skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my first assumption as well - that one of the founders was continuing to work with the same idea under a different brand.

Whoever it was, they clearly capitalized on the market opening left in Homejoy's wake. A quick

whois flymaids.com

yields

Domain Name: flymaids.com
Registry Domain ID: 1966895891_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2015-10-08T04:34:58Z
Creation Date: 2015-10-08T04:34:58Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-10-08T04:34:58Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
...
Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC
...

The site was only created in the last 3 weeks, and it was registered by someone who wanted to stay anonymous (which is, in fairness, very reasonable - Homejoy cofounder or not. Certainly not enough to draw a conclusion).
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They are using poliovirus here:

http://www.cancer.duke.edu/btc/modules/research3/index.php?i...

They did investigate the genetic stability of their engineered virus:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881183/
>You're underestimating how far people are willing to go to appear legit.

You are right. This is clearly a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Yes straw men can always be found. But for the other 100 high-paying jobs and industries, there's a lot to be done.
OneTab is still the best. It's fun to just push a whole days worth of tabs into a list that you can cherry pick from at will. Not to mention freeing up resources..
permission for location services in general

This is interesting primarily because for most part I switch-off my location services as I think it's a drain on my battery. The only time it's enabled is when I need the GPS which is quite seldom. So I would assume that it would affect the accuracy of the model if say I live quite a way off from where I work.

Also if I'm spending most of my time indoors in buildings, how much of it would affect the readings as compared to when I'm out in the open?
Well, it's never been tested, and I think that companies are not sure if it's safe to use it ever. I don't exactly know how much of the stack you have to provide the source for.
Does YC officially offer any ethics training/mentoring?

It would be an interesting offering even if there isn't any weight behind it. Sometimes I think the message, "Hey, maybe we should all think about what we are doing and whether or not it is in the best interest of something besides our bottom line" isn't something that is brought up/told to a lot of founders. However, whether or not they listen is totally up to them and I am fine with that.
Tons of legitimate emails are caught in spam filters. The filter rules are mysterious and secret, and differ between clients. Gmail now has a >20% false positive rate for Linus Torvalds: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DiG9qANf5PA
I'm pretty sure I know what's going on. In order to pay off their debts, Homejoy must have sold user account information, including credit cards, to a bunch of local home cleaning businesses. A shit ton of them have been popping around over the past couple of years, modeled after the advice given in this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/entrepreneurridealong

The difference with these local cleaning businesses is that they are developed and ran by amateurs, who often times copy each other (or the successful giants) down to the wording on the websites, with minor branding changes. They tend to be super low-budget, so Fly Maids probably paid some "web developer" $500 to develop their website and paid zero attention to security, PCI compliance, and so on. They then purchased a bunch of LA-based user accounts from the now-defunct Homejoy, who of course did not perform any due diligence.

Shitty situation to be sure. I definitely lost respect for the Homejoy founders, and will probably stay away from their next venture.
> only your decision to offer her opportunities and incentives based on her gender which her post implies were not also available to equally qualified male members of her team.

Her post only implied her own personal, subjective and utterly understandable anxieties on that point. My response was at pains to put both her questions and anyone else's to rest. She earned everything she got, and the comprehensive respect she received from her peers was without qualification. Never mind gender, she coded way beyond her years of experience. The main thing with managing Bryana was to get out of her way and let her do outstanding work, which she did.

> If you want to put the conversation to rest, simply clarify that point.

Was there something ambiguous to you in my statements here?

* Bryana's performance _across the board_ was top-notch, _without qualification_.

* ...she..._earned_ every single bit of responsibility she ever got.

* We just evaluated the [interview] performance and hired the best dev for the position, _end of conversation_.
That's a good response to an admittedly pithy comment. I suppose the point I was trying to make was that most people have never considered their devices barometric capabilities. And that the OC was throwing a kneejerk "data-collection is bad" response, and deciding to uninstall because data-collection of any kind is bad.
Yeah, I know right? I'm sure I read on HN some time earlier that CIA agents / undercover would always make sure their lie is actually as close to the truth as possible -- if it comes down to it. (last resort type thing).

I could do this easy peasy, and then ask me to do it backwards and I'll stare at you and go "No idea, I'd have to think about it... generally don't think backwards".

The key in any case, is always... don't give them rope. Patience.
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I agree, but notice the person's comment was diplomatic. It wasn't trashing Apple, just stating a different viewpoint. And he/she thought it was necessary to remain anonymous for that.
i want it! it will increase my job security with features like this :

==

String name => firstName + " " + lastName;

And an assignment:

String name = firstName + " " + lastName;

In the first example, the expression is recomputed every time name is evaluated. In the second example, the expression is computed once and the result assigned to name.

==

A function which looks like just a variable and recomputed each time! Happy debugging my code, suckers!
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> (number of pages / 5)

Five pages alone can require a lot of reading.
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His logic is relatively weak. His proposal for Tesla to build a hybrid is laughable. This is why Bob Lutz is old guard.
ALL HAIL ZUCK. HE IS THE NEW OPRAH. BOW DOWN.
Is he shipping his hay as break bulk or in 40ft standard containers? The intermodal market is very different from the bulk market and carriers are – by design – interchangeable. In fact many intermodal carriers scale by bringing several smaller mom and pop – referenced in the article – owner/operators under their dispatch. This is essentially what this startup is doing.
Pretty understandable considering how many marketers and website developers don't know how to and/or don't care to make an unsubscribe button that works. Click a few dozen that make you type your email again (haven't they heard of tokens?), uncheck to unsubscribe from 20 different types of newsletter, find a bunch of email settings in your account settings, supposedly take 48 hours to take effect, have no effect at all, or the page doesn't even load, and you start to think it's easier to just hit "report spam" and move on with your day.

As I posted elsewhere on this thread, I'm inclined to think that if you don't have a clear unsubscribe button that works immediately with no extra effort, then you are spam.
Installed!
You're right. There are other tools out there. But what I really appreciate about gofmt are a few things:

* It's highly opinionated. It's not cluttered with customization options. This means your Go program and my Go program are formatted exactly the same. Period. I don't have to choose between spaces or tabs or get annoyed that you chose spaces when tabs are clearly superior.
* By being highly opinionated, Gofmt just takes care of those decisions. You focus 100% on coding -- not on stylistic decisions.
* It's practically built in and maintained by the core team. The "other tools" out there are usually open-source. You have to go hunting for them. Gofmt ships right with Go. Then you have to figure out how to run them. With go, it's just a simple `gofmt <file>`. Boom. Done. No NPM dependencies, no Ruby gems to install. Just run it and move on.

I don't write Go full-time, but I've started adopting similar tools for my primary languages. My editor at my current job runs a similar tool for Node. I don't have to think about style any more. It's just taken care of for me. And all of my team have reached the same conclusion. Peace of mind and focus on what really matters is invaluable.
It means we should move beyond distributed consensus. Forums and voting dont need it for one
Sure, but at the risk of more snark - are you building a new paradigm for computing interaction, or are you building an app to add kitten ears to selfies?

One of the more pernicious things I've seen from mobile developers and mobile designers (including myself from time to time) is that we all want to work on some Cool Ass Shit(tm), but not every app we get to work on is some groundbreaking advancement, and so we see a lot of very non-standard UIs that violate a whole lot of established conventions on apps that are supposed to be very straight-forward.

This is also very commonly justified under the guise of "branding", as if featuring a UX that's wildly inconsistent with the entire rest of the platform is an exercise in marketing (see: AirBnb's old app navigation, where screens shrunk and with 3D perspective flew off to one edge... that's just switching between sections)

Yes, there are scenarios in which you really must break the rules, or that breaking the rules will result in a substantially better experience in the long run. These scenarios are few and far between, and I suppose my main complaint is that app developers seem to have an inflated judgment of whether or not their scenarios (which are usually fairly straightforward) fit the description.

A good example of this I think is Tinder: the card-swiping UI was definitely new at the time (and cloned inappropriately to a disturbing amount, but I digress), and IMO was well justified. More importantly, the rest of the app is very by the numbers - they knew they were breaking a huge convention and so they built around it. Many, many apps are guilty of not only breaking conventions, but breaking many unrelated conventions all at once, resulting in a mess of shit that nobody can figure out how to use without resorting to heavy-handed tutorials.
> Also if I'm spending most of my time indoors in buildings, how much of it would affect the readings as compared to when I'm out in the open?

Indoor vs. outdoor isn't really a problem most of the time - the pressure is basically the same inside and outside. A bigger problem is fast altitude changes, which make the absolute reading from the barometer very difficult to interpret safely.

One of the reasons that it took so long for TWC to finally do this is because of the concerns you just voiced: that having this data might actually make the models worse, if they don't take enough care to quality-control it first.

A lot of the research done by scientists (like Cliff Mass at the University of Washington) is how to assimilate this data in a reliable and trusted way. It is likely that The Weather Company does not know how to use the exact pressure readings from the barometer yet (nobody does). Instead, they will probably use the trends over time (say 6 hours), because those are more resilient to noise.
As part of winding down they could have sold off their data to an interested party, not different from a merger, and they further could have hired some of the old team.

If someone just copied the db and then sold or gave it on the sly, investors of former unaware, then, yes, problematic. But if it was a transaction approved by the principals of the former, unfortunately, there aren't stipulations about commutability of customer data, are there?
Sorry, I didn't notice the citation. My bad.
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What is the full URL of the link in the email you received? You must save your login information in your browser, otherwise I assume you would have questioned how you logged into the site at all.

It could be a phishing scheme that attacked your saved login information then placed that on a dummy site in hopes that you may provide even more data.

EDIT: They could have sold / transferred user data... but I don't know how they would automatically authenticate you without using some previously stored data that you, maybe unknowingly, gave them access to.
How about:
1. turnover?
2. materials toxicity?
3. living conditions?
4. any way to enforce that what you see as fair practices stays that way once you scale way up?
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I'm assuming The Weather Channel was left out of the deal to die a slow death on it's own. I wonder if they will launch a new website and set of apps just focused purely on the TV content. You can't have a TV channel without a web presence, right?
What in the world is “The German GPL”? As far as I know there is no such thing.
"An engineer". "A worker". It's not hard, if you haven't succumbed to the HR mindset.
BPG (BetterPortableGraphics) allows for GIFs 50% smaller than an MP4 conversion
The Weather Channel acquired Wunderground.com in 2012: http://www.wunderground.com/about/pr/news.asp?date=20120702

They probably didn't want the competition anymore because I don't think the Weather Channel has learned a damn thing about how to run a clean website since acquiring Wunderground. On the plus side, it appears they have left Wunderground to do their own thing and not interfere.
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Well, according to their Privacy Policy you can just shoot them an e-mail:

> You may contact us as follows: support@flymaids.com.com

Oh wait....

[Bonus points for saying they are incorporated in Delaware who has no record of a business by that name.]

*Edit- See below, I searched the company name on the Delaware website two different ways and they certainly do not have an active registration or even a name reservation.
I don't know if you need to make whitespace any more significant in Go than it already is to implement 6. As you may know, Go inserts semicolons at the end of a line in the lexing phase if a token of the right type is the last one on the line (https://golang.org/ref/spec#Semicolons):

> • an identifier

> • an integer, floating-point, imaginary, rune, or string literal

> • one of the keywords break, continue, fallthrough, or return

> • one of the operators and delimiters ++, --, ), ], or }

The things you can put as elements of a slice, values of a map, or values in a struct literal are Expressions nonterminal symbols (https://golang.org/ref/spec#Expression). As far as I can tell, the tokens that can end an Expression are a subset of those after which semicolons can be automatically inserted.
What is liberty if not the absence of restrictions on your choices. Clearly, the repercussions described might heavily impact your liberty in that sense.

(For that matter, even prisoners have some liberties...)
"Shit on JSON all you want, but I'll take a populated native object and a blinking cursor over FTP'd text files any day."

I'm not sure this particular hill is worth dying for. Remember, text was the universal transport long before JSON was (and probably will be long after).
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The same blimp was just ominously featured in one of the weekly shorts published by the Intercept (the site Greenwald, Poitras, et al. are at and publishing Snowden's leaks). The short is called "The Above" [1], by Kirsten Johnson. It could pass as a great an intro to a dystopian sci-fi movie a la 'District 9'.

[1] https://theintercept.com/fieldofvision/the-above
I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall a semi indie Chinese movie a out a protagonist who happens to work for one of these kinds of shops which make art for foreign markets. It was a while ago, so don't recall title, etc.
> I would think that being able to package the passing of audits would be a service by now.

Most of the software out there for this is crap. It is a big job though, mainly dealing with driver logs.
This appears to be very plausible.

Googling "Fly Maids, Inc" shows their terms and privacy pages w/last modified dates of 2013 and 2014 respectively.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fly+Maids,+Inc%22
A lot of older tech companies used to, but pensions are gone now.

For IBM, any accrued pension remains in a managed fund until you quit/retire. Most employees had a 401k option at the same time as a pension - you pay 6% of your salary into it and the company matches half that, another 3%.

If you didn't make the pension cutoff, IBM now matches the 6% plus some more depending on what date you started. I think it comes out to something like 14% of base pay for most employees. In a 401k, the individual has much more control over investment direction, whereas with a pension you had none.
Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out
What’s the worst thing a VC has ever said to you when you were fundraising?
Every startup is incorporated in Delaware, not always as the name they call themselves.
> I hate this trope. There are thousands of professions out there, and most of them involve some kind of specialized knowledge/ability/skill. Do you really expect the head of your organization, the person least likely to have time to do independent work, to be the one with mastery of all the activities in the organization?

Agreed. How would you even run a small town according to this "logic"? You would need to be a professional in many different fields. That's why you have advisers for, and that's why a good manager will listen to the people he is managing.
as someone mentioned in the blog comment, Fly Maids site is a complete copy (with redesigned homepage) of another cleaning service http://www.homeaglow.com/

@johnsalzarulo out of curiosity, try if your login works on homeaglow.com

f.e.: both logos are served from the same S3 bucket:
https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/fly_maids.png
https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/logos/homeaglow.png
> This dehumanizing confusion of supplier with the resource they supply seems to only happen with labor.

I have a hard time fathoming how it is dehumanizing to suggest that labour from one person is not the same as labour from another.
Your state DOT truck enforcement division very much cares about things like this and it's likely that they've tried to get rules changed or legislation passed on exactly these issues.

Frankly there are much scarier issues to deal with, such as trucks losing their load, tire quality, "running the scales", etc...
Originally, there was going to be a station partway through the tunnel. It would've been 800 meters underground - the deepest in the world. It was scrapped as uneconomical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Alpina
Username checks out.
You mean, contacting the authors directly?
Twitter now lets 68M Indonesias buy data, minutes, and SMS packages via DM
At least on Instapainting.com, 99% of people order their own photos of themselves, family, pets, etc. We almost never get reproduction orders, probably because reproductions can be mass-produced and be cheaper than something custom.
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What does that even mean?

At root, women are substantially absent from the most lucrative levels of the workforce. Something should be done about it, or we just have to admit we don't care that women are marginalized in our society. All the moaning about how no solution is pure enough in some ivory tower way, is beside the point.
And what if there's a young software engineering student who's inspired by this talk and decides to keep studying against her preconceived notions that this is a "field for men"?

Hosting more women speakers at conferences helps to fix the broken stereotype of software engineers all being white dudes, which in turns fixes the problem of fewer women and minorities becoming interested in STEM.
> Having all this info already stored comes off as way more creepy than convenient as evidenced by the author of the article.

If you're used to thinking about this from our side of things, sure. For Random Person, they might think, "gee, this is neat! And they've already got my card number and everything!"
Everything is a straw man for you.

Muslims are the highest offenders for terrorism - should we treat them different?

How about this - it is very radical and might be hard for someone like you to handle.....

How about we allow companies to hire people by merit.

I apologise if it is a horrible thing to hear for authoritarian, "diversity officer" supporting, communists.
Yep, exactly right.
I think you have an odd idea what is problematic. How does the number of people dying from drunken balcony jumping compare to the number of people dying from long term excessive alcohol consumption?
So since we're making progress towards sexual equality, your suggestion is to introduce some sexual discrimination to the mix?

Also, your local Engineering college is not representative of the country as a whole. Even if equality of opportunity is picking up steam, that doesn't excuse implementing blatantly sexist policies to try to give women an extra boost...

It's like people think that women are less capable of success by virtue of being women, and need men's help to pull themselves upward. It's asinine and basically infantilizes women...
Link is here for the lazy: https://twitter.com/droosien/status/659439312317059074
This is what enables the idiom "foo, err := DoSomething()" where err is declared previously.

Without the mixed declaration/redeclaration you'd have to either declare a different error variable every time in the block, or explicitly declare your result variable:

foo1, err1 := DoSomething()
foo2, err2 := DoSomething2()
// or
var Foo foo
var err error
foo, err = DoSomething()
foo, err = DoSomething2()
Hey, I'm one of the founders of the project. Thank you so much for your kind words, means so much to us! Free hosting would be amazing if anyone has a hook up please let me know. charley@crackandcider.com
i've been using fat arrows for function definitions in es6, and haven't had a problem. I think the confusion in your code has more to do with poor code than fat arrows.
We'll just see if future new buyers feel the same way regarding their ethics surrounding abiding to emissions regulations.

So far, it would seem people are forgiving them, but that may or may not change depending on findings regarding other cheaters, if any, but, in the least, this has the potential to change consumer preference in fuels, given one is not as undirty as originally claimed.
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Except they gave me the name to look up[1]:

"In the USA/rest of the world (excluding the European Union), we are Fly Maids, Inc. (doing business as Fly Maids), a Delaware corporation with our head office at 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808."

Trust me, it isn't there. I tried both the regular lookup and just a simple name reservation in case the paperwork hadn't gone through yet. No results for either.

[1] http://www.flymaids.com/privacy
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