skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your situation certainly sucks, but I still have bills to pay. I still have to pay for hosting and content creation and all that.

If you can't afford to pay the price I ask, well, then you shouldn't get it. Like anything else in the world.
Less snark about technicians after all someone has to correct the engineers maths or remind them how Ohms law works :-)
Don't forget that the 95% only exists to activate your reward centers enough to keep you coming back. Their machine learning algorithms will figure out what content that you share causes your friends to engage, and what content of your friends will cause you to engage. Let's say the content is a share from one of the Russian fake news sites. Unconstrained by the truth, these sites make and promote stories that are seductive, controversial, and likely to be shared. When you post it, you might get some of your friends to comment saying that it is wrong, and you can have an argument about it! That's engagement! Everyone's got their blood up, your friendship is slightly compromised, and you've probably blown half an hour going back and forth, but I'll be damned if you didn't see a lot of ads in the process.

This is what facebook is, and it's what any machine learned user interface is, if the loss function on the machine learning algorithm is ultimately corporate profit. Your time, friendships, and emotional stability are all just raw materials to be mined, at near zero cost.

The worst part is, in the U.S., the average user spends 50 minutes per day, 300 hours per year on facebook, but facebook earns less than 25 cents per day for each U.S. user. They're screwing up your relationships, getting you pissed off, sapping your precious free time, all so they can get a lousy quarter. We have got to come up with a better revenue model for sites like this than ads.
Yeah, but a lot of people have passing familiarity with perl or have at least been tainted by the sheer number of "I hate perl" sentiments around the web.

The list as presented is obviously biased. When I see that fewer people dislike MATLAB than C#... I don't know what to say to that.
I have to admit I never learned Lisp or any of its descendants. Its prefix operators seem nice because they can make your code more concise, but its endless parentheses make the language literally looks like ())
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For me, I wouldn't say it's looking for a sure thing, but feeling like I'm probably wasting my time. Like you said, one can easily come up with dozens, possibly hundreds of ideas. Chances are most are duds. Without any good way of ranking them, what are the chances you'll hit on a good one?

Doing this kind of "idea lottery" just sounds like a recipe for frustration.
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I would totally pay 5 cents just to see if an article is good. I think the price point will vary wildly from person to person. For me, 50 cents is probably where I start getting price sensitive. I would pay 50 cents for a long form article from a publisher known for high quality, and 5 cents for your average news article.
Damnit im trying to finish a project! Now i have to read that link :P
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Not sure it's a case of waiting, but that they just didn't add the feature until then. If you're heads down on sales and development, guessing they just didn't have the scope/implementation to do it then.
No, i'm not wanting to raise a language war; i just want to point out which direction Clojure should follow to keep improving.
The OP is the actual guy behind wakatime.
PJDL v2.0 requires 1 or optionally 2 wires and no additional hardware to handle one or many to many communication on a single channel or bus. It can be run on low performance microcontrollers sharing a common direct pin-to-pin connection. It is a valid alternative to 1-Wire because of its flexibility and reliability. Bus maximum length is mostly limited by resistance of the common conductive element used. It has been tested with up to 50m long insulated wires, results demonstrate the same high performance achieved with shorter lengths.
Is there a reason why someone would throw away unit tests? I've never understood this. Time was taken to write it, test it, upheave the bug, and now we want to remove the safeguards that we spent time/money on? Leaving the possibility for the bug to infest again?

Scrapping unit tests is scrapping time.
There'll be ten times as many electric cars on the road? Less than 1% of the cars sold last year in the US were plug in / fully electric.
Ah I see. So with 'sealed' you mean things like reproducible builds and being able to determine the exact set of sources, etc?

The containerization movement is interesting - while having these 'sealed' virtual environments and reproducible system builds is the right direction, I'm amazed at the size and weight of each of these.
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I doubt it was specific to the exact MRR number. More likely their growth stalled using the methods that were taking up all of their time (direct sales, word of mouth).

For some $N MRR (magic point where you look for scalable channels), N should be large enough that you have a product that your market wants and will pay for, and the market is large enough that you were able to manually scale it to N.

The heuristic is something like "if you can get big enough doing low-efficiency/manual marketing, you've likely gotten close enough to the important things* and can move on to testing scalability".

* things like product/market fit, market size, clear communication, well defined value prop, etc.
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Your job, as a job seeker, is to get passed HR to a hiring manager. You can go through HR, around HR (a buddy ships your res to a hiring manager) or over HR (an exec or VC flips your res to a hiring manager). You will not be working for HR. They are merely an impediment to be overcome.

If you wish, you can think of it as the border. You can apply for legal immigration (lengthy and dicey; think of the immigration and interview scenes in Thunderdome), you can have a mule help you across (ideally this should cost you a lunch; the mule will get a bonus from BigCo), or you can be awarded special status based on your illustrious and meritorious service to the glorious republic as determined by and at the sole discretion of its benevolent leaders.

Any which way, get passed HR. Do not complain about HR. Just show your skill set (networking, interview prep, ...) and get passed them.
Impressive! What are the supported browsers? What are your plans going forward?
Python and Ruby are very similar in most respects, they have pretty similar availability of easy web frameworks, and Python's been around a bit longer and has more chance of being something any given organisation is already using. If you were choosing purely for web dev then maybe Ruby would have a slight edge, but if someone in the company already uses Python for a sysadmin script or a data science project then that's probably enough to tip the scales.
This is going to be dependent on a few factors (market, product, etc.) but I'd rather be an affiliate for a product with a proven track record of conversions unless I really love a product and just want to promote it. If I know a product already has a high conversion rate and $20k+ MRR then I feel better about the prospects of sending 20k people there and getting a hefty percentage than I would about a new product bringing in $50. Maybe my thinking is wrong though.
Still can't actually opt out of forced updates (non-critical security at least)? Still can't actually kill the extremely invasive telemetry? Still can't get LTSB/equivalent as an individual user to help resolve the aforementioned issues?

Still not interested.
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Silly is pretending WebGL will ever match 1:1 the capabilities of native graphics APIs.
> I have a recurring dream of doing a startup, and attracting tech workers to the area.

I've had the same idea but for Maine. There are all these old, closed-down lumber and paper mills right near the ocean, islands, lakes, and mountains. I would love to bring a startup there to so I could do interesting work and have such close proximity to an awesome outdoor environment.
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I did an W10 clean install on a friend's selfbuilt PC using his 8.1 product key. Activated just fine.

OEM BIOS unlocks tend to not work between Windows versions. I've experimented with this a little. My go-to method to upgrade these is to clean install the version that will BIOS unlock, activate it, then upgrade that to Windows 10. After you upgrade, you can clean install Windows 10 on the system and it will activate normally.
The "childrens' aspirin" often used by aspirin regimen patients is 81mg (though the general advice is to not give children aspirin due to Reye Syndrome[1]), 500mg daily would cause gastric distress for many people (certainly me).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye_syndrome#Aspirin
> Am I missing something about this product in that it measures anything related to code quality?

I think it is just a tool to be used as you desire. It can certainly be misused, like any tool or method, and promote bad results. If you have someone wanting to measure you by time alone you have bigger problems with that decision maker than just this specific tool being put in place.

I was in a fitbit group challenge where one guy found himself in the hospital after going to extreme measures to "win". Yet, I don't feel fitbit is a bad entity. Used correctly it promotes good habits.
Mediocre programmer seeks fellow technical-minded individuals
My days as an employed programmer is quite likely numbered, partly due to ageism. I'm smart enough to do most business related software development but mediocre enough that I won't be hired by the likes of Google.(presumably being employed there increases one's chances of staying employed in the future, hence the mention).

As they say, most technical work or any work that requires deep focused thinking is generally a race to the bottom. I see great potential if programmers/technical/above average minded people are willing to put aside their overly individualist and reclusive tendencies, and start realistically co-operating. I'll like to get in touch with fellow technical minded individuals who have realized this, and who want to hash out ideas for any mutual co-operation. I have nothing concrete in mind yet, but I can be reasonably sure that I will have to look for ideas outside software also.

I am quite sure that if I do not take any steps now I'm going to be a unemployed bum in a few years. Ageism, lack of the latest buzzwords in one's resume etc. will take it's toll. Besides being unemployed one will also be see as useless and treated as such - especially if you are male. (Make no mistake, society is harsh in judging on men who are not racking in money.)

A starting point could be some online forum where ideas/views can be exchanged. It must me emphasized that this post is not a solicitation for money. Money might be involved but only at a significantly later stage. It is also not a forum where I will be the idea provider. I can be the facilitator. Email: dennis_jeeves-1((at))yahoo.com

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p.s - I have had a few emails responses to my previous similar posts. In addition to emailing me I suggest that you also respond to my post here. It lets readers know that there are people in similar situations and that their problems (of ageism/jobs) are not unique.

My past posts along similar lines focused on ageism. I tweaked my post to reflect a more generic problem with the industry. To the well intentioned advise that I might get from some people, i.e the advise of 'learning' new things and having a positive attitude, trying hard etc. Please refrain from doing so. If you really think that your advise can be worked on, with positive result, offer to pay the person to work on that advice with a reasonable payback in case of success. It's a separate and huge topic as to how to carry this out in practice.
Many POS terminals send full purchase information back to the cc processor. This is used in fraud detection and also sold as part of your profile.

A while back Mastercard did a commercial where they showed you how you could see what you bought in your online statements.
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You mean "write-only" language?

I had a lot of junior folks complaining about "un"readability of my Perl codes back when I used to work in finance. There were a lot of seasoned Java and C++ programmer on the business side who didn't have much problem hacking their way around Perl, but most folks on the operational side had less than a few year of shell, Python, PHP. I ended up rewriting their codes for speed, brevity and correctness -- and it drove them crazy.

But I've also seen a fair share of properly functioning, yet incomprehensible Perl codes so I could see why so many are turned off.
Awesome work !! This breakthrough opens a new avenue! Also appreciate how far you went in terms of developing new algorithms and 3D printing objects ! Would be interesting to see if this can also work with ensemble of neural networks as well as whether fooling an ensemble automatically leads to transformations fooling individual neural nets within it !
I use it to test out other productivity habits - sleep, exercise, meditation, nootropics, etc.

Yes, it's possible to have some false flags, like working on an easy project will produce a lot more hours. But if you cater for such things it's a great tool.

Like LOC, it should not be your sole metric, just things that you track along with everything else.
Then keep the watermark. But don't feel that just because you're poor that their costs are any different.
I thought this was a great commentary and it reminds me of the tendency of early-stage CEOs to say, "we really don't care that much about your current skill set, we just want to hire athletes" ('athlete' in this case meaning someone very talented and hard-working).

The message these founders are trying to communicate here is, "we want to hire people who have the capacity to learn and grow and who are willing to work long hours, so we'll overindex on those qualities and be accept the fact that many people who fit these criteria are more risky hires, in that they have not been doing a similar job at another company prior to us hiring them."

Based on anecdotal observations of many hiring decisions, what these founders often actually have in mind is, "we want to hire people who've achieved prestigious milestones". And so they will hire a person whose school prestige/GPA/employer prestige factor is high, but who is not likely to succeed in the role.

Anyway the upside of all this is, as OP mentioned, there's a lot of underserved talent out there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15592873
SA is also the active ingredient in wart removal balms, so there's that. Bio is SUPER complicated and really can't be reduced to first principals outside of breathe, drink, eat.
>$1 is too cheap
The product is a meme maker, and that $1 gets a watermark removed on said meme. That isn't even remotely worth $1 for a single instance. There's plenty of free software that can do the same thing, albeit less streamlined.

Definitely a clever way to solicit feedback, though.
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Right, there is some evidence that COX-2 selective inhibitors may be safer for patients with inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis. Currently, those patients are generally advised to not take an NSAIDs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034022/
Is it me or is it nuts to be paying $1,600 a month on servers when you have just over 1000 users? Seems like something that could be run on a $50-$100 VPS.
Do we need a third Apache project for columnar data representation?
We need to be able to identify everyone as part of our legal responsibilities. I'll take your comment to the legal team to see if there's any flexibility on the address/number requirement.
I have the impression that people tend to turn to functional programming after spending a lot of time in imperative programming and seeing its downsides.
Good points. Never thought of it that way.
This. Make A and D strafe instead of turn, relying on the mouse to aim, and it'll be very playable. As it is, not so much. But still pretty cool.
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Many times that unfortunate person is you just a month or two later.
But at its best (as in Haskell), static typing just means that the compiler is enforcing the requirements of your interfaces. Why would you not want to know about these bugs immediately and fix them early in the development process when it's cheap to do? Why wouldn't you want the compiler recheck everything automatically every time you change your interfaces?

Everybody's always fixing bugs. Static typing makes it more likely that the bugs you're working on are closer to the problem domain, instead of being crap work that should have been caught at compilation time with better languages and compilers.
2nd chart seems more driven by fashion/geek-cred than intrinsic language qualities.

Never met a Delphi expert who didn't love it. Never met a C++ expert who didn't have grave reservations about it. It's like, "Here's your bag of infected needles. You can make really slick games with them, but be careful!"

bash... WTF?
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That's what I'm hoping for :)
Not disagreeing with your overall message, just want to point out something that bugs me and you're not the first one I heard saying something like this: "They provide theorems in the form of examples". This is incorrect. Theorems are deductive while test are experimental and this is a crucial difference in my opinion. To give and example: say we have our function isDAG :: Graph -> Bool, which determines whether a graph is a DAG, and we want to _prove_ that it works then no amount of experimental test cases will be sufficient. In real life, however, most of us (including me) settles for having _some_ confidence in the correctness of our code by utilising tests.
You're focusing on the social media part, the illegal part is circumventing security with a stolen password.
> the over the counter 500mg dose is sold over here as a painkiller, it's certainly not meant for long term preventative use.

Most def', but if you ask for aspirin without specifying any further that's what you get (that's what I'm given every time anyway). I'm not sure you can even get 75~80mg, 100mg seems to be the lowest dose available (for long-term use after infarction & stuff, and for toddlers).
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So a Perl webapp for Internet Explorer (with a SOAP API, and some pages using Flash), hosted on IIS, developed with Subversion?
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My read is that this isn't a productivity tool at all. It's a way to capture who to bill for your work (Billable vs. overhead time).

"generate and send PDF invoices pre-filled with your coding activity." is in the future roadmap. And the pain of keeping track of billable hours is what drove him to write it to start with.

Keeping track by program used is a nice-to-have, because then someone on the team could notice "hey we spend a lot more time with tool X then makes sense, maybe there's a way to improve that?"
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Edge is a glorification of the latest and greatest Windows 10 features: such as handwriting support and pen-note taking.

These features don't exist in Windows 7. The Windows 10 Win32 API (yes, its still getting updated) has much cleaner and better support for handwriting features on websites.

The other browsers are cross platform because they're mouse and keyboard based. Modern Windows 10 design is evolving more and more towards the active digitizer stylus however.

I dare you to find a browser as well suited to Pen / Stylus as Microsoft Edge is. Heck, I'm 100% certain that Microsoft Edge is the only "good" Stylus-based browser.
An important thing about the way Public Key cryptography works is that if you try shenanigans like this you're obliged to supply the client with the smoking gun as part of your scheme. The signed certificates prove beyond doubt what happened, and they are automatically delivered to the client as a necessary part of the initial SSL/TLS connection.

Imagine if you had a fool-proof way to murder people, but it requires you leave their corpse in a public square with a copy of your photo driving license and a signed confession. Now, perhaps for some reason you are politically untouchable so you will never see justice. Still though, by this method absolutely everybody will know you did it, so it doesn't seem like a good idea anyway.
Thanks for the pointers, I'll definitely have to take another look at trinket.io! It would be cool to try some exercise submission + feedback with code highlighting all on the client side.
I've been coding for forty years and I'm not going to go anywhere near a dynamically typed language ever again for any job bigger than a ten-line bash script.
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Maybe. Vypr VPN has an own "Chameleon" protocol. Maybe Express has it's own
Why is this guy so obsessed about salaries?
There are meta-analyses of the RCTs for baby aspirin which also indicate reductions in all-cause mortality probably through its effect on cancer rates. I'd consider them much more important than this result which is ultimately just another correlational/observational result. Some of the studies I'm thinking of:

- Rothwell et al 2012 "Short-term effects of daily aspirin on cancer incidence, mortality, and non-vascular death: analysis of the time course of risks and benefits in 51 randomised controlled trials" http://www.istudymedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/aspirin.pdf

- "Effect of daily aspirin on long-term risk of death due to cancer: analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials" http://www.beppegrillo.it/immagini/Aspirin%20and%20death%20f...

- "Aspirin for prophylactic use in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer: a systematic review and overview of reviews" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0083409/ , Sutcliffe et al 2013

- Pignone et al 2013, "Effect of including cancer mortality on the cost-effectiveness of aspirin for primary prevention in men" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797356/

- "Estimates of benefits and harms of prophylactic use of aspirin in the general population", Cuzick et al 2014 http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/47.full

- Cuzick et al 2015, [Estimates of benefits and harms of prophylactic use of aspirin in the general population" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269341/)
Problem with productivity is that at some moment it becomes a zero sum game.
e.g: let us say you code 18 hours a day. you are eating into your sleep, your physical well being and eventually you will end up producing less... if not in the short term, in the long term.
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Isn't that illegal? I worked for one company that sponsored a TA signals unit - I suppose they though experience as a RSM running a royal signals unit in the gulf war II was good management experience
We have been working on building a conversation prototyping tool for non-developers at Botmock (https://botmock.com)

Our approach has been to give a tool that enables people to create a true prototype and quickly test it before spending time developing it.

Thanks for sharing this (and other solutions like Wild Yak etc).