skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried approaching CEO:s directly with a phonecall? If you make a good impression that can make a world of difference. Athletism and extroversion are certainly an asset using this approach. If you can program and not just copy and paste stack overflow that should put you at least in the top half of candidates.

Also - coding skills alone are not that hot - they just make you into a replaceable cog. However, if you combine this with domain specialization this could make you into a valuable contributor. And by domain specialization I mean what ever is the core business of a business. Tomato delivery logistics? Insurance policy business rules? Trash truck maintenance database operation? (I'm making this up, but most businesses are run by their own rules and terminology - being familiar how they work gives you the right to claim 'domain knowledge').

I'm 100% sure there is a domain for you to specialize out there. You'll find it if you don't give up. Social skills are probably a really good asset here. Stop talking to HR. Start talking to the upper management directly. Everybody likes to interact with a nice person when they have the time - unless they are lizard people, in which instance they should be avoided in any case.
I'll be honest, it really feels like you haven't done a good job of scaling up first (at least based on your comments about cost and how they aren't provisioning fast enough). When you say you tried OVH and it didn't work, are you deploying dual processor hexacores with 64 gb+ of RAM? Because if not you're probably not doing it right. What software stack are you running?

Get 1-2 more people and move off the cloud. Maybe not for everything but to service your base traffic. You can manage it if you spend a few days learning how, in the same way you learned AWS/GCE.
Another fellow x201 user here. The bottleneck of our computers are definitely the CPU. After putting an SSD it felt fast for a while. But now especially whilst browsing I get irritated a lot. I can't decide whether if it's pure psychology or a need for more performance.

I am an avid Debian user for many years, lastly I used FreeBSD for a couple of months on the x201. Now, I'm using ElementaryOS.

With Debian iwlwifi was a problem, did not work reliably. FreeBSD was a lot of hassle to work with -with no network manager being present etc.-, but driver support was excellent. ElementaryOS is currently working like a charm.

Another tip besides installing an SSD is to enable multicore support in Firefox.
This comment shows what enormous damage belief in manned, extra-orbital space visits does to us (us = humans, life on Earth).

Of course I'm going to take downvotes for saying this, so I'll ask gullible readers one question: what ^^evidence^^ have you seen that proved such extraordinary events took place anywhere other than on your screens?
You might argue that this is stupid, because it's a catch 22; unless everyone does it, you lose as a business if you do it; nothing motivates people more than raw dollar value and you'll either lose your staff or have to put prices up to pay them more.

...but, you look at Uber, and there's no tipping there; and it's great for the consumer, and (astonishingly) drivers seem fine with it, despite objectively being exploited blatantly and paid less than taxi drivers.

So, maybe there is something to be said for an all digital disruption to the food scene, somehow...

Honestly, I can't see how it would work though; you have to actually demonstrate that your new 'no tip' solution works somehow, not just armchair philosophize about some way to 'magically make tipping disappear?'
This wouldn't change landlord's incentives and therefore unlikely to change the outcome.
Were you actually requested to tip? If so, it seems strange. When I've gone to many kaiten-zushi places it is usually stated that you shouldn't tip at all (in Japan you don't). There used to be one like that downtown Berkeley off Durant that closed a few years back.
When business meets software...
I like the way you're thinking, but that sort of thing probably doesn't get past a committee. "Hey we might not be able to think of an application but that doesn't mean our users won't have a legitimate reason for doing it ... Motion passed."
There's a great Freakonomics podcast about this subject: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354...

The bottom line is that from the perspective of the diner, it will not really matter (quality remains equal), but from the perspective of the restaurant, things will get a lot better.
Uber also pays drivers more than they charge users to begin with.
That may work for your internal parsing, but it's not correct with respect to any standard of English grammar. Consider that any activity can also be a topic of knowledge, and it doesn't change article usage: "do you know about football?"

"The", the definite article, has a couple of purposes in English, but by far the most common is to refer to an individual member of a set of nouns. The decision to use it or not in this case depends on how the the words "lambda calculus" are interpreted:

1. "Lambda calculus" is a compound noun that describes a unique or uncountable object or concept. In this case, "lambda calculus" is in effect the only member of the set to which it belongs, and so "the" is not used. Compare with any other conceptual noun, e.g. "mathematics".

2. "Lambda calculus" is a compound noun, but is not unique - that is, there are multiple things that could be referred to as "lambda calculus". In this case, "the" is used to select a particular lambda calculus. An extended phrase might be "the lambda calculus introduced by Alonzo Church, as opposed to the lambda calculus introduced by Joe Shmoe." Note also that in general parlance, "the" can be used alone to refer to the most common one of something, as if that member of the set were always considered an antecedent to current conversation. For example, in certain circles in California, "the industry" refers to the entertainment industry. Because it's so common to refer to that particular member of the set of all industries, "the" on its own is sufficient to select it.

3. "Lambda calculus" is a generic noun (calculus) with a modifier (lambda) that makes it unique. In this case, similar to (2), "the" must be used, as it along with "lambda" serves to select the particular calculus being referred to. Compare with "the Nile River" - "Nile River" is unique, but since "Nile" is a modifier for a generic noun the article is required. (Following the final point from (2), saying simply "the calculus" would under this interpretation normally refer to the calculus of derivatives and integrals, since that's by far the most common.)

4. Same as (3), but "calculus" is not countable in the same way, and so it does not make sense to refer to the set of all things known as "calculus". In this case, "lambda calculus" refers to a portion of the singular concept "calculus" rather than a member of a set, and so "the" is not used.

I think the most common intentions are (3) and (4) for using or not using "the", respectively. (4) is more common among non-mathematicians for whom "calculus" is a singular subject in school, while (3) is more common among people who are aware that "calculus" is a general term for "form of calculation", and who might refer to the particular "calculus" taught in high school as "the calculus of derivatives and integrals". I'm normally partial to (1), myself (i.e., "lambda calculus" and "integral calculus" are each topics of knowledge, grammatically identical to "mathematics").
Sure people are still using it. Nothing ever dies in the technology world. People are still using COBOL, Fortran, MVS, OS/400, AIX, Irix, etc. too. But it's clearly not "hip" anymore, which means that any comment on the matter here on HN will invariably be negative. Well, almost any.

There's this weird dichotomy in tech: we're heavily fad-driven and obsessed with the latest, newest, cool, hip "stuff" on one hand, but on the other hand, no old tech ever really dies. Or at least, it take a LONG time to completely die.

So basically, any tech more than about 4 years old is in this weird zombie state where it isn't dead, but isn't "what the cool kids use" anymore.
Yea but it's still virtualized slow molasses at the end. And still more expensive. My point is that at 25k servers, even a 5% efficiency gain is significant, and I'm willing to bet the margins are still higher.
I would kill to order off an iPad
Uber might not be the best example as they are losing money like crazy to incentivise drivers and customers.
Specifically for the requirement "Is there another open source vcs that would be a more natural upgrade to CVS": the answer is hands down Subversion for that requirement. If you want distributed or "more modern" but not git, perhaps Mercurial or Bazaar, but they're less prevalent choices.
I enjoy the game a lot, but I disagree that it has that much of educational value. Without pre-existing geometry knowledge (e.g. similar triangles; median, bisector, and altitude in an isosceles triangle) the way to solve puzzles is only to randomly screw around. The game then doesn't give any explanation why that solution works.
>I've no direct experience with, say, Russian or Latin American governments, but cultures that use explicit patronymic or matronymic names might expect that broken out as well.

In Ukraine we either have three fields in government forms (Family name, Given name, Patronymic) or two (Family name, Given name), for example on ticket booking forms. Or just one, but you should write names in FGP order.

Funny thing is that patronymic part is left out in transliteration, so in travel documents you see FGP form in Cyrillic and FG form in Latin letters. Transliteration algorithm is a bit funny, so people tend to have different Latin spelling of same name. And even different Cyrillic spelling of same name, depending if it's written in Ukrainian or Russian - Ukrainian, because Russian doesn't have dotted and double-dotted "i", the use "и" instead.

In past the formal way to address people used given name and patronymic, but that's not that true anymore.

In documents, sometimes full FGP form is only used at the start of the document and subsequent uses just include family name and first two letters of given and patronymic name. Tha is the only thing you can safely do automatically. Signatures also use this short form.

Other thing is that, male and female version of patronymic and family name can differ, so you can't even compare names, not just process them automatically.

And the good thing with patronymic names - combination of three names and birth date uniquely identifies 99.7% of voters, so this really matters.
I bought an old PC with an Intel Atom 330 @ 1.6 GHz. I equipped it immediately with a SSD and 4 GB RAM but found out that the second bottleneck is really the CPU. It's most obvious when using Firefox. Opening a tab takes a second or two. Even scrolling and clicking a link is a bit exasperating.

What browser does the Raspberry Pi use?
Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group has a no tipping policy. I believe he's one of the most successful restauranteurs in the world.

"Year of Upheaval for Restaurants That Ended Tipping"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/dining/restaurants-no-tipp...

It's taking some restructuring of how the restaurants are being run, which is to be expected. USHG is also in a good position to try this, as they have relatively deep pockets, but this, as well as how many other societies don't have tipping at restaurants belies the idea that "it doesn't work".

As an aside, I'm surprised that the article makes no mention of USHG.
Which other services would you introduce tipping to?

Fast food?

Buying shoes?

Car wash?

Repairing plumbing?

Fixing a computer?

I don't see why eating in a restaurant should need extra incentives to the waiters, when we expect good service without tips elsewhere.
"In the beginning, all you want are results. In the end, all you want is control."
Sure, I'm just saying, it's clear you can make a business out of this sort of thing.

Whether it's profitable, that's another question, clearly.

Like I said, I can't imagine how it would work; but maybe there is some kind of like, 'you subscribe to a service, the service pays out 'tip equivalents', you don't have to tip' scheme that might make sense there somewhere.

Basically, it's not totally implausible there might actually be a business that solves the whole tipping thing somehow.
Ask HN: How to handle employment agreement for first employee?
Myself and my cofounder have made an agreement with another developer to come on as our first employee but we have $0 funding currently and have strictly sold him on ourselves and the idea. We brought him on right as we're a few weeks away from beginning to beta test our new app. The agreement we came up with is 4% equity with market salary once we get funding but incrementally. We had him sign an NDA and spoke to one attorney about drafting employment agreement and that's when I realized I don't have enough information to work with. We are hoping to avoid major legal fee's right now and get to work immediately on the actual code with this person while protecting our new company / project / IP etc. What are possible courses to take? What is the cheapest / safest?

Can we have a rather simple bare-bones employee agreement drafted that just states the fact that we're currently not paying him any salary but he's entitled to 4% equity over the vesting period and once funding comes in as discussed he'll begin getting paid immediately? Even better, could we hire him as an independent contractor for say $1/hour and have him sign an IP & compensation agreement that allows us to move forward working towards our beta asap?

Any information greatly appreciated! And yes we are going to speak with attorney buy they are expensive too...
The Gratuitous Injustice of American Tipping Culture (2014)
Although I haven't had to use it the go solution looks really good to me, just run gofix update your code.
I also don't understand tipping at food carts. Customers stand in a line to pay and get their food, and are also expected to tip (either via Square or through tip jars).

Edit: the expectation is generally implicit, and while standing in line, I can't help but notice that most customers hit the minimum tip percentage on Square, which is usually 15%
I have to change my CC settings every damn couple of days because they revert to the same white-on-white 400% bullshit. So thanks for that.
Any example like what you said?

I agree with you. So, I want to know examples out there that have a great explanation about something.
Agreed. Tipping culture gives more power to the customer and results in better service in my experience. Every time I come back to the US I experience a noticeable increase in attention and service. Also, when abroad, if they find out you are from the US many servers will put in extra work as they know there is a decent chance you will tip based on your home culture. I always tip even in countries where it isn't expected especially if I plan on frequenting the establishment regularly. Im happy to pay a bit more for more attentive service.
Sorry for the late reply - where I work we use an in-house platform that uses Kendo for rendering charts.

http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/bar-charts/column

What I do isn't anything particularly sophisticated, I usually do a multi-axis chart with a line & column chart, with one axis corresponding to usage, and the other axis corresponding to failure rate. Imagine a basic multi-axis chart in Excel, except rendered in a browser, and you're 90% of the way there.
It was pretty easy to track down: clang38 was exiting with

Assertion failed: (Distance > 0 && "The distance must be non-zero"),
function areStridedAccessesIndependent, file /wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/
llvm38/work/llvm-3.8.0.src/lib/Analysis/LoopAccessAnalysis.cpp, line 1004.

Looking at the file it was easy to see what was being asserted, and to see that the type was a 32-bit integer; since I knew I was dealing with huge FFTs, the problem was obvious.

Let this be a lesson: Asserting that impossible things don't happen makes debugging much easier when they do happen!
Make an M&M flavored Soylent a la Dairy Queen's Blizzard and we're in business.
So boom! there are at least three of these, thimble.io, hackerboxes, and Adabox. They are all basically the same idea, every month a new "kit" of parts etc comes in. You open the box, you use the parts to build something, and then in another month something else shows up.

The weak spot in all three seems to be the curriculum.

So in general I love that this takes the 'get the stuff' problem out of the way. Sure you can buy a book on transistor projects or computer projects, but then you have to source the parts and move from there. The same issue happens with the "starter kits".

Back in the 80's and 90's a number of people made "<some#>-in-1" electronic boxes. These usually had the components mounted on a substrate and usually came in two flavors, in the first flavor everything was mounted on the substrate and you just stuck wire between springs to make your circuits[1]. Then they added a breadboard and you could wire up the basic circuit on the breadboard with the knobs and such around it[2]. And then even some compute stuff built in[3].

So what generally makes these things engaging are either they are easy to start and get more interesting as you build on your knowledge, or they culminate into something useful. There was an RCA technician training course where you built all of the components of a color television and then assembled them into the final unit[4]. You got a color TV out of it and a lucrative career in television repair :-).

I'm not trying to be dismissive of this idea, I'm trying to say that these ideas work best when they have an editorial position, a path, start points and end points. Imagine a web design "box" type product where each month you got a box with some aspect of web site design. It would include exercises and text book type material, quizzes and working problems so that at the end of each month you had mastered some part of the web service stack. So perhaps your first month would be about putting up a web server, the second month about getting keys so that it can be secured with SSL, then the third month CSS that helps style the pages, and the fourth month maybe PHP or a JS module. Each month with a digestable bit that assumes you're going to spend perhaps one or two evenings a week on the material. At the end of the year you have a full web app deployed on a droplet or something. But every month you get something that works and something that builds on the overall thing.

Electronics can do that if you pick a specific area of interest, so sensors or computers or radio or audio.

An editorial spin like that could take the box idea and take it to a whole new level I think.

[1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/9141qwL5XvL...

[2] http://www.elenco.com/product/productdetails/project_labs=NT...

[3] http://www.elenco.com/product/productdetails/project_labs=NT...

[4] https://books.google.com/books?id=wi0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=P...
CVE-2016-10033 PHPMailer flaw leaves millions of websites vulnerable
I wonder if truckers will actually sign up for this, especially when it's 100% obvious that this will evolve into autonomous trucking shop.

Maybe the people who sign up will be similar to the type of people who sign up as Uber drivers--not your typical truck drivers..
And who are the biggest Muni bond holders?
It certainly seems like it should be more efficient for 100 people to eat dinner in a restaurant than for 40 people to cook 100 meals. (100 / average household size (~2.5) = ~40)

And yet it's considerably more expensive.

Because, it seems, a considerable amount of the cost of restaurant food goes to the overhead costs of the real-estate owners and the financial system. This is both directly and indirectly (the cost of the rent or financing of the restaurant space + the portion of employee wages that go to renting their homes + the cost of everything the employees purchase going towards rent etc.)

In other words it seems a disproportional amount of our economy goes towards people that own instead of people that do.

How do you solve that though? Increase rent-seeking taxes (interest, rentals, etc) and lower income taxes? (basically lowering significantly the benefits from buying things you don't use yourself)
This works perfectly well in Australia, where tipping is entirely optional and not necessarily expected - however can still be done, if you feel like it.

In the advent of tap based payments especially - which is now ubiquitous in Australia - and you just tap your phone / card / device to the terminal which already shows the bill, I'd say tipping happens mainly in higher end restaurants.

There's certainly no lack of restaurants in Melbourne - with plenty of people enjoying the vast array of options for eating out. I for one am happy to not have to worry about tipping on everyday meals, however on special occasions I will add say 5-10% if particularly pleased with the service.
You would need to explain that to me.
The articles mentions a raise of 15 to 30%. A waiter who makes 40% tips would probably accept a no-tip job at a 30% raise (Assuming the 40% tips weren't very stable).
It surely makes the management of ships more complex. When a country is small and trade volume is small, it's vastly simpler just to drop it off from the logistics chain when entering U.S. ports is important and volumes big.

This was surely the point of the embargo.
> Not necessarily, see HDCP.

Not necessarily, see HDCP strippers.
This is really emphasized in things like dmfea and other failure mode analysis documents or regulated industry. They want you to document the likelihood, your ability to recover from the failure, as well as the cost o the failure. You can say that you didn't want to pay for someone fixing some unlikely fail mode but that's small consultation to the people whose lives your product is ruining.
This is mildly off-topic. I just got a robot, motor shield and and Arduino for my 8 year old niece. In about 10 mins, we put the robot chassis together. The software was a different story. She had used code.org with its scratch-like blockly-based programming language. This made her think processing was too complicated and generally unappealing. Anyone else have ideas on how to deal with this?
Is stringing outdoor-rated fibre from tree to tree or ad-hoc utility poles viable, or are there issues doing that in crown land?
Darktable 2.2.0 released
At least some of the 30% would go to back-end staff. The article I linked to presents a case where the cooks etc had a raise because of this.
While trying to validate your 12k number (its more likely 65k and thats not long-haul, http://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10309) I found an interesting data sheet:

http://www.trucking.org/ata%20docs/what%20we%20do/image%20an...
No way.

We've already had a huge preview into how well artificial food replacement products are received by the general public, in the form of Soylent and similar meal replacement drinks and powders.

The answer is that these products have niche demand at best, even before considering the problems they've had with quality control, negative health reactions, etc.

My own experience is that a few years ago I spent a few months living on a Soylent-like concoction of nutritional supplements . It covered all my nutritional needs and had me feeling great in some ways (just like Soylent users report), but after a while led to dreadful problems with my digestive system and mental wellbeing.

After everything I've seen and experienced, I'm very long on conventional food.
The moon landing is faked?

You seriously believe that?
This reminds me of a book titled Grammatical Inference [1]. If you are interested in the blog post, you might also be interested in the book as well. It's a different kind of "learning" though.

[1] http://pagesperso.lina.univ-nantes.fr/~cdlh/book_webpage.htm...