skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of wages is a specific breach of the contract: lack of exchange of value. If you and I make a contract that I will give you $50 and you give me a used bicycle, but then you take my $50 and don't give me a bicycle, it will generally be held that the $50 that you now have is still mine. Either that, or the bicycle is mine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration_under_American_l...

The contract exists, but it is being breached in such a way that the fundamental clauses are not satisfied (ones directly pertinent to the Consideration).

The principle of Consideration says that if you and I made an agreement which says that I will give you $50 and get absolutely nothing, that agreement could not be a valid contract. Yet, that very situation is what the valid contract has been reduced to via breach.
Demand & applicability != opportunity.

Maybe it's chicken & egg, maybe it's a Unix philosophy applied to organizational design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_a...), but there is virtually no true demand for an engineering MBA.

I'm happy to be proven wrong with a counter-example of a posted job description. Try to find one example of a hybrid position with more potential and better pay than a corresponding pure engineering role.
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. They provide a mobile site, so they don't test or develop the desktop site on mobile.
Wireless sucks. Connections drop, interference hampers it, it's far more costly, there's a significant delay, you're required to charge the device, it uses more battery to operate the radio.
Same here! But when thinking about weekdays, it's just a circle with Sunday at the bottom. Days themselves fill up vertically...I never realized how much of a hodge-podge collection of visualizations I've been using.
I agree the article is distasteful in its focus on personalitiy...

...but as someone who's deeply involved in this technology (and an unabashed believer in the ethereum technology stack) I personally consider Vitalik's combination of skills in systems architecture design, cryptocurrency protocol coding, and cryptoeconomic analysis to be unmatched by anyone else in the community.
Ask HN: Should you incorporate as a public benefit corporation from the start?
I'm looking to incorporate a company in the state of Delaware (as a C-Corp) with the intent to eventually seek certification as a Benefit Corporation. Should I be trying to do this from the outset?

There's a small chicken-egg problem where the product itself risks failure, but the status afforded by being a Benefit Corp can bolster the early perception of our company's goals significantly. I'm hesitant to invest a lot of money upfront (and potentially ongoing, depending on the costs of continued certification and compliance) until we are generating sufficient revenue. When bootstrapping, every dollar certainly counts.

Has anyone dealt with this previously? Have you formed a corporation only to later receive certification? Or did you seek certification at the outset? And what kind of costs am I likely to incur as a result of either path?

Thanks in advance! Happy to edit to provide more details if necessary.
Those Number at the End of the Runway Have a Hidden Meaning
https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silve...
> it means that any "improvements" are always going to be pointed at the lowest common denominator, which has a habit of leaving power users out in the cold.

Power users usually remove any influence they might have by opting out of telemetry....

On the other hand, most people on the Windows Insider rings are technically adept, so maybe that balances out.

Of course, the Insider builds have a lot more telemetry....

> Somehow, we improved OSes and UIs before this kind of always on bullshit was commonly accepted.

Everything you do that involves Google (or Facebook etc) provides complete telemetry and those products are continuously updated whether you like it or not.

Now Microsoft has stopped developing stuff on a three-year cycle and switched to 6 months or less. (So you won't have to do any more Big Bang upgrades that take 18 months to plan and 18 months to implement, leaving you permanently behind.)

Either way, it probably makes sense to do more or less continuous OS updates when the OS is integrated with apps and online services (Outlook.com, OneDrive, Office 365 etc).
I understand your pet peeve, really I do, but if you look at the contrapositive statement I think you will find it hard to argue:

People who are just looking to get into software engineering for the money are unlikely to learn Haskell.

They will almost certainly learn Java, PHP, Ruby, Node or maybe even Go, but not Haskell. And looking around SV these days, there is a huge number of people around that are only in it for the money.

Not that that is a panacea... my instinct is you might end up with a very strong technical team, but one that might be more likely to miss the forest for the trees when it comes to building a successful business.
South Korea’s Misogyny
Why Hired.com Is Winning Tech Recruitment
> A benefit not reflected straight in the gdp are increases in welfare due to decreases in prices from competition.

This is the same fallacy Google has. You like one thing in the treaty so you vote in favor of some omnibus heap of garbage.

The fundamental problem with this treaty is that there are too many unrelated things in it. Even if the treaty was net positive (which it probably isn't), we should never accept something which is +1001 and -1000 when the -1000 parts are entirely unrelated and are only tacked on by lobbyists because they would never pass on their own merits.

There is no reason we can't reject this treaty and then go back and sign one that has only the good parts in it -- we're the ones asking for the bad parts. We could have the version that only has the +1001. If we dumped the bad stuff then we could even use the negotiating leverage to get more good stuff.
I wonder what effect +OptimiseStringConcat has on those benchmarks. It's supposed to collapse a lost of .append calls and tries to use the minimum amount of StringBuilder objects
API versioning methods a brief reference
How about just using StringBuilder unless you really (that 0.01% case) need thread synchronization of StringBuffer?

I'm a C++ programmer mainly, surely all Java programmers know why StringBuffer is bad by now?

Article also has a pretty pointless microbenchmark.

Most synthetic microbenchmarks are questionable by default. Even worse when there's any kind of limited resource utilization such as thread synchronization involved.

Synthetic microbenchmarks assume all the resources are just for them. Whole CPU instruction and data cache, all synchronization bandwidth, all memory bandwidth, etc.

Use profiling instead of microbenchmarks.
And then I have to babysit even more batteries. I like my headphone, I can forget them in my pocket when I don't need them. I have already too many batteries to care for.
Diagnosing Correctly – Best Networking Practices for EHR
It's a lot like dating. Today you can simply post a profile on a site/app, and algorithms can now match you. Your exposure is now hundreds or thousands of people (no matter your preferences). The happenstance of being in the right place at the right time is cut down so much, it's almost irrelevant. It's far more likely a great match will be on the 1 of 3 places single people go, within the last month. It makes better matches faster. It's a superior way to date.

Without being on LinkedIn, you're now relying on only the network you've built to date. Unfortunately, LinkedIn is not as efficient as OkCupid, but it's where everyone is, and it's the best place to find a career match. Saying you're going to delete your LinkedIn account is a lot like saying "eh, I'm just going to grab drinks at the bar until I meet the right person"
I would accept a standardized USB-C replacement for the 3.5mm jack, but I don't see any evidence of that happening.
A manager should set the course, provide the means and assist in navigating the rough patches, but they shouldn't be at the helm shouting instructions at the people climbing the sails. A manager who tries to take control typically leads to frustration for everyone involved.
In the US the state government will often handle going after them for you. I imagine other countries have this as well as the US is about 50 years behind in labor laws.
Digital currency is a cult.
This boggles my mind too. I've had a few friends that are audiophiles that love to use Bluetooth headpones and will argue about the quality of the DAC in the player.

And people here talk about the 3.5mm jack being a hack or a kludge. BT was not originally intended to carry high quality digital audio - it was a friggin wireless standard for telephone headsets. Telephone audio quality isn't exactly the world standard for Hi-Fi Audio.

I guess the new aptX Lossless codec allows lossless audio - but I'm not sure how many devices support it.

All this reminds me of a friend who attended a seminar with Sennheiser for their professional wireless microphone technology. The instructor said something to the effect of, "always remember, never replace a connection with wireless technology where a $10 cable will do. Because, all $10 cables will outperform even $10,000 wireless systems."
The idea is that each provider will "own" one industry.
I've heard them called "chunts" before.
The movie was surprisingly good.
Just to expand... as an example...

.../features/users/login

may contain both the ui components as well as specific actions/reducers related to login... though other components may call actions under features/user as necessary, because they correlate to the data/features/functionality around users, where the components themselves may be for other features.

I feel that once you stop trying to segregate by either component or type of module/script that it tends to be far easier for someone new to come up to speed in a project. It is taking practice and some thought, but has worked very well where I've implemented this approach so far.
This is the first time I'm hearing of Storehouse. Looks like they were VC backed in 2014 [1].

Looking at two reviews from 2014 [2][3], the concept seems pretty neat. Unfortunate that they didn't find a business model or a buyer.

I'm glad they let people download their archive for a month, though it's pretty short timeframe.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/05/22/storehouse-ra...
[2] http://www.imore.com/storehouse-shuts-anyone-who-ever-said-i...
[3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/storehouse-an-apple-vet-tri...
How do i get first 100 users for my Google chrome extention?
Also there are privacy issues/tracking of hardware addresses.
Rangers Use Artificial Intelligence to Fight Poachers
Sure - I suspect we won't rewrite to the same interfaces, but rather rewrite in a looser sense of writing new implementations of the functionality we need. (The most plausible path forward I see is using something like rust to write a bootable hypervisor and a library of low-level functions for use in unikernels). That said a lot of language runtimes rely on libc (often as one of a very small number of dependencies), so I think a port of musl could potentially be valuable.
> You can only be a contractor if they are actually paying you.

You can be a contractor if they've agreed to a legally-valid contract (which requires some kind of obligation of consideration, whether payment in money or something else), but they could fail to perform that obligation and you could still be a contractor (just as you could still be an employee if the company failed to pay wages), they'd just be in breach of their duty under the contract (whether its an employment contract or otherwise.)
> granting stronger voting rights to long-term shareholders would make takeovers harder,

That sounds like a reasonable idea, but I think it fails to see how capital markets work.

The thing is, voting rights can be sold. If you create different voting rights with weights, you will just create different prices for different voting rights. It will make things unnecessarily complicated, and if you try to prohibit some kinds of voting rights to be sold, you will likely just fuel a black market.

Can a 10-year voting right be sold? In theory you can't, since as soon as the share changes hands, it would become a 0-year voting right. Except the voter can sell his right in a different way, that is by just agreeing to vote on command in exchange for money.

By making every such conceivable transaction transparent and controlled by Law, the market is supposed to avoid these kinds of shady practices.
I do, it's literally the most valuable network in the world. Facebook is a friends connection, but LinkedIn is a professional network. Add to that it also has some amazing insight into the macroeconomy, it's also a great tool for prediction.

LinkedIn knows the job report before the jobs report is released. Do you know how much money changes hands after that report is released?
How the heck did they survive 3D? They should have sticked to 2D. There was even some 2D version made in 3D graphics, no?
what's the difference? On DNS you pay for the "writes" so DNS is not free either.
I was also at FB when they hit File > New Project on their iOS app which IIRC drives more revenue than anything else at the company.
The original square reader was a 3.5mm jack to save on cost, prevent an external power soirxe, and ensure compatibility with devices that were (at the time) not Bluetooth enabled. Now that you can put power off of the phone's charge port, Bluetooth peripherals are becoming increasingly more popular. It's a way better way to interface with the phone and applications.
I had a similar experience. I'm a great coder with good communication and leadership skills. In 2009 I co-founded a hip startup in the TV space. I had experience as a senior / architect prior to this, but this was my first time as CTO, let alone any management position.

I LOVED the first year. I was solving difficult problems, working productively, coding like crazy, learning a lot about business and startups. But it was just me and a contractor or two.

In the second year we were growing and I started to recruit. I didn't really like finding people, but I loved creating a great culture and productive environment, so it wasn't bad. I found some great people to hire and continued to be the lead dev. I started to experiment with process and getting teams to run themselves.

By year three we had 12 devs, and multiple teams. I was spending a lot of time cleaning up after unwise decisions and trying to implement process to keep us productive. Our apps and team got big. I loved being in flow and coding so much, I would drop the ball on management tasks to finish features I was shipping. I was involved in too many things: product decisions, partner deals, traveling, and our customer development research (we were floundering and making the wrong product at this point).

I hated it. Every time I procrastinated something I got more stressed and depressed. I tried changing my role to lead dev, but it was a mess and I left.

After wandering around and experimenting with different things for years, I think I've figured some things out. I'm contracting with multiple long-term clients. The skills and network I earned doing my startup have been great for finding work. I only take projects where I can have a high level of ownership and creativity (no team to deal with). I have been able to work with fun technology across multiple disciplines (in the last year: React, Haskell, Elm, iOS, Swift, Clojure, among others).

I do mess around with my own ideas sometimes, but I realized that what I really love is to create products, and I don't like management, or selling things I've created. So I'm most effective creating products with/for other people who are taking the business risk.

Not sure if there's anything in there you can use, but good luck! Figure out what you love to do, keep experimenting. I hated being a CTO too. There's no shame in figuring out it's not right for you, but it IS hard to allow yourself to go down in status. For me it was this big ego thing holding me back. Don't make that mistake :)
Apple watchOS 3 announced
I'm glad you're reaffirming the thoughts I had back in 2010 when, after the phone screening, I was invited for an on-campus interview to which I said no after reading some scathing reviews online.

I very distinctly remember it seeming a bit like a cult with the overbearing CEO that answers to no one creating a sprawling campus out in rural Wisconson that's so comfortable and with so many amenities you'd never want to leave!

Sounds like I made the right choice to decline, even though I'm currently working for a private company with the same type of CEO, only with revenues at half of one percent of Epic. But hey, I read a couple of weeks ago that they were hiring a sushi chef, and I do love sushi!
Most big box stores I've been in the last few years, all the TVs on display are configured for maximum brightness and contrast anyway, I guess so they don't look washed-out next to all the other TVs that are configured the same way. It's impossible to tell what's good and what's not.
This is emblematic of what I suspect will be a serious problem going forward for a lot of companies as "tech startups" more and more become just "companies" that millions and millions of people are supposed to use and depend and base their lives and livelihoods on.

There's a cultural thing in tech companies that is borne somewhat from the wild west feeling of the early internet, where it's considered OK to do things like throw people off a platform, take their existing earnings or funds, or make it so they can't message people or similar, without even telling them, or without any ability to communicate or seek redress, all in the name of "Trust & Safety"

This is a philosophy that was fine when these companies were small and could be easily overwhelmed by fraud, but it doesn't scale and leads to truly epic amounts of bad blood with customers.

We have things like consumer credit laws, and common carrier rules, and the Montreal Convention, and state licensing and regulation, because over the years the public decided that it wasn't OK to just leave things like this up to companies. Maybe not soon, but eventually there is going to have to be a reckoning for tech companies that ignore the reality that they eventually would be wise to have rules, transparency, and accountability before it is forced upon them.
What about the reverse? I saw BSS but feel like I don't really know the world it refers to.
Some asset probably complement Microsoft to give Microsoft profit. For example, LinkedIn owns Lynda.com. Microsoft could make all training for their products on Lynda free. This would boost Microsoft's products because their users are more knowledgeable and can use their products better, or brings in new customers because now they have free, quality training. Then maybe those users who enjoy the free Microsoft training on Lynda buys a subscription because they have other things to learn and feel it's worth the value...so this would increase revenue on LinkedIn side.

Yes, Microsoft could have achieved the same result by giving Lynda some $ per user that watches their Microsoft training...This is just one scenario...I hope they have more.
And you'd still be wrong because isomorphism only implies similar structures and forms/practices.
Microsoft doesn't have that many products that they can't get someone 1) high enough up the tree that people will listen to their comments and 2) with ui experience/common sense to check them prior to any acquisition/major change and make sure it doesn't suck.
Not an argument.
A simple example to implement WebSocket server using Akka HTTP
Sane IP Panda is a sad panda... :-(
Is Slack killing office productivity?
If you can play CD quality audio, it's hardly a hole. Better quality is only useful during creation/mixing. It's not like DVD audio is better, even if it has a higher sampling rate (probably worse then actually) or higher bit encoding.
You still pay for writes(i.e. domain registration). You can argue that DNS and domain registration are different things but in reallity they are inter-dependent so there is still a cost and the system is "owned" by several entities(i.e. ICANN)
The code entry form is 100% broken on safari [1]. It lets me type a number, then deletes it.

The cursor doesn't move to the next field, and the number I did type flashes in and then disappears.

[1]: Version 9.1.1 (11601.6.17)
I was surprised by the difference between the Simple and Chain results. Naively, I had thought they'd generate the same byte code.
From what I've observed the sound of horse hooves is made by taking two halves of a coconut and banging them together.
Study: Antibiotics may offset breast-feeding benefits
and it works splendidly until someone with a bluetooth enabled device like a smart tv comes along.

once that ... thing is nearby it will try to pair with any and all devices in the vicinity, making everything pretty much unusable.

i was really happy with my bluetooth headset until i moved into an apartment in a bigger city. suddenly my devices no longer pair with the headset because other devices, not owned by me, are quicker with their autodiscovery and forced 'add' behaviour.
Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?
Yeah I'll admit I hadn't considered lack of instructor diversity. Subscription fees are thankfully paid for by my employer so it's not a huge issue for me personally but I could understand how that would be difficult to justify for individuals.
However, lights turning on and off are more annoying to those just trying to sleep.
Is there an app which can motivate me to use these apps?

I recently started using redmine, set up many projects and tasks and milestones installed the android app. I updated everything meticulously for a few days, then I missed two days, then four, then a week, then a month. Now I just can't get myself to use it.

This was my second attempt at getting my shit in order, but I keep faltering.
Is there any hope for me?
I doubt they'll be HDCP over USB-C. There are much easier ways to rip DRM music anyway (and most of the stuff people play today isn't under DRM unless you rent your music from Spotify).
I don't think rayiner suggested that you're contributing to the state of affairs, just that its rather heartbreaking to see the level of abject poverty in many non-western countries. And even if it sounds supremely selfish, I do like living in an area/country where I don't have to see that every day on my way to work.
How to rule employees with a single tool
I figured that was just a figleaf and that the real reason was that this made it easier to intercept the traffic.
All of your examples sound a lot like what these things sound in real life. Yes, there's hack foley work but the reality is that these aren't arbitrary sounds. You don't need an actual horse to get horse sounds.

I think you're shooting for some idealized authenticity argument here that just doesn't work. I work in a tourist area where horses walk on cobblestone. Yeah it sounds exactly like what the foley guys do with coconuts. Its uncanny. Also in the digital age, a lot of foley work are samples of real sounds. We don't have guys in sound booths making new sounds anymore with gadgets and old shoes and such, outside of edge cases.

I know everyone likes to feel clever when they identify a popular sound, but most of the times those are intentional homages and you have to consider that millions of sounds you don't recognize. Its not all from some static library of 1930s foley artists punching meat and knocking together coconuts anymore.