skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since it was never incorporated as an NPO and you say you never discussed copyright:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/hiring-independent-co...

Who owns intellectual property created by independent contractors?

When you hire an IC to create a work of authorship such as a computer program, written work, artwork, musical work, photographs, or multimedia work, you need to be concerned about copyright ownership.

The copyright laws contain a major trap for unwary hiring companies. The hiring company will not own the copyright to the IC's work unless it obtains a written assignment of copyright ownership. An assignment is simply a transfer of copyright ownership. You should obtain an assignment before the IC starts work. This assignment should be included in the IC agreement.

There are exceptions to this rule. Certain specially commissioned works by ICs are considered to be works for hire, to which the hiring company owns the copyright. However, this rule is not automatic -- you still have to enter into a written agreement explicitly stating that the work is for hire.
Giving the stakes, Google probably would build an additional on/off ramp and may be an additional lane on 101 themselves if permitted :)
It also helped that Boeing fitting the 727 with a "Cooper Lock" for the rear loading hatch. Basically a latch with a wind vane that once enough airflow moved over it, it would auto lock the hatch from the outside and thus couldn't be opened in flight. If I remember correctly.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the hijacking with hostages was what put the case on the radar, not the $200,000.
My father always says : "saving money is the beginning of being poor".

So I always try to save money by thinking how can I make more. These days money = time is a strong equation, so just don't loose your time and use it in a way to make money.

Stop thinking about saving money and spend your thoughts on revenue stream. That's why I rarely use services like that and don't count the pennies ( I'm neither rich nor bragging )
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One could argue that a society in which people cared about free software would not require the free software movement to attempt to protect itself in such a manner, though. You can find many similar examples in other movements where the movement needs to protect itself from integration into the status quo without completing its goals.
"More than 2 million people died of starvation during the Nigeria-Biafra war, while the world idly watched. The reason will surprise you."
This is what modern corporate hacking looks like.
Gödel's incompleteness theorem already rules this out for mathematics, so why should we believe it about the universe?
Apparently there's already commercial device for this. I came across a paper about it.

“Unfocus” on foc.us: commercial tDCS headset impairs working memory - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-015-4391-9
> They won't update the "amount you will get" to reflect Congress dipping into the fund. The statements operate on the "if everything continues to go well" basis, and so what Congress does isn't reflected on them.

Right.

They do say, "Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefit amounts may change. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time." At least.
Oh man, what a great idea. Especially as you start shopping around, you can build a broader profile of a customer's shopping habits, which could be sold for better targeting advertising.... oh wait... argh why does my mind always go there.
Automatic deduction into a 401k plan.

Separate bank accounts for everyday spending and long term saving.
I sincerely hope that when the time comes there will be an implementation of this called "Java of the Andl."
AngelScript too:

http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/
It's not HR in the sense you think. LinkedIn makes the majority of their money selling recruiting tools. That requires scads of talent management experts.
Related, one of my favorite joke twitter accounts is Nihilist Arby's:

https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys
I tend to spend a good amount of time thinking about similar types of questions. I like to think my own philosophical developments over the years have allowed me to build a healthier relationship with my own existence. An old friend recently told me that life seemed "easier" for me these days.

So while it is quite difficult to say for sure (correlation != causation), I do think that sometimes these questions can be helpful.
Cool idea! Thanks
I really like this idea!! Thanks
> I've also learned to not worry about it so much. You'll generally only stay at an individual employer for a few years. After that you can roll over a 401k into a low fee IRA held by Vanguard (or whomever you prefer)

You can also do a backdoor Roth conversion when you rollover your employer contributions (which can't be Roth contributions.)
Not quite on-topic, but I think that for a normal tech worker, it's usually easier to increase your revenue stream than to increase your savings.
The linked transcript is fairly short and DEFINITELY worth a read.

Very interesting stuff.
Checkout TriforceAFL as well, which allows using AFL (American Fuzzy Lop) inside a qemu virtual machine.

This is a pretty interesting writeup on it: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
The problem with a lot of the modchips is that the companies behind them are secretive (leading to loss of knowledge when they close) and they're just so damn expensive.
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the people working at "niantic" are paid by google. niantic and alphabet are just tax dodges and lawsuit shields. it's all google, and you're all idiots.
On that note though, while I realize there are plenty of apps that will do this sort of thing for you, I really wished there were that did it with this level of simplicity.

And I don't mean create an account for Mint or Level or any of the other bountiful budgeting services out there and merely export to a Spreadsheet. I (personally) literally only want something that can connect to my accounts, see a transaction, and update a row. Nothing in the middle.

Does it exist already?
IMHO, that's a feature, not a bug. Though it is unfortunate that some doctors have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century; I'd be really suprised if such doctors were better, by any reasonable metric, than one that had needed no prodding for EHR.
Admittedly, this is not a high quality comment, but I've always liked The Far Side's 1988 speculation of Cooper's fate. http://imgur.com/snDErQi
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Zoning. Going higher doesn't change your parking needs.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/zoning-law...
Do you maintain a high-enough level within the team though? Most "clever code" I've seen is called clever by people who are not yet proficient enough in a language to understand it. So with unskilled programmers pretty much anything that isn't straight combination of classes, loops and conditionals will be considered clever. There's a tradeoff here - I get the business reasons why one may want to have the codebase at the "lowest common denominator" level for the team. But then again, programming is a craft, so that person who says lambdas in Java are "clever code" (real example from my work) should IMO suck it up and spend few hours learning; then the code will stop being "clever" to them.
I like https://paribus.co/
It automatically requests refunds for things you buy online that drop in price. It's nice because it's very passive and it's basically found money when it works.
I'd worry if someone in sales, BD, or supply chain didn't negotiate. Part of their job is negotiating, and their employment is a business deal the company is making with that individual. So I was very surprised to see that the negotiation rate for VP of Sales was not near 100%!
I don't consider luggage searches overbearing. I would not want to get on a plane if everyone's luggage wasn't searched beforehand.
In the sketches, he looks like Cary Grant.
you don't HAVE to use it though. there are many different APIs you can use, OAuth tokens are just one of them. if you have username and password, you can use that.
Cycled lists and the modulo operator are two different abstractions for thinking about the same problem, in the same vein of "blind men grasping at elephant." They are different perspectives on the similar problem.

The reason we think that cycling a list is "clever" but using modulo is "boring" is because most of us use modulo often, and cycling rarely. There is nothing inherently "clever" about either of the two approaches.

In an alternate universe where we all used Haskell, perhaps the modulo solution would come off as "clever". And perhaps this article would be pointing out the flaws in the modulo approach instead: the fact that numbers divisible by both 3 and 5 have to be treated by a special case, the fact that it doesn't easily generalize to fizz buzz bazz, etc.
The UK has had a campaign asking patients not to ask for antibiotics for a cold or flu (and presumably asking GPs not to prescribe them), and also reminding patients who are prescribed antibiotics to complete the course, but it must be impossible to regulate, particularly in a more capitalistic health system.

Disclosure: I live with a doctor.

Irrelevant aside: Rare to find someone on HN call a disclosure a disclosure, rather than the oft-abused "disclaimer"! :)
"Moms Against Pokemon Go"

There's now a hilarious contradiction, where parents are telling children to NOT go outside and run around.
Dictionaries were never an authoritative (prescriptive) source. They are by their very idea a collection of common usages.
I cannot imagine it would be "career enhancing" to be an FBI agent assigned to DB Cooper in the 2010's.
Certainly it's good to increase your revenue, but saving money is often much more valuable; a dollar saved is $1.4 earned, assuming you live somewhere with a high marginal tax rate.
Some like to say that you should never write clever code. But clever to who? Some people lambdas, map, reduce, and even polymorphism are clever. So in a vacuum the statement is meaningless.

Whenever you're writing code you need to know your audience. Is the Haskell solution really that clever to someone who uses Haskell on a daily basis?

That said, I always liked the saying: it's easier to write code than read it. Which means, that if you're writing code at "maximum cleverness" you're writing code you won't be able to read.
This needs to be seen in context though, because it critically depends on who "someone else" is. A category theorist will have a much more abstract view of a Haskell program than your usual developer for instance and something that seems tedious and unnecessarily technical to one can actually be a useful abstraction to someone else if one knows how to use it (e.g. see all the monad submissions).
I often wonder why Google puts up with the Mountain View city council. They should just relocate their headquarters to another part of the state and be done with them. I'm sure there are a number of cities around that area, with huge parcels of undeveloped or neglected land, that would gleefully welcome a brand new Google headquarters. They've gotten too big for that area and their recent real estate acquisitions in Mountain View looks like just a bunch of dispersed buildings.
That's not true. There are at least seven four storey buildings (Alza, Crittenden) on the main campus, and there's also a new 5 storey building on Pear Ave. But almost none of their buildings were built new, most were already built and acquired. Their proposals for new buildings have mostly been around 6-8 storeys, but they've had problems getting the city to approve their plans. I believe the LinkedIn land they acquired also already has approval for taller buildings.
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Can you elaborate on why you do that? Is it that you assume taxes will only go up, so you want all your retirement to be post-tax?
If only they put so much work into investigating Hillary Clinton.
I believe this too and most of the tech people do that i guess, since they their skills are in demand. But there are millions of people who have standard revenue streams and not everyone can be entrepreneurial in finding new ways to make money than worry about pennies. These apps are aimed at those, showing people who they are wasting money and also ways to save it.
I agree to a huge degree. If your code is obscure and overly complicated then it's probably not a good idea.

To play the devils advocate though and show that sometimes we have to challenge our rule set I'll give an example.

I worked in a C# shop where they were using Webforms for a massive application in 2012. Their developers were old hands at winforms and didn't like to learn new things in the framework. So myself and another developer started introducing things such as Linq, javascript, and other novel concepts.

Because some of the old hands there didn't understand it we weren't supposed to use it...

I also attempted to get people to write more testable code so that when we do make a change it doesn't break something in a different section of the codebase. I got push back on everything.

So I'd amend, "If your code cant be understood by someone else with minimal efforts and/or explanation it is not good enough." Because sometimes people don't understand the code because they don't have an inquisitive nature.
Interestingly, there's evidence that the CIA knew about -- and perhaps utilized -- the Boeing 727's latent air drop capabilities as part of Air America.[0]

[0] http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-cia-proved-that-a-boein...
I guess that's technically true, but aren't they still part of Alphabet, which means it's still very much related to Google, even if they're managed independently.
How about getting on a bus? Getting on a train? How about walking on the street next to people whose backpacks haven't been inspected? Should we put x-ray detectors on every street corner, next to the security cameras we already have?
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A mix is the optimal approach. Investing some time into cutting the low hanging fruit on the expense side is certainly worthwhile.

People just take it to far...you can only cut thing so far before it screws up your lifestyle so yeah after cutting the obvious its about more revenue as you say.
Seems a scumbaggy app to me (even if it's legal). If you buy something for $X, it's because you can afford $X at that point in time and you agree that that's its value.
I read a lot of philosophy books. They taught me to think deeply about the things that make me happy, and it turns out most of the things that make me happy are essentially free (reading, coding, etc).

I doubt it'd work for everyone, and it would be tricky to turn in to a Chrome extension, but something that put a Stoic quote in to Amazon's checkout page might help people.
> should have been done at launch

Generally speaking, this is the worst way to do it, as the app hasn't made a case for why it needs to send notifications.

It should do it in a contextual way so the user understands that notifications will enhance their experience of the app.
Yes. Because it's an uncommon thing for a company to do right by their customers, and everyone that does IMO deserves praise (and more business).
our steady march to today's over bearing TSA

Before all those hijackings, there was no airport security screening. None at all! I know that's hard to believe, but we've all gotten used to it since we've had something in place now for about 40 years.

There has to be something we can do to ensure safety, but that's less overbearing than today's TSA.
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

http://www.architectureofradio.com/
The muddy marsh/salt ponds surprised me too! But there are a few spots where the actual Bay (open water) is visible... e.g. Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto. Also nearby hills have views -- I used to take walks to the top of the hill behind Google's Crittenden buildings, from where you can see a good bit of the southern Bay and up the peninsula northward. (Those hills also used to be MTV's garbage dump, so it could be worse!)
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One of the problems with allowing undisclosed paid reviews is that it eats away at trust in reviews - as you put it, "the first thing I think when I see a positive review is that it was bought". It doesn't matter how honest a reviewer is, no-one will trust them. Also, watching gameplay footage wouldn't have saved you here - the only people who could post gameplay footage were paid promoters whose contracts required them not to show any glitches or anything else that showed the game in a negative light.
Hence the "not very big." If they didn't have a couple buildings my response would be "non-existent."
BUCKLE YOUR STALINBELTS. TAXES ARE THEFT. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, UNDERSTANDING IS IGNORANCE, ETC.
http://omgvoice.com/

"This is how these famous Ghanaian men would look if they had dreadlocks"

"Different Kinds Of Women You’ll Find In A Typical Ghanaian Church"

"13 Times The English Language Made Absolutely No Sense At All"

I mean, good luck to them and everything.

(EDIT: This post sounds grumpier than I intended it to.)
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On the other hand, if you're in CA and subject to a 50% marginal tax rate, saving $1 has the same impact as making an additional $2.
From your comment, I was curious whether they were pulling the results from Algolia behind the scenes. The result sets for a given day look to be pretty different with Algolia being ordered by points purely.

Front [0]

(92 stories hit the front page)

Top 10:

1. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
2. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
3. Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 3: Inside the disk drive
4. Riffle: an efficient communication system with strong anonymity
5. Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations
6. Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
7. Yoshi (YC S16) launches “set it and forget it” vehicle re-fueling service in SF
8. A Glimpse into the Apollo Guidance Computer
9. Errol Morris's Secret Weapon for Unsettling Interviews: The Interrotron
10. Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins

Algolia [1]

(885 stories)

Top 10:

1. Tell HN: New features and a moderator
2. Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years
3. Pokemon Go is a huge security risk
4. How we're scammed into eating phony food
5. Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
6. Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta
7. Elixir 1.3.1 released
8. Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders
9. A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
10. Hacker News' “Who is Hiring?” thread, part 2, remote and locations

Note: The Algolia date picker doesn't seem to like you starting and ending on the same day. It changes start date to the day before, so perhaps this is including a little more than one day of data.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-07-11

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
Google's current buildings were built years (or decades) ago, long before the current space crunch, and say nothing about current City policy. The maximum height in the current North Bayshore Precise Plan is 140 feet above ground (155 feet above sea level), which takes it pretty close to the federally imposed limit.

http://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?...
There's https://digit.co :

Every few days, Digit checks your spending habits and removes a few dollars from your checking account if you can afford it.
I like the CamelCamelCamel.com extension for amazon. It does something useful - shows me price history graphs so that I can see if that 40% discount is actually a discount or a sales tactic...and they also allow me to set alert for the stuff I buy in bulk but need regularly (toothpaste etc).

The amazon prices seem to fluctuate enough to make this worthwhile.
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Being the guys who wrote Ingress, I'm betting they still host their stuff on Google App Engine... ;).
Is this a 1031 exchange?
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There was a slight increase in 2010, but (overall) not a significant change to the growth in premium contributions made by single workers and families between 2005 and 2015 - http://i.imgur.com/KCiwoEJ.png
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My rule of thumb is that I attempt to write code that a junior programmer whose experience is limited to a little more than having taken a course in the language and has done a couple tutorials on the framework(s) can maintain. I see so many developers try to squeeze every new language feature or loads of esoteric library use cases into their code because they learned something and feel like it MUST belong in the production code. Sometimes you have to write complicated code, but 99% of the time it should be possible to write very simple code using only the most commonly used language features.
I get where you are coming from. I don't think that having x-ray detectors for plane luggage gives the passengers much safety: they could always use whatever weapon/bomb at the security line anyway!

I do, however, think that it's important not to let those people onto planes in contrast to buses, street corners, etc. because otherwise someone might take control of an entire plane, which can do a lot more damage than a bomb/pistol/etc, you know?
Depends how much money you have
I used to use this excuse to justify ridiculous levels of spending. My time is valuable, etc. It's definitely true for some people but probably not most and certainly not me. Unless you actually are earning more (and saving it too, not just spending it) as a result of this mindset, I'd recommend reconsidering.
So how long before someone get's shot in the back because some bottom dollar networked security camera feeding bottom dollar image processing software flagged them as a false positive for an armed fugitive?

How long before you auto insurance company jacks up your rate because a scanner at a toll both picked up your brother when you let him borrow your car.

Who the heck is responsible for allowing this to happen with no apparent oversight?

Does the scan still work after the suspect has been pepper sprayed and beaten to a pulp?
And my belief is that the story of DB Cooper that inspired the following failures also ended with the failure.
I'm sorry to hear that. Consider emailing support@gitlab.com if you keep having problems with email not being delivered.
Your API should strive to be clever (it should allow end users to do countless things straightforwardly without error). Your implementation should not.
There's a cost to that too, unfortunately. Longer code may be easier to unserstand line by line, but the sheer volume of lines can make it harder to comprehend. Terseness has its advantages.

Usually, making good developers write code for less experienced developers makes the code quality worse. OTOH, it can then be maintained by entry-level developers.
I was reminded of France and Spain dividing up the new world :-)

But more seriously, does Microsoft (LinkedIn's putative owner) give up the remaining buildings near Shoreline and 101 (the former 'BARC' facility?)
Especially that they launched US-only (?), but the whole world is playing anyway thanks to game's APK being spread on-line. I'm writing this from Poland, coming straight from 2 hours walk from work, catching Pokemon and leveling up on the way :).