skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming this is taking place in the US, and under the given facts, no.

For the company to own the IP, it would have to be a work for hire as defined in 17 USC 101. That requires that it be made by an employee withing the scope of his employment.

The author was an unpaid intern. Interns that are employees MUST be paid at least minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act, so we may infer that the relationship in this case is not an employee relationship. Without an enployee relationship, no work for hire. (Specially commissioned works can be work for hire without an employee relationship, but only for specific kinds of works which are not applicable).

The request is even more questionable in this case because it doesn't sound like it is the COMPANY asking for the code. A director wants to give the code to his brother who has a start up in the same industry.

Personally, I'd report the company to the Department of Labor for possibly illegal internships, and I'd report that director to the other directors or owners who might not be aware that he's trying to use code their intern developed to help his brother's startup.
Yep, still growing.
In fact they have a pretty cool "free trial" program running right now, where you can assign the funds of a single large lender. (It's a little bit like matching, but you don't even need to put up anything to be matched)

Check it out:
http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/giblfiz
This seems to me to be as much "you have a hard time replacing what you know works in some (indeed many) cases with something that might be harder to apply in simple cases but is always correct" as it is "you have a hard time learning correct things."

That is, the ideas (that this piece mentioned) that people had a hard time leaving behind seemed to be those that work as decent guidelines, even if they are not accurate. Speed of processing is a value in our minds as much as it is in a computer. If you have a rule of thumb that works rather well, why abandon it?
So anyone who won't accept your pull request or doesn't think it has merit is a neckbeard living in a basement?

Yeah, this isn't totally emotion-driven or biased at all.
Not another startup story? Cue the content police!
what tool did you use for ruby?
For $214 there is no rational upside in sending a lawyer.

You seem to be doing a lot of phone calls. You should stop speaking on the phone about this. Send a letter, on dead tree, "return receipt requested" to Accounts Receivable at the clinic. Say that you talked to A, B, and C on X, Y, and Z dates, that their staff has accepted that this is a data problem on their end, and that they should promptly re-code this and re-submit to insurance. Tell them that, if they fail to do this and instead send this to collections in error, you will explore your remedies under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and other avenues which are available in your state.
Sounds like a System 1 vs. System 2 conflict: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/... And not even a particularly interesting or surprising one, really.
The syntax is heavily influenced by M-expressions, which were used for the original version of Lisp in McCarthy's papers [1]. I believe the purity and power of the syntax is a major factor in the stability of the language.

I spent the summer of 2000 interning at Wolfram. I wrote coverage tests for over 60,000 lines of the Mathematica source code in areas ranging from functional programming operations to advanced numerical functions. My experience was that the source code was incredibly clean and well organized across the board.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression#Variants
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Ah, I missed that part, so I'm not crazy.
this is bad reputation for mongodb anyway
Why the hell is anyone answering "What was your mother's grandfather's maiden/first name" or "What city were you born in" with real answers, or even real names/cities??
This kind of technology has been around forever, but my guess is that the quality increase here is due to one or both of these two factors:

1) Computing a two-dimensional vector for each word typed, and calculating MSE against the ideal vectors for dictionary words, instead of just comparing the distance of the keys you hit to the locations of keys for dictionary words.

2) Using LSM (latent semantic mapping) to discover context and increase accuracy of #1.
Probably because the users expect better on iOS. They certainly complained louder. Also, my guess is the iOS user base might be higher value - as in they click on more ads and the iOS app brings in more money.

If the iOS app is more responsive, users tap on more ads, and Facebook makes more money.
I hope this insight:

"What has become apparent in recent times through this and similar experiences is that DRM only hurts paying customers and does little to stop pirates from releasing hassle-free versions of Ubisoft games online. But with DRM or without, according to Ubisoft piracy levels are massive."

Really does become apparent to folks who make these decisions.
USADA to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven titles and ban him for life
My back of the envelope calculations elsewhere in the thread were $1571/yr savings per car (10% overall reduction in grid cost); the Model S battery replacement insurance is $12k per car, which is a ~7.5 year payback (by which time, they claim the pack will be at 70% effectiveness).

Elsewhere someone corrected me that the peak grid usage in a year is actually significantly higher - the figures I was looking at were average daily figures - which may make grid savings quite a bit higher than 10%.

I don't think it necessarily is a clear financial win now; I'm just saying, if you squint just right it kind of makes sense now, and with the march of battery technology and PV, not to mention the inevitable adoption of EVs whether or not this scheme exists, it's going to look better and better from here on in.
Agreed. I have a few projects now I've not had time to integrate patches for and they've waited months. I know they are using the patches so they aren't waiting on me, and no one else has complained so it isn't on my priority list. either. In the meantime, I'm submitting pull requests to github projects that I am getting paid at work to work on, some accepted, some denied.
We have a lot of biotech & life science investment here, too.

Our Ruby talent pool lost some talent with the Google acquisition and subsequent moving of a local company, but we're back up to 40 at our Ruby group meetings twice a month. We have the Ruby Midwest conference and other developer conferences. Lots of opportunities to meet and hack with other developers.

I would totally offer up my basement, but I'm just outside of the first round of fiber rollouts.

Cool idea, be awesome to see how it goes.
[2a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power_...
Serious question: what would it take for a US citizen to move to Brazil and work there? I don't have any idea about the visa intricacies.
Gawker hypocrisy -- criticizing Romney's offshore investments
Make it open source under BSD.

That's what I did when I was in your situation. This way, 1) You don't burn any bridges, 2) You're recognized for your work and 3) If you get other contributors to your project, your software will end up coming out on top.
URL? I can't find that. Thanks.
This might help you:
http://yclist.com/
(no idea how reliable the data is, though)
To compete with Amazon S3?
I would take a read of Robb Wolf's posts on the topic. Here's one that addresses the spat between Loren Cordain and Colin Campbell http://robbwolf.com/2008/12/03/heard-of-t-colin-campbell/
This just one part of a longer series: The Internals of Mathematica [1]. Overall a very interesting read.

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/TheInterna...
Oddly enough, the company ended up hiring manual labour that took 4 people and 2 weeks to do something my application did on a coffee break. Reason being - that project was assigned to another department. I guess what I'm trying to say is - not to worry, things work out for the best, and karma always comes back around.
Apropos of nothing, looking at the inscription on the outside of the package, I'm struck by how beautiful handwriting was in 1912.

I'd like to get that back somehow.
How is gender relevant in this case? Accelerators are not jobs. They're designed to accelerate your own company.
I'd seriously consider buying one if HDMI and at least one more USB interface were available.

Anyone knows a lightweight laptop with HDMI, SSD and no optical drive?
Not saying that business people are less intelligent (far from it, good business people are as rare as good hackers). But pointing out that in the business world, confidence is a signaling mechanism for success when they speak to others outside the business field. This easily gives rise to an impedance mismatch between the business world and the technical worlds. Appropriately enough, the very best business people I know when talking about an issue their own field are just as doubtful about themselves as good technical people.

Fractal difficulty of a field is the impetus for a lot of this doubt, and it seems pretty opaque to outsiders in every field I've seen. This seems to be prevalent here when many hackers do not acknowledge the difficulty of marketing, sales, accounting, etc.
The problem with most government jobs is that they don't involve adding value to anything. A business's profits come from the value that its activities create. Government jobs on the other hand are mostly bureaucratic, and just tap money from one source (taxpayers) and give it to another, inefficiently, and without creating any value anywhere in the process. So increasing government employment can function as a wealth transfer mechanism, but in the grand scheme of the economy it doesn't really help.
I'm newish to github and submitting pull requests but the OP's experience is very unfortunate and orthogonal to mine. People I don't know and who are better devs than I am have all been very nice.

I started using a small PHP framework plugin written by a guy who did everything right. I want to contribute eventually, so I asked him what his license choice will be and some questions that would hopefully keep our code in sync.

He was really polite and helpful, and wants to do an MIT-style license.

I forked his github project just to keep my pull requests and work stuff outside of that cleaner.

Not really sure what solution the OP is looking for. If your pull requests are universally rejected, perhaps you could change your approach.

Github is only the best software sharing platform anyone has devised thus far in our young discipline. You can't even message people privately, you can open a new Issue though.
Yes, I felt this was correct but I could not find anything to cite. Vague threats did not seem the correct way to go.

I just read about the Fair Credit Reporting Act and that seems to be exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a bunch.
I'm just waiting for it to be released in Australia so I can see specs/prices.

It's pricey, but no doubt far better for *nix than any Macbook. And it has a TrackPoint (although the trackpad is apparently Macbook-spec anyway).
You can already do that now. My startup of 2 people just got a group policy from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Outside of NY and California, those policies could be had for as little as $500 per month (that's total, for two people.) In NJ/NY, we're paying about $900 per month for 3 people. (we have one child on the plan as a dependent.) If the average accelerator gives you $20K for three months, then spend $2000-$3000 and buy insurance for those three months.

Most people don't know enough about health insurance (because they're usually getting it from their employer) but getting group insurance is possible even with a "group" of just 2. You just have to do your homework.

Perhaps something accelerators could do is perhaps provide some guidance on the HR side of startups, including how to deal with employee benefits.
According to this, multiplication wasn't so bad: http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/...
Welp, I am going to be the lone dissenter, I guess.

I didn't like that it wanted to link to an existing account. I don't trust Facebook as far as I could throw the entire company, so that one is right out. I don't have a Twitter account. That just leaves Google. Fine. I do that, and it says that it maybe wants to fiddle with my Google Reader settings? If this thing adds or removes items to my existing set of feeds, I am going to be upset. And even after that, I have to create a Prismatic account, along with a new password. Great, another password to remember. And I'll bet you ten bucks I'll be forced to unsubscribe from the spam they start sending me in a few days.

After that, it required what seemed like nearly endless setup. Pick interests. Pick publishers. Now sit through seven or eight screens where we insist on showing you how it all works, rather than letting you discover that for yourself.

I bailed at about the second "help" screen, and deleted it. It's a very nice-looking app, but I would have to want it really, really badly to go through that much hassle. And I don't.
This happens daily via email threads, and more prominent media, that are passed around. Recently I was told that President Obama had replaced all forever stamps with stamps that celebrate an Isalamic holiday. Clearly false, but had made its rounds among a large group of people. Don't under estimate the stupidity and gullibility of a very large population.
Capturing energy should only come till after solar PV's generates surplus electricity. If solar panels continue to become cheaper and more efficient it's likely no revolutionary capturing technology needs to be developed. There are plenty of simple, cost effective energy capturing technologies currently in use today (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup)
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I have to say I haven't had this issue. Generally I accept quality pull requests to my projects within days. Pull requests I have sent to other projects have been merged in within a couple weeks at worst...

Perhaps in the future it would be worth discussing your changes with the developer ahead of time to see if that feature is something he wants in his core product. That could save you some time and effort in the future.
Armstrong to be stripped of his titles
I don't remember the full context, but once my uncle said: "It must be an old person, because the handwriting is so pretty."

To which my grandfather replied: "you had to write like that with a fountain pen"

I've never used a fountain pen, but I gather you have to maintain a fairly constant speed as the pen moves along the paper. If you want that handwriting back, I think you have to get rid of ball-point pens and pencils. Although while pretty handwriting is nice, I'm not convinced its worth the time to learn. (Which isn't to say legible handwriting isn't worth learning)
Here, let me GTFY ;) - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=...

In all seriousness, the China Study has been lampooned widely for lack of rigor, selective sampling and overall poor study habits.
It's funny his example is with Twitter screenshots. It's one of those things I hate. Why not link to the real thing instead?
Here you go this might help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMsdobLq1-4&feature=plcp

A split screen view of the computer simulation with the original MARDI images synced up.
So called '3D printers' are actually rapid prototyping machines. Usually of the additive variety. The reason they are called rapid prototype machines is because their capability to is fairly well limited to prototypes. The time required to print an object vs. injection mold an object is at least one order of magnitude apart, for state of the art machines (between many minutes to hours for 3D printers compared with seconds with most injection molding processes). It will be many more years before 3D printers, and especially hobbyist level machines, can produce parts comparable to those made in traditional manufacturing (read: high capital investment) techniques in regards to cycle time, surface finish, variety of material, consistency, and durability.
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Sounds like a pretty bad case of NIH. Maybe you should fork? (Although, I haven't heard the other side of this, so that's assuming the project's code standards were followed, your code was good quality, etc.)
When data is tabular, tables make sense. I think there's been a lot of brainwashing that tables are evil; really, it's just that tables aren't ideal for layout.

If you've got a page with tabular data, use the table tag! It's semantically valid and a concise way to get the proper formatting!

But, if you're trying to lay things out - it's likely a grid layout will do the job better. Straight CSS is pretty hard to get right with all the floats, but starting with a grid system and especially something even higher level like Twitter Bootstrap can really be productive. Note, however, that bootstrap still supports and encourages tables when it makes sense.
Here's 2 main factors to consider for native vs. a web-based derivative:

1. Is the app the core product? Or is it just another channel?

2. Does it absolutely need to be on more than 2 platforms?

3. Do you have enough resources? No, no one ever have enough resources. So don't worry about it.

As for Parse:

You should definitely consider Parse if it suits your requirements and helps you to ship faster. You can export the data when you are ready to move on. Ditto for most other tools like Urban Airship.
I will fund your education in exchange for 20% of everything you ever make pre-tax.
Truth be known it is a bit of a stretch, but it will achieve the desired result (escalation internally).
I totally agree. UX should not be based on some engineer's idea of what might be useful but on what might be useful to the actual user. Seeing August 22 doesn't mean much to me because I don't constantly look at my calender, but seeing 1 day ago or "yesterday" lets me know when something happened without me trying to remember what today's date is.

However, that being say, I thing relative dates do have a point of diminishing returns. For me, past a week is when I'd prefer to see actual dates.

I do agree that "over a year ago" is pretty vague at not as useful to the user as "August 2011." The word "about" gets ambiguous when dealing with longer spans of time. Obviously "about" is ambiguous by definition, but the degree of ambiguity increases as one goes further away from the event.
I currently pay zero. If I want it and it isn't free I usually steal it (if it is digital!). If I really applicate a Work, I will support the Artist with some sort of purchase.

Although I do not own my home so that mitigates most of the risk for me.
> The gentleman from missori would would disagree with you.

Actually, he doesn't. What he said is that women who are raped are capable of reducing their odds of conception by some sort of physiological/emotional response.

While wacky, that's not the same as denying that rape exists.

And, that wacky is basically the flip side of a very common belief among "the right people", namely that one can affect conception odds through various new age techniques, including meditation.
Agreed, tatsuke95's comment is ridiculously out of proportion. My friends are all middle class, with two exceptions who are upper middle class -- myself & my husband, and another married couple who run a software business like we do. They have an expensive house and a very nice car, but they live well within their means and save a lot of money (and they worked their asses off to earn that money). They certainly don't have a vacation home. My husband and I just bought a house which cost just less than our biz's gross receipts last year, but we got a 30-year mortgage and we don't even own a car. We do travel fairly often and for longer periods (up to a month) but it's almost always a tax write-off, organized around conferences.

And, that other couple aside, we're by far the most extravagant people in our friend group (designers, developers, creative class all). Only a couple of our middle class friends own anything, much less expect to own two houses and cars.

The specter of wide swathes of middle class people who "expect" two houses and cars and European vacations is simply a strawman argument, conjured up to "prove" that these people "deserve what they get."
Airbag has other issues too, like you might not land right side up, and you have to drive off the airbags / landing platform.
My own personal situation is that I've completely given up on Twitter. It was just too much noise.

G+ is a once a day thing, maybe 30seconds.

Facebook is a twice a day thing, mostly to respond to friends messages. 5 minutes, probably on average. 10 on busy days.

I don't RSS anymore either. 0seconds

Email is open most of the day.

I'm more or less sick of it all and I feel better not having it clutter up my life. I've tried hard not to substitute anything for it either, which means I just have more free time. Kind of like when you stop watching one TV show, don't replace it with another, just have one less you watch (or stop all together). Over time, you'll end up with much more free time to do useful and productive things.
Federal agencies are gearing up for a massive data dump
I vote we switch to the Julian Calendar. Of course, I'm partial to the Chinese Lunar Calendar. We could always use Unix time as well.
Many states allow you to break a job if you are moving for a job.

http://www.lsnjlaw.org/english/placeilive/irentmyhome/tenant...
Ask HN: How to design a landing page on a bootstrap budget
I am a programmer, not a designer. I want to be able to quickly get out landing pages to test the market interest on my ideas, however, from my experience on HN, the quality has to be very good. And the examples are always design heavy. Is there a service, other than elance etc., that specialises in making landing pages at a reasonable cost? In the effort that I specify my idea to them, then they go and design the landing page, perhaps with a video and make it look awesome?

Otherwise, elance it is!
>A team of maverick scientists

That's what I hate about science-journalism - this constant need to portray science as a field so different from other fields to work in, where supposedly egos rule and the status quo is upheld, and only a few select "mavericks"/"outlaws"/"geniuses" "dare" to break the cycle. It's untrue and keeps a lot of non-scientists in the dark on how scientists actually are like, and how "normal" science is.

In reality, there's plenty of evidence that infections trigger MS, a lot of it has even made it into Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis#Infections

There's also at least one study that couldn't find any support for Zambioni's ideas: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/massi...

According to the Wikipedia-article on his theory, there's research going on but most of it doesn't look promising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_cerebrospinal_venous_i...