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Valid point, I totally see what you mean.

>>> You get the (you think...) brilliant idea phase when you're all fired up, then you get "this is really boring" phase.

In my experience, there are 2 kinds of 'really boring' phase. One kind, as you mention it, is the less exciting part of the work, be it writing docs, or some edge case bugs, etc. The other kind is when you discover that you largely underestimated the complexity, or saw some major flaws in the initial idea. Like I've mentioned in my previous comment, maybe you start working on a game and find out some major flaws in the gameplay and can't see it being a fun game to play anymore. While it's not always obvious which case you are facing, in the later case, in my opinion, it's fine to halt the project. If you don't believe in it, nothing good will come out of it.

>>> It's not unusual to have problems with phase 1. But it's also the difference between being a professional and being a hobbyist.

I guess it depends on what's the purpose of the side projects. If it's something you try to make a business of (passive income kind of thing), then yeah you totally should get a bit of extra will power to get it shipped. But if it's something that is done just for fun, then I wouldn't sweat it that much.
Where they had arbitrary linear cloud scaling ability?

Oh right, where you only had one 486 server to do 1 query / sec.
Can anyone using Xamarin chime in as to whether the situation there is better?
Not your job to police women's bodies. If she is fully informed and wishes to use one then this is her personal decision. Not yours.
I agree. Someone here said HN is like a gym. Sometimes people chit-chat, some show off, some 'talk shop', some quietly just do their thing.
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If the STD causes problems conceiving and requires tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in IVF treatments to conceive later in life.

The UK is having this problem, but mostly from women putting off pregnancies until their 30's or 40's.
it's not just quantity, either. In the UK developers make like £25k (which is $39K). I'm not even joking -

http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Front_End_Developer_...

That's £25k for someone with both front-end and PHP back-end skills. Less than 10% of these jobs reach $54K - according to that, if you're earning $54K in the UK you're in the top 10% of developers.

That £25k median isn't all that much more valuable than, I don't know, a secretary, the median of whom earns £19k (i.e. only 20% less) and normally requires no skills other than the ability to type and be organized. http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Secretary/Salary

whereas a front-end engineer with php literally programmed Facebook (talking about Zuck), or can program the next one. It's kind of sad, really.
We make an downloadable product [1] that over its lifetime has been sold as donationware, freemium and trial-based -- three of the main variants that shareware evolved into.

Short answer: downloadable trial software is still viable... we're doubling revenue each year and supporting a team of 6.

Donationware (product is free for life, occasionally nagged for money). Lesson's learned: 1) It's no way to live, but a good way to start, as the userbase was at it's most vocal with feedback back then, when we were trying to hit product/market fit (perhaps because 'donation ware' felt much more community-spirited). 2) I don't have exact conversion numbers, but I do remember being surprised by how much an individual donated ($1 was the minimum, $30 the average, $300 the max). I've read studies since that if someone is asked to name their own price, they'll be much more generous (the downside being not as many people will pay anything at all).

We then tried freemium (features were restricted until people paid). Lesson's learnt: 1) Do freemium by resource constraints, not feature constraints (i.e. all features are available, but when you use X amount of data you have to pay). Because otherwise users just see a 'broken' product, and don't see the point in paying for something less-useful. 2) We also noticed that most people quit in the first two weeks, and almost everyone who didn't, paid. I.e. the 'free plan' was hardly used (related to the first point). Thus it was just a maintenance burden.

Now we have a two week trial, and then you pay. Lesson's learnt: 1) Benchmarked against freemium, conversion increased 4% in real terms (and 20% in relative terms). Mostly because it nudged the small % of 'free plan' folks from above into buying.

[1] www.activeinboxhq.com
The murder rate overall has gone down, but we are still an outlier when it comes to the number of guns and gun homicides.
Pregnancy also has "a lot" of negative impacts.

Quoting from http://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/iud in the section about disadvantages:

> You may have:

- mild to moderate pain when the IUD is put in
- cramping or backache for a few days
- spotting between periods in the first 3–6 months
- irregular periods in the first 3–6 months — with Mirena or Skyla
- heavier periods and worse menstrual cramps — with ParaGard

> Pain relievers can usually reduce bleeding, cramping, and other discomforts. If they are severe and do not seem to lessen, tell your health care provider.

> Serious problems with the IUD are rare. ... In rare situations, a woman could develop an infection when using the IUD. This happens if bacteria get into the uterus when the IUD is inserted.
Nobody is blaming you. They are asking you to take responsibility for your professional community. Will you?
Odds are pretty good that your cellphone uses a similar noise-cancellation system, with a mic on the top sampling the ambient noise to subtract it from the mic by your mouth.
You could also try SQLPro for Postgres http://hankinsoft.com/SQLProPostgres/

There is a good review available at https://www.compose.io/articles/tooltime-sqlpro-for-postgres...

Disclaimer that I am the dev.
And still you cant 'lazily' store string vars without evaluating.

In python you can save a string like: template = '%s is %s' and _then_ evaluate its output: print template % ('john', 'tall')
Mirena in particular is also linked with mood disorders in 5%-10% of users.

Edit: s/15/10/ as per [1]

[1] http://www.mirena-us.com/safety-considerations/
I don't know the data, but it doesn't strike me as insane to think that decreasing the marginal cost of a subset of sex would increase overall amounts of sex.

It's just that optimizing over "minimizing sex" is idiotic compared to optimizing over "minimizing unsafe sex."
Yes, absolutely impressive.

I always wondered if it still sounded natural, or if there was some kind of comb-filtering to the vocals that just didn't matter due to the style and volume of the music.

I've played with multiple out of phase mics myself (to try and reduce drum bleed from the main vocalist mics) but never found it as effective as I'd hoped.

I think the problem was just how stinking loud the ambient drums just in general were to the room. Maybe outdoors with a bigger rig it would have worked.

Still pretty fun to play with though.

There's so much mad stuff you can do when you start playing with out of phase mics, delay, etc. As a party trick I occasionally pull a mic up to the point of feedback, whistle until I have a stable loop, and then can whistle in harmony with myself.

You can tell what kind of parties I go to...
Really not novel. Only novel in the US.
People who join the US army should be forced to watch videos of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo torture, they should be forced to watch testimonies of people in drone-bombed municipalities. But I am afraid that for many the "we good, they bad" mentality would justify those atrocities. Like another commenter said, who is bad and who is good really depends on your viewpoint.
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You could try removing your spotlight shortcut.
Every other week: http://blog.acolyer.org/ ("The Morning Paper")

Also, the "Weekend Reading" Mailing List (https://tinyletter.com/assaf)
Interesting bits, lots of funny stuff, ideal for, well, weekend reading.
Performance will be improved in later versions
Kind of late on this, but as recent events have shown, such laws can be changed.
> radically changes the performance story

So that it's only 100 times slower than a native app instead of 200 times?
The former.

The logic certain politicians in the US use is that the only acceptable form of birth control the government can support is abstinence. This is often tied to Judeo-christian beliefs, and often used to gain favor with the conservative base.

If the consequences of sex (i.e. pregnancy) are mitigated, it will encourage teenagers to have sex.

Typically there is some form of slut shaming that happens during the debate on birth control.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8759578/ns/health-womens_health/t/...

Also, the problem is literally in urine. I don't understand your line about disposal. You want all women on the pill to always pee and poop into jars for proper permanent disposal? And no, "disposal" of antibiotics is not a big ecological problem whereas pharmaceutical hormones clearly are.
and perhaps lead to more intercourse

In America, the popular public society-wide meme opinion is "sex is bad outside of procreation." You're not allowed to encourage it, you're not allowed to make it safer, and many doctors aren't even comfortable talking about it.

Running a "birth-free sex" program is an affront to the victorian sensibilities of genital shame and a general war on happiness. The one true path is dedication to god and hard work, not personal enjoyment of anything. And we're going to have our 80 year old half-senile business moguls fund all politicians to ensure sex is always dangerous, unsafe, and bad for you.
Uber is not a public company so it does not have any stock on the open market.
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If you think calling 911 will benefit you, by all means do it. There are plenty of people for whom it is either not a benefit or an active danger. For them, I can understand why they don't call.
That's completely fair! I'm not trying to make the decision for anyone and I'm not sure where you got that from my post. But isn't it a bit irresponsible for something as large/respected as an entire State to put their backing behind something with pretty well known, negative tradeoffs?

Is it OK for a large body of authority to support something that will harm you as long as they leave it to the individual's choice to use it or not? Where do we draw the line on this?
That depends. If a girl gets pregnant, some have less sex after that...hence potentially reducing the STD rate.
Both of which use the same hormones. They're not using copper IUDs, I doubt.
> I'm a bit worried about ES6 making the language harder to understand.

Welcome to C++.
They haven't been "playing the dumb communist" they've been smeared with it by their own media, by strategic "leaks" from EuroGroup meetings by "analysts" in International Finance and by the International Media which largely swallowed the smears time after time.

Not that they don't make mistakes. The problem is that they are not held to the same standards as members of the EuroGroup and Parliament. It ought to be fine for Varoufakis to talk about issuing IOUs, for the same reason that it is fine for the head of the European Parliament to say that Greece should be expelled from the Euro if it voted no.

There is an asymmetry of power. The EU holds the purse strings and so Greece cannot complain, whatever they do. Greece needs a bailout and so any mistake that its leaders make will be used as a bargaining chip against them. You see the same relationship in negotiations between Iran and the P5+1, between Hamas and the Quartet and between every black man on the street in America and any policeman that they meet.
Good artists borrow, great artists steal! :)
This is the new IFE box on the Boeing 737-800. It's massive.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-HO911_0325mi_M_...
So will someday there be interface in JavaScript?
I depends what you mean by shareware too.

There were many who only considered software to be shareware if it was fully featured and non-expiring whether you paid or not, operating on an honour system. Search for "Association of Shareware Professionals" who were a group actively evangelising this approach. Anything else was referred to by them as demoware (or sometimes as the overly negative (IMO) term "crippleware"). Most of what you see in app stores would not fit this definition because features are missing or limited in the free versions. "Nagware" was usually "permitted" under the definition, if the request for license/donation wasn't obtrusive (i.e. no messages boxes that blocked operation and couldn't be closed until a timeout has passed).

There are some current examples that probably qualify for the above description. SublimeText is the only one that springs immediately to mind but I'm sure there are others of significance I'm forgetting.

Apps that are ad-sponsored but otherwise complete until you pay might be a grey area. Back when this discussion was happening "in my earshot" this part of the modern market simply didn't exist (at least not in anything like its current form).
It's seen as implicit approval of teen sex. Period.

The issue is that acknowledgement of birth control as a valid form of contraception also acknowledges that a significant number of teens have sex. The conservative religious crowd feel that this isn't the right solution. They don't want "underage sex" to be seen as something that's so commonplace that contraceptive is readily available. They feel it's taboo and offering tools that lessen the risk of underage sex is also taboo.

As another person stated, some aren't interested in fighting teen pregnancy and poverty. They are interested in fighting teen sex. Two very different things.
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Or the baby might grow up and be a drug-addict or a deadbeat and leech benefits from the state. Statistically this one is more likely.
Martin has passed the reins on to Garrett D'Amore, but I would say the majority of the project is finished.
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I'd consider this a positive, not a negative.
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In sort: sound is a complex vectorial field, and line arrays make that sound the field smooth, so that each frequency is properly represented within the audience volume.
Indeed.

> ...allows users to share rides to work and back

I'm not sure how many people take Uber to and from work every day. I'd imagine it doesn't contribute to the bulk of ridership, though.
Fat arrows are increasingly becoming one of my favourite additions.

No more `function() {}.bind(this);` since `() => {};` is equivalent. It makes it clearer for the reader that the code block inherits scope.
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>> Switzerland is biased because of the militan army approach. Every able-bodied Swiss male has an assault rifle at home, without any bullets, however.

This was exactly the purpose of the text in the second amendment when they talk about having a "well regulated militia":

The phrase “well-regulated” was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people’s arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.

source: http://bearingarms.com/well-regulated/

Essentially this meant every citizen should be properly armed should they be called into duty for defending the country. Sure, a lot has changed since then, but most gun owners I know still take this wording very seriously and believe it is their duty to defend against government tyranny.
The problem may have just been the docs. They say .catch and .then can be composed but I didn't see any mention of the behavior.
Nobody today can offer a proprietary, binary-only program as a "trial demo", and call it "sharing" with a straight face.

Not when you can get an entire operating system loaded with packages that are all freely redistributable, open source.

It's still done, just not called "shareware".

Ah yes, now I remember; there used to be an etiquette behind using the term "shareware". Some people believed that the term "shareware" should only be applied to non-expiring, freely redistributable programs. Only thing is, those programs came only in binary form. Some forbade reverse engineering (like unlocking some increased functionality). It's still really not sharing; it's just dumping a free product on the market. Without bending that that etiquette too much, you could call Internet Explorer shareware.
Circumcised men especially do not like to use condoms because it greatly reduces pleasure as their glans is already number and more worn than a normal penis.
I seem to recall there being talk about Sequel Pro adding support for Postgres a while back. Anyone know if that's still on the table?
Exactly. Sounds like a Social Carpool application than competition to Taxi Hailing service.
It's improved since the last time I looked at it, so good work. A couple of issues I ran into:

1) if you have an empty blank line after a query, you get a syntax error

2) an option to expand column widths to match column name would be nice.

3) Perhaps I'm not getting it, but for ad hoc sql queries, I'd prefer a free form text window a la Toad or Squirrel, where the query that the cursor is on is the current query to be executed (via key binding). I switch back and forth between queries a lot, and it's useful to be able view several of them simultaneously. The current interface is feels way too limited and clumsy, imho. Being able to go forward/back in history is nice (though I need to be able to rebind the shortcut, as ctrl-cmd-left/ctrl-cmd-right are both bound to Spectacle), but not sufficient, imho. You need to be able to view multiple queries at a time.

4) An optional 'auto-limit' is an awesome feature of squirrel that allows you to do all sorts of queries quickly without having to always type "limit 1" or whatnot. I had forgotten how much I had relied on it until I tried using this and kept accidentally getting giant result sets.

5) Another nice to have (also in Squirrel) - autocomplete.

6) If you could pull up and instasearch the query history with like cmd-P (like sublime or atom) or something that would be amazing.

7) Essential: allow user to remap/redefine keyboard shortcuts.

Keep going! If one day this is sufficient to supplant Squirrel then I'll definitely buy it.
same here!

I'll be using Spotlight more for basic calculator stuff now though, never knew it could do that :)
Also, there's no versioning. It's not possible for anyone to create a copy of a chair at any point in its history, virtually for free.

The analogy makes no sense. There's so many fundamental differences between physical objects and software that my eyes glazed over as soon as he started the carpenter rant.
Are C3 and C4 really simply interchangeable mechanisms? What about CAM, would it be possible to "install a CAM module" into maize to make it drought resistant, though less productive?

Also, but that might not be directly related to your work, the article says "plants already absorb more sunlight than they can use" but still goes on to talk about how they could be more efficient if they used a larger part of the light spectrum. Would it serve any purpose, then?
You're making a straw man argument here.

The parent commenter is asking the risks of intrauterine birth control.

In the US, the FDA polices all medical drugs for safety and efficacy, regardless if they are for reproductive health or not.
> So you're saying if I create two accounts, one that posts illegal content and one that very quickly flags it, I'll gain a bounty from users each time?

No. The bounty comes solely from dividing up the upvotes among the users who flagged the post. Additionally, the cost to flag is 1 karma (so there's a disincentive to try to censor content), but you get that 1 karma back if a mod agrees with the flag. If there aren't any upvotes, there isn't any bounty to be divided and distributed.

Edit: Here's an example of the way it could work - https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/5qqqs/whats-a-modqueue...
Ok, as a non-native speaker, maybe the "qualifier" I used is too strong.
Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9075827 around the time it launched.
UBER plans to attack the "drive to work" segment of the transportation market, and it's potentially a huge opportunity for UBER.This Google service, if successful, might fill that role very well.

And the fact that it's cheaper is basically "disruption from below" - a proven strategy in many businesses. While this exact transport service model generally failed , it did succeed in France(blabla car), and Google has unique marketing advantages that might make it succeed elsewhere.

Also, the main competitive barrier for UBER is that many consumers have the habit of ordering transportation through it's app. If Google gets that , the rest is relatively easy.
You've just sold software to some of the most brutal governments in the world, who will use your technology to track down and brutally torture incredibly brave human rights activists.

You make so many assumptions about the viewpoint of the other person and then state that you cannot understand how they behave like this. Of course you cannot, you've phrased the question in a way which doesn't necessarily even make sense from their point of view.
Do you like jails? Do you like cars and roads? Do you like electricity? States and countries put their backing behind many things with well known, negative tradeoffs.

Update: for example, a paper on the psychological damage done by jailing people: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/prison2home02/haney.htm
Ironically this is only a problem in the UK because of universal health care. Here, it's only a problem for individuals. One could make a case how the medical industry would be pushing early IUDs in order cause problems in order to build up the IVF industry. It sounds a little tinfoil hat-ish but truly less ethical things have happened in western medical industry.
Is TeX dead?
I know that it's not going to change much, I've mentioned it but it's still better than nothing. I respect other people choices and that's why I need to switch. In the same way, I've installed Textsecure, even if just one person I know is using it, maybe one day, some other people will contact me through it, it does not hurt me to keep it.
There are also a couple "java" locations in the middle of Virginia.
The one for Scribd is wrong too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816112 is identified as a job in Berlin.

I think the mods should enforce some address formats to make things more convenient for tools such as yours.
I recently read statistics that the number of households owning guns has decreased from 50% to ~30% since 1977, while the number of guns increased over that time period.