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Interesting...so you are violating the guidelines by rebuking the post that actually conforms them. Is "hypocrisy" right word for it?
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I think the issue of the original poster was being a math graduate. Little to do with class or social economic background.

With maths, you can work as a professor or work in finance. Two domains with limited demands that are highly competitive.
Go big, ask ten times more and feel relieved from that pain.
The point of medical heroine is that people on that regime can and do become well-functioning humans again. It’s not the drug that kills them, it’s the loss of all social support network and the ill effects that come with the situation.
I agree with the spirit of this but can’t help but believe that the Googles and Facebooks if the world will just ignore the intent and get away with it. Their profit margins basically require them to do so.
The about starts with:

>This tool was created to solve my own problem.

You create a very simple tool for yourself that can do exactly one thing and expect people to pay for it? And 4500 site accesses is absolutely nothing, by the way.

The main problem here are your unrealistic expectations.

I contribute to OSS that is used by millions of people. Certainly I should be a millionaire? No, that's not how it works.
Sounds like we're conflating 2 issues:

(1) How we can we let addicts shoot up in a way that is safe for them

(2) How can we let addicts shoot up in a way that is safe for their community

Pardon my ignorance, but I think we should be focused on the safety of the community (2), more than how addicts can continue to abuse drugs safely (1).

People have abused drugs for a long time (alcohol included), which results in self-inflicted repercussions. Natural selection tends to weed these genes out if such people don't exert self-control and make a permanent clean break, as difficult as it may be.

My solution: legalize all drugs in limited geographic areas — far away from society at large (along the lines of Vegas). What happens there stays there, and feel free to stay there forever if you'd like.

I don't say that to be insensitive. I myself enjoyed alcohol too much, until it got me in enough trouble enough times that I decided the pain it caused my family & friends wasn't worth it. I had 2 choices in front of me: drink my life away and drag the people I care about with me through it all, or man up and swear it off for good.

I chose the latter. No therapy, AA, etc., just a deep sense of the injustice and lack of empathy in my actions, and living (and dead) examples before me in my family.

Had I been so weak to continue favoring my short term pleasure, it would serve me right to die early and put an end to everyone's pain (my own included).
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I think any collection of Dilbert comics is an appropriate guide.
This reflects my experience too. Several years back I made an input method for typing pinyin with tones [0] and released it for free with a donation button.

In 5 years and tens of thousands of downloads I could count on two hands the number of people who had made a donation. Then I put the download link behind a 'pay what you want, including zero' button, and I made more in one month of that than the previous 5 years of donations.

Asking for donations is a poor way to monetize your product.

0: https://www.pinyinput.net/
We tried Zulip for a week but the team decided to not continue the experiment. I personally really liked the UI and the keyboard-centric workflow, but the lack of polished UI and the suboptimal mobile experience was really difficult to defend.

Another problem is that we would often end up replying to the wrong thread because of the way the general view is organized.

We are now trying Twist (https://twistapp.com) and it is a very good compromise between the efficiency of Zulip and the polished UI of Slack. The main advantage over Zulip is that you only see one complete thread at a time in the main column, but you can see the last message of each thread you've subscribed to in your inbox (second column): when you hit reply, you are certain that you are replying to the right thread.
Slack should be used as a CLI for your business. It not only a chat room.

If you want documentation, then add a command for `/doc "title"` and start a collaborative document.

If you want to add a task, `/task add "title"`

etc.

Its a shared command line, not only chat.
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Is this a joke? There are about a thousand projects / things I would rather donate to before a trivial color visualizer.
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The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 -- by the above plus Strata Chalup.

You need both.
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The public won't respond at all in any meaningful sense to the perpetrators. There will be some grumbling about how terrible it is and then it will be forgotten.

HSBC laundered money for child trafficers and drug cartels, then the British government stepped in, gave a pathetic fine compared to the profits they made and nothing else happened. No one went to jail and the politicians that saved HSBC "in the interests of global sfinancial stability", got voted back in. It's sickening to the few, but the majority will always vote for the status quo. The rest may grumble at the MSM headline (never repeated after 2 days), but will do nothing.

TPTB treat "the plebs" like cattle to be milked and it keeps working for them, so why change.
As long as there's one big school where different dots point to different people, no, it's not practical to strip the dots. Your support problem with asking a user to use the same gmail address they used to register is a lot less awkward than if the user can't use a different one.
How about offering something extra for people supporting. It amazes me that people slap some PayPal logo and expect people to contribute. Create an emotional appeal and call to action.
There are utility site where I _do_ pay a small donation almost immediately, when I see how useful it is to me in an immediate sense, and there are other where I will kick the tyres, and leave thinking that no, this really doesn't save me time/energy/frustration etc.

Not to disparage your work and your site. It looks great, and your call to action to donate is quite clear, but to me, at first glance, looks like about a half dozen other sites that I have in my bookmarks bar.

Perhaps if you differentiated your site a little more from the others, so that I could see an immediate benefit, then you might be more successful.

Here is a use case that would be an instant hit with me. We are in the process of redesigning our logo for our SaaS app, and along with the redesign/rebranding, I would like to ensure that all the design elements on our web app conform to a similar colour palette.

If I could upload my new logo to your site, and it would magically give me the Bootstrap CSS files for a few alternative colour layouts that take into consideration the Bootstrap .success, .warning, .danger etc. qualifiers, then it would be an instant $10 to $20 pinged across to you from me.

Maybe your site does that? I don't know - a cursory look didn't tell me how it could be of value to me...
Thankfully, for steam your username is not displayed to any other person. You have a profile ID (globally unique, alphanumeric, you can change as many times as you want), and a profile name (not unique)
In Germany, around 5000 bombs from WW2 are discovered and disarmed or detonated each year still. Most of these don't make news. Some of them make it to regional news when they need to evacuate parts of towns or cities for safety. Other than that, this massive effort is mostly under the radar.

edit: the number I remembered was lower than the actual count.
I have released dozens of packages reaching hundreds of thousands of people and, according to SO, helped devs millions of times in different ways. In total I have been donated the amount of $10 (lifetime). I am considering different ways of making revenue now from my side projects since it is not sustainable.

I even had a horrifying experience when someone pretended he was donating only to get me to use his cryptocrap. What a f* waste of time that was.

Probably the only ones who can make it out of donations are the best known devs in their fields like Sindre Sorhus [1]. Others, while also really well known, have gone the open-source-but-pay-for-pro route like TJ [2] and John O'Nolan [3]. Thinking you can live purely of passive donations is, at best, naive.

Here are the statistics of 30k users and 80k page views on my latest project that netted those $10: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/955782847230431232

[1] https://www.patreon.com/sindresorhus

[2] https://github.com/apex/up#pro-features

[3] https://ghost.org/pricing/
I've did a few of these take home challenges during the interviewing process.

All of mines have had a time limit to them of an hour. The process has always been

1) arrange a time with the recruiter when I will be free for an hour, e.g.lets say 1PM.

2) recruiter emails me the challenge at around 12:58. I get the challenge and have to code the solution and have it back to the recruiter by 2PM.

Then at the face to face interview we've went through a code review of my code and talked about why I chose to do somethigns the way I did, if I had to more time what would I do differently, was there anything in my solution that I wasn't happy with etc.

Seems to work reasonably well.

There is no way on earth I would be dedicating a weekend or more to an interview task.
Does anyone here actually use this odd app? Why? Did it bring any improvements in your life?
To do away with the clickbait title, it's an Arch https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/09/the-special-data-device-sp... and it wasn't secret - they made a pretty big deal of it on the webcast.
You can get 5,000 visitors from an unusually clever tweet, it's a literal nothingness in the context of tens of billions of web visits a day. This guy needs to try a little harder before looking to cash out.
Copyright infringement, not stealing.

But yes, I found it extremely ironic.
I’m not sure hypocrisy covers when someone openly admits their hypocrisy ahead of time.
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Indeed, I believe this was conceived with Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/Mastodon/all open source copies in mind, but this is the SINGLE USE CASE of the entire standard. And it makes it worse, I think. I didn't want all "social networks" to be the same like they are today, there are other alternatives.

About reservations, I don't see why would you want to move your data. Reservations are tied to companies in a way no standard can solve. And by design.
Markets are there, right? Why haven't they solved it yet.
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If underscores and operator overloading are the biggest criticisms you have of Scala, then we're doing pretty well. For what it's worth, I think Scala has quite a large grammar that means it takes a while to learn, but once that's over it's not particularly difficult to read or to write.

Can you elaborate as to what Kotlin fixes compared to Scala?
We’ve come a long way from the golden record.
"Does not adequately protect people from themselves, what do we do?"

What we do as a society founded upon the principles of natural rights and liberties is stop trying to protect people from themselves. It always was, and always will be, a slippery and dangerous slope to collectivism and totalitarianism. The government has absolutely no right whatsoever to tell me what I can and can't do with my body, whether that is drinking beer, coke, smoking weed, or cigars, or eating lettuce. For by accepting the encroachment, you open the floodgates for arbitrary decisions on what can and can't be done.

It's not even that these thing need to be "legalized". It was never the right of the government either federal or state to determine them one way or the other. All the proper medical care, mentally and physically, and education about substances, would then be free to do its good work without the interference of lawyers attempting to legislate our lives.

This silent acquiescence of increasingly overreaching government must stop. It is anathema to everything America was founded upon.

"...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense
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I also prefer take homes. I find whiteboard interviews are much worse, because I have to relearn a lot of things in detail that aren't useful in my previous job or my next, just because these are classical whiteboard problems. Take homes are actually about job skills, not some how good are you at memorizing 100s of algorithms you should never program metric.

Whiteboarding is only good for those who are fresh out of college.
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Google can afford to offer lots of stuff for free - their principal revenue remains Ads and until that needs to change then they'll be offering a lot for free.
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You are comparing this service I've never heard about before with a service everyone knows. I think there's a little difference there.
> ML code can solve the problem without being programmed explicitly to do so

Umm, no. He implemented all of Fizz Buzz except the loop in his "fizz_buzz_encode" function. Totally explicit.
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I'm a bit confused - if I explicitly want my text editor to open ~/.bash_profile, then I need to tell it that, which I would do through the Open dialog for GUI apps (or as a command line parameter for command line apps); and if I don't explicitly want to do so, then it probably shouldn't be opening it behind my back.

This sandboxing would be a problem with editors that naturally work with multi-file projects (e.g. an IDE where you'd want to open a whole Java project of linked files), but in the text editor scenario this limitation seems to make sense.
McConnell, Steve. Code Complete. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993.

McConnell, Steve. Software Project Survival Guide. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1998.

Maguire, Steve. Writing Solid Code. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993.

Ranade and Nash. The Elements of C Programming Style. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Kernighan and Plauger. The Elements of Programming Style. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Caner, Cem, et al. Testing Computer Software, Second Edition. New York: Wiley Computer Publishing, 1999.

Hunt, Andrew, et al. The Pragmatic Programmer. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Holub, Allen. Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
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In fact there are other use cases, for example: Trello and its copies. In this case no standard could have predicted that Trello would raise,thus there would be no standard for it.

There are probably many other examples of something that came unexpectedly from nowhere and suddenly there were copies.
>The real measure of success is how few people become junkies in the first place.

No, the real measure of success is how few peoples lives are ruined.

If a bunch of people end up addicted to heroin, but end up living fulfilling and productive lives regardless, that's a fairly good outcome. If implementing measures to reduce the number of addicts leads to the remaining ones living in poverty and overdosing, then that's not an improvement.
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The article isn't brilliant, it's a sequence of unsubstantiated assertions, although ones that seem to resonate with a lot of people.

But, getting to the core of the matter:

> You can't mute the whole organization.

No, you can't. And you shouldn't. That's literally the whole point of organisations. If the particular mode of communication a given organisation uses isn't good enough, think about how to make it better instead of just brushing the whole thing off. We worked this out with phones, email and mobile phones. The discussion here is ripe with people saying "if it's important, they'll call me". Well, 20 years ago, mobile phones were given the Slack treatment because it was horrible that anyone could just call you.

Some bosses seem to reward underlings who respond to email at odd hours, yet nobody struggles to understand that it's toxic behaviour instead of writing diatribes about who we should stop using email altogether (although people did write those in the 90s). I heard of an organisation where the rumour was that some members of senior management would stalk employees' calendars to see if they were keeping busy. Good thing that organisation was able to end that kind of ridiculous Goodhart style management by ending the use of calendars!
Well, it was for me. I read the blog post and decided I wanted to try it until I had to add my cc details on the sign up form. If you are providing a one month free trial why on earth do you need them?
There still persists this idea that all you have to do is "built it, and they will come", a la Field of Dreams (1989).

First off, that's not the right quote. It's "If you build it, HE will come." He being "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, a baseball playing ghost. And if you're basing your marketing strategy on baseball playing ghosts, you need to go back to school. Ghosts don't have any money, they can't buy your product. Baseball playing ghosts didn't even fund the REAL field of dreams, just down the road from me where they filmed the movie. The movie itself brought popularity and prosperity to the field, and since the movie was almost 30 years ago, the field is fallen on hard times.

But lastly, and this bit of insight came from my grandmother: It never amazes me when people offer something for free, and then get mad when people take them up on that offer. You did it. You chose to make it free to use. You put a tip jar out on the counter, sure, but ultimately the thing is free with no strings attached.
I went in with a similar expectation actually. Would be interesting to have an idea of how much light'd fall on you if you were standing under the storm.

I imagine you wouldn't really enjoy the sight whilst being under it though!
Mark Zuckerberg is constantly polling for public perception, akin to campaigns
Why are you hijacking scrolling on mobile? It feels super slow and janky because of that. Otherwise, it looks decent.
Thank you :) I have not tried to use it with React Native. There's no fundamental reason why it wouldn't work, but it hasn't been tested. If you try it out, I'll do my best to help you make it work.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend books about Machine Learning for non-techies?
I'm currently deep diving into ML. I'm not a techie and my intention is not to learn how to code actual ML algorithms but to apply them in a business context.

Are there any books you can recommend?

I was going through the "ML for dummies" book by IBM and was rather disappointed as it only scratched the very surface of ML and its impact on businesses.
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It's relatively straight forward to build RC quadcopters through hobby components, there's also several published autonomous RC drone projects including code but right now my google is failing me, theres a couple hobby ones using rpi and such and one from a university I wish I could find.
I think every nomad had thought a solution about housing because this is a real problem for us and really annoying. I have my own house back in my country that I rent. I would be more than receptive to lend my house to a service so I could rent someone else's house somewhere in the world. Growing a network of houses by yourself, as Roam is doing, is costly and I think inneficient.
That's not related though. Free customers are being ditched because they have a costs to support and provide no value to the company.
> Of course, there are exceptional European universities and there are terrible American universities, but overall, American university systems seem to be much better than the equivalent in "free" university countries.

I personally think that the typical German university is better than the typical US one, but it is a very different system: In Germany you are very much on your own when you are studying. This teaches you a lot about self-discipline, which employers love. On the other hand, if you are a person who needs a lot of handholding, German universities are probably not for you. In my opinion being able to study mostly for free is more than worth the lack of handholding, but as I said: This system is not for everybody.
> It's basically like paying SF rent, but in countries with a third the cost of living.

Come to Chiang Mai and pay 1/20th :)

Asia is incredibly inexpensive, can't believe how much money I've blown on rent in the western hemisphere over the last 15 years.

> Being a digital nomad is definitely stressful. You have to constantly look for a good place to work.

Indeed, finding the next spot is typically time consuming and hit or miss, particularly when trying to do so via the internet.
To protect against users creating a new account each month.

To be fair, though, I’m largely in agreement with you in this case. For products like cloud infrastructure, where the company is fronting real costs, the requirement makes sense to prevent abuse. But this product has low marginal cost per user, and also loses all of its value if a user recreates his account.
Hey! You’re talking about my neighbourhood. (Well, I live a few blocks away in Yaletown, but I’ve spent most of the last 12 years working in Gastown/DTES, since that’s where the startups can afford rent)

The neighbourhood has vastly changed due to condo development, gentrification and government programs. The DTES was really run down a decade ago ... now it’s hipsters everywhere. Great coffee!

The population that has mental health and drug abuse issues has been pushed into a very small area in this city, largely due to past political decisions. Most of the social housing and services are primarily centralized in the DTES. Other neighbourhoods don’t want the social housing and the hard-to-house residents.

I think the drug situation was getting better, but then cheap fentanyl hit, and it’s been tough. Fentanyl is a crisis everywhere.

“Harm reduction” is the only ethical way to go, IMHO. I have friends in nursing that work at the Crosstown Clinic, where they are doing hardcore peer reviewed clinical trials involving prescription heroine, and they are genuinely saving lives and even getting hardcore junkies off drugs completely. Every other city in North America is leaving those people to die.

I’ll take Vancouver, thank you.
Perhaps I'm saying the obvious here, but why not train with a bunch of images which have been recorded in front of an actual green screen? That way, you can insert any random background and generate as many new training images as you like.
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