skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the sites you're thinking of are open IP cameras, not behind firewalls rather than rooted machines. I know Flash has always required confirmation for webcam/microphone, whereas a local app doesn't need these permissions (excluding the possibility of a flash exploit).
In a terminal run irssi behind a screen session.

Pros:
- lot of config options
- easy to use
- never lose chat logs even when you're on vacation

Cons:
- need a machine to be on, whether it's virtual or the work machine itself (else you lose chat history)
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Ask HN: How many hours can you productively program a day?
I'm just negotiating a freelance job with a company, who want 'day' rate quoted. Being me, I want to define day: usually it'd be 8 hours.

However, I know I cannot program productively for a solid 8 hours.

How many hours do you do, and how do you handle it on such contracts?
In most countries with data, including the US, Canada and the majority of European countries, software engineers earn more than the average person. In India and Pakistan the difference is particularly striking.
No, because I think after launch ethereum will go down before it goes up again and that we'll see a point where ethereum is going for below IPO price in the first 6 months of existence.
Dealing with boardroom and shareholder disputes
If you just need their external IP address, you can probably easily coerce that out of them by getting them to click a link. Send an IM to a bit.ly link that logs an IP and forwards on to some random image, an email, a tweet, etc.
You mean median wage relative to GDP/Cap? I doubt that it is below average overall!
Yep, you and patio11 are very right in assuming that if transfer fees are a problem, you're not charging nearly enough.
Link to git repository on github: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
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I don’t. That’s why I wrote:

> But this would require that when X' and ¬X annihilate each other, the extra momentum of X' is also annihilated. Intuitively, I’d expect it to be sent out as a photon – with momentum p_ν.

I.e. annihilation of the extra momentum would be required for this to work on the basis of background fluctuations (in my understanding), but I don’t think that this happens.
any reputable Bitcoin company has as good or better security than a bank.

Like Mt Gox? It was reputable enough to handle 2/3rds of all bitcoin transactions.

Besides, if you're concerned about your banking, you can easily shop around and find one with the hardware token security you like.
I've made this post about cheap FPGA kits:
http://www.embarcados.com.br/kitsdsvfpga/

You can check it out, it's in portuguese but the figures/names/prices are in english/dollars.

FPGAs should be used more often then they are. If you are doing a lot of things (or can do) in parallel, that's what you want a FPGA for.
I think you take it way too seriously. Relax.
I do.

Alone, I get distracted easily. Around people, I'm less likely to browse away from work because I don't want to be seen as a slacker.

At home or the office, I get no sense of urgency. At a coffee shop, there's all sorts of time limits: from the draining battery to the feeling that after a few hours my welcome will be overstayed. So stuff needs to get done... rapidly.

When I'm near familiar people, my mind focuses a lot on their voices. When around strangers, it doesn't care; their voices and other sounds blur together into background noise.

I guess you could say that working from coffee shops is one way I "hack" myself into being productive. So I'm not surprised to see others enjoy working there too. But probably not for the exact same reasons. People's motives and preferences vary greatly.
What's going on with Norway? Does anyone who's familiar with the software industry there care to comment?
It takes less than a couple of minutes to configure you load test and run / schedule it
Eh, where was I talking about that?
I make Content Management Systems for small medium businesses with optional eCommerce integration mostly LAMP stack, 3 person team(PHP & Android dev, a Designer), earning $60/hr. Location: Kathmandu. Have been bootstrapping my company with these occasional contract works for last 3 years.
how about Mind-body problem
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Currently 2.7 but there's no reason python 3 can't be supported too. Thanks for the heads up on the borking of the pypi page. Noted.
Software engineer covers a huge range of roles from low level java bot to CTO. You can't just blob it together like this and expect meaningful insight.
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ohh, sorry, I was reading yellow as 0.93, when its 0.93-1.5 . Fair enough!
No arguing with that, really. You are right.
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"What we have to tell a young language enthusiast is that there is much insight in ideas different than our own, and that there is much to learn in looking outside of what you consider the best. Maybe there are tools that are better suited for other kinds of problems. Maybe not everyone that disagrees with you is very wrong about things and needs to be converted."

The article says exactly the opposite, but you're too lazy to read.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't familiar with ps2ascii and I just created an issue here https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/25
> I used to be able to kill Scala compiler performance with just a a few identifiers

Interesting, got an example? Also, what version of Scala were you on?
I still feel that Kaggle is the 99designs of data science, basically it is a way to get spec work for cheap because fun > money.

In some ways it is devaluing the profession.

I would be shocked to see someone actually making a good living by US standards just from Kaggle.
I do indeed, its (in part) the ambient noise that makes it so productive. I've even resorted an "ambient noise" mp3 file that I occasionally play in the background when I'm not at a cafe ;)
From the information blurb on the page:

"The highest median income in absolute terms is earned by software engineers
in Switzerland (ratio 1.21) followed by Norway (81,400 USD) and the
United States ($76,000 USD). Norway has the highest GDP per capita (99,574 USD)
in this list with software engineers median income at about 82% of it."

Due to oil incomes and other stuff, Norway tends to be a serious outlier in many cases when it comes to economic metrics.
> As your source notes, that does not affect "irreplaceable and expensive drugs". Cost-effectiveness concerns are typically about cases such as reimbursement for a generic vs. an equally-effective non-generic medicine.

There is still a cost-effectiveness judgment even for irreplacable drugs (that's the SMR/ASMR category I):

"Two criteria must be met: 1) The ASMR of the drug claimed by the company is major, important, or moderate (ASMR I, II, or III, respectively); and 2) the drug is likely to have a significant impact on the health insurance budget regarding its impact on care organization, professional practices, or patient care and, when applicable, its price. This decree also specifies the medico-economic assessment procedure. The pharmaceutical company, together with its request for inclusion (or renewal of inclusion) of a medicine on the reimbursable drugs formulary, transmits all medico-economic data related to the drug to CEESP and CEPS. CEESP will provide an opinion [reported as a ‘flash opinion’ (14)] (Fig. 1) on the predictable or established efficiency of the drug and its coverage by health insurance. This opinion is based on comparative analysis, between the different therapeutic alternatives, of the ratio of the cost compared to the expected or observed benefit for patient health and quality of life."
I've been working in Kathmandu since last 10 years. On average full time programmers here earn 10 times more than that. And for freelancers the average income goes above $2k/month. Parent charging $50 is probably a cost for small "task" of few hours.
Hopefully it will be? There's a great suggestion to use tesseract-ocr to make this happen. https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/16

If you have any other (better?) ways of doing this, feel free to add some comments on the issue tracker.
> software jobs are well paid in the developed world.

The data is deceptive. In a developing country, earning the average income represents a pretty awful quality of life.

I live in the 3rd highest country on that list, earning significantly more than the median pay stated, and I'm actively attempting to emigrate to secure a better quality of life.

I'd much rather see a table that shows Software Engineer Quality of Life vs. Country. (Ideally one that includes range and percentile figures, because median is pretty useless.)
There's a database of RDF files that describe the books (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds/rdf-files.tar.bz2), but its a bit of a pain to use and doesn't link the books back to the API that should be used for crawling Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest).
Gold Medal! Robbed! Apple!

That's quite a headline. Unfortunately simple games are easy to copy and a style is IP that is almost impossible to protect. I would tell your son that he should be flattered that someone liked his free game enough to reproduce it from scratch.

If he is trying to make a business out of this then this is a good chance to learn about how marketing is a good differentiator. If this is just for fun or for a portfolio then don't worry about it, and start working on the next project.
Pjax and Middleman (or any other static site generator)
Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
5-6 hours I think ?
Well, it is fair if all you want to do is mash some data together. Why shouldn't startup times be taken into consideration?
Except that's not it.

In this particular state, prohibition has already ended.

so we're waiting to see if it has any effects: positive, negative, neutral, and to what degree those effects are.
Data that stays "live", that people are interested in, remains accessible - if a torrent stays seeded, it doesn't matter that it's now on SSD rather than magnetic hard disk. And digital media makes copying really cheap. When I meet up with my friends for a LAN party we sync photo libraries - even the most prolific photographers only have a few gigabytes, so it's easy for everyone to act as a backup for everyone else.

If there are some pictures you care about, save your own copy, or several copies of them.

Pictures that no-one cares about? They may die, but that happens to any data that no-one cares about. The same kind of "photos at the bottom of a drawer" phenomenon can happen with digital too - I've read stories of family photos accidentally packaged into software releases, or of people discovering unexpected things in a backup of a backup of a backup that was just copied around for years without anyone looking inside it. But the vast majority of physical photos are lost, just as the vast majority of digital ones will be.
Give hn:nothing
I literally mean nothing
No, it still works just fine. I was using it just yesterday...
Norway has very high GDP/Cap , the fourth highest in the world. A Norwegian company could probably outsource software development to the USA as a cost saving exercise. My guess is that most Norwegian software developers (that make good money) are employed in the oil industry.
Mind-body problem what do you think? monoism or dualism
What diseases have been 'cured', in a way that you can strictly say the cure targetted the disease rather than just treated the symtoms and waited for the body to deal with it.

I know we have a broad range of vaccines against once common ailments, and anti-bacterial agents but I don't think we've ever had good viral 'cures' so its not as if cures are being held back. I think the fundamental research just isn't there.
Without telling your users what your website is about, how can you ask them to signup on your home page ?

I dont like the dropdown interface for reviews. Make it flat like links below your header
Sony to cease production of e-reader devices
The comments, scarier still. "The cyclist screaming like a girl cracked me up!"
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I do not think Synology has much to do what it happen. A weak password, an out-of-date Synology software and/or an incorrect setup are all caused by the user.

Synology produces very good products at very affordable prices.
In the UK, we have a different name for atheists. We call it "Church of England".
It would had been a nice test to leave a blog post on your site regarding the position to see how many people actually take out the time to overview your company before / while applying :-p

Either way! Coolies.
Oh wow, since 2009, I tried it at work for a minute, it was indeed very fast. That's all I can say. He should have let the old version online just for the sake of trying.
Stop teasing us! How much was in there?
Very true. Getting annual STD tests helps get it down to a time frame as to when you go it.
The implication from the juxtaposed stories in the article seems to be that allowing criminals to gentrify themselves is a better outcome than rigorously policing them.

But just because the mafiosi had happier outcomes than the crack dealers, it doesn't follow that the crime outcomes are better, which is surely what the rest of us are concerned about. It seems quite plausible that corrupt and criminal businesses practices continue to exist (or evolve based on other pressures) despite criminals not inducting their own children.

The shocking state of inner cities with widespread crack cocaine addiction is a tragedy, and the policing methods described in the article seem to be about containment rather than a solution. But taking a laissez-faire approach in order to allow criminals to gentrify themselves would be quite a stretch.
Here are some consumer products I would like to see but don't want to build myself (mostly because I prefer working on enterprise instead of consumer products):

1. A better music discovery service. I've tried using Pandora, Spotify, Soundcloud, several radio stations, and other services. But so far none has given a satisfactory answer to "give me songs that are similar to this song". Spotify does an OK job at this, but the same songs keep repeating, and similarity seems to be defined mostly based on artist. But what I want is songs that actually sound similar, not stuff by the same artist. The best solution for me so far has been to search YouTube for mix videos (e.g. chillstep mix) and listen to it. However, constantly searching for new mixes and keeping the YouTube video open is quite annoying. I understand that the space is crowded, but the music discovery problem hasn't been solved at all. At least not for me.

2. A better way to organize my life and habits. I don't use calendar apps because they don't work the way I organize my life. I have my own system, done in a text editor: I have "template list" of tasks and habits such as exercise, meditate, project A, project B, book C, etc, ordered by "priority". These are ties to long-term OKRs. Each of those also has a time span associated with it (30min, etc). I organize my life by week, one file per week. Each weekly file contains all days of that week. I then put the above templates/blocks into the days, planning one week ahead. Many days look similar, defining what I call "habits" (another template). There are no absolute times, just relative times (e.g. tasks that are worth a total of 10h per day). Not having absolute times gives me flexibility in moving stuff around when needed. I manually check off the things that are done each day.

3. Algorithmic healthy meal optimization. I enjoy cooking healthy food and I get recipes from sites such as http://fitmencook.com/. I want to be able to define my intake of certain nutrients (XX protein, YY calories), and the service should give me recipes, minimizing my shopping list for different ingredients. In other words, achieve the right nutrition while buying the minimum amount of different products, making shopping easy and convenient.

4. This one is a bit fuzzy, but if done right I believe it can change the world. Come up with a way to meet "relevant" people (let's say in terms of business or hobbies, but could also be personal) in real life that is not creepy. I believe the key elements are taking away the fear of rejection (e.g. Tinder), semi-anonymity (until all parties mutually agree), taking away friction to initiate something (e.g. people are willing to attend organized events/activities, but not organize something themselves, also due to fear of rejection), overlapping social graph connections, and a way to make it non-creepy. How to put these elements together? I'm not sure, but something is there.
Interesting because it shows that what looks like madness to external observers, seems to have consistent and rational explanations for involved actors, at least for the very short term. Moreover, it seems it was more or less foreseeable.
Hey all, OP here.

I built this because I think that Project Gutenberg is a great resource for NLP (e.g. stylometry, tracking writing styles over time, authorship detection, ...) - I wanted to use the data on Project Gutenberg a number of times in the past but always ended up using another corpus because there wasn't an easy way to access the Project Gutenberg data. Hopefully this library fixes that.

The project currently is "works on my machine" quality, so please do report any bugs you stumble across.

Also, if you can think of any use-cases for the Project Gutenberg data that aren't easily doable using the functionality that is currently available in the library, please let me know (e.g. by filing a ticket on the Bitbucket repo).
I'm not angry about it or anything.

I just don't get it - is it supposed to be a joke?
To be fair in enterprise software we end up with escrow agreements all the time. It’s not that crazy. Can’t speak to the author of the project, just this one little snippet.
http://www.gwan.ch/about

How trustworthy, the person that is listed after the Developer is his legal backup.
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Seems so ironic:

Bad guys ransom-ware business dependent on good reviews from 'paying customers' whilst processing support requests for 'license keys' in a timely manner.
is that meant to be a joke?
I liked it. But a little description on top as to what it is will be great :)
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How would you measure quality of life? This income data is hopefully based on hard facts and not some kind of perception of the world.

The median income is often closer to what most people actually earn than the mean for example. I'm pretty sure the data people at Bloomberg had good reasons to chose these figures.
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This struck me as the largest problem here. They can charge $84,000; and medicare/medicaid will pay nearly that because they have no choice. If they could refuse based on cost, then Gilead would have more incentive to lower the cost.

There is very little true price discovery going on when the largest payer for healthcare services has absolutely no choice to purchase the product at a given price. All they have to do is get a new treatment approved (i.e. show that it works and is safe), and then the government has no choice but to buy it.

I don't see anything wrong with Gilead charging $84,000 for curing a disease. I just see something wrong with the stats not being able to take it or leave it.
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Just a quick answer - I am actively developing with ExtJS for about 3 years now. It depends on what product are going to build. I always say that ExtJS is great for 'excel on the web' kind of applications - desktop like apps. The grid component is unbeatable, so is the layout system (which limits the CSS nightmare pretty much).

However there are caveats of which mostly discussed is steep learning curve. It's true that it takes some time till one uses ExtJS in the right way. Blog posts like this one are a good read before starting new project http://www.sencha.com/blog/top-10-ext-js-development-practic...

I have no experience with KendoUI, but from what I saw it is the closest match to ExtJS in terms of developing desktop-like JS apps. And it's free.

Edit: looks like KendoUI is not free anymore.
Even if the problem isn't there, it's really easy to fix in that layer: just insert an instruction before popcnt that kills the value in the destination register, and there won't be anything to wait for. Intel does regular microcode updates to fix this sort of thing, so I would anticipate seeing this one get fixed in the not-too-distant future.
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"dedicated to those who do not believe in God, Atheist TV."

Wouldn't you have to phrase this as "... those who do not believe in any god, ..." ?

ie no capital, and catering for the multitude of deities they do not believe in.
You call it 'arm-twisting', I call it 'a necessary counter-power that should be part of every patent-related legislation'.
Only partly, COE is the state religion in the England so it's taken as a sort of default. I know plenty of people who were married by COE vicars and will fill in COE on a census form but they don't actually believe in god or attend church and think people who do are strange.

Edit: Replaced UK with England!
I think your website has become to heavy because of multiple JSbin embeds. Can you lazy load them on scroll ? The present experience is very slow
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Yes, but also a bit true. See the Sea of Faith movement as an example.
Ask HN: How do you decide what areas to improve in your products?
Best way to decide what to change and how to change is based on customer feedback. A few ways to get customer feedback are observing, usage analysis, A/B testing and asking. Some of them such as A/B testing can be really costly if it's a major change.

What methods do you use to find what to change? Does brainstorming within the team and asking validating by asking potential users work? Which methods do you think are most useful and cost effective?
I assume you're referring to the fact that it's just a "made up" church? [1] Some of the most fanatical church go-ers that I know of are C of E. Of course, that could be my limited experience.

I can see how in the US it can be hard to be an atheist, but as an atheist in the UK it can be a minefield too. Just sat in the pub having a discussion the other day with some people I've known for a while and they were shocked when they discovered I was an atheist and tried to go down the whole, "how can you not believe" yawn and started to get quite angry. I've had that a couple of times now and had to extricate myself with, "look, I can take you through my many years of thought that brought me to this conclusion that will have you seriously doubting your faith, or we can just accept that we both have different opinions."

[1] ...unlike all the other ones of course...
Probably partially. But there are quite a lot of cultural protestants in the UK, who go to church biannually, generally don't disagree with the archbishop of Canterbury's proclamations too vehemently, and overall, don't give much of a shit about the whole shebang.
So you advocate to buy a NAS and then disconnect it from the Internet, for security reasons? Might just as well turn it off completely, if your use case is similar to mine.

Is it really to much to ask to use the Internet as it was intended? We should consider these products broken.
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