skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he meant let those people hang around being disruptive. Just don't structure policy around them. If they are outliers in that respect, then will any policy you come up with make those people productive? Will it have overall positive benefit or will it damage the ability for the other 95% to work?

If you have 95% of your workforce who want to succeed and 5% of your workforce who are "slackers', you can provide tools to help those who want to succeed and fire the slackers. On the other hand, you can force through workflow policies that force the slackers to do minimal work while frustrating and slowing down the workflow of the rest of the staff who want to excel.

As well, the more freedom you give to those staff who want to excel, the more rope you give those staff who will not to hang themselves with. Force them to jump through hoops to show that they are working and they will do what they can to hide the fact that they're not. Give them free reign to slack off and they will not have false metrics to hide behind, nor will they feel the need to hide so much.
I 100% agree with you. That experience made me really think about the "team v. product v. market" dynamic that so many startups and founders are judged by. If we are to believe that team matters above all -- then why do you put the product over ourselves? If we spent more time taking care of ourselves, perhaps the product's quality and viability. would accelerate faster?
There is a similar effort underway to port Hipache back to Nginx/lua: https://github.com/samalba/hipache-nginx

It's still experimental but from what I saw, yeah, the Nginx+Lua combo is pretty cool.
Designmodo's reaction - http://designmodo.com/flat-free/#comment-38290

Designmodo are the best UI's makers! Don't hit these guys!
From a UX and accessibility perspective, not allowing nested A tags is a feature.
Curious: What happens if the individual in question is NOT in the US? Can this still be done?
Why did you just mock someone for asking an honest question, tell them that you knew the answer, and then refuse to share it?
I haven't tried Windows 8 on a desktop, yet (I couldn't get the consumer preview to work on any of my machines or in a VM). But I did switch from an Android to a WP8 phone and couldn't be happier. In that form factor, WP8 is exactly what I want and the UI is really well designed. I haven't used Windows since XP (and keep an XP VM for any work that requires Windows), but I'm actually quite interested in trying out a touch-enabled Windows 8 laptop based on the positive experience with my phone.

Edit: I should add that my main environment is Linux running dwm in monocle mode on a 17" MacBook Pro. Noone could be more surprised than me that I would be intrigued by a new UI coming from Microsoft.
Yesterday, somebody posted a toolkit [0] on Github Pages consisting of a color pallette and some UI elements that are basically "flat" -- no gradients, drop shadows, etc, just color and shape.

Today, LayerVault [1], a company that makes 'github for designers,' sent a DCMA github a DCMA Takedown Notice [2], claiming that they own the exclusive rights to "the artwork contained within Flat UI."

The creators of Flat UI are disputing this in the linked comment thread, but we do not know if they've actually sent a DCMA Counter-Notification [3].

Incidentally, Flat UI's page probably did violate somebody's copyright, but not necessarily LayerVault's. No, they used part of Big Buck Bunny [4] without proper attribution [5] under its Creative Commons license [7].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321603

[1]: https://layervault.com/

[2]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/735e17614cca63102b8414...

[3]: https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown

[4]: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

[6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322357

[7]: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/about/
How two volunteers build the Raspberry Pi OS
This works very well for me. Thank you!
Breitbart.com is a hyper-partisan political news site. "Awful journalism" is a very charitable way to describe it. I'm quite disappointed that this is on the front page, it's pure politicized bullshit.
I was not really trying to say they are gouging people with Exec and Uber - what I am trying to point out is that the amount that one pays Uber and Exec is really high given the type of service the worker (cleaner/admin or cab driver) is performing.

As I mentioned, when I took a cab to SFO, I paid the guy ~$65 for my Uber ride which lasted 23 minutes. Now, I know that I am paying for a premium service and a one-off delivery of myself to the airport. But to contrast this, that was $65 to ride for 20 minutes in a car to the airport where I was getting on a Plane to fly me hundreds and hundreds of miles and my plane ticket was only $149!

I think that everything costs too much - and that people who drive cabs shouldn't be making ~$80,000 per year.
> (forced to choose password hint?)

I haven't used Windows 8, but on Windows 7, when creating a user account I was required to create a password hint and could simply enter a space.
A marketplace for tech talent acquisitions
True! - https://twitter.com/awmichel/status/309341548980625409
I haven't done any killer spreadsheets as I can't have my plugins working.

But I've not found RT office to be unusably slow.

For me it lives up to its purpose of being a compaingion device.

The problems I have are basically the Mail app is uselessly bad and the Photos app sometimes grinds to a complete halt.
Static page: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/crowdresearch/mechanical-tur...
Statistically speaking, a web startup can safely not invest in TDD. For precisely same reason that a daily Russian Roulette player can safely not invest in health insurance.

But for the minority who miraculously dodge the bullet, the extra investment will eventually become a lifesaver.
Details, my good man! :) What does winamp do that VLC doesn't?
Who owns your favorite beer? and why it's a symptom of our growing 'foodopoly'
This is why we can't have nice things.

Even Apple didn't even go after others when rounded corners, glassy/glossy, gradient buttons was the trend. (Yes, Apple didn't invent those, just as LV didn't invent flat UI or the art work - which btw, is just a flat color. Glad Pantone isn't going around with LV's mentality.)

Just speechless.
Right and excellent explanation. I was more disagreeing with your definition than saying it could not be done with "cross products" (although it's still bad terminology, biased to people that already know the concepts). That's why I couldn't say you were wrong. Intuitively, a measure of how parallel two vectors of arbitrary dimensions are, is a better default when talking about orientation of vectors.
Inside Diesel, Renzo Rosso's $3 Billion Fashion Empire
Then it should be called "spam words list"
Have I "abused" your internal mental rules of email behaviour? I don't care. Perhaps it's analogous the way that you have abused the downvote feature on HN to express your disagreement with my point, but I think I have more justification.

Actually, spammy behaviour by "legitimate" senders should be punished, and they will get the message. Unsubscribe should be one-click - email users have enough on their plates already, and if I have done something, however small, to improve the behaviour of mailers, I feel great about that.
Proof by contradiction is almost never necessary.

Proof that if a number has a rational number square root, it must be a square:

Let's suppose that sqrt(p) = a/b
That means that p = (a^2)/(b^2)
That means that p * b^2 = a^2

Therefore p is a square (by counting prime factors).
Volvo cars automatically detect cyclists
+1 for excellent reverse etymology.
Lets Learn Latex
It's not ment to be an attack at people who use these, I still like my .Net Fez Spider for making silly things.

But. I do think that when someone is finding they want more boards, they are probably envolved enough in it to go naked, and look at the uC world.

A friend wanted some help on their project, they had never considered using the 8pin uCs available for 50p each, they where trying to tie together Ardiunos and a lot of wire. Luckily they asked for help rather than just throwing money at it and using what they know. But I fear if people just stay in a LegoLand they might not realise that there are other things often more appropriate. I do still love LegoLand mind, despite not being there for a long time.
Ha, this is totally a bubbly rip off of HN
This is just a subset of the official arduino tutorial on the subject [1]. And there are about 5,000 other articles showing the same thing. [2] Seems kinda odd, and late in the game, to re-document something that's already been documented so many times.

[1] http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Standalone

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=minimal+breadboard+arduino

EDIT: judgmental statement removed, as it was unnecessary
I'd use a sorted set.
Why Java does not support Operator overloading
Hi, are the blog commenters' lawsuit fears legitimate?
Webkit is pretty much an open standard and can't be used by a dominant entity to disadvantage competitors.
Apple could ditch the home button for pressure-sensitive casing
Take a look at the Trinity Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study . The authors did a historical analysis of a reasonably sensible retirement portfolio (50/50 stocks/bonds), and figured out the minimum rate of return you could safely assume over any 30-year period (even those including the Great Depression). They also made some very conservative assumptions, such as that the retiree will continue increasing their spending every year by inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index). The answer: 4% per year.

This number commonly goes by the name "Safe Withdrawal Rate", or SWR. You'll see that term quite a bit in discussions of retirement, especially early retirement.

Turns out that very little difference exists between the amount needed to sustain 4%/year for 30 years and 4%/year indefinitely. The numbers also get better if you make a few less conservative assumptions, such as some flexibility in the amount you spend (buying fewer luxuries if another depression happens, for instance), or receiving any kind of additional retirement benefit later on (Social Security, corporate retirement), or various other safety nets that the study didn't cover.

In any case, if you don't feel comfortable with 4%, you can adjust it easily by working only a little longer. For instance, in the previously mentioned case of spending 30% of your income, if you've already saved 25x your annual spending (so you can live on 4% returns), and you work one more year past that, you'll save another (7/3)x of your annual expenses and earn about 1x in returns, meaning you now only have to assume a ~3.53% return (1/(25 + 7/3 + 1)).
It improves their behaviour. I have lost count of the number of mailing lists I have had to unsubscribe because I simply used their product, without explicitly asking to be put on the list. That's spam, whether they bought my email, or just took it from some other list that they legitimately had.

MailChimp etc are for messages you explicitly sign up for.
Taking programmers for a test drive
Salmonella exposure is still possible from other avian sources (dove, pigeon, etc).
I thought "look and feel" lawsuits over UI were settled long ago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Software#.22Look_and_feel...
I agree that in a startup software needs to be incredibly malleable, and the developers can expect to be constantly refactoring and throwing away big chunks of code. That's precisely what TDD helps you do. You _can not_ refactor without a suite of tests to protect you; all you can do is hack.

If you need your code to be malleable, for God's sake make sure you have a suite of tests you trust with your life. Otherwise you'll be slowed down by the fear that you'll break the code.
FreedomPop launching a free 1GB monthly broadband plan
It might be cheaper in the long run to have it locally if you do it a lot. At current pricing tying up that much EC2 (about equiv to an XL instance) for 5 hours is going to be measured in $ rather than pennies.
This is interesting because what you are basically doing is what your VCS should do. However, even if you write good commit message (why) and make localized commit (what, where, who, when), the visualization that you get from your technique is not matched by the VCS. Plus I guess it's more high-level than what the VCS gives you. You probably don't add something to your change log if all you did was fix a typo.

Also, a changelog only documents the why of modifications, not the why of existence of a class, function, etc.
While I agree this article makes sweeping generalizations, grossly misrepresents data (like the rancher story), relies on unfounded FUD, etc., I just want to point out that the unredacted copy (the only one I've read) does in fact contain a statement about weapons:

>>> 3.5.3.1.7 Shall (T) be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not (based on position of arms) at a slant range of one and a half times the specified Operating Altitude.

... unless you think that means determining if the standing person actually has standard-issue appendages attached to his or her shoulders.
There is an important point to be made about the quote from the end of this article.

"Thanks go to Ben Alpert for helping me understand the linear algebra / cross-product magic ...I ended up going w/ a cruder slope-based approach, mostly b/c I’ve lost all intuitive understanding of linear algebra"

Let that be a wake up call to all of the programmers who continue to claim that you can "get away" with out knowing much math. In this case, the author admits that he used an inferior solution at first because it was based on the math he was comfortable with.

There are so many reasons that math is important in programming, but this article added another item to my list, namely: the level of math that you are comfortable with heavily informs and influences the various options available to you in forming a plan of attack against all types of problems, even those as simple as a drop down menu on a website.
Twitter reaction to this announcement - https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=LayerVault&src=typ...
Facebook Fails- ZUCK Keep Your Filter Off My Frickin Friends
I love the hacker in you. :)
I added it to see what it would be like. I found it to be too weird.
Colorful socks in bulk
Sweden = feminism =/= human rights.
I think the only reason TDD works as well as it does is because it forces you to _actually_ write the tests. If you write the tests after the code, it would be perfectly fine.... except no one ever (hyperbole) writes tests after the code, because management/sales/support sees that the code works in the general case, and now insists you work on the next feature and/or you get excited about another feature and don't want to write boring tests.

If you write the test first, that can't happen, because you haven't written the actual code yet.
By the looks of it, I don't think they are. But I think Github will take it down since its hosted in the US?
Thanks for the comment yolesaber.. I had the same reaction when I started using rapportive. Any additional information to help me decide if this person is legit or not would save time and money for new leads. I am kinda shocked there aren't more tools like that out in the wild.

No traction so far. I would love your thoughts on why you might think that is. Feel free to shoot me an email (chris@getkontxt.com) if you have any other thoughts, suggestions or just want to see what your sample report would look like.
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Don't they test these programs in virtual cases with simulations of realistic data, speeds, angles, altitudes, etc...?
I found a link to it... please only use for investigative purposes:

http://ge.tt/19rXMGa/v/0?c
There are many of us here I think.

But lets be honest for a minute, HN isn't exactly the right place to speak up about cool stuff you're doing with Microsoft tech.
Well, I don't know about you but I'm a bit bored of the Bootstrap design. There are so many sites using it that now the ones it looks shallow...

...Unless they customize it heavily, but then again it's designer work.
Self aware Salesforce pays employee to leave and build a great product
Four hours of commuting a day just to do something that could have been done on Skype, WebEx, or Google Hangouts always raises my morale...

If morale is low maybe it is because of a poor company structure, bad management, or a stagnant job. None of which get resolved by switching where someone is sitting.

By the way I thought just yesterday they were claiming this was the result of workers being "lazy" (VPN logs etc)?
Reminds me of a lot of shitty start-ups out there - where management is terrible but thinks it can bribe people into sweatshop-style labor with meaningless perks.
Quite a few actually. I can name two off the top. You've probably never heard of them (why would you, they failed). Saber, and Lucid. Oh, there are certainly others. What kills them is a code base that's too tangled to manage. Estimates grow by an order of magnitude, costs skyrocket, defects mount, customers flee, investors cut their losses.
From the DMCA takedown letter:

> I am the exclusive rights holder for the artwork contained within Flat UI

That's quite a difference to "look and feel". Right now, there is just not enough information to know what this is all about.
On that one yes. They have also, in the US, been taken to task over the "no poaching" agreement thing.
Non-profit startup?  Find volunteer help (developers, designers, etc.)
imgur please. Only one I can view at work =/
If you are dealing with a very talented developer you can not simply "hire a different programmer". People with high level talent are few and far between, and if you have managed to attract someone of this skill level you better appreciate it and hold on to them.
I still cry "walled gardens" over these stories.

I don't want to actively tell someone where I am because its important to their business model

In the end I am ok with my phone tracking my every move, and I am ok sharing almost all that data openly - what I would like is a app that records everything, sends it to a "washing service" where I can specify and remove data I don't want to share (photos of my children in the bath, my third trip to the coffeehouse in one day) and then publish it for anonymised social benefits - oh and if four square wants it they pay me. And when my kids get an iPhone - scrub everything till they are old enough to choose their own settings.

So I can see a personal data curation cottage industry that keeps what I share, comment on, where I go on my agents servers and releases it to others for a fee.

Two things I see as necessary :

legal frameworks that make my data mine (a bit like bbc must get my permission for my likeness to appear on tv), even if it is collected by a third party. Then I get the right to sell it on or not, pace socially beneficial uses

Honesty will be a default. I am old enough that the little white lie is common and undetectable. But it gets harder to lie about "I am in heavy traffic" while still at the desk /pub / bed.
Our kids will make use of this data pollution - but it will make a lot of actions much more honest - simply because the lie is so easily detectable.
Tackling FBX Truth and Myth, Part 1
If you want to read the QR codes just as quickly on your iOS device, check this out:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016497
http://youtu.be/HQNB9XZdPCk
.net awards voting is open
It depends on how much you are streaming. I can stream 1080p fine on my 20Mb connection but 2 1080p streams and the internet is basically unusable for anything else.

If you have a street full of families with everyone all streaming 1080p near constantly you are going to need to greater capacity.

And that's only at 1080p, what about high resolution 4K displays etc? What about when as well as keyboard and mouse input you want to send output for high precision accelerometers , biometric data etc etc.
I don't have the answers to these questions, but I'm happy I'm not the only one that wants these answered before I jump to conclusions and bash LayerFaul OR the Flat UI people.
Thx, bonus points for the API
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EDIT: After rereading your question, I'm assuming you're referring to a situation similar to my third example scenario, that might best address it.

Generally:

- If the content provider is outside of the United States, DMCA is not valid whatsoever. However, some organizations, especially in English speaking countries, will honor it simply as a notice of infringement.

- If the individual sending the complaint is outside the United States, but the content provider is within the US, usually the content provider will cooperate anyway to protect themselves from legal obligation under Safe Harbor provisions.

- If the end user receiving the complaint is outside the United States and the content provider is within the US then the content provider should still honor the counter notice and would be covered by Safe Harbor provisions. I'm not sure on the specifics of this, however you must at minimum consent to the jurisdiction of US Federal Law for any further actions.

For the most part, the content provider / hosting company will do what is in their best interest to legally safeguard themselves, with little regard for end user rights. Generally speaking, the larger the company the moreso this applies.

Github seems like a reasonable organization, and if you submit a counter notification in valid format they should act accordingly.

Also, I see the Chilling Effects URL is getting hammered, here's a static version which you can modify: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Terrorism/form-letter.html

While unrelated to this issue specifically, something which is interesting to note is that in a several year old paper from Vanderbilt University, they specifically mention a provision dealing with enforcing the DMCA on foreign websites. While this provision has never been used to my knowledge it does exist and is quite scary considering the implications:

While direct action against a foreign site is not possible in U.S.
courts, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) allows courts
to order the blocking of infringing sites. Section 512(j)(1)(B)(ii) (the
“Foreign Site Provision”) permits an order to restrain an Internet
service provider (“ISP”) from providing access to a “specific, identified,
online location outside the United States.” Therefore this provision,
with some limitations, may be used to block U.S. access to infringing
foreign sites.
It makes them look incompetent when it comes to internet law. Any one want to test their "unlimited storage" claim?
If it's speed you're looking for, check this out:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5016497
Opera Mini does not run on Webkit. It's a rather special case as it does all rendering on a remote server, the client essentially just lays out an image.
Not sure what "artwork" was copied if any.

If it was icons, I think a court said recently icons cannot be copyrighted?

Ah maybe it was thumbnails cannot be copyrighted.