skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't know if you're saying this based on what you heard over the shoulder

I've spent half my adult life living abroad and have met many people foreigners in many countries including the US who have gotten great visas without a college degree. And money isn't even the only way.

Becoming an expert at one's field is also a great route to a visa, and it pays a whole lot better than being just another person with a degree. For certain fields, a college degree is required and the gatekeepers are inflexible. For those in fields where success is more easily observable—sales, direct response marketing, entrepreneurship, novel writing, programming, pop music, etc—it's better to save the money and spend the time on actually mastering the craft and its business rather than on collecting credentials.

@eshvk: I know multiple foreign nationals without degrees who have held engineering or even engineering leadership positions at YC companies.
I find it irritating that friendly/simple are "for beginners". I've used Linux for 15 years and still often wish it would be friendlier and simpler.

Well-designed software can be friendly, simple, and powerful.
I went through the questions and when I first saw the results I was impressed, but then I realized the "most similar" covered about 75% of the u.s. For my results it basically just made the confederate states least similar and everywhere else dark blue. Guess I'm a Yankee.
One of the worst offenders of this is MythBusters in my opinion. Thankfully, I recently found streamlined-edits of MythBusters.
Erase obstructions from photos with a click
Nope: theverge sucks.
Do some research on what it's like to work at Amazon. You may decide that neither position is good for you.
Ask HN: What are some startups in the nightlife industry?
My friends and I are looking at building a startup in nightlife industry to replace/supplement promoters. After doing a bunch of research, learned that there are few if any startups in nightlife space. Is this the case?
I'm sure it will eventually meet TV in # of commericals, just most potential advertisers haven't made the full leap into online video ads yet and content publishers are probably reluctant on increasing video ad quantities until they're certain they have an audience that will accept them.

People once said the same thing about satellite and cable being great because they didn't have as many commercials as traditional broadcast TV. Once cable channels had broadcasting quality on par with traditional TV and audiences committed to watching their shows, commercials increased until they were on par.
My first impulse as well. As the article states, though, they're aware of and working on it[0].

[0] http://product.voxmedia.com/2015/5/6/8561867/declaring-perfo...
Man, did I ever say people needed to be "punished"? No. All I said is that it happens. Did I say it was right or wrong or that people are owned by other people? No. I never said any of those things. You made an assumption, and I'm sorry to say, you're utterly and completely wrong.

All this analogy implies is that an employee can be seduced by a newer, trendier, higher salary startup.

Stop forcing your preconceived opinions and assumptions down my throat.
The two-career couple at Netflix
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> Why do you think that seeing a username on Github is any different...

I don't.

> It is your own misunderstanding that seeing a username on Github implies it's verified.

I'm not confused. Others appear to be. My comment was in reply to a poster who seemed to be indicating that git lacked the ability to verify signed commits and tags.

I was informing him that git does indeed have that ability, and that its absence from GitHub is a GitHub problem, not a git problem.

You've leapt to an entirely unsupportable conclusion about my familiarity with git and commit/tag signing. :)

My informal, entirely unscientific survey of folks who use GitHub leads me to believe that they are -on average- less proficient with git, git concepts, and the notion of cryptographic signing than the average person who uses the git CLI.

This [0] appears to be the closest that the GH documentation gets to saying "anyone can commit with anyone else's email address". Adding support and graphics for tag and commit signature verification -along with support for tag/commit signing in the GitHub client- might be a nice thing to do for users who are not so familiar with git.

Oh, also:

> You need to git-verify [to verify unverified email addresses attached to git commits] in both cases.

git-verify-* is actually only useful on signed commits/tags. If a commit/tag hasn't been signed, it exits with a non-zero exit code and does nothing else. Given that the vast majority of commits one will run into will not be signed, git-verify-* typically won't help you to determine the validity of the authorship of a commit/tag. Reading the -very short- man page of either command would have caused you to understand this. :)

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-commits-linked-t...
Instacart Express is an optional membership. You can use the $10 discount to get your groceries delivered without paying the $99/yr.
It helps for capital to have cheaper labor, and vice versa. :-) The system grows best when both are free. (Incidentally, this is also why I'm ok with stock buybacks. If companies can't put their money to good use, retire the stock and let people invest it elsewhere)
I think the OP meant "Code Cache" when they said "JIT space".
Our 8 bucks or whatever per month is hands down the best money we ever spent. I should write a blog article on cutting the cable with OTA and Roku/Netflix.
You can run a bridge, but then it's another machine to set up and maintain. How are security and Chrome updates handled? A cron job? What if that fails? Suddenly the simple Chromebook is more complex.

I wouldn't mind running that hack myself, but there's no way I'd drop it on someone who couldn't debug if something went wrong.
Found a calculator!
http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/

In 2014, the relative worth of £7 10s 4d (that's what it converted to) from 1619 is:

£1,320.00	using the retail price index
£1,300.00	using the GDP deflator
£52,300.00	using the per capita GDP
£400,000.00	using the share of GDP
Trade offs don't work with fundamental rights. You should be able to practice your profession anywhere, and FUD surrounding the ability to hire top talent yay depresses wages across industries.

It is not in societies interest to bond employee to employer, ever.
I don't know what that is but when Netflix got movies working in the browser on Ubuntu I was amazed and very pleased.
The point that's being missed in this discussion is that corporations are abstract entities defined by the state and society, ideally for society's benefit (otherwise why the hell would or should they exist, and also the original corp was for public benefit). These abstract entities can be given attributes, rights, relationships, etc. as needed, but they do not have any inherent properties in and of themselves.

Corporate personhood is an analogy, and a poor one at that. Many of the properties we assign to personhood are not suitable for corporations.
There is actually an issue filed for this bug. https://bitbucket.org/segv/hg-website/issues/23/download-now...
> "A spokeswoman for the NSA declined to comment. The spy agency has previously declined to comment on the Stuxnet attack against"

That may be the easiest job in the history of history.
There must be a law somewhere, where some business exec comes up with terrible schemes to squeeze more and more blood from a stone:

- let's fire the engineering staff to improve the profit figures

- let's slowly fill up content channels with so much advertising, consumers can't read/watch/listen to the media they're trying to access

- let's sell subscription access with a promise of no ads, then slowly introduce ads until the subscription payers are also earning significant money per ad

- let's reduce the quality of our product so we can improve the profit percentage

- if cars only last 5 years, consumers will have to buy new ones! (planned obsolescence)

- let's see how much we can carve out of this shrinking pie

- etc.

These kind of harebrained schemes seem so obviously stupid from the outside, but they keep showing up over and over again. It's like there's a population of con-artists who've managed to get into positions of influence in lots of companies, and will pitch and sell these ideas and make them happen, then everybody is aghast when the company tanks shortly after...meanwhile the "proven idea guy" goes on to another company and shows "improved profitability by 21% and revenue by $3mil/quarter blah blah" and slithers in to another decision making position where this happens again.
Thanks for the tip, stackless coroutines are new to me. Any of that on the Rust roadmap?
Probably, if trained with data containing display: flex
So node.js can replace Java/Tomcat? I guess I'll have to pinch my nose and somehow start liking JavaScript. Typescript looks good, that might make it palatable.
Mr. Graham thinks it's not cool to have .ly anymore. It's an interesting means to date a tech company's founding in the Post-Web 2.0 era.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/601821633385398273
> There was no respect given to Americans' new found affinity to the "right to feel comfortable".

GitHub userbase is global, what may be acceptable in US culture might not be acceptable somewhere else.

> You point out that "git" means something else entirely now. I'd point out that the word retard is changing in a similar way, just like "moron" did.

Exactly, `git` has changed, but `retard` hasn't (i.e. still changing). So right now, a lot of people think it's still inappropriate.

> These books were controversial when they came out, but they've become an accepted part of our bookshelves now.

I understand what you are saying, but until it becomes widely accepted term, there will be a lot of discussions like we are having now.
Basic sidenotes
http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/OVmKZX?editors=110

Not responsive, but @media queries on width and re-scaling width, margin, background colour, and border colour is what gets you that.

Motherfucking Website. No sidenotes. but other bones of my basic design.
http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/KpMqqB

Daniel Bos's sidenote implementation:
http://loadingdata.nl/waves/

(Degrades nicely for non-CSS viewers, not responsive.)
The frankly appalling discussion going on over at the nyt's comments section with first world environmentalists saying the author and the rest of that third world people should just "move to the city" without even the slightness sign of empathy towards people who make less in a year than what many nyt readers make in a day ironically reminds me of the attitude many far-right US nationals have regarding immigration. Basically most of them simply ignore the realities of the immigration process and honestly believe that people can just walk to the nearest US embassy and request a greencard and that the reason there are so many illegals its simply because they wont do that.

Of course even a glimpse at the US visa system shows that there is no such option, that many visas are just temporary and tied to employment or studies that will eventually end, and honestly the only real option left is to just marry a US citizen, an option which is already becoming more and more difficult. The far-right is unwilling to understand this and how if their grandfathers in the 20th century had been faced with these strict immigration rules they would been forced to return home and stay there when in reality many came here unannounced and uninvited, just as illegals do today.

Back to the lion issue, the problem with this line of thinking that rejects the idea that opinions from outside the US hold any value nor should be considered at all is that it doesn't solves the problem. Hunting in Zimbabwe, a dirt-poor country with a collapsed economy, its actually the only way some people have to make a living. US environmentalists much like the far-right don't share that problem with the other side and thus can afford the luxury of disregarding their suffering and even ask the foreigners for further sacrifices so they don't have to admit they were dead wrong.
Wait, Google doesn't support iOS devices (whereas, this announcement is specifically about iOS), right?
Why is their target 8 seconds to load the page? That's a ridiculously long time.
I don't think much is lost. The Ada Initiative is mostly involved in sensitivity education. This is important, of course, but there are a lot of organizations that do the same thing.

I think that there are other organizations that are more effective for your charity dollar. This includes Outreachy, whose success can be measured.
I dont think Uber is going anywhere soon. It has such a strong brand. Everyone I know trusts uber a lot more than there local cab companies.
"The most important word in the lingerie dialect is arusa, or “bride.” The Chinese pronounce it alusa, and they use it constantly; in many Cairo neighborhoods, there are Chinese who go door-to-door with sacks of dresses and underwear, calling out “Alusa! Alusa!” In Chinese shops, owners use it as a form of address for any potential customer. To locals, it sounds flattering and a little funny: “Beautiful blide! Look at this, blide! What do you want, blide?”"

really? Is this stereotype actually true, or is this embellished? This just seems over the top.
I see your point but I think the point is that $15000 income is only possible because he's living in the only city where he can possibly make that much. The one marketable skill he has is as a fashion photographer. Not much call for those outside of a few select (very expensive) cities in the country.
Why doesn't English have a plural you like German? Do the other Germanic languages have plural you?
It works because of the short term nature of modern corporate goals. A lot of stockholders are institutional investors looking to buy low and sell high, rather than long term stakeholders in the company. Neither they, the board and there for the CEO has any reason to see beyond a 1-2 year horizon unless the company is in really good shape.
I remember distinctly that the Verge was the first website I hated using on my phone. (As in, yes there are awful websites, but whatever, move on. As I was actually trying to read the Verge article.. i grew to hate it much more)

They have that awful floating box that is a constant overlay menu on their articles.. not to mention its completely black! in stark contrast to the rest of the page.
InMobi Launches Discovery-Commerce in India with Miip Platform – Pixr8
A burden is a burden, whether expected or not. The OP was opining that there was no burden because you can just hire a contractor for a year.

Also, unlike pension contributions (here Japan we have to pay 7% pension and 7% health insurance!), parental leave costs are not applicable to all employees; just ones that are going to have babies. So if you have 10 employees and one of them goes on parental leave, suddenly your costs have gone up 20%. As much as this is "the cost of doing business", it's pretty hard to plan for that when you don't know the procreational schedule of your employees. Do you keep a float of capital "just in case"? Heaven help you if 2 people go on parental leave at the same time! How many start ups are going to budget for babies rather than spend that money trying to expand growth? I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is far from easy.

Even worse, in countries where there is no paternal leave, this means it is a cost/risk that applies only to young women employees. I hope it goes without saying that this creates a terribly uneven playing field for women in industry.

Like I said, I'm a staunch advocate of parental leave, but I don't think it is an easy situation for anyone.
Sort of related, it's always felt odd that Hulu Plus (paid) forces ads on the user.

Seeing as time is extremely valuable, why not provide an option to skip ads?

F2P games figured this out long ago, you annoy users into paying to make the pain go away.
Oh no we are getting out competed by online vendors, I know lets crap all over our product.
Let me FTFY: The web sucks.
Apparently there is a subscription version of Hulu on the way, which will be ad-free.
Its sad you make that little as a dev in Montreal I would have loved to work there.
Is there a simple way to do a picture in picture effect (with unlimited levels of PIP?)

Trying to do this for a recent project with anything else just did my head in with complexity...

(I guess the best i can think of as a comparison is the TED intro? where lost of different clips fly across the screen)
Online shopping works when people aren't afraid to buy and, when they do, don't regret it.

Amazon has always attacked this problem by trying to have the lowest prices. They were also the first major retailer to provide sophisticated recommendations, which helped people make the right decision the first time.

And, more recently, they have tried to drive the cost of shipping and returns as close to zero as possible.

All of those are good strategies, but recommendations are tough for furniture and free shipping/returns are probably impossible. If you want to succeed, you'll have to figure out your own method of eliminating fear and buyer's remorse.

If your furniture is available in show rooms, an app/website that helps people see the piece in person and then buy from you would be great, e.g. "See this piece at [insert address here] between 9am and 5pm today"

If it's not available in show rooms... I don't have any other ideas.

Edit: another strong recommendation: NO fake/CGI product photos! Those are a screaming red flag to consumers. No one in their right mind would buy a $3k couch with a photoshopped product image.
OK, I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.
I read the article and don't think they meant this. They wanted server side (selective) rendering and didn't want the hassle of two languages so they went with node.js.

quote"Without shared rendering logic we couldn't have realized the potential of rendering only what was necessary on startup and everything else as data became available."
I think you should note that "protect people" is in the sense that instead of suing CEO & board members you're suing the company. So it doesn't affect them personally.
I call these 'piss break revelations'. Especially when debugging or doing analysis, just take a quick break and suddenly you have new ideas.
Corporate personhood protects individuals at the company and limits the liability of shareholders. I think there are positive indirect benefits to the economy at large, but I would certainly think that the direct benefits are clearly in favor of the owners and executives of the corporation.
I dunno what gives you the impression that I've missed that point, really, but the scope of your message, which comes across to me as "perhaps we could slightly restructure the rights and responsibilities of corporations to better fit what we see as their role in society" is dramatically different from "Corporate Personhood is such a horrible idea that it just doesn't make any sense at all."

Both statements are equally true, as is my rebuttal. We perhaps could reframe the rights of corporations, but abolishing personhood would likely make the situation far worse than it makes anything better, as we then lose the ability to enter contracts with or sue corporations.

Much of the abilities of corporations that stem from personhood are commensurate with their other roles. I personally don't see a problem with corporations having representation, as those same corporations are otherwise bound by the laws of the land. Despite the "Wal-Mart is not a person" rhetoric, it's worth noting that many corporations are sole proprietorships, or, rephrased, people, and if they have the responsibility of obeying the whimsy of the legislature in the myriad regulations they are responsible to perform (worth noting, corporate responsibilities are typically far more burdensome than personal responsibilities) that they have the right to speak out against that whimsy where they wish.

That isn't to suggest that my word is definite, and there's definitely wiggle room to restructure, but as it stands, corporations have burdens, and knee jerk responses neither obviate nor necessarily better the proportionality of their rights in response to those burdens. Ut totum, abolishing personhood is, I think, as horrible an idea as mandatory mediation.
Is it too conspiracy theory-ist to notice that these articles trashing mobile browsing and Safari in particular come from an ad-supported site on the eve of Apple adding adblock to Mobile Safari? This isn't my observation, though I can't recall where I read it.
For the downvoters: some developers may think it is funny, but for others with relatives with intellectual disability, it will make them really uncomfortable.

My point is, the language is unnecessary. Especially for a public repo that might get thousands and / or tens of thousands of views.
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Are feross and mafintosh stuck in an elevator?
As a data analyst this is really cool. As a user, it's terrifying to see how easily I can be tracked and quantified.
I've noticed a similar bug in Chrome on a Mac where the cursor doesn't disappear when you're watching a series, have finished one episode and continue to the next episode(s).

On the first episode in the 'chain' the cursor disappears after a few seconds of inactivity, but for all subsequent episodes it does not- very odd. You have to refresh the page to reload everything to make it start disappearing again!
What I meant, specifically, was that "protect people" is in the sense that if corporations did not have personhood, then we could not sue them.

Large hospital accidentally chops off both your legs? Too bad, suckah. Can't sue.

Yes, it also protects the employees and board members of said company from personal responsibility sometimes, and that is indeed a feature of personhood, but it also protects the consumers of a corporation's products, whether we realize it or not.
It's less that capital is more important and more that it's inherently more concentrated, and hence, more capable of expressing its political will.

A dynamic pointed out quite explicitly by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations.
Sad to see this story didn't get more legs in this community.

There need to be more startups working on global climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Totally agree.
And in response, California firms repeatedly engaged in (illegal) noncompete and anti-poaching collusion to both drive down wages and limit labour mobility.
There is a lot of terrible mobile websites out there, but some how I manage to get by. I simply refuse to have a mobile/native app for every website that is out there that I use. My mobile screen would be full to the brim with icons.

As it stands, I'm able to have a single "Contrib" folder, which contains mobile apps I can't do without (Skype, Feedly, BeerSmith 2, Untapped) on my iPhone with the apps I use mostly on the first screen. I now no longer have to scroll through multiple pages and multiple folders to find what app I want.

Why do I need a Medium.com mobile app when the mobile website works fine? It could be better, of course, but it works. Same with Facebook. I don't see the necessity to have a dedicated Facebook app on my phone when the mobile site gives me all I particularly want from Facebook.

All the sites I visit regularly work fine on mobile - I do wish they'd dedicate more time/resources/money on their mobile sites rather than their apps but I suppose the marketing department calls the shots. Got to take up room on my mobile phone screen!
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