skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Age discrimination is perfectly legal everywhere

It's protected alongside the statuses of disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, to more-or-less the same extent in theory.

There are, however, glaring exceptions when it comes to housing (due to how this protection intersects with property rights), as housing agency industry groups, housing charities, and various other charities explain across the Internet.
You've boiled it down pretty well. As many others have noted, this is a typical angle to take when trying to change the topic from price to value, and this CEO writes this exact email many times per week. I'm surprised the owner of HelloSign doesn't already know this tactic.
Read the very next sentence. He accepted a full time position somewhere else.

She knew that I had accepted a full-time offer prior to starting the class

If he's not joining the company to run the project, he shouldn't have any ownership. How would that work?

What if one of the founders doesn't work full time on the company? Then they're not a founder. In my book nobody who is not working full time counts as a founder. Anyone who holds on to their day job gets a salary or IOUs, but not equity.[1]

Trying to making him an unpaid intern is a dick move. Although apparently the immigration status gets in the way of compensating him fairly?

[1] https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
Your comment has significantly less content than his.

Not that I particularly wanted to mention it until reading your comment, but I also don't particularly understand associating yourself with the activities of strangers who happen to live close to you. It's really not that unusual a viewpoint.
uhh, failed according to what?
It's not a standard NDA, it's a "CONSULTANT, NON-DISCLOSURE, AND INVENTION ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT", very different!

This is a standard NDA from HBS: http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/pdf/Sample_NDA.pdf

Always trust yourself, your gut and your instincts in business. Never do anything in life you get a bad feeling about, including signing a CNDIAA.

"I made an iOS ecommerce app, along with backend server and a simple web-app POS system. My co-creator asked me to sign a standard NDA agreement except it specifies that I am an unpaid intern. My instinct tells me not to sign it."

Trust your instinct and good job writing a blog post about it asking for help.
He hinted that he lived in Paris. There, somebody leaving alone in about 13 m^2 (the minimum surface that can be rented legally) is not uncommon. Priced dropped lately, but one or two years ago, less than 800€ for 15 m^2 in a very central place in Paris was a "reasonable" price.
I live in Paris and 30 m^2 for one person is just not a possibility unless you make 3000+€/mo. Many young people flatshare.
I wonder how pricing is determined for these offerings? Ie whats the driver for profitability?

My thinking is as follows: if I use a popular IAAS for servers to host customers node.js apps, and if I have instances with 15GB of ram, if I offer application instances that are allocated at most 256MB, then I can fit about 58 application instances on a server (allowing 500MB for the OS). At 6€ an instance (for the intro tier) that's 348€ a month

An EC2 M3.xlarge costs about $81 a month (3 year heavy reserved, amortizing one time payment over 36 months). Today that about 63€ a month. So they intend to make 290€ per server minus additional costs for mongodb hosting.

Does that jive with how you all figure these things?
Thanks. It's really hard to understand what MD917 is saying with all the strikethrough.
Well, from a purely market point of view, why would a market actor choose possibility A (get the movie for free) over possibility B (pay for the movie)? Or why would they choose B (pay for the movie) rather than C (not care about the movie at all)?

The successful answers to these questions have always been those where people choosing B actually get something (be it a warm fuzzy feeling of supporting good movies, a nice box, or just the convenience of an interface that allows you to simply find and watch a movie).

If you want to rely purely on IP protection for that movie, good luck - people can watch other people's movies, the next YouTuber's shoestring budget entertainment, or a football game? Why wouldn't they read a book, or spend an evening knitting nice red socks.

There is no inherent law of nature that says that we need more film producers or film directors, or that they should make more money than the singer-songwriter in the bar down the street, or that guy who makes his living composing music for films and adverts once in a while. Or more than the guy who spent 5-10 years of his life trying to sell pet food over the internet and noticing that the business model is not competitive.

It's the investors betting on (a) people finding your film more attractive than knitting red socks, and (b) you being able to monetize that fact properly.

"Monetization" can come in all sorts of shapes: selling individual copies of the movie, selling licenses to distribution companies (including Netflix), putting adverts on the movie, or streaming.

Given that we have Google Play and Netflix, you should think that there is some value in allowing an app store model of people buying any film they like. That this doesn't happen is partly due to the rightsholders of these films (usually larger companies) not seeing the point of that when people could also watch new movies (= more revenue for them).

You could also make an argument about culture. It would open your eyes to the many ways that the entertainment industry - or the majority of it in terms of capitalization and revenue - is not concerned about culture at all, and to the many ways that what we have now - in terms of grassroots/pastime content creation, publically funded culture (e.g. orchestras and theaters in many places), and large projects (such as films or video games) - of creating, revising and sustaining cultural artifacts.
Again, yes. You can choose not to believe that, but it's not in your best interest to do so.

The market really is this good.
What did he get out of it? If he got nothing, then the contract is typically invalid. You can't give something of value without getting something in return (the consideration)(I'm not a lawyer)
That's why you have the tongue in cheek pre-money valuation (seed) equation from Guy Kawasaki: Add 500k for every engineer on the team and subtract 250k for every MBA.
Ray Ozzie’s Latest Invention Has Everybody Talking
Apps are definitely coming, I can't speak for other companies but for our app we're starting a private beta very soon and the launch/announcement is set for early next year.
I'm 25, strong academic background (BSc + MSc).

4 years professional experience at the same company, currently a Senior Dev.

In my current role I do a lot of greenfield development, machine learning, big data stuff and working with Open Source technologies.
Even killing Silkroad didn't kill Silkroad. Other alternatives popped up after the FBI shut it down. For a site as big as 4chan, killing the main site would only serve to disperse its users across the Internet.
Why Smart People Are Not Always Rational
- Kubernetes (http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/10/google-kubernetes-microsof...)

- Various projects at github.com/google

https://github.com/google/cayley

https://github.com/google/cadvisor
Good for this guy for making this app.

However, this makes me worried for him...

> There’s a 50% chance that I can lose $50.00 in a few days, but there’s also a 50% chance that I can make $100.00 or more in a few days. Why 50% chance? This number will be different for every person depending on his profit & loss history.

Ummm..... This doesn't seem true to me. What if the stock just stays flat? That's more often than not the default for many stocks.

if you make the dubious assumption that all three outcomes are equally valid then you loose 2/3s of the time.

If the stock stays flat then you lose as you have to pay commissions to enter into the trade and to exit the trade. Lots of people model algorithms, very few model them accurately, sometimes myself included unfortunately:)

> But swing traders need to win at least 50% of the time in order to be profitable.

If you don't pay any commissions or have any overhead, sure. But I'm guessing you pay commission and I'm guessing you have overhead.

I would read up on the Kelly Criterion to imporove your capital allocation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

> You should stay away from stocks priced below $5.00 because these are Penny Stocks and involve a higher risk. You might consider stocks between $5.00 and $10.00, but again, they involve higher risk and even worse, they might go into Penny Stock territory.

This is just plain false. Being under $5 is one of 3 criteria that make up a penny stock, its a necessary but not sufficent condition. There are plenty of good companies with stock prices under $5.

The price of a stock isn't a good indicator of its risk.

> The reality is that it’s easier said than done! It’s actually very hard to make money in the stock market! You will win but you will also lose a lot! To put it into perspective

Full points to the author for realizing this! I'm still amazed at the number of people who think they can slap together some machine learning, nlp or deep learning and make money. People literally spend all their time doing this, if there was free money to be made someone would be making it:)
Rosetta Code is simply a Wiki with a collection of tasks and a collection of implementations in various languages. So no, there is no such data. After all, you tend to not create the implementation on that site but offline and just add it to a page when you're done.
Great news but doesn't tell me where can I download the dataset from?

Is it available to non-US citizens too?
[ IANAL ]

Assuming that you have in fact committed fraud, a fact which requires legal adjudication:

What have you defrauded the credit card company of ?

Currently, at worst, a small piece of plastic of slight value, and again assuming that there is a legal finding of fraud.

[ Per my 1040's since 1995, I am a philosopher ]

Your concerns seem more along the lines of having done something that the sort of person you strive to be would not do. That's not a legal issue, it's an ethical/moral dilemma.

Business is inherently amoral [ by which I do not mean immoral ]. Actions are either legal or illegal. The general assumption is that anything not explicitly prohibited is permitted. Money changes many things, including people's judgements: its fungiblity lets it serve as a proxy for the basic necessities of an individual's survival.

Credit card companies have very sophisticated means of assessing risk. These go well beyond self reported income, e.g. patterns of payment/non-payment are probably reliable actuarily.

In the end, the big issue ethically/morally is not if what you did was ok with the credit card company. The big issue is if what you did is ok with you.

Ethics/morals are about not doing what is legally permitted.
Things are complicated when you're dealing with actual people as opposed to hearing about it second hand.
The Americans who do this most likely work for "the government" and don't blog as much.
Email Inbox Zero theory  –  It’s all made up in your mind
Hoe je studentenkamer functioneel inrichten?
It's easy to write grand vision statements in retrospect. At the time though, Page and Brin said looking at Sean Parker, "We'll never be as famous as him", as per a story Ron Conway once told at Startup school.
Really good music composed from snippets of unrelated YouTube videos
Walmart Prepares to Offer Low-Cost Checking Accounts
Reports: The new iPhone 6 bends
MySmartPlans Software Developer Job Description – KCMO
Marathon Digital Services
716 W. Pennway
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 221-7881
www.mysmartplans.com

Company Contact
Joe Parrott
joe.parrott@mysmartplans.com

Company Overview
Marathon Digital Services currently develops software for the construction industry. Our flagship product, MySmartPlans, has been used on hundreds of construction projects in 31 states on over $10 billion of construction projects. We currently support a desktop and web version of MySmartPlans. An iPad version is currently in development.

Job description: Software Developer
The software developer will join the development team and will be involved a variety of products from concept to implementation. Candidates must be flexible, desire new challenges and enjoy being part of a great, hard-working team.

The Software Developer will perform the following tasks:
•	Develop code based on functional requirements
•	Review current systems
•	Present ideas for system improvements, including time estimates
•	Working closely with analysts, staff and clients
•	Produce detailed specifications and write the program code
•	Test the product in controlled, real situations before going live
•	Prepare information for training manuals for users
•	Maintain the systems once they are up and running
Technologies
The following technologies are used by Marathon Digital Services:
•	Flex/Air using Adobe Flash Builder 4.6
•	ASP.Net
•	MS SQL
•	SQLite
•	C#
•	VB.Net
•	HTML/PHP/Javascript
•	MySQL
•	SQL Server

Benefits
Marathon Digital Services provides a flexible work environment, competitive salary, health and dental insurance benefits, paid vacation and a 401(k) plan.
An Update on Railsgoat: Vagrant/Docker
But then why would you do a course on how to start a startup?
While hard to believe, it is still true.

I graduated with a BSME from Nebraska, and my first name is Earle. I went for ~3 months without any responses to resumes or applications, until I added my middle name. I started working a new job within two weeks, and now have to go by my middle name at work. All because "Earle from Nebraska" must be a redneck hick.

My case is almost certainly not racially motivated, but literally the only change I made was my name.
Why? It wouldn't fail on an IPv4 address, so what's the difference?
even more, you can refuse any request and nobody can force you to rent if you decide not to. AirBNB is not anonymous, people are expected to give some information about themselves so the landlords can judge them and make a decision. I think nobody would rent a flat to a completely anonymous person.
Is this insane or what? My house is not a hostel...
There is an algorithmic technique underlying a lot of this stuff called the "Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm." It's worth checking out if you want a cool algorithm that applies in lots of different scenarios.
If these kind of raw IC photos interest you, here's a couple links describing what you're looking at:

"The 6502 CPU's overflow flag explained at the silicon level"

http://www.righto.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-expl...

And a handful of links by other HN members about how to interpret silicon-level images:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7481973
> If he's not joining the company to run the project, he shouldn't have any ownership. How would that work?

He wrote the damn thing. It is literally only right to compensate him for his work. And when you know going in that you can't compensate in cash, you're compensating in points.
I think she's doing a good job in some respects. Such as Watson -- it's good strategy to invest in areas that will see future growth.

But at the same time, what's paying the bills is their consulting & services business. And there they're laying-off high-skilled workers (because they're expensive) in favor of fresh-outs and newbies (because they're cheap). That's not a good strategy. You can't starve the cash cow for too long. The result is that their sales people are making promises the technology people can't keep.
Right Livelihood Award: 2014 – Edward Snowden
We have contracts with and datafeeds from all of them.
We've been in business since 2006, in Germany since 2008.

We work very closely with our partners to try to improve the data. It's not always easy. I gave a talk about this at csv,conf in Berlin in July, slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/lokku/a-living-hell-lessons-learne...
Deconstructing Expertise: How Expertise Fuels Your Business
Sounds like you want some multi-terabyte capacity Dec DiskPacks [0] completely separating the controller and the heads from the recording medium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_pack
I think the most glaring omission is car insurance - if you enquire about insurance you will be straight up told that because you are under 25, the premium is going to be 4x of what it would be normally. No-one bats an eyelid at that - statistics prove that young drivers crash more, so it's all fine, right??

Funnily enough, statistically men crash more than women too - but it's illegal to charge men more, because that would be gender discrimination. It's also illegal to charge someone more for insurance because they are black, christian, or a vegetarian - regardless of how many accidents members of those groups get into. And yet if you are 24, have been driving more than 6 years without an accident, you will still pay more than someone who is 25 and has passed their exam last week. If that is not discrimination then I have absolutely no idea what is.
Really neat to have FTP access for new JavaScript to NodeJS developers that don't know how to use git yet.
Now, that is an interesting response that takes the discussion in an entirely different direction.

What you are advocating is a wholly different game with a new set of rules. I actually question the current economic system, the outsized wealth it produces for some, and artificial scarcity it creates for others, etc.

But, I think there's something between anarchy and a soulless brand of capitalism.
Too expensive, in my opinion. The dashboard looks nice, simple and clean though.
> I drafted up an agreement for both of us to sign,... and gave her the code for free.

You did WHAT?!
Fedora 21 Alpha Release Announcement
I went to breakfast and came back and it had refreshed by then.
"The reality is that it’s easier said than done! It’s actually very hard to make money in the stock market!"

There should be a follow on sentence... It can be very difficult to make money in the stock market IN THE SHORT TERM. You should not do this... most people should not do this.

See this:

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/investingtruths/in...
For context, this data was gathered in February of 2000.
API for Retrieving the Client Subnet in DNS Requests
Douglas Coupland gave a great talk about the book at the RSA on Tuesday - http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2014/Insi...
Hell, even giving 50% to someone who only has an "idea" to bring to the table is ridiculous. It sounds like he put in MUCH more effort because she didn't even prepare for their meetings. Then what DID she do?
Redditor turned laptop screen into an external monitor
Scarcity of Time, Money, Friends and Bandwidth
80 PER CENT of app devs SUCK at securing your data, study finds
There's an insane amount of cynicism and bitterness in that thread. I had to close the tab after a handful of comments.
Usa Navy Launched Missiles to Islamic State – ISIS
what matters is interest, passion, maturity and experience, not length of time in one place.
Really? Each surprise gets a whole slide in bold text all to itself. #1. A lot of static pages are a barrier to optimization. #2. Performance increase demanded as part of redesign. #3. Sometime you have to slow down to seem faster.

#1 really did surprise me, because I had always assumed that serving static pages would be really fast. I guess I never thought about sites with millions of pages.
Why Successful People Never Bring Smartphones into Meetings
"Index of /srtm/version2_1/SRTM30"

http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM30/

[ http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ ]
Isn't this the whole goal of Bitcoin? Mass adoption so that you can use Bitcoin at least as easily as your credit card? You can obviously not have mass adoption without the average person. If, on the other hand, you only want Bitcoin as a curiosity used by a hand full of people, accepted by a hand full of business, well, this goal has already been reached.
This implies that the script tag injection was indeed served to a wide audience. Although I guess there is no way to know that these requests came from the jquery.com site.
Letter from Linus
I've seen it. RAID5 with 5 similar disks failed during weekend. All but one drive were dead. Of course disk failure also prevented daily backup run and all hell broke loose on Monday morning. The exact reason of death is unknown. Important fact is that the raid was configured on Thursday. So I guess the same time death is most probable when drives are really new and from same batch.
Merck to Buy Sigma-Aldrich for $17B
Wow looks like a really thorough Monte Carlo simulation. DAE this for Android or mobile-first HTML5?
>> experience

Good point! And that's my concern (eg. Broad = Contracting Vs. Depth = Permanent)
Seriously?

Watson could replace lawyers or doctors for people that equate Google searches to legal advice or medical advice. Think legalzoom and webmd... Absolutely seems like it could be an entertaining way for a non lawyer or no doctor to explore a law or medical library. The majority on my time spent with lawyers has been discussing my issue until it could be distiled down to a couple concise legal questions; I bought a short sell house and the seller demanded that I put a clause in the contract that said his bank couldn't issue him an i9... I have. No authority over tax laws but I also didn't want any liability or an invalid contract, nor to willingly build a bogus one. There was some real language subtlty to it all and I didn't even know the questions to ask.

Same with doctors, pain is relative, strong pains turn lesser pains into mild discomfort and people are insanely good at ignoring and normalizing pains away. Do most patients even know what to ask or describe?

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a lawyer and a doctor on my smartphone all day everyday but it still seems like a ways off. Watson really seems like a tool that cuts your legal fees because your lawyers research time drops 90% or something. (Or rather, he makes 90% more profit from you..)
You're right we are hearing one side of a story, but we can only go on the information we have. The co-creator wanted all of the product, and wanted to give nothing in return, and never really wanted to be a partner in the project but use the developer for unpaid work since it would be a learning experience.

Anecdotally I've turned down many projects in the past of a similar nature. "Do this X or Y for me for free I'll tell everyone what a great job you did and it will bring you more work!" "The experience and education you get from working on this is payment enough."

I've dealt with actual people in these situations, and this developer isn't the bad guy. There are no bad guys or good guys in business. This is one business partner taking advantage of the other. The developer should have never signed anything, used the project for their class, and not hand over any right to the code since no exchange of value for it was made.

@xarien, I couldn't reply again to you, but I wanted to say you're absolutely right about guilt being very complex, and to thank you for clarifying your thoughts. Guilt and me go way back as I'm sure it does with most folks. (^_^)b
Indeed. Unfortunately, the car insurance industry has enough clout to keep doing whatever they want to do, pretty much.

We'll see what the EU do eventually - but I'm going to bet the UK either ignore it or find a loophole.
Anyone have a link that backs this up?