skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farming subsidies have a long pass. The concern is that we lose to many farmers we lose the ability to feed ouraselves. Willie Nelson started "Farm Aid" to address his own conern and it was apart of a national movement. So US Farmers are supported by the governemnt and they get the subsidies. It isn't the seed manufators that them.

Personally I hate ethnol and well there is hope that we will get off of fosil fuels for electricity sooner rather thamn later AKA After I Die.
IMO, this is where benevolent dictators come in.

Banning, discouraging, creating a market for 'solutions to SSL' and evolving the whole thing together is a challenging proposition.
I suspect it's because WhatsApp's backend can be turned into a platform that will run WhatsApp itself as well as Facebook Messenger.

There's a lot more opportunity to do messaging between businesses and individuals (eg. customer service) as well -- see messenger for business.

Not saying Facebook isn't out to sell ads, just that there's probably a lot of reasons that Facebook might want WhatsApp's technology and team. Especially as they try to move more conversations onto their platform and reach out into other markets.
What's the deal with the spanking story? Is that part of some private sexual education tutoring? I guess only in France somebody is able to keep his job after something like that.
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Contributing - there's a big list of Github issues you can help with:

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/issues

How to use it - the docs are pretty comprehensive:

http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v0.8.6/

Getting help - join the user group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail
They don't require non-semantic markup -- as I said in a comment that was downvoted for some reason. There's a whole set of best practices that people aren't mentioning in this thread.

If you write your styles in the same preprocessor as the Bootstrap package you chose (Less by default, but optionally Sass), you can mix Bootstraps grid classes into your own semantically meaningful classes, and drop all the col-xs stuff from your markup. Your markup elements can have class names that are purely semenatic. Almost every modern grid system offers preprocessor mixins that can be used in this way.

There are methodologies like BEM that are great for providing a semantically meaningful layer of classes in your markup.

It's true that the complexity remains and is shifted. The important part is that it's no longer interlaced with the complexity that describes the fine-scale structure of the page.

There have been some huge deficiencies in CSS over the years. It is frustrating to have to use complex sets of counterintuitive rules to achieve seemingly simple effects. But there are techniques for helping to manage it in modern web development.
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Which suits some people just fine
$300 per day and $250 per call-in hour.

An obligation to answer all phone calls immediately affects other obligations. A one person shop has no slack staff.
Ask HN: Is the term 'software craftsman' sexist?
In engineering postings for our company, we currently use the position name 'software craftsman'. It is meant to describe the emphasis that we put on creating elegant software and honing our craft. We want to continue to focus on this, but we don't want to unwittingly be turning some people off with the title. Does it seem like a sexist title to you?
You can generate random test cases (and save them), given that you have no performance worries. However, introducing randomness inside a test doesn't make so much sense, as one of the grandparents states, because the point of testing is predictability. When a test which does things differently every time it runs fails once, it is not totally useless information but much less informative than a test which always fails.

I should also mention that there are a lot of cases where randomness wouldn't affect the result[1], but then, why introduce randomness in the first place?

If the aim is to test as many combinations of different variables as possible, bunch of tight, nested loops would be much reliable IMHO.

[1] for example, if a list doesn't render correctly with n elements, it is very likely that it still wouldn't with m elements - unless you have performance problems and that means you need to test for the maximum sane values and limit the input
On the school bus; We've been best friends for about a decade.
Forgot that links don't show up in the original HN question.

Here's the quick proof-of-concept of a javascript file with embedded drawings/callouts in Sketchwrite.

https://sketchwrite.com/n/VNpCzRv5r38
That could be from a number of different effects, ranging from render parameters (of either the minions, the color sample or both) to optical ilussions. Also, they may already have a similar colour and chose to name "minion yellow" a new shade, which still resembles the minion's iconic colour.
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That works really nicely, I like the use of vagrant but it does give a hint that there might be rather complex requirements.

On a different note, I saw your Bristol Media post about Django freelancers the other week and have been meaning to get in touch (my current contract ends in a month and a half). Does much of this dev work happen in the Bristol office or is it primarily London-lead?
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Typo corrected, thanks.

And yes, the meme about French military incompetence has some basis in reality, as all good memes do. But many other countries made horrible mistakes during WW2, and lost empires. Why do we make fun of the French and not the Dutch or Austrians or British or ...?
Wagtail looks nice, although I haven't used it much.

(shameless plug:) I made a Docker image for the Wagtail Demo to make it easier to test out:

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/oyvindsk/wagtail-demo/
https://github.com/oyvindsk/docker-playground/tree/master/do...

docker run -p 8000:8000 -d oyvindsk/wagtail-demo

Haven't tried it in a while, but hopefully it still works :)
It sounds to me more like the OP doesn't want to be peppered with 30-second bits of communication all day while he's trying to work on something else. You can't keep billing Client A while you're responding to an email from Client B, but if it's a 5-minute thing, what are you going to do, clock out and clock back in again all day?

So the communication from one client could be disruptive to other work, i.e. it could make a person lose money. If making a certain agreement with a client would cause me to lose money, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that I would either charge for it or not agree to do it at all. In my experience, reasonable clients respect this.
I'd harden your mind a little bit. You're not some lowly supplicant "asking" for x, y or z. You are a skilled professional (hopefully). You REQUIRE or DEMAND rates that befit your skill. If you go into a negotiation with the mindset of asking, you have already lost. Strange, but true.
This article is incorrect. Denmark says it will do something about large companies practices, but it is just talk. As an example Denmark has alot of laws regarding data protection. But the rules are only enforced for the small companies. Larger companies like LinkedIn and Google have been ignoring the data protection rules for years and the Danish government ignores it, as they are too hard to prosecute.
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not for proving identity - how do you prove that ebay is ebay or that bank site really is Barclays and not some scammer
Only a couple of years. I had dextro but I'm trying out Vyvanse. I'm pretty paranoid about dependency on drugs (I don't even drink caffeine on a regular basis for that reason) so I understand your concern. I take the minimum dose necessary to achieve the desired effect and only on days that I need it (when I'm particularly restless and fidgety). I don't take it on the weekend, generally.
Poster could set up a reverse proxy to support apps that couldn't be updated to HTTPS in less time than it took to write his github issue post:

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/https/issues/107#issuecomment-...
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Interesting experiment! How does it compare in performance, cpu and memory footprint?
Exosuits (is that what we're calling it is at the stage where progress is building, shipping, and finding a financially viable markets for products. That opens the door to a version 2, a version 3 mini, a version X nano.

Looking forward to seeing these in use in more contexts.
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Certainly. But "concierge" gives you a good handhold to understand a lot of the potential businesses that haven't emerged yet. Using the concierge model makes things like shyp and magic seem pretty obvious, for example. From there I think it's a lot easier to see what's possible, where the easy money is, and what the outlines of a viable product look like.
Just wanted to post that. Mods please tag (2012).
Holy crap, some of these images are beyond beautiful.
I personally think it's a decent idea. You have the mention notification system. It has the favorite/retweet feature, so if a citizen thinks it's a big issue they can show it by interacting with the tweet
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Basically be immediately available for contract work and prepared to work anywhere. Setting up a company in the UK takes about an hour and a company bank account usually 1-2weeks. There are also umbrella companies. What I have found is that agencies will 'lend' against money. They want to keep you happy. So if you are in a situation they will help you out as you are making them money.
The thought struck at the weird synchronicity of new JD Salinger, new Harper Lee, and now this. I'm not complaining of course.
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I think the bigger question is when you say "available large parts of the day" do they want you on site at their location during that time or simply available via phone/email during that time?

If it simply phone/email, you could consider like @hoodoof said with setting up a tiered support pricing plan. With phone/email only you can still work on other projects you just need to respond to their requests promptly during that time which can be worth an additional amount.

On the flip side if they want you onsite during that time it becomes a completely new ball game as you are unable to service other clients during that time which can impact your income. In this case I would build that cost into the contract, not necessarily charge a retainer.

Finally, as @y0mbo was saying, if the client just wants to know you are available during their office hours compared to working at night then no you can't charge an additional fee for this. This may be the case if they are in a different time zone and want to ensure that they can reach you to discuss the project and such. Again, if this is the case I would build the cost into the contract.
Curious about the name I looked around further and according to http://www.42.fr/faqs/ it is a HHGTTG reference:

> Pourquoi 42 s’appelle 42 ?

> On vous met sur la piste… regardez du côté du Guide du voyageur galactique

"Don't Panic" would certainly be an appropriate slogan for a school like this.
Australia doesn’t have a piracy problem, it has a content access problem
This might sound like a stupid question, but unless I am grossly under-informed, with HTTPS, all a proxy server can do is forward the connection and the data.
The proxy could not see the URL(s) being requested, so caching is not going to work. Or is it?
Lifting or carrying 30kg is no joke. Especially if you need to do something with that 30kg like welding it into place. If they can get working versions of this where tradesmen can effortlessly handle 30kg loads without adversely affecting other things, that's an awesome exosuit!
Lengthy discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362307

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356172

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9368317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376847

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393700

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395514
"The custom PANTONE Minion Yellow color will be added to the PANTONE Fashion, Home + Interiors color palette with the next color addition."

Probably doesn't have one yet.
Maybe because your tone was rude?
Depending on what you need the motivation for, you might only need willpower. You can get a lot done and work towards a goal by setting mini goals every day and turn them into habits. The trick is to set the goal really low every day, so that you can achieve them even on those rainy days. Willpower alone (and maybe a reminder) will make you achieve it, motivation usually goes down quickly.
I found this book really helpful, http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results/dp/...
If they can modify the content on a website, they can modify the content hashes on the index page. I suppose you could put the content hashes on an https page...
It doesn’t jump out as being so, but it’s the subtle biases that are the difficult ones. Artisan has the same feel without a specific gender?
That only works when you actually like brands on facebook. Which is a bizarre behaviour that I've never understood. In fact I don't think I've liked a single marketed thing. Alas this doesn't result in no ads - just easily identified ones.

I'm stuck in a mentality where facebook was where I chatted to friends, suggested things to do, occasionally told people what I was up to, and joined such luminary groups as "I want to punch slow walking people in the back of the head".
It’s a new color they’re adding, not an existing Pantone chip.

Pantone as a collection of colors is not a color order system. It has no organizing principle, and given the identifier of a Pantone color, there’s no way to predict what the color looks like. It’s just an arbitrary and idiosyncratic collection of specific color swatches. Pretty similar in principle to, say, the set of named Crayola crayon colors.

As a way of specifying colors, it’s a truly awful standard, compared to a real color order system like the Munsell system, Natural Color System, CIELAB, or the like.
So they want exclusivity for those hours then bill those hours ie a full day.
Only if Heinlein hadn't written starship troopers couple of decades before.
> There's also a danger in users who will think that because the web is all "encrypted" now that must mean it's "safe", which will simply not be true.

As I remember it, the proposal for mandatory opportunistic encryption was that it'd still be the http:// scheme with no padlock, so no expectations are set but some benefit is there.
how is it end to end when data is stored on their servers, i would assume its stored without encryption right?
The whole premise of the article is centered around a single quote from a Morningstar analyst. Does Box really face a make or break moment right now?
We're always looking for good Django freelancers, wherever they're based, but particularly in Oxford and Bristol. Email my first name at torchbox.com.
I suspect there are lots of people who built applications on top of MongoDB who would like to transition away from Mongo onto a different database, or would at least like the option to be able to to. This may provide a good mechanism for a transition.

Which leads to a question for the OP: does this work with mongoose.js?
Donate.

The Two Day Salary Manifesto would be much better.
Many of these companies aspire to things that are great for themselves, like controlling markets and integrating vertically, but not so great for everyone else.
I recently moved ~60 miles and I don't remember any gas stations in my old town advertising E85 fuel but here it seems like most of them have it. I'm still in the same state and it seems weird that it would be so common in this town. I don't think there are any car plants here so I'm not sure why this town bought into E85 so much. (In the town I grew up in there is also a compressed natural gas station but there is a car plant that manufactures them there so that makes sense.)
Very cool that it managed to become self-hosting.
Cloud Customer Service Startup Freshdesk Reels in $50M Round
Thats hilarious. Why would anyone invest in them? I work at a very large institution that uses Box and I can tell you its no Dropbox
58.com, China’s Largest Classifieds Site, Acquires Rival Ganji.com
At the bottom of the README it says "Follow along at http://legitimatesounding.com/blog/", which 404's. I want to follow along! Please fix. Thanks.
If someone doesn't want to work for your company because you used the word "craftsman" instead of "craftsperson", then it sounds like you just dodged a bullet. These types of people bring nothing of value to any community and are often more concerned with politics than actually creating something.
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I think you make a good point. In a similar situation (I wasn't personally involved), I know the consultant charged 20 % of the normal rate for being "on duty" and charged the normal rate for every begun half hour of active service. Had it been me, I would have used a similar model.
quite 15! years ago at BT the call out rates where $750 per month for 30 min response for 1 in 4 (plus toil at OT rates)
flew right past him. What would be a better monetization alternative though?
How are JSON updates handled?

For those who aren't aware, Postgres currently lacks support for doing updates to JSON fields via SQL[1]. For many this isn't a problem, but I'd imagine that people expecting a MongoDB clone would need it.

[1] But even though you can individually address the various fields within the JSON document, you can’t update a single field. Well, actually you can, but by extracting the entire JSON document out, appending the new values and writing it back, letting the JSON parser sort out the duplicates.
https://blog.compose.io/is-postgresql-your-next-json-databas...
Guy figures out how to center stuff in CSS, gets offered equity in every startup
So that was before they introduced the "Basics of Orthodox culture" instead of math and science classes.
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You can do end-to-end encryption just like with emails. Just the metadata (sender, recipient) needs to be plaintext.
Old Man's War, by Scalzi. It would translate well to the screen: Good visuals, dialogue and plot could be preserved, interesting ideas but nothing too tough to translate media, etc.

If successful, they could make additional seasons of the subsequent books.
Is this generally different from the world of business and entrepreneurship where companies aspire to have market share, profits, etc..? IE, specific to the ‘Do It for Me’ market?
I was going to post that this would have been cool a year ago, but now that MongoDB has interchangeable backends there's not much to gain from a high level project like this.

But then I saw that this project started two years ago, and the last commit was a year ago.
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No company was acquired for its "backend".
> think strict, automatically-checked schemata for APIs are very valuable, so I'd prefer to use something like thrift or even WS-* rather than REST.

Strict, automatically-checked schemata for APIs are perfectly doable with REST, JSON or whatever Protobuf flavor. OTOH automatically-generated schemata behemoths have been created with SOAP and WS-* that I have very creative ideas about how to deal with and dispose of.

As for the easy-in-the-browser part (whether it is for tests or implementation), it was merely a side effect of reusing the HTTP spec semantics as a common-ground general purpose vocabulary. REST in itself doesn't even mandate HTTP.
At a hackathon, we won together. On another one, she pitched her project to me and I decided to join her.
sites down

http://i.imgur.com/ZjktZUS.png
Another one: unsplash.com
Can we please stop to assume that younger generations don't want to own and do things?

I don't know where this self-proclaimed fact comes from but hell I know a lot of people that define themselves not as non-materialistic AirBnB-Homejoy-Uber users.
Instead, like everyone else on this planet, they want to express status with watches, cars and houses.
Some maybe even enjoy mowing their lawn and cleaning their house, as it cleans their mind from stressful work related stuff.

Yes, Uber and AirBnB are great services and we will use them a lot more in the future, but this doesn't mean that everyone will use a dogfood-delivery or brush-my-teeth service.
The DIFM-Economy surely will exist, but it will probably be far smaller than silicon valley based journalist imagine it.
It's not dependent upon my editor. Maybe I should move this up higher in the readme: https://github.com/zpratt/react-tdd-guide#running-the-tests-... . All I was adding for Webstorm was a note for the convenience of people who choose to use it, which I might be able to move into a mocha.opts.
For anyone in the know (or who wants to guess): What tools/technology is this trying to replace? Are there cranes or other tools in use at this kind of a high tech shipyard that would normally be used to lift a 30kg piece of metal while welding it into place?

I assume we're not going to see strongmen in the unemployment line after being replaced by skinnyfat geeks with exosuits…
I'd very strongly recomment McLuhan's student, Neil Postman, and his books, Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly.

http://www.powells.com/s?author=Neil%20Postman
Where would this sugar stop? At Either? At Try? At Validation?

The problem is that if you introduce the sugar only for Option, users will tend to use Option even in cases where other type constructors would be more appropriate.
As a web dev, I get it - but if you have a million visitors then you're saying "fuck you" to 40,000 people. If I was _paying_ a web dev, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied with this response.
He's a friend, met him through is brother who is the same age as I, ~6 years ago.
So we spend our weeks and weekends, on and off work, together.
Well they're working on a solution here:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
Here's how Invoice2Go is handling life after landing $35M funding
Not with SSL certs anyway.

At least not as long as your browser trusts hundreds of CA's, including shady ones such as Comodo[1] who will issue fake certs to any name (Google, Skype, etc.).

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_...
Hey, I am missing European cities.

Any European city with more than 100k people could work! But for that there are one million facebook groups (which usually tend to make grill and barbecues with strangers; usually foreigners in the city).
There's (almost) always a way round a problem. In the case of colspan, try this:

http://jsfiddle.net/5cUW7/8/
I'm of the opinion that a retainer (+hourly) generally works out best for both parties. The value derived from a better working relationship far outweighs simply being available for quick phone calls.
My late-90s era Slashdot account still works, although I've not bothered with the place for many years.
Why as a back end developer I do care about User Interfaces
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