skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startups aren't Dilbert land. They literally can't afford it. They have their own pathologies, of course, but they aren't Dilbert pathologies. (And due to scale, if you are motivated, they are often, but not always, more amenable to fixing.)

You can also look around for medium-sized places where software is the primary product; they can typically afford some Dilbertiness, but not too much, or they get eaten by somebody else. Depends on your tolerance, and on your ability to carve your own defensible niche out.

But either way, the key is certainly to start looking. No, working in Dilbert is not inevitable, but you'll have to take positive action if you are stuck there now.
Safety on modern cars is taken pretty seriously by regulators, but not by law enforcement.

If you kill somebody when you're behind the wheel, and you were sober?

You'll usually get dinged with "failure to yield", which basically means "there was an accident and it was your fault because your car was where it was when it had no right to be". Like turning when the intersection isn't clear or something.

That comes with a $500 fine. A $500 for taking a life by negligence.

Yeah, besides airbags and seat-belts, we collectively don't give a crap about vehicular safety.
Objective C? Not used much outside of AppKit/UIKit applications.
I'm not missing that point. What I find highly amusing is that no one I know, including myself, will be able to hold the mouse long enough to appreciate the new sound. I could be in an isolated world of DeathAdders and Zowie addicts, but this also includes my coworkers and parents.
The purpose of language is communication. Did you understand what melvinmt meant? Yes, of course you did. What's the big deal? What are you gaining by "correcting" a pointless[1] semantic distinction, other than your own smug satisfaction?

[1]: Yes, it's pointless. Why is there no such distinction for "more"?
Fibonacci+numbers,+arctangents,+and+pi
Ask David Cohen of Techstars Anything on the Technical.ly Slack Tomorrow
Dear Mr Jack, please do not cut my job. I have a wife and two kids and a big mortgage. Thank you, NanooJaboo
I am looking for a house next to an airport. Flights in EU are often cheaper than bus. And many conferences are happening because local city is Ryanair hub.
Should You Invest in Bitcoin Cloud Mining?
Heck, ask a programmer what a MOSFET is.
Just an honest question, but do you like the glossy screens? I personally get quite annoyed by them at times, and find matte screens to be a more relaxing (/dull) experience. The glossiness does however make the iMacs look good in stores. The colors a bit more vivid, and they also tend to show mostly whtie/bright footage on them which hides the mirroring effect.
That's slightly different than layoffs though. If they were focussing on Periscope / Vine / Moments instead of some other initiatives, then presumably you could simply shift developers/sales/marketing from one area to another - particularly in this market when finding developers is very difficult in the bay area. Heck, even leaving a region doesn't prevent a company from giving their employees the opportunity to physically relocate.

A good indication will be if any developers/marketing/sales, etc.. working on core Twitter/Vine/Periscope/Moments teams are let go.
Yes, see here:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34511973

The BBC isn't anywhere on the "political spectrum". If the OP was implying that the BBC was deliberately not including that info for political reasons, he/she doesn't really know anything about the BBC.
CREDIT CARD DEBT: 9 REASONS HOUSEHOLDS ARE BEING CRUSHED BY CREDIT CARD DEBT
I thought everyone loved the Apple BT keyboard universally and the Magic Mouse v1 was divisive?
> You know how parents say they can tell by the cries of their baby what the baby needs? After the birth of our kid I found there is actually some truth to it.

In fact there are five or more "words" that newborns have that can tell you what they need. A friend showed me a video from Oprah discussing it. Below is the first link I found describing them. Her newborn nearly always calmed down immediately when she responded to him based on what she heard. I was surprised I'd never heard of these before and that they don't appear to be well-known among new parents.

http://www.whattoexpect.com/blogs/motherhoodinthemountains/n...
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can anyone tell me why Falcor and/or GraphQL is better than using hypermedia apis and a orchestration layer service?
Because not everyone is a techie that reads HN. Most people I know, even many developers, could easily get by with 8g of RAM.
The single-purpose rf transceivers are more power-efficient.
If you understood exactly what he meant, then it was pretty straight. Especially the bit about how many people are being let go and from where, that's remarkably forthcoming.
Twitter filed a Form 8-K with the SEC this morning.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459015...

I'm not a securities lawyer, but I think the basic idea is that news about the layoffs (and the associated costs) was deemed to be material information, so under reg FD it has to be released to all investors simultaneously.
"We're laying off up to 336 people, with the biggest impact to Product and Engineering. We'll be providing generous exit packages and helping find new jobs. Sorry. It's our fuckup, not yours."
It would have been better to phrase it the same, but leave out the part about giving it to everyone straight.
As I see it, proteins are our best bet of making custom nanomachines. They're proven to work. The hard part is understanding protein folding and predicting protein function from the amino acid sequence.
In an age of ubiquitous data, we need to decide what we, as a society, are going to do with that data.

Do we respect a formally expunged record? Or do we continue to discriminate? Do we make such discrimination illegal, e.g. in employment, housing, etc.?

When everyone's genome, and now microflora composition, are known, do we discriminate on that basis? Perhaps people would be more willing to share such data -- including especially for the advancement of health care -- if ALL people benefited. Rather than e.g. finding oneself excluded from health care insurance, by selection or by pricing.

On problem with the absoluteness of some formulations of "free market", is that it fundamentally separates us from each other. We don't act in concert, because, essentially, we don't have each other's backs. Any vulnerability that might advance the common good, must instead be hidden, if it can.

Would you rather learn from our diversity, or expunge it?

Right now, there are a lot of voices finding short-term arbitrage in arguments and decisions that essentially boil down to "expunge."

And, I'm not talking about "the record." I'm talking about the people involved.

Bad health? Poor decision? Ostracism and a shortened, second-class life for you. Regardless.
I do love my Apple keyboards, trackpads, but I could never hold their mice.
Zesty (YC W14) is hiring Rails and Ember engineers
How a bee sting saved my life: poison as medicine

http://mosaicscience.com/story/how-bee-sting-saved-my-life-p...
The BBC is generally accepted to have a left-wing bias, but I doubt if that would have come into play in this particular story.
I would setup enterprise private server pricing tiers on your website so you can scale the price based on their use/data. And you can just send them a link to sign up and recommend a plan that would fit their needs initially. They might be less likely to try to negotiate if it looks like standard pricing.

This way you can show private server instance pricing on your site and allow the price to scale up based on use/data so you don't make less if they are using it more and you can scale up the price as they use it more.

Maybe show three tiers and have the last tier be variable based on their users/data or other relevant item.

If you're just looking for a price my initial thought is go for $999/mo.
You also cannot use the new Magic Mouse v2 while charging. That's so stupid an oversight.
One advantage of the US system is that they don't care when you switch your country of residence. My understanding of places like Canada and Australia is that emigration can cause a tax hit as you have to logically liquidate your assets in a final tax filing. Can non-US-ians comment on this?
I had a lot of issues with one in an office that had tons of windows, some times of the day it was super hard to see. But the colors did look pretty good.

I'm partial toward matte too, just got an Asus 4K display that's seriously impressive, never expected them to brand really nice displays.
Awaiting molecular 3D printing.
I thought I was still in the thread about UML ;)
A train 20 miles away, absolutely. Trains are by far the biggest noise polluters, mostly due to federal regulation. They have to signal at every intersection. In my humble opinion, completely unnecessary since we already have bells there, but whatever ...

As far as how forested New York State is, this gives you a good idea:

http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/309.html
> being the world's richest country

The US is the worlds #19th richest country as far as GDP (per capita) which makes the most sense as a measure of individuals and taxes.

I don't think it makes any sense given that lower GDP nations should be doing the same thing to extract money from the US economy on any of their citizens who make more than ~$20K (if their GDP were $14K) based on the same "logic".

When The US is happily paying fairly for its brain drain, it can complain. But either way as an expat I actively boycott US services and financial relationships for my own protection.

(edit- make it clear I mean per capita, and reference:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... )
Did you found source on that? Only source that I managed to find it's website of company he founded long time ago:

http://www.medicalbiocare.com/html/corporate.html

Any other sources tell that IPL was invented by someone else.
I've never worked on two projects that did the same things other than "let people login", which I usually have settled in the project before anyone even starts talking about estimates. I've never worked on two projects with even the same reporting frameworks. Hell, only a few of them have even been in the same application framework.

I've never worked on two projects with the same team. There's as much learning about how to work with new, particular individuals as there is to learn about what the client needs.

Insomuch that anything has remained constant, it was pretty much just the underlying programming language, but even that has changed dramatically over the years, as well as opinions on the best way in which one should write it. Certainly my understanding of it has drastically improved.

And I'm not exactly sure what you're suggesting by "raw data". What sort of data? Collected and stored how? Reported on in what ways?
In Anathem they are called "kinagrams".
Sorry to hear about your house, my entire principality is missing, as the Welsh data is now looked after by the devolved equivalent agency, Natural Resources Wales. Happily it appears that's due to be released on November 2nd (http://naturalresources.wales/lidar?lang=en) so hopefully I'll be able to incorporate that shortly after, depending on what it looks like.

The current map is built with all the available DSM (Digital Surface Model) 1m resolution data. It appears the coverage is focused on coast and rivers, which makes sense in light of the Environment Agency's flooding remit. There's more coverage available to download at 2m (covering approximately half of the 1m gaps at a guess) and some small patches available at 50cm and 25cm resolutions.
Defendants should be able to inspect code used in forensics
Not everybody got into programming on the soft side. But I agree with you that on average most programmers would not know what that is.
Bryan, were you involved with Nanorex?
It can be hard to convey the proper use of a technology/framework in academia when there is not a lot of background to work with. I felt the same about unit testing (shouldn't you know how your code works?) and UML diagrams (shouldn't you know the class/object relationships?) as well. They're all bigger picture than that.

The point at which I started to realize the usefulness of diagrams was when I started working on projects that were more than a few hours worth of coding (my first internship). UML provides a way to visually represent how your code will both relate to itself (classes, interfaces, objects) and the overall project to both the developer AND the business analysts who have no idea what inheritance or polymorphism mean. I've included an early draft of a piece of a rather large data model. It won't mean anything to you without the overall diagram, but you see some relationships between the customer's account, application and product: http://s18.postimg.org/gxfkjytft/diag.png

You probably had an example like grocery store checkout software, hotel booking software, or library cataloging software. A UML diagram can show to everyone all the possible routes a customer can take such at starting points, ending points, resume milestones, activities that are and are not allowed, transient and permanent data and everything in between. This all applies to the academic scenarios listed above, but it's more in depth (likely) than an assignment that you'll have when learning about UML.

Just keep in mind that large project will have multiple developers of varying expertise with business people who likely cannot write "Hello World!" in any language. UML attempts to bridge the gap between you, your superiors, your subordinates, and the non-tech side of the project.
You don't need this data to do that. OSM already releases everything you need including gridded height data and vector building maps.

I've used that data for this exact purpose before. Shoot me a message explaining what you're looking for.
What does OpenSSL do in that situation?
But they did mention Hy, a lisp dialect written in Python. I find this hy-larious.

It certainly is one way to learn Python better as you'll be working, indirectly, in its abstract syntax tree. You can do this in plain Python but the ast module is woefully under-documented and rarely used.
Just curious what you mean by 1/3. Is that how many have failed or how many you think are actual scams? Of the several I've done (of which there have been a few failures) there's only one that I would consider a scam (and they actually refunded the money).

This one definitely sounds like a scam - especially how quickly they jumped to another platform without addressing the questions.
"up to 336" -- that's a very specific number, suggesting this was somewhat surgical. Most other leadership types are of the "any manager worth her salt should be able to cut 10% of her staff, so do it". Layoffs are never easy, but it sounds like Jack is doing his best make the right cuts and take care of affected.
Definitely possible. And you guessed it - American.

Is health insurance the only thing to worry about? Any other reasons to save up a lot of money, or something to insure for?

For example, if a medical issue arises, insurance covers treatment, but if it's now difficult to sustain myself, am I now dependent on unemployment/social services (or savings)?

I lead a minimalist/nomadic lifestyle now, and always wondering if at some point the music has to stop and I have to integrate into the system as I get older (any kids, family aside).
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> I don't see how this is any worse than separate buttons - you'd still have the same physically clickable area then (the bottom bit) but you'd have less space to drag the cursor around.

Sure, but with physical buttons I know if I'm on a physical button. With this thing, sometimes clicking just doesn't work because I'm too far up and I have to move my finger down to where it's magically clickable again.

> Seriously, this is just what's available out of the box with OS X

I dunno, I don't use any of that stuff. I do 90% of my work from the Terminal. I drag windows, scroll, and select text (ugh) and that's about it. For my use case, this thing is no improvement over buttons and often a detriment.
I think the point being made is that it's not straightforward to synthesize a plausible set of causes and remedies, despite the survey of 21 sources, and that economics as a science needs a bit of self-reflection in the light of this reality.
I've read a lot about graphene recently (including claimed breakthroughs [1] by IBM and Graphene 3D Lab regarding the cheap production of carbon nanotubes). Perhaps some of this tech just requires more patience to fulfil its promises?

[1]
http://3dprint.com/98086/graphene-3d-lab-patent/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-claims-breakthrough-on-carb...
>For example: isn't China supposed to be Communist?

No. It is state capitalism. The communist label is used in the same manner as the democratic label of the democratic people's republic of korea.
Saying it like that makes it sound too much like the brand is what is needed as opposed to the tool. To put your words another way: The world is better off with a strong tool to fight against censorship and public and private control.

If Twitter starting taking massive cash payments from governments to filter content, it would be a strong Twitter with lots of cash, but not a strong tool to fight against anything.
Twitter cuts 336 jobs amid restructuring
project for a friend that could become his business/SaaS platform.
Why can't you call your representative while living abroad?
Fiat Chrysler recalls 27 thousand cars woldwide
It's impossible. It's like cleaning all the cosmic trash we've sent on the orbit. One by one. Every times with big effort.
"Frankly, we can play the "No, you're using the power of the state"

I don't wish to defend zoning laws, nor humour a "tu quoque" contest. Not necessary for my point.

"My previous landlords did nothing to improve the value of their property."

That's also beside the point. They made an investment in buying and improving the land. They are not permitted to realize the market value that their investment (foresight / risk-taking) had earned.
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This I don't get. Women can't fix it? Men are just keeping them down by being soooo demeaning and sexist?

Are women that powerless and frail that half-assed 1% of the time "micro-aggressions" are enough to keep a whole gender from perusing their dreams?

That's BS I say. It's BS that men are "the primary instigators of sexism" and it's BS that "men are required to fix the equality gap".
Apple's ebook business no longer under scrutiny
Nope, I wasn't involved with Nanorex, just the recovery of the files and then "maintaining" the software ever since I learned about the company's imminent death.
I don't think that everyone should go to therapy. There's just not enough money. And not everyone needs to go to therapy. That strength training for the mind, a lot of people get that through everyday living. There are just some who are not quite as resilient and do need that extra help, in which case therapy is a very good idea.
What country was this?
I'm tempted to say, thank god, now that all the idiots are out of the way the real science can get funded, tested, and refined. But that offers up a question, does a whole lot of popular buzz really help out a field, or does it usually just turn out to be noise? Is there a measurable "actual progress" delta during times of increased popular attention and is it positive?
In programming for science, engineering, finance or cryptography, you may also need the math, but UML does not help there, either.
For a half-page email, this seems awfully nit-picky :)
Greenlane uses park, tree and trail data to map scenic paths through Toronto
Thats their strategy. They do not need proofs just spread confusion to prevent sane discussion.
Is it the same case with other apps as well? Have you done any research. Please share the details of others also.
France's Macron Law for startups
Or ask and EE what a closure is.

But seriously, some programmers will actually know what a MOSFET is.
Interesting you say that, you may not know that Ralph is also slang for "to vomit".

I don't think "to Jeff" is anything yet.
"They have been incredibly helpful and they believe in the
Skarp Razor as much as we do," the firm said of Indiegogo.

is a very polite way of saying "Yeah, we don't believe in our own product either"
It only works in Toronto. Try Union Station to 40 St. George to see how it works.
> In July, Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have established an international criminal tribunal to investigate the MH17 attack.

Nothing to hide, right?
I don't understand the question. I buy new products in stores or online... Are you looking for a specific purchase I made and how I came to select the product?
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wow. Gartner seems spot on with this. Seems like a ready-made guide for investors.
I feel the term "nanotech" is meaningless. Everyone piled into the term and it has became too broad an umbrella and includes what one would usually describe as "materials science", "biochemistry" and "molecular biology" among others. "Data science" feels like another similar, ultimately meaningless umbrella term.
> The guy invented Intense Pulsed Light, i.e. the laser technology used in hair removal

As somebody who has actually undergone laser hair removal, I can tell you that IPL is not laser. It's an alternative to laser that's used by some hair removal places, and it's generally considered less effective and less permanent than real laser. IPL is the budget option. It's also not technically a laser, either. IPL is non-coherent light over a range of wavelengths, while laser is coherent light over a single wavelength.

The most effective options for laser hair removal are alexandrite and maybe diode lasers for people with pale skin and YAG lasers for people with dark skin. You won't see IPL recommended over any of these.

Mind you, if what this project is selling is a temporary way to get rid of hair, IPL might be ideal for this particular use case.
of course there is, you just don't hear about it. Incremental progress is not always news-worthy, but it certainly matters and is happening all of the time.
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Ideally we can find a way to engineer proteins that have known shape and conformations and binding, without having to increase our knowledge about protein folding or DNA folding. Maybe certain amino acids fold more heuristically-predictably than other amino acids? And ligand binding affinity is much simpler to engineer compared to the computationally expensive molecular dynamics simulation of protein folding. There's probably other options here, too.
If nearly 40% of Americans aren't Working, What are they Doing?
Well, I do love the Magic Mouse so much. It's the best Mouse I've had -- from a history of crappy Apple (and earlier PC) mice, which includes SUN Spark's optical mice (which required a special mousepad) when nobody on their PC had optical mice yet...

Especially Apple's older mouse (with the too easy to jam with dirt wheel/ball) I really hated...
I agree with you, though I'm not sure if height is even the best metaphor: our brains are remarkably changeable based on how we use them, so a better comparison might be measuring an athlete's muscle mass in different parts of the body.