skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenStreetMap's main interface also gets a lot of complaints about its looks. People miss the fact that both the main wikipedia site and OSM are also editing interfaces, and can't be optimized solely for usability in reading. (There's still room for improvement in both cases, but there's more to potentially break, too.)
K, no one really knows what is going on here. Maybe each employee was dealt with on a case by case basis, maybe it was the 'bottom' %2. We can guess and speculate all we want but no one knows until SpaceX says something.
I would recommend Normality as an oldie but a goodie. Quirky story and an amazing atmosphere. This was also one of the first games where it didn't feel like it consisted of static sets or levels where you had to solve a puzzle then move onto the next one but you were more or less freely roaming like a Grand Theft Auto game and having to solve puzzles within a larger environment.
A lot of the games on GOG are DOS games that have been ported to DOSbox, so they'll continue to run on any platform DOSbox has been ported to and for as long as DOSbox is maintained (which, hopefully, will be many years to come)
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Good news: the code compiles even without it!
Reduced weight, reduced power consumption (power infrastructure is expensive to set up even where power is cheap), reduced size, better reliability (diode lasers have no loss of gas pressure issues), better power density. All reasons to go for this setup even if it's much more expensive than gas lasers.
It's manual whether with a tool or without. We like using a tool because it automates the process. We find teams are more thorough in their reviews with a tool. We're also distributed, so it helps with collaboration too.
I always feel like such a hopeless tourist when I have to consult my phone for directions. I'd definitely feel a lot happier (and safer) being able to pay more attention to my surroundings.
$10.3M for How many %? And what is it value at?

I couldn't find the information anywhere.
it all depends what is he contributing.. You said that you believe "he can contribute a lot in many areas that need to be covered in order to build a succesful app company", but what is it exactly? Who's coding the app? You've already done first app, if he's contributing to marketing of the first app then he can get less than 30% of profits from that app. If you've already built second one, the same thing. If he's building the second app with you and brings more skill you might consider splitting evenly just for the second app, you don't have to give away equity within the company, you can make an agreement to split profits just for the second app, since he can decide to leave.
This guy was just a fool.

If you say so, than I guess he is, MrZongle2.

But if you think someone could have done better then feel free to infiltrate the Hermit Kingdom yourself, and report back to us. Just sniping away from the safety of HN isn't helping anyone.
The U.S. opposes the ICC on principle, and there are Constitutional issues as well. The ICC is an anti-democratic institution, and participating in the ICC necessitates ceding part of your sovereignty to a bunch of people that don't necessarily share your interests and values. It also undermines Constitutional principles: that there be no court superior to the U.S. Supreme Court, and no law superior to the laws of Congress except the Constitution itself.

Here's a paper with the conservative perspective of why the ICC is unconstitutional: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent... and for the sake of "teaching the controversy" here's the opposite viewpoint: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent....
Yes, heavily.

I keep it simple: Todo, Doing, Paused, Done.

Colors indicate severity and I attach most task assets (documents, proposals, etc.) to the back of each card.

As tasks get done, they move through the pipeline. Some folks I know have an "inReview" list also before "done".

It's pretty simple that way. My only complaint is that when lists get too long it can be kind of a pain to manage them.
It's way too expensive for couriers or messengers. Good point though.
Is Trello getting its own office space or will it still cohabit the same space as Fog Creek?
20 New Features You'll Meet on Mac OS X Yosemite
Hard to see how ten helicopters could maintain enough horizontal separation to work safely while carrying the load.

An airship might be a better alternative.
you are handsome:
https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/1437091?s=400

(feeling a bit stupid myself today)
You're not alone. Things are getting better, though. Drivers are definitely still an issue, but I think because of Steam's movement in the Linux market a lot of progress is going to be made... of course, maybe all this SteamOS stuff is just a hedge against Windows (to dissuade a move to a 100% app-store model on desktop).

Laptops and wireless are still definitely a big issue. I think desktops have a much better chance of working. Whether they work as well as Windows or not is a different question.
Drop the drama, it's a business transaction. You don't work for the government, you work for the contracting company.

Pack your personal effects and inform your company boss in writing that you intend to leave their employment, effective immediately. You don't need to justify your decision to leave, so don't.

If you want to tell the on-site supervisor, go ahead, but you have no obligation to do so. If you are willing to work for some period of time, to make an orderly transition of your work, make that known.

There's a 75/25 chance that you'll get walked out, so don't stress it.
I think the learning curve of Emacs is much easier than vim. You still have a GUI that exposes most of the important functions, and can learn the key bindings as you go. You can start using Emacs for basic editing without actually knowing how to "use" it.
There has been some research on generating energy from the flexing motions of shoes. Maybe these could be self-powered?
Strawman.

I'm not advocating for large banks, and even specifically mention non-bank fiat->fiat cash transfer companies as a viable and even more likely alternative to BTC.

> There is no reason why banks cannot use BTC

Yes! Exactly! Bad Things Done By Banks is only an accidental benefit of BTC.

If BTC becomes regulated and banks are the better equipped to deal with these regulations, then BTC becomes dominated by banks or de jure criminals.

Financial scandals and banking reform are primarily a social and legal problem, and cannot be solved by technology.
Thanks for the link. I was concerned, that the top story might not contain a Flat Wight coffee picture.
It isn't just Bioinformatics. Working at the edge of a research group doing technical work that no one else can comprehend can be very difficult and lonely. Don't underestimate the utility of a technical mentor that can understand what it is that you are doing.

The silver lining is that you can have a lot of freedom in what you learn and what you do and that you can become completely indispensable.
Well, courts have to decide who killed someone. That's a fact that needs to be decided upon.
Is anyone else irked whenever someone uses "data" as a plural? It's an uncountable singular for chrissake!
the point is, money stops being worth anything in this scenario. you can't eat it and you can't drink it. money is based on trust and when civilization collapses, trust disappears.
Yes, C++ gave tools and then "language lawyers" started to introduce practically dubious rules where every class has to carefully guard its own variables.

In the saner practice, however, you want to develop subsystems where the classes that are the part of the subsystem cooperate to the common goal, not protect themselves from their peers (some "OO" C++ language lawyers are certainly already offended by my claim). Even if some class is in charge for something, it's easier when more classes can at least see some pieces of the data without making a lot of getters and setters "just because."
Just relax man, it's just a job! No matter how much fantasy your brain creates involving your personal issue or about how mad your boss will be, it's expected. People start working, people leave... and nobody notices apart from those who work for the company. It's just another day.

Tell them you have some personal issues and need to leave ASAP.

They also probably had personal issues in their life(who haven't?) and it would be a very stupid reaction to your boss act mad or something like this. Remember this. IF there's any bad reaction from him, ignore and move on. It's not your fault. Don't let them make you think it's your fault.

After you talk with him about it, go eat a cheeseburger or something. It's just life.
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Definitely going to be giving cloud9 another shot in the coming days. I spend a fair amount of time (and actually pay for a small slot) on Nitrous.io's PaaS, which I really like. The part about Nitrous.io that really, really, really sucks is the lack of root - you have to install everything (mostly) through "Smart Packages" which is basically just a wrapper around the install I guess, and requires you to build it. Any project with any real dependencies quickly becomes a pain. Some of the newer services (like terminal.com) actually DO give you root, which I'm assuming is OK because it's running on top of Docker? Either way, a nice front-end + root is awesome and I'll be giving it a shot.
> I'd much rather go directly through my bank (quickly and without fees) than route through another currency just for the hell of it

I'd rather do that too, but it's unlikely to ever happen; not for international transfers between any country. There is a tangible economic cost (trust, through all the financial institutions involved in each country, and the work required in meeting the regulatory requirements that protect that trust, and in fact the work required in creating and maintaining those regulations) to transferring cash internationally under the current paradigm which has been solved more efficiently in the Bitcoin network.

I agree with you that Bitcoin is far from perfect, but I think calling it a cottage industry is extremely short-sighted. 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 or the Bitcoin economy will come of age outside of the existing financial industry, at least as the transport layer for fiat exchange.
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I really have a hard time believing there was no lower cost solution for a 400 km trip by land as opposed to a 9000 km trip by land, sea, and land.

What about an off road heavy transport trailer for the sections of road they can' t fit through. Or a quick build bridge structure similar to what is used by the military? Or some sort of land version of a lock (water transport)?
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His would be:
Still much more productive with vi keys!

Yours would be:
Still much productive with vi keys!
No, this is more legal since this doesn't use torrents so you aren't uploading and it might be completely legal in Canada, I'm not sure. Also this has absolutely nothing to do with Popcorn Time, Popcorn Time uses other people's architecture while MovBucket has it's own server and a list of movies that I maintain.
Find someone who you believe to be your equal (strength of skills he/she brings, intelligence, future potential) and treat them as your equal (50/50, same vesting schedule) -- you remain CEO. If you don't believe they are your equal, then find a way to hire them (as an employee, contractor, whatever) instead. Most other strategies are recipes for resentment in the long-term. As others have said, weathering the first 4 months will be nothing like what it takes to deliver a success story in 4 years.
Strawman scientist?

> “Yes. Now, let’s see. It’s an amazing, visionary proposal, a great collaboration, and congratulations on pulling it together. I just have one question” said the director “This proposal will generate a huge amount of data – how do you plan to deal with it all?”

“Oh that’s easy!” answered Smith. “It’s all on page 6. We’ve requested funds to employ a bioinformatician for the lifetime of the project. They’ll deal with all of the data” he stated, triumphantly.

I dunno...this sounds like a problematic mindset across many, many domains in science. What makes the field of biology less prone to it?
The field is slowly coming around. I've been very harsh when peer-reviewing papers without proper code release and documentation. I know that I'm not alone. Both investigators and funding agencies are starting to understand the message. This is especially true as older folks retire and a new computationally-savvy group of folks ascends into senior positions on editorial boards, faculty review panels, and grant review panels.

Things may look messy in science, and they often are, but I'm optimistic about the future.
It doesn't really matter how many values turn out to be exactly x pixels across given the type settings, you still have to do an exhaustive search on different numbers of characters to find them. That problem is simplified by a fixed width font.
It's a thought experiment, not a critique of all scientists. I can definitely see elements of that straw man in some scientists that I have met.
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I agree there are some Constitutional issues, but I think not fatal ones. It would certainly not be possible to agree to an arrangement where e.g. a U.S. Supreme Court case could be appealed to the ICJ. But it would probably be possible to agree to an extradition agreement, by which an American court, following procedures passed by Congress, could extradite someone under its jurisdiction to the ICJ (there are already many extradition agreements with specific sovereign countries, which might be a constitutionally-significant difference, but might not). The case you link (Medellin) didn't hold that anything was unconstitutional: it simply held that the treaty the U.S. had signed in that case hadn't been implemented by Congress yet, so had no force of domestic law, and couldn't acquire such force of its own accord. They didn't hold that Congress couldn't pass implementing legislation, just that it hadn't.
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It depends on the size of your codebase. For small codebases, I separate folders by object type (e.g. apps/, /controllers, /directives), but as codebases grow in size, we have adapted to the style you mention, separating by functionality.
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Give them two weeks notice, but make it clear you would appreciate any chance to leave sooner if that is OK with them. If they agree with you that you're not doing great at the job, they'll let you go on your way immediately, before the two weeks. If they don't agree, and they think they need you, then you have to stick it out for two weeks, but you at least won't put a bad mark on your career by having left with no notice.

And you don't say anything about the nature of the personal issues, so it's hard to say more. But they might be able to help with those in ways you don't realize.
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Yup, and that's very nice. It still would be better to get the source and native ports with enhancements that make the games more accessible, less buggy, prettier, etc. Also, performance matters. Emulating a bunch of hardware is not cheap.
It seems like this is story is something that may have occurred to all of us at one point in our lives.
The schedule the project is currently on, me taking any time would be unacceptable (it will slip). Issue with being the only developer on this effort.

Could I phrase it along the lines of I need a week or I need to quit? I don't even know if there is "medical leave".

My life kinda exploded and I let it affect the quality of my work which I am not proud of, but it has been and it has been getting worse. I have finally told a couple friends I am struggling and they want to help (thank you).
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Do you have evidence? If so, I'd like to see those data.
The direct link to the complete article is: https://c9.io/site/blog/2014/07/announcing-the-all-new-cloud...
Historically, data is the plural of datum.
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Just wait -- pretty soon, they'll come installed upward-pointing cams. And anyone opposed to having such gear in mass circulation will be derided as "luddites".
Similar problem in the United States, moving a massive electromagnet from Brookhaven to Fermilab: http://muon-g-2.fnal.gov/bigmove/gallery.shtml
>I'm going on 33 years

Your comment made me realize I'm about the same (ouch.)

I started on TECO EMACS on a DEC-20, then Gosling Emacs on Unix, then GNU Emacs on Unix, then various mini-emacs on PCs, finally back to GNU Emacs.

>how it has changed with the times

Heh, even a glacier will surprise you.
Yep, working great now!
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At least as of mid-2012, HubSpot was using Trello exclusively for project tracking. Even then, Trello did more than enough to meet their needs. If you think you need a more complicated tool, you might want to rethink your process and workflow. /$.02
Okay, but what is the point of the thought experiment? If the point is, as the addendum at the bottom indicates, to convince scientists to support a bioinformatics group rather than having their own bioinformatician, the same arguments and reasoning the post shows could've been presented without the whole "you're not allowed bioinformatics" framing device, which is certainly attention-getting but far less likely to be persuasive because you're behaving confrontationally towards the very people you're trying to persuade.
> why Emacs is better for me than Sublime Text

Do you use a text editor only for programming? Or do you use your text editor to edit all kinds of text, including emails, letters, notes, to-do lists, etc.? I do the latter, and the last time I evaluated text editors, Emacs was the best choice for editing all the text that I work with daily.

For example, the last time I evaluated Sublime Text, it didn't have package nearly as powerful as Org mode for Emacs. Org mode is the best note-taking tool I've ever used.

In addition to note-taking, another example is email. format=flowed is one of my requirements, and when I search the web for "Sublime Text" "format=flowed", I get fewer than 744 results, and none of the top results are relevant. When I search the web for Emacs "format=flowed", I get 135,000 results, which includes many relevant results.
Mirko Norac "is a former general of the Croatian Army. He was the first Croatian Army general to be found guilty of war crimes by a Croatian court." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Norac )

The Gospić massacre took place in Croatia, and "[t]he trial was seen by a BBC News analysis as indicating a willingness on the part of the Croatian government to deal with war crimes committed by its nationals, following a long period of inactivity described by Rijeka County Court judge Ika Šarić as a "conspiracy of silence"." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospi%C4%87_massacre )

Isn't that a counter-example?

Ahh, you said "a nation, or its leaders", but not other citizens of the nation. So what about Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala? Quoting Reuters, "He is the first former head of state to be convicted on genocide charges in his own country", and genocide is a war crime.

Isn't that a counter-example?

While it was a civil war, you said war crime only makes sense when a sovereign nation loses a war and is 'temporarily inferior' to another nation, which is not the case in Guatemala. To be certain, the judgement was overturned, but your statement was limited to prosecution, and Rios Montt was definitely prosecuted for war crimes.
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That's just like, your opinion, man.

More eloquently, I prefer the regular version. I prefer having all the interface already presented to me rather than hidden away. The one thing you could say is that the mobile version restricts itself to a narrower width automatically, but it's pretty trivial to write custom CSS to do the same for the regular version, or just resize your window. People still know about "move tab to new window" and how to resize their windows, right?
Two weeks is standard, but I have quit jobs and left in a few days.

Yes, it can feel like a romantic break-up, but really you don't owe them anything. They have to pay you for all the work you have done.

The only thing you are doing by leaving in a few days rather than two weeks is potentially hurting their recommendations of you. Which isn't much since it sounds like you have other experience in the same industry.

And, honestly, even with a whole two weeks, it's not a guarantee that you would get a positive recommendation anyways.

And finally, they legally can't trash you for other jobs, they can just withhold a positive recommendation.
Derp, you're right. It seems I can't English this morning. :)
Quit, with no two week notice, but offered to transfer all my stuff before leaving. Did it in the middle of the day and it broke the contract I had signed with them. After I came back from lunch they took my laptop, made me sign some secondary contract with HR, then had two guys escort me from the property. It was kind of brutal. I suggest doing it closer to the end of the day or even have everything ready for just leaving afterwards.

It's actually pretty fine if its before the end of the three month period. At another job the contracting company just gave the other companies money back.
There is nothing sensitive about my work, so don't have that to worry about. Sciency stuff and completely open to the world. At this point I feel that even if I stayed it would not benefit either party.

I don't hate my boss which makes it harder. I am the only developer for this piece of the project and replacing me will take time, the schedule will slip and put her in a tough spot.

Do you know if I should tell my boss I see everyday that works for the government agency, or the one off-site for the contracting company I am hired through?
login with github redirect to github for authorization and then does not work. No error message, just nothing. Click on login and you stay on the page.
When is it time to go 'all in' on a Startup?
The open source version of the AMD drivers have gotten a lot better for very recent versions of the Linux Kernel. Is it better enough? Good question.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux316_...
Joel thinks Trello is an Amazon.com, not a Ben & Jerry's.

(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html)
>>Financial scandals and banking reform are primarily a social and legal problem, and cannot be solved by technology.

Disagreed, it should be solved/prevented by regulations / laws but it wasn't. BTC don't need regulations.
Neither site is "beautiful." They are both just websites, and rather functional ones at that.
I may be raging, but if you need one year to master an IDE/Text editor there is something wrong.