skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They've entered into a consensual agreement for
> fee-for-work as contractor.

It simply doesn't work like that. A worker isn't a contractor just because the employer and the worker have "agreed"... Both parties must be able to demonstrate that the worker is indeed operating like a contractor. See the IRS rules on this, for example: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...
Chandler project, anyone? http://chandlerproject.org/
This is great advise. You have an idea, tell it to technical person (you do not learn to code, lazy), make the idea a 'technical' challenge (focus on wrong thing) and get stuck in 'technology creates a market'. Create a marketplace and use technology to scale it.
That stops working if your "increase quantity" mechanism sets up a filter on companies with worse terms; it's an adverse selection problem, because the companies that are easiest to buy into are going to include a disproportionate share of the losers.
When was Digg last relevant?
I'm currently subscribed to NewsBlur and I have to wait for my feeds to load. It's not such a big deal as the UI is brilliant, but it's still annoying.

It was less than half a second before a huge influx of users. Hopefully it will be down to what it was before when the scaling gets set up better.
Forgive me if this comes across as snarky, but when "beautiful" is the very first word used to sell me a piece of software, it would help if it were actually beautiful to look at. I'm sure it's well-built, but Geary looks like every run-of-the-mill mail client I've ever seen.
Besides all the reasons here why the system is broken, academia is also frequently a source of free/cheap labor from students trying to publish something or just get some experience.
So, at least where I came from, in the constant presence of fund cuts, the PI just replaces whoever lost their grant with a volunteer student, or perhaps keeps that person working for free with the perspective of finish and publishing the work or with the vain hope that he/she'll get paid when the next round of funding comes.
No matter what, the PI gets his name on every paper and also his salary (in most cases, that is).
Seems not surprising that people start leaving this "profzi" scheme (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144).
Are you sure he's trying to muscle in at the last minute or maybe he's just shooting the breeze after months of silence?

Run. That's what you want anyway.

Say and that you've moved on to bigger and better things, which you are, and that even B has moved on as well. It was fun while it lasted, but ABC is no more.

I'm not entirely sure if lawering up will mend relationships, but it's the least painful way to complete a breakup. The idea was originally thought up by B, and B has given your authority to move on. That by default makes it simpler and since you were never formally a "company", this makes it almost a non-issue. But if he causes too much noise, that's your alternative.
Ask HN: I received a DMCA claim against a Tweet, advice sought
I have a twitter account which automatically tweets available jobs. One of the tweets got a DMCA takedown notification today because it linked to a site that they are claiming is violating their copyright. The job in question was looking to create a clone of a site that allegedly violates copyright.

They also sent me a list of all the other tweets that these people filed against. They appear to have filed against anyone who tweeted the same URL regardless of context.

My natural instinct says this is BS. It seems absurd that you can file a DMCA against a link to a URL. I would like any advice/experience people have with dealing with this sort of issue.
I had one of these visas, and Hans has done a great job of describing the entire process. If anyone from the UK is looking to get an E2, email me and I can put you in touch with a great immigration lawyer in London.
Fascinating from a technical perspective, but how does it add value to the world beyond the search for increasingly complex ways to make money?
I'd never put stress on my personal relationships for a business that have chances to fail as much as chances to succeed. my best bet here would be VC, its a professional way to handle investment, and you will be sharing your company with someone yes, but still own your idea/company mostly and have influence and you'll learn a lot about investment fund management and other perspectives of a startup you might have not though about.
This has to be the dumbest comment I have ever read on HN.
Welcome to the US, where the rights of the individual override the rights and safety of the whole.

Here in the US, tolerance to do and say "whatever the hell I want" is demanded but rarely returned.
You've posted his work here. You're already helping him ;)
It may not be fair, but that was my first thought.
Algorithmic? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/google_raters_manual... ("Revealed: Google's manual for its unseen humans who rate the web")
Show HN: Macro-nator, making macros easy
There is absolutely no accidental opening of the knife

Knife has an edge actuator that, when pushed (by your thumb, the table you're leaning against...you know, anything that pushes on it), causes it to kinetically open. I think most of the people around here are fairly intelligent and can see countless accidental deployments scenarios, notwithstanding your endless cries of "bullshit!".

notice the "tools and home improvement" section...

Knife is by Smith & Wesson and is called a SWAT knife. Totally a "tool and home improvement" section. At this point I think you must be just having a laugh.
Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench 2.7.0 Released
I agree. At first glance there's a lot of shorthand (@, =, ^, ?, &) but that knowledge comes with time. I experienced a lot of confusion with the compile() and link() functions that I feel could have been prevented with better docs. Until that's done, I recommend the path I took: lots of experimenting and watching John Lindquist's videos over on egghead.io.
It's named after Geary St. in San Francisco. Yorba's products are named after prominent streets in SF (Shotwell, Valencia, Fillmore, Lombard).
Yeah, what kind of a tree is a Geary anyway?
Alameda county rewards boss, $400k... for life
Predicting market share using transition matrices
Yeah those rewards are really odd. Seems they just got lazy and hoped people would want to pay money to talk / hang out with a team they havent heard of before.
A big part of Amazon's branding is that they sell online, and ship direct to you. Doing as you suggest would involve special messaging and a custom workflow to select the local gun store that they are willing to ship the gun to. Also custom workflow for potential problems and complaints (including a mapping ability to locate those stores, and resolution mechanism if the store chosen turns out to not be there, not willing to participate, etc.)

Not impossible, to be sure. But it sounds like a lot of work and potential customer problems.
It's done using escape codes (\033}). tycat/tyls/ty* only outputs escape codes. Terminology handles them and display the images…

In tycat.c, you can see some code like:
if (mode == CENTER)
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%c}ic#%i;%i;%s", 0x1b, w, h, path);

Because the path is given, it won't work remotely.

find | xargs tycat should work but doesn't (one more bug to fix :D ).
Not sure why you'd add meeting information to a note - assume you don't have alerts built in + isn't that what a calendar's for?

I'd also be interested to know what you think your USP is - not sure "we've focused very much on building a solid product that looks and feels native and runs fast" is enough. If anything it should be a given.
I have a voting going on for this app
http://glass-apps.org/insight-glass-app
please rate this app idea
there is also the paper describing how the app works
I'd like an email client that I can recommend to my stereotypical mom without reservation, and that means a gui on top of solid functionality.
> "It is unfortunate that Richards received the huge storms of abuse that she did. But she chose to handle the situation in a way that invited that abuse, when there were clear ways to "speak up" that would not have resulted in such abuse."

This reasoning bothers me.

Let's stipulate that Adria's post to Twitter was a mistake. You seem to say that the abuse is her fault, because if she hadn't made that mistake, she wouldn't have received any abuse.

But shouldn't punishments be proportional to crimes? We all seem to agree that it's barbaric to cut off a shoplifter's hand, or to hand out the death penalty for petty crimes (as was once common in England, for instance).

People say this sort of thing all the time — "If you didn't want Y, you shouldn't have done X." I feel like it shuts down the conversation. Yes, X was wrong, but Y was also wrong, and it's ridiculous that something as wrong as Y resulted from X. That's a discussion worth having.

The point is that nobody deserves death threats. It need not feel like a defense of Adria Richards to say that.
Remember that this is Linux, where 29 out of 30 applications look like ass. And what's worse - the Linux guys strut it as a badge of pride! Riddle me that!

---

Edit: I'm not claiming that they're struting _this_ particular app as a badge of honor. I meant struting _bad designs_ as a desirable outcome, placing "functionality" over "design". Example: Gimp. Works fine, looks terrible.
Having used assisted opening knives, I can say with confidence that the practice is necessary to make yourself comfortable holding the knife while still being able to deliver the necessary, and not negligible, force to open the knife. They are really very little alike.
Let ad companies and ad supported SaS do what they are good at - Targeted ads. Target people who want the ads. Give those people the services of easy access to new products, and leave people who do not click on ads alone.

There is a simple answer to all this. Its called opt-in. If you need to harass and track users who do not want ads, then either the targeted ads are not targeted enough, or its a failed business model. Time to show which one it is.
I built something similar which additionally provides graceful termination of established connections as well as systemd socket activation to (optionally) provide lazy startup of servers: https://github.com/daaku/go.grace
2 Startups in the last 5 years. Projects I don't count. Those are for fun.
Apple Mail is the best email client I've ever used.
Yes, the money has to be on your account.

From what I remember 50% of the investors have to be nationals of the treaty country (not sure if this applies to the investment as well).
Web-Based Cloud Management: Happy Ever After for Software Teams
Wouldn't it be just as easy to make a lightweight shell around a vacuum?
Kevin Rose patented the "Like" button
Pitch by not pitching, seriously some of the best advice anyone could give a startup. I too get very sick of pitches when really all i want to do is meet smart people, if they turn out to be interesting, then lets hear the pitch.....but dont start with it!
Publication that wanted to be bigger than TechCrunch shutters after one year
I agree with your reasoning, but I don't think it's a strong objection to the above. You're assuming that they have the time and legal ability to mitigate the risk. The question, as asked, seems to suggest that the imagined payout would be immediate, with no opportunity to mitigate.
> They police would have done something if they beat you up.

They'd have done something even if they hadn't beat him up. Drunk driving? Assault?
To be clear, the opening force almost all comes from the wrist. The force you apply to the knife with your finger to get it going is quite negligible.
It's not Ancient Greek. The explicit usage is < 200 years ago. Doctors prescribing/performing masturbation to solve perceived rationality issues is.... Yeah.

And it's only not explicit now because it was so acceptable that people don't immediately recall the gender.
no for mac. : (
The DMCA is broad enough that posting a link may be considered "aiding" copyright infringement (that's a stretch, but since they hold the weapons, your shields need to be stronger). If all you do is post links to sites, then you have a legitimate claim that all you're doing is providing examples (and this is covered under fair use).

But if you do intend on fighting it calling it BS, your alternative is to file a counter-claim. Going against BS takes effort, as they say.
I killed a lot of zombie startup projects for my startup, Pressyo.

Many of them didn't get off the ground because we couldn't secure the basic distributions. Here is a list:

ProjectPY - a digg/reddit clone but much saner. This was the first project. We failed because we never tested the market. We took too long to go live.

ProjectTF - a derivative market for daily t-shirts. Didn't work because we couldn't work out/secure a deal in the back end.

edgeyo - a marketplace for startups and entrepreneurs, kinda like a public secondmarket + angellist. We worked 3 years on this, but ultimately got to nowhere. A lot of effort was wasted on this. Too much burn out too. We took a break after this. ZOMBIE

SpellTrade - A novel auction for Magic the Gathering cards. Think of options exchange for MtG cards. This was at the height of Jace the Mind Sculptor. This one failed because we needed to bootstrap the market, and tried to talk a few LGSes into doing it. Everyone got the idea, but no LGS was willing to take the risk of holding magic card stock for options. This is an example of waste: we built everything in preparation for the LGSes to come on board (they were happy to come on board)

Strangers for Dinner - This was the first project since we killed edgeyo. Kinda liks zokos, but for dinner parties. Over 2000 people signed up. But planet Earth is really really really big. It was very difficult to match people whose preferences were 5-10km from themselves. ZOMBIE

That felt good somehow. I feel we've learned quite a bit
Maybe he means cases where newspaper sites let users skip paywall if they are coming from google x times a month.
1 Million shots on Dribbble
So ... synaptic?

I know, there are likely use-cases not addressed by these tools that others can fulfill, but Synaptic does work as Graphical apt/aptitude
I could imagine it, but its 100% keyboard driven and seamlessly uses an external editor. Basically, muttator without bugs.
Ta, http://grammarist.com/mondegreens/ I notice I pretty much use all of these. I blame the kiwi accent and our mumbling ways.
Interesting article, except that the examples don't line up exactly. For example, in PHP it's trivial to store the file contents in a var and refer to that over and over (as OP does in Ruby), but instead he chooses to read from the file over and over again and then calls that a shortcoming of PHP vs Ruby when that's purely an implementation decision.

Ruby is clean (but I dislike the stack), and Python looks good, but ye gads is Closure ugly... Uglier than PHP, even.

My favorite part about PHP is how easy it is to get a simple Nurble-like app up and running... but that's just me.
Can you say more about what frustrated you about Evernote and Notational Velocity?
Thanks, I missed the important word 'rate' in vacri's post in my haste.
God dammit, I've been working on a similar app, also called Noted, for the past seven months. http://github.com/noted/noted

My project also includes note-taking, but specifically for research projects with additional bibliography/citation tools.
Oh! well if you post the same comment twice, the second is automatically deaded. You have to delete the first one before you can repost it somewhere else.
> We know women as a group have a hard time accessing and existing in tech spaces

I find it rather funny to read that. There are no physical barriers for working in tech or learning. It's all based on the individual's motivation to learn and do.

Maybe it's just me but from the most of the "harassment" I see is from socially-awkward individuals that have a difficult time communicating what they're interested in. There's nothing wrong with a geek-guy flirting with a geek-girl, its just how its done. Tech tends to avoid socialization which makes this issue worse. Most guys are more than willing to help someone else in need, especially a woman.

EDIT: Moving the goal posts everytime is what keeps this a "problem." You can't keep claiming that tech is "unfriendly to women" when there have been women ceos, women in the work place, women-only tech organizations, and ridicious "women coding camps."

But hey those are my 2c.
Yes, I stand corrected. Thanks.
If an angel loses all of their money on their prior round of investments, they will have no more capital to invest in that "single best investment" just around the corner in the next round. That is why they insist on onerous terms--to keep them in the game.

And because no one can predict the future, they must give the same onerous terms to that one "moonshot success" which will give them their 3000x return. They simply don't know which one it is in advance.
> Pedastal seems more like a framework for building enterprise services, not simply "web applications".

Can you point out where in the docs you got this impression? So far for pedastal services (the backend stuff) all I can see is a replacement for ring and middleware. Once it leaves your handler it is back to whatever you were doing in clojure already.

Or am I missing something? Serious question. I've read the docs, but they are pretty light so far. I haven't looked at the sample code yet.
"almost all cookies are friendly"

I would really dispute this. Compare the number of sites visited to the number of ad-tracking cookies stored in the average browser, I think you'll find a very different answer.
Hmm, I wonder though, is this any more complex than a client plus server combo of MVC frameworks like, say, Ember and Rails? It certainly took me a while to wrap my head around how Pedestal apps are structured but once I managed to do that, the jump didn't seem much different than the one it took me to move from ad hoc PHP to MVC in Rails back in 2007.

That being said, Pedestal's sweet spot definitely doesn't seem to be simple interactivity sugar a là jQuery, but I would by no means say it's not suited for startups. Scalability just happens to be one of the benefits of the architecture they chose.
A large portion of violent crime (~75%) in the US involves either family members or other acquaintances ("nonstrangers"). I'm sure some of that relates to drugs, but most of it probably doesn't.

http://bjs.gov/content/pub/press/vvcs9310pr.cfm
Next time: "Hi!, I'm xyz, you may remember me from such startups as ..."
Ask HN: Do you name your devices?
Be it desktops, laptops, mobile phones or tablets (maybe even embedded gadgets?) I've seen people giving them a nickname.

I've noticed users of Apple products tend to do this more even if their machines aren't beefy monsters full of CPU and RAM (unlike PC users who do this usually only if they build their own as afore mentioned beefy monsters). Home servers also get this honor and I've called mine Seat ... Because that's where Pudding sits :
http://eksith.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/20130210_092538.jpg

Well, any namers out there?
You could submit a pull request to make his examples better.

https://github.com/adambard/nurblizer-php

https://github.com/adambard/Nurblizer

https://github.com/adambard/py-nurblizer

https://github.com/adambard/nurblizer-clj
Thanks, that's a neat little explanation and cleared a couple of things up for me :)
Thanks for the explanation. I figured there was no per serving information from the data. Seems like there would not be a consolidate source for that.

I get it now. Again, nice work!
there would always be some holes in the graph
I've currently setup a tinytinyrss install on my VPS. I'm actually liking it better than feedly. I haven't gotten a chance to checkout newsblur as much as I'd like, but i do like that it too can be setup by a user to run on it's own (I don't want to pay for an account just yet until i learn if i like it). The 64 feed limit is disappointing but i can completely understand it.
http://expressionface.com/496q917 - Terribly, terribly shocked.
Beware they charge you a fee to transfer a domain _away_ from them. If you wish to move away you'll pay twice - once to get an unlock code, and ones for the renewal/transfer in to the new owner.
While I don't think these current retroactive taxes are intentional hard core redistribution of wealth (because there might be some technicality or specific quark we are dealing with here) it is none-the-less a soft beginning and a peak into what's to come.

When a State becomes a welfare and entitlement land, the hordes that it will bread will have a voting power that will outmatch those that work and earn.

Just look at any city or state that's failing. They all have the same thing in common. Too many resource consumers (and destroyers), not enough resource producers (and creators).

And redistribution of wealth will always have catchy names and socially and politically correct situations.

There is no doubt that in the next 20-50 years we will probably see this redistribution mostly in the form of higher taxes, and taxation without representation will become the norm (see - http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/suburbs-secede-from-atlanta/ for an intresting example of this last part). And it will always fail and just make things worse.
Data Replication Between Client and Cloud
Awesome project!
Will save me a lot of time, but for that I needed a way to download the SVG content from the page as a .SVG file, so I added it to my fork.

http://felipesabino.github.com/js-sequence-diagrams/

Hope it is useful for more people too ;)
>Happens all the time. For example, Groupon recently dropped all firearms-related deals on the wave of the craziness that is going on.

That's something else entirely. There is an argument to be made that doing things like that could actually be good for the shareholders, if you assume that a majority of customers are pro- gun control and doing that could get you accolades from them instead of boycotts. Maybe the opposite is true in reality, but at least there is a plausible argument to be made that it could be profitable to take a stance on a political issue.

That doesn't seem to apply in this case. There is no huge anti-knife lobby to pander to. Refusing to sell knives or to associate with knife sellers doesn't get your company published in the liberal press in a positive way. It just gets everybody dumping on you for being an imperfect bureaucracy.

>And the government probably has absolutely nothing to do with it - if it were government-enforced, it would apply to Amazon too.

If the mortgage crisis has taught us anything it's that big companies can get a pass for things that smaller companies wouldn't.
Haha, don't worry - I'm not attached to the name. Plus, your application looks far more like a full-fledged research tool than a "speedy, minimal outline" tool like my app is :)
So the text was along the lines of 'I need a clone of website.com <actual_link_to_job>' Twitter turned the text website.com into a link. The intent of the tweet is to communicate what someone is looking to hire for and a link to the job posting.

Fighting BS takes effort, I am wondering what sort of effort/risk? Has anyone done it before and can share their experience?
Does anybody else notice that they now OWN Assisted Opening Knives in the organic SERPS? Making Google ads, while useful, not as vital.
You Can’t Quit, I Dare You
Dear Digg,

If you use the work social whilst creating a RSS reader you have already failed.

Sincerely,
People who actually used Google Reader

P.S. A point-and-click html scraper to rss would be nice too.