skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does for me, at least. I'd absolutely hate having my job satisfaction determined so much by a manager and team that I was assigned. (Ideally I wouldn't want it impacting much at all, but truly flat companies are still hard to find, despite the rhetoric.) It works for some people, but it won't work for me.
Thanks for the tip. I'm going to make one where the rates aren't disclosed in the search feature, and billing options are only available in per-day and per-week increments. :P
Depends on how much "better" the market is e.g. if it priced in the greenhouse gas externalities, the avoidance of transmission losses and grid upgrades etc then solar may be worth triple the residential rate. I believe a couple of states have calculated "value of solar" to use as part of their grid regulation, though specific factors like mix of gas and coal production and projected grid expansion factor into this.
I prefer using libaries instead of developing everything on my own, so usually I use 10-20 libraries for a project beyond a web framework, e.g. credit card management, HTTP library,.... YMMV and if a web framework is all you need, hurray to you.
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Thank you for the well-reasoned and eloquent response.

Snark aside, whether it is or is not actually depends on what state you're in. For many, it is not new consideration.[0]

[0] http://www.beckreedriden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Nonc...
It's back up again. Try it now. :)
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That's exactly what I plan on using mine for. It makes logging actions so much faster. I would love to just have a smartwatch with a set of about 12 or so buttons that correspond to a specific action, but that will take time to happen, if at all.
> I write literate code exactly because my code is very compact so I can afford to dilute it with an equal amount of prose.

That I can get behind. My concern with the example in the book was, it didn't matter how good the prose was, the program would be nowhere near as understandable as the one line of bash, just due to there being 0.1% as much code to understand. And I realize that it's not a meaningful knock against literate programming as a whole, it was a bad example that soured the idea in my head. It made me more concerned about succinct, understandable code, rather than seeing the prose as sufficient.
This is really cool!

I had suggested a different solution to the same problem @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9778766

I really like the solution that RivalSeek created, and it removes the lag of a Q&A format.
System/38, later AS/400, was one of the most brilliantly designed systems of the time that I've seen:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/Chapter8.pdf

Designed for business apps, future-proofing, integrated database, largely self-managing, capability-security, continuing on solid (POWER) hardware... did about everything right. That's why we regularly fix crashed Windows and 'NIX machines but my company's AS/400 has been running for around 10 years.

I've always wanted a modern, clean-slated version of the System/38 w/out relics from that time and with any tricks we've learned since. Throw in hardware acceleration for garbage collection and some NonStop-style tricks for fault-tolerance to have a beast of a machine.
> If Facebook had an "export my friend list to Excel" button, then plenty of non-programmers could perform this task using existing tools.

The task was to send alerts whenever a friend was nearby. Excel is amazing for non-professional programmers, but it doesn't deal well with changing data, unless you want to click the "export my friend list to Excel" button every five minutes. There are tools that will act as real-time data sources in Excel but it's not a natural fit. If we did nothing but make "real-time Excel" it would still be incredibly useful for a lot of people.
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The Open Mainframe Project
What a $40 video has to do with becoming a tech unicorn
Progressive design for the modern web
> Every review I hear about working at Google makes me want to stay away

Google was Fortune Magazine's #1 best place to work for six years in a row. The reason you occasionally hear a story about how Google isn't perfect to work at is because those are news. In general, it's a fantastic workplace.
1. Dashboard stats are global and in general show very different numbers when compared to the users of most modern applications, at least in the western world. It probably overrepresents cheap, old devices from China and India who, in general, don't install or buy as many apps.

2. As bad as Android adoption normally is, in general L adoption has been better or at least on par with that of previous versions. Check the last chart: http://www.bidouille.org/misc/androidcharts Lollipop release date is actually wrong there (makes the chart more optimistic), but by a month only.
I am complete naive in this subject area. What would you say to a clueless peer who said, "my laptop has those same features, except built into the CPU (like the AES instructions found in i7 cores) so they have less latency than a mainframe would"?

I cut my teeth on an Amiga and understand the appeal of external processors, but it seems like bringing those features on-die would be better yet. Mainframes seem to be going the other way, though. What am I missing out on?
Wow this works great! I tested it on a few random company ideas I had, and it returned very relevant potential competitors.
I like the idea since it may be really frustrating when people disable comments under their writeups.

Some feedback: your landing page discouraged me from using this. Why do I need to sign up? Especially when you write about being anonymous. I think that perfect landing page would involve a brief information about what is it, and a big-ass "add to chrome" button, and that's it. You can explain the rest of it once I'm in, right now there is a lot of things going on and it's hard to realize what I need to do - should I read the description? But then something moves on the right side, oh and then the point #1 becomes inactive.
If I never hear "one throat to choke" again, I'll die a happy man.

This only works well if you can negotiate an acceptable SLA, your main vendor doesn't balk when integrating with subcontractors or other vendors and if you have a rock-solid vendor manager on your side enforcing the SLA.

Needless to say, it often doesn't work that way.
New Facebook Notes looks a lot like Medium
> Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears.

Hopefully the irony isn't lost on the readers of this document :)
It's probably because you're in Germany (physically). If you were applying within the US (and within the Bay Area) you'd have better luck. Visas are an issue but larger companies are more comfortable with it because they have mobility staff in-house.
I'm a practicing corporate lawyer - i just have the same sn on reddit as on here.

And yeah, I did read the case, and you are wrong. A contract between an employer and employee is not an employment agreement - in this case, it was an NDA. Your quote literally contradicts what you are saying:

"it is not logical for a court to treat differently a covenant presented on the first day of work and one presented one week after the first day in the at-will employment setting. "

At will = not an employment agreement. You can - and often, do - sign NDAs, in addition to a whole bunch of other paperwork, on the first day of your job as an at will employee.

Let's put it another way: having an employment agreement is the opposite of being an at-will employee. One cannot be both. Having an at-will employment agreement, recognized in a contract, is still not an employment agreement - an employment agreement specifies a fixed term of employment.

Can't make it any clearer than that.

For the record, I'm a practicing corporate and IP attorney. I handle a lot of employment stuff as well - it comes with the territory.
CC0 images are so beautiful
> Just about every human endeavor out there tends toward hierarchal structures

I agree, but why? It doesn't make much sense to me. Although I should have said "authoritarian" rather than "hierarchical".

> it's questioned whether all that's happened is that the hierarchy is implicit rather than explicit

In democracy, you can have hierarchy but it's not a big deal, because you have a formal rule that everybody has the same power (one vote). It is certainly different (although for some reason many people do not feel that way) than when there is no such rule.
Are you getting more money?

Yes?

More money = more consideration. End of story.
I always find it a bit dishonest sounding when these things are referred to as producing a "savings". Solar on a residential rooftop is not financially sustainable when you consider the cost of capital and require a market ROI. So I assume that lessors in this case are receiving a non-trivial government subsidy. Which means, in the end, that whatever the lessee is "saving" and then some is being paid in additional taxes that wouldn't be there if there were no subsidy. All of which is fine for those that want to pay more for energy that is cleaner. But people should not be given the impression that they're paying less. If they really were we'd all have solar rooftops over night.
> and on HN

why?
I'm curious, why not LuaJIT? It's small and fast and when you need it to be faster, it has excellent C FFI and the ability to add inline assembly[0].

[0]: https://gist.github.com/lukego/d15f3a65bd316ea2c2b6
Sure there's an email at the bottom of rwds.co, best way to get in touch
What a hyperbole of a comment. It really isn't that bad.
Just waiting on Om Next now...
Awesome—this is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for when I saw this announced, and that's exactly why I bought one when I could.
It depends on how you define meat. I'm a vegetarian, and it doesn't seem to be hard to get enough zinc without eating beef, chicken, etc.

http://bembu.com/foods-high-in-zinc

Eat some shrimp, spinach, peanuts, etc and you should be good. I've been test a number of times and haven't had a problem with zinc.
404 here, French IP address. (Free) :(
Show HN: Challenge Club – Challenge Your Friends-Anytime, Anywhere
This looks a lot like Facebook's Relay/GraphQL [1], interested to hear how the two compare?

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/02/20/introducing-...
Developing a Mobile-Optimized Opponent AI for Lost Cities VR
Any gains from PV would be washed away by increased air conditioner usage. If you have a house in shade, be very happy.
Now ask them all to clap to that beat.

That reminds me of another razor, wherein many people can't clap blues/swing... was it that most people clap on 1 & 3 while for blues/swing it's 2 & 4?
What was in Osama Bin Laden's tape collection?
I had to look at the header twice to make sure this wasn't The Onion.
Really big fan of the simplified permissions feature. It's something I've always wanted that Android never had. In addition to the supposed battery usage improvements, I'm looking forward to the new streamlined Android Pay features.
Here, btw, is the case

https://casetext.com/posts/continued-employment-adequate-con...

My understanding is, if your Hawaiian employer demanded you sign a noncompete, you could quit on the spot and the noncompete would not apply. Is that correct?
Business and Professions Code 16600
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> [..] demographic of actual app users [..] Users that actually actively engage in their phones and western markets are noticably more up to date.

Your post seem predicated on assumptions which aren't supported:

- That people with "better engagement" are more profitable to app developers (which might be the reverse of true if you aren't on a freemium modal).
- That non-Westerners don't buy apps at all or that we simply shouldn't care. .
That's exactly right, and you bring up another few good points.

1) 802.11ac is 80MHz. If you are just getting a few megahertz between TV stations (I couldn't find the exact number), you aren't going to get your 1Gbps transfer rates with the signalling that WiFi uses. (In fact, you rarely get them in lab conditions, but I digress.)

2) With WiFi's signalling, multiple transmissions stomping on top of each other simply make both transmissions fail. LTE uses different sets of "tones" so that transmissions stepping on each other are still recoverable. (This is like how all the GPS satellites transmit on the same frequency, but you can still hear 10 of them at once. Clever math.)

Certainly, I'd like to see unlicensed city-level wireless Internet that behaves as well as carrier-run LTE networks. You may not get a gigabit but even slow Internet is better than nothing. If anyone is researching this I'd be glad to send some donations their way :)
Is the endgame here making eve applications automatically distributed or parallelized?

I ask because the monotonic logic that Daedalus excels at expressing is quite limiting. Unless you are in an execution environment where operation ordering/synchronization is expensive (i.e. among a set of distributed processes) - the nice order-independent properties that CALM analysis gives you don't really buy you much.
Ask HN: I'm priveledged, what should I do for a year?
My goal has always been to have loads of free time so I can do something really awesome, like becoming an artist or help solve environmental problems.

I’ve told myself that as a first step, I should use my free time to create some great mobile apps, in order to free up even more free time. Then I can start pursuing my ultimate goal.

I have now created five apps and regardless of how well they will do in the future, I’ve come to realise that this “extra step” seems a little too much like an excuse. I should get started. I have money for one year.

I guess my approach is “if you can think it it can be done”, so I’m not afraid of seemingly impossible projects.

I’m looking for the right idea. What would you do if you could do anything you wanted for a year? What should I do?

What I’ve done so far
- technical creative director and developer for 15 years
- won 100+ awards including Webby AD&D etc
- written and recorded music and had a radio hit
- drew and built a house
- designed and built furniture
- professional photographer
- created and launched five mobile apps
- have one kid and one on the way (I'm 33 and Swedish)

What interests me the most
- making sure animals don’t get extinct
- preserving rain forrest
- reduce meat eating
- fighting racism and populist political ideas
- digital art projects, for instance “I want you to want me”, Jonathan Harris
- spatial interactive art

Requirements on the project
- I need it to be an idea that gets a lot of attention, so I don’t have to work on marketing once the project is done. This is so tiresome. You can make great music, but no one will listen to it if you don’t work on marketing, even more than you work on making music. That’s the reason I don’t do music (which I love the most I think) full time.
- I need to be able to make it more or less by myself in one year or less.
- I’ve had employees before, and it’s not something I enjoy, or am good at, that’s why I haven’t tried start ups.
Eat some shrimp

Sure, if you're a vegetarian who eats seafood, it's easy.
No -- lack of name awareness. MBA is really only good for getting access to on-campus recruiters and graduate programs, as well as networking with peers (not really possible online). If I were to do an online MBA I'd probably do Imperial as I know several people who've done it.
That is perfectionism as a vice more than a virtue, which is a valid concern.

The best tends to be achieved by acknowledging constraints of time and resources and accomplishing the most within those constraints. Knowing when something is good enough is important. Being able to reach that point quickly is also important, or at least being able to reach it before the competition.
> I'm not arguing that vegetarian and vegan diets are quintessentially malnutritious. I'm arguing that many people are doing it wrong.

You seem to be implying that vegetarian diets are more problematic that meat based diets. You haven't shown data to back this up as far as I can tell. Sure, many vegetarians are doing it wrong, and many meat eaters are doing it wrong. For your implication to stand, you need to show that vegetarians are doing it wrong at a higher rate than meat eaters.
That is under the IPO price, and well under their once marketcap of $6B. Another classic example of a hot startup (one of the hottest in Seattle) hitting a brick wall once going public
Science Exchange (YC S11) is hiring a Jr. BI Engineer
ATM machine... cmon man.

For everyone else, start here and your annoyance level will drop CONSIDERABLY, and you won't miss anything:
http://jonescape.com/tisos/#/9
I was liking what the article was suggesting but then it shamelessly plugged BitTorrent inc. which is one of those 'big companies' you don't want touching anything related to privacy or freedom.
What these hyperventilating "visionaries" overlooked is that the market pays for value added. Two yuppies in a living room buying an e-commerce engine from company A and selling merchandise made by company B and warehoused and shipped by company C, with customer service from company D, isn't honestly adding much value.

I find Spolsky kind of hit or miss, but this I rather agree with. Then again, one wonders if the current funding climate cares about this truth.
In a similar vein, things like this https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa... are also why passwording your private keys is very important. Tons of these keys (why are people committing these to public repositories??) aren't passworded. It astounds me that someone has the technical knowledge to create an ssh key/pair, commit to github, and manage to send their unencrypted private key off into the public sphere.
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Here's an MBA on startups: join an early startup and go along for the ride.

The corporate management / organizational concepts don't apply to tiny new companies. Financial analysis and accounting? You can learn to read cash flow statements after a quick online tutorial. Other than that delegate to a trusted and reputable CPA advisor.
Well, look at the subsidies for the existing energy companies. Nuclear companies get the waste handling for free, if they break regulations, often the government pays the bill...

Coal companies never pay for the damages to the environment their huge quarries do...

Subsidies for solar are just one part of it.

If you take these subsidies that you give the energy companies, and add them as tax to the electricity price, you end up with electricity costs like in Germany – 0.40$ per kWh
Another "Intermediate Python" book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/149055095X
How long does the period of continued employment need to be in order to be considered further consideration?

As a thought experiment, can I present you with a sign-or-else NDA on Monday. You sign it on Tuesday and I fire you on Wednesday?

Suppose my plan was to fire you regardless of whether you signed or not.

Now prove it. /evil
For a much simpler solution to the json graph problem:

https://github.com/jsog/jsog

Implementations in Javascript, Python, Ruby, and Java.
For what it's worth, right to work states that have at will employment also means that a noncompete cannot prevent you from using your skill set to earn a living (aka - you have the "right to work" hence the name). In order for them to be enforceable at all they have to be extremely specific in scope and for a reasonable amount of time, usually only pertaining to not leaving for a direct competitor and taking existing clients with you.

Basically, if you live in an area with a lot of employment options, going to a competitor and trying to take customers with you would be enforceable. If you're in an area without a lot of options for what you do, the noncompete is toilet paper because you can't be prevented from earning a living.
> My understanding is, if your Hawaiian employer demanded you sign a noncompete, you could quit on the spot and the noncompete would not apply. Is that correct?

Yes.
Contract law is going to become far more complicated if 'yes means yes' and 'enthusiastic consent' ideas are ever applied to it.
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Author here, something happened with the bullet lists line breaks, and the text can't be updated. Sorry about that.
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A Pebble with Tasker could get you there (HTTP POST) or one of the integrations. Even IFTTT or DO. You could probably also even go with the Magic Form app described in the OP's article.

Making it context aware is possible too (e.g. in the bathroom or at work) with some thinking of Wifi routers or if you wanted NFC tags, iBeacons.
> All in all ZX Spectrum platform is almost entirely responsible for me picking programming as my profession.

Me too. Started with the 48k, switched to assembly soon after getting bored with BASIC, and for a few years I got my name printed in Your Sinclair for posting POKEs for various games.

The Z80 assembly language set me in good stead for early programming with MS-DOS (3.3 or so) as the assembly syntax was familiar. (I think Zilog engineers were ex-Intel. But my memory is a little hazy these days.)

I still play "Choas:The Battle of Wizards" on an emulator every few months, alongside "The Hobbit" and the various Hungry Horace games.
My original point was that I witnessed these being used at a conference, to get around a conference. What is the alternative? Walking. All things being equal my point stands. These devices, when used in situations like I described are nothing more than stand-up mobility scooters. There can never be a net positive health benefit over the alternative which is walking. In terms of transportation to and from work, I believe there's a statistic somewhere that states the average bus or train commuter will walk at least five miles a day in order to facilitate that commute. There's no way that even a 20 mile commute on one of these would require the energy of five miles of walking. Further, if you look at the manufacturers own marketing, these are the "size of a briefcase" for a reason with the intent clearly targeted at reducing that five miles of walking by being able to take it with you on the train.
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I hope the claim was based on more than "The Union won". Otherwise we can say:

The Union soldiers wore blue. The Confederate soldiers wore grey. The Union won. The conclusion is obvious.
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But doesn't [directly] kill any sentient being. Yay! <milk production still abuses said animals bred for production>

As aesthetically pleasing as I find it I still can't go totally vegitarian. I have however and somehow released my eating of beef. Tiny steps, right?

As aesthetically pleasing as I find it I still can't expect everyone else to go totally vegitarian. But I think we may have to edge there over the coming decades as it's so wildly inefficient.

edit: pedantry
Everyone is different - while I don't doubt that Google has fantastic perks, I can't think of many things that I would want to work on that aren't the moonshot crazy experimental projects (and, let's face it, most people won't be working on them). And working on a giant campus that's isolated from the outside world... no thank you.

But like I said, we're all very different.
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Exactly. Command line is too far, so is pure sentiment-based NLP. In the middle I propose Voice URLs, a standard for linear voice actions -- rather than the JSON format that the current NLP services are using now. I'm right in the middle of the formal writeup but wanted to mention this to like-minded designers.