skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think a contract keeping a fast food worker from working for another fast food chain for a year is reasonable, you're a tool. Hell, a side benefit for many (most?) of the posters on this site is CA doesn't allow this for software engineers, who make a hell of a lot more money and have far more insight into a business than someone making a sandwich. (What's the proprietary business practice -- fucking toasting the bread?) I'd recommend discovering why you think shitting down is a valid way to treat people less fortunate than you in life.
Go is very uncontroversially a better Node. It also predates Node.
Do you have any shareable code for the OpenGL cross-compilation?
At least (1) has been finally fixed as of late. An "Open" button at last.

I see MAS as a good entry point for novice Mac users. But Apple could do a better job at curation here. Unlike on iOS, MAS apps have a bigger responsibility with user data, since even with sandboxing you can lose files or have your data sent across the wire. Check out the reviews for countless "disk cleaner"-type apps.

Seeing apps like [1] repeatedly in top 10 makes me lose faith in the review process. Macs don't need users to manually manage "free" memory. By "freeing" memory you're purging the cache and forcing the system to reload things. Hey, at least it's free.

Another: seemingly dozens of poor clones of built-in apps like Preview, complete with one-star reviews. For example, [2] by a developer who published 60+ (!) apps of similar quality. Or, [3], same situation but with a $6.99 in-app-purchase.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memory-clean/id451444120?mt=...

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jpg-to-pdf-converter-lite/id...

[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jpg-to-pdf-lite/id862295940?...
>line is drawn with things like online RSS readers

For starters, I'd look at the Supreme Court's opinion in Grokster. Here it is in HN-suitable pseudocode. :)

IF $distributing_product_used_by_others_to_infringe == FALSE THEN
FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" )
ELSEIF $distributing_with_object_of_promoting_infringement == TRUE THEN
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're inducing infringement ")
ELSE
IF $actual_knowledge_of_infringements == TRUE and $failed_to_block == TRUE THEN
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ")
ELSE
IF $capable_of_substantial_noninfringing_uses == TRUE THEN
FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" )
ELSE
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ")
END
END
END

How this applies to online RSS readers is left as an exercise for the reader...

UPDATE: A copyright lawyer friend points out via email that I neglected to include vicarious liability. I'll leave the above pseudocode as-is and note vicarious liability here as a bugfix/todo.
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So your hypothetical minimum wage worker is going to start a retail restaurant that costs typically $350,000 - $500,000 to open?

"A 2009 survey by "Restaurant Startup and Growth Magazine" found that the average owner spent $451,966 to get his restaurant up and running -- not including the acquisition of real estate. With a land purchase, the average total cost went to just over $700,00. Even those with starting costs in the lowest quartile of respondents spent $125,000."

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/startup-cost-opening-restaura...
Ask HN: Am I a Sucker for Paying to Pitch at Web Summit?
Our company was selected to pitch at Web Summit, but Web Summit doesn't give free tickets to attend. Is this standard and, even so, does it make sense for an early stage company to shell out all the cash to attend and pitch or is this for suckers only?
I'm not in CA but there does appear to be cases where they can be enforced per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Exceptions_-...

"Non-compete agreements are automatically void as a matter of law in California, except for a small set of specific situations expressly authorized by statute. They were outlawed by the original California Civil Code in 1872."

"here are limited situations where a reasonable non-compete agreement may be valid in California.

(1)Where the owner of a business is selling the entire business, or is selling the goodwill in the business, the seller may be bound by a non-compete clause.

(2)When there is a dissolution or disassociation of a partnership.

(3)Where there is a dissolution of a limited liability company."

So #1 says "you cannot sell your business with the intention of competing in the same space after the sale". Which seems reasonable.
I haven’t purchased boxed software in years, but there was never the ability to return software once it had been opened. If you realized you got the wrong application and hadn’t opened it, OK, you could return it. Otherwise it was assumed that you installed it and then returned it to get your money back.
Join a smaller company where there is more opportunity for growth.
In the era of containerized application platforms and immutable infrastructure, static linking is the path forward.
The Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) also has a pretty good startup scene.
I realize you're hectically trying to respond to a heap of comments here, but you really need to ensure you're clicking reply to the actual comment you're replying to.
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But it's often the next employer that is intimidated into not hiring you. So the poor person gets fucked.
Didn't think Charlotte and Atlanta would get overlooked so easily.
Time is a finite resource and even more precious for small/indie developers. Maybe they could write something to detect keyboard layouts (though I am not sure they could) or they could do what the other poster suggested and have configurable key layouts.

The problem is every second working on something that really matters, to what, <1% of the population is something that you aren't working on that is more important. Not to mention the extra overhead of testing and maintaining that system. It might be a valid gripe with a AAA game dev but complaining about your fairly rare corner case is just picking nits.
You can use it without going through Go, and have proper support for normal JavaScript. The concepts are explained here: http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous-Beast-with-CSP-... (EDIT: I see now you are asking why go's channels are more powerful than core.async's)

The library: https://github.com/ubolonton/js-csp
I work in a fiercely competitive space in which the modal vector for company formation is employees of competing companies leaving to start them.

The idea that Jimmy Johns could expect the right to bind minimum-wage-earning food service workers with a noncompete is verkakte. Even in circumstances where employees are given access to trade secrets and client rolodexes, noncompete agreements are difficult to enforce and almost invariably slashed to bits by courts when they survive at all.

Obviously, Jimmy Johns will not prevail in enforcing a noncompete on a minimum-wage employee. What they're doing is simply intimidating their own workers, probably based on some simple calculation about the impact their bogus noncompete will have on employee turnover, which is a metric every at-scale retail business optimizes for.

It is easy to devise logically-consistent reasons Jimmy Johns would want to bind their employees with anti-competitive contracts. Such arguments more or less beg the question.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe, but by all means feel free to go on imagining that it is.
Note that you can use `//` prefix to mean `http://`. E.g. if you want to go to `http://foo`, you type `//foo` in the address bar. You can also use `//` URLs in HTML, it expands to `http://` or `https://` depending if the page is served via HTTP or HTTPS (this is cross-browser)
I love this video of him getting it working for the first time. Must have felt so good :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEYaCAQLy4s
No, "using a product" from a vendor is not vendor lock-in. Especially in the case of a product like this, which turns your employees' work product (queries) from "something that works only with Oracle" (as would be the case if you used Oracle's tooling) into "queries that work with potentially any database."

So when your Oracle rep calls and says "bad news, your license costs went up by 150% this year. What are you going to do, switch databases? Hahahaha!" you can reply "well you know, we can actually flip a switch and run on Postgres now. We'll get back to you."

Yeah, it never quite works out that easily in practice. But by using products from a selection of vendors that support other ecosystems than just one, you're reducing your vendor lock-in.
The story from the flight attendant in your link reminds me of my time in the Army Reserves. A true cross section of humanity, from my staff sgt with a degree in philosophy and my civil engineer sgt to some total meatheads, and everything in between, in a big bell curve.

Variation in general is immensely higher in blue collar, or the pressure to aggressively conform is much higher in white collar, however you want to phrase it. Blue collar people are just people, but the white collar folks have a peculiar aspiration requiring quite a bit of faking and leads to impostor syndrome and things like that.
Ah! Was told it might lead to a 404 in Chrome. Good to know it doesn't.
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Open Source Operating Systems
Trying to define "startup culture" could feed your reflexion. I did that a few months back, and made a blog post about it: http://rudyonweb.net/what-startup-culture-actually-is/

Hope that helps!
Many people are invested in C++, because in the last 20 years there was an investment in VM based runtimes, effectively leaving C and C++ as the only to go languages if one was looking for ahead of time compilation[0].

Now with Java and .NET upcoming adoption of ahead of time compilation to native code in the next versions.

Additionally with other languages like D, Rust, Go, Swift, Ada, Haskell, OCaml fighting for a place at the Sun.

There will be lots of options for those looking into languages with support for ahead-of-time compilation to native code in their reference implementations.

Thus pushing C++ deeper into the OS realm, while at the same time giving to those people other options to look for.

Hence my remark.

[0] There were other options, but they were largely ignored by the mainstream.
Not necessarily, people can pay less than average, they might not be interested in the "unlockable" games.
Also, any service where it isn't viable to give 30% of their revenue to Apple, Spotify for example (who have to give 70% of their revenue to record companies).

Not that Apple would want Spotify in the store anyway, with it being an iTunes competitor.
It's important to note that while, as the article notes, the last public execution via the guillotine occurred in 1939, it was used out of sight by the French govt through 1977. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
I'm in a similar situation. I've found myself with a job I love, working remotely, which has afforded me the opportunity to move back to the small rural (unfortunately very much bible-belt) town where I was born and have roots. I enjoy most aspects of small town living, being with family and old friends, low cost of living, etc.

However there is near zero startup/tech culture to be found (duh). My idealistic streak would like to change that somehow ("forty acres and a emacs MULE"), but that's unlikely.

Anyone in AR, feel free to message me to geek out.
> As a feminist company, that wasn't fun for us to be associated with, but there was little we could do about that.

I don't see how your company could describe itself and feminist while also making a campaign that relies on some of the structural sexism of the Valley and tech. How did that campaign challenge the existing power structures and stereotypes/mythology of tech?
Attempting to withhold a paycheck for hours worked will get the Feds involved, for free, very quickly.
Cut your food intake in half. Your body responds by cutting your body temperature by 3 degrees, cutting your immune system budget by 75%, and increasing your appetite by 300%. You lose no weight. The next month, you go crazy, eat until your body finally says it's enough, and your weight loss plan fails.

I don't know how to put it more simply than this: when energy intake and energy expenditures are both functions of the same input, you cannot guarantee a positive or negative difference solely by adjusting that input, especially when you do not know exactly how those functions work.

Is ( f(x) - g(x) ) greater than or less than ( f(x/2) - g(x/2) )?
I've already saw people suggesting Syncthing (now Ind.ie Pulse) as an alternative to Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync.
Does anybody has more experience with it? I mean how mature it is and what are the pros/cons of it?
Will it? As I understand it people can pay $0.01 and just get everything else and no steam keys.
Yip.
What Chrome does better is identifying a few key features, and then throwing a multi-million dollar sales and marketing team at it, until enough people think its the best browser again.

(then hiding user lock-in as innovative, minimal UI)
If I found the correct site on Google, I'd personally stay away just because they were awkward enough to have a timer count down to higher prices. Yuck.
How much do you have to pay and how ready is your company to win a pitch?
The problem with this is that every dating site out there looking to grow their user base might see that as a viable strategy.

If it were to become more common (not sure how common it is actually...probably very), that could result in an overall poor experience for OKCupid users who would associate using the service with receiving spam that never netted out to anything.

There is nothing wrong with OKCupid drawing the line on another service trying to get "free" marketing on its dime and at the expense of its user experience.
The workflow is, for now, out of the scope of this project, we assume developers will figure how to produce a javascript object that contains key=value pairs, where each value is a message written in ICU message syntax, and where values are feed into the template engine for helpers/methods to use them.

Internally at Yahoo (just like facebook, and other big companies), we have an infrastructure for translation that works based on a source file written in english by developers, and the whole thing just work. But we have no plans to open up any of that. We believe, such system will grow from the community once people realize that ICU is good enough to internationalize their apps.

As for moment.js, you're right, if you will never need to parse a date, or massage a date value, and the only thing you care about is to format a timestamp that is coming from an API, then `formatRelative` helper should be good enough.
Not necessarily, because I assume not everyone buys the unlockables, so the average could move downwards, too.
I think it interesting that nobody here has asked the question why have Mark and Priscilla suddenly decided that they need to donate this amount of money? Has someone with inside knowledge of what is happening on the ground spoken to them?
That $50k is about three years worth of the $8.50 salary you cite. They're not going to have it in savings, no bank will give them that much credit, and your friends/family tend to be in the same socioeconomic situation as you.
Great job! just end an amazing 15min test session. You're awesome! Now I'll began a full test thanks to the invitation!
0_0

Fuck...I've eaten there fairly regularly myself. No longer.
That $100 pricing doesn't make sense to me.

$20x2 per match is your baseline income per match here which I assume covers your costs.

1st try gets rejected, $20 bucks from the rejecter
2nd try gets rejected, $20 bucks from the rejecter
2rd try gets rejected, $20 bucks from the rejecter

So $60 a month should cover it, assuming that you have a 100% rejection rate.

$35 (.5 x 20 + .25 x 40 + .25 x 60) a month should cover it if you have a 50% rejection rate.

So assuming you have a 50% or less rejection rate, I would pay $35 a month for at-least a 7/8 chance of meeting someone every month.
"only in the US and Canada, i.e. Anglo-Saxon colonies...."

Unless I'm mistaken, you claim you are trying to make a point about North America, not the East Coast of North America, and you insist on referring to places such as the vast American Southwest, the Louisiana Territory, Quebec, and so on as, "Okay, read it as 'former Anglo-Saxon colonies'". You can't see anything wrong with your point?

Clearly, I have to try something else, so does your point about Anglo-Saxon colonies and native populations require us to characterize California and Quebec as "former Anglo-Saxon colonies" or not?

If it were me, I'd give up the fashionable notion that this is about nasty Anglo-Saxons and a phenomenon only seen in the US and Canada and take a closer look at North American former colonies like Massachusetts (English) and Quebec (French), and almost as large South American former colonies like Argentina (Spanish) and Brazil (Portuguese), where the native population is a tiny fraction of the overall population, and compare them to those countries in the middle that still have a majority native population, and ask yourself what the first group have in common with each other that differs from the latter group.

It isn't Anglo-Saxon-ness.
Agreed, FTL is a rich and fun game where death is permanent and even a successful game could take little more than an hour, but the game still easily provides weeks worth of enjoyment.
It is really taxing for women to have to deal with the spam, though, and that can really burn users out of even using the site. Too many messages and too few messages are both problems for different (sometimes overlapping) groups of people.
It's a marketing effort. Your goal is to communicate the benefits of your product (you) to your prospective customers. And just like real marketing, there is a ton of other marketing competing for the same customers. If nearly everyone else is sending copy-paste short messages, do you really think doing the same is going to succeed?

Yes, it sucks to actually read profiles, compose thoughtful initial intro messages, and then be ignored. Just like it sucks to come up with a great startup marketing campaign and then not get the results you were hoping for.

Instead of that's too much work, let's change from rifle/targeted to shotgun/blast, I think you just have to keep iterating and changing how you target, change your marketing media (different sites/venues/ways of meeting people), etc.

I understand the "trough of sorrow" of shouting in the void. But I don't think the answer is to start doing what everyone else is doing - unless you want to get the same results as everyone else of course.

(Not meant to you specifically, Kalium; "you" is meant in a general sense above)
Having lived in DC and now Portland I can confidently say that DC's tech scene is several orders of magnitude larger than Portland's.

Portland is one of my favorite cities I've lived in but it's not a tech city by any means. If you're looking for tech culture you should definitely look elsewhere.

This can also be said about a number of other cities.

> but really any city

...is not that great of an answer. I mean look at Philly. Philly is a massive city but it's not a tech giant nor does it have a huge tech culture. Houston, Dallas, San Diego, etc. These cities are not necessarily known for their tech culture.

But this is all relative. To me Portland doesn't seem like a tech city because I've lived in DC where they average > 1000 attendees at tech meetups.

Edit: Portland OR, not ME
I use ABP and haven't run into this issue at all. Sounds like something's wrong with your install.
But they said there are plans for dynamic linking
I'm thinking more about the type of training that teaches someone to be a responsible worker, productive, show up on time, etc.
Very good news ! Already impressed by the quality of the service with the 15 minutes testing server.
I am eager to launch my first meteor application.
Well one thing they’ve done is ensure that all apps are sandboxed so that I can be sure when my mother downloads an app, it’s not going to be a vector to infest her computer.
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Why does taking offense at the assertion that all or most men spam women on online dating sites deserve down votes?
Anyone know how hard it would be to get a ReactJS binding setup for this? I was literally just looking into GopherJS (for a normal frontend stuff) - but i'm unsure how gnarly it would be to setup bindings.

Part of me fears the output though. It can be rather verbose, large, and is quite abstract from the original code. Debugging and code-size worry me greatly.
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I'd be interested in hearing how exactly you're making these calculations.
Can this create appropriate ASM.js code?
Wait - so what do they do on iOS? There’s a free Spotify app for iOS. Why couldn’t they do the same on the desktop?
42 minutes and your direct personal attack - which also contains stigmatising language about mental health - is not grey.

:-/
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We collect data from a number of sensors at once, at an interval of 15 seconds (nothing super high speed or precision, here), so a row contains only one timestamp (UNIX epoch), but several sensor readings. It's for an electricity metering application.