skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What loophole? It's not something missing in the law, it is very well detailed in the law (see links in a previous post of mine, or from some other posters as well). Swedish contract law also seems to have trial periods, BTW:
http://www.business-sweden.se/PageFiles/10381/Employing%20st...

In Sweden it seems that the employer must always give two weeks of notice, that's not the case here. But on the other hand you were paid two extra weeks of wage.

I know for a fact that Luxembourg, UK, and Bulgaria at least have trial periods as well and they are typical in these countries. I don't know about other EU countries, nor do I know whether they are typical in Sweden. But they are certainly not loopholes.

(BTW my apologies if I sound blunt, I love my country and don't like seeing false statements posted which make it seem that working here is very bad, when the truth is quite the opposite -- after the trial period is over, you are very well protected and can expect a job for life unless the company goes bust, goes through a major layoff, or fires you illegally, in which case courts and unions will defend you)

BTW here in Portugal you can also have a 3-month contract. They are uncommon in the IT world, but they exist especially in less well-paid positions (supermarkets, call centers, etc). In that case the trial period cannot exceed 15 days. If your contract says "com termo certo" (meaning "with predetermined duration"), then you did have a 3 month contract and are entitled to legal action.

Have you tried translating the contract on Google or Bing to understand what it says?
I appreciate the politics may not impact many here, but I enjoyed the (by now fairly common, I suppose) design and the information being presented seems to me to be a good background to the current state of affairs.
Good suggestion - will see if we can integrate something similar for desktop clients soon
It'd be nice if it shows which ones are popular, which ones are the most useful to me, etc.
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>So..uh...this was a thing. And nobody wanted it. So it was deprecated and killed.

So was Harmony. And then it was ressurected.

>Brendan Eich was quoted as saying something along the lines of "E4X is crazyland"

I don't think Brendan Eich has his finger in the pulse of the modern web, so to speak.
I'm curious why funding is needed to tackle big problems? Or indeed any problems? What part of the solution does the funding provide?

Funding makes it easier to pay your bills while you work on a problem, but can also remove a lot of the urgency about finding a solution that customers will love. If you depend on customers to pay your bills, however...
As I understand it (by reading up on the subject over the last few months - I'm no games professional), the DK2 uses one 1080p screen split across both eyes, but the sticking point is that it has to render each frame twice from slightly different positions in order to get the image right for each eye. Add to this that the DK2 needs to run at 75 frames a second for the experience to smooth, it means that your computer needs to be effectively running the game or demo at 150fps. It also has to have enough in the tank left over to power your computer monitor.

It's a great product though. If you can afford to upgrade your computer to accommodate it then I can't recommend the experience highly enough. Money well spent in my opinion.
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We're not writing for the compiler. For humans, the "redundant" closing tags serve as excellent markers.
That is exactly what happens in India too, except that most banks issue debit and credit cards which are typically separate and not combined into a single card. It also does not serve as a national id. Is this not the case in US?
Maybe I read the abstract differently or don't fully understand it but its conclusion doesn't seem to align with yours, right?

"Collectively, our results suggest that chronic MPH usage in mice at doses spanning the therapeutic range in humans, especially at prolonged higher doses, has long-term neurodegenerative consequences."
If archaea are a new branch on the same level as bacteria, why can't new multicellulars be a new branch on the same level as modern multicellular life?

They may be unrelated and different enough - this is one of the ideas about Edicarian fauna.
I do have RRP on my todo list, but I don't want to list "current retail" prices because they're constantly changing; and the focus is more on helping people filter the list of options than to be a price comparison.
>In the "perfect world", we would be using LISP, and our code would be data and our data would be code.

Well, it wouldn't be that perfect, because then we'd be forced to live with that Lisp (lack of) syntax.
BankAPI
How to Automate Testing for Android and iOS Games
https://warosu.org/data/vr/img/0014/96/1395782839524.jpg

Perhaps replying with a non-sequitor is why you were downvoted?
It's dawned on me why this is the case.

Gruber's Markdown has this goal: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosoph...

> Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.

That's it... that's the single big idea that drives the philosophy of Markdown.

And how about Standard Markdown? http://standardmarkdown.com/#how

> one of our major goals is to make Markdown easier to parse, and to eliminate the many old inconsistencies and ambiguities that made writing a Markdown parser so difficult.

Markdown and Standard Markdown have very different goals.

One is designed to make it easy for end users to read and write content for the web, the other is designed to make it easy for developers to parse and process content for the web.

The purpose is no longer the same, a subtle shift has occurred.
Selling the Vehicle
When your car was repossessed, your creditor can decide to keep it as compensation for your debt or resell it in a sale (public or private). In several states, your creditor is to let you know what is going to happen to your car. For instance, if the car is going to be sold at public auction, state law requires that the creditor inform you on the place and time of the sale, for you to be able to join the bidding.
More information on http://calemonlawinfo.com/
Vim has been my main editor for years now, and I still can´t get used to think with with motions that involve more than 1/2 lines/words/chars.

I think it´s just an unnecessary middle step for the brain: if I want to get to the word "dog" I don´t want to think how many lines/words/chars away it is.

Instead: focus on search to move about. It´s much more immediate and practical in my opinion. Using '/' I can usually get where I want to be in 2/4 keystrokes.

Combine it with visual mode (or small motions) and then you will really experience the power of vim AND its simplicity.

I think for a beginner (and I still consider myself one, even after a couple of years of intensive use) it´s a much easier paradigm to start with.
> So the standard does not provide a standard?

A standard can be descriptive (bottom-up) or top-down (prescriptive). A descriptive standard will only check and document common-ish features to implementations. Tables are not one of them.
This reminds me of a Scott Adam's blog: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/scotts_book_cover_design_c...
Ask HN: Sites, options, tax issues for remote working
Hi all.
I'm an EU med/senior DevOps developer. I currently have a stable job in UKI but I've been considering the possibility of remote working. Reason for this is that for various family reasons I need to relocate for some years on a back-of-beyond place (still in EU though) where there is virtually no job market.

Yet there seem to be a lot of details in it that baffle me (how would I be paid for example and what to do with my residence country tax office). More importantly where is the best place to look for such job ads? I checked some sites that supposedly offer such job ads but they seem more like scum sites (and require payment). Also most jobs I find are US based and seem to apply to US citizens only - I can find very little for EU citizens. Can you point me somewhere to begin with ?

Thanks a million in advance!

PS: I'm not interested in sites like elance. I'm trying to land a normal(ish) job not a peanuts per hour contractor deal. I cannot make a living in EU with the rates going on these sites.
Ask HN: Why are SpaceX's smaller space missiles being launched?
The Falcon costs ~3 times more than the Falcon Heavy per Kg of mass, so why not combine several Falcon launches to one Falcon Heavy?
I assume the spec is descriptive, and fenced code blocks are 1. a pretty common extension and 2. generally added the same way everywhere
Most popular should be easy to make (based on downloads/github stars) - most useful is a bit trickier. How would that work?
Google creates new free replacement program for damaged Nexus 5 phones
Actually we do have some insight into the product timelines at Apple and Samsung due to the disclosures during their recent patent lawsuits. Internal Apple communication reveals that they made the iPad mini (1) and they'll be making larger screen iPhones (2) primarily due to Samsung and other Android OEMS.

(1) http://www.cnet.com/news/heres-apples-e-mail-thread-about-a-...
(2) http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/06/why-apple-has-to-make-bigger-s...
My mistake : I meant Eukaryote not multicellular.

Archea are less related to bacteria that we thought some years ago. They are as different from bacteria that eukaryotes are different from bacteria. So a new branch of life is justified here since the basic parts of the cell are differents.
Most useful for me: Tested Compability with IE (starting with IE8) and FF, Safari etc.
The existence of sociopaths demonstrates that his advice isn't universal. Nevertheless, it's widely applicable. And math is too often painted as a hyperindividualistic endeavor, like shopping is.

Some wish to spend all their days in a garden. They exist too; good for them. But math is not just for those who rate high on a hermit spectrum.
If you can sneak a key into keyrings/live/pubring.gpg, and wait until someone runs blackbox_update_all_files without noticing, you then have access to all files.

Perhaps it should keep a signed copy of the last version of pubring and show a some kind of diff between the verified previous version and the current version before going ahead.
because the Falcon Heavy isn't out of development yet.

And because it relies on the Falcon for parts. So getting the Falcon running perfectly is first priority.

And because not every payload will make sense for a Falcon Heavy, there will probably still be a logistical need for a smaller rocket.

And last but not least, the Falcon price will probably come down once they get the re-landing legs working.
Does somebody has a link to a working react-bootstrap code example? I tried to get react-bootstrap working last week but somehow it did not recognized its own tags like for the navbar :(
I've never used a contactless method. Is it NFC (or something similar)? Is it really faster than swiping your card? I had the impression you still had to do something on your phone to authorize it...
That's exactly not the point. The point is that it shouldn't matter that other people know your SSN. What effect does it have in Denmark when other people know your SSN?
One extension I love is for HTML definition lists (I'm actually the author of [this comment][0]). They are great for instance with changelogs; consider this:

## ChangeLog

1.0.2
: Update README
: Update of the script comment in order to reflect the README
1.0.1
: Fix minor bug
1.0.0

[0] http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/the-inevitable-markdownex...
I'm a few hours late but,

just last night, i woke in bed and stared at the ceiling for a while then had a thought about a a particular issue at work. Being able to just roll over and sketch it out in 4 colors for clarity in onenote without having to fiddle with the bedroom light made me consciously think about how much i liked my surface.

More practical usage involves me capturing meeting notes at work with it. To be honest were it not for the great pen capabilities and the great onenote app, i wouldn't be using the device at all probably.
You're right in this regard, but they still may become a new kingdom (akin to plants, fungi, animals).
Only until October 2015. After that, card issuers will be liable[1] if they accept a fraudulent payment unless the EMV (i.e. chipped) card was present or (for online payments) they authenticated the card holder with 3-D Secure[2].

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/octob...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
Interesting that it will allow compilation of PIE executables.
This is a mandatory requirement for any binaries run on newer versions of Android (L+).
Programmers don't pay for software products

I'd recommend putting it up on Theme Forest and seeing how you do.
There are some interesting techniques. Off the top of my head there is the shopping basket experiement:

Show shopping lists to the participants. Both lists are equal except one product, the one you want to measure. Ask participant what they can tell you about whoever created the list.

Example: two similar lists, one with standard coffee and one with instant coffee. Result: They found that instant coffee was associated with "lazy" etc (they hoped for "smart" and subsequently adjusted their branding to achieve this.)

(I guess it's just a special case of A/B test)

Edit:

I read about this in school many years ago but at least here's one source:

http://web.utk.edu/~rhovland/PTsandCR.html : Projective Techniques in Consumer Research

(My google query was: instant coffee grocery list experiment)
The people who value their memory usage just aren't using that kind of system, so there's some selection bias there.
where the first wave of zombies will eventually crawl out. JK :)
Agreed, a display of stars for projects hosted on github would be amazing. Tells me the projects I need to know about.
And finally, because it would require payloads that are all destined for roughly the same orbits.
Aaah. Makes sense. I couldn't figure out why the reasoning seemed sound, but I had something that didn't match. It's because in Clojure, r has state itself.
Do you ever want to use the SIMD features of your CPU? That is why you learn assembly.
There is a path where you can report fraudulent activity to your 'merchant financial institution', which will typically be either your IPSP or your bank.

I don't get why stripe can't do this because my IPSP definitely can and we use this daily.
Baidu launches chopsticks that tell you your food is safe to eat
It’s not just politics, though, but also a fair bit of history, economics to a degree and that whole fuzzy area of “what is a nation?”. I found it a very interesting read after stumbling over it from the deep sea ‘mushrooms’ article.

Thanks for submitting it! :)
What about when the ant reaches the edge of his grid? (this part I couldn't find an explanation for on the wiki)
Kramdown is awesome! Love the way it allows you to easily add only the parsers you need. Plugs right into my Rails app as well.
I like this. Kudos to everyone involved.
MEAN Development Stack on Google Compute Engine
Like https://nodejsmodules.org/

a short description under a package is easier to read.

A structured Category-List will also be helpfull, sometimes i don't know exactly what i search for and then i browse the category (tags).
The whoishiring thread here on HN has a few legit offers for remote work in EU but unfortunately I can't give you any tips on taxes/payments/etc...
Good read. "One who got away" is a nice subtitle ... it exemplifies the strange relationships we have in academia.

The examples given highlight the three sucky things about academic jobs: (i) less money than top-tier alternatives, (ii) insane competition at the start of your career, and (iii) difficulty maintaining work-life balance if you want to be successful.

I had heard about (i) before I started my PhD. That didn't seem like a big deal since grad school was mostly paid for. I'd get annoyed when people assumed being a scientist meant that you'd never get rich. (ii) was a surprise at graduation time (around 2007). At that time, it was said to be the economy's fault. Almost a decade later, it is clear that there were structural changes going on in my field. If you were in CS, it was far easier to get a professor job during the first dot-com gold rush since CS enrollments were increasing like there was no tomorrow. Regarding (iii), I think this happens in every field. It matters who your spouse is and how supportive they are. Sometimes you learn to throw in the towel and get a good night's sleep. You also need to learn to be efficient. I admit I was not the most efficient graduate student. After working at industry research labs for many years, I am amazed by how much I've changed. I still spend too much time on irrelevant things like writing this comment or reading the article but hey .. no one's perfect.

Regarding the fields picked by the first two examples, I want to bang my head against a wall for my lack of timing. I missed the dot-com days and the app-rush. Also, before 2007, it was obvious that a finance job paid very well - it was hard work but so is everything worth doing. Today, it isn't clear if there are any paths to surefire financial success. In some places I've lived in (outside the US), it seems one of the highest compensating careers was flipping condos. The lesson I learn is to be constantly vigilant of potential opportunities and to strike as soon as possible.
Thank you. Though, the recruiter said he will process my application. I mean if I was rejected then somebody should inform me right? :(
farming at an industrial scale would upset many people, even for practices that are wholly legal. There are every day occurrences in this industry the public would not want to know and might even tune it out when presented because of the adverse reaction it would cause.

the best example is breeding chickens for egg laying, males are not wanted.
IMO this is one of the best articles I have read on HFT. It gives a good, balanced overview of the technology and the fundamental principles behind how automated trading works, without any particular viewpoint or opinion directing the text.

The section near the end on FPGAs and programming styles was an eye-opener to me. I wonder how many other firms have taken risk checks out of their code to save some nanoseconds...
Check out http://letsworkshop.com/ for jobs.I discovered the site here on Hackernews about a year ago. A freelancer called Robert has been running the site. He also sends out weekly emails with some great content relevant to people working remote.

Good luck.
Most people here don't seem to mind a little self-promotion as long as it is at least on-topic and, better, actually useful or interesting.
Yes it's NFC. No, you don't have to do anything at all except tap your card/wallet against the reader and wait for the beep.

Here's a 1:47m video from MasterCard explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkxxhvVJjuM
Remy vs. Non-Remy Hair
Chip and PIN is scheduled for 2015.

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
FOAF. If you can't reach someone directly, find someone who might be able to. Through their work, friends, organizations, etc. Much of that is fairly easy to work out.

It's how people used to get by. It's called legwork.
SQL Queries for Interviews
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Yes! Although it would have to be tilted then, the far end of a typical 90cm wide desk is hard to reach, and probably just as hard to read if it would be a screen.
I've re-read that a few times (and created my own local copy with some simplified and fixed HTML -- it's missing a section heading and has a slew of un-closed anchors). My opinion of it continues to climb. It's well up my list as one of the ten best recently written essays I've read this year. Maciej posts here as "idlewords".

"Investor storytime" is a pretty good insight as well.
It wasn't, but this is not a good way to build it either because (from my previous post):

> A specification-by-example like this would have
to keep an ever-growing list of corner cases and give examples for each of them. To get completely unambiguous,
the list needs to be very long, and when it gets very
long, it becomes unwieldy to handle for an implementer of
the spec.
Don't know where Patrick here found his definition of the word "gamer" to associate with brands. In my opinion just because you see "gamers" as kids swearing over xbox live with shoveling Doritos and Mountain Dew in their face doesn't define the meaning of the word for the rest of us.

For me the word "gamer" simply means a person who likes playing video games, probably likes talking about them and isn't trying to push agenda.
Finally a Gif Workflow Companion App for Android
Your Next Chevy May Watch You Watching the Road
What a load of old rot that consistently and wilfully avoids the very valid concerns about corruption and ethical question marks regarding certain game jams and charity drives in order to chuck a bunch of epithets around.

>""Gamer" says none of that. "Gamer" is selfish; preoccupied with one’s own pleasure over the advancement of the medium. "Gamer" is conservative; virulently opposed to change or innovation except in very specific, rigidly-defined areas. "Gamer" is tribalistic; defining oneself in terms of one’s tastes and factional allegiances above all.""

Utter tripe.
Haven Keeps Your Doors Locked Without Keys
The grid has no edges, it's infinite in all directions!
That just validates the idea.
I can't believe Github hasn't had this until now. Gitlab by comparison has had split diff view for a long time.
Apart from first couple, I don't find queries challenging, but the idea of having some SQL queries for interviews is great, looking forward for some real queries here.
(Marginally related rant)

I love React, but so far I've been a bit underwhelmed by the ecosystem of components that has sprung up. I hope that this site will help.

A lot of the components are stuff that aren't really UI elements, but rather add magic to other UI elements or even do something completely unrelated to the UI.

I mean, I've seen routers written as React components![1] Wtf? Why is it an advantage to express a route as XML-like JSX? Why put it in a virtual DOM? That's just waiting for unexpected side-effects to happen. I can imagine that a lean, to-the-point router is a good combination with React but components are for UI widgets, not for configuration.

I feel like this is the same mistake as the everything-in-XML hype of the early 21st century (Spring, anyone?), or the everything-as-a-DSL hype in early Scala (with clear, descriptive operators such as ~~=, $%% and of course &^), or the current hype in C#-o-world to package web assets into NuGet packages (jquery.dll - seriously?). Just because you can put it in a component, doesn't mean that you should.

Behavioral features for components (e.g. infinite-scrolling or tooltip triggers) are well distributed as a mixin. Stuff not directly related to UI widgets should just be vanilla JavaScript. Asset libraries should be asset libraries.

What I expect from open source components is UI elements. Color pickers, fancy dropdown selects, login widgets, form elements with pluggable validation maybe (but the validation logic shouldn't be components). Notably, I'd love an ecosystem of UI frameworks ala Bootstrap or Foundation to spring up around React, and it appears that this is happening.

(Sidenote, if there's one development we do need, then it's a clear React-authors-condoned way to couple (parameterized) CSS with React components, so that we can really distribute self-contained components including style. A development like that would also help focus the React component ecosystem on what it should be about: UI widgets.)

[1] Random example: https://github.com/rackt/react-router#whats-it-look-like - seriously, what were they thinking?
What can explain this in bing maps? Are the maps scanned?