skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If more marketing results in more sales, that's what they're going to do. Living a life paranoid about marketing seems like a severe overreaction -- why not just be a more discerning customer? It's pretty clear the vast, vast majority of sales are driven by marketing and not quality - to the point that quality in a lot of industries is considered a niche. Living a life afraid of marketing and feeling like a victim seems a lot worse than buying some crappy stuff. The more positive use of your energy in my opinion is just being a more discerning customer.

> One can already see this happening with the blockbuster movies. Big studios start hyping up big releases as early as 2 years and continue to maintain the hype by releasing trailer and trailers of trailers, articles about how the director is a master of the craft and how the movie is going to be insane. But when you see the movie, it will be often mediocre. But the movie will be a hit regardless.

This is the movie industry reacting to a changing market more than anything else in my opinion. Movies are just moving towards the new LCD of people who will actually pay for movies. People are watching less movies, and lets face it a lot of the people who enjoy the types of movies I assume you enjoy (I am just assuming we have similar taste) are people who are likely to pirate -- the movie industry isn't going to cater towards a demographic that is relatively unlikely to pay for their content.

People obviously enjoy the behind the scenes stuff, so its a pretty obvious move to give more access to the public "faces" for your movie (namely director and major stars).

Releasing trailers early and gauging interest lets them know how much money to sink into the movie -- they need a higher hit rate than they've had in the past to make money on their "portfolio". So obviously they are going to change the process and move towards safer movies (reboots are becoming more frequent for example).

> The major share of it is manipulative and geared towards creating a need or preferences towards a particular product.

Okay? Isn't that basically the definition of marketing? The entire formula is the more people that know your product and feel like they need it, the more people buy it.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't see what's ironic about attributing that quote to Alcott. Sophomoric, yes, but I don't get the irony.
"easier to avoid burnout" feels to me more like a function of time vs actually being f2f with folks, assuming the work doesn't change dramatically. But... my data points are primarily my own and some colleagues, not a comprehensive view of techfolk.
Is this not essentially like every other nationalist rant?

Too many immigrants, they are taking our jobs/benefits, we're letting the jihadis in, and so forth?
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A coworker and I tested this out when the announcement was originally made, at least in the use case of iterating a massive array. (Insert 100M trues and one false at the end, and find me the false)

Code is here: https://gist.github.com/Karunamon/abc6483ac1d08f6cc137.

The result was that streams were roughly 4x slower.

Still, I really like some of the new constructs that Java is getting - they make the language a bit more expressive, lack of which has always been my main gripe with the language.
Were there studies done to show that material design was "the way"? Or for that matter, was there any research done proving that it would be more useful at all? The designers at my company tout it as "the right way". I'm trying to be accommodating, but I'm starting to suspect that this is just one company's word over another's.
Ok I think the Persian people need a Post-Taroof Reformist League.
Those unspoken Taroof-ish concerns seem like obstacles that complicate their daily lives (sigh).
I command you to plant the reformist seed in their society :D
Instagram is launching a redesigned website with bigger photos
I'm also interested in seeing the possibility of seeing projections for my area, but yes, there doesn't seem to be a good way of sifting through the data.
Charge more! Your customers are businesses! A customer with 5 investment properties is in most cases literally a millionaire.
Astrology might have a scientific basis after all...
Seems reasonable. Reminds me of the culture change required when engineers would say we'd like to do agile? Or can we make our own technical decisions with our interference? Or why do we have Business Analyst, Developers and Tester silos, sat in different offices with different managers etc.

Whilst still common those ideas are known anti-patterns. Let us hope UX and solid design is absorbed into the mainstream in time.
As a Singaporean, I laugh at these low immigration numbers. 150K per year out of 9.8 million residents, that's a drop in the ocean.

According to the government, the total population of Singapore is 5.26M. Out of this, 3.27M are citizens, with 540K Permanent Residents and 1.46M non-residents. In other words, about 2M or 38% of the population were not born in Singapore.[1] Note that this is a conservative estimate since an immigrant can become a Singapore Citizen after 2 years as a Permanent Resident.

And yes, obviously there is great concern because a lot of foreigners do not assimilate well either.[2]

[1] http://population.sg/resources/population-composition/
[2] http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/rapid-growth-singapor...
> 1. Independent artists are empowered in the way that they can distribute music in so many places online - getting people to listen is another matter. Even if your music is good marketing it by yourself is very, very hard.

Yes... except that the RIAA has the legal authority to collect royalties on behalf of independent artists (that's right, on behalf of artists who haven't even signed to a major label).

These artists have to petition the RIAA[0] in order to collect their earnings. Success in this endeavor varies widely; many artists complain that after years of effort they have failed to receive any of their money from the RIAA.

This same entity, by the way, has spent exorbitant amounts of money lobbying to (effectively) shut down Internet radio[1].

> Artists need labels.

This is true. In fact, artists need major labels, not just labels. But the reason for this is a tautology: they need major labels because we have created (by fiat) a situation in which they cannot operate without the oversight of a major label, whether they want to or not, so they might as well try and enter into a formal relationship so they can actually have standing with them as a client.

[0] Technically a former subsidiary that's now "independent" in name only

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundExchange#Lobbying_controv...
Thanks! I'm the guy behind Paw, and I must say the Dynamic Values are our kind of secret sauce :) it's just one piece of the app, but it's what allows you to do pretty much whatever you want. Extensions are also nice, as they allow you to add new features yourself: https://luckymarmot.com/paw/extensions/
I still think the best solution is to make basically reverse the current rules. Make the first 2 checked bags free, charge for additional after that. Allow one small carry-on, but charge for the second. The fee for the second carry-on should be at least 2x the fee for the 3rd checked bag.
> A single 30 year old (average age of HNers?) earning €100K will receive €58,869 after all the income taxes

I just put it into the calculator and the number for 2015 is: 59,019

This results in an effective tax rate of 40% approximately (this is with a property tax and water tax)

The Property tax being so low is one of the causes of the housing bubble. And some people blow their (yearly) water tax on a night at the pub.

And believe me income taxes are not that much better in other places (or there are other issues)

Yeah, healthcare could be better, but it's not a big issue (as opposed to something like the USA)
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I'm curious why there is a restriction of 2010 or newer mac. Is it something in the CPU that's needed? I've 10.10.3 installed on a non supported mac and wanted to use this, but getting errors when I try the test Linux
Sure he has his reasons but it's most because he is making a decision that he believes is the right to do, not because his employer did something wrong.

I am in the exact same situation as him (without the equity large enough to cover my mortgage), but I recognize my last employer was actually good to me, my unhappiness was not their fault.
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It's not a good idea. Tank storage is complicated; stratification and precipitation can cause criticality events at unpredictable moments.

The 1958 criticality accident at Los Alamos was the result of merely turning on a mixer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid...
It sounds to me that the OP simply got tired of confronting an endless sea of technical debt. It happens to the best of us.
(meta) Anything that gets more comments than votes is known to be penalised by the HN ranking algo. Any highly political post like this tends to get more comments than votes, so most of the time it sinks. But, this article is about Sweden, which is outside of most readers' personal experience, so while people still upvote it from agreement with its politics, they don't jump in and start debating it quite so much.

Eventually enough people will flag it or start commenting that it'll drop anyway (a mistake in the algorithm if you ask me, as it makes flags 'super-downvotes') but in the mean time...
Yeah, diffs on JSON responses are something we are thinking about! But tests/assertions are what would make your APIs regression proof.
I'm sure someone here is already making a visualization with the dataset.
maybe I'm missing something. Is there any reason why they couldn't just pop the lids off the tanks and let nature do what it does, evaporate the water. Figure it could take a couple of years or so for all the water to evaporate and at the same time rain water would dilute whatever is in there.
Material design is great but I am still wondering how google could release the new Chrome bookmark manager which is a usability nightmare. It requires you to click many times to set a bookmark directory instead of just typing some tag.
Basic usability testing would have shown this.
I take melatonin as a sleeping pill whenever I need to get to sleep, it knocks me right out with less grogginess the next day compared to over-the-counter stuff. My doctor later said it was hit or miss with different people, which is why you probably hear very mixed results about it. Still, I try to avoid taking it unless I really need to get to sleep on time - despite relative safety, no clue what weird longer-term effects may get reported in the future.

Side note: I visited a sleep specialist/neurologist a while back, who said the proper way to use melatonin was to take it in the middle of the day and stay awake until your regular bedtime. I haven't been using it like that, but thought I'd recommend looking into it first if someone is going to consider taking it. He was the expert, after all.
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Can this checksum routine be contributed to ReactOS. Or is it not allowed since he disassembled Windows.
I think you absolutely have to temper idealism with meeting people where they are but I don't believe that's an excuse for cynicism. At the end of the day, people everywhere want the same fundamental things: A life of connection, respect and joy and a world that is better for their children than for themselves.

Technology & economic development has eradicated illnesses, brought billions out of hunger, enabled new political systems and unlocked creativity as a career option for a large middle class. But it's technology in the broad, expansive sense, not the narrowly focused, web & mobile app economy that is what's meant by "tech" in the Bay Area.
Charge what a human would charge.
I agree that no one actually wants this. It would take a moderate amount of work, but certainly far less work than the modern welfare state which I'm proposing using it as a substitute for.

My real point is that liltimmy's appeal to some hunter/gatherer era is silly.
I sure hope so because I am very very curious. Surely there are a lot of researchers that will love to jump into this data and manipulate it somehow. It's a good time to be studying climate change now... your dissertation is right here :D
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No, no sexual connotations

I don't think "mare" is that insulting either, an insult-lite at best.

Used in relation usually to being stubborn.

"come on, do your homework, you're stubborn like mare / you stubborn little mare"
Assuming you're not trolling; the whole bit about immigrants is textbook xenophobia, couched in code words. The author uses the word "immigrants", but they don't use it mean all non-Swedish people from any other country. "Immigrants" in this context means the poor, dirty and lazy people of whatever country it's popular to hate at the moment. They're probably brown-skinned or at least non-Aryan.
OP mentioned 26.8% for Sweden. That is not low compared to Singapore.
And this reaction is exactly what makes any valid debate in pretty much most of Western Europe impossible.

Any time anyone dares to complain about the influence of ultra-reactionary immigrants on the quality and safety of public life, they are immediately branded "nationalist", "xenophobic" or "fascist".

Many of us, like myself, are from immigrant backgrounds. There is a world of difference between how our predecessors treated the country they immigrated to and what the recent waves of reactionary Islamists are doing.

People who aggressively and violently oppose the liberal values of our nations are not immigrants, they are invaders. And people of all races and political believes are getting tired of this shit.

Stop blaming the victims. We are not the aggressors, we are not the homophobic, antisemitic, anti-women criminal trash that terrorises public life.

We were once safe and progressive nations, and wanting to take that back does not make us fascist.
> "Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border along with the tens of thousands ID-less refugees.

It is true that 9 out of 10 that applies for Asylum in Sweden have no ID.

Source: http://www.svd.se/nio-av-tio-saknar-id-handling
One big difference is that by tying it to the email client, you're already showing the targets email address pre-filled, just like the legit prompt would. Plus, you can specifically target an individual and show the prompt without needing to convince them to visit a webpage first.
I agree, there are going to still be some separation because your UX designer is not going to know how to shard a database, or your developer still won't know what kind of palette to apply given a certain circumstance (or use Photoshop), but it's essentially they talk and are not separated into silos.
Please indicate how to manually set the weather, somewhere in github or elsewhere.Thanks :D
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Singapore is very different though, with a long history of immigration.

Additionally, my understanding of Singapore's immigration laws (I looked into migrating there myself a few years ago) is that it's difficult to do so for anything other than economic reasons - you have to prove you have a job offer or can contribute substantially to Singapore's economy.
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I couldn't manage to find one single positive article in this report[1]. So it's good for they that they got the opportunity to move (apparently they moved back for family reasons).

[1] Really? Not even an article about a particularly delicious meal of köttbullar?
> Got offered a full-time job in the tech industry with (gaaasp pension!) outside of Dublin, 5 minutes from my front door, with better salary, bonuses and healthcare. Things can work out well (and I really don't mean to sound patronizing here) with patience and a bit of luck.

While it seems to have become the trend to rail against traditional 40 hour/week jobs, the stability they can offer it extremely enticing to people with families. Eevee lives with 3 other grown adults and no children.

As someone looking to make the jump from a traditional job to financial independence (and self employment), I've noticed that people like Tim Ferris and Ramit Sethi all have one thing in common: no children. They are able to take the risks they can because when they fail, it's only on them.

With kids and a house, it's no longer the case. The people I follow who have successfully made the transition (Mr. Money Mustahce, Simple Programmer) have all used the traditional job as a means of support until they were ready to launch.

Also, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with just wanting to put in 40 hours and go home.
I just had a look at the numbers, UK vs IE you're about 10% worse off in Ireland in terms of take home pay. Then as you say, you need to pay another X grand on health insurance. That's a pretty raw deal.

What a crappy system, to simultaneously make it great for corporations and bad for workers.

There have to be some other major upsides that I'm not understanding. It's a pretty country, that's something :)
I try to :) In the form of really often expressing my explicit wish for their wonderful icecream :D :D
I spent two weeks in the hospital from my chronic insomnia once, anybody who tells me I just need to relax or stop reading in bed is about as helpful as someone who tells somebody with chronic depression to cheer up.

Not everything is in your head, and no amount of positive thinking will change that.
> 38% of the population were not born in Singapore

How many of these are out of work and lives on public welfare?
you had me at "Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border"

what a pile of crap
Don't checked bags incur a higher cost to the airline than carryon, though?

(The whole sorting & hand screening & getting bags to the plane bit)
This is an issue for Italy but not for Sweden. Sweden is not a border state.
To be very accurate, REST isn't necessarily based on HTTP. But we like to see "REST" or "RESTful" as the type of HTTP APIs we almost all build nowadays as opposed to other protocols built on top of HTTP like SOAP. (Frankly, who builds non-HTTP REST stuff?!)

Disclaimer: I'm a Paw guy (founder).
Thanks Patio11 - I already had you in my head telling me to charge more when we set the price :)

We'll review it along with some other data we are collecting...
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Thanks. I thought I noticed a Haskell logo sticker on that developer's laptop in the photo...
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Yeah, wait until he finds out there are 12 million undocumented immigrants.
You know what sucks. As an American I'd still have to pay American income taxes. I cannot wrap my head around how we can say that's ok. Sure, there are ways to get around a portion of the taxes, but those involve things like never coming to the US for more than a set (short) amount of time.
I tried a cocktail of SSRIs for 3 months each and none ever worked for my anxiety. I'm not a fan of benzos given what I've read here and heard in other places. Also, I doubt I'd be able to easily obtain them. Nevertheless, my anxiety is slowly killing me and I'd like to get a handle on it - what other options are there? I recently discovered that MAOIs are great, if you can deal with the dietary restrictions - anybody have experience with them?
Any Atlassian guys reading this: could you please take a more active role in Visual Studio extension maintenance?

https://bitbucket.org/lmn/visualhg2/wiki/Home

http://visualhg.codeplex.com/

It's kind of demotivating to see all action happening in github-land.

PS: I am not a paying customer at the moment.
Good lord, 53% tax plus 23% VAT plus utilities tax plus monthly healthcare premiums plus...?

I'm a bit of a socialist living in the U.S. - I believe in higher taxes on higher earnings and universal healthcare - but what in all that is holy do you get for your tax money??
So that we are talking about the same thing, from where is the immigration coming from? Is it primarily neighboring countries with similar language, culture, and religion, or is it like Sweden where commonality in culture is the exception rather than the norm?
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You can write JSON in the Text field, and it will be syntax colored if you add a "Content-Type: application/json" header. And you can switch back and forth between Text and JSON formats.
(I'm a Paw guy)
Realize that what you mean with "to get used to this new OS" is possibly "I need to get used to this desktop environment / window manager". I don't know what desktop environment you use but it is possibly Ubuntu's Unity, Gnome or KDE.

On Unix you have a lot of choice on the (graphical) interface you chose to interact with. So while to one you're currently using might be OK, there's bound to be one that's even better suited to your needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment

(Also, it's usually trivial to change your keybindings.)
But you know...not everything is bad. Taarof makes actual travel to Iran rather smooth and comfortable as people really try to help you the best they can (as long as you have at least a small sense of what is too much, which you get fast).
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Firstly, not everyone works in tech. But even from that perspective Dublin tech salaries do not offset the taxes and cost of living there to the point of being an idiot for leaving. Particularly if you're a high earner paying the punitive tax rates here.

In my case I could move from Dublin to Silicon Valley and make 30% to 50% more cash and pay way less in taxes, I would be an idiot to not consider it.
how come it's so cheap to live in poland?
Actually I was commenting on the only gay people I've met. They just want a fuck-buddy and I don't want to lower myself to that.
That makes sense - though 47 billion SEK is still a lot, don't you think?

The other thing I was referring to was that the Swedish newspaper Expressen exposed the identities of Disqus users, and at least one of them lost heir job as a consequence:

http://www.thelocal.se/20131212/millions-of-disqus-comments-...

I don't know what these people posted, and I suspect it wasn't that great a contribution, but this is unacceptable.
Because to most project managers the problem always looks easier during the spec phase than it actually is. Very few people can groc the problem before doing it. Occasionally you over-estimate, but usually you are under. That's why a good manager of project managers usually just slaps a 25% increase on any estimate (adjusting for his knowledge of the particular PM's abilities).
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It's in inches, but aren't those sizes right around the normal European carry-on size?

My wife and I have a couple of European size carry-ons (a couple of rollers, one medical bag style) and then a couple of American size carry-ons for when we travel to the U.S.

The Tumi expandable carry-on bags are nice, and my Tumi laptop bag is normally nice and compact but when I expand it I can hold enough for a few days consulting.

The European size Tumi expandable roller cannot be expanded though and be carry-on size.

I know this sounds like it would make a boring conversation but when you travel as much as we do it becomes important and is a common topic of conversation with colleagues that also travel.
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