skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A report from 10 years ago reflects a different economy from 30 years ago.

1980's software distribution was as complicated as making a manufacturing physical product. There was the manufacturing cost of the diskettes, packaging, manuals, telephone support, and marketing. Guess wrong about sales and you have a lot of worthless SKUs on you hand.

So yes, as I recall from being a software developer back then, 15% seems about right.
This almost seems like desperation. Time is ticking, earnings need to be delivered, one quick heist after another, with user base dropping, people adverse to being a marketing dataset.
Indian Banks switch to Linux instead of extended WinXP support
Wrong, you should have read the article to understand the advantages and disadvantages of SMS and messaging.

Disadvantages of SMS is that it is tied to a phone number (no privacy) and is expensive in most of the world. These are not issues with messaging but it does suffer from not having a standard protocol that everyone can use like SMS.

SMS is stuck where it is at now but it's certainly possible for messaging to be much more then it is now.
Shh, now they'll turn it off!
Fb2048 – 2048 with Facebook friends' profile pictures
MinCen: A new protocol to achieve instant payments
At many levels the national discussions are distorted by failure to understand regional costs of living and taxes and the matter of finding acceptable schools. People talk about the 1% without realizing that two $150K incomes supporting a few kids are at best "comfortable" by the standards of our grandparents in markets like NYC and SF. My grandfathers with skilled tradesman wages were able to support stay at home wives and send six kids down the street to a totally safe and high quality school, and at the same time take a month off every summer on nice quiet rental beach front property (not some hyper crowded vegas style resort bullshit, we're talking single family home on a large lot on a barrier island).

People just don't seem to understand how little money $150K is relative to what a skilled and competent worker could get out of a remotely comparable sum 50 years ago. OK, you make $150K, can your four or five kids walk down the street to a quite good school? Is it essentially optional whether your wife works or not?
ummm... that's kind of a leap of logic. Maybe he just made a simple mistake? Why would someone lie about references in computer science book?
In case you're wondering, everything was at the front because he was trying to hit a price point for DIYers, and the custom-cut end panels were a big line item. By putting everything in one panel, the other could be left unaltered at a savings.

You can certainly argue that it was penny-wise pound-foolish, but that was the reasoning at least.

Also a more liberal license would have allowed things to be moved around, true, but it wouldn't have been an O2 anymore - the routing of the board is very important to its performance. I think perhaps a better choice on the licence would have allowed derivatives, so long as they were renamed significantly.
Type A here...
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of lawbreakers-and then you cash in on guilt."
-Atlas Shrugged
It's interesting - I see a lot of narcissistic traits in the few iPhone holdouts in my life.
Creativity, Literature, and Compression
I thought the whole shortage for demand argument was to do with the lack of talent that was being produced, rather than simply the number of people who had a bachelors degree.
I like this article, but it does not delve very deep into why the current perceived shortage exists. On the public policy side, there is probably a belief that more STEM professionals will increase the economic competitiveness of the nation, even if there is a surplus. From technology businesses' standpoint, it is in their interests to have a surplus of STEM graduates in order to maintain or reduce wages.
Not exactly. Sound production and sound reproduction are separate pursuits.

Sound reproduction should ideally be input transformed with transducers to a listening environment. In the absence of perfect transducers there's a lot of play area for enthusiasts to modify the transformation stage to interplay with what is by far the weakest part of the chain, the transducers. Massy complex mechanical circuits with all the imperfections that entails. Despite this, it's very possible to improve the state of the art.

Sound production on the other hand is whatever the producer wants it to be. And the best transducers are often purposefully avoided for monitoring, because it won't necessarily sound too good on the radio when driving to work, or an MP3 through Dr Beats on a noisy tube or metro.
You haven't yet deleted the false statements. Please do so, to avoid misleading readers.
Documentation is one of Haxe's weak points right now.

Various Haxe networking libraries:
https://github.com/MattTuttle/hxnet
https://github.com/andyli/hxudp
Anybody who wants to see what Impulse tracker looked like when playing back might want to check out the following

Quick explanation: Top row left box shows the volume levels of each channel (or voice), middle box shows the name of the sample that's currently being played, right box shows the panning setting of the channel. This can get elaborate sometimes.

The middle row is the actual note, volume and effect (panning, pitch slide, etc.) data.

Bottom bit is a visualization just intended to look pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdXflwS4jE4

Here's another one, this time it's playback of a file from a different, older, tracker (Scream Tracker 3).

Similar setup, the very beginning shows the list of samples the composer would be working with. Composers would usually rename the samples to put a message to the listener, give credits etc. You'll notice Impulse Tracker showing a waveform of the sample in the middle right of the screen. I believe this was all textmode with custom fonts...mindblowing. There's all sorts of various playback settings you can use to tweak a sample, set loops, vibrator and even "tune" it. In effect you were building up the basic sounds for the song. There's a similar screen for describing instruments made up of these samples. It was probably on par or more sophisticate than more modern sound font technologies and you could be really craft a unique sound for an instrument from nothing more than just a short crappy 8-bit sample of a single note.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0TSCbpc2oU

Here's a tutorial on Impulse Tracker (using Schism Tracker, a modern 1:1 Impulse Tracker clone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdRRgxoP-g
It seems he's promoting himself in a professional capacity with the site, for example: http://mobilemavericks.eu/work-with-us/ It would be really... courageous if he did it with an Onion style site. I too hope OP is right, though.
> Someone, somewhere still uses these browsers for various reasons

I am interested to know (pure curiosity) what those reasons are for those folks. I can only think of a few using my imagination (locked down OS in a hospital, crusty old server filling a vital need with no funds to upgrade or maintain), but I bet these edge cases would make for some thoughtful reading. (Perhaps for a separate HN post?)
There wasn't, but I took it as the average, which still seems low. Since I discovered HN, I've been nothing but impressed with the audience. I think the nature of the site is one of the reasons the topics and comments are of higher quality than other news aggregation sites.

Well over a decade ago, I was a regular reader of /. and I find that HN is reminiscent of those earlier days. After adding moderating and meta-moderating, the quality of /. suffered. I'm sure it wasn't moderation that actually brought about those problems and it had more to do with reaching a broader audience, but still it is unnerving to see my favorite forums gradually follow the same trajectories time and time again.
I'm also considering the people who would be in those careers, if not for the heavy regulations. For example, how many people in NYC would be taxi drivers if they could, but aren't allowed to be?
> Google maps also has a surprising range of functionalities, although you are pretty much restricted to Google's way of doing things (you cannot, for example change the background map to be based on Open Street Map).

the parenthetical is incorrect, cf.

- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Maps_Example#Examp...

- http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/examples/mapstractionv1/google-o...
To be fair, his style was highly argumentative. He left no room for subjectivity or talking about subjectivity in anything. Which leaves out a fair portion about what audio really is to the human brain, whether or not you perfect its reproduction mathematically.

His point of view, and his way of presenting it, were far too unbalanced and inhumane, regardless of their correctness. This was the reason he was not received well; not for the facts themselves.

This fact generalizes to a great many technical problems.
Why Starbucks Actually Helps Mom and Pop Coffeehouses
It's actually very widespread in all sorts of countries and cultures.

There was a good Planet Money show that talked about it here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/18/193176928/episode-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susu_(savings)
Computer and Video Game Radio
Why do you say deliberately? I don't mean to provoke this thread, but you've made a pretty strong accusation, and you need to either provide evidence, or an apology.
I remember it back in 1996 when it was called "future splash". the first major website to use it was simpsons.com, with the major selling point that the drawings could be done with vectors and thus be quicker to download than hefty GIFs or JPGs. it was "just" a vector image format. Nothing about apps or interactivity.

People (especially flash devs) give HTML5 a lot of flack now for not being a "real" "viable" platform, but those same people don't seem to remember flash used to get a lot of the very same kind of flack for not being as powerful as java applets.

and java applets used to get the same flack for not being as powerful or fast as native apps.

In the grand scheme of things, flash and java didn't take that long to gain wide acceptance as serious platforms for real apps. People find it comical now that we're doing things now in HTML5 that we could do 10 years ago in flash or java, without remembering you could do it 20 or 30 years ago on the metal. Progress is sometimes making these things more broadly accessible, instead of just more "impressive" or "serious" from a technical standpoint. And that's still an important and valuable kind of progress that should not be so easily discounted! Yeah html5 is not as impressive now as flash is now, but it's open, free, and it could do the things flash could do when it started to get taken seriously. we can see the course of history from this point forward because we've been here before. Multiple times.
Sure, I should have specified that I'm also counting people who have the skills and training, but aren't allowed to practice (such as people who failed the medical or bar exam). It makes sense to me to consider those "prospectives" as unemployed in their profession (especially since those professions take years, in some cases as much as a decade, of specialized education, all before the exam itself).
I'm not sure if I understand. Essentially you're saying your credit card company has a better exchange rate than the other two services?
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Redlining has a more general meaning of discriminating against people based on where they live (e.g. in minority neighborhoods).

If you are not speaking of discriminating based on where people live, then I have no idea why you are bringing up employers supposedly avoiding asking where people live. It makes no contextual sense, and has no relevance to this discussion. Asking people where they live is not, in itself, discriminatory or unlawful.

It would be great if you would detail exactly why you think Meta's policy may be unlawful, and do so by reference to actual law, not apparently-random HR policies that you don't seem to want to explain the supposed basis of.
First of all your, viewpoint is restricted to EE/CS. Any of the other pure sciences: biology, chemistry, physics, etc. do not enjoy the same luxuries.

Another important distinction to make is that there are almost no science (i.e. research) jobs any more. Most technology jobs are just run of the mill programming, not actually investing in research.
CEOs who think just throwing more developers at a problem will solve it are what natural selection is for.
Exactly. Look into more of Deming if you liked that; he was brilliant all around and accurately evaluated and solved many management problems on a grand scale.
The basic income goes towards making sure the worthless jobs don't get done anyway. It's more like eliminating the minimum wage and then using the existing welfare state mechanisms to float everyone's consumption up to a floor of $20k / year as long as they have a job.
You speak the truth but I don't know how to prevent what is going on. I've also come to the conclusion most developers are too shortsighted to see their own career demise in 20 years.
Doesn't the article specifically point out that software engineering isn't encountering a shortage?...

"It is true that high-skilled professional occupations almost always experience unemployment rates far lower than those for the rest of the U.S. workforce, but unemployment among scientists and engineers is higher than in other professions such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, and registered nurses, and surprisingly high unemployment rates prevail for recent graduates even in fields with alleged serious “shortages” such as engineering (7.0 percent), computer science (7.8 percent) and information systems (11.7 percent)."
"two $150K incomes supporting a few kids are at best "comfortable" by the standards of our grandparents"

No. This is a gross exaggeration and extremely out of touch with economic reality.
People are quick to paint this as Facebook twisting the screw, but do we know definitively, not speculatively, that this is an intentional and planned effect, like there's some variable somewhere that determines what percentage of a page's fans will see a post before it stops being shown?

Why can't it just be due to the growth of Facebook? There's more content competing for eyeballs, the way consumers engage with Facebook has probably changed over time, people may be following more pages than they used to, and so on.
> It’s like a Beatles cover band in 1965 somehow becoming globally famous and deciding that, not only are they going to screw over John, Paul Ringo and George, they’re not fussed about making money and playing to whole stadiums for me.

So, it would be better to be a Beatles cover band, and charge. The real offensive act is giving it away for free.

Never mind that 2048 is clearly different enough to three to be considered different.
This one is pretty straightforward. BI disincentivizes work because it stays with you if you stop working. On the common assumption that people are working for the money, not for the joy of showing up, this reduces the penalty for not working, which will cause a rise in... not working.
I think we agree on the 24/192 thing being foolish, but the one significantly positive aspect of Pono is that it would allow access to remastered recordings without the loudness-wars style compression (Californication being a great example). My hope is that it will be a market that you can safely sell high-dynamic-range audio to because presumably they value that over preceived volume.
I'm not convinced the idea (pending comments) is a good one -- partly because I think it may lead to wasting time, as you say (and at least one other commenter touched on, can't seem to find the comment right now) -- and so increasing the "risk" associated with writing especially good comments (I tend to spend a few minutes if I need to look up links references -- who's to say someone didn't start writing a similar comment, a few minutes ahead of me, but haven't published it (or gotten it approved) by the time I hit "reply"?

My idea of having a "mark reduntant" feature, is simply to aid an author in checking if he or she agrees that the (entire) comment is indeed redundant -- and to provide somewhat constructive feedback (no, your comment wasn't bad, you were just too slow, and in the interest of conciseness, it is considered redundant).

It does feel a bit strange keeping to defend the slashdot moderation system -- but it already has a "redundant" moderation -- and fwiw afaik it is the least bad community moderating system for discussions.

As I've alluded to elsewhere, I think there might be a bit of a disconnect between parts of the users (including ycombinator as curator) as to what hn is and/or should be. On the one hand there is some strong leanings towards not being a discussion forum at all, "just" a news-site -- on the other hand I think there's tacit agreement that the only thing that sets hn apart is it's community. I'm not sure how we can expect to have community without free, many-way, constructive communication.

And I'm not sure how pending comments would help strengthen the news part, or the discussion part of what hn is today.

Again, I'd very much like to see a problem statement, before a fix is proposed (or even worse, introduced).
Has anyone already taken this course or know specifically what it covers?
Well, there is a shortage of competent software engineers willing to sacrifice as much as corporate executives think they should, for what corporate executives think such people should be paid.

In the same vein, there's a shortage of supermodels who want to fuck obese, unemployed men with halitosis and general poor hygiene.
More developers might not solve a problem faster, but they will drive down wages (even for skilled developers)
I am so happy this thread exists. Reading a bunch of raw, honest, and insightful stories about the journey through an industry fueled by reality-distortion is like a breath of fresh air. This feeling must be what people mean when they talk about the "old HN". Glad to see its spirit still lays beneath the surface.
This whole argument seems extremely petty. Gender is such a basic category that in most cases I think users appreciate it's differentiation. This is like getting angry you got credit card advertisements because you started college. Seriously, how can anyone consider this a 'privacy' concern?
Has anyone found a cofounder with a post in a restaurant wall?
Turkey's government is getting really good at turning molehills into mountains.
I don't think it is overpriced at all, I think the price is pretty perfect for what it is; not really that much higher than you would pay for one-offs of other small Arduino-alikes (sans any kind of display, but sharing the same lack of meaningful physical shield compatibility) and the screen would be really useful and/or cool in a lot of situations.
> OpenLayers has a very wide range of functions, and it pays the price in terms of size, occupying almost 1 Mb of digital space: not ideal for mobile applications.

The stock minified OpenLayers.mobile.js weighs in @ ~377kB: http://openlayers.org/dev/OpenLayers.mobile.js

And you can build your own OpenLayers files that contain only what you need: https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/tree/master/build

(eg. is your mobile application really going to use OSM and Bing base layers? probably not, so don't ship all of that to the user's browser and spare the browser from parsing the cruft. https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/blob/master/build/m... )
Freedom of speech. It always seem to be under attack.

I wonder though, do we have more or less freedom of speech over time? I tried to google those things, but I couldn't find the graph of freedomness over time.

(No, ancedotes don't count. Our perceptions can be skewed by media bias.)
That was my reaction; I'm not sure how someone could have any historical knowledge and think that. My grandparents were, I think, fairly typical middle-class Americans. They raised 2 kids in a ~1200-sq-ft house in the Los Angeles suburbs, which was considered pretty big. Ate out only on special occasions, maybe 8-9 times a year, never just because they didn't feel like cooking. Did not have "help" to mow their lawns, clean their house, or watch their kids. Bought new devices rarely: it was a big deal to get a TV, and a big deal to get a washing machine. Owned one car, bought used. They sure as hell didn't take extended beach vacations.

I would wager the couple making $300k in SF are not living like that. Hell, I used to live a lifestyle much better than my grandparents did back when I lived in the Bay Area, on a lot less than a six-figure salary. I didn't have kids, but I also didn't even make $50k, and yet I still ate out multiple times per week, not per year.

I know nobody making over $80k in the SF Bay Area who I would not be comfortable calling at least upper-middle-class. The people who think otherwise mostly live in an insane bubble in which they only know people in the top 10% of the income distribution, and have absolutely no idea what a middle-class American lives like.
Use the IRS instead of GameStop
>In this country, it's extremely difficult to access the best schools without expensive housing.

Where is that not true?
An easy and amusing fix that won't happen would be for Turkish IPs to be directed to a set of proxies shared by Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Wikipedia, and a few other popular sites/services.

Blocking Twitter is disturbing. Blocking much of the web people use daily is a serious escalation that seems unlikely to last in Turkey.
Chasing links from footnote 1 of the paper, one finds that the statute is supposed to prohibit possession, so whether waving it around on air counts as "brandishing" isn't obviously relevant.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/nbcs-gregory-wont-...
that's a really funky url - /#!/directory)-

is that due to some framework you're using?
Every second hand shop I've ever been to has a whole shelf of typewriters for less than $5.
Now that I'm on a regular computer, this is the section that goes into detail about strict liability: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1008

It describes, as an example, someone who picks up a feather that a bird discarded in the ordinary course of its life and someone else whose supplier delivered product in violation of a state rule. Both examples happen to deal with permutations of endangered species acts but the chapter discusses the broader concept of "overcriminalization."

(Hat tip to author Nathan Burney.)
And every time you try to explain this to those who will be affected (software engineers) they argue that the movement is alturistic, or that they can't be replaced even though they're just maintaining a simple CRUD app...