skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mass firings, however justified, represent broken management"

I don't think you've supported this opinion very well. Here's a counterpoint: Hiring and firing are a completely normal part of a business cycle. Every company should expect to have some ratio of hiring to firing. And yes, a firing typically means imperfect hiring practice (which is not the same as imperfect management) -- but here's the key I believe you may not understand: The world is imperfect. We can bank on the fact that we make mistakes; we will always make mistakes.

Your other assertion that morale will suffer is empirically false. I know many folks at companies with this sort of practice in place and it boosts their morale because they don't feel like they're dragged down by under-performers. Maybe it lowers the morale of those who are under-performing, but that's not exactly a problem, is it?
Mass marketing is dead? Intercom breathes new life into customer relationships
"He will run develop and run Bloomberg’s new ventures..."

NY Times, ladies and gentleman. What an age we are in.
What part of you has been "beaten" by MS for so many years and how?
Just a small point: the Internet is not the web.
I've chosen to stay away from Facebook for a whole month. It'll end on Aug 2nd. It's uneasy but after all it's a good way to hang on with real friends and not just fb acqaintances ~
Prediksi Bola Hertha Berlin Vs PSV 24 Juli 2014
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The latest revelations concern Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s Oxford-educated foreign minister, who was caught dismissing Poland’s relationship with the United States as “worthless.”
“Complete bullshit. We'll get in conflict with the Germans, Russians, and we'll think that everything is super because we gave the Americans a blow job,” he allegedly says in the recording from January 2014, published in Wprost on June 23. “Losers. Complete losers.”

http://www.vice.com/read/polands-wiretapping-scandal-governm...
Wow - that's huge, particularly as I think of The Verge as being Josh Topolsky. No slight to all the other many talented writers there, but his is the only name that comes to my mind when you mention The Verge.

Also interesting that The Verge hasn't broken this story yet.
Someone who is homosexual isn't any more inclined to molest or rape someone of their own sex than a pedophile is to molest or rape a child.

More on topic about censoring important information. I'm not entirely sure about this, but I feel like I've seen images where the thumbnail was retained from a previous version. Even at 32x32 there might be some way to expand it and gather some kind of information from its pixelated form even after the actual image was censored.
We're overdue for a market crash/correction. The advantage goes to contrarians who buy when others sell. Here's an interesting confirmation bias overload from Forbes...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2014/07/01/these-23...
Every high school student (and students just starting post-secondary education) should read this. Opens your eyes to what University is really like; the pressure and stress that comes with it, and the rewards that follow.
BirdWatch with ClojureScript and Om explained
Same problem here. It's actually doing the auth correctly, it seems, because I then went to the main home page again and it showed me as logged in, and I could get to my dashboard from there.
Maybe your definition of "mastery" is different than the author's. To help us better understand your definition of mastery, please list for us all of the things that you believe you have mastered, along with the amount of time you devoted to mastering each thing.
Another plan crash
Facebook stock hits $76
And this is exactly why I'm trying to find a new place to work. I finally realized after a few years that I need some real mentorship to be fully competent in a research environment (even after an MS), and four years of "trial by fire" in a lab which generates data from a ton of tiny experiments (rather than a few larger experiments) with 100 biologists and only two of us bioinformaticians, and a pile of ten years worth of old microarray data that no one has any sample annotation for (but it's invaluable!)-- was less of a constructive learning experience than it seemed like it was going to be. I need to find/create an environment that will allow me to use the motivation I know I used to have for this.

So for anyone from a CS-oriented background, or who is thinking of doing a degree program in bioinformatics that isn't oriented around research- try to help out in various labs, and find a good mentor. See what environments work best for you, and what sort of problems you want to apply yourself to. The field is developing far faster than most college programs can move, but by getting out there and seeing what skills/knowledge will actually be useful, you can work on filling in the gaps sooner.
That's very cool but I can't help thinking "Why would you want to do that?". Columns are awful to read on a webpage.
Likewise. I hate looking like a tourist and go out of my way to look/act like a local when I travel (mostly for safety reasons).
Now that I've read your comment, I think these shoes might do better in parts of the world that have better maps and faster internet than India. They might have to upgrade the look though!
I've solved it, described here: http://serverfault.com/questions/615153/running-mesos-master...
I have wondered if such a thing would be possible in the interstellar medium for a sufficiently powerful laser.
Sony to pay up to $17.75 million in 2011 PSN hacking settlement
I don't know why the downvotes. You must not be a native English Speaker. Let me help.

"Nuke Plant" is a common idiomatic phrase for saying "Nuclear Power Plant".

Let me break it down into parts for you:

"Nuke" is the common short form for "Nuclear" in English.

"Plant" is being used in the dictionary meaning "a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place"

"Power" is redundant in the phrase and omitted.

In terms of usage: "Nuclear Power Plant", "Nuclear Power Station", and "Nuke Plant" are all acceptable, but frequency of usage is different. "Nuke Station" is not normally used in this meaning, but people will understand it if you use it.

"Nuclear Power Plant" is about 4 times more common in normal usage in English than "Nuclear Power Station".

"Nuke Plant" and "Nuclear Power Station" are used with about the same frequency.

"Nuke Station" is used very infrequently. You can find examples of it, but it's less than 1% of usage in current English.

Here's a list of news articles that use "Nuke Plant" so you can see usage and become familiar with how the term is used.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0....
Heh I thought of posting the same thing after I read the article. It's good read although I remember it being written in that classic style of dense 1930s economic literature, where you have to re-read some paragraphs and sections 3 or 4 time.
MorePath: a Python framework with super powers
The Art of Failure 2014
Didn't went that far, simply revoked access on my gh account.
Scala is at it's prettiest when you use a mostly-functional style, but use imperative style when it's substantially easier/shorter/more readable, in my opinion. The most important thing is to have your functions be as pure as possible and their return objects be immutable. What happens inside them is less important.

It's worth noting that few, if any, modern languages let you write as ugly code as Scala does. Take mutable objects with inscrutable loops and couple it with spaghetti recursion? Scala doesn't mind....
Air Algerie plane crashes in Mali
The Age of Attention Deficit
Looks like the author has a long history of copy-and-pasting press releases. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s...
Choose your submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079655

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079109

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079069

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078899

Or find one of your own - these aren't all of them.
Most of the tasks mentioned would be better served by a software engineer, rather than a bioinformatician.
> which has been solved more efficiently in the Bitcoin network.

Except bitcoin hasn't solved the problems with international transfers. Bitcoin's just ignored them. There's a huge difference, and I don't think ignorance is sustainable at scale.

> There is a tangible economic cost

I actually lose a couple hundred usd a month right now. So, I really do sympathize.

> I think what's more likely to happen is that, long-term, banks will either converge around using a blockchain-based mechanism of some sort to transfer funds

Maybe. That would be fine with me. I'm not really sure I understand why banks would do that vs. just using social processes, since those processes still need to exist in order the address the problems with international transfers and have been around a lot longer than bitcoin.

> I think calling it a cottage industry is extremely short-sighted.

I mean cottage industry in the most literal sense of the term, and was referring to the present and historical situation. And I think that's fair -- very few people are employed full-time doing BTC-related work, and I don't imagine the profit margins are insanely high (or even non-red in some cases).
Be a professional. Both parties will expect notice and you can't give it to them. My approach would be to talk to my boss at the contracting company, explain that personal issues were in play and that I wouldn't be able to give notice and that I'd like to part on professional terms, so if there was anything I could do to ease the transition, I'd be open to discuss it. The offer is generally more important than anything and in many cases, it is appreciated but not taken advantage of. They still won't like it (because they'll have to do extra work to fill the gap) but they should appreciate your professionalism and you can walk out the door with your head held high.
Like gvim or macvim.
But no one pretends that courts decide in the "fact" - they just determine who is "guilty" of murder. In the US, for example, you have to be certain up to the standard of "beyond reasonable doubt", but even that standard, albeit high, means that the court don't establish facts, but only what the fact is most likely to be.
This has definitely been my favorite cloud IDE so far. I wonder if they're going to add any of this stuff to the open source component? Last commit was on Nov. 4, 2013, so I hope they haven't stopped that part of it. (https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9)
Will Microsoft's Surface line ever make a profit?
Joel Spolsky's business operating system
I haven't found that Emacs has made it harder to use other editors. It's just made me realize how horrible it's always been to use them, hammering away at the arrow keys, using the mouse way more often than should be necessary, spending time on fixing whitespace that should be spent writing code…

Then there's the fact that Emacs really isn't an editor. If anything, it's a shell that runs elisp programs, chief among which is a text editor. Programs like magit and ansi-term (and gnus and compile and dired and TRAMP and…) are good examples of this.
Still no word on the OSS part. Last commit on master was November last year.

I like it as a service for my personal use and OSS work. But employers will mostly not allow me to use a hosted service to edit their code; I've tried.
I find it weird that there is no mention of pricing anywhere. Even if you go to sign up and switch to "premium" it doesn't tell you how much it's going to cost you!

Edit: They have now added $19/mo on the Premium signup page.
Came here to make a similar comment. I'd rather inline the function than wrap every file in an IIFE.
The computer I am using is through the government agency where I work on site. Do I just leave my equipment, put my code somewhere, and go tell my supervisor for the contracting company with a written letter?
Most of that distance is on fairly calm waters, and they got it as close as 7km of the destination, without having to create ad hoc one-time solutions and live test them with the product to deliver. Any difference in cost is probably tiny compared with the value of that instrument.
That's great, so no worries there.

Then I'd personally say everyone's advice is pretty spot on, this isn't going to hurt you just do it and be up front. And tell them both, order in my opinion would be the company you are hired through first and then the agency. Just depends on your relationship with both parties, as I don't think you can go too wrong long as you tell them both timely.

Just remember, if a company doesn't want you there they will walk you out whenever they want, so it is a business transaction as someone else pointed out, but one that is somewhat lopsided generally in favor of the employer. So you are right to be cautious, but don't stress yourself to death, do it and be happy.
I probably would have done the same if I hadn't already used it in the past. But it's worth checking out again. I tweeted support to let them know.
Load Critical-Path CSS Faster With Gulp Add In
> What's left?

LISP in BAYSICK? https://github.com/fogus/baysick
Microsoft's web developers are pretty notoriously horrendous in both their approach and execution.

One common mistake across ALL Microsoft sites is not bothering to embed their fonts, or declare fallbacks. So it looks great on their boss' computer but everybody else gets goddamned Times New Roman.
Steam Music moves into open beta, desktop interface now available
Looks like Nilay Patel is replacing him https://twitter.com/ravisomaiya/status/492318663748628481
InfoWorld: How to create a data lake for fun and profit
https://waffle.io/
> BTC don't need regulations.

Yes, it does. For the same reason that any other mechanism for transferring arbitrary sums of money across international borders needs regulation.

(It's also worth mentioning that I "bank", even international, with a small local credit union. So your choice between huge abusive banks and BTC is false.)
The most amazing thing to me about Trello is that while the software guy in me wants to lock it into a more structured project management tool for say Scrum, it is amazing that with a very small amount of options, features, and metaphors it manages to be a solid tool for a lot of people.

It doesn't work great for every team or every situation, but it is a very interesting canvas to paint on (so to speak).

It is practically a tool that invites you to come up with clever ways to organize your own things simply because it gives you a handful of smart, simple metaphors and doesn't restrict you too much in how you interpret them.

Smart software.
Because boys are stupid #Hilary2016
You're right, I seemed to remember Medellin raising some of the Constitutional concerns, but reading it again now it was based entirely on whether the treaty in question was self-executing.
So you're working for the contracting company? Then you resign to them. I always find these things easier in person and I'd encourage you to be very very open & honest with your contracting boss about why you need an immediate exit.

A situation that might suit all parties would be for you to take a week off starting immediately (a mix of holidays earned and sick leave). That gives you a week to calm down, de-stress and stand back from the situation. Then you'll be able to come back for a day or two to tie up any loose ends / train a replacement. It's not ideal but it's better for everyone than if you do a runner (and you should sell your boss on this plan in this way).

Bear in mind that stress/depression/anxiety/panic attacks (apologies, I'm reading between the lines a lot) will easily have you on medically-certified leave for >2weeks
“You're not allowed science any more”
Show HN: LocalFlow App – Discover your neighborhoods
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/data

Languages change slowly over time. I find myself using plural data when I'm talking science and singular data when I'm talking about hard drives. Hadn't noticed until your post!

Strange isn't it?
I am not sure that people always need to actively navigate when on foot. You just go in the right general direction noticing places you recognise. You could subtly push the user along paths they have taken before and resist unknown paths. With gentle enough vibration and enough use would you even notice the prompting? It would just become a part of your natural navigation instead of the constant nagging of turn by turn.
The ultimate guide to proposals: Part 1
This. Don't burn the bridge when you leave your job.
Trello's simplicity and ease of use almost makes you feel like you're using pen and paper and that's truly powerful and why so many people can learn how to use it with so little onboarding.

Trello has a good balance of blending to your workflow and having your workflow blend to it.

I was even able to find a clever way to use trello to manage all of my personal reading:
http://juvoni.com/trello-book-reading-management/
There are radio controlled model airplanes that use a rotary engine[0] (which is in the same spirit of the Wave disk engine). The problem with this rotary engine is that it uses an alcohol-based fuel[1]. I could see someone adventurous enough trying out this mini-rotary in a drone. It would be highly expensive, and difficult to tune, but ultimately fun.

[0]http://www.osengines.com/engines-airplane/osmg1401/
[1]http://rcvehicles.about.com/od/nitro/f/nitrofuel.htm
>Have you ever heard of stolen credit card data?

Yes. Like everyone else in the US, I have zero fraud liability on my credit card. Stolen credit card data is quite simply not my problem, nor is it any consumer's problem.
As one of they guys on here (http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4739669.html) noticed, it's funny that the government organization is using email for contact: prostis@yandex.ru . Yandex is a free service like Yahoo! in US. Let's put it this way, FSB has its own hacker group (called "Otdel K", you can read about it here:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%EF%F0%E0%E2%EB%E5%ED%E8%E5_...
Use Translator since there's no English version)
and wouldn't need to publish this kind of ad publicly.
They just announced it http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/24/5933361/welcome-to-the-fut...
Since they're apparently planning paid Business and Enterprise versions, I wouldn't be surprised to see at least one of those be a fully in-house solution. If they're not letting people do their own installs they may follow the path of the Google Search Appliance.

On the other hand, it may not be affordable depending on the size of your shop, but that's a different matter.
I'm sure they'll have some blogspam up, now that the Times has written about it.
I put it all in my startup
At destination tourist sites, rent the shoes out (or sell the "tour" software to those who own the shoes) so they can walk the same steps as people of bygone eras while listening to the ambient audio recreating the time period. I can see this as being a huge tourist activity for the historical and location-fan minded type.
Waterfall or Agile? When is Waterfall better?
I'm working on a system with a lot of integrations and a lot of manual QA and our company keep pushing agile. I'm starting to think because of all the task dependencies a full fledged project plan would work better for each release. Has any one else had similar experiences? What are your thoughts?
I find myself thinking the same thing about every web based IDE/editor - how would you write a graphical application? How would you write a game? I guess its possible to install X on the remote and then somehow stream video over the wire but that seems like a chunky experience.

I guess that's the difference between these and traditional solutions, in a web based IDE you can only write text based applications.
Honestly, I am only irked when people insist that data must be used as a singular or that it must be used as a plural. You'll find it listed both ways in good dictionaries:

> Both constructions are standard. The plural construction is more common in print, evidently because the house style of several publishers mandates it.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
As a guy trying to figure out how to propose to his gf, this title was very misleading!
Hopefully AirBNB will add some sort of disclaimer or inform owners about each state's renting laws. And hopefully someone listing their property will investigate this as well before doing it.

Understand that the lister took a risk, but this is absurd.
Show HN: Sweet – Open Source Network device configuration backups and change alerts
The OpsBot team has released a new tool to capture your network device configurations and alert you to changes. It collects each device’s configuration on a regular basis, stores it in Git, and sends you an email if something changes.

Based on RANCID with the only dependency of Git - Sweet was built on Go by our team as a great learning opportunity.

You can see our announcement at:
https://opsbot.com/introducing-sweet/<p>And the tool itself lives at http://gosweet.org
It took me a solid 20 seconds to figure out that this article wasn't about Joel Spolsky. Pre-coffee confirmation bias.
aim really low, could not get a seven year old who loves computer stuff to play with it. I am not sure where the age break point is but it has to be pretty low. By then both niece and nephew were already into games on tablets/computers; usually minecraft; and didn't care for a board game (read: bored game)

Is there a iPad equivalent?
nice app! ..like an hyperlocal twitter
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Cloud9 actually offers SSH workspaces. (Not sure this new version has them too)

So you can use the cloud9 IDE on your local files or on files that are on a server of yours.
Just hand in your resignation to whoever writes your check. They'll figure out how to handle it with their client, and probably won't want you (now a disgruntled employee from their perspective) interacting with the client.

Also I have given two weeks notice before, but the company wanted me out the next day, with no pay. Companies don't owe you anything, and conversely you don't owe them anything.
I've had good luck on Nitrous.io, even to the point that I'd seriously consider getting a Chromebook instead of a MacBook to do dev on.

None of these systems truly replicates the experience and flow of using VIM for me, but Nitrous seemed like the one that got closest for me to a really solid dev environment/ide on the web with minimum hassle.

I haven't used Cloud 9 in a long time, so maybe this update makes it better.
You really do need to make distributed/decentralized generation the first priority for energy with storage the second. Make it a box that generates 1kWh/day that costs $99.00, something cheap and small.

Without generation and capture, there's nothing to sell or share. Capture could be thermal, compressed air or water potential, anything that doesn't rely on batteries should be considered. If you're just storing the energy as heat, imagine something as crazy as a molten-salt or phase-changed material carrier that you can carry back to your stove to cook on.
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> Resolve promises in router, defer controllers

Absolutely not,you want to display something while you query the server.using resolve will block the router and not display the next view up until the promise is fullfield or rejected.It's perfectly fine to limit the router to routing and not stuffing it with business logic.

> Project/file structure

Wrong again, group files by modules/features ,dont put 1 service per file or one controller per file.We are not writing java packages here, but javascript modules.

At least you admit it is opinionated ,but at lest half of your opinions shouldnt even be followed.
'Cheat' and use something else to differentiatie between the two, in addition to color (line thickness, line dash, markers)

You probably should always do that, as you won't know where your chart will be used (printed in black and white, very lossily converted to JPEG, whatever)