skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! We figure, if we write infrastructure stuff that is not part of our core IP, we might as well open it so it won't rot, or at least rot much slower - and you might even get improvements to what you do.

Even if it's not a big project like redash, it still helps if you get occasional bug reports and pull requests. Another added bonus - people tend to write higher quality code if they know it's going to be open.

Here are a few of our other projects besides redash and Inbloom:

Magneto - Android test automation https://github.com/EverythingMe/magneto

Jitt - Just In Time translations for Android apps https://github.com/EverythingMe/jitt

GoFigure - easy configuration file parsing for go https://github.com/EverythingMe/gofigure

Plaxien - nice "explain" interface for in-app reporting in Android https://github.com/EverythingMe/plaxien

Geodis - a redis based geo-resolving and geo search library in Python https://github.com/EverythingMe/geodis

Rainbow - AWS Cloudformation on steroids https://github.com/EverythingMe/rainbow

OpenSpace - a nice dashboard to showcase our open source projects. https://github.com/EverythingMe/openspace (the full list of projects is demoed on it here - http://everythingme.github.io/)
That's true. At least I went through the trouble of making sure that twitter won't be tracking your reading of the page (hit 'shift-control-q and then ctrl-F5 on firefox if you don't believe me, the whole page is one hit to my server and nothing else) and my 'corporation' isn't trying to sell you anything. That follower count is static and it's updated once per week or so.

But reading this page you weren't reading any other and if you tweet the link or pass it on then you've been successfully enlisted in my army ;)

See also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5LEYG5TqaI
> For Central London, a developer should be asking for £300-£600/pd depending on seniority and what they're doing.

That seems pretty low to me. Here in the Netherlands contract developers get about the same, between £400-£600/pd (actually between 70~90 euro/hour) but cost of living is way lower than in central London.
The molecular medley that gives bacon its rich flavour
Those tax advantages will start to disappear next year.
All the "shares in the family trust" seized by "Hollywood" (claimed by Dotcom) can be exactly the "6 percent holding controlled by Dotcom's estranged wife (which) was frozen (...) on application by five Hollywood film studios" (stated by Mega).

On another side "The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud." (said by Dotcom) is not commented by Mega at all (unsurprisingly). So what did Mega actually deny? I claim, nothing. It's OK if you consider it enough that they call the statement "a denial" but from my subjective point of view, the press and we, the readers, should not even accept such a name if there's nothing in the statement that denies anything Dotcom claimed. I think you actually agree that nothing was effectively denied, as you also say: "it's obviously a bunch of PR speak that means nothing." So yes, Mega can call it a denial, but I don't understand how anybody else can call it so if he/she reads the content of the statement. Specifically, how can the news agency write the title "Mega denies" and be trusted? It's not the same as "Mega responds."
'Mr Palmer says he thought the hunt was legal but two Zimbabwean men have been arrested over the popular lion's death.'

'The dental practice he runs in Minneapolis has been closed since he was named as the tourist who shot Cecil, Zimbabwe's most famous lion.'
> simply because we can't try before we buy.

In many countries this is not true and a 'right to return' within a certain period of time is proscribed by law unless the item is custom made for you or in auctions.
Making automatic universal android ROM flashing tool without root
Here is the "old" problem I discovered. Maybe this is idea for startup what you think?

Yesterday I had a pain of flashing my old samsung android phone with MIUI ROM for 5 hours, as doing that for the first time I need:

- backup info: files + apps and especially apps data (say to play angry birds on the same level) - find tools and how to do that
- make root - same
- find correct ROM
- install drivers
- choose correct flash tool
- flash, restore backups, setting etc

It is boring I think. Is there is the tools making all this process automat for different tablets/phones (most popular) ? So just plug device through usb press few buttons and fantastically you have same phone, new rom, same data+settings+apps.
Which tool to choose for Facebook analytics?
I understand that people need resources to understand the Makefiles of existing projects, but I fear that tutorials might encourage people to use Make in new projects. Yes, I really want to extinguish Make. Other build tools are also "bad" but Make deserves a special place in hell.
May you have a long and rot-free life!
Agar.io – 10 things you didn't know
But back in the day, AOL was more closely equated with something like a Yahoo-style content homepage & search box that also offered ISP connectivity services, which was critical for millions who were unserved by what was at the time "high speed" DSL or cable ISPs. Mailing bazillions of installer CDs worked -- who'd have guessed!
Perhaps there are licensing issues?
That's an unfair comparison, however,

print "%(when)s remember to %(what)s in %(room)s but never %(dont)s" % dict_with_explicit_keys

was supported back in at least 2.4.
I wrote a whole series of pages on this subject condensing the last 30 years or so:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/

The idea was to one day bind this all together and make it a book.
Yeah, especially when there are no clearly defined "sprints".
Great to see someone else linking to bravenewclimate.com - this is a sorely under-read and under-linked resource.

Also, I used to live in Adelaide where Barry Brook held the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change. He then moved to Tasmania about a year after I did, thereby fixing our electricity related emissions because Tasmania's electricity is almost entirely hydroelectric.
That's a good point. But it is very short and often restricted to online/phone/doorstep purchases. E.g. in the EU it's fourteen days:

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/shopping/shopping-abroa...

Which is short for a product which will take some time to evaluate (e.g. another phone/computer with a different OS).
How did you replace Fabric? I've hacked things together with some branches of Fabric + devs that just about work on Python 3, but it's not really satisfactory.
There's less supply in the Netherlands. I get a lot of offers here in London for contracts in the Netherlands.
Georgia sues man for posting annotated state laws online
I am pretty much a noob at Windows (linux guy here) :P, but what kind of personalization does windows offer from this data? And is that personalization possible with client side processing only?
I think I agree with your view, but the sarcasm in your post threw me for a loop. I'm not sure what point you want me to walk away with.
Million lines of code
Unfortunately this article really smells like a PR article (http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html) and the author's other works only support that (http://curbed.com/authors/patrick-sisson).

I would love to read an actual investigative article on engineering efforts to adapt to California's (probably) changing climate.
Then it's not plain text anymore (not human readable)...
Anyone know what the market's like for embedded s/w development these days? ~ 15 years ago (ouch) recall we were using a lot of contractors for protracted periods & had to keep them sweet for fear they might just skip off to another job.

Didn't make the transition then. Always wondered ..
Some of those with high detection ratios either (a) use excessive heuristics or (b) detect things that could be considered "riskware" or a "hacker tool", even if the software runs in the foreground and does not cause any problems for the user. Then again, if you never use "hacker tools", then it may not matter much to you.
Very intrusive image to tell me ads are not intrusive. Okay.
It is insufficient to ignore blatant advertising. For example, if you live in the US, then you are part of a society that has been subjected to ~ 100 years of corporate propaganda.

> The prominent business analyst Roger Babson remarked in 1921 that "the war taught us the power of propaganda. Now when we have anything to sell the American people, we know how to sell it." Edward Bernays, too, noted that the "astounding success of propaganda during the war opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind." [1]

Corporate PR got into US schools in the '30s:

> Aware that the adult population was cynical about the corporate claims to "service", they aimed specifically at schools, where Young America, their weekly children's magazine that portrayed capitalism as dedicated to looking after them and their communities, was sent to thousands of teachers, who used them in classroom assignments. You and Industry, a series of booklets written in simple language, linked individual prosperity to unregulated industry, and was distributed to public libraries everywhere. One million booklets were distributed every two weeks by the US Chamber of Commerce, which, along with the giant industrial corporations, was also involved in the campaign. [1]

Get 'em while they're young, before they have the mental tools to defend themselves.

[1] Kerryn Higgs - "Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet"
From TFA:
"Characters act as real humans would."
and
"Story's plot and characters aren't propelled forward by a lack of communication or by idiocy."

Good thing, because "real people" never do things because they're misinformed, impulsive, etc...
What a pointless comment. Nobody expects 100% uptime on any cloud service.
Jokes helped me a lot to get along with developers. Well, getting their jokes helped a lot also. But yes, in the end it's just an ice breaker. Thanks for the comment.
Hate to be that guy, but advertising mames the world go round. Get over it. Honestly surprised undergraduate mental masturbation like this is on the front page.
I would say the biggest advantage of a Ltd company is that company owners aren't required to pay their company’s debts beyond the value of their shares. Also, it offers a very tax-efficient methods to take money of the company. This is why you probably need to go to a company formation agent. They will be able to advise you on this matter. Try sending an email to these guys - https://www.formationsfactory.co.uk
Regardless of whether we burn oil and gas for energy we will still need them for other purposes like lubricants and feedstock for chemical processes, so it doesn't necessarily contradict.
Adding my two cents. I have been a contractor for almost 3 years now. My personal opinion:

- Contracting pays a lot more than a perm role.

- You do not deal with politics, which is a major plus for me.

- You do not hear about you not getting your promised y% bonus because company did not do x% business.

- You are not worried about 'changing the world', the way you would in a startup.

- working 4-6 years your asses off at a startup may be equivalent to working as a contractor for that time. That is a big may be, your skills, confidence, market everything plays a big role.

- Always get a good accountant, go for ltd company, enroll your wife and PAY YOUR TAXES!

- I started when i had about a month's savings, and it worked out well.

- Day rates depend on your skill set. 350 is the minimum i guess for any role, max is your imagination! 800? 1000? but getting 500-550 should be the target at least.

- Getting a contract is tricky: use linkedin, recruiters, friends and whatever else. All are necessary. I would not worry too much about a recruiter getting a cut as long as i get what i had asked for.

- Get a contract before quitting your perm role. Mostly companies looking for a contractor wait for 2 weeks, if you are good and your skills are in demand they would wait for 3-4 weeks.

- Always plan your vacation at times when everyone else is on holiday. December/January and April are good times.

- HMRC website is good enough to register a company, 15 pounds and 20-30 mins.

- Getting 450 a day is always better than siting idle waiting for that 550-600 a day contract.

- There is lot of competition, be prepared for that.

- Prepared for some level of stress (specially when you are out of work), it is still worth it.

- Do not worry too much about your utilization in a contract, it is the client's worry. You are paid for your skills and not your time. Do put reasonable time, but that is not the criteria you were hired with.

- 'Doing/Completing my time' is a BS. I have had several contracts and none of the clients ever had problems with my timings. And i am particularly bad at working normal hours. Sometimes i get at work at 10 and leave at 5. At times i work whole nights.

- Recruiters are lairs, don't give too much info. Ask for a job spec and day rate before giving any info. I would help you, after you get me a contract!

- Send your CV to all who asks for it. Keeps you in the market.

- You will not necessarily get a higher day rate if you went directly with a client. Your day rate depends on your skills and negotiating skills only. If you do not ask for a good day rate, chances are, you wont get it.

- Sometimes, leave it on Luck. We can be the smartest asses on the planet, but at times need luck.

Hope this helps.
A far better way to learn about GNU make would be to read the actual manual.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/

This doesn't seem like a well thought out introduction. There's quite a lot of randomness. For example, the first makefile says:

This makefile will always run. The default target is some_binary,
because it is first.

some_binary:
echo "nothing"

Actually, it's not true that that will always echo nothing because some_binary isn't declared as phony and so if some_binary exists on the CWD echo "nothing" will not happen.

Also, the language here is weird. The tutorial talks about makefiles running and targets calling targets.

4.8 states:

1) We do not use *.o, because that is just the string *.o,
which might be useful in the commands, but is only one
target and does not expand."

That's not true. Consider the following

*.foo: ; @echo $@

If there are any files in the CWD that match *.foo then it is expanded and rules created for each file.
I much prefer written content to videos. I can read them on my phone on my walk to work, whilst listening to music, for example.
> If Comcast didn't exist, internet access wouldn't exist for many people.

Sorry that is extremely far from the truth. Any of the other major ISPs' would leap at the chance to guzzle up these customers if there was no other competition.
I can't find links atm but much of what this refers to is just creating a hard magic system and sticking to it. Brandon Sanderson wrote a couple of very good essays on this topics doing with Sanderson's rule of magic which day much the same thing.
Yeah, RTFM! :)
Don't worry, I thought the same and turned off adblocking and checked again, and the ads are even more intrusive.
German news site investigated for treason, website of Attorney General hacked: http://pastebin.com/PT8yQgky
Windows 10 Preview Has a Keylogger to Watch Your Every Move
Which is the best Hand Sanitizer
Klenza is an alcohol free hand sanitizer with a unique foam-based formulation.This means Klenza is exceptionally gentle, non-flammable and safe for children.
Obviously it depends on how much you earn and pay yourself, but I think for most people they'll still be better off as a limited. Next year's changes only add up to about 2-3% increase in tax for someone taking minimal salary and the rest as dividends.
What's the difference between the two? Wouldn't all viruses be considered malware? Is there some standard that the software has to live up to to be labeled antivirus?
When internet.org is made available to these people, won't their usage or lack thereof signal their preference?
Contracting in a UK sense is really very different from consulting or freelancing. It's essentially just a 9-5 short-term job, usually on-site, with more money and some extra accountancy perks.
Your chip looks cool. I guess it may be tricky to adapt software to run on the thing? Or else you could try to sell Obama 4 million of them for his new computer.
same hereeee.. it's just stuck on loading screen
This isn't a question of who's technically "right" or "wrong". I'm not suggesting we stop using the word in textbooks or the classroom. It's just simply, by modern popular usage, misleading to use the word "organic" in mainstream news articles about carbon-containing molecules. It gives people the wrong idea.
I'd actually prefer if agar had keyboard support
What gets me is that we're taught Earth's fossil fuels are just that: biological fossils. And yet Titan has methane lakes, and we've discovered giant clouds of methanol in space.[1]

Boy am I confused.

1. http://phys.org/news/2006-04-astronomers-alcohol-cloud-spann...
7.5% on your dividends. About 3k a year for a 100k earner... Nothing to go permie about.
My accountant is the same, and gives me a discounted version of FreeAgent. These days I have considerably more complicated needs than I used to doing simply contracting, but I'd probably still use FA + the accountant anyway. I pair it with ReceiptBank, with which there is an acceptable (but not great) integration.
> Python 3 is a "much better language" than Python 2, for one thing. It is much easier to teach.

[citation needed]

I find it much easier to teach language, where range(5) _is_ a list [0,1,2,3,4] rather than an iterator. Same thing for .keys() and .items(). For people learning their first language iterators are not simple.

That said, right now I am teaching Python 3 rather than Python 2 (mostly due to unicode and division). Though, I have mixed filling towards Py2/Py3 transition (it's not all web dev, where all serious projects are getting ported; some projects are written only once and therefore changing to Py3 means letting them die).
Austin is considered Central Texas.

(East Texas is famous, or notorious, as where patent trolls like to file their lawsuits.)
No, it's not. It's also not written ToR. I recommend you venture over to their website and start reading the documentation.
> - Are any remote? I mean who wants to live in London? ;)

Generally not. One of my current clients allows their normal contractors to do 50% working from home.

> - How do you find them in the first place?

Recruiters and IRC
Why Study Paradoxes? (2014)
I think regardless of the tax benefits discussed in this thread, even with an equal playing field you will earn significantly more than your permie peers.

You can get 50k if you're lucky in London, but you can earn 500 a day as a contractor.

500 * 230 conservative work days per year = 115,000 NET
Related, though less about brands, I really liked "This Video Will Make You Angry" by CGP Grey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc - Thoughts/memes as germs trying to reproduce and spread, battling for attention and thriving when people endlessly argue as part of an us/them dynamic.
Global/International Investment
Marc Andreesen once said "When hiring, look for people who want to change the world."

I have a startup in beta/MVP that is seeking to revolutionize global early stage/seed investment. As it stands, investors prefer personal introductions and US-based startups or syndicates, hesitant to venture online to discover and/or fund startups from around the world [India, China, Africa, Europe...which are booming regions]. This reminds me of the phobia online dating or shopping elicited in the early to mid 90s [read: psychos & scammers]. Now we can't think of life without either.
Looking further: Examine where bitcoin is today vs. its origins. The world is changing rapidly!

I need a tech co-founder who catches the vision as I do; who is seeking to change the world. I've endlessly heard it cannot be done. I'm looking to hear from those who believe its possible.

Thoughts?
> This means that you cannot set up multiple share classes during company incorporation

You actually can - you have to select from a pre-given list of share classes, though, but I did a priority-and-ordinary shares setup thing online via companieshouse - unless that's not what you meant?
If I had the money I will buy the jupiter.io domain.
Been using Make for decades, I don't see the problem. It works sufficiently well to be in use in a lot of my projects as a comfortable and productive environment. As with all 'tool X must die' conversations, one must always end with the only relevant conclusion that should be made: ymmv.
Cyberinsurance Is a Key Part of a Strong Data Defense Plan
Nothing new, private keys are generated per account, the entire app will be in appcache, and sync is done via simple API and encrypted with your passphrase messages (same as crypton - zero knowledge). From the start you get 2 private keys both stored in your browser on truefactor.io/app. Later if you you decide to "2factorize" some website it can done with 1 click. To log in you need two signatures so you have to click "approve" on both devices with a private key.

The integration flow for consumer websites is also very simple: 1 tiny JS lib and 10-20 lines of code on the server side to verify 2 signatures against public keys of the user.

Out of box fixes passwords reuse, phishing, bruteforce, 2factorization, enforceable, open and free etc
Someone has stumbled over strict plot-driven hard SF in the classical mold and decided it's something new.

Not to belittle Eliezer (who I think did something new and interesting) but you can find a large chunk of these elements out there in SF if you look in the right places.

(Note, however, that a large proportion, probably a majority, of what is marketed as Science Fiction is basically swords and sorcery adventure yarns with spaceships instead of dragons or galleons, aliens in place of orcs, and technology porn with added technobabble in place of magic. Personally I blame the fictive family tree of which Star Wars is the most successful branch ...)
I see more things in common than differences between those and I know people in the UK that use contract work to supplement their income when their consulting/freelancing gigs are not plentiful enough.
230 work days aren't "conservative", that's 4.5 days/week. Given the legal minimum of 28 days holiday per year for permanent employees (28 includes bank holidays, often you'll find vacation quoted as 20 days which doesn't include the bank holidays), that's close to 100% "found work" rate.
Unplayable with non QWERTY keyboards, please don't forget France and Belgium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
Well, he's on Twitter and G+.
> is Apple required to open their platform to porn apps ?

If they reached the same percentage numbers on mobile that Microsoft has on desktop, yes they would be.
I had thought the jury was still out on this - I do hope it ends up being only that amount though.
Serenity database: new features and ideas discussion (poll)
Isn't it reasonable to assume most users already have a CDN version of adsense and facebook cached since 90% of all websites use it?
What are your specific complaints about make, and how does SCons fix them?
I believe that it's not about participating in the war, it's about consciousness. Keeping your mind clear and focused, understanding what kind of information and to the purpose of what you are consuming. Thoroughly separating the information you really need and the one you are forced to deal with.

In my mind, the process within your brain is very similar to digestion in its most biological meaning. Your functioning, your physical and mental form depends on what you eat, what amounts of nutritients you get from food. And it's a matter of every individual's choice how to feed your organism and what to demand in return.
more like 60-70k at least for JS engineers. (I have hired and been hired at this level)