skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending where the OP is in the world, this sounds ripe for constructive dismissal, but I'd encourage you to really think about it before going down this route. It will create a massive amount of stress for very little reward, and rightly or wrongly can tarnish you for a very long time if made public (because then everyone knows someone wanted to fire you).

Judging by the OPs one other post on HN that they could give up 20 hours of time a week it would also be difficult to get some people to accept that the OP was fully motivated in what they were doing and working their hardest.

I'm not a fan of burning bridges, BUT: I'm no lawyer, but if your pay cut is immediate I cannot see why you can't also leave immediately. If you are in a place with a buoyant job market the most satisfying thing to do might be to just not go back to work and get another job (assuming you can afford to survive the time that might take). Even if your employer does want you out, I bet they aren't prepared for you to leave immediately, a little bit of payback that may cause them a lot of stress and not much for you (although a bit like constructive dismissal, doesn't do your reputation a lot to good).
...for certain values of "us".
Training Makes It Possible
Not in this day and age. United stranded me in Houston last year after leaving late from LA... said it was because of the weather and politely told me to "shove off." Well guess what, it was another perfect day in LA that day. If work hadn't paid for everything I'd be very angry. I'm still angry but busy and less motivated to fight.

A company that could do the fighting for me could be helpful. Even if they didn't produce a profit for me, I'd consider using it out of principle.
The problem is this doesn't even matter to the average user. They've been so ingrained to just automatically accept these messages (EULA's, "warnings" etc) that they have become meaningless.

Even if you do get the odd person that actually cares, the question becomes "do I care enough to stop using this app". The answer is almost certainly no. If you actually cared about your privacy, you probably would have stopped using Facebook half a decade ago.
I don't disagree with you, but tell me why this is a 'bad' thing if you are saying that shareholding equity is increasing and management is being pushed out of their 'comfort zone' and maybe paying off debt/buyback or dividend?
That SMS authentication flow is slick!
See my comment about zopfli [1] for improved png compression algorithm.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349635
Yep. Fun fact: libertarians don't want the world to be the wild wild west forever. We believe in regulations and oversight, we just think it need not be at gunpoint. Hopefully the Bitcoin industry gets to it before the government does and we'll find out how it compares.
Poor people perform poorly.
I'd suggest to leave out 'MAX' - the proper way would be to go to 40/week exactly, and document them - the start/end times; otherwise you may get into a payment dispute over the time you still will work in that organization.
I think it's bad manners to act like if the author owed you something. Redis is a monumental personal effort, and a lot of people try to help in many different ways because they are grateful such a tool exists. If you want to improve Redis, you are welcome to discuss any issue and even provide a patch, but you have to be respectful. A comment like yours is very demoralizing for open source contributors.
This is dangerously false. I sincerely hope nobody takes this comment seriously.

In the US, insider trading is typically charged as a civil offense, where the SEC doesn't need to prove anything. In civil cases the SEC is often only held to "preponderance of evidence" standard -- even lower than the "clear and convincing evidence" standard used in most civil fraud cases.

Only if the charges are criminal does the SEC have to prove their case.
Isn't Facebook correctly assuming that if you use it you're okay with your life being an open book? They've never attempted to hide it and everyone who's uncomfortable with that has moved on, or at least using it very conservatively.

So who exactly has a problem with this?
Neat.

While perhaps impossible, I'd also love an app that would overall just help me get back ontrack for flights and rebooked somehow.

I realize I can go to the gate agent (who invariably now has 50 other people in line, and are working with computers that seem to require 1000 key presses to even look up the most basic thing) or call the airline (similar situation)- but it seems that the best results only happen for you if they aren't super busy and like you.

Oftentimes I've found that there is some 'problem solving' that can occur to get you back on track.

For example: I missed my flight to BOS to AUS for SXSW one year. Initially it was a 'the next available flight is in a week' situation, which clearly wasn't going to work for me. We went through some problem solving however and found a solution that totally worked. They booked me on a flight instead to DFW or SAT (can't remember which), with a layover in CLT. I went on Twitter and found a friend driving to SXSW who was going to pick me up then and take me there from the alternate nearby city. They also put me on standby for a flight from CLT to AUS. The standby totally worked out, and I got to Austin only an hour later than originally anticipated.

However, if the person at the gate/ticketing doesn't feel like helping you then frequently you're just kinda screwed. I've had dozens of situations like this where I was able to convince them to try something 'different' with me and it worked out well.

If an App helped me automatically rebook and find my options that I'd otherwise have to go beg a customer service agent for... that would be awesome. If then I'm on a connecting flight that something is going to mess up- I could probably have my plans made by the time I'm off the first plane.
I can see that. I remember quite a bit of the test being formulaic, and preparation for what the formulas are would certainly be worth a few hundred points. I can't speak for the writing section, because it didn't exist in 1997.
Weather upstream from your flight can still be responsible. If the aircraft your flight is going to use gets delayed due to weather earlier in the day, that's a weather delay, even if you had clear skies at your departure.

Airlines aren't responsible for weather delays, full stop.
Nicely Done.
Tickle: This app gets you out of awkward situations
Any further discussion on the Bloom FIlter anywhere? (an issue, etc).
I agree with this. It creates leverage that you wouldn't otherwise have while simultaneously making a statement that you don't appreciate being taken advantage of. Worst case scenario: you never hear from him again, which still sounds like a win.

Also, it reminds me of this: http://www.27bslash6.com/bob.html
I want to have the per-permission denial back. I used to be able to deny some permissions while allowing other for an individual app. Here, I could turn off the app's permissions to access SMS messages and control WiFi without disabling its internet access or camera permissions.

This would cause some apps would crash, true, but at least I can control that and work with it. It was removed from Cyanogenmod around 7.0.
Stripe Debuts A New Checkout With One-Click Payments For Mobile And Web
What a great idea ! so easy to use !
With laws, general conditions, etc... becoming more and more long and complex (even for educated people) I can see this kind of concept taking off in many other fields.
cannot wait !
too bad you can't dynamically change the price in the form.
> The team gets a nice payday

Part of my naive negative reaction to acqui-hires is that the investors/founders get more of a payday (not VC-dream 100x but I assume more than 1x) than the team really does (maybe some retention bonuses, minor bonuses from vested stock, etc.).

This is basically not rewarding the investors for backing a great business idea, or the founders for great execution, but for being great recruiters.

E.g. "yay, I'm/the team are awesome at my/our jobs, so my founders/investors get a huge 'referral bonus'...and I get to go work at Yahoo..."

(Granted, if the acquirer only wants the founders anyway, and the rest of the engineering team is more of a tangential bonus, I guess it makes sense. Perhaps this is usually the case anyway? Not sure.)
I scored very well on the SAT's back in 2001 or so (better than 700 on each section) with no prep. I dont think anything on there was beyond the reach of a normal HS student. I went to public HS and took no advanced math or english classes prior to the test.
Not really relevant to the point of the article, but worth mentioning:

The article's commentary on the _Asian Disease_ problem which states "the number of certain deaths is the same in both versions of the problem.." is incorrect. In case A, the number of certain deaths is 400,000, in case B it's 0.

Or am I reading it incorrectly ?
Icahn made his bones as an ur-corporate raiders, systematically buying companies, stripping them of assets, and then using the proceeds to pay off his own debt. Ever see Wall Street? Icahn's Gordon Gekko on steroids.

The thing is, he's not exactly wrong about CEOs, but in my experience the absolute worst ones come out of private equity -- in other words, from within Icahn's world. These are guys who generally became "turnaround CEOs" of large companies in their 30s (or even 20s), and never grasped the idea that there's a difference between the architect and the wrecking ball. They're absolute disasters when they try to actually run a company, because all they know how to do is kill dogs and milk cows.

Icahn's "activism" is broadly similar, robbing from companies' long-term plans to boost short-term investor profits. He also likes to lay about with the axe handle; his accusations of eBay board malfeasance exist at the intersection of ignorance and ambition.

Case in point: his Skype accusations. It's not like Skype was overperforming when eBay sold it off; eBay had failed to make use of the company's tech, and the sale let them keep about 35% of the value in the company while letting someone else run it. If I recall, they bought the company for about $3b, sold 65% off for a hair under $2b, and then got $2.5b from the MSFT purchase. Icahn seems to think that MSFT's valuation indicated that eBay could have sold that turkey for more, but that seems unlikely -- when MSFT bought it, Skype had put its IPO on indefinite hold, and no one else even put in a bid, which indicates that if anyone should be furious, it's Redmond's own shareholders.
FTC Commissioners dismiss majority of actions brought by its own staff
I agree totally. I must say, that I have seen typeless declarations in code, but I do find them to be a nuisance. Adding (id) to a declaration isn't really that hard, and makes the code a lot more radable. Why raise the treshold for the ability to read Objective-C?
Release that anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to dark side. Dark side has cookies. Cookies lead to weight gain. Weight gain leads to unhappiness.

Therefore anger leads to unhappiness. Trust me I'm a doctor[0].

[0] not really, but you should still trust me.
It's not an app but I've heard good things about http://crankyconcierge.com

I've never had cause to hire them myself though.
That's hardly specific to the SAT, that's true in basically every single thing measured. Including health.

Lower income people do worse. Or perhaps people who are "worse" have lower income.
Or because its specifically designed for the air travel marketplace?
Honestly, I thought that was a good introductory tutorial to their library.

It's pretty clear that it's only trying to look for a specific car, in a specific spot. And it's obvious that they're taking advantage of the car's bright color to do this, which isn't generally applicable.

It's a toy algorithm, but it's approachable for somebody with no CV experience.
It is interesting that you take up JPEG video streaming with the <img> tag in the context of a mozilla project. It works great in Chrome and Safari but in Firefox mjpeg streams only show the first frame. Here is the bug for it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479015 which is unconfirmed since 2009, so clearly there is nobody over there who cares about this functionality.
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Why is "ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong" a good thing?
You are correct, it's the expected number that is the same.
If you have root, you can install this functionality with AppOps X.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colortiger...
You misspelled "freedom fighter" and deserve downvotes for attempting to shut down discussion with a bogus analogy.
You mean no boobs?
Did you file a bug for this? This doesn't sound normal at all.
too bad you can't dynamically change the price in the form to support multiple products.
(I worked on Checkout)

You can! The docs on our custom integration are here: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout#integration-custom
Hover Boards are real
honestly if the idea isnt worth leaving the day job, and dedicating 6 months or so, maybe it is not the right idea?

in any case, nothing is as important as the founder's investment of time amd focus in any new business. that said, i would also look for enthusiastic volunteers (equity based, deferred comp, experience, former employees hoping to see another success, etc) to help so that it forces you to articulate a plan, organize and prioritize, and most importantly, keeps you from losing motivation since you have people who depend on your feedback and leadership day to day

oh and stop reading HN as it kills productivity ;) time to get back to work!
Just who are these people who have secrets? Which people depend on the ignorance of the people around them to live their lives?

Are you afraid your wife might learn about your mistress?
Are you afraid your business partners (bosses, coworkers, corporate contacts, government regulators) might learn about your communicable diseases?
Are you afraid your religious associates might learn about your immoral activity?
Are you afraid your children might learn about your illegal smuggling operations?
Are you afraid your Amish friends might learn of your technology company?
A Push to End Securities Fraud Lawsuits Gains Momentum
Jesus man, do some homework at least. It's not an online wallet, it's an exchange. Do you not understand the difference?
One thought, why you should quit (at least in the long run): A company, that treats valuable people this way will go downhill in short or longer time.
When I initially looked at the new update I thought 'this is perfect', but after reading this comment, I look again and it really isn't.
The Unnatural Selection of Male Entrepreneurs
Damn, if I ever need to start taking web development seriously (right now it's only something I do for my little personal projects), I think I will buy this tool. The interface looks very nice, and it seems to integrate and simplify all sorts of useful features and workflows that I've seen described elsewhere (usually at length, with lots of documentation on how to get them working).
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Not always. We had a direct flight from Orlando to Seattle that was waiting on the plane to come from SEA (I assume they just run the plane back and forth between the two cities, based on the schedule). Except SEA had a little sprinkling of snow, so the plane never left. I woke up at 4:00 a.m., looked at my phone, and flight was cancelled. No "we rebooked you", no nothing. So I called. Their offer was to put us on a plane 36 hours later. That's not gonna work, we've got to go to work and get the dogs out of dog jail. Tampa's closer, can you stick on a flight out of there? Nope, not even an option. An hour on the phone got me nowhere.

My wife tried later, and after another hour of "no, that's not acceptable" finally got a later flight with a five hour stop in Washington, DC. Alaska Air at least gave us exit rows for the ride home. Granted, this wasn't a "missed a connecting flight" scenario, but the airline's lack of helpfulness does not give me confidence they would act differently. Man, for the good old days when you'd call or walk to the desk, hear "just a moment, sir <clickety, clickety, clickety> there, I have you on the next flight. I put you in first class for the trouble."

On a side note, I find it ironic that the only airline in SEA that was cancelling flights due to snow was the one with the word "Alaska" in its name.
I am aware that compression algorithms kind of work on this general idea of referencing common bits. Of course I am aware of that.

How do you read my question and interpret simply it as "lets send all of the images in full and then give their index and call it compression?"?? What I suggest is that we take a standard encoding technique like Huffman, or some modification, but rather than creating a table based on data in an individual image, build this code table by analyzing many, many images.

I have read the Wikipedia article on Huffman coding before. However, the details are not really important in regards to my point.

What I am suggesting is that rather than looking at just the bits in individual images and using them to construct a Huffman table or some other kind of reference, look at the bits on many, many images and create a larger reference table. And then of course you may need a local table for things in the image that don't quite correspond to the larger table.

Earlier compression techniques were much more constrained in terms of processing power, RAM, network connectivity etc. and so distributing and using a large table for compression was not practical. I am suggesting that someone who has knowledge of compression engineer a system where 10MB, 50MB, or 100MB of RAM is used and a large common bits file is transmitted, rather than starting with the idea that almost all of the data or all of the data has to be contained in one file. I am not suggesting that an existing compression algorithm could be translated directly into this general concept. I am suggesting an engineering effort starting with different constraints and trade-offs.
I think Facebook has done a good job helping people enjoy the habit of denying the importance of privacy in favor for a free service. I don't think many realize what they've sacrificed because they value it so little.
Looks like a Humble Bundle 12 is inbound soon, based on their screenshot! :)
Should have been called AirJoy.
That's very funny.
Just use m.facebook.com from your browser.
I'm old enough that I still associate Carl Icahn with the phrase "Corporate Raider" that was popular during the 1990s. He's done a good job rehabilitating his reputation.

Buffet would tend to buy a company that he can get a return on investment on. It's not to say he never sells companies, but he definitely tends to buy & hold.

Whether or not a company is poorly run, as an employee I'd rather be bought by Buffet than Icahn. Buffet is in it for the long run.
Ok, but then why not same rule for others, such as repo?
Yes you can do all of these things in emacs.
Higher population numbers would account for both effects, no?
Just curious: in the US, if you were denied boarding, is the airline obligated to compensate you in the form of cash? Or are they allowed to get away with giving you a voucher for the equivalent amount ("store credit")?
For students trying to achieve high scores (which are a prerequisite to getting into most "good" schools), this won't help.

Two summers ago I took courses at Summa [1], an SAT prep course in the San Diego area. The valuable material wasn't the classes reviewing geometry or speed-reading -- it's taking and reviewing the SAT repeatedly. Organizations like Summa can produce SAT-like practice tests, because the highly-prepared kids have probably taken all of the example tests the College Board provides.

The SAT is an easy test; no individual question is really that hard. Getting a high score is about knowing how to take the test, and this is learned by taking it many times. Unless the College Board releases many more practice tests (with answer keys and explanations), I don't think this program will mean much.

Note that I'm talking about getting very high scores -- the SAT is a completely different game when your goal is to get into ultra-competitive schools. For the average person who might not really understand what to study for, this program will be great.

[1]: http://www.summaeducation.com/cms/
What does regulation have anything to do with what I wrote? Do you know you can demand things as a consumer? As a group? As a community? As a market participant?

Target 'leaked' 70m+ credit card details and there was no regulation that would have forced them to disclose it. But yeah, lets make all the regulation in the world for Bitcoin exchanges, because, you know ...
This is utterly ridiculous
Would love that info - at least it would give me some concrete examples of what's available. I definitely have a budget -- willing to invest in the idea & no longer a starving student, so I certainly wouldn't want to be going the rock-bottom cheap route. Thanks.
My immediate reaction: My score is now forever unrelatable to all except those who took the exam between 2005 and 2014. Not that anyone has asked my SAT score since I got into undergrad, but now a sizable group of people who did substantially poorer than me will seem as though they did extremely well (a 1550, for example, means something very different depending on which exam you took, while my score of above 1600 will immediate remind people I took the 2400 exam).

It doesn't affect me at all, and I'm not complaining, but that's what ran through my head.
Yes. And these are problems that need addressing. Especially when the people who are doing worse are not even the ones earning the low income, just those with the bad fortune of having low income parents.
It's back (and better than ever) in CyanogenMod 11.

Settings -> Privacy -> Privacy Guard

Simply tap on each application to toggle the default privacy guard settings or longpress to see the per-permission toggles.
I had a BA flight out of LCY cancelled due to "atmospheric conditions" (that's "fog as thick as pea-soup" to you and me) and had resigned myself to the long line and slow computer scenario described, when on of quite a few agents equipped with an iPad walked up, got my name, and told me my options. Her app was fast and easy to navigate (if not exactly a thing of beauty) and I was rebooked and in a taxi to LGW inside of a couple of minutes.

Very impressive.
If only someone told you the difference between an online exchange and online wallet. Tell me again how I shouldn't use a centralized exchange but should use blockchain.info to .. buy Bitcoin?
Stripe Checkout is amazing. Used it for a few months and it's worked extremely well. Glad they are constantly updating it. Looks even better than it did before.
I get the sense from your comment and link that there's a real risk that Persona will be abandoned in a few years?
Problem: "The perception that costly test preparation has made the ground uneven."

Goal: "This exam should be about merit & hard work equally available to all."

Sal's chat with the CEO of College Board [3:57]:
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat/overview-sat-prep/...
Manage your pace to maintain flow
The whole reason why Whatsapp is majorly successful is that it was the exact opposite of what Facebook is. People could download it, and then their address book was integrated. No ads, no mining your information, no signup. It was not successful due to viral marketing or integration with an all knowing social network.
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The logic in King’s Candy Crush trademark strategy