skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I have no problem with paying an employee $20M if he was worth it.

The actual occupation is a distraction, though. Replace chef with the guy that handing out fliers on the street. He's 100% replaceable. Does he deserve a million-dollar payout? Maybe. But I think it's fair to take that into consideration when evaluating compensation.

A company could be wrong that the chef is replaceable, but that's an empirical question. As a matter of evaluation, considering the value of the best alternative is 100% fair.
So our app doesn't actually do any sort of predictions at this point. We just give users the tools to practice a highly-effective and natural method, and they do whatever they see fit with their data.
https://github.com/angular/di.js/blob/master/example/kitchen...

Seems pretty simple, imo.
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I almost participated but I couldn't bear not to swear.
This is Fertility Awareness / Natural Family Planning[1], branded in a way that will be more palatable to a secular Silicon Valley audience.

My wife and I use NFP. This is actually the slickest app I've ever seen.

It's pretty reliable if you want to use it for birth control, provided the woman has at least somewhat regular cycles. Even with irregular cycles, there's useful information that can be gleaned from cervical mucus and basal body temperature.

It's probably not for people who absolutely cannot tolerate one or two "surprise" children, but it will at least prevent you from becoming the Duggars if that's not your thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_family_planning
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This seems like a potentially useful app but I don't see how I get started using it. I don't want to start inviting everyone I know. I still need Skype, Basecamp and email running while I work as well. I still need whatsapp, viber, Facebook & Google hangouts on my phone + sms and regular calling on my phone. Everyone seems to have a different way of contacting me.

If this could be an sms or email client or if it could pull in 2-3 of those services I might start using it. Seems nicer than most of them.

For now I'm just hoping I don't have 2-3 people that want to fleep me instead of Skype. I have enough places I can accidentally overlook a bit of text from someone I know.
The sympto-thermal method is researched since the 1950s by an Austrian gynecologist. There have been A TON of studies.
I typically hate on websites pretty hard, but actually I don't have much problem with that site. Maybe it's a bit orange, but it's clear and usable. What are your objections to it?
Yeah, I was thinking specifically of the case where the plane is still intact and on the ground somewhere. If it has crashed into the sea this technique wouldn't be useful. And it could also be foiled by hiding the plane, which would be a large but not impossible task.
My small experience with charging is related specifically to the client size.

If you want to charge $350/hour, weekly and on a long basis, odds are you'll be charging a corporation and not a household.

My experience also, you probably won't get $350/hour even if you charge the client so. There will be middle man, taxes, vat, payment delays, accounting and many other expenses...

That's why you should be charging at least $200/hour. And that's for the very mundane, and noncompetitive tasks.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I agree. Some people feel these things are useful, as damaging as they are to the vast majority of those involved.
Snippets from Python module docs. Objective-C APIs.

Basically, anything that I have to look up on StackOverflow.

E.g. os.path.relpath, -[NSString valueWithPointer:], -[NSString substringFromIndex:].

My loose heuristic is if I claim to be an X programmer, and some douche calls me out on an API call for language X in an interview, would I feel embarrassed saying I usually just look that up on Stack Overflow.
Because it has a name like gridzzly
Q: What do you call a woman who depends on the rhythm method for birth control?

A: A mother.

As a tool to help you get pregnant, awesome, kudos, very well done.

Promoting it for birth control? Not very clever.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control...
Dissecting an interview question
Thanks! It's awesome to hear from another person in this space. We're still working out our business model (right now we're planning a subscription-based app to practice FAM/NFP, but that could change). But we have plans to add more features and perhaps another product. Hardware may also be in our future =)
"As it stands, Xamarin may have nearly saturated the market it has available to it."

The key part of that is "the market available to it" (Xamarin).

Right now a .NET/Windows shop that wants to have an iPhone app has a choice between doing (1) xamarin, (2) having devs learn native iOS development, (3) try one of the HTML5 app frameworks, or (4) contracts the work out. Certainly in the cases of (2), and (4), and maybe (3), it's entirely possible that a Windows phone version of the app will never be built.

While the ".NET shops only use stuff from Microsoft" meme isn't exactly true, it's accurate in a decent number of cases. If Xamarin is "from Microsoft", though, all of a sudden all of these .NET shops that might be considering options 2, 3, or 4 have a much bigger reason to choose option 1. And hey, now that Xamarin's from Microsoft, I bet they make it really easy to build your iOS/Android app for WP, too.

The way I see it, at this point, Microsoft doesn't want to compete on apps. They're never going to be the primary target for most apps until they have the market share to justify it. So, how to best level the playing field, apps-wise? Make it super-simple to build an app for iOS, Android, and WP at the same time.
This is seriously great.

GOG is a good platform. They don't always have the cheapest offer (not even for "their" games, Witcher 1 und 2), but they have a good mission, being DRM free. And it was about time there was a good place for buying the classics, computer games are old enough for that now (so older games are not automatically too old to enjoy if you didn't grow up with them).

And think about the perspective. 2 years ago, there was nothing if you wanted to reliably play games on linux, apart from the few old games released for that OS and the few good FOSS-indie games. Wine is nice, but not reliable. Now there is the humble bundle, there is Steam, and there is also GOG - three good options, two of them without DRM, all of them not expensive.

It starts to become viable to get rid of Windows even if you are a gamer (I'll probably wait for League of Legends and Planetside 2 though, but only because I have Windows 7 already installed. If that breaks, why bother?).
This was what I really liked about this article as well. I wish there was more news presented in this format, as it is making a point, but also presents counterarguments to its claims and the evidence for both sides.
Bad news.

If Microsoft was interested in having a cross-platform runtime or a cross-platform IDE, they could have done it years ago.

Now, as some kind of side-effect of buying Xamarin, the have acquired most people behind Mono/MonoDevelop ... how do you think this will work out?

Maybe not immediately, but as soon as someone in the management decides that costs need to be cut, someone will ask the question why microsoft maintains two runtimes, two class libraries, two IDEs, etc. and kill them.
Maldivian here. The army (MNDF) wasn't able to pick anything up from the surface monitor radars. There is no data to back this story outside of eye witness accounts from the residents of Kuda Huvadhoo.

Can neither confirm nor disprove :(
If anyone is interested in an analysis of TransferWise's business, I wrote a blog post on it last weekend: http://www.staylor.st/p2p-money-transfers/
I know several people who have used this book/site, and as far as I know, there are no religious connections:

http://tcoyf.com/
By Submarine in the 1960's, he's referring to Dr. John Craven's methodology for finding the USS Scorpion using Bayesian search theory. It was interesting to read the back story in Blind Man's Bluff, although I did get the feeling it was punched up a bit for drama.
Agreed. The analogy also breaks down quickly because there is no car dealer that sells both a 10-year old Ford and F1 McLaren. Generally, dealerships offer very narrow bands of value within that large range.
Whether or not Angular's implementation of its provider is cleaner is irrelevant to your original point that DI is a "problem looking for a solution" in dynamic languages.
I know react is not an MVC framework, but I think you should add it in for comparisons since it uses similar rendering concepts
That puts me off too, it's too PHP, as you said, but I love React because I use it with Coffeescript, which eliminates the need for a JSX compilator: http://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/react-coffeescript.htm...

(You can do the same thing with pure JS, there are some forms of simplifying the React.DOM.div() calls, but coffeescript makes it beautiful.)
Sorry to say so, but you're wrong about two things:

1. A women doesn't have to have a regular cycle for this method to be safe. Why? Because if the cycle is irregular, the cycle cannot be evaluated / charted and you have to assume fertility.

2. The method is as safe as the pill. The risk for getting "surprise children" is the same as with the pill.
do you have a todomvc example :)
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I don't understand how that correlates to the current DI.

How do I rewrite the following using the new DI system?

function MyCtrl($http, Base64) {
$http.get('http://www.example.com').success(function (data) {
console.log(Base64.decode(data));
});
}
Are any of these available for companies that can't ship all their internal conversations and files to the cloud? Are XMPP/IRC and overpriced 'enterprise' suites still the go to for private chat?
How so? He definitely took a risk. He is taking an elevated risk because the company might not be there in 6 months. Especially with a young startup. It's one thing if the guy is becoming a chef at lets say Mastercard or Bank of America or some major company that there's a reasonable expectation that the company isn't going to go out of business tomorrow.

With that said I actually think stock options are a good incentive for all employees. It provides some reasonable guarantees on both parties. On the one hand the employee is given incentive to work hard because the more productive they are the better the company does and the better the stock does. Also it gives them something nice in case they get laid off and the stock goes up. Also the company sees those same benefits. The employee will probably work harder and more productive because they have more incentive to.
I was actually wondering why this wouldn't just use React for the view. Then it could leverage all of the work going on with React (server-side rendering, possibly rendering from within a Web Worker, etc.)
It's more like gold than like cash.
You can't find secular versions of NFP because the hormonal birth control and sterilization industry created what they felt was the perfect no muss, no fuss solution, and couldn't imagine why anyone but the "religious crazies" could possibly want an alternative to it.

You can thank the religious people for continuing to develop the science over the decades when the world went absolutely bananas for the pill.
Not that simple. There's nothing about what Newsweek did that's in any way not standard operating procedure for just about every present-day journalist. Nobody checks facts any more, they've offloaded that responsibility onto us.

We put up with it because it's still easy enough for us to cognitively delude ourselves that there are still "good" outlets left, that conveniently line up with our personal partisan political views.

Journalism is no longer the art of being right, it's the art of being first.
It's a common misconception that the method our app relies on is the same as the rhythm method, which it is NOT. The rhythm method predicts fertility based on cycle length, which is a really BAD idea. The sympto-thermal method pinpoints the fertile window using scientifically-backed signs of fertility.

Planned Parenthood lists an effectiveness of 99.6% (see the "What is the Sympto-thermal Method" section: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/birth-control...
I cringe when I hear the words "global" and "event" together in the same sentence. Projects I've worked on in the past that relied heavily on global events often became a maintainability nightmare.
Most people don't meet so many people that they can't spare a few minutes politeness. Mostly prejudicial judgements are made out of laziness and incompetence, not because they are useful. Obviously I don't know your circumstances. I guess if you did meet a lot of people and were seeking certain types (e.g. direct sales looking for customers) it would make sense to improve your odds by profiling. However, even then, I can't see why you wouldn't want to be polite and tactful during actual interactions. Especially if you were about to make a snap judgement that the other person might find offensive.
Note that this really depends where you are from. In my part of Canada, you would be charging around $90 to $120 / hour.
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Because no one without internet at home has ever gone to the local library to use it
Seems easier than 4D: I played on a 16-square single board as if it were 4D, and the "pulled down" numbers from the other (essentially random) board if they lined up nicely, or if I needed new numbers.
That book is actually how I first learned, and it's an awesome read.
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Jonathan Blow (How to Program Independent Games)
http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independe...
Not really about games. More about CS in general

Any talk by Bret Victor.
I just posted a similar comment above. It seems like the time is right for an open source advanced chat server. Maybe there already is one, I just don't know of it yet.
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Apparently whoever wrote the NRMP website are complete idiots - they've exposed everybody's match (supposed to be hidden until Friday 3/21) in the HTML source.
On Firefox OS, HTML/JS is native code ;) Seriously though, Firefox OS does some things considerably faster and more efficiently than Android and it's "native" Java stack.
One of the things I'd do if ever I become a billionaire is buy up as much advertising space as I can and fill it with art. Or maybe Despair Inc. posters.
Ah...thanks for pointing that out!
Seriously, rhythm method is not effective birth control (24% failure rate/year). Please don't rely on it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_met...
Well, good luck to you then :)

There are a few more people in this space, especially in the app market. Recently, "Glow" was released, which is more aimed towards women who want to conceive, but they might go into the birth control segment. Although I think they will fail with their current product in this market.

There's Clue (helloclue.com); Ovuline; TrueCycle (seems to be dead?); and all the gibberish period calendar apps.
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This is not the rhythm method. It's the sympto-thermal method and 99.4% effective
It has to work with import statements---that's the whole point. :-)
What on earth is financial if providing a valuation for a company is not financial?
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Angular is starting to remind me more and more of JSF + CDI which immediately triggers a negative visceral reaction for me. But, if I step back and think for a moment, most of what I despised about working with JSF was related to the amount of state it needs to maintain between the browser and server. If that state is completely contained on the client and the client maintains a stateless connection to the server, it may actually work out well.
Little bit offtopic: recently every startup website I've seen here looks almost exactly the same, especially those with .io domain. Is there some kind of a template or technology that is being used to fastly develop those or is this just a trend?If it is could someone link to some resources about how to create those? Thanks.
Whoever coded the NRMP website are apparently complete rookies - they've exposed sensitive information in the HMTL source of their site. Match results are supposed to be hidden until Friday 3/21.

Update: the NRMP website has apparently been taken down.
> You've demonized recreational drug use and decided people shouldn't be allowed to decide for themselves what they put in their own bodies.

There's an enormous difference between prohibiting individual use of a dangerous drug, and allowing somebody to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug for profit. The latter troubles me deeply, and that's what I'm talking about.

Profiting off of human suffering is not something society should ever tolerate.

> you are the problem with this country.

Oh boy! Do I get a sticker?
> Your non reply confirms my guess. Because you like your drug of choice you are ok with it being legal, but other people can get fucked.

Alcohol is not my drug of choice. You're assuming a lot here...

> Do you really think people are protected from drugs by making them illegal?

Do I think prosecuting individuals for using drugs makes sense? Not at all, and that has never been my argument here.

I don't want Meth4U Inc. getting people hooked on meth, ruining their lives, and making a massive profit off of them. That is unconscionable.

So decriminalize the use of all drugs. I don't care. I never said I did. Going after individual users is a ridiculous waste of money and human capital.

However, I feel very strongly that the manufacture and sale of dangerous drugs like meth and heroin (or cigarettes) should not be tolerated by society. Will people still find a way to get away with it? Probably, but it's quite a bit harder to make and keep a profit if it's illegal.

> Or are you just a sanctimonious narcissistic nanny-stater?

I think that profiting off of human suffering is not something society should ever tolerate. If that makes me a "nanny-stater", so be it.
For your objection to (1), you'd be right if we were talking about the rhythm method, but we aren't. There are other signs of impending fertility that can be tracked.
If you've been told to hold your breath, sure. If the pilot quietly drops the O2 level in the cabin, what % of people would comprehend the situation in time to get a deep breath?
I love that he used brony data for the examples. :-)
The templating language reminds me a little of what spacebars (htmljs) probably looks like if a nice mustache facade wasn't put in front of it. (which goes back to Gee's comment about react... but I guess anything these days that promotes a 'virtual dom' will probably be tarnished with that brush from first glance)

I love the simplicity and independent direction this micro-framework provides. It's very 'non-magical' which I think makes it far more appealing.

If you end up solving the HATEOAS/ember-data sideloading/'embedded foreign key data loading' problem I think this will be my goto library (though this probably falls out of the microframework requirements also ;)
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This doesn't really add anything to the discussion. You should elaborate.
That really depends on the author's motives. A lot can be learned by creating "yet another X". Not everyone thinks the same way and creating a framework from scratch gives the author an opportunity to get a deeper understanding for similar concepts and possibly a chance to invent a whole new approach. So many great things would not exist if everyone just settled to use or contribute to existing projects with similar goals to their own.
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I don't know how holding will help you. But decompressions happen suddenly and you feel as usual. You are not getting prePared for holding your breath.

Also remember that pressure is droping fast, if you hold your breath you'll have barotraumatism at your ears surely and maybe at your lungs, it happens for scubadivers if they hold the breath while surfacing.

Replying to the other comment, the first thing that you notice is you ears poping, maybe some discomfort at the sinus and finally you'll see the oxigen masks drop when the cabin altitude reaches 14500 feet. You wont feel how you are losing your cognitive capabilities till you pass out. Check the video I posted above to see how it works.
"Where’s the sample app? In the works."

ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH OXYGEN, architecture astronauts?
This is browser specific to trigger animations on tab open
'Nobel Prize in Computing' goes to distributed computing wrangler Leslie Lamport
This actually fills a good niche, if i'm looking for a monolithic framework that trys to do a bunch of things, angular fits the bill. I like that this does one thing, and seems to do it exceedingly well (fast). I'm not in the market for a new framework right now, but the next time I am... i'd consider it, if it stays small and compact like it is today.
Given how much physical security the article says they have, I seriously doubt that Rogers would take action on any server through the anonymous, public-facing live chat. It is possible, of course, but I wish the article would clear that up.
He's correct. The poster he was responding to made an idiotic statement:

"In statistics, σ refers to an area under the normal distribution defined in terms of standard deviations (1σ = 1 standard deviation)."

He was just stating that the standard deviation is a general concept of spread, that any distribution has, and not just the normal one.
The best part was that they offered them a credit on their account as compensation. As if they would want to continue their business with a hosting company that allows unauthenticated users to issue commands to their technicians.
That's probably what was intended, but the Vichy "territory" disappears on this map in 1948 (which is absurd, that was actually in 1942) and did not reappear later - especially not with a different territory: Vichy didn't control the Atlantic coast, while it is included in the south part of the divided territory from 1955 to 1958 here.

It might instead be showing the advance of the US forces, and their retreat while the legitimate French government regained progressive control. But even disregarding the widely off date, the areas shown are very rough and inaccurate. Especially compared to the detail achieved in Italy and HRE in the previous centuries. I really don't think the quality of this visualisation is very good.
> I don't mean this in a bad way, but do we really need another Javascript framework?

Obviously the author thinks so.
I disagree that the rest is a distraction. It makes the article have a different point, but it is not an invalid one - there is a certain amount of elitism or classism (depending on your personal analytical bent) in statements about "Google chef syndrome". The fact that people find it acceptable to minimize a person's contribution based on job title or perceived place in workplace and social hierarchy, rather than actual contribution, is silly. The fact about rewarding the risk is a good supporting argument to the elitism point, and could be an essay of it's own sure, but again - a discussion about elitist attitudes isn't bad.

One thing I find weird about all of this (tangential tho) - When this article first made the rounds, many people defending the derisive attitude of towards the chef ("he's just a cook, he doesn't deserve it" type arguments) also make the opposite argument in opposition to unions ("why base pay and benefits on seniority rules rather than on actual skill and hard work"). It's a cognitive dissonance I feel would be interesting to explore.