skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I don't know who all you Captains Of Industry are who are able to successfully negotiate things out of standard employment agreements, but most of us do not have this option. I remember once objecting to a non-compete, and tried the "strike it out" trick, and I was given a very clear "Sign it unmodified or GTFO" warning. I don't think negotiating these things is as common as some of you believe.
Meanwhile, in drops in credibility, you say this:

> While there is some variability in taxi arrival time (just as there is with Lyft or Uber arrival time), taxis typically are no later or more difficult to estimate. You just tell them when the taxi should arrive and that's when it will be there.

A charitable interpretation of this is that you must live a charmed life. The only people I know who say things like this are people who have cars and don't tend to use much else or live in and exclusively travel in very large cities.

I have literally waited two hours for a taxi, on a normal friday night. Multiple times. My average wait for a taxi in the city I live in has usually been on the order of 30+ minutes, peak hours or off. Other cities have not been much better, unless they were cities like New York where normal hailing actually works.

Also, smaller cities don't get these wonderful taxi apps you're talking about until Uber comes into town and forces them to compete. Hell, in many cities reliably being able to pay with a credit card only becomes possible when a rideshare company comes to town, before that "the machine is broken!"
Just for context, that's about $1.50/min in 2016 dollars
> actually take credit card instead of pretending their credit card reader is broken

After you've arrived at your destination, have you really found any taxi driver who would rather take _no payment_ than a credit card? If all you have is plastic--and if the driver is required to accept that form of payment--then I guess I don't see the problem (for riders). I've had drivers take my credit card # on a carbon copy physical swipe. I've had drivers admit that the card reader actually _did_ work. Unfortunately for them, I've even had drivers accept underpayment in cash because they were legitimately unprepared.
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[blog author here] I learned C++ a while ago so I never got to read an intro to modern C++ cover-to-cover. However, a friend asked me to suggest a book and this one seemed to both cover everything you need to understand the language and provide several useful examples for scientific computing (e.g. there's a nice example of gradient descent in the preface).

It's definitely not the only good option. "C++ Primer" is probably the most popular introduction and the language's creator wrote an intro to programming with C++ ("Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++"). They all cover modern C++.
I worked for MCI in the '80s. People changed over for the savings - it was always cheaper than AT&T. In fact, a lot of AT&T's marketing played to the "loyalty" fear: if you leave us, you're suspect for being un-American. Not in so many words, of course, but that was the tuning fork it resonated with. (Worked great on older folks who lived through McCarthyism.)

Also, don't forget the difference between inter-LATA and intra-LATA calls. The latter was a call within your local provider's area, the former went to another. Sometimes the line between exchanges was literally across the road. Inter-LATA calls were generally more expensive than getting through on a long-distance trunk, so there was this ridiculous feature of phone bills in those days that calling grandma in the next town over was more expensive than calling your college girlfriend three states away.

I also used to work for a "connected car" manufacturer. The per-minute rates they get today for using the onboard phone are outrageous even by '80s standards. I won't mention the data rates they charge for using the "connected car." Let's just say it would be far cheaper to buy an iPhone and Verizon's 20GB plan if you're going to use it a lot.
Scientists Discover ‘Game-Changer’ Helium Deposits in Tanzania
>It was more than a spoof magazine, or a license to swear, or to talk openly about things like sex and alcohol and drugs. It was a challenge to think critically about popular culture and marketing, to question all of their smarming insults to the intelligence, and fire back at at all their insubstantial replies with eviscerating wit.

Ah hell... I backed off from the subscribe button last week; went though with it today. Thank you HN for getting this to my attention...
I very much started reading your post as a comedic sci-fi ending to the story.. but now I am actually not sure. It would be quite creative to think of that scenario! Did this happen?
Sad thing is, those balloons pop when they get too high. The density of air decreases, allowing the helium to push outward and pop the balloon. Had we made stronger balloons, we might have been able to just float up and collect them when we run out of light gases... Oh wait, that requires a balloon.
I'm surprised to see that ChaCha-Poly is faster than hardware-accelerated AES-GCM. Any ideas why?
Because the wire is unsafe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11992431
Traditionally they scan files, either in a batch job or on the fly, to see if the file matches a signature, basically a hash, of known viruses. This worked when there were only a couple thousands viruses in the wild. Now this approach is pointless because there are so many viruses, odds of the antivirus having seen it before are effectively zero. Not to mention countermeasures virus writers take make this even harder.
2.4GHz works fine in the suburbs. The only downside is that it stops working when someone turns on a microwave oven. If the telecommunications companies listen to your suggestion, they are likely to use both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
IBM, 3 times. They started out as a punch card & tabulating machine company, then ended up dominating mainframes as computers started to replace electromechanical machines. Then they launched the IBM PC and legitimized the PC market when it started to disrupt business machines. Then they pivoted into services when their failure to hold the PC market almost bankrupted the company.

3M also. Started out as a mining company, then moved into abrasives, then into adhesives.

Dupont. Started out in gunpowder, moved to dynamite when that technology threatened to replace gunpowder, then got into nukes in WW2. Oh, and also into rubber and plastics.
Him sitting next to author reminded me how I always think you are a writer when you pay your bills through writing, same with art etc. I find so many that say they are an "artist" yet thats not how they pay their bills. Sure you may make fantastic art but you are not an artist.

You never here someone say I am a basketball player just because they play basketball as a hobby. Doing something that pays your bills is totally different than it being a hobby or even being great at it.
I meant "employment contract" in the sense of the dozens of pages of legal documentation you'll typically sign, including stock agreements, non-competes, etc.
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What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016
psql, vim, git, bash --- all the old Linux command-line tools for that matter.

For something with a GUI: Gmail.

Don't know if this will help or not: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
Weber. They made marker buoys. Some of the welders got the bright idea to turn a buoy shell into a barbecue grill. There is a bigger market for grills than buoys...
I've always been impressed that Dollar Shave Club was able to build a business around selling a single product available on Amazon for a higher price.
I've dj'ed several weddings with moc, including my own. I wouldn't even think of using anything else in a high-stakes situation like that.
I haven't used it in about a decade, but the corporate version used to be pretty lightweight compared to the retail version. I started using the corporate edition soon after I joined the military because we got it for free. There was an immediate and noticeable improvement in my pc's performance after replacing the retail version.
The idea of being able to mix MLFE, LFE and raw Erlang is an exciting proposition. Correctness, genericity, and being statically typed, I could see compiling MLFE into Rust and running it inside BEAM. So much gradual goodness.
I'm afraid this did actually happen[1].

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=82...
Certainly by the time Facebook became open to the general public it was. Before that, until we saturated our geographic area, it was definitely viral growth.

I'm not saying we didn't have other problems that would have led us to fail eventually anyway (especially to facebook), but we observed this as a very real problem.
Apple’s Tim Cook Has Billions of Reasons to Raise Money for the GOP
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Look at the date: they were made in 2009, when the company was barely a year old. At that time, an additional 730K in loans could have been a needle mover.
It's not like we didn't try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet
Mmmm hummus. I'm going to start a box-box company, every month we send you a random box companies box. Actually, this doesn't sound so bad...
Yeah, that's just for the chilling effect on people who don't realize it's unenforceable. A California noncompete is not something you'd want to take to court as a plaintiff.
I've heard it said many times: ideas are a dime-a-dozen, execution is everything.
Certainly. It was just the best/easiest way I could think to describe it in a single sentence.

Dwarf fortress is fairly unique in style. I could say it's style is good, but I'd have to describe the game, it's culture, it's development history and how the minimal, perhaps unclean and cludgy style can help weave your imagination into it's narrative.

He could clean up the site, but I think it helps players understand the contract they are getting into by playing this game. A clean website would misrepresent dwarf fortress and it's style.
There is, or at least was, a plaque above a bench on a Main Street porch dedicated to Disney's business partner for Disneyland. He was, IIRC, an expert in hospitality.

The plaque read: 'A clean environment is a pleasure to the senses.'

As a kid, I remember being amused at the number of sweepers, dressed in striped shirts, pressed white pants and straw hats, whisking popcorn and straw wrappers off the walkways. In spite of tens of thousands of people, mostly kids, running and discarding, the park was always immaculate. It impresses me to this day not just that so much attention was given to cleanliness, but that Disney realized how much it mattered.
> Can't one just write new assignments each year?

the budget / resources doesn't exist for that
Actually, Feynman answered in an interview once that his notebooks were where he did his work. The interviewer followed up with something like "You mean where you wrote it down?" and he gave an emphatic no. Ah, here it is:

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...

> Weiner: Well, the work was done in your head but the record of it is still here.

> Feynman: No, it’s not a record, not really, it’s working. You have to work on paper and this is the paper. OK?

It was nice to see this because that algorithm, even if meant as a joke, never sat right with me. The Feynman of the lectures would not encourage you to believe in magic.
cuz there's a lot of successful startups coming out of Nebraska and Idaho!
Check this chart, which shows LC returns relative to SPY (S&P 500) over the past 5 days. The stock is up from the open today, but relative to the market it looks like it is tracking mostly unchanged from last week, or slightly negative. If I had to guess, I'd suppose that the negative trend is related to brexit's impact on the entire financial sector, and the sharp drawdown/recovery is related to the news: sharp drop on reaction, then partial recovery after value traders decide that the "wash" lending apparently doesn't matter much for future value.

http://www.barchart.com/chart.php?ss=1&spread=LC+%2F+SPY&p=I...
Ask HN: What is that code snippet / command that you Google every single time?
Example: every time I update my .gitignore I can't remember the commands that I need to run on git to remove the cached files before doing "$ git add" again.. My brain seems not able to incorporate such information.
I use HP officejet printer and pretty much never use any software to scan documents. I scan via their document feeder and it automatically transfers the PDF to a folder on my Mac. I digitise everything so this workflow is especially time-saving.
http://www.sciencealert.com/us-egg-farmers-say-they-ll-final...
WeWork opens its first Asia co-working space in Shanghai
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minecr...
This article was my introduction to DF when it was originally posted on HN: http://nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwa...
I don't think there'd be much trouble on the engineering side. Let's be honest, there's not much tech in box-o-the-month services. It's the business and marketing folks that benefit from being in the dynamic cities.
Same here, I ended up ~2000kms away (at best) from the circle (from Bangkok)
I suppose it's only for certain countries, no redirection here in El Salvador.
Isn't Norton antivirus itself malware? And McAfee too, for that matter? I finally convinced my mom and my wife to stop downloading it everytime they update Adobe Flash. (Yes, they still do that. On Windows of course. Sigh. One thing at a time.)
An interesting project but with no real technical details.
Imagine wireless devices communicating with each other at frequencies higher than humanly audible? No, I don't mean radios. I mean some sort of "bot speak" that would allow for localized communication without an internet connection. Might be useful for researchers in the field without internet access. Could also be useful for business bots to host private conversations without adding to the chatter or needing access to private networks.
Testbirds and the future of crowdtesting
From the perspective of a person who thankfully no longer has to support any Windows based platforms:

"Symantec considered harmful"

full stop.

Let's not forget this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/still-fuming-over-ht...

Symantec should have suffered the CA "death penalty" and had its trust removed from the browsers that hold most of the global market share.
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A bug in their software would be forgivable. This article pointed out both an extremely poor design decision (lots of unnecessary code in the kernel) as well as a serious organizational problem (not doing vulnerability management). These are especially bad considering that they supposed to be a security company.

In both cases, one bad example means it's likely there are many more still undiscovered.
Many years ago, installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware dramatically reduced the amount of on-site technical support calls for my well-meaning but too trusting ("I just clicked on it") parents. This was before I was able, with the help of my brother-in-law, to convert them to Apple/Mac.

Is Malwarebytes Anti-Malware still the gold standard for Windows Malware protection? What is the gold standard for Windows virus protection now?
Oh my god the "fast die" take down request from Russia. Is that a real business?

https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia/2...

http://fast-die.github.io/
This line from the article makes me think it affects Mobile Safari (or did in the past).

> The performance for this feature is so bad that iOS simply ignores this property.
Only looking at lifetime value delivered ignores the competition, much of which is free and easy to switch to.

Also support costs typically go down over time; most support effort is spent in onboarding and getting users up and running. Although now that you mention it, Evernote may have huge technical drag because they have bugs outstanding from over six years ago. Indeed, the only time I reached out to support (I couldn't install PC version because it was incorrectly detecting that I already had it installed) they weren't able to assist. $10 lifetime value may be a bit generous.
Bose’s New Bluetooth Speakers Are Made for Modding
I know about this incident. I don't think that would be a good idea in this case.
Keeping Google Earth up to date and looking great
Other employers in WA.
I meant statically typed, thanks.

The question to me is not whether type checkers are useful tools, but at what point they become a hindrance. If I may rephrase your question: The programs rejected by the type checker, how can they not be bad programs?
Not to mention the dozens of "DF with graphics!" clones currently living on Steam... none of which remotely approach the complexity and flexibility of the original (though they do look better and have better UIs)
If it's proprietary tech than that risk is part of the game. This is one reason FOSS zealots are so, well, zealous. Without access to the source code for auditing, and especially without access to proprietary programs for running at all, your chances of properly evaluating the software is effectively nil.

The choice between proprietary data systems seems more likely to be driven by the reputation of the company than by the reputation of the tech. The whole point of paying when OSS alternatives are available is that when something breaks or goes wrong you actually have a proverbial "neck to choke" (one that isn't your own ;) ).
Then you did what you could. My comment was more directed towards those who don't even raise the point at all.

Whether you're successful depends on the company, your state laws surrounding noncompetes, whether you're in a good bargaining position, and how easy internally it is to change "standard" employment terms. I can't promise all those things will align, but it's helpful to remember that in many positions and companies this is a negotiable term.
And there was Myspace and Friendster before Facebook.
Regulations mandate picking one of the available crap softwares.
Oh, I guess that's why it seemed perfectly smooth on my iPad. Thanks.
For all their advancement in storytelling and worldbuilding, it is still so frustrating to try and play DF today. I did not grow up with Roguelikes and ASCII characters or backwards-ass vim-style key-memorization GUI patterns, and the nostalgia that surrounds these things is simply annoying. The noob pack helps but what it really needs is for that isometric graphics mod to become a full UI layer. Mid-90s WinForms would be an improvement over what DF's got.

It is painful to see people so smart pooh-pooh something so obvious as a useable UI (I won't say "decent", because "decent" nowadays is this brightly-colored material-design garbage) that isn't super painful for people who like to come and go.
Just FYI, Jade has been renamed as Pug, for whatever reason. https://github.com/pugjs
Ask HN: What Open Source projects do you wish existed or were still maintained?
Are there any projects you wish existed but don't, or, do exist, but are effectively dead (and there does not seem to be any real viable OSS alternative)?
Can you suggest any reasonable concerns with what the app author has disclosed?
Dealing with depression part two
On #1, part of the HSR program of making improvements to local and regional mass transit networks connecting to HSR. They aren't competing alternatives.
You don't really need anything special to integrate it with React, just a little wrapper component which calls your update method. This example isn't DRY but whatever, gives you the idea: https://gist.github.com/tj/38b04d87949c4dbc3bda4579a108b634
Should you use your mouse left handed
It never was.

The stuff from Microsoft seems less fraught than the rest.
Writing is a craft, and it's a freaking hard one that takes combining a lot of skills plus a lot of discipline and hard work. If you don't have the patience to sit through something as simple as as a semester-long grammar class at your local community college as one aspect of learning the fundamentals you need to succeed, then most likely writing isn't the career path for you.
Thomas Biskup of ADoM said that he'd not publicly release the ADoM code for two reasons. First, people would trawl it for the secrets (discovery is a big part of the ADoM experience). Secondly, he was embarrassed about the state of his code and didn't want to let people see...

He did do a re-release recently that I funded on $kickstarter_analogue, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet (and it's been a while...)
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Who Will Build the Next Great Car Company
...the author takes so long to get to her point.
The problem is the sales order flow and fulfillment / operations at scale (which is an engineering challenge).

When you're in a growth period that's easy to discount, your challenge is (and should be!) top-line revenue. But in a crunch shaving 20-50% of order processing and fulfillment costs is mana from heaven, creating profit where one there was only red ink. That takes a hand-rolled system, and ops-eng is hard and requires very specialized knowledge.
Except that doesn't seem to be what he is proposing - you don't have a coop to assign labor, you have a coop to control wealth to provide livelihood. The membership does whatever it wants, the coop will, if necessary, pay people to farm its land or manufacture its textiles, but the cornerstone of UBI is that as automation advances the amount of human labor required for any of those constituent parts of livelihood will continue to approach zero, and when it does, you now have an apparatus of the means of production that provides for all your members needs.
The joy of DF is learning all the ways you can fail. Once you know how to set up a fort that can handle itself, the fun largely dissipates.
Improving local and regional mas transit throughout the state, especially around all four of the long term proposed termini (SF, LA, Sacramento, and San Diego.)
Direct link to the PDF is:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2924550/Growing-U...
its "learned". learnt is not a word
I would be interested to hear why.
Well, that and I am no longer on Mac. Still running the Windows version, though... maybe I'll try them again
Windows 10 has a built-in antivirus that's very effective, safe, and doesn't impact system usability. There's little reason for anyone on Windows 10 to run Symantec/Norton.
Anything worth doing takes a lot of work, and Dwarf Fortress is no different. It really is a matter of putting in the hours. But thanks to dozens of radical tools, you, too, can turn your fortress into a 3D, moving world.

Treat the experience more like playing with some sort of odd micro-kernel in a VM, with tools for poking and probing it. Approach it like a software development tool, or a Linux server and it becomes a little less daunting, especially as all the letters are on the screen for quick reference, rather than in a man page.

Still, the beauty of Dwarf Fortress IS that it doesn't care about the UI. It's not for you. It's not for anyone other than it's creators. It's for Zach and Tarn. Yes, it's also for the game's fans, but the brothers have always been building the game THEY wanted to play, and doing exactly what they wanted to do. They're not beholden to a schedule, or some massive revamp required in order to make the game more accessible. They're true to their own desires and souls.

They're artists. This is their art. Yes, it is truly impenetrable, but as with almost all art, taking the time to delve deeper is uniquely and spiritually rewarding. Yes, spiritually.
Dismissing Uber & AirBnB as primarily/solely successful from exploiting legal loopholes is insulting and uninformed.
Reading a lot is probably more useful than taking a class on grammar (for one thing, grammar is pretty easy to fix without altering a work).
Americans go out of their ways to waste money.
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