skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, IT consulting fails a whole bunch of those too but we still do 1099. The 20-point test is a guideline, not hard and fast law.

(Aside: That's probably why BigCos hire contractors by making them go W2 with a staffing agency and contracting the staffing agency to make you available full time.)
Not that bad. Best employees not always are the best "flat structure" employees.

And a lot of the great ones may want to hang on just for the fun of it.
WebGL Changing the Way Best Buy Sells Appliances
Performance doubling Cassandra with message coalescing
I wonder if the 1767 has any accuracy, or is just a random note by a guy that didn't think twice about it...
You can not use one Angular app inside other without side effects and tuning. So Angular app in general can not be a control (like input or select) for another app.

$.my apps behave like complex controls – you can enclose one $.my app into other, you even can make this enclosure recursive (for example http://cloudwall.me/etc/json-editor.html).

Also since $.my manifests are JSON docs, you can combine them just attaching one manifest as a property of another manifest – so app of nearly any complexity can exist as a single JSON.
I just read the Methods section of that article. It does not use a RCT design; it's an observational study based on questionnaire data. All standard confound caveats apply (with the exception of the controls accounted for in the paper).
The valve employee manual is a great read. And well illustrated; worth a look: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...

(From an earlier discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250527)
Good managers lead.
You should have mentioned that you were extrapolating from a sample size of 1.
Ngx_http_empty_gif_module
How Many Crimes Do Your Police 'Clear'? Now You Can Find Out
>in one sentence with fewer than 20 words

Seems like an arbitrary restriction to put on something that's probably complex.
Well, stars should be a function of both expectations and service, so I don't think it's wrong for both a Michelin Star restaurant to be rated equal to a Subway.

They're probably measuring the wrong things. Maybe they should have something similar to the AirBnB / eBay ratings, which measure a lot of categories.
http://www.reddit.com/.json

Why yes, that is beautiful. :)
Original source: http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/may/05/200-accept-buyouts-z...

The Sun also has an article about Hsieh's Downtown Project: http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/may/05/hsieh-outs-downtown-...
Depends. Someone has to sign the contracts. And to be the top dog legal wise. We don't have good legal framework that endorses flat corporations. Yet.
No more managers! Now read this book!
Do these studies ever control for the socialization factor that may relate to alcohol consumption? It seems having good social connectedness is good for you psychically, maybe even physically, so if you socialize with your friends, family, colleagues over drinks regularly, that may be helping more than drinking itself.

Conversely, if you are a recluse, perhaps taking up drinking on your own won't be too beneficial, if at all.
Their management structure could be the very reason that their selection doesn't fit your needs anymore.
No income tax or sales tax in New Hampshire, but comparatively high property tax from what I understand.
I really doubt that. I always had problem with godeps at the point that I hate it.

Right now for example I have a giant repo with tons of dependencies and:

godep: unable to detect version control system for code.google.com/ path

Which dependency? Tried some and they work. -__-
I had trouble remembering which question corresponded to which number as I read the article. It would have been nice to include the question above each person's answer (or maybe a hover over the number reveals the number, or something similar).
I can find a good job easier than I can find $30k+ free money.
People work at a company for a variety of reasons. Some want or need the money. Some really believe in the company's mission. Some like the people they'll be working with. Some want to develop skills for their next move. Some want the brand name or status. Over time, the company will accrete people of all sorts of different motivations.

What a buy-out does is take money out of the equation. It makes it so that everyone who is there for financial reasons has a financial reason to leave. This can be logical if the company has little to offer financially, as in, for example, a company that's in bad shape during the financial crisis. The only employees who're left are those who are not in it for financial reasons - the true believers in the company, those who like their coworkers, and those who want to gain skills. Those people will be a lot happier when they don't have to listen about their financially-motivated colleagues grousing about how the company is going under, and they'll be more productive when they're happier.

The CEO's fatal mistake was that he forgot that his board is financially motivated. From their perspective, he's acting insane, because why would anyone stay at a company for reasons other than money? And they're his bosses, so they can have him removed. For this to have worked, he probably should've taken the company private, or at least packed the board with people who bought into his vision for what kind of company it should be.

The board's fatal mistake was in removing the CEO. By offering buyouts, he had just aligned the company in one direction. By removing him, they suddenly took the company in a different direction - one that they had less than zero capital in, because the CEO's previous actions had alienated everyone who might've helped them.

In both cases, the failure was in understanding that people are different and may have different motivations, and that a company survives based on how well it can hold together people who all have their own goals and worldviews and motivations.
By the way, our friend Evan has jobs paying up to 180K in NYC. You might want to contact him. https://www.staticjobs.com/search.php?company=Quantitative+S...
Depends where you're learning. I'm looking more at 10-15k for 40-60hrs. Then again, 172 G1000 planes so...
any samples?
You need to talk with a copyright lawyer about your problem. She/he is likely to tell you that you own the copyright on your works unless there is a specific "work for hire" provision in your contract with the client; the specific contract provisions regarding ownership of intellectual propery are key. Copyright notices, by the way, are no longer required.
I had the opposite experience: when I left a bad review at a delivery service, I had a call from the manager apologizing profusely and explaining the reason for the bad service, and he sent me a free delivery to make up for their mistake.
Where's part 2 where they cover the afterlife?
>There is no scientific study behind it

Actually there are tons of studies behind it. Whether they are accurate or not (as lots of studies contradict each other and are reported before peer review), it's another matter, but popular foods and drinks like wine, coffee, sugar, etc have tons of research done into them. E.g:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/17801_ENG_HTML.php

http://www.coloradocancerblogs.org/study-red-wine-prevents-c...

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/18104/20141018/red-wine-ca...
There were drivers for each of the technologies that were independent of the combination of them as a smart phone. And they were singular, which is to say each technology, by itself, was important to some ecosystem. I used a mems gyro for example in an R/C car in the late 90s to tell me it was upside down and switch the left/right steering.
> And why is Tesla so against dealers?

I'm not a representative of Tesla, but if I was Elon Musk I wouldn't want my product being sold by dealerships either. The dealership industry is an outdated, parasitic system that has nothing to offer Tesla. It is little more than a middleman which saps away profit that could be going to Tesla itself. On the other hand Tesla has everything to gain in revenue, image, brand value, and consumer experience by running their own boutique stores.

The dealerships have also gone way too far trying to get legislation passed to stop Tesla and protect their parasitic business model rather than adding any real value that makes them useful to Tesla.

That in my opinion turns this into something more personal, a battle in which Tesla wins more respect the more they fight back. By refusing to sell the vehicle entirely they actually gain in status (the more difficult to obtain good gains value) and they progress toward the longer term goal of making profit free of parasitic middlemen. The alternative would be to make a few more dollars in the short term by using dealerships but lose in the long term. The Elon Musk suite of companies has always been very long term focused so I'm not surprised to see them working toward long term vision rather than giving in on a short term battle.

Basically to Tesla the future is selling their goods (not only cars but also Powerwalls, and whatever else they have in development) directly to customers in order to improve profit margin, and they aren't going to give in on the road to making that happen. A boutique store for selling vehicles today can sell Powerwalls the next year. This makes Tesla much more robust instead of being reliant on a middleman.
This is pretty smart of them. Oh well, one more reason to not use Windows.
the design of your website is incredible! a little hard to navigate around however, how did you build the cube animation in the top?
>In light of these facts, Occam’s Razor argues for a simple theory: the net marginal impact of drinking on health is negative at all levels; and moderate drinking is a marker for relative youth, affluence, and healthy habits rather than a cause of good health.

That would be true only if all studies failed to control for such parameters, which sounds BS.

According to Occam’s Razor it's more probably that the author is yielding Occam's Razor wrongly, than that all those researchers are wrong and fail at such basic research methodology as controlling for age and those other parameters...
But if you weren't currently happy with your job and you weren't confident in the chances of that changing, it wouldn't make you a mercenary to jump ship at that point.
Begin the title with "Ask HN:".
In general, this is a waste of resources. There is a very low statistical chance of an apocalypse event occurring.

I agree with general disaster preparedness. You should have a few weeks worth of water/food, and a flash light on hand in case of a natural disaster.

MMM on preppers: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/03/03/why-we-are-not-rea...
The Scientific Explanation for Why Chicago Appeared Upside Down in Michigan
I like the idea of the IndieWeb, but I'm also a big believer in discretion-oriented sharing. People don't just walk out on the street and start yelling facts and opinions at each other. They target their message for the audience. And if the audience is everyone, then the message tends to suffer.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really see myself participating much until I can control who sees what information. I'd like sharing photos of my family with family and friends. I don't care to post them publicly. I like discussing politics... with people who can handle a political discussion without hurt feelings or pointless bickering.

The IndieWeb makes a lot of sense for public conversation, though. If I were into blogging, writing, or otherwise producing content as a job or serious hobby, I'd be all over it.
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So do I! Which is relevant to this article, because sometimes I don't stop at thinking, and try to find out. And I've found that quite a few studies linking alcohol with good health ultimately come from interested sources, while studies claiming that alcohol is not beneficial even in moderation don't seem to come from temperance promoting associations or anything like that. That has been enough to convince me (in a non scientifical way) that alcohol is probably harmful or at least not beneficial, even in small amounts.

On the other hand, most epidemiological and medical studies, if not all, are statistical in one way or another, so it shouldn't be an indicator of anything. I recommend Bad Pharma [1], a very interesting book whose primary goal is to get rid of the many kinds of bias present in the current medical science. Among many interesting things, it describes a few different ways to perform medical studies, all of which are in some way statistical.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3D...
This link might be useful to a few. It's one hour of audio (and video) of birdsong. If you need some calming background audio to block out external noise, this might help:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ttkx2

If you're not in the UK, someone has also uploaded it to YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNDtIwNLbao

It's part of a BBC season of 'go slow' TV programmes inspired by Norway's 'slow TV' concept.
One thing to remember - those who charge 30K per week (e.g. patio11) do so by doing the work they don't enjoy, and this would be even more non-enjoyable for more hardcore engineers here.

We love making money with programming, not by marketing/SEO/etc...

So the most interesting for us is how to make 30K/week by only pure engineering.
Companies are required to have a CEO, as (famously) Gabe Newell does.
Preppers are very culturally specific. Pretty much unheard of in the UK. Our cultural response to the possibility of disaster is "blitz spirit"; everybody pretends it's WW2 for a bit and that fellow citizens and civil authorities will band together to sort it out.

There are undoubtedly people with a few weeks' supply of food, but that would be because they live in remote areas or islands and may suffer weather related disruption.

The American prepper rarely says it, but seems to be afraid of civil breakdown, perhaps in the form of some race war.
No, there's no real reason why you would not use a functional index. The reason so many tutorials use a dedicated column is simply lack of up-to-date information, I think.
> Ideally I think each library would have its own internal copy of any dependencies

That works if and only if the library never exposes the use of that dependency, but it can break in horrible ways otherwise.

For example, let's say library foo uses some hash_table package to define some hash table data structure. Foo returns hash tables from its public API. Now imagine your app uses foo, gets one of those hash tables, and passes it to bar.

Bar also uses the hash_table package, but--since dependencies are encapsulated--has its own copy of a different version on hash_table. How is that hash_table code going to handle being given a hash table that was created from a different version of itself?

In a dynamically-typed language like JS, it may work, but this seems super sketchy to me, which is why I think an app should only have a single version of any given dependency.
> The real value is in the presentation.

This is true sometimes, but if it's a design discussion and you're whiteboarding how something should be laid out, or even steps of what's completed and what's left, just a snapshot of the final state of the whiteboard is tremendously useful. It prevents the need for another person jotting down everything that was written up on the board.
First thought was that it's likely a signal processing technique designed to pick out a periodic signal in noisy data which allowed them to pick up out the heatbeats. To me that doesn't seem like much of a leap, but I don't know what they actually did.
Economic collapse? Requiring barrels of cash to buy an apple? Simply put... No.

http://www.pssurvival.com/
Ring aim at being both standard compliant and (optionally) decentralized. Please check comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9511782
Betting game with billion dollar limit slips through legal loophole
Although of 1500 Zappos' employees, I doubt many are getting frequent offers or recruiters reaching out. How many are doing IT, development or high level sales stuff where well paid jobs are plentiful? I imagine the majority are customer support agents of one kind or another, packers, logistics people, etc.
Fair enough. Though I'd note that there's quite a few options in between "no job prospects / low skills" and "constantly getting job offers". The average complacent / comfortable employee probably does more harm to the company than most others on a daily basis. I know PLENTY of workers who stay in jobs for years while being unhappy and constantly talking of wanting to leave. That's more of the "list cleaning" to which I was referring.
$60 "retail". The farmer is probably only getting around 2-3% of the total sale price, if that.
So many apis. facebook, twitter, gdelt, soundcloud, forecast, archive.org, product hunt, pinterest, reddit, etc.
"[Hurricane Katrina's] aftermath was a wake-up call for thousands
of Americans. “It taught people you could go hungry, thirsty, and
even die in the U.S. before the government could save you.”

Sure, if you're poor and black[1], and the government happened to put someone profoundly unqualified in charge of FEMA[2].

"I’m a bit of a prepper. I probably have some materials and views
that could get me seriously put on a watch list."

This person sounds like a raging narcissist. In fact, everyone in this article does.

I ask Campbell if he fears the kind of lawlessness seen in post-
Katrina New Orleans or the riots in Ferguson, Missouri.

Again the comparison of the middle class (ostensibly white) narcissistic "preppers" with African-Americans in poverty-stricken areas.

Preppers emphasize certain threats and ignore others to “craft
a scenario where their preparations can be seen as both necessary
and sufficient.”

Raging narcissists.

Anyway, you could say that these people aren't doing any harm to anyone or anything besides their own bank accounts, but I disagree with that. Between fostering a greater sense of paranoia and distrust between them and their neighbors, helping them double down on a "I've got mine, so fuck you" attitude, and inspiring them to vote for fringe candidates who not only agree with them, but actively want to see the apocalypse happen[3], I'd say these people are doing real harm to the fabric of society.

[1] http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/katrina/Lan...

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/

[3] http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Michele-Bachmann-Barack-Oba...
Why Marvel’s Female Superheroes Look Like Porn Stars
That's why I hate working with these so-called APIs, they release it then cut it down or stop it. Never rely on these APIs to build anything significant
How to win any popular game, according to data scientists
You'd be surprised.

There are places that have a wine culture, where people drink with every meal and that have less alcoholics and over-consumption than other countries without such a culture.
Mind citing your 30k number? From most of the things I've seen the ZEV credits are a pretty small percentage of total revenue on a Tesla.

I think the anti-dealer stance comes from dealers not having an incentive to sell EVs when they are familiar with traditional ICE cars. There's been quite a few stories of Nissan having issues with their dealerships not being very interested in selling Leafs for instance.
Replaying bugs with Flux
They explicitly do that in ES6:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> ..so by doing the work they don't enjoy

Hey, speak for yourself. :) I happen to enjoy it very much, and that's what makes my consulting work very rewarding.
if your kids understand ssh, you better avoid sharing ssh pwd..
It's not the same concept, at all.

Building your company around the core business of LinkedIn/Facebook/etc is dumb, because you are nothing more than a complement to their core mission. Best case, you become a commodity and achieve modest success, but the oxygen gets cut off at any time.. If you're very successful, you become a feature of the mother product.

When you're Apple buying memory from Samsung, that's different. Samsung's output is memory chips... that's the business. If nobody buys memory chips, they lose money.
Indeed. I've even seen several times the multi-airline boards have delay info that the reader board at the gate doesn't even have yet!
When you refer to IT do you mean IT/desktop support or software engineers?
> These clients are professionals. They know the industry. They're not really clients, they're middle men. They're agencies, marketing guys, whatever. They have a constant stream of work. They know it. And they know the best way to maximize their profit is to pay you by the hour. They will only pay you by the hour. They will laugh if you suggest anything else.

My experience of working for agencies is they want to pay a fixed price and will laugh you out of the agency at the idea of paying hourly. They don't want risk; they want you to take the risk for their project specification ('cause they've already quoted the client, so you'd better cost less than they quoted...)

What kind of middle men are these who pay per hour?

Or are you talking about contracting, not freelancing?
This is huge news for West Michigan. Spoke with some entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids and they were busting with civic pride. There are already rumors that Tesla will make another purchase in West Michigan.

So now Tesla has motivated the economic development people in West Michigan to push to repeal the law that stopped Tesla from selling cars because it will mean more jobs for them.

I predict Tesla will eventually be allowed to sell cars in the state as a result of this purchase so it is a double win for them.
I agree! I submitted it as separate item because this conversation was about rewriting iframes. Although hosted fields doesn't directly address the rewriting for now, we're looking at it closely.
LeakCanary: Detect all Android memory leaks
Proof-of-concept GPU rootkit hides in VRAM, snoops system activities
Why are smartcards conflated with processors, do you think?
Many ISPs (at least in the US, or Wisconsin) don't allow you to do this, and block incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
Usually only the lower half of the stuff gets a "buyout offer" (strange name, BTW).
It's essentially "Explain it like I'm 5", which in this case can help discern between an interesting corporate experiment and PR bullshit.

No one wants to get halfway through an article claiming the former and ending up being the latter. If Zappos has a unique take on how to replace middle management, let's all hear it.
For software engineering problems, it surprises me that he puts #5 after #4. For #5, it is almost immediately clear that brute-forcing it will work (there are 3^8 solutions to place pluses, minuses, and 'nothings' between those nine digits. That is 81^2, way less than 10000)

#4, on the other hand, may have an input with a million integers that would probably make that Java solution, with all its toString calls _and_ string concatenations inside the comparison function that will get called in the ballpark of a billion times, slow down to a crawl.

That's why the proposed solution to #4 is not that of a software _engineer_. An engineer would convert those integers to strings only once. He might keep the concatenations around because they aren't shown to be problematic yet.
That would duplicate most of our code

You wouldn't have had to write that code if using Tox were chosen in the first place.

will switch to a closed one based on the cryptographic chain of trust

This could differentiate the decentralized part of Ring from Tox. Can you give more details on this?

Anyway, I still think you should try to join efforts.
> One of the thing Cheney says in his talk about gb is that nobody likes the .lock files[1]

That may be true if by "nobody" he means Go users, but outside of the Go community things are different. I haven't heard many complaints about them in the Ruby or Dart ecosystems, and the value they provide (repeatable builds!) is very real.