skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which logical fallacy / form of argument is being raised here? It's a match for political issues (Say Scottish Independance - if we have AI / Independance, then we can do "improve human race / Create fairer society" - but then the argument goes why not just do the "fairer society thing" now as best you can

perhaps it is the "What are you really waiting for?" argument (probably a favourable shift in power, to answer my own question)
see georgeoughttohelp.com
Useless 2048
Not serious HN material, but this 2048 declination is a hilarious addition to the party.
Another errata-type link of interest

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paulgraham

There's a few others lying around on Hackernews worth checking out. Think of them as easter eggs.
Agreed! My predicted salary from 10 predictions is about $24K lower than actual salary, and I'm happy to provide my salary information in-app.
my observation is that we also apologize more, speak up less, and negotiate less effectively (if at all).

i teach 8 year-old girls how to code in my free time and one of the biggest challenges to their success is re-wiring them to believe in themselves, in their critical-thinking skills, in their ability to solve problems. it seems they don't need a few mentor-role models: they need a chorus of people encouraging them and reminding them of their innate abilities. which leads me to believe—i can only extrapolate—that this must be what many boys (and men) experience on a quotidien basis.

i will never know, but i can help create that for myself and other women, particularly the wee ones. :>
Apple Developing It’s First Ever Android App
"...can't help feeling i'm building a dream for someone else."

I can relate to that feeling and it's something I revisit occasionally. Though, being a founder or joining a startup and taking equity has it's own set of anxieties. I think the right approach is to just focus on what you're building and if it's right for you. If you believe in the projects you're working on it's a lot easier to find happiness in your work. Some tough decisions need to be made along the way regarding money but it is possible to find a balance between compensation and doing what you love. You just need to be relentless in reaching the goals you set for your career.

I personally split time between a regular 40 hour a week job as an in-house web developer and freelancing. I just try to find new projects that interest me so that I don't get bored.
People will create what they want to create. For some people growing a nice garden and working on cool stuff around their cheap house will mean more than creating something "more valuable" to society at large. Creation of value or productivity should not be the standard we measure societies by, but instead equity and happiness.
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It might be useful to show your estimated average salary, and your estimated average salary from people in your area. Most people probably don't have a good idea of what the going rates are outside of their geographic location.
Roughly about $10k a month, though we have cut that down from $30k a month. There are still plenty of cost savings we can make though so I expect that to drop to about half that still, with no loss of capacity, scale or performance.

The simple fact is we couldn't do what we do by purchasing hardware, its so much more cost effective at this scale. Mostly AWS with Cloudant and bits of Rackspace as well as a few smaller suppliers.
Ask HN: Freelancing for equity
Recently one of my freelance clients mentioned they want to offer me some equity in their company. They asked me to make a proposal for this equity deal.

Currently we are negotiating a support contract for a web & app platform I have built for them. I was thinking of reserving x support hours every month for the next year or so that are paid for by the equity deal. Is this something that has been done before? How do I define the value of the equity so I can put the correct amount of services against it?
Make up voting also mark comment endorsed. I actually don't see point of separate endorse action. An up vote is an endorsement.
The target particles in quantum teleportation are sort of a canvas on which to paint the properties of the original particles. After teleportation, the two entities will be indistinguishable.

However, I do not think it means you are the same person. Currently, quantum teleportation destroys the original copy. For the sake of philosophical argument, suppose it did not. Then that new person would be conscious independent of you. Clearly, you are not that person.

Now imagine your particles becoming destroyed. You are dead. He is alive. He is not you, even though it would be impossible to tell that he was not you.
Oh, that's just a great solution.

You have any idea how much time I spend sometimes on a comment?

(it can sometimes be quite a bit longer than the average person would on a similar comment, for reasons I don't really want to go into)

The first time one of those gets flushed down the toilet for no other reason than that nobody with >1k karma happened to notice it within 24 hours, I will know not to bother contributing any more.

Sometimes when I make a contribution to an older or less popular thread, I take the trouble anyway because I know there will at least be a few people that see it. Random passers-by, maybe in a few years arriving from some Google search. There's gems there. But I don't like to gamble on whether my post will even be kept around or not.

Downvote, bury, sure. But to delete without ever even being seen?? Well I guess it ties in with the joyful hellbanning theme here, or something.
Weird I'm over 1000 karma and pending is blank
Thanks for the book suggestion, will try and get it :)
Not only that, if you're paying back your credit card every month you're getting some kind of points/rewards thing which definitely covers the risk of inconvenience if your number is stolen.
Funny, that $24k a year that allowed you to play drums (along side your graduate studies) is about in the range of what people generally propose for a basic income
The real first Microsoft Surface (2008)
That sounds like a waste of time for the non-winning comment writer (especially if they could have seen the situation comin from the beginning like now). People put time and effort in their comments; I suspect they don't want to play quality lottery with it.
> The moderator (who is not me) will turn pending comments on as needed when conversations turn nasty

Does this mean that they are not enabled by default?
The title for this article is "Are the Suburbs Making People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?".

However, the article isn't about suburbs at all. It is about the financial implications of home ownership. Home ownership maybe relegated to suburbs in NYC, but in a large number of cities that is not the case.
Here's a fun quote: "DGSE also relies on international direction of the operator, which operates mobile subsidiaries abroad."

You can see which subsidiaries are owned by Orange (headquartered in France) on the wikipedia page[1]. This angle plays more favourably to proponents of the "wireless and fixed carriers are national security concerns" policy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(telecommunications)
DNSSEC has failed
So use-case wise you think the implementation is on point, it just needs better execution it sounds like...
Why not add a user setting - like Google does for censored results? You'd tick a box "Show less relevant / unmoderated comments" - provided directly on the discussion pages. You would tick that box at your own risk, knowing you may find offending comments. And if you find too much spam, and can't seem to enjoy moderated comments enough, just untick it and the spam goes away. This way you ensure moderation can't be abused for censorship purposes.
There's Media Source Extensions, but it's a draft standard with limited support currently.
Racism/Sexism/Bigotry can end up in logical fallacy territory pretty easily. "If women were unsuited for tech careers, there would be few of them in tech; there are few women in tech, therefore women are unsuited for tech careers" is a logical fallacy that I see around here pretty often. "Sexism" is just easier to remember than "Affirming the consequent".
Honestly, it's a shit idea and I will stop contributing entirely.
> I could try HTML5, but that precludes releasing high-performance desktop-ready games for Steam.

Oh Jesus Christ. Do not do this. "Flash" and "high-performance" do not ever belong in the same sentence. Binding of Isaac was a game that, visually, could have run on a Super Nintendo, but it chugged like a tired tortoise on a midrange 2010 laptop. I know Flash is popular, I know it's easy to develop with, but if you use it for "high-performance" game design you are cutting out a huge potential audience of low-end users, because it is miserably slow and inefficient. I should not need cutting-edge hardware to run a simple 2D game.

Edit: For vector games, at least. Raster games made with Flixel seem to run all right. But Flash's native vector implementation is Godawful and deserves to die.
I'm the asker. You must be one of those cursor focus savants. Do you actually get any work done? If so, are you a super genius whose brain always has extra clock cycles to check that the cursor is blinking next to where you're intending to erase? Or are you a very slow user? Or do you not bother fixing your mistakes when you type?
They've done it twice. MotionTwin did a lot of work in AS2 so they built a better compiler for it (MTASC), which compiled faster and made faster swfs (it's still used in production at the BBC).

Then when AS3 came out they seem to have thought "Oh come on!" given the quality of the compiler and language features so they built a better language. Again, faster and better compilation, as well as properly implemented things like generics (particularly compared to the awful implementation in AS3).

It's a lovely little language, and cross compiles to a vast range of platforms with ease. I built an android app which ran a webserver to control a TV app built in it (compiled to JS). I also had good success compiling it to PHP (cross-platform serialisation & deserialisation turned out to be easier and more performant than parsing XML on some low power devices).

MotionTwin made my working day so much better, not having to use the CS4 was wonderful.
fast typists are more regular. This should create patterns easier to recognise.
Not always though. I didn't get a degree but have had recruiters from both companies reach out to me based on work experience. Based on the conversations we had, it didn't sound like my lack of a degree was a big deal.

If you have the unique skills they're looking for, the top technology companies are willing to budge on the degree requirement.
Start with Ruby, build some command line apps. Make a chess/checkers/other complicated game to cement in object oriented programming.
Move to Rails. Learn some SQL(sqlzoo is probably enough). Rails has a lot of magic, if something seems magical learn what it does until it is no longer magical.
After that, add some javascript/jQuery to your rails apps. Once you feel comfortable with that move onto a frontend framework like Backbone or Angular.

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional-Exp... this is a good book for the Ruby path.

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ This is the go-to rails tutorial. But beware that he doesn't explain things in super fine detail, so if Hartl tells you to do something that you don't understand stop and do some research on whats happening. Expect to spend a day or two on each chapter.
Reminds me of the zalgo generator here http://eeemo.net/

Although this is better than the zalgo generators and gives you fine-grained control over the glitch. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, here I come!

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You're very right. The turn signal doubles as the ejector-seat button. This needs fixing.
I started development on rukus.io about a year ago. Over the past few months we've been starting to get decent sized contracts, with many more planned for this year. We've done a great job keeping our costs extremely low, so it only took a couple contracts to cover all of our out-of-pocket expenses.
The arrow keys are explicitly navigation keys. I specified text input keys for a reason.

I had overlooked space; probably because the behavior is non-destructive.
What I don't get is that I see Eric Schmidt strutting around in all kinds of media these days, how come no one ever asks him about his role in this shit?
This article is ass backwards. It implies that the upper middle classes are poor because they don't keep cash savings.

But what it actually suggests is that the middle classes are putting their money into property and investments - which is indeed a rational choice that will make their excess wealth work for them.

Not that I'm saying the middle classes aren't being squeezed - by the 1% stretching off into the distance. But this is just not that.
It's maybe a bit more polite to say: Flash is not dead, it now compiles to multiple targets :)
That is commpletely my point. I think there is more resistence for word, excel, outlook, powerpoint than for windows.
This article refers to two classes of people, the "middle class" and the "poor". It then goes on to categorize the middle class group as "wealthy".

It's as if words no longer have meaning. Wealthy means you can live off your wealth.
If you would like to see how Mozilla's Shumway SWF player is coming along, you can preview Shumway-rendered Flash content without installing the Shumway add-on in this gallery. Even works in Chrome and Safari. :)

http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/gallery/
"...is that governments manipulate the money supply for political reasons."

That's the power hungry part I'm talking about. The government is not some machine that is broken, it's a select group of people within our society running around trying to balance appeasing the public horde while trying to amass as much power as possible. The behaviour of the people within government is a reflection of the state and quality of our society as a whole.
Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe thinks he has the keys to social gaming success
Shocking, but not necessarily surprising given what has already been revealed.

Seems like the kind of thing that a union would help protect against.
>That sounds like a fixable problem, and one worth fixing no matter what your shortcuts are. I hit back and then forward in Firefox, and look, all the text I wrote is still there.

You're operating under the assumption that a text box is the only form of data that a user can lose by navigating away from a page. It isn't.
Twitter pulls its #Music app from the App Store
Going with your numbers, if a basic jobber costs $7.25/hour and they produce $0.30 worth of value, the Basic Job pays for it's own overhead. And of course, $1T < $6T.

I must commend you on actually thinking things through carefully and checking if, numerically, a policy is remotely plausible. It's so rare to see on threads like this.
Cynical view:
The media does not challenge the powerful and the wealthy, they merely act as PR hacks.
No you're not an outlier. This will change the face of HN, and I'm not really sure what for.

(well I have an inkling and it's spelled pretty clearly in the OP but I fear it may be considered "gratuitous nastiness", to speak my heart)
And cards like Amex can come with their own unconditional return policies that are more generous then those if the retailer you purchased from.

There are a lot of pro-consumer reasons to use a card. That, the ability to execute chargebacks in disputes, and rewards make for an attractive package. I personally get about 3.5 flights a year off of a credit mechanism that needs to be employed regardless, so not bad. Usually have fraudulent charges show up at least once a year though.
I was once told that the best way to cement your knowledge of a new language is to build a chess game in it.
I would recommend BitTorrent Sync [1] for personal usage.

[1] - http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
Neovim reaches $30,000 stretch goal with 1 day left
olark, zendesk, zoho, webex, ringcentral, a couple other minor ones all add up to over $2k/month. this is like a drop in the bucket compared to payroll and rent and colo and equipment which are each well into in the 5 figures/month.

if you're running a business you will have to get accustomed to spending large amounts of money and not let it spook you.

just make sure your per-seat software costs are reasonable and it will track linearly and profitably with your success.
You can't make more aluminum just by wanting it. If our usage of aluminum increases, eventually there will not be enough aluminum.
Ya I didn't think it was actually possible to win 2048 except through sheer luck. And then this AI just mocks me as I futilely try to keep it from winning.
Building blocks.

You are going to learn processes, insights and experience failures when working for someone (and help with building their dream). This is learning on someone else's dollar. It's mutually beneficial and £30k is certainly not something to sniff at.

Very few people walk out of university, raise money and launch the next Facebook.

It's all about de-risking. Make yourself investable over the next few years. Branch out and learn other areas of the business (marketing/sales/etc).

Plan what you want to do and make sure you have calculated steps to reach them.

You'll also probably want to be tinkering with stuff on the side. These could potentially get you some money, but more realistically will provide you with invaluable learning.
It is just so depressing that people have to be told this. I don't understand how corporate types got so inhuman.
I'd say I'm a mix of entrepreneur and developer for hire. But I haven't done contract work for a while now.

I've also worked fulltime in a programming role for about a year and a half in the past at a fast growing startup. I learned a LOT in my first few months there (including getting reasonably good at Python and Django) and really absorbed so much good stuff from my peers and bosses and even people who worked in other departments. But as time went by and the company grew (went from 20 to about 100 employees in that year..) I started learning less and less. So I quit.

One thing though, I never needed to work there (for money). I already earned enough from my own projects to sustain a reasonable lifestyle. (rented apartment, car, etc.) I just did it to learn more.

I have a few successful projects under my belt that pay for life reasonably well. This really varies from person to person. Some people are happy with $3000/month and some aren't happy with $50,000/month.

In my opinion you should work somewhere for a bit because you will absorb a lot of stuff with the right attitude. You should always keep your mind focused on the end goal of being your own boss if that's what you want from life. And when that awesome idea finally comes to you, the one that you have a burning desire to watch come alive, take the leap!

If you eventually can support yourself well with your own projects/freelance work then you will have the kind of freedom and flexibility that most people can only dream about.

I spent the last two years traveling and working (a little..) at the same time! Spent time in about 20 countries :)

Regarding university and the whole rat race thing. You're spot on! My personal opinion is (and has always been) that the rat race is definitely glorious in its own way (if you are at the top..). But why compete with a million other people who are trying to do the exact same thing better than each other ? It's really really hard to stand out. And hey, you may still manage to make it into the top 5% if you work really hard and are really smart. But why run the race everyone runs ? Find your own race and you'll likely enjoy it and probably win at it too!