skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would you pay to carpool to/from work instead of arranging carpool with a coworker, paying for your share of gas directly, and cutting out 1) the (future) middleman 2) the tax man?

Because the middle man is charging nothing, and its easier to use the middle man to find people that are good car pool partners by both desired arrival/departure time and where you are going to work from or going after work than trying to ask everyone around your work, and the tax consequences of accepting money to defray expenses don't change with or without the presence of the middle man.
You don't tip in a pub, and you don't have a bill either as you pay for each round of drinks as you get them.

I don't know how your date would be able to know how much you tipped, because you'd normally pay using a chip-and-pin credit card so you don't need to put any money on the table or write anything down.
Last week I took Uber to work and paid only $1.22 for a 10 minute drive. Five minutes later I spent more than that on the toppings of my breakfast..

.. not sure how this is sustainable but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
That was literally the premise of the thread. So your entire errand was pointing out the blatantly obviously fact that fixed costs are fixed?
I think the USSR tried a living wage. After 80 years of a living wage they had to line up every morning for their stipend of a loaf of Bread and a Bar of Soap.

While I believe people should be paid fairly, it would be difficult to implement and carry out successfully as history has proven.
> This would be analogous to what people do in public spaces.

How do I "revoke consent" to one-way communication in public spaces? All I can do is avoid known people (if possible) or ignore them.
How about the idea that one should be kind and treat all people with dignity?
Another huge factor is that laws aimed at these schools required a threshold of students didnt use federal student loans to attend.

Army loans qualified are sufficiently different and allowed them meet that quota without having to go the filthy route giving hefty scholarships to attract non-suckers at reasonable rates.
Ask HN: What should I ask Elon Musk for HTBTF?
I'm recording the next episode of this tomorrow w/Elon (http://www.ycombinator.com/future/) and have time for a few more questions. Any requests?
Doesn't make it exciting.(in relation to the product at least. Maybe working with them would be exciting just for the hell of it)
Works as a test case, now they go after Google and can say they have already established that there was evasion, Google can decide to fight it or pay up, while the legal cost to Google may be minimal it may not be worth the hassle if ultimately you have to pay.
You'll need to stop everyone else in your life from using Facebook, too.
Yes, I do the same and it's a real slog. I feel I get replies from some people I normally wouldn't have - top folks. But most messages are ignored, even highly personal, friendly, relevant messages to people I'm connected to through a friend. I haven't given up on this strategy, but would definitely like to find ways to make it more effective. Even if they just clicked the LinkedIn "Not interested" auto response, that'd be an improvement.
Many people like that, but just as many if not more don't.

Slipping on the icy stairs in Chicago where I grew up and lived most of my life, before walking to the train and having my glasses frost over from my breath did it for me. Then there are the insane humid summers.

Being able to go outside practically whenever I want and not feeling guilty if I stay indoors was worth moving to the Bay for me. We also have gorgeous long falls here where the leaves change color and everything.

Don't underestimate how many people loathe crappy weather.
There is no reinterpretation going on here. Apple never asked the EU. Apple went to Ireland "hey, guys, do you think it is okay to do this?" .. Ireland said yes, but Ireland has no authority here. The EU, which has authority, checked it and said "nope, your interpretation is wrong." - Simple as that.

If I ask someone on the street if its okay to steal from the rich, he says "yes" and I steal from the rich, no one would bat an eye if the courts didn't agree with my "interpretation" of the law and put me behind bars. And no one would accept it as a legal defense if I said "but hey, that guy over there said it is okay to do this!" - why should it be different for companies?
What constitutes a gift is definitely a gray area, and very culturally specific. It's nice to want things to be black and white, but reality doesn't always line up.
There is a distinction between "science: the game as she is played" and "science: the epistemic method." The former certainly has two-way interactions with politics, but the latter does not.
Check @kimdotcom on twitter for that answer and post here if you find out. (I try to keep my at-work browsing mostly technical! (: )
I waited tables a decade ago. If I recall correctly, it was $2.95 + tips and I believe with a 4% tip-out. So your 15% tip became 11% real quick. So I hustled.

I'm not saying that we should continue to screw over people who rely on tips as living wage. What I'm saying is that if one wants to have the overwhelmingly warm service Americans expect in restaurants, we need to keep tipping. After all, we've heard anecdotes about service in Europe being poor.

Yes yes, they don't tip in Asia, and service is excellent. Don't forget the social fabric is different there.
Some people around here (not saying you) have been shouting their hate against g+ so loud that many seems to be unaware that for some users, and quite a few it seems, google+ offers a much better experience than anything else.

You say: "everything about google+ seems forced."

I say: less forced than twitter, on g+ I can write my post just the way I want anf share with just the people I want.

Less forced than facebook: on g+ I can (and I do have) multiple personas, keeping my friends away from being bothered by my taste in music, future employers from being bothered by what I do on my spare time etc. Hint: nothing illegal, I would not trust it to protect me against a police investigation, but for the majority of us (I hope) we don't need that.
Ask HN: Leave new job after one month?
I'm nearing the end of my first month into a new job. I'm starting to question whether I made the right decision in taking the job and am thinking of giving notice.

I have about 6 years of backend dev experience, mostly Python and Ruby. I recently fell in love with Elixir and am pursuing a pet project in my spare time.

I am the company's first permanent dev hire - until now they've used freelancers to build the product. The stack in Python/Django.

My team also consists of a frontend developer and two app developers. None of us had to do any form of technical interview to land the job. The result is that the team isn't as strong as it could be - for example no one apart from me has any experience in TDD.

The owner (he sees himself a CTO) is just technical enough to be dangerous. He knows the buzzwords and feels comfortable making decisions without fully understanding the impact. I believe that with some management the risks here could be mitigated, but I don't have the personality or will to manage my boss. Today, for example he threw a spanner in the works of the work that we did over the last month because he didn't mention something crucial. It's not a train smash, but I foresee this kind of thing happening regularly.

Basically I have to build the product, do all devops work, mentor the team to make sure their work
is up to scratch and manage the boss. To me this seems like a mammoth task and I don't feel up to it. I also don't like being the "smartest" person in the room.

I think the company needs someone who is looking to move into a CTO role and comfortable with managing developers and business expectations. I just want to do technical work and solve problems for as long as possible.

Would it be fair for me to give notice now and leave? I'd be letting down the team and owner and
they would have to find another developer.

Would I be passing up a great opportunity to learn?
Typically the get bought out by shady operators and converted to the same con game...extra bonus if they acquire some accreditation.

Now that bootcamps have proven successful, many of these companies have bought them out too!
That's why I am getting more and more reluctant to share anything. It's starting to be impossible to predict how your data will be used and what is private and what isn't.
Uber has Uber Pool for the exact same purpose.
Just saw "A Tale of Love and Darkness". The disclaimer was so sweeping that I wondered whether we were to believe that there is such a place as Jerusalem.
But this is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, isn't it? You could just as easily argue that the wages are so low because tipping is pretty much a given.
They probably just realized the high-end Chromebook market isn't there.
Singular "they" is attested back to the 14th century. (Note that this would actually be Middle English!) It met a lot of resistance in the 19th century by various prescriptive grammar books.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Trend_to_prescri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription
Because no one at my work lives near me, but some guy who works a block away might?
What nonsense?
Many workers not making a living wage receive some form of government assistance, so saying that they aren't all dying in a gutter seems beside the point.
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...

"Not dangerous

Safe Browsing has not recently seen malicious content on www.windowsphone.com."
How do I "revoke consent" to one-way communication in public spaces?

"Okay, I'm done with this, and with you. I no longer consent to this interaction. If you continue, it's harassment." Then you walk away. In a virtual space, like Twitter, you block them. Then it's incumbent on them to not create a throwaway and continue the behavior. (And in the case of most middle schoolers and other internet willful idiots and trollers, they're probably not competent enough to hide their identity from a knowledgeable enemy.)
The documentation for Effect Managers is basically "If you don't already know how to make one, you shouldn't be making one." I get that it's an "expert feature", but I want to learn and try anyways! I've been learning the basics by looking at the WebSocket library, and reading the compiler errors when I broke it in different ways. The compilers errors were surprisingly helpful, but some documentation would be nice.
Open Source Android SSH client sends your keys to Google
It's very difficult to buy clothes that fit, for one. Especially suits.
So you should always drive at less than 20mph?

For every "but that'll never happen" there's a contrived scenario where it could. Yes, it could be a vanishingly small chance, but it's not going to go away.
Fwiw, we're testing a Dockerized the distro of DL4J. Runs on DCOS.

https://imgur.com/a/CDTAc

https://imgur.com/a/6jlxi

We'll release in coming weeks.
This seems like a very extreme example. I had the impression we were talking more about personal conversations, rather than exceedingly foolish, probably inaccurate, and certainly impolitic public comments on the part of public figures. Perhaps I misgathered.
Yes on Seattle's Sound Transit 3, which will build rail over the next generation
As someone who runs a production Spark cluster, has a multi-node TF setup and had played with DL4J I'd say this is more untrue than true.

Training TF on a cluster is hard because you need to write your model to be cluster-aware. Apart from that it works pretty well.

From my understanding, DL4J can use Spark to coordinate training multiple models in parallel. This is interesting, but not the same thing at all.

Also TF on a cluster is much simpler to get running than Spark+DL4J.
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Just so I understand: You're saying you used to have a robust social life, but now somewhat less so, because the people you used to interact with will no longer do so outside of Facebook and Twitter? I don't want to sound harsh, and maybe I'm just too old, but it seems kind of incredible to me. You can't just call them up or E-mail them?
The title is misspelled; it's In-Q-Tel, not Q-Tel.
I think it would be impossible to tax charging (how would you know if someone is charging off the grid via solar?), but you could probably institute some sort of per-mile charge when renewing the car registration.
Can this yield smaller bundles?
There's been similar interest in my City and we've recently "got the ball rolling", just barely.

Here's an article that'll give you some background: https://muninetworks.org/content/bloomington-indiana-may-blo...
This is why most government agencies have strict policies to never accept any sort of favor from organizations or people they do business with. Even if it's a "I'll pay for lunch next time, you can pay next time."

Basically, if there is even a remote chance that the action could be misconstrued as a gift when viewed from the outside, it's politely rejected.
It's In-Q-Tel, not Q-Tel. I actually interviewed there a few years back. Very cool company.
It may just be a paranoid delusion, but I'm worried that Babel is trying to become a more encompassing build tool ala Grunt/Gulp instead of just transpiling. I love Babel and plan to continue to use it in the future for my front-end development, but the "doing it all ourselves" is a little bit much.

I would much rather see a recommendation and efforts around Uglify than a brand new minimization tool, and I would rather see work on acorn[1] rather than around a new parser[2], because these things fragment the community rather than bring them together.

Edit: Yes, Uglify has taken a long time to get work done on ES2015, but note that the spec has changed a lot over that time. It does feel like they are dragging their feet or not getting much done in that front, but all the more reason to put one of the Babel devs who may have more free time on the project to get more things going.

1: https://github.com/marijnh/acorn

2: https://github.com/babel/babylon
many are public so this might stocks dropping across the board due to investor panic. Im sure ITT stock holders are shitting bricks.
> it seems completely reasonable to consider a mind "alive" even in the absence of all else.

So AI is alive too if you program it to understand it's AI? Such arbitrary definitions of "life" is not interesting. What if I define life as "abstract existence in anyone's mind" - that way a person, for example, would be considered "alive" as long as he is "alive" in our memory.

Also counterexample for life with only consciousness - let's imagine that we advanced technology to be able to replace neurons with analogous mechanisms that perform same function. Now imagine your cells are slowly, gradually being replaced with these mechanisms, all while your consciousness is full intact. That means that this imaginary technology replaces your live cells with machine cells without you losing consciousness, and at the end you are entirely machine. Are you alive? I say no. If you say yes, we disagree.

Thing is, consciousness and mind is nothing but a continuity of electrical signals. No magic here. While life is entirely different concept. They are tangential. Neither of them require one another.

> a person who has lost the ability to reproduce is still alive.

I am talking about multi generational life. If I remove your brain, thus mind and consciousness, you are alive too for some time.

> I certainly don't see any obvious reason why a biological definition of life needs to include an end.

It doesn't. But an organism that doesn't die cannot adapt to environment through DNA shuffling. But there are organisms that are considered immortal, not nearly as complicated as humans though.
> Can I tell uber I want to share a ride to the airport with any stranger? (my taxi co will do that)?

Yes you can, but the logistics is up to you.

WRT to Google's model, the commute is being shared.
The ultimate problem with tipping restaurant service workers is that servers are legally allowed to be paid sub-minimum wage. The restaurant offloads their obligation to pay their employees onto the customer, and if the customer doesn't tip then the server will not be paid anything for the work. Under these conditions, customers have a moral obligation to tip servers, but that doesn't mean the system isn't a mess. Servers get no benefits, back staff get no tips, but servers get cash and the opportunity to underreport their tax burden.
Not exactly. Uberpool drivers still don't want to actually go to the destination the customer does. Google's offer appears to be trying to coordinate cars of people who are all trying to get somewhere.
It's because their guidelines are based on look and feel (aka "design"), not user experience or use case. They basically have no guidelines for the experience. It's all colors, motion, and size. Each product team then goes off and reinvents the experience, and decides to sacrifice the look and feel guidelines in the process.

The Google+ page doesn't even appear to have any breakpoints, which is against their own guidelines:

https://material.google.com/layout/responsive-ui.html#

Maybe those gutters are reserved for ads?
> It'd be nice if you could flag your domain as being only acceptable from a CA of your choosing.

HPKP pretty much solves this, and is already being used by a large number of high-value targets.

DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) would also be fairly useful in this regard. It's essentially a DNS record set by a domain owner declaring which CAs are allowed to issue certificates for that domain. These records can then be checked by CAs prior to issuing certificates. It's more or less a defense-in-depth mechanism for other domain validation vulnerabilities, and would've probably prevented these incidents if implemented correctly, though not particularly useful if a CA is compromised completely. I suppose it could also be used by Certificate Transparency Monitors to automatically check if issued certificates are suspicious.

Unfortunately, it's not mandatory yet and so far I believe only a small number of CAs have adopted CAA (Let's Encrypt, DigiCert and possibly some others).

> Rather than signing everything with your top level cert, you sign a series of intermediate certs and use those to sign the end user keys.

This is what CAs already do, including WoSign. I'm not sure if signing end-entity certificates with the root key is even allowed by the Baseline Requirements. Unfortunately, having multiple intermediate certificates to limit the number of affected clients does not really help much if the question is whether a CA should be trusted at all due to their track record, which is what we're talking about here.
I think you were misbilled, or someone forgot to turn on the "meter".
This one is pretty clear: if they wrote the testimonial before receiving the discount, and did not have the expectation that they were going to receive a discount, then that's OK, because their testimonials are not biased by the discount.
Perhaps you should have a meeting with your CTO to address your concerns before you decide to leave. Maybe the two of you can come to an agreement over roles/responsibilities (which you probably should have done before you started). If what he needs is more than he hired you for, you may be able to negotiate a salary increase as well.
Too late, some of the bigger chains have been bought out.
Not sure why you'd accept that very long. I'll tell you how it works here (swe): Most of restaurant employees in the city are organized. There are no minimum wages, instead the union and the corresponding employee organization agree on a minimum compensation. A restaurant that doesn't want to follow the agreement will risk being blockaded by both this Union and any other union that symphathizes, for example their trash won't be picked up. The salaries for restaurant staff are still among the lowest at $3k/month, but still it's 80% of a police or nurse salary.

This might sound like the Union runs an extortion scheme, but interestingly the employers organizations are supportive as it means a lot less regulation and more flexibility. The result of this model is a pretty flat structure in comp: a nice university degree will likely not make you twice the hourly wage of the lowest diner job in the country.
I'd say Google seems to be in another league compared to Facebook when it comes to pricacy.

Google had the "buzz" fail. For Facebook that seemed to be modus operandi for a while: silently make everything public as long as users didn't complain loudly enough.

And Facebook still do from time to time: just look at how they are now exploiting Whatsapp users, something I think they promised not to do when they bought it.
Tesla's self-driving technology is much of America's first real interaction with coming autonomous vehicle technology. Let's say he's stopped on the street by my grandmother. How does he explain to an older person the ways in which this revolution will be controllable, compatible with humans, and not destructive to much of our labor-driven society?
> Can we stop calling every new taxi service "ride sharing"?

Yes, but this is a ridesharing service, not a taxi service.

> Can I tell uber I want to share a ride to the airport with any stranger? (my taxi co will do that)?

Isn't that exactly what UberPOOL is?
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What could NASA learn from SpaceX and vice-versa?
Going beyond fancy offices
It's not just a matter of how many jobs there are, it is also a matter of how many employers there are and how flexible the employers are. An area with 20,000 jobs split between 400 employers may well be better for mobility than an area with 30,000 jobs split between 20. Similarly, an area where employers post laundry list job reqs and get picky about them is not going to be an easy area to switch jobs in, regardless of how many total jobs there are. Tens of thousands of tech job openings are controlled by companies who don't actually believe there is a talent shortage and will treat you accordingly.
Celebrity endorsements have been regulated by the FTC since the early days of television.[1] This isn't a new thing. It goes back much further. Mark Twain did a lot of endorsements.[2] It got completely out of hand in 1950s and 1960s TV, and the FTC put a stop to it.

The same rules apply on Instagram. Nothing new here, just an old bad idea coming around again.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
[2] http://celebritycred.com/history-of-endorsements/#foobox-1/0
What I would have loved is a social-network that with a built-in concept of pseudonyms and potentially-separate identities for separate circles which it honored.

Unfortunately, "a good social network" is somewhat at odds with "maximizing ad-impressions", a problem which neither Facebook nor Google are immune to.

P.S.: What I mean is that "John Doe" and "John Doe, SDE2" and "JD12345, online gamer" should have no automatic public links between them.

People don't merely post/like things with a different audience, they interact as a different mask. Your fellow gamers shouldn't have your work-identity, coworkers shouldn't have your close-friends identity, etc.
I believe you're conflating 'living-wage' with communism. Those are pretty different animals.
No, it isn't because the driver still makes a profit with Uber Pool and they didn't intend to travel where they're going.

In Germany for example ride sharing under the legal definition requires that the driver doesn't make any profit and really just takes people along. If that's the case, you don't require additional/different insurance etc.
The differential between server minimum wage and regular minimum wage used to be much lower, but the regular minimum wage keeps getting adjusted up due to inflation &c.
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