skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or simply comment out that line: https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings/issues/72
I think you can get around the red tape if the app doesn't make medical recommendations. As long as it just tracks the data, I don't believe it would need to be registered as a type-2 medical device.
This may be a joke, but there are valid scenarios for this sort of thing, which is why rspec has pending and skipped tests:

https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/3-1/docs/pending-an...
Three providers forced to improve speeds because of competition... where have I heard this before?
I frequently use "Managing Consultant". It's actually descriptive.
I don't like this idea, but if anyone is compelled to use this formula please include savings as well. I'd shoot for being able to save 20% of your salary.
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Eve costs too much. Dwarf Fortress requires too much cognitive power up-front, to start having fun playing it. Diplomacy... I'd love to play it, but it's hard to find someone in the area.

So there it is. Ingress. Free. Easy to start. Too easy to incorporate in your daily life. You start doing groceries in the other shop; it's few minutes more of walking, but you pass by five portals on the route. You stop reading Facebook on the tram, you hack portals instead - you'll need all that inventory later. You go out to buy a beer. It'll be only five minutes, you think. Ok, ten, because you need to retake that two portals on your way. You come home an hour later, after flipping the entire neighbourhood.

All those games you mentioned are addictive like hell. Out of them, Ingress has the lowest barrier to entry. It's so small that you can tunnel through it by accident. At some point you just start playing and can't stop. There, you're sucked in for life.
This is just a spam network. I despise stuff like this. I hope you fail. I know your customers will.
Paging @tpatcek ;)
> They offer you 80,000. Say that you were thinking more in the 120,000 range.

Do people really counter with salaries that are 50% higher than the initial offer? Maybe it is just the nature of the employers I have dealt with in the past, but I have always felt anything in excess of the 5% - 10% range just meant that you and the company were too far off in expectations for a deal to work. In fact, a few months ago I rejected a seriously lowball offer where the difference was similar to the numbers you posted; I didn't even bother to counter. Is it really common to get companies to move by double-digit percentages on initial offers?

Edit: I should point out that people at this company had already told me how hard it was to find qualified people. There were plenty of other indications that they could not afford to be throwing away candidates.
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Sci-fi is for plus, UI is for plus, but I wonder will it have even remotely the amount of complexity (and thus possibilities) of DF?
I'll have to look into that; offhand would you happen to know if there are any similar laws in Canada currently?
> Same goes for Android/Linux-based phones. Most don't come with a proper shell at all, and those who do, usually have busybox.

If this is true, there's been a fair amount of paranoia on HN that has gone sadly unanswered with corrections.
Sorry, it has to be said:

After some inspection, maybe it passes for a joke.
they have fished for decades

They've been fishing those waters for thousands of years.

the religious argument does seem a stretch to me, and wouldn't be necessary if common sense was used.

Their religious argument is actually an expression of common sense, and has more to do with the scientific method than it seems. Indigenous people hunted, fished, and gathered every year for generations. Through direct observation, they noticed many patterns. When you hunted the same area too consistently, fewer animals came back in the following seasons. So they came up with a belief system along the lines of, "If you hunt too much, you have offended the animals, and you must stop hunting for several seasons until they return."

The scientific approach makes the same observation, and the same recommendations, from a different explanation. Dismissing the religious approach is easy when people don't understand how it was developed, and what role it has in guiding people's interaction with their entire environment.
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Please update the headline, as this made me wonder if they fired him again, just now.

This is referring to the time they fired him back in the day.

A better headline may be "You Need Employees with the “Founder’s Mindset”"
For me it's always a huge red flag when somebody calls themselves an entrepreneur (or CEO of... themselves and their 1-person company). It indicates they care about the prestige and position rather than making things.
Just a caution that newegg has a registered trademark on "shell shocker" - not sure if that is a problem or not.
But from the landing page:

An individual's data can help adjust their medications, change eating patterns and maximize sleep schedules.

That sounds like it's being used to guide treatment.
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I can see wondering if this was a joke as 'maybe' is mildly reminiscent of promise[1] and the like but if you got to .on_my_machine and still couldn't figure it out, you got some 'splainin to do. :)

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/09/11/asynchronous-p...
I envy you your ability to do that. I can't even listen to new music, anything novel in my ears distracts me most of the time.
Personally, I would have responded with something along the lines of "I'll let you know once I meet the team - I'm not comfortable answering that question yet"
Ask HN: Best IDE for Working on Surface Pro 3?
I really like the Surface Pro 3 hardware, and it seems quite possible for there to be an IDE that will look good at the odd resolution and maybe even handle touch events well. I've only tried Brackets and PyCharm so far, but the former failed both miserably, while the latter looks super pixelated, but touch is reasonably well supported.
I know I'm a tiny fraction of the development market, but maybe there's a graphical toolkit out there that is handling this already, and I just need to find an IDE built in it?

Thanks.
I used to be involved in the hiring decisions of big corporate consulting co. (software + other stuff) and they would consistently negotiate salaries that were 50% above the initial offer. Their strategy was to low ball, and work up from there. I'm not sure how many companies employ this strategy, but I report that it definitely does happen. Another point is that as you move away from fresh grad opportunities and more experienced, it's less obvious what "market rate" really is.
The assumption that startup success relies on enduring 80 hour work weeks is a commonly held one in Silicon Valley, yet there are some remarkable counter-examples. Dropcam, for example, made it an explicit part of their culture that employees work a focused 40 hour work week and have dinner with family and friends outside of the office. The CEO believes that startups who offer dinner at work are basically manipulating employees to work late into the night [1]. Did these sane, healthy work policies hold Dropcam back from massive success? Nope. It was acquired for half a billion dollars [2]. For the sake of our team members and employees, I think we would do well to emulate Dropcam.

[1] http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2013/04/23/dropcam-ceos...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/google-and-nest-acquire-dro...
To most of the world, and entrepreneur is defined as somebody who finds opportunities to exploit for a profit.
This is really funny, thanks for sharing.
Some do. For me, it screwed up my sleep patterns, so I don't stroll around at 04:00 AM during the week anymore. But a lot of players are students; they often can afford to sleep 'till noon.

People also often organize at more humane hours, like early evening during the week or around noon during weekend. The thing about 4-am actions is that they're based on the expectation that the other team will be asleep. There's a big imbalance of power favouring offense over defense, so if your team is setting up a farm (quickly turning all portals in a portal-dense area into maximum level and installing protection mods), it can take one or two opposing players to undo the work of ten from your team.
Other people have pointed to patio11's definitive answer. Another awesome resource on this topic (with albeit similar advice) is Ramit Sethi. Start here:

http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/salary-negotiation...
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Salary information is part of the negotiation for the job. Learn to negotiate and how to answer the question without answering the question.

Read "Ask The Headhunter's" articles/columns on salary negotiation for some background information.

If you say too large of number, you won't be hired. If you say too low of number, then you either leave $$$ on the table or they wonder why your number is low.

I've asked "are you offering me the job?" If they say no, then I ask if we can continue to see if I fit. This did not always work well.

Someone on HN posted the link to the Noel Smith-Wenkle method which is a better method and it works well, I've used it more than once effectively.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html
I think there's a difference between the scientific method (our study and understanding of observed uniformity) and the historical method (our study and understanding of events and their explanation, particularly how one event causes another).

Furthermore, there's a difference between historical study (did it happen?) and frequentism (how often has it happened?).

For example, if we are using words such as "didn't happen" then the best way to explain this would be in terms of the historical method and not in terms of frequentism (there is a fascinating essay on frequentism and how it kept people from accepting Bayes theorem for many years).

The other thing people often do in these kinds of discussions is to reduce all human knowledge (the sciences) to merely the scientific method, which is to confuse science with scientism.

I think it's useful and constructive to credit/discredit the Bible on its most central and crucial claim - the historicity of Jesus Christ - something which is much easier and concrete to deal with than trying to peer millions of years back in time through a particular kind of literary genre.
Yes, I agree, there should be a "single person who is responsible for ensuring that the product should delight the user". But that person is the product leader, a single GM or whatever you want to call it, and the task should not be delegated to a team of PMs. Someone needs to oversee designers, user experience researchers, business analysts, developers, operation engineers, testers, etc. Thats the role of the person in charge and thats why they get paid so much. This person should also be accountable for "the product delights customers" piece, and if this doesn't happen, is also the person who gets replaced.
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Ingress reminds me of the pokemkon game that Google made up for April fools day. I was very disappointed that that game wasn't real.
You're right. I think it would be in the developers best interest to let the user make that call, instead of explicitly advertising it.
Three sections in and the article still has no substance or point, other than to bore the reader. The author needs to edit this and get to the point. Terrible writing.
This isn't quite accurate. Since 2007 there's been much more regulatory pressure--particularly on large commercial banks, but all financial institutions to a lesser extent.

A major issue is the regulations themselves are extraordinarily complicated and the regulatory regime is unclear. What you characterize as "deference" is more like this: the regulators don't know what regulations out of (literally) hundreds of thousands of pages' worth of regulation they can get away with enforcing or not enforcing, but for political reasons they might be called to enforce whatever regulations at whatever time, such as with the retroactive enforcing of mortgage regulations everyone was ignoring before 2007 because the political incentives were such that everyone should have access to mortgages. So regulators are incentivized--whether corrupt or not--to build soft, close relationships. (As an aside, regulators and banks are continually building sophisticated machine-learning algorithms that have access to all your financial data, as well as powerful search systems to find whatever a regulator might demand.)

Hobbes, writing in England in the 1600s, described the "silence of the law", wherein if the king's agents enforced all his laws his rule would quickly become tyrannical and lose legitimacy. Well, again, there are literally hundreds of thousands of pages of financial regulation, depending on who you ask, that can be characterized as "must follow". Enforcing them all would draw the wrath of most Republicans and moderates, because the world does need a financial system.

The regulators work softly because, honestly, they don't know what they are doing or are supposed to do. Banks try to get in bed with regulators because they don't want to end up like HSBC; people calling for their heads essentially because they were lazy about regulatory demands for an issue that ended up being politically sensitive. A large part of compliance nowadays is trying to predict what Congress cares about or might care about in the future. Regulators are glad to get the extra access. After all, when the political winds blow the right way, they have the real power. Otherwise, don't rock the boat.

There is also corruption--always, everywhere--but if I was to imagine how a "good" regulator could do his job in the way Michael Lewis demands, well, I can't imagine that ever happening.
Ditto for the silliness of slapping engineer or hacker like marketing engineer or growth hacker.
There's no point in encrypting the traffic. It's publicly-available data. The purpose of the towers is merely to ensure that their owners receive the data a couple of milliseconds before everyone else.
I wonder if being the "Uber of Massages" will mean that therapists end up making minimum wage after covering their own costs. This in particular:

> Gratuity is on us. No need to tip

Is alarming.
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Exactly. Dollars in New York and California are worth less than in the Midwest or South. 60k/year in Pittsburgh buys many nice things, but the same in San Francisco means you're almost homeless.
Please listen to the "This American Life" episode he links to. Lewis explicitly says, "I don't want to spoil the revelations of 'This American Life': It's far better to hear the actual sounds on the radio, as so much of the meaning of the piece is in the tones of the voices -- and, especially, in the breathtaking wussiness of the people at the Fed charged with regulating Goldman Sachs."

Also keep in mind that at that point, he's quoting from the Beim report, which is not from the tapes. As Lewis and the episode say, that report was written by a Columbia Business School professor in 2009, at the request of the Fed.
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It's less common sense behavior than Cargo Cult behavior.
Is Apple the only one who makes a health app that doesn't do this?
Yay pointless, judgmental semantics. Let's worry about this instead of doing the other things.
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It's one of those words that somehow become a status symbol and lose their meaning.

Like, well, hacker: I cringe every time someone writes "hacker" in his/her bio without stuff to show for it. Usually it's UI developers, I don't know why.

All around, I started to discard every word that comes with this burden. Words should convey information, not a self blowjob.
What if we dont recommend treatment...more so utilizing the analytics they dont track. We wouldn't recommend, every case is different. That is between the user and their medical professional
"Entrepreneur" is a french word.

"Entre" means between and "Preneur" means parts. A indirect english synonym would be middleman. Traditionally, it was referring to people in the building industry that set up building site with plumber, electrician, workers... So, a freelancer is not an entrepreneur. Strictly speaking if you don't have any employees you are not an entrepreneur.
Show HN: If something happens to you, what happens to your business?
I'm a bootstrapper and just went full time in May. Since then my wife has been worried that something might happen to me and she wouldn't know what to do with the business.

She wouldn't want to take over running it, but she'd like to make sure my customers get taken care of, that the business keeps it value, and that there is a smooth transition to the new owner. For less serious situations, she wants a plan in place so that if I'm in the hospital for a month the business is still there when I get back.

My dad has experience as a disaster/contingency planning consultant. He game me some advice. After some further conversation, it seemed like this might be this might be a good fit for a productized consulting business.

Check out his offering at http://www.HavenHoltPlanning.com

We'd love any feedback you have about the landing page or the business itself.
IIRC, Canada largely follows CE. One other problem might be that you're using the Pebble sensors, and so that could fall under regulatory purview too.
I guess you haven't read or listened to the whole thing?

"Goldman had advised one energy company, El Paso Corp., as it sold itself to another energy company, Kinder Morgan, in which Goldman actually owned a $4 billion stake, and a Goldman banker had a big personal investment. The incident forced the Fed to ask Goldman to see its conflict of interest policy. It turned out that Goldman had no conflict of interest policy -- but when Segarra insisted on saying as much in her report, her bosses tried to get her to change her report. Under pressure, she finally agreed to change the language in her report, but she couldn't resist telling her boss that she wouldn't be changing her mind. Shortly after that encounter, she was fired.)"
I contend that there is nothing genuinely new regarding religion in this thread. Also, religious discussion on science story submissions are off-topic, and almost guaranteed to turn into flamewars.
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do engineers at Apple know what menstruation is?
Question answering is an amazing problem. I built factoid QA systems using a mix of NLP, open relation extraction (dependency relation classification via SVMs), semantic web stuff via triple stores (virtuoso) and answer candidate ranking algorithms (classify the questions in to different types via keywords) and using those to determine whether I should use a search engine, or lookup system.

I think for those who want to get started in the field understanding some of the more complex NLP techniques, information retrieval, and some idea of how triple stores work gets you to building a QA system.

This is actually why I jumped in to deep learning. The hardest part of NLP for open ended question answering is coming up with all of the different features.

Deep Learning with textual representations fixes this.

The tech stack was http://uima.apache.org for those who are curious. I'd be happy to answer anything specific. QA systems are a little esoteric due to the combination of techniques used to build them, but they aren't as mysterious if you put in the effort to understand what they actually are.
is the era of startup culture, pseudo entrepreneurship, and the like finally coming to an end? Posts like this and Southpark regaling us at startup cultures expense...
Is this the best resource explaining what it is? http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ORMUS
In larger corps, at least, they will have salary ranges for each staffing level. It's common for these ranges to be very wide. For example, I've commonly seen the upper end of a lower staffing level be the same or higher than the lower end of a higher staffing level. It's not unheard of that a junior employee will make more than a senior employee. That's why corporations like to keep salary information obscured.

Plus, unless you want the job very badly, it (usually) doesn't hurt to ask.
Interesting. I will keep that in mind the next time the issue comes up.

The particular case I mentioned was complicated because: a) the initial offer was knowingly less than I currently made; b) I previously worked for the parent company of the company making the offer and the offer was the same salary grade and almost the same salary I had when I left 2.5 years before. I'm not sure I would have tried to negotiate even if I thought I could get them up 30% - 40%.
If I bootstrap something, I will call myself "Leader Maximo" or, to honor my country, "Dux".

Unless CEO means "Chief Everything Officer."
then you must have a remarkably deep education on this subject. I congratulate you.

EDIT: in response to your well-timed edit -- there is not currently a flamewar going on. Discussing the intersection of religion and science can be a fast track to a flamewar in the wrong circumstances, but these are excellent circumstances for a reasoned discussion.
Alarming only if it contributes to therapists making minimum wage which is not a given. Otherwise, I love not having to deal with tips. I wish every service had tips baked in and we could do away with them entirely.
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With your interpretation, someone who is cataloging all of their shits for a month and posting them reddit is an entrepreneur.
I cringe when hearing the term "serial entrepreneur."
Are you against the particular points in this lecture? The video seems like sound tactical advice on how to do a particular type of startup. He talks about things like looking for cofounders, hiring, and soforth. Very little time is spend haranguing students on raising money, or working 80 hour weeks.

Or perhaps you are speaking against the SV startup culture in general, with this video as a catalyst for touching off those thoughts? In that case, perhaps there's just a difference of values.
That's awesome.

Does system() invoke /bin/sh? Does it look for 'sh' on the path? What are the rules?
Totally agree with this, although it never occurred to me to suspect the sites are gamed. Rather, people making what they deserve don't futz around on salary sites.

In my (totally anecdotal) experience Glassdoor undervalues by >=20% even at the same company.
Not at all, it's great to see more products helping people get away from VBA. xlwings is well-done and has some features we don't (e.g. Mac interop), and likewise we have some features they don't (e.g. UDF's).

(I'm one of the DataNitro founders.)
Amen. We need a word to distinguish someone who founds a startup with a brand new product nobody's ever seen before and aims for high growth from the person who opened a bakery on the corner. That word happens to be "entrepreneur" and I don't have a problem with someone making that distinction in conversation if used correctly.

Ironically, I have a problem with geeks using the word "silly" and "it's" when they mean "its", as OP did.
Seems sort of like Priv, they let you pick your massage professional though, also have a bunch more verticals.