skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not directly related but I recently attended a local event for the #EducationIsNotACrime global campaing [1] about how the largest religious minority in Iran is prevented from teaching and accessing higher education. In the event they projected an impacting documentary [2] that explained how they are organizing themselves in a secret university with help from teachers in many other countries in order to continue their education.

[1] http://educationisnotacrime.me/

[2] http://film.educationisnotacrime.me/
While true, Palo Alto might not be the center of the universe for... like 99.99999999999999999999% of human beings on this planet. The world is a huge playground. I am slow traveling since many many years and have a pretty awesome life in my books. In the end, that's all that matters. But this is what I optimize my life for and doesn't need to apply to anyone else. I don't dream of a luxurious home in Palo Alto. In exchange I can do or not do whatever I please, whenever I please. Stay or walk away from things, jobs, places, people. Means: I found my answer to what I optimize my life for. I am wealthy in my books. Wealthy with a capital "W". Not rich.
Their lawyers probably read the article and shit bricks. Admitting that all their financial data was fake ... jeezus is there anything the SEC hates more than people presenting false financial performance?

The SEC could have read that too, and what they thought was a another prediction market they realized was an attempt to defraud users because to quote them, "Nobody wants to play in a market with zero users, we realized. So we gave participants the illusion of liquidity."
Yes, but then you're living the lifestyle of somebody who earns 500 EUR a month in Thailand, which means you've got a wooden shack next to a rice paddy and a couple of water buffalo.

On the other hand, if you want a beachfront villa in Phuket, you can quite easily blow 10.000 EUR a week on renting it.
my perspective from some friends that bought a Japanese software startup and moved over there to help run it a few years ago:

promotion is based on age and length of employment. employment is essentially for life. you can't really be fired and you if you quit you may never again be hired (and i can't imagine whistle blowing would bring you any better). seniority reins supreme and unquestioned. there is a huge focus on hard work and long hours but also on loyalty and face.

contrast this to where and how you're working and think about the differences it would make. my friends were constantly frustrated that, try as they may, they could not elicit feed/push-back from anyone that worked under them. part of this is them being stupid foreigners that can't "read the air" properly, but part of that is people being extremely hesitant to touch anything that could be considered a break in seniority or disloyal. and this was a start-up. these were the f'in cowboys in comparison.

from what i gather, this system worked out pretty good with the long, patient and deliberate development cycles in hardware. when a product cycle takes ten years it might not be that bad to have people running it 'cause they've been there 10-20 years. but it doesn't work very well in software.
Not only does that crate use unsafe code, it exports unsafe operations:

unsafe fn uchk_at<'a>(&'a self, index: D) -> &'a A

Perform unchecked array indexing.
Return a reference to the element at index.
Note: only unchecked for non-debug builds of ndarray.

There's no subscript checking optimization for the operations there at all. If you use the safe "at" operation, you get back a "Some" or "None". Here's the basic operation of subscripting:

/// Return a reference to the element at **index**, or return **None**
/// if the index is out of bounds.
pub fn at<'a>(&'a self, index: D) -> Option<&'a A> {
self.dim.stride_offset_checked(&self.strides, &index)
.map(|offset| unsafe {
to_ref(self.ptr.offset(offset) as *const _)
})
}

Is that closure really necessary?
How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies? [pdf]
My issue is not that it's "douchey". It's that it's not repeatable. I can change my mind and go into work tomorrow not motivated by money but that alone will not change my career path.

A more useful answer would be something along the lines of: "Get N years of domain experience in X technology at one of A, B, or C firms, and learn sales."
What's the "corporate enslavement" aspect of an H1-B ? What would be a preferred "work-a-like" ?
Interesting. And to render the html you can use cutycapt. Which is in the Debian repos too. I just tried it, and this rendered a nice diff of two pages for me:

cutycapt --url=http://www.xyz.com/1 --out=1.png
cutycapt --url=http://www.xyz.com/2 --out=2.png
compare 1.png 2.png diff.png
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Assuming you're living in SF Bay Area with ~120k/year ($10k/month) income:

Your earning after tax is ~$6600 per month. After ~$1800 rent and ~$1700 living costs (transportation, food, utils, ...), you get ~3100 in capital savings.

In Singapore, your personal income tax is nearly zero. To match that savings target and quality of life, you only need to earn SGD 7000 per month (~US $5200/month, or $62k/year) and you gonna spend about $1100 for rent and $900 for everything else (without car).

P/S: I'm a non-US citizen, lived in Philly for 7 years, got 120k offer in SF but declined, now working in Singapore.
Happily surviving on $20,000 a year
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Agree with all of those, and in addition please don't use white text on light grey background like when adding a picture or link. http://i.imgur.com/RCvcB9g.png
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And they will still confiscate your toothpaste and Listerine because...terrorism.
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"Global Crisis" (http://www.amazon.com/Global-Crisis-Climate-Catastrophe-Seve...) is a good history of the world-wide climate-driven castastrophe that occurred in the 1600's, which may have killed as much as 1/3 of the human race.

The Little Ice Age was not a good time to be alive, because human economies are tuned up to be optimal in the current climate, whatever it happens to be, and when things change suddenly it takes a generation or two for people to adjust, and since food and other resources are in short supply the natural "solution" the problem is to take up arms and kill people and destroy things, because there is really no better way to ensure a return to surplus conditions than by obliterating the means of production.

There were fairly widespread reports of cannibalism, and although some--like this one--may have been baseless (because it is based on nothing but a gut feeling, and the epistemic utility of our organs of digestion is limited at best) it's pretty clear that it did happen on multiple occasions in both China and Europe.
To get terrorists to be more creative, you have to convince them that the TSA would notice so it's not worth trying to walk through security with a kalashnikov in your hand luggage.

However, I accept your point that given the cost and inconvenience, it would be great if the TSA actually did notice.
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See http://petewarden.com/2015/05/23/why-are-eight-bits-enough-f... too.
Perhaps they had adopted the pet before a completely unexpected event turned their lives upside down and out of their control?
"We're horrible at our job, but if you give us a few billion more dollars and let us force people to remove their underwear at checkpoints, we promise to do better!"
Living in Cologne, Germany in a 2kid family, working as a lead software engineer, saving about 25%/month of salary. Wish I could save more.
Mr. Johnson said that numbers like the security failure rate in the new report “never look good out of context,”

What possible context could make a failure rate of over 95% look good?
I believe that the 250k suicide number is urban legend.

This study, for instance, found that the number was closer to 10k.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2343923
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I don't consider it scamming to provide a paid version without extra features. There are other software products that have this, like Winrar and Cyberduck.

Additionally, if I see a "free" and "paid" version of something I think I need/want, I always get the paid version, because I don't want ads. I'd rather pay 99c~2,99c for no-ads then having those freaking annoying ads.

I want an ad-free home. No ads on my PC, TV or phone. Nowhere.
What about using an unmanned, hydrogen filled, dirigible?

Either conventionally powered, solar powered, or simply towed from the ground along roads?

I'm liking the towing idea. To deal with bridges have two cables, and some drones to carry the cable over the bridge and back to the towing truck.
The king is dead, long live the king.

I used to fly twice a week, and one time one of the screeners shoved a lighter in my shoe as it was going onto the belt. I started yelling at him and he turned to me with the "shush" gesture, and whispered that he was testing the screener to see if he'd catch it.

As a dark-skinned man I did not want to participate in this exercise so I started loudly shouting "He put a lighter in my shoe, does everyone see this?" The other passengers in the line murmured their agreement, the "tester" seemed miffed, and I kept loudly pronouncing the fact that I was not responsible for the lighter in my shoe.

Sitting six feet away from my loud rant, the screener still missed it.
You could try adding a "Social Lite Deals" page where you put affiliate offers (e.g. stuff with reduced prices from Amazon).

This way you provide some kind of additional value and don't risk offending your user base. Granted it won't be as effective as ads but perhaps it's a good starting point to figure out what your users like and accept.
This proclivity towards cannibalization is a real tragedy of we the human species, and it of course has its effects on software.

Often times one might find a customer of software who simply doesn't understand the way the system works, or is to be constructed, and they become suspicious of what they are being sold.

Other times, its quite possible to 'eat ones own dog-food' and be fed back a refactored version of an asset they already owned, if not controlled properly, albeit slightly cooked up.

From the customers perspective, it is perfectly reasonable to experience a plethora of these kinds of cannibalistic effects. If you get it on your plate, to save the project: invite the customer to the table. Software system implementation and usage, constructed though a meat pie, are key factors in success, its true, but if your customer does not at least have one finger in the tray, they won't know how fine it tastes. Educate your customer on software systems and why things are, not just that they are, take care of the bad smells with thorough enlightenment, and voila .. dinnertime.
when it's a question if my family eats vs the pet eats, there are only 2 possible answers:

1. sell/give the pet away

or

2. eat the pet
There were previous reports that included very detailed descriptions, e.g. [0] from 2008. Some will probably be published this year too.

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/28/tsa.bombtest/
Well, when you're a political organization that doesn't make political endorsements as a matter of policy, there are all kinds of judgment calls that you make that reasonable people can disagree with.
One could, for example, take a look at other countries that does not have the same level of security theatre. I have no data obviously (this being the Internet and all) but I wouldn't be surprised to see that there is no measurable difference between countries that have a more sane approach to security and the ones that follow the US lead with the security theatre.
So does WinRar and Ubuntu's Archive Manager.
Younited is shutting down
Is anyone working on this concept for a VR device?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkY8LGjW4w

Seems way cooler than an omni directional treadmill, but I haven't been able to find any companies even proposing to try something like this.
Now make it a webservice and charge $200/month!
I actually agree with Prof. Norman Matloff's proposal: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Summary.pdf

Section 10.3. The rest of the document is a great primer on the whole H1-B system as well. Currently, there is an incredible amount of fraud in this area.
I should have known throwing in the SV comparison here would cause this tangent. Oh well.

The point is really that this was a Show HN post about a little hack someone put together in probably a single weekend. And with a totally unproven product idea, unexplained use cases let alone what ROI might look like, he has already put in place not just a 1 price plan, but a full swathe from startup to corporate customer. It just seems massively over the top at this very very early stage.

A simple disclaimer indicating that he is monitoring API usage, for now, along with a donation button and a "let's talk if you want to use this in an enterprise environment" etc, would have been sufficient.

I wish the guy well, honestly. But there is something to be said of taking things a bit more slowly and progressively. Verify the product idea is at all viable first. Before showing your full hand with badly conceived product plans. Those plans could very well be doing more harm than good. Until you've gathered feedback from customers you don't know if those $ values are a million miles of the expected mark. And the fact there is no free plan for even limited testing is ridiculous really.
Thank you!
I also used the Minimoog as my primary source of inspiration. Robert Moog was a brilliant man. And so modest, too... He changed the music, forever.
WhatsApp has a distinct advantage in the fact that it can rely on lock-in since the app itself is responsible for the connections that are made within it; Once the .99 price-tag comes along, you are faced with paying for it or losing your entire WhatsApp chat network/groups/etc. With OP's software, all of those connections are handled by FB, not his app. Therefore, if he were to charge something, people could simply opt for the next-best one that is free.
How will developer tools work with servo? A plugin?
Rather than monetize, I think instead you should try to get more people to install it. Make it better. Add features to block ads or something. Clearly you've built something people want. Find a way to engage with your users and build more trust with them. Your next app will be quite popular with them, I'm sure.

You're trying to monetize too early. Get real traction first. A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.
What should be is of really no significance in analyzing causes. What should be is ideology and that has no empirical bearing.

I could also state, that people are dumb for not demanding to be informed truthfully about real important issues. But then at least the following question arises:
Who gets to decide, what is important?

Is it American Idol, Dancing with the Stars or is it TSA not working properly?

Most people would root for entertainment I believe yes I know I am a misanthrope).
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OT: thanks for bringing this up! It is this kind of clash of informed opinions that I read the HN comments for.
Maybe you should cite something to back your claim made upthread.
> An when they built the physical radar, the software worked.

I can only imagine a feeling of satisfaction you and your colleagues felt at this moment.
Considering cats and dogs can live for tens of years, it's safe to assume they didn't wait until they were having hard times to buy the pet.
Kind of my point. As a startup dev you have to learn biz. And a really great dev should not have to do that. It is a waste of time and talent. OP was asking how to make money as an engineer. Engineers can play the startup lottery. But they are unlikely to win it. You need a Jobs for every Woz. But as a Woz it is hard and unlikely to find a Jobs - and not get fucked over. Hence my advice.
100 times this.

Way too little, way too late.

And this is a typical corporate-speak fauxpology "Sorry you were offended"-style. _Maybe_ if they'd confessed to unethically pushing shit-ware via dark patterns, they might regain some trust, but "3rd party offers" and "easy-to-decline" are not the phrases they need to be saying to turn around my opinion/advice of "Download from Sourceforge? No chance, I wonder if there's an alternative way to get that software, or if I have to find an alternative?"
My suggestion for newcomers is a budget of 2000-4000 EUR month for comfortable living in Bangkok (depending on your level of comfortableness). The daily live of a 500 EUR worker is not the same as that of an expat (e.g. membership at a co-work space alone will set you back ~200$/month). Gyms are as expensive as in the west.
OutSystems also uses visual representations for the web sites.
Because the paranoid and delusional desire power?
That would be a bad argument.

Consider two passages. One has a mantrap or airlock style set of doors which only permits two people per minute. The other has a set of turnstiles which -collectively- permit six-hundred people per minute.

Through which passage are you going to fit the most people in a sixty-minute period?

Consider also that -regardless of how many people you fit through the passage- at the destination of each one of those people is an orderly queue designed to never be overloaded. This means that the only thing lowering throughput at the passage does is lengthens the queue to pass through the passage. If you lengthen that queue, then folks waste more time waiting in that queue; time that could be usefully spent doing anything else.
> Can you think of large well known software from Japan

Ruby.
I come from a similar background. I started with BASIC, moved briefly through QBASIC to Borland C++. I also learned programming through making games (before I had access to the web too)! Yet... I don't have the same reaction to these tools that you do.

I've been trying to get our kids interest in programming, and the most successful attempt yet was using an iPad app called Hopscotch - a drag-and-drop language that's severely restricted.

My next step is to try and get them using Unity3D. I'm not sure if C# is the way to go, but maybe it doesn't matter. What's most important is motivation! It has to be fun, and accessible. These basic languages are a way to suck people in who otherwise might have passed over programming completely.
The small lives
Based on the linked article from The New England Journal of Medicine would one be able to tell if this is a cure that will be patented by Evil Corp? Or are these researchers publishing these findings as "open source"?

I'm presuming the 2 drugs themselves are patented? Otherwise I have a hard time believing 4 doses would cost 100k?
Monitoring is a good idea. However, pixel-based comparison services are quite pointless for web pages. Banners, dynamic content etc. simply drives spam.

Try Browserbite with its feature-based comparison. There are other regression-oriented tools out there as well that use pixel-based methods as well.
The story of the Boeing engineers flying on the test flights is a perfect example of "skin in the game" (from Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb).

Here's what I wrote about that in a blog post on Antifragility and SW development:

At the end of the book, there is a chapter on ethics that Taleb calls “skin in the game”. To have skin in the game, you should share both in the upside and downside. Taleb quotes the 3,800 year old Hammurabi’s code: “If a builder builds a house and the house collapses and causes the death of the owner – the builder shall be put to death”. It is interesting to view this from a software development perspective. I have never worked on software where people’s lives were in danger if the software failed, but I would not be willing to submit to Hammurabi’s code if I did. But I think a little less extreme form of skin in the game is actually very good. Being on call for example. If the software you wrote fails, you may get called in the middle of the night to help fix it. I have been on call at most of the places I have worked in the past, and I think it has a lot of benefits. It gives you an incentive to be very thorough, both in development and testing. It also forces you to make the software debuggable – otherwise you yourself will suffer. Another way of introducing skin in the game is dog-fooding – using the software you are developing in your daily work. I have never worked on software that we have been able to dog-food, but I think that is another great practice.

http://henrikwarne.com/2014/06/08/antifragility-and-software...