skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to be a programmer a couple of times. Now I can blame mitigating factors, but frankly, I think it's likely I won't go back.
A study from 1996 [0] shows that male fetal cells can persist in mother's blood up to 27 years after birth.

[0] http://www.pnas.org/content/93/2/705.full.pdf
I am an analytical chemist.

Currently I have a company that provides R&D and Manufacture services for salons that want to launch their own label of hair products.
US Dept of Labor and the Federal WARN Act have specific requirements for employers over 100 employees where 50 or more are let go from a single location in a 30-day period: http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/layoffs.htm

Doesn't matter if they're layoffs for lack of work or performance-based firings: you still have to comply with the provisions of that law.

(I have no knowledge whether SpaceX did or did not comply, of course.)
Why couldn't Sinatra create some sort of underlying tree structure that could perform in O(log N) as opposed to O(N). That way you get the readability with the perf.
It's weird how the term "tribe" is now used to describe just about any set of people that has at least one thing or interest in common, even just temporarily...
Seems taken out of context.

In a [post] on his blog Horowitz describes a scenario in which a person currently employed at a company that is "important" to you comes in for an interview. The recommended course of action is to 1: block the hire, 2: inform said company about it. There are two things i just can't agree with at all:

* The part about informing the current employer: about 50% of the time it will end with ruining the next few weeks or months of his/her life. I.e. getting them fired, with ruined prospects of getting the job they took the risk for. Note that at e.g. apple the standard procedure when they find out that an employee is looking for a job is to escort them out of the building right then and there.

* Note it's not about "poaching", he explains thoroughly that it applies to people who ask for an interview on their own accord too.

If you don't want to read the whole thing, at least read this gem:

It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California. Specifically, if you block a hire based on this kind of policy and the employee loses their job and cannot find work, your company is liable for his wages. As a result, the business relationship with the other company must be extremely important for you to employ any kind of “hands off” policy.

said blog [post]: http://www.bhorowitz.com/is_it_ok_to_hire_people_from_your_f...
Author here, and I agree with you. The phrase I hear most often is "I'm negotiable" or "but that's negotiable", which is why I used "I'm" for the title.

I even looked up the definition to see what was proper, and most definitions would imply that the term negotiable should apply to the request/demand and not to the person making it. So the amount requested is actually the noun that negotiable describes.

If you Google "negotiable", the first thing that pops up was a definition (which seems pulled from a site called Oxforddictionaries.com) leading with "open to discussion or modification".

"I'm willing to negotiate" does sound better, but might make for a worse title.
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I'm a Registered Architect working on Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States. I've wanted to be an Architect for as long as I can remember.

I write software(originally PC based and now web based) to make my life easier. I started coding Basic at a very young age. It came naturally to me. I took a C++ class in high school, but aside from that I'm completely self taught.

I'm here because I'm fascinated by the industry and the people. You can't get a better cross section of what is happening in this industry then on this site.

Also, maybe one day I'll develop a product that is useful to me and useful to others. So having some background on start-ups could help, right?
You won't forget \r\n ever again: it spells "ReturN".
You may be mistaking patterns with 'clever hacks'. If the 5-liner is about writing the shortest possible code, then it certainly isn't beneficial to anyone (except for the original author who has all the fun of coming up with a 'clever' solution). But useful abstractions are a different matter whatsoever.

Just look at Go channels or at reactive programming patterns. If applied to the right problem (i.e. a problem they help solve), they allow you to solve the very problem in a very concise and expressive way.

Having such patterns as a part of the language just makes them more popular and reusable.

And as far as your point, don't you think it's easier to spot a 5-line pattern than a pattern that is spread out over several classes and 200 or so lines of code? It all boils down to this: being able to see patterns or abstractions if you know that and having a common language across the team. Functional 'patterns' are just (arguably) more succinct than object-oriented ones (and it comes from someone who has been programming in C++ and Ruby for nearly 20 years).
>IBM reps have been pitching Watson to me for years, but never have we seen an implementation or a commercial offer, much less a demonstration of something of value to us.

What exactly have they been pitching you?
Awesome move.

Every other car company in the world: "WTF is Def Con?"
Why bother with gif these days, and why in the browser?
I've seen this photo before. If I recall correctly it was from a story or article called "Highway of Death" or something like that.

Tragic and gruesome.
A biotech startup has one similar thing to a hitech startup - and that's that the predominant exit strategy is to 'get bought out by a big player'. In my opinion, the market isn't awash in pharma startups, because of three factors. 1) high capital costs. 2) most pharma startups are started by professors; the selection process for professors is in many ways orthogonal to 'success in developing pharmaceuticals'. 3) Labor talent. Because of the now about decades-long (over/mal)investment in STEM, there has been a glut of PhDs with questionable qualifications, that flood the labor market.

I don't generally argue the 'greed drives things' argument. No, pharma companies don't want big margins necessarily out of greed, but the momentum, machine, and in certain cases legal infrastructure (requirements of companies to provide returns to investors, etc) align in such a way that dislodging big pharma from its position of legal entitlement is politically intractable, because they will fight for it, whether dominantly greed-motivated or not.
I like the idea -- a browsable archive of quality email layouts -- but most of the ones I looked at were pretty mediocre.
Today I learned that the Secret Service action against Steve Jackson Games [1] actually was not part of the Secret Service's anti-hacker campaign, Operation Sundevil [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil
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How is that a subtle threat? That's not a threat at all. That's just being upfront about it. And if you don't like that you can tell them: "No that's not okay with me" and then walk away.
This seems to work well for modifications that are basically in-place and high frequency, but how well does it handle things like one image being a crop of another, or translation, or flipping?
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I did not find it especially disgusting. The specific approach Ben advocates is asking candidates at the interview stage whether they would be okay if you checked with their company. It is your choice whether to say yes or no. You have total latitude to walk away.
Thanks, just what I needed at the right time :)

Was going to settle for plain text emails for this weekend release. But after looking at the templates I think I will have to generate mime multipart for this release. Ceo & customers will appreciate it.

Don't know if these http://www.bchanx.com/logos-in-pure-css will display in the email.
I've been using Weave for a few days. It's a pretty cool app. The Android app is a bit buggy but I've met a few interesting people through it already.
That's awesome that you bring her out on a harness. I wish my cat would let me do that, but she won't; she's pretty anxious in general (adopted her when she was 2 and she had been in the shelter twice already) and still has a lot of issues (she's very loving/lovable, but very afraid of strangers, especially males).

Her anxiousness stops her from wanting to run off though, which is really, really rare for a cat, so I hang out with her on the deck in front of my place a lot so she can be "outside" but in a safe way and she doesn't leave the deck area (prior to her I wouldn't have believed this of any cat, because I grew up with some cats and all of them would attempt to run out if given the chance).

IMO indoor cats can have a perfectly fulfilled life if their owners put in some effort (regularly engage them in play that uses their built-in-hunting instincts, mine loves to chase laser pointers and play with a bird feather on a string thing, the one I use is called "Da Bird", but I'm sure other brands exist).
You guys should work with CodeDay (http://codeday.org) and StudentRND (http://studentrnd.org) to help students at the CodeDay events learn how to code even if they don't have laptops!

Maybe sponsor one of the local events with a certain number so they can open up registration to kids who otherwise couldn't come due to the lack of a laptop.
Getting things in the mail is turning into a treat for younger generations. I can think of a few:

- Automated postcards generated from your Facebook timeline or Flickr feed when you're traveling

- Simple/inexpensive invitations for parties, reunions, save the dates, etc. Hook it up to Facebook, too.

- Information distribution to parents of school children (how to register for online report cards, absentee reports, etc).

- Targeted political messaging (although there are already companies that do this)
Thank you. I have two sons. They are 24.5 and 27.
http://instacart.com ;)
but your code written as if they were all executing at the same time
I agree, I think it's mostly just what the admins are getting themselves. There's a way to submit emails [1], but maybe the best model is to be the hacker news of email design (open submission, upvotes etc).

[1] http://reallygoodemails.com/contact/
Couldn't find much information about that visualisation, so I have to wonder - what kind of traffic do they count? Is it only showing detected known/assumed attacks? Or does it count all connections? (i.e. does it include scans, or not)

If it includes scans - I'm surprised how few there are. (that's about as many as you'd get on 5 randomly created VMs) If it doesn't - I'm surprised how many active attacks there are.
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. I meant something like not buying the new car but getting the spare (security) parts from the new car and incorporating it into the old one. Or in the case of switching to Chrome, it would simply be switching to a different manufacturer once the old model is not secure anymore.
facinating
So, if I really like Earl Grey, what would be the antidote to the K+ channel blocker?
Judge Rejects Settlement in Hiring Suit Against Google, Apple and Intel
I would like to hear where your museum is.

If you have any website or else
The comic is trying to dissuade stereotypes such as the one in the title..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death
Do any current browsers even correctly support CRLs?
> If the OP did actual work, and was an official hire with either verbal or written contract, then he would have already been compensated for his time. (Otherwise that would be a violation of the law, and I seriously doubt a startup is trying to get away with not paying for work done "on the clock")

I think that we agree that the startup would be breaking the law. Where we disagree is that you seem to think that "It would be illegal, and therefore it didn't happen" is a valid line of reasoning.
Exactly, if you claim to be following semver, and your major version is 1, 2, 3; you're probably not following semver. People have to get used to the fact that bumping the major version is not a big deal. All that it means is that there was an API update or breaking change; it may have been tiny. Chrome is up to version 38; they're doing it right.

For example, IIRC, Rails 2.3.5 introduced some API changes. That should have bumped the major version.

Rails 3.0 was a "rewrite your code" type bump; that should have been signified with a name change or other similar type of marketing codename. Rails+, for example.

I was really disappointed that Linus went with "Linux 3.0" rather than "Linux 40" as the version following 2.6.39 when he finally acknowledged that the '2.6' no longer had any meaning.
Did they really have to put their text in an image at the bottom?
Comments and voting and community features are really hard to pull off. You can't just throw an up vote button and wait for good stuff to float to the top.
Bingo.

My dad has a crazy old email address, because that's what has been on every business card for almost 20 years and that's his, dammit! We have (happily) managed to get him over to faster internet, though.
Ok. Kodak wasn't really disrupted so much as its market base moved to digital cameras. I suppose you can claim that retail has been disrupted by online markets like Amazon, but (to take an example) there were a lot of reports that Borders went under because of crap management. Radio Shack is still around, and with open doors to anyone who needs a cell phone ;) IBM and Microsoft haven't really been disrupted...

It seems like you're pooling together a bunch of companies that are seeing misfortune for a variety of reasons and assuming they have all been "disrupted". Further, the context of the comment implies they were disrupted by startups, which I don't think is true at all.

I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if you can give more evidence, but this comment seems a bit misguided.
I friend of mine is making it more user friendly to "self-host" third party apps on hardware you have control over.

https://sandstorm.io/
"Oops, our bad. We're going to let you go, because we hired too many people for the amount of work we had, and on that note, since we didn't really have any work for you the last few weeks you were here, well, we're not going to pay you for that. And we're going to tell anyone, including press releases, that you were 'fired'."
Another problem is that doctors and health in General is highly specialized. So a doctor needs a set of options while the next needs another, etc.

So it's kind of hard to fit everything in one basket. There is HL7 that should a sort of golden standard but many programmers on the field totally ignore it.
Speaking to #3, and this is highly anecdotal - I spent 6 years in grad school that was highly ranked (I loathe the ranking system, but that may be irrelevant). And had about 70 students a year. Over my 6 years, I saw maybe 20 good thesis defenses (my own was not very good). One particular lab was a serial offender; exactly zero of the defenses I saw I thought were worthy of a PhD (although I recall two projects there that I thought were good that were not concluded when I finshed). One of these defenses had a presentation where the introductory slide bulleted six topics of study that the student completed; he presented only four of the six and all of them failed, two of them, as admitted by the student himself, for trivial reasons that could have been solved by merely sauntering over to his committee member's and chatting for five minutes.

This person still has a PhD from a top institution. His boss has several startup companies, all completely rediculous (one of which seeks to eliminate cocaine addiction through something which will probably only make the cocaine addiction worse - it then pivoted to "an emergency drug to administer to accidental cocaine overdoses"). My experiences witnessing thesis defenses as a postdoc at a "mid-tier" research university were not much better.
If you'd like to see a better submission process, it's an open-source product on Assembly: https://assembly.com/really-good-emails. There's been lots of talk about just forwarding an email to an address and having the community vote on what they think are great emails. It also made $1350 last month which is split between contributors so there's some financial incentive for you to jump in :)
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The article says that the suit is about a alleged "violation of California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.", and "The Cal WARN Act", not the Federal WARN Act.

I have no knowledge of this lawsuit other then this article though.
Well it's no wonder you don't find anything if you're searching for "mechanincal engineer"
Yes but Im not sure I will win a prize for how I handled it...

1st death march managers promised bonuses, extra days off, etc etc for working overtime. Everyone went above and beyond to get things done after which all promises were forgotten

2nd and 3rd death marches I nodded my head while putting in as few hours of work as possible per day. I think others did the same in their own way. In my own mind I figured payment was due from the first go around and they were going to pay whether they realized it or not.

The problem I think is that in these general scenarios management is acting unethically and the dumbest practical thing you can do is to point out their ethical gaps when they are well aware of what they are doing. So I think you ultimately have 3 choices... you either 1) just quit 2) battle their unethical behavior with your own counter unethical behavior or 3) go along with it all (worst of all 3!)

Lastly the way that job ended was that the whole company toppled due to financial problems so in my experience that sort of behavior from management is usually an indicator of a company in collapse.
Yes and no... if your fiscal management is that shoddy that severance is a problem, you're beyond screwed as a company. The idea is that "Well, we're running down our funds, best to get these people out the door now with x month's salary, rather than hope something turns around in x+y months."
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I'm a business analyst for large office furniture manufacturer. I have an interest in the startup culture and enjoy trying out new technologies. This site gives me the chance to be an early adopter for many new technologies. While also providing me insights on all things that are a part of the hacker life.
Mahouse, your comment is dead for some reason.

I've mostly learned about the internals of the WoW client itself and how it interacts with the server. I suppose I will eventually write about it when inspiration strikes me, but I'll be happy to answer any more specific questions you have. It's a very broad subject.
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I was hoping for comedy. Instead I got the emails I mark as spam/unsubscribe from. :(
>'My point is that the analysis of this data is not particularly cost prohibitive. If you want to take all the emails you have recorded and figure out if people are talking about unions you really really do not need something like Watson to do it.'

Clearly, but for whatever reason you've decided that 'email' alone is relevant here, not the bits 'speech and context recognition' and 'parse conversations recorded by their desktops and phones' which are the obvious applications of something like Watson.

>'I'm saying they don't have an interest in really digging through it.'

My direct experience says you are simply uninformed about this.

>'if they did they would without something like Watson.'

Only in the context of the 'emails' strawman you've constructed above.

TLDR: You are missing or deliberately avoiding the point. Voice recording and analysis is already big business, but speech and speaker recognition are still lacking and context awareness is obviously dependent on both. That is the exactly the sort of thing that this article specifically demonstrates Watson as being excellent at.
it is like watching a War match where everyones goal is "conquer california, or 24 territories"
The existing equivalent¹ is to do:

+ tag

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b...
it's a hell of a lot easier than becoming a successful entrepreneur
I haven't tried the library, so I can't attest to how fast/slow it is, but I think the point of using web workers is so that the gif can be produced asynchronously, without hanging the whole tab. So if you're producing a really giant image, yes, it would be worth it.
fix some n in n. if my starting state is [1; 0] then the probability of the occupancy being [1; 0] after n cycles is either 1 or 0. If the starting state is [0; 1] then the probabilty of the occupancy being [1; 0] is exactly the opposite, so for a fixed point in the future, the probability is tightly past-dependent.
> Wouldn't that essentially bankrupt all the companies involved?

The sensible thing to do in these types of circumstances is to pay the settlement using newly issued shares in the company. That dilutes the interest of all the existing shareholders (effectively the money comes out of their pockets because the price per share goes down) but it causes no damage to the company's operations.
Although they may not technically have to be HIPAA compliant, they certainly have to allow some of their clients - specifically medical providers - maintain HIPAA compliance.

In general, with respect any health tech startup that stores or transmits personal health information, if you try to tell a client that you don't technically have to be HIPAA compliant, it's gonna raise red flags. Assuming you are following the appropriate HIPAA rules, it's best to just say you are HIPAA compliant.
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The 'Optimal' solution would use less energy. The adversarial relationship seeks a different Nash equilibrium.
The "not paying them wages earned before termination" would be a matter of state law, and with California having its own WARN Act, I presume the lawyers think it's best to sue in state court.
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By the way, Really Good Emails is being built on Assembly as a community product. This means, its open sourced and revenue is split between the people developing it. You can see some of the improvements to the site everyone is planning:

https://assembly.com/really-good-emails/posts/latest-priorit...
https://assembly.com/really-good-emails/projects/29
The ROI on space exploration (currently) is terrible and the only tangible near term solution to that dilemma is asteroid harvesting. That is why SpaceX is predominantly about getting government contracts - outside of satellites (GEO and down) there isn't much economic incentive for humanity.

Look, manned spaceflight is cool and there are some really bad ass ideas about space exploration, but the reality is that there really isn't that much in it for us. Our bodies are fundamentally not suited for space travel - so much so that the bulk of on-board systems are life support, making anything else a small portion.

What are the goals anyway? I have heard many things like: having a second habitable home for humanity in case (X) happens, or exploration for its own sake. None of these are particularly compelling given the economics behind them.

I certainly wouldn't pass up the chance to go to space, but I think it is not where humanity should be putting its energy.