skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give some advice on how other positions can argue such risk mitigation? 6 months severance would get every Software dev/eng laughed out to the street. as far as my experience goes, signing bonuses are out too. Usually the company is eating a massive training cost for the first 6 months, saying to them "In addition to training cost, I want X risk mitigation" seems unlikely to be met with agreement.
Ask HN: How do you choose your technical books?
Hi,
For any given language/framework/concept there are several technical books available.

How do you choose your technical books?

1.I just read amazon reviews.

2.Go by friends recommendation.

3.Check out what others have said on Hacker News, stackoverflow or a relevant subreddit

4.I read the book reviews in blogs.

5.I get the book recommended on the technology's site or the book recommended by a tutorial I used.

6.I don't think. I just get the first one I see.

7.I get multiple books and use-them-all/choose-the-one-i-like.

Do you search online about the book you are going to purchase?

Would you like a site that collates all the relevant recommendations in one place?
Is this like A Humble Proposal? If not, it's pretty much the most ridiculous (and disjointed) thing I've ever read. Just really, really badly done.
Instantly 100% less interested.
Either I'm missing your joke, or you are missing Olin's. American universities, 30 years ago or otherwise, do not actually have the sort of gun culture that Olin is describing. For example, Olin was not actually going to mount an M60 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_machine_gun) on the roof of his car.
It just keeps saying "Please don't open apps" for me, even though I'm not even touching it, and I can open all apps normally.
He's not talking about wifi's association to microwaves, he's talking about microwaves' association to microwave ovens, and the implication that anything else using microwaves will have a similar effect.

The electrons flowing through a AA battery are literally the same thing you get out of a 240V appliance outlet, but nobody worries about zapping themselves to death just because the battery makes an electric current.
Possibility #3 - They took a first look in months at the finantials, and don't want to tell anybody what they saw. If that's the case, they wouldn't pay anything anyway.
Interesting -- are there email clients which can process Markdown and display the body with its intended styling?
I prefer creating plain text emails.
I prefer reading lightly styled html emails.
Yes, that is how pattern matching works, and no, it has nothing to do with parametric polymorphism.

No plans to add extra sugar to immediately switch on the arguments of a function, but I'm pretty sure that switch(arg) is not terrible overhead.

I've addressed exhaustivity in a different comment.
Thorough Introduction to Machine Learning
But I can't think of a circumstance under which it benefits you to disclose your grievances with a former employer to a new or potential employer.

I think the circumstance is like @jheriko said, as a filter. If an employer sees treating employees bad as dirty laundry, well maybe it isn't the place you want to work, and you're better off not getting an offer.
The talk at REcon that introduced this tool is also excellent: http://recon.cx/2014/video/recon2014-10-artem-dinaburg-andre...
Worst YC investment ever? We took $20k investment, hired someone for one week and then fired them, got the $20k sued right out of us.
No, but it's human readable styling.
oooooohhh, alright then. It flew right past me - I was completely ready to believe that it was being serious.
In Ebola Outbreak, Who Should Get Experimental Drug?
AFAIK it's always been one of the bigger gray areas regarding pirating copyrighted material. From what I've read it's still a "we have no formal proof that people are prosecuted based on it, but we also have no proof that they aren't/can't be".

Also, read https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...
as linked below in this thread.
It is pretty easy to find the YC company if you just look at his comment history and do a search or two. Which... is why you should aways use a throwaway account if you don't want people to figure this stuff out.
Even if you take these into consideration, a more appropriate reaction would be to say, "if you are currently in talks with a YC company for employment, or were hired in the last few weeks, drop me a line with the name of the company and I'll reply privately to you with a yes or no."

Same goes for PG or YC Partners, just say, "if you drop me a line saying you want to deal with this, contact me and we can discuss it and I'll see if it makes sense to disclose it."
I think there are 2 reasons for that.

1. building distributed systems is a lot harder
2. so deploying/building centralized systems just gets on the market faster and is quicker to develop for
> I believe it can be integrated into a much simpler navigation than looking at hundreds 16 pixel icons squeezed side by side horizontally.

Try one of the vertical tab bar extensions (i.e., the tabs are stacked on top of each other in a sidebar) such as Tree Style Tabs. It displays many more tabs (mine displays ~40 before it overflows) and you always can see their titles.
You can send both formats, and in fact, if you send text/html, you should send a text/plain copy as well. As one of the remaining mutt users out there, nothing annoys me more than html mail. I don't read it.
You've had many past ideas, such as:

http://www.scatter.fm/ (and a mobile app) - a location based deal site and mobile app for hunting deals from nearby shops.

Or https://yenbe-beta.appspot.com/

Seems like your ideas are generally around finding good deals, price hutning, so my guess is that the YCombinator startup that hired you is around the same idea. There are a few YCombinator startups that deal with simialr things; I don't have the time to find the entire list. Maybe someone else can do that and the HN community can figure out which company did this.
Grouper seeking senior Ruby engineer
To be honest I held out on smartphones until 2012. The Nokia kit coming out before that was excellent. It's pretty good now as well but I find my cheap Moto G more useful.
Still, I'd like if Map worked with values

m = new Map([[new String(1), 1]])
> Map { "1": 1 }
m.get("1")
> undefined
Most HTML email I receive also has a text version. I prefer text, but I don't see why you can't do both.
I'm an American and it flew over my head at first too. Until I got to the latter parts and it got progressively more ridiculous. It definitely starts out subtly- in fact I'm not actually sure the beginning is a parody!

FYI: There are a lot of people who own guns in America, but they are a minority. By a large margin, most homes (about 2/3 of homes) do not have any gun owners. The popularly of guns varies by region... it is a big country and there are lots of cultural differences from state to state.
This is a pretty good idea, actually. I might have to try it someday! :-)
I've only just started learning Rust, but from what I understand, the trade-off is that the type system in Rust is much more complicated, and thus harder to learn. Pointers have a concept of "ownership" and "borrowing", which can be more difficult to reason about, whereas in Go, you don't have to think about it as much--pointers are just pointers. It also makes the Rust compiler more complicated, which mean slow compile times. One of the main design goals in Go was blazing fast compile times.
I had an offer withdrawn the day before I was supposed to get on a plane to move myself cross country. I had quit my job, broken my lease, etc.

The company paid me a 6 week severance, even though I never worked a minute for them, just to compensate me for what I had given up.
For programmers this is a time tracker built into your text editor https://wakatime.com
The quest for Super Mario 64’s “impossible coins”
The Log – So Important It Deserves a Book
7 best-practicies+privacy considerations when selecting a CDN
This is a reasonable approach. I will try this.

Sidenote: In my last discussion, some of the phrasing was eerily similar - "That is unfortunate and unexpected, as I was looking forward to working with you guys" - "we're businessmen here" - "part ways as friends".. etc. Just that I didn't push for what you are suggesting. Thanks again!
Comcast plus Time Warner Cable: Together isn't better
I dunno, state schools are still pretty cheap. My sister's tuition with room and board is $10k per year. If you are someone smart enough to be an entrepreneur in your late 30s, you should have a corporate job paying 150k+ and can save all 4 years worth in a matter of months with a bit of determination.

And health care, while expensive, isn't as big of a deal as most people make it out to be. Get a high deductible plan and a family of 4 can be insured for <$700/month. If you are starting a business in your late 30s you should have a lot of savings already. While annoying, this shouldn't stop you.
No the situation isn't analogous at all because unexpectedly losing a job has a much higher impact on a person than for a company to unexpectedly lose an employer. A person is made of flesh and blood and can have his or her life shattered. A company is an abstract entity defined by laws.
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So I may not be the best person to explain these things because I am not an experience frontend web developer and this was my first project with Cordova, but I'll try.

My frontend is 100% standalone, my only backends are Google Calendar and Parse so I access those with ajax requests. No server of my own.

The front end was built with AngularJS, so I tried to follow a pretty standard Angular project structure. I didn't use yeoman, grunt, or anything like that (purely out of ignorance).

This was my first Angular project, first Cordova app, first Chrome app, first iOS app, first time using Parse, etc etc. I definitely don't know all of the best practices but I think the fact that it was so many "firsts" for me speaks to the quality of the tools.
not trying to be a smartass here, but a sim card?
>I have never heard somebody say "I'd totally build X but the tax incentives just aren't high enough".

I read it more as "I'd totally build X but I have no idea how to do it legally or even how to learn what the legal requirements are." Much easier to work for a big company that can afford full-time lawyers.
Why is Lumia a 0? How about iOS and Blackberry?
The Fridge: save food, save money
Even the part about concluding an academic presentation by shooting a colleague in the face?

Exactly what kind of ridiculous caricature of the US does your local media give you?
This link from the same site is on the front page of HN today: https://medium.com/@sachagreif/in-the-past-couple-years-star...

It's a decent article and fairly interesting (though not surprising), but the layout is like navigating a minefield, it's still better than the multi-page layouts that are common on some sites. Try to print this article though, 17 pages. 17 pages.

Their main business is offering content in a format that is readable and accessible to users. One solution would be to have an alternate layout with normal sized text, no giant header image, and thumbnails rather than half-page images, and that layout preference would be both saved in a cookie and settable via a URL parameter.
1. Was the fine large enough to matter?

2. You can hire an "nanny tax" accountant for ~$500 a year (maybe was more expensive a few years ago)
This guy is not seeing the big picture. Every time his readers access his non-HTTPS site, a man-in-the-middle attacker can insert malicious content into the connection.
Oh boy another web framework to benchmark... :-)

http://www.madebymarket.com/blog/dev/ruby-web-benchmark-repo...
So where is there a better environment for entrepreneurship? I don't mean theoretically, I mean in practice.

Is there a country that has better infrastructure, capital markets, regulation and market size? I am genuinely curious.
Hey, thanks for checking it out!

Where are you seeing the emails and IP addresses of the commenters?
I can not reach the status page myself so here is a screenshot of the status page taken by a friend if unreachable for you:
http://i.imgur.com/osHgd7w.png
Cool idea, I'll give this a try.

I switch my Android phone for an old Nokia candy bar phone about every 6 months for a few days. It helps me clear my mind and not check my phone all the time for notifications. But it's pretty terrible for text messages so I switch back when I get fed up with the keypad.
This is more helpful:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt
Legal tech startup weekend, AirBNB HQ SF 8/15-17
I'm stuck in the same boat; I'm on satellite. In fairness to the ISP, they do a decent job. They advertise 12 mbps, and typically deliver 20 or so, but there's still a 10 GB cap. As some consolation for this though, 12 AM - 5 AM are unmetered. A couple of cron scripts makes life a lot more livable.

I end up using dial-up for low latency stuff like SSH. Thankfully, there's someone in my area who offers it for free.

You may want to try a non-Uverse DSL option from AT&T. Definitely make sure, but I've heard people say they throttle those less for some reason.
TripAdvisor could challenge the big two providers of online travel services
I don't think he was looking for that kind of advice, Tony. But maybe it will help.
While I can agree with the points laid out here (underneath the silly video), I can't say that forcefully stopping the merger does much good. Nor does requiring them to ask permission from the FCC to do so. You've got two bad companies that get low ratings, but no one can enter the market and compete with them on the local level because of the regulation that keeps out the small guys in the first place.

Merger: -1 + -1 = -2
No Merger: -1 OR -1 = -1

Um... I guess, but where's my +'s at? This seems to me to be pointing the finger in the wrong direction.
Keep in mind that cash has costs too. It has to be counted and secured. You have to hire a security company to pick up deposits and most banks charge for cash deposits over a certain amount.
Unfortunately, fermentation does not neutralize the goitrogens either, i.e. sauerkraut although much healthier alternative of the raw cabbage still takes its thyroid toll.
They withdrew an offer of employment.

They didn't withdraw an offer, they terminated someone who had accepted and was actively working for the company.

They didn't do anything wrong.

Yes, they did. Is it okay to let the OP go quickly because they made a mistake: no resources to deal with visa issues, wrong domain expertise, etc? Yes. Is it okay to do this without compensation, especially after rescinding other offers, working his personal network, etc? No!

The OP din't just do some code, he worked his professional network and went out on a limb for this startup. They screwed him, probably for the right reasons, but they need to admit the mistake and make the OP right.
The answer is yes, you should absolutely switch to the dream job/company. Particularly if where you work is at will, like it is in much of the US. The same things that apply to an individual apply to a company: other candidates interviewed may still be available, you are leaving before becoming a valuable part of the company and are difficult to replace, not taking offer you prefer may leave sour grapes, etc. No one should be tarnished in such a situation. A worker has every right to the best deal and working environment possible, even if that environment is elsewhere.

I would even argue that any time your dream job makes an offer, you should feel free to leave your current job regardless of status, loyalty, and so on.
Assuming that the OP has a reasonably standard employment agreement, he may well be breaking it by contacting their investors (there is the tort). Assuming that he doesn't want the job back, why would he contact them other than to disrupt the relationship between YC and his former employer? IANAL, but the basic elements seem like they are there and I wouldn't even consider doing something like this without getting legal advice first.
> Only illegal business currently use this model, unfortunately (some parts of the online drug trade, and to some parts of the bittorrent scene.)

Which goes to show that the model is not competitive in the mainstraem market. It only works where big centralized orgs are barred from entry.
By taking out a sim card you don't remove the risk of physical damage to your phone. By replacing a $10 phone with a $600 phone you can eliminate the risk.
Yes, there's a small tutorial section on how to implement new protocols:

http://libtins.github.io/tutorial/new_protocols/
Mobile Intelligence Startup Quettra Raises $2.9M Seed Round
This is almost exactly what I had in mind. Nice.
"if you are currently in talks with a YC company for employment, or were hired in the last few weeks, drop me a line with the name of the company and I'll reply privately to you with a yes or no."

Yes... and Yes.
I assume he skimmed, and missed that particular part.
Good, cheap alternative for small businesses is Funding Gates' Receivables Manager. Helps you efficiently and successfully track down those past due bills, and just in general, helps you stay organized when it comes to invoices and AR. Their style is to keep you more involved, as most small businesses are built on strong, personal relationships no?
- From a girl with many, many small business owners in her family
It's a trip re-reading this stuff. It was almost painful to read Linus' apology for going off on ast, only because I remember all too well being just that same young hothead just a little bit earlier (about a half decade or so).
I doubt it makes a difference. Just having some server logs and an IP isn't really sufficient proof in the first place. Just because web requests come from my IP doesn't mean that I made those requests (it could be a friend, relative, hacker).

Computer forensics would be required to link the requests to a specific computer and person. Your ISP is probably still free to just ban you though.
An 85 year old woman with a serious illness has very different needs than a 22 year old man who's healthy.

Just stuff like that. Different people need different amounts of things. It's not a particularly controversial statement.
Legal themed variation on startup weekend next weekend. Lots of lawyers, but we could use more hackers. My company, Casetext, is a community sponsor. Come to network, to pitch and develop a nascent idea, or to perhaps connect/find opportunities with one of the many more established legal-tech startups sponsoring the event.

From the press release:
The intersection of law and technology presents unique challenges and exciting
opportunities for growth and creativity for developers, designers, and legal
industry insiders. Recent years have seen a surge of answers to law’s need for
innovation: e-discovery tools, contract generation apps, law practice
management SaaS, virtual firms, and websites are beginning to radically change
the way lawyers research, consult and provide legal services. A wide range of
possibilities remain for new startups to join companies like LegalZoom and Clio
in integrating tech into solutions for consumers, attorneys, businesses, and the
government.
“Legal technology is only beginning to scratch the surface of its true potential,”
says Jake Heller, co-founder and CEO of Y Combinator-backed startup
Casetext. “Yet technology can have the biggest impact in law where it is most
important -- where people's lives, property, and money are often on the line.”
This potential for meaningful impact – and profit – is also attracting investors to
the legal tech space, with investments leaping to $458 million from $66 million
in 2012. The average valuation of legal tech companies currently stands at $4.2
million, and analysts expect continued exponential growth.
“The legal industry is attractive from an investment standpoint because it’s a
large market with older technology and great potential for reinvention,” explains
Robert Siegel, general partner at venture capital firm XSeed Capital and board
member for legal analytics platform Lex Machina. “There are plenty of
opportunities for development of new technology that can deliver better solutions
than what’s available today.”
It seems like it would be difficult to combine this teaching approach with the nanopass approach. At least, I can't immediately see how it would work or feel to do that.

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/nano-jfp.pdf
I played games on an FM-Towns Marty :-) I never met anybody who had any of those other systems, unfortunately.
Ah, I might have a use for it. If one could also only disable the status bar and lower android buttons.

It would be perfect for my family older generation. Big screen, big nice colorful buttons, super easy interface. They would love it.
Also on the M7.
A battery on fire could not only hurt the cat, but could also set on fire wherever the cat decided to run to in a wild panic.
The compensation packages that tech companies are offering are outrageous. Coupled with the fact that money itself generates better returns than most startups.

Earning 10% a year over 10 years in some mutual fund is way better than investing in some startup that'll be around for likely less than two years.

The housing market in the Bay Area is exploding. The salaries are going to have to keep up somewhat with that explosion. Why would I run a startup making 50k in Chicago, when I can make more than triple that(with RSUs, options, ESPP, healthcare, etc.) in the Bay Area?

Also, keep in mind the ground beneath us is shifting constantly. Some web app written in Backbone yesterday may be slow as farts today. Objective-C, what's that? CSS? Use SASS. Chef? Use Docker. I mean use AWS. I mean use Digital Ocean.

I know it seems meaningless what technologies you use, but these are the margins which people win by; the ability to be fast and scale quickly. Those are just two aspects of probably a million other really important aspects in running a successful startup.

Again, though, you have to work normal hours(so as not burnout) while paying yourself enough to survive(forget the Bay Area). It's just not worth it to run a startup given the economics. Unless you can secure a shit ton of upfront investment. Which is unlikely unless the investor feels your startup idea could at least outperform some other investment vehicle like a mutual fund.
>One of the things that really messes with my brain is how hard I'm trying to make sure my daughter has an unfair advantage in life

Human beings are genetically and socially wired to do this.

Many people would objectively agree "Private tuition for entrance exams distorts the intake by income not ability". Very few would then refuse to give their children that edge going in to the exam. Similar examples exist for things like inheritance.

Personally, I'm wouldn't try and argue that people should not act in their own (and their children's) best interest. Because there is no chance that takes root. The need is for systemic limits to be in place on the impact this natural/rational behaviour can have.
Good luck convincing them to shell out 60K for two weeks. If they could afford it, they'd probably could afford throwing 30K more and keeping him for a year.