skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raspberry Pi: Phoning Home Using a Reverse Remote SSH Tunnel (2013)
As a data point, I've just written a significant ClojureScript application, using React (Rum for bindings, Datascript for client-side db). It's amazing how quickly one can create complex apps with impressive performance out of the box.

If you haven't used ClojureScript, it is definitely worth looking at.
When you're typing and want to correct with BACKSPACE, but at the same time the timer runs out you'll be returned to previous page and can't see your score...
> the space-x guys are ... very proud that they did a test flight with a separation near max-q specifically to prove it would work just fine even at max-q…

The in-flight abort test for Dragon v2 is scheduled to occur later this year. It hasn't occurred yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_V2#Flight_testing

Also note that Dragon v2 was not on this mission and won't fly to space for a while. This was a Dragon v1 mission. Dragon v1 is unmanned and has no launch abort capability.
Too much work to do real flowchart in ascii, alternative version:

Are they incorporated?
-> No: sue founders personally
-> Yes:
-> Will they go under in < 6 months?
-> Yes: your money is lost
-> No:
-> Do they have assets?
-> No: Your money is lost
-> Yes: sue asap

Alternative: some companies buy debt at a discount. Some collections agencies do it, since they're in the business of chasing debtors already anyway. Not sure in US who would do that.

Do not do anything to website or whatever else you still have access to.

Those are pretty much your options. You seem to have some ideas of yourself (judging from you mentioning 'YC', 'access to code', etc.). Those are all bad, ineffective, stupid - or all three courses of action.
Do Corporations Have Minds?
"While Google is known primarily as a search engine, it has increasingly developed and promoted its own content as an alternative to results from other websites. By prominently displaying Google content in response to search queries, Google is able to leverage its dominance in search to gain customers for this content. This yields serious concerns if the internal content is inferior to organic search results. To investigate, we implement a randomized controlled trial in which we vary the search results that users are shown ­ comparing Google’s current policy of favorable treatment of Google content to results in which external content is displayed. We find that users are 45% more likely to engage with universal search results (i.e. prominently displayed map results on Google) when the results are organically determined. This suggests that by leveraging dominance in search to promote its internal content, Google is reducing social welfare ­ leaving consumers with lower quality results and worse matches."
You're thinking on the level of decisional strategies across agents. Arguments earlier up the comment chain where thinking on the level of implementing decisions in a given context for one agent, where the context includes other agents with unmodifiable strategies.
Reusing iOS code for OS X
Perhaps screen readers can be set to read out the major headings to help people figure out what part of the document they want to read. This would have a level of detail or verbosity control.

First you read h1, find the right header. Then h2 with 2 levels of detail, which hits h2 and h3. You miss the sub-section you wanted because it was marked h4 instead of h3.

It's a broken tree structure... that'll cause problems any time somebody wants to do a logical traversal.
However, it's often better to work for free than for peanuts. The client who's paying you a few tens or hundreds of bucks will often treat you like garbage, AND give you poor feedback. Stick with your rate (if you don't have one, decide what you're "comfortable" charging... and triple it) and explicitly provide a "one-time discount" for the client to land on what they can pay. Clients treat you better the more "expensive" you seem — which seems to hold true even if they aren't actually being charged all that money.
"One second every couple of decades" grossly, grossly overestimates our timing inaccuracies. Multiple orders of magnitude.

The problem is in some sense, the opposite... our timing is now so good that we can notice the natural variations in Earth's rotation to astonishing accuracy. Thus, if we want to keep the clock in sync with what the Earth is actually doing, we need to add the leap second.

(There's quite a bit of debate about that "if", and IMHO right now industry after industry seems to be experiencing major, expensive disruptions and repeatedly incurring risk, to save astronomers from having to consult a lookup table that they of course would build into computer programs and pretty much forget about ever after. But I digress.)

The Earth's rotation really does wobble by some amount due to natural shifts in density, temperature changes, and any number of other things. It's why we don't have a schedule of leap seconds for the future. If it were merely a matter of accurate timing we'd have a schedule, because our timing is accurate enough by orders of magnitude to make a schedule for a hypothetical perfectly-steady or perfectly-slowing Earth for millennia in advance. The problem is that we can't predict what the Earth is going to do.
It's worse than that, most people value things by their cost, if they aren't spending any money then how much will they value your time.
Now it is entirely my personal guess, but back in the day you actually had legroom and seats that reclined on planes. Now that extra room has been taken up by more seats. It is my belief that this condition, could explain a large portion of the time increase. As more seats leads to the combination of more people needing to board the same size aircraft, them needing to squeeze into smaller spaces (get up after sitting if they sat down before someone to their inside), and less room per person for carry on luggage so they sometimes need to find a overhead bin not directly above their row.

As commentators have pointed out security at the gate probably has also increased time, I think number of seats per aircraft could also be a contributing factor.
You have licenses and contracts for that.
That's happened to me a couple of times and it's super annoying - will try and fix this.
"Cause still unknown after several thousand engineering-hours of review. Now parsing data with a hex editor to recover final milliseconds."

4:09 AM - 29 Jun 2015

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/615431934345216001
Take a deep, deep breath, then stand and look at some water until you've made peace with the fact that you'll never see that money.

It's worth noting that you can insure yourself for unpaid invoices, at which point should this situation occur again, you tell the insurer, they pay you, and they will then do all the nasty legal stuff they need to to cover their loss - and you don't have to worry about it.

Not much help for this time around, but if you're working with fly-by-night outfits, it's a must.

Above all, don't do anything malicious, as you could then find yourself on the end of a criminal CFAA case, which would probably mean years in jail.
Studies indicate it is more than that. Control of your environment, visual distractions, even airborne illnesses all are a factor as well. I do agree the quiet is required; I'm not countering your point, just adding to it.
Could you illustrate how doodling, coloring, or any other distraction is more childish and less childish? Could you also explain why childishness should be shunned in this context?
I live too near Washington DC to get anything but global politics out of this.

EDIT: actually, it's been videos from Russia Today 3 times out of 4.
Anyone interested in this would also like Corakmi's excellent ELF101 diagram: https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/ELF101
Show HN: Source code for XKCD bot for telegram
That's going to be long time coming. To be a suitable target for higher level languages wasm is going to have to gain GC, method dispatch instructions (preferably with the sort of machinery invokeDynamic on the JVM provides, because method dispatch isn't identical across languages), dynamic code loading, threads, and probably a bunch of other stuff.

Wasm is definitely a good start, but it is only a start right now. It's a good target for AOT languages, but really not suitable for interpreted or JITed ones right now.
> The thing it all hinges on is containing noise.

I think it hinges on is containing distractions, and noise is just one of them. When people see you just a few feet away from them, they rarely consider "is my question worth interrupting them so I can get an answer immediately" before asking it. Just having a wall or a door blocking their view of you forces them to make a decision to walk to your desk before asking a question. This seems like a minor barrier, but it's often enough to prevent a lot of interruptions for questions that don't need immediate responses.
If you experience that problem this year, this supposedly can be fixed without even restarting the process by running "date -s now". I say "supposedly" because I can't validate, but based on my reading of the problem and why that works, I have no reason to believe it won't.
How landing pages work in a nutshell
How do we know pi (any irrational) doesn't have a repeating decimal expansion?
Divide the loss by the gain and call it cost of doing business. Do what you have to do and move on. Maybe next time don't advertise your intentions before getting paid?

What concerns me the most is that you just had to mention access to code AND that you had not touched it.
My solution to family tech support has been to buy an iPad for anyone who gets in touch asking which purple gorilla they should trust.

A child response to you refers to my point - which is that if I uninstall bonzi buddy for you, you then decide it's definitely my fault when you install malware next time, and instead of "please can you help?" it's "fix my fucking computer, why did you break it?".

No good deed goes unpunished. Introduce a financial exchange into the mix and it ceases being a good deed and becomes a commercial transaction, and peoples' assumptions and expectations accordingly change.
I wanted one just for the VLM, to replace the one from my Atari Jaguar :)
Loads of attention is an understatement. The book was literally #1 on ALL of Amazon books in the US for quite a while [1]. The press worked on me. I picked one up after reading an article because a few months prior I'd found myself on vacation continuing to color a page from my toddlers' coloring book long after she'd went to bed and found it incredibly relaxing.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/05/colouring-books...
"I know my home’s IP but I don’t know the Pi’s IP" hah:) exactly!
I had a PI to spare after some miners died. I did a similar (but worse:/) approach where the PI was regularly scanning its own network and sending an email with its own data. Nice trick, thanks for sharing
yes and good for them.
The change in rotation is not consistent.
Earthquakes change the earth's rotational inertia by raising and lowering land near the equator. Sometimes they jog the entire planet forwards or backwards in its rotation by a slight increment. Tidal interactions vary significantly enough to have an effect.
Even man made changes are measurable - the three gorges dam in China moved enough water uphill to have a measurable effect.

And simply put, the leap seconds are added so that clock noon, solar noon don't drift too far apart.
It's not so dear as you wish to be. I merely recognize the nature of law is not unlike any other logical enterprise. When you allow one form of inference the other forms that depend upon it must be analyzed to see the limits of it. Just like how legal scholars debate the limits of speech even today. It's both academic and practical.
I made something similar to this (it was an Irc bot that allowed tweeting via a command on a fairly large channel) and got shut down, my host subpoenaed (Linode at the time) and eventually got a visit from law enforcement at my house due to people sending abusive tweets. Just a heads up, I would add moderation sooner than later.
Wow talk about a useless clickbait article. No details and no proof.
I'm sure I'd love to have a private office but just how feasible is that? My current company has 18 full-time "knowledge workers", where in the world is a startup going to find them all private offices?

I'd really love to know what the alternative is that we're all missing out on? I've worked in cubical farms, bullpens and open-plan offices and none of them are ideal but headphones, IM and established boundaries mean I can work in peace when I want to.
Matti Makkonen, developer of SMS (for GSM standard) has died
Ah, but when you get ill, do you phone them up and ask why they made you ill, and fit in three or four digs about how the medicine they told you to take last time is definitely causing this, and potentially also your dog's illness?

That's the difference between computers and pretty much anything else... For some reason all ration just goes clean out of the window.
Yes. GDP per capita is a meaningless statistic - what we want to know is GDP per kilogram. Likewise, American productivity as measured per worker is a meaningless statistic, but the productivity of the American worker-kilogram will determine our global competitiveness.

It makes sense when you think about it. Measuring things at the level of an individual implies some sort of "consciousness", but we're learning in neuroscience/philosophy class that consciousness is mostly an illusion. I mean, our brains are made of meat. How can meat be conscious?
I agree — disabling zooming is frustrating. Have you tried the "Reader" option in Safari? It works well for a lot of websites.
I was in a similar situation with a company I had previously worked for owing me around 2k for some side work I did after I left. I emailed the owner many times, and I eventually started ccing managers who had liked me. I never saw the money, and they went into bankruptcy restructuring shortly thereafter. When they were in bankruptcy I contacted their lawyer and the paper work he sent me implied I could only register debts incurred within the last 6 months and at this point I had been trying to get my money for a good year and a half. They've stayed open after the restructuring, but I don't think I can claim the money now, I'm not sure, I'm not a lawyer.
My biggest annoyance is having people behind me. I can't get rid of that prey feeling of being watched. Super annoying and distracting feeling.

That and motion in the periphery of the rods always serves to get noticed. Headphones also eventually mat down your hair and no matter how comfortable hurt your head after more than a few hours. If these are the "walls" of modern offices, we might as well go back to having a guy atop a chair reading to all us factory workers.
I would be careful about "guaranteeing 100% anonymity" too. I think that would very quickly not be the case should law enforcement get involved after your service is used to send threatening messages to someone it shouldn't.
Actually, by your own standards he easily could have. 80 hours at even $100/hr is....$8k.
The "Anti Coloring Book" series (http://www.susanstriker.com/anticoloring.html) is also a clever idea.
This lawyer will take care of it on your behalf and will only take a cut if they are successful: http://justtelljulie.com
There's one huge thing that the author missed: working for free on an open source or creative commons project, as well as the advantages of just getting your work out there on those licenses even if it doesn't directly benefit you financially immediately.
If Om hurts your brain, I can't recommend Reagent enough:
http://reagent-project.github.io/
Try using / instead of ÷, as ÷ and + are easily mistaken by those with bad eyesight/astigmatism.
If you want a11y testing for a CI environment, take a look at aXe, which is designed specifically for that purpose: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
(in the comments they mention "autossh" basically the same with even less work!)
# x = number of companies interviewed with onsite
# y = number of offers received
value = 100 * log(x) * y / x

Should have been:

value = 100 * log(onsites) * offers / onsites
I believe one of the reasons for preventing zoom-in is because it plays havoc with any element that is "fixed" in your browser (ie pretty much every nav bar/fixed header you'll ever encounter).
Managing Humans by Michael Lopp

http://managinghumans.com/
Uber ... Airbnb ... now excuse me for asking, but are there any other hugely successful VC-funded startup stories that did not get involved in some nasty legal scandal or other by their own actions or neglect, as they grew?

Especially when spreading out internationally, Uber and Airbnb just thrashed over local laws as if it was perfectly fine to act like they shouldn't have to apply to them as long as they did not get caught.

Is this considered normal?

Should you consider it normal?

What if European startups came to the US with an air of "... yeah, we'll just do whatever we feel like until you catch us and tell us not to"?
Sure, you can have other distractions, too. Even libraries can be distracting if people forget to turn off their phone ringers, it's too crowded, etc. The office environments that I have seen that are successful have team rooms, sometimes on a separate floor, do the traffic in and out of them is also separated, and a "hot desk" area where only quiet individual work is permitted.
Great write up of your mercurial experiences. Thank you for sharing.
The 'parallel' package has been included in recent versions of R and has RNGs for parallel execution and variations of the `apply` functions. For "embarrassingly parallel" calculations these work as drop-in replacements. It's built-in in the same way that MASS and lattice are.
ESCORT+COUPLE+NIKA+ALICA+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
Put it in your contract. "Work will stop on day 11 if payment is not received." This is why you (the contractor) draw up the contract instead of being at the whim of the client. This is not crazy, it's the clients choice if you stop working. It it's important that the project go forward they can talk to their accounts payable person. Otherwise they have little incentive to do anything. Instead of "You'll have to talk to accounts payable about that." it becomes, "Crap, my project is going to slip, I better walk over to accounts payable and get this straightened out."
How Primedice was exploited for $1M in Bitcoin
Show HN: Uber's Startup Timeline
While clojureScript is awesome and gets you to think differently when writing javascript, I think a more interesting thing people should check out it es6 (or ecmascript 6, or es 2015, w/e it's called now.). It brings many new things to javascript that people from other languages will be used to...likes the "class" syntax. Right now you can write near 100% es6 standard with a pre-compiler. Most use babel. Soon it will run on all the latest browsers without though, making it far better to write then a language that compiles to JS. JS is nice now, I know I know, just give it a try =p

Also, another thing to look at is eithe Facebook's flow or Typescript. It adds some type checking, really great. Especially if you are writing server side in Node.
I think the reason "access to code" and whatnot are mentioned is that it would be indicative that he wasn't fired but not told he was fired. If your client stops communicating all of a sudden it's often the case that you're not hired anymore and nobody there wants to tell you because that's never good news. And ultimately not telling someone and not paying them and not returning their calls will eventually let them figure out that they're fired. But in that case you'd definitely lose any kind of access that you once had. Passwords would be changed, your git privileges would be revoked, etc.

Prior to assuming that this person wants to blackmail them, think perhaps if there might be another reason it's mentioned.
Once, I told my mom that she should install a hard drive herself. She has since moved on to setting up routers and at least one security DVR. By convincing her to empower herself I've freed her from the crappy support at the store, which has saved her lots of money.
True. I almost never work 40 billable hours in a week at least not for the same client.
They might help you out later with something else they can do better than you.

Unlikely, because they won't see what you've done as help - you just end up associated with the computer, and viewed as part of the problem.

I'm not saying never help anyone with anything ever - just not with technical tasks - don't build someone a website, don't set their computer up, don't uninstall their malware - you will just end up beholden, and nobody will thank you.

By all means, however, mow the lawn, do the shopping, bake a cake - just nothing which requires ongoing support.
I did use / initially but a lot of people said that they don't instantly register / as meaning 'divided by'
Charge more. Your rates need to have credit risk built into them. Unless I miss my guess, they don't, and they're at a discount to market to boot.

How are you sourcing "They're going under"? If it is true, you won't be able to collect -- if the bank account is bare then it is bare, and there is no reason to expect the founders to backstop this invoice for you.

If you're simply being fobbed off, then the usual escalation options are a) restate demand for immediate payment via certified mail and b) lawyer sends them a nastygram.

But either way, charge more.
The Insane #Car from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
And neigh-bours. I crammed two puns in there :)
How to Recruit a Technical Co-Founder (yep, another one)
> Not much help for this time around, but if you're working with fly-by-night outfits, it's a must.

Yeah, I guess in our community we don't think of funded startups as "fly-by-night" outfits, even though any bank or mainstream institution would absolutely think of them as such. I guess I had a little more confidence in the kind of person that has convinced well-known investors to give them money.

FWIW I've had other founders treat me very well in going-under situations, so I know it's not everybody.
DragonFly BSD 4.2 released
The real answer is (Fuck you, Pay me)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U]
The word lawyer does not appear on that site, and I am pretty sure she's not a lawyer.

It looks like she's an awesome AR clerk -- but her value prop is collecting while keeping a very good relationship -- it's not as effective when the customer has no ability to pay and you don't want to work for them any more.
I actually included it to show how I'm pretty positive they're going under and have no assets remaining. Added an EDIT to my original post.
Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002)