skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not "never again" but "for a while" the option is there for me. For those interested:

> How did you do it?

I've spent the past several years building small products, including a blog and various apps. My latest iPad app made it to the #3 most popular position and has brought in enough money where I wouldn't have to work for quite a while. Though it should be noted part of that is due to the fact I've lowered all my bills (including rent) over the last year.

> What did it feel like when you first realized you wouldn't have to work again (for a while) if you didn't want to?

I'm still torn with this decision almost daily. I have a day job, it's decent and pays well, I like having the structure, but being able to spend my time how I want to spend it seems promising. Realizing I could quit today and not have to worry about money for a while makes the day-to-day pings of things like paying bills, or buying groceries without looking at the amount I'm paying, almost painless.

> How old (are) you?

27

> What was it specifically that made the cash?

Years of work building a dedicated audience, establishing a (small) name for myself in a niche, then making things people can actually use and enjoy. Notably my latest iPad app: Brainbean

> Do you feel happy in your life?

Yes? No? I don't know. The success of my work certainly made me happy for a very short while, but the internal response dies quickly when you realize money isn't everything. Having a lot of money can simply make certain things easier, but it doesn't solve all of your problems (like figuring out what to do with your life).

I hope that's at all insightful.

Also, for those I fear who may be pursuing the "lottery" of "never have to work again" rich: be wary of what you read. It's easy to hype businesses that sell for billions of dollars, or young kids who turn into millionaires "overnight."

It's a dangerous place to be, believing that the news you hear about those types of people/businesses is real. That's not real life. If you really want to be rich, work hard. If you want to be wealthy, think about what you need to do even if you're not rich.
> I cannot find those news articles where Putin is using drones to kill his citizens abroad.

Maybe that's because of lack of free Russian media...
That's correct, people talk about shady things happening over Tor but how many cases that come up are actually something shady going over an exit node?
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It should be. There's also chacha20 if you need a fast software cipher.
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Not worried, it's just a waste of time.
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Do people still jump if the nets are there? Surely they just go and find somewhere else.

The only people that seem to claim it would make a difference are those that jumped off something without protection, somehow survived, and in the process had the epiphany, but that seems ever so slightly unlikely to occur if there's a net in the way.
The notion that decriminalization has caused a drop in murders is specious, anyone claiming that it was cause a spike in serious crime was clearly wrong which is the point he is making. He clearly disclaims that this isn't proof of a long-term correlation.
>>What do you think: they called her a whore just because she is a woman? I am sure all those things didn't happen just because she is a woman, there has to be some history.

That's not the point. The "history" does not matter in this context. At all.

She was discriminated against only because she is a woman. This is all over the evidence presented. They denied her co-founder status despite the fact that it was her marketing efforts that made Tinder successful. Joe Munoz, the guy who made the app, wrote to her: “I credit you 100% with the growth of Tinder and I think that sending you around the US to visit sororities was absolutely the best investment we could possibly have made on the marketing side.”

>>While it would never occur to me to call somebody a whore, I wonder how many people here who were ever in a relationship before never had a fight with their partner and never said anything mean to them?

Again, that's not the point. Calling her a whore during a private conversation outside of work would have been the couple's business. Calling her a whore at work, in front of other people, made it a hostile work environment. We also have evidence that the guy abused his authority and threatened to have her terminated.

>>And you haven't answered: what makes you think I hate women?

Maybe "hate" is a too-strong word. You just sound grossly ignorant. You seem to believe that people are demonstrating "mob mentality" and defending her simply because she's a woman. Whereas if Wolfe was Marteen's superior and subjected him to the same treatment, it would have been equally objectionable and illegal.
I port my iOS App to Android, Android Studio, Gradle and Maven dependencies management are the best things for any Android dev ever.
Gradle build scripts and configuration are totally awesome. Dependencies management just work.

Basically, if you're using Eclipse and Ant for a new Android app, you're doing it very wrong.
It might just be to scare the company and employee. After dealing with Amazon's legal team it might wear management out and they will insist that the employee not divulge any secrets from Amazon.

Otherwise I could easily imagine several meetings led by the hired engineers that are basically titled, "Processes, Methods, Algorithms, and Secrets I learned from Working at Amazon".

I don't condone the behavior at all, sending a legal team after an individual and their new employer for just switching jobs is unnecessary harassment.

Amazon has been going downhill recently. Startups are taking away some of their AWS customers with easier to use interfaces (some people just want a monthly cost for a VPS or cloud intranet).

Their retail site has been cutting corners and the search is inherently flawed because so many of their items are not sold by Amazon but 3rd parties who charge random amounts and there is very little quality control. It shouldn't take over a week to process simple orders and there should be a way to disable the "transferred to local carrier for delivery" because that can delay the order substantially (I've had to drive to the post office to pick up orders before) and their support just tells me that there is not way to change that in the shipping system.

Now is a good time for a competitor such as Wal-Mart to take back a large share of the US online shopping market from Amazon. Even if Wal-Mart just offered 2 day "shipping to the store" that would be great. I could order any item online and they would group the items where I could pick them up at the service department.
I hear this kind of stuff every day on the radio and other news sources living in Colorado.

Here are some things to consider:

1) Only the revenue is really important to the politicians - there has been virtually no talk about using the money for rehabilitation programs, and only a little talk about using the money for drug education. So far the only tangible outcome I've heard was a proposed $3 million to be used to hire ~100 government personnel to handle administrative tasks related to marijuana sales and regulation. Given the fights that we see among politicians when it comes to spending other sources of revenue, I don't see it being any easier to get this new revenue spent appropriately either.

2) Correlation vs Causation re: lower crime. Who's to say it's not due to the beautiful sunny spring and summer that we have here in CO or the fact that it kept snowing in the mountains longer this year so people skied more? The one thing I have observed is that legalizing marijuana didn't convert a lot of non-users into users so at first blush it does not appear that legalizing marijuana has turned the state into a bunch of potheads (although I tire of hearing things like "Denver is the Silicon Valley of weed").

3) Because there's still no good research out on the effects (long, short, casual use) of marijuana (THC specifically) there is a lot of concern over the substantial increase in the amount of edibles, elixirs, and other marijuana infused products which can be purchased that are not well regulated or identified. The same argument can be made for the vapor/e-cig industry. Clearly identifying how much THC a product contains and what affect that will have on a person is much needed and should hopefully come about from the bills that Hickenlooper signed into law in May.

As others have said the reason you aren't hearing any news from Seattle/DC is because they do not have everything in place to allow stores to open up. Colorado moved quickly to both decriminalize as well as create regulations, tax structure, etc., which the other states have not done yet. Many states are watching CO to see how this plays out and based upon the revenue figures that are being released as long as there isn't a significant increase in directly correlated crime, I don't think the politicians will be able to turn down the money in the long run.
Most of your points are wrong.

"inability to statically analyze imperative code", a.k.a, the halting problem. And we've still done a lot here--consider PVS-Studio or similar tools.

Tying stuff together in nix works fine, and has worked fine for decades.

Hardware keeps pace just fine with newest trends, and in fact enables* programmers to try things they couldn't have before.

"Wetware" issue? What're you on about?
Not Really, considering that they have opened offices in the bay area exclusively for AWS openings.
The data is coming from the subset of people who have iPhones. So you can have 30 million people walking, but if only a few are rich enough to have an iPhone, then they are invisible.
Ask HN: What do you use to manage your tasks?
I know there are a million and one task management tools out there (including plain old sticky notes) - I'm just wondering which ones work best for you.
Thanks for that link, it helped clear up some confusion I've been having about just what exactly I've been trying to accomplish with my career (or how to explain it to others). Now I have a term that I can use to summarize it!
We (along with a few select beta users -- thanks guys!) have been using this to run our internal design meetings for a few months now.

It's TOTALLY transformed the way we work through design problems as a team.

Basically, it lets you:
* Turn your Photoshop canvas into a real-time web meeting with any number of participants. Point, sketch, voip, chat -- it's all included!
* Take a quick "snap" of your canvas and get a sharable link that others can leave comments on.
* Beam your Photoshop canvas directly to your mobile device for real-time, in-hand review.
... and a few more surprises on the way!
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> directly threatened a sovereign nation and overthrew their governments

> how about the US in the last 14 years [...] Iran

Maybe I'm missing something, but when did the US overthrow Iran's government in the last 14 years? Or Syria for that matter?
I use a .gitignore in root directory and ignore everything but the files that I control - theme and custom plugins.
Personally the C/C++ is very attractive.
Seems to me like you need at least a year before beginning to think about releasing 1.0.
Hi! What is the current state of browser adoption for Dart? Wikipedia seems very pessimistic about it [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_(programming_language)#Bro...
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> No exact figures have been released, but based on other bidder's input, the assumptions are that his bid was well over the market price.

So how is this justified?
That's very unrealistic and naive. Non-competes are quite enforceable in the Netherlands, which is why me and many people I know refuse to sign them.

Yes, companies that enforce them are rare and complete dicks, but they can and some will. Companies that won't don't need them either, so either way the negotiation about the non-compete becomes a very brief one.
Those of us working on Android have apps that combine Java and C/C++, so it could be very helpful. (I'm still sticking to ant and make though.)
There are different levels of language implementation. Doing it in Go is more of a "Journeyman" level. If something like the Go runtime is going to enable more people to have written an interpreter, then this is a good thing. Most people's implementation of GC will probably be no better or worse than Go's.
What is the market price?
My company's proxy flagged your site as a Malicious URL. Most likely for the wrong reasons but wanted to let you know.
Interesting Reddit post going on about arbitrage opportunities using technology
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Very useful for situations where SSH access is not allowed but exec('git'); is :)
Does anyone know what those bank plugins are supposed to do anyway? I never managed to get a good answer for that.
Perhaps you should make one? I've seen comments across HN that go into more embedded-y stuff, i.e. people remarking on ARM based systems, etc. I'm also an embedded guy and browse HN quite often.
Since the statistics in that article are terribly misleading, I took the effort to make a chart with some more data:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1waFpYd7jK9nUcb1VbPOL...

It's based on the raw data here:

http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/720/documents/statistics/20...
http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/720/documents/statistics/20...
http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/720/documents/statistics/20...

Personally, I can't see any noticeable effect on crime except that drug violations and crimes against persons seem to be up this year. Or maybe I just didn't do a great job on the chart?
Google already sorts that way, now. See 'Sorting: Number of Styles'.
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Not now as I'm living off my savings anyway, but usually yes.
Ex-AWS employee here. I tend to disagree with the above statement. Though, their retention numbers are pathetic to say the least, but it was an awesome place to work and learn and most of the people who do leave tend to go to the high flying places.
> Basically, if you're using Eclipse and Ant for a new Android app, you're doing it very wrong.

Until they fix the performance problems I will keep using Eclipse, even though I am not a big fan of it.
Absurdity aside, I'm rather more concerned that a computer inside the PCI fence needs to be able to view YouTube videos. With ads. Malware tainted ads.
This actually looks intriguing. Some links to screenshots or sample programs would be nice.
>Personally, since I work in storage which is where we have to store all the "state" that the FP folks have defined into Somebody Else's Problem, I have little tolerance for that particular flavor of the month.

You say this as if functional programmers somehow make your life harder... It's not like they're decrying the existence of persistent storage or trying to put you out of business :)

Also, functional programming isn't about offloading state, it's about removing it from programs altogether (in the sense of "state" being something that isn't explicitly passed through function arguments).
Free things still aren't allowed to cause harm to the people who use them. And the fine print wasn't changed until after the experiment.
Right around $650 right now.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets
Man, what's with the x-axes in those graphs? Yikes those legal fees are astoundingly high. Any particular reason why? Really great post, thanks for sharing it.
Yes and no. I've used the forums a bit having asked and answered questions. Most of my hobby was in modifying the games and hardware, eventually dabbling in homebrew development. My name there is the same as it is here, but I haven't used it in years as my career has kept me busy.
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Every time I cludge new functionality into an existing repo, I wish microservices were more generally acceptable.
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Why was this article removed from the front page of Hacker News?
Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
The original article is from here: http://doandroidsdance.com/features/soundcloud-boldly-releases-new-app-allows-universal-flag-account-quietly-announces-data-mining-one-month/ June 27
For people who have their basic needs met money is generally a non-factor in baseline happiness. Relationships have a much more profound effect on happiness and to have great relationships you will never reach a peak where you won't have to continually work for those relationships. Also people who involve themselves in humanitarian acts tend to be happier, even when surrounded with tragedy.

The best way to be happy is to give your time to the people around you.
It seems to be fixed now
I've met Christine a couple times and while I don't agree with her on everything I respect her work and I am extremely suspicious of the way you describe your interaction with her. Something tells me you aren't telling the whole story.

Christine is emphatically not an unreasonable person, especially when you consider the shitflood of abuse she gets from the gaming community. I'd agree she isn't professional in all respects, but I think our definitions of "professional" differ. I say it because I had a minor beef with the way she handled the release of Hate Plus, it had OS X bugs she tried to refer up to Ren'Py rather than handling it herself and I felt like that wasn't cool. I have this sneaky feeling that most people who say it, though, just don't like what she says, and that's not "unprofessional", that's she's-right-and-I'm-wrong-and-feels.
Well Haskell can still "stateless" in some sense, even if your program seems to take advantage of state. The State monad (and other monads), for example, just facilitate a bit of clever syntax to sneak computational context, which can include state, into the lambda calculus. The IO and STM monads (which deal with side effects) are a bit different, and can introduce true state into a program (with a bit of cleverness to make the existence of state mesh well with the lambda calculus).
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Physical intrusions can be dealt with by encrypting the keys, which I hope they are doing. Using a secret sharing scheme with physical tokens (e.g. smartcards) carried by chosen employees should reduce the danger of both of those attacks.
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"Functional programming is the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms."

Well, that's not helping. But I agree that devs should learn FP, and I now write in a much more functional style than I used to. I resisted for a long time, and that was a mistake.
script supports a new type, module.

<script type="module">
// loads the 'q' export from 'mymodule.js' in the same path as the page
import { q } from 'mymodule';

new q(); // -> 'this is an es6 class!'
</script>

You can use it today with things like : https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader
We are already dealing with a weak dynamic language - what else could really scare us? Perhaps introducing shared memory multithreading into core JS... Certainly not a bit of immutability and pure functions.
Apologies begin to sound pretty insincere when the company (or person) making the apology keep on doing the same damned thing that they're apologising for.

This particular apology is even worse because they're not apologising for doing the research; they're apologising "for the way the paper described our research and any anxiety it caused."

They're not saying "We will never do this again."

They're not saying "We will never do this again without first obtaining ethical approval from an appropriate review board."

They're not saying "We will never change your Facebook newsfeed to affect your emotional state in order to make you more susceptible to adverts for particular products."

They're not saying "We will never accept payment from an advertiser to change your Facebook feed in order to affect your emotional state."

So, what conclusions should we draw here?
I use Asana for work, and I use the checkboxes on the Momentum chrome app. I don't always follow that religiously, so I write things out on pen and paper every couple of days or so if I'm feeling chocked. Not super efficient, but it's sort of working for me.
He thinks "SJW" is a for-serious pejorative. What were you expecting?

Digital: A Love Story and Analogue: A Hate Story are badass and y'all should play them. (Digital is free.) Hate Plus is interesting and a bit experimental; I don't think it works perfectly but it sure ain't bad.

(edit: ooh, downvotes! Sorry, fellow straight white dudes, people saying things that make us uncomfortable doesn't make them "social justice warriors". Gonna have to learn to deal, guys.)
Slack feeding a task list bot.
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Any chance at open sourcing the data? There are other cities that would be interesting to see that are not included in your sample. Are you interested in licensing out use of the data to 3rd parties? So much data!
Gee, some people need some help: Did I mention, a 15 gallon tank is tough to beat? Electric power, that is, without a tank of gasoline or Diesel, for the energy for a car, is tough, super tough, for now and a long time, too tough to store. It's tough. Storing electric energy is tough, too tough for a car and likely also for wind and solar to feed the grid. Yes, there are ways to store the energy from wind and solar for the grid, but those ways are too expensive, by a factor of about 2, over other means of electric power generation that do not need storage, even if the power from wind and solar are just free, as in totally free, as in $0.00 per megawatt year.

So, let's look at an example, say, Tesla. I just went to their Web site and looked at charging time and saw

> During the work week I charge only at work during an 8hr shift from a 110 outlet. I only live 6 miles from work. I usually get ~30 miles of charge in 8 hours

So, right, 8 hours of charging for 30 miles of driving. Lots of cars can go 30 miles on one gallon of gasoline that takes about, what, 20 seconds, to pump. Diesel, maybe 45 miles.

The car, sure, it can still drive the wheels with electric motors, but, to make any sense, we store little or no electric energy in the car. Instead, the energy for the car is stored in a 15 gallon tank of gasoline or Diesel.

We had electric cars going way back to the beginning of cars. Why? Because lead acid batteries and electric motors were already old things. And, a battery much better than lead acid is still tough to get; indeed, we still use lead acid batteries in cars for, say, the starting motor.

The main problem with electric cars remains the batteries. As a Ford executive said long ago, build me a good battery and I will build you a good electric car. We are still waiting for a good battery, say, comparable with a 15 gallon tank of gasoline, in range, capital expense, operating expense, durability, and 'recharging' time.

So far, a Tesla is a toy for rich people. Sorry 'bout that.

I could like an electric car; it would have a lot of advantages. The problem is the battery. And that's been the problem for about 100 years.
It's not that php is good per se, although that is not nearly as objective a term as language bikeshedders tend to believe, but that better languages are still worse at the one thing php was intended to do - or at the very least, better in ways which don't actually matter. Almost all web application development is CRUD anyway, and php is perfectly adequate to the task.