skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This is the other reason that I bought a new Kindle Keyboard. The free internet access has saved my butt a few times travelling in foreign lands.
Quora is quite good.
Employers are to blame. "Developers are all the same, find the cheapest ones." Never mind that it might take twice as long to get it right as paying the right person more for half the time. Not to say there isn't a place for low-price coders, but you don't have a right to complain if low cost was your primary objective.

This is just one of many factors behind the startup explosion. The smartest hackers realize that finding an "employer" or "boss" exposes them to a variety of dysfunctions, such as working for a company that may prioritize employee cost over quality or output.

And we can pretend that companies prioritizing employee cost over quality will eventually go out of business, and they might, but "eventually" can be 20-30 years if you keep your costs low enough.
I wish there was a way to do this in PDF. If PDFs weren't these cumbersome static things it could really change how information is spread in the sciences. At least in my field the current mode for disseminating information is nearly 100% through downloading PDFs from journals, which inherently prohibits interactivity and dynamic visualizations.
Technically this is true, but given the trajectory we can expect that BitStamp will get there in a few days.
This is not supposed to mean I like the policy change, but most people I know, that don't have anything to do with technology, are rather confused by multiple accounts and are glad the account for YouTube and Google Search can be the same.
I for one welcome our new remote boss overlords!

It's about time for this to happen.
More than 50 faces for your UI mockups
I've sourced more than 50 faces for your use, all for a fiver.
I speculate this is a reaction to Google's recent acquisition of Flutter.
The Lost Art Of Letter Writing And Other Things That Don't Scale
Yes, it does, so I'm not sure how (or if) they addressed that. I'll try to dig up that white paper.
Or open one window per google account!
When to use assert
Just to clarify - the Paperwhite does NOT have a backlight!
Was there enough to cover basic competence?

"No database backups ... Everyone had root" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81045.msg921159#msg9...

Unsalted MD5 password hashes: http://www.dailytech.com/Inside+the+MegaHack+of+Bitcoin+the+...

Wallet on AWS instance, no local backup: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/08/01/third-largest-bitcoi...

This shit's just inept.
That may have been a case, but not recently. Here's a one-stop shop for all Windows binaries: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ , and not to mention, there are Python distributions that come with the necessary stats/numerical packages such as Anaconda. Cloud-based services like warkari.io also make it really easy to get up and running.
I can see a client canceling a deal without paying after you have done work due to not having a contract. To actually use the work you produced and weasel out of paying with a "ha ha I tricked you into working for free" is really malicious. I would say that client would probably never have paid anyway. However you may force them to reveal their hand by signing a contract. They will probably try to find some other loophole, but at least you have some documentation that helps you to take legal action.

I have had client drag their feet on the contract and the down payment, but rush me to start. My feeling is that if you can't get a check when they are desperate for you to start, then it certainly will be difficult getting one after the work is complete.

The more eager you are for the gig, you may be more willing to agree to things. But definitely it's a always a good idea to be patient and make sure both sides agree to the terms before you invest your labor.
The Luxembourg loophole is expected to be closed by 2015, at which point Luxembourg must increase its VAT in line with those of other EU nations (or alternatively, must alter its VAT system so that the 3% rate is only available for sales to Luxembourg customers). If Luxembourg doesn't change its VAT system, the European Commission will likely carry through on last year's threat to impose fines which would wipe out the tax income Luxembourg currently generates from offering the loophole to companies like Amazon.

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/09/18/new-tax-rules-e...
Thanks for pointing that out.

GHB is most often used recreationally (intentionally); I only mention it as a "date rape" drug because that's the context in which people are more likely to be familiar with the name.

I wholeheartedly agree, though - alcohol is the most insidious date rape drug around.
Working scientists, engineers and mathematicians probably have not heard about Victor and his vision, at least I have not. Glancing over his homepage, it seems his is into dynamic visualizations, so his vision probably has something to do with that.
dude get off your high horse..
CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers (or aspiring programmers)
I must not play my 360 enough but I have one of the originalish white 360's bought at the same time as others (not day one, but before any of the fixes) and never had a RROD.

But now that I say that online watch it die the next time I turn it on. Glad I never had to send it in because Minnesota is a skosh farther than Georgia.
Gospel Artist Sex Tap
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model if she's posing nude? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google. Not to mention the video with her and a A list actor floating around.......
Leadership lessons from Donald DeSantis
My best guess is this: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2657858?hl=en&ref_...

I linked the Channel to my Google+ accounts a few weeks ago.
Thanks! I think something's going on with time zones. I'll dig into it.
Since I've seen a few related stories on HN today, I thought I would share that I have finally released CROBOTS as open source. Enjoy.
Ask HN: hire a contractor or an employee for a hardware (gadget) startup?
My startup has just got funded. We are developing a cool gadget for home automation.

The initial hardware task should take 2-3 months.
Being from a software background, I'm not sure whether I'd want to hire a first employee to do the job, or a contractor.

What would you do?
Really, you think the biggest issue is that the project specs are always too vague?
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I disagree. Poor spelling and grammar is an abomination in professional software if it is client facing.

It doesn't matter in the slightest the background of the person who wrote it.
So you're saying I shouldn't eat souffles?
Don't sweat it, I just think that if that's the method, it's a really cool hack.
I have found mine very useful. It turned my old USB printer into a fancy-pants wifi printer. It has been running tiny-tiny rss since google reader shutdown. It runs an irc bouncer for me. It runs a dyndns updater for me much better than my buggy router.

It would also run an rss-full-article-fetcher process I wrote but it turns out to be impossible-mission to get ghc to compile or cross-compile anything for arm.

I've found it really useful for lots of low-power bandaid solutions to various problems I have had.
Cool game! I just set http://www.asteroids.com to redirect to your app store page for the next couple weeks.
Paperwhite is the first Kindle I ever owned, and I like it.

I do not like Amazon's DRM encumbered walled garden though, especially the fact that it doesn't acknowledge anything not bought through Amazon as "books". In general the software and online service, with the exception of Whispernet, is shit.

My next eReader will definitely be something neutral, like a Kobo, and I'll just un-DRM stuff from Amazon via Calibre.
A website to buy second hand Pi in bulk might work.
Indian ECommerce Store - Naaptol - A big scam?
SNAPMANIA: GOOGLE OFFERS $4 BILLIONS TO SNAPCHAT
AppleGuice - Dependency Injection Framework for Objective-C
> I think that's a bit harsh.

Well, somewhat. But I read other comments here and in at least three cases the posters were proudly describing themselves as assholes. The problem with all of them was that they never once realized that pairing may be done not for them, but for the other person (or them both). I thought it's common sense to consider all the people involved in the interaction. For those people it's not, it's only about how they feel and how they are influenced by pairing. I was very, very lucky (apparently) that I didn't meet any of them (or they didn't have the chance to manifest their attitude towards me - towards all of us) in my professional life.

This "fuck you all, whatever it may be I'm working" attitude may be tolerated in people who really contribute a lot. Their presence may be beneficial on the whole to the company or even to the team they're on. That doesn't mean they are not assholes - it just means that in our industry being a jerk is not disqualifying feature. I have no idea what they are so proud about, though.
I would like it to be supported on my RaspberryPi, but it isn't (apparently), so I don't use it. There are other nodey frameworks out there that just require node itself, so I'm looking at those for the moment.
Nice, concise and direct description. Great choice of graphics and screenshots too! Really nice work
Used to be /r/programming... not anymore though. Just go to techcrunch and wired.com, that way you'll see everything that makes it to proggit - but only once, instead of every day for a week. The more specific the better, provided there's a lot of subscribers and there's regular new developments in the topic of interest. So /r/doctorwho sucks pretty hard when the show isn't in season. There's a lot of crocheted figurines, etc, it's painful.

/r/bicycling, /r/motorcycles and /r/autos are all great, but /r/justrolledintotheshop is brilliant because of how specific it is and how there's always new content - ie. picutres of idiotic things customers bring to their mechanics. /r/scooters is not great because the community is too small.

The subreddit for my phone is of interest. Programming languages that I'm trying to learn - Python, Scala. Skills I'm interested in - welding, CNC machinery.

Well, that's a good start if you're into things on wheels and programming, anyway.
Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies aged 94
My favorite comment from this whole blog:
"(warning, a neckbeard and an operating systems course might be needed to understand everything)"

Thats actually true with a fair amount of what people fiddle around with. I see a lot of tuning advice based on what I can only assume is guessing. I guess this is as good of a "caveat emptor" as anything.
Why are firetrucks red?
I think Bitcoin's price is dictated less on "fundamentals" in the traditional sense.

And more on it's market irregularities (take for example the inability to withdraw USD via the SWIFT banking system without a 6 month delay from MtGOX)

It makes "price discovery" in the sense of a true currency valuation very hard to estimate, and the illiquidity makes the instrument very prone to HUGE run-ups and sell-offs. I actively trade it, and believe that a price target of over $1000 is a strong technical possibility. Though what it "resets" to after this run-up is anyone's guess.
I made a lot of teams in out sourcing countries for companies in the west and it's possible to get good quality from anywhere. The problem is that not much people (after al these years...) know how to guide and manage a team in Indian; it's just not the same as here. Most companies (I saw this recently at HP and Accenture for instance) think you can just chuck stuff over the fence to India and expect something back which works. You'll be lucky that way if it even compiles (it usually doesn't if the project is done by more than a few people)!

I think the 'defense' in this article is weird though; as a humanitarian the circumstances feel bad; as a company owner; what do I care who goes to work in what way? If you deliver bad stuff you don't get work. The reason why is of no interest to me in this case as I personally cannot help fix it. Maybe I can, but at a cost equal or the same to hiring people who can sit next to me in my office and that was not really the idea now, was it?

Actually ; the fact that everyone knows this already makes it even weirder that every big company is outsourcing the crown jewels to those countries. And then come back 'home' crying. It's just irresponsible towards the clients and local workers.

That said; you can train mostly anyone and manage quality anywhere, but it's just harder than 'in the same office' until you have the process perfected. This means you going to India and spending a few years with your team establishing training ,education, process suited to your company. Companies work with people like me to set that up if they don't send people themselves. One of the worst things I see is companies who go once, meet the native guy they selected as boss there and then never go back (most work like that in my experience).

It's just investment in people (and your company); it's not much cheaper (or at least much) than programmers locally if you want to do it well. But unfortunately everyone wants as cheap as possible.
Article didn't have any exurb commentary, as employees are pushed out of cities, the appeal of a long commute declines.
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We already have benzodiazepines, which are a class of drug that fits the description here perfectly: they affect GABA without doing all of the other things that alcohol does, and they have an antidote (flumazenil).

Like many drugs, they put you at risk for impaired driving, disinhibited behavior, etc. People use them on the street and they can certainly come in with benzodiazepine withdrawal, which looks pretty much like alcohol withdrawal (both of which can be life-threatening, unlike most other types of withdrawal).

There is little reason to think that a new GABAergic compound would be "safe" by any stretch of the imagination. The proof will have to come in the form of clinical trials.
I'm not all that familiar with Indian developers, but what I have noticed is the extremely high amount of Indian "security researchers" and [security] "hackers".

I'm unsure as to why so many people there are attracted to information security, in particular. That wouldn't be bad, but the problem is that the majority have horrible, broken English, maintain blogs and even go as far as writing books with tons of plagiarized content and finally most of their writing is about entry-level script kiddie tricks or how to write Batch files/VBScript to open and close a CD tray in Windows.

Anyone who has searched for "hacking tutorials/blogs/articles" and similar queries or who has an interest in infosec knows what I'm referring to.

It seems as if many of them see security as some sort of toy field, or they're motivated by conflicts in their surrounding areas and are interested in cyberwarfare as an avenue to participate.

The archetypal example of this is Ankit Fadia. In any event, it gets old and nauseating to look at these people. There are good Indian programmers and security researchers. But they're always the tiny exception. Maybe I'm biased, but it seems as though the ratio of unskilled IT workers to skilled and competent ones is much higher in India than anywhere else.

Inputs?
There's theory (taught at Yale Law), and then there's practice. While you may be theoretically correct, on a practical level, the lack of a contract makes getting paid much more difficult. Unfortunately, I can't bill the client for the time or stress of the legal case, and winning is never a certainty. Consider that the client is much larger, and may have lawyers on staff full-time.
Here's the sequence of thoughts leading to my knee/circle-jerk conclusion of google being stunningly evil. Please point out where it starts going into circlejerk:

1. The youtube comment section is a cesspool of hate and abuse.

2. Lots of minors use youtube and have extensive histories of liked videos and comments tied to their youtube account.

3. Google made an unexpected change from anonymity to requiring a linked Google+ account for commenting.

4. Google+ profile pics are automatically displayed alongside comments. This applies retroactively to all comments, not just ones made after the Google+ requirement change.

5. youtube users, even technical ones, may not be able to figure out how to workaround the problem of wanting a separate youtube profile pic from their Google+ profile pic.

6. In a matter of seconds you can find a comment from a minor based on their profile pic.

7. Clicking on the profile allows you to see the entire history of comments and likes of said minor.

8. Most minors have not yet realized this fact.

9. Google has irresponsibly increased the danger to minors without giving clear instructions for mitigating this.

10. Minors are just one of many classes of users negatively affected by this.

Ergo, Google screwed up big time, making a mockery of their "don't be evil" motto.
My experience with R is about 2 years old but your comments are spot on. I selected R initially because it had the only good autoregressive-moving-average (ARMA) calculation that was good and also fast that was requested by my users to do some data extrapolation. I could see its promise but I'll be damned if it wasn't the most annoying language to use for general things like accessing a database to get the data. I eventually got it everything to work but it was not easy to automate and deploy.

Ultimately the ARMA calc didn't do what they wanted mostly because ARMA was the wrong thing to use on the dataset in the first place, IMNSHO. This could my general lack of experience with R but I've been programming for 15+ years and it was one of the rougher languages to work with.

Anyway I ported the code to python, numpy, scipy, scikits (and most significantly the time series stuff) and it was much easier to pull in the data an apply smoothing filters and do some general data clean up work but the ARMA was nowhere to be seen and I settled for simple linear and quadratic fits and think it did a better job of forecasting. I really liked some things that R did automatically like when trending data it added confidence intervals on the forecasts. I was actually tempted to port the ARMA libraries to python over this but didn't want to dedicate the time to debug and validate it. R was really good for interactive manipulation but python was better for actual deployment.
Accounting for the great divergence
How does the ability to pay indicate ability to make worthwhile contributions? Or, how does inability/unwillingness to pay or prove yourself in some other way relate to an inability to make worthwhile contributions? (quality of posts, comments, etc)
It works like this:

Companies have limited liability in the USA. They are subject to full market discipline. The owners of the companies are not.

And thus ... business between companies should take precautions such as getting paid a retainer, at milestones, etc. and assume that some payments will not be coming.

Meanwhile people (e.g. employees) can rely on the government to put heavy pressure on employers to pay them. I am in favor of more direct guarantees of basic living standards -- i.e. a basic income -- such as some European countries are doing. That way even the employer-employee relationship can be less regulated.
It really annoys me when I go to a site and the first thing I'm presented with is "login/create your account". I know nothing about your site, your product, your goals or what the purpose of this account is. Give me a demonstration of some kind or at the very least a paragraph about what it is you're doing before you ask me for my personal information.

Furthermore a lengthy FAQ does not supplant and introductory description/video.
I've talked about this before[0], and I'll try again.

I am an Indian developer. In my previous stint, I had to maintain PHP code. It was written by a Canadian developer. It was such a nightmare to maintain, I rewrote the code base entirely. I don't blame western developers for that. In fact the person had initially outsourced it to this particular developer because he thought western developers would write better code than Indian counterparts.

Now I work full time for a SV based company. I still am in India. No one has complained about the code yet. So can we stop generalizing and blaming all Indians for this? There are some really good programmers in India who "care about perfecting recursions".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509220
I don't know what you're doing then, because I run postfix+procmail+mutt and nothing else and it is zero maintenance and hardly any config. I don't use DKIM or SPF or SpamAssassin. All I have is a RBL client restriction and recipient/helo restrictions. I get possibly one spam a week and I can deal with that manually and I post to a lot of lists.

I've also built a couple of very large mail clusters (full 42U rack sized, 20+ machines) for ISPs before running courier, sendmail and procmail and it's really not that much management or effort to get it off the ground. The real bugger is getting a management front end on it all (postfixadmin doesn't cut it on that scale so it's LDAP time which isn't much fun).

I've rather horribly dealt with Exchange (2000, 2003) and that's just a whole pile of pain. My noble Exchange battling colleagues inform me that it still stinks.
Ah, but it doesn't have to be exact to be useful. Spotting common cases and minimising false positives would be great, even if there was no guarantee of catching everything.
Haven't had a chance to play yet–BUT it looks great and I'm excited to try it later today. Multi-player, single-screen iPad apps are a favorite for me and the kids. For the record, our favorite such apps are: Stratosphere, King of Opera, Achtung, and Raiding Company.

I'll report back later tonight.
When Nancy met Event Store
Really?? I was sure it was for Gaston Julia.
Does anyone know what the state of plotting is in Julia? I couldn't really find any convincing examples for that. For many applications, plotting really is a big requirement.

That said, I look forward to a future where Julia will take over many use cases that are served by Matlab right now.
Well taking this example, what's the lack of transparency here? All they've done is given you (not anyone else) access to files you've already uploaded under a different heading. That's it, and they were calling it "batshit fucking insane".
You can't write a specification that's completely unambiguous, combined with the fact that the agencies bill by the hour which creates an incentive for the agency (and their contractors) produce work products that meet the specification but that any logical programmer would avoid. This includes producing volumes of repetitive (and copied) code instead of careful refactoring, so not only does it cost more to get a functional product, but that product is far less maintainable.
Does anyone know if the new Kindles are more rugged? My classic Kindle was in a protective cover when it dropped a short distance from a table to a wood floor. The screen did not crack but the e-ink display was permanently frozen.
Should I somehow suppose to know what this modified version of Apache does?
We espouse 'black is beautiful', but the true image of blackness is ugly