skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are also stuck with the costs of managing those licenses, and the risk of not being in compliance (howerever well you manage them). Both get bigger than the licensing costs when you get big.

There is also the cost hidden in "new developer? Wait a bit while I'll get another license", "what kind of replication? We don't have enough licenses", "no, you can't just create a small project (that can get huge) for solving this small problem, it can't justify the cost in licenses", and other very common situations.
Ok, but I know a lot of people who are available at work at times which do not match the "usual" work hours. Also shops have no universal opening times, some open at 7, some at 10, so you always have to check if the other side is available before calling (or just try).

I guess calling would also be easier if the used system can show if the other side is available like Skype or even better when she is available.
I don't necessarily feel this way either however it's a thought experiment to pose in regards to the concept of "keeping up with the jones's" and explains a large part of the population's consumerist drive.
Contrary to common sense; if they believe that you can actually pay back within the mortgage terms you are not precisely their target audience.
Take a village. Everyone earns $100,000 except you. You earn $80,000. How do you feel?

Now reverse it. You earn $100,000. Everyone else earns $80,000. How do you feel?

Those base feelings explains consumerism and envy.
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He owns four properties already. And he seems to be saying he avoided paying tax on most of his income. Can't say I'm feeling too sorry for him.

(FWIW it took me eight months to get a 75% mortgage on a flat to live in. And that's as someone who's conventionally employed.)
> In any case, what's your suggestion for improving the situation?

What do you ask me that? It's a question best asked to RSA, they created the bad situation.
That's why we don't have nice things in Turkey.
Some of us see trams in London every day...
Regarding distraction, may I posit that the author has the causality reversed? What if many people are seeking dopamine, et al, because they're already unhappy? There was a piece on procrastination which suggested that some procrastination is an attempt to treat one's unhappy mood, and it seems to me there are plenty of reasons why Gen Yers might be unhappy.

The economic outlook for many Gen Yers is quite bleak. Despite having attended college, many people end up working retail or otherwise low-wage jobs. After hearing that you're supposed to "follow your dreams" and that all you really need to do is "believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything," it's not unreasonable to imagine why this generation feels left behind or alienated. I know people who blame themselves even though, in one case, their job (environmental ecology) was vaporized by the housing bust.

So they're[0] "entitled" because they want what the consumer-driven economy tells them they deserve, what they've been told to demand from life, and what their parents had. But they ought to be happy with less than the previous generation had because, well, them's the breaks.

I'm sure I'm not the first, I predict Gen Y will become something akin to a lost generation. Sometimes you need to take a shit job to survive, but if you're interested in upward mobility, nobody wants to see shit jobs on your resume, esp not among the professional class.

It's ironic because retail jobs, for instance, are often hard work! However there's little prospect for long-term gain. What's the point in thinking long-term when you're working a job deliberately engineered to make workers replaceable? There's nothing inherently wrong with such a job, but maybe it's not so mysterious wonder why kids seem more mercenary or prefer to live in the moment.

If I had to guess, I'd say this offers some explanation both for popularity of tech and finance. If you can afford a degree & can hack it in those industries, you'll probably do well. If you can't, your prospects (depending on where you live) are considerably more variable.

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[0]: I say "they" because I'm somewhere between X and Y. I remember a time before the Internet, ubiquitous digital media, and cellphones, but not before home computers.
In Summary - The Author, due to having recently switched from being a full-time to a freelance worker, cannot prove that he has the ability to pay the mortgage he's applying for and thus his application was denied.

The rest of the article being about how he owns several properties outright (that he rents out) and apparently has money in the bank is somewhat immaterial since the part that a lender cares about most is "can you continue to pay your debt from your sustainable income stream" - not your rental business which can be volatile and unpredictable income wise.

That lending rules have been tightened is surely a good thing even if it does mean the some people will find it harder to own property. Borrowing money to own a home is nobodies right, but something you should have to prove you're able to do - as the swathe of sub-prime mortgages that subsequently went underwater only a few years ago shows.
Well, by simple extension, I as a tax payer have no obligation to -- through my government -- lend money to banks.

Perhaps we should have let these "too big to fail" banks indeed fail.

Banks don't simply serve individual, private interests. They also serve a public interest -- to oversimplify into a word: liquidity.

I suppose I should read into the details of the OP article. Nonetheless, saying that banks have "no obligation" is I think incorrect. Saying they shouldn't make loans under bad circumstances, I agree with.

P.S. Sorry if and as I've over-reacted. But I'm tired of banks on the one hand taking advantage of a very privileged position (including government support) while on the other claiming their sole purpose is to serve in the absolute whatever they define as their private interest.

I flew a bit off the handle in my comment. I should have read through the OP article. Perils of too much coffee and multi-tasking.

I'll leave my comment, instead of deleting it, since its already gained a reply.

What touched me off, is that, defined as "private" as they may be, as business institutions, banks are nonetheless very much social institutions. One of the fundaments of modern society.

And, as more people transition to self-employment, access to capital including for things such as home purchase, is going to be increasingly significant to society in terms of the numbers seeking such.

The idea that self-employment removes you from the ability to access such loans: That will be a significant concern that needs to be evaluated and addressed.
Smiling may be an indicator of other things besides happiness. It's been proposed (see e.g. http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP10371397.pdf though I make no claim that that particular article proves it) that one function of smiling is an acknowledgement of lower social status than the person one's smiling at. If something like this is right, then rich people might smile less at any given level of happiness.

(Or: they may smile less in public, which will have a large influence on your perception of rich people's smiling if you don't happen to spend a lot of time in personal interactions with rich people. Or: they may in fact be less happy and therefore smile less -- though the evidence seems to be against this.)
It's also because he's trying to get a conforming mortgage. A bank willing to do a portfolio mortgage doesn't have to conform to Fannie Mae's requirements. Whether he'll find a bank willing to do one is another matter, especially on a loan that small.
It is partly a fixed cost versus variable cost argument, although these guys don't express it that way. (And I realize that fixed isn't really "fixed.")

If you can't afford decent housing, adequate healthcare, and a good education for your kids, of course more money will buy you happiness. And in the US, the income at which you can afford those three ... is high and increasing fast.
alternatively, the genes that allow for this would just need to be the dominant ones, the recessive ones that we have now being just the result of a lot of bad luck.
I don't know C#, so i can't compare it with python. Some reasons why I like python:

- The REPL. I 'm so used to play around with newly installed libraries or certain features in the REPL that I'm always kind of lost when coding in a language where there is none:)

- I can do almost everything I need in one language. From simple scripts to web applications. This makes it great for rapid prototyping. I can replace parts later if there is a benefit.

- Readability of code. I really like the uncluttered visual layout and the use of English keywords instead of punctuation.

- The vast amount of solid libraries available.

- No need for an IDE. I use emacs, but I think it's great for collaboration if everybody can start right away without having to install or buy anything (at least on systems, containing python out of the box). Not really important in a business environment, but it lowers the entry threshold for people new to the language or programming.
You're completely off the rails here. You've devolved back into discussing the probability of dying from a terrorist attack instead of a whole system analysis. Some questions to answer your questions. Do you think the government knows things about the economy they don't release to the public but use to inform their monetary policy? Do you think the same might be true for terrorist attacks and their security posture? Does the fact that you don't know something mean that it is inherently unknowable?
I offered an explanation of the context in which the prices did not rose, but you clearly you don't believe that's the case.

Out of curiosity, you think that Adi Shamir is wrong?
True, but for such basic things, you could just use something lightweight like Flask and not have to deal with all of Django's baggage.

It all depends on the app, though. In my case, even "boring" stuff often needed to make HTTP requests to the outside world, so Django would never have scaled for me. (In hindsight, I should have just written the whole thing in Node, but it wasn't as mature back then and I didn't want to take the risk.)
You could use `Seq.scan` to get rid of the manual recursion:

let n = 42.

Seq.initInfinite float
|> Seq.scan (fun x _ -> 0.5 * (x + n/x)) 1.0
|> Seq.pairwise
|> Seq.pick (fun (x, y) -> if abs <| x-y < 1E-10 then Some y else None)
|> printf "%f"

printf "%f" <| sqrt n
I love and use both, so here's my two cents:

(Context: I am not a 'hardcore programmer'. I don't use vim or emacs because I'm simply faster/more productive with an editor that I don't need to go through a learning curve for. I am not averse to the command line, but GUIs can be advantageous at times too.)

Python is great. It's free, and available on every platform I care about. It has libraries that do absolutely everything in the world right out of the box.
C#/.NET is great too. It keeps everything structured, the syntax just makes sense, and Visual Studio is the best IDE I've ever used, with great debugging tools and smooth integration of everything you require (I've even started using the built-in git control at times).
However, when I was previously using a Mac as my main machine, .NET programming was largely ruled out for practical purposes. For similar reasons, finding web hosts for my ASP.NET MVC applications (which is an AWESOME framework btw) was harder and costlier. Visual Studio was free for me as a student, but the pricing would be absolutely ridiculous if I had to pay for it myself. On Python, I have a ton of choice, eg for a web framework I could choose a barebones HTTP server, or web.py, or something as heavy-weight as Django. On .NET, I'm pretty much restricted to ASP.NET, and if I don't like its defaults or the convention over configuration aspect, I'm so outta luck. In fact, for less common things, like client API libraries for specific websites, I might only find implementations in Python and Ruby, not C#. If I want help or to find documentation, the Python docs suck IMHO, but the community is amazing, whereas the community for ASP.NET isn't as robust in my opinion. There are many python experts who will happily explain obvious-in-retrospect things, whereas with .NET I'll sometimes get stuck with configuration files and what not that make no sense to me or to anyone willing to help. Lastly, if I want to quickly throw a script together for a puzzle or online coding competition, Python feels a lot more light-weight and easy to get started with than C#.

Python has a lot of downsides too, but I've got to cut this comment short now. The point is, each language has its own pros and cons - try Python for a few weeks and you might find that it isn't as one-sided as you think.
That was helpful, thank you.
You really should, since it's not the bank rejecting the loan, it's Fannie Mae[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae
Article begins by praising RISC as "elegant" and "a good design decision", goes on to describe limitations of RISC immediate values.
Probably ajax, which is more resource intensive/laggy than WebSocket-y and isn't bi-directional (you've got to poll with ajax if you want to push changes from the server).
I think that you're just quibbling over lexiconic ownership rights. You seem to think that the domain of science owns all of the words that modern man needs in order to describe the direct felt experience of what science has not yet been able to measure.

Words like energy and flow are often used as metaphors so their use does not automatically imply that one is trying to pass anything off as hard science.

Even the word quantum can be used as a pointer to the idea of non-duality or non-locality without implying a direct connection to hard science. It all just depends on how it's used and what the person was actually trying to get across.

I think that the label 'pseudo science' should be reserved for when a person is definitely trying to invoke hard science when it is uncalled for. It should not be applied haphazardly whenever a person uses a particular set of keywords. After all we are thinking human beings capable of extracting many layers of meaning from sentences beyond a mere analysis of keywords aren't we ?

Then again I suppose there are quite a large number of bots posting on the Internet these days. sigh
Helvetica is spelled 'arial'.
Well this is unfortunate: http://i.imgur.com/41Yn4ye.png
That one is, IIRC, LGPL, so it's Open Source in the copyright and code availability sense, but it's otherwise encumbered, so it's not in Chromium by default.
They're about, but 99% of the time they're flagged/reported because "PHP SUCKS YO!".
Eastern time means nothing to me. How many hours do I go forward or back? How do I know if you're in daylight savings? What if I'm in saylight savings?

Sensible time for wod wode use is still a problem for casual users.
I disagree that server side templates are no longer needed. Templates are often reused for things like sending emails or exporting to PDF. Sure, you could use a JavaScript server side template to do this.
I think you'll see the same pattern all over the Internet, whether it's app stores or forums. People have to go out of their way to post something, and human nature is such that they're much more likely to expend that effort to post a negative opinion on something than a positive opinion.

I wonder if at least some of the motivation for "Please rate us!" popups in mobile apps isn't just to get more ratings, but also to get a more representative (i.e., more positive) sampling of user opinions as well.
How SSD power faults scramble your data (2013)
I wonder if their cars will be marked? Otherwise what is to stop them getting pulled over like everyone else.
True but not as surprising since you can still find some similar to those in central London nowadays around Soho.
Thank you!

Sarcasm and humour in general is usually not the way we deal with serious things like the war, even here on HN.

This is a pity as humour, even if it is British rather than American (or German) is a great way to make big, scary, difficult-to-understand-things a bit easier to talk about. It is a tactic and we should be taking the piss out of the politicians and the spies, rendering them to being pathetic 'Peeping Toms', tantamount to being dirty perverts, lowest of the low.

That said...

...I am genuinely surprised at how we have been able to kill whomever we like in The War Against Terror with a lack of reprisals from those we bombed. I am sure soldiers in Afghanistan do not see it that way, but for the folks in UK/USA there is practically zero terror threat.

To all intents and purposes those we have attacked and tortured are like unwitting subjects for a follow up to the MKULTRA type of things that went on 50 years ago. I do wonder if there are those in the military that see it that way, testing new weapons by killing a few people with them.

Fortunately those we bomb are people as opposed to complete psychopaths, so they don't have the mindset of those in the arms business.
Developers know that when using Helvetica you're never wrong, but also never right.
I have always seen 'coder' used for someone who essentially transforms designers intent into HTML/CSS/JS (or other GUI code) and does not especially care about backend code. I have seen it used with this meaning even in job postings (mostly web development related).
The traditionally-held view is that there is an income (I've heard something like 70k in the USA) where the plot should become a horizontal line, i.e. increasing your income increases your happiness by zero.

This might seem like a strange view, but the notion is not that money ceases to increase happiness, but rather increased happiness costs associated with earning that increased income start to negate the gains.

Anyway, this graph is self-reported life satisfaction. We would need to examine the metric used in the studies that came up with the ~70k number to see if we can even compare the two studies.
Delicious is updating its API
Not really, they still make money from someone if they've had a mortgage for a minimum period. They're still making the interest every month until it is paid back, even early. If someone pays back money early then it means they can lend out more (assuming leverage limits are being enforced). And, depending on the initial conditions of the mortgage, they may even get more money because of early repayment fees.

In the UK there are mortgages available for those doing consulting work (i.e. not on a regular salary). They generally have an interest rate about 2% higher than mortgages available for those with salaries.
If you get pulled over how do you get out of the ticket without being outted as an agent?
Never heard of it. To me this is not comparable to the tragic slaying of the RSS Reader. We will live.
A proposal for supporting Scripting in the forthcoming Minecraft Plugin API
Hardy har, har, Giuseppe.

Simpler and easier to read.
Never heard of it, although it seems like a nice project.

Is there any alternative out there? I would like to try it out.
I was thinking of doing the exact opposite of this book, writing a book in C code that has to be compiled first.
Old people pretty much are sleep deprived, though. Their systems are falling apart (that's aging). I was reading a study once on, I think, melatonin in the elderly, and it showed a graph of the 24-hour melatonin secretion cycle for a young healthy sample and then for like age 60+ people; in the young people, the cycle looks exactly as one would expect, with a fall in mid-day, increase in evening, and high levels while asleep during the night and slowly declining to the day levels - in the elderly, it was a flat line. Horrifying.
Beats time is no more 'digital' than the 24-hour day. It's 10 base which makes it easier for us to calculate, and without time zones, makes it easier to communicate around the world as we become more global.

I think maybe Swatch gave up to early on this? It could have just been another measurement on their watches. Not the main one, but secondary.

There's no way this was going to be an overnight change.
I tried looking into what got them banned, but it's not at all obvious from their history. I wonder what happened here?
Never said they didn't make money from you, I just said you are not their target audience, as in implying that you are not precisely a customer that they are dying to have with them, in other words, they can axe you out without thinking about it too much.

Also, downvotes? really? do you guys even bank?
You might have more luck getting the developer to fix it by providing some information about your browser. It works fine in the latest stable Chrome on Mac OS X, for example.
> I find it terribly unconvincing that a specific arrangement of matter, or even an algorithm in software, just simply "spawns" a discrete consciousness from nothing.

It's not only unconvincing but unscientific, a pseudo explanation.
Hi there! thanks for the feedback!
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>Then again I suppose there are quite a large number of bots posting on the Internet these days. sigh

@h1karu Are you suggesting that humans are now failing the Turing Test? :-D
How to make your great idea take off
I've found woodworking to be an incredible analogy (and also contrast) to software dev. The guy at http://woodgears.ca/ was formerly a software engineer, and I find it interesting how this influences he approaches woodworking.
We don't know what the architects of the pyramids discussed in the pub either, but that is not because we are worse at conversation.
Streak (http://www.streak.com/) has been a good start for us.
Upsides are that it's flexible enough to match most pipeline progressions, exports to CSV, supports mail merge, and allows you to easily track emails.

Our main issue has been that in person meetings and calls are difficult to log and keep track of, and as we've progressed towards those its become less and less useful.

If most of your interactions happen via email however, Streak is a great flexible (and currently free) tool.
> There are relatively few people with incomes that high

The chart is of household income, not individual income. There are plenty of households who break that mark.