skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vienna makes geodata available for free
>> Bret Taylor, former chief technology officer at Facebook and a founder of Quip, with his son Sam and daughter Jasmine.

>> He leaves work at 5:30 p.m. so that his employees will not feel obligated to stay.

Bret is pictured in his expensive home, standing in front of a gas range that was at least $10,000. He can afford to take it easy. He's already sacrificed and put in the 16 hour days.
I was frankly surprised to see it still up. I assumed it had shut down years ago.
Unity 5.0 does now include full 2D support.
The US system has always treated vacation, healthcare, ____ leave as BENEFITS, and expected the market to provide them as necessary. Sadly, the supply has never met the demand, and it will probably take legislation to make this universal reality. Considering how awesome our legislature is at making fair and just policies, I wouldnt hold my breath
Women are the only people who get pregnant. If you force people to choose between a family and a job some people would see that as discriminatory against women.
Ask HN: Why do some sites show the normal landing page although I'm logged in?
When I access sites like www.intercom.io, www.segment.com or www.google.com/analytics, I see the normal landing page, although I'm signed up and logged in.

In order to see my personal (logged-in) page, I have to click on "LOG IN", "Dashboard" or "Access Google Analytics" (but I don't have to reenter my password).

What's the reason for this approach? I'd assume that it should be as easy as possible for the user (i.e. immediately show my personal, logged-in, page).

Thanks
John Resig annotates original jQuery source code
Religion == Hobby?

That is how (many of) us foreign atheists look at it. It's self-evidently a social hobby with some funny rules. It gets special treatment because the practitioners of this hobby get significantly more aggressive about it than the people playing collectable card games.
Huh? That was the first thing about it that caught my interest!
I have quite a few unused or underused ones like:

erronthesideofawesome.com

fileexit.com

nightlifenyc.com

noveldesign.com

uniqueventures.com

voteright.us

I have a few more that a dark due to a product launching later this year as well.
Show HN: YC Application Bloopers
Interview with Matt Faustman, CEO of UpCounsel
Is hoogle a special search engine for Haskell code or was that an unintentional typo?
The friend option is super smart. Will def. consider doing something like this and consulting a lawyer. Much obliged for the input!
> Why is a couple's (or a mothers) choice to have children more important than what I choose to do in life?

Because at a fundamental level, a society continuing to exist is predicated on people continuing to have children. Your art does not fit that criteria.
In a startup context it doesn't matter, the technical founders should be able to whip something up in whatever tech stack as you're ramping up. Once you have some funding, employee #1 or 2 should be an expert and be able to bring in all the cargo-cult best practices for that tech stack and teach the rest of the team.
Printable cam blocker: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:195405
Worst case scenario for this "fear mongering": People put sticky tape over / unplug their cameras.

Or are you against all instances of causing people to be afraid of something on principle?
Chrome version 43 (dev channel atm) will actually show https in red and with a strikethrough.

Example with https://xkcd.com - http://i.imgur.com/lFlMgly.png
> It's really easy to automatically dismiss everyone who starts a conversation with "I'm looking for a technical co-founder". Doing this means you miss talking to some interesting people. But be upfront that you're not that co-founder so no-one feels like their time is wasted.

This is a good point. I suspect many people here have grown tired of hearing "dude I have this idea for an app..." I just graduated from college and many of my nontechnical friends who went into finance are realizing they hate it and want to get into tech startups. During college I was always busy so I shrugged off these conversations. Now I have time to listen, and it turns out, many of them actually do have good ideas and business models. They just don't know how to code them. But these are smart, well connected people who can raise money. Dismissing their ideas is foolish and could certainly be a waste.

I realized I can monetize all my friends asking me to help with apps. I have a team of programmers I've worked with overseas, and I know how to manage them to complete projects. I've started offering a service to my friends where I take them from idea to MVP (usually a basic CRUD web app). I translate ideas to technical requirements, write a spec, divide it into milestones, negotiate payment schedule, and manage the project to completion. I structure the price per milestone so that my team is rewarded for hitting deadlines, e.g. Milestone X (some subset of feature requirements) pays $1000 by 4/31, or $1500 by 4/24. This has worked well for me in the past and is a good way to keep projects on schedule.

I just started doing this, and I've gotten a new lead or two each week so far. None have been serious enough about the idea yet to immediately execute, but I suspect with some pressure applied they will be ready.

I spoke to an alumnus from my school who graduated 3 years ago and did this in an official capacity. He started a "product development consultancy" wih a hybrid employee/outsource model, and tapped his alumni network for projects. His company completed 39 projects in its first year, all sourced from networking.

If you are an engineer also blessed with a strong network and interpersonal skills, I suggest you look into this as well. You don't need to code every app that someone wants help with. Often you can help give direction, or even charge for your services of managing an overseas team. People who leave finance are a good match because they can raise funds to the point that you can offer cheap, quality service from a friend, but also pay your developers way more than median salary in their country. I think of it like arbitraging my networks and skillsets.

Regardless of whether you do that, I definitely recommend putting an end to the habit of ignoring the app ideas of your friends.
From multiple microphones, perhaps, but from a single microphone? Seems unlikely.
It happened.

https://gist.github.com/omegahm/28d87a4e1411c030aa89

via https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organ...
Regarding snap judgements, I've had multiple interviewers write me off within the first five minutes. It's just silly and a waste of everyone's time.

Example: Interviewer asks me a question. I start brainstorming outloud because they coached me to talk through my ideas. Of course some of my ideas are not going to work. The interviewer will shoot the first wrong idea down immediately and peg me as an idiot for the rest of the interview even if my second idea is the perfect solution.
I'm not sure about that. If you take a look at (for example) the awful change on Stack Overflow made by Shog9 to mitigate short comments (and what he believes are therefore bad comments), you'll see the huge backlash and also notice how many people can and do leave thoughtful comments with only a single line or less. I think it is an impossible problem to judge the quality of content by its quantity. The +1 comment is an extremely niche type of comment "problem" that can be mitigated successfully by outsourcing the functionality to a simple upvote widget, but I think that's as far as you can get in judging comment quality without making very broad statements that quash some quality content by mistake.
Your comment represents everything that is wrong about a monoculture.

Bias against employing parents is bad enough, but any notion of hostility against an "other" is unwarranted. Surely the tech industry has enough room for people who have kids and people who don't?
Not to mention they slapped them with kidnapping charges because they forced the people they were robbing into a room.... How the fuck....

The sad truth is the American people simply do not care. Period. If you are a criminal you are a nobody and you get everything you deserve in the eyes of many Americans. People sit and rot in prison for the stupidest of reasons or technicalities and then when they get out we are surprised when they sometime return to a life of crime? They don't know anything else and the rules of their parole are often impossible to adhere to without support. Like having to interview for jobs they know they won't get just to satisfy their parole terms. We really need to get more people out of the prisons and back on the streets with reasonable parole programs. However this is the "terrorism" argument all over again, no politician wants to sign his/her name to something like this because ONE single fuckup will have it all blow up in their face and potentially ruin their career....

Full Disclosure: I work for a company that, among other things, provides electronic monitoring to jurisdictions as an alternative to incarceration. That said any views expressed here are my own and not that of my employer.
The straight answer? Because their kids (maybe, just maybe) will have jobs and pay taxes that keep services running when you're retired. It's part of the social contract[1].

You might make the point that your art benefits society as well. It might, I have no idea. But more importantly, we as society haven't agreed on that benefit (which I think needs to be talked about as well), so you don't get recognized.

Like any "standard" contract, the social one does not address everybody's needs equally, but it's the one we arrive at by consensus. And so we are bound by it as long as that consensus stays. (Or we opt out of democracy, which certain SV nutcases are certainly considering)

You might make many other points about the social contract that are valid, like e.g. the scarcity of work, the unsustainability of current society, etc. I think we need to address them, and I think the social contract will change significantly in the next 30 years.

But as it is right now, that's why employers should support people who have children.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
(You're probably familiar with it, but on the off chance you aren't, here's the link. It's not meant as snark)
I'd love one: eligundry@gmail.com
https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
Yep, that's him, given his profile in HN and http://the-witness.net/news/
The idea that there is one single "objective" interview process is ridiculous. The idea that we should be vigilant about bias, subjectivity, and nondeterminism is the opposite of ridiculous.
Was mostly asking because of the uniqueness of the tax situation. As a foreign student in Germany I'm not allowed to freelance within Germany so I might as well setup in the US as a foreigner. Will do more research on S-corp as I know a few artists who freelance with it. Thx!
> Why is a couple's (or a mothers) choice to have children more important than what I choose to do in life?

Fundamentally, human society exists because it increases the chance of our species success. Everything else - from art to the internet - is a peace dividend from how much better we are at taking care of our young than the average species. Biologically human child birth & child care is actually really disadvantaged, but we more than made up for it by the advantages of society.

Keep that in mind anytime you compare "giving birth to a child" to literally anything else in society. Giving birth to a child is the core reason for it all.
I'm sure it's not shameful. It might bug you, but I don't see it as something worthy of shame.

I do not have kids, do not plan to have kids, so I'm not sure why I should pay for someone else's decisions to create life. Whenever someone goes on family leave, other people who were not involved with that decision have to pick up the slack.

Now, maybe if I could take paid (or unpaid) leave-of-my-discretion as an alternative, I'd be okay with it. Otherwise, it feels like federal level discrimination against unmarried, child-less, individuals.
Having a child isn't really a "choice" in the aggregate. As a society we need to have kids, or else all this paper Silicon Valley wealth predicated on the extensive of successive generations of teenagers goes up in smoke.[1] It's more like paying to install bathrooms than for something societally optional.

[1] Or our debt-funded public services, or our socials security system, or our stock market. The inter-generational dependence of the old on the young and vice-versa is inevitable. All modern inventions like retirement savings do is create a level of indirection between young workers and the retirees they support. But at least until we obsolete human labor, having new generations of educated workers is essential, and having kids generates a large positive externality.
I agree with this. I work in a mountain view startup, and it's mostly people with young families here, with varying degrees of religiousness.
My wife took FMLA for six weeks. Law or no law, HCA happily told her she had the right to apply for another job at another center when she got back. With no guarantee of the same pay. Of course, she ignored them and didn't go back, but we didn't sue either, as that wasn't feasible. Big companies can get away with a lot that isn't legal or ethical.
Oh, for some reason I was under the impression they were. Thanks for clarifying. A quick Google search seems to show that a few states require paid leave for a short period at a discounted wage.
4 Things I Wish I Knew as a Junior Database Programmer
Why should employers be forced to pay a minimum wage? Provide a safe work environment? Pay in to unemployment benefits?

Why? Because we are trying to have a civilization here. Our purpose on this planet isn't to work. It's to live, and creating life is just about the most mind blowing life experience we can ever have.

We let your employer exist, not the other way around.
Just to be clear: there are three of us; Erin and I started the firm.
I've talked to a couple lawyers about this and their advice, somewhat surprisingly, was that you don't need to incorporate until you're past the "project" stage. Specifically:

1.) You're handling money. As soon as money's involved your liability goes up significantly - plus, the corporation needs its own bank account.

2.) You have investors. They need an entity to be able to invest.

3.) You need the business to continue if one of the people involved backs out. If you're a few guys in a garage, your startup is probably screwed if any of you back out, and so having a formal shareholder agreement and property owned by the corporation doesn't really gain you anything. If you're an operating unincorporated business with something of value and your tech cofounder backs out, he holds the business hostage, because he owns the IP.

4.) You're doing anything that's risky and may piss people off, eg. spammy marketing campaigns, crashing peoples' conventions, abusing another company's API, scraping data where the ownership is unclear. You can get a lot of protection from lawsuits simply by not pissing people off; people who aren't mad at you and don't think you've wronged them don't sue you. But if you're doing something that's a grey area, you really really don't want your personal assets at risk.

The main downside of incorporating is that then you have to deal with all the administrative details of being a corporation. You have to pay yourself minimum wage, or else you're in violation of minimum wage laws. You're taxed on the income you receive as wages (even though it's just a transfer from yourself to yourself), so the IRS is taking 15% or so of your runway off the top. You have to file both corporate and individual taxes, which is a big distraction when you want to be working on your product. You need to have at least nominal board meetings (in the beginning, this can be just you and your cofounder sitting down at the table), where minutes are kept. It also costs a few hundred in fees, which is money you don't get back if the startup never finds any customers (as most don't).

Basically - you can and should be "just a person working on a project" when you're building. When you release it to the world and let people who you don't personally know use it, it's probably time to incorporate.
Companies are not obligated to provide paid maternity leave--only unpaid. There are expenses incurred (namely, health insurance), but you won't be receiving a paycheck to raise your children or focus on your art, as in your example.
Why, what would be your concern?

Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Germany/Uni...

Murder rate for 2011 (Homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants): Germany: 0.86. USA: 5.

That's nearly 6x as many murders per capita in the USA than Germany.
Yes, it's a special search engine: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/

You don't search for words in the documentation etc., but enter the type of the function you want. This often works pretty well.
In Western welfare states, where public services are paid-for by deferring burdens into the future, childfree people are essentially freeloading.
Did you RTFA? It's about MPI:

"MPI is a language-independent communications protocol used to program parallel computers."

Runs fine on commodity clusters.
I spent a few months learning (modern) Fortran a year or two ago. My chief obstacle was the difficulty involved in finding modern tutorials. I don't want to have to read tutorials written in 1994 whose focus is getting people used to F77 up to speed. I've yet to find a tutorial that approached teaching F08 as if it was a new language, which is what I feel is needed.

Even in F08 there's a lot of backwards-compatibility cruft still left in the language, too. The IO model still provides very little abstraction and is based on tape drives. You can/have to "rewind" files. There are obscure "unit descriptors" that manifest themselves as integer literals in most code posted online which makes it a chore to learn from. As far as I can tell there is no functionality that approximates the behaviour of C++'s streams.

It's fast as hell, and the GNU compiler is mature and well-developed, but Fortran remains a horrid language for doing any sort of interactive programming. It's best used if you just give it some arguments, let it run free, and then have it return some object or value that a more sane language can then interpret and present to the user for a decision.

There is little reason to learn a language where the only sane choice for doing input/output involves calling your Fortran module from a python script and letting the python handle i/o.
is there any evidence for this theory or did you just make it up?
I find that a sticky note works well, particularly in strip form. Much cheaper.
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>The question is if that discrimination is a bad thing or not.

In colloquial American usage, "discrimination" in the context of hiring and employment refers exclusively to judging people by illegal or inappropriate factors.

>you are discriminating against people who don't know javascript if you are hiring for a job that requires javascript and don't hire people who don't know it.

This may be an appropriate statement for other English-speaking countries, but in the US, this is a statement that borders on sophistry.
Do you feel words like "breeders" are conducive to discussion?
I'll second this; there's a huge amount of value to be gained by reading opinionated pieces from experienced software developers. Many times it's just inspiration in the form of "huh that's cool, I wonder how I can integrate that feature/technique into my own workflow ..." I think that's also part of the appeal of watching other programmers livestream, though unfortunately there the signal to noise ratio is so much lower there than a well written article.
Agreed, learning Emacs while learning Clojure is just a bad idea. It's a huge distraction and it ties the success of learning Clojure into the success of learning Emacs (which will never be everyone's thing) and reduces your speed while learning.

If you really want to evaluate stuff inline and get a more LISPian experience, use LightTable, not Emacs. But even then, I'd recommend against that. Use what you know.
In fact, why don't we just bring back indentured servitude? Why should employers be forced to let their employees leave the workplace?
It's really dangerous to think that switching to another language will fix all your security problems. You can have safe memory, but that's about it. Serious exploits like "goto fail" can exist in any language.
FetchMe, the UKs version of Magic, will let you request anything (legal) via SMS
Instinctually, I'd be a little wary of that, because Na+ and Ka+ do more than act as ions within the neurological system. I'm not sure a higher concentration, even at the right relative concentrations, wouldn't have adverse effects.
Germans don't cross an empty street against the light and register with the police every time they move. I am not sure you can really compare the two.
So, the Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google thinks that:

"All our technical hires, whether in engineering or product management, go through a work sample test of sorts, where they are asked to solve engineering problems during the interview."

is a work sample test.
> As soon as we label these people criminals, we just don't care what happens to them.

Probably because felons don't have the right to vote. So no politician or anyone else cares much.
Recording financial transactions has everything to do with centralization, when only a handful of companies control world-wide purchases.

These new electronic currencies are inherently untied from anything. What happens when the same handful of companies control them also?

Wasn't it Russia who was denied its own credit card by the same US companies? That's way too much power to have over the world. If we finally have a chance to decentralize some of these transactions, to remove some of that power they currently have, we certainly should take that chance.