skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to put this quick history in a broader context, you may want to mention that Latvia was part of Russian empire for 200 years before gaining independence around 1920. Soviets occupied Latvia 20 years later in 1940.

Statement about "Nazi war machine crushing Latvia" is not entirely accurate - on the contrary, Latvia was part of Nazi war machine: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Legion_Day
Your candor in matters of business is _incredibly_ refreshing. Thank you.
Interesting. Also: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/specialty_areas/br...

At any rate, if these were researchers at Johns Hopkins, that'd be one thing. But I won't believe that this product does what they claim unless they do actual studies with it and post them on their site. But. I suspect they won't. Because I suspect they're using the Soylent scientific process: "We tried it on ourselves and it seems to work! And didn't kill us!"
I think T-Mobile was the inspiration for Koodo, Virgin Mobile Canada, and all the others which in the last few years have issued enough competition to take my phone bill from $95/mo to $35/mo. Hopefully they'll copy this new move, too.
By whom? The system? The developer bears at least a little responsibility for submitting a bid that is too low to cover successfully completing the project.
Which is why we've been testing Hangouts for such things, yeah :) I have hopes. It's pretty nice for some things. That said, it isn't there yet.

It has the ability to share windows (awesome!), but there's a persistent watermark that's annoying and covers stuff up. Quality is often worse than Skype, which means waiting a few seconds while it clears up the text.

It has crashed and/or disconnected more often (never thought I'd say that, it's kind of hard to beat Skype here, but it has). Acceptably stable still, but it's still an annoyance.

For communication purposes, it doesn't have real persistent chatrooms, so we lose history if someone doesn't check in for a day or so. Same with searching the history.

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All of which means we still have to resort to Skype for some things, at which point the annoyance of having multiple simultaneous communication systems outweighs our annoyance with Skype.
Yeah, what an asshole.
Wrapping an if in a lambda is unlikely to work as expected.
Actually, no. In this case, the link between numbers and objects and linking addition and subtraction to telling the "stories" of real activities is an important thing for them to know.

Far better they realize that and see the importance, than that they memorize the one digit addition and subtraction tables but think them useless and forget them entirely during summer vacation.
Uh, what? A loophole is an unintentional gap in a law. This is obviously an explicit, intentional exception.
Mint sucks, so why aren't there any real competitors in that space?
I think his point is that you are thinking about it wrong. Finding the right document template or correct organizational mindmap is a way of procrastinating; you should just start typing/writing.
Why not? I feel the overall value of the app is increased this way. There are many other much bigger free software projects.
For those wondering: both Inkpad and Brushes appear on the App Store for free from Taptrix, Inc.
Looks like someone need a lesson about standard deviations before making snarky comments.
VCs try on wearables
Some geek is without heating, misses a few deadlines and gets depression from not heaving regular healthy snack.

So lets start:

1) there is nothing wrong with sleeping long periods of time. Just a century ago most of the Europe hibernated over winter. Awake time could be as little 6 hours, but in that time you could do normal work. My great-great grandfather carved wonderful sculptures during winter time.

2) healthy food is bullshit. Only valid number under that conditions is energy content. The more fat the better. Leafs are for rabbits.

3) I think author skipped a few meals, and got depression out of that. With some practice and reasonable body fat, 3 days without food is not a big problem.

4) Dining out (in McDonnalds) or ordering stuff online is not luxury, but necessity. It might be cheaper to buy stuff this way. How are you going to cook at home if you are homeless?

5) I do not agree with connection poor = depressed. For example some really poor people can still save money for cheap holiday. By putting down this equality, you will be only helping people who are "miserable enough". This creates whole industry with really nasty side effects.

Also Social state is not the solution. I live in state with "good social system". However it has number of conditions, for example if your grandfather has a pension, you are not entitled for any social benefits. Want to marry? Forget it, your family would loose significant part of income.

Lovely part is taxation. If I would send invoice for webdesign for 1000 euro, I would only make 280 euro profit. VAT, income tax, and compulsory social and health insurance would eat most of it.

And the absolute worst part is that everyone has to pay social and health insurance (60euro per month). So if homeless guy (or prisoner after release) gets a job, their first have to pay hundreds euro to cleanup their Social Security number.
There was once a website were you, as a buyer, were assured of having complete rights over the source code and the binary of an application for which you hired a developer. Also, the developer was assured the money for the application are in an escrow account once the project was awarded and he will be paid if he can deliver in time. This site was RentACoder, later renamed vWorker. There was no way for a coder to be able to keep the source code hostage until a 5 star review was given or for the buyer to delay the payment.

Today, vWorker doesn't exist anymore, it was bought by Freelancer. On Freelancer there is no guarantee that you will get your final product (as a buyer) or that you will be paid (as a coder). Actually, a buyer can post a project, pay you for an application, get the application and than request a charge back from the credit card company :). Freelancer has no inclination to protect the buyer or the coder.
> Price: The rates mentioned in the press release apply only to voice customers. If the iPad is your only T-Mobile device, then you're looking at:

Per recent news, for the iPad Air and retina Mini this isn't true. The 200MB free data is no-strings attached.
No, I made those numbers up.
That is an absolutely fair rock to throw. What we find is that if PowerShell has a cmdlet for what you want to do, it is pretty simple to work with (modulo personal syntax preferences). If there isn't a cmdlet, then you can usually get the job done but you need to roll up your sleeves and do some coding (or searching/downloading).

This is not that different than Unix BUT because so much of Unix is done using ASCII text files, the coding is really manipulating text files which can be done easily by admins. Windows is an API-oriented OS (vs a document-oriented one) which means that the coding looks much more like programming than in Unix.

The solution is to have the cmdlets you need. We are making great progress on that front but the reality is that Unix has about a 30 year head start so it will take us a while. In V2 we had ~240 cmdlets and in V3 we had ~2,400 cmdlets. (Sadly, ZIP/UNZIP are not among them). We added more in V4 and are extending our focus (from IT pros) to devops with features like Desired State Configuration. That is very much of a minimal viable product but I think we got it basically right and there is a lot of energy around this.

I appreciate the criticisms and encourage you do continue making them and don't hold back - we really do read these and use them to make the product better. Politeness is optional but we would really appreciate specificity (like you provided here).

Please let us know other things that we should be adding, doing differently or stop doing.

Thanks!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server and System Center
I am sure this is a small detail on a grand scheme of things, but Moldova and Russia do not share a border. In fact they quite far from each other.
What may be a "change in the way it looks" to the author could, in fact, be a change in code.
Getting an MBA right after a BSc is rather useless IMHO. You won't get much benefit out of it unless you first get, say, 5 years of whatever full-time work anywhere - otherwise you'll read/hear the same thing, but get entirely different message out of that; in order for the theory to be practically useful and filter out insights from bullshit, you need some context of how that would apply in a real working environment.
I make about 100 Euro/mo with PhotoSlim (http://photoslimhq.com), a simple windows software to reduce the size of pictures. I built it although there are lot's of apps for image resizing. But they all had either too many options or were too complicated. So i tried to build the simplest possible solution for this problem. I didn't really believe, that anyone would buy it, since there are a lot of free alternatives. So I am quite happy with the outcome.
I would not call that paranoid. But I think developers who use software like Twitter's Bootstrap should be aware of feeding information to google while developing (on their test-servers, eg. local, whatever..)
Few successful entrepreneurs blog
Even a nexus 4 in a complete sealed bag would be smaller and more functional.... included leds, lot of sensors, cell chips and others...
Every budgeting application is going to have some problems with missed or incorrect data. And they've been consistently working on improving their connections with most of the major banks.

The other stuff that the author talks about are simple website changes that the Mint team could make if he just send them suggestions and ideas for improvement. I don't think they're anything serious that would warrant the claim that Mint 'sucks'.
(Like everyone else) Elance are out to make a dollar. The system isn't perfect, but show me a business that is.

I think it was HIGHLY optimistic to have a budget of less than $1,000 and to think things would be pain free.

It would have been interesting if the author had added what he had expected. The article is highly factual (this happened, and then this and then this...) but he didn't add any value judgment. What was his expectations? Was it a red flag that no one on Reddit wanted to touch it? Would he do it again? If he had twice the budget, would that have changed things? etc. etc.
Amen to that. Everybody boasts about open-source and security but in the end, we just can't just check up every single line of code we get from the internet. There is a line of security people are willing to give up: piping RVM install to shell is okay. Downloading a binary from a shady site just to get a youtube downloader, nope.
I feel like sites like Elance just foster bad client-developer relationships from the get go. With everything being so prix fixe it sets aside the #1 attribute of software development - uncertainty.

From reading this post it sounds like everything was honki-dori until the client came back with changes. Changes equate to more development which equates to more money. Clients need to understand the uncertain parts of software development better and paying up front sites like Elance and others just don't support that.
I second the recommendation for anyone who hasn't seen this movie. It was marketed as a kids movie, but has a lot of stuff in it that adults can appreciate.

It was also one of the first movies to combine significant CGI with real-world interaction.
Installing Two-Factor Authentication in Laravel with Authy
After years of reading HN it's still fascinating how submissions reach the front page. I gave this the first upvote while it was still on the first page of 'new'. And i was certain that once it would go to the second page it would not get more upvotes in the weekend. To my surprise it is now on no. 1. A few crucial votes in a short time can make the difference. And i am certain that the person who submits it also plays a role. At least for me it was a reason to open the link because i recognized the name of the submitter.
I've heard that some people are already re-signing and successfully submitting other developer's binaries.

So, I suspect there will be some submitted clones eventually. It's possible Apple would reject them for being "too similar" (if they're paying attention).

On the other hand, it would be cool if someone used these as a starting point and built something unique.
I doubt a pretty girl would have so many employees bending over backward to help her if they were all women. You're kidding yourself if you think a female-dominated industry wouldn't have handled her more appropriately.
tDCS devices are simple like that, just DC current in your brain. There has been a lot of discussion about them on HN: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tdcs&start=0
Something like this for remote work exist?
I feel like that's the case with doing consultant work in general.
Anyone know of a good place to download stats? They don't have to be live. It'd be fun to build some analysis tools.
As a non-technical founder who had to search far and wide till we found the right freelancer (and then ultimately a full timer), I've wanted to build a site that connected development shops with clients. Interesting to see how much can go wrong in what should be a very simple model.
> How do you solve a problem like overly friendly, helpful employees?

> ... training employees to: Question suspicious behavior and report it to the human relations department.

> Refrain from sharing work-related details on social networks.

> Not use work devices for personal activities.

This reminds me of something Cory Doctorow[1] said regarding the NSA. Paraphrasing: the more locked-down an organization becomes, the more ineffective it becomes. When you can't trust your employees to the point that it becomes actual institutional policy to discourage information-sharing (communication), you are guaranteed to be dysfunctional.

There is a parallel, of course, regarding the red tape surrounding procurement for large government projects in order to mitigate corruption.

Addressing symptoms, not causes, is the theme.

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[1] correction, Julian Assange: "the more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie". Which isn't precisely applicable to my comments above, so I guess that's my own conjecture.
Ah, the disadvantages of being a perpetual lurker...
Do I need a T-mobile phone with data to use this offer?
Western Union: Bitcoin isn’t ready for international money transfer yet
Lysp uses a lot of non-standard (and rarely implemented) extensions, and so would be very hard to use in most places.

The author's own Maru (http://piumarta.com/software/maru/) might be better suited for this, but I'm not sure..
Same here. I ended up accidentally triggering other words, so what I was typing wasn't what I actually thought I was typing.
You realize that what you call "axioms" of science are actually just one philosopher's take on the matter? That's kind of an important detail.
This guy is crazy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3hxcgvOTw#t=144 I think he is in it for the thrill. Not usable at all, much to big, better to just have a smartphone in your pocket. Or an arduino with sensors on your skin. Instead of implanting this.
This kind of sites have the problem (big one IMHO) that the projects descriptions are almost useless as specs, and a lot of developers don't know how build that from the customers (and rarely a customer know what to say, ask or give). I wish that when a customer send a project, somebody review it and check if the assumptions of the customer are on line with reality, or can do some consulting to properly scope the projects before div in.

Probably having projects manager in the side (not in the middle!)?
Nobody ever got a raise from their Dean or an endowed Chair because their work was celebrated for being careful, thoughtful, measured, balanced and realistic.

Plenty of science that was uber-hyped at the time has turned out to be misguided and/or even outright wrong. Plenty of those scientists have led wealthy, rewarded lifestyles as a result of the hype.

As an academic scientist one has to make a conscious decision to play the game or not play the game. There isn't a lot of room in the middle. You make your choices and you live with the consequences.

You see your colleague making double your salary, you read the press office reports hyping their work, you understand that it's no more innovative, important, or TRUE than your work or anyone else's in your cohort ... but they are playing the game.

Wouldn't you like to take your family to Hawaii for vacation? Wouldn't you like a bigger house? A nicer car? To send your kids to private school? Your University press office is practically going around begging for science stories to promote (i.e. hype). It's difficult to resist jumping in with both feet.

It's a jungle out there people.
If you view money spend on reducing risk that ended up not being fulfilled, I believe you are correct.

However, one major component of businesses that private individuals do not understand is the value of risk reduction. In a major sense, many businesses are in the business of reducing or quantifying risk.

To an individual, it may not be worth $100k to make sure everything runs correctly. To a business, that might be an easy decision.

It is especially compounded because private individuals don't typically calculate the cost of their time. If a business can spend $100k to make sure their website doesn't go down, their ROI calculation is: probability_of_downtime * cost_per_unit_downtime + cost_to_fix + cost_to_report_causes + cost_to_explain_why_it_happened.

At $100 - $300 per hour per employee, costs rise FAST.

Businesses need to control risk, and will pay money to do so.
AFAIK, that was Julian Assange.
Keith's comment surprised me. I found at least one counterexample among companies we've funded: Jason Freedman of 42Floors. But there are certainly not many.
Google may understand engineering, but not design [...list of half-baked products]

Apple is lauded as the king of design, yet it also has a string of product failures, so it's not like having failures mean you're not good at design. Most of the rest of the list is simply the result of working at BigCo. An individual has trouble making their mark? When your employees number in the five figures, that's hardly surprising.

I guess it's still true of what the headline promises - that these are things that people don't like about working there, but I was hoping for a few more google-specific items.
I just steer well clear of mining hardware companies. Business model makes absolutely no sense and still haven't seen a good explanation as to how it ever could.

If you're selling the promise to make $x and selling it at <$x someone at some point in the chain is a mug.
((if foo + -) 4 6)

Can be compiled to

(function()
if foo then return plus
else return minus
end
end)()(4, 6)

It is far too verbose to be used in manually crafted Lua, but acceptable if you treat it as a compiler target (with the caveat that the lambda creation will prevent LuaJIT from JITting that piece of code).
Cloudflare is overrated
There's a reason lawyers (generally) don't do fixed price. Or if they do, you are going to pay more for time and materials.

I see articles all the time and just wonder, what did you expect?

You can add whatever clauses you like (won't pay until xyz etc) but honestly-

1. There's no repeat business. They know your $800 is your entire budget.
2. I've been hassled before for a 5 star rating. The author has already spent 75%. It's worth the risk of holding the source code hostage.

If you were a freelancer, would you do any different?
Sorry my writing disappointed you. For me it was a different perspective on things and I felt like to share it with others.
You'd be surprised how limited you are once you get a piercing. A simple piercing.

I got one at the eyebrow, I loved it (and especially the ladies my age) but you have to restrain yourself a lot. You can't bump into someone, you cannot really sleep on your head, you have to take care when you're taking off your Tshirt, or when you're washing your face, drying your face, wearing glasses, and on and on.
Preventing the bozo explosion
I was hoping someone would correct; thank you.
Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures
I wouldn't say that a loophole needs to be unintentional. I would describe a loophole as a deliberate or accidental ambiguity in a law that allows others to circumvent the intent of the law.

Either way, I don't think it is technically a loophole. Exception is a good word for it.
>The developer bears at least a little responsibility for submitting a bid that is too low to cover successfully completing the project.

I didn't say he doesn't.

The guy talked the developer down to an $800 fee, and then his interpretation of the agreement was the developer should take his feedback into account after the code was submitted to him ("I figured some graphics changes would be OK. Basically, the overlay graphics are slightly different. Same functionality"). That's definitely a self-serving interpretation. Clearly the dev does not want to do anything more than he absolutely needs to do. For that amount of money, he wants to knock-out an app in minimal time and move on.

So I'm saying they both nickel-and-dimed each other. I'm not judging, but that's what happened, and I have slightly more empathy for the developer in this case.
Built this because as founders we hated missing big news about competitors. Would love to hear whether you think this could be useful, and/or what other solutions you use today. Thanks!
First to market advantage is huge. Maybe Bitcoin wasn't first to market in the strictest sense but they were first to gain notable traction which is the same thing in essence.
Ubuntu, like most mainstream distributions, has design choices and UI that abstracts away as much as possible the act of administering a Linux system. A lot of things you will do on Ubuntu are specific to Ubuntu systems, and even more so with distros like RHEL and Gentoo. Then you have oddities like GoboLinux.

It's one of the oldest sayings in the community that "if you know Slackware, you know Linux". This is somewhat less true for Arch but pretty close and still has the same spirit.

I've run Slackware, Debian, you name it and built my own LFS systems and run those as well. Slackware is as "raw Linux" as it gets, but due to frustrations with recent versions, I switched to Arch and haven't looked back for my Linux systems. It makes administration much simpler without having to do much that's specific to the distro and different from what you should expect in Linux.

That isn't something even remotely true about Ubuntu -- and apparently getting less so as time goes on.

tl;dr: what I'm trying to say here is that there are users and there are administrators. If you can't administrate your Linux system, you don't know Linux. Ubuntu tries to be a Linux system for users without needing to be a sysadmin. This is an idea that's "okay" I guess but in my opinion still not ready for primetime. Using a Ubuntu system isn't "knowing Linux".
10x in cost isn't necessarily the most important factor to a business.

From an individual's perspective, that's hard to understand. To a business, it really isn't that difficult to justify the cost.

One of my criticisms of HN commenters is the inability to empathize from a company's POV. Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense!

Companies (especially big ones) have different priorities than individuals. I may think it's stupid to 10x infrastructure costs by using AWS. A company may say "that's 1% of my budget, and it keeps my development running smoothly and developers happy with the familiarity and flexibility. I make that 10x cost back in 30 minutes, every day. Not worth optimizing."