skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a problem if your app depends on functionality delivered after a certain patch level, though.

For example, if my application depends on some feature delivered in 4.2, I need to be aware that my potential market is less than 5% of devices in the wild.

On the other hand, if the app is 100% compatible with the 2.3.X line, I can count on the all of the devices working, but I also should regression test with the updated versions to make sure that they work.
That little graphic only shows that Europeans are now less likely to create huge companies, and has nothing to do with the stability of the local economy there. For example, Germany has a strong economy built around an agglomeration of small and medium-sized businesses.
More about the "Mittelstand": http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/working/introducing-the...
SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy page shows landing legs
Anyone else find this hard to read? The light blue/cyan is about 3 shades lighter than ideal. Especially for links.
In what way?

What would happen to your business in you spent 20 minutes answering emails tomorrow morning then went fishing for the rest of the day? What would happen if you did that twice a week from here on out?

If the answer is yes, the business would implode within a day, is there not something you could do to change that?
I would also like to see something like this.
Ask HN: Where can I find web designers for the "Hacker News Startup 2013" style?
I have several websites that I need redesigned, and I want to get designs that are consistent with the recent trend of startups here on Hacker News.

I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel here, I'm really just trying to create some websites that are consistent with the latest design trends...if you frequent this site then you know the look I'm talking about. It's almost like all the new websites these days are starting to look the same. Yeah, I need someone who can make things look like that.

This is for apps, SAAS websites, and startup companies.

Sites like 99designs don't seem to really offer this style. Furthermore designers at places like that tend to drop a PSD on you. I'm looking for the responsive HTML5 retina-ready stuff.

Several questions:

a) Can you make designs like this?

b) Do you know anyone who can make designs like this?

c) Do you know any sites (like 99designs, etc), where designers who can make designs like this hang out?

or if not...

d) Does this style of design have a name that I can search for more easily?

I have money to pay. Need designs. A bunch of them.

P.S. I don't want to use templates. I want fresh designs created custom for me based on my ideas.

Random examples from the top off my head of the style I'm talking about:

http://www.hipchat.com/
http://mailchimp.com/
http://zenpayroll.com/
http://github.com/
http://cageapp.com/

etc.
In Spain (or at least where I live) "escaleras" means stairs, and "escalera" means both depending on context. "Escalera de mano" is the ladder-specific word.

"Voy por la escalera" sounds fine to me if you're taking the stairs.

EDIT. Another example: when a building is divided in two stairs (left and right) we mark it as "Escalera Izquierda" and "Escalera Derecha".
In layman terms: rebase wipes out your commits and replaces them with new ones. Notice how the hashes change when you do a `git rebase master`, it's not just re-ordering them. If those commits have been published or pulled from someone else, you are destroying history.
Tipping isn't for quality of the food, as highlighted by the fact that the tips are often legally restricted from being passed on to the cooks. It's for quality of the service.
Or does a restaurant have to 'hide' these costs as an added percentage in order to make their prices seem reasonable?

You hit the nail on the head here. Some places "hide" this charge better than others. I once had another patron at a place let me know that my check already included tip so I wouldn't double tip, as my check just had a total on it. It wasn't itemized at all. That seemed pretty dishonest to me.
Ridiculous just like doing anything else you don't have a passion for is ridiculous? Like paying bills? Accounting?

He wanted to start a company. That implied, in his case, learning to code.

Just like finishing my degree implied long days working to pay it (wasn't very passionate about cleaning barracks I can tell you ;-)

(Btw, I'm one of those who started coding at age 12 by picking up the c64 manual.)
Math uses single letter/symbols usually because those letters have a very short scope, and they are always well defined before usage (or there is a pattern that any mathematician would recognize). Also, short naming is a boon in math because the mathematical objects defined are pretty constant: everyone learns the same notation and that notation becomes the basis for the next layer of abstraction.

Programming by its nature is an exercise in re-enventing the wheel (how many different semantics are there for opening a file in all the different languages in use?). Also, the sheer number of algorithms and abstractions in use in programming dwarfs that of mathematics.
In writing we call this "The Genius of Desperation".
I recently installed Scala. I'm a PHP Dev, who plays around with Clojure on the side, but wants to be converted into the static typing camp. I also wanted to keep things functional (hence my love of Clojure, and my PHP code keeps things as immutable as possible), but also have a language that is usable if I were to go and get another programming job.

Scala seemed a perfect fit. Until I looked at job boards for Brisbane :(

For those that use it regularly, what sort of things do you build in.it? I really want to replace PHP with something, but between Enterprise Language Java and just-as-dynamic-as-PHP Ruby and Python, Scala looks like the only language that might fit... but then Play as a framework looked very heavy for my usage.
I would assume to stop the restaurant owner/manager taking some (or all) of the tips.
Beautiful. Glad to see another open source project with a solid site.
A lot of people love to try and make a case for Singletons. I have yet to see anyone make a really, truly good case for a pure software singleton. They just make it an absolute nightmare to be well informed -- as a developer -- about state in complex/concurrent/distributed systems.

The only time I ever use them is when my hands are tied by some sort of hardware restriction; a JNI wrapper around some native lib that talks to proprietary hardware like a motor controller where instantiation of more than one comms object would blow out a fuse or something. And even then, I'd make the argument that the people who designed the hardware and its corresponding C API should have just made a safer interface instead of saying "Don't call `new` more than once, or else!". Seems lazy and less-than-appropriately fault tolerant.
Totally agree. The licensing is ridiculously opaque and complex.

As a simple example: If I understand correctly, BizSpark lets you install a couple of copies of Office and use it for regular word processing tasks within your startup. However, you cannot install the BizSpark Windows 8 desktop license -- those are only for testing and development. I think. There's no indication of any restrictions on the license key download page.
When Silos Make Sense
.us is great, I too am surprised at how little I see it in use. Aside form the more restrictive application process, I think it partly stems from the fact .us came after .com and also initially a lot of users had confusion about TLDs (the type of people who would recite addresses like "h-t-t-p-colon-forward-slash-forward-slash-w-w-w-dot-example-dot-com" instead of just "example dot com"). Rightly or wrongly a lot of companies played it safe and went for .com.

On a related note, I have always disliked the fact that UK TLD disallows use of .uk, instead lumped with the crappy .co.uk.
Ha ha, this makes me laugh a little. The only time I've ever had any waiter chase me after I had left was at Decibel, a Japanese sake bar in the East Village (New York). My friend and I had ordered two small glasses of sake, totaling about $25. My friend, being new to the city, tipped the waiter in the customary bar fashion: $1 a drink, because the waiter did nothing except pour us our sake (and was slow in arriving) and never followed up except to take our bill. The waiter (who was most definitely of Japanese ethnicity) angrily demanded if we had a problem with his service, and if we didn't, why did we only tip him $2.

I don't know how closely this sake bar hews to any Japanese convention (my guess is that it's be the Japanese version of hipsterism), but it was an amusing episode that led me to never revisit that bar again, as much as I like the place.
I don't think he's talking about "git pull" from a central repo, but instead a "git pull <url-to-linus'-private-repo>".

But I can also imagine it being useful for everybody to pull the code from the last release and work on it, before a single person pulls the code, merges, and commits it to the central repo.
Notice that amongst all the discussion of money and wages, one thing that is completely avoided is any thought of operating on a lower profit margin. All the hand-wringing about poorly paid staff, but never once any thought about taking less money for himself to aid their plight!
Agreed. If I didn't see a service charge, I would assume that I was supposed to tip. If my tip was then refused, I would just be confused and make them explain the whole system. Easier to just say that service is a fixed percent charge and meet expectations.
Give it a try now - and we'll add more women - thanks
I didn't see where it said they did this for cost-effectiveness
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Back when I lived in San Diego I took my parents to the Linkery. The service was so bad it actually reversed my opinions against tipping. The servers clearly didn't care much about making us happy, messing up almost every aspect of the order. They put meat in my food - I'm vegetarian. My father got his food 20 minutes after my mother and I did. The waiter forgot one of my drinks. We called over the manager who offered us a free dessert to make up for it. Guess what? The dessert was on the bill. I'm always happy to tip 20+% for good service, but being forced (yes, we asked) to pay the service charge added insult to injury.

This is just one data point, but the Linkery was infamous around San Diego for having much worse service than other places in a similar price range. I'm convinced their experiment with tipping was correlated with this.
I think it's because a) math started on paper, and b) the way you interact with math documents is different than the way you work with code.

Most of conventions used in math come from the time before computers; on paper, every character you don't have to write by hand is a big time-saver.

Moreover, math papers tend to be read top-down. You start at the beginning, and gradually build your understanding and "symbol-to-concept" mapping table as you go down. Whereas in code, you often just jump in the middle of a file to change something, and you don't want to read 1k lines of code in some random place to determine what f(a,b,q(z)) means. Descriptive names allow you to have all the context you need inferable locally.

Note that many good principles of programming are exercises in maintaining locality. Reducing program state, functional programming style (function output depends only on inputs, not on hidden state), writing small functions, building abstraction layers (treating one layer as a "programming language" for the layer above) - all of these allow you to understand and change the code you're working on without having to look at unrelated things.
Windows only.

> Oh and we're using Windows because games only exist for it, and I can't get the setup to work on OSX (haven't tried too much though).
Not the best submission title.

Spotify isn't mutually exclusive of the myriad other ways musicians can earn from their music online, many of which are described on this very same infographic.
I really want to share this with people, but it's horrendously slow. I uploaded a 2048 x 1536 image generated from my iPad, and it has been processing it for the past 10+ minutes.

edit: over 20 minutes now. I had to restart it.
>Later it turned out that the 4 bloggers who harassed had clearly stepped over some line, and said some things that were at the least, very rude.

I thought none of the 4 bloggers had said anything, but were merely associated in some way with a comment? Chris Locke certainly didn't harass her: http://rageboy.com/statements-sierra-locke.html
Do you routinely tell anyone in the restaurant about bad servers?

Maybe it's possible that it is a coincidence that restaurants with tip sharing have bad servers. Your feedback could be valuable.
I think it is important to note that margins are slim only in the "restaurant with no bar business."
The problem is that the counterpoint doesn't have very much to do with issue at hand. It's like a number of people read "Denmark" and thought "Let me tell you what is wrong with Denmark!". This is exactly the type of political discussions that should be avoided on HN, because when arguments are vague and with little relation to the article the quality of the discussion will suffer.
Why? Do you think the US government mostly spends that money on good things? They mostly spend it on foreign wars and throwing it at a broken and disfunctional black hole of education, healthcare and social programs.

People actually working in restaurants have earned that money and can use it to better their lives. It's a moral crime to forcibly take the money from them.
I've been assuming this is what Apple is going to do with the next MBP retina. Intel graphics when headless + a new Thunderbolt Display with built-in Nvidia or ATI card when "docked."
I can see the point of a fixed service charge for certain situations (e.g. large parties, or if the restaurant wants to avoid the problems with tipping like the OP) when there is an existing cultural expectation of tipping. But if there's no expectation, how can you justify the service charge? Isn't this just like when ticketmaster tacks on a surprise 20% fee at the end after you've already entered your credit card info?
There aren't equivalents that I know of, but the book did start off as the Little Lisper and the recent edition that I have does have examples translated to CL in the footnotes.
naw not really... i mean bottomline, if you pay someone more to do a good job they are more likely to do a good job
For sure. There is no need to go all ragey on them. The system crashed, they got it back up, they got totally overwhelmed and are now taking actions best for their lives. No fault there. Best of luck to them. I've already moved on. ;)
You should also point out that's a 20 year old Cessna 150.
When a very rich guy tries to improve the situation of quite poor people, one should be very, very careful.
In that case you can pay on credit card and challenge the charge. Slightly unethical, yes. But no less so than what they did.
If you are a white collar worker you are a "cadre", a term that is not easily translatable but which roughly means manager. If you are a fresh software engineer from school with 0 direct report, you are already a "cadre", because this is also a kind of status thing.

And the way the 35 hours law was applied to cadres is that your contract have a "forfait annuel", meaning you have to work a number of days per year but without any limitation at all in the number of hours per week or days [1]. It also mean you generally can't be paid overtime at all because there is no time limit(except if you work on Sundays maybe).

In a previous position, I remember that my contract specified that I had to work 219 days per year, the rest being holidays or RTT. But usually you can work 50, 60, etc hours per full time week. So it does not really feel like you are at 35 hours per week.

219 days is about 44 weeks.

44 weeks * 50 hours / 47 = 46 hours per week on average + 5 week of paid leave.

From my knowledge, this is far more generous that what American companies are offering to their employee, but this is far cry from effectively working 35 hours per week.

[1] European law specify that you can't work more than 48 hours per week (with exceptions for executives, etc) and have a minimum rest time between 2 days of 11 hours, but this is rarely enforced in enterprises.
In fairness it should be mentioned that the first Cessna 150 was made in 1951 and the last was built in the mid-70s so we are not talking about "late model" aircraft by any stretch of the imagination.
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Yeah, I think you're right. Linus isn't talking about pulling in general, just pulling from his work.
There's only one way to find out... ;-)
I'm not an Android app developer, but can someone explain to me what the big deal is? I've been developing Windows desktop software, Linux desktop software and Unix server software for years. The hardware diversity on all those 3 platforms is huge. Heck, if you're developing web apps, it's like every user uses a different machine. I've never seen anybody claiming that Windows is fragmented. So what's so special about Android that people put the "fragmented" label on it, and why is that a big deal?
I wonder how many people are planning on going the Musk/Gates route: first make it big in something plain, then use your fortune to tackle the big problems.
Scala is statically typed while Clojure is dynamically typed. Comparing them is irrelevant.

> There's almost no excuse not to use Scala if you're deploying on the JVM.

s/deploying on the JVM/a Java developer/
Quick search turned up http://www.reddit.com/r/passive_income/ but that seems pretty dead at the moment.
If you had to project a user interface onto the surface of vegetables, no doubt you would find that variety isn't your friend. The user interface that has a lot of detail and works great on a 4kg squash is going to be impossible to see on a radish and, because there are many, many sizes inbetween, you end up with perhaps dozens of levels of detail to design for with many quirks if you're not super-careful.

Meanwhile, some fruit company chooses to only accept a handful of fruit sizes: an apple in two lengths, and two sizes of watermelon. Your job of projecting a user interface onto those surfaces is an order of magnitude easier because you're really only dealing with a couple of levels of detail to design for.
When I was a kid my town had two newspapers. A broadsheet and a shitty rag called The News. The guy who inherited The News went on to buy the other paper and then like a cancer take over the world. Today 11 of the 12 Australian capital city dailies are owned by just two companies.

There are a few independent online news services but having the Guardian start an Australian branch is a welcome boost to democracy here. Visiting the Australian sub-site on a co.uk domain wasn't all that attractive for a country that has been independent since federation. So well done everyone at The Guardian.
Having lived in Japan for the past few years, I'm so over the tipping culture it's pretty hard to stomach when I go back to the States. Besides the issues it causes for employers that this article covers, I really dislike the power dynamics that it causes for the customers: but maybe not in the way you would think.

While the customer may be financially powerful in the relationship, I feel that tipping culture gives power to the server to withhold good service as a punishment or as an optimization strategy at their own discretion. It causes a server to judge you as soon as you walk through the door... will this person give a good tip? Should I ignore them and focus on this other table?

The worst part is that the tip happens at the end of the meal after all of the 'costs' of providing good service are already done. If the patron stiffs the server, then the effort was 'wasted.' It's far better to make an educated guess based on… what? the way they dress? their grammar? the car they pulled in with?

It's a terrible system.
This is an odd title. The article gives an interesting explanation for why, theoretically, a restaurant would choose to go with a service charge rather than a tip-based system, but doesn't contain many observations from the now-tipless restaurant.

The whole idea of mandatory "service charges," or "fees," in any business, is kind of bizarre. It seems strange that we've accepted that certain types of businesses (airlines, hotels, ticket brokers, in some cases restaurants) should list prices that differ significantly from the actual price charged. There does seem to be some backlash against this practice: Kayak, Hipmunk, and many other travel sites now list the full price of airline tickets (though, often, not hotel rooms, with their "facility charges," whatever those are). And today I noticed that StubHub now shows prices inclusive of all fees. I understand why a business would like to list prices that are 30% lower than what the customer actually pays, but it seems a little odd that we're all OK with it.
I don't think that is valid reasoning. I would bet you are probably right, as that is "why", but I see no reason why an owner shouldn't be prevented from gathering up all the tips, and distributing them to the staff in any way they please (provided it is above the min wage).
> Good servers are compliance professionals

I hate it when people use terms without defining them.
Most restaurants operate on exceedingly thin margins, especially compared to the sorts of businesses HN people run.
Would a Binary CSS format reduce page load times?
The last Cessna 150 was made in 1977 so it would be at least 35 years old.
The time investment is key and the OP is dead on. I can speak to trying to learn Objective-C last year on nights/weekends and not really learning the fundamentals behind I was doing, despite being able to follow along with the books I was reading and the rudimentary apps I was building. It requires a full-time commitment, which is why so many of the development "intensive" programs and workshops are time intensive (at least 8 hours per day) over anything else.

Unfortunately, the time commitment becomes prohibitive to those that have to keep running the job/consulting treadmill and can't fall back on an investment banker salary (or similar) to fund their creative ambitions for a year or more. That unfortunately is the real answer to the post's title.
I live in Denmark. Here tipping is almost not even heard of. Maybe our food just costs a little bit more, I don't know - because it doesn't say "+ 10% tipping fee" or something anywhere. Here you just pay the prices noted next to the food and drinks that you order.

And the kicker, the service is always good. Because if the server isn't nice, they'll probably get fired. Because guess what, serving food and being polite about it is their job. That is what they're getting payed for. So demanding extra money to do their job with a smile just seems too weird for me.
Is there ever really a case where the server is so bad that you have to take it to the manager? In my 14 years of frequently going out to eat I am hard-pressed to recall even one such instance.

I think it is quite peculiar that the service of the server is perceived to be such a profoundly important component to the overall restaurant experience. Think of it this way: have you ever had to report a floor clerk at JC Penny or Sears to the manager, because he ruined your buying experience? Or a McDonald's employee or a Taco Bell employee? Front floor people are important, but it's probably not fair to place them above people in the background (cooks, dishwashers).

This reminds me, my favorite restaurant (Pita Inn in Evanston Illinois) does not even have servers, you just pick your food up, go to the table and eat it. Honestly, I prefer the "experience" there over other fancy restaurants -- I just like to be given my food and eat it without interruptions, and without going through a sometimes-socially-burdensome task of having to decide on a right tip.