skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As commented above[1] it looks like this is required by a new contract which is required for registrars to sell all of these new (and imo, silly) TLDs such as .cab, .sexy, etc

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005417
I don't know all the legal issues, but intuitively it seems strange to require one employer of a contractor to be required to ensure they have insurance for non-contracted work.

If a doctor delivers a baby at a hospital, would that hospital be liable if the doctor delivers a baby in an emergency in someone's house?

If you contract someone to come in for 8 hours a month to help with payroll, are you liable if they steal money from another company during their downtime?

This seems like part of an anti-Uber wave. (I have no stake in this horserace)
Seems like a natural thing to offer for someone like Skype or Google. /s
Am I right in thinking about this like a WSDL, but based on JSON?
Stop telling women they just need to know how to code
The victim almost always does, just by their right to refuse cooperation.
You refuse exit interviews even when you are the one who's decided to leave?
What country, industry?
Let me suggest with all respect and much jealousy that your situation may not be common across employeers or jurisdictions. And that many people may not have the finances or flexibility to decline two weeks pay, unless they already have another job (or lots of work).

What you are discussing as an expected normal sounds like some utopian fantasy from here in Georgia, USA, an "at-will" hiring and firing state.
The choice of refusing money would be nice: Unfortunately, this type of severance isn't only happening in professional circles: Hourly call center employees (I'm sure among others) are being asked to sign the same type of thing, and these are $10-$11 an hour, high turnover jobs. This situation completely changes the power balance.
Ask HN: Any Hackers Love Sports?
First time, long time--do any hackers here love sports? I do. As a sports fan, I don't feel like there are many quality Apps on mobile devices. Twitter has enhanced how I watch television, sports included, but there's a lot of noise. There are a plethora of scoreboard apps, but where's the App that will revolutionize the game day experience for the fan? Is anyone interested in brainstorming, prototyping, and developing the home screen app for sports fans with me? If so, respond here and we can exchange contact information.

I have a strong development background in C++ / MySQL / PHP / JavaScript / some Objective C. I'm also somewhat networked with new sports media. An ideal co-founder would have a strong iOS and Objective C background, and loves sports.
I really pushed myself hard between 2007 and 2010, working my nuts off, on more than one occasion working continuously over a weekend to hit a monday deadline. Unfortunately, this succession of gruelling 60+ hour long crunches meant that I came off the boil a bit in 2011 and 2012 -- and 2013 has been a total write-off, from a productivity perspective. As I enter 2014, I feel like I am back in the game (a bit) but wonder what I can do to keep the fires burning whilst also staving off the consequences? I far prefer working hard than the long months of tiredness and weary fatigue with no immediate cause, and whilst getting from one state to another feels easy, getting back again seems rather more difficult and time-consuming.
Does anyone have a lock recommendation for making an apartment/house more secure?
Asyncio is really nice. Definitely a joy to use and easier to learn then Twisted. I have a Redis client library with full pubsub support:
https://github.com/jonathanslenders/asyncio-redis
Let me refresh your memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

I'll give you a clue which party implemented this legislation.

It's always been about censorship of lifestyles the Tory party and the Daily Mail don't approve of in an attempt to return Britain to some golden age that never happened.

It's censorship and social control, plain and simple.
They haven't introduced any legislation.

> Exactly. ISPs can already offer this with a simple question/checkbox on the act of signing up for service, no technical knowledge needed.

... that's what they're doing. There's a screenshot of BTs here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25400009
It must be different in California, because here in Ontario companies are legally required to give at least 2 weeks severance in most instances.

If an employer isn't required to do the same in California then there's not much to complain about.

Is this the case?
For two weeks pay, I would not agree to anything. For two years pay, I would consider it.

I think you have it exactly right, this is an opportunity to counter-offer. Find out how many months of salary the non-disparagment clause is worth to the company.
Yeah, that's a great feature.

One open issue is that from time to time a breaking change to our API is needed and a force-upgrade is forced on the app users. We try to avoid it, but it happens.

The next time this happens, it's really goodbye iOS 6 users.
Thanks for those links. Yes, I should have been more specific, the diet I was talking about is low carb high fat (LCHF), not low carb high protein. Increased protein intake can indeed be a problem and seems to be common with low carb eaters.

Edit: Let me also add that meat consumption seems to be mostly problematic with processed meat (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23497300)
I disagree. That's your opinion. Why is it that people can come to the conclusion of "I'd rather see him rot to death in a jail cell than the benefit of a quick death". This line of thinking views death as a lighter punishment when contrasted against a lifetime in prison.

Yet when the tables are turned suddenly suicide is viewed with such disdain?

I'm not advocating suicide or anything, I'm just arguing that when faced with an immensely harsh sentence, it's not a surprising decision to reach.
Two weeks severance isn't traditionally "extra pay". It's generally a professional courtesy that they are now withholding until the no-longer-employee agrees to an everlasting requirement.

The flip side: Offer two weeks notice, but only if they agree to speak of you on your terms afterward. No company signs that. They would be liable for anything anyone in the company ever said about you, forever.

It's also exceptionally vague and even if it only applies to lies spoken by the employee, it can still have a chilling effect on the truth.
My 2 cents... The non-disparagement is a trade. You trade not saying anything bad about them publicly, and they agree not to say anything bad about you during a reference check. You get a positive (or perhaps generic "He worked here from X to Y, that's all we can say") reference, and they don't have to worry about a book coming out trashing them. The amount of cash is secondary. The real thing is, if you want to remain on good terms with them, you sign it. If not, you don't.

I can't imagine a company offering severance nowadays without including this. 2 weeks may be negotiable, but this won't be.
That's why I never let my laptop out of my sight after I watch it be given live birth to by a laptop in the wild - I just don't trust some factory or government or my apartment.
Ah the notorious "exit interview"?

Steer well well clear of them too! http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/haexit.htm
For me, it's a question of defaults.

I'm ok with ISPs having a 'child-protect' feature on your internet connection as a benefit. I'm less ok with the government working to develop the filters. I'm not really ok with the government mandating that ISPs provide such a service. And I'm very much against this service being on by default. I'm terrified by mandatory use of the service.
Being a WSDL is not the aim here. Generating client libraries in multiple programming languages is.

But, to do that I need a format using which people can define their API. I used JSON and only supported the elements that I needed to generate the client libraries.
Totally agree. I almost never see highly voted comments that are needlessly critical on HN. And being a little self-aware by calling out that negativity is just such an annoying thing to do.
Since many people in the UK were fine with the odea of ID cards (which did have some strong opposition but oy really failed when people thought they'd have to pay £120 to get one) and many people in the UK used to volunteer to have their DNA on the national database it is a bit worrying when we rely on punlic opinion to stop this kind of stuff.

In theory this is what elected representitives are supposed to prevent - the stupidity of the masses.
"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." -Mark Twain

I live in Dallas so I may not have a leg to stand on in this discussion, but I don't find any value in these sort of discussions. I guess they are valuable to some who want to always ensure that they don't become the next Detroit, but these discussions rarely turn into something productive.
There isn't anything in this article that explains why you can't support both. The only sentence about this is "We can’t leverage what iOS 7 has to offer and a lot of the UI is compromise.", which doesn't cite any difficulties they've run into. The only iOS 7 features they mention are UIDynamics and the receding keyboard—the rest are iOS 5/6 features.
Daniel Lapin, although sometimes falsely attributed to Hitler.
I think bsdetector was referring to the expected cost of committing arson. (Probability of Getting Caught) * (Expected repercussions if caught) = (Expected Cost of Crime). bsdetector was saying that it is "easy to get away with" arson i.e. the "probability of getting caught" is low, so the heavy consequences are intended to address the low expected cost of the crime.
Do you really mean this? Two huge ones from a technical standpoint: Cryptography. Natural Language Processing; never mind the linguistic, word games, forensic, historical and literary uses.
Also: fascinating!
Actually, legally, they cannot say anything more than "He worked here from X to Y, that's all we can say". You don't need any agreement from them.
PHP is as secure as any other major language
Why Trying to Be Perfect Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals (And What Will)
Battle testing is a horrible way to prove crypto works, from the outside looking even horribly done crypto looks secure.
I'd think the biggest competition would be the Tube. I would love to replace my current 20 min tube journey with a ~30 min cycle to work if I'd be out of the traffic.
And this is what Japan does to build high speed rail in a mountainous country where all the land that's possible to grow or build on is already owned. On some Shinkansen routes you spend half your time going in an out of tunnels
My first thought is cryptography, my second is language translation, my third is language recognition. Perhaps understanding word frequencies can also be used for linguistics, seeing how vocabularies change over time. There is a growing field of computational linguistics built around this.
I think this is fantastic. @sunkarapk, great job. That it's written in Go makes using it so much easier. Wonderful.
You realise that your ISP knows exactly what porn or disident material you're reading, right? Unless you're one of the few people who use privacy methods).
I was just thinking how sad it is that Netflix has all this great data on movies (as Pandora does for music), and it's locked away from us.
> Between October 2008-August 2009, for example, more than 220 million people travelled to and from the US, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

> During that time authorities searched about 1,000 laptops carried by travellers.

We don't live in the police state that most Snowden and Kim Dotcom supporters here tell us that we do.

I get really tired of seeing anecdotes used to represent the average.
OP site is unreachable at the moment. I can offer that letter frequency counts (ETNARIOUS?) are vital to basic (pen and paper) cryptanalysis and play a significant part in modern statistical and differential cryptanalysis.

Also, it used to guess what language a text might be in for anthropology and archaeology. The frequency charts for a given language are reliable enough (in a sufficiently large sample, etc) to guide that.
There’s a growing amount of evidence and debunking of past research showing that fat - predominantly the saturated fat found in stuff like bacon - doesn’t clog arteries.
What problem do you want to solve that Google already doesn't?

Why competing with Google?
Underground Nuclear Explosion At Crippled Japan Atomic Plant Shocks World
Interesting, but I'd still maintain that his original intention was in fact to appeal to these sorts of voters (even if it was misguided).
I love this. One minor representation issue: for the "Letter Counts by Position Within Word" that charting approach is less than helpful. Improvements within the structure he uses might be coding each letter with its own colour, and having each letter in its own column, reordered by length. However, charting experts may easily come up with a more useful re-charting approach better than I can off the top of my head.
The funny thing is the article is squarely aimed at the non-disparagement clause which to me is not very interesting. But the big deal is actually the "release of all claims" clause. Essentially they're trying to get a "get out of jail free" card for any unlawful actions they may have taken as part of your termination.

Even if they did nothing unlawful (ex: terminate everyone over 40 years old to bring in younger cheaper workers, terminate everyone of a particular race or other protected class, etc) terminating someone can often bring frivolous claims that can cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. Assuredly, their offer of two weeks severance is a "it's worth a shot" attempt to see who is dumb enough to take it.
> Energy balance is the physics of biochemistry; there is no arguing away the laws of thermodynamics. If you get heavier, it's because you consumed more energy than you used over a period of time. There is no other way to gain or lose weight* (no matter the proportion of muscle/fat that's gained or lost).

I'm not claiming that the body can somehow defy the laws of thermodynamics. Obviously to become "heavier" one must consume more energy than one expends, but to lose fat -- specifically fat, not muscle tissue or bone or water -- the question is this: how important is the role of hormones in fat regulation? Does an increased insulin load, coupled with insulin resistance caused by long-term exposure to chronically high insulin levels, promote greater fat storage? And does this greater mass of fat, which itself is a hormonally active organ, affect the body in a way that results in illness and further weight gain?

Would an endocrinologist tell a diabetic that macronutrient content doesn't matter? Should we give that same advice to people with metabolic syndrome or those who are at risk of developing it? If insulin resistance is the primary cause of Type 2 Diabetes, and insulin is the primary hormone involved in fat storage -- both non-controversial statements -- then wouldn't it make sense for those at risk of developing T2DM to eat foods that produced a minimal insulin response?

Read Taubes's thought experiment I linked above. If you're willing to make nutrition texts bedtime reading, then you will at least find it interesting, even if you disagree with it. Though Taubes is not a scientist and he doesn't claim to be, he does make a compelling argument.

> Don't pull out the "a simple failure of willpower" straw man; I never claimed that.

It wasn't intended to target you specifically, but this attitude is pervasive, even among medical professionals. There are people out there who would much rather believe that every obese patient is just a lazy glutton who can't control himself. I know a few of these people myself, one of whom is a prominent oncologist. Science requires that we put aside our biases and assumptions.

> Hormones play a HUGE role in metabolism. My bedtime reading is how the chemical reactions they drive fit into human metabolism. you're comment seems to make them out to be "magical", which I suspect is due to your ignorance of them.

I'm not claiming hormones are magical. I am merely suggesting that their known role in fat regulation might also play a critical role in obesity. It's been a while since I studied the topic in any great depth, so I can't compete with your bedtime reading, and I don't want to link spam, so I'm keeping it simple.

Anyway, I believe the science will eventually shed some light on this issue. There are clinical trials in the planning stages right now, so hopefully we won't have long to wait.
Activists and other "interesting" people have their own particular security problems.

For most of the rest of us, we really have no data of any interest to the authorities. That doesn't mean we shouldn't care about data security, if that's important to us. But it's not the real problem with border confiscation.

The real problem is not having your hardware or software tools at your destination.

So don't bring any hardware or data that you can't afford to lose. Certainly don't bring anything that you're emotionally attached to, particularly inbound.

Either don't bring anything, and buy it all at the destination, or just bring the cheapest stuff you can use productively, and be prepared to replace it at the destination.

The NSA already has my email. But I'd hate to be without a camera, or phone, or laptop, or data, or whatever other tools I was going to use at the destination. Plan for that, it's the more likely and practical threat.
I wouldn't sign that any more than I'd sign a contract that gave the company everything that I produce in my own time. Both are attempts by the corporation to dissolve my agency as a human being.

The only right answer is no.
Sports are for idiot working class men.
Can you provide a source for this? I've never heard of this before and am curious what legal restriction you are referring to.
And you can print your own money by writing "This is 100 dollars bill" and sending it to printer multiple times.

The only remaining task is to convince others to use it :)
California is what is referred to as an "at will" state which means the company can let you go tomorrow without recourse or explanation beyond "we're letting you go" [1].

([1] There is legislation that comes into play if you let enough people go at the same time that its considered a "layoff". But it doesn't come into play for an individual termination)
"the convenience of 10.000s of people having a station a little closer"

If the estimates that the Hyperloop would carry in the region of 3,000 passengers (either way) per hour are correct, calling it 10,000s seems reasonable.

Indeed, it seems quite plausible that constructing something like the currently proposed Hyperloop would cause severe disruption to more people than would actually save a little time travelling on it in a year. Over its entire working lifetime, the number of person-hours lost because of construction effects might still heavily outweigh the number of person-hours saved because of marginally reduced journey times.

"the difference between a straight route rather than two curves on it resulting in adding 30 minutes to the traveling of every person that uses that route now, and in the centuries to come"

I didn't give that example because nothing we're talking about for either Hyperloop or the UK-based rail network is anything close to adding 30 minutes to the journey time. You're absurdly exaggerating the effects of rerouting. Maybe if you added numerous deviations to avoid numerous undesirable land conflicts you'd get to that kind of level, but in that case you have to balance it against numerous different sets of people who lose out in all those conflicts as well.

Basically, the idea of claiming large amounts of land where people are living right now to build infrastructure like the Hyperloop is about as blatant an elitist land-grab as I can think of. If it really were severely inconveniencing a handful of people to make life significantly better for millions you might at least have a decent argument, but the real numbers don't appear to be anything like that from any of the Googling I'm doing today.
From what I hear, SSD's can't be wiped completely, so be careful with such laptops (Macbook Airs, etc).
This whole alt-coin thing is just a passing fad. I recently cashed out all my BitCoins and put the money into Beanie Baby Collectables. They're these cool stuffed toys that everybody is collecting these days. I was able to get a bunch of them at a very reasonable price range. Their value is bound to skyrocket in the future as more and more people get into it.
It's not a parody.
I accept youth.

Anyhow, I am just leaning to an extreme to show my point: since work already makes a major part of our lives, we should strive to make it significant and use it to achieve what we want for our lives.
Can I have the extra 10 percent?
Surely this is useful though, despite others claims it is a parody?

Can this be used to create a distributed transaction system for some arbitrary application? E.g. create a massively multilayer game with its own underlying transaction safe economy.

I thought the block chain was useful in itself, forgetting about the currency implications. Its a good data structure. Cloning it seems mega useful for putting it to work elsewhere..
That's not true. Many companies have this as a policy to avoid defamation lawsuits from former employees receiving what they consider a bad reference, but that's not because there's a law forbidding it.
Verified by Visa and Mastercard 3D Secure were an attempt to implement something similar to this, but were a disaster. I recommend the paper "Veri ed by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode:
or, How Not to Design Authentication" by Steven Murdoch and Ross Anderson, who have been involved in quite a lot of the security research surrounding EMV.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/fc10vbvsecurecode.pdf

EMV has it's problems. I've worked with a few researchers who have targeted the security of it in several ways and found some quite serious issues, so I'm quite aware of the security implications. However in terms of practical criminal use, having the challenge and response mechanism with the card is a significant improvement over the static data of a magstripe.

That said, an interesting piece of British law is the fact that a signature forgery is never the responsibility of the victim. This means that if someone fraudulently signs for a payment, you are not responsible for the charges at all, whereas if someone watches you enter your PIN, or you tell it to someone and they subsequently use it to make payments, this is your responsibility. The grey area for a while was that the companies behind EMV said it was 'uncrackable' (never a good idea) and refused to take responsibility of charges that some users claimed had been made without their PINs being revealed by them. Anderson, and the Cambridge security researchers demonstrated a proof of concept a few years ago that showed how it could be used without knowing disclosure of the PIN, and since then card companies and banks have been a little more receptive to taking on the responsibility.
Oh yeah? http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20463192
Right, the format affords generic description documents from which to generate client code. This seems very similar in spirit to WSDL. No?
IANAL, but I believe you are technically wrong that it's illegal. Saying more, has however, been used against companies in civil court, with damages awarded, even when the 'more' said was completely accurate.
Sue them for breaching your First Amendment rights through employment termination coercion.