skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair? There is no fair in reputation. You either have a good one or you don't, and it's always easier to lose it. It takes hard work to earn back what you've lost in the eyes of society, and if you're not willing to go the extra disrance for it, then you don't deserve it.

Amazon has gone significant lengths for me as a customer. The fact they aren't addressing this issue with the same intensity should be telling.
Neat tool! It would be nice to see some examples of the result somewhere on your site.
Once private companies have a FOIA of their own that applies to their internal communication I'd be happy to examine the exemptions in the two statutes and how they compare.

But for now it's so disgustingly false to claim that companies are less accountable than government that it's hard to believe such a claim is not intentionally dishonest.
Amazon apparently doesn't have proper maternity leave procedures in place: if you go on mat leave it treats it like you left the company and your team gets reassigned. That's crap treatment that will only happen to one gender.
This basically happens on my iPad in Chrome too except I don't have to restart usually, just hit refresh to get the page back. I have never had it happen on my mac laptop or Android phone though. Never looked into it but I noticed it probably 3-4 months ago, just didn't bother looking into it as I just am not using my iPad that much anymore since it has gotten so slow and buggy in the past year.
As a shameless plug, where I work (Moz), offers 3 months of paid paternity/maternity leave.

I'm always learning, always growing and it's a great place to work.

https://moz.com/about/jobs
The US has the highest total GDP in the world by a fairly large margin. That's a pretty reasonable measure of "richness".
My own view is this:

The ideal would be to have a strong social safety net and a fair system of redistribution that operates with minimal micromanagement or intrusion into individual affairs.

Basically you have a government that taxes everyone according to the same rate and provides health care, unemployment and disability protection, insurance against certain emergencies (FEMA, etc.), and some sort of basic income. But as long as you pay into this system and are a 'shareholder' you can do whatever you want.

Employment should be at-will. Companies should be easy to start. Regulations should be minimal and justified by specific rationales (e.g. environmental protection).

The problem with the USSR and to a much lesser extent European Socialist countries is that they try to micro-manage. They have all these messes of laws that try to dictate exactly how things work and exactly how people must live their lives. That doesn't work. It just chokes everything and weighs everything down.

The irony is that all this micro-management is put into place because the obvious alternative -- just redistributing wealth -- is politically toxic. So instead of just redistributing wealth, we try to reach in and piecemeal adjust the operation of capitalism to make it 'more fair.' The end result is the worst of both worlds: the system remains unfair, and we end up with micromanaging regulations that are far more expensive than what it would cost to just redistribute wealth.

The US healthcare system is a great example. We have everything that is bad about micro-managing Socialism (heavy regulations, bureaucracy, inefficiency) combined with everything that is bad about capitalism/free market healthcare (inequality, losing coverage when you get sick, etc.).

No "system" is fair. All systems contain intrinsic biases, emergent behaviors, randomness, massive opportunities for cheating and exploitation, and unintentional/non-obvious "goal functions" that conflict with the stated intents of their designers or operators. Constructing a fair system through central planning is impossible... IMHO it is "perpetual motion" or "halting problem" impossible. Complex living systems are not logical and their behaviors cannot be pre-specified by an intelligent designer.

Wealth redistribution is the obvious answer. Instead of trying to impose the impossible on a chaotic counter-intuitive world, just apply noise reduction and normalization.
Exactly the same situation here.

I jumped over to Fedora and have been pleasantly surprised to find out that SLI, multi monitor, and sleep work flawlessly. Zero problems so far.
As others on this thread hinted at, I'm not sure that would be economical in titanium. But Nervous System (designers of that dress - website is http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/) are awesome at that stuff when it comes to polymers!
English is ridiculously hard to get right. Witness the gp comment where someone who clearly thinks a lot about correctness has misspelled "lesson".
Wow, excited to see what is meant by this:

Qasar will help scale our organization and operations as we tackle bigger and more ambitious projects

My interactions with him at YC left me impressed.
Haha, you're pretty funny for an idiot
"Near majority" or ~25% (i.e., sufficient to win but far from majority)?
WIthin a short drive from me there's a Wal Mart, with a grocery section, and an Aldi, right next to each other. I tried the Aldi out of curiosity. I don't know if Aldi screwed up their format for America, but it was baffling to shop there. Heavy on the canned food. Confusing layout. Etc. Trader Joe's gets the "limited selection" thing much much better. Wal Mart caters to ethnic shoppers better. I don't think it works in America.
They sell more milk at a lower price, so I believe it works out for them.
Same here, was a coder on a WoT MUD called Dawn of Time. Most of the old frameworks have custom memory management systems, and I learned a ton about debugging C code doing this. I've been mudding since I was a little kid, and think about starting one up from time to time as well, even going so far as to build a few basic ones in python. This python telnet library is a legit starting point - https://code.google.com/p/miniboa/
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Great discussion. I actually didn't know fog had a large blog section with podcasts/videos. Will be listening to these now :)
::shudders:: Tri Alpha is not backed by me.

Helion is though, which I think has a much better chance of producing commercial fusion power!
Yeah, for sure. Carbon fiber tubing is great when you need a long structural element - no need to print that, in my opinion.
Use incremental-DOM in your JavaScript application right now
> Ah, Germans. Gotta love the directness of the culture.

I don't know any Spanish, Portuguese, French or Italian that doesn't find that ridiculous
Crowdfunded Real Estate vs. Traditional Real Estate Investment
> I fear that it is necessary to install half of Ubuntu to get the games running

This could be a good use case for Docker containers. I remember they showed Quake running on Docker at a convention so it should be possible.
There is a precedent: TV ads. Original content like a movie will get chopped up, edited and compressed for length, and broadcast with ads. They even de-zoom the rapidly-accelerated credits to show an ad while they scroll illegibly.

If this got to court, a tech illiterate judge wouldn't see the difference.
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Oh yeah, thanks for that counterexample!

Portuguese has lost it in pronunciation but not spelling (unstressed ex → /iʃ/).

(But I should be careful generalizing about some of these things because sometimes you have later scholarly borrowings from Latin, so you can have some words with the modified original root and then some words with the re-borrowed root, maybe with a different pronunciation.)
Ahem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10123800
Isn't the problem of a military industrial complex is that the industry ends up being a huge employer, and so it's not simply matters of jingoism or foreign policy, but to cut the military would be to cut jobs? The military itself is a huge employer as well, and a way to provide additional social services (tuition for veterans, etc.) because Americans are unwilling to provide that in other ways.
>Is the political will (or rather actual monies required) to spend 15 billion [1] on the MTA shortfall the same as not prohibiting a company from operating a tax service?

It's not required that the two costs be identical for the writer's question to make sense. It's known that the Uber investment >||= the necessary criteria, but it's not known by how much. Maybe it was just about enough, or maybe it exceeded it by miles.
Regardless of who eventually nails it, it's something that Earth desperately needs yesterday.
I enjoy my interpretation more, but I think you're right. Good call.
I think I remember a comedy video where somebody went door to door speaking and messaging in the manner of online advertisements. Probably also perfectly legal (despite any "No Solicitors" signs on front doors) and something that would only be part of a completely horrible world.
Intel Announces New Initiatives for the IoT and Connected Devices
Wow, seeing the s&p outperformed is no small feat. Another notable thing is that your s&p performance could be much higher if you invested in a crash (2008 or 2002).
This is really interesting stuff. If you're a man and you're less educated, you're much more likely to be single.

It's interesting that as the age increases, the proportion of single women generally increases. The biggest disparity is above the age of 65 where the men are dying off much earlier than the women, leaving a lot of single women. I hear that single men are highly sought after in retirement communities.
This is a great OS indeed for IoT sensors. FreeRTOS has a much larger presence in MCU OS and they also overlap each other.I ended up using FreeRTOS but am always interested in checking out Contiki.
And this is why people conceal health-related conditions from their employers until they are literally admitted to the hospital.

If this national elections cycle in the U.S. does not include a serious consideration of the typical interactions that people have with their health care systems, I'm moving to Mars. No spacecraft. I will be traveling there on a column of self-righteous fire, with my frustration as the propellant and my fury as the oxidizer. I will breathe a mixture of 80% pure stubbornness and 20% magical libertarian free market gas.

For a small fee, I will attach a tether to Donald Trump before I go, and release him outside of Earth's gravity well. He'll have no trouble surviving out there, being completely self-sufficient, and constantly surrounded by a thick cloud of his own hot air.

I thought the Bush-Gore election cycle was bad. It's almost like this time the two branches of the Inner Party are putting up decoy candidates in advance of the primaries, so that they can get shot down, and the real candidates can safely fly in over the flak.

As long as companies can get away with this sort of behavior without any meaningful penalty from either government, consumers, or labor unions, it will only grow worse. It seems ever more prevalent that the corporate accountants no longer tally "ethical integrity" on the correct side of the business ledgers.
A 23m long machine is far too big to mount on a Delorean. They'll need to fix that.
How about not chuck away a talented employee that they've spent possibly years training up with domain specific knowledge and assuming they are replaceable without (fiscal?) impediment
Not sure why you got downvoted. This has also been my experience. I've worked at companies ranging from 8 to 300 employees, and everywhere HR has been highly incompetent (most of the time 30 something women spending their time buying shoes online). And when they were competent they were working to protect the company, not employees' ass. HR is never on your side.
I don't know where you are... but in Bay Area, California my experience with Home Depot locations around here have always been very positive. There's always someone walking around with those orange aprons and they always know where something is in the store. Note though, that before I go to Home Depot I've done all the research I can on what I need to fix/create whatever I need in my home. I've watched youtube vids of people making repairs very similar to what I'm trying to do. So I don't go in like a deer in the headlights; when I show up at Home Depot I know exactly what item I need or very specific question to ask.
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Running desktop linux
If you're talking about Symbolics Lisp machines I fail to see how the mess that is today's crowded IDEs full of crap have much in common with them. They had powerful tools for introspection and inspection and that seems to me like their defining features. That's a legacy that SLIME carries with it way more than any IDE for any IDE-heavy language.
Qasar has been instrumental in Instavest's development. He gives it to you straight up and has garnered the trust and respect of all YC founders. You can count on him for sage counsel and "gentle reminders" that keep you focused on growth and product. This is a great step for Qasar and an awesome win for YC. Congrats!
> "If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences."

Makes for a catchy soundbite, what a shame it's not true.

A businessman can make a mistake that impacts millions of people. Here are a couple of prominent examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott#Baby_milk_issue

To summarise the first, Bayer had to stop selling some blood transfusion products in the US after they were found to be contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C. What did they do with the blood? They sold it in Asia and South America instead. A cold-blooded capitalist may argue this was a 'win' for the company in terms of income, but regardless a business decision was made and there was huge damage as a result.

To summarise the second, Nestlé tried to encourage groups of mothers in developing countries to give up breast feeding their babies and sell them infant formula instead. They do so at first by giving out free samples. Numerous problems ensued (including the mothers' no longer being able to produce breast milk for their babies, leading to deaths once the free samples stopped and the mothers were no longer able to afford the infant formula).

There are plenty of other examples (especially in the areas of environmental pollution and worker conditions), I'm guessing I don't need to go on.
Uber really only has two things in common with public transit: cars and buses both have wheels to go places, and the services are both paid.

{1} On-demand vs. scheduled

{2} The given number of cars in the field sets a harder upper limit on number of riders. With buses, it's basically always "pack more people onto the bus, no matter how crowded" (i.e. the bus is forced to approach closer to "theoretical" carrying capacity of vehicle's physical volume - compare this to how much Uber is used for single riders.)

{3} Anti-"troll" filtering (I mentioned elsewhere that this works for the same reason it works on web forums - you eliminate the irresponsible elements.)

{4} No routes with Uber: go where you want. Normally this flexibility costs you at the rate of a taxi.

Etc.
BlackRock Acquires FutureAdvisor
ObjectiveFS comes with fast compression that is always enabled, it works great for log files and other compressible data. Let us know what you think if you give it a try.
One thing they could do is not make up lies (the PIP) about her performance to cover their intention to fire her.
Thats like saying you flew an airline safely while I tell you my friend died in a plane crash on the same airline. Those anecdotes do not carry the same weight at all. Situations like the OP should not be happening ... ever.
I thought it was free until you started making an amount of money that made buying a license a non-issue.
I disagree with the assessment that (in your experience) the front runners usually lose or that this Democratic primary cycle is similar to the last one.

Focusing on the latter, fivethirtyeight did a comparison of Clinton's chances today compared to 8 years ago and found that she is in a much better position [1]. As much as I want Sanders to win, I trust fivethiryeight and I think they've got it right on this one.

[1] - http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/bernie-sanders-youre-no-b...
Free-form speech recognition
watchman (https://github.com/facebook/watchman) is cross platform.
Accompanying video presentation and powerpoint slides can be found at: http://www.guerrilla-games.com/publications.html
Complexity, evolved-ness, and adaptability are three different things.

Evolved-ness refers to amount of time that something has been evolving.

Adaptability refers to the ability of an organism or a species to survive in a new environment.

Complexity, like you said, more or less corresponds to genome size.

Rice is actually genetically more complex than humans are, so assuming humans and rice have a common ancestor, we are equally evolved but not equally complex. It is debatable whether or not rice is more adaptable than humans.
When Walmart came to Germany I've actually kinda hoped, they would succeed with that warm-up thing. But as most (if not all) stores were just bought up from other German chains - their employees were bought with those stores and remained as unmotivated, bored and sometimes aggressive as they were before :-)

When you write about "the directness of the culture" I find it telling, that Wal-Mart sees its methods as "people-centered" while the competitor's German CEO sees them as "all about budgets, not customers"
say looks nice, but it still suffers from exactly what this pep is trying to fix

>>> def test(x=1):return lambda:say.say("{x}")
>>> test()
NameError: name 'x' is not defined

https://github.com/syrusakbary/interpy seems like a closer solution, could be modified to also support format specs
I've always been happy to pay for the full edition. Unfortunately, most phone games are absolutely terrible. I think that's why the trials fail: it's really, really hard to make a great game. It's the same problem with trying to turn any creative pursuit into a predictable business.
People can believe both stories. Even companies a lot smaller than Amazon can be inconsistent in how they handle things.
How one startup beat the average churn by 1000%
Sure, having a baby is a choice, but it's also a universal human right -- and like the other rights, society needs to protect those. It protects them in some cases by putting obligations onto employers. That's why "someone else should be on the hook".

A society where rights become secondary to the unrestricted pursuit of profit is not a good society.
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I wonder how much of that was tied to your friend's position and ... perhaps even gender? Your friend only had one of the conditions enumerated in this story.
Also (https://customerservice.aldi.co.uk/faq):

Q: "Why is my local Aldi store not listed in the phonebook?"

A: Because phones cost money for subscriptions, and store personnel that picks up the phone doesn't bring in money.

No, that's not what their FAQ says, but generally believed to be true. Shops also don't have toilets for customers, and I remember a story about a shop that didn't have one for its personnel, either, but that may have been an urban legend.
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I don't know...I have a lot of friends on both sides of the fence who like him and have pledged to support his campaign with more than just votes. I've been described as a "fiscally conservative, socially progressive independent" by many acquaintances, and I can see myself voting for him all the way through. As I said, I don't really get political (I know, how un-American of me) but he's someone I would consider getting off the couch and knocking on doors for. He hits all the right points as far as I'm concerned, and he does it without grandstanding and deflecting like all the others.

Of course it's early in the campaign yet, things may change for the worse and he may be revealed to be just another scummy politician. But from what I've read, he's been consistent throughout his career, so there's that.
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it's always an issue of volume flow and membrane effectivenes with these things. many things 'work' that don't work to resupply the population on a daily basis.
Glassdoor's revenue comes from companies advertising to job seekers. It would not surprise me if this comes with a handshake deal to make the advertiser look good.
Type systems are by-definition only a conservative approximation of all programs.

The good thing is that 99.999999999999% of all programs never need to be written, and there are plenty of type systems which deal well with the last 0.00000000001.

> No, it does not.

Ok, that leaves the failure of Lisp outside of hobbyist mom's basements a mystery.
All the worry that people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have over strong AI is misplaced. In the rule-of-profit era, algorithms running with disregard to humanity are already in charge, not executing AI software on a compute cluster, but on a platform of corporate policy executed on a hybrid of components consisting of people and machines.
I would be very interested in seeing a cohort analysis of YC company valuations by batch :-)
Thanks. It would be nice to put on a feature list along with some details.
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There were a lot cultural misses in Walmart. For instance, nobody bags your groceries in Germany. When you're not expecting it, it's fucking weird to have some employee come up and grab your food.

Also, Germany has places like Kaufland and Rewe (in addition to Aldi) that have certain items much cheaper than Walmart. I found that milk, rice, bread and cheese were all cheaper there than in the US... and better quality for some reason too.
The existence of this system is rather odd then:

https://youtu.be/QGxNyaXfJsA

Not that the level of surveillance that's becoming possible (and even expected) isn't deeply repugnant, I'm just not convinced it's quite as cheap as you make it out to be.
Nice to see more detailed stats on this stuff. One figure I'd really like to see is the number of companies worth more than $10M & $50M.
oh, thanks for clarifying.
Mozilla explicitly wants to have a system where the extension is uploaded to them for signing, unlike the Apple / MS Authenticode systems where the developer gets a certificate to sign locally.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing (look for "not hosted")
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ReactJS based application UI source code: https://github.com/nazar/soapee-ui

Express based API server source code: https://github.com/nazar/soapee-api
Your whole comment tells me that you are completely unaware of how macros in Scala work and how they are developed further.
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While I agree with your comment overall, this "It's just like how your renter's insurance rates will skyrocket immediately if you try to file any claim at all" is not true in all cases. I filed what turned out to be a $10K claim for theft against renter's insurance, on a policy that I had only had for about 3 years. The claim was paid in full, with no pushback, even though I did not have receipts for all of the items stolen, and there was absolutely zero increase in premium. The policy has been renewed twice since then, again, without premium increase.
That part I can agree with!
That article is extremely outdated and by today standards quite ill-informed. Many of its arguments could be equally made for error codes.

Try some of these instead:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/C-and-Beyond-2012-Andrei-Alexandrescu-Systematic-Error-Handling-in-C
www.boost.org/community/exception_safety.html
https://github.com/Quiark/CppExceptDetails
http://www.boost.org/community/error_handling.html