skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if the law is set up in such a fashion that you can "keep receipts" and report retroactively to enjoy the full benefits, you would still have an incentive to dredge everything up the moment you retire (and put the extra 4x lifetime bribe earnings into your retirement fund or bequeath them to your kids), and while the crackdown would be delayed, the bribing parties would still eventually come under the hammer (so unless there is some way for them to take and run with their short-term earnings leaving a shell company to be punished, there would not be an incentive for them to bribe in the first place).
Madsen, please. There is a huge difference between something that's actually traumatizing and things that are fairly trivial.

But you think you know what professionalism is all about, don't you? Well how about this: I can't believe this hasn't been talked about. I see many women at conferences who are not only attractive, but uncomfortable. And not only are they just uncomfortable, they are outfitted with their asses framed to be pinched.

You want to talk about professionalism? Use a fucking dress code and present yourself like a professional.
Nobody should ever take unpaid internships. The whole concept is ridiculous and exploitation. Contributing to Open Source instead is a much better foot in the door and you don't end up working for free for others.
What defines "consent"?

If they're telling me the call may be recorded, they're telling me I may record the call. They've given explicit permission to me to record the call by telling me I may. Whether they choose to record it themselves, they've given themselves that option, and let me know it might happen. If I don't want to be recorded, I can hang up. Likewise, if they don't want to be recorded, they can hang up. Carrying on knowing what is happening after you've been informed of something seems to be about as consensual as it can get.
Our model can be profitable with advertising and lead gen, with NO deceptive advertising or bundled installers. On top of that we plan to improve the UI and feature set (https just rolled out), and then, we hope, things will only improve from there.
I don't have numbers, but a lot of shareholders are still out of the money - they bought when the price was climbing from ~40 to the peak of 70.

I doubt that a 40% premium will be enough. But I can see your skepticism. A lot of acquisitions never make sense.
Thanks. We will be posting about our long-term plans soon.
You've effectively created a sort of portable assembly language

Exactly. The verbosity is mostly because of my teaching project. I think teaching assembly can be just as ergonomic as teaching a high-level language. Indeed, most of us from a generation ago learned programming using assembly. It just needs to get a little more ergonomic.

the solution is to encourage reducing complexity.

Yup. The problem is that human beings have a _terrible_ track record at managing complexity. It's not just every software project ever; think about the creep of bureaucracy in ancient China, or the creep of legislation in ancient Rome. Everytime we've created a repository of rules it's gotten complex (and then gamed by smart operators). I think the problem is that it's very hard to justify removing a rule, so such repositories grow monotonically. The only way to periodically prune unnecessary rules is to first track why you created them in the first place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence). Hence: tests! I think they are the great advance bequeathed to the human race by software. And they're far more broadly applicable outside software -- though I have no idea how to do this applying. I wrote up some speculative ideas about it at http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/04/09/the-legibility-tradeoff a couple of years ago, but that piece isn't very clear.
For those curious, here's what the gravitational wave recently detected by LIGO sounds like, slowed down: http://www.techinsider.io/gravitational-wave-black-holes-sou...
I think the big problem with this is that 'Philosophies' or advice should be given out by people who have extensive experience and a long careerer that stands as some proof that there advice is good advice and not the ramblings of self absorbed disgruntled junior developer.
In a civil suit, the standard is "preponderance of evidence". In a he said, she said situation, circumstantial evidence becomes very important. If you've hired a hundred black lesbian octogenarians, and you're sued by a class of 20-something latino hetero males, you better be able to prove your hiring process wasn't discriminatory.

Some jurisdictions also shift the burden of proof under some circumstances so it is actually worse for the defendant.
What are your montly costs?
Very cool, Andreas. Best of luck with this.
usually when I debug things my method is sort of a mix of linear and binary search where I start at one place, see if the a value is what I expect it to be, then move along to a different part of the code to see if something is wrong there, reducing the search space and repeating as necessary.

Sometimes my method is instead to look at data output at a certain level of abstraction like system calls (which is usually not helpful except for detecting a network hang or a path config whose directory doesn't exist) or database queries or something. That is usually more helpful if I either already suspect I know where the problem is and need to know what model name or file name to `ag` for.

If (Hephaestus be praised) there is actually an automated test framework in place, I'll start by writing a failing test or copy-pasting an existing test and modifying it to fail, then (if it isn't JavaScript), inserting a debugger into a function the test calls.

All of this tends to be pretty successful.

But I've occasionally found myself on a project where I just have a sense that I don't know what is going on or how pieces fit together and I feel a strong temptation to stop and fix that sense of bewilderment. When I resist this urge is when it feels like I am trying things at random.
Putting out the Twitter trashfire
Can you allow it in more iTunes stores worldwide?
Because they can. Because job openings are scarce enough that people are applying anyway, regardless of being treated like shit. That's why we tolerate "but we're scared of lawsuits" as a legitimate excuse.

This sort of thing (and hundreds of other similar phenomena) doesn't show up in unemployment metrics, but in a healthier economy, it doesn't happen as much, because people dislike working for assholes.

It's a bit like how an Australian 5% unemployment (at $12.30 minimum wage) is very different from an American 5% unemployment (at $7.25 minimum wage) or a North Korean 5% unemployment (making $0.40 at Kaesong); The supply demand curve on employment is real, but it extends beyond tangible quantities like wages and into ways the employer behaves towards its employees & potential employees, because for workers, civil treatment is to some extent fungible with wages. In the US, we have much less labor regulation and more lawsuits, and this is the equilibrium we have arrived at in the current economic climate; In a different economic climate, we would arrive at a different equilibrium.

The official understanding of the problem is plagued by Goodhart's Law - you can measure wages, but not being an asshole, so we will favor policies which push on one but ignore the other, and we can expect assinine behavior wherever there is even a little bit of profit to be gained; We sample and optimize "Unemployment", "Inflation", and corporate revenue growth as indicators of the economy's health, and a lot of other things have fallen by the wayside as we have reassured ourselves or worried ourselves with those numbers.
Would the idea I described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978916 help?
No bourbon neat and postgres? Astounding.
American Airlines already operates dozens of direct flights to Cuba, from Tampa and Florida. I think these are technically categorized as "charter" flights due to current DOT restrictions.
Mobile, Mobile, Mobile...
Ok, we get it. But, please, remember of Google+. Do not try force people to do something, killing what they use now. If the other option is really better, they will migrate really soon.
We have a roadmap. We are reaching out to large projects. We are going to focus on improving the UI and feature sets for developers. We are going to focus on eliminating bundled installers and deceptive advertisements. You are right that those things are almost part of due diligence and we have been working towards these steps. We will share every part of our long-term plans as they become more clear, and we hear back from parties we are collaborating with.
Unfortunately it's impossible to combine that with seamless Java interoperability, because so many Java features are dangerous (null, exceptions, pervasive mutability, all of the methods on Object, finalizers, low-level thread manipulation) or at least cumbersome (use-site variance and the resulting existential types, control flow constructs built into the language syntax).

I don't think there are any dangerous things you can do in Scala that you can't do in Kotlin. Only safe alternatives that exist in Scala but not in Kotlin.
This is a tough situation to be in and you have my empathy.

1) If you have properly set up a vesting schedule in the operating agreement his claims would be pretty baseless and assuming there's no other basis for his claims I'd venture to say you wouldn't need 150k to fight this in court.

2) Even if it turns out to be costly to fight in court, consider this: What would this person's equity be worth if you offered it in a fund raise? From your description it sounds like the fight over equity is a pretty recent event so it's unlikely you'd be forced to bend over immediately. Would it be an option to raise capital for the company and use part of the proceeds to go to court?

3) If all other options fail I'd approach the ousted co-founder together and say he can have his shares but then everyone would walk away from the company due to misaligned incentives and he'd be left with nothing. If you go this route you'd have to make this 100% clear and there can't be a single doubt about that you're going to do this.

4) Talk to a lawyer if you haven't done so already.

Hope my answers provide a little help in this matter.

Edit: added point 4)
Why We Talk Too Much: And, How to Shut Up
Ask HN: Building a simple conversational UI – what libraries should I look at?
I'm looking to build a simple conversational/text UI for an existing application.

Need to support about 20 "commands" (ex: How many visitors did I get last week?).

Considered just creating a Domain Specific Language (many libraries for that), but want to support something closer to natural language.

What libraries should I look at? I'm primarily a Python guy, but am open to other languages.
> and tend not to show up for the off-year elections when it's only those offices up

In 2014, Senator Jeff Sessions R-Ala. was "elected" without an opponent. In that same year, 32 other Representatives were "elected" without any opposition, my own Representative included. 28 more didn't have a "major party" opponent. That means ~14% of all Representatives had little or no competition.
Just don't sell out to Rupert Murdoch, try to have an affair with his wife, or throw a pie in his face. She'll smack you! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLVBUotX3MU
Going to need you to finish that train of thought. Data aggregation (or power concentration) isn't any more inherently machiavellian than any of the non sequiturs you rattled off.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. Please don't do this again.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094603 and marked it off-topic.
The UI will be improved definitely. We just need some time (i.e. more than a couple weeks). It's an old, large beast so it will take a bit of time. And yes the deceptive advertising will be addressed.
The idea is that the copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author. It's really sad that the Anne Frank Fonds, which now hold the rights, claims that the diary was (partially) written by her father, Otto Frank.
Same here, right half is entirely blank/white
Yeah, the ReactHelp.com was our first MVP, but we wanted something a bit broader, so we got this one up yesterday. Glad you like it.
I think much of the dissonance we experience when evaluating Seneca's life comes from our separation from his time period. Concerning the particular issue you mention, possibly contributing to rebellion in Britannia by calling for debts to be paid, I can't say I think it reflects a blatant divergence from his professed ideals in itself. (Truthfully, I'm not knowledgeable enough about the rebellion to take a strong stance.) It could be that he called in the debts not expecting the outcome, but once the rebellion started, it was important that it be opposed forcefully in order to avoid establishing precedent. It isn't as though Seneca was living as Caligula did.

In any case, my point is primarily about the focus of the article. It's fine to examine contradictions in a notable person's life, but too few acknowledge that we all have them, and this seems especially true among literary critics. In general, I think people take charges of "hypocrisy" too seriously.
You'd have to see tens of thousands of projects move all at once to see traffic implode "overnight"
BeamNG VS Grand Theft Auto 5
I still don't understand my own taxes, let alone how tax breaks work.

I suspect a lot of us secretly have no idea why we get a check when we file our taxes. Can we get a few articles about how it already works, please?
No need to boycot the museum, that's not the organisation that has the copyrights.
> do a thorough research about him/her

Take it a step further and publish that research.
That info is in the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) as well as annoyingly many comments by me:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

That's not a criticism, btw. It's astonishingly difficult to distribute knowledge like this through HN. Or, I suppose, any large community.
They've been plenty explored, discussed, chewed over, and more, including the scenarios your presented. The costs have been analyzed in dozens of different ways, with many business models proposed and some executed upon.

(Note that your mathematician gets indirect funding by having access to the university library. As a non-academic, I can use the local college library but must pay access fees for some services that are free to staff and students. At a somewhat further away university library, as a visitor I can read journals online but am not permitted to make copies.)

Nor is our "current system", concentrated as it is in the hands of Elsevier (and its 37% profit on revenue), all that old. Most people outside the big publishing companies didn't fully explore the downsides of moving away from the system we had before the 1980s - or at the least, nothing like the ongoing discussions concerning open access.
Yes but nothing in the way of unwanted bundled software or other models that would upset developers or users.
If you use profit/#employees, then you're double-counting. The employees' salaries are already taken out of profit. That's why it's not fully disingenuous to consider revenue instead.

$500k of profit generated per employee sounds excellent, but it's also omitting other capital costs made by the business. Essentially, none of these benchmarks can give you the complete picture.
No, just no.

Being more like Java is about the last thing in the world python needs.
http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
Just curious, how many experts do you currently have?
I tried to create an account on GitLab.com. It said I needed to fill in the Captcha. There was no Captcha. Tried on Safari. I will try again later on Firefox.
> 3x is not a crazy multiple for a company that has grown revenue by 48% and decreased losses by 10% (yoy)

Tell me please of other public companies which also were acquired by public companies for that multiplier.

> Clearly you have not read the post, and are jumping to conclusions.

I read the post and it offers a childish reason why Twitter should be acquired by Google.
No novelty accounts on HN, please. We've banned this one.
I measured the sort to be slightly faster: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/451yje/ea_open...
Court orders web-blocking monitoring site to be blocked
Hey, we have four.
SourceForge still receives 35 million visitors per month so it'd have to "die" to "remain dead". We're going to focus on ridding it of everything that hurt its reputation, and we're already on our way. We're also going to focus on supporting the tens of thousands of developers that rely on SourceForge. People can use archive.org if they want a "lesion" for anyone considering similar actions as the old SourceForge.
The blog of a man named Mark Manson. He doesn't post very often, but everything he writes is a fresh perspective on a psychological principle.
BeamNG.drive: Real Time Soft-Body Physics Racing Simulator
Do you really look at every single piece of shared memory? When you inherit a large codebase from someone? How do you reconcile that with having to deliver changes in the first weeks? Everywhere I've been, people half-ass these things, with inevitable bugs. I think you're under-estimating the possibility that you're just a better programmer than me :/
Considering all the rest of the Reader clones that have popped up, I think this one comes as close to Google Reader as they get.
It would most likely not get past Google's board. And investors would crucify them for paying that kind of premium for a stalled social network (aka don't get the incremental benefits of growth via network effects). They would be left with 1) increase revenue/user or 2) cut costs.

Periscope doesn't fulfill the "toothbrush" principle, aka stuff that you use every day. That's how Google does M&A. Their corporate development people have talked about it publicly.

Also, the shares turnover every 26 days given that about 26MM shares trade every day. Hard to say that a majority of the shareholder base would not accept a 40% premium.
Thank you. We hope to become relevant in the minds of developers like you soon.
We didn't poison the well. We purchased the well from the people who poisoned it and immediately detoxified it.
Gitlab is that competitor - great free community edition, great feature set, great free offering.

Sourceforge had a great legacy as the pioneer providing open source hosting, but has a badly tarnished legacy. It may or may not be able to rebuild that.
While I certainly don't want to speak for the commentor, my sense is that this is driven by the fear that failure in the valley equals failure in meeting expectations of an exit. By discriminating on the story to the point it becomes "they went home", one could possibly draw the conclusion others don't want to see such a story told because it could place a double bind on their own actions. i.e. If I read this, I'll become aware of the things I should be afraid of while growing my company and if I do that (become afraid), I'll never be able to do the impossible, change the world, and make my exit.

Again, I'm speaking for others, but am doing so to theorize about the behaviors of the ecosystems we've built around startup culture.
Illness: A Live C#/MSIL Disassembler
If you're looking to strike a balance, there also needs to be a good-faith effort to make the work available to the public domain after the copyright term expires.

For software, the original creative work (source code) should need to be escrowed. And the same for any work obfuscated with DRM.
I think ^^ is the guy who wrote the post. But he is still off the mark.
Is your server on GitLab 8.3 or 7.x? If you're on 7.x please consider upgrading, it should make a world of difference. If the server stops responding please consider switching to the Omnibus packages if you have not done so already. For the code path issue please see the other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093988
Accidentally Quadratic: Ruby `parser` gem
Winter Brain, Summer Brain: Seasonality in Brain Responses?
You're right. If you click on some of those you'll see they are now 404'd. Google just has to de-index them. We've been removing tens of thousands of spam pages like this per day. Should have it all cleaned up in the next week or so.
Russia Wants to Kick Foreign Tech Companies Out of the Nation
1984 is definitely influenced from the state propaganda Orwell saw coming out the Soviet Union such as the book character Emmanuel Goldstein who is quite obviously Trotsky, and the state rewriting history by editing Goldstein out of party photographs is Trotsky again, the idea of loving a leader and hating the party, many more parallels.

It's written as a warning of how futile it will be to resist totalitarianism in a future advanced technological state
I don't sleep. Willing to spend whatever we need to.
The census tracks people per household. In 1940 this stood at 3.08. In 2010 it was 2.26. A "housing unit" built today simply doesn't hold as many people as it once did.
I always look forward to reading these - it typically leads to a good hour or two of Wikipedia and learning.
You don't have to but most do. I ordered my 2003 350z when it first came out and it took several months to arrive. However, you often have less room to negotiate and will probably pay sticker. It does give you the opportunity to remove the bogus "undercoating" and "fabric protection" which inevitably add another $1000 to the cost.
It's been.... interesting.. thus far. But definitely fun.
https://github.com/minrk/ligo-binder

Re-run the analysis yourself on Jupyter using Binder. Click the launch binder button.
Kudos to you, there is little respect these days for personal decisions in the area of information access. Pirating information is wrong, doesn't matter how you twist it. There is big difference between creating and promoting free content (great) and trying to break the law to access content that already exists and is subject to copyright law. After all, requesting payment is a deal between publishers and writers. By pirating copyrighted works you're not just breaking the right of publishers, but also the rights of millions of small content creators.
>This is what happened to you.

This is not what happened to me. I kept my job, but my salary went down.

Various companies also enforced extended shutdowns (over Holiday periods). If you had no vacation left, you didn't get paid. This is effectively a wage cut.

I am aware that wages are "sticky" and companies would rather lay off than cut salaries. But the statement that "wages did not go down" is not correct.
Black female founders truly play the game at (probably) one of the highest possible difficulty settings. Looking forward to seeing some of them succeed spectacularly.
Being on Python, you have the great advantage of having access to NLTK :-) http://www.nltk.org/ - it's pretty intense and offers a lot, but also includes some example bots: http://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.chat.html

My personal advice, though, is while you can definitely try to support a more 'natural' type of language, you do want to define fixed formats for commands in your documentation/help so as not to confuse users or encourage them to keep trying all sorts of variations to figure out what magic combo makes your bot work.
2GB of RAM for 100 repo's and a few users should be fine. But a lot of bugs and speed improvements were made since 8.0.0, please consider upgrading, it should be a smooth experience. Also, if you have not switched to the Omnibus packages already consider doing it now to reduce memory usage and improve speed.
See my edited response in the parent comment.
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It's still got a good shot at validating Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment.

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.