skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You definitely weren't the 'bad guy' in this relationship. If anything, it looks like you were being taken advantage of. People deserve to be compensated (somehow) for their work - and it's somewhat clear to me that this wasn't going to be the case in your situation.

On the other hand - if you did want to be a consultant, there are different things at play. First, the NDA. NDAs cover only the disclosure aspects, nothing else. Next there's an MSA - Master Services Agreement. The MSA covers the method by which services are to be delivered, and the contractual obligations around them. It's important to separate the two, as typically an NDA's lifespan is significantly longer than an MSA (i.e. after you're doing with a client, the NDA continues to live for 6-12 months).

There's absolutely nothing wrong with discontinuing a partnership that isn't working. It's a hard thing to do, you feel like you're letting people down, but you're not. The reality of the situation is that a partnership is just that - a partnership. If it's not good for both sides, then it's not a partnership, plain and simple.

tl;dr - Get compensated for your work, and put yourself first - no one else will.
I've never had anyone ask for discount for my SaaS (BugMuncher), nor has anyone ever complained about the pricing. Should I take this as a sign to put my prices up?
Previous discussion on the budget : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7964261
vitess is youtube. Are there others youtube related?
Would you be offended if you found out that a hand-written note you received was actually written by someone's secretary? Because that's pretty standard stuff most people wouldn't consider an ethical breach.
How do you think doctors are going to react to their patients following the data from Iodine? There's a lot of room to misinterpret, especially when dealing with psychiatric drugs. Advil, Immodium, and Nyquil are pretty simple for people to report on: the thing that hurts stops == this drug worked (maybe).

Also, the one thing on the front page that made the largest impact on me is the brand name prevalence. If Iodine gets popular, that's going to have a direct effect on brand name sales. Would you be interested in doing more upfront comparisons between generic and brand names?

People will still buy brand name if it makes them feel better/safer/whatever of course, but a 200mg tablet of ibuprofen should have the same effects no matter who makes it (allergies/reactions from dyes and coatings not-withstanding). Shouldn't we be trying to educate patients about the science of it as well? That the same dosage of Advil vs. Generic is equivalent and teach people to save money?

>The investor enthusiasm for health ventures, said Halle Tecco, managing director of Rock Health, is fueled by the belief that the health care industry is both huge and technologically backward, and thus ripe for an assault with clever software and data-driven decision-making.

From my own experience, this could not be more correct.

I've been on three sides of the healthcare industry: nursing, surgical services, and now software. There is just a lot of old stuff piled on top of even older stuff. Some of that is reliable and necessary. Other times, it's a wonder the thing even works in the first place.

It's a wasteland of opportunity, so grab your hazard suit and start coding because me, my doctor and my optometrist personally think healthcare software currently sucks. :)
Amazon.com launches ‪#‎AmazonWishList‬
I really want Apple to issue a statement along the lines of "You asked for a thinner lighter phone, you got it. Now stop being an idiot and sitting on it and we'll all be fine."

This is all just incredibly stupid. The fact it bends and continues to function should be newsworthy, not the other way around.
Lua is compiled into OpenResty (NGINX). There is also a nice webframework called Lapis thats built on top of openresty and lua.
Microsoft biztalk server has strong HIPAA connector/accelerator, just have a look overthere.
Add to Wishlist by Tweeting #AmazonWishList in Amazon
Family Melodrama and Histrionics, Part II
Snowden honored with 'alternative Nobel'
That's a context free grammar, you cheater!

<Read the link…>

Okay, so Perl Compatible Regular Expressions can parse context-free grammars. And context sensitive grammars. And who knows what more.

I understand there's a difference between theory and practice, but this is a plain misuse of the word "regular". PCRE should be renamed "Perl Compatible Parsing Facility" or something.
What Does a Product Manager Do? Part 5/5: Putting It All Together
One question - does it support TCP sockets? I've evaluated a dozen or so Node.js hosting solutions and none (0, null, nil) supported TCP sockets. HTTP/S and WebSockets only. It's ridiculous - a TCP server is a major use case for Node.js and yet if you want to host it, you must configure and administrate your own server (on EC2 or whatever).
14 Best Open Source Web Application Vulnerability Scanners
Launching a Food Startup? Lessons from Two Tech Entrepreneurs
One to Two?
I highly recommend _Another Great Day at Sea, Life Aboard The USS George H.W. Bush_ by Geoff Dyer with photographs by Chris Steele-Perkins, from the same 'Writers in Residence' series as Kitten Clone.

Here's a sample from chapter 22:

> One of the perks of having my own room was the freedom to fart whenever I felt the urge. The disadvantage was that Newell invariably knocked on my door seconds after I'd done so. It was almost as if, by breaking wind, I had summoned him — a faster and more efficient method than calling him on the phone. On this occasion he and the snapper had come to tell me that our visit to Flight Deck Control had been moved forward so we had to get up there right away.
Italian prime minister visits top execs at Google, Twitter, Yahoo
>Data: at least 50 percent of content is unstructured, and sufficient volume exists

Not quite what I expected. Does this mean the developers provide the data?
>> Wow this is huge news. I wonder what higher resolution the DoD now has at their disposal to prompt them to release this.

I would love to know what the DoD are achieveing with high res synthetic apeture radar imagery. It has some really amazing properties (like measuring tiny changes in elevation) that are barely exploited commercially. The ability to track everything though cloud cover has obvious military applications.
> But swing traders need to win at least 50% of the time in order to be profitable.

That's not true. It completely depends on your strategy/system. You can be highly-profitable with a 30% win-rate (or any number) granted the amount you win is far higher than the amount you lose. If my average win is $1000 and my average loss is $100, I can be profitable with only 10% wins (excluding commissions).
Sorry, that's my mistake. I meant inserting it in mdp itself, as I thought mdp was a shell script. As mdp is written in C my suggestion doesn't apply.
>Calling it stealing is wrong. The producer of an item doesn't lose the original item when someone _copies_ it, compared to e.g. stealing somebody's car.

That really is a horrible rationalization. The producer of an item doesn't lose the original item? No, she simply loses all value that would have otherwise accrued to her, if not for people deciding that her right to be compensated for her creation was trumped by their right to enjoy her creation at no cost or inconvenience to themselves.

So she loses the right to capture value from the thing she owns/created, while others derive value from it (whether for personal use or resale). Please tell me again. How is that not stealing? And, from where does the consumer derive that entitlement?
A sad thing happened to me recently. I had looked up some data files that accompanied Kernighan's "Practice of Programming" book from a server at Bell Labs [0], and had downloaded a couple of the files from chapter 3, but today I get an "Unable to load page" error message.

[0] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/
The point about elements on the page shifting around is huge. I've personally dreamed of a browser change that would make reflows that are out of the current browser viewport not change your position on the page. If you have a slow connection or view certain types of content (liveblogs, etc) this can become a huge pain.

Just thinking about it raises all sorts of questions about whether the browser/rendering engine can actually reliably know that information, but it doesn't mean I can't dream.
Right, but it's still a buy and hold strategy. People hear "free trades!" and the assumption is that it's a day trading platform, because $7 to execute a $5000 trade (which is roughly what a normal online brokerage charges) isn't an insane fee if you're pursuing a buy and hold strategy.
The Story Behind GrabCAD's $100M Acquisition by Stratasys
Shen and Qi are written by an academic. More likely than trying to sell the book is the that author is trying to ensure that the core theories that got put into the languages stay in the language with out alterations to the core principles... what exactly those are I never delved into enough for comment but the documents and history point to a very principled author and language being created.
I don't disagree one bit, only pointing out that feelings such as guilt are extremely complicated. I remember the first time I had to let someone go (was a friend too). It was the hardest damn thing to do and I let it drag on for months...
Local email addresses are of course easier to identify. You can just check if the user exists on the server. But that's not much use to websites and other online services.
The big lesson here is to sort this out before you start coding.

I have an MBA and I write code. In my experience, coders overvalue their contributions and business guys overvalue theirs. But in the end, the business guys usually win. You have to think like a business guy.

When I do contract code, I'm under no illusion that I am a critical piece of the business. In fact, the only thing that has any sort of ability to lock me in is typically that switching costs are high- developers hard to find and it's expensive to get a new one up to speed.

That's just the way things are. If you're not an integral part of the business, you are replaceable.
Learn Angular by Building a “Gmail” Clone [tutorial]
That sounds great. I'll stay tuned.
Two years ago I was in a similar situation. I had 6 weeks to find a fully furnished apartment in Munich from 800km away. For me the response rate for furnished apartments was 100%, although some simply said the apartment has been rented out already.

I also turned to crawling. I regularly crawled IS24's furnished apartment section and put new entries into a Google Fusion Table. That way I could filter on fields and see the apartments on a map at the same time. This wasn't automated as much as the original poster's solution. But my main requirement was that the apartment be near a subway station of a line that stops at my place of work, which is not that easy to automate.

After about a week I found an apartment that was rented out by the owner directly (none of that agent fee nonsense). I was the first to contact the guy - a few minutes after it was posted. I had to decide if I take it the same day. Based only on pictures... It was a good deal. Colleagues of mine were paying MUCH MORE and got MUCH LESS.
Ask HN: Writing a book – Where to publish?
So i´m almost done writing my first book ever, and I was wondering if anyone had any experience using services that publish your book for you? As in, they sell your book in epub, pdf and other formats online.

I´ve heard Amazon is pretty good, giving you 70% revenue and other benefits, but honestly i have no idea how to tackle this.
UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency crashes app only in iOS 8 and Xcode 6
"You're holding it wrong" is my expected response.
Open source application containers
I was similarly appalled by this - but reflecting on it further, it was probably the easiest way out. Sounds like at that point, he just wanted rid of the whole project.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to spend several hundred dollars on a bendable phone, regardless if it still works. On the other other hand, I've been considering upgrading from the 5 to the 5s, so bend away!
Pretty sure it was in the front pants pocket. Maybe they'll release a statement for free iPhone 6 belt clips...
why did you give her the code for free? you should have charged her for it
"You asked for a thinner lighter phone, you got it. Now stop being an idiot and sitting on it and we'll all be fine."

Surely customers don't need to include specifications like "Device does not bend under moderate force" when asking for improvements?
"Don't put it in your pocket" :)
I wonder why economic laws does not work here? I.e. if certain categories of people comes with certain risk in the eyes of landlords, this should be reflected in price, and who don't want to have to deal with adjusting price for risks should loose to once who are more flexible?
Exactly. Moloch in action.

"A basic principle unites all of the multipolar traps above. In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don’t take it die out. Eventually, everyone’s relative status is about the same as before, but everyone’s absolute status is worse than before. The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse."

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I suspect this could also be related to iPhone users having had a fairly small phone to date. Slipping the iPhone into a pocket till now has been an easy practice, so I assume the same is being done out of habit with the new larger models. The new form factor (larger AND thinner) can't stand up to the stresses.
number of comments is higher than the number of upvotes. HN uses this as a heuristic to bury flame wars.
Haha, I went through a smaller-scale version of those problems, and your presentation is spot-on :) , I can totally relate.
You can almost taste the irony of the hated, exploitative megacorp Walmart doing more to help poor people and put a check on cheque cashing places than any politician ever.
It helps if you buy property. If you can mortgage up and buy $1m worth, in 10 years it'll be worth $2m+. Sorted.
Or maybe Apple will release a model of more loosely fitting jeans to put less pressure on the phone?
Ah that reminds me I wrote a coverage server for istanbul in node.js. It allows testem to send coverage statics across mutliple tests/runs to reported on. It's part of a whole test running package that I'm working on open sourcing that will allow testem (which is a great test runner if you don't mind running all of your tests in one big session) to run multiple suites of tests. For instance if you have a order app and an client management app and you want separate test runs to avoid any namespace collisions the project allows you to define handlebars based templates to define your suites and run each suite with testem one at a time. Anyway here is a gist of the coverage server if it's useful to anyone:
https://gist.github.com/jaegerpicker/95c3900426d55eb9b857
On the other hand, people should have listened to critics before the Titanic, the Hindenburg, the last Columbia launch, the last Challenger launch, the Big Dig, the Iraq War, the launch of the Obamacare websites, and a bunch of other large undertakings.

The critics were wrong in this case, but writing them off as noise can lead to other mistakes.
The screen generally cracks after a bit of bending. It's more than just sitting on it too: it appears to bend fairly easily in day to day usage, far more than other similar devices.

I don't think anybody really asked for a thinner or lighter phone anyway, it's just what Apple provided.
I know more than a few people that carry smart phones in their back pockets.
Are they also going to undo the YouTube integration? I hate accidentally finding myself in a YouTube discussion when I thought I was using G+.
Can you use the law to punish someone for not responding to an email from 21 year old Mohammed asking if he can rent your apartment?

Yes. If you will not rent out your apartment to someone based on their ethnicity/race, that's illegal. If you don't like it, get out of the apartment rental business.

It's just so hard to prosecute people for it.
I also use this extensively in Windows 7 and OSX.
"A traveller usually understands that itineraries are pretty useless, admits ignorance, and is open to whatever the road may bring."

In 2007 I rode a motorcycle from Maine to the Panama Canal. I was seeking the authentic, the back roads, the people and experiences between the destinations on my map or entries into the guidebook. It was not only about being open to the unplanned moments, but putting myself into uncomfortable situations where the spark of spontaneity could ignite a human connection.

I always find coming home a bit eye opening, I continue to look for and seek authentic moments in my "everyday" life, getting away from the screens and technology that disconnect me with the people right in front of me.

I think this is the job of great technology, enabling and at the same time not getting in the way of the authentic life moments.
The soon to come Watson platform will also come with a set of curated content. So it will be a mix of the content you provide and existing (free and paid) content.
Random reads are still significantly slower than sequential reads on most SSDs.
I've owned every generation of iPhone since the 3GS, and definitely think this is being blown out of proportion. I have a 6 (4.7"), and don't have (and doint think I ever will have) any issues with this.

However, I will say that the Galaxy Note bend video [1] in (response to the iPhone 6 Plus bend test [2]) was impressive, and shows that while metal material is more stylish, plastic seems to be much more durable. Of course, I know these are far from scientific tests, but it still seems to show some sense of durability between the two.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM
Somehow, my Galaxy Note 2 has survived the rigors of my front pocket for close to two years without bending or cracking. Phablets really aren't that big.
Has this been a problem with other, non-Apple phones of a similar form factor? If so, this is a design issue. If not, this is an Apple design issue.
Exactly, the accusation is sufficient - no proof is required to discredit someone.
The reality is that it depends on the narrative, teh story that you have. It's very easy to explain why you chose consulting (other than money), and have a narrative that resonates. I've found that consulting actually results in exposure to more varied problems, technologies, and solutions - so I'm not nearly as pigeonholed.
I've used Netflix... You've given no example or explanation whatsoever of how I'm wrong.
Dropbox: 460 RestrictedContent when requesting file from API
In 2014 ftp access is not a feature, it is an alarm bell to anyone that has any concern at all for security.
Broadcasting over the internet is still broadcasting...
> I'd say it's a lose-lose situation.

Like many others that marketing/sales do to earn a quick buck while deteriorating the human condition even more. This is systemized abuse of human trust, and it makes society worse off.
Interesting. The double standard I see here is yours. I had hoped I was speaking with a reasonable person (in spite of the silly ad hominem about low karma, new account; and now, this nonsense). This entire thread (all responses, including mine) should be down voted for going off the rails. To everyone else, I apologize for feeding the troll (my original response, not to bugbrother; those to bugbrother were just a futile attempt to inform an apologist for a criminal regime).
PureScript: A Haskell-like Language That Compiles to JavaScript
Somewhere in my apartment there is the user manual for an Apple LaserWriter NT from 1992.

The preamble to the printer manual (yes, printers came with 300 page printed paperback manuals in those days!) included instructions such as "do not expose your LaserWriter NT to rain or adverse weather conditions; do not operate your LaserWriter NT in the shower".

Presumably due to an idiot lawsuit following an incident when someone under the misapprehension that heavy electrical appliances and water were a perfectly safe combination ...
When you say a substantial increase, how much of an increase is that?. And also, are you considering other expenses/losses such as accountants, pensions, etc, etc
"It is not blue-sky research,"

As someone who dwells in AI/Machine Learning for a living, let me tell you: Watson is the most extreme blue sky research out there. It happens to have a customer base that intersects with IBM's current base. Why should this be a diminishing factor?

Google's blue sky research is also ultimately for customers. IBM is good at actually selling its research as products. No company does anything for truly altruistic reasons. If so, Google would be spending billions of particle accelerators.

http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/info/news_ibm_help_cern.ht...
CamFind app brings accurate visual search to Google Glass
It's a problem with the phone's aluminum construction. A phone like the Note 3, made with less premium-feeling plastic, responds better to stress like this. It can be bent, but it just bends right back with no permanent bend left.
Day to day usage? No, don't think so...
Where I live, that's the surest way to get your phone stolen.
> "Even the most recent smartphones are not designed to be put in pockets where they are going to be under the most chassis strain. And this just illustrates the fact that the public's desire for manufacturers to strive for ever thinner and lighter devices means that we are getting ever more fragile devices.

> "Just casually sticking a £700 smartphone in your pocket is an increasingly reckless thing to do."

Wait, this guy really thinks that users should be expected to know that it's reckless to keep their _phone_ in their pocket, and that they weren't designed for this?

That seems not right. I am confident that most people, unless educated otherwise, will assume that phones are designed to go in pockets. If manufacturers really aren't designing phones to go in pockets, they are going to have to educate users on this. The pocket has been the place non-purse-carrying people have kept their phone since the first mobile phone that was small enough to fit in a pocket.
PureScript is a strongly, statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript. It is written in and inspired by Haskell and aims at "allowing to write very expressive code which is still clear and readable" when translated into JavaScript. InfoQ has talked to PureScript creator Phil Freeman to learn more about the language.
Who asked for a thinner, lighter phone? This is a serious question, because I keep seeing this being held as a response to customer demand, when actually few asked for a thinner, lighter phone.

They wanted a larger phone, for sure, but I think one would reasonably assume structural stability for a $1000 consumer device (often bought under a pay-as-you-go loan courtesy of carrier subsidization) under fairly normal conditions.

Further this isn't "sitting on it" -- the issues seem to be coming via seemingly innocuous, but longer term, flexing in front pockets. Aluminum is not all or nothing, and will quite happily give slowly and gradually over hours.

Maybe it's all overblown -- these things tend to be on new Apple releases -- but I don't see how some can so quickly resort to blame the customer antics.
I think some fairly average people become millionaires along the lines of manage a McDonnald's for a bit, get finance to have your own one, expand to have 2 or 3 at which point you'd likely be worth $1m+
Amorphic Applications – A new perspective