skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I'm looking at this as a massive experiment and will wait to see the results.

On one note, there's a reason that some roles are paid $40k instead of $70k and it has nothing to do with the value of the person. It's that the role doesn't create enough value - sales, retention, growth - to make that make sense. It's feasible to make an employee a few percent more effective but nearly 2x? I'd love to see that.

On the other side, I'd love to know why the the sudden influx of cash. Was it just to get rid of his assets? (a divorce?) Or did the company need the cash? If they needed it and business was good, why not outside investors? If they needed it and business is poor, then he's just doomed his whole cause because of the "see, I told you so!"

Regardless, I'm looking forward to seeing what this looks like longer term.
The no nesting thing is huge! We refactored a lot of CSS earlier this year and that was one of the biggest pain points. Coupling the structure of your template to your CSS makes changing things very painful. Nesting also creates ambiguous classes that have no obvious connection, consider the following:

.my-component {

.header {

...

}

}

You would just see header floating around in the markup, unsure of where it's namespaced.

Also I disagree that you shouldn't modularize your CSS. We now create a CSS file who's name corresponds with the class name.

/styles

/components

my-component.css

and in the markup

<div class=".MyComponent-wrap">

<div class=".MyComponent-title">
...

</div>

</div>

With CSS like that you always know where a style is declared, and the order of the classes do not matter.

More on the issue: http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-html-semantics-front-end-a...
> If your business plan is to skim money off of workers who could do their jobs and get paid without you

Lead generation is a viable business, as demonstrated by Yelp (and previously Yellow Pages), it's just not hot and fast-growing.
"It's all out there today – and it’s already processing more than five percent of all web requests. "

5% of internet traffic is going through this centralized party? And it is growing? That sounds fucking scary to me.

I hope in the future some tools develop which allow evading the DDOS attacks in some more decentralized way, without relying on trusted party. Of course that is going to be difficult (impossible?), if you want the data to be encrypted.
>Two kids run out into the street chasing a ball. Kill the kids or the occupant?

As I mentioned in my previous post, how exactly is that going to kill the driver at 30mph? There isn't going to be a continuous brick wall at the side of the road, otherwise where the heck did the kids come from?!

I think the article is a little overhyped. Certainly there are cases where the car will need to take evasive action, but it's unlikely it will have to decide who to kill.
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While this is statistically true, people don't act as if this were the case. While trusting someone with your physical safety should be a high-trust decision, we treat it cavalierly enough in our day to day lives that most people clearly don't worry about it.

Maybe it makes sense, though, because the other person in the interaction has more incentive to defect when given access to all of your possessions than when given control over you yourself. That is, you have little reason to think that the Uber driver is working at cross purposes to you, and mainly just have to take their competence on faith. With something like Homejoy, it is their character and motivation you are gambling on moreso than their competence.

I haven't heard of people abusing Homejoy to rob houses or anything, but it seems not entirely stupid that someone would worry about bad actors more than incompetent ones.
That could very well be. That article does mention that he was nearly wiped out by the great recession in 2008. At one point he was putting it all on the line and the risk was very real. I think you are probably right in saying that the risk premium may change over time. I guess I don't know how much that reward should be and how long it should pay off for.

When comparing stocks and bonds you use the risk free interest rate and take a stocks volatility compared to the broad market into account. Maybe the volatility of the business should be a consideration.
Just ran Paul's article through Anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth Considerably changed and mangled beyond all recognition. It even sounds less persuasive in tone.
Taxis have been tampered with. There are medallions and monopolies and such, the fair market hasn't reigned. Uber can change that, there is room to wiggle.

Has cleaning been unionized or tampered with? If anything, I'd almost think it's shifted further to the other side, there might be undocumented workers and more cash businesses than taxis have, even less regulation if you will.

If the market is working, then what's the value? They help customers find cleaners more efficiently? More efficiently than Craig's list and the other sources?
Useful tool for what is a very common task, nice work jgrahamc!
High speed rail between Moscow and Sankt Peterburg takes 4 hours exactly. This includes leaving Moscow urbanized area from city centre, a few intermediate stops, and traversing Sankt Peterburg to city centre. I don't see why traveling from SF to LA would take more than 3:30 given that the distance is 100 kilometers shorter.

(It also costs around $50 currently but obviously don't expect that)
I've recently started keeping my CSS together with the UI components that I create in React. Essentially doing what is being advocated here: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js

It defies existing good practices, but once I tried it I quickly realized that things that are tricky in CSS are mostly trivial in JS (namespacing, dependencies, code elimination / minification, isolation, constants, the whole tooling in general etc.). As a programmer and not a designer, I also find it easier to reason about JS.

You end with something that looks very much like Web Components, but fully usable right now. In practice it means you can add a 3rd party component with "import TimePicker from 'material-ui/timepicker'", slap a <TimePicker/> into your JSX and you're done. See http://material-ui.com/ for a complete toolkit of React components created this way.
Yes, I've seen JWTs, mostly from the Auth0 guys. Would the JWT be passed in a header or query string parameter? If so, could a JWT be considered a structured token passed in the clear?
The point remains that you should let the browser reflow the text based on the width of the browser.

<br> makes this impossible.
No, basically, that is not what the article (or WHO) says.
With a driver, your life is in the hands of someone who has nothing to gain from getting in a car crash. With a cleaner, your possessions are in the hands of someone who might have plenty of incentive to steal your stuff and sell it.
The company is the sum of it's parts: The employees. Employees exist without the founder or the company. Thus, the value still exists within the economy, it is just the distribution is different as said employees are producing value in other sectors of the economy.

When a founder forms a company he is not creating value. He is redeploying existing labor to do OTHER things. Whether that creates new value is a separate issue as said labor could create new value wherever it was before. Additionally, the founder is also creating a new corporate pyramid structure that funnels a lot of the redeployed wealth from this labor towards the people sitting on top: Whether that be himself or shareholders.

Let's say there are two companies. Company A and Company B. Company A is a established company and Company B is a startup. Lets also say there is one worker, named Chris. When Chris works for company A his work output is 20$ a day.

Let's say Chris changes his job and moves to company B. You're telling me that Company B by virtue of being a startup makes chris's work output suddenly equivalent to 100$? Tell me what magic makes this the case? What is it that makes it so new value is created out of thin air? It's not physically possible. In fact it's stupid to think that just by creating a startup you're creating value. You're just redeploying labor.

So where does new value come from if not just from a company by virtue of being a startup? The answer: When new technology or new innovations are created that fundamentally change the infrastructure of the economy so that it can be more efficient. It can happen from ANY company and it can even happen from government, it does not have to come from a startup. Examples: Apple: iphone, military: internet.

To tell you the truth, most startups amount to shit. If anything the majority of startups redeploy labor onto endeavors that amount to nothing. Usually big corporations more effectively redeploy labor. Could any random startup do what apple did to the phone industry? Probably, but waay less likely.
I got bitten by this a couple of days ago - I wrongly assumed that tags on GitHub were identical to the tarballs offered on the project's website. Not so much, as it turns out: https://github.com/Tarsnap/spiped/issues/26
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Caucasian median income is $67k/yr in Seattle, so he's actually not paying them that much considering he only hires attractive young white people.

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.eremedia.com/uploads/2015/08/0...)
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IME, bullies actually say "stop hitting yourself". School administrators and parents of bullies (authority figures who could step in to stop bullying) are the ones who say to grow a thicker skin.

There's certainly nothing wrong with trying to be kind. however, this is an interesting issue because I see the desire to force other people to conform to your beliefs a form of bullying.

I suppose it depends on where you place the responsibility of offense. Should everyone be (socially) required to consider the feelings of everyone around them before they say anything? Or should people learn to accept that others won't have their same experiences and values, and in that sense, "grow a thicker skin"?

Put more succinctly, is offense given, or is it taken?
It also solved a problem that's more or less already solved. Uber is great because finding a taxi can be hard, and finding a good taxi can be really hard. Finding somebody to clean your house is really easy. I must get half a dozen flyers a week for cleaning services stuck on my door. If I don't trust that, I can just ask my neighbors for a recommendation.
Has anyone ever fuzzed fuzzy lop itself using fuzzy lop?
People are more scared of burglary than car crashes.
> After all, as the article notes, cleaning services like Merry Maids are a well-established thing.

But so are the taxi companies and hotel chains.
There are several tradeoffs here. Yes, this has a readability benefit, and helps ease developers into the module, especially if they're not familiar with it to start with.

A good argument in favor of not breaking them into separate functions is available here[0], basically boiling down to the fact that splitting something into a separate function has the undesirable side effect of hiding the full scope (not in the programming sense) of what it does.

If this function is pure, this isn't a problem, but if it manipulates -- or even just accesses -- global state, you might call it when it's in a state that it doesn't expect, leading to subtle bugs. You also might move the call to it to a new location, not realizing the full scope of what it does (this is doubly true for removing calls).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150926045718/http://number-non... (sad to see this site slip away ...)
"and if you are a hairdresser or do shift work (both class 2A), you should seek a new career."

This line at the end of the article irked me. A friend of mine who was a hair stylist for 20 years is dying of brain cancer and her doctor's are pretty sure her exposure to chemicals on a daily basis had a role in her cancer.

While I understand the comment's attempt at humor, the risk these people have with their exposure to harmful chemicals is very real.
If the money is set aside ahead of time and invested well then sure. If your dependent on the company that operated the plant to still be around then there just going to keep putting it off until the company fails. At which point the taxpayer is stuck with the costs.
I wish people would stop conflating salary and "goodness" or worth.

There are great and horrible human beings who make lots of money. There are great and horrible human beings just scraping by.

Income and goodness are orthogonal.
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Yet another "put everything on the blockchain and all is well" article.

Yes, real estate deeds will be digital. They already are, at least partially. No, the blockchain isn't involved.

"Blockchain or analog" is a false dichotomy.

No, selling a house will not be easier or more efficient when it is "on the blockchain". At least where I'm living you need a public notary to notarize sales of real estate.
> Fukushima

With Fukushima they knew what the problems were and chose to make an half-assed attempt at safety - for example: the 2008 Tsunami study was ignored. I guess what could be surmised is that nuclear power is only completely safe in the absence of human nature. Which makes you correct in a round-about way.

However, it is unsafe in comparison to what? Nine times out of ten not being able to breath anywhere on the planet, forever, seems like the more dangerous prospect; versus making a specific piece of land uninhabitable for a few thousand years. Nuclear waste is far easier to see, which makes us more aware of it and hence our monkey brains believe it is more dangerous ("smoke just dissolves into the air!").

I can't think of any power solution that doesn't have severe drawbacks; however, nuclear is at the very least not the top contender in that list.
I reposted because I got the following email from HN:

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Just Chrome itself slows my mb pro 8gb down to a crawl. One day I will find out why.
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I'm sorry to be that guy, but the lack of contrast makes the text difficult to read.
The driver has no incentive to be in a crash. The cleaner has all the incentive to steal your stuff.
Even the starving and freezing should want maximum productivity at the providers of food and heating.
Why? The person above at least gave an example of why not, you're just simply stating the contrary without any explanation.
The lawsuit over independent contractors may not have been the deciding factor in their failure, but:

> For example, according to Zietsman, Homejoy city managers were tasked with buying up and distributing cleaning supplies

They chose and supplied the cleaning supplies to workers? And still thought they had _any_ chance of prevailing in a lawsuit where they claimed the workers were independent contractors and not employees? Um.
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I agree. It's a legitimate concern though. People are bombarded with what is healthy or not. With fad diets and such. Who do you believe?

ED: oops... I should learn to read good. It says _avoid_ processed meats. I think it would be clearer to leave stuff off the plate which we are supposed to leave off our plate.
Seriously. I have no idea how this kind of stuff gets posted on here.
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Thx. Primarily for web development including using Vagrant, PHP, Node, git etc. Also what about some gotchas compared to Windows ?
The difference is that with a driver, our incentives are aligned. My desire to continue living injury-free matches up perfectly with his desire to do the same, and not damage his valuable equipment.

With a house cleaner, my desire to keep my possessions is at odds with the cleaner's desire to have more stuff. I have to count on their desire for repeat business, or their morality, to outweigh that.
You have literally 6 features; you do not need to do dimensionality reduction here. Further, PCA is used generally before performing a linear regression model, which assumes independence among variables. SVM's are nonlinear and so don't care (though you specify both a linear kernel and the RBF kernel in your code?). If the data was very high dimension you could do PCA and then SVM in order to increase speed at the expense of accuracy - there is no free lunch. I think that's what you see in your results.

As a side note, SVM's and Random Forests are generally considered the best 'out of the box' models. So you chose a good one to experiment with!

Also, since you already wrote the analysis code in Python, why not write the front-end in Python (rather than Node) as well?
There are also bunch of third party apps for Android and Linux that let you download iTunes U lectures.
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As the first footnote explains, bi-quinary numbers are what an abacus uses: one part is 0,1,2,3 or 4 and the other is 0 or 5. Qui-binary numbers are the opposite: one part is 0,2,4,6 or 8 and the other part is 0 or 1.
Soon the floors of Silicon Valley will be littered with the corpses of Unicorns.
Sustainability surely has to take precedence over growth at any cost soon?! One can hope...
You can do this in Luajit with the following trick:

for f in *.lua; do
luajit -b $f `basename $f .lua`.o
done

ar rcus libmylib.a *.o
gcc -o myexe main-stub.c -I/usr/local/include/luajit-2.0 -L/usr/local/lib -lluajit-5.1 -Wl,--whole-archive libmylib.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,-E

Where main-stub.c looks like this:

#include <lua.h>
#include <lauxlib.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
int status, result, i;
lua_State *L;

L = luaL_newstate();

luaL_openlibs(L);

/* load your lua entry point here */
status = luaL_loadfile(L, "mainluafile.lua");
if (status) {
fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't load file: %s\n", lua_tostring(L, -1));
exit(1);
}

result = lua_pcall(L, 0, LUA_MULTRET, 0);
if (result) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to run script: %s\n", lua_tostring(L, -1));
exit(1);
}

lua_close(L);

return 0;
}

The executables produced are very small because you dynamically link to Luajit and statically link to your own Lua code. I have a full media scheduler running at 100 sites which is only 40k. And it runs like a demon on ARM too.
I just logged to write: The sad part of that article is a lot of people will believe that bullshit!
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Excel is full of these...

Press CTRL-F (find/replace), and you'll note that even in Excel 2013 CTRL-A (select all) doesn't work in either the find or replace boxes.

It has been this way since at least Office 95.
You won't learn anything useful from this article, move on.
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How is it that only people so far off course are conceited enough to tell others how to do it?

Attitudes like the one displayed here are the reason for the tremendous amount of nonfunctional software out there. Just do what you like best, pushing bitmaps around, and leave the unpleasant part (a.k.a. actually making it work) to some masochist who enjoys it.
Which is probably justified. There are a couple of million burglaries per year in the US (many/most of which will affect multiple people), and only about 30,000 traffic fatalities per year. And a good chunk of those fatalities are either easily avoidable by passengers (wear your seat belt!) or unavoidable even by drivers (getting whacked by a drunk driver).
> ps. Lol. That page lists processed meats.

Yes, as a thing to avoid:

Limit red meat, and avoid processed meats such as bacon and sausage.
Interesting that the process needed you to repost it for the mods to boost it. Seems like they could have just fiddled with it without you having to manually interact with it.

I can't help but wonder what the logic is there.
"While financiers and C-suite honchos have showered themselves in compensation, most Americans haven't had a raise, in real dollars, since 2000"

One company can't fix this problem alone, though Gravity's effort is laudable.
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it is, I am talking about the actual situation not PLANS. Morocco DOES control everything west of the buffer zones and the population in there DOES have Moroccan national ID cards and they DO vote.

Edit: from the article "Western Sahara fell under Spanish rule in 1884". Because history started in 1884. Western Sahara was for Many centuries part of Morocco, it was not a country by modern standards, but local tribes did recognise reign of the Moroccan kings. there was never a "western Sahara kingdom"

Mohammed Abdelaziz, the long time leader (talk about democracy) of the Polisario camps in Algeria, was born in Marrakech, Morocco, and studied at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
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Check again. It says "avoid processed meats"
Similar undertakings were Jonathan Caouette's "Tarnation" [1] and an honorable mention to "David Holzman's Diary" [2], likely one of the earliest attempts at lampooning the cinema verite genre and precursor to modern day "found footage" films.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390538/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062864/
Ha! I remember you from the G-Wan forum days (:

I'm so excited to see you're still active!
After a certain growth period it might be more cost-effective for a company to convert certain contractors to W-2 employees. Company can now mandate hours and keep a highly-rated worker from switching to a competitor. Homejoy never passed that "certain growth period", though.

So it's not a clear-cut "contractors = good, employees = bad" thing. It's just that companies exploring these markets are all at early stage of their growth.
Your second paragraph is utter nonsense. A productive business absolutely creates value. History is littered with examples of entire brand new industries birthed by the sole creation of a single company. The pie literally grows larger. This doesn't create value?

By "existing labor" voluntarily "redeploying" themselves, they are in complete recognition of that fact and want to partake in the additional value created.
Anyone have a good source for articles that eschew the political commentary in favor of just presenting the study findings in a concise summary?

Does anyone actually care that the global lobbyists for meat don't agree that meat is a carcinogen (or that any lobbyists against meat would care that it is)?
Well, apparently wood fires aren't great for you, so unless you're roasting it over a gas flame, probably fairly high: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion
Considering how most of the people I know like to consume them, probably around the same ranking as taking charcoal briquettes internally.
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