skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So...nothing except something? This takes time and effort, even if just a little, and I suspect it adds up more than you guess. And all unpaid - an actual loss, in fact, since it distracts from whatever he's currently working on.

I do see why you argue this way, and I might agree except that I also would give weighting to the moral point he's making. Staff like this are systematically exploited, and working to contract is a classic way to try to demonstrate why they should be better supported - it's a direct attempt to make a larger point, not just a random choice to annoy a few students.
Glad you enjoyed it! When finished the devlog will span the full five years of development, including releasing on steam later this year and then hopefully consoles next year.
I'm guessing that VCs are betting on the co-founders' previous experience. One of the co-founders also co-founded diapers.com which achieved something like that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lore
There are people of type A who believe that there are some things so meaningless that it is impossible to find any meaning in them. And yes, they also think there are meaningful things out there too.

There are other people, type B, who believe meaning is something personal and different for everyone. Of course, this means that the meaning will not seek you out, but that you have to seek it out yourself. And that can be hard for some.

But that's not it. What I really learned is that /u/romaniv doesn't even want to talk to you if you disagree with him, because he's heard it all before.
Buying one ticket is a much bigger benefit over buying none than buying two is over buying one.

Buying one ticket does seem reasonable to me (even with excellent math skills). Buying two is just silly.
Is it public money (IPO) or private money? This makes a difference.
Exactly, its a horrible policy. I can't believe it even exists. Imagine if Gas companies lock you into using only certain brands of cars. OR If your computer comes locked with Comcast internet access only!
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Hasn't it been shown time and again that the act of thinking positively about your future often carries over in to your real life, making you happier in the present?

Besides, I could drop $100 on Blackjack in AC once a year or $2 every time the jackpot climbs above $500m. My (minuscule) appetite for gambling is satisfied in both situations, and I save $98/year :)
Was digging through the RFC for HOTP and came across this. Thought it was very interesting that there are actual definitions for these terms, or that they (the definitions) were apparently needed in the first place.
I'm happy for your friend, but this is anecdotal evidence.

Statistics don't agree with your story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...
There are so many ways to argue against this article. The fact that the person you responded to didn't go into as much detail as the author is just because the author spent a lot of time writing all of this nonsense down. Here are a few arguments against the author:

1) The argument that an employee is a 'slave' and 'dominated' by the employer would work the other way, as well. The author says "A worker must obey the boss, or ultimately lose the job." You could say this about the reverse, too: "A boss must obey his worker, or ultimately the worker will quit" If the boss fires the worker, the worker has to find a new job. If the worker quits, the boss has to find a new worker. Now, there are a lot of good arguments as to why the power dynamic is not equal between a worker and a boss, but it isn't an a priori fact like this author makes it seem.

2) The ideas about value are non-sensical. No one argues that things have a universal agreed upon value, nor does economics rely on that idea. Yes, the value of something varies from person to person, but that very fact is what allows an economy to function at all! If everything had equal value to everyone, then no one would ever make any transaction. The value of something TO A PARTICULAR PERSON is exactly equal to what they would be willing to trade for it. The idea that "In a barter system, for an exchange to be fair, the value of the exchanged goods and services must be equal. However, value is unknowable, therefore barter falls apart on practical grounds" is totally not true. Each person knows exactly what they are willing to trade for some good r service. In fact, this idea is non-sensical just from observation; obviously barter does not fall apart on practical grounds, because every single society on earth practices it. Put a group of people together with some goods, and a barter economy will develop. See any prison for an example.

These are just two examples of the ridiculousness of the author's argument. There are countless more.
Needing to do a thing for another person for "practical reasons", however, could make you a slave.
That is guilt by association and not really a meaningful argument though. Marx and Engels are used all the time in literary criticism, gender studies, sociology. You just seem to have a really big bone to pick with Marxists.
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Delphi picked up more people from VB and Powerbuilder than it did from TPW, I think.

I got my professional start using Delphi, but never got the impression that many of my colleagues knew TPW well.

Of the ones that didn't come from a database or 4GL background, most of us had used BCW for Windows coding and then switched back to Pascal when it became commercially viable to get a job in it. Borland Pascal didn't exactly have a ton of play in 1995. So it's true that they would've understood basic Petzold-style loops, but it would've been a bit surprising in Delphi.

Later, most of the people I knew using Delphi didn't know bare Windows programming at all, since MFC had fully taken hold for people from that background.

I was also under the impression that OWL was quite dominant, but I admit that I only passed through it briefly between Turbo Vision and VCL.

Still, good point!
What the article doesn't explain or maybe cannot is that apple's strategy, if correctly stated, depends upon two factors:
1) the willingness of others to produce things that integrate with the iPhone;
2) how much trust end users are willing to place in apple.
> changing jobs or working for yourself are both options that are available.

To SOME. available to SOME.
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Hi there.

I am looking for tools that let users to post to 20+ social networks at once.
I know about HootSuite and few more, but at most they post to 10+ English Language Social Networks and rest are either local language ones or blogs. It is important for me to post to as many English language social networks as possible. Thank you for all the suggestions!
>Internal use from $1350 / developer

>OEM (external) use from $2995 / developer

I'm out of the loop - is that kind of pricing normal?
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No product? A mailing list is a product, no?
Because Hacker News is also filled with software engineers, and we know better than most that automation is going to force us all, as a society, to philosophize about work and the nature and purpose of it all.
This was one of the worst parts of the article (there were lots of bad parts). The fact that different people place different values on the same object is WHY bartering works at all. If there was a specific value for every object, and everyone agreed on exactly what that value was, then no one would ever trade anything.

I feel like the author of this post does not understand basic economic theory.
I don't understand why he doesn't attempt to leave the university and get a job as a programmer. CAD 34k is a joke and less than the stipend I received as a graduate student.
Another company with a skyhigh valuation pre-launch is MagicLeap - it is worth something like $1B or so.
Have you watched any of Bill's other videos? His early stuff is full of a lot of corny humor, but really excellent explanations of cool engineering found all around us.

The last few videos have been much higher in production value, and go into much more depth on really fascinating topics.
Tape needs to be taken care of just like anything else via re-tensioning and the like.
There is no write and forget media as far as I can tell.

Ninja edit: That is not super price prohibitive.
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And yet we have hospitals full of health workers, schools full of teachers, and penniless artists and musicians - none of whom chose to maximise their earning potential on wall st or wherever but rather to contribute to society in some way that they felt drawn to
Another contributing factor might be that there were a lot more jobs for physics grads in Canada back in the heyday of Nortel, JDS Uniphase, etc.
Url changed from http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-acknowledges-feared-iran-le..., which points to this.
Tox still hasn't solved the serious metadata leakage issue.

They tried to cover it up by adding onion-routing for friend requests, but ACTUAL MESSAGES are still done directly.

Strong adversaries such as your ISP and agencies like the NSA, the GCHQ, etc. can still collect metadata about your conversations.

The "Tox Foundation" tries to cover this up and pretend that "tox was never meant to be anonymous", but the truth is harsh.

Now, this wouldn't be a problem if the Tox Foundation made this issue clear to its users. This is how P2P works, after all, direct connections, and that's fine.

But the problem is that Tox doesn't make that obvious for non-tech-savvy users.

When they read on the website that they are completely safe from the NSA and whatnot, they won't expect to be in any way exposed.

Still, unless these non-tech-savvy users "route all incoming and outgoing traffic through Tor" they won't be completely safe and should be worried about metadata leakage and adding people they don't actually know.
But such a thing isn't made clear and Tox deceives users this way, only to get more people using it. It's unethical and outright wrong, in my personal opinion.
It goes back to discussions on Ada as well. I, personally, qualify my advocacy with a probably. As in, "if it compiles, it's probably correct."
Weird things happen sometimes if you generate enough hype.

Oculus VR got bought by Facebook for $2B when its revenues were very small, but highly hyped by nerds.
Now make Request and Response generic so that you can tell different requests and responses apart.

Then make Future generic so that you can use all the existing combinators out there, like `sequence` which turns `List[Future[Response]]` into a Future[List[Response]]`.
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The specs on this look very nice indeed. I'll be taking a closer look at this.

My main hesitation is the proprietary firmware. Now I'm not going to disagree with anyone arguing that Cisco knows what they're doing and is competent at putting together firmware for the hardware they sell. Nor will I disagree with anyone arguing that open source is not a magical talisman ensuring quality. No, my main concerns are a) timeliness of critical updates, and useful lifetime of the hardware vs support lifetime.

Being open source cannot prevent bugs, but once found, fixes tend to become available quickly. Also, I have found that the useful lifetime of computing and networking hardware tends to exceed the period of time the vendor will offer support for it. I have gigabit ethernet switches I bought years ago that still work just fine, even though they're no longer sold. That's what I love about OpenWRT. The hardware my home router uses is discontinued, but still does the job just fine, and I can still get updates when I need to.

That said, I think I will be checking the SG300 out. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Thanks for this, it's very helpful! It would be great if this (or a condensed version) was available somewhere front-facing and obvious, like the README.txt in the GitHub project, or else linked from there. I have a pet peeve about informative links that assume the reader already knows what the thing is. :)
Holten's hierarchical edge bundling is probably something you would be interested in; this article presents a good description: https://seeingcomplexity.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/hierarchic...
Nobody uses C++ for fun. Unless they're a masochist.
Oh for god's sake, will you trolls ever stop?
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Open source developers with attitude problems? Surely this has never occurred before.

To be less sarcastic: Does it matter who the developers are and how they behave? If the source is open then it can be reviewed by anyone. If it works, there is no reason not to use it.
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So let's see here: You asked why I was picking the interpretation I did. I answered. You respond about me getting upset, and commend Epictetus.

Where, exactly, did I say that I was getting upset? I was stating why I interpreted those guys as being serious rather than joking in their claims. What does Epictetus have to say to whether they were tongue-in-cheek or not? Are you just arguing to argue? Because you're sure not responding to what I said.

> Haskell is more likely to be correct after a successful type-check than (most) other langs

True.
One of our networks in Switzerland (Sunrise) has a really innovative subscription model: They give you a cheapish subscription that's completely independent of the phone (~25-40$/m depending on whether you need unlimited free calls etc.) and which you can cancel/modify with every month. Then they offer you a leasing contract for your phone where you choose yourself how many monthly payments you'd like to make (payment per month inverse proportionate to the contract duration). At the end you can have about the same total cost of ownership as before, but you're much more flexible. The leasing contract amounts to ~5-8% interest on the upfront price for the whole duration and it's not dependent on how you set it up.

So, I wonder how many people will opt to just buy it up front now, when the subsidy isn't hidden anymore. It could also have a negative impact because some people will find it too complicated, however the widely trusted consumer review and comparison sites all give it a big thumbs up, so I think many will figure out why it's better.
No launched product. These are the guys who have done it before, so can probably model some numbers. Goldman and Coatue presumably like those models.
Nobody is advocating a bad insulation. You said it yourself, P ~ ∆T: I think the rationale here is to lower ∆T and provide heat to your "spot" as needed. It's probably not going "mainstream" quickly either, but it can save you some energy: it's not so wild to imagine lowering your thermostat a few degrees and get a localized heat source if you seat in that one spot most time.
This looks similar to the method employed here:

https://eager.io/blog/how-long-does-an-id-need-to-be/

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539866)
This is late-stage capital, not VC. Goldman Sachs invested in Facebook at $50 bil valuation, so with later revelation that IPO would happen around $100 bil price point, presumably they were happy about 2x.
>Brian Williams was just suspended for six months without pay for lying about a single news story more than a decade ago. From a business perspective, NBC knows their viewers won't take them seriously if they keep a potentially dishonest news anchor on the air.

Interesting. I see the fact that he wasn't fired and permanently publicly disgraced, unable to ever work in journalism again, as evidence that the American culture of honesty is a farce.

We signal that it's bad, but when we catch people cheating and lying, we give them a slap on the wrist. The message is, "Lie, cheat, but don't get caught. And if you do, you'll get off easy."
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Sounds like an extremely one-sided version of an argument. Why should we care about the devs? If the source is open and the software is good, I can tolerate Linus-tier rants if need be.
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My point about paying more is that is the NHS doesn't cover it, it's still available at full cost.

We'll have to agree to disagree about patients getting it. aHUS is a terrible disease. To say everyone who needs it got it is untrue. The "critically ill" got it, but what about people who weren't critically ill, but were sick?
Unfortunately, being affiliated with 4chan means we attract a lot of trolls pretending to be "ex-devs" or "concerned members of the community" who have nothing better to do with their time than to spread FUD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt). We certainly aren't perfect, and have made our fair share of mistakes, but at the end of the day this is just personal drama that serves to distract from the software.
tox does not attempt to hide your ip. Every single friend you have added has your ip. This is by design.
tox does not attempt to hide your ip. Every single friend you have added has your ip. This is by design. So make sure you trust your friends..
Your reply actually highlights one of the key features of Go: if you design it right using channels, constructs like Futures and Promises aren't necessary.
Exactly. These guys are the opposite of the lean startup. All air and venture funding with ambitious growth plans. No product, nothing tested, just on theory. That seems like how a lot of famous dotcom companies launched to great fanfare only to discover the market wasn't interested. Pets.com and webvan come to mind.
Trainers, save editors, translations are basically a common entry point into programming, like a closed knit group of people that love video games and who wants to modify/hack/translate their favourites games. At some point, programming comes to the table and people will start sharing knowledge about it with their own way of doing things. A popular project will get hosted somewhere and the following projects will get hosted there too, simply because they're learning by looking at the popular one. Rapidshare, megauploads, all of these are tools people know before getting into programming, so they just use it. Github is something that comes later, if things get serious.

Dwarf fortress stuff is like that, Minecraft is even worse, you get adfly in the middle :D
Make it worthwhile for someone to test how 'secure' this system is before touting that title.

An audit or a bounty with no limitations on rendering the system insecure. An example of how not to do this would be the Telegram contest sham.
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> If somebody stays away from typed languages, it doesn't mean they're stupid, or lack education, or are afraid of maths. There are entirely valid practical reasons for staying away. Please drop the condescending tone.

Well, ok, let's hear these practical reasons?

Otherwise, it's just an empty claim.
If the project is toxic (no pun intended) that's good enough reason to have nothing to do with it, period. If the above is true, a fork with a less-hostile community/development-environment would be a Good Thing.
Little background about me

1) Graduated from Comp Sci on 2004. Won national algorithmic programming competition while I was in university.
2) Worked as developer/team lead for various projects from mid 2004 till mid 2014. Hated every second of it due to low prestige, low salary, long working hours, CRUD only apps, catering to business whim, etc. I am in South East Asia, hence developers aren't being appreciated much here.
3) Had a chance to move into presales consultancy for the same amount of money. I took the offer and moved in Nov 2014. Till now, I don't regret my decision. The role is more dynamic, I engage with quite a lot of decision makers; and whenever there's a technical issue, I "delegate" it to the developers. Flexible working hours. Commission based on performance. Better prestige here in Asia than just a mere "developer".

I personally think being a developer in Asia is not a career, and you're just waiting to be replaced by a cheaper and better version of you.
I received 30k/year while working for a professor while obtaining my undergraduate degree (all I ever got) in CS. This was almost 10 years ago now, in Canada, at a University in an area with a low cost of living. I thought this was peanuts at the time as I was used to working in Northern Alberta. Looking back, it seems I was very lucky.
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Well, that's fascinating. Thanks for providing some important context.
The issue is that if you use Tox you support their foundation, the Tox Foundation™ which deals with money in a shady way and deceive their users just in order to grow.
I, for moral and ethical principles, don't want to have anything to do with such a thing and believe it's necessary to let people know about the situation.
If they couldn't even respect an ex-developer privacy[0] how can we expect them to run a foundation and create a supposedly secure instant messaging?

[0] https://archive.today/Y6LEw
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Carriers in the US are already moving away from the subsidized model. Verizon has the Edge program where you make monthly payments on the phone for the duration of your contract, but interest-free. Your payments are setup to last the full length of the contract, if you would like to leave the contract, all you have to do is pay the rest of the balance you owe on the phone.
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Interestingly, it looks like Truphone is free for incoming voice and SMS. So if you wanted to control something remotely... that could be extremely inexpensive!

A quick scan of their website suggests there is no monthly fee to hold the number either. Am I missing something?
He did not ignore C, he said C++ is much easier to maintain and lets you use friendly features when it's not performance expensive. They use template as much as possible over macros, C++ debuggers, lambdas, ref counting.
Great point, thanks for pointing this out! I have updated the write up to address this.
I was doing research on anti-piracy, torrent kills all the file sharing portal more than government. File share portals comes directly under law of punishment for hosting and sharing infringed content. Torrent is a general public, mass, there could be many ways to protect innocence against strict law. Hoping that rapidshare made enough money, may try to leave the shit off and spend their time on vocation.

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Interesting, do you have link where that comment was made?
LOL, looking at the headline for this item, I have to agree.
For the カビ in the bathroom, just dilute some bleach at 20% and put it in a spray pot. Apply once a week. Problem solved.

Same for the mold washing machine. Do one cycle with about 200cc of bleach. You can also wash dirty white clothes.
This is literally a 4chan troll copying and pasting the same thing over and over again on /g/
http://rbt.asia/g/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=%22Afte...
http://rbt.asia/g/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=The+%22...

If you actually go and see the "proof" links you'll see most of them are 404 because the OP didn't bother to updating them.
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One of the links I posted above "mysteriously" disappeared.
I have an archived version though.
It's one of the key-points of the situation I exposed, so it's worth a read.

https://archive.today/Y6LEw
That's what you're saying, and how can I expect to trust a troll who copies and pastes stuff over and over again on 4chan?