skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*Shortage of talent at the price you are willing to pay.

There are all sorts of legal work and questions I would love to have done if I could get a top-notch lawyer for $10/hr. That doesn't mean there is a shortage of top-notch lawyers, it means that I am priced out by the rest of the market who are offering them better wages. Sounds like you are priced out of the market, if you offer market wages, you will find people by definition of market wage i.e. the price that it costs to successfully hire people, not the price off of salary.com.
I just watched "Repo Men" again, and while it's not a great movie, nor is it directly related, it came back to haunt me while waiting in line at the bank: I'm still really afraid of "not being", specifically not being alive. And I asked myself, not for the first time, what's the purpose? Am I really making the world a better place? Does it matter? Eventually I settled on my old fallback of "well, as long as I'm happy" (which, BTW, questions like these keep me from being happy). But this article hits close to home, as does your comment, and there's not a day that goes by that I wish I was getting paid to work on open source software full time. And then I think even that wouldn't be enough, maybe I'm wasting my potential, and I should have stuck it out and gone to grad school and maybe done something amazing. Maybe not Nash or Knuth amazing, or Norman Borlaug amazing, but something of lasting value and worth that made the world a better place in innumerable ways.

Volunteering in other ways can help; while the effects aren't as long lasting or deep (but subtle), the instant gratification of helping to save a life can be surprisingly uplifting :)
Double negatives are recommended in proper french, but using only the first negation is actually grammatically correct(ex: je ne sais pas -> je ne sais) and keeping the second negation only is usual in casual speak (Je ne sais pas -> Je sais pas).

I always thought double negatives were a waste of time and ink, but come to think of it this kind of redundancy seems optimized for quick parsing. There is more effort on the speaker for building coherent sentences, but it's easier to catch the speaker's intent even if some parts got lost or couldn't be understood.
That's fine, as is _.map(orders, get('total')) or just plain map(orders, get('total')). As I explained in another comment, splat is a combinator, which makes it particularly easy to compose. Compare:

function pluck (list, propertyName) {
return _.map(list, get(propertyName));
};

to:

var pluck = compose(splat, get);

So yes, for that one line you should use map, but when making things out of the mapping construct, it is sometimes handy to use splat.

Other folks have introduced the idea that splat is really nothing more than flip(curry(map)). There's a good argument for better naming once you realize the underlying symmetry.
Machinists make a good living. How long was his apprenticeship?
>My hypothesis is that a majority of CS4 applicants came from India and Quora has 30.8% of their traffic from India.

Wow, I wonder what the ratio of Page hits vs posts is like for Indian IPs and how that compares with other geographic regions.
In the U.S., Spanish is also how people of poorer means or less education speak. That doesn't make it not a language.
so when companies knowingly hide credit card charges, and doesn't notify users of term changes that may affect customers especially when it comes to hidden charges.. I don't expect anything, other than to bring to public what kind of company this is. Is it really a mistake to charge people's credit cards without notification ?
So I have looked at the complaints. If you look at the Edit History of the following articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Axon&action=hi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Insomnia&actio...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Action_potential&#...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cerebral_hemispher...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus_callosum...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neurogenesis&a...

Basically look for any name in red, which is a high signal for a new editor who hasn't put in much time, and look at the revert edit above it, then click on the "prev" link to see what edit a Wikieditor reverted.

Essentially a lot of stuff the students are putting in are probably facts and may be true. However the Professor has essentially failed to teach the students how to put these "facts" in Wikipedia.
The idea may be old, but what's new is that it's becoming possible.
LevelUp's problems come (mostly) down to product.

Merchants - Don't know how to use LevelUp. Don't have it displayed. User experience for merchants is wonky and unintuitive to boot.

Customers - Also have a strange, unintuitive user experience. Paying via "QR Code" scares some. Many consumers would much rather pay by handing over their card, as "antiquated" as that may be.

These issues combined mean that paying via LevelUp is slow and annoying.

The pivot to white label makes sense - except for the fact that their sales team seemingly doesn't understand complex enterprise sales. So, success there seem unlikely as well.

Do I like the idea of LevelUp? Yes. Would I ever use LevelUp? No.
"They're a startup, things will go wrong" is a valid argument to use for anyone not charging things to my credit card.
I don't think there are any rules to "AAVE" either, one speaker of this dialect? creole? language? or whatever we're calling it, would not be able to point out grammatical errors in the speech of another.

There are actually quite a few rules. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_Eng...
This block keeps track of assets and their hashed paths. We makes sure all our (hackerrank) assets are being pulled in from cloudfront without any need for path invalidation after each "assets compiled" production push.
You need to up the number by 1000% People are giving up on Microsoft because of the licenses. Personally, I think that .Net MVC is possibly the best platform to develop for, but since it's burdened with licenses, I'm forced down an Open Source route.

The fundamental issue this doesn't address is that developers don't care about Microsoft any more. I've worked in the Microsoft world for nearly two decades, it was how I earned my money, now people are offering £80,000 a year roles for JavaScript.
Mercedes S-Class have terrible resale value vs purchase price. Should be an easy mark to hit.
and responded in the thread, yes.
If you're in California, it's because no American from outside California improves her/his economic outlook by coming to California, where cost of living is easily several times higher than in many other thriving parts of the country.
So you've signed up for two different bootcamps because I thought you mentioned that you've been accepted already.
"I don't necessarily believe the claim that most AAVE speakers use the same grammatical structure"

That doesn't mean much. Mainstream speakers of standard English also use a variety of grammatical structures. Some speakers of standard English will even argue till they're blue in the face that certain grammatical structures are wrong, wrong, wrong even after you show them examples from Dickens, Twain, Hemmingway et al.
Yeah, that topline number is very sketchy. My billable time is worth much, much more than $100, but it's not fungible so that I could earn more if I never stopped at the gas station, or drove in a (nonexistent here) carpool lane. Similarly, I actually (co-)operate a business with significant cash flows with tax obligations in multiple states and there is probably no way I'd mess around with a "business tax deduction" for a luxury car. The starting points for average MPG look low. The average gas price looks high.

Even with the extremely optimistic numbers Tesla comes up with, this was still a luxury; without them, it's a luxury I'd be embarrassed about.
That's really interesting. It's especially interesting if you think of this:

function get (object, propertyName) {
return object[propertyName];
};

So now, what is: rcurry(get)?
Recently I had to turn a bunch of notes I'd taken in markdown into a presentation. So I threw together a nodejs parser that transformed the markdown into a single file deck.js app. Figured some others might find it interesting/useful.
Reminds me of a comment I had a while ago regarding HR below. Some context - the company had been having problems with hiring good people and was trying to figure out what the problem was - because they never had the problem in the past. So they figured it was related to the HR department and they tested it as below:

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I can't remember which company this story was from (I think it was Lotus Software).

Basically the HR team of a multi-billion dollar startup were given the anonymised resumes of the first 10-20 founding team members.

HR rejected them all. Not one founding team member was accepted even for a short interview.

Tells you something about HR doesn't it?

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Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699673

Same problem as found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470941
Awesome, looking forward to using saddle in my next project!
Anyone wants to explain the motivation behind it?

Does Microsoft think the Mac developer community is somewhat relevant to their future?
You're right. You get the stake, I'll get the kindling.
Yes it really is a mistake, and you're being obnoxious. Please stop.
> If there is anything else we can do - please let us know: happycustomers@instacart.com or (910) 817-2278

I wonder what it is like to be really upset and then email an alias called happycustomers when you really aren't happy.
Residual value on luxury cars is typically poor, because part of the justification for the price premium on a luxury car is being seen in something impressive, and a 3-year-old car is no longer so impressive.

So saying "for the same residual value percentage as the iconic Mercedes S Class, one of the finest premium sedans in the world" is honest but kind of deceptive. You'd much rather have the same residual value percentage as the much less expensive Jeep Wrangler.

This is basically a lease, phrased as a sale with the option to sell back, to take advantage of incentives that governments give to buyers but not lessees of electric cars. A nice option, but hardly worthy of the breathless marketing hype.
yeah its a bit of a grey area I suspect that the big players don't want to be the first one to start legal proceedings - they want some one else to pull the trigger.

I used to work for Reed Elsevier and there was rampant scrapeing and plagiarizing going on usually to create crappy MFA sites or to insert middlemen (offering no social value) into the job board market.

I possibly could see EU based recruitment companies going after indeed - maybe if stepstone are up for a fight.

Matt Cutts whats the deal on allowing indeeds search results into your index I thought you did not like other se results in Googles index
When people ask how Bangladesh fought a war to separate from Pakistan just because they spoke different languages, I want to point them to some of the comments in this article to show how deeply language can be tied up with prejudice, classism, power, etc.
but why do you push 1200 lines of this to the client? and why do you display a simple article with js?
I'm getting a lot of requests on our servers for "/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do" so I can confirm this is in production. I can also confirm they suck at JS.
Yes, this is the only change I care about :( I used "It's All Text" with Emacs. Maybe it's time to start using a separate email client?
Yes, that was a great read. What I mean is that the overhead of understanding and keeping the abstractions in your head (promise object, resolve/defer/reject, returned promises, chaining) almost nullifies the advantages it offers. I think promises are great in some circumstances, but unless they catch on as a standard way of working with async calls, they will remain just a 'clever' thing you can use, but most developers won't understand, and will make your code incompatible with everyone else's. It's a chicken and egg problem.
Although, at least back when I was choosing my Internet handle, Wikipedia recommended usernames that resembled your real name.
interesting move by tesla (and elon musk) but not quite appreciated by the shareholders in the aftermarket. it sounds like a good offer for consumers, however it looks like the kind of move a company would do that is worried about declining sales.
Alerts and Reader didn't fly - not because it didn't work - but because it wasn't worth doing.

If you reduce everything down to commercial viability, then art isn't worth doing, music isn't worth doing, healing the impoverished isn't worth doing and frankly your comment wasn't worth typing, if you come right down to it, was it?
> This is bad because it opens up Wikipedia to liability.

What? How?
They did, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WoodSnake#Copyright_v...

That was from last year.

This year there was no notice because apparently he decided to not publicly announce he was doing it again this year and it took them some time before they realized what happened. It seemed that he didn't like the fact that people were pointing.

I can't read through everything so I may have not been following everything correctly. This is what I've extracted about the situation by gleaning information off the various pages talking about this.
Also I feel like people (educators in Oakland?) just caved, and don't want to admit that they have failed to properly educate and include a huge swathe of people.

I'm inclined to agree. I live in north Oakland, in a pat of the city where a lot of the Black Panthers were based and got involved in community development on a practical level, such as installing traffic lights on dangerous intersections and suchlike. A few of these projects have little signs attached for historical reference. None of them are written in AAVE though.

I find slangs, dialects, creole, pidgin etc., quite interesting; I grew up in Ireland with a huge number of local words mixed in with conventional English, my in-laws have a fairly fluid mix of Vietnamese, Chinese and English going on at home, and I had some acting training growing up so I have a very good ear accents and idiom, and can get myself mistaken for a native speaker in several languages with only a very limited vocabulary. I'm all for recognizing what's interesting about AAVE.

On the other hand, if you're not teaching English effectively (and effective teaching has been a problem in Oakland, in multiple subjects), then you're putting the pupils at a huge disadvantage. And making exaggerated claims for AAVE is part of the problem; it clearly is not a fully developed language, and the in the original article the parallel drawn with French was simply incorrect (which was noted at the end of the article, but I wonder how many people made it that far?).
Because of the discussions during the last couple of weeks, I've learned a lot about Title VII protections for the workplace. I wish we would look towards Title VII for guidance, because many of these nuances have been fleshed out by case law and the EEOC.

The courts (in my novice understanding) only look towards behavior which is discriminatory, and there's a set of guidelines to consider. A discussion about apps and websites for sexual health aren't discriminatory towards a protected class of people, even if there are jokes involved. This is how family planning center can have conversations about birth control while also being under Title VII law. There are also some "bona fide occupational qualification" exceptions, like not needing to use men as a Playboy Bunny.

Sexist imagery would fall under sexual harassment because it “may be found to create an atmosphere in which women are viewed as men’s sexual playthings rather than as their equal coworkers”, quoting from Barbetta v. Chemlawn Services Corp. A defense that an organization can do, to say that it is not discriminatory, is to prevent sexist imagery from being displayed.

However, sexual imagery which does not portray coworkers as unequal wouldn't count. This would of course depend on the larger context. Covering a wall with pictures of anatomically correct genitalia, and with no work meaning, is of course different than using pictures of genitalia to show how an STD progresses while at a medical conference. The courts say there isn't a single guideline but rather a "constellation" of factors. Still, they say that it's usually not that hard to figure out.

However, this code of conduct doesn't look towards the previous history in order to explain itself. Even the phrase "code of conduct" is different than Title VII, which is an anti-discrimination policy and explicitly not a code of civility.

I've been thinking about the difference this way: two people can have a conversation which is uncivil but calm; perhaps talking about each others' atrocious coding practices, or deriding the bad leadership practices of their shared company. These can be impolite, but not unwanted by the two participants. In that case, I don't think there should be cause for a third-party who overhears the conversation to intervene and say that they aren't being nice, either to each other or to their non-present boss. While an anti-discrimination statement gives that right to third-party people, should there be racist, sexist, or other discriminatory action or speech.
This might cannibalise their business model in such an undeveloped market, they are all about lock in currently. There is definitely space in the market for an open source based MBaaS/BaaS that allows you to roll your own or use their hosted version.
Draw 8 bit arcade art online or from your phone with Bropixel
I was thinking you'd say along the lines of we're wasting our tax money on prisons.
Haha, true. But it's a whole lot better than "Buy shitty VM product, then source a retail/whitebox copy of Windows, then Install and Patch, Install and Patch, and set up Dev tools for about $400."
IPhones, Phablets & iPads: Does Size Really Matter?
Well, considering they're based in California, have you seen the labor rates many dealerships charge for car repairs? Try $300+/hr for "routine" maintenance.

If you're talking about the car owner's time, then perhaps, but given the price of the car, it's likely that whoever is buying it makes close to $100/hr (or possibly when combined with their financial partner).
That came from Mike Christie. Information was included in the user_talk page where he says 16 out of 19 students plagiarized. That works out to about 84% of known editors from that class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:WoodSnak...
Just listened to this. If you like this kind of ambient music then I recommend you take a look at the works by Geotic.

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/postfoetus/geotic.html
No need to go that far, CoffeeScript can do both:

totals = (order.total for order in orders)

totals = orders.map (o) -> o.total
Your righteous indignation does not really contribute much. There are billions of people that speak bad English every day. That alone doesn't make their English good. Just saying "a lot of people do it" is not a validation of anything. Every person with native Russian language, at least until they lived in English-speaking country for many years, reliably skips articles and reliably misuses complex tenses, because there's no such thing in their language background. Yet they understand each other perfectly well, moreover - native speakers understand them perfectly well too (maybe they cringe a bit inside, but what could you do?) Does it mean we have Russian American English Vernacular here?

>>> Please explain why Standard American English is superior to AAVE.

I'm not sure what you mean by "superior" here. There's an English language with its grammar rules, and there are common mistakes or detachments from widespread usage patterns which people make in English. What would be the reason some of these should be institutionalized with four-letter acronyms and research programs and, I have no doubt, juicy grants?

>>>> Why do you think SAE is any more valid than AAVE?

Probably the same reason "the" is more valid than "ze". I'd personally prefer the latter, it's easier for me (actually, I'd prefer to get rid of it completely, face it, the whole concept is just a waste of space and time), but stupid English-speaking world insists on using "the". No idea why, maybe you know?
My gf started using Instacart and I completely fell in love with it. A few days ago, my gf started complaining about some sort of $3 extra charges she noticed. Being a startup founder myself, I reminded her that they are trying to build a sustainable business model because I absolutely hate having to deal with parking after going out for groceries. The word "parking" made her switch her mind immediately. The truth is that changing pricing structure is hard for any company, but I sincerely applaud what these guys are doing and don't mind at all if I have to order more to make it a sustainable business. I don't want another thing I liked destroyed by the silly Kozmo.com business model.
I followed the clues to here 50.62,-113.81 - just north of this spot, "X" marks the spot if you look using satellite view
The airwaves have long since been controlled by "governments and greedy corporations." Governments require operators to have licenses and a government that felt threatened by activities on the amateur airwaves would have no qualms about stamping them out, I'm sure.

Ham radio is free-as-in-freedom precisely because no one's figured out a way to make billions by destroying it. Yet.
I did notice the email saying that I had been charged ~30 dollars for a bunch of purchases I made but I probably deleted the message about the change. I figured they were always doing this, but now it makes sense.