skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation has been in the (low) single digits for about 20 years in most developed nations.

An iPhone cost $200 in 2008.

The combined rate of inflation in the US since 2008 is 17.2%. So an iPhone should cost less than $240 today, if inflation were the main driving factor.

The cheapest iPhone costs $450 now. The technological equivalent of that 2008 model costs almost 3x.

Inflation is not a driving factor. You could raise IT prices 5% YOY and nobody would bat an eyelid.
That's the point, one person's "banal activity" is another person's necessary re-charge.
Keyboard is definitely fine. I don't notice any issue with it when I travel and am forced to type on it.

But in general, I don't type on the Macbook when I travel. I usually have an ergo set up with a portable keyboard and touch pad and laptop stand.

Portable Apple Keyboard: http://a.co/d/4mKQqL1

Portable Apple Touchpad: http://a.co/d/acoXyuK

Portable Laptop Stand: http://a.co/d/2GSLqIa
I fail to see how tourists decrease the number of commerces. Your rethoric has pretty much been debunked by any touristic areas.
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Hiten Shah on how to avoid common pitfalls of product development
> Depriving people of their livelihood for expressing political views is absolutely a free speech issue.

I don't think free speech is the issue here. There's a difference between expressing your views on your own time and involving the company that you work for to adopt those views. We've all seen the disclaimers that people put on their twitter profiles and blogs distancing their personal views from the companies they work for. Such a disclaimer was not issued here. Colin involved the 49ers Franchise and the NFL in his political views. He used their broadcasts to send out his message. Not all the owners necessarily sympathized with his views, especially when it started bringing negative attention to their business. In that regard, I don't think it's all that surprising that it cost him his job.

Note also that there are plenty of current NFL players who express the same sentiments as Colin on social media and in interviews, and they still have their jobs.
Wikidata is part of Wikimedia, which is the same org that controls Wikipedia.
Quality of living sucks though. The same money won't buy you same comforts. Commute is terrible. Housing sucks. Coming from a small village, I often feel alien here :). Though its a different kind of alien when compared with when I was in USA for short visits.

Healthcare is usually way cheaper and you can hire maid+cook. All I can say is that money shouldn't be primary driver for your decision unless you are doubling your savings. Also there is huge risk of rupee depreciation which is robbing us of any real wage growth.
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Yeah you can report the landlord to the building board
Who are we kidding? Silicon Valley was built on the business of war
There are clinical trials that show the effects of cannabis consumption are reversed in adults and now recently young adults as well.
You can't necessarily do it in Haskell, either, on account of the whole partial functions thing.
> if System76 creates an 'open platform' then there will be Compatibles springing up all over...

The open platform already exists, they are merely a player in it. Perhaps they've brought some new hardware, but unless it is x86/64 legacy compatible there is little chance it will succeed.
I pronounce SQL as 'sequel' because IBM's System R was the first SQL implementation and its query language implementation was called 'SEQUEL' for "Structured English Query Language".

No amount of mental gymnastics by following implementations, and whatever motivations they have (a desire to distance themselves from big blue or avoid trademark disputes) will erase that unassailable fact from history.

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/chamberlin/sequel-1974....
This is a super grey area. As I'm sure most people are aware, most technology innovation is evolution, not revolution. The smartphone doesn't exist today without the desktop computer and failed attempts by Palm.

The reality is as follows:

- ARPANET is considered the earliest form of the internet, which was developed by DARPA (paid by taxpayers)

- Many patents for internet based technologies are held (or were held) by universities which were paid for by taxpayers

- The first proposal of hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee was done in his capacity as a contractor to CERN, which is a multi-government-backed entity

The question, that will be debated for centuries, is who has profited from all of this? Just think of your laptop for a second. There are probably a million different functions, services, applications, etc. all playing together harmoniously. It's the purest form of amalgamated advances in both government backed projects, FOSS, and for-profit entities all dancing together harmoniously. Many people would argue the ones who sell the final good are creating the most value, because they are essentially responsible for bringing all of those disparate parts together, and hence why they would argue they deserve most of economic profit.
I think GP here is an insightful comment. Reproducing things is indeed important, but re-running code is much too narrow a definition, and possibly distractingly narrow.

Maybe your awful notebook gets the same answer you got the day before on the blackboard. Or the same answer your collaborator got independently, perhaps with different tools. Those might be great checks that you understand what you're doing. Spending time on them might be more valuable for finding errors than spending time on making one approach run without human intervention.

Not to say that there aren't some scientists who would benefit from better engineering. But it's too strong to say that fixing everything that looks wrong to engineer's eyes is automatically a good idea.
People are usually bored doing math hw, but most people would still consider it "productive and interesting" once they are doing it. If you smoke weed and become more actively engaged with the boring activity of math hw, you become more interested and productive.

If people got to choose what they were doing it seems unlikely they would be bored in the first place though...
All of my scores are PDFs scans of actual paper music I have (and own, copyright, etc), so ForScore being a glorified PDF viewer has been more than fine for me. It's super cool to hear about alternative uses, especially around more dynamic music notation, like MusicXML (of which I know nothing).

I've done iOS dev in the past (it's not my daytime gig at the moment), so if your contemplations ever get more serious and you want an enthusiastic partner, hit me up. I'd love to do something musical.
I would have liked to, but they didn't have them. Or at least, I couldn't find them. I checked Mouser, too. But at least these sites have excellent parametric search functions! It is nice to be able to say "I do NOT want to see any waterproofed strips" and have my request actually honored.
Yes, definitely! What I meant by my statement was no system has been dependant on a separate extension meta-property since FAT32 (pre-vfat). But yes, you're absolutely right that the 3 character extension standard is much older than FAT32.

I didn't think it was quite as old as the 60s though? CP/M and FAT are mid-to-late 70s. VMS was around the same time too, or maybe slightly earlier. What else stored the extension as a separate meta-property to the file name?
If your capital gains consistently exceeds your expenses, then you aren't net indebted to anyone. Society has more financial debt to you than vice versa at that point.
I used to work at Nortel Networks along with 130,000 other people. Nortel went bankrupt and now everyone who used to work there is fighting for their pensions. Apparently a major contributor to their downfall was all of the IP being stolen and sensitive information about deals going down otherwise exfiltrated by Huawei[1]

People need to get serious about protecting the privacy of their communications and data. Nobody cares until it is too late. Seems like this kind of event might be the incentive people need to make the extra effort to use products that encrypt their data in rest and in motion.

1: https://www.afr.com/technology/web/security/how-chinese-hack...
I understand the quote to mean that pot makes people okay with being bored. Other recreational activities don't have that same effect. You might do them to stave off boredom, or you won't be bored when doing them, but it's not really the same thing.

Video gaming is an interesting one, a form of dopamine addiction. Pot isnt about dopamine I think?
So while there is validity to this, my experience hiring staff is that there is genuinely a lack of skilled tech workers in the UK, especially at senior levels - it’s not just down to salary requirements.

Sure - as demand goes up and supply is constrained, salaries have to rise. But it’s more complex than that - first, salary increases don’t magically increase supply. There’s a long lag time between salary rises and increased supply. On top of that, there’s a particular dearth of senior engineers. It’s easier to recruit people with less experience, and there’s nothing wrong with doing that and training them up - but this in itself takes quite a lot of investment and can be difficult in a small team. And third, the UK’s shitty immigration process and ongoing Brexit catastrophe make it more difficult to recruit developers from other countries.

At some point, it becomes economically infeasible to run a functioning business as the staff you need become more expensive to hire. It’s good for people in that market, but it can also make it difficult to run a sustainable small business, and it’s okay to call attention to that. Like most things, it’s a bit of a balancing act.
it cannot be more than npm.

npm is basically 1 line of code = 1 package
Some attribution seems to be there in the beginning of the README

> "In most cases the explanations are based on [this great](https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning) machine learning course."

EDIT: It was added 6hrs ago https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-octave/commit/f...
Why VC?
Or just that the rules are stupid, and/or bought and paid for by the incumbent businesses. I have no sympathy for taxi medallion owners or the entire system of graft that caused it to arise. Basically everybody wants to pull the ladder up after them once they get to the top.
RFC 8484: DNS Queries Over HTTPS (DoH)
Noticing changes faster, faster reactions. Probably how it evolved in the first place.
Brave Browser is taking the web by storm
Interesting journalistic experiment, however, ads like these are irrelevant unless they can push the amount of exposure that shifts elections. That's going to take a lot of money. The question, then, becomes not whether they can get ads approved, but whether they stay approved even as dollars are poured in.

A more expensive experiment to run, in that case.
Does the issue not stem from the human obsession to measure, record and categorize things? We aim to preserve the species that already exist because we can observe them, so when a species faces extinction we care more about that one observable event than we do the possibility for new species to evolve and fill the gap in the ecosystem.
I'll ask you the same question I asked the other person

Humans are, for example, very poor at making risk assessments. Evolution has "programmed" our brains to focus too much on certain things and not enough on others. These heuristics might have made sense in ancestral environments bit are quite harmful in today's world. Evolution has already "made us think a certain way". Why would it be so horrific to, for example, lessen certain of those tendencies, if they are harmful?

The examples I gave are hardly of "Changing how people fundamentally think and reason".

> Such transformative things will be met with pushback

It certainly could be. There's also what I said in my last comment, about why that's not necessarily so. Which you have ignored.

> if such a program is deemed beneficial by the powers-that-be it will be pushed upon the populace through means anywhere from marketing campaigns to outright genocide.

That is such a ridiculous argument to make in response to what I have said.

That is to assume that 1) the governments feel so strongly about it and 2) feel that they need to go to extreme lengths to make their will accepted. There is no reason to think that either of those conditions would be true in the case of DNA modifications like I have talked about. You certainly haven't attempted to argue for it.

Your argument could be used against any suggestion. "If such a program of combatting global warming through enforced tax on carbon is deemed beneficial by the powers-that-be it will be pushed upon the populace through means anywhere from marketing campaigns to outright genocide." See how ridiculous that sounds?

> And since you suggested it and are actively defending it in this thread, yes it is yours in the context of this thread.

Grow up. You said "How are you going to enforce your eugenics program". Show me where I said anything that even implied some sort of 'program' that is 'enforced' upon people, or that I had some sort of plan to do so? Don't try to make it out as if you were saying something else.
Even when I had cable I would use Popcorn Time behind a VPN for TV shows. No messing with DVR that may or may not actually record the show. Nice Netflix-style list of available programs and the ability to bookmark favorites and see if there were any new episodes.

I'm sure if I had felt like setting it up, usenet automation + Plex server would have been even better but this was simple enough.

Again, I had cable and I had a cable box but it was that much easier to watch streaming torrents that I still watched unlicensed recordings like that.

Basically, if you are going to charge me a monthly fee to borrow some set top box, you need to make the set top box worth the expense. My only "legit" option was something that looked like a 1998 leftover that barely worked, worked slowly, and cost me almost $10/month to borrow. If I wanted one of the nicer boxes, I had to sign up for unrelated services like some "triple play" with phone service included. Not happening.
8 years in same company at Waltham, MA (Revenue~700Million)

2010 - Junior software developer - $89000 ($10000 signing)
2011 - Software developer - $92000
2012 - Software developer - $95000
2013 - Software developer - $98000
2014 - Software developer - $104000
2015 - Software developer - $118000
2016 - Senior software developer - $128000
2017 - Senior software developer - $134000
2018 - Senior software developer - $138000
Right, on HN an article only counts as a dupe if the story has previously had significant attention. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307524 did, so this submission does count as a dupe.
everything that you mention that is illegal (child porn, terrorism, drugs, money laundering) is a strawman.

Maybe one could argue that Visa, PayPal and Mastercard are acting as a cartel/oligopoly? That would be interesting...
Little Shop of Horrors Review (Halloween 2018)
Sorry for asking, but do you get a bonus?
There is a less cynical explanation: if you make it too easy for people to kill themselves then you run the risk of old people being coerced into taking that option by, for example, greedy relatives eyeing their inheritance.
I suspect this is a big factor. Self-medication is a real thing. When people don't feel good, they start looking for things to make them feel better. And adolescence is a time when a lot of people don't feel good.
or

(object-as-namespace/my-function x y z)

still fewer delimiters and less noise
This, sort of. Everything can be good, in moderation, maybe. For some people though, it's best they don't drink or smoke pot or whatever else. For others, maybe they have such an un-addictive personality they can "safely" try meth or heroin or cocaine every now and then.

Like it or not, reality is nuanced...
Legalization of cannabis in the The Netherlands lowered usage amongst teens. Making pot less accessible to teens was one of Trudeau’s primary arguments for legalization in Canada. Street dealers have a lot of reasons to not ask for ID.
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> (inspired by Matlab I presume)

I think Jupyter is inspired by Mathematica (and Macsyma) notebooks, not Matlab... Source: Fernando Perez started IPython, very much inspired by Mathematica (he was switching from Mathematica to Python). Then Alex Clemesha and I created the Sage notebook in 2007, partly inspired by discussions and demos from IPython developers, and also very much inspired by Mathematica (Alex Clemesha, a physics student, was also a heavy Mathematica user). Alex then made knoboo in 2008 https://github.com/knoboo/knoboo), which is another notebook that inspired the Jupyter notebook implementation.
Engineers willing to move for their job would normally move to silicon valley and get offered $150k, and much lower taxes.

Even at £100k (and ~45% tax!), you're only going to get people who either already live in Cardiff, or are happy to relocate to Wales, but not to relocate to the USA (not all that many people).
Dates and amounts from fallible memory, all in USA. Salary rates made a huge jump when I started changing jobs frequently (which is sad) as well as when I moved to Seattle (after an initial correction, as I came in very "underpaid").

'95-'99: $8/hr as Perl-based "webmaster" in Pennsylvania

'99: $27.5k/year as Coldfusion dev (plus some very mild Oracle work) in Norfolk, VA (3 months at a startup)

'00-'07: Perl Contractor for state govt in Richmond, VA. Hourly, but worked out to $45k/yr, rising to roughly $70k/yr

'07-'12: Java FTE for state govt in Richmond, VA. Started at $81k/year, ended at $90k/yr

'12-'18: Moved to Seattle, WA as JS dev. Started at $90k/yr (+ $10k signing and ~$5k/yr bonus), ended at $187k/yr (+ signing RSU that is probably $30k/yr)
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UK salaries are dire. When I moved from the UK to Canada my salary doubled and my expenses in the UK (Brighton) were actually higher than here in Canada.

I could probably double my salary again moving to the US but I don't want to stay in a place that doesn't have a solid route to citizenship. The TN visas being temporary, non-dual intent and not allowing my spouse to work. Maybe my company will transfer me on an L1.

Also, there was as story on the BBC today about a firm that can't hire software engineers even offering 100k in compensation (which is pretty good for the UK). I rarely see postings for positions that pay this much. London salaries seem to cap out at around 60k which is peanuts considering how expensive the city is.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-45891002
Haskell does REPL-driven development fairly well. It's not the best REPL, but it works, especially if you take a moment to learn a few of the commands to drive it. Dynamic types are not necessary for REPL-driven development.
> I don't think we can treat pot as totally harmless for people under 30 and teens in particular because it seems like it's very harmful for some.

You're right, of course. But the same is true of peanuts.
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Uhh? This is advice to writers, adapted for software developers.
> No mention of the political risks though?

Do they really need to be mentioned? For most people, i.e. those who aren't getting involved with the country's politics and won't be seen by the government/regime as a threat, it's not going to even remotely be an issue.

It's like saying that I, as a non-American citizen, should be concerned if I ever want to start a blogging startup based in New York.
I know people who were like that in high school who are just fine now. Actually, come to think of it I can't think of a single one of the 'stoners' that were in my grade at school who wasted their time being stoned constantly who didn't at least end up living a reasonable life to this point.

The few that didn't were the ones that either got into harder drugs or were already also stealing or hanging out with gangsters also.

The people that just sat around smoking weed though for the most part ended up alright.

I didn't smoke weed through high school but I still did poorly because I didn't really care. I was more concerned with my mom slowly dying of lung cancer at the time. I did enough to pass but was about it. High school was honestly one of the most pointless things i've had to do in my life. It didn't stop me from going to school after and doing useful things with my life though. I also smoked weed constantly throughout university and was consistently among the top in my class. I'd be stoned during midterms and get 100% or more on a couple occasions.

I've never found it slows me down or stops me from thinking. If anything it does the opposite. It lets my mind focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted and makes tasks i'd othwerwise find boring and probably procrastinate on fun and interesting and gives me more incentive to do those things.
In other words, no.

Since the BBC is routinely and equally criticised for being both pro- and anti-Brexit, it’s reasonable to assume that it’s more likely to be neither.
Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts
From the first article you linked...just...wow. Soo many U.S. progressives would suffer under that law.

> In 2015, France’s highest court upheld the criminal conviction of 12 pro-Palestinian activists for violating restrictions against hate speech. Their crime? Wearing T-shirts that advocated a boycott of Israel — “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel,”
Apple does large enough volume that they have bespoke parts made. That could explain it.
Writing Code for NLP Research [Slides]
Life would be empty without cheesecake though.
> Are you saying that they aren't exempted from responsibility because they are not responsible, but because it's better that they not be held responsible?

No.

I'm saying:

(1) They aren't exempted from responsibility, full stop. Site owners and operators manifestly are held accountable for content by a variety of social mechanisms independent of legal liability; you are incorrect to equate responsibility or accountability with legal liability, which is a very small subset of accountability, and that alone, without any other errors, would be a fatal flaw in your argument.

(2) Also, yes, they aren't given the exemptions that apply to similarly situated parties in other media because the internet is fundamentally different mechanically or in ethical situation in a way which changes the ethical responsibilities of people actively deploying resources to selectively relay content, but because (in the somewhat idealistic view) because the perceived benefits of imposing the usual legal liability were viewed as less than the perceived collateral costs in economic development of freeing site operators from legal liability for user-supplied content with certain limitations, or (in the view more in tune with the realities of lawmaking) because the cost of buying off the objections of a set of big money internet interests with a liability exemption was viewed as outweighed by the benefits of imposing the sweeping obscenity and indecency controls they were packaged with.

> Now you're saying that they should regulate all content

No, I'm saying that operating a site inherently involves that, and that they have the right to choose how to do so, even when that excludes certain views from their site, and that that right is enshrined in the First Amendment.

I'm not saying anything about what they should do.
Ready for making the move? Where can I find your resume? :)