skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no need for those terms. They are marketing names dreamed up by people who think they can neuro-linguistically trick developers into thinking working for them (usually for less money than they are worth), then they can get over on them.

Again, what is the difference between a doctor who is one of the best in the world versus a doctor who is just 'decent'? What is the term that is necessary to describe that doctor that doesn't exist? Why would any profession be any different?
I have interviewed a lot, and I have literally never experienced anything other than some variation of "of course".
If you liked that, you might want to listen to the Radiolab on Lonesome George. (I think it's the middle one but it's worth listening to all three for context)

http://www.radiolab.org/story/galapagos/
Show HN: Cashier Queue Simulator
well in that case my desktop/laptops don't support NFC. So its still working on one platform and not another.
I haven't been able to get any linux distro working on rmbp. It just boots up to a black screen.
Gov. Rick Snyder (Michigan) Signs 'anti-Tesla' Bill into Law
In that case, you could have it read or check the existence of something else, like a file in /etc.
Millions of people need to track their mileage for all kinds of reasons. It is one of the biggest tax deduction that is taken, so I don't really see it as niche (unless you mean something else).

I want to build a lasting business, that is why I charge $9 a year. I want to build something that will be around for a long time. I beat out a large majority of apps that are cheaper that do the same thing.
It seems like a crazy ruling to me because it is basically impossible to communicate quickly for farther than about 100 yards on a calm day without enlisting the assistance of a third party.

Does this imply that most people have no expectation of privacy in their communications? Their phone calls? Their emails? Their letters? I find that hard to believe.
Here's some suggestions for what next:

- Free access to all of PACER: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/29himg3wm/california-northe...

- Vendor-agnostic legal citations: http://www.plainsite.org/articles/20140115/a-modest-proposal...

- Standardized digital legal opinions, motions, and other documents: http://www.plainsite.org/articles/20140116/a-notsomodest-pro...

- Better free access to state court systems: http://www.plainsite.org/articles/20140114/xerox-strongly-ur...

- Coming soon: the Bad Lawyer Database (BLDB), a compendium of lawyers who have been formally sanctioned, disciplined, and themselves involved in litigation concerning their conduct
Google is also known to Be Evil: I'm not sure I dare waiting until the terms change such that my user's data is subject to googlebot scanning.

I don't believe that claim, especially nowadays.
Capitalize the first letter of a noun and remove vowels at will.

Example, sewage => Sewg
Well, that's embarrassing. They certainly didn't emphasize the Microsoft branding in the DOS version in that case.
I'm no lawyer, but: by law, if you are expected to work 12-hour days, isn't the company supposed to pay you overtime? My understanding was that even if you are an 'exempt' employee, if the _expectation_ is that you have to work more than 40 hours/week, you should be paid overtime?
There are some very reasonable and very scary tumor possibilities associated with stem cell research. Trading paraplegia for spinal cancer is not a good trade. Caution is a very, very good idea.

That said, this result should, in a just world, dramatically increase sources of funding and research worldwide.
I'd also be very interested to see how things are turning out for Discourse as a business. I've been keeping an eye on OSS product + hosted businesses for awhile (Ghost being another one now).
When Google and Facebook ask if you enjoy puzzles, I'm pretty sure they're not talking about jigsaw puzzles! They mean stuff like this:
http://realmode.com/punch22.html
Both launchd and SMF suck. Have you tried learning either?

SMF utilizes XML all over the place. launchd uses .plist trees all over the place. They're both a gigantic pain to learn, with obtuse configuration syntax, and in fact very few people actually learn them. They're both environments that breed epic cargo cults because they're overly complex, yet provide so little benefit that there's little motivation to bother to learn them properly. All you normally care about is getting your little script to run on boot or login, so the rest is just food for bugs.

SMF and launchd also organically grew to take over most of the management of /etc. Now neither is hardly any better than the Windows Registry.

systemd is not only moving in the same direction, they're going to leap-frog them. Why have a separate ntpd or dhcpd when you can just build it into the init framework. Why listen for SIGHUP or SIGTERM when "good" services (in as much as service can be good which isn't shipped with systemd) just use the systemd C API to listen for DBUS events.

That's the problem with systemd, SMF, and launchd. Like SMF and launchd, I have no doubt whatsoever that systemd will rocket past the boundary where the complexity exceeds the benefit.
I build debian chroots with sysv init. Edit: they have libdbus, but aren't running the dbus daemon, but are running udevd.
I've not tried it yet, but Poxa [1] looks quite promising: it's an Elixir app that is supposedly compatible with Pusher libraries.

[1] Poxa: https://github.com/edgurgel/poxa
It's the only thing to look at - and you tend to steer in the direction you're looking...
It might be illegal but it could be made "legal" if she contractually agreed to it somehow. As in "you provide us with a work sample, this day is an interview day, you are not an employee, yadda, yadda... <sign here>" It seems for the millions in VC funds they probably spent some attorneys who check that out for them.
> This is disturbing and in no way represents working at Handy. Companies go through growing pains and these facts have no bearing on us today

I take issue with this statement the most. The author clearly identifies the CEO, whom is still there, was present when the comments and inappropriate jokes were being made. It's entirely possible the CEO did say something, but I'm guessing based on the tone of the article they did not.

While it's natural for a company to go through growing pains I've never heard it used in reference to office culture how customers are treated. If this was going on 18 months ago it means it's still there today.
I wonder why Peen Treebank POS tags are not the default, instead of some new custom tag syntax.
Just an fyi in case you weren't trying to snipe on purpose, but there haven't been any data loss "issues" (e.g. stupid decisions by Google) with Apps for several years now.

That said, if I were using Firebase I'd be concerned, too. Google is well known as a place startups go to die, or morph into something The Borg wants rather than something aligned with the startup's original vision and the expectations of their paying customers.

Good luck and godspeed!
Grasshopper, the anti-harassment videos are not for the benefit of the employee. Then again, nothing is, except the dollars you get to carry home at the end of every month.

Their only purpose is to deflect liability from the company in case any employee should bring a court case. "Your Honor, we couldn't possibly be held responsible for condoning a hostile work atmosphere, we have our employees sit through those execrable things once a year." Judging from just how popular they are, this tactic is working well.
Lyft Line blows my mind. It's like a Lyft, but half price. Works great within the city.
Additionally, if somebody removes the token, dumps a bunch of OTPs and then puts it back, as soon as you use the token once, it will invalidate all previous ones so their dump will be reasonably useless. I leave my key in my computer when I'm at my desk but have it attached to my keychain so that I take it with me if I leave my desk.
What if the extrovert has depression. Would look like the one on left.
I think just about every parent has performed some sort of experiment on his/her baby, although we don't often label it as such (and fortunately, we don't often have to perform the sort of life-or-death experiments that Dr. Silverman was involved in).

My experiences experimenting on my own kids led me to write "Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid" (available wherever books are sold). It's a collection of completely safe science experiments that parents can perform on their own babies, with no special equipment needed. All of the projects are adapted from published academic research in various fields of child development, but don't worry -- there's nothing ethically troubling or harmful, and the projects aren't meant to see if your kid "measures up." They're just to help you better understand how your baby is developing in the first two years.

If you'd like a little preview, check out the December issue of Parents magazine, where (to the best of my knowledge) there will be an excerpt featuring five experiments from the book.
Subtracting out the genetic information being lost due to extinctions and lost diversity, I wonder if the current "information revolution" is actually a period marked by an overall destruction of information?
This doesn't seem like a good use of your time.

I suggest installing an advert blocking program, then finding a more ambitious way to put a dent in the universe.
Cognitionism!

Yeah, it's silly. I think it's not too unlike calling everything "hacking." I "hacked" my eyesight by looking out the window for a minute at the end of every chapter, etc. I moved more and lost weight, brilliant body "hack."

We like to use language to make concepts more or less appealing, and assign them ethical value, even if it's incorrect, or impossible.
New chips will power the gigabit era of DSL
Many animals use the earth's magnetic field for navigation.[1] I don't know how well they would fare if the field were changing rapidly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception
so that's the face of this wonderful humane and honest company.
I know this comment doesn't contribute much to the conversation here, but your comment made me laugh way too hard to not let you know. Sorry your startup failed.
My local, neighborhood locksmith who I see at my corner bar says there is a real danger of those guys coming back and breaking into your place, now that they know everything about your locks.
"Read-only" is a property of flash memory in a USB thumb drive.

The nasty USB vulnerability covered recently infects the chip firmware, which can always be re-flashed (indeed, that's how the firmware got there in the first place). And it affects all USB devices, not just thumb drives.

The only way to make a USB peripheral safe from this attack is to engineer some sort of fuse that can be burned after the final firmware flash (so it can't ever be re-flashed), or cryptographically sign the firmware it can't be re-flashed without the private key.

Until Google says their security key has one or the other of these, I personally would not trust it.
Some good Firebase alternatives:

https://parse.com/ - freemium

http://backendless.com/ - freemium

http://www.kinvey.com/ - freemium

http://deployd.com/ - open source

http://firehose.io/ - open source

http://www.baasbox.com/ - open source

https://www.meteor.com/ - open source
Its been my experience they sell out 1-2 weeks in advance. Definitely buy as soon as possible!
Yes, but importantly, only with firmware 33 or higher. I have 32.0 :(

AIUI, for security reasons YubiKeys are not firmware upgradeable.
I'm the opposite, I rarely if ever forget a face and can recognize people who waited on me in a grocery line, walking down the street in a different city years later. I have no idea what it is or what it means, but we seem to be opposite ends of some sort of spectrum.
> I don't disagree, but is this something we can deal with?

It is unfair to those people that it affects negatively, which is a good enough reason to deal with it, even if people that are affected by it positively don't really mind.
I'm not sure how much you know about tracking cookies and the like but clicking on every ad on every page is not really going to help you. You are better off installing a plugin like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... or https://disconnect.me/. Those tools take away a lot of the tracking and profiling capabilities of ad networks.

The other problem is that modern ad networks these days are pretty complicated beasts very much like stock exchanges where publishers and marketers come together to bid on the ability to serve ads on specific pages and to specific users. This means a lot of these networks gather and segment information by IP addresses and browser fingerprints. Those pieces of information are much harder to mask and you need to start using anonymizing proxies if you want to hide that information as well.

So the bottom line is that all these tools already exist and they are much better at masking information than clicking on every ad possible.
carsongross's comment got me thinking about how presidents have been regarded (esp. George Bush in recent years). So I looked up how presidents have been regarded over the years [0]. Salient quote, assuming rankings and competence are somewhat compatible (maybe they aren't):

> Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and George Washington are consistently ranked at the top of the lists. Often ranked just below those Presidents are Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

> The remaining places in the top ten are often rounded out by Harry S. Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James K. Polk, and Andrew Jackson. Presidents such as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton tend to be rated among the greatest in public opinion polls, but do not always rank as highly among presidential scholars and historians.

> The bottom ten often includes Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Warren G. Harding, Millard Fillmore, George W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, and John Tyler.

Now, compare that to their portraits [1]. Personally, the biggest example of "face-ism" I can recall during my lifetime is George W. Bush's portrayal in the media during his presidency. But I guess he also did screw some things up...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presiden...

[1] http://sonowiknowdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/allpresi...
Seems like there'd be an opportunity for a consulting business which guides you on which haircut to get, how to trim your eyebrows, which glasses to wear, etc. in order to get a promotion, be perceived as more more intelligent or more extroverted, depending on how you aspire to progress in your career.

Maybe such a thing already exists and I'm not in the loop. (I'm not talking about a personal stylist here- these seem to be to look more attractive/fashionable. Maybe there's a style that makes you look much more competent, at the detriment of your attractiveness- but you care about the former).

I'm also reminded of this: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Moustache.txt
The Back to the Future Hoverboard Is Finally Here
When it's advantageous to sit in the middle seat on a plane
I know that to be the case in Pennsylvania and Virginia, as those are the states I've lived in. I believe it to be the case in New York.
Oral History of Adele Goldberg (2010) [pdf]
Technology is Evolution
All the top tier VCs (including YC) repeat the mantra "don't sweat the terms". It also appears on Ron Conway's slide in this lecture.

There seems to be a dangerous line between taking a good deal as offered and getting nailed by a bad deal. It's easy for the VC to say "don't sweat the terms", they are setting the terms after all. The advice makes sense if you're working with a top tier firm that has a reputation to protect, but it seems like it could be quite dangerous when applied to lower tier VCs?
Notes: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/10/21/htsas-lec09/
BART station is directly next to the terminal. Exit at Embarcadero station. Most of the BART stations in SF are walking distance of each other. You can actually walk from there to the pier with the Alcatraz ferry if you feel like it. Make sure you get a ticket for Alcatraz ahead of time as it runs out fast. Another option is stop at Montgomery station and taking a cable car to the piers. Also get a city pass you if want to visit multiple things in a day and save some money. http://www.citypass.com/san-francisco
An interesting "paradox": people at the two ends of the trustworthy-appearance spectrum are the least incentivized to act trustworthy. Those on the right end will get the benefit either way; those on the wrong end have to work too hard to get the benefit. It is the people in the middle who gain the most from acting trustworthy.
The question is, how?
If it can, you won't be able to afford the license
Reddit was "seemingly taken over by teenage boys"

... was there a time it wasn't. Love that. Love reddit.

Also, dotomator can be useful for generating ideas. http://www.dotomator.com/
I don't want to use an ad blocker because, I really want to support people who produce content and rely on ads (like youtubers ...).
What if it's giving you black lung?
I run one of those nasty SaaS sites and I can confirm that it makes a lot of sense. Maybe you should start one by yourself and start asking yourself how much you should charge for your services. Here is a hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Sent the following to Gov. Snyder ...

Hi,

Just thought I'd drop you a line from Australia (hence the ZIP and phone, mine are actually XXXX and +61 XXXX).

Anyhow, hope you and the other Michigan legislators are enjoying whatever kickbacks you're getting from the car dealer lobbyists to ban Tesla from operating in Michigan. If I were you, I'd be demanding at least a free car and a cushy 'consulting' job after you retire from politics.

The thing that surprises me the most is that I thought prostitution was illegal in Michigan.

Yours in amused contempt,

Duncan Bayne
I'd argue if a VC is trying to sneak in some non-standard bad terms, you should just walk away. They're definitely not people you want to work with.

The best VCs have extremely simple, straightforward terms. I've seen a term sheet from a top tier VC that was just half a page long with no bs in the share purchase agreement either.
GPL :( can't use it
For installation from source I use CheckInstall [1]. It will keep track of all the files created during a make install, and create a standard deb or rpm package that can then be installed and removed by the distribution's package manager.

[1] http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/docs/README
In this line of argument, the host that houses the servers is also a third party. So, there's no need to contact the opperator, when they could just access the machines.
The tool chain was developed in academia for 6 years before they adopted [1]. With an incredibly pervasive BSD-esque license [2].

Thus, companies can use the code without giving themselves back. This is why Sony uses BSD based OS on the playstation [3]. Its cheap, they can modify it, and keep what changes they deem necessary.

And yes, I'm aware Apple has given back to the project. But it seems pretty obvious why they don't use the GCC when you consider how hard Apple has tried to purge the GPL from its OS [4]. And the legal battle NeXT had with the FSF/GNU [5].

I stand by, we won't see Apple open source it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois/NCSA_Ope...

[3] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU1MzA

[4] http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#Popularization_thro...
> For instance, my initial impulse is to regard people who have a "bro" or "frat" face with contempt before realizing how irrational that is.

I find this interesting. Do graduates seriously continue to resent people who were in fraternities that much? One would think these kinds of stereotypes didn't matter much after college.

Until I started reading HN, I wasn't aware that this kind of deep-seeded hatred existed. I see a lot of people using "bro-" as a negative prefix meaning "not adequate". This bothers me as someone who spent college loving CS and programming while very much participating in fraternity culture.

EDIT: I'm an introvert; I'm just not really shy. I do sometimes feel like I can't get along with other programmers for some reason.
The tools I suggested do not block ads. All they do is take away the tracking and profiling capabilities. You'll still see plenty of ads but they won't follow you around since tracking capabilities are very strongly tied to being able to plop down cookies.
Handy.com seems like a really honest and humane company to work for. Just look at the co-founder's face, it exudes an all caring expression, the type you can only acquire by going to Harvard and working for McSomething consulting firm.
It's okay, there's nothing important based in Scunthorpe anyway.
I think the buy-sell spread would definitely be a problem, unless the company has money in bitcoin already and you don't plan on selling it immediately. It's just not viable until bitcoin usage is more
widespread and selling btc for cash becomes a thing of the past.
PhotoMath – Smart camera calculator
If they are replaceable, they are cogs :)
I thought this was the purpose of implementation-defined behavior rather than undefined behavior.
"Paul Dirac apparently had a reserved and taciturn nature. There are numerous accounts how he didn’t mind remaining silent in company. And if asked a question, his answer would be short and nothing but the literal truth – sometimes the asker had to wait up to thirty minutes for it."

This is what completes genius.
I think you're vastly underestimating what Firebase offers, which you presumably didn't do in 100 lines of code:

1) Full user management services, including registration and password recovery
2) Extremely fine-tuned access control per resource
3) Complete, tested front-end libraries for AngularJS, Backbone, and other popular frontend libraries.
4) Much more reliability than socket.io in providing cross-platform, cross-mobile real-time messaging (believe me I've used and tested socket.io). socket.io may or may not work on a given platform, and it's no longer a very active project, either.
5) Full admin panel for database, including real-time data updates.

Look, for a chat app, you're absolutely correct that Firebase may be overkill. But very few of us that rely on Firebase for applications are limiting ourselves to chat apps.

That said, I'm not happy about this acquisition. And this is probably the last time I'll be burned like this by a PaaS company. I saved a lot of time by going with Firebase (much more than 100 lines of code) but I'm questioning whether it was worth it.

PS: I didn't downvote, although I was tempted after reading your "Why not learn" remark. I think you're right in the end that open source is the best solution, but you're very wrong to assume that people are using Firebase because they can't quite figure out how to make a 100-line Node app.