skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to (a), if you do want to start your side business in the same industry as your employer, you must clear it with them -- in writing -- first. Yes, there are many many situations where they will laugh and say "no", but you never know.

For example, I work at Twilio. Let's say I hypothetically have some ideas of things to build on top of Twilio that I could turn into a side business. Maybe these things are features that Twilio might want to build into the platform, or maybe not. If I wanted to start a side biz doing these things, it'd be in my best interests to clear it with Twilio first. They might say "that's out of the scope of anything we'd ever build into our product, so go ahead". Or not.

You don't want to find out several years later, when you're becoming successful, that your old employer has decided to stake a claim on what you're doing.
Well, you can build a physical model of a coin, and all forces acting on it during toss/fall, and show that in an ideal scenario (perfect coin/perfect landing surface), there would be roughly half of the initial conditions leading to heads, and roughly half leading to tails.
Setting up MySQL to redshift replication pipeline using Kafka. Debezium provides a stream interface from binlogs to Kafka. Cool stuff.

Need to build a monitor or component to handle missing on delete cascade records.
Judge Judy was a New York judge from 1982–1996, starting as a criminal court judge and then promoted to supervising family court judge in Manhattan, until her retirement (followed by tv show).
Isn't she? Things I learn :-/
> Maybe someone can help me understand the distinction between these two.

Let's say you decide Google is bad and you want to stop using it. What do you do?

1. Instead of typing "google.com" into your browser, you type in "duckduckgo.com", "bing.com", or any of a bazillion other sites.

There you go, done.

Now let's say you decide you don't like Comcast and want to switch to a different ISP, what do you do?

1. Nothing. Comcast is probably the only ISP in your area. Sorry. No new ISP for you!

Or (Advanced users only):

1. Convince another ISP to open in your area. This may involve investing hundreds of millions of dollars in running physical cable and stuff like that.

2. Wait several years for the relevant infrastructure to be installed.

3. Switch to that one other ISP.

4. Discover that it isn't noticeably better because it turns out a duopoly isn't much more effective at encouraging efficiency than a monopoly is.

5. A year or two later, Comcast buys out the other ISP.

Markets are only efficient (read: "work") when barriers to entry for producers and switching costs for consumers are low. Both of those are very very true for web sites. They are very very not true for ISPs.
From CEO to Student
Is there a rational reason to distrust telcos more than Google? Verizon did supercookies once. Google evolved from a simple "show an ad for delivering a search result" to tracking you all over the Internet, embedding tracking in other websites, tracking you through the dominant browser and mobile platform, etc. One company in this story has the history of pushing the boundaries on pervasive invasion of privacy, and it's not Verizon.
I've had dog twice. The first time, very sweet but tasty. The second time it was nearly as nice.
I get your points on what issues they have. Yet, you were talking about how Red Hat is so huge in terms of labor and money. I was only bringing up Mozilla in the sense that they're a FOSS company making a ton of money with a bunch of employees that goes far in Red Hat's direction. I've got plenty of ideas for how I'd do it way better as a business. We're talking whether they make big money, though.
Well, the evidence that Google has gathered to suggest that Levandowski did copy the documents and then tried to cover his tracks is pretty persuasive, so it might be safe to assume that part of it is true.

However, whether or not he used those documents in an inappropriate manner in Otto or Uber is still up for debate.
This lecture series is definitely aimed at the "startup = growth" type of startup, so much more relevant to companies that want to get huge.
It's the same application, but with 2 different interfaces. Of course, a UI toolkit that can do "write once, interact in any way" would be helpful for the implementation.
For an example of a sufficiently annoyed judge using all the sanctions available, see what Judge Otis Wright did to Prenda Law: https://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/ (especially https://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing...).
Drupal and Wikipedia aren't even for-profit companies.
The same article said they were approaching break-even before the mobile push. So maybe, maybe not. It's clear they could do it if they wanted to. It seems to have mostly lost money that Shuttleworth put into it out of his pocket, though.

That's too bad because I like what they've done in terms of usability of Linux outside Unity. I switched to Mint at that point until the distro got subverted way too easily. Then back to Ubuntu with shitty Unity. I can't wait for the new one without it that was just announced since the mobile thing didn't pan out.
Way more municipal governments gave Google better regulatory treatment than incumbents than did the opposite. Even the Louisville lawsuits are over municipal ordinances that gave Google what it wanted for fiber deployment. Moreover, two large cities (LA and Baltimore) have publicly bad mouthed their incumbents and tried to get Google to build there without success.

And of course, your theory would imply Google has less pull with municipal governments in Silicon Valley than an incumbent based on the opposite coast. It's an utterly ridiculous theory akin to complaining that WalMart can't get a fair shake in Benton, Arkansas.
The worst thing about hackathons is having to politely interact with the 'advisors' organizers always think will be good to have. These are people from various places who want to be part of the hackathon but aren't participants or judges. Imagine finally getting into coding in earnest, finally deep into it, and up wanders a non-coder who has been told to go around to all the teams and give advice. It's almost always a horrible distraction, but you're aware your interactions with them may be linked to the odds of winning, so you have to politely interact. Of course, the advisor realizes at some point you aren't really interested in the interaction, and they feel awkward as well. My advice to organizers: don't use these people unless the hackathon topic is deeply complex domain knowledge, and in that case make them available for participants to go to, but don't make them go around.
Exactly. I agree with you, you should always lawyer up and never say anything your lawyer does not advise.
Is it in the app store?
I think also in this case it's a matter of Uber telling its employees, "hey, if you have any of this stuff on your personal laptops, you'd better give it to us" (with the perhaps-implicit "or we might fire you" on the end of it). Two of the employees are playing ball, but Levandowski has clammed up (and Uber, to the judge's amusement, is allowing him to do that without repercussions).
Yeah, that's good for a lot of people too. Github/Gitlab is great for software projects. I have rsync for my music collection, etc.
Oddly, the author recommends signing commits, yet uses only fast-forward merges. Little do they know that signed commits necessarily can not be resolved as fast-forwards in a merge situation, since that would require changing the signatures!

Rebasing is the answer, but that will of course re-sign every commit with your key. In a shared repository, I prefer creating "useless" merge commits to changing other peoples signatures.
"One of the only" ... sneaky!
It's part of the standard employment contract, as a nuclear option that's only invoked in cases like this.

Basically, if the employee refuses and the company fires the employee, the company can shield itself from liability by cutting ties with the employee and telling the court that they had no idea what the employee was up to and didn't condone it at all.
I actually did something like this long ago (pre-2000) - emailed a set of detailed and very confidential sales spreadsheets to my personal email. It wasn't "theft" (and AFAIK nobody even noticed). It was so I could convert the spreadsheets to a proper Access database on my own time, since that's not what I was paid to do but it made my job a lot easier.

I would probably have been in a world of shit if anything came of it, though.
Hi there, I own a manufacturing company in Arizona, and we make (eseentially) brackets, and I would like to make brackets for your retrofit kits. I actually wrote a business plan out 3 years ago based on the likely idea that someone would build a self drive system but would need a partner to figure out how to make the bracketry to bolt the parts on.

The way I see it, the 1 billion vehicle fleet on the road now could be upgraded with a standard suite of sensors and actuators, but they would need unique vehicle specific brackets to bolt the parts on. We can help with that part! Most of our vehicles we cover are current model year, back to about 2000, and we work with the steering and suspension on late model vehicles everyday.

When will your product be available to test? My personal vehicle is a 09 Tahoe Hybrid, with electric steering and up to 28 mph electric only, purchased specifically to hack.

greg@traxda.com if you want to discuss

we make lift kits for pickup trucks, as well as LED lightbar brackets and air horn brackets, but it is really just making hundreds/thousands of parts to bolt into existing holes and make the truck do something a little different. We are in the SEMA Tech Transfer program, so we can get OEM CAD files, and we make everything in our robotically powered, vertically integrated operation in Tucson :)
PBS is just another mechanism by which rich, productive, urban counties are forced to finance poor, unproductive, rural counties[1]. The numbers on this are quite shocking and we can finally see it now that CPB has broken it out clearly[2]. $129m of the federal monies ends up being on average 25% of the rural station budgets. When this money goes away it's unlikely that private businesses and individuals will step in to make up the shortfall at these rural stations.

So, like the military, the disaster that is the transportation bill[4], Obamacare, the farm bill, housing investment, meals on wheels -- well pretty much everything the federal government actually gets around to doing[3] -- this is just a way to stock up the empty middle of the country that can't support itself. Frankly, it would be great if the Republicans were crazy enough to cut it but I'm not holding my breath. The unfortunate reality though is that the Republicans won't cut much of anything because it's their districts that are, far and away, the biggest beneficiaries of federal spending.

[1] http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14951868/tr...

[2] http://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/rural

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/in-trump-c...

[4] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/8/a-utah-republic...
The User Experience of a Heartbreak is an interesting thing to ponder: http://ux3.us/

Article about it: https://www.fastcompany.com/3036536/this-is-the-user-experie...
Only it does. Part of making informed decision is being informed. You assume what you say by default is best course of action and there is no need to discuss it any further. If it were, there would be no need to ask for the mobilization. Somewhere in the comment section someone says they only recently realized these problems by being exposed to it through HN.
As an aside, it's striking how poorly someone can come off when their conversational speech is quoted verbatim. A lot of cutting and some paraphrasing goes on when publishing interviews to avoid this. Doesn't appear to be an issue in this discussion, but if a clearly intelligent judge can come off as somewhat dithering on reading a transcript, it's a good reminder to give others the benefit of the doubt when they're quoted verbatim.*

*I'm experiencing a bit of Baader Meinhof here. Just today I learned of something called the conversational Trump Trench. Basically the idea is that these days almost any conversation will end up sliding into being about Trump, or being perceived to be about Trump. So I feel the need to say I didn't have him in mind when I started writing this, and I don't personally support Trump. But even when reading Trump quotes, probably still worth keeping this in mind.
Maybe programming's just not their thing?
Just getting further into C and this is fascinating. But I still have to share this: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/editor-wars.html
The context here is civil cases (I think the GP means "respondent" rather than "defendant"?)
Sounds like Firefox with Electolysis finished, all chrome extensions working on all platforms and Chrome devtools ported over.

ie. Firefox becoming more like Chrome
Generally when I search "vscode [thing I want to find out about]", I get fairly good results. If you're typing out the whole "visual studio" part in your queries, maybe try abbreviating it?
I can emphasise with his response, I don't know if I'd respond in that way myself.
Yeah, AFAIU the local authority is delegated by state governments. Voters could fix this if they got organized and cared about it enough, but it's pretty hard to get voters organized about anything these days, and of all the political issues out there, "gigabit fiber" tends to rank below "save democracy", "get cops to stop killing black people", "preserve women's healthcare", "stop global warming", "don't go to war", and the other things people are protesting these days.

Google Fiber was Larry realizing that Google was vulnerable to competition from its infrastructure providers and trying to get ahead of it before those companies realized too. I worked on it when it launched in 2012. It was very much a defensive play then as now: the idea was that if Google won, they would get revenue and a defensive moat, while even if they lost, they would improve broadband speeds, spur competition, and build a defensive moat. They just didn't figure on a bureaucratic quagmire. I suspect that Larry still recognizes the threat, but thinks that Loon, Fi, and WebPass are more promising approaches to head it off.
This is maybe a better explanation:

https://jmanton.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/comments-on-james-s...

It's still math heavy, but there is some explanation. It's hard to explain without the math, since the math if fairly integral to it, that's why it's such an amazing discovery. My understanding is that it's saying that the variables are independent, but the measurement is not. So in the case of the athletes, it's not that home runs predicts touchdowns or goals, but that by using a Stein Estimation we would get a more accurate measure of all three in aggregate. The example used in the article is less interesting, but probably better for understanding:

For example, if i=1,...3 represents the financial cost of claims a multi-national insurance company will incur in the next year in three different countries, the company may be less concerned with estimating the values of the individual means accurately and more concerned with getting an accurate overall estimate.
Tomorrow’s fight will NOT be that.

All of our wars since Vietnam (after, but arguably during) have benefitted from largely uncontested airspace. That's been the case for over 40 years, and through many conflicts.

Why should we expect otherwise? The only conflict the U.S. might be engaged where that wouldn't be the case is an an all-out war with Russia or China, either on their territory or, like in Korea, an awkward proxy war where we're unable or unwilling to control airspace. (Hopefully we don't ever repeat the mistake of Vietnam, where we refused to control either the ground or airspace in North Vietnam for flimsy political reasons.)

It seems pretty dumb to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on such a theoretical conflict, especially given that so far the nuclear powers have managed to avoid such direct conflict.

In every last one of our conflicts with substantial American ground troops in the past half century, we've always controlled the airspace in short order. If it's ever the case where we won't be able to control the airspace, we'd have bigger problems than bike shedding this sort of technology. Any difference between the F-35 and the cheaper alternative (Super Hornet, A-10, etc) would be negligible.

I just don't understand wasting the money. I understand the principle is to plan for the next war, not the previous war. But after a half dozen previous wars with identical circumstances, and several similar on the horizon, at some point not taking _reality_ into account seems grossly short-sighted.

Yes, MANPADS may be getting better, but there are more effective and cheaper solutions to maintaining effective control of the airspace (excepting the above exception) than the F-35 or similar platforms.
Location: Berkeley/Oakland (East Bay), San Francisco Bay Area. CA, US

Remote: Yes, would consider on-site local as well

Technologies: Front end. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL/MySQL, LAMP, Ember, Node.js, PHP, full-stack, jQuery, API

Resume/CV: berkeleyinteractive.com

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Hi, I'm looking for a front-end developer role, contractor or part-time OK. I have worked on some brands both large and small.

Looking for local or remote projects. I want to find something long-term and ongoing, ideally.

I enjoy teaching, and am a former instructor at Santa Monica College, where I taught a course in JavaScript.I left UC Berkeley several years back to do a startup and am now finishing my thesis, which consumes about 5-10 hours of my week.

I am a good person to have around if you need someone who can balance theory and pragmatism.
Consider, however, the style commonly used on chats such as IRC

This sort of writing generally leaves off periods on the ends of sentences

sometimes, it even leaves off the capitalization at the beginning, as well

and yet it manages to be entirely readable and generally unambiguous

This is remarkably similar to js's automatic semicolon insertion:

if the sentence makes more sense with a period at the end of the line

then the reader usually inserts one automatically, without thinking about it
Do you mean before or after? Before, it was "do your best", which was never enough, not with everyone partying in the same branch. After, it was a matter of breaking things up into different feeder branches down to individual teams. Code that goes "up" into more mainline branches is required to have a higher QC bar in order to get in, such as a full clean build of the entire set of sources (which for something like windows, office, or visual studio / .net could take a very long time) and running the entire set of build verification tests with zero failures (also a long process). Code would go up during an integration window, there would inevitably be some instability that would need cleaned up (test failures, maybe code breaks sometimes) which would get stabilized, then code would flow back "down" to individual teams from those good builds. And code would flow up further into other branches that would be shared and used by more teams around the division/company.

Most dev groups these days use different systems because they tend not to have such monolithic projects, they can leverage automation better, and it's rare to have literally thousands of devs all working on the same software. When you can only get a few builds out per day, or maybe only one, then you have to become a lot more careful at keeping a separation between devs coding away at their desktops and the builds that everyone else depends on.
I've got the min-2012 i7 Air -- love the machine, and it still runs fast and great. The battery is pretty terrible though. I'm probably due for a new one. When I took it to my local Apple reseller, they told me that they didn't think the battery needed replacing -- but they are wrong, and I should just pay them to do it anyway :-p
I disagree. Red Hat's brand is pretty powerful in the corporate linux world. If anything, Fedora should be renamed to RHEL Unstable or something.
I get about 10 PBS channels using a $30 antenna...
love(prolog).
He wanted to bring purity to the US justice system.
Usually there are two main options - an evil cable TV company and an equally evil telephone company. In distant third are evil cellular data providers, clueless WISPs, and struggling CLECs.

Oligopoly may be a natural state for last-mile high-speed Internet service. I believe Sweden has avoided this in high population density areas with ISP access to city provided FTTH. In low population density areas it seems really difficult to avoid a monopoly or oligopoly situation.

However, I think other factors are to blame for the privacy issues: Primarily, public ownership of corporate stock, which has caused a focus shift from the value of the provided product or service to maximizing short-term returns. This was the driving force between the telecom providers claiming to be enhanced services (so they can do nasty things), when they had formerly aggressively claimed to be common carriers (because they didn't want to be liable for the content of customer traffic). The state PUCs have also been asleep at the wheel while the telcos used sleight-of-hand to recategorize tariffed services as non-tariffed.

Another factor may simply be the state of computer networking as a mass-market, consumer product and the ensuing race to the bottom.
> People lived in their village, never left it, and believed there were monsters beyond the horizon.

I think that's true of most people in most of human history and would describe a lot of people even today. Even traders would typically only operate in a small section of a trade network, they weren't travelling the globe like Marco Polo. Some would move from small towns to cities, but cities were a population sink until pretty recently. The most well traveled people were probably mostly soldiers.
As I've pointed out before, all the enthusiasm about micropayments is from people who want to collect micropayments. There's no demand from people who want to send micropayments.

There's a trend towards charging for timeliness. The movie industry would like an online model where streaming movies cost most shortly after release, then decline in price. This fits the "bargain bin at the video rental store" model.

This works for Bloomberg, but they think minutes where the movie industry thinks months. "Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg terminal". That's the whole pitch of their financial news-gathering operation. Pay $25K a year and get the info a few minutes sooner. It's worth it for traders.
My local configuration doesn't need to be ready to create merge commits because those happen on GitHub/GitLab/etc. When I rebase, it's my own pull request on top of a more recent master - the signer remains me.
Your previous comment read like you now were okay with semi-colons, but I realized now that it's you like no semi-colons. But, in my opinion, the reason you'd be okay with looking at it if you didn't have to is if you wanted to!

JS will add the semicolons. If you're using Babel and the rest you most likely are not going to run into all the weird things to do with semi-colons as long as you follow K&R C style for control statements.

But if you want it to, go ahead. What matters, in the end, is consistency to make it look pretty. The more it looks like a single very smart person wrote it the better.
i don't see anything wrong with this. if it's shitty adtech then they're basically offering a base competitor to a market dominated by two players: facebook, google.

apple does it all the time. shit, walgreens does it when you buy the waldrug instead of whatever else.