skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the health care, but I imagine that you could have negotiated for better vacation time.
I know a fair few people who work one month on, one month off (pro rata, of course). Even in London or Hong Kong (not Tokyo) a competent developer can earn enough in 6 months to live on for 12.
> When A has a new release 4, you obviously want to build a diff against release 3, but then you also most likely need or want to build a diff against 2 and maybe even 1 to take care of people who haven't already upgraded to 3.

You wouldn't need a diff for every combination (1->2, 1->3, 1->4, 2->3, 2->4, 3->4 in the four version case), just the three diffs 1->2, 2->3 and 3->4. Then if someone has v2 you send out the diffs for 3 and 4 and have the client apply both in order to make the updated package ready to apply. The saving in space and number of diffs stored will grow as the number of versions grows.

This will be a little less efficient in terms of bandwidth use on average when people are skipping a couple of versions, but will make little or no difference if people are upgrading in a timely manner (so are only moving in single version steps most of the time) and will save space over storing diffs between all versions.

As well as the diffs I would store checksums for each version and have the client send the checksum for the version they have just-in-case, to avoid sending a diff (sending the file package instead) if the reference file seems corrupt.

Also if you store diffs for both directions you can serve old versions of packages (in case people need to roll-back due to some unexpected incompatibility, or they are developers needing to build a test environment with older library versions) without storing every version completely. This increases the diffs per package, but not nearly as much as storing one diff between every version (for 11 versions, 1 diff per change is 10, diffs in both directions is 20, diffs between all versions totals 45 (or 90 for both directions), for 21 versions those numbers are 20, 40, 190, 380).
Lessons of the Victorian data revolution
Latvia chiming in here:

Mid-june till september off for schools.
July and august off for college students.
One week prior to christmas and one week some time around easter off for both.
Four weeks paid yearly vacation for the 9-to-5ers.
Two weeks additional paid vacation for working students finishing their graduation works.
National holidays and sickness don't count towards your vacation time.
If a national holiday happens to be in weekend, friday or monday is usually free.

Honestly, the more I read about US working conditions, the more I feel like people there are deliberately misinforming everyone else in attempt to reduce immigration and competition on job market.
But our potatoes are female!
Absolutely.

But I don't agree that PSN is Cloud- it's online. That's the whole point.

Where the name from vs what it is, are two completely different. The internet per se isn't cloud, and the cloud isn't the internet. It's a marketing term.

Plus we have to be super careful about what parts of the stack we're talking about. To be properly "cloud" is err what? It depends what part of the stack we're talking about. You seem to be talking about IaaS whereas most of the revenue and adoption is SaaS....
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The State of California Versus the Internet
Are you talking about Nutella? Shockingly, that's actual Italian, and not local to Germany.
No surprises there for anyone who has ever played enough Scrabble to sit down and memorise the list of two-letter words. Aa? Qi? Ne? Ae, anyone?
I have been using a galaxy tab 10.1 for the last two weeks, and flash was one of the first apps I installed. As the founder of a hybrid html/flash site, I have been sorely missing the opportunity to demo my work on a tablet - but I was elated by the performance of flash on my tablet. What Jobs said is partially true - I use flash exclusively for video. Fortunatly, the user interface is html/js - so 'porting' to the tablet is a matter of adding a few event listeners that respond to 'press in addition to 'click.
Also please note that this is paid vacation we're talking about.

In Sweden, we have five weeks of vacation by law. And, the right to take four of those weeks consecutively.
28m long neurons?
Yes, that's exactly it, thank you.
You have lied with statistics! The top chart goes from 0% to 50%, and the bottom goes from 0% to 5%. Edward Tufte frowns, sir!
Source?
For Harvard, your numbers appear to be high by a factor of 1.5 to 2. http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k51861&page...
America doesn't do vacation because of a mistaken understanding of the meaning of the word "productivity".

As long as you have management consultants who specialize in the single metric of productivity (i.e. number of dollars of profit vs. number of dollars spent on people making the profit), you will have miserable people.
No, the former is wrong (and sounds very wrong to me) regardless of how frequently misused it is.

"None" == "Not one", and therefore singular.
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Taking control of my own schedule is in the top 5 list of reasons I quit being an employee 4 years ago (constant reorganization was number 1). Now I take all of August off, spend time volunteering in my daughters' classrooms during the day, get all of my errands done while the streets and shops are empty, and generally love life a lot more.

Anyone with dev skills can go independent or strike out with a group of like-minded souls to take control of their schedule. Sure there are downsides to working on your own, and it isn't all skittles and beer, but overall I find it well worth it.
Your personal financial situation is unlikely to be interesting to people other than you, and in particular it actively hurts your ability to get the best possible deals from clients.

I would strongly suggest you not let users direct your decisions. Most people are not freelancers. Most career advice I receive from people outside IT is shockingly bad. ("Glad to hear about the business being successful, Patrick. You know, you could go back, get your MA, and then get a nice secure government job! They'd love having someone with business experience! And you'd get a pension!") The intersection of "people who are in financial difficulty" (and would be interested in reading that blog) and "people who give good career advice" is vanishingly small, partly because many people who are experiencing financial difficulty got there as a predictable results of choices which they feel committed to justify.

With regards to freelancing: first, get out of the mindset that you are providing development/design. You are solving business problems for clients. Dev/design are two things in the toolbox that help you do that. Can you earn more than $7k or so solving problems that prevent businesses from making money? Yes. Absolutely yes. The people who you need to convince to buy your services to do this are not poor and, by and large, are not actively interested in the problems of poor people. "Hey hire me because I'm poor" will not be a successful tactic with them. "Hey hire me because I have a track record of producing useful things which made rich people like yourself even richer" is much closer to the mark.
Until someone builds an attack suite that re-resolves the names in the middle of the attack.
X264 wins yet another codec shootout, webm makes notable appearance
Writing has historically been very important for recognition, especially current writing.
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True, but it seems like a high price to pay simply to watch the latest television shows on your iPad / other iOS devices.
No problem. Just start with something that you find interesting or fun, learning how will be much much easier then.
How many Americans can only afford health coverage via their workplace plan?

How many Americans live in right-to-work states and can be dismissed without a reason?

Add that together and you have a lot of fear.
No, I really don't. I was merely pointing out the difference between smoking risks and normal risks. As a smoker maybe I have an equal chance of getting lung cancer as Alzheimer's, but personally I'm more worried about the latter.
Indeed. It's not only paid, but I get 112% of my normal salary during vacation because your living expenses increase when you're on holiday.
"I decided to copy the JavaScript and create a library"

Anyone else worried about using this now? Let alone owning it? (Until I see a license on the original.)
I've got a co-worker who negotiated extra time of when he started here (3 weeks instead of the normal 2). Normally, we get an extra week of vacation after 5 years of employment. Unfortunately, they screwed him out of it because he already had 3 weeks, which is the normal amount for someone with 5 years of tenure. :-(
It strongly depends on the company. Many companies use vacation time as a perk strictly for seniority, and are inflexible about changing it; or if you do get a break, you forego further increases until your seniority has "caught up".

It's pretty stupid, particularly since it's a fairly strong disincentive to relocate: precisely after you've moved away from friends and family, they give you less time to visit them. It was one of the biggest reasons I never moved to CA when I had the offer, H-1B, etc.
I didn't mean to imply that you had to have the culture baked on day 1. But by the time you've moved beyond cofounders and are making hires, you better be well on your way to having it defined. Or you're doomed to wallow in misfits and repairing poor hires instead of moving rapidly.

And I totally agree that the founders drive and define the culture. It's their responsibility to establish it, manage it, and change it, if need be.
He could be talking about the Lobster font which has been very popular in UI design for a while now.
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That is a good story, and I know as a manager I granted more than a few unpaid personal leaves of absence for top employees. Way better to have them come back refreshed and productive than to try to replace their domain knowledge with a new hire! It won't work for everyone though...but is a good litmus test of how much your employer values you.

It is also a solid testimony to the fact that for every HR policy there is an exception. If you are valued and make your case in the right way, you can get a lot! (think double-promotions, out of cycle raises, better gear, etc.) HR advises, Managers decide (if your manager doesn't know this, shop for a new one)
I started a new job last year with 10 days of vacation. It wasn't until December that I learned that five of those days were mandatory for the week between Christmas and New Year's. If you had no vacation days left, it was unpaid time off.
That may be true but here, in Europe (esp. Eastern), many people go years without taking more than few days of vacation. One, you're discouraged to take time off -- you can lose your job if you're not "devoted". Two, you have to work over capacity to support yourself and your family.
You can use British Limiteds in Germany as well. It's all part of EU goodness.
The transition away from Flash is slow indeed. It's legacy... But it's happening. Even my non-technical friends seem to hate flash, and I don't know anyone that'd use it for a new site.
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And near the end he refers to her as "my delicious girlfriend." I think it's intentional, and he just threw it in for the fun of it (he is described as "irreverent"). But that sort of thing is out-of-character for the A Smart Bear blog, which means people just find it odd.
Ask HN: Whatever happened to the no-politics rule?
In the old days, the lack of political articles was the best thing about HN, since political arguments tend to be low-quality and emotive. Political articles, when they showed up, would be rapidly flagged and deleted.

But now, it seems to me that the number of surviving politics articles seems to be rapidly increasing, and the number of [dead]-ed ones rapidly decreasing. Is it just my imagination?
Really? This is upvoted on HN and on the front page?

What are the apps? Let's see, all super simple, very marginal quality gag apps, presumably with lots of ads since that is the income.

And an e-book on how to do this? How to flood the Android market with apps that exist ten times over so you can make a few pennies off the ads?

Do we really need updates on this monthly? Yes, you can make a little money shoveling endless crap and putting ads on it. But I don't personally find it something to aspire to.

</rant>
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Parents keep child's gender secret
Do everything in your power to communicate clearly, including making sure your employees know that they are expected to ask ?'s if they aren't sure of something. The cost of an average employee isn't necessarily paid in the fact that they work more slowly than the superstar - it's that they aren't sure what to do and either do the wrong thing or spend time spinning their wheels trying to figure out what the right thing is. If you can circumvent that through excellent communication, you can effectively farm out your own intelligence (assuming you are, in fact, intelligent) and get by with less intelligent employees.
A huge amount because and raise changes every ROI calculation. You can look back in history and see that the wealthy move their assets to tax-free shelters as tax rates rise. Take two companies A and B, under two different tax rates 10% and 90% respectively. For an investor to earn the same return company B would have to be 9x as profitable as company A (made simplifying assumptions). That's why increasing tax rates hurts, it makes competitive investments next to impossible to find, so investors shelter their money instead slowing growth, job creation, and wealth creation.

The extents that I have gone to to limit my tax liabilities in the past are ridiculous. To think how much time and money I have wasted that could have been put towards productive aims. It's sad.
That's a direct result of the new policy to hide article scores.
Well, that's just sad. You do know that the rest of the world is having problems at finding a job at all, or at least getting paid on regular basis? Cry me a river.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Cygwin yet.
http://www.cygwin.com
Depends on how much that money is worth to you vs. how much that content is worth to you.
That's a dangerous strategy to rely on. The company may not ultimately be able to afford such payouts.
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Do you currently have any open positions? ;)
Apple's P/E Ratio Falls to Lowest Level Since Financial Crisis Despite 92% E.G.
Hey Patrick,
Thanks for your hints. These are really useful for me. The one thing I want to note is that I am going to compete using my skills, not using my financial situation because I agree it's not interesting for my potential clients. Other than that, I agree I should be a problem solver in eyes of my clients. I am going to work more on my objectives and tools using your thesis. Thanks!
You're right about the data being normalized, so it doesn't matter how many millionaires there are, and the top 1% is still the top 1%. However, that top 1% can be a richer 1%. Take this from the article:

In the late 1970s, the top 1 percent took home 9 percent of total national income. Now the top 1 percent’s take is more than 20 percent.

The chart you referenced shows tax revenues on the top 1% roughly doubled for the time period from 1979 to 2007, but over that approximate time period so did the total percent of the national income going to the top 1%! That would appear to explain much, if not all, of the increase right there. One wouldn't be able to take home double the income yet pay the same in taxes without serious loopholes.
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Why? :-)

I agree that some of them are just versions of the "time, relaxation, hiring and pacing yourself" that he described as the solution to regular burn-out.
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> So I dived into Programming Python with one question uppermost in my mind: what has this got that Perl does not?

Readability.
How the Barça grows its stars
Next gen iPhone may feature curved cover glass design
I stopped subscribing to AppSumo emails because of this 'irreverent' style. It's straight out of the Sleazy Email Marketing handbook.
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The latter is pretty nice - even in Germany, you only have a right to 2 consecutive weeks.
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In many European countries if you don't take all your holidays, the company must pay you for them. So companies do not financially benefit if you work more, all they get are employees that are tired and overworked. This is why they would be keen for you to take all your holidays.
The biggest problem isn't so much making 7k per month. That's really just an arbitrary number. Some service providers might blow that number away, others might not hit those numbers after several years. It all depends on your business chops.

The problem here is that you have a family to feed and you are looking to get out of a financial pit. I wouldn't suggest such a route (freelance web dev) without a nest of savings to rely on.

I don't think you would benefit from posting your numbers. What freelance web developers make is very personal. I have seen "internet marketers" post monthly earnings on their sites but that seems less personal to me and these people generally work for themselves (freelancers always have a boss... the client.)
a movie theater is a completely different environment than your living room

This is true - my living room doesn't have somebody eating out of a loudly crackling popcorn bag, people talking to each other a few seats away, a dude behind me who accidentally dunts the seat every now and then when he crosses and uncrosses his legs, a dim slightly out-of-focus picture with the top chopped off because the projector hasn't been set up properly, or a woman updating facebook on her smartphone in my eyeshot every few minutes+.

Truly magical.

+okay, admittedly that's a distillation of annoying Cinema crap.
I guess that depends on the country. Here in Austria it's the norm to take all 5 weeks of holidays you get each year. If you don't take all of them you can either roll them over to the next year or have your unused days "paid for" by the employeer.

In addition, unused holidays don't really expire. So if you or your employeer terminates the contract, you have the right to be paid for _all_ unused holidays that accumulated during the period of the contract. That's the reason why most employees force you to really take all of your 5 weeks each year.

Edit: Seems that I was wrong and that unused holidays expire after a few years. Still, each employer I've worked for so far "forced" its employees to really take their 5 weeks of vacation.
I agree with patio11. In 2009 I lost everything, and no amount of bitching or asking for help helped on my slide down. The thing that did help was writing a blog about what I thought would work. It worked so well that I now have several people working for me. My contact info is in my profile if you want to know more.
Thanks for tackling such big issues.
Waiting for an access to opalang.org and for EasyOpa, something like EasyPHP but with OPA :) and running on WINDOWS !

When you guys say "a single programing language" do you consider CSS ? Or isn't CSS a programing language ?
That can’t be true. Bavarian schools, for example, have a five-week summer vacation this year and additionally eight weeks of vacation spread over the whole year (one week in spring and autumn, two weeks for Easter, Pentecost and Christmas). There are also quite a few state and federal holidays but, as you can see, vacations are already clustered around those holidays. I think there are maybe two or three additional holidays outside of vacation times (May 1, German Unity Day, probably some weird religious holiday I’m forgetting).

That’s a shorter (but still quite long) summer vacation. Overall, however, vacation times are similar.

As for spring break, here is the situation at my German university: classes end at July 15 this year, exams end at August 20, the next semester starts at October 1. That’s one month and nearly two weeks when you can be absolutely sure that there is nothing to do for you (at least when you finish your papers in time and don’t have a thesis to write) and probably more depending on when your exams are.

We also get two weeks off for Christmas and there is obviously also a shorter break (about one week and up to one month depending on when your exams are) between winter semester and summer semester (but no other vacations, only federal and state holidays).

I don’t know much about US universities (Is there downtime for students between semesters?) but I do know that spring break certainly doesn’t compare. (One or two weeks? Seriously?)
It seems like I'll read anything whose title includes "micro-[non-technical thing]."
For what it's worth, CloudFlare (http://www.cloudflare.com) allows the use of CNAMES for the root domain.
You should have asked the new employeer for more time off aswell
That isn't a constructive comment at all, not to mention untrue: here in Uruguay we have a record low unemployment, for example (and zero unemployment in IT).

Whether you'd be willing to work for my wage is another problem, but I do have 20 days' worth of paid vacations.
I have a hard time understanding that argument. Cheeseburgers don't make my life worth living. Healthier food can be quite tasty. Exercise can be fun. Supplements are a very minor inconvenience taking up maybe a minute per day.

Even without the singularity argument, a healthy lifestyle can help avoid some really miserable life experiences. Heart disease, for example, can make it difficult to enjoy taking a nice walk.
I believe that a lot of the recent articles related to politics also happen to be related to issues which deeply irk the HN community (such as domain seizures, Protect IP act etc.), which is why they haven't been deaded.
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Welp, this kinda screws over a couple family members. I know someone living in Cary (not even 20 minutes drive from Research Triangle Park) that pays something like $60/mo for a measly 6mbps home connection.

For another business they were working with, they used to get DSL through a local computer shop (Intrex). Intrex stopped their DSL service. AT&T refused to service that location at the speeds Intrex would. And the local cable monopoly refuses to run lines to the business.

The only saving grace would have been a municipal ISP, but this just screwed that over.

Good luck being relevant to technology in ten years, North Carolina....
Our data indicate that most people use only about 6 different commands in a given session. Hence, the toolbox has a linear list of named commands that accommodates about this number of commands. This list also reflects the ordered steps one must take to accomplish a given task. However, you can still switch to the traditional grid view, if you wish. This grid view only contains the commands you need for your task, reducing screen real estate.

That said, we'd be interested in hearing people's ideas on how to further improve the workflow efficiency with the new design. Email the project's email address if you'd like to provide feedback.

Examples are provided for each tutorial -- each task set has an associated wiki page.

We can't do a plug-in at this time because the GIMP plug-in architecture doesn't allow us to deeply customize the toolbox like we have.