skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the two examples you quote, I am saying that money is easily changeable into food. The reverse is actually not true (which is why there is a lot of food waste and charities handle redistributing some of it).

I’m missing the cognitive dissonance. We’ve surprised hungry people with food at an opportune moment, not money.

If you want a clearer discussion on the distinction, Dan Ariely has a great explanation on paying his mother-in-law for diner. I’d be happy to quote Amartya Sen or Kahneman on the same topic if you want a clearer explanation.
Hmm that's not my experience. Sometimes the card machine doesn't even give an option to tip, so you can't always do it even when you want to.
The government currently tells businesses how to build their buildings, how to run their safety code, their hygiene policies etc.

I'm not endorsing this level of micro-management, but it certainly allows recourse for negligence and malpractice.
I have to agree with you there.

I'm in Europe and I just polled a whole bunch of friends, anyone using these companies and got a resounding NOPE.

I just polled a bunch of US friends too and they say the same. Sure, purely anecdotal.

But for me, none of these have changed the world.

Maybe if you worship at the alter of YC or a wannabe Paul/Jessica groupie or liberal/progressive fantasist then I guess you totally buy into that.

Transformed is really a total stretch.

I'm still laughing after listening to that interview.

Waiting for the down-votes and I'm sure this will be flagged as it will upset some thin-skinned people who live in a (tech) bubble.
I work at Masergy. We're a mid-size (~500 employees) telecom based in Plano, TX. We are doing very, very well. I don't think I'm allowed to share numbers, but this is the first company I've worked at where I don't have to worry about whether or not the company will be out of money by the end of the year. I remember my first employer, a small UC security company that eventually got bought by Avaya in a rather successful exit; every year, we played the game of "will the VCs go for another round of funding or leave us to die?". I don't have to worry about that here.

We've also won a lot of awards lately, including placing on the list of 5000 fastest-growing companies.

But maybe we have different definitions of telecoms. I think, in the present day, any company that does UC and/or cloud networking (we do both) should count as part of "the telecom industry", because they fill the same niche as the traditional telecoms. We've also got IBM SoftLayer and FireHost/Armor here too, plus Amazon has recently opened some offices in Dallas (a good friend of mine interviewed with them for an AWS support job here; didn't get it though).
If IP is really property, subject it to property tax. The valuation is of course an estimate, but if it were ever sold, there'd be a tax credit or debit, in arrears, without penalty but with sane interest. The only way to really get out of it is upon the expiration of the property's government granted monopoly status, i.e. turned over to the public.
Sadly, the primary audience for those features are people who want fire and forget harassment and "political debate" accounts. We certainly see this in other venues and even on G+ with its poorly enforced identity rules.

Many great ideas get crushed under the weight of mediocrity and terrible people abusing it.
I don't know what you mean by 'robust'. What I'm saying is that I used to have a satisfactory social life - on the order of parties or other similar events call it once a month more or less and "let's get together for beers" or similar on a reasonably regular basis besides - which in essence no longer exists.

I can certainly understand that it seems kind of incredible to you. It seems extremely incredible to me! I still haven't quite got wholly around it. And, yes, I can "just" call people up, or text or email them, and sometimes even get a response. I still occasionally do so, and still occasionally get together with one or two people at a time for a few drinks and to catch up. The problem comes in where you try to organize something on a larger scale, or where someone else does so. It would be technically inaccurate to say that to do so is impossible without using Facebook. But I've certainly found it ineffective to try to set things up via email, which was not the case a couple of years ago.

I would not be surprised to learn that I'm as old as, or older than, you are. Most of the people in my former social circle are somewhat older than I am. I'm pretty sure this isn't just a "people in their twenties" thing.

(Edited to add that I don't understand why you're getting downvoted, and I wish people wouldn't without explaining why they're doing so. Certainly, if it's out of some misguided assumption that I've chosen to put myself and my experience out there without being prepared to address people who express entirely reasonable incredulity and doubt about my veracity, let me take a moment to note that such action on my behalf, while certainly appreciated, is entirely unnecessary.)
Maybe what they meant is that without a wage floor people working for extra cash could take the job for below-living wage rate, outcompeting people who are looking to support themselves fully with the job.

(I don't endorse that point of view, just trying to make sense of their claim.)
Lessons learned from that strange radio signal
Curious: When did you play with DL4J and what kind of cluster are you running TF on? You're right to say those are two separate things, so let's compare apples to apples.
One of her co-founders agree http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html :)
That's because Sweden uses Unions effectively, and no, it's not extortion.

Working class support for unions in the U.S. has been steadily declining for decades and sits around 50% today.
I don't know, how about it? Give me more to work with here.
>> It would be awesome if everyone knew proper lifting form, but it's just not going to happen

I'm not talking about proper lifting form, I'm talking about proper human movement. We perform these archetypal movement patterns every day throughout our entire lives. Every time you sit down in a chair you're performing a squat. Every time you pick up your bag off the ground, you're performing a deadlift.

And to say "that's just not going to happen" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We're not teaching people these skills, therefore we wouldn't be able to teach these skills.

I completed a minor in music and I still had to take more general liberal arts classes for my CS degree. They can afford to include a class that teaches about how to correctly use and care for one's body.
> One was a Catholic seminarian

That explains a lot. One of the true and tested recipes for libido suppression the Church takes to heart is to physically and mentally exahust their horny young men until they are not horny any more.

This of course is just my opinion, but an informed one. I went to a Catholic mid-school and highschool, and even when we were not 100% on board as a seminarist would be, sports was something the administration promoted very heavily. We'd also get to know lots of seminarists that would come to do field work there prior to taking their vows, and an almost universal trait of them was their passion for sports.
But a body without heart or head doesn't live by itself either.
Docker itself is part of that problem, not separate to it. They willingly accepted almost $200 million in venture capital. We all know what the VC game is. If they can't turn that $200M into a $5B+ exit, they lost.
At least at my high school, it wasn't taken very seriously and the quality of the class was low. There wasn't any education (how to properly XYZ, how to train, how to eat for training) and the activity wasn't very valuable either.
Appears to be machine translated?
Thank you, a very insightful comment. FWIW I think you made a smart choice by leveraging docker and it's ecosystem (not just the tools, also mind share, the vast amount of knowledge spread via blog posts and SO, has to be considered). While docker's technical merits over competing solutions were indeed arguable then, it's UX was a game changer in this domain, everyone got the concept of a Dockerfile and "docker -d" and many embraced it quickly.

Kubernetes came around exactly at the time when people tried to start using it for something serious and things like overlay networking, service discovery, orchestration, configuration became issues. For us, k8s, already in it's early (public) days, was a godsend.

Also, i can confirm: the k8s development process is incredibly open. for a project of this scale, being able to discuss even low-level technical details at length and seeing your wishes being reflected in the code is pretty extraordinary. It will be interesting to learn how well this model will scale in terms of developer participation eventually, i figure the amount of mgmt overhead (issue triaging, code reviews) is pretty staggering already.
This is how you do great content marketing and branding.

This entire video series is about inspiring people with a side benefit of illustrating what makes YC special.

Compare this to content by other accelerators (of which there are many). It's not a lecture nor a recital of advice. It's a series of relatable and personable stories with a consistent theme. Start with "Why" you do something, not how or what.
If there is one thing you can change in the process of battery R&D, what would it be?

And likely a related question: Which scientific data is not readily available but would help battery R&D?
Am I the only one that's afraid of getting emotionally invested on any Google product(or product update) because of the fear that shortly after Google will announce that will discontinue development of that service?

By the way, the new design looks great I just wished the performance could be better for Firefox.

[Edited for clarification]
It's entirely possible to communicate other things while - first order - only stating uncontroversial facts. What, you don't think your shop is nice? You don't think it would be a shame if something happened to it?

Given that, it's also entirely possible for people to perceive other things as communicated in cases where there's maybe not the intent.
South Korea has the highest average IQ of any country in the world [1]. The process of democratizing the country started working early 2000s in addition to the social capital built by co-hosting the World Cup in 2002. While this was happening, government supported a lot of IT-related investment. [2]. So start with smart people, give them freedom and shared purpose, give them some money to get them started, and here we are.

[1]: http://www.statisticbrain.com/countries-with-the-highest-low...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea#Sixth_R...
Congestion control and QoS are crucial parts necessary for network reliability and the functioning of low latency services though. How would one even formulate a law that doesn't have loopholes w.r.t. to those?
Web-based C-Compiler demo for jor1k
> Can I tell uber I want to share a ride to the airport with any stranger

Yes.
Good question. What's his work out, sleep and diet like ?
My view is that Google+ is like some smaller social media or messaging apps. If the people you care about are using it, then you'll use it. Some services, like Facebook, are completely dependent on everyone being on it. But others, like GroupMe in my case, are only used for what I like, and I don't care about the people that aren't on it because they aren't what I'm looking for (I know Facebook and GroupMe are different things.) I think Google+ works for the communities that exist on it, and they don't care about seeing the service become insanely popular. Okay, maybe they do, but it doesn't affect the enjoyment they already have.
I meant that as an addition to your list.
Repairability is a pointless standard for hardware device innovation. If we had to design modern devices to be easily repairable then they would be so bulky, heavy, and expensive as to be pointless. Plus designing for repairability with more modular components would actually make devices less reliable, and more likely to need to be repaired in the first place.

A better goal is to design for easy deconstruction and recycling so that broken equipment doesn't end up in landfills.
well, so here's exactly what I worked on just the other day and how it went.

Step 1 - there's a user story that is telling me that one of the services needs to have ONE new data field added to the data model of the domain object it is in charge of. The actual data for that new field will be sent in by the existing services which now will optionally provide the data for the field in the payload. Simple right?

Step 2 - I check that data service out from the repo and start hacking. After about 45 minutes I have the change made locally, have the functional tests added (copypaste existing ones/rename them/add my new field in there), can hit the service endpoint with altered POST and PATCH payloads and GET gives me back what I need.

In the monolith days, my next step would be to alter the tests that will drive the service I worked on to add the data field I added, run complete functional test suite, once everything passes/builds - deploy locally, hit it with integration tests, fix whatever breaks, check into repo, wait for the CI flow to be done and I'm DONE.

But. We're in the microservices world. So I'm now on to Step 3:
Step 3a - identify "data provider" services, pull them down from the repo, import into my IDE. Alter the simulators representing the service I changed to have the change I introduced reflected in there.

Step 3b. Alter the services themselves, run tests against the simulators.

Step 3c. Fun part - messing with newly altered client service config settings locally so that they'll simulate every external call except when hitting my altered service's endpoint. This uncovers some unpleasant dependencies like I now need to pull down a docker image with the MQ provider 2 of these services won't start without. Image pukes on startup, takes time to figure out, but now I'm on to the next step.

Step 3d. Now that I can hit my service from the client services I run the tests. Separate test suites from separate projects so I need to switch between terminal windows, IDE projects etc. I mean I'm not digging trenches but my command-tabbing is getting old so I go to lunch :)

Step 3e. Integration tests. What a pain in the ass. Too much to type to describe the ordeal :)

Step 3f. Checking in changes for 4 projects, so basically CIx4 compared to monolith. Now I also have to make sure my changes will get merged into the branches that drive CI with integration tests in proper order, otherwise the CI job will fail on the integration test step. Of course, re-running the build will fix the problem after the "backend" changes are there but still. And plz don't tell me to wait for my pr for the backend service change to be merged and CI completed before checking the client ones in :)

Good thing I didn't have to mess with any configs, that would be even more fun.
I've been reading about these kind of experiments for years now and they all do the same mistake: it's not basic income if it has a deadline.

Almost nobody will leave his job / stop looking for one / risk a complete career change if that income is not guaranteed for life.
It's actually enshrined into law - restaurants are allowed to pay less than minimum wage because of tipping.

It's a perversion of the whole norm, since it effectively turns tipping into a subsidy to the restaurant owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
Make it AGPL. The GPL can be circumvented by slapping an HTTP interface on the logic, which is how Google has gotten away with keeping so much private.
A SETI Signal?
For printing stuff in college or sharing files with someone near you nothing beats a USB. Quick and easy.
In no way am I suggesting that my opinions are any "better" than anyone else's, but on this topic I feel like I'm more informed on the issue of net neutrality than most people I know offline, which is as much to do with my family and friends not sharing the same passion for technology that I have than anything else. I don't begrudge them this at all (different strokes for different folks etc).

I utterly agree with all of the points made above, I simply feel that if it's a case of "better the devil you know than the devil you don't", then I would choose "don't" any day of the week based on a lifetime of experiencing local politics.

Honestly, the thought of any increase in power to local politicians terrifies me, based on their track record alone.
The difference between the VAT that Apple collects and the VAT that is reversed to their provide is what is considered paid by Apple — at least, I assume it was in their lawyer’s math claiming they pay more taxes than anyone else.

You seem familiar with the principle of VAT. In reality, many companies who practice tax optimisation scheme are happy to play with that notion beyond recognition.

In Europe, Amazon aligns some of its prices to local prices including VAT, but they only collect Luxembourg VAT, pocketing the difference. The tax accountant of any (international) travel agent would be happy to dazzle you with how much money they are making from creative interpretation of international rules on VAT. If a good is not sold, the last buyer still owe the VAT on it, even when they are not a user of that good, end user or otherwise.

VAT is paid by companies: I’ve had enough issues with my own tax to confirm that you don’t need to collect it to owe it to unscrupulous governments.
craigslist, or backpages if you're adventurous
They only get taxed on the difference. It's not really a second tax, it's just bringing the tax rate back up to non tax haven levels.
Living wage is not defined in terms of absolute money made from a job. Its defined in such that if you are spending your time working for something, it should be at least enough to survive off if you did it 40 hours a week.
"Or is the objection merely to some wholly imaginary threat to the purity of the anglo-saxon race and culture and an unthinking and instantaneous embracing of anything nationalist and right leaning?"

Yes. Yes it is. Everyone who disagrees with you is emotionally driven and intellectually dishonest.

The goal we object to was the attempt to build a giant country. The EEC should have stuck with the tariff free zone and free movement (of workers, not all citizens, as it was originally). Instead they grew into a 28-nation wannabe superpower with a currency, flag, central bank, law-making powers, etc. Now Juncker is pushing for an EU army. The whole project has departed from reality and is going to collapse in a few decades, sadly taking down the free trade zone with it.
Experimenting on the animal before doing it on the person is understandable. But it raises more ethical concerns, not fewer, due to the fact that the animal cannot possibly consent to the experiment.
It is Yi Suk Choi, per the California corporation registration of 1for.one
Washington DC has had un-vetted ride sharing since the late 80s (slugging). Never had an incident.
Offer more than $15. It's got to be worth their time and effort, including making this special arrangement, packing up their equipment, disrupting their day, worrying if you'll keep your appointment, etc. Would you go out of your way for $15? Also, the lowball offer might seem insulting. I'd say $30 at least, maybe more if you live someplace expensive such as SV.

Also, I had a hair stylist tell me that it's hard to work in people's homes because they lack proper lighting, a chair that's the correct height, a mirror that's large enough, a power outlet close enough for the trimmers, and all these things arranged in proximity to each other. They also have pets and kids running around, etc. Perhaps reassure them on those issues.

How to ask? Ask for a date and when you pick them up, spring the real reason on them. Or post an ad on Craigslist.
How does he assess risks?
Communicating in human language in this software world
Could be upsides to that, but cranking up the global food requirements (remember, a muscular body requires a lot more energy to maintain) would be a negative.

Also, what's optimal? Your body adapts to what you are doing, something we take for granted today. E.g. If you like bicycling, a permanent linebacker build may be undesirable.

It would probably be more ideal to set some kind of fitness "floor", rather than remove the mechanism completely.
Well hang on.

If the iPhone is a vessel for self-love (I think psychiatric jargon is overused) wasn't the television a vessel for equally unattractive qualities? But you wouldn't dismiss television engineering - a fantastic body of work, from the rudimentary spinning disks to the latest codecs, just because the content is adapted to the low minds of the masses.

I think the internet gave us an unrealistic reference point, because for a few happy and accidental years it was a network of the intelligent.

Perhaps most technologies are more like television or smartphones.
This is interesting. I am also in the same camp except BOH. If I could get paid to cook for living with the same pay I make now, I would do it in a heartbeat
The other side of that argument is: You don't stop making friends & meeting people, why should Facebook stop suggesting people you might know?

I moved out of state three years ago, most of the people I see & spend most of my time with a completely different than the people I did five years ago.
Lattice (YC W16) is seeking a senior JavaScript developer
Lattice (latticehq.com) is an early stage startup, and we recently went through YC (W16) and raised $3.7 million from Thrive, Khosla, Marc Benioff, Slack Fund, Sam Altman and some others.

We're building HR software to replace the once a year annual performance review with more frequent 360 reviews, regular check-ins, and transparent goal setting. We've launched in May and have since gotten dozens of customers on board like WePay, Teespring, FarmLogs, and others. Our current stack is React / Redux / Relay on the front-end and GraphQL / Express / Postgres on the backend.

We're a young company still with a small team but we think we've found a good vein to go after and are poised to scale things up.

About you: We’re looking for experienced engineers that have a love for all things Javascript.

Responsibility: Because our team is still small, you’ll be given lots responsibly and impact in the overall architecture. You'll work with the team to build company changing features as well as be a decision maker in what direction we take both the code and product.

To apply: Please email eric@latticehq.com with your resume, any past projects you want to highlight, and a note about yourself.

Note: At this time we are not hiring anyone straight out of a coding bootcamp.
Because it means the ethical company that pays its taxes has to pay for a disproportionate share of the roads, parks, schools, etc... The unethical company gets a competitive advantage in ditching their obligations to the country like a deadbeat dad.
RIP Uber.
8/29/2016.
I think the idea is that the machines are supposed to learn what humans want from human behavior, and then help humans get what they want their own way, rather than imitating human behavior.
Have you never lost anybody and wished they'd live on?
To put the "universal" in the declaration of human rights in its context:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_R...

These countries each take part in the UN, without showing any signs that they respect the universal human rights declaration.

I'd suggest fixing that part of the human rights situation should have a higher priority than making monopolist abuse and unfair trade in communications about human rights.
Those people should be using tablets, not computers.

Edit: if you disagree, what the heck are you doing on a site called "Hacker News?" Comment, don't just vote.
Name 1 technology law that actually fixed a problem.
Data Catalyser: Mixing Closed Datasets
Lasagne on top of Theano https://github.com/Lasagne/Lasagne