skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't agree more - the claim that "being serious about OSS" requires a CLA is nonsense, and in many cases is just a cargo cult (I need it because others use it). Also, people somehow fail to realize that for CLAs to work, there needs to be a legal entity governing the project - which for many OSS projects is not the case.

CLAs certainly have pros/cons - it gives the project the right to enforce the license independently, but it also gives the project the opportunity to relicense the project without consent from the contributors. That may be a problem, especially when the project is driven by for-profit organizations.
Too bad, Youtube is just blocked in Turkey. One less thing to optimize.
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This isn't necessarily an alternative, but a good compliment would be finding an open source project you like and make a few different contributions to it. You'll learn a bunch of skills that are entirely independent of things you'd learn at a hackathon, but are very useful:

- How to read other people's code

- How to write code that wont be immediately thrown away (a problem generally at school)

- How to interface with project maintainers and get your changes accepted into the project
If you'd like to use the PEO structure checkout Justworks, we are a PEO and offer a lot of cool HRIS stuff besides just payroll and benefits administration.

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Microsoft Launches Pilot Program to Hire Workers with Autism
Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6141319

Why again?
Thank you! I only know Zaltzman for his cricket comedy. This is great, their styles match each other well.
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Switched to ZenPayroll from Intuit Payroll and couldn't be happier. ZenPayroll is a great product starting from the onboarding experience, to running weekly payroll, to their customer support, even the automated transactional emails they send out. Intuit on the other hand was so terrible, it actually cost us money because it buried some critical action items (local tax filing forms) under some obscure setting
I am curious to understand what it takes to move from SMBs to move upmarket. Any examples of companies that have made the successful transition without alienating its core SMB customers?
Have you watched the John Oliver clip on Youtube yet? I think the motivation for going this route is clearly outlined, and firmly based in humor.
The missing phrase in the post is "hardware acceleration", which is is completely broken for VP8/9(In Firefox & Chrome, IE&Safari doesn't support either).

I'm using an extension[0] to force youtube to serve me with h264 in order to be able to watch 4K videos & maintain reasonable battery life.

[0] https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
This is pretty similar to my startup "Mailboxer" everybody knows getting a letter to your mailbox is like climbing Mt. Everest these days, so we provide that as a service. You launch the Mailboxer app and one our dedicated professional Mailboxers will come to your house, pick up your letter, and then walk it to your mailbox. The service is completely free, but if you want premium features like putting the flag up we charge a small fee.
Ah interesting! I'll check that out asap!
looks like the domain was bought.
https://github.com/crateio/crate.io/issues/18

I also confused the name with this: https://crates.io/
> Is the right to a fair trial not actually a human right, since the judicial system is (theoretically) compelled to be honest?

Arguably, you can view this as a negative right in the sense that it is conditional (it only applies if you are subjected to a trial, so no one has to provide anything to provide it, they just have to refrain from unfair trials.)

Similarly, the right to a speedy trial again only applies when you are prosecuted -- so it can be met by refraining from prosecution when it cannot (or will not) be provided, rather than actively providing anything.

That's not to say that I agree with the "all human rights are negative rights" argument, just that it is quite simple to recognize fair/speedy trial rights as negative rights.
I would love to see benchmarks in PyPy as well! I wonder how well a JIT would handle de/serialization.
That's a pretty trite response. I can think of a few reasons:

1) Maintainability. JS is probably easier to grok in some circumstances, ie. you don't have to send new devs to a blog post to explain the CSS on your project.

2) Cost/benefit analysis of dev time, ie. you could do X (where X is some minor display that 1% of your users see) in pure CSS in 12 hours, or do the same in 30 min of JS.

3) Cost/benefit analysis of page size, ie. you can do in 4 lines of JS what would take 400 lines of CSS. Sometimes a few lines of jQuery obviates several hundred lines of CSS (between the media queries, browser-specific overrides, and so forth).

The interesting question the article should address was why the CSS solution was a better choice than the JS solution. I have a gut feeling the answer is way better than "we just wanted CSS only for purity's sake", and personally I'm interested in knowing what that answer is!
There was a study that used Google's self driving car costs, and claimed that cost per mile is much cheaper than taxi's.
It builds fine for me just now on 10.10. I did have to pop in to zsh instead of fish because of `SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'` though. The font rendering looks a bit off for me but it's blazingly fast.
I, too, read a blog talking about the joys of Alpine Linux but just be forewarned that you'll need to test the hell out of you app and be prepared to chase some weird behavior. It's libc and/or python are not the ones you know and love.

I am certain there are great use-cases for this, but it seems the discussions imply that "change your FROM, save a ton of disk space" but there is more to that story.
It turns out that the nets in question came from net distributors with shoddy follow-up practices; GiveWell suggested Against Malaria instead of other distributors in part because they saw this issue years ago.

http://blog.givewell.org/2015/02/05/putting-the-problem-of-b...
https://www.againstmalaria.com/NewsItem.aspx?newsitem=Net-us...
Also, for fun:

Which is faster? Setting up a @kubernetesio cluster vs. making a latte?

Brendan Burns answers that question: https://youtu.be/7vZ9dRKRMyc
Incredible how fast the term "unicorn" got popularized. Word of the year of 2015 for sure.

I'm also betting on the term "uberpreneur" to blow up soon, which refers to people making a living off the on-demand economy.
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I'm having this problem, sometimes also outside the browser, and I would like to know: how do you figure out if a playback is using hardware acceleration at all? It's not an easy thing to debug.

I'm on Windows, btw.
I'll look into that but I'm looking for something even more intense.
The Hugo Awards Were Always Political. But Now They're Only Political
I did have to read bch's sub-reply to grok the metaphor. I'm not sure why.
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Built for startups, but you can hack this app to be a Meta SocialSearch tool: LinkedIn work data on the FB graph. Here's how:

S1: Submit any .edu email you have (or any email not gmail, yahoo, etc.)
S2: Skip the invite step
S3: Done. Search your FB graph with LinkedIn meta data (takes a few minutes to build your graph)

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Not to be a downer, but it's pronounced "wah-GEE", with a hard G.

source: used to work a few desks down from Matt.
Serious question, in what ways is Snapchat similar to MySpace? Poor UI and disregard for user experience? Buggy code? Bloated executive team? Bureaucratic management? The only parallel I see is that it's a trendy technology among a younger cohort that tends to be very fickle.
Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
Looking at the history:

http://www.gnu.org/press/gnome-1.0.html

> The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the release of GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) 1.0 today at the Linux World Conference. GNOME is an integrated desktop environment designed to run on GNU/Linux systems.

> The Free Software Foundation, a tax-exempt charity formed in 1985, is dedicated to eliminating restrictions of people's right to use, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. It does so by protecting these rights through the GNU General Public License. The aim is to give people the freedom to cooperate with other computer users.

> "GNOME is a flexible GUI (Graphical User's Interface) that combines ease of use and the flexibility and reliability of GNU/Linux. We're very excited about GNOME and what it will mean for the future of GNU/Linux computing" Miguel de Icaza, chief designer of GNOME said earlier.

At one point, the G in GNOME stood for GNU (now GNOME is just a name, not an acronym), and the FSF was active in its maintenance.
Nice! I'm happy to see low-level wrappers around webgl. It does have a really verbose interface. And there's room for a level of abstraction above webgl but below three.js.

Everyone uses three.js, but if you want to write shaders (a big part of the point of webgl IMO), three.js can be difficult to work with. It has a fairly involved system for building its shaders from a big library of shader snippets. Last I looked, it seemed pretty complicated to hook your own shaders into that system.

If you don't want to write shaders, three.js is great, but if you do, it may be more than you want.

There's another library I've used, also a low-level webgl wrapper, called GLOW:
https://github.com/empaempa/GLOW

Development on it has slowed, but I think it has a really nice approach.
Yeah. In general, this is a big problem, not only for VP8/9, but also for h265 (also known as HVEC). My computer struggles to render 1080p HVEC video lag-free. Early adopters should recognize that there are advantages to using h264 that have nothing to do with the quality of the codec itself.
Hamming is an important figure in history as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming
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They are all readily available on a number of other operating systems.
Thats a very literal & narrow interpretation of the movie. Ethan Hawk's parents weren't upset when he was born because wasn't going to be in the space program, they were upset because he had inferior genes.
Clickable: http://goo.gl/forms/1LNVgQ8BSv
Announcing Tectonic: Commercial Kubernetes Platform
Can't be Amazon. They cap base salary to $160k.
Hi, Spanky from Crate.io here. We still maintain the PyPI portion of the site at https://crate.io/packages

As for crates.io, I guess their entitled to choose their own name & domain, but I admit it is confusing.
We've been using a similar technique over at untapt for a small table that display's past job applications:

Small version:
http://i.imgur.com/sJOxCQw.png

Large version:
http://i.imgur.com/xrJ4sBt.png
IME, like the fact that many Oracle shops still heavily use Oracle's old non-standard join syntax, the main reason seems to be inertia. Subqueries have been supported in major databases a lot longer than CTEs, so there are a lot more books using them, people have a lot more experience with them, etc.
There was a case recently where a guy waited 12 months in jail for a trial....the prosecutor offered him to accept a plea and 1 year of prison + they would accept the time already served in jail, so he would go home within a week.....or he could wait until the trial and potentially be sentenced to 3 years. I guess anyone who spent a year in jail would be happy to say they are guilty just to go home quicker,even if they are innocent.....it's essentially like torture. You torture someone until they say they are guilty, because doing so offers smaller punishment than going to trial.
The table has two sides.
A canonical example of a killer app is something like Lotus 1-2-3 for the PC, or Halo for the original XBox -- something so compelling as to drive adoption of the host platform. Those are all pretty standard *IX command line utilities, not killer apps.

(They're also the sort of thing that I bet someone has coded in Rust or Go over a few weekends as an exercise, and as such they're probably the EASIEST bit of GNU code to rip out of Linux at this point if you wanted a Linux without GNU.)
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Good to hear! Thanks for updating me.
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Human head transplants coming soon. Would you do it?
Two of those three are applicable to cloud storage and space rockets as well, though.
As an engineering manager who has been in 3 major tech companies here. I would say that's a good offer.
I'm going to guess that signing bonus is over two years (pretty typical here), and stock is over 4 years (pretty typical here too). So you're looking at around a ~$250k/year salary. I know some engineering managers that have a higher total comp, but I know many more engineering managers that have a lower total comp.

Other things to consider (if you're comparing to bay area) is that total cost of living is much lower here and WA has no state tax.
Might end up being a source of confusion for you guys, as the package manager for a major language will have much more mindshare than a database.
I think lot of people have that issue. Maybe the person you are placating is placating back to you. I learned that you are helping both of you by leaving the conversation if its not interesting to you.
The only parallel I see is that it's a trendy technology among a younger cohort that tends to be very fickle.

Which is presumably what the OP was talking about. MySpace was hyped and valued beyond belief, and then came crashing down. The same could well happen to Snapchat.
My assumption is that the FSF used to be responsible for GNOME's governance before the GNOME Foundation existed, and nobody ever bothered to update the website afterwards.

That it's still listed is either stale, inaccurate data on a webpage or a relationship that only exists on paper, depending on how you look at it.

Oh, and all this just underscores my point that GNU has effectively no presence in the graphical sphere except for a few scattered applications (e.g. GIMP, Emacs).
Yes, that's what Omakase is. The phrase literally means "I'll leave it to you" but it's used in sushi restaurants in the US to mean chef's choice. Everywhere else that I've gotten Omakase it was fantastic, but at Barracuda I was served a meal that is easily bested by Sushi Combination A from Sushi Time (and that would have been much cheaper too).

> Every piece I tasted was like a totally different animal

Assuming that you were getting different types of fish with each piece, then I certainly hope they tasted different! If the sushi restaurant you're eating at serves up different fish and they all taste the same (or, god forbid, they all "taste like fish") then that's not a very good sushi restaurant.
What's the derivative of that growth look like, though? It could be that they just have enough customers who are either locked-in or on the back-half of the adoption curve, allowing them to limp in with some growth for a few more years before it's over.

Amazon charges a premium for convenience and for the fact that there's 0-startup cost to get going with them. Why would someone every shell out the money for an enterprise 15k disk when they can buy an SSD instead?
We don't do this, as we're currently just 100% focused on building the best product possible for our customers.
Yes I agree. I'd like to know what the penalty here is. Keyword based? I've read (somewhere) that "vim" gets a penalty, perhaps "neovim" does now too.
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A comparison of notable free and open source configuration management software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_confi...
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Thanks for cloning my company's product, we're flattered.

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(We're the ones who power courses like http://bitfountain.io)
Spot on, not only in events, but in any kind of gathering or meeting another people, I have found doing a little homework on agenda and goal helps a lot on saving time and efforts.

Even conveying your agenda before talks starts in a presentation helps a lot to grab attentions.
I should have mentioned, the Crate.io (database) codebase is on GitHub: https://github.com/crate and this is what we're building: https://crate.io/overview/
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Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN

I think the discussion was about running your own SAN, i.e. creating your own EBS.

As it happens EBS itself is not backed by a SAN either. According to the rumors it's implemented using either DRBD or GNBD.
The last one is the obvious one and I think it's big enough to kill them. Unlike, say, Whatsapp, Snapchat's demographic is extremely teen & early twenties heavy. That's the worst demographic to be in if you're a hip app/product/service looking for longevity (and your only real party trick is messages sent through your service are ephemeral). Users in this demographic are also terrible for monetising (unless you're a game :) ).

Having said all that, I'm judging it from anecdotal evidence available to me. None of my friends use snapchat (all late twenties and early thirties) but they do use twitter, fb, vine (on occasion), whatsapp etc. The only people I know that have snapchat on their phone and use it regularly are all < 23 yrs old. Of course, could simply be my friends and I are totally out of touch!

Edit: interestingly, just realised none of my friends (female or male) use pinterest either (which, from what I've read, has a wider demographic). So maybe we're just a bunch of luddite weirdos...
Tinder's new VicePresident on the future of one of the hottest companies in tech
You're being beyond facile. The other purposes wasn't driving your ass to work. Rather

- Deter war
- Protect people from being killed
- Provide strength to negotiations / treaties
- Liberate conquered people
>>yes, this is about progressive versus conservative, it always has been

I could not disagree more. This 2 axial look at politics is very short sighted, the real battle is Authoritarian vs Libertarian not left vs right..

I personally am a Left libertarian, leaning towards Geolibertarianism and/or Agorism

There are people on the left that are very very Authoritarian that love programs like the NSA for different reasons than the Traditional Conservative Authoritarian reasons.
I was in my first data structures class when this paper was published. We had just covered red black trees, so this made for an interesting deviation from the standard curriculum. Considering the maturity of the data structures covered in the standard undergrad CS curriculum, I wonder how often this type of situation comes up. That is, how often are papers on new data structures published that are this close to something a typical undergrad student studies?
How to become a hacker? From developer – Hacker
I'm developer.
As before, i could crack some mobile apps.
But i haven't hacked any websites and i don't have the ability to do it, now.
I know the basic things to hack the website like DDos, backdoor, trojan ... get the information of administration.
But it's not enough. It's too common, too basic.
I want to become a hacker. To defeat the bullshit webs, to remove the accounts of ISIS as the way Anonymous did it...

Please give me some ideas. Don't give the common ideas because it doesn't have any meaning in my case.
Well "rural" wasn't the best choice, i didn't want to use "backward" or "traditional" because it really doesn't reflect the exact situation either and i didn't want it to come out too negative or condescending.

Turkey has the lowest educational attainment in the OECD, only 32% of adults have high school education, and amongst the younger generation it's still bad as less than 40% of it's male populations and less than 30% of it's female population completes a high school equivalent education, and only a fraction of that get higher secondary education.

Much of it's population is really on opposites sides of current western values and the government crackdown on free press, opposition parties, taking control over the courts and legal system, dismantling the (for once in a life time remarkably positive) influence of the military, and just the complete mockery of all attempts at democracy just put it on a completely different course than it used to be only 2 decades ago.
Not only is 5% of one's income a rather high number, even the average amount that people give in the United States is far higher than the corresponding amount in other countries (ex: Japan).

It may be the country's Christian leanings that contribute to this, but to be charitable is seen as a virtue and absolute good in this society. This is not necessarily the case in other societies.
An example would help answer definitively, but based on that description I don't think most people would find it intuitive. At a glance, it probably has a janky feel too. But I could be wrong.
As someone who constantly struggles with the decision to save VS donate, I don't think the two are interchangeable. They seem interchangeable because most of the time they'll lead to the same endpoint, but I view savings as an insurance that protects me against catastrophic events. They enable me to live a riskier life by providing that cushion and security.

I've decided to donate after I've lived the life I envision. If I get sick or injured and can no longer live that life, my savings will be my charity to myself. The subtle difference is that savings can be turned into charity, but not the other way around.
> Thus, for me, the only answer that makes sense is that we have no obligation to save the world, but we are allowed to donate whatever we want.

That's the status quo. The whole reason we're having this conversation is because not enough people are donating X% in order to fix global poverty. So, what's your burden? What's my burden? 10% is a handy figure because it's small enough to be doable for most people, but large enough such that if everyone were donating 10%, we'd have enough money to basically fix global poverty forever.

It's handy for us to agree to discharge our infinite debts to each other by agreeing upon some figure. 10% fits that nicely.
I read that Google Capital rather than Google Ventures lead the round. Could someone explain to me how these two bodies differ and what the significance would be?
Is It OK for New Programmers to Blog About What They Are Learning?
That's great! It's kind of you. I will use that.
ZenPayroll is not a PEO, so we unfortunately cannot accept any company that want to operate under the PEO model.

As I'm sure you know, a PEO technically hires a client company's employees, thus becoming their employer of record for tax purposes. Our model (like most payroll companies) requires companies to hire their employees under their own EIN for maximum flexibility and cost efficiency.