skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, have a VW with such visor lights, and I, too, have probably used them less than once per year in the last 7 years.

So if a friend borrowed my car and (somehow, improbably) 'broke' them somehow... I might not notice for months.

Are you sure they were working when you dropped the car at FlightCar? (Was one of the 3 times in 10 years that you used the visor-lights that same day, or was checking both part of the explicit check-in inspection?)
This article references a golang unikernel, but doesn't name it. Does anyone know what it is referencing?
Probably not.

If you want people to stay, give them a decent financial incentive.

I keep seeing this sentiment, but I think it's important to distinguish between "don't give your people worthless equity instead of a good salary" and "I'm just here for the money." Starting to see a lot of the latter around here and it's disheartening. Sure, broken dreams and failed visions and all of that happens, but it's part of the process when you try to do "big" things. Widespread cynicism will kill high-tech.
Build mining robots. Those robots can mine olivine, crush the rocks, and spread it all over the oceans. We can offset all human CO2 emissions with this method.
For starters it's not dead because of the content, view the history/google.

But second it's off topic anyway, if somehow it is on topic it would need to be explained better.
One day in the future, Samy (the creator of this) will stop being the coolest person on the internet, but today isn't that day. Previous projects include:

The Samy MySpace worm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_%28computer_worm%29

EverCookies: http://samy.pl/evercookie/

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

And so much more... http://samy.pl/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_Kamkar
I use this to run/test locally, and then deploy. I also upload binaries, so do use the AWS upload but it's quick via a script within the deploy helpers.

https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda
Corporate, it will buy you options by being in your resume. I am not advocating that this will make you rich or happy.

A big plus is understanding corporate culture, as it permeates everywhere with it's long reaching tentacles.

I am not saying this is your future, just an extra "certificate" of sorts. Plus corporate is like a club, once you join it, moving to other corps is a lot easier. In my experience at least.
I will never forget the comment a disgruntled former Flightcar employee left on my rant I posted about Flightcar.

I am a current flightcar employee so I will be anonymous.

I read your post and listened to your recordings and I will do my best to break down whats going on a flightcar.

I am sorry to hear your experience...

Do not use flightcar or recommend flightcar to any one.

The CEO is a 20 year old kid and only interested in making money.

He moved the customer support to Philippines because he can get someone for like 10-12$ an hr. Great idea.. right? Let's connect the customers who are loaning flightcar a 30-40k car to someone in Philippines who does not understand english or even knows what a floor mat is.

Check out this post on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/3...

An email sent by an angry coworker - http://imgur.com/eGhDhXM

Yelp reviews - http://www.yelp.com/biz/flightcar-south-san-fra...

Glassdoor reviews - http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/FlightCar-Revi...

The current working conditions are so shitty that my whole team hates our jobs. And it is not just you, my team and I are badgered by angry customers and we are just done and give 0 fucks to the customers. If your email is the spam in zendesk, it means that one of the philippines reps didnot want to respond to you and marked the email as spam so that the email disappears from their inbox.

SOOO what can you do?
- Post your review to reddit, yelp, facebook and twitter so no other customers go through this.
- Here is the CEOs number, you can try to call him - 609-529-8346

I have a few interviews so I don't care if flightcar shuts down, I will be leaving this hell hole very soon anyway.

You seem like a good guy, good luck and please read all the reviews before participating in a shared economy in the future.

From: http://watilo.com/open-letter-to-flightcar
Click the "Web" hyperlink under the title of the post. It saves you going to google and typing in the name of the article.
> Still searching for an Rdio substitute though...

After the news about Rdio, I have started to search for a replacement. So far I have tried Spotify, Deezer and Google Play Music.

With respect to the web player, I felt that Google's service is closer to Rdio in listening experience than others. It has a clean interface, search works well, and curated-radio is very good. On the other hand, Spotify desktop app on Linux is OK and would be a good replacement to Rdio web player, but I have not tried any mobile app yet.
There's a strong cult of personality around our industry, in general. The belief that a special CEO can make a billion dollar company. It ignores the role of luck, the other employees (sometimes there are thousands of employees, as in the case of Yahoo!, and every single one of them can make or break the company in small ways every day), changes in the market, etc.

Steve Jobs is the epitome of the Magic CEO archetype, in this school of thought, and yet, he founded expensive failures, too, and almost rode Apple into the ground, to boot.

There are so many variables that it seems harmful to the industry and the world as a whole to place so much value and so much blame on CEOs when things go right or wrong.

All that said, I'd like to see an experiment where a CEO steps in, cuts C-level salaries dramatically (taking the hit from people leaving who care more about the million dollar bonus than the company itself), including their own, and re-directing that money to higher wages for employees and deeper, further ranging, research and development. Kinda replicate the history of HP, in reverse: Start with high executive salaries, awful outdated products, and defeated company morale, and start building a culture that looks toward the future, takes care of everyone in the company (before C-levels get bonuses) and treats them all with respect from top to bottom, and build products that define the market not follow it.

But, I've never built or run a billion dollar company. I might be an idiot that no one should ever listen to.
Where Is the Roommate Capital of the United States?
The whole "sharing economy" fad preys on people who don't properly understand risk. When the cost of risk is factored in you get the price before the market disruption.
It's not that short. If he's trying to rile up internet anger against Flightcar he needs to be forthcoming with what really happened.
Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values
There are many laws and rules we have created in the past that seek to be universally applicable. The golden rule, Kant's categorical imperative, the non-aggression principle are all attempts at this, and each one has accumulated an extensive list of exceptions and footnotes. The golden rule breaks down with masochists, the categorical imperative breaks down with increasing specificity of the action in question and the NAP flat out ignores externalities.

The world is too complex for simple rules, honourable though their intentions may be, and older attempts at this are guiltier than modern ones. The steadfastness to which America cleaves to an 18th century charter has posed significant roadblocks to establishing effective policy in the 21st century. While very readable, the Constitution is frustratingly unspecific. An enormous effort is spent in "interpreting" it in a way that can support policy, in the same way that the Bible or Koran is bent to suit the individual ideologies of their adherents.

With the right to bear arms, all that can really be agreed upon is that "arms" is something more than a butter knife and something less than nuclear ordinance. Free speech shall be guaranteed, except when it comes to advertising speech, fighting words, death threats and the list goes on. In these debates, the opinions of the framers should be only slightly more relevant than those of Plato, Hume or Rousseau, and what should dominate the debate is the actual consequences of the policy in question.
What's more, the absence of certain rights in the constitution has hindered recognition of the right to shelter, or safety, for example.

When Ruth Ginsberg was asked to recommend new founding policy for a revolutionary Egypt she said this:

"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the Constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary. … It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the U.S. Constitution."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/ginsburg-likes-...
Ladies and gentlemen, we can now present conclusive evidence that the internet has officially achieved peak-hubris.
My biggest concern with lending my car out to strangers is many insurance policies don't give the replacement value of the car if it's totaled. Typically to purchase an equal vehicle (based on year, mileage, condition), you would need to spend up to 10-20% more.

Although, I've seen a few car insurance polices offer "gap coverage" at a nice premium to make up for the difference.
The Serbian national aspirations were not initially global in scope
Apparently the two commentors so far have missed rest of the article. This isn't fuck work. This is fuck trying to find a clear delineation between work and non-work and be in the moment.

This is a variation of the life I'm working on too, but Canadian weather has a pesky way of intruding. I have a cabin somewhat in the middle of nowhere, with a convenient LTE tower across the lake. During the summer, its my favourite place to work. Get up early with the sun, make some real breakfast (bacon and eggs, usually), and go throw a ball for the dogs until they're ready for morning nap. The work day usually starts around 8 or 9, although there's the occasional 7am conference call. Work until I get hungry, make some lunch, go for a wander with the dogs for a bit. Maybe have a bit of a nap. Make supper whenever seems appropriate, sit on the beach and watch the sun go down, maybe work some more, or hang out with my partner (when she can come), and then have a fantastic sleep away from all the city noise.

It's not that it's lazy, just more relaxed. I've gone out there specifically for crunch time before. I recall one instance of 48 hours of work over 3 days, and over 70 over 5 days. It's easy, for me, to work hard when there's no human distractions. I'll text or IM, and then meet up with friends and clients when I'm back in town.

And it's not as if this is an expensive place. Built in the 50s using 5 gallon pails of concrete as a "foundation". Total around 600 sq ft. And far enough from cities to be cheap. There's a town of 1000 about 20 minutes away for gas, groceries, and cigarettes, and our home is about 2.5hr away.

edit: the Canadian part of this is that it's not winterized. Neither sufficiently insulated, nor really heated, nor a good source of water in the winter.
in general you would run it inside of xen or other hypervisor. iirc in docker the one thing you CANT change is the kernel.
How much of this gap is explained by the fact that low-income earners have to work harder and thus have both less time to interact with their children, and less money to hire other humans to interact with them?

Consider a wealthy "Leave it to Beaver" one-income family: dad works, mom stays at home and drags the tots to an endless series of carefully selected enrichment activites, maybe drops them off at a Montessori day care a few days a week.

While at the other end of the social scale, single mom works two jobs to make ends meet and is barely ever home, so kids are left with a relative who's taking care of a whole brood of children, or plunked down in front of the TV and told to keep quiet.
Technology wise this is really neat but it's very slow on my iPhone 6. I know it's targeted towards androids (at least, that's the impression I got) but it was definitely not the snappy 60 fps that was promised.
I'm sure there was some sort of bonus involved.

They're called retention bonuses. Similar to signing bonuses, you can be contractually obligated to pay them back if you don't stay for the term of the contract.

Most companies will keep retention bonuses very hush-hush.
The point of something like Halvm, the Haskell unikernel, is that can bring to bear a lot of formal methods for proving the components are secure. This sort of thing is untenable in a general purpose OS, but for specialized use case it makes a lot of sense.

Here (https://github.com/GaloisInc/haskell-tor) for instance is a Tor implementation written for HalVM. The surface area for proving this implementation is secure is dramatically smaller than the more general purpose one. That it is more efficient about resources means that you can run more nodes, which in this particular case is very important.

The author gave a talk at QCon last week, I can't seem to find video of it just now...
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted. You're viewpoint is just as sane as the guy a few comments above (grenzbegriff) who thinks a lot about what he can do, but is too busy making sure he never again needs to work a day in his life. Heart warming stuff.

As an atheist who is in the middle of listening to 90 hours of the King James bible, I think you should listen to the bible with your ears, not your heart.

If you do, you will find all sorts of bigotry, slavery, bigamy, intolerance, and stonings for women to didn't yell loud enough while they were being raped. To be clear, this is the stuff God is cool with.

In the bible God is a fickle asshole who can't make up his mind most of the time. One minute he's pissed because men want a king to reign over them, the next minute he's picking the king. One minute he's infallible, the next he's taking advice from humans. The one thing God is really, really sure about is our penis. He wants it circumcised.
According to the 2014 effective altruism survey [1], about 80% of effective altruists surveyed donate to global poverty and only about 5% donate to organizations working on AI risk.

[1] http://eahub.org/sites/effectivealtruismhub.com/files/survey...
It looks like the parent comment removed it. It would be polite to edit yours as well.
In the case of these execs, it's live by PR, die by PR.
The big risk that people probably don't consider (and this may vary from state to state) is that if someone is injured on your property or in your house, you as owner are going to get sued.

If you lend your car to someone and they are in an accident causing serious property damage or injury, you as owner are going to get sued.

You may have insurance to cover these liabilities but you may find that your rates go up, or your policies get canceled, after a significant claim.
Can anyone share the article? cp /wsj/article /hn/comments
Explosions Leave Crimea in the Dark
"According to Suraiya Faroqhi, lack of interest and religious reasons were among the reasons for the slow adoption of the printing press outside Europe: Thus, the printing of Arabic, after encountering strong opposition by Muslim legal scholars and the manuscript scribes, remained prohibited in the Ottoman empire between 1483 and 1729, initially even on penalty of death,[4][5] while some movable Arabic type printing was done by Pope Julius II (1503−1512) for distribution among Middle Eastern Christians,[6] and the oldest Qur’an printed with movable type was produced in Venice in 1537/1538 for the Ottoman market."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_...)
Beijing's Sanyuan Bridge Retrofitted Within 43 Hours
Author is slyly redefining "what's worked" to "what's widely used".
"The Docker daemon was explicitly designed to have exclusive access to /var/lib/docker. Nothing else should touch, poke, or tickle any of the Docker files hidden there."

Distributed filesystems constantly comes up as the answer to this across many Docker nodes wanting to find hacks to multiplex images easier across docker nodes.

Does this answer particular to NFS from Jérôme in 07/14 still ring true?
Here is a better answer: "Yes, you can put the images and containers on NFS; but if you want to share that NFS storage with other Docker Engines, there are some restrictions."

Here are the caveats:
- only one engine may pull images (otherwise, you can have conflicts);
- other engines have to be restarted to "see" new images;
- when you restart an engine, it will detect the containers executed by others.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/docker-dev/02R6VUX7BXU/JUDfU...
http://lsub.org/export/clivesys.pdf clive is the golang one. It's not focused on actually running golang programs. It's acutally more of a research project by some academics who are looking into replacing unix style ipc with golang style channels (because they can return an error). I was unable to get any response from them depsite trying several different contacts. I also couldn't get their system to actually compile even though I tried several different targets.
The problem with Elastic IP, from my understanding, was that I often need to spin up say a dozen instances for a short period of time, but otherwise don't need the IPs, so it seemed it would end up costing to have those all available but only temporarily in use...though adding up the cost, it'd only be $45 a month (12 * 0.005 * 24 * 30) so perhaps that's not a big deal.
If there's so much bias perhaps you could begin by identifying some, much less 'unpacking' any of it. Though it's not clear what you mean by 'bias' -- the way you use it it seems like a generic word for "things you don't like".

Nobody claimed we are brainwashed sheep most of all me -- the claim is that quality of life is reduced, and you suggest it's in exchange for an increase in consumer goods that we want. I respond that we don't actually want these goods; our recent ancestors did not want them, the desire has been manufactured by a well-paid hard-working team of expert psychologists. So we are not now meeting a desire that existed; a desire has been manufactured and then met. So when you compare our circumstances to that of the past you must consider the fact that advertisers had not become yet sophisticated enough to force us to want things we do not truly want, so our wants were different; driven by life, not driven by profit.

If you'd like to pretend you don't understand the difference between "having a happy life, supporting a family and taking care of yourself and those close to you" and "having expensive toys" then you are free to do so, just don't ask me to indulge your absurdity by pretending it's reasonable.
Actually, contractually that gets really interesting.

Basically, for a contract to be valid both sides have to give something, this is referred to as "consideration".

Now, normally, with work-related contracts the consideration is "continuing to employ you", but with senior mgmt (golden parachutes, stock options, etc) I bet the waters are murky.
It's not enforceable. In the US, you can't enforce an employment contract if it involves forcing someone to work for you. This was partially legislated as a legal defense against indentured servitude.
Fascinating stuff. I wonder if anyone's done some searching in those archives for interesting or funny tidbits.
The last time I used them was earlier this year, around February. I opened the visor before and after the trip (but not slid out the visor lights), to put a garage clicker on it. The light was definitely not open.
Sometimes, well it actually happens quite often, a company just runs its course and is better off just winding things up and closing shop.

IMHO it looks like the likely end game for Yahoo is:

- taken private by a Private Equity firm

- divest Yahoo Japan and Alibaba

- any divisions that aren't making an actual profit, (tumblr, flickr, fantasy sports, etc, will be shopped around and sold if possible, or shuttered if not possible.

- search, email and the yahoo front page will be sold to Microsoft

Yahoo has done everything by the MBA book to turn around the company, they are at the step of brining in Mckinsley consultants, never a terribly good sign.

Sometimes, time just passes a company by and you can't do much to turn it around, its not the leadership's fault or the engineers fault. The market just says the company is no longer needed.

This doesn't mean the company is un profitable. Corel was a company in the early 2000's that went this route. A company can circle the drain, making slightly less and less profit each year, slowly laying off people which causes them to miss their next quarter, which necessitates more layoffs and the circle continues until someone buys them out.

I think this is the likely fate of Yahoo.

The next step is to engage an investment bank to find them a takeover partner if Silver Lake doesn't want to be the one to take them private.

What other possible route is there?

They've brought in 4-5 CEO's each with their own vision of what yahoo should be and all of them has failed to turn the company around.

What is Yahoo's area of expertise that they make money at and can do better that Google, Microsoft, Facebook or Amazon?
I've almost always rented from individuals, and only real hard-asses in extremely tight rental markets (Bay Area?) will do a background check. Most will just interview you and, if you seem stable, take a deposit and give you a set of keys. It's not like you can run off with their apartment, and landlords are generally pretty good at getting a sense of how people will treat their property.
If you wait a few more years for the industry to develop its narrative legs, I think you'll really enjoy playing Escape Room Games (ERGs). Very few have any semblance of story at this point, but it's absolutely a topic of discussion amongst ERG designers. For my own part, I'm busy building a platform/operating system for ERGs that is essentially a version of Z-machine that interacts with hardware and handles multiple players (readers) simultaneously. All going well, in the future it will power a lot of ERGs by better storytellers than myself.
Exactly this. A rental car is prime for abuse. Recently my car needed body work after being hit in a parking lot. The bodyshop/dealership gave me a brand new Buick, 1200 miles on it, while they worked on my car. The guy said its still considered a new car up to 6 or 8 thousand miles (I cant remember which..). But all I did to that car was floor it and try to abuse it as much as possible. As shitty as it is to say, its fun to drive a car that you have no responsibility for.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Yahoo+CEO+Marissa+Mayer+Face...
Has anyone using Lambda gotten Amazon to substantially increase the limits on concurrent jobs? We asked for 10k and they gave us 1k. The article posted in this thread and other sites use words like "limitless" and "massive," but 1k concurrent requests is ... tiny. We're hesitant to keep building around this architecture because of the limit.
They employ a clever 3-step hashing algorithm, though:

1. Truncate user's password to 8 characters
2. Uppercase the entire thing
3. Convert to EBCDIC
The morale problem is a symptom of bad leadership. It's not going to be fixed with more bad leadership.
Has Yahoo! stopped the lay-offs?
Shhhh! You'll burst the bubble.