skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple employers ago I was leaving a job to found a startup and talking to a lawyer about unrelated things and casually brought up the termination agreement they had asked me to sign. His response was "Unless you need the money, I don't see what reason you would ever have for signing that."

The lightbulb that went off in my head was that every legal document you sign is basically a business transaction: you give up something, they give up something, and hopefully what they're giving up is worth more to you than what you're giving up.

So one way to think about this is to forget whether it's "common" or "routine" and imagine this thought experiment. A former employer comes up to you on the street and offers you a couple thousand (or whatever the severance terms were) in exchange for giving up the right to say negative things about the company (and any other terms they ask for). Do you take it? Well, it depends on a lot, including your personal financial situation. For a tech worker, it's probably not worth it; a couple grand is a drop in the bucket compared to the risk of a lawsuit. But if you need to make rent next month and just want to move on with your life, there are some situations where it could be.
Yes... something is wrong with sunshine data. Go to comparison tool and look at Miami and Key West. They're only 100 miles away and Miami shows significantly less sunshine... and shows very low overall sunshine which is clearly wrong.
The reality is that after 5 years of development, i.e. around about now is when the promoting is just starting. A significant number of developers are early adopters who started using 3.x even before it is finished.
Interestingly, I have a friend who works at a used car dealership. She did a report and their average profit is $4500 per car.

Maybe you took all his play out of it, and he really needed the $500 to make the deal.
> what are some potential consequences of starving your body of sugars

If you look at history we've never had so much sugar in our diet at any point in human history, not to mention the fact that most sugar isn't actually sugar but things like HFCS which has a higher glycemic index.

The keto flu may sound bad, but it happens because your body isn't used to producing ketones since you've never been in ketosis before. I've been on and off keto for the last two years, and I don't get a keto flu since the first time I went into ketosis.
Walking around with a phone strapped to your wrist would be awkward.
MMQB: The 2013 NFL playoff predictions
Its back up without CSS
ok, now its a fast 1 level deep clone

can you patch up my jsperf or provide your own for the switch v. object assertion?
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A Facebook account passes as an official form of ID at a US airport
Cmd + T, then resize it. Simple. Works as expected (they just released this feature in Photoshop CC).
These are Japanese machines. The US and Swiss makers are optical.

There's been consolidation in the industry, so there's really only the US and JAP makers left, and the US maker (MEI) is so far ahead of the rest of the world, there's no point.
Not sure what you're refering to by "count" here. There's nothing to count. What matters is everybody coming into the knowledge that everybody knows at least one person has blue eyes. This takes a prompt about that, which is the foreigner's speech. If the foreigner doesn't cause them to start sorting themselves into blue eyes/not blue eyes groups, there's no basis for them to start deducing anything.
If n=3, then each of the blue-eyed people know that there are blue-eyed people and know that the other blue-eyed people know. However, they don't know that all the blue-eyed people know that the blue-eyed people know. This is the piece of information that is learned by the statement given.

In general, if there are N blue-eyed people, then it is the Nth abstraction of "he knows that I know that he knows that I know that..." that is learned by the statement.
Yes, I edited to clarify that a bit.
This can also be read as "Large companies pay employees too much money and provide too many benefits."

Shame!

San Francisco should kick the techies out. Then it can aspire to be Detroit. It's not pretty when a formerly vibrant industry fades away over time.
They posted that it was £90. That converts to $147.71 USD today.
I have not been able to find a good solution to having a personal vibrating timer with me.
Requirements:
Easy to set so no frictional cost to starting a pomodoro for instance. Does not beep. Keeps vibrating until silenced rather than vibrating once and then stopping (I don't notice these).
Maybe a 'private' version would be marketable?
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Geographic distribution of different Snapchat usernames
There's actually a nice service to build here: "invisible watermarking" for photographers and designers...
It's definitely possible I messed up something- I'll take a look. It's one of the challenges of doing everything by yourself!
Between that, the pleather, and the price, I think I'd be more inclined to make my own than to buy one of these. It's a neat idea, but I am not satisfied with this execution.
You seem to dislike inviting a bulk of friends to a service. But the article doesn't talk about invites. The problem is securely discovering who's already invited. It's not offensive in my opinion.
Sorry, but the price I "specced out" was with the modules from Adafruit. If you actually made a custom PCB, etc, you could easily hit the $50 mark with only 10s of units, in my opinion. Especially since the processor is unimportant: there are no complex calculations to perform.
I think you've got it wrong. The information added is that a blue eyed person has been positively identified. In the three person case, each blue eyed person can see two people and is internally modeling their logic about the two person scenario. Once the logic for a two person scenario falls through, they can infer that there are not two people with blue eyes.

The brown eyed people are however modeling an N+1 person case.
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People who succeed tend to assume the credit, and people who fail tend to blame others. Both are wrong.
My MotivAider does this fantastically, I like it on my belt and aside from being bulky, is perfect machine for $50.

http://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Dynamics-9609-QC-MotivAider...

I've been using it to establish habits, remind myself to be mindful and focus on task.
its funny how when things go wrong in private companies, how quickly the general public thinks they can weigh in on how someone needs to stay with that entity.

Imagine building something and losing your influence over it to the rest of the world.
Confirm your regional biases with this handy tool for parsing the Snapchat data
How becoming passionate about solving a problem can lead to building big things.
Fun fact: The treasury department won't tell you what is actually on the bills. In fact, none of the governments will. You can analyze them till you're blue in the face, under whatever light or circumstances you want, but the treasury department won't tell you what security measures are on the bill, nor when they change them. Additionally, they sometimes change during print runs, and issues.
Negative comments != trolling. Troll comments are comments that are deliberately against popular opinion in order to start arguments. Saying "this article sucks" isn't trolling. Saying "Python is better than Ruby because it's more pure." is trolling.
I think part of it is a lack of social awareness. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6968526

When people feel justified with their behaviour, they may do or say unnecessary things.
Though I should point out there are definitely weird things with the raw NSA data. For instance, their precipitation data at one and 6 hour increments do not match at all.
I think the problem also is missing some part where the people know for sure that they can only have blue or brown eyes.
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Yes because if you went to a 35,000/year high school and a $60,000/year college and now work in the tech sector, you must:

* be a "bro"

* have wasted your college years (doing keg stands, I suppose)

* be a narcissist.
Perhaps more interestingly, the help of IDA could also determine what the code is actually doing in more detail than can be learned from the relatively crude black box methods in the link.
The point is that if you build a data structure for MongoDB in any language other than PHP, and just include the user parameter where it belongs, the only thing that the user can supply there is a string and it is easy to verify that there is no possible security problem. MongoDB's APIs were designed around this fact as an easy way to avoid the possibility of SQL injection type attacks.

In PHP the exact same approach turned out to be a security hole because if the user supplies the right input you get a data structure that is meaningful to MongoDB.

As you say, you shouldn't assume anything about user generated content. But PHP's willingness to parse that input and turn it into something the programmer didn't expect to see often means that user generated content is harder to deal with in that language than you should reasonably expect it to be.
You said context is critical and this is interesting because a friend of mine is currently dealing with how to handle termination for a contract job (1099 not W2) they were performing.

They had worked for this company for about about half a year now and every single itemized invoice, which should have been paid in X days, was paid over over 4 times X days late every time and the CEO was unresponsive to emails addressing this. The CEO was verbally abusive over the phone and in writing such as in emails and text messages. The contract stated that she would get $X amount for Y hours of work per week. After enough abuse they gave the company the notice and asked to be paid the already late invoice for the previous month and the current invoice submitted a day or two prior and due in less than a week. Now the company has presented a termination contract with all the sorts of reprehensible clauses we are discussing here and they are stating that the consideration is that they won't dispute the hours itemized on the last invoice. They refuse to pay the final invoice unless this person signs the termination contract. This isn't worth seeing a lawyer about given the invoice amount.

Furthermore, the person in question was hired to do administrative work for the company, which is what they did initially, but ended up handling almost exclusively personal issues for the CEO for last few months, which quite frankly strikes me as malfeasance since the CEO was paying for personal assistance needs with company funds. IMHO Some of the work performed should have been paid out of the CEO's pocket instead of the company's funds.
"what they don't know (until the 2nd) day) is that all the other blue-eyed islanders know that all the other blue-eyed islanders know that there are 99 other blue-eyed islanders."

I don't see how they know that on the second day, either, though. Before the foreigner's statement, every blue-eyes islanders knows a) that there are at least 99 blue-eyed islanders b) that all the blue-eyed islanders know that there are at least 98 blue-eyed islanders. I don't see what the foreigner's statement adds to this knowledge.
This is the main point. anyone willing to commit the crime will find ways. it is just like TSA at airports. Those systems do nothing to actually prevent the crime.

it just fatten someones pockets who then pass a percentage down to the policy makers.
Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
I don't really agree, at least not given your examples. "This article gave me cancer" seems like trolling to me, by your definition.

People here are blunt about stupidity, sure, and maybe it has a more cutting effect because it's more likely they're actually pointing out stupid mistakes, rather than just name calling or something.

Here you're derided in a more accurate, skilled fashion.
What about this?

1) Client uploads a bloom filter with all contacts on phone

2) Server responds with a bloom filter with all registered contacts that match the client's bloom filter

3) Client displays contacts that match server's bloom filter

You can optionally trade contacts back and forth again with a larger bits/contact ratio to decrease false positives.

I think it works out so that in exchange for 7 bits of information about each contact from the client, you can reduce the server's response by a factor of 128.
That would create an alarm that you must reset every five minutes, rather than simply notifying you in the background that five minutes have passed.
> "I think the parts should cost only $60-70, maybe less"

Consider that the thinkgeek 'annoyatron' is sold for $10. So the guts of this device cost far less than $10. A cheap watch band, better looking than the one this has, can be had for under $20 on Amazon...

Throw the rest of the money into having a nice brass enclosure machined, then pot it with epoxy to make it reasonably water-resistant as well...
some people are born on home plate celebrating with three other people and think they hit a grand slam.
We've only soft launched StartupVitality [1] but if you've just launched your side project and are looking to get some early, targeted traffic, it's a problem we know about.

We're going to release a list of our submission sites so that bootstrappers who have more time than money do it for free but those who have some cash or are funded might find our service useful.

[1] https://startupvitality.com/
And a PyCon video: http://pyvideo.org/video/276/the-mighty-dictionary-55 .
What is SVM and PCA? That sounds interesting.
It looks like a personal attack, but it's not.

If you read the post you linked to, it quite reasonably says that EA is not the worst employer to work for. It's just that the Internet crowd thinks that it is. And what GP said was that this crowd comprises of people like yourself, which again is reasonable observation, not an attack.
What terribly written tripe. For an accomplished coder, Bryan Goldberg is surprisingly incapable of grasping nuance.
I built https://OpenTokRTC.com to make it super easy for people to go and video chat with each other using WebRTC. It gets a steady 2000 visits every week. After I built the site, I set up google search notifications so I get notified whenever new content relevant to my app shows up ( webrtc posts, articles about video chat, etc ). Then I'd visit each site, read it, and leave a comment about my thoughts and plug in OpenTokRTC.
Bravo! This resonates with me on a couple of levels.

While I'm still active in software development, I haven't done web development in 10+ years. I'm currently working on a side-project which is also teaching me "the works" when it comes to web development and deployment. Of course, I will still be a n00b by the time I'm done, but I'll soon have written and deployed my own RoR, data-driven website.

My side-project also shares a similar motivation as yours: First, it's my belief that most data isn't taken advantage of because most people suck at data. I wanted to see if I could take an existing, well-picked-through data set and extract value, just by sucking less. This could also describe my side project, which is in the sports domain.

You reaching this point is extremely inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
"Not technically, not in spirit, not in any way related to the 1st amendment."

... unless your employer is the federal government, or a state or city government (since the First Amendment applies also to the states[1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_%28Bill_of_Right...
Glad you liked it.

I am building more SEO tools to sell with a freemium SaaS model. The existing tools will remain free.

I have reached out to many blogs, some has written about us but many haven't. The SEO community is also spreading the word about RankSignals on SEO & webmaster forums.
30 seconds today suggests to me that in a few years it will be available for instant replay, instead of the canned bits they show in current broadcasts 5-10 minutes after the play.

Once that works, how far can we be from compositing these images in real time? That will be amazing.
Your post is so useless and boring. It gave me cancer, this might be the dumbest article I ever read.

(obviously it's a joke)
Idk that HN has more nasty comments. I'd say it has more negative comments, but not sure they're nasty. Nasty are the comments on YouTube.
Generally you want to charge 4x your BOM (bill of materials) to cover shipping, fulfillment, customer support, etc. For such a small run (50 pieces) your costs are probably a lot higher than that of a large manufacturer; in their case they'd probably want to do > 4x to actually turn a profit. At $148 I'd be amazed if they were doing more than breaking even – these guys are doing it for the learning experience (and it says so on their blog).
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Well, actually I did read the article and address that in my comment that I don't think that it is important to hide the address from the server but it is important to hide them from the brute force attacker. I believe that my suggestion stops a brute force attacker from pulling the whole database like you can today with many of these systems.
Yes, search for interval timer, repeat timer...
The closest free app I found for ios so far is "wake me up."
It repeats forever but doesn't run in the background.
do you need a better reason?
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Support Vector Machines, and Principle Component Analysis.

LMGTFY
I think people underestimate how easy it would be to deny Snowden's allegations without specific examples of overstepping reach by NSA.
Where does media punditry get off on making absolutist calls for heads to "roll"? I mean, imaging if random non-experts had a journalist fired for every failed-prediction or embarrasingly wrong policy analysis penned in an op-ed? There would be no journalists left !
I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Back home, there were plenty of girls who were math, physics, and computer nerds like me. They were curious and had that hacker mentality. But since moving to USA I haven't met any american girls/women like that. Those I did meet were immigrants like me, or studying here as exchange students from another country.

I've been living here for more than 10 years. Why is there such a difference in the amount of girls interested in technology around the world, and where I'm from, vs here in America?

Now, I could understand that if I lived in a very diverse state like NJ or NY, it would be normal to see lots of girls from other places. But in the state I live, I think the population is 99% white non-immigrant, so it's really odd that the only females are outsiders!

There's something else at play here.
Open up your Javascript console to see a hailstorm of 500s. It's a fricking Wordpress theme.
> Not one single animal, insect or fish has evolved specifically to be eaten.

I would disagree. Most animals didn't evolve any defense mechanism to make them less appetizing, and animals at the bottom of the food chain reproduce the most so they have the most numbers to keep the species going. Meanwhile animals on the top of the food chain evolved in a manner to eat other animals. It's just nature for you.
apology? these are two kids from Stanford who made a fun project and it just so happen to take off. Give them a break, their team of less than 5 people could careless what the public thinks!
This is exactly it. I've posted about ideas for fixing this a few times in the past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6549063

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944259

The unfortunate thing right now is that these ideas have no real traction outside of econoblogs, the most popular being Matt Yglesias' MoneyBox. City Halls, historic preservation committees, online comment sections, community boards, and others have endless rants about their grievances, or piles of suggestions that don't touch the problem at all.

In the case of this article, it's mentioned in passing, but dismissed as the equivalent of "it'll be too little, too late." If a place is as important as it seems (like New York has been for a very long time in a number of industries), these problems aren't going anywhere - regardless of bubble pops - and should be dealt with right away. Are there any serious commentators or analysts that believe that the SFBA will disappear if "social" vanishes? I think that's incredibly short-sighted.

Short version: there are solutions, but those who matter aren't really listening.
Mathematical research published in the form of poems
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Talk to your kids about death.
Thanks for all the book tips. I curious to both of you that responded...do either of you do anything to personally connect with each team member? Do you keep track of each team member's progress and maybe some personal info (like birthday, meaningful events, etc) in any way like in an evernote or personal CRM?
Dedicated hardware typically has a large upfront cost. Also, it's a fixed resource, so for some workloads the "cloud" is more flexible (whether that be simple VPS's with quick provisioning a la DigitalOcean or AWS).

From what I understand the overhead in performance is negligible, while giving you very fine grained control over your resources. Say you have a web application, a front-end reverse proxy, a database, a cache, a background worker process, and a message queue. Throw all these components into separate containers on a single server while the load is low. Then move the DB container into a separate VPS as your traffic grows. Or try doing an upgrade of the message queue in a brand new container, and if it fails, just don't use it.

Sure, you can do the same thing with a VPS, but then you are paying the per-hour fee for it, while 99.99% of its resources will go unused.
This could also be implemented as a smartphone app running in the background..
"they don't know that all the blue-eyed people know that the blue-eyed people know"

Yes, they do. In the three-person case, a blue-eyed person can see two other blue-eyed people, A and B, and they know that A can see B, and vice-versa, so they know that A and B both know that there are blue-eyed people, and they know that both A and B would be able to us the same logic they used, so they also know that A and B know that A and B know that there are blue-eyed people.
> Imagine building something and losing your influence over it to the rest of the world.

Happens a lot more often than you'd think.
I find posts like these hard to parse.

First of all, this article seems to be entirely opinion (which is fine, ofc), and could use some more supporting facts. The linked examples are great, but how does the iconography lack sophistication? I'm not trained as a designer.

Second, I wonder how much of this designer's opinion (and my own) of Andriod vs iOS are influenced by the seemingly default notion that "iOS is prettier and better designed than Android." I can see that this is clearly true with earlier Android versions, and it seems true now, although it's a closer race. But what are the objective criteria that make iOS's design truly better?
Snapchat isn't a "project" anymore. It's a business.
What you are saying is that it is your problem if you do not know PHP well enough to know everything that it is going to possibly do behind your back. And you say that in full knowledge of the fact that PHP is widely used by the exact kind of novice programmer who are least likely to be able to competently do that. And you fail to notice that those two facts combine for a recipe for a constant stream of security holes.

Figure those things out, and then you will understand why I think that PHP is worse for security than other languages.