skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you answered your own question.

To align interests, you give employees a meaningful ownership stake, or at least profit-sharing. If you hire people who are already interested in your field/industry, you make it easy for them to put their best efforts toward your shared goals.

This isn't sneaky. Some (many!) people want to work hard (and expect to be rewarded for success) but prefer to avoid taking all of the risks personally/handling the janitorial work of a business by themselves too.

Offer a good balance, and remember that regardless of what you require from your staff, they always volunteer the most important parts.

Hiring is hard, and these kinds of conditions make it even harder. But getting it right is transformative.
These kind of quotes from a customer should be instant red flags that they are not someone you want to work for. Devilboy does have a good bit of advice about charging an outrageous amount, but it's important to pick your battles. Sometimes no amount of money in the world is worth the headache that a customer like this could cause.
Six to watch: Star Trek episodes
Especially when using mobile. Half the time I'm lucky to click on the right comment / story link for HN.
Or even one side could be right, but it's unknowable/unprovable.
First-order Logic is a fascinatingly deep and interesting topic. The level of abstraction is a requirement - it makes it far easier to work with, prove, and understand.

Source: 4th year mathematics student.
Is the child being a "bonehead" if they decide they don't enjoy the violin and would prefer to play clarinet or percussion instead?
Every time. 100%. Next question please!
Oh it happens - that is how, certainly in the UK, the large consultancies like Accenture and Cap Gemini make their large profits, especially from Government type contracts.

They know that the customer will inevitably want change, especially with things like a new senior civil servant or politician wanting to "make their mark". At that point they are the only bidder, so no competition to drive down the price, and the client will generally pay whatever they ask - because it isn't their money they are spending.
Perhaps you should try to actually build a company before talking about how you would organize it.

A journey where your preconceptions would be challenged, I am sure.
But this assumes "well-functioning public transport". In reality, this does not exist. Many, even most buses where I live are empty most of the time.

Energy efficiency issues aside, cars provide something even more valuable: isolation and privacy from the disgusting and invasive sensory overload that is public transport.
Just reading the question made my blood pressure rise. Yowza.

No developer should ever succumb to that kind of babysitting privacy invasion.
Yep, agreed on the last slide that lean startup only works 1 out of 10 times - http://bit.ly/178ZPrb
Introducing Bluescape: The touchscreen that covers a wall
As far as I understand it, the spirit of the challenge was to demonstrate that a human powered craft could take off vertically. Sustained human powered hovering is somewhat past that.
Are you kidding? Airport security breaches are so commonplace that they don't always merit news coverage anymore. Here, another TSA pen-test failure. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-usa-security-ai...

These are just the ones we hear about, and don't include incidences of undetected contraband carried by passengers, unwittingly and intentionally.
It's a good tradition in math that you as the author have to convince others that your theorem is correct. If you cannot convince other fellow colleagues then you can't claim you have a proof.

That's why a lot of mathematicians are sceptical against computationally constructed proofs such as state space exploration. Or, at least, they don't like the taste of it :)
Steam on Arch Linux here, old Core 2 Duo 3 GHz, but I added a nVidia GTX550Ti (2GB) card a few months ago and HL2 is running amazingly.

Playing it on a 46" TV at 1080p. Smooth as hell and looks fantastic.
I stopped reading at "Documents. Reimagined.".

Is any marketable change these days not a "reimagination"?
Should Amazon Change Its Kindle Book Return Policy?
Ersatz neural nets try day trading
You're putting words in my mouth. I only argued in favour of mandatory exposure to a broad range of activities, including musical instruments. The precise instrument probably doesn't matter but. I would prefer e.g. a piano or clarinet over a guitar or drums but hey, whatever. Just learn some music theory!
He's not wrong.

To many mathematicians reality is largely irrelevant. For example G. H. Hardy, an extremely prominent British Mathematician, believed that true Mathematics is an art form and is not useful. He dismissed applications of mathematics as dull and boring.

And I can relate to him. It's incredible how complex, beautiful structures arise from a couple of simple axioms. It doesn't matter if what you study will be relevant or not, what matters is that it's fun and stimulating to explore.
What a load of crap. If you need proper training to tell if something is "good" then you're not detecting goodness at all. All you're doing is engaging in pattern matching with a bunch of other pretentious assholes.
Show HN: Bookmarklet to show a website to someone without screencapturetool
Ask PG: Would you consider open sourcing your new DMCA copy?
Maybe similar to Automattic’s Privacy Policy: http://automattic.com/privacy/

I think there’s a real need amongst startups for decent DMCA notice boilerplate.

Edit: As pbhjpbhj points out below, I'm asking if PG would "allow people to use the contents of this page, https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html, [suitably adapted] on their own websites."
So ... you're saying that Musk has disrupted disruption by turning the model on its head?

He took long-established product. And sold a _less_ capable, _more_ expensive version (the Roadster). And used that to sell a _slightly_ more expensive, but _more_ capable product (Model S). Aiming eventually for a comparably priced product with far better capabilities, but at mass-market marque.

That's actually somewhat like the Apple model, so it's not completely novel. But we're not used to thinking of cars as high-tech products (or at least haven't been for a century or so).
Rubber bullets have killed people before, and I reckon rubber bullets would be as deadly as any other at close range.
Actually eat healthily for £1 per day
Nope, public safety trumps free speech.

You don't have to register with the State Department anymore and it's been loosened up a bit, but you still have to register with Commerce now and there's still restrictions.

http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/default.htm

Here's a nice article summarizing the current status

http://encryption_policies.tripod.com/us/rubinstein_1200_sof...

(not that I disagree with you in principle, just that the reality is not so cut and dry)
I would hope -- but this isn't going to happen, by the looks of it -- that people would see the discussion and then not call out posts as being "pointless" or hype, or like Reddit, or link-bait, just because it's not to their particular liking. There shouldn't be a lexical kill switch for submissions.

Or if it's moderators, they should re-think censorship as a reasonable action for posts that may not be to their taste.
Please? Anyone?
In this particular instance I'd get the customer to provide the kit or expense the equivalent kit to do the job (hardware, software etc.) and have them pick it up. They'd pay a top whack rate for the work too, mainly because it'd be what it costs to work their way rather than mine and I'd need to factor in costs for dealing with the requests I'd expect them to make.

If at the end of the day the customer can deal with that, then I'd accept it. I can isolate all my resources specific to that customer, provide them with dedicated kit (presumably with enough storage for them to keep the video footage) and they're (hopefully) happy with what I've done.
There is no need for VNC or Teamviewer any more if you just want to show someone a website.
Copy the bookmark, go to your site, click onto the bookmark.
A window opens and the site you are looking at will be rendered.
There is a link which you can provide to your customer to see what you see.
> If no one agreed with them then theirs would be the only flag and there would be no effect. If several people agreed then there would be several flags, and that's what appears to happen.

It would be good if users were given not only flag, but also unflag possibility. As it is right now, it takes only a few users to flag an article to disappear, although there might be hundreds users that would be opposed to that that can affect the flagging process because there is no unflag option.
The people who haven't upgraded to Python 3 in their projects are probably mostly people with dependencies on py2.7 libraries.
Happened to me in my last project.
I started using pypy until some bug in pypy prevented me from using an important package.
Switched to python 3 until some other dependency wasn't available.
So it's a pity, but i was more or less forced to use py2.7 (without putting major effort into 3rd party libraries).
Also making claims about typical mathematicians and attempting to apply them to those already determined to be atypical is a bit dodgy in and of itself. Perelman was not your typical mathematician and he behaved atypically as well. I'm not certain but I don't think he travelled and lectured on his proof of the Poincaré Conjecture. He even turned down a sizable award size. Just because an atypical scientist behaves atypical doesn't make their work any less valid.

I agree it seems odd but even in my limited exploration into Pure Mathematics I have seen alternative proofs made with ideas not native to the field. Why must that necessarily make this proof invalid?
The team is likely made up of humans who may have formed emotional attachment to the project and wish to complete it alongside their long-time teammates.
Client: Please record yourself doing the job

Me: OK no problem, that will cost an extra $X

Client: Ah actually don't worry about the recording
Not white enough like Matthias Ettrich and Miguel de Icaza.
Interesting, but shadows, brown and blacks, tend to trip it up. Was playing with a photo of my car that is really difficult to break out because the rear bumper is pretty dark in shadow and blends to the driveway.

Does work well in high contrast shots.
There is an unflag option, it's voting that can't be undone, and you can't downvote a submission.
Slate is an anagram of Tesla. Brilliant.
Facebook in advanced negotiations to buy Israeli start-up Waze for $1 billion
One thing that I've learned from my life is, never explain yourself to others when you start feeling depressed. Others may not completely understand you when its connected to your emotions.
Gotta get paid half up-front man!
Can't you adjust your given IDE / text editor to accomodate? Look for hints in whitespace sensitive languages like python or coffeescript. For instance, you could use retab in vim.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9104706/how-can-i-convert...
The helicopter requires pedalling with both hands and feet. Upper body strength is not something that goes hand-in-hand with cycling, due to the extra weight.
But if 90% of products fail anyway, then the panning carries no signal.

I am trying to point specifically to the parallels, which I think are valid ones, and seem to cast doubt on this line of reasoning (which apparently was incorrect in the past).
If they think you're a crook from the outset, their hypothetical future confidence is not worth the effort.
It's not really used clinically as far as I can see, but the common definition of sociopathy is also starkly different from what you describe: the sociopath does have an utter lack of caring (most starkly for the well-being of others), but he/she has no difficulty whatsoever emulating social interactions and feelings. In fact they are stunningly, stunningly good at it to the point of being horrendously manipulative. They usually do everything in bad faith, or at least with the sole goal of furthering their own agenda. So this condition is fundamentally different.
...since the client is clearly unfamiliar with freelancing...

That made me think of that cuatomer's employees and their working environment. I've read just the other day about a tech company over here that forces employees to have lunch at the company restaurant (with abusive prices) among many other outrageous measures. I'd say no to this kind of people, just because I don't want to make them any money.
There is always some amount of money that is worth the trouble. Now, it may be some amount of money that cannot be paid by any entity aside from governments, Exxon, Apple, and a few others, but it is some amount of money nonetheless.
Let me summarise what I think you're saying:

* You saw value in it.

* A few others clearly saw value in it.

* Still others saw it as having negative value.

* The ones who thought it had negative value flagged it.

* They should not have done so.

* Something should be done.

Are you going to suggest what should be done?
F*ck you pay me, getting clients to pay you.
Cars can be very tricky - the lines need to be very sharp, so there's no tolerance for blur. I used to mask and recolour car bodywork in Photoshop as a freelance job, and hand-drawn spline paths with the pen tool were the only acceptable solution for professional use.
Pardon my naivete, but why isn't this obvious?

Of course two systems can only be consistent if they can communicate, so you have to either sacrifice availability until the partition is resolved, or give up on consistency.
sometimes I really get annoyed over here because of stupid comments like yours. keep it to yourself!
Donald Trump: Make it like Kickstarter, but tackier
LTE core network embedded on RaspberryPi
Unless you upgrade your profile.
Surely the free market covers this? The contract specifies estimated and maximum costs for the project, and presumably includes a definition of the scope / requirements to be covered and delivery date. If the client thinks you're charging for work you're not doing then presumably they think you're too expensive, so should the two parties should agree to terminate the contract and the client should go and find someone else to build it. If they can't find a better rate then so what if you're charging them to spend a few hours a day on Facebook; the fact you're still able to deliver your side makes that irrelevant.

The only issue is if the maximum cost is far beyond the estimate and there's no justification of why that may be the case beforehand. If there is good justification before hand you should be able to let the customer know if that risk's been realised and report on it immediately, giving evidence to show that this risk became a reality.
Before Being Acquired by Facebook: The Early Stages of Parse
Well, they do seem to have picked cyclists as test pilots.

It may be, too, that the hand pedals are more of a distraction. It's something that has been tried with bicycles, and in general doesn't work out very well. Granted, in part this may be because you also have to steer a bike, whereas for a short effort like this, that's not so important. There's something to be said in any case for an otherwise rigid frame that you can hold onto with your hands, and really just sink all the leg power you can into it, kind of like standing up on a bicycle as you go uphill: you actually do pull on the bars.
Additionally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5NpFi-YPs
Still waiting for an equally detailed update on what happened the last two times they were hacked.

Having a secure VPS is far more important than the DC.
Chicago's SmartData & WindyGrid municipal platforms
AngularJS directive for the Leaflet Javascript Library
For everything you've done...
"stop the manufacturing of guns that are invisible to metal detectors"

Hate to interject a fact here, but this is one of many reasons RKBA types don't respect gun grabbers: their gross ignorance, of which Yee is a choice example. There's already a Federal Undetectable Firearms Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undetectable_Firearms_Act_of_19...):

"The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 (Pub.L. 100–649, H.R. 4445, 102 Stat. 3816, enacted November 10, 1988) makes it illegal to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm that is not detectable by walk-through metal detectors or has major components that do not generate an accurate image when subjected to inspection by airport x-ray machines."

ADDED: and I've read the design includes a metal insert to satisfy this law.
Bullets are metal.
Did you not read the article? This was a simulated load testing device that they could plug production components into to to experiment on them without needing to have the entire space-going arm on hand and powered up. Suggesting that a test component like that needs to be built to the same standards as the space-going equipment is, ummm - how do I out this politely? Wrong…
Still leaves them with a 50% discount until you take 'em to court.
This is something I actually offer to my clients, and I do it for fun. I guess I was inspired by watching some of Notch's screencaps over a few days.

So I capture it with RecordMyDesktop (I run xubuntu), and run through an ffmpeg script (https://github.com/choptastic/watchmecode) that resizes the video to be the same length as an MP3, and makes an X minute screencap montage for the client.

Then it produces something like this, which I did while working on a specific feature[2] for my sports league management system[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwn7mfmo0SQ

In my experience, my clients basically find it interesting seeing a snippet of how a programmer works. I had one client who would show the video around in his office like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. At first, I thought the reaction was sarcastic, but I realized after the 3rd time showing another employee, and his elderly father, that he was just genuinely impressed by it.

THAT SAID, if a client required this of me because they wanted to monitor me (to make sure I'm working or whatever), I'd let them know that "sure, I can do it for the most part, but I have to disable it when checking my email, and any time spend curating the video due to privacy concerns will be billed to you as well."

But if a client asked it of me to satisfy their own curiosity of my workflow (which is unlikely, since I typically just volunteer it anyway), I'd be more than happy to do it.

[1] http://bracketpal.com (homepage is still embarrassingly sparse, as I've been working one-on-one with customers, a landing page redesign and online customers are coming first).

[2] The video above is the screencap of the implementation of this feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTfaSfa_dQ
If you want to go down that route, I suggest examining the assumptions of so called nonparametric tests and uninformative priors as future topics.
Any chance of source code, or at least a detailed post explaining the algorithms behind this?
Could be. But it's primarily an engineering challenge: I'd see that as the big success, not whether they have one guy who's a bit faster than another, who happens to take it over the line.
They spelt danah boyd's name wrong.
It's quite a bit quicker, unless you're lucky with your selection of tolerance and amounts to expand / contract / feather the resulting selection.
I found this thread:
http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2013/05/ripple-is-now-tsunam...

Going to try what was suggested, but it looks like 'surely OP will deliver' to me.
Yeah, right, 5 million people belong to the NRA because they represent the interests of others. (ADDED: including my father, my oldest nephew, my brothers and myself.)

No, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shooting_Sports_Founda...) is the "national trade association for the firearms industry that is based in Newtown, Connecticut in the United States. Formed in 1961, the organization has more than 7,000 members: firearms manufacturers, distributors, retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's clubs and media."

Here's the most recent thread where I brought this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5662183

Note also this comment of mine: "[...] no gun or ammo manufactures rather obviously means no guns and ammo for us to shoot. We've very interested in their health, we're in the same boat, attack them, you attack us. And the NSSF does quite a bit for gun owners in a whole range of areas including the political, although their focus is of course on the industry."
Google News, with some custom sections to emphasize news about science and technology and about education, and the many friends I have on Facebook, who post interesting links regularly. I follow several blogs and other websites with regular news updates, especially about science. When I really want to research a subject in depth, I go straight to the academic libraries of my alma mater university across town (now often via its extensive subscriptions to databases that I can access from home with user authentication I gain through an affiliation with that university). For articles to look at for submission to Hacker News, I

1) make sure to have a science section in my Google News set-up, and additionally use Google News and Google Scholar keyword searches to check submissions by other users to HN,

2) follow the recommendations of certain key Facebook friends of mine who are either professional scientists, science writers, or science educators,

3) daily read Science-Based Medicine

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

(I don't submit to HN from Science-Based Medicine every day, but I have found some GREAT articles there over the years)

4) daily read Why Evolution Is True

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/

(which sometimes has personal posts by the site owner but also has EXCELLENT posts by him and by guest posters on cutting-edge science issues, some of which I post directly and some of which lead to professional journal articles I post directly)

5) daily read Skeptic Blog
http://www.skepticblog.org/

(which goes from very ordinary to EXCELLENT in quality in unpredictable fashion, and has several very thoughtful co-bloggers contributing)

6) daily read Respectful Insolence

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/

(which has had some EXCELLENT posts about the methods of research over the years)

7) receive specific suggestions of research articles to read on human intelligence and human behavioral genetics either by request or by researcher nomination from the Minnesota Twin Family Study researchers with whom I discuss issues in a journal club during the school year

8) occasionally look at Pharyngula

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/

(which went through a bad dry spell while its author finished writing his book, but which now occasionally has some great posts on topics of much interest to HN participants)

and

9) generally prowl the Web and recommendations I see anywhere else in cyberspace for good articles on science. I test most articles I see submitted anywhere with the checklist from Peter Norvig (Google's director of research)'s article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation,"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

which is my all-time favorite link to share in discussions on Hacker News.
MEAPs are the new Mainframe
Skylab: NASA's first space station marks 40 years
Within the last half century in the US, kids were not contributing to the household support with whatever jobs they had, unless their families were squarely at the bottom of the economy, migrant farm workers for example. Minimum wage x 40 hours x 10 weeks went surprisingly far toward state college tuition, but not toward the expenses of a middle class household.

Forty plus years ago, high school friends of mine were busing tables before 16, and we mostly held down summer jobs once 16. I don't know that we were that much different from kids today.
Yes, I wish they would have forked the repository. It's a real pain trying to figure out what is python3 and what isn't.