skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think about it, that analogy doesn't really work. The rooms that guests stay in are almost all along the outside because guests are paying customers. The janitor's storage rooms, room service kitchens, elevator shafts, mechanical access corridors and other such workspaces are located on the inside in the less valuable parts of the building. Not every room has an outside window - only the rooms for VIP's, which is oddly similar to the situation in most office buildings.
First HN commentators are not employees or workers in the legal sense.

But the employee now works for the acquiring company B how is it legal that the stake holders in company A can be penalized after the fact for the acquired employee deciding that he doesn't like the new employer.

And I thought TUPE was strange in the EU
In your example, if you have a presumably valid patent and you file a patent suit, then you can readily name the patent that is being infringed.

The opposite is the famous example of lawyers from IBM basically extorting money saying "do you want us to go back to Armonk and find some patents which you DO infringe?" The implication is "pay us now and we won't make life harder for you using the legal system, because we think we can". That is not justice, nor is it in anybody's interest except the holders of many patents.
That is really slick. I think I'll try using it.

Any chance of it dumping out the HTML for me? Also a email/password confirmation field would be useful.
Why I started a company in college
Except many of those are new construction that are designed to be long and narrow. Most existing office buildings were not designed that way.
My S3 has never had a Pizza Hut bookmark.

Never had the second problem.
But here's the thing, you've associated conversation with awkwardness and banality. Neither of those are intrinsic qualities of conversation, it's quite possible to have just the opposite, if you want to and know how to. The key is being comfortable in your own skin, and that's a great quality to have, both for yourself and for others, and both for those with introverted tendencies and extroverted tendencies.

If small talk annoys you (and I totally understand why it does), consider its function. It's meant to be an ice breaker, not the focus of an entire conversation (unless there's no time for anything else).
may be you should start looking for a time accelerater instead? :-)
Lets kill two birds with one stone and just land the ISS on the moon. ISS done. Moonbase done.
20% LOL! If only it were that low. I used to be a reputation management company, at one time we were responsible for 10% of the reviews in Silicon Valley. There were metro's where we were about 80% of the reviews.

When you think that the majority of companies have less than 10 reviews, and most owners can't resist doing a review, and having a friend do a review you are at 20% really fast.

When you combine that with organizations like Blackwaterops.com (my old company) that used to do 1000s of reviews a day. 20% is really low, and wrong.
Fetchlands are so good because Brainstorm is so good. If you Brainstorm without a fetchland, you put your two worst cards on top of your library, meaning you're doomed to see those cards the next two times you draw. With a fetchland, you're no longer "Brainstorm-locked."

Deathrite and Tarmogoyfs are considerations too, but they're not played nearly to the extent that Brainstorm is.

Deck-thinning is another oft-cited use, but in practice, the extra land out of your deck is unlikely to give you a statistical edge unless you're shuffling and drawing a lot that turn. It's far better to save your fetches to shuffle away Brainstormed cards.
Depends on the alien, no? They might think we should've just built more supercomputers and colliders, and predicted everything else out from there.
Show HN: PGPSender - disposable mail relay with support for OpenPGP encryption
Hello,
I am maintaing a public email relay with support for OpenPGP encryption. I use it at work or at times i am away from my computer. The site uses HTTPs, optionally you can encrypt the content with PGP public key. I though somebody else could find it helpful. The service is and always will be free.<p>Btw, if you would like to see the interface translated to your native language, let me know, I'll send you a template.<p>Link: https://pgpsender.org
> It's a peculiar mind that can ignore the fundamental values of morality and kindness, and go straight for the edge cases that justify your warped sense of righteousness.

Truly sorry, you see I've studied too much history to believe anything remotely like "fundamental values of morality and kindness" exists. There are no values independent from ideology. Besides, you should get out more. Find a way to talk to one of those niqab'ed women, ask them what their values on the equality between men and women and then tell me how fundamental those values are.

There is no such thing as an inbuilt human morality. You wouldn't believe what some societies did, or even what they considered kind. You know how they say a "Spartan" upbringing these days ? Here's what it used to mean : Spartans are famous for considering the following a kindness : when a (male) kid turns 7, lock up his mother, and leave the kid with a small spear in the woods, where wolves are sure to find him. If he came back without a dead wolf, do it again until the kid is dead, or a wolf is. They considered this a kindness, both to the kid and to his mother, and also to the state. Tell me, how does this fit with your fundamental values of morality and kindness ?

Or read a few Greek plays. Pay attention to who fucks who, and how many people end up poisoned/stabbed/otherwise dead as a result. I don't care how free you think sexuality should be, I guarantee you will not find that behaviour moral or acceptable. Yet the Greek heroes are as bad as the losers, and they are certainly depicted as extremely moral. That they (sometimes) raped their own mother, sisters or daughters does not affect the story's judgement on their morals at all. And let's just stay away from the morality of the Greek gods, because while they are depicted as the definition of moral, you will massively disagree with their petty, cruel and mass-killing squabbles. Moral, in ancient Greece, it seems to me, is whatever behaviour gives you military victory.

If fundamental values don't exist, your argument falls apart, since it means you can only judge behaviour from the perspective of a religion or (maybe) ideology. That means that you yourself judge from an ideology (and frankly, you judge from the perspective of Christian values), and that your definition of an extremist is also relative.

For example, one who doesn't believe in fundamental values, might take offence at you judging a person based on "fundamental" (ie. your own) values. Which is of course exactly what you accuse extremists of.
I use DigiCert at work, and have been very happy with their support, however they are not cheap.
The lack of any categories for digital-era content creators (particularly noticeable in the "Writers" section) is possibly telling. Haven't been able to find out much about this group, though.
In many populated cities, talking on the subway/train/etc is considered extremely rude.

It changes from culture to culture, but I think it'd be weird if they didn't do something with their time since being talkative or social isn't an option. Instead of carrying around a book or sudoku puzzle everywhere for such situations, people just use their phone.
Affirming both your experience and the parent poster's.

The worst place I worked, in terms of these factors, had cubicles with an open side behind the employee, all kinds of employees side by side, and a high-traffic aisle on the open side of the row of cubes.

So, you're trying to ponder some data structure or where to put a method, and people from different departments are holding loud conversations in the aisles, rapping on steel columns as they walk by, letting their phones blare obnoxious ringtones at top volume, holding speakerphone meetings in their cubes - then a co-worker walks up quietly behind you, pops a can-top, and when you jump, laughs and says "oh did I wake you up". Soon you're so frazzled that you can't focus on anything, just being on edge all the time wondering how long you have until the next startling interruption.

And the managers can't be convinced that this has anything to do with productivity. Anything said about it is interpreted as whining about trivial details, and gets an answer like "everyone has the same conditions, maybe you should work somewhere else".

Pretty soon I did. And that organization still has no clue.
Things I Learned Working on the Twitter Platform
You should check out this suite of S3 cmd line tools too - https://github.com/aboisvert/s3cp
They aren't blatant advertisements like the Pizza Hut link. There's quite a difference.
I'm a PM of sorts, I don't do freelance but I do work for a small web agency. We're a fairly friendly bunch of people and don't fine or penalize clients for delays. That being said I'm the mean PM in the company.

This will all solely depend on your clients, their needs, and goals. Most of the time they have some sort of goal time frame for which they want to launch. You should offer them a visual schedule, and in that schedule allocate the time they have for feedback. I usually state 2 business days across the board. I also make it very clear at the initial kick off of the project that delays in feedback automatically extend the delivery date to of the final product. I also inform them I don't pad my schedule (I actually do, sometimes). It's also important to clearly communicate when feedback is due. I often include a mini chart, of when each feedback is due in each communication, again just to hammer the point. It would also be important to pull dates from the client of when they might have issues making those deadlines, ie we have a conference, board meeting, etc.

Internally this is a total issue for small companies or freelancers. I would add into your services contract that that delays of X% or value can result in a change order. Additionally it might result in a drop in resource availability for the project. Also - you might state that the project could be set to be delayed by your company and replaced with other projects while the delay occurs and will be subject to re-scheduling, of course this could totally fuck up your pipeline too. I would recommend termination, and cancellation, in particular if you bill against line items and you don't typically stay with in line item budgets.
Have you seen the short film called "I Forgot my Phone" (http://youtu.be/OINa46HeWg8)? It deals with exactly this subject and has a great surreal creepy vibe.

Made me think about how many times I've been that blinking person who didn't hear their food order, which I dislike but keep doing.
This is pretty great. Nice idea and good, simple execution.
Show HN: The correct way to solve problems with Selenium.
I hope you're trolling or joking. Comparing a Pizza Hut bookmark with iOS built-in apps, just wow.

I mean, I knew Apple haters were dense but this is excessive.
I guess given that they're looking at deck lists things that were insanely broken aren't going to be represented. Skullclamp is possibly the best card to ever exist and nowhere to be found. Jace at 19, I guess maybe it's not played across lots of formats? Though, given just how truly broken it is I'd expect pretty much any blue deck in any format to have 3 or 4 of them. Very cool stats though, I loved looking through it and going "oh man yea, that was an AWESOME card" :)
Try adding ?hl=en to the URL. A similar situation happened to my wife after visiting Germany, we had to edit her cookies and clear the "hl" parameter (IIRC) because various random Google sites were entirely in German.
This is really cool. If these were ever used at scale it could make organic farming cheaper than non. For example instead of pesticides a robot like this could pick off bugs (and or scare them away).

It could also pull weeds getting rid of the need for herbicide.
Fidelity is now using Thinknum. sweet. u can too
Russian homebrewed opiate eats its users alive
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> In many situations, people with legitimate claims have been unable to overcome the heightened pleading standard, not because their claim is weak, but because the evidence required to plead the claim is difficult to come by.

the "unless the information is not reasonable [sic] accessible" really takes a lot of the teeth out of this though
These plants have been around for some time. I suppose "Pomato"[1] is too widely-used to become a brand name.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomato
Ironically, the author's first two buy-online links are for Amazon. But the book is $33 on there, so most likely there is some windfall.
Much of what you've heard about Fukushima is wrong.
100 Days with Glass: It's Not Ready Yet
Projecting without projector:share your smartphone content on arbitrary displays
>It's amazing that on a place like HN it seems like most people just don't get this.

Communication in general, business communication still is very much dominated by desktop software (e.g. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-lync-video-confe...)
Can Twitter Predict Quality of Life?
Launching a Druid Cluster as a one-liner with Apache Whirr
Real Men Want To Drink Guinness, But Don't Expect Them To Pay For It
On a side note, which cert provider you go with can dramatically effect your latency times.

In testing, we found that DigiCert was 50-100ms faster on queries than our existing GoDaddy certificate, based on the location of their CA hosts.

The improved response time resulted in a 15% increase in traffic on our API.
on a browser, would you rather go with suggestive ads by say google, or have google actually install an adbar that everyone under the sun can spam you with ?
> They're generally chatting with their friends, or (if they're really bored) browsing content posted by a smallish list of facebook and twitter contacts

I don't think that's true, in my experience they are sometimes chatting with their friends but mostly compulsively browsing social network content, and that content is the most shallow boring crap you can imagine (pictures of food, funny cat pictures, blah blah, we all know the content I mean).
Hayden Christiansen is one step closer to realizing his life's work.

When do we get real light sabres?
Get back to me when Stop and Frisk like laws affect people in the suburbs.
How is this argument any different from "please don't buy my books at a used book shop"? Apart from the fact that everyone loves used book shops, so that would look bad...
Hah! Nokia phones break?
And circumventing the "technological protection measure" is illegal under §1201 of the DMCA.
Pretending it doesn't exist won't unconvolute the UI. I'm talking about things like "git checkout -- <file>", and "Git reset" which could just be one command if they didn't have to manage getting things in and out of the staging area.

I much prefer bzr's porcelain, it's much better designed and more sane.
I can understand not wanting to work under fluorescent light all day, but having had offices of all types, from window offices with great views to interior offices with and without windows into the hall, to a basement dungeon that was actually supposed to be a telecom closet, there is a simple, magical transformative thing you can do to your office to make the lighting less soul-crushingly artificial: Get a desk lamp. Dead serious; try it.

Ever since I figured this out, I really couldn't give a shit if I had a window or not. Ok, getting a window is a status symbol, which is nice, but whatever. Give me the option of a corner office shared with two other people or a telecom closet, and I'll take the closet, so long as I can have my lamp. [jesus, i sound like the guy with the stapler]
Why organizations should embrace randomness like ant colonies
PayPal vs. Braintree (from Braintree website)
No, It would be hypocritical if they said unlike the US or the western world. But they never said that.
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Good. It makes me feel less forever alone.
Business2Community | Countering Growing Social Threats of Brandjacking
They've bought payment providers in the past. The last big one was Verisign Payments and they've kept that running as a separate product since 2005! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/gene...

I also doubt they'll shut down Braintree or roll it into the main product.
Full disclosure: I helped edit Andrew Smart's book "Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing" and I also made the text adventure for it:

http://www.orbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/autopilot/autopilo...
Every time I see something about designing office space I struggle to be convinced that it is better than the format of Pixars. From now on, I will be posting this link as a reminder in the comments.

http://officesnapshots.com/2007/07/16/pixar-hq/
Whenever this topic comes up on HN, something that nobody discusses is the impact to people's health surrounding the overuse of headphones. Talk to any audiologist and describe how often you wear headphones; they will want to reach out and slap you across the face.

Even if you play your music at a low volume, your ears were not meant to be covered by ear buds or over-ear headphones constantly (as in, hours at a time). And yet, this is something that people in the IT industry have accepted as common practice. Just think of the looming health implications when everyone's ears get a little older, and less likely to heal properly.

About 5 years ago I had an ear infection that left one of my ears with a permanent loss of hearing. Now, it's only 5% at the top end of the spectrum (soft Ss, iirc), but it's enough to aggravate me daily. But the downside is that I can no longer wear headphones for anything more than 20 minutes at a time (it feels like pressure is building up in my head...a very weird feeling), even with no music playing. So here I would sit, in a loud open plan office without the ability to wear headphones and being asked to solve hard problems. If this were a leg or back injury and I was made to use something in the office that aggravated that problem area, I'd have a worksafe (OSHA?) problem, but for some reason people's ears are not a health issue.

Just remember, your ears are extremely sensitive instruments and they rarely get better if you destroy them. And if you think not being able to hear properly is the only side-effect, just ask someone with hearing loss what they go through. They'll likely tell you about slurred speech[2], random phantom noises, pain, etc.

[1] http://www.osteopathic.org/osteopathic-health/about-your-hea...

[2] This is caused (over time) by you not being able to accurately hear what you are saying. You hear your own voice via two mechanisms: internally through your jaw bone (mandible) and externally through your ear. Fun fact: most of your voice is heard through your jaw, which is why everyone says their voice sounds funny through when they hear themselves on video.

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I'm conflicted.. I, personally, would hire the well-rounded "generalist" individual every time. Yet, I know that as a job applicant, most hiring managers don't have much vision when it comes to developing a well-rounded team.
I recently used reveal for a conference talk, and structured it so that most of the slides are vertical. My talk had 5 horizontal slides: hello, topic 1, topic 2, topic 3, and then goodbye. I started off by saying "hi, i'm gonna talk about these three things:" and then scrolling right, then going back left and saying "Okay, topic 1" and then down.

Someone who didn't see the talk but looked at the slides found it VERY confusing.
A closer look at Dr. Oz’s 15 Superfoods
These days I much prefer CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
Nothing says reassuring quite like "supports WiFi" but also "WEP only"
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf8/P080009c.pdf [pg. 101, section 5-21]
Dazzle camouflage used by car markers to defeat auto-focus
I will take this into consideration as well.
What's your side project if you don't mind me asking?
Jason Silva banned me from his G+ stream
Congrats to Adam (and Andy) -- went to elementary/middle/high school with him, been neat to watch this product evolve over the past year on facebook.
I love real sun as well. But, no need to suffer under fluorescent glare. Desk lamps and even white xmas lights are what I use in the evening, similar to a lack of windows. Coworkers may be an impediment, unfortunately.

I wish more buildings embraced skylights. My gym for instance has its own roof and was recently remodeled. Still, I've got to work out in the daytime under fluorescent lights... sigh. At least they're warmer than in the past.
People who refuse to see the ugliness in git are the same people who think it's manly to live on the command line. Using git through Eclipse looks a lot like using SVN through Eclipse. If I right-click on a file and go Team > Replace With > Remote and select 'origin master' is saves me from trying to remember the obscure list of flags I need to pass to the command line to do the same thing.
I've noticed that I often just started asking google questions instead of trying to assemble a sequence of words that I think will divine the results I'm looking for.

It's always worked reasonably well and saves me from trying to come up with a search.

At the same time I've noticed that coming up with a sequence of search terms has been working worse and worse in google over the last couple years. I frequently get results for whatever google thinks I was searching for, especially if my original search terms resulted in very few results or no results, I'll just get a result page anyway except it's almost never helpful.

Perhaps this is an attempt to make Google more Star-Trek/Watson-like, and it's great for those use-cases. But for the other cases, like looking up specific serial numbers or whatever, it's a mess.
I'm sure there will be a lot of discussion here about the accuracy of the 20% figure, but that actually doesn't seem as important as the other findings from the research this article cites ("Fake It Till You Make It:
Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud", http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/FakeItTillYouMakeIt.pdf).

The interesting points from the research include:

1) Low ratings increase incentives for positive review fraud, and high ratings decrease them.

2) Having more reviews reduces incentives for positive review fraud.

3) Chain restaurants leave fewer positive fake reviews.

4) Businesses who have "claimed" their Yelp page have more interest in Yelp and therefore are suspected as being more likely to commit review fraud.

5) Negative fake reviews are likely posted by competitors, and show little correlation to changes in average ratings over time.

6) An increase in competition encourages negative review fraud.
But you have to be a generalist to be able to grow in a company.
I do the same and while I do get away with it, it's not appreciated at all by those people who sleep with their phone in their hand. I get crap about it all the time and if I was an employee I would be very concerned about that habit affecting my career path.

All that said, there's no way in hell I'm changing this. If something is urgent I will get a text or even a phone call. Everything else is always important but not urgent and people just refuse to think about the difference.
What is your source of information?

I am not an expert on the slave trade, but my understanding is that most of the slaves in the western slave trade were bought in West Africa, which was never part of the Ottoman Empire.

(I'm not saying that the Ottoman Empire was never involved in the slave trade. It was. So was the British Empire.)

> they even relocated mecca into africa

????
You won't need to prospect for iron or copper if civilization collapsed, the fact of the matter is we could never be "bombed back to the stone age" as there is soooo much processed iron just lying around - everywhere.
A 15 minute prostate exam. That's no party!