skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you pulling those numbers from? According to Payscale the median rate for a marketing manager in Germany is €48,785 per year. A senior web developer actually makes €48,896 on average, which is about 100€ more than that.

Now if you want to hire top tier marketing talent (which are most likely consulting or teaching anyways ex. Seth Goding, Dan Kennedy) you might end up spending around that or higher. Hell, their small group seminars cost 27k$ and last 3 days, so I'm just going to go on a hunch here that getting that tier of marketers to write copy for you is going to be very expensive.

And I'm going to disagree further. Marketing is not a "bullshit" job at its base. Say we outlawed it. You're not allowed to tell people about your products. They have to walk into your store and ask about them, and you're only allwed to hand out a datasheet if they ask. What does that do to new products? I'm going to say that if your average joe tries to buy a mobile phone and first has to dig through 20-30 pages of chipset info to find out the features of it, you're not selling any mobile phones anymore. You're asking why you don't just write out the features that matter? Sorry, that's allready in the realm of sales copy. Sharing your enthusiasm about it? Nope, go straight to jail, do not collect 200$. Because that's what good marketers do. They try to understand what they're selling, who they're selling it to, and how to convey their enthusiasm about it to who they're selling it to in order to make a sale.

Now there is the argument that a lot of marketing is annoying, wasteful, ineffective and so are a lot of CRUD apps that have been churned out by fresh behind the ears Java programmers. There's a fair share of programmers that don't know about proper variable naming, splitting things into objects cleanly, designing usable user interfaces, and a thousand other things that seperate them from the crême de la crême of software engineers. And there is a fair share of marketers that don't know about targeting, hooks, blind bullets, cost per customer, tracking, split testing and a thousand other things that seperate them from the crême de la crême of marketing. Should we discount the field as useless because there's a lot of rhinestones to the diamond? Then it'd only be fair to throw programming out of the window with it.

By the way, i'd recommend giving something like the Robert Collier Letterbook a read, he goes through things like how highlighting a single trait in the coal he was advertising saved a mine or how he repeatedly sold the Harvard Classics through using half a dozen of different approaches, or pick up something like Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins. I personally think that the only Ninja in Tech should be a Marketing Ninja, because when great advertisers sell you, you don't notice it. Well, maybe server admins too, but i digress.
This is correct. The number of Linux machines, even counting firmware and other devices, is extremely low.
The problem isn't big-endian, its just platforms where sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(int).

I believe the problem is the legacy vim API takes an (int ), so that code will also need to be corrected:

char_u *string_convert_ext __ARGS((vimconv_T *vcp, char_u *ptr, int *lenp, int *unconvlenp));
Why waiting in line is torture (2012)
And that is when stops being an anarchist: when one is mature enough to realise that there are reasons, if not excuses, for the present situation (no matter how odd it may be), and mature enough to realise that changing the present situation will necessarily involve its own compromises, pains and oddities.

It's the difference between Paine and Burke.
Ask HN: Freelancers, do you charge for consultations?
For context: I'm a full-time dev at a startup and I moonlight as a freelance dev on the side (10 - 20 hours per week).

I currently do free first-time-meetings / consultations. The problems I'm experiencing are threefold:

1. A lot of people who ask to meet me simply don't have any budget (and they're expecting me to work for equity or some extremely low wage). They get the free consult, but there's no real chance of them engaging with me.

2. A few would-be clients dwell in that consultation-stage for far too long (they call me, text me, email me back and forth, and get all the free advice they can, and they don't seem particularly motivated to move beyond that stage).

3. I end up giving a lot of consultations to folks who are simply shopping for price-quotes. This is pretty much a waste of time for me because I charge an order of magnitude more than the lowest quotes they're going to receive. I can't blame them for comparing prices, it's just not usually worth my time to have those kinds of conversations.

So, I'm looking for ways to start pre-qualifying my leads earlier on in the pipeline; before the consultation stage. I'd like to figure out how to sift out the un-desirable leads without having to flat-out ask "So how much money do you have for this project?"

One idea is to charge for consultations; at a pretty arbitrary but 'painful' level (100 bucks, 500 bucks, a grand, whatever). Does anyone here do something similar? If not, how do you prequalify your leads? If it matters, my ideal engagement-level is 25k - 50k per project.

Thanks for any advice
The mercury isn't primarily in there as a preservative. The vaccines have mercury or aluminum or other irritants for the designed purpose of provoking a strong immune response.
In general they appear to have a problem with mixing lengths between being ints and being size_ts (Decently common problem). In that particular instance they could run into a problem if they compile for 64-bit (64-bit size_t, 32-bit int) and string_convert_ext gives a negative length, since int is signed.
They've been lying so much at this point I don't know what it matters what they say. They were so caught up in seizing power with no regard to the consequences that they forgot that Trust is most precious and fleeting and far more valuable than lying about your law-breaking.
Steve Jobs, by any definition, founded Pixar. He bought a team of people from Lucas Film and some technology, most of which had to be extensively re-worked.

The technology he bought was for rendering hardware. The company, under his specific direction, went from producing hardware and software to feature films.

Your hand-waving dismissal of the role Jobs played in Pixar is staggeringly ignorant.

Many accounts from the key people on the Pixar team credit Jobs with his important decisions and his hand in creating the culture that Pixar has today. I'm presuming you haven't ready any of those. "It's funny how you pick and choose", or in your case flat-out ignore.

How does making money have anything to do with being a better businessman? How does $2B in sales compare to a titanic company like Apple that's pulling down $40B per quarter? Not very well.
> You seem to be repeating this idea over and over - that this is what a few people 200 years ago meant when they said "capitalism", and therefore that's what capitalism is.

You have misunderstood. It is not that it is what "capitalism" means because it was what the term was first coined for, its because it was both what the term was first coined for and what it has been used predominantly for since -- both in criticism of that system and other systems sharing its salient features, and in describing (with or without criticisms) actual current systems by how they differ or continue capitalism (both aspects are frequently seen in the descriptions of modern mixed economies.)

The use of "capitalism" for either some other real system that has existed (other than by reference to shared features with the original capitalism) or for some idealized utopian objective that does not exist and has not existed -- whether one in which, as in Marx's Communism, the State has withered away, or one which has a active State with narrowly-circumscribed functions and goals -- is a distinct minority use, and any particular ideal is an even smaller minority use.
Many uninformed people honestly do believe that, yes.
This question is a bit naive, but outside of Facebook, can you think of what kind of application this is well suited for?
Without claiming any authority on the subject, I would suggest that suicide can be seen as a 'luxury'* in certain cases:

Isn't it that much harder to "undo yourself" when you have dependents on you that have no other alternative?

If it takes $x units of depression to take your own life while responsibility-free, wouldn't it take 10 * $x to do so while knowing that you're leaving your children to the STATE?

* Bad choice of word considering the context, but I can't find another. I hope you get what I mean.

edit: Can't formatting.
(self-described libertarian here:) you don't suppose that large organizations often become large because they benefit from government subsidy? Aside from obvious candidates like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, I personally think that the inflation/investment social model whereby individuals are pushed into stock market or mutual funds that trade stocks, is a stealth subsidy that selectively benefits large companies and incentivises corporate aggregation.
have an upboat, i was gonna do the same thing for my ide im working on. :) this looks really nice
This is really where I'm at a loss as of what to do, will the intersection of all human worldly values and ethics ever include sustainably living and shaming or preventing others who don't?
Sorry about that. You're absolutely right. Looks like the pages gets the last command sent. Someone had issued a "play" command and caused other pages to also get that command upon loading.
Tracking issue highlight on EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
Ask HN: Moving to Chicago
I'm moving to Chicago (19th November) and I am pretty sure there might be many of you guys hanging out there. I always attend to a lot of meetings whenever I go somewhere new so I wanted to know a little bit more about the tech and startup scene in Chicago.
I subscribed to some Meetup groups but haven't decided yet!

Do you recommend any events/places/meetings in particular?

Thanks.
You're correct to make that distinction; I ambiguously referred to the judicial branch as the "government".
I have trouble taking seriously a post "educating" us about history that asserts Russia was part of the Axis Powers up until Germany attacked Russia. The pact that grew into the Axis was specifically created to oppose communism. Germany attacked Russia in violation of an agreement, but that agreement hardly made Russia part of the Axis.
Remove personal data from photos before sharing them on the internet
> I think that this a damning criticism of contemporary society when it produces people unable to cope with freedom in its literal meaning.

Nicely Put.
There's also Time.ly [0] a calendar and plugin for Wordpress...

[0] http://time.ly/
As we can clearly see you have no idea how Jobs worked. He was extremely passionate about his beliefs, but as many have said, again and again, he would be completely opposed to an idea one day and the next he'd be telling you about how that was the best thing ever. He knew when it was time to re-evaluate his opinions.

He said Apple would never make a phone. They did. He said "never" many times, and many times Apple went and did exactly that.

Learn your history.

Yes, pre-NeXT Steve Jobs wasn't as good at directing products, but he did create the Macintosh. Post-NeXT (and Pixar) he had a much better sense of how to build teams and create products, those years were not squandered.

Dismissing someone because of failures is ridiculous. Bill Gates shipped Windows 1.0, an abortion of a product, and Windows 2.0, which was nearly as useless. It was only with Windows 3.0 they finally got traction and that went on to become the dominant operating system in the world.

Oh, but it failed twice, so whatever.
Yes.

The market for 0days has been cooling off in recent years, but for a good decade there you could sell 0days, even mediocre ones for six digits. Nowdays you'll need a pretty good vuln for six digits, and something pretty stellar for seven (this isn't unheard of). ZDI, frsirt and others got into the game as middlemen. They allow(ed) you to not know who the final purchaser is and would allow you to sell 0days that may or may not be interesting to a government entity - in this case ZDI, etc would swallow the cost.

Edit: http://www.vupen.com/english/services/lea-index.php
> The problem of minifying is easy enough to avoid

Yes - use a minifier that doesn't break Angular code. Asking me to insert repetitive verbiage isn't an acceptable solution.
Why the promo codes? Its listed as a free app.
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Well one of the characters matching (E, M, C), arguably two for Fort McMurray, is still better than YYZ matching none of the characters in any of the names (Toronto, Lester B Pearson, Malton, Mississauga) of the country's largest airport!
Here's the source code on github: https://github.com/dariusk/reverseocr
Which Python? Ver. 2 or 3? On what machine? With what graphical libraries? How much study would be involved in knowing all (and yes, it matters) of the Python+libs+os aggregate?

And does anyone alive know the above aggregate the way a kid can know Hypercard?

The 'master of all you survey' feeling of a kid on a raw Commodore-64 (or, to a lesser extent, Hypercard) - matters. If you've never experienced it, you are a blind man.

Asking the question re: Python suggests precisely this kind of blindness.

I confess that I do not know how to explain sight to a blind man. Perhaps someone else here is up to the task.
I really liked this article, specifically as a counter to this pretty annoying thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091
I seem to remember from watching a Sean Carroll talk (can't remember which one now - could be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPFrzliZJY - very entertaining), but he's sort of an expert in this subject, that the ever increasing entropy is a phenomenon not a law of physics, i.e. there is no underlying reason why the entropy couldn't be ever decreasing, and that possibly there was a "time" when it was the case when the universe was collapsing, which led to the big bang. If that's true, then in that period time was essentially running backwards.
This might be the most useless analogy I have ever encountered. I'm sorry, I don't mean to attack you but I honestly have no idea what your point is.

Corrections Corporation of America and other private prison companies openly fight efforts to relax drugs laws. Same for prison guard unions; In 2008 the CCPoA, California's largest prison guard union, was the most active opponent of Prop 5, which would have expanded treatment for non-violent drug offenders, and reduced criminal penalties for non-violent drug crimes [1].

As far as I know, oncologists are not fighting cancer research in order to protect their careers.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_5_%2820...
What's your most controversial technical opinion?
Keyne's "15 hour workweek" projection cited within is an interesting thought experiment, but it ignores effects of necessary overhead.

For example, let's look at the cognitive overhead I face as a programmer. There's a certain amount of time I spend just spooling content into my brain's working store. I'm not contributing anything new; I'm just keeping the old in my brain and coordinating with the changes my coworkers are making. Let's pretend that forms a nice, round 10 hours of time a week. If I work another 5 hours, that time has a 2:1 overhead:production ratio. Since the productive time is what's being sold, it operates at a steep 300% cost inefficiency. The next 5 hours brings it down to 200%, the next 10 to 150%.

There's a lot that would change in our economies if we could eliminate transaction and overhead costs. But physical and temporal limitation utterly forbid that in practice. One should always take those highly abstracted economic projections and starting points of analysis: see what assumptions lead them to be skewed from reality. That post-analysis is, in my experience, often the truly enlightening part.
lol, "vast majority".
That's like telling your spouse "Most of the time, I don't cheat on you"
full-disclosure: I didn't read the article.
Energy is conserved in any iteraction. And gravity is not a force. Gravity is the curvature of space-time.
I know this is a real tangent from the content of this paper, but why is it that every academic PDF renders in such poor quality fonts[1]? My guess is it was done in Latex which seems to always produce results of this nature. It's really confusing why this quality keeps being quietly accepted by everyone.

[1] http://picpaste.com/pics/c5f9cc612f213523876362234155499e.14...
Hm. Yeah. Looks great I guess... But is it semantic?
(shove the healthcare part aside for a second) to a certain degree, all firms are 'socialist', because they are banding together to not compete with each other. This is the central interesting problem in the 'theory of the firm' which deals with how in a capitalist system groups of individuals band together to not compete. This definition, then is meaningless. Socialism is when a central authority organizes the distribution of labor and resources under the threat of force.

As for the healthcare, universal healthcare for soldiers is a horribly malfunctioning system in the US, and it is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Does it eliminate 2-way data binding?

It's the realisation that this is a fundamentally bad idea that was the real kicker for me.

The more you try to write clearly structured, maintainable Angular, the more it begins to resemble React.
..simply solved making bots answer randomly the first time
Pulling Back the Curtain on Airport Security (Black Hat 2014 Presentation)
On having a proper job
Show HN: Thanx – Loyalty made effortless
I've just recently begun learning about the startup world, so I have almost no experience. Unfortunately, this result will restrict those who don't already know and cannot afford the time to learn how to build a prototype. Thankfully, the effort required to get a software prototype built has been dropping significantly.
I simply cannot understand why Kindles no longer have buttons. They are clearly a better page-turning mechanism than the touch screen.
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Study shows brain interface between humans
This is probably the most insane way I've ever seen a 3d environment created (look at the DOM), but it really is incredibly well done. The performance is of course not nearly as good as WebGL, but it is a great proof of concept and could possibly be used a a polyfill for simple 3d effects and objects in browsers where WebGL is not supported or broken.
I want to be more specific about the concept of sharing.

There are two uses of "sharing" in the response. One was sharing of vulnerabilities. It was never clear who it was shared with. It could be with the DoD, with GCHQ, with private contractors under contract with the NSA, etc. and still be counted as "sharing."

The other is an example of sharing one patch, for the Bash vulnerability, with the private sector.

I think we are supposed to connect those two pieces of data, but there's no reason to do so.
Nice! Now I just need someone to make an emacs mode that does this.
Is this a decent looking profile page? (V1 doof.com)
It seems they call custom domain as custom URL and don't allow it with free account.
I think more likely, culture. For instance, even across India practices may differ. That would map more closely to culture than race (genetics), right? In fact a child of Argentina raised in that culture could be expected to behave as raised, not according to some genetic plan.

Again, its all about culture, not race.
Even agricultural jobs you can't consistently (as in year round) do that. Seasonal variations, set-up times and travelling all factor into this.
I was in the same boat. My daughter is now 20. My decision, which might not work as well now, was to hold fast for the ones I thought were vital (and I apologize for not remembering which these were), to trust herd immmunization for some of the others, make sure she was strong and healthy (lots of fresh vegetables, jiu-jitsu, you know, eat well, exercise, plenty of sleep), and to have a private talk with her on her 18th birthday or soon thereafter.

She is now pretty much caught up on her vaccinations.

I don't know if I would make the same decision now, given apparently lower herd immunization rates, I might argue more vociferously.

It was easy to pick vaccines to reject, e.g., Gardasil (protects against only 2 of 4 major strains, covering ~%40 of cases, was not being given to boys, so seemed like corporate welfare for sure and could give a false sense of security), or the flu, which is useful for those at risk, less so for the strong and healthy, and by conceding on one or two I was able to get some of the more important ones.

Nowadays, now that I know the term catastrophic thinking, I might start the conversation in a general and helpful way, talking not about vaccines at all, but about how my wife reacts very strongly to bad news - or potential bad news. Over time, talk about this as a couple. With luck, her reactions will mitigate. If and when they do, discuss vaccination.

Good luck, my friend, it is a tough issue, an emotional one, and appeals to facts are not your friends (because of the emotionality of the issue - the underlying emotions must be acknowledged first).
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I'm not sure if I agree with the ethics of selling security exploits, but it's a world I know very little about. You seem knowledgeable, is there any more information you could share about the business and culture of selling 0days? Like, how many people are doing that full time now (dozens or thousands?). Why do you think that the market slowed down, and do you think that most of the security hackers are trying to sell exploits to the responsible parties or do they expect most of them to go to government and other black hats?

Sorry for the questions, no contact info in your profile. Answers from anyone would also be appreciated.
Here's why I like angular...

It only took me a couple days of fooling around with it before I built something useful with it. The steep learning curve is only if you want to know the how-and-why behind every feature of the framework (which I still am not even close to). Learning 100% of the framework is simply not necessary for certain apps.

It's easy in my opinion, it's quick, and it gets the job done. If I run into any problems, there about a bazillion stack overflow post addressing my issue already.
Sure, whatever, I just don't think it's the real issue with DI in Angular.
...Here's a crazy thought.

Take handwriting, the more illegible the better. Then use a genetic algorithm where the fitness function is trying to find as small a perturbation as possible to the input such that the output is recognized as the letters you want.
In many ways this makes dealing with 3D easier, as there’s no complex math to deal with — just apply a CSS transform to rotate an element around an axis and you’re done!

What? Knowing how to transform each object though is the hard part - especially as scaling needs to change if you are only using rectangles. The demo is a little wonky for me but I am also on an old FF system currently so I will look again when I get home.

I think this is really cool, and could be really interesting - I am mostly wondering how you transform 3D objects into the CSS dimensions.
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