skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering how they fixed the problem with cleaners that take the client away and get paid directly instead of going through Homejoy platform. It's similar to Upwork I guess, where the same possibility exists, but still works. Focusing on the cleaner profile is interesting as the cleaner will only get more number of jobs done when they're realized through the platform. I don't have the details about this change from Homejoy to Homeaglow, but I would like to know :) At least the Business Insider's article didn't mention or I didn't get it.
They're pretty big on Atlassian where I work, so we're all Bamboo, Jira, HipChat, and Stash(now hosted BitBucket or something if we were up to date) and if we were to go with a hosted git solution, we'd almost certainly go with BitBucket.
Pregnancy tourism is rampant. There are businesses in L.A. that advertise it on the web, even.

There are many methods, one common one being to lie about how many weeks pregnant the woman is (note, for example, the woman who gave birth en route on a flight that had to be diverted to Alaska last October).
Is your business mobile ready?
so if i understand correctly, the model is more like the old megaupload/rapidshare/etc.....so what's new? Is it that they provide multiple ways of sharing tied to social media, compared to public/private/password protected mode of sharing for those aforementioned services?
You have to join, since they're still in alpha they let you wait - I just signed up and I'm user "#19177 in the alpha queue"
I'm not sure any such book exists, but the names that come up all the time in history of science discussions (Herbert Butterfield, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn) are a good place to start. I'd add Lorraine Daston, Roy Porter, Simon Schaffer, and Mario Biagioli to that. I unfortunately don't know anything about chemical information so I can't help you there, but the authors I mentioned are all good for general insights.
Shares of Tableau plunge 36% after company posts $41M loss in Q4
Also private repos for free.
That's a big attraction even for individuals and small groups.
Is this a joke, or just groupthink at its finest?
A remarkably well-reasoned argument. Thanks.
It cuts both ways though. A judge could easily expand the definition of what a hyperlink was beyond what is reasonable due to vagueness in the law because the "reasonable person" test takes account for the people that think changing their desktop wallpaper is "magic" performed by "computer geniuses."
Even from scratch, I considered building my own house. The cheapestimated possibly is to use cargo containers, but that requires a ton of welding and cutting. I'm curious how the designs here save on so much material. Also, having picked up wood working, I can say that wood isn't cheap.
I think he's saying that someone here illegally should be able to return to country of origin and then re-enter illegally at will, protected from repatriation. This puts a premium on entering the country by whatever means and at whatever risk.
Building "binders of lore", while usually important, is actually much easier than actually writing the final product, and it's really not analogous to a spec (that would be your detailed outline). Background material is fun and feels productive, but can easily lead you around your goal rather than toward it. Maybe you operate differently, but as someone with a tendency to build worlds rather than plots, that part made perfect sense to me.
That's OK if it's a frivolous item like an Xbox but for something essential you may not have a choice.
Huh? Apple devs use Apple dev tools, and they are still terrible.

Like it or not, but MS tends to be very good with productivity software, be it Word, Excel, or Visual Studio.
Here is the example from @odersky et al http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/215280/files/paper.pdf showing the utility of path dependent types extracted as a gist.

https://gist.github.com/arnolddevos/09e5f51ce1436f590c7d

To this I added a comparison using type parameters instead.
"simple solution" - simple to propose, certainly. Many have conjectured about a third-party (non-core developers) who might take on a 2.8. Any takers? No.

"self proclaimed benevolent dictator for life" - As a bit of minutia, it was Ken Manheimer who proclaimed him thus. This is a minor point, of course.

"a 4.0 which works with 2.7 or a 2.8 that works with 3.x. If not, a fork will happen." - I look forward to a solution to enable chained exceptions and asyncio to work under a 2.x environment with a __future__ flag. I wonder who will pay for the hard work.
Does anyone other than slimy recruiters actually use LinkedIn?

Actually curious - I've never had any interactions through the site other than randos endorsing me for things I know nothing about, and code-sausage-machine consultants and recruiters sending me emails about positions that don't match anything in my profile. But it must have somebody out there that uses it, if they're pulling in 3.6 billion in revenue.
I can't see how "NHS can't afford to pay it's (sic) doctors rockstar wages" follows from "it is arguably the most efficient healthcare system on the planet". Why are these mutually exclusive?
[shrug] It sounds like you're simply an extrovert, in a field dominated by introverts. Who keeps referencing gender, to subtly imply being less bigoted. Rather than simply an extrovert.

I've spent time in small startups and large enterprises myself. An introvert, who chose to work in a sales-oriented Fortune 500 environment, could often write a very similar rant in reverse. Not only referencing plenty of sexism, but adding in a lot more racism and homophobia hints to boot.

Sorry your last gig wasn't a fit. Glad your new one is. Don't paint with too broad a brush.
Can you spare an invite please?
"The company has reportedly always been cash-flow positive ..."

That's a nice crisis to have.
Doesn't Ubuntu Mobile do this? Though I suppose it's app environment on the mobile side of things leaves much to be desired.
It reminds me of Veridian Dynamics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_bPobs8T5w
This is one of the most cringeworthy things I've seen in a while. I wonder how much they ended up spending on this...
You could try asking this on reddit, in particular /r/askhistorians.

One of my favorite subs, and they provide great answers to similar questions on a regular basis.

Their related FAQ answer on historiography books may be helpful too- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/historiogr...

Edit- also related, a topic on making a history of science reading list. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zahv0/meta_h...
> What's a practical use for these things?

While it doesn't seem aimed at this market: there are a gigantic amount of people in developing countries that have a smartphone, and no computer. It is their computer. Peripherals are available, but computers themselves are far too expensive, this idea works with the concept of "smartphone as your primary computing environment".
Regular compute-heavy desktop/server software is generally unsuited to mobile execution. Power efficiency and are speed greatly improved by offloading to GPUs. If one of these projects does take off at some point, I wouldn't be surprised to see a greater portion of the FOSS software stack being adapted for GPU-based execution.
This is just some feedback on the availability form--

It's uncomfortable to have to give you my email on it, and it becomes irritating to only be told there are no service providers in my area. I'm not sure why you're collecting it there, care to illuminate that for me? Or at least reassure me I won't be spammed?

I'm genuinely interested in your service for a multitude of reasons... So please, see this as an attempt at constructive feedback/questioning.

Also, the form doesn't remember your choice for flexibility. It'd be a nicer experience if it did.
homejoy taught me that honestly, it's much less trouble to just clean my own damn apartment.

laundry, on the other hand, i will gladly outsource.

edit: only because i don't have in-unit laundry.
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You can utilize bitcoin escrow services.

Taking a look at the first service I found [1], the fees, the friction and the short period you can claim a refund within, make it seem like quite an inferior experience to using a credit card.

[1] http://safepaybtc.com/
Apple's primary tax havens are overseas, with Ireland being a key one (Apple pioneered the so-called "Double Irish" dodge, laundering profits through Ireland incentives twice.)
Is this closed source?
> In our implementation, at each step each person sends a bitwise ORed hash value to all his friends.

I didn't follow how ORing the hash is supposed to work or what it is meant to do. Anyone know?
> there is still no way to search commits

Just an FYI. I've implemented commits search among other things for GitHub. You can learn more about it here:

http://gitsense.github.io/

Note the latest GitSense version doesn't include branch level code searching. I'm still testing this out, and I'll be releasing another GitSense update very soon, which also includes support for BitBucket.

And sometime next week, I'm going to start looking for beta testers for my indexing engine, which is what makes all of this possible. If you have 10,000 or less commits in your repository, you'll be able to install and use the indexing engine for free. However the free version won't include diff indexing, as that greatly increases the number of moving parts.
Personally I think the major problem with capitalism is it ignores sustainability and assumes there is always an unlimited potential for growth when in reality we live on a planet of finite resources. Growth isn't a bad thing but unsustainable growth is. When the system is geared around maximizing profits it leads to a drive to dig up more, consume more and emit more at the lowest cost and damn the consequences.

Thus you get things like Sweatshops, Ok Tedi disaster etc.

Without regulation there's a good chance we'd still not have catalytic converters, we'd still be living with CFCs, Asbestos and DDT. I'm sure you can think of a dozen other examples the market has repeatedly shown it is not capable of regulating itself.
Problem is figuring out which behaviors, and which foods not to eat.
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ISIS is a revolution
Right, there's no chance of that being impractical or harmful to the child.
Yes! Me too! I am extremely excited about this. I especially love the "All Patterns" menu that lists different types of components: popups, pagination, CTAs, etc.
"The Court itself is composed of 27 judges, one from each member state. Only ten of the current judges (that’s 37 per cent) have served in a domestic appellate court or above within their member state." (2012) -- http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2012/03/07/european-court-...
It reminds me of something food startup Hampton Creek did when VCs and reporters came to visit- they would have their scientists fire up dry ice machines and do fake "cool looking experiments" for no purpose other than to look impressive:

> When investors, clients, or media visited the company, some scientists would be asked to run experiments on cool-looking machines or use liquid nitrogen to dramatic effect — even if it had nothing to do with their work, a former employee says.

> It was all to create an appearance of a hardworking lab, even though it distracted from the actual research that needed to be done, former employees said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hampton-creek-ceo-complaints-...
It is 2 weeks old, but that's also the latest tagged release on github, so it's not out of date. I'm not seeing how to actually get KBFS on linux today.
He was saying that being married to a US citizen should not enable a person to enter the US legally. (He said "sleeping with", but in fact the US does not generally grant dependant visas to unmarried partners.)
That's scary
Gotcha! I've done some basic 2D simulations of blood vessels using COMSOL, but those only took minutes to run. This must have required some beefy hardware or some really good code. It's really quite amazing how well simulations can match reality.
How are you supposed to say this? "Ho me ah glow"? "Home ah glow"? What a weird name choice.
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Once your application is completely functional, you email them (lol) and then they go through contract negotiation and application/security/etc. review where you get your terms.
As a child, you get wet and when you are done, someone changes you: an adult. There is no downside. As an adult, you get wet and you know someone has to change you: you. If you don't change into dry, warm clothes, then you know you will get sick. In light of that, you learn that it might just be more convenient to stay dry. That trumps and drowns out the temporary joy.
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I hope they don't. Really they shouldn't be exposing the BIN of the actual card number at all, they should be exposing a token. Your payment card number shouldn't be used to make decisions about your credit worthiness or profile you.
https://developer.visa.com/images/cybersource.png

https://developer.visa.com/products/cybersource/reference#cy...

Ugh. Using this means that your application is in scope for PCI controls, since card data will be transmitted across your network into your application.

One of the reasons that Braintree and Stripe, for example, are so popular is because of the tokenization that they do prior to sending the card data to your systems, thereby putting your application out of scope for PCI.

If Visa added that one detail, this would be a fantastic solution.
It's better to link to the page of the language, or to a good tutorial.

My first question is: What makes this language different from all the other languages? (Something more specific than great.)

I'll copy partially a comment by Matthew Butterick in the Racket mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/racket-users/oS_D2OHuF...

It can provide some ideas:

>> So, what is the best way [to promote Racket]?

> Here's one good way to promote the language:

> 1) Make something impressive with Racket.

> 2) When someone asks "how did you make that?" give Racket all the credit.

> Don't cut corners in step (1).

Do you know an interesting project made in Kotlin?
I've never worked for a company with a sales organization that had a blatant disregard for what we could do, but everywhere I've ever worked there was usually a promise of something that we couldn't quite do out of the box, or a level of speed that wasn't normal. A perfect example would be integration to SSO systems like PingFederate or Tivoli, et al. Maybe the prospective customer needed a certain type of report that wasn't already built in. In the early days it was supporting a different application server than we'd typically been deploying to.

They weren't promising Ferarris when we were building Maseratis, but they were definitely throwing in the undercoating and floor mats. Even now when I'm building and selling my own software products I do it. I literally do it to myself. In the end it helps evolve the product if you make a responsible claim you can get to.
Promises vs. Eventual Values
Ask HN: Help explaining technical project to execs
I was hired to complete a project by the CEO of a services company.

The project was to implement CRM and Reporting for the CEO and Headquarters staff gain visibility into the day to day operations of their sales staff.

They wanted metrics including some activities, revenue and other stats.

They have 10+ different locations.

The plan I put forth was CRM Instance for each site with roll up reporting via a BI/Reporting Solution.

The CEO approved the plan, and I began working on it, but the rest of the executive team (COO, CFO, etc.) keep blocking the plan by refusing to pay for individual project pieces or engaging in other projects that are redundant to plans that are already included in my project.

I have presented in front of the group 4 times in the last nine months (a month after hiring, once in October, before the company strategic planning meeting and again during the strategic planning meeting). After each meeting, the CEO requested the documents from me so he could share and discuss with the executive committee.

The CEO asked again to present the plan to the committee to address “concerns from fully understanding the total strategy”, there are a lot of “moving parts” and need another briefing to better “understand each piece and expense better”. When I asked him if he shared the documents with the executive committee, he asked me to resend it to them.

Now, I believe the project is now setup to fail. Is there any salvaging this? What is the best way to present the plan to the various members with little technical experience?
Do I need an invite for the kbfs part if I already have a keybase account?
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It's indeed a very valid point, but they are already making a huge progress and few people noticed the abrupt change. When they launched here, it was full of negative comments, many questioning how much funding they got given that the idea 'wasn't very good', some security professionals said. Now their filesystem is making such a noise and they're getting and will get more users. It's a gamble to see if they could put the commercial layer on top of it or not. That's why funding startups is risky. The good business model may not get enough users and the absent business model may get many users and could try to monetize on top of it. It's a gamble, as usual.
In the United States at least, ™ doesn't mean "pending" per se — you can use ™ even when you have a registered mark, and marks do not need* to be registered to be valid:

> Is registration of my mark required?

> No. You can establish rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the mark.

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/register.jsp

*: Some countries operate under a first-to-file system, and unregistered trademarks may be at risk even for US-based businesses that operate internationally.

(I am not a laywer and this is not legal advice.)
Show HN: PileMd – Markdown note app, think with you
Yes, I find that interesting. Mostly just looking for the structure that might handle that, just to become more familiar with options when building apps. There's always going to be a model I haven't come across before but it useful to have on the radar.
3.) The ball of spaghetti rolls downhill, agglobulating ALL THE FEATURES, along with forty-seven hundred switches and configuration options controlling them, resulting in a combinatorial explosion of possible system states and code paths, and you end up with something that sends email, has a social feed, group chat rooms, a home-brew scripting language, some half-baked custom charting and reporting, theming and customization options, and no idea what in the hell you originally set out to build. Oh, and dashboards. People love dashboards for some reason.
> If Visa added that one detail, this would be a fantastic solution.

Agree that it's an important detail to add, but it's certainly not trivial. My understanding is that tokenization support varies from bank to bank.
This product is essentially a gateway. The same that Stripe or Braintree are gateways. They just do a much better job of abstracting the confusion that is payments.

You will still need a merchant account and a processor. A processor is the party that actually handles authorization/settlements between the issuing bank and acquiring banks.
Uber is highly regulated by the forces of market competition. Forces which are far better at protecting and serving consumers than the government.

>What is superior about purely paid drivers?

Low cost of transportation for consumers. No driver is entitled to a job. The efficient movement of goods and people are far more important than preserving jobs from being destroyed by technology that enhances the well-being of society.
That's a funny double standard you have right there with how you don't feel the need to audit GitHub before using it.
Yeah, OS X and the iPhone were new products, not just upgrades of what came before (as you say, OS X had significant limitations compared to OS 9). You didn't have to upgrade right away, but if you did, you got an entirely new experience.

Compare this to today's Apple, where upgrades add "hundreds of features" but feel mostly the same (except everything runs a bit more slowly). There's no coherent vision of what the future of the software should be like.
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I don't get why the writer is so surprised. Marketing is a dodgy industry. So many advertisements contain lies our bullshit - most often small ones, sometimes large. And it's all pushed onto an audience that is ignorant or at the very least accustomed to the barrage.
Except when you need to do a charge back because the good is defective after the first day.

Again, multisig escrow isn't new or innovative, and payments have evolved since then. Houses and shipping containers are as good at refunds as Bitcoin because they also use escrow - except their physical nature makes it harder to do infernational scams than with Bitcoin.
PSA to people asking for invites: make sure your email is in your HN profile.
Home A-glow.

Aglow is a word: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aglow
Stripe is a gateway. They communicate with processors. The processors handle authorization/settlement between the issuer and acquirer.