skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every. Single. Landlord. I've leased from has treated the security deposit as a "13th month's rent". The last two places we rented, we even hired our own cleaning service when we moved out. We still got dinged things like $500 to mow the lawn.
Amazon is pushing their agenda with propaganda, and I'd be more critical. I liked John Scalzi's take on it: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/30/amazons-latest-volley/
I thought the purpose of the OP was to justify using Fahrenheit in 2014, not in 1725. :)

But even in 1725 I think that people who could build a thermometer would probably be able to grade it properly.
What you are describing is a sommelier exam.

There's an interesting documentary on some guys taking their master sommelier exam on Netflix called "Somm" who show an impressive array of these skills.
I work in technical production and fabrication for a sports marketing agency. We build unique consumer experiences for our major sportswear client. I look to HN for ideas and inspiration that I can use to fill the gap from ideas to implementation. For example gamification of a shoe try on experience, to show the consumer the performance of the product. HN is my go to for a way to pass meetings. Always interested in collaborating if anyone has any ideas in this domain.
> The nastier claim is that SpaceX didn't pay all the back wages/salaries they were due, which is rather white line and something the government cares rather a lot about, if for no other reason than it deprives them of taxes.

This is outright illegal, and California labor law is very clear on this. If true, not only will back wages need to be paid, there are steep penalties. Its up there with not paying your tax withholdings to the state/federal governments (i.e. personal liability).
I think there's crossed wires here. The term clipart was being used to refer to the literal nature of the icons origin - it came from a stock library of pre produced graphics.

And when you say 'most company logo's are not much more than clipart' - you're refering the the simple construction and form of the icon used in a logo. Apple, Microsoft, and IBM obviously didn't pull their logos from a stock library.

Although it's interesting to hear such logo's be described with such flippant regard for their conception.
The irony of apps breaking SSL by trying to accommodate self-signed certificates during developments are that mobile apps are the one mass-market setting where self-signed certificates are superior to CA-signed certificates in production.
I've also had that experience frequently (when I lived in the U.S.), but oddly had very good experiences with large national "corporate" landlords. I'm not usually a fan of dealing with huge national companies over smaller local businesses, but in this area my experiences are more positive with the big ones. When I lived in a Post [1] apartment complex, everything was very professional and above-board, and I got my deposit back in full, quickly. There was a walk-through at move-out with one of the leasing office's employees; the employee said everything looked fine, we both signed the inspection papers, and they returned my deposit the next week. I had even made nail holes in the wall to hang pictures, but their policy (stated at move-in) was that repainting and filling of holes less than dime-sized are routine maintenance for tenants who live there >1 yr.

The only other experience as smooth as that was with an individual landlord (no management company), who by luck happened to be very easy to work with. I paid rent on time and didn't trash the place, and he left me alone and didn't try to take my deposit. This was in a college town, though, so I think I was an exceptionally good tenant compared to what he was used to.

[1] http://www.postproperties.com/
They aren't meaningless. Water boils at 95 C at your altitude - effectively the same temperature for all "common" usages. E.g. you'd still better not stick your hand into boiling water.

A <5% error for the zone that >99% of humans inhabit seems pretty practical to me. The freezing point is effectively identical.
I've always been surprised that landlords routinely return security deposits in full. After a decade of renting in multiple cities, I've always received 100% of my deposit back, even in cases where it probably would've been fair to charge me for some minor things (holes in the wall from hanging things, some small stains, etc).

There are penalties in some cases (the letter in this post says in Georgia if you get caught there's a 3x penalty), but I've never heard of those actually enforced.

In other words, there's a lot of incentive for this to happen all the time, especially since landlords don't have much of an online reputation (like restaurants). The fact that it's rare in the US is a great sign for doing business here generally.
The familiar part has changed for Canadians.

I grew up during the transition period I was too young to know Fahrenheit, I had just entered school when the switch was occurring.

My parents are pretty well used to Celsius now but still may occasionally use Fahrenheit such as some electronic device that allows F or C they choose F.

It's still a but messed up though since Canada borders the US. The old joke being weather reports that show the border with the US say Detroit shown as 90 and Windsor as 32 "See Marge as soon as you cross the border into Canada it goes dow to 32!"

But still you get people of all ages saying things like "300km/h wow that's nearly 200 mph" or "You weigh 70kg what's that like 150 pounds?". It's more due to history and the influence of the US on our culture, I bet more french speaking areas like Quebec, northern NB don't do that but who knows maybe they do.
I don't think deprivement of taxes has anything to do with it. "A deal is a deal" is one of the things that society depends on heavily and that we have government for to enforce. If companies can get away with that, what stops me from agreeing with a builder that he builds a house for me for $100k, and, when he is almost done, saying "I changed my mind, I'll pay you only $75k" or anything similar to that?
Amazon is much bigger than Hachette. They can absorb losses due to these proposals more easily. If a guy making $50 a day tells a guy making $10 a day that it's fair for them to both make $5 less per day, he's wrong.

Note that Amazon is being semantic when they say ebooks are 1% of income. That's for the Lagardere group as a whole. Hachette is a subsidiary and doesn't have the flexibility to just tell the other subsidiaries to absorb their losses.

http://www.lagardere.com/businesses/lagardere-publishing/ove...
How about "either is arbitrary so fighting over which is better is pointless, just choose the one with higher acceptance."
I'm a countryside area of NY and I get a feeling I'd have to move closer to NYC or something to find programming opportunities
This is great stuff.

As to the xml...im never going to read it. I'm going to shove it in azure tables and mine it with hindsight.
>Hiring agreements (collusion) do not involve force or fraud.

Hiring agreements are where an employer uses the power of their position (and those they are colluding with) to control their employees. I would argue this is just another form of 'force'. You don't need to physically harm someone to control them.
That objection is growing obsolete, too: Nobody these days divides by 5280; they go to Google and type "1/4 mile in feet"
> For clients to be able to use an API from inside web browsers, the API must enable CORS.

Great! That means you can build little static apps on github.io that use the APIs.

Also, would love it if this gave guidance on what style and format of documentation you need to have for the API.
The only time I've ever not had my full deposit back was when it was explicitly stated in my lease that I'd produce a receipt for professional carpet cleaning before I left and I didn't bother to do so.

I think in general landlords look at the "reasonable wear and tear" clauses and consider how tenant friendly the courts are. That claim is pretty vague and it's not really worth their time or the legal fees to deal with someone if they get their back up over a handful of smaller charges.
Is it just me or does the art example goes against the entire concept of "thin slicing" in Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink. He gave an example of the exact opposite - a bunch of art experts thinking a statue is authentic, then one guy walking in, looking at the piece for 5 seconds, and saying it is fake (which it was).
There are a lot of experiments showing that wine experts are very unreliable: by serving them the same wine in 2 different bottles (cheap and expensive), by adding food colorant to white wines, etc. Daniel Kahneman describes some of them in "Thinking Fast and Slow".

The same thing has been done with other fields dealing with vague and loosely-defined concepts: stock-picking, sports commentary, etc.
What's even more telling is that engineers probably make up a smaller percentage of Apple's employees than bankers make up Goldman's employees (since the latter doesn't have much of a consumer retail presence). The engineers and designers at Apple are generating tremendous value for the company, but not getting compensated anywhere near the bankers at Goldman. People might not like banking as an industry, but it has the right approach to hiring. Instead of colluding to suppress wages or preserve relationships or whatever justification tech companies use, they write big bonus checks. That's how a free labor market is supposed to work.
When I was younger a landlord withheld a deposit from my mother inappropriately, she went to small claims court and won and was given the option of 3x damages (she requested only the original deposit rather than the triple damages for whatever reason, but my understanding is that she was definitely given the option). This was in Massachusetts.
The "True Way" of using Haskell involves getting the type system to work for you.

It is true that as your project scope changes in surprising ways, occasionally you'll discover you need some facility somewhere that the types don't currently make it available. Yes, you've got to go through and re-plumb things - but your compiler will quickly point you at everything that needs to change to that end. As michaelochurch says, keep everything small and composable - and I would add "abstract", with some caveats - and much of it will shift automatically where it's safe to do so.

Edited to add:

Regarding the "update the types so that I can do something I couldn't" issue - it's not really any different than writing any language and discovering that you need some information you don't have handy. Threading it through the various function calls is not hard and usually the right thing to do. "I can do anything anywhere" is the equivalent of making it a global.
Enter Pyongyang [video]
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I came up with a naive and sloppy part solution: https://gist.github.com/peterc/737d9178f02118f8e315 .. there are some weaknesses to this solution but it does perform similarly to your examples.
Someone (a jogger/runner?) on reddit a few days ago made an interesting observation, maybe this was known. The Fibonacci sequence can be used as a rough guide to convert km to miles and vice versa.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34

The first four don't work very well but:

3km is about 2 miles

5km is about 3 miles

8km is about 5 miles

13km is about 8 miles

21km is about 13 miles

34km is about 21 miles

and so on
Someone (a jogger/runner?) on reddit a few days ago made an interesting observation, maybe this was known. The Fibonacci sequence can be used as a rough guide to convert km to miles and vice versa.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34

The first four don't work very well but:
3km is about 2 miles
5km is about 3 miles
8km is about 5 miles
13km is about 8 miles
21km is about 13 miles
34km is about 21 miles
and so on
Is there a good technique / library for comparing screenshot-like images?
I don't think its advisable to use my self-made quicksilver thermometer for any kind of body temperature measurement.
John Scalzi comments further: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/08/09/amazon-gets-increasing...

I particularly like the point that self-pub authors ought to be happy that Hatchette is at higher price points, since it leaves the more lucrative markets for them. This is a tribal dispute for most authors on both sides.
Neuromancer, 30 years old this month
Here's a site that allows you to learn Go by letting you perform exercises in increasing difficulty, which I think is like codecadamy:

http://321go.org/home/?ln=uk

It's surprisingly complete, I've practiced on evenings for months and I think I haven't even finished half of their program yet.
The Difference Between Working at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft
All natural extremes fit within +100 and -100 beautifully.

110 - sauna is too hot

100 - water boils in one atmosphere

50 - desert hot (record is 56.7 °C (134.1 °F)
Death Valley, California, U.S.A.
10 July 1913)

30 - hot (for a finn)

25 - nice hot

20 - use more clothes below this

0 - water freezes, ice forms on roads, lakes etc.

-10 - cold but OK with good clothes

-20 - this starts to be so cold were you need to prepare yourself well if you want to spend more than an hour outside. Temperature inside freezer.

-30 - extreme colds start. You don't enjoy this even when prepared and using good clothes.

-40 - Winter War conditions

-50 - record breaking extremes

−89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) Vostok Station 21 July 1983

-110 Kriotherapy room for treating joint inflammation
Practical usages to be contactable via car's License plate?
In case you din't understand what i mean from the title, basically we are a Social Initiative for all drivers worldwide, to register their vehicle license plate number, and in times of need, their vehicle can be looked up upon by other registered drivers to make a call or text.

The commuting world will be a different place if all drivers are on it and that's what we are trying to achieve.

Let me know what are your thoughts at motoqlik.com/contact

thanks.
Brandon
Farwell to WELD (and Co-Working)
Hey, tenants can be "assholes" as well.

Here's a txt that I got two days ago from a tenant who hadn't deposited his rent (due on the 1st) by the 7th. (I waited two days before even saying it was late):

[first he sends a picture of "the money"]

Then this text:

"Omg!!! I totally forgot to go to the bank on Friday and send it. I went to Boston over the weekend and it totally slipped my mind I was going to deposit it before I left for my flight. So sorry!! Don't worry I took a pic of the money so you know. Have it. I will bring it over to [bank name] as soon as I get a break at work. Again super sorry about that.".

So that's the actual text. Sent 2 days ago.

Today it's the 9th. Still no rent. Just texted him again before seeing this post.
Could you imagine Boeing/lockheed/GM/some some oil company or any other manufacturer going up to their stockholders and saying: "This next year, profits will be significantly reduced as we replace every piece of equipment we own, replace every 1/4-20 screw with an M5, and redesign every aircraft/automobile/widget to meet new metric specifications"
Everyone in California should be aware of their ability to request a pre-moveout inspection. You do a walkthrough with your landlord a few weeks before moving where they list all defects, which (in theory) gets you on the same page and gives you a chance to fix the damage. They are unable to withhold for anything not on this list (damage obscured by your items and later-occurring damage excepted).

California publishes an easy to read tenants handbook that outlines this as well as many other details of state law. It's well worth the twenty minutes it would take the average HNer to read it over. (also, depending on where you are there may be additional municipal laws covering things like causeless evictions, etc)
LOL. I'm in Western Australia:

<10: Bloody cold, avoid going outside if possible. Rug up if you do.

15: Winter. Probably rain and wind.

20: Cool Autumn / Spring, you might need a jumper outside.

25: Vaguely warmish, t-shirt weather.

30: Getting warm, wear shorts and t-shirt.

35: Beach weather, avoid going outside for too long if you're in office attire and don't want sweat patches.

40+: Hot beach weather, stay out of the sun (or in the water) in the middle of the day.
That doesn't take into account repeated letters. You actually want the number of 7-combinations of the multiset { A * 5, B * 3, C * 4, ... } or whatever the letter frequencies are. That's for the first draw from the bag.
I would like to see, some mobile OS bundle OpenSteetMap or a app which becomes a hit on top of OSM. The usablity of any map will be its data, and I feel OSM lacks compared to GMap or Bing map.
Thanks for this, I have been looking for email templates for a little while.
The interface looks a lot like treehouse. Is there any connection OR just an inspired design? (or neither?)
;; good
(defn print-seq [s]
(when (seq s)
(prn (first s))
(recur (rest s))))

;; bad
(defn print-seq [s]
(when-not (empty? s)
(prn (first s))
(recur (rest s))))

Why use `seq` instead of `not-empty`?

(defn print-seq [s]
(when (not-empty s)
(prn (first s))
(recur (rest s))))
They are open source, so...
Canadian here as well I see some people in shorts at 10C maybe even at 0C mostly "dudes" in their 20s and late teens. I even see bigger (fatter) guys in shorts in the middle of winter now it seems to be a thing.

After a cold winter 0C even -10C feels warm especially if there isn't any wind.

I don't know anyone who zips up their jacket unless it's -15C or -10C and windy.

It's the wind that gets you, -20C is nothing if there isn't any wind.

But really it also depends a lot on perspective since 10C in the spring feels very warm but 10C in the fall feels very cold. Maybe a lot of the descriptions depend on year round average temperatures, I can image people in southern California with a smaller temperature range would not feel as much of a difference as a Canadian would.
Move to a different climate and your mapping may change a lot. 30 degrees centigrade below zero can feel cozier than 10 degrees above, if the latter comes with rain and wind gales, and 30 degrees above can feel hotter than 40 degrees above if the former comes with high humidity.

I know people who lived in Siberia, but complain about the cold weather in the Netherlands at times when it isn't even freezing.
SOE was always part of SIS though there was always a lot of internal politics about who should run SIS FO vs Amy and Navy.

Cant make up my mind on Le care's take on the secret service not sure if he was the old pining for the empire stereotype or the new more professional.
Building a Production Machine Learning Infrastructure
This was definitely a fun project to be a part of (the reboot, not the chrome experiment). We out here at the Arecibo Observatory are proud to be a part of this moment in history. It was a joy to work with Dennis Wingo and his team, they are definitely cool guys.
The thing that irks me the most is not the practice itself. My problem is with everything else in that post.

Note that he has not described it as a morally ambiguous but sometimes unavoidable choice (like you did) but as the most righteous and noble option. That he's openly admitting he knows that it's illegal. Pay attention the sugar-sweet language of his parable and how its tone gets more colorful whenever the story takes a darker turn (from pov of the employee).

I mean, this entire thing is something out of a dilbert strip. I'm serious. This is something you'd expect Dilbert's CEO to write. The self deceit, the contrast between the language of "hurt feelings" vs the unstated reality of a person getting fired as a consequence and the stupidity of it all are mocked in hundred different Dilbert strips. Remember when this wage fixing story surfaced and the surprised comments that they were stupid enough to put it in email? If Mr Horowitz ever gets in similar trouble the paragraph i quoted above will make these troubles a lot worse.
While I expect the point you're making still holds, I'm not sure revenue/employee is a worthwhile metric. Presumably Apple - making physical things - has more non-employee expenses, and one or the other may have significantly more irrelevant employees (I doubt janitorial staff was covered by the non-poaching agreement).
Is this yours? If it is, take a look at the buttons, they all look "deactivated". #DADFE1 is too unsaturated. Or at least, add an hover colour on it.
That history is funny. Win95 was also supposed to ship with WinFS, but instead it got only a "you don't ask for a find-like tool anymore" search window.

I don't know if MS finished the WinFS specification already.
Hard to believe they wouldn't pay already earned wages. That's pretty foundational to payroll law and the mere concept of doing that (at least, if your company is not already essentially dead) should cause several heads in HR and legal to explode.

It's hard to say without reading the actual filing, which I'm not going to bother with, but I think they don't mean actual back pay, but rather the notification-plus-60-days-worth of pay that should be due (if it is a layoff). Based on:

"“Because defendants failed to pay plaintiffs and other similarly situated employees their wages…defendants failed to pay those employees timely after each employee’s separation of employment,” the complaint states."

I would think that makes it part of the general "it's actually a layoff but you didn't treat it like one" theory of the suit, which is arguable, rather than not actually paying accrued wages, which is not.
The Achilles heel of virtualization is networking. All of the hypervisors out there (VMWare, Xen, KVM) have user-space software switch implementations that dramatically reduce the throughput of TCP session creation. As a consequence you lose a significant amount of hardware potential to serve HTTP connections.
I've read a lot of these, but it usually feels more like we're glossing over Aesop's fables with a veneer of evolutionary theory. It's interesting to read about what happens, but all the suspect explanations in the story detract from it for me.
What would the potential business model be?
George Orwell is Amazon's latest target in battle against Hachette
I feel like you're selling it short here. He said "If you would be shocked and horrified if Company X hired several of your employees then you should not hire from them. This should be a very small list and require CEO sign off before happening" At the macro level what he's saying is you have to protect the overall health of your company. If one or two key hires from a competitor result in poisoning the inter company relationships then the negative outweighs the positive so don't do it. Or, at the very least, understand that your internal argument "well that employee was looking so they were lost anyways someone was going to get them" can create a much bigger problem for you down the road (if new employee X enjoys your company chances are she'll tell her friends at old company and HR will see inbound flow and create an unintended "raiding" scenario)

I think he's guilty of trying to overly engineer management here and don't agree but he does have a logic around a really narrow use case.