skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The real minimum wage will always be $0, and we will only hasten the moment when self-driving cars are worthwhile investments if we continue to insist that labor should cost more.
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I hope the cops tell you that next time you call them.
I thought the USA outspending the USSR, forcing resource exhaustion is what broke communism.

If you have unlimited renewable energy, self-driving electric vehicles, IBM's watson providing clinical expertise instead of doctors, etc, you could provide socialism without taking from people (because labor no longer has value compared to software and automation).
I do make the same argument about minimum wage, and about "predatory" lending.
Cold-blooded animals have to get rid of excess heat, too.
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This really resonated with me. It was almost exactly my experience after 13 years at my last "startup". Everything went to hell there and bad reviews pile up in glass door but they actively push the ratings back up with fake reviews so all reviews are either 1 star or 5 stars (that should be a sign to anyone reading the reviews). Funny how when you are going through it it feels like you are uniquely suffering, then you read someone else write down thoughts that feel pulled from your own mind.
And you even get support with it! (based on the Indiegogo reward level)
So does the Hard Disk; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access
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Here is what I don't understand. Uber is not supplying the cars -- the drivers are.

If you look at virtually any other "employee" field (trucking, taxis, etc), the company owns and maintains the fleet of vehicles, and the employees operate them.

Based on this, Uber drivers look more like independent contractors than employees.
There's a bunch of phrasing that makes me want to give it the stinkeye, but nothing horrible. This isn't my field, but from part 1 it looks like he's trying to replace a Gaussian distribution by a Laplacian one and exploit some kind of underlying symmetry, but that doesn't really mesh with his "conclusions" in part 5.
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I think you're giving yourself the ability to reason along the spectrum, but assuming that more libertarian leaning people are incapable of admitting that some standards are OK. Of course some standards are OK, it's these standards that we object to. Workers need to be protected from unsafe working conditions, sure. Minimum standards aside, there's no reason to cast Uber vs. drivers as a Marxist class struggle when the Uber drivers themselves seem to be satisfied with the arrangement.
from http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_independentcontractor.htm : "an employer-employee relationship will be found if (1) the principal retains pervasive control over the operation as a whole, (2) the worker’s duties are an integral part of the operation, and (3) the nature of the work makes detailed control unnecessary"

1: Yes. They run the app, jobs come in through the app, progress is tracked through the app, payment is made through the app.

2: Yes. No drivers, no Uber.

3: Yes. Did you get from A -> B, and was the customer satisfied?
Alcohol is a great anti-anxiety drug and sedative, in small doses (like 1-3 drinks). That’s precisely why it has been so popular for thousands of years.

The problems with alcohol are (a) it just treats the symptom and doesn’t help fix whatever underlying issue is causing the stress, (b) it’s easy to take a far larger dose than necessary, far more often than necessary leading to abuse, and (c) acute effects of a large dose and chronic effects of frequent use are both highly destructive.
This is the sort of thing that lawyers love to argue over.

E.g. is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Think you know the answer? The US Supreme Court might disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
I just briefly skimmed through parts of it.

If I understand the paper correctly, the objective function is a combination of a classifier and a generative model. It sounds a lot like pre-training a neural network as a generative model before fine tuning it as a classifier, except this time the two steps are jammed together. I'm not sure what the benefit would be...
Huh? What there suggests he's familiar with the theory of quantum measurement?
Leveraged bubbles
> Turns out something in Google Forms uses UCS-2 internally, so it rejected my whole survey.

Google love Java to bits, and it's UCS-2ish.
Marky Markov – An Experiment in Markov Chain Generation in Ruby
Looks to me like the document is not classified since the attachments are not there
The problem with projects. (humor)
The example of the doctor they gave doesn't even speak Swedish. This is most likely why he isn't getting hired. They should make it their mission to learn the language of the country and then put it on their resume.

I can bet they will get more resume call backs.
I am of the opinion that comment authors should, if capable, explain his or her reasons for thinking the way he or she does, without resorting to throwing unqualified insults.

Furthermore, I think everyone has a right to his or her own opinion.
Thanks for the report. spicyj created an issue to track this: https://github.com/facebook/react-devtools/issues/172
Is there a copy of the paper not locked behind a paywall?
the cars could be considered a cool does a construction company provide a hammer or level
The only winning move is not to play. - WarGames.
the vehicle could be considered a tool such as a hammer for a carpenter or a pipe wrench for a plumber
Parsons Corporation is hiring a Mobile Device Engineer in Stafford, VA to view the job description please visit:
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Its a classified document.
It's very important to understand three things about (tech) interview process:

1. Hiring at scale is a VERY different problem from hiring slower.

When we were looking for 25 engineers a quarter at Box or eBay, there were very few methods that would scale to that level. Asking data-structure/algorithms questions is one method that scales. Is it perfect? No. Is it the least evil? Yes.

2. An interview is not a test; it's a date.

Interview depends on the interview-er, as much as it depends on you. You may be fully prepared, but you may still fail interviews for no fault of your own. Just the way you cannot expect to get married with everyone you date, you cannot expect to clear every interview. The more you think of it as a test, the more you will agonize about it.

3. You have to prepare

Tech salaries are at peak these days. People on the other end know that. As a result, they are not going to give an easy interview. Especially true of hot companies. This is also the artifact/reason why it feels that most good companies are discriminating.

[About me: I've seen this machine inside and out from all ends, many times over. I now run a bootcamp to prepare candidates for technical interviews: http://InterviewKickstart.com]
Parsons Corporation is hiring a Mobile Device Engineer in Stafford, VA. To view the job description please visit: http://parsonsjobs.com/virginia/intelligence-nat'l-security-...
If you're using a recent version of Firefox (like Nightly) you need to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config to be able to install the unsigned add-on.
Eve version 0: A new coding tool without the need to know programming
I don't know whether it's well-regarded; I do however highly recommend the translation-cum-rearrangement by Rangarajan: http://www.amazon.com/Arthashastra-Penguin-classics-Kautilya... (I've read it myself, and found it quite good.)

(He's re-arranged it to be coherent for a modern reader; one reason for this is because the original was meant to be memorised and perhaps used from memory, and was ordered accordingly.)
React is well designed and a nice work.

It's the idea behind it that is totally flawed and doomed.
Price differences between regions mean you can make tens of millions of ISK profit in a few trips. I have variously used a shuttle, covert ops frigate and interceptor to ferry billions of ISK worth at a time, and I am one of the smallest players in the market.

To get caught you have to do something foolish like buy heaps of PLEX, then undock with the character that bought them in Jita, during a wardec, and not have an instant undock bookmark.
It looks more like EBay and less like Uber. The more you exercise control over prices, quality, and service, the more you offer a service instead of just being a middleman.

I take Uber several times a week. I think of it as the service. E.g. when the driver takes a shitty route, it's never been the driver's fault. They're just blindly follow the company-provided navigation. So I never leave a less than five star review and whenever I file a request for rate adjustment (maybe once a month), I take care to point out I'm blaming the app, not the driver.
Here in Pennsylvania, only the state can sell liquor (with a few exceptions - e.g. bars can sell drinks and producers can sell their wares which are generally wine here).
Finite State Machines in Clojure
I agree, It would probably run considerably faster if it were written in Rust.
I once typed something like:

echo "test mail message" > /usr/bin/qmail

instead of:

echo "test mail message" | /usr/bin/qmail

and went on holiday. Many lessons learned.
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Tesla Model X Specs Revealed – $140k, 240mi range
Try: http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Publications...
This is NOT the right advice for anyone trying to finish a PhD.
The Minecraft billionaire sending lonely late-night tweets from Ibiza
Multidimensional in this case refers to OLAP cubes. In other words, it's a relational database with a star schema.

The formulas in this case are built in the "metadata editor". The expectation is that a data scientist would build the tables, and then pass it off as an analysis tool to the MBA types. It can be really unintuitive if you've never seen these types of dashboards before.
Really? I've seen tons of examples where the employee owns the vehicle. Pretty much every food delivery person I've met, plumbers, pool cleaning guys, cable installers, USPS mail-persons, all kinds of small businesses, etc.
Interesting that they call someone who preceded Machiavelli by millenia as India's Machiavelli. Machiavelli is Italy's Chanakya.
That's a pretty small-minded viewpoint. Surely you don't actually think that's the "only purpose" of all ads everywhere.
I love hackathons and game jams. I also don't run to win, and definitely finishing them is victory.

I have to agree with some of the detractors here, though. If a major company sponsors a hackathon or game jam, I immediately get suspicious. Anything offering venture capital or business deals to the winner, I think it will be a "pitch-athon", and I've seen the winners be those with the best pitches, not to those with the best implementations or even best ideas. I've seen hackathons go sour from bad faith in prize money (see https://medium.com/@aliciatweet/the-dirty-secret-behind-the-... for one example).

Having said that, I join the Global Game Jam every year, and partake in several other game jams and hackathons. Dedicating a weekend to a play project, something I plan to never look at again, is an outlet for creativity and fun that I just can't find elsewhere. Sometimes I'm lucky and I'm so impressed with what I've done that I end up submitting to the app store, or otherwise sharing with the world, sometimes it's embarrassing and I never talk of that again. I've worked with a wide variety of people using technologies I've never used before.

The easiest way I think to prevent "hustlathon" is to simply not have prizes nor sponsors. Although I don't completely avoid hackathons of that nature (and hackathons without sponsors are rare, someone donated the space if nothing else!), it is far too common that some company wants to dictate what the technologies used are in a hackathon. Prizes that are "we will offer venture capital" also quickly lead to hustlathon. And a lot of times terms and conditions can approach the offensive.

Anyway, I think more than just students can learn from and enjoy hackathons. And all the comments focusing on the food? When I hosted game jams I didn't offer food! You aren't required to eat bad food.
Unless you are an independent contractor, your employer should be providing your tools, if for no other reason than liability, should the employee be injured using substandard tools, which the employer would then be on the hook for.
And yours is flawed. This is a guy that is saying he wanted to snag the domain to squat on it. He knows the value of domains. My comment exists only due to that

The lesson to take away is more "Use an escrow service and do due diligence" rather than "haha you got scammed"

Side note - author got his money back. Everyone wins!
So, to summarize, if somebody makes a port that doesn't use a blob, all is good. The question seems to be not so much if the blob runs before or after OpenBSD, but whether we would need to distribute it. If it's in the ROM, then this isn't even a question. But if it's something we are expected to write to the flash drive, that's a potential problem. Anyway, the question isn't very interesting given that the magic porting elves haven't yet gifted us with an OpenBSD RPi port.

I don't know exactly what the situation is. Don't care. I have a BeagleboneBlack if I wanted to watch the paint dry doing a build. :)
"When they sold out to Microsoft, Persson and his two partners trousered the dosh; the company’s other 30-odd employees had no equity so couldn’t cash in."

Non person indeed.
A Glimpse into the Future – Is This Global Slowdown Different?
Could it be that you confuse refuges with expats and working immigrants? Similar to Mörgeli?
I believe Voronoi can be applied on high-dimension points, producing polytopes.

So, run Voronoi on 3D points that happen to all be on the sphere... Then intersect the polytopes with a sphere. Tada - great arcs.
What businesses were ad supported centries ago? People used to pay for things and they liked it!

Netflix, HBO, and Amazon are creating the best content in the world and they're not using advertising to pay for it. Low margin ad-supported television is one of the worst aspects of modern cultures.
Ask HN: Are your coworkers like family?
Hiring posts often detail a lot of things about a company: tech, perks, location, pay, etc.

But what's rather hard to tell is:

Would I get along with my coworkers like friends and family?

So I ask you: where do you work? And are your coworkers like family to you?
I went to a job interview at a place where they worked 12 hour days but you'd see people were watching eBay, trading stocks, and otherwise wasting time.
Walmart part time workers generally get benefits [1].

Walmart did drop benefits for about 30k workers who were working under 30 hours a week, but it turns out that was actually to benefit those employees [2]. Walmart's health benefits (for both full-time and part-time employees) are in the form of cheap insurance that the employee can purchase. For those 30k workers, the cheap Walmart plan still cost considerably more than the subsidized plans they could get on the ACA exchange if they were not covered by an employer plan.

[1] http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/working-at-walmart/be...

[2] http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/10/08/3577404/walmart-p...
yes you could just charge a membership fee to utilize the app
"4.5W ultra-mobile Core M" - does it means if someone uses it with a typical 2250 mAh cell phone battery, it only last half hour?

That's a long way to catch up with ARM SOC, right?
"The general guidelines users are expected to learn before using them generally involve (from most accepted to least accepted)"

Back in 2003 running 3.2 on ancient hardware that is indeed the process I went through. [0]

http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0310/msg01026.html
Just started a client project with React. This will be very handy. Thank you Facebook.
Nice, well written.
No red flags when you checked the whois and saw it wasn't hosted with godaddy? What were you checking for if not the current registrar at least?
Virtual memory management saves your butt, almost all the time.

It's ridiculous when the compression ratios are so absurd, like in this case.
Via handwriting analysis, scholar discovers unknown Magna Carta scribe
My take: The third party doctrine is a natural consequence of the use of "their" in the 4th amendment. People have a fourth amendment right to "their" persons, houses, papers, and effects. Bits on Google's hard drives aren't "theirs" they're Google's. You have no property right in those bits. If Google loses them, you can't sue them for negligence. If they change their TOS and monetize those bits, you have no recourse.[1]

It wouldn't even be a hard issue of the Supreme Court hadn't injected this "expectation of privacy" concept that appears nowhere in the text of the amendment.

[1] From Google's TOS: "When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."
Yes, if you could get the rich to play.

To do so, just discount the tickets for poor people and raise the price for rich people.
Not much, but the concepts of how Meteor works under the hood is beneficial in order not to misunderstand how it works under the hood and avoid the traps of all the magic it does.

Here's a few things you should read more about prior to or when you are writing Meteor:

- Architecture of Meteor - Because hype told us you're writing one big JS app and throwing away the idea of client-server. NO, you will still end up writing client-only and server-only code, esp validations and API calls (which you don't really want to put in client-side code).

- Node.js - It's handy to know what you can use in server-side code to avoid duplicating work.

- AJAX - The concept of server-side methods closely mimics AJAX (call and callback style).

- MongoDB - Basic knowledge of CRUD functions in Mongo are nice to have. Especially "upsert" (insert/update) which was very handy in place of "check if exists and update or insert" operations.

- Basics on reactive programming - Under the hood, everything's observed. When things change, it's a domino effect afterwards.
From Marble buildings to a burning crater – this is beautiful Turkmenistan
Ask HN: What tech companies are working on important world problems?
Looking for jobs in the Bay Area can get pretty depressing. There are so many amazing things and important problems that technology can tackle, and instead, smart people are working on various trivial apps that cater to the SF tech elite, and to the first world in general.

Unfortunately the phrase "important world problems" is pretty vague and nobody quite agrees on what these problems are. I'm thinking poverty, hunger, climate change, antibiotic resistance, stuff like that. It seems more fulfilling to work for a company that facilitates microloans in developing countries, provides analytics for farmers, or distributes solar panels, than for a personalized advertising company or instant laundry service app.

Of course this is just my view of things. I'm curious to hear what all of you think.
Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more trees than was thought
... Or efficient, strict expenditures are implemented. Something tells me that this would be hard to do.
Looks like the maintainer posted a comparison to Pond a while back on reddit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2zp1c9/opse...
2. he is explaining stochastic nets as statistics non-equilibrium systems, in analogy with theory of fluctuations, which Einstein allegedly originated
3. drawing analogies with quantum mechanics (wave function = conditional density) can open the floodgates for applying a number of quantum techniques to nets
The idea is pretty simple. For example, long time ago when Zookeeper didn't support multi key transaction I had to implement them and came to the same algorithm - http://rystsov.info/2012/09/01/cas.html.

It would be great to know its name to simplify communication with the colleagues, do you know it?
I find it amusing that Chrome, the Google open-source project that this is built on, receives so little praise in the developer community. Perhaps it is because Facebook builds things primarily for developers, versus Google which seems to be function-driven (eg bettering the whole internet instead of self-serving within the developer community).
Let's not do that.

The article is 1) written for a western audience 2) I'm willing to bet that Machiavelli is MUCH more well known by political scholars than Chanakya
I find this guy pretty arrogant and a bit of a grand-stander, but maybe I get the wrong impression.
He did have a good idea once, namely to release his textbooks free in the internet before that became fashionable. That is still a good idea today. The textbooks are not the best of breed by a long stretch but we shouldn't diminish the fact that he released them.

If you think you can do it, do it, release it. Bask in the glory.

Prediction: he can't. But good luck anyway.
I'm sure they're trying to patent it. (eg DeepMind has been patenting everything they can, even stuff like dropout and deep q-learning!) Which raises an interesting question: Instapainting is a commercial service and this is targeted at customers:

> After your artwork is generated, you are free to use it for any purpose. Upload it to Instapainting.com as an order and an artist will physically hand-paint it!

So how does that interact with the patent application? Are they liable for damages once the patents go through or do they just have to take it down?
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Since the developers are here in this thread- I'm curious where this goes from here. I'm an Ember developer, but sometimes Ember's heavyweight attitude isn't needed for a project, and I see React as the natural direction to go when I want something smaller.

Seeing something like this, and the strength of having developer tools like Ember Inspector or React DevTools, is just going to make frontend development so much easier.
Super annoying, that.
Unfortunately, when in 1980s when the last Federal Cast happened, Emails were stored on your personal computer inside of your house.

POP was the primary protocol back then, not IMAP. IMAP wasn't invented yet. Therefore, the law lags and even today in 2015, the laws are being used as if emails are stored on personal computers.

Which means Emails are considered "abandoned property" if left on an external computer for more than 6 months. Abandoned Property is not subject to privacy.