skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Variable pay is also paid in bulk at the end of the year.

There are people I know who just struggle through to stick around till that pay day, particularly when the winter days are long and painful to get through at work.

That works for retention for a certain mind-set.

For someone like me, my last job triggered the right impulses.

By having quarterly review cycles - keeps you on your toes (with the extra management overhead of going through the reviews/budgets etc).

Someone around you was getting a raise every quarter - next time it could be you ... just buckle down for 3 months.

Plus they gave promotions in role 3 months before the raise.
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Not all cities are like this and a large swath of the citizens in San Francisco seem exasperated by this issues on both sides. I had a friend who lived downtown by Union Square in a rent controlled apartment. The day he moved out (across the country) he couldn't even afford his own place to re-rent it out. It was pretty crazy.
Sounds like you're forgetting who's paying who, and for what service ;)
I must admit I stopped my knowledge of Windows at Windows 7, which already has some tiling thingies but nothing even remotely close to the WMs I linked to earlier.

The thing that is the most visible to me is virtual workspaces. It allows you to create fixed layouts of programs (editor on the left, terminal to test on the up-right corner and tail -f of the relevant log on the down-right corner) grouped within a user-defined context ("code on project1", "code on project2", "mail", "browser").

The idea is to switch from activity to activity, rather than from application to application. It's extremely important, because when you start piling up activities, you accumulate applications, and you don't want to switch through all of them within your activity.
Yea but those microframeworks can also easily be replaced or re-written if they are abandoned.
CEO of Angry Birds to step down
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. The UI on the staging server is much nicer ;)
> James M. Barrett, a former deputy director of international engineering for AT&T , said that there were 55,000 or 60,000 miles of old undersea cable made out of copper that did not have a single case of shark biting, meaning sharks prefer to snack on fiber optic cables specifically. It is believed that the electrical current in the fiber-optic lines attract the sharks, triggering a feeding reflex.

"electrical current in the fiber-optic" but not copper?
This isn't exactly my wheelhouse, but doesn't that completely gloss over stuff like time-value of money, and the fact that it's converting illiquid to liquid? Not sure why a landlord would go through the aggravation and uncertainty of buying out the tenant and then selling if it was only break-even.
There was a great TED Podcast called "The Money Paradox" that talked about how poorly money works as a motivator for creative professions: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/04/295368808/how-much-does-money-...
To summarize its current stage, it adds issue tracking on a pull-request scope, as well as stars for pull-requests. We will be adding automated voting in form of what we call bots. We try to save most of the data inside of GitHub to limit what is saved in our persistence.
> Those micro libraries have a higher abandonment rate than anything..

> Personally I'd go for company-backed projects.

You mean company-backed projects like YUI?
True, but "mobile first" is not "mobile only". The point of responsive design is for things to work well on multiple platforms, not just one.
No cloud, no software, no master password – A new password killer
As somebody who has worked a lot with many javascript charting libraries over the years, one important lesson we have learned is to "never roll your own charting library" and accept the feature set of the library. Too much customization will lead you down a windy path that can lead to nowhere. Pick your library first and keep that library's limitations in mind during the design process to save yourself a world of hurt

This library looks to appease a lot of the design customization so far though, great job and kudos to the author for what looks like a really good start.
You may well be right about that last part. But still, perhaps one day someone will write a C compiler in ML in record time and get people's attention.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/world/africa/ebola.html

The first four paragraphs describe what happened: different decisions were made by different doctors, and the drug did not "get out of the shadow only when there was a need to cure an American".
Martin Ordersky hisself is teaching Functional Programming in Scala starting September 15th:

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

If you don't know C, or Python or Ruby, there's always "The hard way" with Zed Shaw:

http://learncodethehardway.org/

October 2, Coursera is abain offering Dan Grossman's Programming Languages, it covers general concepts in programming language design using SML, Racket, and Ruby.

https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang
Front-end, with an emphasis on Javascript, jQuery, and JS MVCs. I audited a course recently on PHP and SQL, but I'm mostly interested in that only as far as I need to know it for front-end stuff.

My email is joseph.charles.marshall@gmail.com. I'd love to chat more.
This is actually a great application of bitcoins, because you don't really need to know anything about the donator. An address or QR code is all you need (no registration, specifying email address etc.). And an extra benefit is that you can see how much they collect.
No - it just means that the most vulnerable people end up with the most abusive landlords.
In the case that anyone is wondering, this is a joke.

http://hotmeme.net/media/i/4/f/d1Z-thats-not-how-it-works-th...
Your profile has an email field, but that is not shown to the world.

Put an email address in your profile in the about field and people can see it. (Although it's probably preferable to put your email in the post)
You don't have a clue what you're talking about & are behaving incredibly unpleasantly. Please stop.
Intended or not 'MIA culpa' is a nice pun :)
Hi, I'm Sebastian. This is my third iOS app and something I've used as a prototype myself for a while. I found it useful and therefore finished and published the app now - hope you like it as well. Let me know if you have any questions!
http://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/on-the-science... (related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189528)

The second paragraph does a good job of summing up ethical concerns related to this particular outbreak (standard ethical concerns also apply):

"The first two patients to be treated were Americans. Prior to this came the old (and historically justified) fear of testing potentially dangerous new treatments on vulnerable populations in developing countries rather than on privileged first world patients. The first ever treatment was not given to an African doctor because of this concern [1]. After Westerners were treated, complaints rose about giving infected Westerners access to a new drug while infected Africans went without. These two concerns are obviously mutually exclusive. People are concerned, they are just not sure about what, sometimes even voicing both concerns in the same article [2]."
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Just a note about company backed projects. I backed Google Web Toolkit a few years back. Big mistake.
Hm,

I don't think the title quite follows from the article. There might be an association, but even supposing there is causation the independent/dependent variables aren't necessarily known here: people with low social trust (for other reasons) could be more likely to engage in online social networks as opposed to meatspace social networks.
Walmart uses node.js and it has paid off for them handsomely, I'm pretty sure they fit your definition of enterprise seeing as they have 2 million employees and close to 500 million in revenue yearly.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/24/why-walmart-is-using-node-...
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By. Definition. That's all that needs to be known.
Depends heavily on materials (also on size). Granite countertops are in a totally different price range from Corian or laminate, for example (in both cost of materials & cost of installation). Tile floors are also expensive-ish compared to lineoleum, though not as expensive as stone.
Mikael Hed Steps Down as CEO of Wavering Angry Birds Maker Rovio
I'm hoping they still continue work on Purecss. Pure is a far more manageable framework that doesn't come with all of the YUI bloat.
Hi, thanks, you're totally right. The image assets were a mess. Just fixed it, should load a lot faster now.
Thank you! I didn't expect but certainly hoped for a positive reaction from the community.

My email is joseph.charles.marshall@gmail.com and you can see more links and read a little more about me at joecmarshall.com
Perhaps the ranking algorithm could be comments per audience-size?

the true next step would be a way to personalize rankings, even something simple as being able to filter out some topics
Can you really? Incompleteness doesn't necessarily say this. It makes certain statements about certain types of contradictions in certain types of systems. There is still a lot of work left to be done before you can apply it here.

You may be saying this has already been done elsewhere but without references u can't just throw this out there as a given.
Plenty of properties will advertise "no pets", but you can negotiate with the landlord about that. For example, you might offer an additional deposit against pet damage, or offer to pay a cleaning fee when you leave. I have pets and I have always been able to talk landlords out of their "no pets" policy.

If you offered the landlord double the lease price in exchange for a 2 year contract, will they take it? Almost certainly. Few contracts of that type are truly take it or leave it. My point is not that 2x would be fair, just that you have the ability to negotiate, which means the question of whether you can get a contract with the terms you want depends on your ability to negotiate a price for those terms.

Many landlords value stability and will be happy with a longer term lease at the same price, or even a lower price. And that's where the negotiation comes in. If the landlord believes prices in the area will rise steadily, then he may or may not want to offer a fixed price over a 3 year lease. Perhaps he will offer a longer lease, but with a stipulation of 3% price increase per year. You don't believe prices will rise that much, so you counter with 1% YoY. It's like buying a housing future. You're locking in the price of housing now as insurance against it changing in the future. That should properly have a different price than a lease with no such provision.

If a person believed in rent control, why not go further? Fix the price of property itself so that it may not rise more than 1% per year. If you buy a house from someone, the sale price may not be greater than the last sale price increased by 1% YoY. Would this be desirable? A law like this will have all sorts of negative consequences on the economy. For example, imagine a house owner who no longer wishes to live in the city. If prices were allowed to rise, then he's incentivized to sell his house, cash out on the increased price, and move somewhere else, enabling a person who wants to live in the city can do so. But if prices are not allowed to rise, then he's stuck selling is house for the same price he bought it; he has no incentive to move. Someone is willing to pay him much more for that house, but they can't. This is what it means for resources to be allocated efficiently, and it depends on the ability of prices to change over time.

Fixing prices also affects investment. For example, if I believed that prices were likely to rise in some area, then I'm incentivized to buy property there, build housing or fix it up, and sell or rent it to capitalize on that price increase. The rising prices bring investment: I might build an apartment building to take advantage of rising rents. By comparison, if I know that my property will be rent controlled, then that limits my financial upside from investment, and removes my incentive to invest, which is also bad for the economy if it would otherwise happen naturally.
Not having tons of libraries means that my team doesn't have to fight bitrot regularly though. Also bug reports / PRs are actually handled adequately by the bigger frameworks and their bigger pool of contributors, so code quality, which I find an important aspect of the software I deliver, is very much guaranteed.
Sorry about that, our demo/screenshot page is in the pipeline. Official release is planned for next Tuesday.
It's basically a $100k diamond ring, except with more granite countertops.

The stock kitchen for a middle-class house in suburban USA and a kitchen with $100k of work done to it are functionally identical for 98% of people who buy them, but the one with $100k spent on it looks like $100k was spent on it (if you're in the know).

Less sardonically: "professional-grade" appliances, granite countertops, redone cabinets which were custom-built by artisans out of exotic-but-sustainable wood as opposed to something which came out of a factory in China, etc, will all let you spend arbitrary amounts of money in a kitchen.
Here's the direct App Store link to skip the landing page: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id906336042/
Aren't many pension funds VC LPs? Seems they would also benefit from this phenomenon too.
Byten: Bit the size of file and turn it into human readable format
Tumblr is their own blog.

Yahoo owns tumblr.
Well lets start with the appliances, Miele double oven $6,000, sub-zero refrigerator and freezer, $8,000. Wolf range $4,000. Kohler faucets, $400, dual in-sink-erator disposals $500, dual dish drawer dish washing machines $5,000, granite counter tops $8,000, red oak cabinets, $8,000. Tile floor and back splashes, $5,000, microwave $1,500. Note I've not added any installation costs or contracting costs or demolition costs.

If you want a kitchen that looks like it would be at home in Sunset Magazine its going to cost you quite a bit of money. That said, Sear's appliances, linoleum floor and countertops and Home Depot cabinets? You can do the whole thing for probably $20K tops :-).
C-a conflicts with bash's move to start of line. Not everyone would care, but that's one of the few bash shortcuts I personally consider important.

I can't stand the default C-b either, it feels like an awkward reach to me and makes tmux seem to require way too much chording.

I've recently switched to using C-j, which duplicates the enter key. I also changed next and prev page from n / p to C-n / C-p. That way I can fly through my tabs with a single press & hold on the Ctrl key. So much nicer.
simple go package. for learning purpose. criticism are wellcome :))
Definitely don't think it's too menial, but you're right about setting that first bar low - even spelling errors are good finds!

Thanks for the advice.
Surely there are some cities where there is rent-control in the UK? It's only SF that has this, not "the US".
When teams halt development on projects, I really appreciate when they say "People should go use project X" instead. I know it is difficult to full their full-weight behind a single endorsement, but the team is obviously picking an alternative and since their followers trusted their original code they should trust the successor.

It would be great if the YUI team stood up and said "We're moving to something, and think you should too."
They could sell a few thousand copies to this crowd for $25, methinks. It's such a cool map. :)
From the initial release announcement:

"Jailhouse is a partitioning hypervisor that can create asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) setups on Linux-based systems. That means it runs bare-metal applications or non-Linux OSes aside a standard Linux kernel on one multicore hardware platform. Jailhouse ensures isolation between these "cells", as we call them, via hardware-assisted virtualization. The typical workloads we expect to see in non-Linux cells are applications with highly demanding real-time, safety or security requirements. In contrast to comparable hypervisors, Jailhouse is loaded and configured via Linux, not the other way around."

LWN covered Jailhouse earlier this year. Part 1 (http://lwn.net/Articles/578295/) explains what Jailhouse is, has a look at its data structures, covers how it is enabled, and what it does to initialize CPUs. Part 2 (http://lwn.net/Articles/578852/) looks at how Jailhouse handles interrupts, what is done to create a cell, and how the hypervisor is disabled.
Securing Your Microservices via Bi-Directional TLS
You can be effectively made homeless...

You seem to be postulating a landlord that owns all the property. If you don't want to rent to me I can always find someone else.

Incidentally, your concern about poor people being unable to commute to work is a bit silly. Most poor people don't have a job but do have a car.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2012.pdf

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf
Think of the real number line. We are at some point t that represents our current time. If time goes back forever, that is had no beginning then it means (-∞, t] represents all the time up to t. How did we get to t? I would take an eternity to get to t-1. Indeed, for each moment in time it took an eternity to get there. Hence time must have had a beginning.
For the vast, vast majority of people, they will be much better off letting someone else handle their wallet.

Even for those of us who are computer savvy, the lengths you have to go to in order to make sure that your wallet is completely secure and redundant isn't easy. I feel a lot more secure with the bank holding my money.

This is why the whole notion of Bitcoin's success is paradoxical. To really succeed it probably has to be pushed by these third-parties, which is an advantage over our current banking system because the core protocol will still be neutral, but only to an extent: third parties will almost certainly build features that lock people in on top of it. This is a far cry from the vision some proponents have of a completely decentralized system.
C-a a is an extra keypress but good enough for me.
The cost of producing dollars is much higher (both in terms of energy waste, and in terms of human rights violations) and it is just as imaginary.
"Hello! SWAT team! May we come in? Good day to you sir. We have reports that you may be manufacturing illegal narcotics and in possession of firearms in violation of your parole. Would you kindly lie down upon the floor so we can ensure that it is safe to enter your abode?"
"So wait, if QM says you can be everywhere at once, are you?"

"If GR means all the laws are related to the reference frame, does that mean all the things in it are relative too, like religion?"

"What if Dark matter really is more than just stuff that falls down. What if there are intelligent clouds there? What are their ethics like?"

"No but really, what is the definition of life?"

"Ok, so fetal stem cells, but what if we took a blood sem cell and then back tracked that into a fetal one. Is that wrong?"

All of these can take the 'Copenhagen Interpretation' given to undergrads. The Copenhagen Interpretation states: Shut up and calculate.
Thanks so much y'all for the response: I really value all of your input! My email, for those interested, is:

joseph.charles.marshall@gmail.com

And my portfolio site can be found at joecmarshall.com
I learnt to C-a twice and then I switched my prompt to vi input mode. But I get your concerns!
Another issue, bias...

"This post is focused on how much a real estate investor should be willing to pay to get out of the shitty deal he or she signed."

Realize that the deal wasn't shitty when signed. After many years, along came supply and demand, drove prices up astronomically.

Whose obligation is it to free someone from their commitment?

This is just an ETF for a landlord.
DeBeers only has a 40% market share, bad publicity is a major driver for them. At their highest they only had 90% share, that means there were other choices. >.>

Not a monopoly. No real harm either. If you want to complain about where the money went after the transactions were made, that's another subject.

You're so set on arguing with me. I think it's best if you sat down.
Heathrow Airport recreates departure day for a young man with autism
If reality is just math, then it boils down to everything being generated from axioms. Gödel does not tell us that we cannot discover those axioms (and that they are axioms).

Where Gödel comes into the picture is that he gives us no right to believe that only those axioms are all there is.

If the reality is mathematics, Gödel justifies the Multiverse hypothesis: just because we are objects within some theory doesn't mean there don't exist other theories (perhaps superset of this one).

"Unable to prove" in the Gödel sense can be then equated with "unable to peer into another universe".

Gödel's sentence becomes analogous to some phenomenon or artifact of another universe which cannot exist in ours because it cannot be derived from its axioms.
All is change. Only those who don't create don't create legacy.

Abandoning YUI is a sensible move by Yahoo for a technology whose time has passed.
> "The US likes to think of itself as a deregulated, capitalist country"

Virtually all people in the US recognize that it's not. Some people think that's a positive; others think it's a negative. Many of the most significant issues in US politics are about whether we should enact new regulations, retract old ones, or revise them in place.
> skill sets becoming out of date

To an extent. None of the people I know who use jQuery regularly would have any trouble adapting. They might be unproductive for a couple weeks.

Large code bases that depend on jQuery seem like a bigger problem if for some reason no one was able maintain jQuery.
Is there something to be said for having a "benevolent dictator" with a vision as a predictor for language success? Does Rust have one, a la Van Rossum, Matsumoto, or even Go's Pike/Thompson/Griesemer?
Yeah, personally if it meant I could get packages shipped to me more cheaply/quickly/reliably, then I would definitely be motivated to minimally modify my "house" to make it more palatable to the delivery drones.
Have you ever asked? Just like any negotiation, they typically aren't going to advertise that you could hammer them down on price.
Most landlords have a loan and haven't fully paid for their property. If the property goes into foreclosure, do you want to owner to go to debtors prison until they pay off their debt because obviously is the banks/investors money? Fact is as a property owner you have gotten certain concessions from society and similar ones are given to renters.
I think he's referring to the tight coupling between the object system and the data-binding/dom-update mechanisms.

React and Angular are both able to avoid those.
Ask HN: What to do when you hate your job, but you can't quit?
This is interesting, and more than a little bit sad, given that one of the big recent pushes that YUI had done was to build out their own "MVC" App Framework:

Docs: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/app/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCexiX_eUJA
That header on The New Yorker site needs a minimize button.
I'm curious as well. Can someone give a succinct answer?