skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your site is using nicescroll (http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/) to create a custom scroll bar/scroll effects instead of allowing the browser to handle scrolling itself.
They're all pretty good as an ex-contractor in the UK. Even getting paid is quite easy if you sub your timesheets quickly.

The killer is simply making sure that if you do the entire 6 month contract in 2 weeks that you still get paid for the rest or have a massive termination fee in the contract.

The agents don't care; they pass all costs on.
Does anyone purchase it for iPhone that hasn't made the investment elsewhere?
Well he should have compared this with onload enabled. He was using a solarflare after all. Limited benefits on mc compared with TCP though.
Plus, the non-native plugin support (is it shockwave?)
(Almost) first engineer at PayPal describes interviewing with Elon Musk
The streets in NYC probably don't allow use of the robot arms that pick up (launch, in some cases!) the trash bins. Too much street sign clutter, fire hydrants, danger of picking up a pedestrian, etc.
Tender app: Tinder for Food
You can act confident without being confident but if you are confident you will be confident.
> Why do companies still see it as a commitment issue...

Multiple job-hops are a likely indicator of an individuals poor decision quality. Such a person won't put in the time required to make the work situation better. They're perceived as emotional, impatient, and poor team players.

Incidentally, the employer views your role as someone who can help move 'his' agenda forward. Perhaps a bit Old School; he's not there to mollycoddle and entertain your needs.
Ditto for Coda 2.5
You sound hesitant and not confident of your own ability.

Personally, the first thing I'd do is remove myself from people like that. What a painful way to live - there are a hundred other different environments.

If you feel like you need to be there, you probably have already realized it - they are full of shit - that is sales. Most sales people are confidence tricksters, they spin bullshit. You have a potent weapon, a brain. Use it, whip them down. They're generally morons, with confidence.

But, I would say get out of the environment.
This is the best presentation I have seen in years.

Macros are truly the way up if we are to escape the gravity well of calculus for bio chemistry. How else to gain delta v?
I disagree, isn't it better to go to another company that might provide challenge/pay rather then looking for things to do (especially on that company's dime?)
Watch as firefighters attempt to blast a drone out of the sky
Man, so many hours over so many playthroughs of this game when I was a kid.

They really need Uematsu to compose the soundtrack or remaster the original.

In fact I'd be happy enough with the original.
Can someone summarize why this is better than, say, StartSSL or AlphaSSL?
Firefox has, except for the vertical foldable list UI, Panorama (ctrl+shift+e to toggle between).

http://imgur.com/SNRLpxx
Maybe not look at it like who was right or who was wrong, but rather who is responsible for what. Your responsibility is definitely to disclose any issues you believe may impede a project. If it's their responsibility, however, to reach a final decision, then, after you have voiced the new information, remember to respect whatever they decide. It's their ass on the line if it fails. You did your part. So, in general, never focus on who was right and who was wrong, rather focus on the common goal.

PS Overly confident people are in reality typically really scared of being wrong. Be gentle ;)
New UAE Law: $68k fine for swearing on WhatsApp
It sounds like you are well-informed on this issue. I'd like to ask you more about it but I can't seem to find any kind of private messaging functionality on HN and you don't have an email address in your profile :O
I mostly went with them because of their privacy package. They do simplify the process a little bit by putting a nice UI on top of this more manual process [1]. I'd rather pay a few extra pounds than risk submitting wrong information thus creating more trouble further down the road. Perhaps, FUD was playing a role too.

[1] - https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/overview
> Yeah, that's how science works.

The problem is that various sciences have very different requirements for what constitutes a valid 'discovery'. e.g. In particle physics if you don't have a 5 sigma result you haven't really found something. You often see incredibly weak data accepted into journals in the soft sciences, see the recent 'chocolate makes you thin' faux study as an example.

I think there is a large problem in soft sciences in that they are very quick to declare knowledge with very limited data supporting it. The various dietary sciences are probably the worst offenders at the moment. As you've said we know very little about nutrition and health, so why are we so quick to make definitive statements about it? That sounds like the opposite of science to me.

I'm sure this will be controversial but I'd rather not classify such 'soft sciences' as science at all. I've seen several complete reversals in soft sciences in my life and think that this actually contributes to the general public's mis-understanding and mis-trust of science as a whole. e.g. "Those scientists can't even figure out what I'm supposed to eat so why would I believe this quantum physics non-sense!"
Typical dunning-kruger effect at work.

Communicate your arguments in written form, through email.
There sure is, if you have high quality masses. This is the part Americans always forget in their capitalist rhetoric.
Google Translate isn't going to cut it, and hiring a professional translator that can handle the context and nuances will set you back that much.

Translating a movie is one thing, it's only a few hours of dialog. Games often have way, way more.
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If you find yourself in a defensive posture when dealing with people with huge egos, look inward and deal with your own.
> One major problem with the standard BMI definitions is that any athlete in a sport that vaguely requires muscles will be classed as 'overweight' or 'obese'.

1. This is not a "major" problem, because those people are a tiny minority.

2. This is not a problem with the BMI itself; it's a problem with the "healthy BMI range" interpretation of the BMI value. Obviously, this range does not apply to special populations, like muscular athletes or people with missing limbs.

The BMI concept is valuable because it expresses weight in a way that normalizes for height. The BMI value is only as useful as raw body mass, but at least generalizes to different heights.

A better tool than anything derived from body mass (such as BMI) is a tape measure around your waist: keep your waist circumference less than around 40% of your height. That's it. For instance if you're 68 inches tall, you should have a 27" or narrower waist.

For BMI, by the way, I use the improved BMI formula: 1.3 * mass / (height ^ 2.5). The standard BMI's power of two gives taller adults excessively high BMI values, and is more lenient on shorter people.

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html
Think about these peoples starting point. They want a complete OS and application set built from source that is completely auditable.

This is direct circumvention of that.

Additionally, you can never prove you have removed all of your security flaws. The best you can do is search harder to become more confident that none exist. There is no way to prove that a privilege escalation flaw does not exists. Now arbitrary code is run against you wishes and without your permission.

No one can prove it didn't run a privilege escalation attack. If you think your digital security is of paramount importance you must assume you have been compromised and take steps to remedy this potential issue.

It is not that google is guilty, it is that moments before this happened security was provable and now it is not.
theres plenty of how-to step by step knowledge bases out there, google 'how to set up postfix with dovecot'.. i think i used the gentoo wiki and copypasta'd much of it.. it takes a bit of time to set up a decent mx server, in addition to configuration, you gotta set up a db, generate/sign crypto certs, maybe do a little web-dev to make shit easy to admin.. with regards to this you rly dont want anything on a publically facing ip.. but once again tons of how-to for config out there
One multi-million dollar business franchise gained illegal access to the computer network and private data of another multi-million dollar business franchise. Sounds right up the FBI's alley to me.
Pinterest is about to go eCommerce
The privacy service is a genuine value-add if you don't like putting your home address on the Internet.
It does make it much less important. Nobody is going to die because the Cardinals know what the Astros think about some high school pitcher. With this and the FIFA thing, it seems as if the FBI is interested mostly in sports. Meanwhile, murderers are on the loose, there has still been no meaningful investigation of the financial shenanigans for which we've all paid, there has been no examination of the FBI's own adventures in illegal surveillance and parallel construction, etc.

It's clear, too, that the Astros' staff brought this on themselves. When one is hired away to a competing organization, start using new passwords! Sheesh.
Internet old timer here, I watched these videos through this site on their release dates, AMA...
This is hilarious:

"Following the controversy of Where the Tractor’s Roam, Gadyukin’s arrival in London was received with great expectations. His first production in the UK was Waiting… in 1956, a project born out of a desire to film Samuel Beckett’s stage play “Waiting for Godot”. Beckett however, was unhappy with the textual changes Gadyukin proposed and withheld permission for an adaptation. Gadyukin’s film is a testament to his ability to tread a fine line, being very close to Beckett’s play in places but always with sufficient alterations to avoid a lawsuit. Waiting… was both experimental in narrative and formal terms, much of the dialogue being a mix of English and Esperanto. Despite a warm reception from European festivals Waiting... met with mixed reviews from the British press and did little business."
Also, do Teslas have enough autonomy to travel each of those distances?
As far as I can tell, merely heating cooking oils does not create significant quantities of trans fats:

http://blogs.longwood.edu/incite/2012/01/30/heat-induced-cis...

From the above paper:

> "The results indicate that heating canola, corn, and premium and generic olive oil to their smoke point for at least 15 minutes does not quantifiably increase their respective concentration of trans fatty acids."
Not necessarily; another "unnatural" recommendation by our betters, to shift from fats and meats to carbohydrates, could easily be worse, and maybe synergistic.

"Unnatural" in that we were advised to shift from natural saturated fats, and from something resembling the more balanced pre-agriculture diet. And I'm suspicious of mass quantities of unsaturated cis-fats, which I gather weren't quite so common prior to cultivation of oil seeds.
I think your entire post is a fine example of why you're having difficulty dealing with "sales guys".

How to deal with "overly confident" people? You mean assholes?

Because when a person is "overly confident" about something they know very little about, that's the definition of an asshole. And there are a lot of assholes in sales. Being an asshole in sales makes you successful. Nobody wants to sign a contract with someone who's not sure of what they're doing.

The key characteristic of an asshole is "fake it til you make it". In other words, act confident in a field even if you know absolutely nothing about it until you do know something about it.

The best way to deal with someone who's faking it is to simply call them out on it. But doing that is a bit of an art. Rather than simply pissing them off, guide them to the right conclusion. Even though they're "faking it", they still do want to learn how to do it right, even if they will never admit it.

Him: "This button should be over here."
You: "Ok, I like your idea, but what if X and X happens. We should add what you said, but do it here."

Compliment them. Tear them down. Suggest a better alternative, incorporating some minor insignificant part of their original idea. Keep repeating until you get the desired outcome.
You disagree with following the letter of the law and taking home extra thousands of pounds per year? Personally my attitude it that I'll apply whatever optimizations my accountant says I can without being too creative :-)

Also, some companies that masquerade as umbrellas are doing some pretty shady things. If they promise some un-feasibly large percentage of take home pay (over 80%) they're probably doing some dodgy Isle of Man scheme and you'll be left holding the can.
If you were right, then the most trustworthy companies would have the most market share while offering us good EULA's. Looking at top software names, it's clear trust and success in the market place have almost nothing to do with each other. It's actually opposite with the dirtiest companies on top in most places. Negative media definitely hurts the bottom line but majority of time isn't an issue. They have PR people for that.

There have always been companies that share source with customers, use stronger security tech, warranty their code, and so on. They were minority players pre-Snowden with many having left that market because so few cared. (myself included) Post-Snowden, they're still minority players with the market mostly going for whoever promises the most on their web sites & in media. Trust and security have always come 2nd (5th?) to all kinds of other criteria for buyers in the IT market. If you doubt, look at number of Facebook or Gmail users vs number using more private alternatives. People & companies sell themselves out in droves.
The publisher of Transmit will likely do the right thing. See another title of theirs, Coda:

http://www.panic.com/blog/introducing-coda-2-5/

Other publishers have done the same thing. (with regard to upgrade pricing, usually, but I'd assume a similar approach to avoid backlash if they left the MAS) However, your concern still stands, as not everyone will do that.
Excellent advice. I've learned to do this over time and it's really been a win-win approach.
helps if you run your own dns as well
A few more comments -

Rate - Daily is good, hourly can also work. My current client will pre-authorise overpayment of a few hours a week if I work them. A little income boost if I want it.

IR35 - The 'own equipment' thing is a guideline only, and I don't think you'll fall foul of IR35 for using their equipment, particularly as many places only allow their equipment to be used on their networks.

There are other reasons to avoid working for one client long-term too. At the moment you sign up for a contract or contract renewal that takes you over the two year mark, you can no longer claim day to day expenses.

I.E. I sign an initial 18 month contract, and at the end sign up for another year. From the18 month point the client office will be considered my 'normal place of work', regardless of IR35, so the company cannot pay for transport or lunch any more.
I have no idea. How many UDP packets can FreeBSD pass to application?

I don't think there is any particular problem with Linux. The core problem of "slow" performance is mostly due to limitations of BSD API (recvmmsg is a good example of a workaround), and due to the feature richness of Linux.

Also, doing the math: 2GHz / 350k pps = 5714 cycles per packet. 6k cycles to deliver the packet from NIC to one core, then pass it between cores and copy over to application. That ain't bad really.
I feel that there's too much of an innate trust in password managers these days. One 'short int' problem (heartbleed reference! Look at me I'm so hip and zany :)) and the passwords are compromised. OTOH there's the problem of giving out passwords at all...
Because it includes a script you can just run and will take care of everything for you, and you'll have properly TLS-configured web servers with valid certificates and reissues with a single command.
The wholesale frying/baking of foods in vegetable shortening did in fact stop. There are still small amounts of trans fats in many foods per the FDAs allowance.
It also doesn't mention that you don't need to register for VAT until you have a turnover of £82k.
I don't want to get into specifics because I have abandoned their development and support a long time ago. The first one was a developer tool priced around $10, the second one was a more generic IT productivity tool priced around $5. They've both made around $10-15K over the years. In the end I had to abandon them because sales started to drop more and more every month and continued development didn't seem to stop that.
To my mind, the animatrix was a better successor to the matrix than the sequels ever were. (Then again, just about anything would be.) It showcases the history of the matrix, pleads a case for the machine, and shows life in the matrix. It's an underwatched not-quite-masterpiece that is still excellent.
This is a senior-level course?
I found it pretty easy when I did it three years ago, it's not hard.

That said, I didn't need to bother, as part of on-boarding with my accountant they would have done it all for me.
I have this issue too. You explained it fairly well. I don't know if this is the right solution or not, but I have just tried to be a little more assertive. Obviously not to the extent that your coworkers are.

I have heard that you can get people to challenge their own viewpoint (at least on technical matters) by carefully asking questions. This will also help you to figure things out for yourself too.
That's just development. There's time spent on support, marketing, prepping app store submission, responding to interview questions, etc.
One other thing I would say is that I'm not sure your points about IR35 are correct. EG:

* Don't use equipment provided by the client;
-- This would be very hard to do. Most clients I've ever worked for supply you with a PC to use and won't allow non-corporate devices on their network.

* Be careful with paid-for meals or participating in company parties.
-- Never heard this mentioned before.

* Avoid working for one client for longer than a year when possible.
-- A lot of cients will enforce a maximum period of 2 years anyway, as after that you could theoretically claim benefits.

There are a lot of scare stories propogated about IR35, and a lot of it is by companies that sell IR35 Contract Reviews, IR35 Insurance etc. The number of IR35 investigations each year is in the low thousands, and there are 1.8m contractors in the UK.
With these individuals, I'd avoid being blatantly honest and objective. Even if you helped them, they tend to take it personally and undermine your relationships.

So, whenever they're wrong, I show them I have a completely different background/side("the guy who knows math") and make them conclude something without directly saying it( using indirect questions maybe).

With that, they "were not wrong" (their nightmare) and you just helped them come to the right conclusion("like always").
> Why bother with a third party company registration service?

Well, note the affiliate link...

Companies House charge £15 for setting up a company online. Most accountants include it in their service, and will let you use their address as your office/postal address if you want.

It may be different for developers but if you avoid recruiters, you're probably ignoring about half the job market for contracting.
I think that's an unfair characterization of the situation. Sam hasn't mentioned it since it happened. News outlets keep picking up the story because it's about Apple (hot topic), app stores (hot topic), and what most people would assume would be a source of obscene wealth (trending at the top of the chart).

But, it's a man bites dog story! The outcome defies typical logic, and so news websites keep running the story.
Like the general trolly problem, this formulation of the self-driving car problem assumes some agents are passive. The trolly problem assumes nobody is trying to rescue the potential victims. This formulation of the self-driving car problem assumes the school bus and other vehicles are passive.

Thus the conventional trolly problem doesn't really do the problem of self-driving car decision trees justice. The school bus isn't a dumb trolly. When your car is heading toward the school bus, the school bus will also running down it's decision tree and the best outcome based on its 15 passengers may be to take you out directly rather than run the risk of miscalculating what will happen if your car dives into the guardrail. Which is to say, that statistical predictions bring confidence intervals into play.

I believe this is why trolly problems in general reveal more about their formulation than about our ethical reasoning. We will throw a switch to shunt the trolly because the bad outcome will remain in the future and the possibility of changing circumstances remains very real. We know from experience that any of our predictions may be fallible and that the more temporally remote the event the more our prediction is fallible. Pushing the fat man off the bridge elicits a different reaction: the outcome is immediate and our prediction less fallible.
If you just stuck 4 ounces of sirloin steak (276 calories) between two slices of white bread (158 calories) and put literally nothing else on it, you would have a "steak sandwich" with 434 calories. Does that sound like a good meal to you?
Should we be looking forward to the arsenic diet, then?
Why Web Literacy Matters, Too
The serving sizes for the french fries are larger than they used to be. People (to conserve their mental energy, I assume) order by number, and that automatically includes a large order of fries.

If I remember correctly, in the 70's & 80's McDonald's had only two sized of french fries, small and large.

But you know what? Screw all this quibbling about specifics. Our portions are larger, we eat more, we exercise less. Our lifestyles and communities are pretty toxic from the standpoint of metabolism. Lots of places you have to get in a car to do the simplest things. This is a ridiculous way to live.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised in the least to find that people eat more because they feel more economically desperate than before and because in real terms they are making less. My pet theory is that over-eating is a kind of hatred turned inward. It's like blaming yourself when the game is rigged to begin with.

Blah, I covered a lot of ground there. Sorry for the sloppy thinking, but I think some things can be salvaged from there.
I ask them to walk me through it to make sure I fully understand the issue -- because I'm clearly missing something important.

Sometimes I am missing something important.

But either way, framing it as if they know something you don't will usually lead to the right answer without an overt confrontation.
I think great things that can be done poorly should still be done for sure.

I guess I am not really arguing against you. I am just emphasizing that there could be severe future consequences for increasing palm oil demand specifically.

I don't think there are any easy answers here.
Markdown? This is HN where we use whatever PG* decides we're allowed to use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

*Paul Graham
Umm, last I checked, the Kinect was still a sub $150 3D Depth and color scanner. That still really fucking cool. Article was written by a dumb /non tech person.
I laughed real hard at the "just" in your sentence. thank you for that.
No predatory pricing (StartSSL has $25 revocations), free (AlphaSSL) and user-friendly (StartSSL is a UX nightmare). PositiveSSL is probably the cheapest, well supported cert (certs can be had for $3-4/y).
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