skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A person who can live off their assets is worried about the same things as well, just to a lesser degree. It's possible to have sufficient assets to live off only to see a market, or an industry, etc. collapse, leaving you with insufficient assets. If you're a billionaire, that's pretty unlikely, but if you're just on the other side of "upper class" it's entirely possible.

Upper class people are also by and large selling their time and skills. Some of them are sitting idly, but most of them are engaged in some sort of job, whether that's a high-ranking executive position, or managing their own companies, etc.

"Middle class" cannot simply mean "works for wages", because that includes the entire working class. "Middle class" is meaningless if it's not more specific.
Yeah, I've done something like this as well. It's wrapper around nixpkgs that provides:

* baseline nixpkgs at a specific version
* customized overrides of specific packages
* a library of functions to aid packaging our own software

It works great. It's actually not very much code, but it took a while to figure out what we wanted.
How did this make Hacker News? And more importantly, how did this make the Washington Post? This is at best bad advice and at worse horribly irresponsible. She seems like she's on a fast track to eating cat food in her retirement age - your 20s are the best time to save, and she blew them on selfish BS, with no real clear effort to actually take care of herself in her retirement years.
The 50% off is for a brief period only.
> Take the time, on a regular basis, to talk to your employees about their lives, goals and challenges. Ask them what they hope to accomplish, not just in the next week, but in the next year, five years and ten years in their careers. Listen intently to what they say, and think about how you can help them achieve that. And then act.

Ah, the dreaded one-on-ones. This would actually make me want to leave the company if I have to be open all the time. Why should I have to divulge my personal aspirations to my employers? That's private information.
We have just under 2,000 users in our JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo ecosystem. Customizing things like ticket types and workflows is obviously just point and click. We've also created custom reports, and Jelly based custom event triggers and actions with one untrained person. I guess it depends on the nature of what you're trying to do, but we've found it very easy to customize and integrate.
Sadly this is because this field is seriously under-developed, I feel.

I have found three serious contenders when surveying this area recently:

1. Jira - flexible, but slow and old

2. TargetProcess - if you have bought into the Agile hype machine, this is for you

3. Asana - this one is a bit special. They have the performance and scalability, but it all just feels too brittle. The UX is fancy, minimalistic but not intuitive. It's like a collaborative scratch-pad for people who are really into tool ergonomics. I feel it goes too far in the other direction as compared to Jira.

Why can't someone just spend the 5 man-years required to build a Jira that's flexible, usable and fast?
Which reminds me that CALEA, DMCA and the like was passed in the 1990s, when not as many people was using the Internet as today. SOPA/PIPA was passed in a time when everyone for example is using Google, which is why the protests was so effective. In this case, such a law requiring backdoors would be likely unconstitutional (it was tried in the 1990s too), which is why FBI is resorting to other methods.
I think the employees will probably be happy. The current market cap is above 5.5B. The 15% that is employee owned comes out to 825M. With 1100 employees, this comes out to an average of 750K per employee. Obviously this won't be distributed evenly, but definitely life-changer for many employees.
There's a particular failure mode that bears pointing out with regards to compensation:

Suppose you have a person you've brought on, and they agree to do some amount of work at a salary and tiny equity split.

After some amount of time, they realize that they've produced a good deal more value than you have compensated them for. They're going to feel jilted.

It's not enough to say, "We'll take advantage of you less in the future"...you might have to say, "Wow, okay, we screwed you, how can we make this right?"

And sadly, the optimal capitalist strategy is to just lay them off and enjoy the surplus they unwittingly made for you.
Your PIN is actually checked locally by the card before it signs the transaction. Sure, you're vulnerable to a POS system stealing your PIN, but they can't really do anything with it unless they also have your card's private key, which is pretty much impossible to get off the card without destroying it. This is a huge improvement over what it was before, where you only had to copy the mag stripe info to clone the card.
Dwolla is an ACH transfer platform, Stripe isn't. Two completely different things.
Imagine getting punched in the stomach.

And then, instead of recovering in a few minutes, imagine the shock and pain slowly turning into disappointment, anger and dread.

Don’t you realize how important you are to the team?

How could you do this to me?

It was what I felt right then and there. Betrayal. Sadness. Despair about the future.

Umm, companies pull the plug on employees all the time. In most cases with vastly less forethought and regret than employees engage in when leaving their jobs (even jobs they hate).

I guess it can sort of "hurt" on the management side, when employees leave. But given the pain that employees go through (hint: the immediate threat to their own physical safety, as well as that of their families) when they're let go, I'm not sure how one could begin to consider the two situations as remotely comparable. Let alone get so emotional, and feel such a sense of "despair" when an employee (even a particularly valued one) leaves.
Reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man". For those who don't know, this is a Sylvester Slallone futuristic movie where a thug named Simon Phoenix wakes up from a cryo-prison somewhere around 2032. But LA is a pacifist utopia now, and the cops are all "nicey nicey" without any weapons with them, so who is going to stop Simon now?

I think, as a society, we are progressing towards that kind of pacifist utopia.
The Pixel C was probably never supposed to run Android
Agreed, if you work with I/O, all the try!(try!(try!())) start making your eyes bleed. The ? suggestion is quite brilliant, been waiting for progress on that for a long time
> but you'd need a company

You absolutely need a company, and a chat with an accountant before you start singing contracts with and paying partners who create content for you.

If you just wing it, there's a good chance that you will end up owing the government employment taxes.
Crowdfunding: a tax on people too stupid to understand business loans and venture investing.
Developer/Author here - I built a data analysis tool (it's like IPython notebook minus the Python!). This is my first published analysis using the tool.

Short demo video https://getvql.com/demos/boston_airbnb_reviews.html
I see a disconnect between what the public believes the job of the police is and what police officers believe the job of the police is.

In my mind, police officers sign up for a dangerous job knowingly - that's why they're revered as heroic by many in society. They are willing to put themselves at risk to protect society from harm, and that's noble.

What most police academies teach is the opposite. They teach officers to put their own safety over that of everyone else. They talk in terms of "reducing officer casualties" and "overwhelming force". This is not a heroic police officer sacrificing himself for society; it's jackbooted thugs threatening, terrorizing and killing the very civilians they are supposed to protect. Turns out it's really hard to tell a bad guy from a good guy by looking at them, so they play it safe and treat everyone like a bad guy.

Not every officer thinks this way, but it's common enough that it leads to a lot of police shootings. IMO a police officer should be more willing to take a bullet than put one into someone. I realize body armor isn't foolproof, but the job is inherently dangerous and the officer goes into it knowing that - something a person on the street doesn't get.
He's not talking about that. He's talking about the fact that, at any Wal-Mart you care to patronize, you'll find that while they have sixteen or twenty tills installed and ready to use, they have maybe three actually staffed and available for checkout, so you end up standing in line for five or ten minutes even when there's hardly anyone in the store, and when it's busy you get to choose between waiting half an hour and taking your business elsewhere.
That was the Ark of the Covenant.

The Holy Grail was lost because somebody crossed the seal which enhanced their ability to drop important artifacts.
They're slow though. EMV is being rolled out in the US and it will fail because it's slower than a swipe or a tap.
IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-self-driving-car
That inevitable Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler converting plug-in is here
Let's hope WP becomes a trend-setter among news websites in this direction. The only other one (that I know of) is RT.

SSLLabs grades WP's HTTPS support "A" [1].

I can see that they don't set HSTS headers and there's no OCSP stapling.

Also, their cookies are not set as "secure".

[1] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.washingto...
Can we please not call open sourcing a build plan of off the shelf components, open-source "hardware design". I don't think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware. It just doesn't fit when we have open source circuit board designs. How about open-source build specification instead?
I have 3 kids (6yr, 4yr 3mo).

I can't imagine a scenario where I am just sitting in my car for 2 hours on the way to work and on the way back.

Almost to the day 2 years ago I wrote this post http://avi.io/blog/2013/12/06/why-i-will-never-work-out-of-a... still super relevant today.

I don't know your situation and if you have kids or not, but I will never be able to do what you do. ever.
Tiny Islands Have Powerful Voice in UN Climate Talks
Right, but in this case master slave often describes the relationship between computer devices better than anything else. The slave device has no choice of what to do other than what a master device sends it. Leader and follower doest quite capture that as well in my mind.
There is virtually no Verizon wireline presence (i.e. ex-GTE territory) in San Diego County, SD never had any chance of getting FiOS. See the map: ftp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/Telco/ILEC%20Territories%20in%20CA%202008.pdf
I'm surprised how small Verizon's territory is even in OC, some of the beach cities but nothing else.

PacBell had grand plans to install fiber optics in SD ~20 years ago, I even remember our front lawn in Mira Mesa getting torn up. Naturally, they never lit it up. See http://newnetworks.com/californiabroadband.html
AFAIK DoubleClick AdX moved to 100% SSL in June[1].

[1] https://support.google.com/adxbuyer/answer/3016708?hl=en
Camera interfaces are getting better all the time.

For my banking app, you can take a picture of a check to deposit it. Instead of needing to frame, focus and snap the picture (which is how it used to work a few updates ago), a frame appears on the phone screen - you merely line up the check inside the frame, and when it's lined up sufficiently the shutter clicks and takes the picture for you. It's quite nice actually.
Oh, yes, definitely.

Through habit and positive reinforcement, the psychological drive to run, train and race grows wildly in some people - and it can grow dangerously large.

As a result, people run their way to injury and other serious long-term health repercussions. See the article someone posted above, for notable examples. The mind is so powerful - it can override everything, to the complete detriment of the body.

And even if most of the injuries and health problems aren't life threatening - it's truly sad because by overdoing it, you can still kill your ability to run, the thing you love to do.

I think to be successful in the long-term - meaning, staying mostly injury-free, improving performance over time, and performing at your peak in your races - is to be absolutely exceptional at governing that psychological drive.
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it (and if I came across as rude, I apologize to you personally, that was not my intent). So what I'm saying is that companies come forward with a number slightly higher than the "base salary" on your profile. I've been using Hired nearly continuously for two years and interviewing with many companies in that time. I've experimented with that "base salary" number and it is almost totally the case that companies come forward with interview requests with a number slightly higher than this one. Some companies are more honest and give a number that they are expecting to pay, but by-and-large, companies just put a number slightly higher than the "base salary" there. I'm serious about the interviews that I go to through Hired, but very selective about considering any final offers. What I've found is that the salaries offered during this process are just wildly varied for whatever reason. Some higher, some lower, some about the same. I'm not sure if talent advocates receive these offer numbers from companies, or if they're only getting some of them via Hired's communication system, but there are many channels outside of Hired that companies use to convey their offers. It may be that some or even most people using Hired use it for one auction, possibly two, and then take a job and then maybe come back in two years, and their paper offers are similar or slightly higher than the number attached to their initial interview requests. But my experience with nearly continual interviewing via Hired is that the offers put forward by companies are almost never pegged to that number that accompanies the initial interview request. Especially startups are most guilty of lowballing this number, but I'm expressing surprise that these interview request numbers were included in something that comes across as a report on actual salary information, because it is 1) not actual salary information and 2) not correlated to the various offers I have received in a long time of interviewing via Hired. Again, thanks for your reply.
Yes, plus I don't feel there is enough info on the website. Just a high level overview and not enough nitty-gritty.
So if I spend 125 days in the UAE (a no income tax country) and 120 days each in 2 EU countries, I pay no income tax?
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AmpMe's app for daisy-chaining phone speakers gets more useful
But at what price? I was hoping to get something close to the cost of the parts. From the research I've done, you end up paying a big premium for server hardware, and especially so if you have someone do the OS installation for you. SuperMicro looks like it provides every configuration under the sun, which drives the price way up.

The appeal of OpenCompute is that if you know they're running 10,000 copies of this exact configuration, the kinks are likely to be worked out.

It isn't trivial to do this work yourself, even though I've built normal PCs before. Good blog post on building your own:

https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/05/a_cloud_of_my_own/
Speed of evolution depends on how strongly the adaptation influences reproductive success. It's possible that grain causes subtle long-term damage that mostly kills people past reproductive age, whereas lactose tolerance is of immediate benefit. If this is true then grain tolerance would evolve much slower than lactose tolerance. But note that the "subtle long term" damage argument applies to all foods, and it's uncertain if grains are significantly worse than any other.
If you made this as advertising for your tool, you may want to show that it can do more than simple column charts.

And from a product standpoint, "Ipython without the Python" is Excel, which your video corroborates.
Contrary to what you might read in puff pieces from IBM PR, all existing "neuromorphic" hardware is terrible. The neural nets that work don't look anything like the brain, and neural nets that look like the brain don't work.

People constructing neural nets that look like the brain are engaged in cargo cult science, because the truth is we have no idea yet how the brain works and attempting to imitate it without knowing that is doomed to failure.
From 15 years' experience, here's some questions to ask yourself:

Do you want well-written code and an extensible CMS, or do you want a great experience for non-technical users?

Is the usage going to be simple, or do you need workflows and approval systems?

Will the site always be in one language?

Do you want smart image cropping built in (& handling responsive imagery), will you use an external service or what?

I've used half a dozen in anger and I'm fascinated by what makes a good CMS for an organisation. I spent years looking for perfection; I'm now happy to work with any CMS. Once the core requirements are satisfied, my top tip is to look for something that's got decent support, and check there's always an upgrade path to future versions.

If anyone else likes to chew over what makes a good CMS, contact details are in my profile.
> If you were not worth X the day before you quit, how are you suddenly worth X the day you decide to quit?

On the other hand, why would they have paid you X even if you were worth it, if they could get away with less?
LUV is brilliant. CRM, on the other hand, is bit restrictive. What happens when SFDC wants to expand beyond the CRM space?

But regardless, those are 2 memorable ticker symbols.
Lol, I worked at the same company when this happened.
No problem! They're not yet on our near-term roadmap, would you mind submitting a request for your specific database here and we can keep you updated? https://segment.com/contact/integrations
Well I was asking about OpenCompute in general, not just the new GPU box.

And in theory, the price per FLOP should be better than almost anything out there... if I actually needed those FLOPs it would be cost effective :)
Everyone is tearing you apart, but this is normal in Japan.
Test your IPv6 connectivity
No, they don't take Apple Pay or Android Pay because they don't have the POS terminals to support them and were part of CurrentC. Walmart wants the data and you can't get that when you don't know who the customer is. That's also why I use Apple Pay.
Enough with the clickbait. I had to scan the article 3 times before finally finding what the 40% rule is. And when I did find it, it's just like, your opinion, man. Seriously, citation needed (and some Navy SEAL's deeply moving personal anectote is not a citation).
I have video disabled in my browser because I'm a reader, and all I saw was "LOADING..." and a close button.
Most people would understand that the poster meant after 6 chinups the poster reaches muscle failure and stops trying to do more. The poster could continue to struggle against the muscle failure until (s)he eventually achieves 100 chinups, but that would result in physical injury to go along with the achievement.
* How many employees get to split the remaining $1.1bn?

(The new valuation, according to the OP)
Sound is serial, and it isn't. Even for the purpose of raw analysis of things like the frequency spectrum, you need a certain sized frame of audio. One or two instantanteous samples won't give you anything. Conversely, we could argue that images are also serial, because we can rasterize them as pixels on a grid, from upper left, to lower right. Anything that can be encoded or approximated by 1's and 0's is serial.

How do we really hear? How do we hear speech? Though the audio is constantly in oscillating motion, tracing an amplitude graph in time, we perceive audio as snapshots: images are formed in our mind which persist. We chunk the audio into frames. Speech understanding probably doesn't take place until a whole frame of audio is assembled and delimited into phonemes. That speech frame appears in the mind as a unit which is randomly accessed; we do not imagine we have a "read write head" which can only retrieve one phoneme at a time, and only in one direction.
One suggestion: Start thinking about details like foreign laws once you actually start to generate significant profit.

Before that no one on earth will even care about your product enough to sue you.

On top of that it's quite expensive to go to France and sue you there as a foreigner.
Thanks for the list, One of the samples is "sheep nasal bot", I'm going to go for that one!

I also got a laugh, wonder how many readers know who Sebastian Cabot is?
As an aside, did the font on this page bother anyone else? The lowercase "w" in particular just kept confusing me into thinking it was a word in italics and my mind kept stressing it. I looked it up, and the font-family is "Ubuntu".
To be clear, I certainly didn't doubt you were right -- I can barely remember the last time I played. We had an old busted up version at our cabin. I certainly can't remember the last time I read through the rules booklet.
For $ in pockets DO graft.fu
I don't think that we have very solid evidence on the diet we ate "while we were evolving" (when did that period stop?).
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Downvoted for this? Jeez.

I'm a Canadian and I don't think I should have to register and present a justification of my use of a logo I'm not actually going to use in order to use Canada's new font.
Wal-Mart to launch own mobile pay system
I found flights to New York on fly checker at € 495
It could be quite easy to enforce through registration data and refusing to renew until proof of a fix is provided.
Academic indentured servants that absolutely knew this would be the case but were no doubt tripping over each other to get a spot on the project.
It's not the media's job to give equal time to "both sides" on an issue or be "balanced." I trust Serial, based on the exhaustive reporting of their first story, will do a fine job exploring this story.
How Walmart's launch of Walmart Pay could change the mobile payments game
I've started to use Youtrack on recent projects and like it. A few quirks, but it's a breath of fresh air compared to the most recent JIRA version. (As context, I've advocated and run JIRA installs as an eng lead for ~10 years.)
Don't cheer yet. This is how Seattle cops react to training. Go to the 1:22 mark. Cop talks about sticking a gun in someone's face as his method of de-escalation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/us/long-taught-to-use-forc...
There will have to be a shift to more creative work which can not be done by computers.
I'd like to use something like this to verify that my credit card statements are accurate. I don't want to give an app access to my bank logins (as I believe Mint requires). So I envision a workflow where I snap receipts, the app digitizes them and produces a transaction list which it either compares against a monthly statement PDF, or I do the verification by hand.

Anyone have a good, established workflow for this?
Canada has transitioned mostly to chip and pin (anecdotally, 95% of debit transactions I've done lately), and I've seen a really low failure rate on my cards. I can think of once in the last year I got chip errors on the reader.
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Just enter your bank account and credentials... Dwolla Dwolla Bill Ya'll!!!!
No, you can't, but other NFC systems employing the contactless payment standards, notably Android Pay, also apply to this discussion.
Because brakes never fail when going down a steep hill.
Not everyone can be a manger, strong technical people are very valuable too.
IdeaVIM provides reasonably good vim emulation. You'll probably get annoyed by something (I have yet to find a vim emulator I think is as good as Vim itself) but I only had to make a few minor changes in my vim patterns to get it working.