skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another movie in the same vein is "Battleship." It "woooshed" a lot of people, but there are some controvertible clues that it was more than just an "America, fuck yeah!" movie. Most notably the song during the end credits which is Creedence's "Fortunate Son." I'm sure some people won't even be convinced by that fact, but then Reagan used Springsteen's "Born in the USA" during his campaign in 1984, so I guess some people just aren't wired for satire.

For me, the best thing about "Battleship" is how the director convinced the US military to donate the use of all that hardware to a movie with such an anti-military message. The DoD doesn't do that sort of thing lightly, they require script approval and have a strict policy that they won't help with a movie that is at all critical. Slipping that right under their noses like that was a real coup.
Hire slow. Fire fast.

If you're in a right-to-work state, the law says you don't need much reason. Either party can terminate the employment agreement, at any time, for any reason.

Anyone can be trained for skill, "fit" either happens or it doesn't.

Like some of the others have suggested a couple month's severance is a nice gesture... and doing that is certainly a LOT cheaper than keeping someone around who you either don't get along with, or isn't contributing to the business.
"Unfortunate" is definitely the word for the fact that these masks that hold such great symbolism to Anonymous (and other groups) are owned by the companies that want to control the internet.

So they've called out the media for using products by Foxconn, okay. What do they expect to come from that? I'm really not sure.

The main thing I got from this is that we should find another mask, or face, for Anonymous and activism/protesting in general. One that maybe holds more significant value in freedom of mankind, and one that is free of copyright. As much as I love Alan Moore, I think it's time Anonymous finds/creates an open-source mask.
a) keep working in England.
b) blog about the apps that you are working on so that the world recognizes you as an iOS expert
c) attend a conference in the USA, preferably somewhere from Chicago eastwards to maximize the number of New Yorkers in attendance
d) make it known to everyone that you, the well known English iOS blogger and developer, are looking for a job in New York with a company who will sponsor your visa.
e) when somebody bites, be ready to suggest a New York immigration law firm who specializes in helping companies through the process because chances are this will be the employer's first experience with visa rules.

And while you are doing all that, do keep an eye on http://newyork.craigslist.org/sof/ for jobs and write inquiries to see if they would hire you on a visa. Also get a good education on US visa types because H1B are hit and miss. A visa that leads to a green card is a better bet. If you can identify any agencies (ad or design) that have offices in London and New York, ask them if they hire iOS developers and if so, would relocation be possible. Internal transfers in a multinational company are the easiest way to go.
Nice to see Slackware still around. Slackware 2.0 back in 1995 was my first Linux distribution. :)
Every study done on it has proven that diversity increases team productivity.

There is a major file drawer effect here. Writing a study proving the opposite is a career limiting move.
> For some contrast: IIRC, Haldeman wrote The Forever War in part as a direct reply to Starship Troopers.

Everyone assumes he does, but he denies it. For example, on his blog:

http://joe-haldeman.livejournal.com/51726.html?thread=31758#...

"Hey, you're writing an answer to Starship Troopers." I told him don't be silly -- of course the soldiers have powered suits, working in a vacuum, in space. What, they should fight in long underwear?

There is more there about his views on Starship Troopers, among other things.
Don't seem to me like there's anything wrong with your background. It's maybe a little "classical" for a job in Silicon Valley, but, especially with internships, they don't usually give too much of a crap about specific skills, you'll be able to pick those up on the job.

I suspect it is the way you present yourself. Judging from your post, you seem pretty desperate. Don't be, there's plenty of jobs and people will literally try to hire you off the street when you graduate. Your accomplishments certainly seem better than mine, and I got a full time job pretty quickly. I'm also a foreigner, that's a little pay cut, but no deal breaker.

Try to tailor your CV to the company you're interviewing at. They'll know and appreciate that you spent the time and know what they actually do. Try to get a phone or personal meeting early. They might be worried about your English if you're a foreigner, and if they can talk to you in person and see that your English is fantastic, that's one problem out of the way.

Oh yea, are you in Korea, trying to get a job in the US? That can be pretty tough, as it's just so much easier when you're local. If you can, go to San Francisco on a tourist visa. You're not legally allowed to apply for jobs on that visa, but everybody and their mom does it. Just lie to to the border control guy. As soon as you land, get involved in hackathons, meetups (meetup.com, search for your favorite programming languages and topics there) and so on. Do couchsurfing if you don't have money to rent a room.

All in all, there's lots of jobs here for anyone even remotely interested in writing code. Even as a foreigner you'll be very well received and offered internships and jobs. People are wary of "remote hiring" though, because you just never know just from a sheet of paper. A lot in Silicon Valley depends on your relationships with the people you know, and it's hard to get to know someone from a CV.
I didn't like the photos either. Specially the second one which shows someone in lab coat looking into a microscope. It gives the sense that the product is being tested extensively by professionals, while the reality is much different.

If the team thinks they can make a food product without nutritionists or doctors, they should just a picture of themselves on the front page.
Hi solscreen, not exactly. ShipHawk is offering the most convenient service to their US customers. Focus is on convenience (they're doing an amazing job at picking up stuff and packing for you), not price sensitivity, transparency or variety. They help you with packaging especially with items that are very difficult to pack (furniture etc). We're a big database for all local and international delivery services (not only the 4 big ones FedEx, UPS, TNT, DHL). We compare and we allow you to buy the shipping labels.
For me, the moral precedent is giving millions of people free access to vital educational information.

People who want and need access to Wikipedia Zero are like these South African high school students, living in a slum: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/19/movement-for-free-acce...
Agreed. I had no idea there was any such controversy surrounding the film. I watched it when it was first released and I'm pretty sure most people watched it knowing from the outset it was a satire?
I've met one of the Stem management execs, and heard the pitch.

What they're doing is to smooth out the spikes in the day to day energy usage. Their software will learn the usage pattern over time, and try to predict when spikes will occur. The battery will then discharge during spikes to prevent triggering additional peak demand charges.
How do they save money? If you use your 2 weeks of vacation, they send you a check for 2 weeks pay at the end. The exact same thing would happen if you cashed out your vacation days, albeit with slightly different paperwork.
Tim Armstrong fires a Patch employee in front of his colleagues
Was anyone else reminded of this? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-ficti...

"Denise’s smile was pained. “But then there’s your absence at most of the weekend and evening events, all of which are of course totally optional, and your corresponding PartiRank, which is surprisingly low for a newbie."

"Optional" beer party anyone?
I am currently re-reading (well, I skipped a lot of it she. I first read it) Infinite Jest. It is even sadder and more screwed up now that dfw is gone.
There is bigger damage caused by these things.

Look around, small time companies demand they want the brightest algorithm minds. And then when they hire them, they make them build HTML pages. This is really a bad signal.

I fear the day when people working in companies that make stuff like medical electronics companies decide there isn't much money in innovating in those areas. In many ways this is already happening.
I'm guessing they just didn't care, because they were VC backed, and didn't understand that 2M is not that much money if you have 6 people and a storage-based hosting service.
Consistent Hashing (2007)
Apologizing, Obama Yields to Criticism of Health Law
They can sell stickers,
They can have interstitial ads here and there.
It looks like the underlying feature which enables reverse debugging, Process Recording, could do what you describe:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProcessRecord

the data may only be in-process, if so it would need to be save-able and load-able.
What is it like to earn a living playing Poker?
Attribute properly, after all the guy that said it was one of the greatest politicians ever to walk the world and the creator of modern Secret Service type organizations.
Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the tip. I always find your comments very helpful.

This was definitely a huge learning experience for me; probably better now than 15~20 years down the road. I too, was quite sure they would still have to pay me even if I didn't sign. I just wanted everything to be done with and never have to deal with them again. I've had to sue before, but I try to avoid it if at all possible.

Funny thing is there are 2 other points in the release:

Releases and forever discharges the company, its officers, directors, shareholders, etc etc etc...from suits, claims, demands, liabilities, etc, etc, etc.

Agrees not to disclose the terms of this Release to anyone other than the Contractor's professional advisors (well I consider HN my professional advisor so I guess I'm in the clear)

seems quite questionable to me.

Regardless, I will keep your advice in mind. The next time something like this occurs (hopefully never), I will be better equipped to deal with it!
How on earth does one spend $35,000 on hosting/storage a month? It simply baffles me that people would even consider this an option.

There are so many better ways than just blindly throwing money away like this. Heck, you could buy your own servers and have a dedicated guy for it and still be off cheaper. Geez...
Looks like you didn't bother actually reading my comment before responding to it. It was only two very short paragraphs, the second of which began:
"Of course, picked vegetables are also decomposing at a certain rate - but they don't have a dead animal smell."

And dry cured meat is not relevant to my initial statement that to me, bacon smells like dead animal. Actually, jerky doesn't have that smell. I miss jerky, but I like cows more.
Are the Guardian, the Telegraph and the New Statesman notable for their fair and balanced journalism (or are they the fox news of europe)?
>Always use multi-part, with a nice text part. Not having a text part is a spam flag.

Just to add: try to make the text part readable and useful too. I've unsubscribed from countless mailing lists because the text was illegible from extremely long URLs thrown in the middle of sentences or useless because the links were missing completely (I use mutt).
Funny you should mention that article, this blog post has been on my mind for a long time, but I never got around to it[1].

Part of the reason I finally wrote it and posted it on HN was because of seeing that article a while back.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6673385
That struck me as very questionably, too. Based on personal experience and what I know about the economic state of the three countries I find it hard to believe that Ukraine is somehow doing such better psychologically.

To convey an anecdote, on several occasions I was told by fairly well-traveled people that the Eastern regions of Ukraine were the most miserable place they'd been to in Europe.
It's more similar to an experiment that preceded TogetherJS, Browser Mirror: https://github.com/mozilla/browsermirror

In TogetherJS both people are basically browsing like normal, but it communicates what's going on between the people (so for example you can see the other person's mouse), and synchronizes select things like forms. With the model of Surfly and Browser Mirror, one browser is the source, and the other is viewing what that other browser does. Everything "happens" on the source browser. This is in a session like this both people are logged in as the same person and seeing exactly the same thing, while with TogetherJS each person is logged in as themselves.
Yeah. It's like trying to sell venison at a vegan retreat
> Does anyone use hungarian notation besides Win32 APIs and Windows user level code (FWIW the NT kernel does not use Hungarian notation).

Microsoft nowadays advises against Hungarian notation, only allowing it for consistency within APIs that already use it.

http://1code.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=All-In-One%20Code%2...
I don't know; the contrast with Belgium, which despite cultural differences has health services with similar quality, and I imagine has similar awareness, is surprising. However, I have read anecdotal stories that mental health service here in the Netherlands is rather bad compared to other countries. Pressure to perform here may be on the high side, but I can't imagine it's much higher than in the US or Germany.
I'm wondering what was the reasoning behind not raising the price when they saw that their costs were over what they were spending.
'Eh; I don't believe, "call[ing] out the media for using products by foxconn" was the intention of the statement.

They were illustrating the near impossibility of knowing the manufacturing conditions of every product you purchase, and through that illustration pointing out that the majority of consumers(The Telegraph staff included) have at some point purchased(or currently own) products which were manufactured in conditions contrary to said consumers personal beliefs.

Effectively the statement is pointing out that it's extremely difficult to not be "hypocritical"(according to Martha Gill's definition) in some manner when purchasing manufactured products and that she/they are just as hypocritical(if not more so given that the masks in question aren't produced in a sweatshop).

I don't think 'anonymous' would deny being just as guilty of 'hypocritical' purchases themselves; they're just showing the irony of The Telegraph falsely calling them out on the 'hypocrisy' that they[The Telegraph] are likely just as much a part of.

The concept behind the Guy Fawkes mask is what makes it so effective/universally adopted, and despite the royalties being paid for these masks(a pittance in the grand scheme of things) I don't see them going anywhere anytime soon.

So yeah, I have to agree; 'unfortunate' just about sums it up.
Its popular to hate on Soylent, so anything goes, including use of stock photos.
Thank you for sharing your story too!

Your story seems quite similar to mine. I still get chills down my spine thinking about it. But it was a great learning experience, now I know with my experience, and with the valuable input I've received on HN, I will be much better equipped to deal with similar situations in the future.
If you can't convince an investor like Evan Williams could, then you need to either be extremely frugal and keep your day job for a while, or quit your job and bet your life savings, or don't bother. There isn't a "bootstrap to become the Next Facebook" path.
Not sure where you're describing, but it varies by jurisdiction. In California, a commission called the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) sets electricity prices charged by all the major operators. See for example:

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Electric+Rates/

Of course this is subject to a long-term constraint that rates must be sufficient to support generation and wholesale purchase... but there's no direct "pass through of market rates" on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis.
The genocidal aliens were the humans. Seemed pretty subversive to me.

No-one else has noted that Paul Verhoeven was a young boy in Nazi occupied Holland. There's no way he didn't know what he was conveying...
No. He offered to work two weeks, which would have meant they owed him two weeks of pay plus two weeks of vacation days. Instead he took two weeks of vacation pay and no pay for work.
But you have to ask, if it weren't for his aggressive anti-Wall St. stance, would he have been targeted? No, he wouldn't have been.

That's silly. Plenty of people have been busted for prostitution without being politicians. For example, NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer busted a whole bunch of people who weren't politicians:

http://www.artharris.com/2008/03/11/bald-truth-exclusive-ag-...

http://nypost.com/2008/03/11/bane-of-the-brothels-is-hoist-b...

As for special surveillance of PEPs, sounds like a good thing to me. Can you think of a reason that our politicians should not be subject to extra scrutiny?
I'm glad that Canonical has graced me with permission to talk about Ubuntu. /s
Show HN: Simple live reload utility with Go lang
I feel like LiveReload is Guard is so complex to install and bundle lots of thing. They are powerful tools. But I only want a simple tool that do live reload for me. So I made this utility.

See it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmbNpV4c6vs&feature=youtu.be
Er, is the url right?
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I want to reiterate one line of thought that's been seen here before but bears repeating: you should not give your data to Google, Facebook, or any other commercial entity just as much as you don't want NSA to have it. While NSA may have political motives and thus may use illegally obtained information for political ends, Facebook et al. could use it for reasons that serve their economic gain. That's a conclusion that's just as undesirable (if not moreso) than NSA using it.

I don't see a very good future of fighting the 'surveillance internet' if we don't face the notion that once data is out there -- of lots of people, in one place -- NSA will always be interested in it and will probably get it. Pragmatically speaking, pulling out of Facebook, Google, etc. is the only surefire way to fight the surveillance internet.
Dragos Ruiu is a respected researcher which a LOT of people trust. His word carries considerable weight. Thus, when he goes public saying there is a critical - not to mention quite sensational - security issue, it has an immediate effect outside of himself. An alarm goes off; in business, in the security industry, and predictably in the media. "What do we know of this new virus Dragos has identified"?

"Urr...nothing, really". "Come on, you gotta know something. Is our hardware vulnerable?". "Urrr...dunno. We don't know if it exists, even". "But but, Ars Technica, ErrataRob and Schneier have written about it?" "Sigh, yes, I know."

This is why I've been vocal about getting these data confirmed. It's not about bashing Ruiu, it's not about being negative, it's not about whether I myself am able to verify everything - it's about trying - and failing - to get people to not lose their heads before the data are in.

So please don't frame this as "naysayer" discussion. If you shout fire in a crowded theater, you better have something to back it up with.
Incidentally, the prospect of government agencies messing with US elections has already happened. It was just the IRS, not the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Tea_Party_investigation

So this isn't hypothetical.
Also, as more people shift to the off-peak time, the difference between peak and off-peak shrinks, and as such so will the price difference.
The echo chamber has blinders on when it comes to AWS.
If I would be part of them, I would create a 3D-printer model of the mask and share that all over so people can organise their own distribution...
First impressions Unboxing: Nexus 5 + Kit Kat 4.4
SAPO requirements: Flows from operators
The problem with your post is exactly why selective prosecution is the very embodiment of an oppressive regime. After all they DID break the law, and they SHOULD be punished right? Who could argue with that.

Meanwhile half of Washington is doing the same thing, with the full knowledge of people like the NSA, and the facts are sure to come out if they take a meaningful stand against their agenda.

The example of the soviet election is also an excellent one. They knew every bit of information about every candidate, and merely had to expose the ones that didn't toe the line properly as the criminals or terrible people they were.

Just like every single other person ever, they did something illegal or unsavory at some point in their life.

Make no aspersions, the kind of information the NSA holds is complete and total political power.
The Daily Mail is the fox news of the UK. The Telegraph is not a whole lot better - it's actually less serious and dangerous and just ridiculous. The Guardian is pretty similar, just for the opposite political side.
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Broadsheet/quality press - fairly balanced in journalism. Editorially, while its more nuanced than left and right, this will give you a general idea of political leanings. Guardian is leftish, Telegraph is rightish, New Statesman is leftish.
Most VC funding is about winning the lottery. But where an actual lottery is a zero-sum game (less than, actually), in the VC lottery many investors can be winners, all it takes is being sufficiently diversified into enough different startups with strong potential.

Not everyone is going to win the facebook lottery (Accel Partners, for example, achieved a ~40,000% RoI), but there are lots of lotteries in play. And the VCs that win those lotteries then end up with the most money. So the most money in play in VC-land tends to be from people who have played the lottery game and like it, so they want to continue to play the lottery game.
Who says they had to work on Everpix full-time? Again, you miss what I'm saying.
In-movie propoganda reel from Starship Troopers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFuaYA-daw Note Neil Patrick Harris sharply dressed in a rather SS-officer-esque uniform.

I'd say it's a tossup.
Zodb 4.0 adds support for python3.3 (August 2013)
Ya, the LinkedIn stuff was spookily similar too. You were living in the (dystopian) future!

"On Friday, you find out that your dad’s O.K. But the rest of the weekend, you basically go blank. You logged into your profile only three times, and nothing was updated. It’s like you disappeared!"

BTW: if you haven't chosen a new gig yet, or you're still freelancing as well, feel free - or encouraged - to fire me an email (in my profile). We're based just over here in Victoria, but do the 100% remote thing.