skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, apologies. I must have just refreshed the page in time.

> creating an environment that makes people do subpar work is something of an abuse.

I mean, I suppose that's a fair concern, but the simple fact of the matter is that MOST companies, especially large, bureaucratic ones, exhibit those same symptoms. Very few environments are 'optimal' working conditions, and what might be optimal for you might be miserable for me, and vice versa. We might be used to more amenable environments than the one exhibited in this article, but that speaks more to the luxury of other positions than it does the misery of this one.

> By saying this you're effectively making the argument that as long as a job is legal, it's not abusive.

Well, I mean, that's what the government has set the bar at, so yeah. The government has determined that working conditions meeting their rigid regulatory standards are not in fact abusive, as a matter of law.

If an employer is paying at the very bottom of the wage scale though, they're going to get bottom-of-the-wage-scale employees, which disadvantages them in the marketplace, or affects their competitive agility. Is it great? No, but I don't personally see that it equates to abuse.

Of note, I did not suggest that we couldn't (or shouldn't) boycott them for it, but calling a spade a spade, abuse it isn't, at least not to me.
Yea, I'm sure that's what he meant. /sarcasm
MS Office support has been coming a long way over the last few releases - some massive improvements in this release and 4.1. You can see come examples of what's been fixed in this version here - http://vmiklos.hu/blog/lo-41-ooxml-improvements.html (and there's a link there to what was fixed in the last version).

If you are having issues with it on work documents, you could really help out in having them fixed by trying to replicate each problem you find in a sample document, and attaching that to a bug report. Far better than just hoping someone notices it and fixes it.
I've considered this strategy, but it seems to not be as reliable as one might expect. The obvious example is the BP oil spill. The stock lost half it's value, from about $60 a share to about $30 a share, in two weeks.

However, if you didn't time the buy-in just right, you would have bought at around $35 - $40 a share (if you bought either early or late), and today it trades at $43.

That's the difficulty with many analysis ideas - they work great in retrospect only, when you can see exactly when the low points are, and can believe "If I had bought on that day, I would have made a mint." But from day-to-day, determining "that day" is virtually impossible.
Maybe it requires JS to work, I was able to read it fine on Firefox+NoScript.

Though, now that I think about it, I remember making this same complaint a couple of months ago when Chromium still compiled here.
Car hackers use laptop to control standard car
it's good to see more space but it would be nice to see IOPS options
That's what we do, but it's built into the RPC library we use, finagle:
https://github.com/twitter/finagle/blob/master/finagle-core/...

BTW, to the readers at home, note how almost all our core infrastructure is open-sourced.
Indeed, maybe the guy with the rocks takes a break right now. (https://xkcd.com/505/)
More or less 100% of asynchronous composition is done via Futures[1] whose default implementation[2] does this for you.

[1] https://github.com/twitter/util/blob/master/util-core/src/ma...
[2] https://github.com/twitter/util/blob/master/util-core/src/ma...
Pincus being a self-proclaimed scammer: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96024-Zynga-CEO-Ad...

Little on the IPO here: http://www.businessinsider.com/zynga-stock-price-valuation-2...
> Good rule of thumb for this kind of audience - invert your essay structure. Put the concluding paragraph first, then work backwards through the supporting paragraphs till you get to the original question.

> That style is much more engaging than traditional, overused, boring form of "Intro para -> 3x supporting para -> conclusion".

No, its not "more engaging" than the traditional 5 paragraph essay, because in the traditional 5-paragraph essay format, the first sentence (the thesis statement) is the unsupported (to that point!) position which the rest of the essay supports. You aren't arguing for "inverting" the "traditional, overused, boring" 5 paragraph essay format, you are arguing for using the "traditional, overused, boring" 5 paragraph essay format in exactly the manner it is traditionally taught.
$ aunpack archive #how_hard
The fact that neither you nor I have heard of the projects already doing this.
Chromecast sold out, now being re-sold for more than $80
I've been betting heavily on a turnaround, adding to my position in ZNGA each time it dipped below $3. Real money gambling I knew would be the savior and since they weren't burning much cash any more, they just had to wait for that to pass in the US.

Oh, irony.
This is a great idea. I have a tight relationship with the printer I use at http://www.cheergram.com and we are thinking of doing something similar.

I know several pro print labs and Lob's prices are a bit high. On the other hand, small run printing can be a pain. Most printers I know have minimum orders on photo prints and press products like cards have to be done in groups of 25 or 100. Also, most printers will ship to their client for free but charge a fee to drop-ship.

All-in-all, the pricing isn't terrible but you have to find some kind of specialty/niche to make it work. I don't think you could do much with just a basic "print this thing" service built on top of this.

Here's one lab I know of that actually publishes their pricing:
http://www.nationsphotolab.com/prints.aspx
It's a horrible name.
The FSF quotes the new version with "and/or" in the blurb claiming problems with wording, but that may just be an editing mistake; maybe someone went through and corrected the quotation without realizing it resolved the concern.

Either way, though, the OpenBSD folks didn't change "and" to "and/or" in their template, which ranks high for a search for "ISC license". Someone could easily copy the older, problematic version. Given the MIT license works fine, why take even a small risk?
Even if that were possible, and i suspect that it's either not or very hard, you would still need to get a fiber-optic cable through your skull and into your brain. Shining a light into your eyes isn't going to do anything in this context.
That of course assumes there's a price that is "fair" and you have a magic ability - personally or "as a society" - to figure it out while ignoring the markets (because the markets are "unfair"). I wonder how one does that and doesn't end somewhere in the vicinity of Detroit.
You can get 500 for a bounty.
At some point though the market expects this trend to reverse and the quarterly numbers to start looking very good. Which is what has been priced into the current share price.
I seem not to need an argument since you're making one for me - though you do seem to questioning my honesty which is a bit mean :-(

Nonetheless, you're right that I'm going to say that it's simply a fact that each Linux distribution develops software and puts in resources into areas that it believes fit the needs of its users. This is good, and the point of Free Software is we can all work together and collaborate without having the same goals.

Let me give you some examples of this:

1. RPM - originated in RedHat, developed by SUSE

2. Real time Linux kernel patches - written by SUSE, expanded by Red Hat

3. GNOME - significant early RH (and Ximian) project, used by lots of people

Unity was created by Canonical - it's available for free and any distribution can use it. Please cite an example of where another distribution could not get the code and use it - otherwise you're just blowing smoke.

Factually, Canonical has not said 'goodbye' to derivatives. If you're a derivative you get free use of Ubuntu resources (build machines don't run on air by the way) and you follow the community governance model. It's up to each derivative what software it uses - that's the point - it allows each 'sub-community' to work on solutions that it cares about.
Works for me, Debian Squeeze 32 bit, official Chrome 27.0.1453.93 (that's no longer being maintained by Google). I'm running Adblock Plus, nothing else relevant I think.

Not that I disbelieve you and all the others who've reported this about this site, but what do you see?
JQuery Mobile 1.4.0 Alpha
Agreed. Go buy a cheap template, and set it up in an afternoon. If the site begins to gain traction and has potential, then invest in something a little more customized. This only applies if the design and layout of your site isn't one of the main selling factors.

I mean, if you're setting up a blog, and people are going to love it because of your incredible sense of humor and unique style of writing, then a template is perfect to get up and running. If your site is about food recipes, where there's a million sites as competition, but you've thought out a unique method of navigating and displaying them to users, then you need a custom solution right out of the gate.
I'm a DigitalOcean client. You're pricing system is so fragmented than it's impossible to me to digest. Why not charge simply 5 euros and leave it like that, or use a pricing system easier to calculate. Me, as a client, I don't want to waste time calculating stuff for something that will account 20-30 euros monthly, just shot it, guys.
I disagree. Much like my very complex home routers, this printer has an awesome Web UI. Unlike my routers, you can hold the button down and it prints a complete status report, including the IP config.
It's still early but haven't had any issues so far.
This is a social commentary thinly veiled as feedback on how to improve productivity.

Companies are going to spend the smallest amount of money possible on every employee. If they are paying someone more, it's because that employee would go somewhere else if they paid less.

If you don't like the policy of firing contractors, don't blame Amazon. If you were running a company that was barely breaking even, and there were a law that would make your company spend way more money on employees after they stayed more than a year, you would make the exact same call. Or would you let the company go out of business, and put thousands of people out of work, and screw over your investors, to make some impotent moral stand?
was this on an HVM instance?
Amazon's cloud revenues rocket up as company posts loss
If I am invited to a conference and even if I tweak the flight arrangement so they pay for my wife's ticket to suit my person plans, I don't expect that my wife will be allowed inside for free.

Sounded like a pretty awkward situation as it was handled (shouldn't have been led on, and should've been encouraged to speak with his wife to arrange a meeting time later), but the non-speaker seemed a little precious to me.
Ain't that the truth. Some believe in karma, maybe he doesn't.

This will change. Look at Kleiner - investment after investment = flop after flop. Cleantech. Ouya. What's next?

Institutional money, pension funds, high-net worth individuals, sovereign wealth funds, etc. will all start realizing and cracking down on these idiotic investments left and right. It's like the eyeballs craze of the 90s. Have a site? 100,000 eyeballs a month? Shit, you're a $500M company. You'll make money somehow in the future, we believe in you.

Yeah, we remember what happened then.
TSA: What happened to lifting the liquids ban on flights?
Hardware? More than One Billion people are walking around with computers in their pockets running closed source, proprietary, binary blobs. These computers constantly track their owners while being connected to most (if not all) of their private communications services.

Even people running a "fully" open source OS are affected.

Not even the Ubuntu phone will help this problem for which there is no end in site.

This is off topic, but it's high time we open source cellular radio drivers.
And in 24 hours, Candy Crush will announce a $100M raise at an $880M valuation :)

The model is fucked. But I agree with you.
That's a VM, not a dedicated machine.

Big, big difference.
Maybe. I think Snowden is nothing more than a poker chip to Putin. If he could get something he wants badly enough he'd cash that chip.
Math journal accepts computer-generated nonsense paper
'Good enough' really depends what you need it for. I understand that LO has more people working on it than AOO, so I wouldn't expect the latter to catch up unless there's some big shift in the landscape.
Flickr is down and is going to be down for 6 hours
When to book tickets from travel sites rather than airline sites
Aflatoxin is another one, notable for turning up nearly everywhere (including bark, sometimes).

That's the example that led me to weaken my heuristic skepticism of nontraditional agriculture. I don't have a gaian spiritual attachment to traditional food production, but I'm skeptical that the testing of pesticides and fungicides used in farming, and the drugs given to farm-raised animals, is sufficiently stringent and long-term. I am okay with those in principle, but I would like them to be introduced more conservatively than today.

At the store, the choice is between organic and regular food. So I can't buy my preferred choice of food, which would use novel drugs and chemicals but conservatively and after extensive testing. One heuristic, given that choice, is to prefer organic food. Not for the reasons most organic-food pushers are pushing it, but because organic food errs on the side of economic inefficiency, while regular food errs on the side of toxicity. Since I'm thankfully doing fairly well economically, my personal risk function prefers the first kind of error.

But sadly that doesn't work. Due to aflatoxin being everywhere, organic food can be more carcinogenic than standard food is, depending on the specific food, climate, and distribution. In some cases it may be heuristically better to ingest even insufficiently tested chemicals if the organic alternative has higher levels of aflatoxin. And that's true even if money is no object.

There are other examples, but that's the one that's common enough to have shot a hole in my purchasing heuristic. I would still prefer the in-between option, a class of food that does use pesticides and other drugs, but phases them in more conservatively, based on solid proof of their safety. Alas, there doesn't seem to be a profitable market halfway between regular and organic food.
I think the OP did the right linking to the original article. If this is suscriber-only you can take the time to subscribe or circunvent the blocking. BTW I use getpocket.com, it works fine.
[LinkedIn] XXX, YYY has accepted your invitation.
This is the second or third time I've received an email from LinkedIn notifying me that someone I've never attempted to communicate with (aside from possibly receiving an email from) has accepted a request to connect.

Is this a problem other people have? Is something fishy going on behind the scenes? Why are people I've whose profiles I've never viewed being sent invitations from me?

Another thing I've noticed is the suggestions for who I should connect with are people that LinkedIn has no way to know about -- people from my email that I've never viewed on LinkedIn, people I share no connections with.

I'm a bit disturbed, I don't know why this is happening, but I'm almost positive their sniffing my email somehow, since that's the only place these "connections" have ever contacted me.
im not debating its importance - as for the genetically modified part -i will give you that they werent modified at embryo stage as is typically the case in GM Species. The virus did not deliver rhodopsin - but additional genes that allowed the cells of the rats to encode the optogenetic proteins. That is by all means a genetic modification. It wasnt just a drug injection or something!
> To me, it sounds like "modify and/or distribute" means it should be okay to both modify and then distribute the modified version.

In fact, and/or is exactly the way to specify that options can either be used together or separately. The FSF's claimed problem, you'll note, isn't that this language was ever held to restrict distributing modified versions, only that similar language was once argued by a party with a financial interest in the outcome to have that effect.

Which is a pretty flimsy basis to assert a problem. I'm sure you can find passages in the GPL that are "roughly the same" language to something that someone, somewhere, argued in a court case meant something that would be frightening if it was what the similar language in the GPL passage was actually treated as meaning under the law, but the fact that someone once argued that a similar piece of the language means something doesn't mean that the language that they argued about (and even less, the actual license language that it is "roughly the same as") has ever been or would ever be given that effect in court.
the funny ironic thing is that his scamming prowess is something that makes him a good investment for many VCS. once ahner asked me (because I had made some moral corporate standard statements) whether I would as avc invest in a hypothetical next startup by asshole Steve Jobs. not entirely sure if I could resist that one but I'd never invest in Pincus's next startup out go work for it.
> The fact that a typical web-based word processor today offers only trivial formatting tools doesn't invalidate all of that previous experience and understanding; it just means that a typical web-based word processor today isn't very good at producing well-presented documents.

Or it could be that for many people, "good enough" is good enough; they simply don't care about the incremental benefits of "well-presented documents" enough to abandon the convenience of Web-based word processors.

It's sort of like the audiophiles who love vinyl record albums and vacuum-tube amplifiers but can only listen in their sound rooms, versus the iPhone users who can take their 10,000 songs everywhere they go.
It's merely a JS based modal box. You can use your web browser's devtool/inspector to delete the two divs, one for the black transparent overlay, and one for the sign-up modal.
Good grief. I wasn't trying to excuse this behavior, I was trying to tell the author not to feel as if Amazon is an exceptional case.

And in case you missed it, this is terrible for productivity.

If you want to make a stink about it, call your representative. Most companies would love to keep great folks on forever, but tax and immigration law won't allow it. There are reasons for these activities that don't involve evil profit-mongering corporate overlords.
This wasn't a choice between keeping his wife alive and speaking at a conference, or annulling a marriage! His wife knew he'd be speaking at a conference. She's an adult and is surely able to read a newspaper at a coffee shop, find an art gallery or whatever else for a couple of hours.

Non-speaker could've insisted on speaking to his wife to arrange a time to meet afterwards, fulfilled his presentation/speech, then written a complaint about lack of flexibility later.
I want other countries to enforce sanctions on us. To bad most of them are complicit...
That's hardly de DoD budget as it ignores a lot of rather costly items like the VA.
The idea that laser printers are a different world from the inkjet ripoffs is a myth from a time where they cost $1k+ and were thus targeted to professional users exclusively.

The toner in this $150 printer will come less than half full and a replacement is $78. The ratio alone tells you whats going on here.
Works perfectly fine for me. Centos 6.4 with Chrome 26
Ask HNs: Any one tried to hack the chromecast?
If it is based on chrome os doesn't google need to realize the kernel source?

I have mine or order, but I guess I am stuck waiting, but has anyone tried port scanning it. I think it would be cool if we could put another OS on it so we could get more functionality.

According to the anandtech they are using the Marvell DE3005, but I can't find this chip anywhere.

So anyone who has it tried to take it apart or any other ways tried to hack it?
Very gutsy move considering her congressional district is San Francisco. Are there enough local techies to vote her out of office, or is the anti-Republican bias too high?
I wish I had those two minutes back.
Yeah, I got into BP at 28x100, 30x200, 32x400 and got out at 45 (half each time it hit that) -- this was before I started playing with options instead. I intended to buy more on the way down. I was also planning to hold it indefinitely but needed the cash to buy other stuff (it's all in a Roth, so it's hard for me to put cash in.)

In general, though, it's not about "buying on news", it's "buying sinful industries in general, but particularly on bad news/dips" -- defense, oil/coal, alcohol, etc. The other model I've used which has been far more effectively (and less disgusting morally) is "buy products I know a lot about and really like, as long as the company itself doesn't have serious financial or leadership problems"; TSLA, MSA (they make the world's best body armor, which I loved in Iraq, Paraclete), various arms manufacturers, etc.
If an establishment wants to give non-techies the opportunity to attend, yet remain "accessible" to those without piles of money, there are a few solutions.

1. Don't take reservations.

My favourite restaurant operates on this basis. On a Friday or Saturday night you will queue for up to an hour for a table. If you prefer to avoid peak hour, there is rarely any queue for lunch. I've eaten there over 100 times and I still don't begrudge the time spent in the queue.

2. Run a lottery

Popular theatrical productions are great at this. If you don't want to book months ahead (or can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars), Book of Mormon offers a ticket lottery before every show. Just show up at the theatre and enter for your chance to win one of 21 discounted, front-row tickets.

To clarify, I'm not suggesting that the establishment in the OP wants to let the poor and/or technological illiterate to attend. However other places have managed to do so without hurting their brand.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96024-Zynga-CEO-Ad...
Thanks. Looks like I missed that. However, I still fail to see what's wrong with duplicate results.

The entire article seems like a written excuse explaining that they are not lazy, but have valid reasons not to write and maintain a FAQ section. I guess it was posted to get some mass approval here on HN and show that HN community supports their POV.
You don't even have to be 'good at security' to get a job making great salary - just a clearance and maybe a certification or two.
Try this site: https://www.ovh.ie/order/kimsufi.cgi
It's likely government regulation that forces them to choose between letting them go or paying them more.
very good; change in policy will come if the big tech companies speak up and state that total snooping is bad for business.

If one is all for snooping then the sited argument is 'national security' - a very pressing concern.
If one is against snooping then the only argument one has are 'civil rights' - this is a matter of principles, meaning that is not of immediate concern; there is always something more urgent to override matters of principle.

If one states that snooping is bad for business then this again moves the argument against snooping into the realm of urgent issues.
Well, obviously you don't hang around with the cool kids, then. :)
I asked a physicist. The headline and article are both stupid but the science is good. It's like the paint thing except that when light hits paint, the paint affects the light, they interact, the information in the light gets messed up. With the fancy crystal thing they are preserving the information.
This same thing happened to my wife yesterday. I didn't have any idea how that happened.
(For fun, I just searched through our entire codebase. The only manipulation of locals anywhere is in the util library.)
Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 is released