skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't this part of the plot to "Tomorrow Never Dies"?
It really depends on the market. I got out of .Net/MS stuff because that kind of work was bottom-of-the-barrel compared to what I could get by re-investing in my Linux/OSS skills.

In some other places .Net has all the best paying jobs.
Subscriptions only works with business users.

Outside some outliers like Office and anti-virus, the majority of consumers won't buy into subscriptions for software, they would rather pirate it.
https://github.com/dino/dino Shows a lot of promise. Would love a nice Windows client as well though.

With Mix coming, I think XMPP will become/remain pretty awesome.
https://docs.ejabberd.im/tutorials/mix-010/
I prefer usability (UX) over content, I used to switch to other maps when I had issues with data, but there hasn't been the need to in a very long time. Default is great especially if the UX is better. Google is ok, but Apple Maps UI is the best. I still use Waze from time to time though.
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YouTube decided that it will demonetize videos. They preferred to do that for some complains by some Advertisers, rather than giving Advertisers tools to avoid/select certain channels or certain topics. Very similar concept to AdWords, BanWords! Put the Advertiser in control of where the Ad gets shown or specifically, where it doesn't get shown. Demonetization was an ideological decision by Google, it was a political decision.

>As such, every non-monetizable video hurts YouTube's bottom line.

Even every non-monetized video is still eyes on the screen for Google. NetFlix claims to compete with books & libraries for time of the day from its viewers. Yeah, Google may not show Ad on that video but the next one in autoplay/recommended list is still going to ring the cash register. It is actually better for Google because they may very well show Ads but not pay the De-Monetized content creators, videos that they created actually act as leads to youtube. These political videos is where a reader is sent to youtube from non-youtube sites, which is much more valuable to google and they are getting away by not paying anything for that. Leading video is much more valuable to google than a video in auto-play list. Not pay for leads but get paid for Ads on subsequent videos, very nice business model win-win Google developed for itself.
Yes. It's a way of thinking that is communicated by words. Same as speaking a foreign language for me. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the same parts of the brain are involved.

To elaborate, in some spoken languages you have adjective noun (e.g. blue house), but in others the order is reversed (casa azul). At some point of learning you just subconsciously know which form to use. This is similar to programming when you can use the appropriate idioms in each language. E.g. using duck typing in python vs type checks/conditionals etc. in Java.
DuckDuckGo is just Bing with a filter. It's not a search engine in and of itself, so there's nothing much there for Apple to buy.
We addressed the need for more research by everyone - us included - at the end of the article. We're more likely to do our own original research (like Google) than pay for grants, as we're a bootstrapped startup.
Caesar, Alexander the Great, Qin Shihuang, and many other warlords, generals, emperors, ... Was Genghis Khan appreciably worse than these guys? Or is the way history works amoral?
> I don't know, people spent a bunch of man-years making my washing machine, but I don't pay a subscription on it.

You pay a subscription for the detergent.

Hardware is the washing machine; software is the detergent.
The post addresses this strategy and describes why they consider it insufficient. You can already do this in Python, anyway.
I think it's unlikely you'd have a fully split chain, although this is actually an interesting attack against bitcoin, considering China could theoretically cause a China / rest of the world blockchain partition.
Did you guys write your own implementation or use an existing server?
You're lumping all acoustics into the same category. You can can certainly have a horrible learning experience on an electric guitar, due to poor quality / action / setup.

And you can have a great learning experience on an acoustic. There are a number of advantages in terms of learning on an acoustic:

1. It's portable - you can take it anywhere

2. You can easily hear it without headphones or an amp

3. Well suited for chords and melodies (typically the first things you learn)

4. Slightly heavier strings means that your fingers get stronger, and playing an electric guitar later on will seem much easier

5. Great for collaborative learning, easier to play with other people

6. Light weight compared to most electric guitars

7. Acoustic guitar "covers" of popular music (eg. Bieber etc.) are a "thing" all over YouTube and make it easy to learn songs people will recognize

8. If you appreciate classic rock, folk, blues and 90s alternative, these genres are typically chord-based, and easy to learn on acoustic too. Any Beatles song. Nirvana unplugged. Think Layla electric vs. Layla unplugged.

9. Fingerstyle is very rewarding. Eventually you might even get as good as Tommy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPkQn5nDTZs

Acoustic is a great way to get started, and learn, and most importantly a great way to develop GOOD habits.
Oh, so it's like https://shapeshift.io/ except subject to the arbitrary and Orwellian US financial regulations!

All jokes aside, I'm not knocking Evercoin. It looks beautiful and I welcome anyone and everyone who wants to bring liquidity to crypto markets. I'm just concerned about the sustainability of any platform based in the US. Maybe Evercoin knows something I don't though.

I feel like the smartest thing we can do is exactly what Bitfinex has done. Shut out US customers and put pressure on regulators to be sensible.
> if you can't say "I love you", it is not a language to me.

void declareEmotion( bool isInLoveWith ) {
if( isInLoveWith ) {
printf("I love you\n");
else
printf("I'm sorry, this isn't working out...\n");
}
}
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http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/21/world/romania-s-communist-...

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/25/world/romanian-orphans-pri...
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The current status quo for consumers is software should be free. Changing that is going to be very, very tough.
Subscription is a reasonable model for software that's part of your core workflows and that you probably want to be current on in any case. If you're a graphic professional, Adobe Creative Cloud is mostly a reasonable deal.

If you dust off Photoshop Elements a few times a year? Not so much.

Similarly, with a few exceptions, subscribing to something like a game doesn't really make sense for a buyer. It would be like subscribing to a movie or, as you say, a book. I'm probably going to play it once (or even a few times) and it's going to sit unused.

The flip side of the author's premise is that subscribing to something, even for a very low price, is generally a much higher bar to me than taking a flyer on something at $5-$10. Yes, there's some combination of subscription price vs. purchase price where I'd view the subscription as lower risk but I tend to be pretty conservative about opening up monthly money leaks.
I was referring to the beginners dilemma, not accomplished players. I used to teach guitar long ago last century, and it was amazing how many people showed up with necks they couldn't get their hand around comfortably.
When you are starting out the basic physics and mechanics of pressing down on strings and snapping into chord shapes seems impossible - having a neck that is a sympathetic shape to the arc of your thumb to first finger/hand, frets that fall to your finger size, and probably most critical a fretboard width that works with your fingertip size can make a big difference.
Your hand gets sore on a flatter, thinner neck because you are using way more hand muscle strength. For a beginner who doesn't have that muscle memory or strength, this equals impossible.
Once you get some basic motor skills down through practice a whole new world opens up and all the different playing qualities of playing different style s of guitar open up.
I used to made iPhone apps which cost few dollars back in the days. Worked great for me the time being, now I have moved to other stuff. Not everything needs to work indefinitely, software or business can have a lifespan, and I think that's fine.

My advice is that don't try to push the subscription model everywhere. For some things it simply doesn't work that well and you might make better buck by just selling packages.
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> "It mostly works for simple programs, but probably segfaults on anything complicated" is not a promising beginning.

Perhaps they would have done better to say "it works correctly for all programs that do not assume the built-in data structures are threadsafe". That is an accurate description, what you quoted is a reasonable approximation.
This comment from the journal editor is particularly telling:

"Certainly people, say in businness [sic], behave more brutally than in academia."

I don't know what businesses and academics the editor knows, but my observations across business and academics have repeatedly been than professors behave far more brutally than businesspeople do.
I agree wholeheartedly. Almost every time I hear from someone who is upset about the GIL, I find that they would be much better suited to using multiprocessing instead of multithreading.

With 80% of the developers out there, they are basically assured of producing better, more stable code this way.
It's just incredible that a completely pedestrian comment like this one is downvoted. This place is just crawling with Google cultists.
> But when will we finally learn that the digital realm is real, if not realer, than the physical?

This is a silly statement since the digital depends on the physical for existence, and digital content only makes sense in the context of culture formed by flesh and blood human beings. A massive EMP pulse or collapse of civilization will show just how "real" the digital is.
Your text notation was:

move(.up)

What does the `.` do? Why can't it just be:

move(up)

What purpose do the parentheses have? Are they essential or optional?

Why not:

move up

Ok, you wanted it to be like a "real" language, I guess? Look at Logo and Basic. They largely eschewed punctuation (not entirely) for text and newlines and meaningful names:

pen down
forward 100
right 90
forward 50
pen up
In the native dialect of western Austria you can't say "I love you".

Some form of "I like you" is as high as the emotions get there.
Look to how the Hungarians stopped the Mongols from invading. Same strategy would work in western europe
I hardly ever play full barre chords. I can, but I don't. (I was subjected to practicing all the CAGED chord shapes as barres in circle of fifths up the neck, which is great for the hands and the brain.) I don't like the sound of six-string chords generally. So I mostly chord two or three strings at a time, and move what's getting picked from strum to strum to mix the low and high notes. It's much more dynamic and interesting, and sounds a lot less cluttered. But that's me.

The result is that my barres are lazy. Since I'm only trying to get three notes at most to ring clearly at once, I'm just muting the rest, which is a lot less effort. Muting technique is everything!
There aren't as many alternatives as you think. DDG is Bing and Startpage is Google.

There are only two [general purpose, global] search engines in the world right now: Google and Bing.

And of the two Google is clearly superior. I suspect most people would use it even if Bing was the default.
I'll assure you it's not a lost art where food is relatively expensive/people can't afford it. It's a good sign when people spend so little of their income on food that the temptation to steal is severely depressed.
> Each upload/download transaction is recorded on the whatcoin network

Hmmm. Under this scenario, though, wouldn't the major labels be losing out when others host their files? They may have an incentive to place music on the chain, but if I read you right, when others host the same files, the labels' share of whatcoin for those files declines.
Use startpage.com. I've tried DDG a few times over the last years. The results where reasonable when it was still using Google as a backend. Since it's switched to something else (Bing?) it's horrible. startpage.com gives me anonymized results from google.
Wtf are you on about.
By my reckoning it's like that everywhere. Just recently it took me an hour of walking and a good half hour of furious Googling to find authentic Venetian glass in Murano.
Apple could use anonymized browsing and searching data from Safari to launch it's own search engine if Google pulls its current deal.
I've definitely considered that possibility, and I figure there's probably no way to know!
Serious question to those outside the tech bubble; Do you, or anyone you know, still use OTA broadcasting? Or even watch any 'programmed broadcasts' on cable, etc?

My limited sample size has nearly all media consumed ala-carte via on-demand, youtube, netflix, etc. With an outlier who just streams cnn all day.

Is buyin up old tv stations still relevant?
Every web server I've ever used returns a 500 server error when the transport succeeds but it encounters an exception in application level code. Are you really proposing that's incorrect behavior? I also can't imaging a use for 403 Forbidden and 401 Unauthorized that isn't "application level" logic.

If you think about it pretty much 99% of requests the server receives could be correct if the "application logic" was implemented differently. You can't really decouple the two in any meaningful way.

If you want to return 200 OK status codes all day when why are you using HTTP in the first place?

(Also, HTTP is an application protocol)
Why are you all so keen on a monopoly?

Competition = better rates for both services.
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Yes, please. I was happy to see Ulysses switch to subscription-based pricing and I would be happy to see other apps I use do the same thing (Yep, for example).

These are apps that I use every day. I need them to work. I don't need new fancy flashy features that bring in new users. I need reliability, maintenance, minor improvements, constant optimizations. This is not possible without subscriptions.

I'd much rather pay regularly for a small number of good, well-maintained apps, than have hundreds of crappy cheap one-shot apps that get released and then slowly fall into disrepair.
to be clear gas welding masks are 5, its more like wearing sunglasses.

arc welding gear is generally around 10-11.

many newer electronic helmets go up to 13/14 which is enough, you have to remember to turn up the sensitivity on the sensors so that its always dark. otherwise it will stay open at around 3-4
"Libraries aren't cesspools of things"

They are, actually. There's plenty of hate filled speech in my local library. It carries Mein Kampf, for example, as well as plenty of other objectionable material.

The difference is probably that you don't fixate on these things when you visit the library. You don't consider the entire library to be a cesspool simply because it contains some objectionable material.

Libraries have a strong, approachable position which supports disseminating all speech, including vile speech. It's an academic position, independent of good PR. Folks are strongly discouraged from engaging in book-burning campaigns against libraries. This culture is largely lacking on the internet, which is primarily run by profit seeking companies who worry about their public image.

So maybe the internet isn't a cesspool either? Perhaps the issue is that the curators of the internet are happy to censor, in exchange for better public relations?
Some places form ideas about their chosen few who then get the good work. It just seems to keep happening in the permie jobs I take. I really want to go contracting so I can get out in 5-10 years time!

I'm ploughing through a doorstop book on C#/.NET and using Anki to cement knowledge. After that I figure I'll have a better idea of what I might want to learn in more depth.
You're right in that Google didn't just accidentally become the "search engine of choice for the Internet", but wrong in that "people chose to use it".

Google started with paying other software companies to bundle Google Toolbar in with their software, which would change your default search to Google. (This behavior was later changed to Google Chrome, which you still get with a dozen other programs today.) This is actually a big part of Sundar Pichai's claim to fame at Google, and likely chiefly why he is CEO today: He's responsible for Google being the default place for search.

As noted in this article, Google has been paying to be default on the iPhone for years, and Google used to be the highest bidder for Firefox's default search spot as well (and still is in several other countries besides the US).

People use the default, and Google invested an incredible amount of money in ensuring they were the default everywhere. Google has been the default in both Chrome and Firefox for many years, and used the Toolbar to change people's default in IE, and has also been the default on both iOS and Android mobile phones. And that is why Google has the market share it does today.
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Read this before you try to ship a product with Arduino
In the case of a washing machine, they design the unit to stop functioning in the near future, sell you a limited warranty, and then frequently try to sell you an extended warranty. It's different, but yes, things are dressed up to extract the most they can from a customer.
i remember back when my dad bought lotus 123 for like $60 at the local store. that was a fair value

i think the app store and ad-supported software really devalued a lot of forms of software for most lay people. my wife still gasps when i spend a buck on software
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You might not want to try to or know how to monetize the second option, but I'm not paying you a monthly fee for closed source software that you or your company are going to inevitably neglect/abandon/sell to someone who cares even less.

I am, sometimes it is just the best choice in an imperfect world. Of course I would prefer to pay for open source but no such offers exist.
>So youtube should allow porn, gore, etc?

It had, for ages.

>Youtube also has freedom of speech. They have the freedom to filter and compile videos that they like and only show those.

Sure they do. I wish they were honest about their political ideology before they touted the platform for all to come and participate.

>It's my website after all, I am allowed to control what is on it.

Sure you are. I just wish you had advertised as such before content creators invested time and money into the platform, creating user base for you. That's a bait and switch, no different than Apache to AGPL license change on 27.8.3 version of your successful GitHub project.

A private entity and a public corporation and government are three different levels of individual discriminatory behavior. A private person or business can employ any discriminatory practice they see fit, as you yourself say. A government is held at highest standard of equality for all. A publicly traded corporation is somewhere in between the government and a private citizen.
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It really amazes me how under-rated the surface book is (mainly due to a bad launch).

Most of the early glitches have been ironed out and now there's honestly nothing else like it.

What little it lacks in terms of reliability, it makes up for in terms of versatility.
And the status quo for developer pay should be zero as well. All they do is type stuff that gets turned into zeros and ones. /s
Remember the browser ballot screen? I think at some point we'll see something similar for search engines.
Actually Google is way more dominant outside of the US than in it, particularly in Europe (>90 % market share), as this 2015 Atlantic article about anti trust measures tells us about:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/europ...

In my native Sweden, using anything other than Google is pretty much unheard of.

I believe the average American internet user is ahead of the curve in this respect, using Bing and other search engines which are probably as good for most queries as Google is.
Somehow the Antifa seems like the straw-man people like to beat when fascists are on the news...
Is there any reason to believe that Apple would even have this setting, if Google stopped paying them billions? After all, there's no setting to use a different browser, maps app, etc., by default.
The article isn't correct in that "the version that has received more traffic during the disruption" wins. The amount of transactions that are in a bitcoin block play no role in determining the longest chain. It's solely about solving the most SHA256 proof of work solutions in the shortest amount of time.

So you could say that the connected component of the netsplit graph with the highest hashrate will win with the highest probability.
Realistically, how long do I have before Silicon Valley stops subsidizing my transportation?
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It is not the only way to do software and nothing says you have to maintain your software for eternity either. There are people out there who write simple games $2.99 per download in the app store and focus on volume who make a nice chunk of change.
I feel like clients and servers have fixed most of these. I've never had to do anything to have chat logs, all devices just have it thanks to MAM, file sharing is done with HTTP Upload, encryption is done with OMEMO (axolotl/Olm, although this one is still making its way into clients many support it already), voice and video is still a problem but lots of XMPP based services exist to make it easier (Jitsi Meet). It's only not a problem with Matrix yet because they have a single client; if they ever get as popular as XMPP and have many, they'll have the same fragmentation issues. What the XSF needs is one really good desktop client to compete; something with a feature set comparable to Convesations on Android, and good looks to boot.