev is about tradeoffs, and the argument against Electron is that the tradeoff in resource usage is bananas for nebulous claims about "it looks better" and "I wrote my app faster". Every time this comes up on HN, someone says, "wow, Electron is Dracula to batteries, and all I'm doing is sending text to people/playing an MP3/blinking a cursor".

Managing tradeoffs is a fundamental part of development strategy. You can ramp up quickly in a productive language like Python and then stabilize on a more efficient language like Java. New platforms like Go/Swift/Kotlin are trying to get in this sweet spot (and mostly succeeding), and existing platforms are trying to inch closer towards it (Python/JS with performance and Java/C#/C++ with ease-of-use features) to avoid the "do over"

> And before you start providing an EXISTING solution, remember people tried it and they didn't like it as much as electron. And since electron is so bad, that should tell you something.

I doubt everyone who's built a desktop in Electron tested Qt first. Definitely not in C++, but probably not even in QML or Go.

> People. Don't. Care.

People absolutely care, they're just not software engineers so they can't articulate precisely what they care about. It's like you never heard someone complain about shit battery life, unresponsive web pages and apps, or slowness in general.

Most of these Electron apps work in network effects. People have Spotify because their friends have Spotify; people have Slack because their work uses Slack; essentially people are generally saddled with your app for non-technical reasons. But that should be an argument for giving them good tech, not an excuse for giving them bad tech. "Well, you'd have to use this anyway so I can get away with burning through your battery life and you'd still count towards my usage numbers". Ick.
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The premise is so unlikely (given what we know of Twitter's past behavior) that if we accept it, we have to accept motives that are beyond our understanding. That said, it's hard to conceptualize even just the metric that they might be optimizing for.

I mean, randomly pruning negative sentiment tweets for a given topic might allow Twitter to tell United, "Hey, we removed 12,000 negative tweets about your brand" (leaving out the fact that there are 12,000,000 negative United tweets total). Or maybe by removing these random tweets, Twitter reduces the overall spread and diversity of this negative sentiment, as many people are content to just retweet what the most popular Twitter users have said about United. But...what would that fix? Twitter already has algorithms in place that make it hard for you to see things either outside of your own filter bubble or otherwise not popular content.

For example, it's well known that many bots are triggered to auto-reply to Trump tweets, as the space devoted to tweet replies are seen as prime advertising space [0]. But I never see those merch-selling bots. The top replies I see to Trump tweets are either from my network, or are replies from popular (usually political) accounts. I have to dig very far to find those random bot replies.

For me, a major argument against Twitter deleting tweets is that it has many other effective ways to suppress content that would be virtually undetectable without wide-scale analysis of their data.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/weird...
Who said it is?
Yikes! This is why sign-offs for things like that exist. You had an incredibly kind and understanding boss!
I agree. Those were nice cpus and it is not a bad thing that they had a socket. I did not list them as a negative point, but to show that AMD had more sockets in the last time than AM3+, which could maybe partly explain OPs misconception that AMD spread their cpus over them more than Intel. When FM2+ got upgrades while AM3+ got them as well, it was indeed a strange split. That is was nothing compared what Intel does with their platform segmentation seems to have got lost.
Hackers can steal your password by looking at how you tilt your phone
I love[1] how police brutality is so common nowadays that a random subreddit must create rules basically saying "Yeah we've all seen these shit; I know it's bad but please take it elsewhere because otherwise we'll be swamped."

[1] By which I mean I hate it.
Perform an experiment:

1. Watch someone work hard on a project they care about for months or years. It could be software, a quilt or a carpentry project.

2. Find a legal way to destroy it in front of them.

3. Say "Come on its just X not the Sistine Chapel."

4. Record their reaction and report back.
My boss actually "beats" this into people. He explains repeatedly that the company has no loyalty to you, and that you must have some sort of a life outside of work and extra work is giving more to the company than what you are paid for. I saw him threaten to fire someone for working overtime once, because he can't fix the staffing problem until the company feels the pain of having a staffing problem.
Are you thinking about U2F or something more?

Here is a helpful discussion including using the Yubikey Neo NFC with Android phones and alternatives to Yubikey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13635433
It seems her philosophy these days has been converted to: screw everyone else and how can I get as rich as possible? Which is no wonder why most of the CEOs and politicians in the article adore her so.
What is there to be excited about? Having your battery drain every-time your browser runs some JS app? Wasting CPU and memory that I paid for? Lost productivity waiting hundreds of milliseconds (sometime seconds) for any UI response? I dread using any technology coming out of a SV startup, and its rather sad. I want to be excited, but can't get myself to be. As an aside, with all due respect to these startups, calling them successful is premature. They only appear successful because they're burning through someone else's money.

These technologies you diss have been reliable and stable for over a decade. As an embedded developer, my code has to be running 24/7 for months without rebooting, without running out of memory, without crashing. But forget embedded, and imagine a web service. Can you truly honestly say that an app written in electron will give me that reliability? Or should we just accept that if you want to write apps using "modern" tech, you'll just have to deal with it? I personally can't imagine any web framework ever maturing and being stable enough to where you can invest money in it knowing that it will be around 10 years from now. Having your underlying technology platform in a constant flux makes your entire product stack brittle. That is a Big Deal.
Reporting of this by The Register was headlined yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077029 . It is interesting how the ZDNet headline manages to be more tabloidesque than The Register's.
Nice share, thanks.

Gary Fagan founded the Gage Academy of Fine Arts. He's done quite a bit of work on representing facial expressions. His book is "required" reading for portrait arts. His lectures are fun too.

http://www.garyfaigin.com/faigin-face-blog

http://www.garyfaigin.com/expression-demonstrations.html

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Complete-Guide-Facial-Express...
> It's not the developers. Developers would love to make native apps, for all the platforms.

I don't think that's true in the case of Slack. They only have JS "hacker" webdevs, and those are notoriously resistant to any change to their comfort zone. C++? WPF? Swift? Cocoa? Scary stuff.
How can I put my app on AppStore while I can't have a foreign bank account?
Living in Iran, I can't have a foreign bank account (mostly due to sanctions...). How can I put my apps on Appstore/GooglePlay and earn money out of them?
The idea is interesting, but I doubt it'd be actually useful. If you're running code that doesn't require access to specific browser features, why run it on the client at all? It's generally less reliable, often slower, incurs serialization costs, etc.
Your comment made me check if it actually was possible, and what the platonic solids in higher dimensions were.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/platonic.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120-cell
Well they were exaggerating but I think they had a point, til recently on my Desktop machines I only cared about having a web-browser, terminal (+ Steam at home).

Lately there are more UI-ish apps I value having everywhere including desktop (Spotify, Hipchat, Whatsapp, VSCode). I'd also love a decent cross-plat podcasts app.

I think it's clear there's now more demand for certain types of consumer-ish desktop apps (chat apps & music apps especially) than there was a few years ago.
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Awesome! See, sometimes good things happen to good people.
Maybe I'm too cynical. This just seems like corporate largesse on Stripe's part, which is kind of neat, except for what happens to things like IndieHackers when that largesse runs out.

I guess nice to know Stripe's doing so well they can fund random stuff… ?
Reddit and Facebook ate forums. Reddit in particular fills that interest-niche conversation role to a degree that it strangles forums.
What advantages did you see comparing Cloudant to CouchDB?
> In other words a toaster with WiFi connection will not provide you with a better toast but a toaster on your wifi might be able to serve toasted bread with broken hardware that is mitigated through a software upgrade.

If something as simple as a toaster needs software to work around broken hardware, it means the device is defective and should not be used.
I don't understand. The cost is mostly externalized into, quite literally, massively distributed increased electricity consumption. That an individual's power bill may be subsidized only emphasizes that problem.
I'm running a Phenom II 1055T (x6). It actually seems to be ok for pretty much everything, including gaming at 1440p (I've upgraded the GPU 3 times and am currently running a GTX 1070, 16GB of RAM, and an SSD). Not bad for a system that's almost 7 years old.

The only issue is that I tried using the Oculus, and it won't work. Apparently the CPU doesn't have some instructions required for VR. I tried using a hacked version of the Oculus setup program that bypasses the CPU check, but it still won't work.

Which is why I've been thinking about a Ryzen 5...
> So instead of paying someone to maintain it, you pay someone to maintain it who keeps all your data from you and prevents you from accessing it, and who admits he’ll read all your stuff.

You aren't paying "someone" you're paying an entire company that is dedicated to making the application highly available, with all the bells and whistles, with zero hassle.

Really, if you think IRC is so similar to Slack, then why are so many companies, organizations flocking to it? There has to be a reason.
> Sonia and I set out on a quest to re-train ourselves as scientists. We both started taking night classes, reading papers, calling up scientists, going to conferences. We left our old careers and found jobs in research labs, and eventually enrolled at Harvard Medical School, where we are now PhD students in biological and biomedical sciences.

Wow, what a great story. Inspiring that you can change careers mid life and be successful.

Thanks for sharing.
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Interesting.

Don't hate the player, hate game, though. welcome to the jungle.
First of all, congrats to csallen, I have been following your journey from the day you launched on HN and it was fascinating to follow along. If you haven't read his month in review posts, highly recommended.

I hope it's not taboo to speculate on the acquisition price, so here's my take :

* extrapolating a $5k/month revenue to a year = $60k/year

* acquisition price is roughly 2-4x yearly revenue so $120k to $240k

* Plus a full time salary at roughly $120k/year

Really cool stuff man, congrats again!

One of the things I dislike about advertising on IH was that it was distracting. I see multiple adverts while reading an interview along with links to tweet pull quotes, not a fan of both those aspects. Glad to know that the advertisements will be removed.

Can't wait to see how IndieHackers grows, especially the community.
Can we just go back to aim? I really hate having one damn view for channels, so if I'm talking to two people I have to constantly switch back and forth. I still don't get how these kinds of tools get such a big following.
Anyone else suspect "clickbait" is now the #1 most-used word in HN comments?
You Can Now Apply to Work at McDonald’s via Snapchat
What if applicant personally doesn't have any previous experience with AI-related technologies. But has a strong affinity towards learning them. Also If he/she has a really good idea.Will it be okay? or the ones with previous experience will be preferred?
> You may be assigning zero value to everything because you personally don't get anything from it

How much value I personally assign to it is irrelevant. The bottom line is that it is not a necessity.

> You can't take one of the people I follow and substitute an arbitrary person and assume I'll get equal value. The people I follow are on Twitter, and are mostly not on "other social networking apps and websites out there.

Great. It sounds to me like you use twitter because you like to read posts from certain individuals who also prefer to post on twitter (and not some other site). Those people aren't forced to use twitter, and it isn't anything more than an inconvenience if YOU decided not to use twitter because YOU have objections to how twitter operates their core business. You want to use twitter because you want to stay up to date on "the people you follow". That is not a description of a dystopia. Being able to follow your favorite celebrities is not important (except to you personally).

Maybe we should get the government involved in regulating League of Legends balance changes since they have 100 million+ customers most of which actually spend money to use the service.

No matter how much value you derive from the specific individuals that compose your twitter feed, you are not entitled to any of it because you never entered into an agreement with twitter where you compensated them in exchange for certain guarantees, barring that or something illegal, the government has reason to get involved in what kind of content twitter choose to allow on their site, period.
Congratulations, Courtland! Really happy to hear this! Keep up the awesome work!
Are there standardized licensing bodies for software developers in the EU and Canada? I'd be really interesting in learning more about them if so.

I sympathize your argument and I think the field is doing a great job right now demonstrating some of the upsides of a licensing authority, but actually getting one would be bad IMO.

Most software is not life and death, and licensing authorities, like unions, quickly become gatekeepers that work to prevent competition whilst simultaneously enriching themselves through extortionary means (today, these are mostly indirect because everyone is on the look out for them, but they are nevertheless still there). There are good arguments that the AMA and ABA have both seriously contributed to the astronomical expense of their respective services.
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> It's really weird to see one of the reasons for their switch to Go was because it's a statically typed language. If you want static typing, you don't choose Python in the first place.

Sure, if your only or most important criteria is static typing. But you can view static typing as desirable, but prefer Python because it has more important positive traits that no alternative with static typing has, so you sacrifice static typing for them. But then Go comes along, that is good enough on those criteria and has static typing, and you prefer it.

Of course, Python now has optional static typechecking available anyhow.
A portrait of Migrantland: Explaining Britain’s immigration paradox
Not 65 watts if you overclock to 4 GHz :D
Patrick from Stripe here. I wanted to quickly chime in to emphasize that our goal in acquiring Indie Hackers is to simply ensure that the site becomes as successful as possible. The Stripe upside we're hoping for is that more companies get started and that they're more successful. We already see a very large fraction of new internet companies choose Stripe; we're mainly hoping that Indie Hackers can help us grow the overall number rather than to grow our fraction. (Our product has to do the latter part.)

Also: congrats to Courtland on building an awesome site! I've been enjoying the interviews on it since it launched. It's very refreshing to hear from so many people who are quietly building real businesses with real revenues.
Chrome now uses scroll anchoring to prevent those annoying page jumps
"most recognizable" and "famous" are correlated but not identical. The pentagon is not simply well-known, it's also very recognizable because - well, because it's a huge freakin' pentagon, and there aren't many other buildings that look anything like it.

Same applies to lesser-known Frank Gehry buildings, as one example. Many people might know the Guggenheim Bilbao, but might look at the much less well-known DZ Bank building in Berlin and think "that must be a Gehry!"