skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that all of this is just my opinion. I'm not going to append "IMHO" to each sentence, as to save the reader the tedium of reading it. I'm not saying that I'm correct or that people should agree with me.

I would go so far as to say that I think overly simplistic static type systems don't have much benefit. C's static typing drives me crazy, as there's almost nothing of use that I can express with it. It's the same with Go; I almost never pass an Int when I meant to pass a Bool. In exchange for thoroughly unhelpful type errors I now have to jump through flaming hoops to parse JSON.

It ends up being a bit like JavaScript or Python where both languages lack the ability to specify that something is truly private (though in JS you can use closures to hide things). You generally just use a naming convention to mark a thing as private, and hopefully people have the decency to respect that. It's like that with types in dynamic languages; I can express pretty complex relationships with types and keep the whole thing in my head with out many problems.

That said, languages with powerful type systems like Scala and Haskell are thoroughly worth the effort. I can express almost anything with these type systems, usually with a minimum of fuss. They can protect me from the dreaded NPE, and that's a bug I encounter quite often. They can help me write simpler code that deals with complex shapes of data with their support for pattern matching and TCO. This one is more Haskell related, but the guarantee that everything is immutable and lazy makes it possible for the compiler to do some insanely impressive optimizations.

Scala, Haskell, and Rust have taken a dyed-in-the-wool lover of dynamic languages and made a convert of me. They finally followed through on the promises of safety and productivity that other languages failed to deliver on.

In closing, I'll repeat one last time that all of these are merely the opinions of an insufferable neck beard (me). Even if we disagree, I'm sure you're a very nice person, and I approve of you using whatever languages and tools make you happy and productive.
This issue was the "original": https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=65974
But is closed, I wonder how many of these there is...

Don't forget to star these issues.
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At least one, possibly two other bugs lurking in the implementation.

1) Algorithm FT says:

1. Generate u. Store the first bit of u
as a sign s (s=0 if u<1/2, s=1 if u>=1/2).

and yet the C code implements

if ( u <= 0.5 ) s = 0.0;
else s = 1.0;

2) I can't be sure of the following w/o access to doc. But i4_uni() says

a uniform distribution over (1, 2147483562)

which, offhand, is suspicious. A distribution over positive integers would probably want to use all available values in a 32-bit signed int, so it would most likely end at 2^31 -1 which is 2147483647, and not the value given.
Cool thought, that the Last Mile will soon be commodity-priced and driverless cars will be making deliveries when they're not otherwise occupied. Software eating yet another business.

Providing capital to build a replica of an existing proven business model is easy, you already provided the example: gajillions of hosting companies providing physical hardware for peanuts because a few people had proved the business model worked. The cost of the hardware is amortised over its expected lifetime and any bank will provide the loan.

If this is Uber's future then Travis must be looking to exit before that...
This actually comes up quite often. Here's one recent instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991350

... and here's my explanation from that thread, on why it's a very bad idea to rely on the responses you'll get when you ask the question here:

This would probably work better as a poll or an offsite, anonymous survey. I don't think you'll get very accurate results from limiting yourself to the small fraction of developers who:

- don't mind disclosing their salary in public

- don't have any co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site

- have a single fixed rate that they charge everybody

- don't plan to change their rate in the future

- make enough to not feel silly disclosing their rate in public

- don't make so much that they'll feel like they're just bragging

I'd personally be happy to tick a box, but I'm not going to quote my rate here.

EDIT: Here's a recent poll, with numbers severely skewed because the author initially capped it at $200k/year, thus losing granularity from the roughly 50% of early responders who were earning north of that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464725
I'm not convinced that requiring test coverage is a good trade off.

Don't misunderstand me: tests are good. But language syntax that makes some bugs impossible is also good.
I think that selling water only brings more scarcity.

Money is cheap. Maybe we need a monetary system backed by clean drinking water. Money as water.

WaterCoin could be created by producing clean drinking water. The algorithm would encourage water to be abundant.
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My current daily rate is $15/hour, I work as remote freelancer from Albania.

I work with python/flask/postgresql/mongodb and have 2 years of experience in this stack.
All your KPIs are probably wrong. Or, how to optimise on being valuable
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I doubt ease of learning really has anything to do with the current popularity of English. As soon as the USA stops being the dominant power in the world, English will start losing ground as well.

edit: Looking at the EF English Proficiency Index[1], English doesn't seem quite as universal as it feels like in the Anglosphere anyway.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index
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Which also means that in 10 years they can go back and reshoot old movies. "Back on location" is just a GUID in some PB scale object database.
$750-$900 daily (don't do hourly). Developer/Designer. 8 years experience. Much ado about iOS, Cocoa, etc. Bit of web and Windows. Anything that needs to be done, really.
All criticism/contributions welcome! I was just toying around to see if I could do it. Then I refactored out a little library. I will continue to work on it!

Try out the command line tool:

go get github.com/GeorgeMac/idicon/cmd/idicon

idicon html -w 5 -h 5 -x 10 your-name > your-name.html
I've been using a pre-release version of 24.4 for months, and I'm loving it.

Ruby-mode got a huge improvement in its indentation. I was able to delete all of the hacks out of my .emacs files, and it works exactly the way I want it to.

The new superword minor mode is really useful. It lets to treat snake cased words as a single word, which makes recording macros a lot simpler in Ruby, Python, etc.

I've also found that I didn't have to make a single change to my .emacs files. All of my plugins were compatible. It was completely painless.
Care to explain how any of the recent news fits the term "propaganda"?
My current daily rate is 30 EUR / day after taxes, I work in Hungary.

I work as a Java junior developer, I'm an entrant in the industry, started working in february. My main skills are Hibernate, SOAP web services, Wicket, Nvidia CUDA, and a little hint of C++.
No. It's not about how Twitter, Facebook and Google can track users. It's about how you can use LinkedIn to track users.
That is what happening i am sure there are contractors in this "information gathering club" who offer services like these to the right customer and if anything bubbles they have a scapegoat.

We have seen how much one man can carry away from this place without anyone noticing.
On which site do you want your ad to appear?
While frustrating, the SD card situation is very different.

With SD cards, the "old way" had serious problems (security and robustness issues because apps could stomp on each other's data, all sorts of complexity and confusion on multi-user devices, orphaning private app data on the SD card when apps are uninstalled, no sensible backup possibilities for apps that depend on SD card data, apps not knowing whether data would be on internal or external storage because "/sdcard" means different things on different devices, etc.) that Google is trying to solve.

Google's solution required a compatibility break, but that doesn't mean they're just dropping all of the SD card use cases. KitKat introduced app-specific private data on external storage, apps can enable some simple sharing by the adding read permissions to their private data, the storage access framework can be used to support more complex structured sharing between and so on. Among other things, Google is even adding a new API in Android L that lets apps properly publish media (images, audio, video, etc.) from their private storage (including private SD card storage, which is when it is most useful) to the shared MediaStore.

Is this transition bumpy? Absolutely, especially for people who upgrade their OS or use an old SD card on a new device. Nevertheless, I don't think Google will go back no matter how loud the cries get. Google tried neglecting SD cards from Honeycomb through Jelly Bean (hoping they'd "wither away", I suspect). That failed. Now they have no choice but to do the hard work of putting external storage on a reasonable foundation.
s/Succeeded/Consumed/
I don't think your argument here holds water. Robocoin can't spin this to their advantage. Everyone can read the dialog between the two parties and see what's going on. This is much better way to go about getting reparations than litigation.
Probably you are right, but for a library I think it should be an obligation to provide 100% coverage. For a generic program, maybe I sould provide 100% coverage at least of the "critical paths".
We once got invited to an award ceremony to pick up a prize "top small company in section XY" and we'd still had to pay for attendance. I think that event company didn't even have a agenda other than a keynote and giving out prizes.
Oh my god, please tell us more!
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The email invites/sorry come out late evening on October 28th.

They have said in the past if you have a deadline with another accelerator to email them directly with details.
I really love that it takes 6 min from git to build the latest Emacs on a 2010 ThinkPad.
My comment was more about forward-prediction, but you're right.
So investments are unwise because you might get burned? I don't think you can find traction for that view here.
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I don't think so, even for external devices it seems a big regression.
I'm confused by this bit:

"...the scientists had recorded the images on magnetic tape, played it back on a TV monitor, then snapped photographs of the TV monitor. What he had were those images, sporadically placed along rolls of film as long as the wingspan of a Boeing 787."

Can someone elaborate on this?
While that's all well and good, I don't think that will translate so well into the mass market. At least not for some time.
You'd think an intelligence service would know that NSA isn't a friend and not repeat history. They did almost exactly the same thing in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns
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My current dayli rate is 20.15€ / Hour I work in Denmark

I work as a "Student" Developer, I have programmed for 2 years My main skills are php and java. using linux platform for everything.
EDIT: I'm charged about 40% of all my earnings in tax
My current rate is 65 EUR / hour after taxes. I work as an iOS developer in the Netherlands. Will try to negotiate 75 EUR / hour later in the coming months.
I believe RainforestQA is one of the other remote startups.
I know but most people on this site use an anonymous handle, which solves most if not all those points: minding disclosing in public,co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site,plan to change their rate in the future, make enough /bragging, etc.

But it's true I wouldn't advise people disclosing their rate if their are not anonymous.
I am often shocked when I hear people lean on that "it's in the contract" nonsense. State and federal law have always superseded contract law, or else people could overthrow the government by means of contracts. It's just a ridiculous notion to hold, as evidenced by the ridicule heaped on it here, reddit, and twitter.
The levels of homelessness and malnutrition are actually at historic highs for the post-WW2 Western world.
I charge $1K/day, out of San Francisco. I'm not a remarkable developer, but I've been running a production website for a few years and sell my practical knowledge on how to make all the pieces (LAMP stuff) fit together under actual use.
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How does it technically work to distinguish Catalans from Spaniards? Do you have in your passport a distinct nationality? Or do you have to prove that you live in Catalonia? Or is there another way to make sure that only Catalans vote?
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Even more so, I'd say. Tobacco smelled something years ago. Nowadays, it's just awful pestilence.
Minisat is designed to elucidate; consider reading the paper and implementation - it's actually a very fast solver.

As to compilers: one interesting idea is the "superoptimizer". In its basic form, try all byte sequences and use a solver to filter out the ones that do what you want when executed; then pick the fastest. Regehr has an interesting blog post on this topic.
Sure, because we should be only concerned about "what would happen to America" and ignore the rest of the world (which is affected by the NSA as well)
Detroit is an odd case because it's largely a case of exploitation by people who simply decided they didn't have to pay their water bill anymore- after all- who would dare to deprive someone of water?! That these people got bit in the ass on their delinquency doesn't really bother me. Here's a quote from the official report:

"In May, for example, DWSD sent out 46,000 shut off notices. Of those, only 4,531 customers less than 10 percent of the total had their water service shut off for any period of time. Within 24 hours, 60 percent of the affected customers paid their accounts in full and had their service immediately restored. Forty percent of the remaining customers had their service restored within 48 hours."

The people who honestly can't afford it should have mechanisms to waive their water bill costs but the above quote clearly shows that's a tiny fraction of the people who actually got shutoff notices. The trick of course is that many of these small minority needs to be proactively contacted by the city government since they're likely mentally ill/severely disabled and possibly lack the ability to take the initiative on their own.
In general I believe most people are honest and if they reply it will be the truth. In my view there is a whole industry making a huge margin at our expense because we feel uncomfortable sharing this information, I have the impression we all have to gain by sharing this more often I believe. But of course we should take the content as a grain of salt and just an indicator.
It is too bad Europe is so feeble. They will helpless pawns for the next few decades if not longer. The European lifestyle is going away, the only question is how long before they wake up.
$20/hr, Southeast USA

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I'm voting this up. People should be aware that it's out there. But this story is worse than bad. It's the epidemiological equivalent of startups with nice spreadsheets and graphs -- there are so many hidden assumptions and unknowns, I'm not sure it's possible to make it into anything useful.
I wish Google would do this, and end the LinkedIn scraping of people's emails. Good on Pinboard for taking a stand.
at the expense of geeks like me in order to make the system more usable for the average consumer.

Unfortunately, although most of the "average consumers" are unlikely to become a developer, and "geeks" may be more likely to become developers, the fact is that most if not all developers start out as "average consumers" - regular users - so making it easy to stay a regular user and harder for "geeks" and developers also means fewer of the regular users will be inclined to take that next step up... end result being a reduction in the number of developers.
That alone will skew the results downward.

Take a quick look through the "Top Commenters" list here, and you'll notice that nearly all of them use either their own name or a strong pseudonym tied to their real identity. Several of those guys are billing out at the kind of nice-to-have rates that a young dev with any sense aught to make his mission to replicate.

The guys responding below with silly pseudonyms, quoting two digit hourly bill rates, don't tell anybody anything interesting. Worse, they might just convince some poor soul that "you know, maybe $65/hour isn't so bad after all", and invite him into a lifetime of being underpaid when the reality is that he could 5X-10X that if he wanted to.
Awesome lecture. A summary of the points that hit home for me

1. Really try create amazing first moments in your product

2. There are many first moments in your product, every feature of your product has a first moment

3. The little things that tell your users who is behind the company are VERY IMPORTANT, ROARRR tooltip, a little poem in sign up forms. It's the little things

4. Deeply implement Support Driven Development in your company culture

5. Let your users know what happened since they have been gone. --> set up a drip campaign, which reminds users who haven't logged in for a while

6. Send handwritten thank you cards to your BEST customers is very valuable
Keith, thanks. You mean I should e-mail one of YC partners and ask for a quicker evaluation?
This is a all new level of corruption, here are the interesting bits:

- In 1994, Airbus lost a $6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia after the NSA, acting as a whistleblower, reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials to secure the contract.[58] As a result, the American aerospace company McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) won the multi-billion dollar contract instead of Airbus.[59]

- The American defense contractor Raytheon won a US$1.3 billion contract with the Government of Brazil to monitor the Amazon rainforest after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), acting as a whistleblower, reported that Raytheon's French competitor Thomson-Alcatel had been paying bribes to get the contract.[60]

- In order to boost America's position in trade negotiations with the then Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, in 1995 the CIA eavesdropped on the conversations between Japanese bureaucrats and executives of car manufacturers Toyota and Nissan.[61]
Are there any particularly good comparisons of OSS licenses in terms of facts as well as perception?

I regularly see comments on one project or another pointing to a XYZ license as the reason a project failed / has few contributors as if the 'problem' with that particular license is entirely self-evident.

It's awfully confusing as I'm sure I've seen polar opposite opinions on every major license under the sun, each entirely bereft of context.
Oh, wow, that's one of the most beautiful space images I've seen in a while.
>>People calling for a block of the NSA, sanctions or even a complete dismantle don't have the slightest of the idea of what would happen to America if our wall of protection would fall down.

Yeah sure, there are __some__ badguys out there but USgov/NSA is milking that fear for all it's worth. You know what would happen if it were dismantled? We'd all find out they weren't needed after all and the campaign of fear was all for profit/power/control; keeping the populace in permanent anxiety and willing to give up all its rights.

>>Besides, it is weaved thusly into the USA regime that in no possible way you can take it down without completely revising how the country operates on a higher scale.

Let's do that; let's completely revise how the country operates. It surely is overdue. You know what else was weaved thusly into USA? Slavery. It took some real sacrifices to undo that, but here I am. A black man not being whipped to pick cotton and enjoying San Francisco tech-scene, feeling a bit guilty of my salary and generally enjoying almost everything a white man enjoys... almost. The country can be changed if enough people care. How to do that when most people are having their spirits broken in a 9-to-5 job they hate, barely making ends meet, education out of reach due to expense, less-than-ideal health and constantly pumped full of fear via evening news.... that's the question I think about daily.
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My daily rate is currently ~$800-900 (salaried/stock options) in Silicon Valley - I have a little under 2 years of experience and am a top notch AngularJS expert & very productive frontend engineer (with a bit of full stack experience with Node.js & Java). I have been called a 10x engineer.
You can also have sets that are simultaneously closed and open.
In school, in science class and history class, I always felt we focused too much on "what we know", and not enough on "how we know it".
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Doesn't this mean that an attacker now only needs the password to the email account and all these passswordless services get compromised as well?
tldrlegal.com is a really good resource
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Just to understand, why do you believe using an anonymous handle skews the results downward? Most persons use anonymous handles online, except on places like facebook its a generalized practice. I personally don't see the correlation between those two things.

The name of the site is Hacker News, so I would expect a lot of people here to be security aware and in general use pseudonyms anyway.
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The flaw in that line of reasoning is assuming that luck and connections are the opposite of skill and execution.

Building relationships is a core part of business development, if a business lacks appropriate connections then it's something they should work on either by building bizdev skills internally or hiring. In the same way that if someones a tech founder with no marketing skills, they have to learn it or hire for it. You're not going to win just by having the best technical product, you have to have the best business.

Similarly luck isn't automatic, if you work to put yourself in positions where you have the opportunity to be lucky you're much more likely to have that luck. One of the big advantages of being in startup hub like SF is you're moving somewhere where your far more likely to have valuable serendipitous meetings than anywhere else.
Yes. But this is the case with the current 'forgotten password' system.

Securing your email account can be done without 'only' using a password. I use 2 factor auth on my google accounts, for example.
I'd use cronometer.com everyday and try to always get the calorie counts right (didn't care so much about other metrics). My margin of error was around 50 calories/day (figured out by comparing with expected weight loss).
The thing is after around 2 months I developed a fairly good intuition and just didn't need to use the software anymore.
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