skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $20k subscriptions in finance (like a live market data feed) are not only common but even cheap

I'm not saying $20k digital goods are non-existent, I'm saying that they're an extreme niche that does not reflect practical reality for the vast majority of businesses.

> Now ask yourself why Wall Street is so much more hyped with blockchains than SV

Because SV is more often composed of individuals with a deep understanding of technical topics while finance is more often composed of people who are less knowledgable on these topics and more susceptible to buzzwords and hype (not that this doesn't exist in SV, but it is even worse in finance). This is evident by the fact that nearly nobody in finance is using blockchain tech outside of experimental research and buzzword bingo (unless you count crypto gamblers and traders).

> you could do things like peg your ERC20 token to the USD, 1 of your token = $1, the underlying asset (ETH) can do whatever it wants with the price

Except that this is even worse than Eth because arbitrary custom tokens are of questionable liquidity at best and impossible to liquidate at worst.
It's also the quickest way to move past something like this, especially once it goes public - take responsibility for your actions, offer a sincere apology, and take steps to correct it.
Didn't get the impression OP meant otherwise. Read it more like "large javascript codebases" where types weren't possible before.
Right, and that should be obvious to any reader. My point is that this is an issue that is asymmetric between the sexes. Acting like it's not just makes it seem like we're trying too hard to ignore genders when they exist and affect us.
>Will they be able to pay $120M?

No. It doesn't cost that much money to make millions of robocalls.

100 phone lines
* 60 minutes (1 minute recording length)
* 14 hours of spamming per day
* 365 days of the year
~30,000,000 calls a year

The cost of doing this is less than $5,000/month for the phone lines.

>And will there be also personal sanctions for the individuals responsible for this?

The law always confuses me on this, so I can only go into what is theoretical. Two concepts come up: vicarious liability and piercing the corporate veil. Vicarious liability is when one entity is responsible for another entity's actions. Usually the concept applies with CompanyX contracting SpamConduitY. CompanyX says "no! We didn't make the calls, SpamConduitY did!" Vicarious liability holds the party who requested the performance of the calls accountable so that CompanyX can't just blame it all on SpamConduitY.

Theoretically, the same could apply to Spam Man. The FCC or a litigant could argue Spam Man is vicariously liable for the actions of SpamConduitX.

It's certainly possible that Spam Man's company SpamConduitX only had one employee: Spam Man. If that's the case, there is always a possibility of a determination that SpamConduitX is just an "alter ego" of Spam Man. Piercing the veil is said to be a rare event.
The firm had multiple other women leave in rapid succession as well.
Reading this, I wasn't quite clear what the intent of the story was. Usually these have some kind of moral to them, or a lesson learned, or something.

The author came across as an extremely uptight and unapologetic jerk, who "quietly tolerated" all 4 of her lifetime visits with the man who stayed behind to make it easier for them to escape. Every time he came to visit, he seemed to be the "fun uncle" personality - Loud and boisterous, but always having fun and chatting up people. He seemed to have a few problems, for sure, but overall by the end I felt really bad for the father and rather upset at the abysmal treatment the author gave him. If I was supposed to sympathize with the author, they failed pretty spectacularly.
Do they work? For Portugal it still lists Telecel - which hasn't existed since '99.
Not really. There's a reason why Chromebooks are so popular on Amazon. People just want a device that is free from viruses and malware and something that doesn't need constant maintenance or an on call support person from their family.
I guess another example of a visual environment that was separte from a specific language, arguably, would be DRAKON [1]. But DRAKON only supports flow charts, which is lame. Like if VIM only supported imperitive languages...

[1] http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/
There is objective quality in painting as well, such as the proper application of technique. And those things you mention about games seem fully subjective to me. A more objective property would be "fails to run" or "crashes often", which cannot happen to a painting.
This doesn't prove that smog is the cause. Perhaps the people in smoggier districts had lower education levels and didn't stay as mentally active in old age? There are too many other variables that could be at fault.
It's a bit inaccurate of them to present the results of a 17-year old paper (published in 2000), as empirical evidence that development time in Scheme is shorter. These days there are plethora of language choices on the JVM, and if I were devloping a multi-platform app today, I would personally choose Kotlin along with the Intel Multi-OS Engine:https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine

Part of my motivation to prefer Kotlin over Clojure (the most popular LISP on the JVM langauge?) is that I am a huge proponent of static typing. Large programs written in statically typed languages are orders of magnitute more readable, more maintainable, easier to understand, and far less error-prone, than programs written in dynamically typed languages.

The recent surge in popularity of dynamically typed languages like JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc, had been a source of horror and frustration to me. It feels like a huge segment industry is throwing away decades of advancement made in programming language research, and instead of moving to languages with more advanced type systems, they're abandoning sound typing altogether (shudder).
> 90$ a year

Sounds excessive. Does this include any special features beyond privacy? I pay 1€ per month for a privacy-respecting mailbox at posteo.de
I think there's actually some pretty decent PHP monitoring love these days!

1. A little plug for TraceView, a PHP performance monitoring and distributed tracing product. Not only insight as to what your PHP code is doing, but also what external services it is interacting with, which ones are slow, and (if they're other services you run) end-to-end traces between them (including software written in 7 other languages). (https://traceview.solarwinds.com)

2. New Relic offers a PHP solution, which is a bit pricier but also folds into their ever-growing suite of products. https://newrelic.com

3. Tideways is pretty cool as well (someone mentioned that already) and it supports HHVM. https://tideways.io

4. If you're looking for just profiling, there's https://blackfire.io, though I don't know much about it.

5. AppDynamics has a PHP monitoring product but I can't recommend it unless you are looking for on-prem hosted solution.

And there's probably several more...
>If we had adopted nuclear power decades ago, none of that would be an issue.

Then we would have even more problems with final disposal than we already have, that's the topic none of the pro-nuclear people ever want to touch on because they fully realize it's quite an issue.

As is, it's already bad enough how plant operators socialize these long-term costs while keeping all the profits private, which is the only way these operations can turn a short-term profit. Case in point: http://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-de...

It's even more infuriating to see that quote of Sigmar Gabrial boasting that "society alone doesn't have to bear the costs". How generous of them to pay a little bit into a fund for the disposal of their own waste, while the German taxpayer will end up picking the brunt of the bill when, as always, everything ends up going way over the estimated costs.

Just take a look at Fukushima: TEPCO has a book equity of $US20 billion, total cleanup costs are estimated at $US250 billion, who's paying for that? Right, the Japanese government aka the tax payer.
If you find your self using the words "feels good" in a sentence you are very much on the subjective side of things. Likewise terms like "generally works", "runs well" and "reasonable difficulty" will all mean different things to different people. Objective items might be things like uses 4xMSAA, is presented in the first person and uses 'X' to jump. Even still once you consider how these choices effect the game quality you are straight back to subjectivity.

Painting can equally be criticised on technical merit, and as with games that can still be very subjective even though many would like to pretend otherwise.
I have to agree. There's certainly more high-frequency content, but it seems mostly like noise, with only a vague amplitude correlation to the existing audio.

I'd be curious to see if any better results could be obtained by applying a similar technique in the frequency domain.
Whether you block ads or not is kinda beside the point. It's a little unreasonable to expect Google or anyone else to stop personalizing the ads they're trying to serve you just based on the fact that you're blocking them.
Actually, it is not a corollary.
Your response changed my mind on the matter, so thank you.

It's especially relevant given how all of this played out. (See the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621765 and subsequent admission https://www.axios.com/justin-caldbeck-takes-indefinite-leave...)

Any ideas for recognizing situations where a bit of skepticism is warranted vs situations like this? In this case, I'm a little saddened that my comments caused some more stress for the founders. One of them personally came to correct me upthread.

I think it's still important in general to reserve judgement and to wait for due process, but is there much reason to hold so fast to those views anymore? The speed at which accusations can be confirmed or denied seems to have increased to the point where it might not be so bad to just assume that the truth will usually come out. I don't know.
She got older and realized that there is more to life than career and material status.

Edit: she also does not seem to realise that her father's behavior might have been determined by the sacrifice he made, staying behind and having his family ripped apart.
Unless you have different requirements than the baseline, which is common
Basically, would you still do it if it's guaranteed to not make much money? Can you not work on your own stuff?
I'm argentinian, I've never had issues coming from the airport, thats why i'm asking. Uber works from the airport? thats pretty sweet..
If your question is about why one would use Reason, Reason is an interesting alternative to Javascript for building web front ends (though it also can compile to very fast native code for backend/systems use too).

Some things I feel are an improvement over Javascript + Flow or Typescript are:

- immutable data structures built into the language (and more conventionally used)

- real pattern matching on types, 'variant' types (like enums in Rust)

- better dead code elimination (helps to keep browser payload size down)

- you can use expressions everywhere (allowing more flexible code style than Javascript)

- currying/partial evaluation

- under the hood it's really just OCaml, which has benefitted from many years of development and improvement
He's made a larger statement since, including:

"I have made many mistakes over the course of my career, some of which were brought to light this week. To say I'm sorry about my behavior is a categorical understatement. Still, I need to say it: I am so, so sorry." ... "I will be seeking professional counseling as I take steps to reflect on my behavior with and attitude towards women."

That's about as far as a person can go without making an admissible confession, and seems to clear up basically all doubt.
I use GMail for similar reasons, they are reputable, but I have no expectation they won't share my data once it makes financial sense.
Even then, for the "everyone who already uses Linux/BSD/etc.", I would posit that most of them are probably using Macs and/or aren't waiting for "The Linux Desktop" to arrive.

For a huge swath of *nix users, Mac OSX accomplished everything they wanted from a "Linux Desktop" outside of being free and open source. That probably leaves a very small number waiting for the Linux Desktop.

FWIW, OSX is also unified, and requires little knowledge of the plumbing for end users.
I am almost certain that if there wasn't hard evidence, we would have seen nothing of the sort.

He's an adult businessman - he should have, and he almost certainly did know better!
The UW class, Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data

http://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html

They say video will become available.
You can tell from the URL that the link to this paper is the payload of a reference from a WordPress article on microsoft.com.
Awesome, thankyou! This is the game: https://sudoblock.com. It's just a very simple puzzle game (Sudoku variation), but I've had some good feedback and people seem to enjoy playing it:

I'm interested in finding a good return-on-investment for a very small marketing budget. I've thrown some money at FB ads, but I was paying $1 per click. Most people won't install the game after clicking the ad, and an even smaller fraction are going to actually pay for it.

I really need to fix the beta web version, all the animations and UI are still pretty bad. The android version also has some bugs and crashes I need to fix.

The other problem is my app store listings, because they were very rushed. I don't think my screenshots are very good, and I need to make a trailer video.

My last big marketing idea is to write up a blog post about the things I learned with React Native, and post that on Reddit and Hacker News. I'm not sure what I can do after that. I might create a boilerplate project, or even open source the whole game, but that would be a last resort.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
To suggest that these people are out to make a quick buck is just -- pure snark.

And to think that just because Turkey isn't currently running gas chambers that these people have nothing to worry about is, unfortunately, very naive:

Amnesty International has slammed Turkey for expelling dozens of Syrian refugees to their war-stricken country, saying the move is in violation of international law.

According to a new report released by the UK-based rights group, a total of about 80 Syrian asylum seekers, who were previously held incommunicado in a detention center in the Turkish city of Erzurum, were forced to leave for their country, with 50 more people facing deportation.

-- source: look it up yourself
Indeed. Once, some unknown underground electronic musician released an album as an "Aphex Twin leaked album".

The album got downloaded and listened to tens of thousands of times before people realized it was a hoax. People really ate it up.

Source: I was one of the people who was fooled.
Standard PR bullshit is terse by design. This sounds sincere.

> evidence was so cut-and-dry and unambiguous that Caldbeck had no choice but to admit defeat.

Usually when there's unambiguous evidence, people challenge the premise/context/authenticity of the evidence.
Why Aren't More Employees Suing Uber?
Agreed on the Iraq example. One of the things that ancient European nobility got right was to put their own children in the front lines as low or middle level army officers. The rank lieutenant literaly comes from the French for "land owner". That way, if it came to the worst, peasant and lord may mourn together; the social fabric remained (mostly) unharmed.

Which is what I expected to hint the the mention of Guillotin: the French Revolution. That did not happend because of social injustice. No human society has ever been 100% fair, -and probably none will, ever,- and most people is able to accept that without making a fuss about it. The problem with the Ancien Regime back then, -which is the same problem with financial elites nowadays,- is that they have become increasingly detached from the realities of their decisions for the rank and file, even to the point of cluelessness.
This is an interesting article, but the paragraph about religion was kind of weird:

> One psychological benefit of religious belief may be that, in theory, a relationship with God, with all its associated memories, can extend from early childhood through to death, and no matter where you are on the planet, it is there. As Aquarone says, “You can’t take it away – and it transcends where you are.”

Besides not even attempting to provide evidence that religious people were less likely to develop DID, it also just doesn't make sense. People talk about having a "relationship" with God, but it's not a real relationship. The article says having a relationship with a parent helps avoid DID because the parent helps you learn how to manage yourself, but God certainly isn't doing this. Similarly it talks about how being with people with whom you have plenty of shared memories can enhance the sense of an ongoing self persisting through the years, but you don't have any shared memories with God. This paragraph would make just as much (or rather, little) sense if you claimed to have a "relationship" with Mister Rogers, because you watched Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for decades.
I think this EXACT thing is what Credit Karma is doing with free tax returns:

https://www.creditkarma.com/tax
Double that probability if you are ever diagnosed with ADHD. (I was.)

You're right, though; there are a LOT of positive and negative correlations you can find on this stuff if you do your homework (which I did). Caucasians seem to have more stable marriages than non-caucasians, for example. And marrying later boosts the probability of success by quite a bit.

Also, by the time you reach 45 years of age, you're no longer a spring chicken and aren't really incentivized to leave the marriage, anyway.

But you're wrong about the stats being inaccurate (perhaps not about them being "misleading"): I did my homework here, and overall it seems to be somewhere between 30-50% chance of dissolution in the first 25 years of marriage, depending on how you tweak the input variables. And that stat gets worse and worse on every Nth marriage after the first... which is exactly why many people whose first marriages don't work out ever get married again.

For what it's worth (and this is all anecdotal evidence), 100% of the numerous divorces I've seen in my circle were by college-educated people.
He initially aggressively denied, then gave a lukewarm accepting response, then this. That may lend some credence to your theory.
Except that people who "she said" often have a lot more to lose than the person they're accusing, and even if they're speaking the absolute truth they end up damaging their careers, reputations, and general well-being. The media scruitiny alone would destroy many people.
So I understand that Justin made some serious mistakes in pursuing his interest in several female entrepreneurs.

Does there exist an acceptable manner for someone in a position like his to pursue such an interest? I'd imagine it would depend a lot on the context -- for example, it seems clear to me it would be very inappropriate to do so during any time period where a deal was being negotiated.

And of course, general etiquette would obviously apply, e.g. get to know them a bit and cautiously begin displaying some interest, making sure they seem receptive, etc.

I am genuinely curious about people's thoughts. Not hoping to start an incendiary discussion.

EDIT: I guess it wasn't clear enough that I'm not trying to defend or rationalize Justin's actions in any way. I wasn't trying to explore why exactly what he did was wrong -- that seems pretty clear enough. I was hoping to discuss more ambiguous scenarios.
I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what part of my comment this was in response to...

I definitely empathize with the father, he seemed to have things figured out for himself, and by the end seemed to just kind of "give up" trying to please the author, preferring to spend his time with people who were less uptight.
Started that way, too (though one cat instead of two). Now married with a toddler. If I get an hour or two to myself to code, it's a great day :)
is there an equivalent of this book for python?
FM radio transmitter using a VGA graphics card [pdf]
I really wanna hear from people who are downvoting this.

It's right to still be mad at him even if he apologizes!
Very few people refer to the pedantic HATEOS version of "REST" when referring to REST these days (it's really just a repetitive no true scotsman argument now) , and that's fine. Almost nobody implements it as part of what's now considered a restful api.
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So how long do we have to ostracize him for before we can treat him like a human being again? Or does he wear the scarlett letter forever now?

Is it not okay to note that he appears to be taking the right first steps?
> It would be more impressive to not harass women founders.

Of course. But that didn't happen, so this thread is a discussion of what did happen.

Acknowledging the apology is not praising him.
spoken like a true startup founder. =) there is a lot to think about in a startup but the most important part is tracking how attractive your offering (not just the product, but also messaging and other value adds) is to your target market. i.e., nearly every startup is primarily a marketing problem, not a technology problem.
What is your plan for credit card processing?
What are you talking about? Can you define some of the problems you're trying to solve? It feels like you're writing a parody of something. The post is about keeping bike lanes simple and cheap so we'll just build them already. Yours is the opposite, no?
It's graphing two data sets on different scales. One is the cumulative number of units sold over time, as a bar chart in blue, and as per the legend the scale for that is on the left axis. The other is the price of the game over time as a line graph, in orange, with the scale being on the right axis.
Related: "Chiiba-kun" (チーバくん) the mascot dog representing the Chiba prefecture of Japan ("Chiba-ken"), shaped like its geographic outline:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=chiba-kun&tbm=isch
I'd really love to support ProtonMail but one thing I can't swallow is that there's no server-side search of email bodies (only to/from & subject) because it's encrypted. This kills the possibility of searching through years of newsletters & stuff :/
I didn't down vote these stories, but to be blunt they aren't value adding content. I come to hacker news for interesting discussions and to learn. Reading yet another story about sexism or inequality in tech doesn't add any value to my life. The stories are predictable; the comments are predictable; and there are very few opportunities for meaningful discussion or learning. I therefore typically ignore them and I can understand why others down vote them.

Bitching about things online isn't action. Changing behavior offline is action, and I doubt these stories generate any meaningful behavioral changes among the groups that need them, so what's the point?
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That's certainly true about traditional roles, but I think they ultimately do a disservice to people that don't feel comfortable with them. It strikes me as an unnecessary restriction, and I'm optimistic that people can be socially and emotionally responsible without having to follow a script they don't like, although I'll admit it might take some more existential grit and communication.
SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time
Err, people already do it, but you are probably not going to see widespread adoption anytime soon no matter what.
Until nobody has to think about it, nothing changes