skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some small fraction of that, actually. Drivers were willing to work for that amount of money, and customers were willing to pay. If you mandated that they be paid something on top of that, the buyers can compensate buy paying less for the "base". Since the drivers were happy with the previous take-home, they'll be happy with the new "minus base plus mandated benefits".

This is the problem with people casually suggesting that workers would be better off with mandated benefit x, y, or z. As long as Uber can still cut their portion, it can even out. (Or worse, if workers value the benefit less than the equivalent cash.)

See the concept of tax incidence: just because someone is charged more, doesn't mean any specific factor has a different take-home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
Are you talking about the doorhanger that appears when you try to install the add-on?

Firefox always shows a warning doorhanger if an add-on is installed from a website other than addons.mozilla.org.

What you're seeing is a Mozilla web property following the same rules as every other website. Nothing to worry about.
>This guy wrote everything you could possibly think of in TCL.
>That company is powering a ton of enterprise grade e-commerce web sites.

During the dot-com boom (late 1990s through early 2000s) there was this company called Vignette which was using Tcl on the server for e-commerce, IIRC. They had a product in Tcl, which could be customized for various e-commerce apps, I think. Probably the USP was RAD, Tcl being a scripting language.

Also I read about AOL using AOLServer which was written in Tcl.
>By the way, can drivers choose their rate?

No
I've had a similar experience at a start up I once worked at.

We hired our first network administrator to replace developers like me who had been doing the same sort of job.

The day that he started the job, we received an email that someone using our gateway IP address had posted to Usenet [this was a while back] the IP and root password of some other company's public webserver, with a message to the effect that people should "f--- it up". The email also stated that the root password seemed to work, and we verified that.

We quickly worked out that the server was our new employee's previous workplace, and we sacked him and walked him out on the spot. He didn't receive any pay or benefits. We also documented everything on paper in case there was some legal problem (which didn't happen, of course, but you never know with some people).

So my advice is:

* Document everything. On real, physical paper. Sign and date each page.

* Fire them, now.
With the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine how can Facebook be held accountable for anything? I'm not defending Facebook's alleged actions, I'm asking how could those alleged actions be in violation of federal law?
Would YOU Fire This Person? Follow along with a real team problem child
Hey there!

Our wiki has a list of bug trackers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot#Found_a_bug.3F

You can also talk with us in #testpilot on Mozilla IRC.
If that is the case, would you, not knowing the meaning of a word, use that word in a professional environment? And also, does not understanding the meaning of the word excuse it's use?
Using Redis GEO and Google Maps to Find Nearest US Cities
White screen in Chrome 43: TypeError: Array.from is not a function
You seem pretty informed on this. I'm still an investing novice, but hoping you can give some insight here...

Does the practice described in this article and what you are discussing ultimately have a negative impact on Joe Investor who is taking the Bogleheads approach and sitting on several index funds, dollar-cost averaging his contributions, and occasionally rebalancing (but ultimately following a "buy and hold" approach)?

Could the outcome of this come back to hurt the Joe Investors of the world?
Timothy Gowers (Fields Medalist and open publishing advocate) just wrote a blog post about this: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/the-l-functions-and-...
Apart from the "you're a mom I'd like to " comment...

Once you break apart the acronym its pretty clear you should fire this guy.
Not criticizing or anything, just curious:
What is the difference/advantage with respect to Wikipedia or Wolfram Mathworld?
Why don't use freemium model?
Yes, but that's just the highest scores -- which is a very noisy measurement given that it depends on how many people read the threads in question.
The type systems in modern languages like Swift, Rust, Scala, Haskell, and even Kotlin go way beyond classical Hindley-Milner. Classical Hindley-Milner gives you parametric polymorphism over algebraic data types, along with an inference algorithm. No subtyping, no casts, no coercions, no overloading, no polymorphic literals, no interfaces. You basically get SML.

Consider that in 2006, MPTCs with fundeps was the preferred way to represent "a collection of items that can be compared via equality" [1]. Associated types were a vague research idea [2] that showed a lot of promise, but hadn't been implemented in any language with type inference (they did exist in C++ templates, but C++ isn't exactly what people think of when you say "modern type system"). Now both Rust and Swift feature polished implementations of associated types and use them pervasively in the standard library.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Advanced_type_classes#...

[2] https://prime.haskell.org/wiki/AssociatedTypes
Well, that's a nice story, but I don't see how an attempt at intentional malicious sabotage of their previous employer is "similar" to this.
Excellent suggestions, thanks!

We're looking at renting a house at the Ithaca Eco Community to help the kids with socialization and to continue the intent to let the kids open the door and just go out and play with friends in nature. One of the other benefits is that there are lots of other residents that grow food and they let you set aside land to grow your own stuff.

We're not really hunters, but it's never too late to learn. We'll get a freezer and probably try to find a local hunter willing to let me pay for processing in exchange for half of the meat.

Excellent suggestion about the Mennonites. Our goal is to buy some land within 10 minutes of town and build a small cabin during our first year. Then we'll use that as a stepping stone to build a real home over a few more years, depending on disposable income. We don't like financing things.
When you work for an intelligence agency, federal law enforcement, customs/immigration or something like that (or a private sector contractor for them), and the topic of discussion is the MILF?

the MILF is a violent organization that has been known to cut off peoples' heads...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Islamic_Liberation_Front
Introspection Illusion
The Chiemgauer
Feel free to ping me (email in profile) if you have any questions, want to chat, or need advice.
I see where you're coming from but I think you're being too harsh. I don't know Moxie personally, but he's been out there fighting the good fight since the '90s - I have a vague and possibly erroneous memory of having encountered him on the old cypherpunks list, back during the dawn of time. While I have had a frustrating experience with Signal, I have nothing but respect for Moxie's skill and his commitment to secure, private communication. Engineering is hard, everything is a tradeoff; I'm certain that nobody involved with Signal has any intention whatsoever of trying to sell us out to Google. They're undoubtedly looking at a complicated problem and trying to do a good job with it. It just happens that their particular choices aren't working for me.
Today I accept that Rails is yesterday's software
> If I don't trust Signal to host my communication reliably, I want to pick my own provider... whilst still being able to talk to other Signal users.

I couldn't agree more. And it's not just a matter of trusting the host. It's a matter of trusting and liking the clients. If e-mail were hotmail only, I'd hate it. But it's not. E-mail is thousands of clients on dozens of operating systems, which can all talk to each other. Signal, hah, it doesn't even work on my phone, and there aren't even dozens of phone operating systems out there.
Disney Shuts Down Infinity
Show HN: Npm-as – Run any npm command as a specific user
Like OK, Laser, Pin, Id.

There are also words like 'posh' which have claimed acronym origins (although they are probably incorrect). http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.php

And according to the Oxford dictionary the particular word in question counts too.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_englis...
Likewise can anyone compare against Druid? So many options, yet it's hard to bet your product/service on a stack...
He died a couple of months ago, and was extensively discussed back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234008
Not knowing enough English slang to know what it stands for? I wrote sth similar elsewhere in this thread, I guess to many milf means sexy 30+ yrs old female.
Author here. Questions/comments/feedback are very much appreciated! AMA
Sidecar did that - I tried it once after the Uber driver complained I wasn't using Sidecar for 15 minutes. All the rides were too expensive, so I didn't take any of them. And now they're out of business.
People talk about Zookeeper as a negative, but in a quorum it's been one of the most stable and reliable pieces of software I've deployed, despite being a bit frustrating to set up / configure. Netflix's Exhibitor[1] is an indispensable addition to it.

Also, once you're on the Big Data™ train, a lot of things like to plug into Zookeeper, so it becomes more of a convenience.

Kafka, and presumably DL, are at their most useful when you're pushing the limits of NIC and/or HDD performance for throughput. Zookeeper's configuration is a footnote in the complexity of managing one of these systems, and lets them avoid implementing their own byzantine coordination system. Also, folks seem to appreciate Aphyr's opinion, and he states it pretty plainly: Use Zookeeper. It’s mature, well-designed, and battle-tested. [2]

[1] https://github.com/Netflix/exhibitor

[2] https://aphyr.com/posts/291-jepsen-zookeeper
Also, has this senator asked the same of CNN/MSNBC/Fox/etc?
Of course it has its own semantics. I've seen the idea of "the 'C' virtual machine". You got a running start on the differences it has from most assemblers ( each of which will have semantic differences from each other ).

I think his point that "The idea of stack frames, heaps, registers, pointers are completely foreign to them..." is the critical point.
That's a great list. Some of these specific features I've considered building as an extension from a reader perspective. Especially for dealing with deeply nested comments, and "find the top HN discussion if any for this URL that I'm currently on".

And you can compile that Lisp to JavaScript to build the Chrome extension?
/r/politics hates Clinton. You're thinking of /r/HillaryClinton. You won't find anything negative towards Hillary there; just try saying anything negative and see how fast you get banned. /r/politics is dominated by Bernie supporters, which isn't too surprising considering the demographics of the site. Bernie (similar to Obama in '08, but even more so) is absolutely the favorite of the under-30 crowd by a gigantic margin, so it makes sense that a site (and sub-forum) dominated by young people will be a Bernie echo chamber. Now of course, there are people who aren't Bernie fans, so they've gone and made their own subreddits like /r/HillaryClinton and /r/the_donald, but those don't have nearly the number of subscribers as /r/politics.
Sorry, but the person's gotta go. Get your lawyer on the phone, get the documentation ducks in a row, then let the axe fall. If you let the harassed employee know before hand is up to you, but I probably would a day or so before so they could prepare, change their phone number or something if they wanted, etc.
For whatever reason the Elixir community doesn't seem to really strongly point people at dialyzer, but what you want is dialyzer, and yes you can use it with Elixir.
Inflation has arguably been low since ~1983.

(low interest rates have been a policy after recessions but haven't really lead to long periods of inflation like occurred in the 1970s)
FreshGrade raises 11.6M Series A
Northern and eastern African states are rapidly adopting Islam and it's merging with state policy. Also Malaysia and a lesser extent Indonesia. There is definitely a trend away from separating mosque-and-state. Examples of the inverse all seem to come from before the last two decades.

Time will tell if it will have a positive impact on developing nations that currently lack strong community/political structure.

Turkey is none-the-less a curious case given their economic status and political history.
Thank you for this! I vaguely alluded to this (active debate) in my comment but I had forgotten the source. I'm going to read through this now! :)
It's wonderful that the article mentions the Duff's device. I still remember the mind-boggling effect when I first met it. It taught me many things. Once you understand it you will never make mistakes with switch/case in C anymore.
Turbo Pascal! I wrote this whole this to simulate file system inodes in pascal. We also did ADA and Smalltalk. But the main lang for everything back in my day was Pascal. Java was just starting when I was leaving.
What is a doorhanger?
Alas, you don't know what will happen until it does happen.

It could be as simple as "Wow, Joe reported Bob for sexual harassment, but Bob didn't do anything wrong - I was there. Now I have to be extra-careful around Joe to avoid getting reported myself!"

And there you go - Joe is now suffering from "retaliation" and being treated special for speaking up.
“Facebook has destroyed the open web”
I don't mind the "heaviness" of Linux on the RPi but I cannot rely on its user-space interrupts for GPIO use from userland. Instead, I have to write kernel software or give up on guarantees. So far it hasn't been much of a problem, but if I wanted to do more tightly timed things, I'd need to use a real-time OS.

Meanwhile, it's nice having the support of lots of Linux software so it's hard to justify switching to a non-real-time OS with much less support.

I've noticed, browsing the RPi forums, that people are disappointed that they can't get real-time behavior from Raspbian.
It's not a "story", but a real thing that happened to me. It's similar because the OP needs to fire the employee now, and document everything. And maybe get a lawyer too.
There's a clipboard API [1] in newest browsers but browser support varies.

Regarding cross-domain, what do you want to do exactly? In general there's no built-in support at least in Firefox to override default same-origin policy, but there are Chrome/Firefox extensions that for instance inject CORS headers to each response.

Edit: In Chrome, it seems you can disable same-origin policy with command line flag [2]

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/3177718/245966
i think you do know the problem, which is not everyone has that set up. Yes, if you are cloud, and can roll with static IPs then great for you. Some people still have to be on-prem and reusing IPs isn't always an option.
Do you have a reason to run an old Chrome version like that? Just curious.
http://devdocs.io/offline works well on Linux and Windows.
I'm interested
Autonomous Cars and the Automation of Everything
Surprised, I thought the marvel characters would be huge in the infinity universe.
Time series does not necessarily have to be about 'huge' data either, just a much greater level of historical precision. Example:

ISP sells a circuit with 95th percentile billing to a customer.

If you poll SNMP data from a router interface on 60 second intervals and store it in an RRA file, you will lose a great deal of precision over time (because RRAs are highly compressed over time). You'll have no ability to go back and pull a query like "We want to see traffic stats for the DDoS this customer took at 9am on February 26th of last year".

with time series statistics you can then feed it into tools such as grafana for visualization.

An implementation such as openTSDB to grab the traffic stats for a particular SNMP OID and store it will allow you to store all traffic data forever and retrieve it as needed later on. The amount of data written per 60 second interval is miniscule, a server with a few hundred GB of SSD storage will be sufficient to store all traffic stats for relevant interfaces on core/agg routers for a fairly large sized ISP for several years.
Usually something only requires willpower if it's not pleasant. I.e. It doesn't take willpower for me to eat, but it does take willpower for me to avoid eating unhealthy foods.
We use Costar almost exclusively. When you discuss new ways of getting data, how would that be something materially different from Costar? What about innovations for a contact management system?
Less and less.

Too often comment chains devolve into nitpicking, pedantry, and into off-topic discussion where two people fight tooth and nail for Internet Points.

From a technical perspective I get little or nothing from them, and from a discussion standpoint there's little reason for me to spend my time watching people nitpick each other over things that nobody in the community cares about.
The most exposed bees are solitary bees and bumble bees, even though the issues with honey bees seems to be written about more in the press.

It is relatively easy as an individual to give the bees a helping hand. One can buy or build a so called bee hotel [1]. It helps the bees with nesting site locations. When sited it requires essentially zero effort but supports the bees and other insects.

One can also become a honey bee keeper, but it requires more effort. It is quite fascinating though. You can read about our efforts. [2]

[1] http://www.arkinspace.com/2012/06/welcome-to-bee-hotel.html

[2] https://beginnerbeekeepers.wordpress.com
I really get what you're saying. But don't you think the fact his guy is already acting like a cowboy a little while into his job raises some red flags? Sure, if he'd been there a while and was carrying on like this then some sensitivity training might be the best option. But this BDM is acting like a loose cannon somewhere that he has just been employed. Seems like a bad hire all-round, regardless of the SH stuff.
A decade ago I would have agreed with you. In blogging's heyday in general I found online articles to be of much higher value than the comments, especially as Slashdot descended into pure meme-dom.

But these days there is a confluence of factors that have driven average web content quality through the floor. Whether it's the highly tuned click-bait industry, the easy accessibility of turnkey viral content platforms like Medium encouraging banal populist "think" pieces, or just the mainstreaming of tech startups as an average career path, whatever it is the average article I see these days is worth far less than the attention it expects.

I'm not sure whether HN comments are the best use of my time either, but middlebrow dismissals not withstanding, at least they aren't a race to the bottom.
My last personal experience of programming in Apache Groovy was with version 1.8. Often I tried recompiling some Java code from Groovy's codebase into Groovy, and even after changing it to allow for occasionally different semantics, it wouldn't work. It could be that Groovy 2.4 has improved a lot since v 1.8, but with the history of exaggerated claims associated with Groovy's backers, I'd need more evidence for your claim. For example, if the next version of Groovy ships having translated its own codebase into statically compiled Groovy, I'll happily look at it again for building systems. In the meantime, I'll only trust it for scripting.

Then there's their governance problem -- nowadays, a single person owns the groovy-lang.org website, whereas until early last year it was governed by 5 "despots" at Codehaus. It's never good when leadership becomes less consensual.
Maybe I'm a too long time user of git, but I really fail to see why git as of the last 5 years is any harder to explain than hg. Personally I think the branching in hg is pretty much broken; alone the fact that it's pretty much impossible to get rid of branches is horrible.
I hope Moxie can share with us why this feature is disabled by default. Does Whatsapp really think the notification would quickly become very annoying for regular users? How often would someone's closest friends really change their phones or uninstall Whatsapp? I imagine not that often for this to be a huge inconvenience, which is why I don't understand why the setting is off by default.

Maybe it's something else I'm missing, which is why it would be good for Moxie or Whatsapp to clear up this puzzling choice.

Also I hope both the Whatsapp and Signal teams think of ways to encourage security code authentication through better UI. Viber, for instance, has taken an interesting approach to encouraging easier authentication. It probably still doesn't go far enough to make it easy enough for just about anyone to want to authenticate their contacts, but I'd like to see more of this sort of UI experimentation:

https://support.viber.com/customer/portal/articles/2017401-v...
I am not that into this topic, but could you compare DL to Soundclouds Roshi[0], and if not, whats different? Thanks!
[0] https://github.com/soundcloud/roshi
Maybe they're skipping LA-Vegas and scaling straight to the obvious moneymaking scenario: getting Mission burritos to New York City. http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
A related, albeit simpler, Python quirk.

>>> a = 100
>>> b = 100
>>> a is b
True
>>> a = 1000
>>> b = 1000
>>> a is b
False
This is surprising to me, because if Disney can't make money doing a business that is toys + licensed games, I wonder why they do anything in the interactive space at all. They should just license their IP.
Thanks for editing your post :-)

I agree, it's tough to understand much about the project based on the testpilot.firefox.com landing page. That page is tightly focused around the 'sign up' call to action.

You can get more context from hanging around in IRC, or poking around in the wiki or bug trackers. You can even join our team meetings if you want; they're public. Pretty much everything is linked from our main wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot
Almost Everything You Know About Climate Change Solutions Is Outdated, Part 1
The extension is written in Arc? That's...not a use of Arc I expected. Did you have to change the language much to do it?
Really? I'm pretty sure my advice has merit even if you don't have any HR professionals on full-time staff, just like 'lawyer up' has merit if you don't have a lawyer on staff. It really isn't hard to piece together.

If you have no HR staff or lawyer on staff and have a question requiring their expertise, you can hire consultants or lawyers to assist you with your problem.

If you are a really small start up and can't afford to do any of this, then you should read the law yourself and make your own conclusions.

If you don't have time to make your own conclusions you should just do whatever you want.

How many contingencies do I need to assume here? I'm giving advice on the Internet.
Kind of weird to read this sentence in a piece attacking political correctness on campus:

"In my Anglo-Saxon class one day, the otherwise very affable young WASPy professor did a crass sexist stunt, also involving an ethnic slur against working-class Italian-Americans, that still shocks and disgusts me after all these years."
I'm aware, that doesn't excuse the old antiquated formats they are using, or the ridiculous pricing model they use, or the lack of support for accessing this data in an efficient way

It isn't an efficient market and I am expressing my discontent with it.

There should have been a race to the bottom with pricing over a decade ago.