skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very next line you quoted tells you why that is the case on Linux now. if you used Linux in the late 90's, you will remember that a lot of the popular window managers/desktop environments aimed to make your transition from Windows 95 easier and the current Linux behaviour is a result of that.
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No, you're spending the 2 pounds because you think it's worth it.

So that STILL makes his argument nothing more than "I don't think your product is worth the 2 pounds" argument, which still makes the logic of his post absolutely missing the mark.
I seriously undercharged when I started out meaning I had to work as many hours as possible to make ends meet. When I got confident enough to raise my rate, I was able to scale back my hours and work 3 days on freelance projects and 2 days on bootstrapping. The problem I found was transitioning away from the freelance projects (my bread and butter) and dedicating more time to my app which was putting more of a demand on my time as it grew.
Facts don't change. Our understanding of the facts change. The quote is ridiculous, and the question is fallacious.
Recurring costs are indeed problematic. I tend to think of everything as costs per month, including food and drinks. That's why I very rarely buy lunch, and even more rarely buy drinks, it feels like a significant cost.
The truth of the banality of evil comes into play not just at the extremes (death camps and so forth) but also at the margins.
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As someone who ever wanted to learn erlang but didn't like the syntax, i'm hoping elixir will do it easy for "non-functional" programmes to enter the world of erlang.
Your perfectly reasonable point could be made without the weird aggression.
Totally off topic, I know, but why do you all still pay these obscene prices for joe? "Expensive" bagged coffee costs 10-15 USD and makes many more cups. It's easy to make in the office or at home, and you get to be your own quality control. If you need the free wifi I suppose it makes sense, but beyond that you could be paying significantly less for much better coffee.
The future is wearable and shareable - Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins
The budget was 400k for the basic version, then they got 3.3m and changed the scope. So 3.3m was the new budget, or perhaps some number in between and the difference was pure profit.
The Vodafone repair process caught on video
I've expanded on this topic here: http://blog.oleganza.com/post/51799353916/eco-friendly-times...
That's one extreme. Middle ground would be to recognize and capitalize on strengths, while taking advantage of anyone's ability and willingness to fill in a role until the better qualified individual comes off his urgent assignment or personal issue.
Why outsourcing abroad is a bad idea
Lets hope that more of these changes make it upstream or that they modify the vm to make it easier for other languages to work on the erlang vm. Erlang has lots of potential but lots of people get scared away from the syntax and other oddities.
FYI: You can click the images with the blue plus to open a slideshow that shows what the article actually means.
This isn't a trade-off that most consumers would consider. The "it's just the cost of a coffee" pitch is a marketing pitch for the mass market. And when the mass market hears it, they'll buy it on a whim. Essentially the same pitch has worked at grocery store checkout lanes for decades.
At least mark it as "rejected" -- the problems presented in the ticket have not been fixed.
Thank you for your answer, but I think I haven't described it clearly enough: it wouldn't check for broken API links but it would be a REST API (a service) for checking broken links on any website - something like W3C checker.
The guy is making a pretty simple point. It has nothing to do with "2 pounds isn't shit to pay for the experience of coffee" it is who are you to tell me what value i get from a 2 pound cup of coffee

It seems pretty clear to me that this is not about the product being offered, but about the idea that selling your product by belittling the rewards from a different transaction of similar monetary value is utterly worthless. The line about the coffee is absurd and doesn't add any value to the product being sold.

I don't really think the tone of your comments is helpful in making the case you are trying to put across btw.
I posted a more detailed description of the exploit: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1fe9mj/facebook_pays...
> Prison has to be scary. It has to strike one as the number one place that you do not want to go. It's the other ultimate consequence, along side of death. I can't imagine this world if it wasn't.

Prison is not a deterrent. If it was, you would see prison population decline over time. Instead, it has grown quite significantly and in a racist way (black men are massively overrepresented and sent to prison).
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What's the point/argument of this article? That 4.5k is not enough money?

(serious question, not hating)
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Wow, I clicked the 'Surprise Me!' button on Amazon and it took me to a page with this text:

"Namespaces are features often found within object oriented languages, such as C++, Ruby, and recently, PHP. A namespace allows libraries to use similar naming conventions without collision. The namespace often applies and implies a context for its identifiers."

Now I don't know how big this book is, but I don't think you can cram that much information in a children's programming introduction.

I also don't see at all how it is relevant to explain this much information about namespaces and their historic context. The amount of jargon you need to be familiar with to understand this paragraph is rather large and I know plenty undergraduates who'd have difficulty with understand this, even if they've used namespaces before..

Is this information for the parent or for the child?

(please don't see this as a middlebrow dismissal, I think it's a great idea to write programming books for young children and the cover of this one looks great, I am just genuinely surprised at this page being in there)
There is a more rational argument against "less than your latte". I cannot drink much more than a few lattes a day. So a $10 latte might be overpriced but at least this position in my budget is safely capped.

Not so with the $2 downloads. There's a bajillion of them not capped in any way, so the only way to cap this part of the budget is to be aggressively selective about what you pay for.
I thought the top bar was nifty. It only showed when you scrolled back up. When you scroll back up you might be looking for a way to continue somewhere else, and that's when they show you the top bar with it's menu.
As other comments pointed out, it's not that critical per se. It crashes, restarts and then that's it.

Beyond that, it's an undefined pointer dereference - who knows what this could be use for in certain combinations and systems. Use a "not so critical" bug in that subsystem, a "not so critical" mistake over there, another "somewhat severe" error over there and you got a root shell going. It's simply disconcerning and annoying if you consider that static checkers could have caught it.
It probably won't, because its not very high resolution. Landsat is more about the spectrum coverage, 8 bands including infrared, and temporal coverage, a pass every 16 days, since 1984. This is useful for scientific studies.

Google/Apple/Microsoft buy their data from private satellites that at a much higher resolution and in plain visible RGB, and they only need a single cloud-free composite from any time, which is why some of the Google imagery doesn't have new buildings.

Google does store and provide Landsat and MODIS datasets in their Google(c)(tm) Maps Engine, and Earth Engine, for science related applications.
Decryong the expression of humanist values as "political correctness" is the political correctness of those who hold to a different value system.

The forum in which we are dialoguing is not the MongoDB IRC. It is HN.

The effects of dehumanizing those who do not share our background are well documented by history. They extend well beyond hurt feelings.
All the noisy part accomplished is to convince me MongoDB's critics are so far off the deep end they should be ignored. I'll be considering MongoDB for my next project.
Based on the "Paste your call stack (Java/Scala)", I want to assume/hope that this works with vanilla Java code as well.

Our team would throw their wallets at you if you made this an IDE plugin for IDEA and Eclipse (we use both).
Do you always follow the suggested resolution 100%?
The other market would pay orders of magnitude more for such an exploit.
Moore's law has not too much to do with bitcoin, since the difficulty of mining is adjusted automatically.
I think that, to some extent, what we pay for are good memories. It just so happens that physical goods today produce longer lasting and stronger memories than digital goods. And the rapid increase in the production of digital stuff isn't helping their cause. Of course, at some point in the future we may actually identify strongly with and be as much possessive about our digital things as we are attached to our physical possessions.
5-hour energy.

I'm not joking. Slam one of those right after you wake up and you'll have a really productive first few hours of your day and over time will start to look forward to getting out of bed because of the near-instant high it gives you.
A lot of the comments here are completely ignorant about the state and nature of prisons, both on a small scale level for the lives of people who are incarcerated as well as at a large scale in how Amercian society supports prisons as a racist institution. I urge everyone looking for starting knowledge to start with Angela Davi's Are Prisons Obsolete?: http://www.amazon.com/Are-Prisons-Obsolete-Angela-Davis/dp/1...
Anatomy of a Meltdown: Developed World Currency Collapse
Working on a product for developers that they love to use.
my cat pats my face meowing for food.
That is the most contrarian thing I have ever seen anyone post ever. You're going to use a "broken" product just because someone ranted about how broken it is(was)?
$4.5k for spec work isn't that bad. They could've paid $0.

With that said, I keep my facebook account only for testing applications.
You're probably right. I'm just sick of childish arguments being treated as brilliant insights. Doesn't exactly help my case though, does it?
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If I have too much money in the bank, I will not get out of bed. So being poor would help.

Once I hit a certain savings threshold, I quit my job because I know the whole (my bank account) is greater than the sum of its parts (putting up with horrible software shops)

Then...I do it all over again.
Just curious, does that motivate you and put you in a good mood?

If not, are there other ways you wake up that put you in a productive mindset?
My personal experience. While also pointing out the high amount (66) of exploits that have been found in the past 5 months. And wondering why Facebook is so dependent on these external security disclosures (and pays so little).
Does that literally wake you up? Or is that more of a motivator once you're up and moving?
Nicotine and caffeine craving gets me up.
Ah I see what you mean now. My mistake.

That sounds more useful... but it's also something that most developers could probably build for themselves in a few minutes?

1. Grab page
2. Parse and find links
3. Make a request to each link
4. Return any links that are returning 4xx or 5xx.

Maybe there's a use for it where people want to test a particularly large set of pages/links making use of a data center's typically superior connection? shrug
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haha. I used to wake up to that a couple years back. Kind of awesome, actually :)
That wasn't a rant, it was a childish temper-tantrum.

I may use a product that, like all products in the history of mankind, has flaws, because it has apparently done its job so well that those threatened by its success have been reduced to gibbering idiots.
It's just before the tags and comments.
Yes, this works for vanilla Java as well. A version which is more suitable for Java can be found at http://www.stackifier.com (w/o scala.html). An IDE plugin is indeed something we may consider.
Having someone make you a latte is definitely worth the two pounds, and a tip, as well. People might think coffee is cheap? Sure, what is not cheap is the person who has to make you a bespoke beverage every morning. Plus milk. Plus it's not coffee, it's a shot of espresso. Plus, you probably put some sort of flavor in it, and it comes in a cup.

You could save money by making it yourself! And then you'd have to:

* Steam milk, and clean the pitcher out after.
* Grind coffee
* Make espresso, then clean the espresso machine. If you have a home machine, that means you had to fill it with water at some point, too.

....
I could go on.

I buy my americanos at the coffee shop.
That I will return from work eventually back to my personal projects, reading and writing.
Yes, but it does not really matter. It tastes differently than HFCS, but not that differently and both are sweet :)

In practice, nobody is bothered by very slightly different taste. Coca Cola uses different sweeteners (including artificial ones) in different parts of world and mostly nobody notices.
I know nothing about Pin's business model, but I bet the answer is "No" - in most processors like this, foreign exchange is what actually makes the profit for the company.

The $50/$0.30/3% you pay will cover expenses and make a bit of money, but the margins are pretty tight on that part of the transaction - it's all the FX leveraging/charging they do with your non-AUD income that actually makes the company viable.
It always fills me with fear, resentment, and dread when someone talks about "An exceptionally detailed spec." I developed web software for the best part of 15 years, and pretty much without exception all the projects I did that were successful didn't have much of a spec at the start. We did what would now be called Agile, but the proper term is really "rolling-wave planning" - phasing development of a project to focus on what you have enough information to spec properly and only outlining the rest. It's hard to avoid scope creep doing things that way, but the result is a product that's a better fit for it's purpose.

It takes a decent project manager and a good understanding of what the requirements are on both the management and development sides at any given moment during the project. That's easier in-house but there's no good reason why it won't work with an outsourcing company too.

Ultimately, if the project fails/runs over budget/is late then it's due to a failing on the project management side.
That page seems sketchy. I wanted to see a bit more about the book. Does it teach programming or is it an ABC book? Also, I was suspicious of the Google shortened link for the Amazon link. I'm sure the author just wants some analytics, but it just felt off.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/1489... is what I was hoping was on the front page, a picture from inside the book, to help explain what the book is. From the "Look inside" link on Amazon, I feel like the author touches on concepts, but doesn't really explain them, but then goes into implementation details in various languages.
I don't understand the (automatic) HN critics that love to come in and pour Youtube-quality comments all over someone's work.

* Where does it say the book is for 3 year olds? Several people are commenting as though that is the intended audience. Am I just missing where the author says, "This is for your 3yo"? I don't see it. I think it's just ignorantly assuming that, because it's an "ABC" book that the paradigm is locked into 3yos.

* Brandon - you may want to go ahead and lock in the suggested age range for the book so that searchers can find your book easier. Naming the book "A is for..." is going to limit you with any parent of a child above 5 - by telling Amazon (and the viewers) the suggested age range, you remove a bias/filter that those parents would have about such a book.
Getting to the office before everyone else, for two reasons:

- It is quiet. Most of my coworkers get in between 9:30 and 10:00, so if I'm here at 8:30, I get a solid hour to handle the administrivia part of my job - emails, daily task sorting, etc.

- I get to leave earlier. I like to have my afternoons, so if I'm in early, I get to take off early. This is not set in stone solid, and I can always take off if I absolutely have to (or work from home), but for the day to day, if I'm in at 8:30, I'm out at 4:30, and that lets me have time to handle my personal stuff, beat traffic, run errands, anything.
A Beginners Guide to Erlang
I think I'd rather spend 3 years in solitary (given adequate books, ability to write, etc.) than in general prison population. I accept that I'm probably an outlier, though.
“We are Uber for X”
Blackberry 10 is really good OS and Blackberry itself has faithful and amazing user base. I wouldn't be exited by .NET developers either. From 7 platforms I have developed for only J2ME is worse experience than WP (sorry:)). While I can see how illusion that WP is winning is created when it is fed from MS cash cows and BlackBerry is basically underdog now.

In any case I would like to see more diversity not less. Diversity is not harming automobile industry - shouldn't harm mobile industry either.
Do you slam it while still in bed? or after you're up an moving.

I find that the small gap between in-bed and out-of-bed is the crux of getting up.
You got that a lot more right than I did.
Dutch Supreme Court: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on iPad design
Anyone know Polish and is able to summarise for us the key GOG.com-related figures from http://www.cdprojekt.com/resources/document/prezentacje/Wyni...?
This has significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730887 (nbcnews.com)

Here are some other submissions:

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737582 (dailytech.com)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737910 (dailymail.co.uk)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738327 (dailymail.co.uk)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738595 (techspot.com)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741949 (cnn.com)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742227 (twocircles.net)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5743341 (sfgate.com)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756554 (mashable.com)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5764556 (digitalversus.com)

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5785136 (indianexpress.com)

Some of those have links to other documents that may or may not explain more about it - I'm not qualified to judge.
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It seems like sometimes the play with it and go back to the old one (which I actually like...).

BTW, the UX alpha is back to the old style.
You didn't really think that through very well did you? Can you not see even 1 problem with that idea?
From personal experience, heroin addicts will joke about breaking into their parents house to steal something and sell it for a fix, and they are totally serious, and yet it is still a legitimately funny topic to them. That should tell you something about the psychology and why they're nothing like coffee addicts.
But perhaps now there's a signalling problem. If you find an exploit of a similar nature you can expect a mid-four figure sum from FB. Now if you're feeling less than white-hatty you can wonder how much more you can get elsewhere.

It's easy to say that FB could have paid $0 but if people knew that, it would make "responsible disclosure" even less likely to happen.
> Google/Apple/Microsoft buy their data from private satellites

The Google coverage people are most familiar with (i.e. major cities) is not from private satellites, but private aerial surveys.
Ask HN: Proper stories back on the front page - welcome back boys
For the first time in weeks, the front page of HN has me excited again. Molecular imagery, satellite imagery, prison systems, speculation on future transportation and post-mortems on failed software projects. Love it, Love it, Love it.

Welcome back HN, goodbye productivity.
Yahoo is doing great
That sounds interesting for, say, a sci-fi novel, but in the real world I wouldn't want to be responsible for dealing with infrastructure maintenance, earthquakes, tornadoes... Can you imagine if even part of something like that collapsed?
Most people aren't calling it a brilliant insight. Most people are just saying that it's a reasonable point.

When I'm selling my widget I might think that £2 is insignificant, and is the same as a cup of coffee, and billions of people buy coffee every day, so why don't people spend that insignificant amount of money on my widget? Well, emotionally, £2 is not insignificant.

To get someone to give me £2 I have to overcome some barriers. One way is to compare it to something that seems insignificant, such as a cup of coffee.

That might have worked so far, but at some point people are going to catch on and it's not going to be as effective and I'm going to have to find something else to try.

This article is an indication that people are starting to resist the coffee comparison.

But I do hope it doesn't become the new "you're not the customer you're the product", because that's overplayed.
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A few things that get me out of bed in the morning:

* Looking forward to spending time with my children ( post work, or all day on weekends )

* Known exactly what I have to accomplish that day ( task breakdown )

* Exercise, I really enjoy known that I'll have time to workout, this goes with having a schedule.

* Interesting problems to solve at work ( related to task breakdown I suppose )
Yes but you know the guy already. That's branding.

Also, searching for dev advice is not the same as searching for a product like in OP's case.
The answer is in the last two paragraphs of the article, e.g:

> "A nice day's pay, but a paltry fee for pointing out a gaping hole in the security of a social network holding the personal data of over a billion people"
It was very enlightening to see one guy who created a language go over someone else's language. The point about versioning source code files is interesting: you can tell Joe would like to be able to make some changes to Erlang itself without worrying about all those lines of code out there in mission critical deployments. Great read, in any case, for anyone interesting in language design.
Early Morning Meetings. If I know I HAVE to get out of bed I will get up. If not I will snooze for longer than I would like.

Additional motivators:

1. Light - Before bed I open all the curtains

2. Tasks - I lay out all my tasks the night before. Less stress thinking about all the things I have to do. Wunderlist everything and then stop stressing.

3. Fun First - I try to put a fun task at the top of the list each morning. Makes it fun to get up.

4. Alarm not near bed - Having the alarm away from the bed I have to get up to turn it off. Once I'm up and moving I rarely feel the need to get back into bed.
Having something on my agenda rather makes me not go to bed :P. But yes, that is indeed a good one that I hadn't thought of. In hindsight I notice I've often woken up more easily because of something cool on my agenda rather than the daily routine, so it might be something to practice.
This seems a little unfair to me. Personally I really like the idea, but I feel the implementation is lacking. That's my opinion, am I not allowed to express it, giving reasons why?

These are hardly "Youtube-quality comments". Clearly you've not been on youtube for a bit.
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