skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some A/B testing might be needed, but my gut feeling is that this should be a flat fee service (lifetime).

- I think very few people will want to pay for 3 months of the service. I don't get continuing value from building a resume, and I will know in the very first few weeks if it's working. If after using the service I don't get companies trying to talk with me, I will be unhappy with the service.

- There's no point in continuing to pay for the service after I am hired. And my consumer spider-sense tingle every time I see "$/month", because I know somewhere on the checkout page there will be something like "cancel before 30 days otherwise we will charge". Seems shady practice for a service that has no value after I am hired. I will be thinking something like "why do they want to keep charging me if I got a job?"

Also, really, how many times do people look for jobs? They might update their resume every once in a while, but actively look? Every few years? Then why pay for something monthly?

Now, if this was a flat fee (even $25), I think more people would sign up, which might offset the "losses" of subscription (my point being there's no compelling reason to subscribe in the first place)
if you want to be pedant: "most of the people developing software" would be the most accurate imho.
It might be because my account is new...some antispam feature? But I have experienced enough avoidance and disdain irl and online simply for being in this position I wouldn't be surprised if someone flagged me for insulting their political view or something else. If it's the former then no big deal. If it's the latter it's beyond me to affect and my words are just venting for myself rather than changing anything.
I know what you are saying, but that is not what is meant by idiomatic Lisp. Not by Lispers at least.

Non-idiomatic Lisp is typically written by beginners whose code looks more like the language they are accustomed to using previously. For instance, leaning heavily on a procedural style. And not just beginners, but also seasoned programmers that write object oriented Lisp more akin to static OOP. In other words, designing class hierarchies rather than protocols (using generic functions).

What you describe is more of a side effect of the Bipolar Lisp Programmer[1]:

> This is a BBM attitude; it works for me and I understand it. It is also the product of not needing or wanting anybody else's help to do something.

I haven't read Land of Lisp yet, so I can't really comment as to whether I'd consider it idiomatic Lisp or not. (OP meant "idiosyncratic" anyway, it seems.) Not that I'd be a good judge, anyway.

[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipo...
Get with the times! The way people consume music has radically changed. The music gold rush is over. The simple fact is people listen to music on YouTube and Spotify now. Music is also absurdly high in supply because everyone wants to be a musician. Guess what that does to the value? That's right, music is cheap because it isn't worth much.

Whenever I see people complain about this, I just feel sorry for them. The world changes, and there are winners and losers because of the change.

It's so strange to me how people think the world owes them something. The value of objectively looking at the market is so underrated.
Static typing or functional programming can protect you only from some types of problems. With automated tests you have the flexibility to define the problem you are verifying your code against.
AWS has a nice mobile device hub service that lets you test with different network profiles.
Really? I have a 6-digit one (below 250K actually). I just fired it up this morning for the first time in years after reading about AIM.
FB Messenger supports sending files
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Thanks for the feedback! We are working on improving our accessibility now, which is required for our business-critical Google users and others. For example, you can follow this issue if you're interested: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/12311
This was a group of about 30 people in their 20's and 30's, with maybe five or so in their 40's.

Average, every-day retail workers mostly. In a mid-sized city.

I know the date is right because I only lived there one year.
The question of worth changes as time goes by and technology changes. When your only option for consuming a new song was to either wait for it to play on the radio or go buy the album, the value was much higher because supply was controlled by a few and consequently in short supply, so pricing power was much higher.

Now most of the power lies with the consumer who will typically consume whatever artists choose to offer their creations for close to free. There are some artists like Garth Brooks and formerly Taylor Swift, who wield enough power through enormous demand for their songs to limit supply and charge higher amounts, but these are the exceptions.

What's ironic about this article to me is that Justin Bieber would likely not have ever become famous in the first place if not for YouTube because that's where he was discovered. The same goes for a large percentage of today's most successful artists. So previously the record labels wielded all the power and only the chosen few who they deemed worthy made large sums of money. Now pretty much anybody can put their stuff out there but the consequence is that they can't control the supply.
This is simply not true. The us constitution demands geographical representation of the House. State constitutions can not change this only us constitutional amendment can.

Edit: After rereading the parent again I think he might be talking about the state house not us house.
Ok, then. Try it.

For the next six months, give yourself just $10 a day after basic expenses (rent, utilities), and be grateful that you've got that much. Your $10/day budget will have to buy you gas, food, entertainment, and anything else you want to spend money on beyond only the most basic of necessities. Your gym membership will need to come out of that budget, too.

I've lived on a budget like this one. I know a few other folks on HN have similar backgrounds. That's why I tend to participate in threads like this one, because there are an astounding number of people that come out of the woodwork claiming that they understand a complex situation better than the people living in it.

I'm not ignorant of the science and biochemistry behind nicotine use. I'm telling you that the only things that people like this really have are cigarettes, booze, and junk food (and heroin or meth, depending on the region), and you want to take those things away from them too, and for their own good in your opinion.
What I really want is something that can track changes to documents (PDFs, but any doctype really) hosted on some site. The URL may or may not change, but the location of the document URL on the page probably won't be changing. Really I'm just interested in the MD5, so no need to track specific changes.

I've got some custom scripts but paying somebody would be nice. Management of these becomes a pain after 10 or so.
Lenin believed “The goal of Socialism is Communism.”, thus all socialists are really communists in disguise is some equally flawed logic from the other side of the aisle. Just because one person on a side of a political spectrum was horrible doesn't mean you get to throw all of those ideas out with the bathwater.
I really do wish that the part of the money I pay Spotify that goes to royalties ONLY went to the artists I listened to...
Motivated to do what? Make other people work for them and be creative for them while taking the credit.

I have literally never seen any bright idea or accomplished work from a leadership person. Never.
But "You've Got Mail" wasn't about e-mail. It was about AOL.

Remember it took years for people to realize that there was more out there than just AOL.
I feel like there has to be a good amount of people in the world who take psychedelics on a regular basis. At least more so than your average person. I'd imagine they are still broken, shattered, and lost individuals. Maybe some people have accessed some secret knowledge on their trips. But for the vast majority, I doubt that's the case.

I am not saying that there is no benefit, especially for an extreme case like this. That relief these people get, a chance to exist without the confusion and pain, and just feel like love.

But the high you get is a distraction from the pain you are feeling. It's not the taking of MDMA or Psilocybin that fixes the issues. It's the integration. It's the "lessons" you learn from your experience.

But are you learning, or are you just finally looking at what you didn't want to all these years? Do you need to take psychedelics to look?

I think we should keep researching, because we should see what is at the end of this tunnel.
Sure, in general, but the key factor here is "fraternity." Of course people who have low GPAs, and are also not doing anything else like joining a frat or making social connections, will have lower incomes in the aggregate. They're spending their time doing things that won't help them get higher incomes (though they may still be worthwhile endeavors - not necessarily a waste of time; income isn't everything).

This is how I see it. Once you reach a certain GPA threshold, making social connections is a more valuable use of your time than trying for higher grades. Unless you are one of the few people for whom GPA actually matters.
From what I have seen, code that "goes straight to the point" is usually poorly thought out, is unmaintanable, has bugs, is difficult to extend to new use-cases, and the developer who wrote it is long gone.
At least we know why Google earns so much. They don't pay any royalties, rather keep everything to themselves. Interesting business concept.
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Creative, someone was bound to it.
There's also an article from someone high up (sorry I'm not being more specific) in the government/presidency of the 60s who said the main reason for the drug laws was so they could lock up lots of African Americans
Oh yes. I had a TRS-80 Color Computer, and the BASIC dialect (though written by MS) was slightly different in some details, so I was usually translating things at least a little. Things like color and graphics were completely different from system to system.
Not sure. I think I heard it from a teacher in high school.
I've never worked all night professionally. I may have done it once or twice in college.

I'm honestly not sure I could stay up all night even if I wanted to at this point (age 32, if that matters).
In the studies I've seen, DARE had no measurable effect on either attitudes toward or use of drugs, and a slight effect of promotibg a positive view of law enforcement.

So, functionally, it's pro-police PR sold to parents and voters as an anti-drug program.
But none of those things are logically linked or dominant. Why can't I just have zero latency email that defaults to a prominent instant-message-like UI for all emails without a subject line?

If desired, you could require approval from the recipient to reach this IM-level visibility if sent by a stranger, with unapproved messages appearing in the normal email box (sorta like FB does with non-friends). If someone is sending you too many, you can de-approve them, and you'll just respond slowly like email. The de-approved sender doesn't need to be told they have been de-approved, and the fact that we don't always reply instantly to IMs provides plausible deniability.
PAYWALL!
Sorry - yes, you're correct!
I agree with both, really. Those defects are our fault, and they are there because we aren't careful enough with the code we write. We know about these things, and yet, we don't work to prevent them. We either handwave them away, or we give into management pressures to just get the thing out the door.

Now, that said, one of the ways you can work to prevent these things is to use better tools. Like languages that don't let you make those kinds of mistakes as easily.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat..., which has a pretty extensive DIY scene.
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Thanks for your feedback! I opened https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/12438 to track the "not playing a sound when tapped". We're currently working on improving our accessibility support.
>The hard question a creator needs to ask themselves now is not "how do I get paid for what my art is worth?", but instead "was my art ever worth much to begin with?"
I disagree. The hard questions for creators of anything is how to control sales of the product. The digital platforms have failed musicians. The challenge is how to enforce prevention of piracy (ie illegal uploading of material). This will ultimately be legal hardball, and what 'record companies' used to do to protect their label and artist roster. Someone needs ot take on the big digital platforms in a landmark case. Regarding creativity, a tangible asset (like a box and booklet containing the music in some new format for example) would go a long way to making people think they had actually bought 'something' rather than just listening to an fM radio like stream of tunes.
Art is rarely worth very much at the time of creation, but can subsequently explode in future popularity. Creators need robust protection mechanisms in place to help them keep creating, and that is legal precidents.
It's going to take me a while to go through all of this, so I'll miss the boat on the HN comments

However, I'd really like to credit the author on the design of the site, a pleasure to read.
I think it all comes down to EQ. People who go into fraternities, on average tend to be more social, and have higher EQ. EQ is the ability to create desired social and professional outcomes: they know what to say, how to say it and who to say it too. It's not easily learned.

High EQ leads to higher performance appraisals and better performance in interviews. Interviews tend to be extremely subjective in nature, dependent mostly on your ability to say what an interviewer wants to hear.
This seems like a false dichotomy. Finding the right balance between individual autonomy and working together for mutual benefit might be a better way to frame it.

>A quick look at how the natural world works is a good enough deterrent: https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/

What does this prove? No being can survive without destroying another being. Moreover, no plant or animal has threatened the entire Earth moreso than nuclear armed States
that I could do the same thing in significantly less Python code

I have extensive experience with Python and i also know Common Lisp (though i'm far from being an expert there.) You can definitely write more concise code in Lisp. Not only more concise, but also easier to read, although Python is also very good at readability too. (For example, I love the fact that Python allows you to use named parameters, and when I learnt Common Lisp, i sighed with relief upon finding out you can do the same in CL.)

But once you enter the world of macros, is where you realize the possibilities go far beyond what you can do with Python. Not to mention CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System): after reading about CLOS, OOP haters might probably want to embrace OOP again, and OOP fans will get delighted at the enormous possibilities and freedom brought by that object system.

In short, Lisp is a far more powerful language than Python and also allows for more concise code, particularly if your system is complex. However, I should say that Python is far easier to learn and well featured, so that's what I recommend beginners to learn first.
I know this is grossly simplifying but it seems the algorithm works exactly how a sane delivery company would work.

Imagine a company in Paris that has multiple UK deliveries coming up. First let's lump together all the deliveries in London. Then let's lump together all the deliveries in South London, then let's lump together everything in neighborhood Foo in South London. Then the routes you worry about are your longest ones, like getting to London or into London in the first place. This makes the assumption that it's quicker to get from a spot in South London to neighborhood Foo than it is from South London to say Leeds.

It didn't appear to me from this article that any consideration was given to large late orders or what you mentioned, but that would up the complexity.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why people upgrade to new operating systems so quickly. I never upgrade my macOS until x.x.4, but I prefer x.x.5. I'm on 10.11.6 because 1) it works perfectly, and 2) Karabiner doesn't work on 10.12.
ok, that seems somewhat confusing having googled it [1].

But I guess at least the UI shows that Wifi and Bluetooth are on. I assume that if after activating airplane mode you disconnect bluetooth and wifi from the control center, it really does turn all radios off...

[1] http://www.redmondpie.com/new-in-ios-11-airplane-mode-no-lon...
To some degree that is what happened, though I'm sure he was screwed by a lawyer rather than the artist himself.

When they offered this songwriter some % of song royalties, they knew ahead of time that it wasn't going to be a whole lot of money.

Solution? Songwriters need a new metric to charge by.

One problem, though, is that perhaps songwriting isn't actually worth that much. When you look at a performer like Justin Beiber, how much of his income depends on specific songs that he's putting out? I'm not sure, but I don't necessarily think it's a large amount.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed my book!
Large Multi representative constituencies do even with STV eg UKIP getting MEP's but Not MP's
LG is running a Prediction Market to drive product strategy
Wait for GANs and Style Transfer. Your "blessing" will evaporate as soon as the first Machine Learned Song hits Billboard 100.
>Many of them are drug users, I'm sure.

I should have specified a psychedelic or empathogenic drug I guess. You're probably right that they're knee-deep in depressants and stimulants.
But why should they get most of the monthly fee? Spotify offers the ability for that user to listen to that artist plus a million others and thus carries the overhead required to create a platform for that artist to publish in the first place. This seems a bit like saying that I as a taxpayer should only have to pay for the public services that I, at this point in time, take advantage of.
Sad to see AIM go for sentimental reasons, but I can't say it's too surprising. The world has moved on.

Technically, one of the more interesting aspects of AIM was that it was built on Boxely... one of the earlier (~2004-2006) markup based rendering engines. Boxely was a project by Joe Hewitt (FireBug, etc.) in which the UI was defined entirely in XML with stylesheets and Javascript to make it live. These days it's pretty standard to do this in a browser, but back then it was trendsetting.
Has that method successfully prevented bigots from collaborating, growing, and exerting political influences -- say in elections over the past year?

I'm not saying we give them a megaphone, but if bigotry is prevalent (and it seems to be), then the best antidote is to expose it and address that directly.

Why?

Simple. Bigots are bigots for reasons -- even if they're not (in our esteem) good ones. You can't address the symptom (bigotry) without addressing the cause (those reasons).

Your method only leads to wounds festering under bandages, and not the exposure and cleansing we need for healing.
Since there are so many of us who decided to stick with Firefox 56... wouldn't it be nice if Mozilla declared 56 as ESR release, so that when the time comes we were not forced to downgrade to the much slower FF 52? Also, I've seen it mentioned that you can't even downgrade without losing all your settings.
That's not the context of this discussion. Refer to the parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417291

The context is the word "algorithm".
Working remotely at Strava
They tried for many years to get us to change the name, but it never came down to any real legal battles of any sort. The name change occurred after I left the project, but I think it was a conscious choice on the project's end to finally change the name, give it a new identity. (Someone from Pidgin correct me if I'm wrong -- I was pretty out of the loop during that time period.)
you really dellude yourself that this works?

how about: prisons turns thousands of lowly offenders into hardened, violent criminals that will be out in innefective parole a few months down the road?

doesnt that make you more scared than "but at least 5 of them will be back in prision before commiting any seriously violent crime"
Considering the raw performance of ST, which is leaps and bounds above that of VS Code and Atom, it's a steal at its current price. Personally I will continue using it for the foreseeable future, ligatures or not.
Is it possible to make it look like this? https://i.imgur.com/sA8za0B.png
sysmerge(8) will handle all that config file diffing and change reconciliation. Of course not a bad idea at all to back up important stuff before an upgrade.
I feel the most important aspect of fraternities is than that you gain a network of peers you can call upon in the future to advance your career.
Sounds like a great way for a state to make itself politically irrelevant at the national level.
> Since they've announced they're dumping their consumer market

Could you link some source? I'm also backing up my linux machines with them and would prefer to plan ahead.
I use Huginn for this - https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Agreed. There's been some movement towards better voting systems, but proportional voting seems consistently to be bottom of the barrel of priorities.

http://www.fairvote.org/ - Promotes IRV, and I think they were in favor of proportional representation, but I can't seem to find the pages now (go figure).

http://www.equal.vote/ - Promotes a customized score voting system, which seems more solid than IRV from my reading, but no mention of proportional representation.

It's too bad, really, I'd be hugely in favor if something like this came up in a CA statewide ballot/proposition.
Oh yeah, I guess this is a startup website isn't it! And Jepsen is... sort of... a startup?

For context, Jepsen started as a series of volunteer nights-and-weekends blog posts and conference talks. About three years in I bootstrapped the business as a consultancy, with one client lined up and ~15K USD in [available] savings. Scraped through the first year by dipping into credit cards, learned a lot about pricing and pipelines, and am doing pretty well now. Having money in the bank lets me do more volunteer work, like this analysis. :)

Jepsen makes money through consulting services (usually paid analysis work), training classes, speaking engagements (I charge at for-profit orgs and speak for free at nonprofit events), and Amazon Marketplace subscriptions.
Internet Relay Chat.
There is only a requirement that the voters of the state elect members of the US House. How that is done is not specified.
Not with respect to Hazelcast specifically, but it's often the latter, but not maliciously so. It's fairly difficult to implement a lot of those things correctly, and fairly easy to convince yourself you were thorough.
Very small numbers of people already do this on Mac/Windows using tricks like mouting the NAS as an iSCSI device to backup absurd amounts on the $5 plan. The business model is clearly that the legions of small users subsidize the "whales" and Linux desktops are a drop in the ocean vs the Windows/Mac world too. Do you have a source for where Backblaze claimed the usage of most Linux users isn't on par?
I want both: Better tools and more disciplined programmers. The tools will catch errors, and that's great. But they won't catch all the errors, whereas disciplined programmers will work to minimize the potential of them.