skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Had my own Ltd, took home about 65% of my day rate. No funny business

What do you define as "no funny business"? Just curious what you mean by that.

I operate a Ltd, take a low salary and the rest dividends (as recommended by my accountant), claim the odd lunch and transport as expenses and that is about it, which I think is fine (both legally and morally) as at the end of the day, I am operating as a company rather than an employee, and am following the letter of the law.

I actually don't think the difference in tax paid is that significant if you operate that way, I've not worked it out exactly but I suspect I pay around the same amount of tax as a contractor with an Ltd as I would in an equivalent permanent position (in the sense that the perm salary would be lower but the tax a bit higher), so I don't really feel bad about my contribution back in terms of taxation.

Of course, I've worked with people who do take the p*ss and will put anything and everything through as expenses and find all the tax loopholes they can - seems like a lot of effort and risk and not sure I'd feel morally great about it, but each to their own I guess!
If you don't own a house, you probably have tons of cash which is even easier for people to get their hands on.
While it's OK for Hiveage to say no to a feature (that's what I could gather from what's there) the right thing would be to give enough time to export.

Also their road map looks more like "previously on hiveage"
ITYM "... spoken American".
Stop Revering Magna Carta
started using pass a few months ago, never looked back
Hm, when I try to download Iron's source code ("for Coder"), a Rapidshare page "Our services have been closed. Thank you for your understanding!" pops out. How convenient.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432148
It feels like the article is splitting hairs on "dieting" vs "eating habits". Dieting, as in a set of very strict arbitrary rules, is hard to do over a long time period. "Eating habits", as in a general yet flexible set of guiding principles, is a lot easier to keep with over a long period of times.

I've certainly changed my eating habits to be a lot healthier over the past 5-10 years (mainly more fresh fish and vegetables, less soda and fast food) compared to the 5-10 preceding years, but I wouldn't say I've been on a "diet" over the past years. I still occasionally eat all kinds of unhealthy stuff, but just not anywhere near as often as I used to.
Scale is the difference.
Yeah, I actually looked at atom sometime back. They have a problem with long lines because their regex engine runs in O(n^2). I suggested that they switch to a regex engine that runs in O(n). https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/979#issuecomment-7770371...

I don't know what happened after that. Maybe they will act on this. The only problem with the O(n) engine was that a lot of TextMate grammars for languages wouldn't work with atom but that was easily resolvable by writing them anew.
How to reliably start a service with UpStart
How can you reduce shopping cart abandonment through retargeting?
Why you probably hate the sound of your own voice
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"Stealing is a sin" from the head of a bank. What a psychopath.
Discussed a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9715888, but this story keeps getting reposted, so perhaps most people didn't see it.
You seem to make the implicit assumption that a DO $10 VPS is equal in performance to a AWS t2.micro instance, which is not the case. For an example, check out:

http://serverbear.com/compare?Sort=Host&Order=asc&Server+Typ...

DO 1GB instance at $10/month has a UnixBench of 1041 [1], to beat that with AWS you have to spend $374/month.

Also, with the t2.micro you get an EBS disk, whose I/O you have to pay in addition to the instance cost. You also have to pay for the bandwidth out of the chosen AWS region. This is not the case on DO.

AWS complicated pricing makes comparison like yours very difficult and error-prone: I would suggest to go with AWS only if you need the particular features (like ELB, SQS, VPC, etc.) that DO doesn't offer.

[1] http://serverbear.com/1989-1gb-ssd--1-cpu-digitalocean
[2] http://serverbear.com/240-extra-large-amazon-web-services
If I'm in a plane that is being controlled through a TCAS input, you can be damn sure I'd like anyone on the ground at all to know that I am in that plane.

The reason is: planes are a life-threatening situation. You cannot live in a plane. They are a temporary place in which you must park your body during periods of extremely high risk.

If two planes crash, because: IT HAPPENS, then not having to decrypt the flight manifest to determine who was on the plane, is a mighty fine use of public force, i.e. law-making.

I care not a fig for someones' privacy, if it means life-saving activities have one less layer of human cruft attached to the process.

If you're coming to find my body on the side of the mountain because I was unfortunate enough to hitch a ride with my rich millionaire and his drunk pilot, please know exactly who I am, and how to contact my immediate family, in case of my demise.
Like the old Toshiba Libretto. Or the Asus Transformer.
My key takeaway - Holy shit! The Crossfit people have a plane!!
Google gives up to $40K bounty for finding flaws in Android
modular breakout board connectible to the IO port would be a better startup idea

Android IOIO:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12633
I do largely prefer the hourly rate myself. The reason is that it is way too easy to work 'more' but it is very hard to work 'less' when paid daily. It was a problem I had for all the years I was employed, and I hate it..

With the hourly rate, I can just go off at lunchtime if I feel like the weather is good, and plonk in 12h on the following day if I like. And nobody /minds/ because they know I'm on an hourly rate.
Also, I have a 'primary' client, so I can work there in the morning, and take on another contract from home and work that in the afternoon for example. I've been doing that a lot lately, and yes some days you end up doing silly hours, but they are all /paid/ hours.

I used to charge (as a freelance) on 'project' and 'phases' and so on, but very often, you always end up working more due to shifting specifications, bugs etc. By sticking to an hourly rate, you remove that constrain, and if you are 'expensive' companies will try not to waste your time -- while I see a lot of 'daylies' being given menial jobs because they are considered 'cheap' and expendables.
Kidding? LOL!

102†. Albert Hofmann survived. Will you?

†https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
I really dislike that kind of attitude, even though Clojure is one of my favorite languages. There are so many things to learn in software and computer science, and programming languages -- even programming paradigms -- are a very, very small minority of them. Maybe the GP prefers to learn about data structures, optimization algorithms, scientific computing or OS design rather than new languages?

I actually find that learning new languages is among the laziest, and least important things to learn in software and CS.

Please don't put down other developers over what they choose to learn.
Don't they also generally depend on the attacker either having access to a steady stream of crypto-events, or being able to cause them? i.e. you either watch a loaded system doing encryption, or create some load and time it yourself.

Neither of which would be relevant to an offline file format.
I can relate to that latter point - My wife is Finnish and her name is often changed from Kirsi to Kirsty, to ease the pronunciation for people here in the UK.
You're correct, these are cases where organisations have asked FlightRadar24 to not display any data about their aircraft. In some cases you can still see an aircraft on the site with all identifying details saying "BLOCKED", but as I understand it you can request for your aircraft to not display at all.

This doesn't prevent you from seeing those aircraft via your own ADS-B receivers like directly-connected SDR devices, nor does it apply to any of the other flight tracking applications or services like PlanePlotter, FlightAware or PlaneFinder to which an aircraft owner would need to apply separately.

I can't say I disagree with FR24's position on this, seeing as though if they didn't offer it there would be a lot more pressure on the FAA and others to introduce an encrypted form of the ADS-B standard and because when ADS-B was introduced nobody foresaw consolidated services like FR24 which could provide not only an extraordinary level of crowdsourced data but also historical data.

This is a problem for air forces, which are are required to use ADS-B in certain areas but for obvious reasons don't want other countries to be able to see exactly when, where and how their aircraft fly. It's also an issue for private companies, where the ability to track the movement of corporate jets might give competitors extremely good intel on what a company's plans are based on where its execs are flying to and when.

This has only been compounded by the introduction of multilateration[0] which allows for aircraft using only Mode-S and without ADS-B onboard or activated to be tracked with the same level of positional data.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration
What about mirror shades?
Flight history of blocked aircraft is inaccessible as well. E.g. executives may not want to reveal insightful flights.

E.g. American Airlines AA1 recent flight history: http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa1/
Fine then, show me. Show me some "science" that show how starving yourself is good for you.

Put up or shut up, this isn't productive.
an acquisition does not normally require existing employees to sign new contracts

I'm not sure why you think that is true.

So this is a non-negotiable reduction in the legal position of the employees at best.

This is an extraordinary statement that requires the requisite evidence. I don't think it matches US law or precedent, it simply seeks to formalize it, while giving the other party a full and fair negotiating position.

Every single case I can think of where employer and employee/buyer got into such a spat are the ones where such agreements were not in place. Can you think of a counterexample?
Because Greece is about to default?
OMG everyone buy bitcoin!
Yes you do lose weight, I don't disagree. If you do have a weight problem, it might be an option. But I don't think it's not detrimental for you or that it's a viable long term solution.
Brave? It was the first Atmos movie, so I've just assumed that the downmix to 7.1 and 5.1 is equally as good.
Maybe, couple that with Argentina's population starting to switch to BTC haha! Threw $20 into BTC a few months ago, this is nice :)
Open flight information has in the past been used to track both the world's biggest illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout, and also the CIA rendition-to-torture flights.
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Both parties need to initial the crossed-out sections for it to be fully legally binding. It's best to just ask for a new version without the sections you don't want to agree to, it's no use trying to fly under the radar, that's dishonest.
That both does and doesn't help. There is the format, which looks sensible. There are the protocols around it, key generation, salt generation, overall design, etc. which are not.

What actually scares me about the design is if my machine is compromised, an attacker can grab my Password Safe file (plus keylogs or whatever) and has access to all of my passwords. The design seems not very robust at a designs+protocols level.

(In contrast, right now, if a machine is compromised, it only compromises the passwords I've used from that machine).
Interesting... except for being limited to Node.js initially (now JVM too), I would think AWS Lambda would be almost ideal for this.
OT, but:

> droque

Not in the dictionary, Urban Dictionary, Google just tries to translate it from French. What is a droque?
How I learned to relax and stop trying to predict the future of work
Last I checked, the only way to get the search keywords from those redirects was registering for Google webmaster tools.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/467/a...

This episode gives a little different perspective on living in China.
15 Weirdest Animal Mating Rituals That Will Creep You Out
Agreed... AWS and Azure both offer a lot of services beyond just VPS hosting. Hosted database services, and extended blob/s3 storage are pretty valuable in and of themselves.

DO/Linode don't offer the equivalent, which means maintaining your own.. which is fine, but if you're relatively small, or a single person... time you dedicate to operations tasks is time you aren't developing features and/or fixing bugs. One's business is paramount... technology is just a tool to serve that.
Americans read and write dates in middle endian. Germans and Dutch only read numbers with decade flip, they are written as usual. Furthermore with "two and forty" there can be no confusion since it's not "two and four", so it's clear that "forty" refers to the tens position and "two" to the units position. It is of course not ideal, but not nearly as much cause of confusion as the middle endian dates, because there's simply no way to know what 9/11/2001 means.
Virtue v. Vice: best trademark lawsuit ever?
Do you have plan to add the code when 2 players hit each other?
GitLab CEO here, sharing deploy keys has been a feature for a long time in GitLab http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ssh/README.html No need to wait five years :)
So some Node written by a self-confessed Node novice, based on a 'hello world' example, and running on an old(ish) verson of Node is actually quite similar in performance terms compared to TCL written by someone who knows how to write a TCL server from scratch. That is not a reasonable comparison. Get someone with some Node experience to write the Node server, then compare them.
GitLab CEO here, thanks! And deploy keys in GitLab have always been read-only http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ssh/README.html
OR’LYEH? The Shadow Over Firefox (INFILTRATE 2015)
I can't figure out how it would be possible that shifting from physical paper to online hosting could be more expensive

Developing and hosting something like JSTOR in the early to mid 90's was no where near as cheap and easy as it might be today (and let's face it even today it isn't completely trivial). Doubly so if you had no staff with the relevant skills and had to do everything via consultants.
Another approach: https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython
The Truth About Van Halen and Those Brown M&Ms
Pity it's not an ice40 part, otherwise it would have been possible to run the entire toolchain on Android (yosys+arachne-pnr+icestorm).
I don't understand, won't you tag a release commit first manually and than have it be created by the CI server?
Personally I prefer the 'human' accountant. I've been using an experienced accountant for many years, and continued on when I created the LTD. He also does my personal taxes, the PAYE etc.
For the company, we 'share' a google spreadsheet that is very simple, I add my invoicing, expenses, and he uses that to do the VAT bits and PAYE. Very low overhead, and he's very cheap too -- he's also 1 mile away, so I go and sit down with him and chat about options etc if I feel like it.

There might be some pretty good small accountancy firms around that will cost a LOT less than these fancy online firms, so do check around locally, or asks for recommendations -- I think it's worth it.
SnapDocs (YC W14) is looking for an office admin
We're looking for an office admin to help with stuff like:

-booking travel
-managing schedules
-bookkeeping
-small event planning
-keeping the office fun

This is a full time, on-site, position in SF; email resumes to jobs@snapdocs.com

Thanks!
At least they (we) stay consistent between 13 and 99, while a certain other language elects to switch the flip at 20.

I think we should all take a moment to admire the francophone Swiss for boldly dropping much of the madness that is french counting. (Yes, I am looking at you, quatre-vingt-dix-neuf!)
Federal CTO: How Can We Be More Like Estonia?
You can, on nexus 4 and nexus 7, and soon on newer hardware
Like I say depending on the jurisdiction the existing terms may have to be respected due to operation of law.

That's the case in the EU with the Acquired Rights Directive (and national implementations) which covers transfers of businesses/undertakings. Employees will automatically transfer, provided that in certain cases employer can update terms and conditions/make redundancies where justified (so called ‘economic, technical or organisational reasons’).
The Role and Responsibilities of a CCO
The Sony Vaio P is a 8" laptop, closest to this. It has an insane high res screen too. It's really small, I had one.
TL;DR they added a requirement for 'no brown m&ms' in the middle of their contract to have an indicator regarding whether someone read the contract.

=> The idea being that if someone was diligent enough to read the contract and make sure there will not be brown m&ms they will also have taken other things in the contract more serious (eg stage safety, electricity, …).
If it really matters that much how many connections per second you can handle, perhaps Node is not the right tool for the job. Try Go instead, which also runs on multiple cores more naturally.
You can download the newly compiled binaries to your test devices. The App Store won't release it to customers until you say it's okay.
An user name, see also "Xophmeister"
Django channels proposal
Blog post on this - http://www.aeracode.org/2015/6/17/beyond-request-response/
If you are such a great expert .NET programmer what sees others errors, stop complaining and help him. You have his git and you can pull request.
This author has a very narrow view of what defines distraction. Gadgets aren't the only things distracting in life. I get more distracted by hot chicks at the office than my phone.
Can you be more specific about the useful skills? Like a list, out of which you need 2 or 3. Would be good to know what specifically companies want you to be confident about :)
“We are destroying the middle classes”, says one of the world’s richest men
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I favor using eminent domain to solve the storage problem. With Harry Reid's upcoming retirement Yucca Mountain may be practical after all. This will piss some people off but everything is sacred to someone.

The federal government has to be the insurer of last resort for the time being. I think this is a very manageable risk.

Likewise to a lesser extent for construction costs. After the current construction in GA is done I think we'll have a much better idea of where we stand; remember that's the first expansion of our nuclear fleet in ~30 years and data from that project has the merit of being pretty current in terms of logistics, technique, and environmental/regulatory constraints, making it a better model than past white elephant projects.
Unixbench is a pretty awful benchmark unless the only thing you care about is disk IO (unlikely for a typical web app). The site you linked to doesn't even have data for AWS t2 instances types, so not really a useful data point for your comparison. The site only has data for instance types listed as "previous generation instances".
Longevity is very hereditary.
so you were misled and confused by google into thinking you need a google account, if only for a while. they try hard to manipulate people. do you see the problem now? yes, you can fight the stream of lies and misdirections, or you can say "thanks, but no, thanks".
> Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!"

> They both have two six core 2GHz Xeon processors. With hyperthreading (HT) enabled that counts to 24 processors on each box.

24 * 50,000 = 1,200,000

> we had shown that it is technically possible to receive 1Mpps on a Linux machine

So the original proposition was correct.
Again, longevity is highly hereditary.
Thanks a lot Jon; we can't wait to help you launch the app!
Think of the eternal vastness of configuration spaces (even in domains as restricted as, say, static HTML/CSS pages) and then you know why AB testing is not a solution to everything. (Multivariate testing, too. It’s just slightly more elegant in some respects, but suffers from the same basic deficits and additionally has its own issues.)

Time is limited and traffic is limited. You simply cannot test everything, in fact, the amount of variants you can actually test during, say, a year may be shockingly low compared to the amount of variants possible (at least if you are not Google – but most aren’t).

Without a strong sense of direction and discerning eyes and hands that provide plausible variants to test, AB testing can be quite useless. AB testing is a great tool to verify hypotheses (and those may well be competing hypotheses), but I really question its usefulness as a creative tool.

If you can plausibly only do a couple of AB tests a year (the possibility of running an AB test being a function of traffic and time) you better not waste that opportunity on button colors or some similar nonsense.

Sure, evolution through natural selection produced some awesome designs and is basically a completely blind process based purely on testing of different variants with only slight and random differences with no involvement of any designer at all (sound familiar?) – but it also took billions of years. Most designers just don’t have that kind of time …

To more directly answer your question, AB tests can certainly be used to defend against bad hypotheses. If there is a culture of testing and new designs have to be battle tested then that’s less of an opportunity for someone in a position of power to screw things up by fiat. However, that’s also a tremendous waste of time and efficiency if bad designs that could be sieved out quickly by simple heuristics have to also first be tested, which is just a slow process and a wasted opportunity to test something better.

Maybe think of AB testing as a last line of defense, but be careful, AB tests can be paralyzing. (Or rather, first AB tests paralyze everything, then the boss is annoyed by how slow everything is going and changes everything by fiat and immediately without any testing at all. From one extreme to the other …)
Sorry to be so critical, but this article really feels like it's trying to hard to make some elaborate point. It's seems kind of like a long bitching session about modern technology that somehow manages to blame everything on Apple (because that's a popular target, I guess). Or maybe it changes target halfway through - I don't know, after about 5 minutes of reading I started skimming.

I think the eventual point is that we are so busy with Apple's gadgets that we don't have the time to consider whether the world is going the way we want.

If so, again that's a cheap shot at Apple, who's hardly the main driver or benefactor of modern society's obsession with vacuous and constant entertainment over substance.

Apple didn't kill the revolution (if the revolution has indeed been killed). Society killed the revolution. We're heading for a Brave New World type society of sated indifference, and most people seem to be ok with that (even though a few vigorously disagree). That's hardly something to lay at Apple's feet.
From the article:

>Since the Horn has finite volume but infinite surface area, it seems that it could be filled with a finite quantity of paint, and yet that paint would not be sufficient to coat its INNER surface
He uses the Hello World code from http://howtonode.org/hello-node so he did not write the Node version.