skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, was this thing written on the author's phone? Missing words everywhere. And this likely auto-corrected sentence: "In its hunt revenue, Sourceforge is looking less like an important collection of human knowledge and more like a plungered museum full of dangerous traps." [Emphasis added.]
This argument is only correct under the assumption that you are the only person on earth making this decision. It is like arguing that you shouldn't go voting because the chance that your vote changes the result is, for all practical matters, zero.
hi there - it took a while to make our 1st hire, but i'm happy to report that work is underway as part of the Azure ML group. as soon the project has a pulse i'll post on HN. current plan is to have it be free & open source like Python Tools for Visual Studio.

i'm also hiring for the project, so if you're into dev tools (editors, debuggers, profilers, languages, ...) and looking, pls drop me a line. looking for devs and a technical PM.

re R.Net - no effort that i know of.
China has no extradition treaty with the US, and even if they did, there is no equivalent of the CFAA in China. Extradition treaties usually cover only offenses that are crimes in both countries.
What I like:

- Data driven

- High-quality output

- Raster and vector output

What I don't like:

- Complicated to set up (install Ruby, install multiple dependencies, compile code). This will scare away many potential users.

- Complicated to use (edit text files and run command line scripts). While I like this workflow personally, I feel this will again scare away some people.

- There's already many generic tools where you can write scripts to produce images from input data. Maybe you could explain why your tool is better suited for designing cards, given how complicated it is?
Here is a WordPress Plugin for it: https://github.com/omarabid/wp-tota11y

The script will be loaded only if an admin user is logged. So you can rest assured this will not annoy your users.
Maybe its time to level up and try using a collections agency like: http://www.olddebts.com/

Whenever a client seems to be giving me the run around I pay for a simple `Instant Collect` + `Credit Bureau Reporting` (should be around $10-$15) and its amazing how the threat of destroying someones credit can change the scenario ;)

I actually used this strategy to effectively get paid back from a law firm! No lawyer needed.

It might just put you at the top of the list of people to repay.

Not vouching for olddebts here, though I am happy with their service. There are other options.

Definitely don't give up on ANY amount of money.
You find another client. This one is not going to pay you, and a bankrupt company will, in the very best scenario, give you a few pennies on the dollar, a long long time from now.
Did stackoverflow just include the LGBT flag in the new logo?
If it's a company that's that small before taking work have their owners co-sign liability on your contracts.

So if their LLC(Whatever) fails, they're still on the hook.

Banks do this for every loan my small business has taken. You sign for your company, but you also sign personally. If they won't do this, move on.

Lesson learned.
Regulating Sex
> if you think of yourself and your family as one entity

That's nice if you have a nice family. A lot of people have really shitty families. I don't see any reason to treat people special just because they are family. I do things for my parents, but I actually like my parents. There is no way in hell I'm doing anything for most of my aunts, uncles, or cousins, because they are bad people.
You don't stop work the moment somebody is an hour into arrears, but you do adjust your prices to accommodate the risk of non-payment.
Well, you're turning a leap into a smear, so "leap smearing" seems like a perfectly apt description.
Thanks for the costs breakdown, I found it interesting. I'm in software, and in the North; there are definite similarities and differences.

For those reading this that are interested in software costs, here's a similar breakdown:

A Senior Developer (Java, C# being predominant technologies), with around 7-10 years' experience, or similar QA, good English language, makes around USD 25,000 per year. The market gets very thin at 10+ years, especially for English speakers in management, and ceilings at around USD 45,000 per year unless the person has had international placements. [At more junior levels, income is less, with starting salaries at around USD 6 - 8k per year.]

For those reading, this is gross salary (individual income tax at 15-30% for these salaries), but the company contributes around 40% in addition to this gross salary as social security benefit.

For a bigger city like Shanghai, add 30-40% to the above.

A software worker probably won't live in a dormitory. They'll have an apartment and mortgage, often close to their office complex (software parks are constructed as mixed commercial-residential developments over 20-30 square kilometers, with residential areas on the peripheral and offices / shopping mall in the center).

I'm surprised your rent is so low. Modern, international grade office buildings go for around USD 150 per square meter per year (or, around 2.5 Yuan per day). Bigger cities are a little more. On the outside of Shanghai it is around 3 Yuan per day for an office in a technology park in the outskirts of the city.

Local software parks also do food, but prices are more like $2.5 (15 Yuan) for a meal.
Have a read of this info here which might be useful to you ...

http://www.shrm.org/templatestools/hrqa/pages/wagesandbankru...
C++ Today. The Beast Is Back [pdf]
Nice kanban approach to the process mapping you guys have there.
I've seen a "Zombie coloring book", complete with pithy descriptions of how people have died in various ironic ways.
That's a great lesson - thanks. I've never heard of or considered such a thing, but that's a great way to assure payment without raising prices.

EDIT: I think people aren't giving you enough credit here. Every contract is a negotiation - this clause is just another weapon I can include in my starting offer on a new contract. If people say hey, we won't agree to this provision, I can now say "OK, no problem, my rates just went up 10%."
I've heard that there haven't been any cases of orca fatalities in the wild. All of the fatalities have occurred with captive orcas.

There are dolphin attacks but I have not heard of a fatality. But one thing to consider is that some species of dolphin are more aggressive and sometimes attack and kill other kinds of dolphins and porpoises. For no reason that we can discern.

Regardless, I don't think the fact that all dolphins aren't nice to humans means anything against their intelligence/sentience. All humans aren't nice to other humans.
It wasn't immediately clear to me, but this library tracks both the state (e.g. "state1") and a payload, some arbitrary value. This already seems like two separate concerns?

As for transitions, it seems that each state has a collection of functions for every other state, which are called with the payload to determine if that state should be transitioned into. This seems error-prone - if there's no transition, is that the end or an error? If there are multiple, how do you choose?

It also seems that the state machine will run immediately to completion unless you return a promise payload. (Bluebird? ES6? It doesn't say.) So if you want a reactive document, this doesn't seem like a fit.
That's an even better article than OP's, thanks :D
The company (because there is a legal entity, and not just three guys hacking in a garage, right?) absolutely needs to retain ownership of the code. If the CTO decides he'd rather work for Microsoft 6 months in you can't have a legal structure that allows him to take all the code with him and dump everyone else back to square one.

If you've got two or more people working on a business/startup/project, everything done toward that goal needs to belong to that entity, not the person that created it.
TLDR they have a Freemium business model
http://surge.sh/help/why-is-surge-free
Probably because they're being spawned over time and your FPS goes back up once the units list doesn't change anymore.
It's a little late for you, but Mike Monteiro's "Fuck you, pay me!" talk has a lot of good information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
No offense but I'd never sign a personal liability contract if I were contracting somebody even if I had millions sitting in the bank account. In my opinion that's just a silly idea, akin of asking a VC to sign a NDA.
TL;DR: Mercenaries are bad, loyalists are desirable, so here are a few tricks on how to turn mercenaries into loyalists.

I expected something else when I read the article's title. I expected some advice on how to identify the loyalists and the mercenaries and how to fit them best into your work-system in order to get the most of it considering their nature.
Greece did not suffer from an asset bubble, the other countries you mentioned did.

Interest rate convergence was one of the criteria for introduction of the Euro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_convergence_criteria#Crit...

Point 5, long-term interest rates

The ECB's mandate is to worry about price-stability, not the German economy

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/intro/objective/html/index.en...

Practice may of course deviate from theory, but i don't think it did much here.

German unification was 1990, we are talking about the time around 2000. Many central banks in the world lowered interest rates after the dot-com crash & 9-11 and the economic slowdown that followed.

You might argue that this caused asset bubbles, and i would tend to agree.

If it were up to me, i would add "avoiding asset bubbles" to the ECB mandate, if you want to you could regard it as a kind of price-stability mandate for assets.
No, personal investment and responsibility.
The company I work for (BoredPanda) featured a post about the "Enchanted Forest"[1] over 3 months ago, which gained the author loads of attention. Later she sent us one of the coloring books, we still have it in the office.

A couple of months later, I saw an ad in my Facebook feed, a Lithuanian publisher was selling it here (normally, the books and etc are published here quite a bit later, because it's a tiny market, it was surprising). Although I have pretty much nothing to do with the content we publish, it still felt great knowing it helped to change someones career :)

[1] http://www.boredpanda.com/coloring-books-for-adults-johanna-...
> it is cheaper and easier to get in more markets than ever before and the margins are as low as they have ever been on providing it

High enough that the firms are at least receiving a normal profit. And given the opportunity cost that all these smart people incur by working in this industry, this normal profit is rather big, and no doubt that the extraction of this normal profit has non-neglible deleterious effects on the economy.
Call a lawyer. Sometimes a nasty letter from a lawyer is all you need to get someone to pay up.
Hackers are exploiting Magento flaw to steal payment card info
The various controlled studies I've seen, including the mythbusters report, all show unassigned seating to be fastest.
By the time JavaScript is being compiled down to WebAssembly you'll probably also be able to have the full Clojure, Scala, Java and other JVM based languages (also .Net languages) compiled down there as well.
I'll post this here since people interested in accessibility will be reading this thread.

I have terrible vision. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a website on my phone through safari that doesn't allow me to zoom the text. For those occasions, I came across a JavaScript bookmark that I created on my phone that runs to undo whatever is preventing me from zooming in.

I'm not a web developer (I do desktop/server software development), so I have no idea how or why certain pages implement this policy/style. It just seems a little arbitrary to choose a font size for your site and not allow visitors to zoom-in in case they have trouble reading the text.
The Immutable Stack – Part 1
I too found that bit about how a 10-minute turn is now impossible to be pretty interesting. Which struggling airlines would now fail due to the (presumed) regulations which prevent a 10-minute turn? Which enterprises have failed in general due to those regulations? Has the cost in destroyed capital been made up for in lives and property saved?

I'm curious, because, 'don't move around while the plane is moving' sounds like a sensible regulation, but a world without Southwest Airlines would be worse. When is the benefit worth the cost?
Really enjoyed reading this, Jon, thanks for sharing it :-)

If nothing else it has added another unit of weight to the idea that I need to adopt CljS quickly before I am left completely behind. Now all I need is a project and more free time than I currently have... ;-)
My Life for the Code Podcast Launched
No that wasn't the point of the study.

They didn't remove ads. They removed knowledge graph data. Knowledge graph results aren't paid placement they are a collection of facts that Google has discovered through various sources, much like organic search results.

In this case the facts come from Google+ reviews. Google is just as likely to display Yelp reviews if they were able to collect that data. Yelp however doesn't supply it.
You can't extrapolate conclusions like this out of a political slogan. Free software doesn't have any inherent slant, it's a way of using copyright law to ensure a given set of terms favorable to contribution and research propagate. You can certainly observe that it operates in a dynamic similar to a gift economy, and that it has an ethical position as well, but not a political ideology with all its baggage.

The FOSS market is determined purely by individual interests of programmers and the people sponsoring them. It doesn't really hit any equilibrium of utility, only what authors want to work on.
Hangover Helpers will clean your house and cook you breakfast after a party
DataLake
Unfortunately headphones will not prevent people from tapping you on your shoulder and interrupting your flow.

I'm recently working remotely and I find that I'm a lot more productive in this environment than I was in open-plan offices. I do however miss the social aspect of easily being able to grab lunch with a couple of coworkers.
Random Numbers in the original Doom
I read that story afterwards! Very interesting.
You can get a nice chair or something though.
There is no need for grants in top b-schools. Whereas other academic departments pay faculty 9-months out of the year, even third-tier b-schools will pay for 2/9 or 3/9 of your salary in the summer if you publish just about anything.

Larger studies? No problem, the dean has you covered. The brilliance of b-schools is that they can mint $ with certificates and exec Ed, all of which is available to them at low overhead (namely the university collects a lesser cut).

It's preposterous to believe that faculty at the very top need to whore themselves out to industry for funding. What they will do to get their hands on data, however, is unspeakable. Yelp, Dropbox, eBay, etc. are merely providing data to the researchers, and more often than not, they have a say on what gets published. The truth always does eventually come out (e.g. negative company information) but it does so behind conference/seminar doors, not in print.
Comcast's automatic billing system overcharged me by a dollar when I canceled. (I moved to a town without Comcast.)

Yes, I gave up on the money even though they sent me monthly reminders that they owed me a dollar. Not worth sitting on the phone...

Comcast eventually sent me a check.
Look at you on the early side of the coloring book adoption curve, while us mainstreamers find out through HN :)
Show HN: Rant 2.0 – Procedural Text Generation DSL
The "unassigned seating" thing is a little amusing since IME SouthWest actually has like 7 levels of "special" (at least it feels like that) before general seating is allowed.

I probably wouldn't change it (the special priorities) given the choice, but it is mildly annoying when it feels like you're waiting in line for an extra 10 or 15 minutes because you're not pregnant, a veteran, a VIP, etc.
We have a 23% conversion rate on that email form.

That said, we are currently A/B testing the buy button on the front page, so 50% of people see the buy button right now.

Also, you can see the full shopping cart page at http://buy.pavlok.com
Honestly, if you had that many paid invoices in the past, and the due invoices were not "contractually" due, there would have been no reason for you to get hostile or demand payments. In my opinion you did fine and it's just a case of unfortunate luck.
No, it still works if you assume that enough people simply don't care about the ethics of the action. Only if the vast majority of consultants were asking themselves the same thing would it really matter.

Your analogy doesn't really work for me, because I do think the effect of voting for an individual, and therefore its moral outcome, is mostly irrelevant. I vote because I like the action in itself.
I'm so torn reading this. I do occasionally fly Southwest and I'm always impressed with how everyone working for Southwest seems just as focused on on time as I am. At the same time I think they started the "race to the bottom" that has made air travel such an increasingly unpleasant experience now in the US.
Reminds me of Dr. Kawashima on the Nintendo DS a few years back. Nice.
We use the jolt on ourselves, we test with a voltimeter, etc. No, we meet low voltage standards and need no certification.
Well, I understand where he's coming from. But if you follow this line of reasoning further, you basically say that you should never help anyone - including your immediate family - with anything because they might think you ruined it for them.

I'm not saying you should be Mother Teresa, or even help people you don't like, but iff you like someone and they need help, just help them out.

They might help you out later with something else they can do better than you.
NETGEAR launches cloud management platform
Şirinevler Anal Escort Esmer
My point is that there's no information the chart is adding to that.
50+ incredible freebies for web designers, June 2015
From the very end of the article...

In the meantime, the Paris-based International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will keep track of the gradual slowing of the planet, caused in part by drag created by the Moon. Millions of years ago days were 22 hours long.
Does the contrast checking catch that?
Its interesting how the 'reduce friction' mantra was basically as true in 1972 as it is today.
The thing it all hinges on is containing noise. Nobody complains about studying in a library. Because it's quiet. If you want an open workspace to work, you have to make it quiet. Provide "phone booths" for phone calls and conference rooms or team rooms for groups talking.
Formium
If you try to do that I can see the company just telling you to go away. One of the reasons to become a LLC/LTD is so you don't have personal liability if the company goes under. It would be a bit stupid to sign that away when you can just hire someone else.
Show HN: Pirate, a command-line arrrguments parser written in Rust
I'd swap my smartphone for affordable education, housing and healthcare any day.
I imagine when the original SI second was specified, there was no need for leap seconds, and if the Earth's rotation had remained exactly the same since then then we would never have needed them?
for anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
> in the absolute sense

Well, don't move the goalposts like this. I never said 'absolute'. You're also arguing from extremes, which isn't appropriate, given that the map is a mostly closed system - population comes from the blue and goes to the orange, with some outside immigration. For the most part, the amount of orange and blue in the map will balance, none of this "orange areas have a population you can count on your fingers, blue areas are jam-packed metropoles" imbalance. Particularly since most of the areas in the map have a four-figure population - they're mostly in the same order of magnitude, not the five orders of magnitude difference that you're suggesting. Run your pointer over the map and check out the populations.

You're also conflating "populous" with "popular". For example, slums are jam-packed with people (= populous), but that doesn't mean that they all want to be there (= popular).
What's with using *ly names that aren't on a .ly domain? I'm extremely likely, especially with a long and somewhat contrived name like whisperer-ly, to misremember the web address if it's a faux .ly.
Centralized file transfer from multiple servers
Is Google Degrading Search? Consumer Harm from Universal Search
Bridging the trust gap between tech and non-tech
Reporting: http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-search-practices-come-u...

The paper: http://www.slideshare.net/lutherlowe/wu-l
Hmm you could integrate some information about the prevalence of different types of color blindness.

"This color combination causes mild problems for 15% of people and severe problems for 5%. Consider X and Y to reduce impact to 3%"
I'd like to point out that large-memory/many-core multi-user machines are very much alive in Computational Science (Computational Physics, Computational Chemistry, etc). Usually as test-beds (before deploying on clusters), visualisation system, or simply front-end nodes for clusters.
You are probably out of luck. I had a similar "learning experience" years ago but mine cost me over $13K.
Here are 2 things I do to mitigate the risk of this sort of thing:

(1) Never lend the client more than 2 weeks (80 hours) pay. Make payment due in 10 days with a step to a higher rate after that. I think for my next gig, I will spec the rate at the higher figure with a discount for paying within 10 days i.e. $200hr or $150hr if paid within 10 days.

(2) Draw up a client services contract. I scoured the internet and drew up a rough version of what I wanted along with a list of goals [example: "I don't want any liability"] and sent them to my lawyer to draw up a contracting agreement. I think it cost me $6-700. The beauty of this is that you can reuse it for multiple clients.

Lets see how this might have avoided your current situation. For one thing, you wouldn't have gotten to $8K outstanding before you stopped working. Your contract would also have specified that disagreements be settled in your home state. $5K is the limit for small claims in NY.
No child left un-mined?
I'm split on this issue. To me, it should be Google's job to both provide a list of viable candidates from its advertising segment and that which is found on the wider web. I just wish that Google would return to the way it use to mark the difference between the two. Anymore, it seems they want to confuse users between their advert search results and the actual web results. But it's clear that this is an inherent conflict of interest that can't be solved, at least in my opinion, by using a sledgehammer approach of antitrust laws.
>>Nobody complains about studying in a library. Because it's quiet.

I actually always did. When I was at uni I would avoid the library like a plague. The problem with an ultra-quiet environment is that literally EVERYTHING is annoying. Someone coughing. Moving papers. Quiet laughter. Clicking pens. It was seriously million times more distracting than working in open space office is.
But the Keynesian macro models similarly have little predictive power. They've failed most of the modern tests which actually distinguish them from monetarism.

(There have been several "tests" of Keynesian thinking where Keynesian predictions agree with monetarist predictions, but such tests can't distinguish between the two theories.)

Most of the modern shift in economic thinking is based more on fashion than on new information. See, e.g., Scott Sumner on the topic: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/05/when_ideologies.... http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/ways_of_thinkin....