skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there might be a positive market dynamic overall for the original game makers to keep a cut: it would encourage more games to be made moddable, especially indies, who would look to an actual extra revenue instead of the unverifiable "mods sell more of the original game", which is definitely true for big names like Bethesda (whom I think could do well with a 0% cut to encourage even more professional mods), but might not attract so many new people into buying an indie game.
>A combination of pallid skin, hoody and laptop is the biggest giveaway. Such hackneyed images of hackers are, of course, evidently wrong, bordering on offensive

Damn straight it's offensive. I spent a lot of money on a suit, skimask and laptop.
Steve Ballmer had x < 8% initially, if this helps :) (from wiki).
Just a wild guess: Could the enterprise in-house code signing certificate have expired? That would lock out the app. Imagine that happening mid-flight!

(The iOS enterprise in-house code signing certificates, which only Apple can issue, always seem to come with 1-2 year hard expiration dates)
Think /.git, Dave.

/.go
vendors # map simple import name to explicit (ugly) path
... # other stuff for additional e.g. generate features

Hierarchical: Think OO-ish shadowing of .go directives and metainfo.

Is this clear?
You actually have a pretty good point, I'll have to think about this to find a nice way to fix that. I'm sure you are not the only one to feel this way.
The evidence is at best neutral for education boosters which is really weird. Education increases as the economy grows but it doesn't seem to have any effect on economic growth itself.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/did_nations_tha....

Did Nations that Boosted Education Grow Faster?

No. Each dot in the graph below represents a nation: Change in education on the x-axis and change in per capita GDP growth on the y-axis. Between the 60's and the 90's every country in this sample boosted its average years of education--it was a golden age of alleged human capital investment. Some nations boosted schooling more, some less. How did that turn out?
Interesting. This would seem to suggest that wealth drives education. Of course the problem is now how to make the world wealthier.
If you're curious, check out https://www.foreflight.com/, it's available from the app store and is marketed towards GA pilots. I've used it with some success on a domestic US flight with the inflight WIFI.

EDIT: I just checked ForeFlight had a version update on 4/27. I doubt American is using the same software on their tablets, but then again you never know.
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it's very kind of you to translate open source projects for free. I personally think you should give that more attention rather then just an italic sentence at the bottom of the page.
Lots of money for Bethesda games? Are their games more expensive then competition that does not provide modding? Are their games expensive at all? Giving how much gameplay game like Skyrim gives, price seems fair.
You are right on all those points except for 1998 in my opinion. Investment was not as founder friendly and not as available to ordinary people with a smaller idea, as it was pre crowd funding.

But I think I am right as well in that we (humans) have never been this able to solve problems like this.

Ballon based Internet and mobile devices will let developing countries leap frog the networking model of the west.

For the problem of clean water in places without public water utilities we need open source hardware projects that design cheap and easy for ordinary people/communities to make from available materials, raw and finished.

Something like a solar still that's so cheap and easy to construct it changes the entire equation.

And I know that sounds hand wavey and politics are still important. But I believe all politics get easier when there is less scarcity, and technology can reduce scarcity. And I can't fix politics, so I'm focusing on all the power I do have to make things better.
Performance is of course lower. But it's impossible to put a number on it. Certainly native calls (printf, scanf, fopen, fread) add a lot of overhead. Also whenever the C memory layout has to be used, performance suffers (e.g. complex pointer arithmetic).

But the approach is to get the correct translation first, and then - if needed - bottlenecks can be removed manually. This should lead to a better migration/upgrading experience.
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No, why would I want to do that unless I have a specific need for that?

At least if you're using a Unix-like system, then understanding POSIX is essential for knowing how things work starting on an intermediate level.
Funny thing about the NES palette is it's actually spectacularly poorly chosen. It has no yellow and dedicates 10 entries to black.

Source: http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php?...
There is also little known but very cool MooseFS http://www.moosefs.org/
Everyone understands HTTP and it interoperates with all your existing systems. To do COAP or MQTT requires sorting out a suitable backend.

The big IOT unsolved problem is more to do with security and updates.
The important message on that slide is not the picture, but the words below it.
It certainly does. I can't imagine even starting on a project like this.
Send us an email. We're currently getting overrun with requests but will handle it as fast as possible.

Please note that the software needs to be in some public repository (github, bitbucket, sourceforge, ...).
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It's really just basic editor support. Agda is quite an interactive programming language, so you need lots of shortcuts, syntax highlighting, autofilling etc in order to get productivity at all (especially since you're constantly moving stuff in and out of a repl)

https://youtu.be/pP7ynVdVY9A?t=13m gives a decent example.

As to why support isn't in other editors, it's probably a combination of: more code to support, no one wants to write it, and the fact that Agda is less amenable to being sped up by efficient usage of editors (as it is a more interactive process with less copy pasting).
> Is this clear?

not really
Dave thanks for doing this. Not just for building the tool but for a very well thought out and convincing presentation.

I'm completely with you. My own solution has similar ideals (per project versioned deps) though a different solution. https://github.com/joewalnes/go-getter/blob/master/README.md. Honestly I'm just glad others are finally talking about the elephant in the room.
The "next thing" (as opposed to "status quo") is not always better. It's not even "most of the time better", more like a coin toss.

Why should politicians make it easy for a foreign company to destroy a local, tax-paying, profession that gives jobs to people and follows certain obligations and rules voted for public safety?
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I still don't quite get why cities should be any kind of enclosures. The world as we know it has these huge air filtration and CO₂-to-O₂ conversion systems called "forests", and I do not understand why cities should be disconnected from them (apart from perhaps protecting the forests).
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If I need permission to leave after 8 hours I simply won't ever come back.
Project Euler?
https://projecteuler.net/
Ask HN: On crawling email ids
People use the format abc[at]companyname[dot]com to escape crawlers from getting their email ids when posting on public formus. How efficient is that?Cant the crawlers just change their regex to parse this patterns as well ?
Could Small Business Ownership Be a Solution in Baltimore?
But at the same time we have things like nbomes which kill people and we don't know why.

And then the other big issue with safety is when you get a white powder it's impossible to tell what it is without testing. People snort something they think is one drug, turns out they just took a massive of another.
First of all, congratulations on the revenue and from your statement that it is not even close to failing I infer that you must have at least 15% to 20% profit margins and have replaced salary and benefits you personally would be earning working elsewhere.

Working from that scenario it seems that you have taken out a significant portion of the risk. That is you have built/created "X" it is not just a great dream. You have proven that "X" is a business by convincing people/businesses to pay for "X" at a price that produces a profit.

Your risk in bringing on a co-founder is that in trying to grow the company he will screw up the current secret sauce or distract you from what has worked to get to this point.

My own experience has led me to believe that many people who say they can deliver high growth to early stage enterprises cannot. In some cases it is because most of the growth they take credit for in another firm had little to do with their personal performance and much to do with firm brand/reputation, well established sales processes and other intangible factors. They get into this new environment and cannot reproduce former results. Other times, people in sales and marketing are much better at selling themselves than they are at selling the product. And, then there are those that really deliver results! How can you be certain this potential co-founder will really deliver growth?

Other comments point you in the right direction. If you decide to go ahead, then vest over 4 years - that is very common. Also I would make some milestones around sales growth. If certain growth targets are hit, this person can choose to take a cash bonus or to accelerate vesting. Finally 25% seems high to me since you have taken out so many of the early stage risks - something more on the order of 15% seems reasonable.

Of course, be wary of accepting advice from strangers on the Internet.
Self-driving cars will need people, too
How not to do Twitter support or password recovery
The article says the software was from Jeppesen/Boeing.
There are two measures identified in the article -- one is skills attained, the other is number of years spent in school. Averages of both are fairly standard measures of the national education systems. The skills attained one is probably the more important, since it's an outcome measure that more directly measures what education is supposed to avertive, the years in school one is an indicator of access and retention that can often help explain the skill measures.
I think it is not that bad. Article measures standard as "years of study" which is irelevant. Western school system also has lot of problems (drug medication abuse, criminalizing children for normal behavior, teaching irelevant stuff), it is not that hard to provide better average quality of education.
I'm interested in a better solution/idea if you have any.
$60 with a money back guarantee. You are not going to beat that price. How much is your time worth that $60 is too much?
[A corollary of Spolsky's analysis] [1]

Adding a cofounder should essentially, though not perhaps legally, mean there's a new company. And the new company should be more valuable to the point that the existing founder's equity goes up despite the dilution. Thus:

100 / (number_of_current_founders + 1)

The value of adding a cofounder is solely based on the future value of the company. Looking backward at sunk costs doesn't add value in the best case, is a waste of time in the average case, and generates toxicities in the worst.

If you don't want to make the person rich, don't make them a cofounder...they're the wrong candidate for you. If you want to negotiate with potential cofounders then the relationship is founded at arm's length and down the road when there's real money on the table is entirely within the explicit nature of the relationship.

Good luck.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
Valve and It’s Decision to Stop Offering Paid Mods
One disadvantage to this that I hven't seen anyone else mention is the Netflix problem:

Once the service becomes popular a lot of people at big publishers will come up with the "brilliant" idea of creating their own "Netflix" which will cost slightly more and only contain their content and all of a sudden you have to subscribe to two places if you want to enjoy movies/series without using popcorn time.
This looks pretty nice. Pointer/array arithmetic seems to be handled nicely, (double)malloc(sizeof(double)*100) looks pretty ugly but it's hard to tell what's going on under the DoubleContainer hood.

For OSS (or other projects) that just need running JVM byte code, checkout the GCC Bridge component of Renjin, which uses a combination of GCC to Soot to compile C and Fortran code to bytecode:
https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/tree/master/tools/gcc...
I find the "100% Compatible with CommonMark" a bit confusing, without looking I'd assume CommonMark was another product from the same people, and they'd done a re-branding, and wanted to make the association.

That said, whilst writing this comment it occurs to me that CommonMark might also be an effort I've never heard of to standardise out some of John Gruber’s original undefined spec behaviours, but as a developer Github flavoured markdown is the de-facto standard as it has many well written and well-tested implementations.
That guy bothers me.

What he doesn't account for is that, most likely, a place that would have to invest in education is not a developed nation in the first place. However, whatever you produce and especially export to the developed countries most likely comes from low-skilled labour to begin with, because that's how capitalism organised its centre/periphery-model of outsourcing labour costs. A boost in education does nothing to change the underlying power relations and economic networks that govern generation of wealth, since you still have to rely on exporting products that come from cheap labour, whether your workers can now read/write or not. This is especially true for an increasingly more globalised world, and since the numbers only take into account anything past 1960, I get the feeling he is omitting rather a lot that would have to be addressed.
> That's a bit different, isn't it? I don't know how it is in the UK, but outside of it, it's not his pro-colonial views which are admired, but his charisma and obstination.

Isn't that fundamentally similar to admiring Stalin for being strong enough to defeat Hitler rather than his penchant for purges, gulags and strategically-useful famines? Or indeed crediting JFK as the media-friendly darling of the civil rights movement rather than one of the key antagonists in the escalation of a war which may have cost 10% of Vietnam's population.

I'm not suggesting that Churchill or even JFK were remotely close to being a bad a human being as Stalin, but the tendency for history's lens to be very selective about what it focuses on isn't exactly something unique to Russia.
They already got their cut for the use of their IP.
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I think the take away was that you need to give citizens the freedom to meet each other's needs instead of forcing top down solutions, make it easy to start businesses, and don't protect entrenched interests (e.g., tax cuts and regulations that protect current industry). I may be remembering that through a lens of my own political leanings, but what I learned in that class helped shape those political leanings as well.
It's funny how a 30 yo gives advices like he's an old (wise) man :-)

You barely become a real adult at 30 (before you're just a "legal" adult) and there's a lot more experience needed to advise people about their lives.

Oh and fwiw, I'm 37 and still don't feel qualified to teach people about their lives.
These enterprise apps aren't vetted by Apple, so they could very well be using unsafe APIs Apple doesn't recommend and would block during an App Store review process. And there are tons of ways to crash machines from userspace. Also, it's likely the iPads are running an old version of iOS. And for all we know, the iPads are jailbroken and all bets are off. Finally, it sounds like AA's software provider was able to deliver a patch, so I don't think it's just a matter of iOS being "unauditable". What OS would they be using that met your auditability standards? Even Android is not totally open.
If it really works - very impressive! Have you considered using sun.misc.Unsafe for things like pointer arithmetic?
On a macro level over the long run I find that hard to swallow. Economic development is essentially "learning to do more with less". Economic growth IS learning.

Paleolithic humans had all the basic resources we have today, except they lacked our education.
Yep, supporting 90% of C took 10% of the time. Or even much less time.

Native C libraries (libc, libmath, ...) are just directly used from Java, not translated.

Yes, there is a lot of money in Cobol/Fortran to Java. Many tried, none successful (I know many stories). We'll look into those two languages in the future. But creating real translators takes years.
American Airlines does not use ForeFlight, though we are used by a variety of other large operators.
This is the one point that I keep re-iterating to the teams I work with. If you can't define what a success is move on and do something else where you can. It's very easy to get caught up in interesting stuff 'just because' but if it does not contribute in a measurable way then it's just another distraction that you should avoid.
So you spend 4h extra away from your family to look good to coworkers? That seems a symptom not a cure.
That looks like a pretty close copy—or rip off, rather—of Ulysses (http://ulyssesapp.com/)...
> Wat? Is this a thing in the US? If so, I'm incredibly happy I live in Sweden.

Very much dependent on the company. For most, no, 40 hours is the standard and that's that. There's probably a skewed view here since early stage (i.e. desperate) startups often buck that trend. Harvard Business Review is also probably not the most unbiased voice on an issue like that.
Competing on price is a losing game. The customers that want a cheap price will be the most work and hassle. They simply don't value the product or you i.e. "Why should I pay someone much to type for a few hours?"

It's not intuitive, but raising your price will signal that you and your work are more valuable AND you will get more and better customers. Consider this: when you shop for something (that you don't have a lot of knowledge about) I bet you use the price as one indicator of quality. Same for services: Your customers will think "If he can charge $XXX hour, he must be good."

It is so common to devalue your own abilities as developer that it is a cliche' (Google "imposter syndrome"). In reality, your ability to deliver real value to a business/client happens long before you consider yourself an "expert".

I have 2 rates. (1) Free (2) Full price. In my experience, customers don't appreciate introductory discounted rates. Instead, they feel ripped off when you start charging them the full rate.

I don't have time to find the links now but HN'er Patrick McKenzie "Patio11" has written great stuff on this. See his blog on Kalzumeus Software.
There's the bootloader, there's the bios and there is the operating system. It's perfectly legal to do bios calls from a running operating system (though there will be a price to pay for sure). The bootloader is usually discarded after the boot. The bios doesn't 'run' in any way either until you call it, think of it as a library that you can call.
Krugman has written a lot about Japan, and Abenomics. According to Krugman's own analysis, Abenomics would not be very effectual and warned that particular Abenomics policies (like the tax increases) would indeed worsen the economy. It's a little disingenuous to say the economy is worse: growth did improve (until the VAT increase Krugman warned would be disastrous) and unemployment did fall, and Krugman wasn't worried about the debt in the first place since the Japanese can still borrow at very low rates.

Abenomics does not correspond almost at all to Krugman's prescriptions, it was simply expected to be slightly less bad than what was happening before.
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AFAIK this is more of a regulatory thing than a direct safety issue. This has to work to be allowed to take off. When in flight though, they have no choice but to keep flying.

The device not working could have become an issue if something unexpected happened though.
Which sounds like BS / urban legend. $40.000 for (generously) 1 gram x 300 passengers = less than a pound per flight?

[UPDATE] not sure for fuel, but might be true in olive prices, given these numbers:

Their website says 6,700 flights per day. Let's round it to 6000.

6,000 flights a day -> It's 2,190,000 flights a year x 100 meals per flight x 1 olive saved -> 219,000,000 olives saved.

This list http://sizes.com/food/olives.htm gives about 80-150 olives per pound (depending on the kind of olives), let's say 120 on average.

This makes 219,000,000 olives -> 1,825,000 pounds.

If they get them in bulk for like $1 or even $0.1 per pound, that's still an impressive $182,500 saved per year!

(Not sure if all flights include meals though. I used 100 meals per flight as a guesstimation could be higher/lower depending on the duration of most flights and the percs included).
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five...
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It is outrageous that flights could be stopped because of a reliance of shiny iThings and the software running on them.
Paper versions do not run out of juice.

There is a place for shiny tech, but the flight deck is not it. Paper worked, and we should go back to it.
I wondered about that too. I mean, what happend to plain old paper approach-charts. Is it common to have these on an iPad by now?
Ask HN: Best way for individual investor to take short position in tech stocks
For both hedging and speculative purposes, I am interested in risking some money that technology stocks will broadly decline in value over the next few months to 1 year. As far as I can tell, there is no good way for me as an individual investor to express this viewpoint. Some ideas and their pitfalls:

- Buy put options on a broad tech ETF like QQQ, but the costs of trading options seem prohibitively high at online brokerages (TD Ameritrade, Schwab)

- Buy an inverse ETF like PSQ, but inverse ETFs have very high fees and also only tend to work over a very short time horizon (days at most)

- Buy a long position in some stocks that should benefit if tech declines. Unfortunately I don't know of any sector that is so clearly inversely correlated with tech

Does anybody know of a good way to take a short position in tech stocks?
How does it save the files? Looks like they are kept in a database in ~/Library/Application Support.

This would be awesome for keeping notes in plain text that will stand the test of time.
The giant advances in the developed world include--but are not limited to--building economies where more people people had the luxury of having access to more years of education and the luxury of devoting time to it.