skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sum types are conceptually cleaner but it's unclear to me how they would help with analysis for this case. I don't know about formally, but informally, it's easy to determine by inspecting the code that a function returns either a value or an error, even it's written as a tuple. It's also easy to determine whether the call sites are handling errors correctly.
Okay, so there are issues with academia. How do those get solved?

The obvious answer is "more funding", but there's also cultural shifts, wherein academia is excorcised for not doing "Real World Work".

Is part of the solution to drive upward from K to PhD, focusing on critical thinking and humanities, educating more than training?

I don't know.
What the dark grey (it isn't really super dark) text actually achieves here is to allow your attention to be drawn to the pictures of book covers.

This, of course, makes the site prettier, because book covers are colorful.

Personally though, I'd rather just have a list of [book name - author(s)]
I meant to comment. Though of the three strategies mentioned here (obscurity, invitation-only, and skill tested) I definitely prefer the first two.
I don't really understand how people keep calling Apple a hardware company. Yes, they make their own hardware (in some cases) but on the record, repeatedly, everyone at Apple says, all the time, that they treat themselves as a software company.
Interesting -- I'd read about this once before but forgotten all about it. Good catch!
10 day payment terms is not compatible with my experience of freelancing for small & medium sized businesses. With corporate or government clients that amount is just not even realistic at all. 30 days is fairly standard. 45 or even 90 days is not unrealistic for larger contracts.

I also think that 10% per week late fee - though I certainly understand and sympathize with a freelancers grief - it gives me a somewhat unprofessional impression of a freelancer who is either not financially stable or just vindictive. When I hire somebody I like to feel that they will be around next month. A more friendly approach with long-term benefit is to just stop working with clients who don't pay on time.

To make your life more stable as a freelancer I can say from experience that you want to obtain repeat clients as soon as possible - clients who want you to work on either retainer, or at least agree to some minimum amount of hours per month. Over time get rid of clients that don't pay on time or are problematic in other ways. Once you get past that point freelancing can be a really enjoyable and profitable to earn a living. Until you get there, though, you can tend to spend a decent amount of time haggling and arguing about money with your clients.
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As the comment above infers - this is getting into mythical man month territory, where adding extra people may even slow the entire project down.
Apple seems to have incredible discipline around scope, and they have delivered a series of amazing products. It's something we can all learn from.
Whether you need a non technical founder is the wrong question to ask. Ask yourself what your business needs to succeed:

- Is it a developer or designer?

- A marketing genius?

Most businesses need some soft skills. This is where I see the non technical person coming in.

When it comes down to finding that tech person all you need to be able to do is show value. How do you demonstrate value?

* Understanding the market and problem

* Executing on previous ventures

* Connections

* Anything else that makes you stand out

Learning to code shows commitment but in general it isn't the only thing.
Thirds is a good one for short projects involving a handover and signoff; 1/3rd to start, 1/3rd on handover and 1/3rd on signoff.
The Messages app still isn't something I'd consider beta quality.

Messages show up and seemingly random times on all devices. Sometimes, they don't both to show up on a device (typically the Mac). Sending still works fine, until over the weekend, when I became unable to initiate iMessage conversations on my Mac. I'm told that the other person is "offline", while I'm having a conversation with them on my iPhone.

It's really bad. I hope there have been some fixes, but since I'm running "Gold Master", maybe not.
That's right, but it would increase your cost of litigation substantially, since you'll have a much longer court case trying to prove that.

It's not something that you really want to rely on.

edit: Just an addendum - most of the deadbeat weasel clients know that verbal contracts don't carry a lot of weight, so the threat of being able to sue is really the important part. (Ideally you refuse the deadbeats upfront, but it's hard to tell sometimes)
I feel like building a welcoming community is far more important for attracting women than just having a flowing interface and scrapbooking functions.

Your user interface doesn't matter if the early adopters create a community that tolerates things like "Tits for GTFO!" "Get back in the kitchen" or "stfu and make me sandwich." And unfortunately, early adopters tend to be men.

Edit: Not to say that it's impossible to create a community focused on women - I just wanted to point out what I see as the major barriers.
You're more or less wrong.

1) You do not need cooperation of those services if you sit on the network in between the end-user and the service. We know that the NSA does.

2) Securing cooperation does not require a warrant. Information can be requested by the FBI using a National Security Letter, without a warrant, simultaneously collecting information while gagging the service provider from informing the customer their information was collected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

3) Any person's communications can be wiretapped by court order from the FISA court, separate from our normal court system. The FISA court judges see only evidence from the Department of Justice, and no information about their hearings is ever released or even recorded. Between 1979 and 2009, the FISA court has only declined to issue a court order for surveillance 11 times out of thousands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillan...
As others have pointed out Craigslist can claim copyright to the collection. The legal theory I would expect them to use is that PadMapper wouldn't know about these listings if they didn't access Craigslist's collection, therefore their use of the collection violated Craigslist's copyright.

I did a quick Blekko for the case with the Yellow Pages that was litigated this way (but alas did not find it) where a AT&T sued the maker of a competitive Yellow Pages over using the collection of businesses in their book. The defendant argument was similar to yours, that they could have walked down the street and collected the information so the information wasn't copyrightable, but the judge ruled in favor of AT&T because it was clear the defendant could have done that but they didn't do that. There was some errors and omissions that mirrored the Yellow pages and 'proved' the defendant took their data from the Yellow Pages rather than collect it themselves.

For PadMapper to escape liability they have to be able to prove they came to know about these listings in some other way than through Craigslist's collection of them. They argued in their blog that 3Taps did that for them because they got them from 3Taps they aren't liable for what ever 3Taps is doing. And my take on it is that given the case law it will be a very hard thing to prove. If Eric Goldman is reading he could probably whip out a definitive argument here.

If it goes to trial I'll definitely follow the case to see how it plays out.
Firstly, you do realise that I'm not the author, I just submitted it, don't you?

Secondly, there are some curious things about pi. It does turn up in places that apparently have nothing to do with circles. It's a bit like e in that regard.

Next, we don't have to assume it's "magical," but some of the properties are noteworthy. The fact that 355/113 is such a good approximation, and yet it doesn't appear to turn up naturally in any of the proven convergences is a bit odd. Why does it not turn up? The only place it does turn up is when you write down the ad hoc continued fraction to express the value you already know. That seems unnatural, and immediately leads to a desire for further investigation.

And finally, mathematicians have a feel for things that are "natural," and that's what they end up exploring. Often it leads nowhere interesting, but sometimes it leads to unexpected connections, and occasionally to equally unexpected applications. But in all, some questions just feel right for exploration, and some properties of pi fall into that category. You never really know exactly what will advance math - we only have intuition to guide us in deciding what is an "interesting question."
Do you have an alternative source? The WSJ article is behind a paywall. :\
And the links again

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm

http://imgur.com/vMoOU
you can't have "top 3 000 000 paid apps".
Crafting APIs
Porn is definitely promoted on the Interent... but I don't think it is accurate to say that The Interent promotes porn. Or that the Internet was designed to enable porn.

So... reasonable people observed that Google profits off piracy... and that leads to the conclusion that "open devices are designed to enable piracy"?

>Your last sentence is a non sequitur.

Side note: Interesting that non sequitur has two different uses that make you either wrong or right depending on which you were using.

If you are thinking of it as a literary device because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what preceded it, then I would say you are wrong. It is an example of how the formula THIS has a lot of THAT, therefore THIS promotes THAT is not an accurate formula. I believe it to be a relevant example, therefore not a non sequitur (literary device)

If you are thinking of it in terms of logic because its conclusion does not follow from its premises, then I would say you are right... because that was the whole point of giving those examples. The premise of THIS has a lot of THAT is not sufficient to make the conclusion that THIS promotes THAT. It almost never is. So... yes, a non sequitur (logic).
iMessage has never worked with any reliability for me. I'm sure the client side is fine, but their backend is likely totally busted.
> The idea they couldn't afford or have the capacity to hire the talent they want is ridiculous.

Actually, it isn't. Hiring people is hard, and hiring bad people is expensive. It isn't even really a problem you can pay your way out of either, judging who will do well within an organization is incredibly difficult.

All that aside, I would be surprised if Apple didn't have internal budgets for their various projects. The latest version of OS X probably gets a budget on par with that group's market value, so it only has the hiring capacity of its tiny slice of the richest company in the world.
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Well they didn't become the richest company in the world by being bloated, slow, bureaucratic and inefficient. It's arguably what nearly killed them in the first place.
I work for a food startup (Nutrivise) and we do something similar'ish. Our dish database is baked in and deployed as a fixture. We should consider distributing it to the frontend web servers instead though.

There are some other fun hacks, like local redis instances for caching search space stuff.
"There is no reason for any new language to lack X" is false for all X. Languages differ in their goals, and there's no feature that all languages have to have. Even basic features like assignment can be questioned.
Which makes sense if you believe the people trying to grapple with this particular threat have the same set of goals and opinions. I do think the vast majority of people involved in crafting security legislation do so in an honest effort to fight terrorism.
Mostly the survey that got posted to HN a month or two back about Apple being the #1 reviewed place by employees, which is, admittedly, not the same as most desired place to work.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Apple-RVW14...
I didn't know either and I went to yahoo and it had an ad on top of the logo. I couldn't believe it.
Says people who probably work in the software areas.

The fact is Apple is a PRODUCT company. Meaning they do the software, hardware and most importantly everything in between the two.
Is there meant to be a link?
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Assemblages of fact are protected by copyright tpateck has commented in the previous threads on Padmapper about this. This is why a Farmers Almanac is under copyright and I cannot wholesale copy a phonebook or Encyclopedia Britannica without infringing their rights.

Regarding Righthaven, the original media company never gave Righthaven control of the copyright of their data, just the right to sue. This is why it was struck down.

As for Righthaven's lack of standing to sue over Review-Journal content, Hunt wrote the recently unsealed lawsuit contract between Righthaven and Stephens Media -- called the Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) -- clearly leaves Stephens Media in control of the copyrights and gives Righthaven only the right to sue.

In order to file lawsuits, copyright plaintiffs have to have actual control of the copyrights, not just the right to sue, Hunt found.

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/jun/14/judge-rules-rightha...
The article you link talks about the collaboration in response to the "January 2010 cyberattack on Google that targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists", not the massive surveillance the NSA allegedly performs without judicial oversight. I'm not surprised Google and the NSA collaborated in the former, but would be highly surprised if Google collaborated in the latter.
Does it do something? Anything? Then the time to launch is now - then run like hell to keep up.

Added: I just tried to sign up and it told me my passwords didn't match, and I know they did. Probably should fix that.

But don't add more features. If it has some features, and it doesn't crash, and it lets people use it ...

Launch.
Sure, you can't just throw money at a problem and expect it to resolve quickly. At the same time, Apple chooses which problems it wants to solve, because it has the capacity to plan for the support and engineering time required.

It isn't like these support issues are a surprise to them, they just have different priorities than fixing them.
Qualcomm axes Mirasol screens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...
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a network comprised of lots and lots of number stations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

very bandwidth heavy though.
There's something strange with the math in general, and going from 29 years out to 30 specifically. I entered:

Income: 100k, rent 1250, other expenses 1250.

In year 29, the expenses on the owning side are $1,017k. Go to year 30, and they drop to $405k.

Also, I can't figure out where Net is calculated from. It seems like it should be Income + Home Equity - Expenses - Tax - Home Payments, but that doesn't add up.

This plus the fact that you assume non-home investments do no better than inflation makes this pretty questionable to me.
Any right that the government grants to a person impinges upon another right held by someone else. If you grant someone the right to live in a rent-controlled apartment you're forcibly removing the right of the property owner to rent out his/her apartment at any terms.

It's not like any of these rights are free, they come at steep costs, and it's hard to say who should actually be the stakeholders of any given decision. Should it be the people owning property in the city? (that's how decisions in condominium buildings are made -- by owner's vote, not by resident's vote). Should it be people living in the city right now? Should it be people who would live in the city if the measure in question was adopted? How much influence should people in one neighborhood have over what happens in another neighborhood (i.e., should there be a neighborhood level of city government, and what powers should it have relative to the city government?)

The same set of stakeholder definition issues come up when thinking about granting work visas to a foreign national -- should that individual's desire to work in the United States be part of the decision to let him in, since once you do, he'll be a voting American citizen, or should he not have a say in that decision since he's not yet a citizen?
What maintenance are you looking to perform on it?

Thats code from the inner loop of the algebraic codebook decoder. Its operation is explained by a 117 line long comment in the source, and by a page long description of a simplified algorithm in the spec. Beyond replacing it with an alternative implementation which would naturally have nothing in common there isn't much to maintain in it (and that code itself has been proven correct through exhaustive testing as well as the partially-exhaustive unit tests for it included with the codec).

Most of the codec doesn't look like that. Though it's not all easy to read— e.g. a lot of the signal processing stuff is intermediated by macros so that it works for both fixed point and floating point. And if you don't like it then, by all means, write your own. Having more interoperable implementations would be great. Most formats don't give you a BSD licensed reference implementation.

::shrugs::
Like most things in life, you get better support when you pay for it.
Well, this is basically an HSL color picker... minus the S part. What specifically would you change about the current color UI?
Ideas were floating around for this: http://i.imgur.com/BuF7d.png
Is anyone familiar with how this would compare to using iOS 6's IAP content-hosting feature?
> "The agent may not place his hands in your pockets"

Unless you live in NYC, in which case it's an explicitly condoned policy of the NYPD and the city government.

Most definitely unconstitutional, but since it's targeted exclusively at poor minorities, the odds of it ever it getting enough legal playtime is slim.
Okay, so there are issues with academia. How do those get solved?

They don't. As far as I can tell, all the problems, bar those that stem directly from funding, have always been there. That's the nature of the institution.

What changed, for CS at least, is that Google provides much of what is attractive to academia, but has all the funding that is required to make the other roadblocks go away. Google is not like Xerox PARC or MERL or Microsoft Research or other industry research labs. It's a company that's built upon being a research lab. I can believe the hey-days of Sun and SGI were probably similar.

The easiest way I describe working at Google to my grad friends is "It's a giant grad lab, except grads are also the ones running it, and they're billionaires." Academia can't compete with that, and it never did. The open question is not how to fix academia (as it never will be), but whether the Google model is sustainable. For as long as the Google model does exist, you will always see a net loss of professors to industry, rather than the other way around.
10 hours shifts are actually 10.5 hours as there is a .5 hour lunch in the middle. So you have a night shift and a day shift that total 21 hours of work in the warehouse. This leaves three hours of down time for maintenance (both mechanical and software) that is very much needed to keep things rolling. In order to fill customer orders, they NEED the labor to be as constant as possible. The difference between 17 hours and 21 hours of filling orders would be quite drastic.
During peak, especially the three weeks prior to Christmas, the shifts are actually 12 hours. This leads to massive amounts of frustration as night and day shifts step on each other trying to get the hell in/out. And parking, long lines at security, crowded break room, etc add to the frustrations. Maintenance has to fix things on the fly while we try to work and software pushes gone bad (they limit them as much as possible during this time) can just kill a facility.
I'm a Time Warner Cable customer. I haven't noticed any throttling ever on VoIP or Netflix or Skype.

I am also in an area with competition, which probably plays a role.
I think you are looking at this backwards. How many listings are there on Craigslist for a given city? 100, 200, 500, 1000? (I know city dependent)

There is absolutely no reason that PadMapper cannot call them on the phone, and ask them to list with PadMapper. They can make it trivially easy supporting email, phone, or fax listings. They can sell them on using PadMapper.

Many apartments are owned by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) there are dozens (not hundreds) of those. You can sell the REIT on the concept of easy listings that are so much better/cleaner/easier than Craigslist.

Craigslist was created when near every apartment was listed in the Classified Ads in the print newspaper. That wasn't "lock in" it was an opportunity, they sold these folks on lower costs (since Classifieds were a money fund for newspapers) Landlords hated the extortionate prices that the newspapers charged but they didn't have an alternative, Craigslist gave them that alternative, they moved.

So the 'answer' here is to actually build a classifieds business around rental space. That takes more than slinging some node.js and scraping other sites. Granted its 'easier' for a technical person to do it that way, but its not a 'sustainable' way of doing it.
I also found the post-PhD transition to industry a challenge. I highly recommend Jane Chin's 'PhD [alternative] Career Clinic' [1] for getting a handle on the perspectives of employers to PhDs, and ideas on how to avoid falling victim to some of the common stereotypes.

Good luck!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/alternative-Career-Clinic-Jane-Ph-D/dp...
Tax options of "not married" and "married state, not married federal" would probably capture all of that. I'd assume that state and local are always identical.

I was confused by "partnered". I took it to mean specifically domestic partners and would have been confused if I were trying to use the tool if I were unmarried but buying a house with my girlfriend or college buddy.

That stood out to me as a specific tweak. Generally, I'd like to see the ability to change some numbers. For example, you recommended that I can afford a house about 20% more than what I actually feel comfortable with, so I'd be more interested in comparing rent vs. buy with the lower house value I'd like to use. I'd also use a VA loan over a FHA due to better terms (no PMI), but there's no where for me to tweak those values.

Although, if you feel like you need to handle same sex couples properly, I should note that there are many times more couples eligible to use a VA loan than same sex couples.

At this point, I would not use the recommendations of your tool. There isn't enough information about what assumptions you make, like how you calculate property tax and whether you are bundling in insurance into the part you assume to be an income tax deduction.

I'd also like to see expected case home price changes, inflation, and investment returns, along with the combination of likely range of returns that would push rent vs. buy in different directions (i.e. good investment returns with low inflation makes renting better, high inflation makes buying better).
Be very careful in this situation, it's very easy for both sides to get confused which payment terms they are using. Make sure there is a single definitive contract for the project. Many companies you'll work with will assume they are using their standard terms, make sure it's clear that they are using your contract, and your terms.