skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I have indivualized this. Before even writing the invoice I will have a long and sup-friendly chat over coffee with the accounting person or whoever takes care of thee billing in that shop. I let them explain in detail their process. I always learn something interesting about how the real world works. I listen. I listen to their woes, I sincerely try to understand them, their problems act everything. I establish rapport with that person. Finally I ask: "OK, now, how are we going to go about this?" At this point I normally have enough of an idea about their process to understand what kind of dates and other terms would make it work. I always highlight mutual respect.

2) First of all, normally I do not start to work before I received the money upfront. Well, the money for the current milestone of the project. This is the best way to make sure you don't waste time with people who don't want to pay.

Second, I am not only willing to give a discount, I always use this to sell the offer I want them to buy the most. But I never do an unreal number like "2%". What is that? Have you ever seen a 2% running in the wild? I don't know any bank or corporate office that work so fast that they give you the money on the sam day. Unless you are talking about "small" clients who work via pay-pal and the like?

3) I don't understand the question?
- Cookies bar, make it appear above the nav, logo etc - where it appears currently makes it too much a part of the design.

- Pleasant colour scheme, before I read anything, already feels calm and cool.

- 'Join our Beta' button is too light. either make it bold, or with a solid green background.

- 'Join our Beta' button just takes me to the form right under it. Essentially 2 CTAs that do the same thing. Appears like the button was put in there just because without a clear purpose.

- 'Sign Up' form - makes it sound like I'm signing up for a newsletter which further confuses the user - am I signing up for the beta, or for some newsletters?

- Either insert a line break after '...limited Beta release.' or prevent text from wrapping.

- 'Email address' - ideally specify 'Your Work email' if you intend to target this at companies. Gets you a more valuable email as from it you can determine not just exactly where they work, but who their coworkers are. Then you can retarget the entire department/company do raise awareness about how the product would help them all collaborate.

'A collaborative knowledgesharing tool for teams.' - first thought "so like any of the million internal wikis? what's different about yours?' I'm not even remotely sold. What's your USP? Why should I even consider you? Is there any unique features?

- Add a bit of text about how you're not going to spam me if I give you my email address. Ideally just replace the 'signup to join our waiting list' text - it offers no value.

- Too much vertical padding between sections. By time I scroll to bottom of a section, it looks like the page is over, nothing to catch my attention so I keep scrolling down.

- Missing H1 in last section (above likes, comments etc)

- While very nice looking, a bit too much whitespace in places - bordering on boring.

- 'Join our Beta' text at bottom - give it the same style as an H1, give me extra incentive rather than just a command.

- In grey area with form, padding on the bottom is much bigger than padding on top - make them the same.

- Overall I'd say it's 70% there, just give it a bit more substance, a splash of colour, and clean up all the varying padding and margins, right now it feels like it's designed more for Dribbble likes than for conversions.
Antagonistic by design
Zuckerberg was talking about all these programs to protect people at risk. I guess this is what he really meant. If you can find people at risk, then you can exploit them.
The Importance of a Corporate Culture Built Around Security
While what you present is a possible extreme end result it is highly unlikely, and the level of attention would have to be far above just being 'interested' in the work of the journalist. The US government does not care about the work of 99.9999% of the journalists out there and if you are in the group that they care about you know it and are probably going to be using a less user-friendly but more secure process. Contra claims by the tinfoil crowd, Google is not in the habit of giving up info without fighting against the request so this option provides very strong protection for almost all of the potential audience for this.
one solution for the "...the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite " - part:

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

"MBA Oath (short version)"

"As a manager, my purpose is to serve the greater good by bringing people and resources together to create value that no single individual can create alone. Therefore I will seek a course that enhances the value my enterprise can create for society over the long term. I recognize my decisions can have far-reaching consequences that affect the well-being of individuals inside and outside my enterprise, today and in the future. As I reconcile the interests of different constituencies, I will face choices that are not easy for me and others.

Therefore I promise:

-I will act with utmost integrity and pursue my work in an ethical manner.

-I will safeguard the interests of my shareholders, co-workers, customers and the society in which we operate.

-I will manage my enterprise in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.

-I will understand and uphold, both in letter and in spirit, the laws and contracts governing my own conduct and that of my enterprise.

-I will take responsibility for my actions, and I will represent the performance and risks of my enterprise accurately and honestly.

-I will develop both myself and other managers under my supervision so that the profession continues to grow and contribute to the well-being of society.

-I will strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide.

-I will be accountable to my peers and they will be accountable to me for living by this oath.

-This oath I make freely, and upon my honor."

more:

- http://mbaoath.org/

- https://hbr.org/2009/06/why-we-created-the-mba-oath

- FT:"Is the MBA oath still relevant?" 2015 https://www.ft.com/content/e853f5a2-fe41-11e4-8efb-00144feab...

- debate: "Why MBAs should not sign the Harvard Business School oath"? http://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-management/why-mbas-s...

or alterative suggestions from the "debate":

"I pledge to maximise the wealth of the people who pay my salary, i.e. the shareholders, unless the shareholders tell me in advance that they want me to do something else. I will do my best to learn how to do this by taking the relevant courses"
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That may be how the idea came up, but it also may not be. No matter how the idea came up they still don't sound like any kind of place I would ever want to work and are still vulnerable to said lawsuits.
He meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gravity
How can you even say that when you are replying to a comment talking about totalitarian regimes like nazi germany? This is one of those horrible "im more cartoonishly pessimistic ergo realistic than you" internet ideas.
1) Have you run into any issues with bigger companies with it being due on receipt? - While it's ideal, most companies would have their own fortnightly or monthly payment cycles no?

2) Is the cashflow that much of a factor, or do you up your original invoice by 10% just to cover that possibility without taking a hit?

3) So if they pay you say within 2 weeks, would you not want to do repeat business?
> 2.9 years

There isn't some weird RSU mis-incentive possible here, is there?
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> > Most universities get by with a dozen clustered on campus serving administrative, educational and research objectives
>
> ... A dozen what?

Looks like GP meant "a dozen data-centers", to compare the costs.
1), 2) - so if they offered to pay same day, how much would you be willing to knock off? 5%, 10%, more?

3) Were invoice related things the primary time drain that took you away from dev work, or was it a combination of everything - marketing yourself, interacting with clients etc ... ?
It would mean that any document sent by a client or a peer would need pre-approval which would make you very, very improductive. In NK, you can get away with it because you have basically no competition. In our countries, the company doing so, unless everybody is doing the same (or only if secrecy/security is part of the value of it's business) would make it completly uncompetitive.
As a laymen, it seems to me that quantum theory is similar to the expanding universe theory in that scientists substitute complexity (cause of expansion, quantum states) with a token (dark matter/energy, indeterminacy) until you better understand the underlying systems.

Can anyone tell me why I am incorrect?
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This is terribly unfortunate. By the way, could someone comment on why major distributions didn't use grsecurity code in their main kernel packages (or at least provide hardened-) ones? Maintenance cost or something else?
COPE (corporate-owned personally-enabled)
For any distance that takes less than 30 minutes, I almost always walk. For longer distances I ride a bike. Typically I'm walking to go exercise, and I find it to be the perfect warmup for that. I also find that it really helps my muscles recover the next day after a workout as well.
How do people working at FB feel about spending their time building a huge advertising engine, compared to working at, say, Tesla? Genuinely curious!
Where do you draw the line of where a horizontally scalable system begins? Scaling reads might only involve a caching server, but most of us probably wouldn't consider an app server with a cache to be distributed.
Google is not in the habit but NSA is, as Snowden told us.
The woman with a strange 'second sight'
1) Were there any clashes with their own payment cycles? - e.g you send out the invoice on first of month, expecting immediate payment, but their own cycle pays out all outstanding invoices at the end of the month?

3) With the yearly payments, is there any clause e.g. you get upto 50 hours of work, after that it's hourly rate' or the like to prevent abuse?
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Welcome the overlords.
That's all I've to say.
that's still a naming issue, we eat plenty of what'd you call deep dish pizza, but mostly we call them 'quiche' or 'torte salate'

http://ricette.donnamoderna.com/torta-salata-in-rosso

http://lericettedisimona.blogspot.it/2013/09/torta-salata-ma...

now recipes usually call for a base which is different from pizza's, but that's mostly convenience because you can get good one out of common stores.
Dept of Commerce is concerned with ANY non-accredited institution having a .edu. They've simply not leaned super hard on 'grandfathered' domains (there's a ton about specific instances on the wiki entry for .edu).

If a professor or somebody bought in May 1999 when it was registered initially (10-May-1999 Create Date), then it existed prior to the restriction. But in 2006, 2 years before Academia the company existed, those rules were put into place prohibiting transfer to non-accredited institutions. So, they're in one of two situations that I can see:

1) The domain was transferred, against the ToS for the TLD, and is invalidly registered, or,

2) The professor still owns it, and the WHOIS information is invalid (it lists the Company as the registrant), which is a violation of ICANN rules for WHOIS information accuracy.

Either way, I don't see how they can be legally using it.
There was a lot of pressure from the operations level to expand bombing into China, which tactically made a lot of sense; NK and Chinese MiGs retreated across the Yalu River each night and there were plenty of worthwhile targets such as supply dumps and routes.

However the JCS denied all such requests and remarkably there were only two or three violations during the entire war, such as the August 1950 strafing-attack on Antung airfield. The USA offered compensation afterwards despite that being the home of over 100 MiG-15s engaged in the war.
The story is the same the world over. No matter what business it is - be VERY careful starting a business around something that you are passionate about, love as a hobby, or that people tell you you are good at.

There is a BIG difference between doing something part time because you love doing it, and doing it all day every day (including weekends) because you HAVE to. The excitement of 'being your own boss' is quickly ripped away when you realise that you have a thousand bosses - EVERY SINGLE customer of yours is essentially your boss for a short time.

Not that it isn't rewarding, but as others have pointed out in here, you have to go into it with the right expectations. I highly recommend that anyone looking to start a business reads Michael Gerber's "The E-Myth Revisited". It will outline a different way of looking at your business at the outset.

Back to the coffee shop though - unfortunately, a lot of lay people still see the romantic notions around owning a coffee shop, and they all assume that business owners are raking cash in and are out to rip off the poor workers. Here in Australia there was a big backlash recently when conditions around weekend overtime rates were changed, affecting a lot of people in the hospitality industry. Coffee shop, cafe and restaurant owners were castigated by the media and the public for not deigning to pay staff time and a half or double time on weekends etc.

Nothing against paying workers fairly, but I know many friends who run such establishments. For many of them, opening on a Sunday or a Public Holiday is mandated by the mall or premises they are in (written into their lease), and for most of them, weekend trade actually COSTS them money, rather than makes them anything. Unless of course they reduce staff and work weekends themselves, but staff calling in sick or not turning up for shifts mid week usually means they work 7 days a week.

Nearly every cafe in my town closes at around 2 or 3 pm, after the lunch rush because demand is so low after that that it is economic suicide to try and keep the doors open and pay wages etc. for a handful of customers. Bad luck that I tend to try and arrange meetings and do work outside my home office in the late afternoon...
And movies. And books.

In fact, there are only a few things you can't and shouldn't talk about at work.
Arch Linux has provided the kernel with grsecurity patches inn the main repos for a long time.
The r/place Atlas
Losing public grsec is really bad for the community.

But I see too may posts talking about "the truth" and hard political stances.

Grsec has done a fantastic job since the beginning. Some of it has been ported to mainline. Hopefully this will speed up the port to mainline.

But why? I remember some discussions where Linus did not want to accept the whole patch as-is, without breaking it into smaller standalone pieces. I remember that some protection might have caused userspace changes.
Sure, if it breaks with grsec, then there was a big problem at the beginning, but you can't just ignore everyone else either.
Were there are some problems with the GCC plugins and licensing? Was it something about not being able to advance to newer GCC because it is GPL3, and somehow the plugins would have needed to propagate the license to the resulting kernel binary? Can anyone elaborate?

Can anyone point out to some more unbiased tracking of what happened here? Some LKML link?
> You're off on a tangent anyway.

No, I am commenting directly to the subject matter. You want the subject matter to be only about net neutrality, but it isn't. I addressed this.
The grass is redder on the other side?
> But… till now they’ve hardly accomplished anything compared to what PaX/Grsecurity did, e.g. they ported some mitigations while introducing more (exploitable?) bugs or incomplete implementations

That doesn't seem particularly charitable. Regardless of what you think of the Linux Foundation's marketing arm, the KSPP is not a bad thing. They seem to have a very different priority to PaX/Grsecurity, with an emphasis on things that have a clear technical/political/etc path to being enabled by default.

I really enjoyed this talk about KSPP's agenda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkCKeZ8xZw
It sounds like you are referring to public properties.
LookUp class in C# – have you ever tried it?
This is making me wonder if it might be a viable/useful construction technique on Earth, depending on how hard it is to make the Martian soil simulant.
Completely agree about detesting the management style. It's not even actually health focused, it's just showing off like you're at a frat house.

190cm isn't that tall, really. (I'm short). Do you normally have trouble with the standard 30-inch (76-ish cm) desk?
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The major distros gave up using significant amounts of non upstream code a decade or so ago, as it was extremely difficult to support. The only people who ship the grsec kernels ship them pretty much unmodified.
1) I try to have slightly weird terms so that I don't slot neatly into any standard way of ignoring invoices.

2) Yes, in principle, though (a) it complicated taxes and (b) none have ever taken me up on the offer. You could go to a factor to do it for you though.

3) Unless it's a huge difference, no.

When I started at RBS in 2008, having escaped Lehman Brothers just in time, I was glad that I had been switched to weekly invoicing (without being asked) since RBS' share price halved live while I watched in the first week and I wasn't sure that RBS would be alive to pay me in week 2!
Doesn't need to be a startup, just a normal company that doesn't have internal business speak that make it sound like a certain cult.
Maybe this person is thinking in Haskell ;)
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If you find the subject interesting I suggest reading "The white road" by Edmund De Waal. It gives a more human, broad and intimate insight into the history of porcelain both in China, Europe and... the USA.
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I think the issue is not that most westernised cuisines are different from the original, but that they end up tasting all the same. Here in Germany most people only care about the mandatory piece of meat/fish in each meal, so it's hard to find delicious side dishes that may exist in the "original" cuisine.
If this view is correct then you need regulation as some areas of the market are zero sum (or worse negative sum) and self-interested gain in these areas necessarily means losses to others; and for unmeasured externalities this can lead to very very large public losses, pollution is one such example.

In my opinion the vast majority of people prefer to "grow the pie" and win-win situations; but again equality of outcomes also figures in individual / social perception.
I used to go to Work every day by walking around 2 Km, without doubt it helps a lot to arrive work clear minded and in good mood. I think is even better when you walk in group and you talk to the others.
Oh god. Ix-nay on the macs-eay discussion/holy war.
Hi There Please Review my first opensource application. Tell me what I can add, remove and or change and If it would be useful to you.

Am planning to add more features which include

* Browse previous minutes on a web page : would be useful for managers, CEOs and those who missed out on minutes

* LDAP support for Enterprise for above feature

* Export your data to one note, evernote, PDF and word

* Create VSTO Outlook Add-in that automatically loads recepients and Agenda from Emails
Oikos Cafe in Erdington, Birmingham is similar.

Run down shopping centre in a working class area of the outer ring of the city. Quite a large space. Sandwiches at lunchtime and cakes all day. Coffee is standard expresso on the steam machine. They use the space for community activities in the evenings. Well patronised on the two times I've been in.
Work ethic can make a huge difference though. To one degree or another we all slowly figure out what to do with our lives. Doing it with a drive that's been drilled into you can be a blessing, and a lot of the lessons apply well throughout life; cleanliness, routine sleep schedules, being respectful.

I think there are a lot of potential issues with service, but if you're feeling lost in life, at least you can pick up some habits that should help long term.
Debian being ported to RISC-V
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I really really desperately wish it wasn't companies like Facebook and Google who're doing this kind of research, this is absolutely insane.
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LyX[1] can be a better intro to LaTeX. It was posted on HN before. But really, it's the most powerful WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX, and it still provides access to the .tex source of the document. You can use the interface and learn the language at the same time.

Besides, custom shortcuts make LyX much faster than writing TeX directly with autocomplete.

[1] https://www.lyx.org/
This is one of Jack Dorsey’s early sketches of what became a $7B business
> throwing away typographic knowledge accumulated over centuries

looking at that sample article, I would say yes, that's what they're saying:

https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/152971-positive-bi...
> a representative for Facebook Australia issued a formal and lengthy apology, saying in part, "We have opened an investigation to understand the process failure and improve our oversight. We will undertake disciplinary and other processes as appropriate."

What did they mean by that, oversight by whom?
Very mixed reviews on Yelp and Google.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/voyageur-du-temps-los-altos
Baseball Tonight is basically dead. ESPN announced the other day that (along with laying off a lot of their baseball coverage staff) it'll now air only once a week, as an intro show for the Sunday night game.
My biggest installation was an accounting system for a multi-national corporation. 30 Oracle instances running on a 256 core Sun cluster, 192 GB RAM, 40 TB EMC SAN. Typical enterprise system overkill.One of the big 6 consulting firms designed it and deployed PeopleSoft on the completed system. I was just the lowly engineer who configured the hardware, the SAN and the Oracle instances. As for Rolls Royce cars, the performance was "adequate".
What analytics tools does BR uses to make editorial decisions? just curious.
Amateur/hobbyist programmer here. Is there a good bottom up explanation of computing that you know of? i.e. something that starts at the hardware level (how a CPU works) and then moves up through the abstractions layers until you get to a top level language like JS running inside a browser?

I've been looking for something like this for a while, mainly to help explain computers to lay people that are interested in the details.
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A progressive VAT
Isn't that the point of the desks with treadmills?
Another major change not mentioned in the article is the revisions to Japan's labor law that now makes it a requirement to hire any "fixed-term" (=yearly contract) worker who has been at the same company for five consecutive years on a permanent basis from year 6, or else terminate employment by the end of year 5. This will go into effect for people who have been working at the same place for years at the end of this fiscal year (March 2018). There are still some differences, such as lack of a retirement bonus and there may be some lingering status issues ("tenured" staff traditionally rank higher).
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