skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the thing - back then, people did protest against cars. From the 99pi episode:

Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine. One newspaper cartoon even compared the car to Moloch, the god to whom the Ammonites supposedly sacrificed their children.(...) Pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies. Cities held parades and built monuments in memory of children who had been struck and killed by cars. Mothers of children killed in the streets were given a special white star to honor their loss.

And yet, cars still went to dominate cities and landscapes. I think this tells us something about how drones might become accepted despite early opposition.
Apple uses MVC with sqlite for the contacts. The view is cocoa, but every events int the GUI are calling triggers in sqlite.

It makes apple's application simple stupid and efficient.

And they have triggers on foreign keys... with sqlite.

...

It is not postgres in one of it, it is much more mysql is not a correct rdbms. None of the other databases have this flaw.

Mysql is to RDBMS what mongo is to NoSQL, nowhere short of achieving anything that matters correctly.

EDIT: or better: Mysql is a realistic in the Hollywood way implementation of a RDBMS
Tech wages are very inflated as is, expecting them to rise is pretty silly.

When I was looking for my current job, I forgot to even ask about wages. So maybe what they gave me in pay is "flat" from five years ago, but it's still twice what any of my friends my age are making, while they have degrees and I do not.
Obviously spelling is not one of the skills required "stored proceeds" :-)
I've been in the situation of Mary, sort of (no one was "taking credit", but I don't care much about such emotional concerns - pay me, let me do my job, I don't care). My action: I did the best I could for shareholders, including doing things that were blatantly not what I was hired for. When it became clear that it was going to be a long term task, I openly said I'd quit if I were expected to continue doing it.
Interesting talk by one of the researchers on the techniques including recovery of audio from video of passive object vibrations:

http://www.ted.com/talks/abe_davis_new_video_technology_that...
Sorry to go off-topic, but the way that font combined 'st' (with a loop back from the 't' to the top-center of the 's') was very visually distracting to me. Did that bother anyone else?
Of course I haven't written production code in Haskell, and I'm not saying that there's stuff you can't do in Haskell.

So far, I've said two things. One is that the technique described in the post, which "uses the power of Haskell", is actually trivially done (and has been used by countless projects for years) in almost all imperative languages, and less intrusively (it doesn't require introducing new types and works with third-party code). I don't know much about Ruby and Python, but the JVM also allows you to define subsets of IO (even restricted by actual files) that are enforced by the runtime, or subsets of IO operations that will be enforced by the compiler. This technique has been used in imperative languages for a very long time. That's not an opinion but a fact.

The second thing I've said is an opinion, and is unrelated to a specific programming language. I said that a lot of very small, fully-faked unit-tests only get you so far, and it's fairly easy to get those tests to run 100% predictable. The more troublesome tests are those that aren't faked, and they are crucial to expose many bugs. That's it. I don't think I've said anoything too controversial.
Because we don't even understand what causes language and intelligence in ourselves yet.
Even in urban areas in the US, stationary cameras have extremely poor coverage. More importantly, most stationary cameras can't be commanded by police to send a live feed. Building a network of cameras covering the entire city would have large infrastructure costs and significant surveillance concerns. As far as I know, only a few places in the UK have done this. The infrastructure cost of drones is much lower, and privacy concerns are practically nonexistent. The drones would only record for a few minutes around the area of a shooting.

Yes, some places might have poor sight-lines. That's a great example of where drones beat static cameras. Places with poor sight-lines would require many static cameras, and they'd need to be updated to reflect new construction. Drones can fly around obstructions, making them more effective than cameras in these situations.

Human controllers would be useful, but cost wouldn't be a problem. You don't need a deputized police officer on "drone duty" at every station. More likely, controllers would be contractors servicing a large area. Software would dispatch the drone to the location of gunfire and a pilot would explore the area to give the all-clear.

"Severe human casualties" are impossible. These drones would weigh less than 10 lbs and carry no weapons. They'd be no more dangerous than personal drones today. Concerns about "hacking" are a movie plot threat. The risk of hacking is the same for any application of drones, including home delivery.

I think I've addressed most of your points. Still, it's annoying that cleaning up a mess takes so much longer than making one. I think your comments could be much higher quality if you made a few thoughtful objections instead of replying with every objection that comes to mind.
Some examples from YC

OMGPOP: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/21/omgpop-iminlikewithyou-ycom...

Game of War, Machine Zone: http://blog.ycombinator.com/machine-zone-yc-w08-debuts-game-...

A Thinking Ape
You don't know your ass from your head. Before you go spouting off untruths you know zero about, go read the respective companies 10-Ks, moron.
We have some ideas and clues. Just gotta share some of those differences and see what happens. Do that a few times and you have intelligence and language in apes. We already put apes through horrendous experiments, what's a few more? We should at least be working on this as a goal. Otherwise these other species will go extinct it's a matter of time.
Code is open source, install it https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org

Link is in the FAQ.
It's not about wages being too small, it's about offices not being pleasant places to work.

I have never heard a programmer complain about not enough pay. They do, however, complain about incompetent bosses, not enough vacation, and having to deal with non-programmers.
They already know what books you're reading (because most of them have been purchased through amazon), and you're worried about them knowing what page you're on?
Because that's science fiction, not genetic engineering.
No, I'm suggesting shareholders are the real victim. They are the ones paying agents to maximize their wealth while those agents pursue their own agendas instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
You always have a "boss", either the regular one you report to in a company or if you are the founder/owner/CEO of a company it will be your clients, your board or stockholders. Also having a good boss that shields your from the BS may be better than no boss at all.
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You aren't subsidizing anything. You are paying market price for a product. The seller does bizdev how they choose.
Science fiction can become science fact... you have to try to do it... that's how it becomes fact.
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While you are correct, Many of the points apply to mass transportation in general, and society might no have a choice due to environmental/growth/resource problems.
I was only reacting on the argument was made by the OP, that is not logical in my opinion.

I do not know about tech wages in the US. In Germany, the tech wages are not inflated, at least not in my opinion. The normal tech wages have risen maybe 3-5% per year the last few years in Germany (I don't call this inflated) and the years before it was even less.

In the same time, the wages for top-managers have risen maybe 10-15% per year and are since decades incredible high above the wages of "tech wages" (the difference is climbing and climbing). I call that inflated.

Your statement of course is more logical than that of the OP.
Do consumers prefer SaaS? The reaction to Windows and Office becoming subscription software seems pretty uniformly negative.
This should be an easy condition to prove with a trial. Get two shoe boxes and place them on them in two rooms, get two 'electrosentives' and place one in each room. One of the shoeboxes has a WiFi router in it. Do this a bunch of times and see if its any better than random chance.
This was not only a good post, but the presentation was straight to the point: no fluff, all meat. I really appreciate that, and wish more went that route.
If labels were so abusive artists wouldn't use them. It's not like setting up a label is hard.

The reason labels have such high overheads is the same as for movie studios . They subsidise a lot of non-Taylor Swifts music that don't end up being profitable. The costs of the failures end up impacting the profits of the successes. The flip side is - lots of artists get studio time and songwriting time even if they haven't already proven themselves.
No, that's not how science fiction becomes science. Science fiction is to show what might happen given some assumptions on the state of future science, not what will happen if you try something that you currently don't have the technology for.

For instance, Jules Verne wrote about lots of 'impossible' journeys, which made for good science fiction. Trying any of those things before the technology was there would have not led anywhere, it would have wasted time and or killed people. And even when the technology was there it took some pretty hard thinking to make the journeys a successful reality.

What you are proposing is so far beyond the current state of the art that it is not science (yet, maybe never will be) but fiction. Trying it will simply not work and won't advance science at all.
Nobody said it was right, just that it's less bad than having just the rich lobbying.
I work for a company that benefits from the TAVR procedure becoming approved, so I've heard a lot about it in the context of our growth. It's great to see the clinical benefits described here.
piping random shit into sh is wrong because domains go away, yet installation instructions might be repeated in countless other tutorials. easy to snap up domains and host malware.

and SSL has nothing to do with it. packages are not cryptographically signed either and once on the system can easily become root.
They all end with script
in the article it says they don't want to submit to testing

> None of which gets round the core issue: if EHS is real, I asked Diane, then why has it not shown up in formal experiments? “I encourage scientists to go to where we are and measure the environment,” she replied. “Don’t try to pretend that you’re God and expose us to different frequencies in a lab. That’s like taking someone and breaking their legs and asking how much it hurts.”
Python can be very useful
You can't compare top-line revenue across industries. Fedex is capital intensive.
Of course "not paying for things" is an option. Nobody has a human right to Taylor Swift's music. If you can't buy it then just go listen to the radio, or use Spotify's ad supported service, or do something else.

I pay for all the movies I watch via iTunes. I never pirate movies. Most of the music I listen to is internet radio (i.e. it is free but with the artists permission). Some of my friends consider me odd, and watch more movies than I do, but that's OK.
its helpful to know the clients language of choice

i would say 75% of the time: asm/c/c++/sql are req languages.
python may be as well, lots of exploits are written in python b/c its fast to write for...

if you dont got that ur gonna need or bonus to have:
knowledge of exploit methods for bash/win/php/ruby/sql and other common languages

just my take on it, cheers
"compiling anything more complex then BF is a real challenge in itself because of the branching problem."

That's not true.
http://instantesports.com
Kono asks the participants on inviter's behalf if they don't have the app. :) Of course, once users install Kono, it learns from users actions and actual events and recommends the best options for the future events. Check this page out! : http://kono.ai/about/
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Holy.... I googled "online reputation scrubbing", which you mentioned, and found one article:
http://nymag.com/news/features/online-reputation-management-...

It RANDOMLY mentions Chris O'Donnell (one of the 2 domains i posted about is registered to his wife! See my long comment). Im starting to get really freaked out.
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Sure, let's do that. Why don't you get started?
mysql is good for very high transaction rate platforms, that mostly rely on simple features. for this, it generally outperforms most of its competition in the traditional RDBMS space, and why companies like twitter and facebook use it. mysql likes simple, well designed queries.

postgres usually outperforms mysql for more complex operations, but is not as fast as mysql for simple ones.

sqlite is really only appropriate for things like mobile or desktop applications or things with generally low concurrency requirements.

i would be careful throwing the baby out with the bath water in your dismissal of mysql, but thats just my opinion:)

can you shed some more detail on that apple uses triggers with sqlite? that is interesting to me, and would like to learn more.
Man, I would love to just have someone with perfect recall sitting next to me full time. "What's the arguments to this function?" "Where's the class that handles blah?". Intellisense and go to definition and such only help so much, and only in certain languages.
That article discusses buybacks and dividends.

Buybacks and dividends are post-tax expenses.

Paying royalties is an expense that comes before taxes. If they bring $500MM over and pay it as royalties, they would pay no taxes on it.
Pay-per-use would be far better for developers making deep apps that people actually use regularly than those making trivial 99c apps that are discarded quickly. Currently, an app like Omnioutliner or Clear that improves a person's productivity over years and is used 100-1000x as much as a 99c joke app can only command a 10x higher price and is then impeded by people being reluctant to pay so much up front.

But... to address your main point - yes absolutely, I'd happily give up a quarter of revenue to move to such a scheme, where my recurring revenue would be much higher because my apps are actually used by people and have a lower barrier for new users. It would be a mutually beneficial chance for developers, apple, and consumers.

However - I do grant that developers are more likely to be able to finance this transition than musicians.

Since nobody is paying for the music during the trial, and the intended result is higher revenues for the artists (and for Apple, but notably proportionally more for the artists), it is flatly disingenuous for the artists to position Apple as getting all the benefit.

What if Apple offered the artists an advance covering the 3 months based on current iTunes revenues, and then recouped this over three years by taking a higher percentage for that period from the artists who opted for it? That would solve the problem of the 3 month gap.
> assuming they are cool with it

That reception is probably not uniform among Marvel, especially since they have to mount an affirmative defense against trademark infringement. But just don't get too popular and it will never matter. ;)
Related: http://www.bmj.com/content/332/7546/886.full

>60 “sensitive” people who reported often getting headache-like symptoms within 20 minutes of using a global system for mobile communication (GSM) mobile phone and 60 “control” participants who did not report any such symptoms.

>Participants were exposed to three conditions: a 900 MHz GSM mobile phone signal, a non-pulsing carrier wave signal, and a sham condition with no signal present. Each exposure lasted for 50 minutes.

>Headache severity increased during exposure and decreased immediately afterwards. However, no strong evidence was found of any difference between the conditions in terms of symptom severity. Nor did evidence of any differential effect of condition between the two groups exist. The proportion of sensitive participants who believed a signal was present during GSM exposure (60%) was similar to the proportion who believed one was present during sham exposure (63%).
I am worried that an action as unimportant, intimate and personal as the turn of a page in a book, which previously required no expenditure of mental energy whatever, suddenly becomes an action with potentially global consequences. A passive action - reading something - becomes an active action (causing money to be sent to the author). I feel this is a fundamental change in the nature of the interaction.
Ask HN: I'm 19. Should I leave my education for my startup?
I have 2 more years left before I graduate with a Bachelor's degree in computer science. I started helping a start up for quite a while and now we got our first seed round. I can take a maximum of a year leave from university to work on the start up full time. But I have to come back to my university after that or the university will kick me out.

The founders want me to join as a founder as well with stakes. But on the condition that I leave my education after a year if the company is successful by then. Otherwise, I can join as an employee for as long as I want.

I'm not 100% sure if I want to leave my education. But I want to be a founder at the same time and I think that this startup has a lot of potential. What should I do?
If I'm part of the sexist lower class Indian culture, or Islamist/certain African/FGM culture, is my choice to assault a woman not ultimately my responsibility?

Or is "culture made me do it" only an excuse when you sympathize with the action?
Some apes are already able to communicate using language - not spoken, but e.g. using a buttons console with symbols on it. They've also been taught sign language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language#Apes_that_d...

None of the apes learned "grammar", but they did communicate using language. Did that make a difference to the rights of apes? Of course not.

Whatever you get an ape to achieve, will be immediately defined as not quite sufficient to prove that they are human-like enough to have any rights. The only way to solve this argument is not to give them language but to realise that it is our responsibility to better treat other denizens of this world we share - irrespective of whether they meet some arbitrary criteria of human-ness.

There's a very simple self-interested reason for this too: if we ever encounter aliens, we currently would not have any viable argument to convince them that they should treat us any better than we treat apes.
Obviously Apple can afford to pay money out to the recording artists and labels for the free trial if they wanted to, but I wonder if the decision not to is related to setting a precedent. Like if they were to compensate all the artists $X per day of availability then that would be a sort of legal benchmark that could come back to haunt them.
(1) subscriber acquisition and (2) neutralising the competition.

AOL for example printed and gave away for free, millions of CDs with free dialup access, spending as much as $35 on SAC (Subscriber Acquisition Cost) [1]:

> How much did it cost AOL to distribute all those CDs back in the 1990s?
>
> Steve Case, co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online:
>
> At that time I believe the average subscriber life was about 25 months and revenue was about $350 so we spent about $35 to acquire subscribers. As we were able to lower the cost of disks/trial/etc we were able to ramp up marketing. (Plus, we knew Microsoft was coming and it was never going to be easier or cheaper to get market share.) When we went public in 1992 we had less than 200,000 subscribers; a decade later the number was in the 25 million range. That helped drive our market capitalization up from $70 million at the time of the IPO to $150 billion when we decided to combine with Time Warner to accelerate our transition to broadband and diversify our revenue mix.

[1]: http://www.quora.com/How-much-did-it-cost-AOL-to-distribute-all-those-CDs-back-in-the-1990s
Even if users grouse about it, they seem to prefer it versus a big one time upfront purchase based on their usage/purchase patterns. Of course, what they'd probably really prefer is a low one time upfront purchase, but that's typically not tenable for the software business.
> it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing

Does she really think that she works for every digital copy of a recording? Or that there is a relation between the work needed to produce a recording and the number of copies she sells?
"It's not about avoiding paying any US taxes, it's about avoiding paying US taxes on earnings abroad."

It's also about structuring earnings so that they happen to be earned abroad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Yes, I agree that it's better to write good code than bad code :)

Clear separation of concerns is an important aspect of good code, and every language teaches this practice. I don't think Haskell has any advantage there.

I also think -- and this is probably a point of contention -- that the way Haskell separates pure computation from side-effects is a bit arbitrary. Haskell defines computation in a way similar to lambda calculus, which designates as impure any change to something which may then affect a function's result not through its arguments. In short, it equates the mathematical notion of the function with the software notion of the subroutine. Haskell subroutines are mathematical functions, period (well, except for unsafe etc.). I don't think that this is the best way to describe code, or to define separation of concerns (It also makes Haskell jump through hoops when it deals with things that are natural for computation but don't fit well with the notion of a mathematical function). A good separation of concerns in Haskell is not necessarily the best organization for Java/Python.
This is how I see the problem.

Here are some assumptions.

1. You're ideal ios dev is working. The unemeployment rate among good ios devs is 0%.

2. He is probably getting paid above market wage.

3. He doesn't have a lot of time to research positions.

4. Most job openings are shitty because shitty job openings take longer to fill than good ones(or never get filled).

5. Your ideal ios dev doesn't have time to look up glass door salaries on every job that comes along on indeed. So they probably won't look up yours.

So how do you differentiate yourself to your would-be dev? Well you could tell them that you have an AMAZING-COOL workplace with GREAT people. Problem is even terrible companies say they have an AMAZING-COOL workplace, sometimes even more vocally then legitimately great workplaces. So whats an employer to do? Put your money where your mouth is. Tell your prospective employees that you offer above average compensation[0]. This signalsthat your workplace takes their devs seriously. It will tell them your employer hires professionals who take software seriously. And a a workplace that respects their devs, and hires great people, that IS an AMAZING-COOL workplace where I and many other devs want to work.

[0] - Use actual numbers because many employers are in denial about what the actual market rate is.

TL;DR - The only honest signal a company can give me in a job ad is compensation and from that signal I extrapolate working conditions, culture, and caliber of workers.
Wow. Stuff like this makes me want to get off my ass and do something cool. Really reinvigorates my passion for hands-on science and engineering, as opposed to the maths and code that I usually look at.