skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax e-filing system in Massachusetts is a government website that offers a quite good user experience. It could be a bit better (e.g. it could save your general W-2 info from year to year on the assumption that you probably didn't change employers), but it's fairly nice in most ways; the W-2 thing is the only problem I've run into with it, and it has a fairly clear UI. Especially given the complexity of the actual paper MA tax forms.

On the other hand, the MA website where you pay things like unemployment insurance for your employees is terrible, complete with being offline outside of normal business hours (because afaict they take it offline while they do batch imports from physical media that companies send them). Note that this is not as much of a "voter-facing" website, of course. ;)
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I use Google Keep...been really liking it these days. It also has a great Android App / webapp / Chrome extension
I think they just moved event data processing.
What a fucked up world we are creating. Developed countries seem to be going backwards.
Let's hope some mods will make the look more palatable.

Here is a fan made mockup of how Civilization VI could look with a different art direction:

http://i.imgur.com/ZawuP8E.jpg

Here is the original look for comparison:

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/289070/ss_a79c8...
I shouldn't have read this as I was eating. Anyways, this is another example of why I switched to a vegetarian diet. I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around the idea that there are people handling food products while defecating in an adult diaper. If they can't get bathroom breaks, that means they have to wear that dirty diaper until they are allowed to leave the line.

I don't know what interest Oxfam would have in pushing false allegations about the poultry industry, so this should be taken very seriously by these companies. They need to look at managers' and team leaders' incentives around time limits, etc. If a team leader is being motivated by a strict quota, if they are enough of a sociopath it could lead to terrible working conditions to those immediately below them.
However long it takes to go from academic proof of concept to commercial product, and not a minute longer.
It is not stereoscopic, so it would be difficult for it to detect closeness of an object.
No idea how this will go. But I used to watch his Snap stories. They're a pretty good balance of insight and various personal things he does. Overall, I kind of just enjoyed how positive and motivated he seemed to be. Seems like a genuinely good dude.

If you didn't read the post, you can follow him [here](1). I definitely recommend checking it out at least. Nice to see the optimism when you're doing your batshit crazy start-up thing and need a bit of healthy validation.

[1]: https://www.snapchat.com/add/justinkan
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It seems most companies are hell bent on lowering wages and conditions to the lowest possible denominator across the world.
It's a distinction without a difference. The likelihood of a candidate "fall off" is low because companies tend to be extra aggressive in vetting candidates that apply through recruiting agencies.

My personal experience with applying through recruiters is it puts you at a disadvantage right from the get go. Most hiring managers believe applicants that come through recruiters are more likely than not to be of low quality, so right off the bat their first impression is suspicion and skepticism. On top of that, if they hire the candidate they have to pay the recruiter a percentage on top of what they pay the new hire. If you're not exceptional in every way they could possibly imagine, you're not getting the job.

Of course, there are exceptions. If a company has worked with an exceptional recruiter in the past and trusts him or her, then things are different. I have yet to meet even one recruiter that fits that description, though.
> and keep away from software like this

Software like what?
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Another angle...

It's sad when we pay $5 for a coffee made in 5 minutes that we'll drink in 3... but not $5 for an app that took 5 months that we'd use daily for a year.
Update: Driver whose Tesla Model S crashed while using Summon was breaking all the rules

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/11/11658226/tesla-model-s-sum...
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Not really a "platform". It's just charts and graphs from QZ.
One thing that really threw me for a loop was back when I started learning about TDD. I tried to apply it to literally everything I coded. This caused a lot of paralysis because I was worried about whether I was testing the right way. Over time I came to a compromise. Basically, if I have a good understanding of the design and what I want to build and I know it is going into Production I use TDD. If I'm not entirely sure what I am building or I'm exploring an idea or spiking/prototyping something then I just write the code with little regard for things like speed or design patterns.
Scala is a pretty great language on its own.

Have a look at the adoption of Scala.js.
The ecosystem of Scala.js is larger than the "compile-to-js" ecosystems of "rust, Haskell, go, c++" combined.

One of main strengths of Scala is that people get things done. It's the only language of the ones you mentioned which has reasonable support across three vastly different platforms.
'+' works great as a concatenation operator, so long as you don't ever try to implicitly convert the values. Case in point - Python:

>>> 1+2
3
>>> "1"+"2"
'12'
>>> "1"+2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly
Git is powerful, but it's a pain in the arse to use. I would rather be concentration on code problems rather than having to work out how to use the tooling. I am sure the majority of developers don't actually need a distributed VCS (Github is popular as a centralized place for it after all).
I loved Civ I, trekked through the sequels, and fell in love again with Civ V (the orgy of stats in IV was starting to kill the franchise, IMHO). I think they are on the right track - the point of Civ is to find a balance between statecraft drudgery and military action, and V moved the needle back towards that ideal centre IMHO.

This new direction sounds slightly too RTS-y, but as long as they don't try to pull a Simcity 5 ("social" games, just say no, kids!), I'm happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Assuming your network is as socially enlightened as you, I would try to figure out if this is happening in your state and contact local government officials about your concerns. Done in a group, it could be a fun social activity to go to a town hall meeting to voice your concerns in public. Afterwards, reward yourselves with a drink for getting out of the house to show your support for good government.
The Agile Security Manifesto
Read the 'updated' version, it explains that the user was doing nearly everything they shouldn't regarding this feature. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/11/11658226/tesla-model-s-sum...

That said, sure it should be able to stop on it's own, but I think they couldn't have been more clear that this is beta and the driver is still always responsible.

In my view the driver is just as liable if the put on cruise control and don't pay attention. Is it the manufacturer's fault the car slammed into a vehicle in front of them while cruise control was on? No, I think any reasonable person will be saying it's the driver's fault.
True, and I'm currently enjoying the hell out of Stellaris, so I guess that counts :D
You can remove the word "rails" from that, and it's still 100% true.
That's the natural order of unregulated labor-based capitalism.
No, "car as in character" is still. Car as in carpet, char as in chart - simple and doesn't require a course in IPA, which may I remind you precisely nobody understands.
Oh the DNS name will change if you use your ISP-provided SMTP server and you change your ISP from Acme Internet Services to A-1 Networks. :)
Maybe this is an indication of how out of touch I am, but I don't see why there is a push to lower the cost of chicken meat.

It is already super cheap. You can get a whole rotisserie chicken at Safeway for $5 or less. That's a whole damn chicken, and the labor of someone cooking it for you!

Unless you're eating a ridiculous amount of chicken at every meal, which you probably shouldn't, the cost of chicken could be higher if it means better working conditions and humane treatment of the animal.
This isn't what we're talking about here.

It's not about seeing where the market is going (which frankly is impossible and is really just trying to catch and ride trends) - but rather about knowing which companies and projects will definitely fail.

Creating a portfolio is getting rid of the NOs and investing in the MAYBEs. And if you can't properly vet the engineering and technology that a company has, you can't tell that it's going to fail. The massive amount of companies that still get checks for an impossible or just bad product clearly shows that these VC firms dont have the right process, talent or method to accurately judge companies.
The interface is horribly (painfully) slow. On the API side...any of the params I post when hitting the create project endpoint are not taken into consideration. With the following data posted to the API I still get public builds, issues not enabled, wiki not enabled and so on: {'issues_enabled': True, 'description': None, 'visibility_level': 0, 'public_builds': False, 'wiki_enabled': True, 'snippets_enabled': True, 'merge_requests_enabled': True, 'name': 'testfoo'}
ncal is an interesting take on a calendar
Some jails have tried to eliminate all in-person visitation entirely and move to a system where you'd still have to physically go to a jail, but they'd use video streaming, and naturally charge you for the "service."

Their stated reasoning is, drugs, or similar. Even though prisoners are already searched after the visitation, and guards are a common conduit for illegal drugs in jail.

The whole criminal justify industry in the US is sick. Seriously needs a top to bottom shakeup.
There is ReactNative for Mac OSX.
https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop

Not official though, but it's getting some use out there.
Pssst, go treat yourself to Stellaris!
Memo re: Software for the AAP CSM spacecraft computer (1970)
> "Fever by Zika virus is described as an acute febrile illness."

> There you go! See that there's a difference from the other statement?

I think you are confused about medical terminology, particularly, I think you are confusing acute fever (which is a fever with sudden onset) with severe fever.

> I have never seen a case till today regarding this, neither has the society here a person that had Zika but very little symptoms, it's always hard and pushes the people to bed

I'm pretty sure that the reason these sources have stated this is that people with Zika but very few symptoms have been identified by medical authorities. OTOH, many people with Zika but without severe symptoms won't ever know they had Zika, since they may not seek medical attention.
I really like Facebook, it helps me follow many persons I had contact with in the past, from old colleagues, school friends, family, people I met while traveling, etc. People from different time in my life.
I (and wife) travel a lot and instead of sending a postcard that people receive long after we came back from vacation, we post a photo and it sparks conversation right on the spot. When we think we bore people with our photos we stop and each time we do that many people write to us to say, where are your photos, we like to see your photos!

I believe people whining about Facebook are only anti-social person. And those whining about only seing thing they are not interested to are just lazy to not organize their feed how they want to...
That line of thinking is erroneous in my opinion. Autonomous technology only needs to kill a few less people than the existing manual technology to be worth debating, and it's a no brainer if it kills orders of magnitude less people.
I imagine you can get some sort of rough guess with CV at how close something may be to you and if the car gets twitchy give up.

I know it's not perfect, I expect it's NOT a stereoscopic camera, but it's a sensor that would have been aware of the object in some way.
Because it's a widely-used hack that predates optimizers' obsessive exploitation of undefined behavior, it's become part of the language's customary semantics and is supported everywhere I know of.

C99 adds a feature called flexible array members. If the final member of a struct is an array with no length (blank rather than zero), you're allowed to use the array to access memory after the struct with the appropriate subscripts.
that and it is unique in the fact that Tumblr is not only a blogging platform, but has a built in social network. I don't use Tumblr but if you are in the right niche (XXX for one) you can score tons of traffic for your product much faster than you could using other methods.

I wish Yahoo paid more attention to Tumblr, I feel like its really fallen behind and another product that could have really taken off if it had some attention.
Do you see any possibilities to undo/mitigate JVM-specific design decision which handicap the language? For example could you not erase generics or would that cause too much problems incompatibilities?
I know, it's a play on words on my part. But it is, let's say, "culturally" invasive.
Where is compassion?

It isn't in my opinion any of enjoyment, fear, anger, disgust ... maybe sadness. But looking under sadness I see nothing suggestive to me of compassion.
I think most of these places contain people who actually know what they are doing and understand programming matters well. No 'walk-in consumers with cash to spend who think they can build their own startup'.
But my point is that the way end-to-end encryption is implemented currently doesn't even accomplish that: Either you trust your messenger provider not to be complicit in any surveillance or data mining activities, then plain TLS (with key-pinning) is enough to save you from being snooped - or you don't trust them, then you're not actually protected as they could push an update at any time to sidestep the encryption.

There are certain cases were current end-to-end encryption brings more security - e.g. if a provider's data center is compromised but the provider itself isn't. But those seem like edge cases to me that don't justify the attention the feature is currently getting.
OK so the main rule appears to be "the operator must be prepared to stop Summon if an object isn't detected". This is exact problem has been predicted by others, including Google. If you create machines that are really good but still need rare supervision, you're not going to be able to convince people to provide that supervision.
FYI... an autonomous car will kill someone

autonomous system design errors or failures have been involved in many accidents/deaths (trains, planes, just not yet automobiles)

non-autonomous cars are involved in over 30k deaths per year in the US in mostly preventable accidents

i'm not saying that autonomous driving systems shouldn't be as good as possible or improved constantly but just wanted to put this into perspective
for $2000, all they are getting is a workspace and shared-accommodation?

That amount of money is a lot in countries like Vietnam, Thailand, etc. You could easily get yourself a 2-bedroom place and cooked-meals everyday for less than that.
After disabling an adblock have several new tabs with mackeeper site opened =(

Turned adblock on again
Snif.
sbt demoNative/compile
seems to work. But
sbt demoNative/run
produces a scala.scalanative.linker.LinkingError
Unresolved dependencies:
`#scala.Serializable`
So you're not sure that's what I meant, but you're willing to read what I said in the worst possible light anyway, even if it means blaming my subconscious?

Maybe don't spend so much energy on reading into things and making assumptions.
I think the liability shifts a little bit because when you're in cruise control you're literally behind the steering wheel. In this case you're outside the vehicle.

I think as more autonomous features get developed it's going to be complicated for some time regarding who is culpable for a given accident.
Have you found any commodity where there isn't a push to lower the cost? That's pretty much what capitalism does.
That's true for any and every comment and commentator here.
Why is there a push? Cause Machiavellian capitalism is rampant.
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As a mainly backend developer who dabbles in front end, there seems to be a lot of overlap between these JS framewors and backend frameworks. You are likely going to need a backend framework to serve JSON and do data validation and authentication, so I don't see the need for having so much functionality on the frontend frameworks. The View part seems to be the part I need. It gets really confusing as to where the logic should end up going (and a lot of it seems to make more sense on the back end anyway - why do I need routing in the front end for example?).
Twitter’s churn is worse than you think
"Let's use a frat-boy's penis-pic sharing app to fund the next Silicon Valley Unicorn!"

</bubble>
That's debatable. Some tooling is needed, some (like IDEs) are mostly unnecessary; crutches we're used to because some languages are unbearable to use otherwise. IMO it's a niche language because, unlike Scala, it requires a clean break from the way the mainstream industry sees programming languages.

But don't mistake that for lack of practicality!
After the 2014 presidential elections in Romania word on the street was that the right-wing candidate won the elections (despite being a heavy underdog, odds were like 4/1) with the help of the social network. During the last weeks before the voting day Facebook had been heavily pushing materials on the diaspora scandal [1], causing massive protest in many cities throughout the country. Indeed my feed looked abnormally political during that time and afterwards it got back to normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_presidential_election...
Surely this is an indication of its popularity?
So you make a Chicken processing company. Pay your workers $20 an hour and plenty of breaks. You sell Chickens for $4.

Another company pays workers $4 an hour and makes them wear diapers. Sells Chickens for $3.75.

Barring an outside force (regulation, feel good marketing campaign, ethics badge), which one gets 100% of the market, and which one gets 0%?

Sometimes, free market sucks.
So, is this "released" yet? There are no downloadable installers or even instructions to compile.
> Go: Go is utter shit that only survives due to the devs name-dropping "Google" every 5 minutes

Woah!
I don't have any problem understanding why people enjoy and use Snapchat, or Twitter, or a number of other social media apps and sites. Facebook in particular however, has always seemed like a place that people go to spend time that ultimately makes them unhappy.
The winner is the startup who can build a stable version of Snapchat that doesn't freeze, crash, or drain your phone on a regular basis.
That always blows my mind.

It's an animal's whole damned life. It was born, raised to a large-enough size to eat, housed, fed, slaughtered, plucked, shipped, cooked, and served to the customer, plus profits at every step of the way. For $5.
There seem to be a lot of factors, besides competition, pushing poultry prices down. Most notably, numerous government subsidies: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-shapiro/the-chicken-indus...
Does it still store your credentials on their servers and proxy all your mail through the US [1], or has that been fixed?

Or is/was this FUD?

https://blog.winkelmeyer.com/2015/01/warning-microsofts-outl...
Yeah, if you turn the pressure off and are careful, you can do a lot of poking around.
Like with computers. Turn the power off, and you can poke around quite a bit. Not so much with phones and modern day laptops though :/
Guys, this isn't about finding a new funnel for YC to attract new companies, this is about entertainment. Look at the success of the startup podcast [1], which is very high on the itunes charts and not coincidentally just featured a very entertaining story about the early years of Justin.tv. People not involved in startups are very interested in how the whole startup scene works, and this is just another way to give them a glimpse into it.

Is this a good thing to do if you are a startup? Probably not. Any time you are spending preparing or participating in this event is time you aren't spending actually making your company better, not to mention how large a distraction it would be.

1: https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
And because it's open-source, it won't just get shut down. Worst-case it gets abandoned or forked or suffers feature bloat (but since it's already a mail client...) or goes the way of Thunderbird.
I can't speak for anyone else but I'd be willing to spend significantly more than that for something I found useful.
There are also leveraged inverse ETFs like SDS, which I have used at times. You don't want to hold them for more than a few weeks at a time because they decay, but for short-term trading they work fine.
tl;dr
The way to close the achievement gap between the US and stellar foreign nations (here compared to Finland) is by increasing the number of average and above teachers. Classroom size, homework, or any other measure is only weakly related to performance. Nothing beats a stellar teacher.

Proposed fixes are a probationary period for new teachers and removing the fixed pay scale that dominates the teaching profession.
Oxfam press release: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/poultry-industry-routinel...

Oxfam report (PDF): https://www.oxfamamerica.org/static/media/files/No_Relief.pd...
Those are also (usually) loss leaders for the super markets. Not that that makes this acceptable, of course.
that's what I thought of also..."tickle tk"
A small side note: Scala has several great features, but "low development overhead" just isn't one of them. Also why so harsh on Go?
Tablet "mode" isn't too useful if I can't install it on my tablet in the first place.
I suppose we are both struggling to imagine utility.
Given that capitalism is a balancing act, I wish there is a drive towards incorporating externalities like employee happiness, safety, environmental friendliness, etc., on to the products by introducing some sort of ratings and making sure that all the products include that.
Or as someone mentioned above, if they went the Slack route of not charging for users who don't push/pull code in a 30/60 day period. That way you could still have collaborator users (issues, PRs, etc) and only pay for the users who actually code.
Oh good, people defecating themselves while handling the poultry that ends up on our dinner tables.

But I guess it's worth it to maximize those corporate agriculture profits. Maybe with all this money we're saving on chicken I can buy some antibiotics.
I think consumers and workers will begin to demand additional evidence of not bad (hopefully, good) conditions. I want to be able to see my product from beginning to end. Every moment of the product's life, from raw materials to reception, should be captured on video and I should be able to review the video before purchase.
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