skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the documents are in relatively stable form and there won't be much negotiation, it absolutely makes sense for a law firm to do this for free particularly as you are then establishing a relationship with what is viable start-up. At least in the sense that they have been able to attract financing (which may or may not stand for very much in the long-term of course).

Of course, if the documents are in a relatively agreed form and are not generally negotiated, it makes me wonder why a law firm needs to be involved at all (speaking as a lawyer). Perhaps this is where Clerky comes in...

I also wonder if the free provision of legal services for the financing is conditional on the company spending fees with WSGR on related agreements? I'm sure there'll be a fair amount of pressure from WSGR for the start-up to use WSGR's paid services.
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The Increase in Notice period was coupled with an compensation review given a few months back. They Informed us that they were changing the policy, No signatures at that time.. But I guess the documents signed during joining the company would contain clauses to justify the interim policy changes.
Exactly. But this bonehead wants to argue that it's "presumed illegal" to sell them for what they cost: almost nothing.
If a project is having a difficult time specifying requirements BDD can help to derive better scope. I have quite a lot of experience of BDD in small and large companies. And have found that it does help where stakeholder's are pretty vague about what they want, BDD can help them think about the User Stories in more detail. Which ultimately helps to deliver the right product. You can also do the automated testing part too so you have automated acceptance tests which become regression tests after the feature has been released. However, I also found that it's difficult to get all the people onboard with it as it takes more time.

TLDR; Good if you have problems defining requirements, difficult if you have uncommitted stakeholders.
Its not just my employer. All the biggies in India have changed their policy at nearly the same time.
Apparently there is a difference in quality: http://www.arcfn.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-q...
The difference between

cat file | foo
foo <file

assuming foo only reads stdin so `foo file' isn't possible, is that with the latter the shell will open file for reading on file descriptor 0 (stdin) before execing foo and the only cost is the read(2)s that foo does directly from file.

With the needless cat we have cat having to read the bytes and then write(2) them whereupon foo reads them as before. So the number of system calls goes from R to R+W+R assuming all reads and writes use the same block size and more byte copying may be required.
How does an automated process like the one that killed this feed determine fair use? And if it can't, then how can fair use work at all on the internet? Is the fair use exemption effectively over?
I agree and I take things he says lightly, but he's right on this one.
"Gruber is wrong as usual" really says more about you then about Gruber.

He has his faults but the main theses of his blog -- (1) that Apple is a company that for whatever reason approaches products different and does things better then it's competitors and (2) that doom and gloom predictions for Apple are generally full of shit -- have both been borne out spectacularly over the last 10 years.
Nokia's new hardware is exciting, but Microsoft's software is boring
The latest four-way-controller ones are pretty good for refresh rate, I turned down the earlier kindles but am totally happy with this one. A couple of extra years development would seem to match up well with expectations of a faster refresh.

I just hope that they have a non-touch version (though I'm not willing to bet on it).
It does for three days. :)

http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/09/04/howto-ssl-native-in-hap...
I seem to be losing my sense of wonder

Yesterday I worked with my collegue, me at my desk near London, him in the Pennsylvania sunshine, producing code for a Texan university. We chatted, shared code, pushed updates to servers on two continents.

We were using technology that is according to Arthur C Clarke, magic in any previous human generation.

And I never even noticed.

Co-ordinating humans over vast distances is really no different to doing it in two adjacent rooms. Treat people as craftsmen doing a professional job, individuals capable of coming together for a shared vision, encouraged by peer accolade and pressure.

and don't forget to stop and smell the flowers once in a while. It's a wonderful life.
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They need to release one for the photos, too, now. It's not just the photos from that video, but others as well. This is turning into a PR disaster for Nokia. Companies should remember that ethics and truth pays out in the end. Nokia has been too close to Microsoft lately, and some of Microsoft's habits must've rubbed off on them.
It's most definitely catenate. I understand catenate to mean chain and concatenate to be to chain together. Since "cat foo bar xyzzy" doesn't modify the files to join them in any way I don't think they're chained together.

Besides, ken & Co. aren't daft. con would be short for concatenate. :-)
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What a karma-whoring red herring. But I'll bite. There's nothing fundamentally special about humans. There's also nothing fundamentally special about love. Not even if you use the word "love" to mean three different things in a single comment.
> There's a need for more complex regulations here.

I'm not sure about that. The general "don't be a dickhead" rule and the resulting public stink for those who don't follow seem to work ok in this case.
Inexpensive books? This must be stopped! The last thing the country needs is educated citizens. Think of the job creators! They are special snowflakes.
That is a good point, but it is a much more degenerate case than the more common internal space.
Let's be careful about what we're talking about here. If the pictures are of the actual camera and are about showing the physical product then they're no doubt often shot in a studio with a proper studio camera. That's (probably) what Ken is talking about and there is nothing underhand about that.

If on the other hand the pictures are about showing what kind of results the camera can produce then I very much doubt they'd risk faking it by using a different camera.
"... The origin of life has the characteristic that there's something in there as a chemist, I don't understand how you go from a system that's random chemicals to something that becomes, in a sense, a Darwinian set of reactions that are getting more complicated spontaneously. ..."

Interesting. Turing had a go at this in his last paper, "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis," [0] ~ http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing..... attempted to answer the theoretical explanation of the biological process that defines the shape of an embryonic organism from creation. This process is called "Morphogenesis" This is an important problem because complex organisms appear to be created by some "random" process that organises what appear to be self similar cells. (previously written at ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077817
MSISDN file on the SIM card (EFmsisdn) is optional and has default access rights allowing you to modify it with just a PIN(CHV1) code (see 3GPP TS 51.011). Therefore, information stored in this file is not very reliable, since everyone knowing the PIN code of the card can change it's content. I do not think it has anything to do with the security reasons...

I do not see anything wrong with using IMEI as a seed for a password generation, the problem is that this number should be encrypted using proper encryption method and not just transformed using MD5 hash function.
Looks good, but the idea is antique, no?
Maybe you'll call me a pedant, but you should be aware that `find .` is not equivalent to `ls .* *`. The find command starts at the indicated directories (. in this case) and lists each file and directory within it, recursing into subdirectories. You can use things like -type, -[i]name, and -mtime to filter the results, as well as -mindepth and -maxdepth to constrain the traversal.

Note also that "-print" is the default command for find, so you can leave it off. Other commands include -print0 (NUL-delimited instead of newline-delimited) and -exec.
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A hat-tip for mentioning Keldon's RFTG AI.

It's surprisingly brutal and even against good players it wins a good proportion of games. It does though show the downside of the machine learning and neural net approach (it uses a trained neural net) in that it can take a very long time to train the network and when it exhibits unexpected behavior it's almost impossible to tell why.

For those interested, all the source for the AI is on Keldon's website (linked above) - the only thing missing is the art for the cards at the publisher's request.
After what happened to MegaUpload and the lawsuits against Grooveshark, I'm a little afraid of making a username with Grooveshark. How private are they keeping that data in case the FBI or whoever storms their office? They should have a very tight policy for this to protect their users.
Upvoted just for mentioning that there is such thing as pdfgrep, thanks :)
Very few changes are made to production code directly. Usually there are multiple reviews and tests before merging to main.
Direct link to the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQ0e7dYuaI
"shitboard" is what I've come to call it.

It's "strong enough" and very light to ship. That's the only reason.

It's not strong enough for a lot of tasks and is definitely not good quality. One water spill and throw it away as the laminate just peels off - even on the expensive stuff.

I've taken to buying second hand good quality furniture (which is usually available at the same price as the shitty Ikea stuff) and stripping and painting it.
i don't get why so many people cannot write good commit messages. 72 chars is a very useful limit. if you cannot describe it in 72 chars, you should commit more often.

and the useful info that comes after it can of course be included in the commit. but starting at line 3!

well, well.
I've generally worked in "startup" environments, and I actually do mentally translate that word into "small business." I consider it to have more realistic connotations. YMMV of course.
Thanks for input

May I ask what is your current alternative to fulfill this problem. I did a little bit survey and found couchsurfing.org could partially solve it, but not do it very well.
Ask HN: Why do SaaS companies display their hosting company's logo?
I've seen this frequently, particularly if the company is hosted with Rackspace. What's going on here? Why are Saas companies advertising their hosting provider?

For example: http://i.imgur.com/2rjbA.png
There's bad skeuomorphism, and there's good skeuomorphism. In the end of the day, it's a personal option, and it really depends on the type of product/site/interface you're designing.

I've designed a mobile application that is skeuomorphic, with the intent to resemble the original one, being this one of the goals of my client, and I justify it well enough to make sense. Even though it's a skeumorph looking app, not really a skeuomorph interface.

But you must admit, skeuomorph isn't that bad when used properly and with caution. There are some good uses to it. And I don't like extremes, I'm not with the "Skeuomorph all the things" team, and neither with the "Skeuomorph is evil", because I believe there's a time and place to everything, but it must be used with obvious moderation.
I don't think you know what SA is. You going on the domain name alone?
3. Be held publicly accountable by writing about your goals on your blog or having your friend hold you to them.

Interestingly this doesn't always work as you expect. I've been poking at this a bit recently since a side-project touches on intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation in its users.

Basically for some kinds of goal stating it publicly actually make it less likely that you complete the goal (the theory being roughly that just stating it publicly feels like making progress, so you're less likely to actually make progress.)

See http://sivers.org/zipit for some background info. There's been more research but I don't have the references to hand ATM and am too lazy to Google for it right now :-)
Related to Bret Victors work: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421235

I really want to try this in my next paper!
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Aha... I had been wondering about that. What a mess our logs have become!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11561846/rails-3-2-2-log-...
Since this is such a serious claim, it would be good with an original source. This site (torrentfreak) is not unbiased.
If memory serves me correctly there's a decent sized pool of iOS users that never hooked up their phone to the computer and so haven't gotten any updates since they bought pre-OTA.

Going by wikipedia's usage share of web browsers maybe I'll say 15%+?
I once heard that some of them get a discount on hosting if they display the Rackspace logo.
For most people it's far easier to just install an app instead of going through a whole setup and registration process and remembering a login handle and a password. I have a lot non-geek friends who are happy with how WhatsApp works. They mostly ignore all privacy issues with this.
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Also the article is most likely wrong about calling these artifacts purely diffraction-related, creating diffraction images that big and visible would require too small focal ratio, which is unlikely for night conditions, because they increase exposure time which is already too long. These are just a consequence of internal back-reflections inside the lens optics which manifest itself on extreme contrast parts of image (bright light vs dark sky). Especially obvious on astronomical images, where control of focal ratio is manual and it's almost always open fully to collect as much light as possible - of course, focus depth is of no meaning for astronomy - and the quality of this lens allows for perfect images even when wide open. Bright stars always looks like this on Canon 14-40L.
I have no idea, I just remember it from the stream from notch. I also experimented a bit with something similar for python.

You can find it here: http://www.krause-software.com/hotswap/

I think it worked so well for notch because the code he was changing was in a different class than the program's entry point, so the virtual machine had it easy swapping the code. Once again, I don't know the details, it is just my impression from what I saw that time.
In some cases, because everyone is doing it.

Otherwise I am pretty sure they have some kind of partnership that are built on foundation of hosting for advertising.
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It was very well executed event. The levels were well designed and the complexity increased at each level. I couldn't capture the flag ( got stuck at level 8), but it was a week in which I learnt a lot. Kudos to the Stripe team for organizing such an event.
If you're paying a $3 royalty to the rightsholders per copy sold, then the marginal cost is at least that plus minor distribution and transactional costs. If you sell the e-book for $2.99, that's below marginal cost.
There is a problem with the view that "If a consumer likes a song it will get played 1000's of time over a lifetime and easily generate more revenue than a one time buy". Spotify limits free users to playing a song no more than 5 times per month. So to listen to a song 1000 times on the free account would take 200 months or 16.6 years.

I don't think it's a good limitation to put on the accounts. Most people aren't going to upgrade (they'll just play the song on YouTube or download it), and artists are losing out on money from plays and potential fans.
Funny that people ignore the fake facetime video's of iphone because it's from apple, and keep bashing microsoft because it's microsoft.

Fake advertisements, it's nothing new, EVERYBODY does that. Think real
But Nokia are talking about the kind of results you will get from the phone right. So it can just be a simulation of the result.
There is a bit of a struggle here for me, on one hand, I can see how the argument of "inspiration" is valid. On the other, Ive is treated like some design god, when in reality he's an homage pro.
My reply to a recruiter who asked for my CV
Hey Matthew,

I really am glad you want to help me find a good opportunity to work in London. But I feel we're starting on the wrong foot.

I do not maintain a CV. And if I did, I would only reflect some information that is already public on LinkedIn. I do make some effort to keep my LinkedIn profile updated.
I am a firm believer that CVs are thing from the past, they have been deprecated in favor of:
- LinkedIn, besides containing the same information, there are other benefits like social factors. e.g. groups, recommendations, connections,
- A public github/codeplex/bitbucket (or any other kind of social coding platform) profile where one can look at an applicant's real work. We're talking real code on real projects.
- A personal motivation letter - Probably the single most important piece of an application.
Considering these factors, I do not see any value in a traditional CV.

This rationale may only apply to Developers, Programmers and Software Engineers. But it is after all the field I'm interested in.

If you seek some additional information that I do not have public in my LinkedIn profile you can feel free to ask for it.

If you need a document with my experience and education, feel free to use LinkedIn to export my profile to a PDF.

Cheers,
Although the argument relayed in the comic could be stated in a couple of pages, I believe the point of the comic is to mock the judge for imposing a 5-page limit as this is an insufficient amount of space in which to relay the full argument that the lawyer wanted to make.

The last section states 'it's impossible to tell a complex story in only five pages'.
Because of pirated songs as manmal says. But afaik they had to negotiate new licensing agreements to stream the songs. I guess it would be equivalent to the agreements radio stations have to work out.

The cost may be passed on to the user but they get a lot for their $25 (streaming, downloading, and instant access to all their music - whether it was bought on iTunes or not - on all their devices).
Hit the (skeuomorphic) nail on the head.

There are many forms of skeuomorphism, and it's important to distinguish them from each other. Visual kitsch is cheap in a different way to outdated metaphors that hold back the possibilities of digital product design; a well-used affordance should not be dismissed because of its visual design and neither should a beautiful piece of 'Photoshop art' be allowed to get away with broken & confusing metaphors.

- Visual kitsch
the crap on Dribbble that throws in random textures for the hell of it, no match-up to a real-life object. No particularly jarring interactions, just looks tacky. I guess Find My Friends goes here?

- Visual kitsch, broken interaction
iCal, iBooks, Address Book etc - visual kitsch and an interaction skeuomorph. Pages not swiping properly in Contacts/Address Book (and having scrollable UITableViews on a piece of 'paper'), full stack of pages left at the end of an iBook, iCal 'tearing pages off' but then they're still there when you swipe back etc.

- No visual skeuomorph, just interaction skeuomorph (not so bad)
Google Calendar - one month per page rather than an infinite scroll (ala Calvetica). An easy 'affordance', but holding interaction design back nonetheless.

- Visual kitsch, non-broken interaction skeuomorph
Remember that hyper-realistic eBook reader a couple of months ago? Relative to iBooks the interactions actually matched up - the stack of pages on the right hand side of the page decreased the further you went into the book. It afford familiarity without being damaging and confusing like iBooks and Contacts, but it was still a weak grasp at the past.

- Outdated metaphors
Newsstand on iPad upsets me. We have a fantastic platform capable of totally redefining how we consume content and we present magazines & newspapers as 1:1 icons of their printed counterparts on shelves? I wrote more about this here: http://designedbygold.com/2011/10/the-metaphors-breaking-the...

This isn't to say die-hard modernism is the way forward - I have my doubts about Metro too. It's just posturing; even Jan Tschichold said that typography should bear the hallmark of it's age (and strict Swiss design definitely isn't a product of 2012).

This does mean that skeuomorphism and as-it-was-in-print modernism are both wrong, but I think we knew that anyway. What we need is an appropriate visual- and interaction-design language for the times. One rooted in tactility; one that learns from the past but doesn't replicate it.
Maybe a pull request reverting that commit would work?
Their conclusion is different from almost every report I've ever seen on Spotify.

[0], for example, had some real world numbers and an interesting discussion. The example is probably heavily biased, but personally, when I see "iTunes/Bandcamp/Amazon: $82,000 | Spotify: $300", the conclusion is pretty obvious.
Also, her reported rates were around $0.004/listen, on average.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330920
A cent a listen would be nice but from all the data I've seen on this the average artist gets paid something more like $0.001-$0.004 per stream on Spotify (slightly higher with iTunes Match but still well under 1¢). The problem is particularly bad for independent artists as the major labels have worked out deals to get much higher rates per stream.
Keeping an eye on the competition (Box.net)
I think in the case of professionals, supply to the market is regulated by professional standards boards which limit entry into the profession.

Due to this pre-existing restriction, I am not surprised the courts would hold that people within that sphere should be free to compete on price, as each doctor will (you would hope) have the same basic set of skills to an extent.

The above restriction is not in place with regards to e-book providers so I think this weakens the argument somewhat.
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Considering the present standards of organic ranking an aware user(searcher) will look for natural results more, than paid ones. So it is better to let organic results take more space on Google search pages than inorganic ads.
Do you live in the UK? I read an article some time ago about a new methods of multiplication and division that was being taught at UK elementary schools. Parents had trouble with it because they were not taught that way.

While the new simple methods got the job done, I still think the old methods are worth teaching because they're required when doing some advanced math later on.

The difficult method of long division, for example. After elementary school arithmetic, I've had to re-learn the method several times. In grade school it was doing divisions of numbers but later the same method was used for division of polynomials, then doing binary and again when learning how to compute crc checksums and hassling with polynomial fields in crypto class.

Math education is not necessarily supposed to be about learning how to get shit done (if it were, it would be obsolete because of calculators), but rather learning methods to deal with numbers, polynomials and other algebraic beings.
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