skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Strictly speaking as a consumer, Am I the only person who doesn't like subscriptions? Do the subset of masses who are willing to pay for journalism really prefer subscriptions over one time use payments? I guess i'm just weird.

I don't think Americans in general like metering. There's a lot of resistance to data caps and cell phone plans are heading towards being "unlimited." The thing that sucks about one time use payments is that you're either thinking "do I really want to pay for this little action?" all the time or you don't and get surprised by your bill.

Though I wouldn't mind paying $10/month for a subscription that included unlimited access to one major news site and up to $5/month credit for metered access to others. Unfortunately, the realities of competition will prevent that.
(are you a baby?)
You said it way better than I did.

Also doing cross-compilation on different platforms should produce identical binaries, are at least identical behaving binaries.
codewars Kata get hard soon enough. maybe its because youre doing it in PHP but ive had no complaints at all on python and javascript.

agree with cag_ii that you should just work on projects given that you're keen on PHP
I know about Chomsky's criticisms and those accusations. I'm not commenting on their accuracy; I'm saying they are old news. The question is, do we have data showing that the level of trust has changed recently, or even what that level is?
>designed for people who want to be seen driving an electric car

it may have been the case 15 years ago. Not today. EV/plugins/hybrid appeal to very specific perceived sense of practicality, to which hatchback (single volume) design appeals too (speaking from my mind as i have Pruis Plugin, and in the past among others i did own a high end BMW, and our tastes/preferences do change with time). Notice that all popular and/or good sellers EV/plugins/hybrids are hatchbacks, be it Model S or Bolt or Prius. And in my opinion GM did very good job with Bolt styling. It fits exactly the target segment, where is Model 3 looks like cheapened Model S, not a good start. I mean it is a high skill to sell cheaper, yet not cheapened, models by a high end manufacturer, and for example Mercedes(especially) and BMW do it masterfully. GM, not being high-end one, with Bolt needed to do something what is really far from "bad" GM, yet still GM. For me it seems like they hit the target.
in london you can easily get to more than 100k£ if you’re solid in CS
So, if you're a long time reader of the NY Times, clue me in to what sets it apart as a valuable source of information. Respectfully, I don't currently understand what others see in it as an information source.

Look at the front page right now:

Flynn pleads guilty (news, public record - the exception!)

Republicans say they'll pass the tax plan in the Senate (probably a press release or word from a PR office)

Rex Tillerson might be replaced by someone even worse than himself (probably a press release or word from a PR office, posturing)

A meta-regurgitation of sex harassment news (posturing)

Why North Korea's missile is very scary (almost certainly a statement from a public relations office in the SK government, in collaboration with the US government, since it includes a statement about a phone call between the respective heads of state)

A string of variety fluff blog posts (entertainment).

I care about quality journalism, but these articles are mostly posturing/outrage-jockeying or fluff, and what news there is consists in barfing up press releases or statements from public relations offices, spiced up with a little expert vetting from whomever they could get on the phone. It reads like a textbook dystopian "Manufacturing Consent" newspaper.

So, I don't know. I pay for a subscription to a few news outlets (a few of whom are can be just as bad as the NYTimes, such as NPR), but I certainly don't see a reason to pay a premium for name brand news that isn't any more substantive than skimming AP reports off a news feed.
All I see in this thread are a bunch of pre-modernists stuck in the middle of the 20th century.

Perl 6 is the only language in the world suitable for metaphorical programming.

For example, how would you implement a load-balanced pool of HTTP web servers over Port 80 in a language like Python, serving Hello World?

In Perl 6 this is just five lines:

imagine web servers, like the droplets of mists of fog
as many as the sun shines through. A clarion: Hello world.
The sun? An http server, its port 80.
Cast off!
I'll steer when I'm ready.

And that's it. What's great about Perl is that you're not stuck with a nautical analogy, you are free to mix metaphors. For example this is another way to do the exact same thing:

race, ye hogs of web servers
the killing time is near. Your cries? Hello world.
The abattoir? An http server, its port 80.
Cast off!
I'll steer ye when I'm ready.

Even though it would hurt any poet's brain to read a metaphor this mixed, there's more than one way to do it, and this is really where Perl 6 shines.
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I wanted to journal more but struggled to remember to do so. A simple hack for me was to take a page from Pomodoro an install a countdown timer (I happen to use https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/activity-timer/id808647808?m...). Every 30 minutes I'm reminded to capture what I've been doing recently. Slowly I've been getting better at updating ahead of the reminder.
On second thought.. I'm going to do stuff like advertise good pets to buy, good recipes, etc. I don't need products, I can advertise random stuff.
Reading passably and being able to converse are worlds apart. Knowing English and some Romance language would get you very close to being able to read at least simple texts in many other Romance languages (not there, but pretty close to there), knowing one Slavic language would get you close to being able to read simple texts on many of them, etc. But understanding conversation and even more being able to participate in one is very far from that.

Knowing Russian, when I was in Bulgaria, I could read signs and even technical books with decent understanding, despite never studying the language. Conversation was completely out of the question.
> Recovery, that is attending work or school and sustaining at least one meaningful relationship, occurred for 60% of patients for 2 years, and was maintained in 40% over 8 years.

So is that the same 1 'meaningful relationship' for 8 years? Did they try asking the other person in the relationship whether the patient was in 'remission'?
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Utterly tangential, pedantic, and pointless pet peeve: people giving projects a "file extension-ish" name (e.g. jrnl.sh) that does not correspond to the language in which the program was written. It's a Python script, not a shell script.

And yes, I know that the ".sh" probably refers to the fact that you use it from the shell, not the implementing language. I said it was pedantic, didn't I?
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> NYT does real investigative journalism and should be paid for that

The problem is that's the stuff I wish the most people had easy access to, or order to build momentum to fix the problems. For instance, I post a link to their series on binding arbitration every time that comes up somewhere. That's a good example of something that doesn't sound bad until someone explains it to you.
> The NTSB does not like it because the brake lights do not turn on. I'm not having that done.

The NTSB must be ignoring the millions of manual-transmission vehicles which can be slowed down through engine braking without their brake lights turning on.
This is entirely the fault of conservatives. There is no such thing as legitimate conservative thought in the US any longer. The entire movement has been hijacked by fundamentalist Christians and racist rich people. Aligning yourself with such an ideology rightfully has a serious social cost now.

As a brown person, do you know what my first thoughts of someone who describes themselves as "conservative" are? I'll give you a hint: it has nothing to do with fiscal policy. You can't blame people for not wanting to be made uncomfortable in that way.
Sorry, but I beg to differ. I can say with confidence that I would get fired if I openly exposed my political views at my job, whereas my Liberal counterparts freely discourse their ideas and opinions on a daily-basis without any consequence.
The Tech industry is wildly leftist, with zero tolerance for the conservative ideology.
What are some more reasonable uses for the but operator, then?
> working in our specialty, for 80 hours a week for half the salary before we could be licensed to program without supervision

Sounds like a startup, only there's never any supervision.
Doner Kebabs to Be Banned Under New Health Regulations
AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012
That was exactly how I did it. The only major downside was that I had to be sure to keep the html consistent, and couldn't require login.

Since it was a system for internal use, that was deemed acceptable.
Genuine questions:

Did we not ask the same questions about Amazon and now they proved they knew what they were doing?

Can't Uber continue to operate at a loss for a few years until they can switch drivers for self-driving vehicles and significantly reduce cost instantly?
We had an Olivetti Programma 101 at school, I remember programming it during maths. This must have been about 1979.
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The Microsoft employee who states:

> The third party notices file provides license information for third-party code that is in the Mixed Reality Viewer app, and the app itself is licensed under the Microsoft Software License Terms linked to in the “About” page.

is, of course, incorrect: if the GPLed third-party code is linked into the app, then the app itself must be GPLed.
In Chinese these are rare exceptions. In Japanese, having at least two (and sometimes four, ten or sixty) possible pronunciations is the rule, and it's the single-reading characters that are rare.
The purpose of the copyright 'small claims' court is to resurrect the media distribution companies practices of deriving a revenue stream from mass action against large numbers of offenders. In the 90s they tried sending thousands of letters demanding settlement money, but eventually they got their hand slapped by the courts. This is their attempt to revive that. They would like to be able to ping 10,000 people a day or so for $1000 a pop without the hassle of actually having to prove anything and armed with nothing but an IP address and some naked claim that they witnessed something they feel to be 'infringement'.

Want to claim you weren't the one who actually was using whatever device made the transfer? Or that the content you transferred was actually legal? Or that you had a fair use right to make the transfer? Or that they simply made a technical mistake? Forget it. The small claims court isn't for that kind of determination, won't be held in any jurisdiction even a hundred miles from where you live, and is "optional" for you to attend anyway. Not that the fines levied will be optional.
It would be hard to come up with definition of "operating at a loss to drive competition out" that applies to Uber but doesn't kill YCombinator and all other VC businesses.

Dropbox has competitors and for years operated at a loss thanks to investment from YC and other VC firms. So did Twitter, Airbnb and countless other.

If that was illegal, there would be no-one for VCs to invest and you wouldn't be here reading Hacker News, because this website would not exist.
I'm working on a memo about how conservatives are just less interested in tech. /s

Is this a tech problem or a Californian city problem?
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While the grad students might also have preferred running around NYC with guns, something tells me that that would not be a great societal outcome.
Really hoping that Alpine will come through with an official Amazon AMI, or with instructions that actually work on how to make your own.
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I want to be frank here: it's from iTunes top chart via their API https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i...

In the future I'll use my own data to come up with my own top chart, e.g., data for searches, clicks, plays, shares, ratings (TODO)...
I can't read beyond the first page, so I am curious what is the treatment for a personality disorder.
> A public ICO blasting across the internet when there is no product, no plan, and no real engineering already done is nothing but a cash grab, and I am not at all surprised that they are embroiled in lawsuits.

Is this really a property of ICOs? the behavior you describe may be very common nowadays, but from what I understand there is nothing intrinsic in this kind of funding model to be necessarily like that. Maybe after a crash the market will get a bit more mature and start using public ICOs for real stuff, and I think that could evolve into something really interesting :)
Is "ideological diversity" really a kind of diversity that companies should care about? Party membership isn't a protected class, and Republicans are hardly a persecuted minority during a time when they control all 3 branches of government. Should we be making efforts to be more inclusive of other underrepresented ideologies like creationism, flat-earthism, or geocentrism?
Do most of your coworkers self-apply the term 'leftist'? If not, why would you call them that? Seems impolite. Especially if they're actually a mix of neoliberal and libertarian technocrats.

Maybe it's just zero tolerance for inaccurate name calling.
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Their suffering may be real, but so is the suffering of absolutely everyone who is nearby!

I ended up at a job working with someone with it. Let's just say the only winning move is not to play.
The only difference between Uber and the other companies is that Uber's main business is markeplace transportation whereas the others don't necessarily specialize in it.

I'm not saying that they cannot compete but initially it's not going to be easy, like flipping a switch as so many make it out to be.
Well, if they won't come in for treatment that will be the most significant barrier, no matter who you convince.
Micropayments have failed constantly since the .com bubble days.

The whole thing with micropayments is that the content creator is hoping that the cost to purchase the article is going to be low enough to where the user isn't going to notice the money.

But they will notice. You're forcing a person to read a headline (and maybe a half paragraph intro) and then deciding if it's actually worth buying the article. That's a decision that the average person is not going to put up with.

The best solution is to support publications that produce consistent and high quality content. The best model for this (that we know of) is recurring payment.
Link should probably be http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pub...
doesn't anyone other than me wear shorts?
I understood the comment to be referring to other fancier smartwatches that are designed around ~daily charging.
> If a significant amount of the expense is in acquiring new customers

If _and only if_ there is significant lifetime value for customers. If there is little or no lock-in, losing money to acquire a first-time customers may look good to outsiders, but isn't sustainable.