skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experiencing ANTLR: powerful compiler of compilers
It isn't particularly hard not to use git pull,

git fetch origin
git rebase origin/develop
If you don’t like Uber right now, don’t worry, you soon will
This is less out of altruism, and more so that any untoward activities can be uncovered whilst the person is out of the office.

I'd love to hear more about that.
Another upside is forcing the company to learn to run without its founders or other key employees for a meaningful period of time.

This forces good processes to be put in place, and is an excellent fire drill in general.
That's the entire point: to hide pricing information from consumers in an attempt to trick them.
I'm amazed by that decision (to leave the hardware & software biz). Look at Apple -- that's pretty much all they do, and they have a $650B market cap, 4x that of IBM.
Keurig make espresso machines, the Rivo range.
It's always amazing how people repeat this coal mine idea: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/03/28/sexism-in-tech-not-...
In CA, this is definitely not the case. A company must cut you a check on your final day that includes everything owed to you, including unused vacation days.
Glad to see a new approach on the open vacation policy. I think this policy would work better if vacation days are only tracked until the minimum is met, otherwise I have a feeling it will be perceived as exactly 25 days, not more.
I used to think like you... when I was a teenager. I remember one of the things that was attractive about cable TV was that it was ad-free. Now, can you name one cable channel without ads?

I am also firmly in the ad-block camp. You have to realize that there is no contract that forces us to follow the expectations of companies' business models. If my lack of cooperation is enough for them to fail at providing the service, they are the ones that need to change. Not me.
It is compared to a "long weekend" as described in the parent comment. Although it would be nice, taking a month off every year would be grail-status vacation time for a US employee I think.

Also, I don't work in Silicon Valley.
The ssh/server thing you noted is what got me; being able to search and navigate in really large log files on the cluster I used to work on. That was my gateway drug. I don't use it full time, but I use it quiet a bit now.
Maybe check for the referrer, then if it matches a list of known communities, HackerNews, Reddit, Facebook, etc. have it automatically change to "Create Your Own <REFERRER>", otherwise just use community?
You can also view it likes this.

In the end of your life when looking back at it. You can think of asking two questions of yourself.

Did you wish you worked more hard days for your company? or
Did you wish you spent more time with family and gaining new experiences?

Obviously you will need to find a work / life balance but if you only work/play hard you might regret it later and you cannot get lost time back.
Until I left the US every I worked operated on the basis of accrued vacation. The day you started you had 0 vacation days, after 6 months you could use half your annual allotment, etc.
> Where did we go wrong?

Fantastic line of discussion! Glad you're bringing it up.

We went wrong when we said, "We can have infinite possibilities, but only through >ME<."

And then we cemented the deal when we went along with the "guy" who said, "You can only have infinite possibilities through >ME<."

And we let it get worse when we rationalize the Keurig with bullshit like "Having a pot of coffee around is unsafe because of the burner, etc."

Technology is a stand-in for relationships - what you would do for someone if you were there, but conveniently you've duplicated yourself via machine. We went wrong when we said, "Well, if I was there, I would prevent you from having coffee from a convenient machine." In reality you wouldn't - you would share as much as possible. However, when we replace ourselves with machines designed by greedy committees, we write ourselves out of the equation.
Color me envious. I currently get 10 paid vacation days total per year.
From inside the ship you wouldn't really know that you were being propelled using nuclear bombs. Between the pusher plate and the ship are extensive shocks that would be designed to smooth out the pulsing power of the bombs into a smooth acceleration. Anything else wouldn't work very well and induce loads of stresses up the ship.
Lawsuit: Ex-Nike designers joining Adidas stole %22treasure trove%22 of designs
Cold PVC pipe, not hot (slower leakage). Plus the leakage has diminishing returns (it cannot leak the same amount forever, it is physically impossible).
because information without conext is useless?
Not all nuclear detonations cause EMP. It requires a particular set of circumstances.
Bindings, Generics, Swift and MVVM
It is basic OOP in C. Look it up.
"Awesome! With my vim cheat sheet wallpaper I will never forget anything! This time next year, Rodney..."

<opens large vim window>

"Oh..."
Do you know why? Is it just to encourage people to take more vacation time?
Thanks for the link to that study.

In "europe" a two week vacation (10 work days) is common/standard. As opposed to American's "long weekends."

To that point, if you've ever wondered (as I have) about the differences in philosophy on the topic of vacation between America and Europe, you may enjoy this paper [1]. It attempts to examine those differences. It's entitled "Europeans Work To Live and Americans Live To Work (Who is Happy to Work More: Americans or Europeans?)."

Interesting paragraph: "This is the first study to test empirically whether working more makes Americans happier than Europeans. This study suggests that as the number of work hours increases, Americans become happier about life than Europeans. The purpose of this study was to document this relationship. More research is needed to find out why working more makes Americans happier than Europeans. I just note here one possible explanation: Americans may work more because they believe more than Europeans do that hard work brings success."

I'm American, and I love taking time away to recharge. I'm fortunate enough to be able to completely break away and unplug. I don't work while I'm on vacation, and I don't check email either. Again, I'm quite fortunate, as I know a lot of people simply can't do that for various reasons. I do wish our culture placed more emphasis on the importance of down-time. It just makes so much intuitive sense to me, and my personal productivity seems to corroborate the intuitive feeling that I have about the topic.

[1] http://people.hmdc.harvard.edu/~akozaryn/myweb/docs/final_wo...

- - -

Edit: Here is another interesting article on the topic. "Reluctant Vacationers: Why Americans Work More, Relax Less, than Europeans"

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/reluctant-vacatio...
IT departments losing control of IT spending
Google's apparently stopped its brain-teaser interview questions
I'd like to see the breakdown on KCup usage in the home versus in the Office.

The majority of K's I've seen are in the office, where you're looking for simple streamlined solutions to keep people from bitching about the surrounding environment, and get back to work.

I think most people in a relationship can deal with the morning coffee differences
Outside tech (which is dripping with privilege) it's common to have 0-2 weeks of vacation in the US. There is no legal minimum, and I've had jobs offering 0, 1, and 2 weeks of vacation. In some cases you can take time off and simply not be paid for it.
When I came back to web design after seven years' absence, Skeleton was the first framework I used. I was blown away by frameworks and responsive design -- these weren't really things in 2004 -- and I loved the lightweight, clean structure. (I have to admit I also really liked the serif font you initially used. Serifs, so underappreciated...) Thanks!
Uber created a marketplace and provided both buyers and sellers with a tool to participate in that market with minimal friction, mainly by taking advantage of GPS radios in people's devices. I, for one, consider this to be rather innovative and clever.

(Note that you can minimize anything with word choice. "Google is just a web spider that looks at links," or "Clojure is just a lisp that runs on the JVM," etc.)
I'm genuinely curious as to why an admin hasn't changed this title yet.

Certainly enough people have commented about it and it is a grossly misleading omission.
Ask HN: What is the goal of website design?
What do you think the goal of website design is?
If anyone wants to read more about unlimited vacation policies, here are some of the previous HN threads on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125973 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4874743 , and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613526 . The last contains comments about the Jacob Kaplan-Moss essay that was mentioned in this thread's link.
> Also, what was reported to Uber was allegations of "staring" and just generally making the passenger feel uncomfortable. While thats definitely not cool and not the experience anyone wants to have with Uber, thats hardly enough to fire someone.

Drivers that make passengers who are women uncomfortable due to harassment should absolutely 100% be fired. Sexual harassment is not tolerable for employees of a company, whether its to fellow employees and/or customers.
I crave neat implementations of fancy animations and this is one. Congrats!
Only in the general sense that bitcoin is a system with some desirable properties of a decentralized torrent index. The list of all software with features desirable in a distributed torrent index is as long as my arm and it's arguably sensible to "investigate" any one of them.

But the grandparent poster didn't name many technologies, they singled out the bitcoin blockchain specifically. A technology that through the popularity of its function has made it a popular target to have other things bolted onto. But popularity of the blockchain hammer does not turn all problems into nails.
Here's another article about it (same content, but easier to digest):

http://myplasticfreelife.com/2011/04/bpa-free-does-not-mean-...

TL;DR: Just because plastic is BPA free, doesn't mean it is safe or even better.
1,000 Reviews and a Near 5-Star Value: Our “Good Listener” Approach
The Early Years of Jony Ive, the the Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
A lot of the standard lib constructs behave completely differently in different contexts. Often subtly. For instance,

@globvals = glob("*"); # returns all matches to @globvals

$glob1 = glob("*"); # returns the first match and stores it in $glob1

$glob2 = glob("*.c"); # returns the second match of "*" and stores it in $glob2
If you're really looking for insight and engage (discuss, respond) it should be OK.
If you're just submitting every blog post for marketing like (random examples) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=vijaygirija, https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Lemeowski13 then it gets boring really quick.
Laws in France state that employers have to make sure every employee takes at least 2 consecutive weeks (ie 10 work days) between June & September. So, yes, mandatory.
I hope this Picasso thing doesn't take off. If Van Gogh wasn't annoying enough we'll soon have this cubism abomination in every museum.

Beauty for beauty's sake. Art for art's sake. This is just tacky.
Not to mention that pouring boiling water through cheap plastic leaches industrial chemicals into our coffee, thereby increasing our chances of cancer.

Plus Keurig tastes like a cup of monkey-poo. French press is the way to go (or iced coffee).
Austria's Startup Scene: Scaling Alpine Heights
“Parent Disrupt Winner 2015” Onesie
Y Combinator co-founder on the 'final pinch' that dooms startups
If you like to be abel to use material in bootstrap (or more) make sure you check out semantic UI. Open source as well, let's you toggle between...everything really :)

This looks pretty awesome as well, thanks for sharing.
comments alone increase rank, but too many look like spam and therefore get stooped
Huh. My vacation started at a month when I joined. But I usually take it a week at a time. And I work in the US, for a Silicon Valley company.
Uber is an amazing customer experience (same with Lyft, etc) but I am really worried about the precedent being set here.

Every step of Uber's success has been associated with some sort of law breaking. In each new market they ignore the established taxi/limo laws, and in some they ignore more serious laws (background checks, etc). The individual offenses are small and generally non-serious (unlicensed taxi driving, illegal fees) but when you zoom out you see that this is a company systematically encouraging thousands of small crimes every day. When you realize that the behavior comes from the top, you can aggregate the wrongdoing into something pretty serious.

At first this was kind of 'cute'. We were all rooting for the little startup who said no to an old system and tried to create something better. Uber is now a huge company. They have secured over $2B in funding and probably intending to IPO with a market cap over $50B. Yet they have not slowed down with the law breaking and general disregard for "the rules".

How can this be OK? When will we force them to be mature and obey the laws. I have to obey the law in my every day life. More importantly, I would be terrified if other companies with similar market caps (airlines, rental car companies, media companies) started ignoring the law left and right. If money and investors can make you above the law then there is no protection for the rest of us.

I really want Uber as a service to exist, as I said. They provide a great convenience for me. However I don't think it's acceptable that they get to ignore the established rules. The laws are there for a reason. If they are bad laws, then we can work to change them. No amount of VC funding should make you immune to their reach.
I see you decided to pull something out of your ass then do a simple search.

26 Billion of their 2013 revenue came from Software division
14 Billion came from the Systems and Technology division
2 Billion came from the Global Financing division
Well you can definitely see the IBM influence in this announcement. Some of those sentences could have come straight out of the buzzword generator.
I guess that falls under "doing things that don't scale" :)
Five principles to guide your big data analytics projects
I work for a Boulder tech startup with an unlimited vacation policy.

Last year I took a month in Japan and South Korea, I just returned from two weeks in Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong. I also spent two weeks in Europe earlier this year, plus some odd long weekends and a planned week away around Christmas. I think my total for 2014 comes to around six weeks.

We also have a policy of working one month a year remotely from anywhere and the company pays part of the expense. I'm heading to Hanoi next year to take advantage of that. Our CEO/co-founder took his family to Australia for a month.

An exception? Probably. But it works for us.
You should have use strict; use warnings; then you would have noticed the my $fh and the $io->getline error
It sounds like having an open vacation policy is what leads to not respecting those days off in others. Also, what the leaders do, the staff generally do.

It sounds like a healthy place to work to me. I'd love to work there.
Without a hint of irony, the very next section complains about RtAudio, which has everything in one file to fix exactly this problem ;)

(And it's only 10,000 lines.)
What you're proposing is unlikely to work in many environments. Even in the best of environments, where trust and respect course through every coworker interaction, people will still be looking to their coworkers (especially their superiors) to get a feel for how much vacation time is acceptable. In fact, companies with exceptionally strong cultures may be worse, as people really won't want to be a burden on their coworkers by taking more vacation days than average.

This is especially true for anyone with any sort of leadership role—whether it's an official senior position, a mentor, or just someone who is known for being a model employee. Your own behavior serves as a model for others, and no company policy is going to tell people any different.

I work for a small nonprofit organization with an extremely dedicated president. She's been very gracious with the freedom she allows her employees (though the official policies could be better), but I'm always wondering if she thinks that I'm actually working hard enough—not because of anything she's said, but because she puts in a ton of hours. I know many of my coworkers feel the same pressure.

If you're forced to take vacation time even when you don't need it, then try to find other pursuits—personal projects, reading, volunteering—that are still "work", but of the unpaid variety. Take the time to catch up with friends and family (especially if you have kids). Vacation doesn't just have to be about traveling and/or resting; it can also be an opportunity to catch up on other priorities.
I'll assume that's because you're unfamiliar with the Kiriakou case, in which Zubaydah plays an important role.

You could sum that case up by saying that Kiriakou is accused of two major harms to the USG: first, outing a 20-year undercover operative, and second, potentially compromising the Zubaydah case. It would be an easy message board rebuttal to say, "well, it turns out Zubaydah was a pawn with virtually no value to the USG or Al Qaeda, so compromising him was not a big deal". But, at the time when Kiriakou was alleged to have leaked secrets to promote his book, nobody believed that about Zubaydah. He was instead believed to have a key operational role in Al Qaeda, and compromising him to promote a book would have been a grave matter.

It is hard to explain the nuance of this case without sounding like I'm taking a side in it. CIA is also accused throughout the Senate report of leaking secrets to polish its own reputation. The only issue I'd have a problem with is the idea that Kiriakou's actions were heroic. By his own stipulations that appears not to be the case.

I'll say this again: I'm may be more ambivalent than most of HN when it comes to surveillance and law enforcement and regulation, but I am not ambivalent about torture or, for that matter, the CIA, or criminal liability for the CIA.

I should have to make that disclaimer, but obviously I do.
Hi all, post author here! We're working on the code base and would love everybody's input here: https://github.com/pudo/tmi
> But I understand all the bitcoin evangelists don't even want to consider that another digital currency can make it to the top.

Can you explain why "Safecoin" is needed and more importantly, how it is superior to Bitcoin? It sounds like a reinvention of something that already exists, done to raise funds (they wouldn't have received millions of USD$ in funding otherwise). I've never seen a good technical explanation, it's all very hand-wavy and vague.

Secondly, Maidsafe seems to be trying to solve a problem that does not exist - backing up personal data to a p2p network. It's a flawed idea because there is no way to know if your data is sitting on a botnet that could disappear any moment. There is a financial incentive to pretend to be multiple clients and use as little hardware as possible. Maidsafe cannot know if your 10 copies of data are on 10 hard drives or 1.
Isn't the signature itself additional bits? This whole distinction between data and metadata is farcical: metadata is a subtype of data, they are not disjoint.
FWIW, "gypsy cab" is a general term for illegal cabs.

I would argue that the use of the word gypsy is actually a slur against Romani people. I'm a little confused by your comment as you seem to be implying that a gypsy is a bad thing and it's thus offensive to the drivers to be called gypsies.

I hope I'm misinterpreting because that's like getting mad at Alice for calling Bob a n*, not for using a racist slur, but because it compares Bob to a black person.
OP don't listen to all the haters in this thread.

This is absolutely gorgeous and fluid smooth , atleast on Desktop. I can see this becoming very popular in the months ahead.

And why all the hate for the animations ? They are well thought out and provide context .

Design is continuously evolving and Material Design will also evolve to overcome some of its shortcomings such as a lack of information density and a rather flat look.
I admit I don't know how my vacation schedule works, officially. I just take time off and inform HR. They do whatever they do.
NCC Group to open .trust domain for registration
The LeWeb Breakfast Chat [video]
My previous company ran a PTO system and advanced the entire balance on 01JAN every year. There aren't many, but they are out there.
I wonder if there will still be a free tier, a place to drop decent base nodes or images demoing open source and so on.
Not only that, but many employers aren't required to offer maternity leave (let alone paternity leave). My wife has had to combine accrued vacation time, sick days, and unpaid leave just to get to six weeks of maternity leave.
I can see the merit for enforcing more vacation; but is more vacation the solution to burnout, or is working less overall?
Who do you mean by 'they' and 'us' there?

That's pretty clearly satire...
vim:

step 1: type ci(.
step 2: type what you want to replace with.
step 3: press ESC.

notepad++:

step 1: press Ctrl-H.
step 2: type \([^)]*\).
step 3: press tab.
step 4: press (.
step 5: type what you want to replace with.
step 6: press ).
step 7: move hand to mouse.
step 8: move cursor to and click on "Regular expression".
step 9: press enter.

Do you have another example?
Hi pudo,

What is the relationship btw the version of newsclipse that's running as a demo online and the repo:

https://github.com/Canvas-Hackathon-Teams/Newsclipse

It seems to be the same - is that where I get a copy to run locally?
By default a computer will not care about the origins or meta of the string of bits fed to it. That the iPhone cares about the metadata is a behavior imposed by Apple, not a inherent feature of computers in general.
It's expected that you don't abuse the policy. While what constitutes abuse may be a line that needs elaboration, making your standard work week 2-3 days under this policy is not a gray area.
This is really the only sane way to develop once you're past a certain team size.
Time to move to Australia or Uruguay!
Don't know, it is generally mandatory to take 4 weeks, where you can't be denied taking 3 weeks in a row in the months June to August.

I think the idea is that you should be able to spend while on vacation... but not really sure.
I have not read Mandelbrot's book (yet!), so I can't really compare it.

I don't know what sort of depth you're looking for, but I'd call CBoN a "medium"-depth book on the subjects involved. It's possible to read it like a pop-science book and still appreciate it, but you can actually sit down with pencil and paper (or write some code) and gain a pretty good level of insight. You're not going to necessarily gain a complete understanding of all the underlying math, though, just by reading this book.

Anyway, it's a pretty darn good use of $40, IMO. Buy it!
js-seed – skeleton for JavaScript apps and packages
This is a small javascript skeleton project I use to start new projects quickly. Let me know if you have any feedback on the choice of core features/technologies:

* npm for dependency management
* Gulp.js for builds
* Sass for css templating
* CommonJS module syntax for code modularity
* Browserify for frontend dependency management
* Uglify for JavaScript compression
* Jest for unit testing
* Node.js entrypoint