skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with $100/hour for consulting, it's "easy" money. It depends on how you deal with micro-management. If you work as a consultant you'd be treated as an expensive external resource by your clients. Which is usually not the best place to be. On the other hand you have your corporate main job where your manager owns your life, which sucks. So he might end up going nuts. It all depends on how you deal with structures and bosses. If money is the main focus then yeah, Starbucks, consulting, any factory or freelancing is the right path for him. If he wants to use these 12h/week to learn something valuable and give himself the opportunity to not have to think about money anymore, then he should invest a couple of month in learning how to build an entire product from scratch, marketing, how to interact with his users, UX, business strategies, priorities, you know what I mean if you've done it already. He might not make money at all but he will acquire a lot of valuable knowledge. Knowledge = long term investment. It's like stock versus real estate.
A father is certainly a closer connection than childhood friend or "close associate" whatever that means.
"Why do many companies even seem to insist on paper invoices that add the additional nuisances of having to scan and file those documents?"

It's called Cashflow management. Maybe you're in a high margin high profit business. But the other 95% of all business owners are in a brutal competition for Cashflow. That means make paying out as hard as possible.
Light document is exactly how I do it. I do mostly backend and API design, and usually when it is up to me I flesh out a spec (one page, after discussion with the main client, being mobile devs, web devs, and so on) then have all stakeholders ok it. Surprisingly when its a one page prose everyone reads it pretty quickly. As long as the end result code matches that spec the other technical comments are not that hard to deal with and usually easily reversible should I merge then realize there was a mistake.
the parallels to swartz sound like overdramatization. she created the website for people (like me) who dont have access to all the libraries and dont want to spend a lifetime searching colleagues with access. there is just too much science nowadays to justify paywalling it. its a very practical matter for scientists to be well informed. i am split whether i like this publicity. on the one hand, it may lead to closing it down, on the other hand it might finally force the hand of regulators against the scientists who publish only behind paywalls.

To anyone who tries to defend elsevier here on the grounds of capitalist justice: hold your horses, you are defending a greedy corporation that offers nothing to science. think about this: the fee for making a paper 'open access' in , say, cell journals is $5000 per paper, even though elsevier does not pay the writer, does not write or format the paper, does not edit any images, does not review the content, does not correct the paper. i.e. you pay $5000 for hosting one pdf file, possibly 2 (it gets worse, some grants e.g. the erc grants require open access and high impact factor, hence shelling more money to elsevier). this is not an issue of copyright, its about an outright crazy system which forces scientists behind paywalls because funding sources explicitly require it.

if you think only commercial publishers have the gift of curating good science, look at elife, an open access journal with reasonable fees, a great website, and multiple high profile papers already. please dont defend businesses that are literally potentially harming your health.
Ok so they can talk about Putin's childhood friend, but not about Cameron's father?
One major spending they could do is bringing back more production to the US and thereby increasing the locally available know-how. Right now more and more production skills are only available outside the some companies' hq countries. Apple is a good example due to the high prices their customers are willing to pay.
Is that review lopsidedness on purpose? IE, do devs go in and choose to do an arbitrary set of reviews when they feel like it? or are they assigned?

The one code-review-heavy team I worked on did a modified round-robin style. The team wiki had a list of all devs and a count for how many reviews they'd done during the current (3-month) phase. You go in, choose a review with the lowest count, increment their count, then assign them your review. This way, they aren't available again until anyone else who had their count has also done a review.

You could still assign big reviews to senior devs and small reviews to juniors, because there would usually be multiple people with the "lowest" count -- ideally, at some point every dev would have 10 and would then gradually all increment to 11.
I understand this POV, but I think it ends up being more bug than feature :)
These papers have nothing to do with Google or Apple.
She explains she is from India, and she also recognized it's a cultural problem.
At least in my post I said "incentivize" and not "punish" or anything to the same extent.

One big issue is with their shareholders whose mindset may not allow increased spending and less dead digital cash.
I guess architects as pareto-programmers is great from a business side since it hopefully means things get done faster as the 'difficult' work can be done by the most experienced programmer(s).

Unfortunately, to work, the team under the architect needs to want these hand-outs. I'd wager that a lot of developers do not want to be simply told what to do or to clean-up and make it production ready.

In the end, I think a pareto-programmer architect selects for a team that simply does what it's told and that leads to a situation where no one will question the architect and that leads to bad code.
And that way making the economy stronger and more dynamic. Money isn't worth anything if everybody would just hold onto it in some ledger.
I don't know why you were downvoted, but I completely agree with you. It's great that the Panama Papers were leaked, but blaming it all on Putin seems very convenient.
I don't think anyone who has written such a book has ever made a significant profit from it. The attitude among researchers in my field, at least, is that all such books are a labor of love.

With this in mind, it sounds like a perfect use case for sci-hub.
Wouldn't it be reasonable to have a sanity check that can be bypassed by the user? It is very likely to be a mistake if there's no full stop in the address, but there are exceptions [0]. I would like to see a warning if I accidentally type vostok@examplecom instead of vostok@example.com.

[0] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2002-January/...
For number 1 did you mean all reviews that have been assigned to you? Because if you mean otherwise then it is impossible to follow once you hit a certain size.
As a regular reader of German news, this does not seem true to me. My impression is that the German media are more Russia-friendly than their British and American counterparts. After all, Russia and Germany could be natural allies from a geostrategic perspective.
> creative output such as artwork and music

If I'm not mistaken, all intellectual property published by the US government is public domain by law. I may be wrong or you may be referring to something else.
Lots of DARPA sponsored projects have open source releases.
They may not, and I didn't say they do. The tax haven and money hiding aspect reminded me that so much money just sits in a ledger digitally somewhere without benefiting anybody but the well-feeling of shareholders. A stronger economy due to more spending will also benefit shareholders.
"Last but not least, all communications are transmitted in clear text; no encryption is involved across the whole app."

It's pretty common to send and receive API requests in clear text, since the encryption for this part should be handled by HTTPS. But you're right, this app only uses HTTP
The pricing page is quite clear. But the pricing calculator linked, https://www.odoo.com/pricing-online does not seem to include the cloud offer you mention?

From there it looks like one needs to pay a base cost of €20,- / month / user before selecting apps. Then, the calculator doesn’t make me have the first app for free. What’s more, I can’t select accounting (€20,- / month) without also selecting invoicing (€10,- / month). So if I’d want an install with only accounting, instead of it being for free, it looks like it costs at least €50/month?
The implication was that Putin's childhood friend is running a scheme that Putin is taking part in.
I mean sure journalists and meme-makers will spin this however it suits them, but I thought here in the west we're assured that we have freedom of press. This type of obvious slant certainly doesn't make it seem that way.
Google Capture the Flag 2016
Are you saying that the employment prospects of Chinese people are the responsibility of the US government but implicitly supporting slavery isn't?
It's not a "similar idea", it was the exact same thing. Google "AirBnB for retail." :)

This company is going to face a really tough road ahead if they don't execute properly. Including convincing Storefront's old customers that they're going to do it right.
While you are being downvoted, I concur, of all the people mentioned in the Panama papers [1] Russians for one reason or another drew unproportionally much attention of the media. By looking at the source [0][2, for posterity] I can only infer that Putin is in the center of the web.

[0] http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/

[1] https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/

[2] http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
Go on BILD, Die Welt and Der Spiegel and read articles in German. I'm semi-fluent in German (studied it for 5 years and lived there for a year) and from my experience everything I said is true. I've added some references.
The leak is of historical documents dating back decades, not a snapshot of current setups. So I don't see why that'd affect anything.

I really doubt this is some sort of official leak though. Governments hate leaks of all kinds.
I've made the same argument about the need for a programmer to not be disturbed. A colleague of mine has eloquently compared it to juggling: you start with one ball, add another and it gets complex over time. Disturb him and he starts over with one ball.

In my experience as a programmer I've grown to think that this argument only holds partial value. An observation that helped in this, is that programmers hate to be disturbed, but can always manage to be on time for lunch or beers on friday (it's a dutch corperate tradition to drink a few beers after the workday on friday).

I find myself, and others, to be capable of reviewing a PR within an hour. I just need to be aware that when I'm done with a coherent unit of code, that I should switch to review mode and check if there are outstanding PR's. To reuse the metaphor: I've stopped juggling and can choose which set of balls to pick up next.

So I do think it is a cultural thing. You need to commit yourself to have reviewing be a part of the work process. I find IM services and PR's to cater perfectly to the way the usual programmer works. He can ignore the message while he's mentally keeping 5 balls in the air and look through his messages when he's ready to start his next activity of the day.
the BBC's bias against Russia is notorious, surpassed only by washingtonpost, but I don't know if that one is taken seriously anyway.
You think the image of monarchs comes from the movies and that actually monarchs had little more than a couple of cups? I'm sorry but that is a very delusional view.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ is a pretty good source (also Russia-based). I'm not sure whether it covers all textbooks of the more obscure kind, e.g., the ones typically referred to as "monographs," but it has worked for graduate classes in the past.
>The other issue is that it takes millions of dollars to fund the research for many of these papers. With no incentive to make money on the research, companies will either stop the research, or it will go completely private and there will be no access for anyone.

You seem to be basically misunderstanding the whole thing. This isn't about research funding, it's about publisher fees. The issue with the papers is not that they take money to produce and so the researchers then charge money for others to see the results, and that therefore bypassing these fees would deprive the researchers of their hard-earned money they need to keep funding their million dollar research.

That is not at all what this is about. The fees being charged are publisher fees, absolutely ridiculous fees for a minimal service that is completely obsolete in the internet age, hampers collaboration and the flow of information, slows down science, prevents underprivileged persons from accessing the research that is in the vast majority of cases publicly funded, and serves only to give money to these publishers, of which absolutely 0% goes to the researchers themselves.
As a Ukrainian, I'm livid. Our media mentioned Putin's offshores but obviously forgot about Poroshenko's. Same shit, different day.
This is excellent as it puts something (sorta in writing). But the government only has a limited ability to retain copyright. If there is a wholly in-house developed program, one _should_ be able to get the source under a FOIA request.
Pure vs. Impure Functions
I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag
I know a lot of people who hate or are ambivalant their jobs, have bad or no relationships/sex, and are not drug addicts or even recreational users.
this getting heavily downvoted is telling of how well the propaganda is working in the west.
That's about 1/5th of the tax burden we pay in the U.S. dealing with obesity-related illnesses each year.
No, I thought that was kind of dumb too, but I've got used to western media constantly dumping on Putin regardless of the merits of the case so I just ignore it now. Like, I just skip any part of the Economist that talks about Russia because their coverage of the topic is so hilariously unbalanced.
The dark side of digital finance: On financial robots and financial AI
'Jihad by Family': What Makes Brothers Take on Jihad Together?
> While much of the leaked material will remain private, there are compelling reasons for publishing some of the data.

How convenient.

> the papers simply reveal the vast number of people who use offshore to protect their wealth. There is nothing unlawful about doing this. It is not illegal to be a director, shareholder or beneficial owner – the real owner, even though their name may not appear on the shareholder register – of an offshore company.

Then why hide it?

This smells funny. Millions of papers leaked, and Putin is the biggest fish they caught. I don't doubt he's knees-deep in illegal activity, but I just can't see how $2B is in any way comparable with the billions hidden by westerners; after all, it was them who set up and keep protecting tax havens, and they've had 100 years to learn to conceal their activity, compared to just 2 decades for the Russians. I'll remain hopeful, though, for further leaks of some western influential figures.
Without trying very hard I found 4 Business Insider articles about the model 3 published in the space of 2 days, including 3 different articles about the model 3 published in one day...

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-is-the-tesla-model-3-201...

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-everything-we-know-abou...

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-model-3-is-teslas-biggest...

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-model-3-2016-4

Amusingly one of the comments under one of those articles even accuses BI of having a "lovefest" for Elon.
Ask HN: Do you feel like you're paying too much taxes?
Sorry for the people who live outside of the US (even though it might be the same issue), but I'm looking at the republican candidates tax reforms... One candidate is talking about 15% for small businesses/corporates and the other talks about 16%. And something like 10% income tax for every employee. Meanwhile, democrats are talking about "no tax increase" or something like "millionaires should pay %30 instead of 0-%10". By the way, if I make a million dollars today as a business owner I have to give away about 50% of my income to the government here in California. How do millionaires pay only %10 taxes?? Billionaires maybe..

Anyway, I'll be honest with you, I am not a fan of republicans at all... but I came to the point where I have to listen to them a bit more carefully. Beyond all the conservative BS etc... tax is my main concern at the moment. I'm worried... It's what impacts my life everyday. I feel like half of the money I earn is taken away and given back to the government. W2's or business owner's it's the same problem. So my question is, what do you guys think about paying too much taxes? Do you care? Is this one of your main problems?
> I hope they wouldn't assume everyone's tmux setup uses only characters from codepage 437.

I hope that people here aren't assuming that terminals are all VT100 clones. (-:

The old (Interix) Windows NT POSIX subsystem added escape sequence recognition to Windows consoles when POSIX programs were using them as their terminal output. Such terminals match up with an "Interix" terminal type in the termcap and terminfo databases. Their escape sequence set is not the same as any DEC VT type.

The Dickey ncurses termcap database has an "interix|opennt|ntconsole" entry, although I have encountered systems with ncurses but without this termcap entry and had to add it myself. It is, apparently, wrong. David Given has a different one in LBW.

* https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb463194.aspx

* http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/colored-terminfo.src.htm...

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-GB/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

* https://github.com/sedwards/lbw/blob/master/extras/interix.t...
Well, you can relocate to the Bay Area, as expensive as it is. I did so, as well as a huge mob of Texans. Californians did the opposite: moved to Texas for cheaper housing/lower taxes.

The upside is they pay you more to offset the cost of living. The downside is that roughly 50% of my income before rent goes to taxes, and half of that goes to rent.
Strange, nothing about it on NYT.
I applaud this woman. What she does is brave and constructive. Sci-hub is a fantastic tool, easy to use and pleasant.
i wonder how their support/service model will scale to model 3's volume.

also curious to see if the model 3 will represent greater reliability for their vehicles...

Current level of reliability + current service model @ model 3's volume == nightmarish owner experience.
So, I get that they're not giving you line items. What I don't get is why? Is there some competitive advantage or whatever that's causing the big players to lobby the government to prevent it?

It seems to me that, at some level, everyone already "has" their line items—just not in a convenient form, i.e. paper (or email) receipts.

Is there cost involved in getting them to people? Standardization? Legacy systems/formats/whatever in the way?

Thanks for your writeup by the way, I'm also in CA and learned a lot.
I understand that is the opinion of many people. It is not, however, my opinion. In my opinion, those are descriptive and are not in fact names. If I were forced to name them, I might call them Luna and Sol.
I believe they are withholding details regarding any British connections until the BBC Panorama show which airs tomorrow. As before, this leak is coordinated across different media organisations and the whole news cache is released iteratively.
It's weird how we seem to understand exponential growth of technology but have a hard time grasping the exponential build-up of excess greenhouse gases due to the exponential growth of human population and economy.

I wonder how these thousand years might look if currently there have been temperature difference of extremes by 20 degrees, with average already raised by 2.

For example, mass extinction of oceanic ecosystems is due to somewhere around 2050s. Whole oceans will get empty very quickly.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787

Collateral victim count of ~3 trillion yearly deaths of oceanic animals is a big contributor.

We'll see how the world will cope when main oxygen producers disappear.
Being Russian citizen I find this critical position actually pro-Russian. It's in our interest to have a professional government and a president elected on transparent and free elections, to fight corruption and to work for the prosperity of our Homeland and for happiness of all our people. The government, the president, the courts and the deputees of parliament that do not satisfy these criteria can and shall be criticized by anyone who dares. And, by the way, these media do not criticize the Russian people. So, we are ok with that critics and sane people here are not humiliated by what others may call "lecturing from the West". In fact, we are proud that there's so much interest to the Russian politics, that we are treated as important part of the world and that we do matter. Moreover, such critics will not change anything in Russia, because Russian internal affairs are only our internal affairs. I'd say, they are for internal consumption in Germany and UK, and it's good - even western citizen enjoying the taste of democracy may fall to Putin's propaganda, so better keep fighting.
It is not true. Dr. Ulfkotte is a known fake journalist: http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2015...
What pisses me off is that after they are done going through the data, they often still don't release the files.

There is a reason why publicly available information is useful (think about historians for instance), and by locking it for these only 100 orgs (which will then forget about it in half a year when the scandal is done) you lose on the opportunity to do future research, books, etc. on this
That looks like PACER still falls under that.

I wonder if this would make it easier to build a replacement whose interface isn't utterly terrible. Of course, the hard part would be convincing the courts to use it. Based on a sample size of one Clerk of Court, who thinks PACER is absolutely fantastic, this will be hard. To be fair, it is state-of-the-art in terms of access to court documents in the US.
> the parallels to swartz sound like overdramatization.

I don't think so. Read Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto for details:

> https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto
> https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
> https://archive.org/download/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008.pdf
British and American media are virulently anti-Russian so that doesn't mean much.

I did not know that Axel Springer actually has support for America, the EU and Israel literally written into its corporate constitution. That seems like a powerful source of bias for a media organisation.
it is a lock screen that prompts for password on wake

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
Ask HN: What do you use to track your todo's?
Is there any way you were able to stick with for a long time and increase productivity?

The more detailed answer the better.
Link to fulltext (paywalled): http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/455/1/L114.full
What's not true?

This?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE#Corporate_pri...

or this:

http://i.imgur.com/ufKQh49.png
Is there such newsletter that will only send me one single letter notifying about the availability of Swift on Windows?
Yeah, hiding a conflict of interest might be illegal, but "tax planning" is by definition legal.
Maybe you should try Take Command. I've been using it for years. It re-displays Win32 consoles in its own tabbed user interface. It provides its own command interpreter (with all sorts of extra stuff), but one can also use it for Microsoft's command interpreter, Bourne Again shell, Z shell, PowerShell, and so forth.

* https://jpsoft.com/