skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no states in the U.S. that are not at-will states. When people make a differentiation between states based on some at-will status, it's usually based on the number of exceptions a state recognizes, none of which are based on work councils, unions, or arbitration. In most cases, these are protections like:
- you can't be fired for refusing to break the law
- you have an implied contract (good luck proving that)
- you can't be fired in bad faith or with malicious intent

The last of those is considered the most broad exception, and is the least common. You want to work in a state with none of these exceptions? You're looking at Georgia and Florida. The longest period of time I spent in Florida was in a union shop.

The largest exception to at-will employment in the U.S. is civil service workers, the second largest is non-unionized private sector workers with contractual exceptions.

Whether working in a union or without a union, I've found that there are always people that work, and people that work the system.

I received better wages and better job security as a non-union worker, but that may not be the case for others. I receive better benefits as a union worker (eventually the job security would come, but I have yet to see a union in which anything other than seniority improves job security).

The only place I've ever seen freedom come into it is in how the law limits your ability to defend your professional reputation if you encounter a malicious or incompetent manager. Thankfully, I've never needed to test that.
I hope they do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
In their rush to "repackage" and rebrand they need to be careful to not devolve into Upworthy-BuzzFeed-Mashable style popcorn BS.
That stuff is worth about 15 seconds of glance thru, never remembered, never quoted, never relevant beyond ad-clicks.

There is a real danger here that in the course of changing their looks they may lose their soul.
Wrong decision in my view. Although the Techcrunch piece isn't great it's preferable to the Kickstarter marketing copy as there's at least a touch more context and background.
Ha, that's embarrassing. That boolean was a test statement that slipped through; it's fixed now. :)

Having guides on trackballs and Eee PCs would be wonderful, and I'm sure they would be helpful to others!

If you do submit guides, we'd also welcome feedback on the guide creation process and any suggestions you may have to improve it.
What I find amazing about bananas is nobody really know where they are from or how long they have been cultivated - the best guess is they are from Papua New Guinea and maybe from as far back as 10,000 years ago [0].

[0] http://cwh.ucsc.edu/bananas/Site/Early%20History%20of%20the%...
The mini-satellite revolution gives new views of Earth
It actually happens a lot. 8-K says they've been approached by multiple parties: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1107694/0001107694140...
Very interesting article. Some of these statistics are surprising. Only 1% of Times readers comment and only 3% of Times readers read comments? Only a third of Times readers visit the homepage? Those numbers are far smaller than I would have expected (an expectation based solely on my own experience; I enjoy reading the comments on Times articles and I always access articles through the Times home page).

David Leonhardt (of NYT's The Upshot) was on Charlie Rose the other night discussing the Times's approach to digital [1]. The leaked memo complements the interview nicely.

[1] http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60387818
If people will forgive my earlier joke, I have a more serious critique:

While feminist theory may have a contribution to make, it's not at the level the author is talking about.

The author refers to core language paradigms: functional, object oriented, and so on. But these are hard engineering trade offs, not malleable social theories. Language designers will continue to actively explore the design space, and they may look to many sources for inspiration, including feminism, but that's a long way from being able to say, "This programming language has a core feminist paradigm."

I think, if feminist theory has a place in programming language design, it's in the human aspects. The user interface, the surface syntax, and so on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo&noredirect=1
Open Elections Ukraine
Ask HN: What is the best way to find a good developer for a startup
I am trying to find a good web developer to join my startup as a CTO, which is the best way to find one?
Well, if the work gets merged into/applied to LLVM, then Safari should get these benefits "for free" under the new FTLJIT.
I don't think it is wiped out as it is still a major export variety for Malaysia and Thailand.
Skype Founder Aims To Change Healthcare (Interview)
> “At Circle we are very focused on creaing a product that allows us to move from early adopter to early majority,”

Always surprised when typos get through, especially for founder/CEO quotes.
Yeah, but if there are just 8,000 nodes, suddenly it seems like it wouldn't be all that hard to hijack the network.

It's possible I misunderstand, and overestimate the value of full nodes.
but you need to know apriori that it is minimised no?
Circle has been in "stealth mode" for like a year, and still hasn't published anything else than press releases. It is annoying how much press you can get without actually delivering anything concrete.
They're fine financially. >$300M Cash, $70M of debt (most of which are capital leases). They say they've been approached by "multiple parties" so it's just a matter of trying to get the best offer. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1107694/0001107694140...
Clever (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers to hack education
Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small, highly technical team with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 7 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.

Our newest project is essentially Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience. We’re making that happen with our Instant Login service, which allows students to log in once and immediately get access to all their apps: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-14-no-more-passwords-cleve...

And while we have all the startup perks (a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, unlimited Amazon credits for learning..) – hands down the best part of the job are the calls and emails from schools describing how much Clever helps them.

As an education company, we’re all about learning personally too – it’s practically a prerequisite to work here. In the past few weeks we’ve done tech talks on things like exoplanets, set theory, and kitesurfing. (We also love a good round of bughouse chess – just ask Magnus Carlsen http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo)

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
Maybe I didn't show the difference clearly enough. On one side you have an assumption on how things work and you just check if they apply and assume if they don't apply then the negative must apply. But often there are more options we simply don't know about. So if your assumption A is false it doesn't mean it must be "not A -> B", it can as well be C which you don't know exists as well. And if your assumptions proofs correctly it can actually be because of D, which looks quite similar to your assumption A.

You are absolutely right that we can not avoid completely to fall into this fallacy. But we can try to mimize its effect by not asking "A or not A?" but instead ask "What is that?" and "How to describe that?".
Heartbleed: Q&A
Private browsing in Chrome and they still sell ads against your page views.
EBay CEO: We Are ‘Actively Considering’ Bitcoin Integration
I recently had to open a simple Illustrator file in Inkscape and it worked well enough. But yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if it choked on more complicated stuff. You can of course always ask your clients to save as SVG.
"Scientists Discover First New Polymers in 20 Years."

No, not quite. New polymers are developed by the dozen in materials science nowadays!

I think I see where the author got mixed up though: reversible thermosets would be quite novel in of themselves, and you could argue most breakthrough developments in thermosets/thermoplastics are from decades ago. But this is far from the only polymer family there is.

It's a shame. Clearly the author is way out of his depth here (e.g. 'Polymers are essentially macromolecules made up of 10000 or more atoms'; 'the researchers (...) are now submitting their findings to Science'), but that's what science editors are there for.

On the other hand, The New York Times has a much better article [1] and reveals another twist: apparently the PI found the reaction by accident. Check it out, and shame on Mashable for spreading bad science.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/science/error-leads-ibm-re...
interview them!
Before that,
first, don't get a friend, but use your network to locate potential candidates.
Then find someone
a) close enough geographically (because relocation or worse, work visa, is hard).
b) "compatible" with your way of working and thinking strategicallly.
c) make sure he/she has the pragmatism needed to do a startup (at least he/she should have read Lean Startup). Worse is better. Whatever works. Do things that do not scale.
d) make sure you are managing budget the same way.
e) make him/her interview you too
Not true. I couldn't launch any of the applications.
I noticed the same. MSE is generally great, but it feels like IE 6 back in 2005 (no investment in years)... :(

Running a multi GB backup with Microsoft's robocopy cmd utility crashes the MSE service. That's really annoying.

Given that "Microsoft Forefront" is a rebranded MSE (it can be controlled over the network), I wonder why its real-time scanner can't handle ~100MB/s IO for several hours.
If anyone is interested in the tech stack, it's based on Django under uWSGI, and all of the services run within Docker containers. Pillow wasn't fast enough for us to resize and crop images, so we have some faster custom code there, and we run all images through jpegtran for lossless compression. [I particularly like being able to crop all of the images within a guide on one page, with an easy scroll between images.] Guide images are pushed to S3 by Celery, and we're using MySQL as the database (though we will likely move to PostgreSQL in the future). Logging is centralized by sending log messages to rsyslog on each container via named pipes rather than log files (primarily so we can use the community version of nginx). The container rsyslog instances then redirect to a central rsyslog container and finally to loggly. We use memcached.

We do dev on VMs, but the actual app runs on high-memory machines we picked up from eBay that according to Dell phone support are second-hand Facebook memcached boxes.
Reading the entire article, their business model is not at all obvious. They claim to not charge fees; they can't make money on their customers' money; where do they see a business opportunity here? Conversion fees would be the obvious, if the lack of fees just referred to transmit/receive, but that doesn't seem true based on the article.
Fib Poetry
this rumor has been confirmed by a mail inside baidu, which is spreading on Weibo.com
As in numerology; or continuing pseudomathematics attempts to square the circle using Euclidean geometry? Or something more like the Dirac large numbers hypothesis sense? Or working on problems that no one else things are important/interesting sense?
http://circle.com - That must have been an expensive domain!
through hedgies the institutionals get access to such investments as late stages financing rounds in the Valley. This is btw what feeds current (presumably last, at least until new huge money come in) stage of the bubble we're right now in.
I saw this a few years ago but never got round to trying it. Does anyone know how effective this actually is?
[FREE]SIXS
Hi! I have made a tiny game on android and i want to share it with you. Hope you enjoy it!
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tkv.sixs

Description
+ Swipe to move all tiles to merge them together.

2 +4 => 6 , 6 = 6 => 12 , 12 + 12 => 24 ... so on
+ The default board is 6x6 and 2 new tile will be appeared each turn.
So you will feel more challenge to get high score on this game.

By the way, my highscore is somewhere around 20000. Admittedly, I'm quite bad at playing my own game :P
That's correct, it is just rare due to the ubiquity of the fungus, which has spread far and wide and maintains a continuous low level in the former growing environments.

Many of the other cultivars spoil quickly, making them difficult to ship over the ocean, pipe through the distribution system, sit on grocery shelves, then keep fresh for a few days in your home.

If no commercially viable cultivar survives then bananas will become a luxury fruit, flown in on a daily or weekly basis with all the cost increases that implies.
Indian elections. Live results.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the value of philosophy
And even then, what is the differentiation from other wallet services? Usually bitcoin wallets are free, and the money is done on trading (trading btc to fiat and back and charging %).
I wonder how much money soros fans lost when they tried to do the same in the previous years, trying to speculate on the end of the euro.

I love the paragraph saying "there was no way the sterling would go up". Those are really the kind of reasonning you can do 20 years later. You never know that there really "is no chance".
New family of recyclable plastics created by accident
Is she speaking in her capacity as a representative of Dropbox, here? Does Dropbox consider Edward Snowden a traitor?
you're missing the point of pinterest, it's not "things i want", but rather things i like. The whole premise is showcase a personal aesthetic. it is through these aesthetics that we learn more about each other. obviously there is overlap between the things we love, like maybe old cars, or sailing yachts, or (of course) cats, and the things we want, but pinterest isn't about consumerism at all. if you spend any time on it, you'll see passion, places to visit, vintage trinkets, and about a billion wedding dresses. people use it a lot for planning and mood boards. It's easier to explain something visually than it is with words (sometimes) and pinterest taps into that aspect. It's mainly for (I suppose) "creative types", those that are visually stimulated by colors, fonts, textures etc. And of course cats.
Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests
Keep in mind that if they're paying the network fees for the user they also lose ~0.0001BTC or more per transaction it's users make. They've got to make that up from somewhere.
Ok, so assume I am an idiot on this (not far wrong). Why is their stock price not high? Just because they are not satisfying shareholders / wall street analysts?

Are the slowly losing customers or see somethign in the future that will cause trouble?
> I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time.

That's just propaganda. I'm sure there's places where water and electricity are under government control and it still sucks, and i bet there's places where they aren't and everything works great.

It weakens the rest of your argument.
Google Inc already flooded with ‘right to be forgotten’ take-down requests
The new playlist for more productive work: video game soundtracks
Actually it was you who misunderstood. He made money because everyone saw the writing was on the wall, and that the pound was going to plummet; Soros became the triggering event. He had a first-mover's advantage.

If everyone thought the pound was going to be just fine, they'd happily buy his sterling and nothing would have happened. But the expectation was that the pound was overvalued and would soon nosedive. So when Soros' sales began to apply downward pressure to the price, everyone bandwagoned because that was what they were going to do anyway.
"make him interview you too"

... or perhaps "her"
Well, you can change that in a way. Just use the money you would otherwise pay Adobe and fund the feature you need. You can easily contact the developers, there's a list of them here https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/AUTHORS ; By browsing the source code, you can also find their emails.
Except CS6 is not the latest version of Photoshop. The equivalent would be a car lot refusing to sell new cars, only to lease them.
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parent corrected
Something but not everything is suit for SaaS, not nothing either.

I think Adobe CC is an example of useless cloud service. In fact I think the only reason Adobe insist on providing a cloud service is to avoid piracy.
Django-sudo: GitHub's Sudo Mode for Django
The argument would be that it is necessary to keep people paying for legit copies (ones that pay the original producer). Same as having a branch of the tax office dedicated to finding fraud, it has absolutely no direct benefit to a good taxpayer and only downsides. It's there because it's argued to be necessary to keep tax revenue at the point it should be.

The first part is what's being argued about, I don't think anyone is arguing it has a direct benefit to consumers.
If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, many countries have a hotline you can use to find someone to talk to:

http://pastie.org/pastes/9180833/text?key=uuqxmp5nxexuszswum...

If you don't have a phone (or even if you do), feel free to message me if you'd like to talk to someone in the startup/tech community who's also worked as a crisis counselor. Contact info's in my HN profile.
look what you've started :)

ultimately, every social network (hn included now) devolves to discussing cats. Humans make such good pets.
I believe it is the facts in this case that make the discussion unpalatable for certain posters.

For example, separately, I actually wrote to this company during the comment thread, and received a reply. I found their reply very informative and posted it to the main thread (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753308) with a simple statement which nobody could find objectionable. It is my impression that someone nevertheless managed to find the facts themselves objectionable.
Writing contextual CSS
ITunes Connect 3.0 app is out
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This is wonderful!

I have to wonder - why is it that it took so long to come up with such a simple idea for such an obvious problem?

I'd like to blame it on the "get rich, web app startup" mentality, but really, that's a fairly recent thing.

Perhaps this is a harder problem than it seems? Or is it true that all our new inventors are chasing riches?
Is the name a jab at Square?
Bohemian Coding has finally fixed the grid snapping bug that plagued all previous versions of Sketch so I will definitely not be renewing my CC subscription when it expires. CC feels like it has much more do with Adobe's needs than mine.
As a Geekdom member. I agree.
This won't work for some standard stuff that OS X ships with, for instance Python (when started as a command-line interpreter). That's because .inputrc is read by the GNU readline utilities, and Apple links with the BSD equivalent.

To make this work for Python:

Add a file called .editrc with the following content:

bind -v

Add a file called .pythonrc with the following lines:

import rlcompleter
import readline

Add a line to your .bashrc which makes Python run .pythonrc when it starts interactively:

export PYTHONSTARTUP="$HOME/.pythonrc"

Now Python will understand your vi keystrokes :-)
If a car dealer knowingly sells you a lemon, is it a consensual exchange? I don't think was Soros did was absolutely unethical, but its ridiculous to pretend that it was squeaky clean. One party thought this to be an ordinary transaction; the other party knew it would debase the currency.
In one of the comments in that article: "I can't wait until someone legally changes their name to one of these sequences and we find out that all sorts of government databases didn't have functioning backups..."
If they get a lot of usage they will have no problem whatsoever making money.
It was a bug in Linksys, Netgear routers that rebooted the device.

bug report e.g. http://colloquy.info/project/ticket/531
If you're in Australia and you or someone you know needs help, contact lifeline: http://www.lifeline.org.au/ - Call: 13 11 14
Top on HN !! Whole world is watching India or HN community has more Indians??
There are likely events in your area where you can meet potential co-founders. Don't commit too early. My biz guy found me (tech) but we went on several "dates" over a few months.
Love pixelmator - use it every single day and would never, ever consider using Photoshop for the types of image manipulation/touch up that I do.

Photoshop is really for the professional image editor - I can't believe that the average consumer really can't get by with pixelmator/acorn.
I phone called a Racker on Christmas Day for support. Attentative and helpful. I was impressed.
+1 for the reference!
It does,
"ok maps"
by today's math, Instagram was a bargain for fb...
I saw a video on television about a decade ago, a fly had landed on a computer monitor, and was following the mouse pointer around the screen.
Also, check out Krita; it looks a lot like photoshop to me, but the last time I used photoshop was 7 years ago. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dBDHsjsOG4w/U1e8ubOrBTI/A...

There is a guy, David Revoy, that uses only free software to do it's job, and it seems successful at it. http://davidrevoy.com/
I saw a targeted facebook ad once that linked to a video of a guy pitching his company looking for a CTO. I clicked but I can't remember what the pitch was about and I didn't contact him. I liked the idea though.

My best advice is to explore your personal networks. When I'm looking for a collaborator that's my best bet.

Another thing to think about is that if you can't convince someone to build your idea then you may need to spend more time iterating on it or gathering data. Preorders from potential customers are the strongest data. If this is for a social network where you need users to make it valuable, you could get people to sign up for an email list.
How cool :) Love hearing about sites running Docker in production. Please get in touch: nick@docker.com. We're always looking for people doing awesome stuff.
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