skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My salary is negotiated on open, highly effective market. Share of my work that goes to the company shareholders represents their investment. If the company fails, I don't risk anything, but they will lose the money they put into the company in the first place. Naturally, if the company succeeds, they have to get capital gains on that investment. The fact that I will be able to get any salary from this company at all will be a direct consequence of a risk that they took upon themselves, not me.
I don't think many embedded systems engineers could write a PaaS
There are two solutions to this I think they can use a really distributed version control including tickets and wiki as part of the repository as it is done in fossil scm (http://www.fossil-scm.org/) or just use trac with ticket triage like its being done with http://code.djangoproject.com/

My personal suggestion is to get out of github as the platform is not open source and there are no community process to enhance or change it. Its just another sourceforge with flashy interface.
JSONP only allows CSP bypass if you return anything other than JSON objects from an API. As long as you don't do that, CSP is fine.
I have Ghostery installed, so I don't notice any ads.
Looks more like Kafka to me. Not enough "horror" and "unspeakable" to be Lovecraft.
And there was one group, alt.hackers, that was moderated, but had no moderator, by design. It kept the signal-to-noise ratio pretty high.
... Zero income tax? Care to name one. I would hazard a guess they derive revenue from some other source as their middle class is either non existent or they have piles of oil.

So you are saying you want higher business tax? Or a flat tax rate... How does the mechanism of tax relate to your view of coercion though? Isn't it coercion regardless the rate?
If it's currently (or soon to be) patented, then this algorithm can't even be used as a starting point for discussion. Anything that comes from such a discussion would be legally tainted by the patented algorithm. Patenting this renders it utterly useless to anyone but a patent troll, and that is not hyperbole.
I'm not from US, please stop assuming it about HN readers already.

Also, the percentage of income as basis for tax doesn't make any sense. I don't pay a percentage of income for broadband or Netflix or insurance, why should payment for government services be different?
Gold jumps to 9-month high as investors flee to safe havens
I wonder if this incident and others such as the recent Homejoy / Flymaids kerfuffle have caused PG to rethink whether he's still looking for "naughtiness" in founders [0].

That's not meant passive-aggressively. I completely get why naughtiness might be indicative of a propensity toward innovation -- it's a pretty straightforward and intuitive concept. I'm just wondering whether PG still puts as much faith in the heuristic as he used to.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
Eyes don't process information, they're a sensor. In an animal its brain, a multi-celled organ, processes the information.
And if I just rob other people, I would get their money and not pay any taxes at all. So?
Most dealers have a fleet or "internet" sales desk that will quote you a price over email and I've found them to generally be quite competitive, certainly better than the walk in and test drive approach.

Really want to save money on a car? Buy a 2-3 year old lease return...
Singular "they" was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2015.

http://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-sing...
How exactly are you helping schools and their data?
You've pretty much described what happens when a surgeon joins a hospital. Well perhaps that is an exaggeration, but my wife sat through several required classes on basic procedures before starting her surgery job. Hospitals, like any dysfunctional bureaucracy driven partially by lawyers, thrive on this stuff.
The Singer is Cat Power just to save everyone else some Googling.
Protons are said to be massless, but a proton may have mass that is so small that we cannot measure it easily. We can't currently say with 100% certainty that it is massless- only that it is at most very, very small: < 1×10−18 eV/c2
Put another way: if someone was going to be developing an algorithm that does anything remotely like what this algorithm does, the legal advice that that person's institution would give them would be to not read anything about this particular algorithm. Like, don't even visit this web page or participate in this thread on HN, because doing so exposes a legal attack surface for future litigation. That's how effed up this is, it's inexcusable.
> I agree that NNTP was a nicely federated system, and just a couple of days ago I was pondering the use of NNTP to publish Git pushes. Git's support for signed commits and content addressed objects is a great start for distributed, trustworthy collaboration. I still can't envision exactly how it would all function.

Perhaps having something akin to a private NNTP server that requires authentication to post for each open source project, but is publicly viewable. These news servers could be configured to send IHAVE <article> to other news servers to increase visibility. There could be a newserver like gmane to aggregate the feeds from each of those private news servers.

If you could get an authentication system that could work across those news servers, then you could have a decent system for keeping up with and contributing to open source projects.
Question: what do you think of this?

https://www.fortis.edu/blog/skilled-trades/wasted-attic-heat...

I wonder about the option of scavenging heat in the attic during the winter into the rest of the house (through filters) or if it's just a waste of effort.
I took pre-license training while developing some software for insurance brokers to better understand their industry.

There is not enough material there to spend 52 hours studying. You spend 12 hours on code and ethics, 20 hours on life, and 20 hours on medical.

The material is very simple. The hourly requirement is based on the offline classroom, but should be compressed for online learning.
the wave can from two different slits, so one beam travels longer
Amazing! This will also refute some creationists and intelligent design arguments that point to the eyeball's complexity as something evolutionists could not well fit into their theories of explain. Now it seems the first step could be made towards his the eyeball may have evolved.
the wave can come from two slits, one beam comes later maybe
Keyword here is detect. As the post says, even if we created them we would have no way of knowing because they are virtually impossible to detect.
Agreed, I'm kind of shocked people aren't seeing this for what it is.

Like the much ballyhooed open office plan, or the typical "we don't track vacation time" policy in modern startups, the real bottom line, so to speak, is always the bottom line.

It may very well be that employees who don't take vacations are more productive, overall than those who do. But by placing the burden of self-repair entirely on the employee, on their personal time and dime, the employer effectively washes its hands of the matter. If we take this article to its logical conclusion, burnout is your own fault, even in the face of pathological organizational structures, workloads, etc. That's an outward radiation of risk and responsibility par for the course in the new economy.
I don't have much to add to the conversation, but I would just like to explicitly point out (aside from upvoting) that you and the other commenter, ashark, have vocalized and concretized a lot of nebulous and vague feelings I've been having for many years. I appreciate both of your guy's suggestions as well. Thanks for the wisdom.
I believe that an employer should make a substantial margin on an employee's labor. That provides a stable situation, covers for the employer's risk (if an employee's project/work fails to create value, they still get paid), and covers the overhead.

If you want full value (which might be zero or negative at times) for your labor, you should start your own thing and keep 100% of the value you create.

If my employer wasn't making at least 3x (and ideally more like 5x) the total cost they were spending on me, I'd start worrying about the stability and longevity of that relationship. (So far, very happily employed there almost 13 years and no end in sight.)
LIGO Open Science Center's Data Release for Event GW150914
Twitter is not bound by free speech. They can create whatever rules and restrictions they desire for their platform.

They are also not a government entity and not arresting people for violating their restrictions.

Ultimately this is not a free speech issue, other than the disastrous misunderstanding of what free speech means and what it does not.

That being said, they have to be careful from a PR standpoint if they're going to make pro-free-speech statements but enact restrictions counter to what they proclaim. However, there's no evidence that simple "disagreements" or "alternate viewpoints" are going to get censored, most of the horrendous stuff seen on Twitter does not fall under those labels whatsoever.
I love HN for intellectual stimulation. For everything else nothing can top bodybuilding dot com's Misc forum.
this is an interesting solution for the times that the phone is on the "do not disturb" mode.
Maybe they found out another way? When I got sick I filed for short-term disability in June 2001. I had doctor's excuse notes, and one of them was from a psychiatrist. I returned in November 2001 and was fired after being back on the job for two weeks. They claimed to have lost my doctor's notes and claimed I did stuff at work during the days I missed. When it went to unemployment the state sided with me as their days conflicted what they claimed, including I was in a hospital for some of the days they claimed I did stuff at work. Someone visited me at the hospital and asked me questions and wrote things down about me. I never knew who they represented. They might have found out by that way.

Anyway since they had the conflicts in the dates, I should have filed a suit with the EEOC. But somehow they knew I was mentally ill and tried to get rid of me because of it. At work I had an episode where I heard two airplanes crashing into the building, so people knew I was hearing things. That could have tipped them off as well.
I sometimes wonder why tech people like space-related stuff so much. It is a major news indeed and a feat of science and technology, but why is space so popular? Because it's otherworldly, large-scale and kind of making you feel empowered or united? I'm probably more interested in mundane, obscure and humble stuff, so this disproportionate popularity of space-related news is always baffling to me.
Perfect. Get things done fast. Prove your product. If it succeed, you will have time to tune every aspect and invent your own wheel that fit your needs. But until that, RAM is a lot cheaper than your own time writing from scratch your version of things that are very stable and largely used.

But, the advice is really important for gem writters. As a gem author, I think you really need think a little more about our dependencies as you do with our public interface.
EURUSD Faces Bear Threats
This is at most a philosophical difference. I'd say that being able to react to something is already processing it.

Maybe you're falling for the homunculus fallacy in case of humans. But actually there is no little guy watching some screen in our brains, "processing the images".

There's no sharp distinction between reflex-like reactions and "image recognition". It's not even the case that our vision is "full" or "perfect" image processing. There might be all sorts of more complex ways that our vision could work but it doesn't.

If you mean it's misleading because the bacterium doesn't have an inner first-person experience of looking at something, then again this is a philosophical thing, it's not really observable science.
Beauty! Thanks Dan!
Peer-to-peer calling in Hangouts
Consider that the black holes merged about 1.3 billion years ago. If gravitational waves travelled 50% faster than the speed of light, they would've passed by earth long before our species came around, unless the effect of the collision went on for, say, a few million years after the event?
I'm not sure how age-related this is.

The Valley has started to equate "disruption" with breaking the law. This is its natural consequence.
So... we should all move to MySQL+Rocks?

Sounds like it's 2005 all over again!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/87890630203282087/
Ask HN: Female Focused Coworking spaces and meetup groups NYC
Are there any Female focused Coworking spaces and meetup groups in NYC? I am looking to help out someone important to me get into tech and she is hoping to meet other women in tech in the NYC area to build up a network. Thanks in advance!
Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure
You end up with it in production because some lower level library uses it.
I once went to a New Years Dinner near DC, and the dinner was full of political types, and I got a hot tip about dealing with certain kinds of performance anxiety. I was seated next to a woman who had spent her career as a nurse, and she had been called several times to testify before Congress regarding the way changes in Medicare might effect patient care. She said she learned that when she entered the Congressional hall, the lights and cameras were overwhelming, so she learned to take something to read, a magazine or perhaps any prepared statement she had, and she would hold it before and concentrate on it, keeping it down, and keeping her head down. She focused on the paper instead of focusing on the cameras. She would walk past the cameras that way. When she got to the table where she would sit, all the lights and cameras were behind her. Then she would look up at the Senators, but the Senators themselves were usually friendly, and they seemed like normal humans, so she felt less fear when facing them.
Those are what you get when you figure out how to construct a machine that looks to the future and can hear what God says at the end of the universe.
Very cool! I'm reading and coding along with Sher's Neuroevolution Through Erlang to learn the benefits of Erlang/BEAM for just such stuff. I believe somebody is also translating it to Elixir. The visualizations are great. I guess Java doesn't have a problem with distributed computing or processes for such work?
Ubuntu comes with Déjà Dup (see http://releases.ubuntu.com/wily/ubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.m...)
I am 47 and on disability. I became disabled in 2003 and I get mentally ill in 2001. Had a hard time finding work after I became mentally ill. Also I was old, and ageism came into play as well. When I applied for jobs I was told I was overqualified. That is if they bothered to reply back at all.

I think when you get older in IT and you don't make it into management positions, it is harder to find work. Most companies want recent college graduates because they earn a lower salary and they have all of the latest theories still fresh in their minds.
You forgot the link? Maybe delete & resubmit
I was impressed. What do you think looks better in 2016?
My issue is that software projects are highly political.

When you are a regular contributer, someone may not accept the request because they just don't like you.. and gender may not matter.

Anonymous contributions being accepted at a higher rate proves my point.

If I was well-known in a community to be against gay marriage, I can almost guarantee that my pull requests would be accepted at a lower rate in most OSS projects.

Shouldn‘t we be against all forms of bias?
Mobile Strike Hack &#8211; Cheat Codes
Something similar was actually brought up on HN about a year ago as well, and I gave my experience with feeling that I couldn't find an appropriate Zapier pricing tier[0]. For me it was the issue with the base plan being just too much for what we wanted to do (automate Facebook posting from an RSS feed, about 5 to 10 posts a day).

I actually engaged their sales team looking for a tailored pricing plan where I could pay a reduced rate for a reduced amount of 'tasks,' and was instead encouraged to perform a series of referrals/sharing to get free tasks. I would've been happy with $5 or $10 a month.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9661885 - linked to the parent comment as it was also relevant
I need to go hang out with some accountants apparently.
very late side note: I'm finding this to be pretty great distraction free work music.
It's been coming for a long time, certainly. But it's surprising it's happened quite so soon: the company is still posting record profits, and despite a large drop in share value in the past year (nearly halving), seems to be doing fine financially.
What part of it isn't true though? Don't look at how it reads, just read the words.

I feel the same way, like you're being stomped in the face every day by an invisible boot except nobody knows who's wearing it, but we all feel it.

We are collectively losing our identities and blending into one due to how hyper connected we are and how available cheap forms of entertainment are.

It's all quite eerie. I still haven't really found a way to articulate it but I'd love to chat with someone more in depth about it.
> You just need git and some sort of communication tool to distribute patches, email being the most powerful, flexible, and ubiquitous I've seen.

I would say that having a private NNTP server (one requiring an account to post) would also work in lieu of email. In fact, it would be better than email because it would allow new members to easily browse list archives. At least gmane already does something like that for some mailing lists.
The most addictive notification is "someone replied to you"... you want to see what it is, and then you often wind up replying.

So it will lead to more replies from people acting on impulse and arguing.

When you agree with something, you share it. When you disagree, you comment. So thus we can measure how popular and controversial something is by how many shares and comments it has (horizontal and vertical).
Until people like Briana Wu are banned for their abusive behavior, I just can't believe this is anything but a power move to silence opposing viewpoints.
There's also Donepezil, a drug similar to the one from the movie Limitless (2011).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2593268/The-d...

- Donepezil is used to improve memory function in Alzheimer’s patients
- Children learn skills quickly as their brains go through 'critical periods’
- Researchers found donepezil can revert adult brains to these periods
- It increases the 'elasticity' of the brain making it capable of learning rapidly
- Researchers rewired a visually impaired patient’s brain to process images
- The drug works by boosting chemicals in the brain that reduce with age
A New Spectrum
In grappling with this question myself -- it's a good question -- I've concluded the interest is in understanding and predicting the behavior of a system based on a few laws.

The system is quite complex and full of exotic objects, so ordinary real world intuition is a poor guide. And the laws are couched in a mathematical language that is also foreign to our everyday world.

Yet, predictions can be made and tested. It's an intellectual puzzle like "what does this very tight loop do?", or "how does the Y combinator work?" -- but in a different arena.
Oh well, then it's just an apt-get away. Same thing, zero dollars.
Adblock via /etc/hosts
Some of the extrapolations from the picture platforms to other domains are a bit hand-wavy in the talk, but his response to the Edison question [0] is pretty enlightening.

Additionally - just pondering here - this heuristic of novelty seems present in human nature:
- the drive that scientists, mathematicians, researchers, and technologists have to discover new things
- the drive that hackers and artists have to make new and different things

Does anyone agree that these aspects of humans are in tune with what the subject of the talk, or are they more unrelated than I think?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI
I used to think embedded systems (software) engineers were the be-all-and-end-all until I started looking into how my router worked (or didn't work - dhcpd had crashed).

How can you take Buildroot [1] and break it so badly? A mishmash of Broadcom SDK and ODM Makefiles that will only compile on RHEL5 on a Tuesday [2].

1: https://buildroot.org/

2: https://dlink-gpl.s3.amazonaws.com/GPL1500418/DIR890A1_GPL10... - ~450MB compressed / 1.2GB uncompressed.
It may be dead weight, but there's still Opera Mini with its hundreds of millions of users, and then there's plenty of embedded products using it which will never move to the Chromium Content API (because, hey, they're last year's model!).
Researchers build cockroach like robots
Wouldn't that just be grammatically incorrect? Unless you replace "child" with "children" of course ...

(Australian English speaker here.)
Mac Creative Cloud update nukes everything in first hidden folder on boot volume
> You should try looking at the code before declaring that.

Attempting to write a web framework in C is great!

Even though you end up building the high-level programming constructs, C web dev is still just too hard compared to other alternatives. Because of this it is not possible to build a large community around it, which I would say is the most crucial part of today's web framework like Django/Rails.
Ah, thanks, I was curious but not quite enough to bother googling.
No.

She did not go to jail for option grant backdating. She paid a fine for option grant backdating.

If you were honest with your auditors and did not lie to the SEC, you generally had at most an enforcement action and income restatement.

https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/optionsbackdating.htm
Not all women want to have kids.
When you practice a particular talk or presentation, you have to practice handling the freeze. Too many people think they have to practice just to get the sequence or even exact words right.

No. You practice in front of a group, as contrived as it may be, and you have them shut up, and you give your whole talk. And you get used to the feeling of icicles going through you. You learn to breath through them and get familiar with how long they last. The fact is, you are riding inside an incredible machine, and it will pump itself full of crazy chemicals when you put it on stage. You can't let their power surprise you.

Edit: All that said, I'd offer my solidarity to Mr. Habib as well. I've certainly frozen up worse myself, and in much less high pressure settings.
> You can turn this off in Chrome simply in the settings, but Opera purposely spent time removing that ability from Chromium.

FWIW, the browser UI, as well as things like malware scanning, is entirely Opera's own code, and isn't forked from Chromium, so it wasn't "purposely removed" rather just never implemented…
I think you are thinking of the last dotcom bubble where there wasn't much else on the internet. The real world full of real businesses making real things has caught on to this internet thing. Internet advertising doesn't come primarily from tech VC.
Figured this would be a writeup by Han Solo. I was wrong.
Ask HN: Do I really hear my CPU/GPU or am I getting crazy?
When I drag a really big layer in Photoshop a high pitch sound comes from my Macbook. When I stop dragging the layer, it stops. I have SSD and you can clearly hear that sound when there is no fans running. Is it possible to hear your CPU/GPU?
I think intermediate-complexity graphics are where ggplot2 excels. If you want to do something like plot a bunch of small multiples, you'll have a much better time of it using facet_grid than wrangling with base graphics.

Once your graph reaches a certain level of complexity, though, or requires a certain degree of customization, I think base graphics regain the edge. At that point I prefer the level of control you get by drawing things from scratch with points(), lines(), text(), etc.