skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you legally hold students (minors) to an NDA? I wonder what kind out outcome there would be if a 9th-grader photographed and published this survey.
Thank you for your perspective, it's easy to get defensive but it seems like you maybe made it through whatever "prestige traps" you may have encountered along the way.

college dropout here, I didn't have money and now that I've been working, it's hard to have the time...
In options there are two important numbers the current stock price and the strike price. Assuming the stock price is higher than the strike price the option is worth the difference between the two.

I am a little unclear about the "$36,000's-worth". I assume that that is the face value of the 9,000 shares. So if $36k is the value of the underlying stock than the share price is $4. The same $4 a share that the stock was worth when your options were issued.

The new options were issued for $1 a share with a $4 stock price. Assuming that there was a buyer for the shares at the current price of $4 the options could be exercised today and be worth $27k.

$4 - $1 = $3 per share profit X 9,000 shares = $27,000.

Some valuation examples

Price Theirs Yours
$4 $27k $0
$5 $36k $37.5k
$6 $45k $75k
$7 $54k $112.5k
$10 $81k $225k

What the options are worth today is really a minor concern. You control substantially more shares than the people who have just been issued options. If the company succeeds you all walk away with a bunch of money. If it doesn't, well none of you are going to make anything from your options.
Addendum (because HN won't allow me to edit the parent any more): I just finished playing through Thomas Was Alone.

My opinion is that the game is a mediocre platformer with only a few new mechanics and scores of older, well-trodden ones, amateurish level design, lots of boring repetition, poor conveyance in parts, and lots of little flaws that make it (again, to me) not much fun at all to play. Its only saving graces are the wonderful narration (done by this exciting British guy named Danny Wallace), and the excellent use of color. If you don't enjoy the first 15 minutes, your experience probably won't improve in the many hours to come (on a side note, I feel the game is about 1.5x as long as it should be. there was a lot of "sheesh -- when will this set of levels end?" in my playthrough). You're better off just listening to all the narration (which is great, and really adds a lot of pathos to moving rectangles around a screen).

I should emphasize that I don't think Thomas Was Alone is a bad game. It tries to do a lot of things (probably too many) at once and does many of them right. The ones it flubs up, though, cause the game to be tedious and unfocused and frustrating in enough places that, for me, it ceases to be fun to play. Give it a try -- you may enjoy it! I didn't.

(Sorry if my complaints here are vague. There's a lot I want to say because I just finished playing, but it's late, and I'm trying to keep this to a "should I play it?" kind of blurb. If it would help someone to know exactly what I think is wrong with the game, I could make a longer thing or a video or something. )
I have seen people taking the 3rd point lightly, atleast by techies in majority. They think revenue model will evolve once the product idea they love becomes reality.
Yup, hardly sufficient to operate in the USA under Japan's rules. For the same reasons you are subject to the local laws when visiting another country; their roof, their rules.
Why Geeks Get Bullied (It's Not Necessarily for Being Geeks)
If you're resyncing that frequently, you should probably be used TTL indexes, the usePowerOf2Sizes column flag directly, or potentially capped collections.

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/collMod/#us...
False. There was backwards compatibility long before the PS2. Just not in market-leading Nintendo's systems.

Way back even before the 8-bit NES, the Atari 7800 was backwards compatible with Atari 2600 games. So was the ColecoVision, although through a hardware adapter that basically was an entire 2600 on a chip outputting raw video to the ColecoVision.

And the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive had an adapter to play 8-bit Sega Master System games, running the SMS code on an auxiliary sound Z80 in the Genesis, so slightly hardware assisted but mostly built into the console.
What happens if you disagree with the EULA? (Does it have a disagree button?)

What happens if you crtl-alt-del at the EULA prompt?
The table lost its formatting

Price Theirs Yours

$4 $27k $0

$5 $36k $37.5k

$6 $45k $75k

$7 $54k $112.5k

$10 $81k $225k
It could be a simple majority, but not an absolute majority.
It doesn't matter that the outcome is nothing. What matters is that you agreed to give up your rights. It's an opening for them if they should choose to pursue action against you.
I'd also look at Mathias Bynens dotfiles repo.

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
I was surprised as well.

In an alternate universe where Rick Perry had won the primaries and presidency, I wonder if he would have strong support for this bill as president.

[edit, still playing political fantasy] Actually, now would be a good time for Senator Cruz to take a similar bill to the Senate. It would die, of course, but at least he would score some points with internet people (like Daryl Issa did during SOPA) with minimal investment of political capital on his part.
Please visit the website. There I explain what the problem is.

In summary, since the user does not pay them and they need to be profitable there only option is to sell the resource they have. That is the users content. But selling really personal things like photos will be a huge deal and the users will get really upset. So instead they term it as 'sub liscence your photos / personal information' to third parties. Which basically means that advertisers can use your photos / personal information.
Borked here on my Android/Dolphin, too.

Oddly enough, it didn't seem to be there until I rotated the screen to landscape, then back to portrait, but I might just not have noticed it.
'Anti-money laundering' isn't the government tracking your every purchase in a big 'ol database. This is you withdrawing $20,000 from the bank and the government making note of it.

The only time they actually interfere is when they believe crime is going on, which is how things always go.

Are you saying they should be blinded so that they don't accidentally accost people who are not engaged in crime?
"The proposed legislation requires state law enforcement agencies to get a warrant for all e-mails regardless of the age of the e-mail."

How is it possible that this is not the case everywhere in the USA. An email does not somehow become less private only because it is older. This is the sort of loop hole that politician and law enforcement weasels create to undermine the privacy of communication.

I am generally fine with wire-tapping if (and only if) a warrant was obtained first. If that does not happen there is no separation of the three powers, and you cannot really speak of the "rule of law".
The conclusions don't seem reasonable to me. Higher acceptance rate is not necessarily better; it can also be that the quality of pull requests is too low: that the developers are instead discriminating in what they let into their project, and that the project benefits as a result of this.

Using it as a project quality metric is in this way similar to lines of code: higher doesn't necessarily mean better.
>I think a VERY high majority of Yale students are top 1% job candidates.

I'll grant that, but how much of the 1% pool do Yale students make up? Are employers missing the other 99 top 1% candidates because "university name" != Ivy League?
Gillette sues Harry's Razor Company for patent infringement
> Everybody gets in here for a reason.

Oh no doubt.

But consider the criteria for getting into any top-tier school: teenage academic performance and extracurricular participation between the ages of 14 and 17.

And while top-tier schools are demanding and hold you to higher standards, they're not SEAL school meat-grinders. Your school, and several other Ivies, have a graduation rate in the high 90's... and something tells me those 2-6% who don't make it aren't dropping because it's too hard.

Ultimately, your prowess on the job market is tied to your conduct as a teenager. That's weird, but I guess that's how things work.
How to build an “agile” culture
Why would you want to enter the Oil/Gas industry when you can disrupt them thru Green industries ala Elon Musk ?
Apple to open iOS for third-party developers
Can you add Seattle, WA as a city?
Bisecting your favourite bug (with git)
We started building this app / service in feb 2013. The whole app and service has been built by one programmer and one designer in about 3 months. This includes building the complete back end and the app.

We want to release an android / other OS versions but we have limited time and we will try to do so ASAP.
That's exactly the same thing you're teaching your child when you tell them not to point and say "Why is that man so fat?".

I usually wear tees and jeans, but I recognize that formal wear has a place.

I'm surprised you made such a snarky response, when you said something very similar in another thread:

"I think, that as techies, we are in a unique situation, as far as intellectual development is concerned. The vast majority of the population can't appreciate technical phenomena because it is culturally viewed as "too hard" or "robotic" or "blah blah, boring". We, OTOH, actively refuse to engage with humanistic pursuits, but not out of any perceived difficulty so much as discomfort with the pretensions that come with "cultured society"."
Facebook agrees to block sexual assault 'humor'
One Question to Beat Procrastination, Whining, and Struggle
Yes the Facebook product has some utility. And they do have big engineering challenges, and have contributed to open-source.

These are not unique to Facebook, and if these are the criteria for working there, I can think of a lot of other places to work at that:

a) Have products that my friends and family would enjoy/use.
b) Have interesting engineering challenges that a new employee can work on.
c) Allow employees to contribute back to open-source and maintain their open-source projects on company time, with significant engineering resources.

The OpenCompute project is pretty unique to only Facebook, so if hacking on data center hardware is your thing, Facebook is pretty unique in that regard. Would be curious to know how many people are in that group though... I imagine it's pretty small compared to their general software engineering workforce. You can do similar work at Google, but they don't let you release your work Open Source. :-) Trade secrets and such...
No it's not. "True Republicans" was in quotes. Republicans are supposed to be for smaller government in theory. In practice they sometimes seem "small enough to fit in the bedroom".
Sorry, it's back.
Best recommended books for entrepreneurship/interesting life things?
I'm looking for a new book to read during the last leg of my day before I sleep. I want to read something qualitative that I can apply in every day life. Similar to 4 hour work week perhaps?
You're right. I think it's quite possible that the reason why nobody surfs on their TV is that nobody has made it an enjoyable experience yet.

Back in the days when we had to use WAP to get web access on phones, I'm sure nobody imagined that we'd be doing desktop style browsing on the small screens of our phones.

Even having PDAs/phones with great screens sucked. I had a Toshiba e800 PocketPC with a VGA screen, but browsing on that thing sucked. And then in 2007, along comes Apple with phone having a less dense screen than my e800 but a vastly better browsing experience. And now, with awesome browsing experiences available on all smartphones, people have trouble remembering how the Internet on a phone used to suck horribly.
OpenERP is great, but a full ERP needs a lot of people and sales, I just don't need to make a requisition for every thing I buy, neither do I need purchase orders, or so much as openerp offers. I just need GnuCash to manage inventory and thats all
Speaking of the EULA, couldn't I just lie to my tablet?

Assume there's no communication back to Microsoft and no need for a license under copyright law. Couldn't I just click the "I agree" button while not actually accepting the EULA? Surely, the tablet itself can't be a party to a contract, right?
Those alleged 6 bn sound a lot like the fictitious $150k per illegally copied songs or the x bn the music industry allegedly loses due to illegal downloading.
You're right, you're right. The VA thing is a bad example. Enterprise software is expensive because big companies make themselves expensive to sell to. And the government is the biggest company of all. I'm sure they spend seven to eight figures on the cruddiest of CRUD apps from companies like Oracle.

On the other hand, something like a basic CRUD app could really help out a charity or non-profit that serves disadvantaged populations, and that could be built in Rails or Django for just a few days of developer time.
The World's Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income
> The felling of rainforest, the Earth's inhaler of carbon dioxide.

Actually, if (and I'm aware it's a big if) they cut down the rainforest and plant new trees there, it's actually a net win for carbon dioxide.

There is nothing better for carbon dioxide than cutting down a tree and using it for wood or paper AND replacing it with a new young tree.

Of course I don't know if they are actually doing that.

And it's likely to be bad for the animals that live there.

Best would be to thin the forest, and plant new trees as you go. (Or let the forest self seed.)
You don't even need to zoom in that far to see it.

Focus on Brazil and hit play, and you'll see the lower margin of the Amazon just dissolve upwards over 30 years.
Los Alamos here!
My War Story: Worst Project Ever
You mean you can send someone to "the hole" for sending them a questionable book? And Amazon will fulfill this for order for any prepaid credit card?

Am I the only one seeing a problem?

Not that a book on covert CIA tactics is really related to his sentence, but let's pretend.

Meh. Keep sending books to weev. If this gets him in trouble, not that I'm hoping it does though I wouldn't doubt it would, anonymously send books on prison breaks to tens of thousands of prisoners and overwhelm the system and give their lawyers, and his, ways to challenge the madness.

Sitting quietly and accepting the crap just because they'll make it hurt more otherwise is still the losing option.
Planetary Resources Opening the Space Frontier to All
Looks like the board authorized a notice of remediation against the teacher. Here is a video of the decision: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Is_Awj4Pvg&feature=youtu....
It is imperative to fight for principles when it first occurs not when your own ass is in the fire.

We lost the apple devices as general purpose, android is not much better and the walled gardens are encroaching the PC.
Entropy and Evolution of a Codebase
Cool, looks like BabbleFlix, which I tried starting in 2009, but ran out of runway. Check out the videos on YouTube for so possible improvements.
When is Elon Musk going to make an electric car that costs < $30,000 new though?
Here's a paper from last summer on how Pixar is doing the computations for global illumination more efficiently with a "multiresolution radiosity caching method." http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RadiosityCaching/paper.pdf

I don't know much about graphics but maybe some of you will find it illuminating (no pun intended....)
[video] Rails Conf 2013 How Shopify Scales Rails
FWIW, As a lawyer, I have a lot of trouble believing that assent to a contract you can't avoid, done specifically for the purpose of removing the contracted software, would ever be held to bind you to the terms and conditions of that contract.

In fact, i'd go so far as to say that if Microsoft ever actually tried to enforce, it would run them into serious regulatory trouble.

If push came to shove, i'm sure they would take the position that this was a hardware issue, and not their legal intention.

(I completely agree this is a ridiculous situation, and you shouldn't have to agree to anything. But it actually makes for great facts to fight a clickwrap fight on)
These services that are owned by big companies and are generally free (1 TB limit) don't have an incentive to make something for the user. They care about their customers the advertisers. You should rather invest in a service that's built by people who love photos and build the service with a clear business model. A model that powers the user. Where the user pays for the service and thus becomes the customer. Now any decision the company makes it has to put the users first who are the customers.

I am one such person who feels this way about these giant social networks. So I built http://pixter.in , a service that puts users first. Do check it out.
Daily meetings are not really for obtaining useful status information. They're about habituating people into doing real work every day, so that they don't feel like jackasses when they have to report to their peers that they didn't do anything yesterday.

People ostensibly do work to get paid, but that's not really what motivates them to get anything done. Fear of losing face is one such motivation. The dollar is the currency of this century, but social currency is millions of years old and works much better.

And that is why these meetings must be face to face; email doesn't generate enough shame.
There were many legitimate users as well. The service was better than PayPal
Most EULAs cannot validly bind consumers to future as-yet-disclosed terms.

As above, in this specific situation, where you are agreeing because that is the only way to effectively remove the software, i have trouble seeing any court holding you to those terms.

If you were trying to get around agreeing to the license but still using windows 8, sure.
At least in previous versions of Windows you could click "no" to the EULA and you could use the draconian terms as an argument to get a Windows refund.
Get over yourself, dude
"Ice sheets don't concern me one bit. Ice and cold is definitely one thing humanity can do with less of."

You say that as if the melting of the ice sheets doesn't have its own downstream effects on the world's climate and ecosystems.
The average pay for a full-time Walmart worker is $12.40 an hour. That's just under $26,000 for a year of full-time work, which is below the median wage for an individual. Most Walmart workers are part-time and, so, do not earn that much. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/21/1163555/-The-truth-...

Working at Walmart is not a job that will put you solidly in the middle class.
Maybe it says that Afghanistan's border is a pile of western-motivated political crap and the country shouldn't be.

Hell, Quebec wants out of Canada and we generally all get along fairly well. Imagine how we'd feel if all the provinces felt the same and were actively and brutally fighting. Why are we trying to hold this mess together?

We've got this manifest destiny thing like we've got to make 1946's border permanent.
It's fairly accurate to think of it as a place that has tried as hard as possible not to move away from the Soviet economic/social/political model.
Actually this thread was not about routine employer-employee searches, but Harvard College and faculty email searches. Harvard is as far as I can tell unique in providing its faculty -- thanks to a very able computer science professor there -- with contractual privacy rights that go above and beyond the rights any other university or employer provides.

(The resident deans whose email was searched were faculty, not staff employees. The 12 RDs of the Houses are faculty with a lecturer rank: two of them serve on the Faculty Council; Harvard views RDs as faculty when reporting faculty counts; Harvard tells US News and World Report they're full-time faculty, etc.)

But then of course the thread veered into other directions including Google, Qwest, shell corporations, the NSA, the British Parliament, Comcast, etc. As usual!
I have had a problem with it -- or, rather, a problem which it made more difficult. From a comment a few months ago in a systemd thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124589):

> "Getting smbd/nmbd to work again was a real adventure. Like other users reported, it would just silently fail when starting it from systemd. No error message when issuing the start command, and only a vague "failed" in status. I ended up having to track down Lennart's blog post on "systemd for administrators" to figure out how in blazes to extract anything useful from that cussed binary log system he invented. My first half-dozen or so attempts to get anything useful out of the log journal got exactly zero results; I finally got lucky on another approach..."

I'm really not fond of the idea of having to search logs for information. Being able to page through them is actually super nice. Being able to tail -f them while kicking a process over and over again to see why it's mad at me is also really nice. I think I've heard that some people have come up with tools that will translate the binary log data back to text again, which helps, but that seems a little silly.

I'm running Debian (on everything that's not running BSD) now in part because they've been deft so far about handling the transition to systemd. I'm sure Debian will switch to it eventually, but I also trust them to make sure the major issues are all dealt with before they do.
That kind of comment does not have a place on this site imo.
Do they not even use EDI to communicate between the systems?
Th second half of that video series is a police officer saying "we aren't trying to ensnare innocent people, but, yeah, everything that lawyer said is good advice.".
(edit: post author, [not OP]) here. Thanks for the feedback!

> I guess one of the key insights is that each data has a canonical server owner which enforces the consistency of the writes of the data at a single place.

Well, this is the way I presented it, because it's easiest to understand. But, if you want a replicated system that provides HA, there are alternatives (http://www.bailis.org/blog/non-blocking-transactional-atomic...).

> When a third client3 tries to read the latest value of x or y, what is the latest value of its peer data? It looks like depending which data client3 starts with, it would get a different version of the peer data? ... Am I missing something or this is the semantic in determining the latest values of peer data?

Good question! This ultimately comes down to how you want to handle concurrent writes. Many distributed databases use a "last writer wins" strategy when reconciling concurrent updates (that is, the correct behavior is specified to be that the database serves the highest-timestamped version of a given data item). Now, in your example, the clients both started their writes at the same (real-world) time and used this time as a basis for their timestamp, so the "last" write is undefined. We need a way to break the "last writer wins" tie. In practice, this can be something like the client ID appended to the last few bits of the timestamp or even a hash of the value written--as long as the tie-breaker is deterministic (that is, different replicas don't decide different "winners"), it doesn't really matter which is chosen.

In practice, to avoid storing every value ever written, you'd want to provide some kind of "merge" function for multiple writes, and, in our implementation and in often practice, this is last writer wins (plus some deterministic tie-breaker for identically timestamped but distinct writes).
D3 has some fairly extensive API documentation on GitHub, which I personally believe is pretty great. There are also links to various resources on d3 GitHub wiki and for extra measure I personally like to study Michael Bostocks' bl.ocks.org site for example visualization a with code samples.

Nothing beats thousands of example implementations written by the creator of d3 himself.