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hiouon ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where

Many artists peak in their early thirties after about a decade of constant practice and work. There are many hormonal and social changes that occur after that point which make creative paths more difficult. Certainly not impossible but I certainly wouldn't consider doing those later as simple as it sounds on paper based upon financial means.

hiouon TypeScript Won

If you like typescript so much you might as well stop pretending you write JavaScript and just write in C# like you really want to.

http://bridge.net

If typescript was simply type safety that would be one thing. It's definitely a lot, lot more than that.

Typescript is to .NET as Coffeescript was to Ruby. A bunch of developers who didn't know JavaScript and wanted to find the closest thing they could to what they already knew. And who really uses Coffeescript anymore? Stick with esnext to babel and the bright future JavaScript has ahead.

hiouon MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China

I understand the tone may be a little off putting but that is very true. The culture of much of middle America shames dreamers and free thinkers as opposed to working long hours and maximizing profit.

That culture is causing a serious brain drain and more importantly a hard ceiling on how far a brand can reach into the unknown. Its the difference between capturing the imaginations of consumers all over the world as opposed to simply trying to scale into some generic chain store or big box retail product.

hiouon Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam

The seller doesn't realize they are losing because they are not correctly calculating their costs. With art and music and things like pizza delivery / Uber churn maintains the market as the unaccounted for costs(debt, depreciation etc) finally catch up to the current participants removing them.

hiouon Agile is Dead

Its almost as if service based economies are not that compatible with property rights based capital markets.

hiouon Agile is Dead

I know that Code Complete 2 has quite a few discussions about the phenomenon of consistently missed estimates and many references about those. I would definitely look there for a starting point about the impossibility of successful estimation in software.

hiouon Lionsgate is making its films available on Steam

It does when you live in a dorm or your parent's house. Same as a pizza delivery driver using their parent's car. Or Uber drivers unable to do the math on their costs.

There a lots and lots of markets where the seller almost always loses. Look at art and music.

hiouon Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto

Many of the objections would be immediately put to rest if the patent was released to a global health or other ngo that could oversee and license it without restriction.

Patenting the food supply is one of the scariest things for the developing world. Certainly vitamin A deficiency is a real problem but we are then trading that problem for giving one company absolute power over a group of people with very few resources to defend themselves.

hiouon Clever reforms can reduce the power of NIMBYs and cut housing costs

Do you happen to have another example of an city with a similar weather and employment profile that is significantly cheaper? Regardless of development?

Is there unanimous agreement that high rents(which are occurring throughout the US and abroad right now) are solely due to lack of development?

hiouon Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks

I think a lot of people are missing a point here. It's not just one sided deals and taking advantage of naive or desperate artists. Its that a lot of the entertainment industry is actually gangsters and crooks.

Music and movies and other forms of entertainment have been fantastic ways to launder money for a long long time. Maybe someone should to create a way for independent artists to "sell" for those who need a way to legally attribute their profit to the sales of something else.

hiouon Medium and Twitter founder: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’

Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook have been shown to be addictive.

Junk food like McDonald's and Snickers bars have been shown to be addictive.

They are all the same type of product. It's amazing to see those involved in tech attempt over and over again to rationalize themselves out of that obvious connection.

hiouon Bay Area Home Prices by Transit Stop

Oakland

hiouon Bay Area Home Prices by Transit Stop

Hahaha Washington & Stone represent!

Surprised no one has mentioned the Delmar divide in St Louis.

> edit: Keep down voting squares.

hiouon A vegetarian diet could cause long-term genetic changes

Title is misleading. This is across an entire population over generations. Should be changed to something similar to that. This sounds like it happens to an individual if they eat a vegetarian diet for a long period of time.

hiouon Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux

From the article > 2. Security is improved as the image has a smaller footprint thus making the attack surface also smaller

Not saying you need to agree with that. But that does appear to be at least an "indication"

hiouon I thought all anti-vaxxers were idiots. Then I married one

Is there any research anyone is aware of about a possible connection between movements like these and how Facebook promotes and displays certain types of articles to certain people?

Scaring people is a fantastic way to create and emotional connection and increase engagement do to the fear of missing out on new information. The type of thing that will get you to check your phone every couple minutes all day.

In the back of my head I've always felt(without any information to back it up) that the anti vaccination movement was one of the first real big public health impacts to come out of Facebook and other social applications that serve content designed to cause emotional reactions to increase engagement.

I should add that I do not believe any of this is intentional as opposed to simply optimizing for engagement over time.

hiouon Ask HN: Discuss burnout with boss?

I mean this sincerely because I truly am curious. This is a person that is obviously going through a tough period in their life. Why did you find it necessary to attempt to make them feel even worse than they already feel? Is this some kind of tough love thing? Do you get satisfaction from kicking others while they are down as some kind of ego boost? Or quite possibly some other reason that I don't understand? Again, I'm not trying to judge you or put you down. I very much am curious about your motivation here.

hiouon On Botnets and Streaming Music Services

> As far as they are concerned fake and real plays are not much different beyond maintaining credibility with their advertisers.

No real desire to argue the semantics of what I wrote. This is bizarre. Anyhow, the difference is that one situation is an issue of perception and the other is of actual fraud. Not sure why you think perception and reality are identical things.

hiouon On Botnets and Streaming Music Services

Right, that is exactly what I said. I feel like you misunderstood my comment.

hiouon On Botnets and Streaming Music Services

I feel like the writer of this article has a fundamental misunderstanding of Spotify's business model. The number of plays influences how much money Spotify brings in from advertisements. As far as they are concerned fake and real plays are not much different beyond maintaining credibility with their advertisers.

hiouon Ad-blocking: a sign that web publishers don’t care about readers

This site is an ad and no one is blocking it. Many Instagram feeds are ads. This ad blocking debate is taking a very dated and narrow minded view of what an advertisement is.

hiouon Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion

WhatsApp has the benefit of running off of Facebook's infrastructure. Facebook certainly has plenty of employees.

hiouon Google and Apple Would Make Cell Service Better By Bidding

I stopped reading when the author referenced the energy market as an example to aspire to.

hiouon Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul

It very much depends on if you fit the Seattle type. The reality is that Seattle and the Northwest in general is very hostile to people who are different from the norm there. If you happen to line up with that it's a great place to be. If not it can be uncomfortable.

hiouon One founder, zero staff, making $1.2M in monthly recurring revenue

For anyone looking to diy something similar without bothering with the hassle of running a crawler, check out http://commoncrawl.org

hiouon On Quitting

I think you are forgetting how much money someone like this makes at their job. We're talking something like 5 or more times what someone at the bottom of the income ladder makes. So technically just saving for 3 months will give you more than a year of runway in a much less expensive lifestyle.

hiouon Show HN: Beluga 0.1 – Docker Deployment Tool

For me from a quick glance it's that it's nice and simple. For a lot of deployment situations larger frameworks feel like a minefield of some default I'll miss. This is great because I can read and understand the entire source code in a couple minutes.

hiouon Beyond ad blocking – the biggest boycott in human history

Since we're running full steam ahead in correlation, I'll throw in that around 2012 was when Facebook started displaying ads.

hiouon Amazon Flex

I'm not sure what it says about the Bay Area, but there does seem to be a bit of a correlation with avoiding certain cities. For example Baltimore is interesting in that Washington, DC is not included but very close and almost part of the same metropolitan area.

hiouon Airbnb and San Francisco

> The mean revenue per host was about $13,000 per year

Otherwise known as the income that one would have previously obtained by renting a room to a permanent resident. The big difference with Airbnb is that the service is removing potential rooms and roommate situations from the market. I'm not going to say whether Airbnb is a good thing as honestly I'm leaning toward it being a net benefit. But to say it has not made finding a place to live permanently in places like SF and NYC more difficult for 1st time and early in life renters is difficult for me to agree with.

All progress has a price. And often that price is worth the benefit. But let's not pretend there are not people out there that will be worse off in the short term.