skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So to be clear, allowing 1,000,000 individuals with personal LLC's to sign up as Uber contractors via their LLC's is totally cool.

Having 1,000,000 individual sign up DIRECTLY as Uber contractors...totally illegal.
Luckily I'm not American. For those that are you are you can renounce, or roll the dice with Panamanian banking secrecy. The token amount still really helps for small business and remote workers.
> Being in the city, means you're equally sucky to get to for anyone you hire

Exactly. Whereas unless you're so large that you need to hire everyone in a wide area, while simultaneously having no way to motivate people to relocate, then you can provide an optimal commute for far more employees by locating in a suburb.

(Or, alternatively, in an urban setting in a city that isn't bursting at the seams whose traffic makes it take an hour to get anywhere.)
If that literally happened there would be ructions. And those two groups are not that dissimilar.

> Georgists (including myself) tend to see anything less than open borders as deeply immoral.

Large numbers of Nigerians moved to Dublin. Robbery, fraud, violence shot up immediately and the CSO (gov stats) shows they are mostly not working and are recipients of state aid.

I used to believe in open borders once until I started living in some estates with migrants and started seeing the horrendous shit they were up to. Stealing cars, beating people up, probably murdering people judging by some of the awful sounds and continual police visits. I still do, but only for people like me. It might not be based on ethic identity necessarily but it should be based on something. Geekdom perhaps.

Otherwise, unwelcome though it is, violence is an inevitability.

Those borders were there for a reason. If you remove the borders then you need to remove the reason also. Until then we shall resolve conflict with violence. Calling that immoral solves nothing.
I've gone back months/years on some accounts, on some lazy days. Maybe it's a desktop/mobile client thing; I'm not a twitter user, so I don't use twitter on my phone.
And of course tax law has been the same since the dawn of time, there can be no argument to brook with the idea that it currently does not work.

Morals musn't enter this argument, it would muddy the waters too much.
> As a point of reference, even the Wikimedia Foundation had almost 300 staff and contractors as of 2015. This is admittedly a lot fewer than Twitter employs today.

Exactly, that's actually a pretty good argument for why Twitter should downsize substantially.

In no way does Twitter need more than 1,000 employees.
Just to add that it is $150/month in Azure credits per user in the startup to a maximum of 5
> Except that's not what's going to happen. This problem is not going away. And if you create more "work", they'll just do what they need to to capture the majority of the market and leave a lot of users in the cold.

And then that'll leave a market for someone else to come along and serve.
To fix irc, the best thing they could do would be to add first class support for js and websockets.
Laravel + AngularJS + Heroku
The problem with the analogy to a sorting algorithm is that a sorting algorithm is obviously computable. What if there's something like protein folding that has O(2^n) complexity involved in being a person that the body does trillions of times a second but is impossible for any size computer to do for large N?
First, your way of writing will be imitated.

Then, the words will be matched to your voice.

Then, the voice will be matched to a video of your likeness.

Then, a talking hologram of your likeness.

Maybe more could be follow, but at present my optimism is slightly deficient to envision it.
He was the PM in charge of introducing VBA into Excel. He didn't singlehandedly write Excel.
Believe me, I completely agree. It's the number one problem I face on a daily basis and it fills me with stupid amounts of desperation that seems to only make matters worse. For me, 'fixing' the lack of inclusivity is the number one thing that should be worked on as a society if we ever want our future generations to live contently. The problem with talking about inclusivity is that in many ways it seems to be a symptom of a much larger set of problems. It's an enormous problem that won't fix itself and there are things that you can do to help, even with small contributions.

Find something to fix and, well - fix it. No matter how difficult or time consuming it is, it'll at least give you a perspective into where problems truly are. There are loads and loads of addressable problems which may not fix anything now, but it can set the foundation for ten years from now. Voting isn't your only course of action.

Finding ways to fix niggling class/social/economic issues is a great start and I highly recommend that you try. My personal project along these lines is to find invalidly created parking tickets in Chicago. The hope there is that it will reduce the stress of lower income communities and give them a bit more financial freedom to get out of bad situations.

If you want to talk about this more, I'd love to - hubblefisher at gee mail
Ok I will bite.

This was the rebuttal against the claim. And, it was so obvious to conservative speakers or old timers like me. I was actually baffled that people misunderstood this.

Also, If you are a native speaker, it is obvious (listen it first if you want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UPIF2ql7pw ).

He says "Benim için mesela neler söylediler, çıktı bir tanesi aynı zihniyet Gürcüdür diyen oldu. Çıktı bir tanesi afedersin çok daha çirkin şeylerle Ermeni diyen oldu.." "then one another came out and told, excuse me, with much more uglier things, Armenian."

Grammatically you would not use the term "şeylerle - with..things" there to got the other meaning. Prosody and stops also would be weird to get that meaning. Use of "excuse me" before telling an inappropriate word is also very well known (not for a word like Armenian). It is common that in Turkey many politicians were smeared with slurs like "Armenian dölü-seed" or "Yunan dölü" and he was called with that. He is defining the adjective used frequently. Besides, he is known as the person who tries to break the ice with Armenians state level, do you think he would insult Armenians so calmly like that?

Your second link is based on a racist speech claim. However I cannot find the original Turkish speech to make more comments. But it is a well known fact that there is no black-white racism in Turkey. But please provide a better source to dig further.
>But it's not nearly as insightful as it could have been had he actually undertaken to study the subject academically.

I'm curious to how it could have been improved by insights from academic philosophy. I'm not expert but glanced at the Wikipedia entry on philosophy of science and find it hard to see what you'd go with.
IMO it's the appeal of having an audience. Get followers, get recognition for your thoughts - get recognition for yourself.

I really think the reason Facebook first exploded in popularity (I was just entering college when it rolled out so have some first-hand experience) was because a whole lot of college age people love to show off pictures of themselves doing cool things, they want the audience. I won't comment on how Facebook has changed, but the original appeal was close to why Instagram is so popular today.

It feels good to have an audience, whether it's for your thoughts or pictures of your life. Not here to judge that as good or bad.
If you're building a phone, don't give the baseband CPU any access to anything; that's a design flaw, and you can build a phone without it. And all your data should be encrypted, so exploiting or backdooring the baseband just gives you yet another way to look at that encrypted data.
Very interesting read. It would be interesting to know if there are people here that can point to a particular book that gave them an idea for a startup or even a side project.
DigitalOcean has a droplet backup solution priced at 20% of the monthly cost of your droplet. Doesn't get much easier than that, if you can afford it. For a small droplet ($10/month) that's a full backup of everything for a buck a month. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understandi...
It's easier to quantify the costs than the benefits, IMO. I think it's easier to collaborate when I'm sitting right next to my coworkers. I think it's reasonable to say that it saves 30 minutes a day for each employee on the team. So, for costs: a couple bucks a day in drinks, the floorspace I take up, electricity, climate control, etc. Benefits: increased communication efficiency, mental separation between home and work, and fewer work-irrelevant distractions.

It's not clear to me whether the pros outweigh the cons or not.
... And wrong, the Bluetooth chipsets are typically based around cortex m0 level devices... And those don't support XNU.

There is absolutely no need to put an iOS level devices in a pair of ear buds, video decoding on the other hand does need that.
If you're using Rails, your life will be much simpler if you do use an 'id' column, use plurals for table names, and name your join tables 'bars_foos', i.e. using the plural on both sides and in alphabetical order.

Don't really agree on indenting joins that are at the same level as FROM. There's not much semantic difference between the table in the FROM clause and one in a JOIN clause. Subqueries should be definitely be indented when nested.

Don't really agree with the leading whitespace alignment either. Alignment across lines is generally troublesome when combined with team development and version control: it leads to merge conflicts. If you start using 'GROUP BY' that forces you to introduce whitespace in your 'SELECT' line to bring everything into sync, then chances of a conflict increase quite a bit.

Don't 100% agree on using IN either, in particular if you're using a tuple membership check. That is, `JOIN x ON (x.a, x.b) IN ((1, 2), (2, 3), (4, 5))` certainly looks neater than the equivalent mix of ORs wrapped around ANDs, but it usually performs quite a bit worse because not many people write their SQL that way and the DB is not normally tuned for it.

A much bigger concern from my perspective (reviewing PRs from other developers) is writing SQL that will perform well for the database and data sizes. There are massive perf pitfalls around NOT EXISTS vs NOT IN, and it's easy to get horrific performance out of MySQL especially if using a subquery in the WHERE clause.

Structuring things as a join gets much more predictable performance, and structuring a set of joins as nested subqueries instead of joins at the same level (or using extra parentheses in Postgres) gives the SQL author more control over what will be done. Don't trust the optimizer to know best. It often doesn't and if it chooses wrong, it can hose a release. Measure, as always.
it doesn't. My point was only that lots of technology entrepreneurs view 'generalizable web of trust' as a good opportunity, when it is not, similarly to how they view 'tools to make it easier for non-technical people to build apps' as a good opportunity, when its not.

SOrry if that was confusing i was writing pretty stream-of-consciousness
I heard one of the "big data social scientists" to claim that they can now replace the population with the sample (as this is what the Twitter really is) because of, you know, big data.
Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, and wiki software
The consequence for these crimes when they do not occur on the Internet is jail time. What, exactly, does a ban list mean by comparison?
Compensate with pay, and "boring" means paying more than "competitive." If it's just cranking stuff out like an assembly line, then maybe the developers should receive a commission structure.
Raw community policing doesn't work either. That's what Reddit does and looking at /r/politics, that hasn't worked very well because it's being kept 99.99999% pro-Hillary and/or anti-Trump by whoever is willing to put in the time to keep it astro-turfed, most likely CTR.
That assumes everyone agrees that they really are enhancements.
Kidmoto
Kidmoto is a mobile app connecting families with young children seeking ground transportation with drivers providing properly installed child seats. The drivers provide child transportation in federally-approved child seats to users. The drivers are well trained by child seat installers who are federally certified in safety and installation of child seats. The drivers use their own registered and insured livery vehicles to provide transportation services. The vehicles are inspected for safety. In addition, drivers undergo employment screening which includes national criminal, terrorist, and sex offender registry searches.
Uh. You fill a purpose-made reusable container with water and take it with you. What do you think people did before bottled water became a thing?
Well, I'm going to preface this with a disclaimer: I don't necessarily agree with the views I'm articulating, I'm just trying to accurately represent another group's stance, because I feel a lot of people strawman them in discussions. Continuing on....

> This isn't just about women in gaming, it's about making gaming more accessible in general. Shooter games where all you do is blast things in the face can be fun, and I loved the hell out of the most recent DOOM, but even given that I do enjoy other kinds of games. There's a need for variety.

I think we can agree on that: the topic of GamerGate is industry behavior, which wasn't just responding to women in the market, but trying in a broader sense to present the medium as more mature (ie, actually being art) and accessible (ie, more segments of the general population are involved). The women joining are just one of the most visible new segments (...because of the traditionally low number of women...) that industry executives are trying to entice to join in. (Let me know if we don't agree here, but I think we at least both agree on those facts.)

The GamerGate response is that the people traditionally associated with gaming are reacting to feeling "unhomed", from industry actions like that many major studios have publicly denounced what they like about gaming (...the unrealism of character portrayal and experience...) and called them sexist for their preferences, when just as many women seem to prefer unrealistic guys as guys prefer unrealistic women, ie, that the preference speaks to a widespread, deeper human escapism and lust for fantasy, rather than how they view the other gender. Given that a lot of gamers are traditionally from social groups which are bullied by other social groups, they're particularly sensitive to being called names just for engaging in a widespread, very normal fantasy.

The GamerGate response is really the underlying fear of having their culture appropriated and no longer receiving things that cater to their tastes because mainstream culture became involved, and forced everything to conform to their mainstream value signaling and norms. (Such as no more sexy women in unrealistic armor, even though no one is complaining about unrealistically muscled men in unrealistic armor being main characters.)

I'm personally sympathetic to both sides: opening the medium to a wider audience, having more sophisticated, mature games made, and exploring the medium as a form of art is very, very, VERY good for gaming and culture at large, but we should acknowledge that the gaming subculture was previously a refuge for traditionally low status, relatively powerless people, and should take care not to annihilate their subculture and safe space in the process. I think in many ways, both sides have refused to acknowledge that the other side has a valid point, and that what's really needed is a compromise. We can advance the medium without having to erase the more unrealistic, fantasy driven parts of it.

Drawing seems to do fine as art even though there's drawn, highly unrealistic porn. Video games can similarly advance as a medium without having to erase the "undesirable" content.
Maybe it's so that "x"'s compound over time.
By using a CA they control to generate a fake certificate for Google like they've already "accidentally" done:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/turkish-government-a...
Try switching to green tea + l-theanine. I went from coke -> coffee -> tea without a problem. The main addiction is to the caffeine.
Blue sky research should be open. Last mile product development and products themselves can be closed source. Else, how do you create profits and value for shareholders? So far, except Apple, the others have made the outputs of their research labs open: published papers, demos, packages like TensorFlow, etc. Besides, there is a division of labor: govt, with its altruistic mission does open blue-sky research. Companies, OTOH maximize profits and the good ones that can afford to, also do open basic research. I don't see his vision to be counter to this.
Failure of Centralization over HTTP
> I don't think that's what condescending means.

Not a native speaker, so maybe I got that wrong, but this is the definition Google gives: "having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.", and this is what I was referring to.

Agree with what you say about the varying degrees of centralization/decentralization throughout history, but don't think that these changes happen out of the blue. Education is usually needed to bring about change and not because people are dumb, but because information doesn't always gets to them easy. So maybe this is what's happening now. You can think of it as a balancing force...
To me this is a bit of a cop out in explaining things. Clearly mental state can affect physiology and vice versa. Placebo effect is a prime example.

If doctors or professionals can't explain things, they should admit it rather than trying to claim it is in people's head and ignore it or make it seem like it's below them.

Placebo can have as much effect as some medicines and its an aspect of medicine that I feel should be taken far more seriously. I see no reason that mental state shouldn't be taken into account as much as physical (other than the fact that its more difficult to measure).
If your a citizen or green card holder you are taxed on your global income even though you don't live there. If you were not a citizen / PR, I doubt you'd be able to legally start a business like that in the USA first.

You do get a big ~$100k income tax deduction if you don't live in the USA, but that is a separate point.

I'm not quite sure if you actually did this move from the USA.
Ask HN: Career advice for data science / ML / AI?
I'd like to request career advice for those in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. You may assume top pedigree, but generalizable advice is also appreciated.
You are doing nothing to argue that closed borders are moral, just that implementing open borders has caused problems in some cases.

Similar arguments were made against dismantling the institution of slavery, and they were just as incoherent at addressing the root moral evil.
50 people to maintain a site the size of Twitter?
So then the slaves can cut corners (all in the name of profits, of course) and make unsafe helmets for our soldiers to defend all of this which we stand for: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/08/18/pentagon-priso...

It's profiteering all the way down.
I'm curious how one can end up paying the full personal tax rate as an owner of a business. After expenses, depreciation, write-offs such as home office, vehicle, etc., you still don't have to pay yourself the entire corporate net income as a salary. Unless your lifestyle simply demands a top bracket salary.
I think the European union should fund the research and development of a decentralized web. Because right now all their information is flowing to the US.
even if it sounds too far fetched I am sure industrial espionage is a real thing and these activities never become public knowledge.

now about the particular case I think if apple was to sabotage something they'd have hit the Galaxy S7 line which is much more popular rather than the Note line.

anyway the yahoo hack theory might have more merit than the note 7 theory.
Which problems did you run into? I use Prosody as the server (which is brain-dead simple to set up) and Conversations as the client on my friends' Android phones. We just add each others as buddies and set "OTR only" with two taps, and these problems are solved forever.

I do agree though that the user experience for my OTR-enabled messengers is shit (especially the "first message not encrypted" problem).
> move their infrastructure to AWS/Google Cloud which take the company to profitability

How exactly does that work?
I've been working remotely for the past 6 years. More and more I am having to compete with offshore, and with the boss's expectations that working "in the comfort of your own home" means you deserve a pay cut.

I make it a policy of mine to visit the office once or twice a week for design and planning, so the social aspect keeps me sane. I find it a good balance.

I've recently started looking for a job for the pay increase due to cost of living pressures and because of the culture prevailing of bosses needing to see butts in seats it will most likely be on-premises.

We've been priced out of the market for housing, so we have to live further out. It would involve three hours commuting a day. The pay increase is almost negated by the erosion of your hourly rate when you factor in time and expense of the commute. Not to mention the time being in a car and train rather with my kids.
I can't speak to McCain or Reynolds. But Johnson isn't a journalist; he is a bog-standard harasser in his own right. Yiannopoulos got a lot of cover for a long time because he is, under a technical and squinty definition, a journalist--and one who has a history of using their base of followers to threaten people. Where his eye settles, where he encourages actions, shitfloods of death and rape threats follows. I'm OK with both being shown the door.

EDIT: OK, I've done some quick reading, and "anodyne"? Are you serious? I have no opinion on whether McCain should be shown the door from Twitter, but dude, if you think a neo-Confederate and active white supremacist is "anodyne", either I am vastly underestimating the rot in the right wing of American politics or you do not live in anything within fridge-tossing distance of the real world. (But, then again, Trump.)
Personally I don't care either way, but I like it to be consistent for any given sequence SQL in a file (SQL is usually embedded in some other language's quoting mechanism).

If everything is lowercase, you can tune in to spotting the keywords. If it's mixed, it's just confusing.

There's an argument to be made that because SQL is so often quoted in a different language, highlighting isn't often applied.
Damn these text adventures are addictive...
Sure, those people exist. My belief is that most of those people would perform adequately at the extreme majority of jobs.
This is actually a vulnerability I've seen countless times. If a site accepts a URL which it reads and returns to the user, submit the 169.254.169.254 metadata service. About 1 out of 5 times I've tried it, I'm about to get a response.