skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How high-value is the client, how high-maintenance are they relative to other clients (apart from late payment), how attached to your service are they, and how late do they pay (days, weeks, months)?

Before you do anything, consider whether the client represents a sufficiently large fraction of your business that you can't afford to touch them. If they do, then focus on getting more clients first.

You might also have a conversation with them about the reasons for the payment delay. Perhaps they have some "enterprise" weirdness to deal with that you could simplify if you ask.

The suggestions below assume you've had that conversation, and they don't have any reason for the late payment that you could help them solve more easily.

If they're high-value and otherwise low-maintenance, they're not paying ridiculously late, and especially if they don't seem extremely attached to your service, then consider whether you care enough to change anything.

If they're low-value and high-maintenance, such that you wouldn't mind getting rid of them anyway, use this as a justified reason to get rid of them if they don't start paying on time.

If they're high-value but high-maintenance and paying sufficiently late that it causes you non-trivial problems, you might have a conversation with them first, and then consider instituting a small fee for late payment, based on the number of days late. Provide appropriate notice in one month's invoice, and then start invoicing for the fee. If you want to take an even lighter touch, forgive the fee for one further month, listing it on the invoice along with a "first-time late fee waiver". They'll do one of 3-4 things: start paying the fee, start paying on time, complain at you (in which case you can talk to them about it at that time), or abandon the service. Don't go down this road unless you can live with whichever of those they do.

If they're low-value but low-maintenance, the same suggestion above about instituting a late fee applies, but it'll hurt less if they leave.
It seems remarkable that they couldn't justify the training time for a type writer, but that learning a penmanship style was reasonable.
I use it, but feel like XMPP is dated and complicated. All the extensions and whatnot are awkward to get setup and you can't make assumptions about how well they're implemented or built on the server you're on or communicating with. I intend to move to matrix/riot when it gets more stable. Things like video are second class citizens on XMPP too and the desktop apps are painful in my experience.
Wow, I own even less stuff than this guy. When I started being a digital nomad, I was able to fit all of my worldly possessions in half a suitcase and one laptop bag...
They're pretty critical of XMPP but aren't there direct counter examples to it, like Conversations https://conversations.im for one.
Lockheed Martin Challenges Entrepreneurs to Pitch 1000 Feet Above Austin at SXSW
Possibly these people don't want help and retraining from the Clinton campaign.

What they want is tariffs to rise and immigration to be restricted to the point their labor is worth something again.

Will this happen? And if it does will they be able to step in and fill the jobs? I'm not confident but I think that's what is desired. Not government programs.
How to manage your Python projects with Pipenv
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The still make them
"perhaps" intended to mean, among the top*

But that's still debatable depending on what level of scale you're talking.

Deploying fiber throughout the entire United States, to every single household, would be near or exceed $1 Trillion. We have semiconductors in likely 99.99% of households now; at what cost? (I don't know, but I'd assume it's probably close.)
Abandon the concept of a career and contract? That helps with ageism too.

I'm not sure the concept of a career track exists outside management.
I preferred PCTools, back then.
I'm going to second hxta98596's recommendation and recommend a Kum Masterpiece sharpener. Two blades lets you get just the right point shape and the ability replace the blades over time helps maintain consistent sharpening performance.
Couldn't the phone somehow "pretend" to have a phone number?
You'd be better off reading LYSE and writing something to actually work
with network (and trying to deploy it). From what I saw in the curriculum,
it's just using Erlang as a toy calculator and masturbating over syntax
trivia and tail recursion vs. direct recursion, like the two were supposed to
be opposites.
Yes I can see that, I was just pointing out a standard Windows shortcut that was worth knowing (for those with an interest in using virtual desktops).
I definitely wouldn't suggest it for video, but I've never had an interest in video conferencing in general. Extensions are pretty straight forward in my experience - either your server supports them or it doesn't, but most of the time they only impact client-to-server in this case rather than server-to-server.
Not true. You do not need PI addresses. You can announce IPs owned by one ISP to another one. Many ISPs will allow you to do this.
Solving 5th Grade Math Homework with F# and OCR
That is correct - in the US, typically the term "state" is used to refer to the 50 states, rather than the abstract term which is meant to refer to any governing body.
tl;dr; please?
Open Source Software at Dropbox
Attack on Saudi Frigate Off Yemen Was Made by Drone Boat
I think it needs the phone number for verification. The phone number is the identity in Signal (and a lot of other apps these days).
The person who allowed them to put it on every Office product should be as well.
> The comment I replied to originally included a question on whether Signals server is even open source.

Sorry about that, I had looked it up just a second after I posted and then removed that line.

> hate on Signal/OWS

I don't mean to hate on them, just their stance on getting away from Google, using F-Droid, federating their service and many other things has been more than a bit of a mess or disappointment. I'm glad they finally made a step in the right direction and I hope this will continue.
>GCSB is allowed to spy on all its citizens now.

Here's a story of a bungled spy operation on a pro-democracy activist who is a citizen of NZ that was targeted and betrayed by his own country.(1) It is really a disgusting use of taxpayer dollars and invasion of privacy. Nothing good comes out of that. It makes you wonder how many cases out there that there are which never make it to the media. Or what happens which can never be proven.

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/14/nsa-gcsb-prism-surveilla...
Thoughts on Kubernetes
Here's how the dmd D compiler does it:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/backend/divcoef...
Likely an algorithm/tool that can automatically lay out the traces on a PCB for electronics production.
EDA=electronics design automation
We learned a similar style in my high school drafting courses. Before we got to use the CAD software on the computers, we had to do two years of drafting by hand, including learning to write in this style.

Junior and Senior year we did the CAD stuff.
This a content-free article, with no technical details on how the proposed goal could be accomplished.
One of the best sweets ever. In Punjab, we majorly use buffalo milk, and my grandma used to feed one of the buffalos special diet of "varhevein" (mustard seed pith cake after de-oiling), then the milk underwent process of "kaarhni", essentially slow boiling over an afternoon which gives it a very unique taste akin to smokey BBQ. We used fresh carrots for the halwa, and make it on open pit in a cast iron pan. No recipe or method has come closer to that. Insanely rich sweet.
It could also be a neat trick around the Intel Pentium's FDIV bug, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
>>responsibilities above their rank

Yep do a task once, superiors start presenting you as the expert. I always hated that.
"The blog post it was posted on?"

Unless what you mean is that you don't want any comments on that blog post, this is actually a criticism of content.

"How posting it here would make people feel?"

Also content.
I've recently been attempting to gradually liberate my data from reliance on Google's services, not just for being more privacy conscious but by a means of exploring new services offered by other companies/developers and to decentralise my data. I've started this process by installing Lineage OS on my OPX device and selected the bare-minimum of Google Services - Google Play Store/Services.

From what I've done so far I imagine it's quite difficult to remove dependency on Google Play Services and I've been wondering, which alternatives exist and what's the rationale behind completely removing dependence on Google Play Services? With Lineage OS I've been able to restrict most permissions besides storage so is there any need to remove it?
I tried this at Google Tensorflow Summit and it was fun!
> By the way, what's Rust's story to avoid referencing dead items in these tables?

One option is Option<T>.
Or you could just use an IRC channel...
In Praise of Procedures [pdf]
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This will happen naturally as small scale self e-gocernance takes on more and more responsibility. As the responsibilities of the state dry up, city, state, and federal government figures naturally become more figureheads. It will be a race to who has the best parades and funnest hats.
>I don't see the appeal of Nim. We have the choice of C++14, Rust and Go for well supported robust languages with different focuses. C++14 has the best execution performance, Rust is the most safe and it seems likely go tries to be the simplest. What does Nim do better than any of these?

Well, C++ is bloated and with tons of tricky parts, Rust has lots of ceremony and head-scratching to fit your programs into its "lifetimes" model, and Go is lacking expressive power and has several bad decisions baked in (possible forever).
Got to admit everytime I see people seriously say something like "current child-rearing practices" I laugh out loud.

I mean, is there a book somewhere that was given to everybody but me? A really popular movie on Netflix that I missed? Man, where was I when "current child-rearing practices" were spelled out.

But seriously there's no such thing. It's a fantasy that exists only in the speaker's head and is projected into the world. It has no basis in reality.

Which is really why people ought to cite sources because nobody cares about your paranoid fantasies.
> I'm saying that this kinda of witch hunt on internet is not helping and just makes us feelgood.

And you boldly offered no alternative.

If keeping sane societal ethics doesn't work to solve this particular problem, at least it may help to avoid making it the dominant, predatory business model. Which Uber got to champion because too few frowned upon their past behaviour, by the way.
Welcome to HN! You sound bitter.
That was fascinating!

If only everyone would write in monotype.
Thanks! I'm a pretty big fan of stationary and writing as a hobby so I try to keep up with what's good.

You're right, calling the price of the Blackwing 602 ludicrous was a bit of a stretch. But considering you can get 144 count of Dixon Ticonderoga for the same price as 12 Blackwings it's pretty difficult for a lot of people to justify.

I did not know about the Eberhard Blackwings. I'll have to look further into that to see if I can get one as a collection piece!
I mean, duh, but most shops aren't dry to begin with. Odds are that your last brake or oil change was done well past any legal limits. Especially if it is a franchised place. Independent and local auto-shops are your best bet for quality service. The franchise places may have 'rules' but they are overlooked usually as the franchise owner has pressure from above. Generally, they get the bottom of the barrel employees that have washed out of the independent shops for being piss-ants.

This goes triple for YourMechanic and anything else that smells like Uber-but-for-auto-repair. Those techs are flat-backing on a neighborhood sidewalk in whatever rain or heat there is, likely in huge violation of local ordinances and HOAs, with whatever tools they got in their truck. It's a shit job with big risks that only real addicts and drunks are going to take when they have no other options. Turns out, auto-repair is hard and can't be done without a lift or a pit.
You say this so confidently, I almost believe it.
>The problem I have with Nim is that it misses the simplicity of Go and the extra safety at high performance of Rust. At least I, personally don't see the need for a middle-of-the-road language.

I'd very much like a more expressive and better designed than Go language, without the ceremony and straight-jacket of Rust.

That could be D or Nim or some schemes, for example, but I also want a community and tooling.
I gave semi high dose lutein (45mg per day) a try as I noticed my eyes weakening (early problems with long-distance vision, night vision). Helped substantially, took maybe two months to have a noticeable effect though.
Sorry I wasn't being clear -- the RGB camera response to each patch of a swatch should give (up to) 3 different constraints under normal lighting, plus another 3 by cycling through LED colors, so in theory you only need ceil((k+3) / 6) colors to estimate a k-variable camera response curve (the other 3 estimate your LED wavelengths).
Does Matrix really have the userbase in place to start calling it an IRC successor so definitively?

It may be aiming for it, and I do hope we see an open chat protocol succeed over all the Slacks and HipChats, but calling it the successor right now seems a little disingenuous!
> What they want is tariffs to rise and immigration to be restricted to the point their labor is worth something again.

No, what they want is time to rewind to where it was when they were doing well. They've been sold the lie that immigration restrictions and tariffs will achieve (or at least approximate) that.

> Will this happen?

No. In fact, rising tariffs will (indirectly) make their labor worth less.
This is why all calico cats are female. Fur color comes from the X chromosome. The different color areas are descendant from different initial somatic cells.
How exactly have you gotten this impression?

They are completely killing the old extensions APIs and replacing them with a much more limited system. The browser is nowhere near as extensible with Web Extensions.
Didn't mean to be arrogant. Sorry for that. Had no idea it was a responsiveness issue, was reading from desktop. I'm not usually so short in my responses. Again, sorry about that.
This is how section tags were supposed to work with headers, but nobody ever implemented it.
Signal is not mainstream. And you can't verify that Whatsapp/Allo have implemented the whisper protocol the way they claim to. We are being asked to "just trust them".
>I had a friend who had a lot of his thesis research backed up to Megaupload. He ended up losing all of it.

First, trusting a site that existed primarily to facilitate illegal content exchange to hold your critical data seems really naive. Second, if he lost his data because Megaupload went down, that's not a backup. That's the only copy. This isn't just naive anymore.
You don't have to be a CLEC to access right of way, including ducts and poles. It's enough to be a BIAS (Broadband Interner Access Provider), which you already are.
I'm not sure I follow your line of thought given the post is talking integer division and FDIV is floating point division.
One reason for incompetent leaders I've heard is the leader's leader chose him specifically for his incompetence. The leader shields himself with less competent direct reports so that it's unlikely that one of them would be able to take over his job.
Thoughts on the Late 2016 MacBook Pro
All you're making are editorial decisions at this point, talking about what should and should not be in the article.

As pointed out by many others, right now this is definitely a case of he said/she said. An alternate reading is that he didn't want to get into the details, as it would derail the story to make people read all the unsubstantiated verbiage.

The statements "a lengthy post on her personal blog" and "said. she was sexually harassed" are both true and accurate.
I'd say steel and aluminum come out about even in terms of their value for bicycles at the lower budget end

Steel:
- Pro: More repairable (bend it right back!)
- Pro: More comfortable ride
- Con: Heavier
- Con: prone to rust if the finish gets marred

Aluminum:
- Pro: No corrosion, even when the paint is gone.
- Pro: Lighter
- Con: Not repairable
- Con: less comfortable

All this to say, I agree with you, but there are more considerations than weight and ride comfort. My beater bike (ride around and lock up in the city, through salt and snow and any random crap) is aluminum and cheap. My commute bike is steel and more expensive, but takes a bit more care.
Warming ponds could accelerate climate change
That would be a very strange design choice, to have the warhead self-destruct in that way. I don't know how much is really around in the open literature on ex-Soviet / Russian nuclear torpedoes, but certainly there's nothing around to suggest that US nuclear weapons do that, for a variety of good reasons, and I don't think there's any reason to suspect that the Russians designed theirs much differently. Off the top of my head: first, most nuclear weapons don't have a self-destruct or recall capability once launched, because that's a vulnerability during actual use; two, if it were launched unarmed, then the expected result would be a failure of the actual detonation system, leaving an intact weapon somewhere at the bottom of the ocean; third, a fizzle of a nuclear weapon underwater would probably cause a substantial amount of contamination from the fissile materials; it would basically be a (very) "dirty bomb", and difficult to hide. We'd see significant long-lived fissile contamination in the water either already or very shortly.

The much more likely explanation is that a reactor, either onboard a ship or submarine or on shore, had some sort of (probably minor, in the sense of "not catastrophic") mishap and vented steam from a primary cooling loop. You would expect to see short-lived byproducts including Iodine-131 in this case. There have been a number of similar accidents over time, and a release of steam wouldn't necessarily have any other signs and it might be tempting to cover up if it occurred at sea.

Relevant FAS/LANL background on iodine releases from nuclear reactors:
https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00416674.pdf
Pursuant to the topic, though, leadership pays more and therefore is populated by sexist men hiring each other. Emergent properties.
Irancell Invests in the Parent Company Behind Snapp and ZoodFood
Do you believe it would be wrong for Gawker or Pando to publish the 4 most awful true facts about Travis Kalanick? E.g., leaked emails he wrote to a fraternity (as was done to Evan Spiegel)? Or perhaps reports by a third party that he was a great big jerk?

These are things that notable journalistic establishments do on a regular basis. I'm asking the same question that Emil Michael asked: why is it wrong to do the same thing to journalists?
HR serves to protect the company, you have to think in HR's shoes.

HR, done ethically and applied consistently, protects both the company and the employees. It makes clear what is acceptable, and what isn't. And it makes clear what is expected of each employee in general.
Explore/Create – New Book by Richard Garriott (aka Lord British)
To save everyone else the trouble, it means "meal with items selected by the chef". e.g. Screw User Feedback.

I say this as someone who hasn't used Basecamp, so I don't really have an opinion there.
If you want to date women, earning a lot of money is not the right approach, nor will it actually solve your problem. In fact, trying to attract women by a display of wealth is one of the worst things you can do for yourself. Your problems with dating women come down to two things: (1) lack of confidence and (2) lack of understanding of what women want and how they feel.

It's a very deep and complicated topic so I can't explain to you everything you'll need to know in a forum post, but I can point you in the right direction. The resource that's been most helpful for me in the past year has been http://www.relationshiptalkforum.com

I recommend this website to every single guy I know, whether they're single or married.
> Can you build a good news product on $1/month?

Sure, find something 5000 people with a dollar go crazy for and then pay one person full time to investigate that stuff.
I didn't downvote you, but I think it's pretty obvious:

> Or nuke everything, whichever comes first. Heh.

is the why. Casual amusement at nuclear holocaust/extinction doesn't tend to get a lot of upvotes on HN.

Plus, it didn't make any sense: 1) a nuclear war wouldn't involve nuking everything under any plausible scenario; 2) you could direct every nuclear missile on earth at just the US (including the US arsenal) and still not manage to kill all the people in the US with either the initial blasts or the fallout, which is another way of saying that not only can we not nuke everything, but we couldn't even eradicate ourselves with nuclear war if we wanted to for some reason (much less wipe out the planet, much less wipe out all of humanity, that's all beyond far-fetched).
My friend at work is a former Navy Nuke and this came up the other day. He said that he felt a little misled coming out of the service since only a small fraction of his credits were eligible to transfer to a NucE degree program, due to it not being "calculus based". (He is a EE now.) It sounds like one could get into a NucE Tech position fairly readily though.
Anthropologists have studied hunter gatherer tribes for a long time and it is not as simple as those with the most confidence becomes leaders. For example, among the San people tribe leadership is shared by the elders. And anyone can become an elder by surviving til old age. In day to day tasks, such as during hunting, who leads the hunt is determined on a rotating schedule so that all men get to lead it from time to time.

Designated leaders probably didn't become the norm until about 4000 bc when early civilizations arose.

Another interesting tidbit noted by many anthropologists is that boasting is strictly forbidden. E.g if a tribesman catches a big prey, he must be humble and can not brag about how good of a hunter he is. It is different from the Western World, in which bragging is expected and necessary for leaders (case in point: Trump).
Cost benefits though. $15 a month to save a few days coding is a bargain.

It really depends on what your turnover is, where you make the most money, and what your time is worth (objectively, rather than ideally).
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> I'd also guess that passing through a node might cause some slowdowns that kinda stack up.

Not really. Fiber has bandwidth to spare. It might add some latency tho, if there are a lot of hops.

> There still is a major privacy issue with peeps that are nodes.

Encryption is a thing.

> And maintenance is going to be a bitch.

Yes.
I'm aware of a the cursive version having a font, but I've never been able to find a print version (though I haven't applied much effort to the task).

http://www.yuoiea.com/uoiea/index.php?id=255
Nice article! I was doing C++ for device drivers in the early 90s and my advice back then was more or less the same. Open source toolchains didn't really exist back then, at least on the PC, so some stuff was harder to achieve.
Many people, myself included, have felt a special connection to Firefox and Mozilla. I evangelized Firefox to family and friends. I built add-ons and participated in the larger Mozilla ecosystem for many years. It was/is a big part of my life and I feel betrayed by the direction Mozilla is headed. It's a strong emotional impact and I don't think it's an over-reaction, all things considered.