skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion based on experience:

Apply a pea-sized drop in the very center and you are done! (and resist the temptation to make it juust a little larger)

The pressure will spread it out evenly.

There was a video I saw where they did this using glass so you could how the paste spreads.
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I shouldn't have said "highly equal", since that implies some sort of absolute standard of equality. It's certainly more equal than the US or UK, and according to all the statistics we've both cited except for CIA Gini, is comparable to France or other non-Scandinavian euro nations.

You made a mathematical claim about a mathematical construct (incentive): From a motivational standpoint, of course the incentives of a great reward matter. But there has to be a reason for everyone from 2nd place downward to participate.

I gave a mathematical response. If you don't believe that incentives govern behavior, then why did you bring them up and make incorrect claims about them?

The only argument I make is that I've seen no convincing evidence that inequality matters much. At best I've seen a few cross-country correlations between inequality and other bad things. Even left wing types don't find such evidence very convincing, or at least they don't after I replace the X axis with "% single mothers" or "% black people" (increasing both the r^2 and social unacceptability of the conclusion).
One of the nice things about tig is its configurability. I have this in my ~/.tigrc, which helps a lot with my workflow:

bind main R !git rebase -i %(commit)
bind main M !git merge --ff-only %(commit)
"And another concern: if people don't earn money themselves, the tendency is to waste, in all regards."

I have not observed the same.

My impression is that the trend is we, people, like to waste when we don't have to pay, but if the money come from our accounts, we start to get careful, independently how the money arrived to our account. People would not like to waste their money even it's from a basic income.
Working hard cannot exist with living well
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Some previous discussions you might find useful and/or relevant. There are many, many more, some of which you can find through this search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sign%20nda&sort=byPopularity&p...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7158091

Why I Won't Sign Your NDA (svbtle) (ryanckulp.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7160262

Show HN: Why sign a NDA when you can just
pinky swear instead?
(pinky-swear.herokuapp.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7234094

Why I Won't Sign Your NDA (medium.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7587687

When startups should sign non disclosure
agreements (startacus.net)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604500

Don't ask me to sign your NDA (medium.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731724

Should freelancers in gamedev industry
sign NDAs? (t-machine.org)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933163

Why I Won't Sign Your NDA (landonschropp.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169957

Ask HN: Would you sign an NDA?

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284681

Why You Shouldn't Ask Us to Sign Your NDA
(atomicobject.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9172583

Ask HN: A potential investor in my startup
asked me to sign an NDA. Should I?

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9195949

Ask HN: What does it mean to sign NDA?
You do need some glucose in your diet for your brain. A complete absence of glucose will kill you.
Do you have a definition for an active user? If so how the active vs. passive user rate?

Arrange user tests, ask people who are unfamiliar to your product to download and try. You could learn a ton from that experience watching people using your baby.

Another option is to record user actions in an anonymised way, upload that metrics and analyse, compare it to installation where they haven't removed it.
The Astronaut with the Unsatisfactory Performance Review
One reason may be that practical regexes have so many extensions that you can't many of the usual tricks on them.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6363397/how-to-tell-if-on...
The history of parenting suggests the bar is very low. As long as you don't spend every day beating your children or completely neglecting them they will be OK.
I wonder what the impact is when you truly love your work versus you have to work longer hours. Of course correlation does not equal causation but for those of us that have worked long hours year after year I would guess we know that long hours does play a negative toll on your wellbeing.

When I was working 55 to 70+ hrs a week in a job that I was good at but not one I loved, my health habits were minimal. Eating right and regular exercise are the first things that I gave up.
Labellio feels like it is a sexual word, but I know it isn't. I've made that mistake twice now.
Why does Linux only have VirtualBox machines available? Linux has native support for VMware as well.
CTurt and code execution on the ps4 confirmed
What are the backgrounds of junior VCs in Europe?
I've always liked the Elance / Freelancer escrow systems, in principal, and I use them when buying services. But those sites have way too much of a low-end feel for me to ask my own clients to pay me via those, for 5 or 6-figure jobs.

If this can be a high-end equivalent of those low-end escrow services, that will be nice.
I know this is HN and everybody is building the next Facebook and has humongous numbers of users. But there is also local bands, volunteer ran music venues and such in a city of 200k tops. Which is apparently unworthy of HN. Noted.
I guess this is a response to Unity and Unreal Engine, but given that both have free versions and vibrant communities and large dedicated development teams, I think it is a tough market for Autodesk to enter if it isn't going to dedicate very serious resources and a long-term focus.
Animated PNG demos
Using JavaScript to access form objects when there are multiple forms
yes, this is a cool project. But unfortunately it is not using the latest images of all IEs and Edge is also not included yet although there is an issue for that https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/issues/263 . The maintainer does not update it regularly... last update last year. Also not compatible with VirtualBox 5.0.x. It screams for a fork ;)
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Dropping old tech means projects/companies that require that support have to do it in-house. We need to support IE7+ for much of our UI, unfortunately, because of paying customers in hospital environments where upgrading is a nightmare.

So it's a good thing in that libraries can be leaner/meaner for everyone who doesn't need to care about old tech, but it also means the unpleasant work of supporting the old tech now has to be carried on by lots of different developers in lots of different companies, rather than being done well in one place.

If there's any possibility of keeping alive an "old-browser-support" branch of BS (like jQuery's 1.x and 2.x streams), that's rather better than abandoning it -- in theory we might be able to contribute some developer time into it.
Nice, and has a built-in parser and annotation system too. Very nice.

See also: http://brat.nlplab.org/examples.html

Any others like this?
Balancing Correctness, Latency and Cost in Unbounded, Out-Of-Order Processing
Wow! Seems like they have improved a lot the documentation since last time I checked.

Official bootstrap themes section is also interesting.
It should be, “earn shitloads of money and live well”. Working hard has nothing to do with it, at best.
In response to the deleted comment because I had already typed it out when the parent was deleted:

> proof that unemployment benefits incentivizes staying at home

I have yet to see conclusive evidence for this "people are lazy" argument. Humans aren't rational actors in a vacuum (except psychopaths). There is social pressure to contribute to society and "carrying your own weight" -- just ask anyone who's ever spent a non-trivial amount of time unemployed.

BI can be more than a replacement for current welfare but it aligns very nicely as a replacement for the current systems of unemployment benefits. Of course there are people with special needs and of course BI can't replace all of the welfare system but it significantly reduces a lot of complexity.

In my opinion, the potential effects of a BI are far greater than just redistributing wealth (which the tax-sponsored welfare system already does). It raises the barrier from zero to a liveable wage. IMO this entirely eliminates the need for minimum wages and drastically changes the dynamics of the job market. It significantly reduces the inequality in the labour/capital struggle -- it eliminates the major social factor of "will I lose all of my possessions and ruin my family's lives" from fundamental job decisions.

Instead of having to worry about your (and your family's) continued financial and social existence when you lose your job (or your company tanks or whatever) you have a built-in financial safety net making sure that even if you do fall, you won't hit rock bottom.

Basically it's "rich parents for everyone".

> everyone thinks "I'll get more" or "they'll get more"

But that's not what it's about. In all likelihood, if implemented correctly, most people will get pretty much what they have now or maybe less. But as with existing unemployment and welfare systems, BI guarantees that you won't be out on the street if your employment situation changes. Unlike most existing unemployment or welfare systems, BI also creates a smooth transition for when you do find a new job (or start a new company).

It's a zero sum game. It has to be. Everybody can't be better off financially merely because of a universal basic income. It's the market dynamics that change, not the amount of money in the system.

You're basically arguing against welfare, not against the BI. BI is no more about closing the gap between the rich and the poor than welfare is. It's like socialised healthcare (a recent import from communist East Bloc countries like the UK): it's not about helping you when you're already fine, it's about preventing your life from being ruined when you're not fine anymore.

> it's not popular to disprove BI here

You're merely disapproving, not disproving. That's why you get the downvotes.
it is running Edge... look at the version number closely ;) my experience with it: I have connection loses often with remote IE. It's not so good :(
Doesn't qemu have image converters?
I love his determination. But I wonder why the battery is at the top and not the 4G equipment.
I'd refine that to “working too hard...”.
Go 1.5 released
To cut a long story short, plants were ineligible for utility patents (in the US at least) because they were considered "products of nature". However, the US Supreme Court decided that because GMOs existed, plants now count as something made by man rather than a product of nature and could be patented - including non-GMO ones produced using traditional breeding techniques that were previously not patentable. It's a strange decision and I'm not sure I follow their logic, but it's the law now.
Taking transparency to the next level: Live-streaming our startup office
Would love a service like this for the UK!
I also used them for a quick testing of Windows specific things (no Windows here... but this VMs make it easy to make a quick test).
I've used these images many times with qemu/kvm. No problem, just create a snapshot.
Notes from the actual post:

> When we shipped Bootstrap 3, we immediately discontinued all support for v2.x, causing a lot of pain for all our users out there. That was a mistake we won’t be making again. For the foreseeable future, we’ll be maintaining Bootstrap 3 with critical bug fixes and documentation improvements.

The current plan is already keeping basic support in place for BS3, but no new features. That's probably just where we'll stay, then.
Please report any performance problems. I have this running on a pretty modest server, but it should be no trouble to throw up an EC2 instance if the traffic gets too much.

I did some simple stress testing that said it should handle a couple of hundred concurrent users, but I didn't put the time in to get a very realistic simulation. I worry it was too optimistic.
Odd, I wonder why they didn't get back to me. I'm no longer a student so I can't check anymore.
I use tig daily, it's so much faster to select the files/chunks/lines to add to the staging area than with the command line.
Not if you want to compare safety between different transport methods: train, car, bike, plane, elevator, motorcycle, walking, etc.
In the past they also provided Vagrant boxes. Some people also developed easy Vagrantfiles for them. See here in a official blog post http://blog.syntaxc4.net/post/2014/09/03/windows-boxes-for-v... Would be great if they will support Vagrant officially for Edge. Although https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/ is pretty close but not maintained good (last update last year). This is how I want to spin up IE VMs:

vagrant init somwhere/edge
vagrant up
To me it's definitely still one of the better approaches for believable landscape/island generation and forms the basis to what I'd call a damn-near perfect solution[1].

[1]: http://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generati...
Mouth sores doesn't sound safe to me.
How programmers spend summer vacation?
You can save a lot of disk space if you'll use backing files. E.g you can have one base Windows disk image that used by any number of VMs configured differently. So you basically only need like 5-15GB for compressed Windows image and then each VM configuration will only take another 1-2GB at most.

Personally use it with QEMU / KVM now, but totally sure VMWare had backing files support too.
That would make small countries look unfairly safer because of their shorter flights. Maybe deaths per passenger-kilometer? Unless the duration of the flight doesn't really affect the risk.
+1

I'd run away from Angular, into Ember-land!
I think it depends on the level of complexity, and common structure of the sentences. If a writer uses a bit more prosaic language it will fail.

I tried the famous opening from the "Commentarii de Bello Gallico".

"All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, the third."

It failed to parse the tree in a correct way. On the other hand, it did quite well with simple sentences (randomly picked from wikipedia).

PS: I had also a hard time to understand Ulysses.
It's possible to convert virtualbox images to kvm.
Yeah, but if your factory is down a flight of stairs, and you have daily face to face meetings with your Manufacturing engineers, who get involved with the product at the first meeting, it's a whole lot easier.
I'm on Windows and I don't want to install Visual Studio just because of libsass...
Perl interface to the V8 JavaScript engine
Isn't it unconditional basic income, as in everyone gets the same flat amount?

The moment you add conditions and variables, you basically turn it into the complex mess that's the current welfare system.
Spotify Just Got Real Creepy with the Data It Collects on You
The duration of the flight can be ignored. Almost all accidents happen during take-off or landing which is why statistics usually refer to the number of passengers.

Edit: Data to back it up: http://www.1001crash.com/index-page-statistique-lg-2-numpage...
23andme raw genome data run through promethease. I've got bunk genes for 'em.

Medication - yeah, tried a variety in my early 20's, hated side effects, ended up anxious over not being anxious.

Downtime and forced relaxation - weed. Only way I can make myself sit still.
Nope, I'm on Windows. I don't need GCC (or any other C compiler for that matter) to install Node, but now I need one because some of my coworkers on Macs decided to throw every possible dependency they could find into the project.
Even Darrel Issa, probably the most aggressive representative that fought SOPA, besides Zoe Lofgren, said in an interview at Stanford I believe, that the politicians changed their minds about SOPA then not because of "the people" but because of the companies lobbying against it.

The US political system is in such a sad state of affairs when politicians have to hear from the corporate lobbyists first whether something is a good idea or not before listening to the people.
Define "working hard".

You can spend your workday distracting yourself with Facebook, or cat gifs, making awkward water-cooler small talk with other people who, like yourself, are counting the hours until you go home. This is terribly unfulfilling.

On the other hand, you can spend your workday - the same amount of time, or even less - focused and productive, getting things done, effecting meaningful change. Too busy to agonize over the clock, you're pleasantly surprised by the end of the workday. You feel you've done things worth doing - that you haven't simply wasted your day on pointless drivel.

I would call the latter "working hard". Taking this definition of "Working hard", I wonder if it's not a prerequisite of living well.
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> The "final language"

I wish! But there are multiple sensible ways to approach a problem solution and just too many different tastes. There are good reasons for implementing different computation models, even if you made only one PL for each.
Ask HN: Custom API layer as a service?
As a mobile development house we're developing and deploying small to mid scale APIs that interact with our data layer. After deploying a node api for 100th time, we decided to turn this into a service.

Do you need such a tool in your development cycle? If so, you can go to http://goo.gl/krTwwm for our service

thanks
...and for the use-case where you're on a remote system with a slow connection it's feasible to run magit inside `emacs -nw`.
Super interesting!

I'm feeding it Shakespeare, just for fun, however I'm having trouble understanding the meaning of having two CCMP in the context of the verb make in this

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt"[1]

[1] http://spacy.io/displacy/?full=Our%20doubts%20are%20traitors...
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Let's face it. What's most important in life/business is social access and maintaining trust/confidence/respect to stay in those relevant circles in order to keep it. IOW, staying in the members' clubs, secret societies, party circuits, etc.

Example: Could Luci have met Larry anywhere other than a Stanford party? Probably not.
Guys... This is ancient.
Why do you have to specify the padding-bottom? Is it the image ratio (as 16:9 = 56.25%)? In that case, it would practically render the plugin useless for sites with many images with unknown size.
I'm not sure Google was that unusual...

Of the 6 founders of Excite, 5 were Stanford computer science graduates.

Jerry Yang and David Filo, founders of Yahoo, were electrical engineering graduates (thus very tech oriented).

Alta Vista was started by some electrical engineers and computer scientists from DEC.

Inktomi was started by Eric Brewer who was an electrical engineering and computer science professor.

I'm sure there are more.

EDIT:

As the NYT article noted, Google was swimming against the tide at the time. History has proved them right.

It should be mentioned that Sergey and Larry recruited Eric Schmidt as CEO in 2001. Eric is a hugely capable computer scientist, but he also had a proven record as CEO at Novell. In essence they brought in a 'business guy' who they trusted with the technical aspects of Google.
I don't remember the source but I do recall findings that the costs of investigations into welfare fraud in Germany significantly outweigh the (potential) costs of the fraud itself.

Of course the inefficiency is difficult to prove because it's impossible to correctly measure the amount of fraud that would exist if there were no investigations (the existence of the investigations might discourage fraud in the first place).

Still, it seems pretty intuitive that welfare fraud isn't actually as big a problem as people tend to think. Welfare fraud is one of these problems that are easy to exploit for public outrage. It's relatable ("they steal my (tax) money"), the people doing it are already stigmatised (if you're on welfare you either did something wrong or are simply not trying hard enough), the falsely accused are unlikely to retaliate, it's easily actionable (just add more inspections or simply reduce the benefits) and it's difficult to measure and nearly impossible to solve.

Sure, it may be a non-issue but it so wonderfully exploitable if you're a politician (or a "newspaper" that needs some inciteful headlines).
> So... shipped multiplatform code without testing it on Windows and Linux?

I'm getting the feeling that these days anything a "ninja coder" has written on a Mac is assumed "good" because Mac is "Unix" and therefore the code "has" to be portable.

Is there something about the Mac culture which leads to less considerations about other environments?
Just think - if they hadn't, why, we could have BT being the majority provider of ADSL in the country and charging people £££ for the privilege!

(Note to non-UKians: BT do, in fact, control most of the ADSL provision in the country and are still a defacto monopoly.)
I would contradict you by saying that in my opinion, the performance (execution) of plans is in fact reasonably good, and I think is a lot better than in many other countries.

But: even if municipalities are allowed to dismiss workforce, they won't. It appears that no public servant wants to have his/role and power diminished.

In fact, it seems that the larger a municipality is absolutely, the higher proportion of its workforce will be in public administration.

The highest cost of public administration and municipal services per head is in Utsjoki (a remote and poor area in the North with extremely disadvantageous geography), and Helsinki (the largest municipality with lots of well-to-do people and very high income). The lowest cost of public administration and most efficient organisation of services is in municipalities whose size is somewhere in between; record lows are in small communities where each and every inhabitant is committed to what they see is a common good.

Another factor for people not wanting to have their municipality merged into a larger one is the track record of previous mergers, where local services of the old, smaller municipalities where wiped out simply out of pure spite (I'm looking at you, Hämeenlinna, and how you managed Lammi and others.).
This could be useful as a backup.

I don't know about BitBucket, but GitHub has suffered downtime before. If you have a second remote on Dropbox, you can also get to your files there and wherever it's automatically syncing them should your VCS go down.
How much testing of HTML emails do you need ? Just bounce them back to the sender.
In FRACTRAN, every program is a list of functions
Imagine if we could have a visualization of subject/verb/object and their relationships clearly outlined on hover on each forum of the internet!

It is not as curing cancer but as close as solving war as it gets