skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's expected to impact their earnings, so as a public company, they are required to file a notice of the change:

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-2F526X/853662030...
I'll second that. I first went to a therapist years ago for a visit precipitated by a professional "crisis" (not that crisis-y in retrospect). I found therapy to be so helpful I resolved to continue going after that was worked out. I was very into body and life hacking, and found so many unexpexted benefits. I explain it to people as "maintenance mode", which is the only way I've been able to word it which garners consistently positive responses. Think check-up versus emergency care. Few people would advocate relying solely on emergency care. That makes sense to people, that I go when I'm "normal" so that when I really "need" to go I already have that support system in place and a great relationship with my doctor. That is not a process you want to deal with in the middle of dealing with real issues; it can be difficult finding a good doctor who is a good match for you, and a bad match can do more harm than good. I believe I benefit every visit, not just visits dealing with drama, but that explanation seems to click with people. I just know it is healthy to have an external bull-sh-t meter to run things by. Forgot who said it, but, "Trying to define one's self is like trying to bite your your own teeth."
"Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to
give it to you straight."

Three paragraphs later...

"So we have made an extremely tough decision: we plan to part ways with
up to 336 people from across the company."

Edit: My bad, I should have been clearer in what I meant. There isn't really any corporate speak, but I wouldn't call 3 paragraphs of fluff 'giving it to you straight'
If you'd prefer hardware: http://www.lumobodytech.com/lumo-lift/
Haskell has this philosophy that you first think really hard about what you want to do, then write an elegant well typed program in Haskell to do it. The real world is usually much more messy, the problem and solution are not well defined, you will need to start coding just to figure out what you need to really code. So Haskell assumes well typed code can do no wrong, but often we are debugging our own mental models.
Having done it for a while now I always think that database design is simple. Yet looking at he work of others, many people get it really badly wrong.
The irony is that this change has nothing to do with expertise. It is entirely subjective.

Scala has awful types. GHC 7.10.2 change is still elegant.
Clickbait title not disclosing the app, and to top it off the link does not work. I obviously clicked it though, so well done.
Your question isn't particularly useful, some people might not hire a lawyer to fight against an accusation of murder, but it doesn't mean if you did hire someone to do it they wouldn't need to be qualified. Equally I'd be shocked if nobody had ever used a lawyer to contest a parking ticket.
Communication regulations around public stocks.
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You really changed your life plans because of FATCA? Are there really no banks in Central America willing to work with Americans? I'm in Singapore, and though I've had to close one bank account due to it, I've had no problems with my others. Filling out an FBAR the first year took me a couple of hours to figure out, but every year after it took me like 10 minutes.
> A WARN notification is required if more than 500 people (or 33% of the "active workforce") are being laid off. Check your state's Department of Labor (or whatever it is called in your state) to see the notices that have been filed by employees in your state. (from http://www.job-hunt.org/layoffs/pending-layoff-signs.shtml)

For California:
http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN...
What's more, it has 4 points currently.
I never connected CASE with CAD, I stopped at Booch's history.

Same about dogfooding. When I realized RSA wasn't (at least when I was working on it) developed with RSA or any UML I felt weird... Doubly weird since other tools like IBM Jazz (team collaboration) used themselves to ensure a certain dose of value.
Education-intensive culture is common to all high-skilled immigrant groups
What about that seems like corporate speak to you?
I was hoping to find some explanation of how they capture the data. I'm guessing it's from aircraft? It'd be interesting to read about how they stitch together and correct the data captured from a moving platform like that. And I wonder how long it takes to capture the whole country.
Google is racing to overtake AWS. Datalab and Cloud Shell are some amazing products released by Google. Using Cloud Shell, you can orchestrate your infrastructure right from your browser. Using Datalab, you can do data science from the browser.
Ask HN: As a freelancer, what are the terms of your service contracts?
I have got a maintenance/service contract with a company. I've basically agreed to work up to 15h/month with a 24h response time on any maintenance task (bug fixing, server issues, etc.). Whether I work 15h or less during the month, the amount they pay monthly is fixed.

What I'm wondering is how about months when there's almost no work, say there was only 1-2 hours of maintenance to do. The client might be a bit frustrated because they pay me but there's not much to do.

Do you have any clause in your contract to handle this? I was thinking, for example, if there's one hour left or more, it goes to the next month, so there will be 16h next month. Or maybe I do some extra development work at no extra charge. No sure what is the best practice for this, and what would be fair.

Any suggestion?
Show HN: Treewrite, a technique for writing essays
Depends on the city. I've stayed at a JFK airport hotel for a price you would never get in Manhattan.

Also some cities you need to leave a lot of time for possible traffic delays.
Nobel left his fortune to a foundation to maintain the prizes and the entire point was to award people that helped mankind. Furthermore the award is called "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" not "The Nobel prize for economics". It was started by Sveriges Riksbank with a donation to the Nobel foundation. Everyone calls it the Nobel prize for economics because it's administered by the same foundation, its mission is the same and it's easier to say and for others to understand.

In my opinion pedantry for its own sake is a hallmark of reddit and it kind of chaps my ass that it seems to be cropping up more here.
It's not great, but it's certainly better than something like "We've decided to move forward with a new strategic initiative that will involve a synergistic restructuring of our organizations and in that process it's possible that some people may find themselves seeking opportunities"...
I'm not OP but I'm guessing "...we plan to part ways..." - however, twitter is hardly going to say "...we decide to sack..."
But it's a natural and beneficial (wondering) thing to do. Leveraging automated logic to reflect on other forms of automated logic (code).
Any info on whether this is just to appease shareholders or actual redundancies?
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In the US, 31 out of 33 visited states had audible human noises in their most remote spots. I wonder what the result would be for Canada's ten provinces and three territories...
My theory is that Twitter is way more popular with newspapers than the general public because it is easy to extract trending tweets compared to almost anything else and generate stories based on it.
Probably saying 'part ways with' rather than 'lay off'
It seems unsuitable for coordinating mass protests to me, because it's a single point of failure. In many countries, the government controls all Internet access, so blocking Twitter would be relatively easy. Sure, people can use Tor, but will enough people have it when Twitter gets blocked?

Seems like what's really "needed" is a distributed Twitter-like platform, using a DHT or something. Keep it small and simple enough, and a client could run on many devices 24/7, updating every a few times an hour, or more if the user's actively using it.

User identity might be the hard part, because a long hash isn't very human-friendly. But perhaps that could be solved by a centralized directory authority mapping user ID hashes to Twitter-like usernames. The mappings could be cached by clients in case the directory went down or got blocked. Sort of like how PGP keyservers work, letting clients get keys when they need them and add them to their local keyring.
Reading that just indicates that the world needs social media, not Twitter per se. Many of the quotes there seem to indicate that Twitter's role was exaggerated.
Leaked Google documents reveal the questions the company won't answer
Twitter announces 'up to' 336 job losses, 8% of its workforce
Well, the first one is a mother that did a C-section on herself saving the baby and not dying in the process. Pretty remarkable if you ask me.
> The roadmap is focused on the experiences which will have the greatest impact. We launched the first of these experiences last week with Moments, a great beginning, and a bold peek into the future of how people will see what's going on in the world.

That Moments is mentioned so high up in the email isn't particularly reassuring...since it means they haven't launched many other initiatives of note recently. Moments as a feature is extremely disappointing given the years of interesting discoveries that Twitter has yielded algorithmically via its, well, "Discover" tab. What's on Moments looks like a half-baked newspaper front page except when you click on an item, you go to tweets about that item instead of a full story.

I don't want to pile on the project as it is new...but it should've been given more thought and design time given how much prominence "Moments" has on the interface (it is one of four main icons on the menubar)...Nearly all of the stories are hours old...e.g. "Wave of terror attacks hits Jerusalem" and "Playboy covers up"..."FedEx truck splits in two", granted, is news to me...but not something that makes Twitter unique to me.

There's so much more potential in the Trends section...OK, maybe Twitter wants to filter out potentially visually NSFW topics like #NoBraDay...but things like #MH17 and #VMworld and #ILoveYouAboutAsMuchAs...just show me an automated feed of tweets by reputable sources (rather than spambots or random kids) so I can understand why these topics are suddenly trending without having to click through the trends tag and sort through a overwhelming timeline.

edit: that said, I like all the other products...besides core Twitter, Vine and Periscope are standouts (at least, as a consumer)...I just think that "Moments" isn't worth putting into the spotlight, unless there is literally nothing else to be proud of publicly.
coming from someone who creates a throwaway account to post that link.
I'm a little surprised that they're only firing 336 people. Unless this is just the first round of layoffs and more will follow once products and management has been streamlined/trimmed whatever you want to call it.
I wouldnt think of it as being that black/white. However I do think this is a <strong> move on Jack's part.
Fuse Releases Cross Platform UX Tool Suite
Twitter lays off 8 percent of employees
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tl'dr: New Yorker sees a deer a quarter-mile off the road and concludes he's in the wilderness.
I think the engineers will be in a good position.

The rest, I'm not as sure.
Reading between the lines here, does this mean that a mouse interface will finally be available for iPad?

It would be awesome to have a mouse for Citrix/VMWare terminal access.
No, that would have been put on the Department of Labor site.
Would you mind elaborating a bit? I've heard the same sentiments as yours, but without any more elaboration.

What kind of tools does it provide you, for example?
Simple Sequential A/B Testing
One thing that also reminds me of Windows culture in web development is the continuous reinvention of how to do the same old boring stuff.
What do you think of OPM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_process_methodology
Ask HN: Do you use paid or free stock image sites?
What sort of images do you go to stock sites for and what experience do you have of paid vs free sites? (disclaimer I'm about to launch a free stock site as a side project so trying to create some useful unique images)
Liveguide, livestream discovery service (Android BETA)
You're right. Changing the region and rebooting the device makes the app appear. That's still anything but discoverable though.
Hey fellow writers, I've discovered a technique that's useful for expressing your ideas quickly, without thinking much about the form. It turned out to have other unforeseen advantages as well (explained on the linked page).

What do you think about it?
Meet the Mind-Reading Robo Tutor in the Sky
Auctions, Online Timed Auctions, Live Public Auctions
It's kind of a bummer that the new keyboard ($100) doesn't have a backlight while still keeping the eject button.
Feedback very welcome, here or at hi@liveguide.info

Love
Guess it should be working now.
Languages to improve your Python
If I wanted to see a class diagram I'd simply use a tool to generate a class diagram from the code - which I'd then know was completely up to date.

Edit: DRY
My general experience with FATCA has been quite mild. I've been in Singapore for 5 years, and I had one investment account that had to be closed, but all my bank accounts were fine. The FBAR took me a few hours to figure out how to fill out the first time, but every year after it only took 10 minutes to update the numbers. The laws about starting a business are much more onerous. If I become a founder/shareholder/director of a company not incorporated in the US, there are all sorts of painful compliance requirements that are basically there to make me rather incorporate in Delaware or something. Net net, I sense that except for a few unfortunate cases, most of the pain of compliance with FATCA is coming from those who it was meant to target: wealthy tax evaders. This article did appear in the WSJ...
Right link: http://blog.attify.com/2015/10/13/how-i-could-read-chats-of-...
The App name (At The Pool) is disclosed in the blog post. The link should be working again.
Three Pandas Tips for Pandas Noobs
Apple goes all-Retina for its 27-inch Skylake iMac refresh
I'm just curious and I'm not trying to be snide but is there any spec that OMG has produced that people actually like and use still? (they are also makers of CORBA)

I live in the Boston rt128 area and I pass OMG's building all the time and I just have no idea how they are still in business (they are near Trip Advisors new complete awesome building).

I wonder how many massive companies continuously donate to OMG and do not realize it.
My story was for a dot-matrix printer. Took hours to print.
Scroll down to the mouse gestures and the first thing you see is someone slowly demonstrating the unbelievable feature of a right click on a mouse. With the index finger. Awesome.

Edit: There it is: https://www.apple.com/media/us/accessories/2015/e137bcd8-687...

I could watch this masterpiece all day.
It kinda frightens me too. Partly because reinvention at that scale is a bit sad, partly because it took me far too long to unplug myself from the current trends thrill and realize it.

Somehow it also says something, whatever the underlying structure, local and native VS remote and abstracted (dom/js), some patterns keeps coming back over and over.
>We feel strongly that Engineering will move much faster with a smaller and nimbler team

What percentage of 336 cuts would produce a team that is smaller and nimbler, I wonder? It sounds like engineers not on the "greatest impact" projects will be cut.
> REST is inadequate even for smaller companies, when it comes to the use cases Relay+GraphQL (or Falcor) tries to solve.

Maybe it's slightly harder to implement those things in REST, but REST gives you HTTP caching and that's a killer feature. If you'd prefer to re-invent caching so you can use POST everywhere be my guest.
And still no black keys option :(
Now we have to deal with battery degradation. AAs can be replaced; Sealed-in Lithium Ion batteries degrade over time.

A very Apple move, to change to hardware with more planned obsolescence.
Haven't we learned that the inward incline isn't the way to go? Or is it marginal enough in this case to be aesthetic?
Google offers virtual reality Street View
not OP, but what was announced 3 paragraphs later could have been written in the same sentence:
"Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight: we plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company."
This is certainly one reason for higher drug prices but I don't think it's the only one.
> In fact, many places in the world did need twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution

LOL, sure as hell. Twitter was blocked in most of these countries (and Turkey too). The outcry was huge, but guess what... They 'survived'.

Twitter is just a medium. The preferred medium for some. There are countless alternatives nowadays, no one needs twitter.
'"In this study, the researchers predicted how well people would do on a cognitive test by analyzing fMRI scans of 126 subjects in the Human Connectome Project, a five-year initiative to map how areas of the human brain communicate with each other. The subjects performed motor, memory, and intelligence tests, including a pattern completion test that measured abstract reasoning—what neuroscientists call fluid intelligence.

Their connectomes, it turned out, had a lot to do with how well they scored. ...A strong connection between the frontal and parietal lobes, especially, meant a high fluid intelligence score.'

This is an interesting result as well, that connection between different areas of the brain predict abstract reasoning ability.
We very much need twitter. What other platform is there for teens to say 'DADDY' to world leaders? What other platform is their for those world leaders to put their feet in their mouth? These are the important things to online bullies and comedians.
Yes I did. My wife and I had a pro and con sheet for reasons to move and reasons not to move. FACTA tipped the scales, so to speak, and we decided to not do move.

I am still a little sad about our decision though. I think that life is more interesting living in different places, doing different kinds of jobs, etc.

BTW, I didn't want to move for financial reasons as much as wanting a low key lifestyle. There is something about Central America that makes me feel great just hanging around. Anyway, my wife and I live in the mountains of Central Arizona, and I also love our lifestyle here, so life is good.
>Your question isn't particularly useful, some people might not hire a lawyer to fight against an accusation of murder, but it doesn't mean if you did hire someone to do it they wouldn't need to be qualified.

You and I are thinking different things. A parking ticket and murder are 2 different things and should not be lumped together. Consider how much a lawyer charges an hour hence my question. If the parking tickets where $5,000 then my question wouldn't be useful. Why would I pay a lawyer $450 an hour to dispute a $350 charge?

Fixed does not need a legal license to dispute tickets on behalf of others.
Maybe I'm a little self centered but this line:

> We will honor them by doing our best to serve all the people that use Twitter.

seems a little pep talky to me for the people left.

I feel saying this would have been better:

> We will honor them with the utmost respect for each and every person. Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual by providing generous exit packages and help finding a new job.
Hövding – Airbag for Cyclists
No because I don't have any. What an amazing easy solution to the problem.
This makes a lot of sense. Every day, at 4am, I would spring out of my bed and begin screaming as I jumped up and down on my parents bed to wake them up, sometimes literally opening their eyelids for them, kept screaming, made myself captain crunch and began watching my daily episode of dragon ball z while eating capn crunch and acting out kung fu moves on the furniture.

My sister on the other hand is pretty quiet and just sometimes procrastinates too much and doesn't clean her apartment.
What are your best examples on non-Dilbert-land cultures? I want to go to there.
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Trigger your IFTTT recipes by voice command
Emoji Dick – A Crowd Sourced Translation of Moby Dick into Emoji
Thanks for the link :)
Twitter has what, 4000 employees? Clearly some of them are not strong performers, or at least less strong than others. So you can gain more productivity per employee by cutting the weak - but you of course risk the best employees becoming disenfranchised and looking for work elsewhere.
The way they talk about the new keyboard makes it sound like the MacBook keyboard, which I really can't get on with.
Situational awareness only helps if you have options. If I am biking at 15 mph, every car around me is still going at triple my speed. If there were a car or two passing me each minute, then I could slow down and pull over for each one. When there is a constant stream of cars, I would need to trust every one of them to notice me. I don't trust drivers that much.

The only true solution is separated bike paths, but that doesn't seem likely to happen in the US.
Las Vegas had one as well but it's been discontinued.
How is that corporate speak? I'm sure it was a tough decision and "parting ways" while maybe isn't the most direct way to say it, is far from obscure corporate jargon.
Gosh, so weird to see that perl snippet.

I love the empty degrees of separation predicates, https://gist.github.com/philfreo/7257723#file-gistfile1-pl-L...

I can't help but to think he should have gone list monadic {and lisp too but well, enough dogma}:

http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/04/deep-emacs-part-1.html
My startup needs kick
What about social security taxes?
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It basically just tips the liberal reader's "oh no, that's bad, that's outdated, white male, bad, 1950s, modernism, bad"
> What's on Moments looks like a half-baked newspaper front page except when you click on an item, you go to tweets about that item instead of a full story.

How? When I click on it, it just peaks at the next picture.

Moments is a glorified image slider.
And you had all the great amenities that you cannot get in Manhattan like the Casino and the Race track not far off.
Not quite the same but I predicted after 9/11 that airports would grow living facilities beyond security for people who wanted to be "safe."

Doesn't seem like they are talking about these being behind airport security however.
I feel like history has not been kind to languages that are tightly integrated with a GUI toolkit, unless that toolkit is HTML.
I've heard the same thing about the Afx macros and the plan for another more ambitious framework.

In my opinion the biggest obstacles for MFC were:
* a pretty bad C++ compiler (the first good MS C++ compiler was the one with Visual Studio 2003 as much as i remember)
* that the core group were "old school" C guys that either couldn't design a better object oriented system or thought that it would be to hard for the "normal" developers
> On the body part it's a bit more complicated it's more a CSI effect people think that all cases have tons of physical evidence and that everything is cool and flashy and high-techy

I sat on a jury a couple years back and the prosecutor's opening statement addressed this issue in the first seconds of the case. He worked hard to make a distinction between reality and television. This was a smart move, as some of the people on that jury turned out to be dumb as rocks when we went into deliberation. I'm sure this is true of most juries.