skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this is a symptom or result. I think founders underestimate the complexity of services or over estimate value.

Finding a someone a place to stay in jakarta, indonesia is much different than a place to stay in Boston, London, ect. The person, service, lication and time are all variables. This is complex, hard and valuable. The same goes for uber/lyft. There is expediency and significant variables to account for as each pickup and drop off is dynamic so while it appears to be a commodity; it isnt.

To your point, some ideas sound great and get funding but are not complex, urgent nor particularly valuable. On demand "lunch" competes with either direct ordering, a local option or brown bagging it. Eat 24 provides a directory & information search engine not physical delivery(in most cases). So while it seems like they violate what I said, they dont have huge infa costs. Other "similar" providers will go get you the food and deliver it. A user is not willing to pay a huge premium for that in most cases, and the volume must be significant amd clustered. Eat24 takes a small percentage for a software solution, the other type needs a large percentage for a phys solution.

So they comvince vcs to back them until they get "big" which they wont and achieve economies of scale. However, they cant, because expenses scale pretty in line in those models
The guy is a senior news host, and this was ostensibly a news report in a prime time news block - on an officially government-owned and operated TV channel, no less.
syncthing is another way of doing this, which apparently has some benefits over Bittorrent sync (such as being free and open source, and something else I read about, not sure what). You could check it out at any rate.
There's also the more obvious thing that affects retention which is simply bad service.

We've all had bad taxi rides but overall the variability in possible service quality for Uber is pretty low. But Homejoy died because so many people didn't like the quality of the service.

I honestly question the premise that people want more on-demand services, given that the major companies that are succeeding in this space were already on-demand (hotels, taxis, food delivery).

What market has shifted from not-on-demand to on-demand?
Which is why it is important to everyone else to stand together make sure that Russia doesn't have the power to stop it.
https://projecteuler.net/ is an excellent tool for developing algorithmic thinking. From the project description:

The problems range in difficulty and for many the experience is inductive chain learning. That is, by solving one problem it will expose you to a new concept that allows you to undertake a previously inaccessible problem. So the determined participant will slowly but surely work his/her way through every problem.
Well, at that point they're basically turning over a loan again and again. I'd thought they could walk away and keep the money, but I now see that if the insurance truly was unprofitable, they'd be left with nothing by the time the last day covered by their insurance ended.
If it's not meant as a rhetorical comment, I'm afraid you'll need to explain it in a bit more detail, pointing out where exactly my reasoning is wrong. In particular, if you object to the statement that there's no substantial harm in being rejected from a job for discriminatory reasons, when the job market has thousands more equivalent (i.e. same pay, same career opportunities etc) jobs that are yours for the taking instead, you'll have to explain what constitutes said harm.
We've been working on a project with a small community of developers that helps rank various tools and recommendations:

http://www.differable.com/technical-interview-preparation-an...

Would love to hear if this is helpful to you.
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Carbon Nanotubes are the next "leaded gasoline"
Modern medicine works great as a framework to treat pretty much all diseases/conditions. But I feel alternative forms of medicine are not viewed as viable forms.

Anyone has experience with alternative forms of medicine (homeopathy,ayurveda) for migraines and other conditions?
Your argument for why Uber's workers should be able to sign themselves up as independent contractors can be used to show that children should be able to work in mines, fast food workers should be able to work for minimum wage, and generally that employees should be able to sign off on giving up any and all employment rights.

The point is that either you need a new argument, or you actually believe all of those things.

Keep in mind that I have not actually taken sides on the issue at hand; I'm just claiming that your particular argument is a bit flawed.
It has always been illegal if an employer tells you you're an independent contractor but without meeting the requirements of an independent contractor relationship.

Last time someone ignored that, it cost them $240 million. I'm interested to see how much it costs Uber.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fedex-settlement-idUSKCN0Z...
I was hired by Google in 2007 at the ripe old age of 43. I worked there for 8 years and there were lots of people who were my age or older and we were never treated with anything but respect by everyone at the company. I think this is simply sour grapes by some people who couldn't make the cut.
Most of their supported machines (including at least a few of the Thinkpads they support) look like they can't be flashed "online" from the OEM firmware. For that hardware, their documentation says you'd have to disassemble the machine and flash the firmware externally.

Obviously, this requires specialized hardware, but it's not completely insurmountable if you're really determined to run the thing.
> These regulations would substantially more than destroy that margin.

Why is that bad, though? The customers (or at least some of them) would go back to taxis, and then either taxi drivers/companies or customers would capture the $.19 that Uber was previously taking. It isn't immediately obvious why that would be worse.
Yes, I know. I just also don't really have any illusions that the "4chanish" population have any right to a subsidized forum for, well, being 4chanish. Deep down, it's a business run for profit by a private individual, not a piece of public property maintained with tax money.
Yes. I would do that even if you didn't fuck my dad though.

Also, for your sake, I hope you're into necrophilia.
Guy's probably here on a tourist visa and won't be able to convert even if he receives an offer.

He needs to be starting a company. Philippe Kahn started Borland while he was illegal alien. He got to a $500 million run rate without venture capital! It was only when Borland was going public that he was able to obtain a green card!

http://articles.latimes.com/print/1992-02-23/business/fi-511...
Chromebook C201 is very recent (currently sold new), supercheap (<$200), and can run not only Libreboot, but completely blob-free. Not even CPU microcode is needed.
I find this is one of the more useful comments I've ever read on this topic (dating struggles and difference in male / female viewpoints).

Thanks for sharing.
There aren't any difficulties if you don't get it working either (yet). The Internet still works with no issues.
Clearly what was meant was that an average white person who was asked to imagine an attractive potential partner, would image a white person of the appropriate gender. Thus asians do not look like the image of "imaginary attractive potential partner" of most people (in the US). This doesn't mean that asians are unattractive. Just that most movie stars are not asians.
First a nitpick, a contract doesn't 'become illegal', it is and always was not binding.

Just some easy examples that aren't 'not meeting the requirements for being a independent contractor'.

* When any part of completing 'this task' requires you to break the law in order to perform it.

* When 'this task' classifies you as an employee of the payer and the compensation is under the minimum wage.

* When 'this task' is indentured servitude or slavery.

* When 'this task' requires bodily harm or injury. (e.g. You can't sell your kidney)

* When 'this task' requires a license which you don't have.

* When either party is not of sound mind or not capable of consenting to a contract (e.g. if you're drugged, drunk, too young, or mentally unfit).
What if the older people who apply to google aren't as good as the young ones? Or what if they want more money? Both ways, you could have a fair process, but the distributions won't match.
It's a clever marketing from Postmates. He's been working for them all along.
This argument hinges on counting the time value of money for insurers but not their customers. The investment money made on float would instead have been made by the customers if they didn't buy insurance.

I think you're correct in a very specific technical sense (measuring in nominal dollars, that is), but not in the sense that matters in the real world.
Relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion
Ha, yes, because, you know, burning coal for energy is better for the environment than burning gasoline.
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Also relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaConspiracy/

As well as:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/
I wrote a complicated reply, then deleted it.

I think it resolves to this: having formal descriptions for what matters a great deal in defining limits and algorithms resolving into calculation. That is important because you could waste your time. We see creatures in nature like Julia Galef's Sphex which follow simple algorithms but because they don't understand their terminal goal they cannot alter a suddenly ineffective algorithm. Clearly understanding limits has the capacity to limit stupidity.

However we also know that practically many non-trivial problems are solved before we can put them into a mathematical framework. It applies to Geoffrey Hinton and the neutral network's effectiveness with a small number of layers. According to many mathematicians that should have been implausible and Hinton was toiling in barren fields and yet today we see it works. So the limit existed in their model rather than reality. Physical examples of the same phenomenon include useful atomic power and heavier than air powered flight.

Sometimes the theory leads the practice. Other times the practice outstrips the theory. So in answer to your question, I wouldn't have much confidence either way.
This is fairly brilliant for a marketing guy. What it comes down to, is he got the attention of the people he was trying to reach. In the end, it's like the guys that do very targeted advertising on LinkedIn and Facebook for similar goals. If you can reach the selective audience you are trying to for the job, in creative ways, odds are you can reach that company's audience as well.
Is their business product still uncapped? Going to remain so (to the best of anyone's knowledge)? Been thinking of switching to that. Unfortunately, Crapcast is the only option for me, here.
Those are real problems, but they seem to be orthogonal to the issue of whether or not Uber drivers should receive employee protection.
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Taxi drivers don't get to set their own rates either.
Why do you feel that alternative medicines have not been given due consideration? See quote below from WP.

I'm always surprised how easy it is to convince ourselves to try something when we don't have logical reason to do so.

Maybe it would be helpful to share the reasoning that leads you down this path?

"Despite significant costs in research testing alternative medicine, including $2.5 billion spent by the United States government, almost none have shown any effectiveness beyond that of false treatments (placebo). Alternative medicine has been criticized by prominent"
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I used to get migraines when I was younger, I had the same experience when I did keto the first time.

Note to anyone interested in trying it, you will likely get headaches during the adaptation period of the ketogenic diet. Your electrolyte requirement will be much higher during this time, you will need to consume more salt and potassium during that time.
This sounds like pretty high-quality penetration testing; maybe he should pivot his career and work in security.
After reading "Trust Me, I'm Lying", I can't help but view stuff I read online even vaguely relating to a company in this light.
I have an idea: Google should announce the "sunsetting" date when they announce new products. This way users would know what they are getting into and know in advance when they need to start preparing to move to another platform. It would be much better than being left in limbo, knowing that Google's going to yank the rug eventually...

Anyway, this is incredibly stupid. The last thing I want is yet another app to have to switch between. It's 100% a regression. I'm so sick of apps nowadays that I hardly use my phone for anything besides phone calls.
Also from the article

>Research by economists from Harvard and Berkeley found that fewer than 10 percent of people in the bottom fifth of the wealth distribution will make it into the top fifth.

Poverty is an arbitrary threshold. Its definition if you Google it is "the state of being extremely poor" and as you noted, you can eliminate poverty by reducing the threshold. This is why the article chose quintiles.

As someone else said here, the article is bringing attention to a problem--lack of intergenerational social mobility. This has a lot of implications, one of which is that families born into poverty are unlikely to get out. It has other implications too, such as that middle class families will stay middle class and the elite stay elite. From what I have seen, the middle class are pretty happy being middle class and the elite like being elite, but the anxiety and stress of the low-income lifestyle is pretty horrible for people living in it.

If people were happy at all tiers of the socioeconomic ladder, social mobility wouldn't be worth discussing. We brought up poverty because those are the people who are suffering the worst.

As for living better than Aztec kings, that's too sweeping a claim. Aztec kings might not have been able to enjoy hot pockets or McDonalds, but they knew they were going to have dinner every night.

Edit: I know what you're both saying that being in the bottom 20% does not imply a low standard of living in the same way that being in poverty does. But in the US, the bottom 20% implies a low standard of living. The median net worth for the bottom 20% in 2011 was about -$6,000 [1], which means the lowest income households are consuming more wealth than they are creating. Combine this with the article's thesis that people are stuck in their quintile, and it's a statement that our nation's poorest are not able to escape a cycle of living off subsidies, presumably from the government.

http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/files/Wealth%20distribut...
Obviously the word 'minority' was not the slur.
Whoever downvoted me not only has no sense of humour but is also clearly bad at math. Maybe you need to be replaced by a lady.
Social engineering is a must for a marketer.
Do you need a binary blob to run the RockChip GPU though?
I was prescribed propranolol by a neurologist for migraines as well, and once I started a ketogenic diet they went away. I also lost 70 pounds and I don't have sleep apnea anymore. It was a surprising side effect to not have constant inflammation.
Check out what happens if you disable the CSS. In Firefox: Tools / Web Developer / Style Editor / Toggle style sheet visibility (the little eye icon).
Agreed. She also didn't mention how she ruled out psychosomatic causes in her own case.

It's proven that stress can cause a lot of physical problems and those problems, which were brought on by mere thoughts, can injure or kill you in ways that are indistinguishable from conventional disease.
> The problem with not taxing corporations is the rich can use corporations as a tax free saving vehicle.

I think this is more myth than reality. The IRS has a very good nose for finding people who are attempting this particular tax avoidance strategy.
> employment liquidity seems good just like monetary liquidity

Right, but such liquidity is formed either on the basis that individuals don't have to work to survive, or on the basis that employees are so scare and desirable that mobility becomes a non-issue.

I don't disagree that we could address some of these problems by starting over from first principles, but that kind of change takes lifetimes to implement -- we still have to do something about the current people.
you're an idiot.
Yeah it's so tough out there if your looks don't fit the mold. I think based on the upvotes of my thread other guys are doing the same. Probably a small majority are, as if you you are curious and disenchanted by str8 dating apps too then why not?. Us guys are completely wound differenly then women and are equally driven by one thing. I can imagine if I was smoking hot guy women would be sending me hot pics like received on Grindr. That would be awesome but nothing I will experienced in this lifetime.

There's no doubt I could be with a chick now but it wouldn't be with any I want, who excite me and or who fit my check list. Thus until I find her I'm biding my time between all these apps and always playing it safe and infrequently on the bi apps.
It's not just independent contractors that need recognition.

Self employed individuals who rely on near monopolies for their businesses also need protection - at least in the form of better due process.

PayPal
eBay
Etsy
Apple
Google

All these and more have banned people from their marketplaces without any serious form of due process. This might be fine if there are competing alternatives in place, but there are not.
Doesn't work on latest Safari. I'm sad how hopeless it become...
I got a feeling we'll see more of this happening.

Was the transgender employee fired because she was transgender, or was she fired for some other reason? It is really hard to tell unless there is a court case on it.

If you remember Ellen Pao claimed she was fired because of her gender, and it went to court, and the only proof that they had for anything was that Pao was bullying others and being a bad employee with performance issues.

Transgender people need to be treated with respect and dignity, but if they don't perform well they will get fired like anyone else.

I don't like the drama either, but it happens from time to time.
Oh really? Awesome!
Did amy of the excitement around magic mushrooms as a migraine treatment ever pan out?
I would never be brave enough to try something like this.
Then you better not visit Kyiv's Monastery of the Caves in Ukraine where there are several similar self-mummified Christian monks. It is not just Buddhists who practiced this.
That's a bad falsehood to spread, since it undermines users' faith in this community. The post was flagged because users flagged it. No one at YC censored it or ever would. The only thing moderators did to this post was unkill (i.e. reopen) the thread after the user flags were enough to kill (i.e. close) it.

HN moderators are strictly instructed to moderate the site less, not more, when a post says something critical of YC or a YC-funded startup. With a post like this one, we would normally have edited the baity title and downweighted the post for being a rant. But because the rant was against a YC startup, we did neither.

Such a policy doesn't stop people from accusing us falsely, but it does let us answer the accusations in good conscience. I couldn't imagine moderating HN without that.
On almost all of my tests for classes where I was learning a new language, I'd have to write the programs with a pencil on paper and execute them, step-by-step, to ensure proper output. I'd say this way of learning is way better than skimming over some Javascript blog.
Service levels are pretty closely tied to customer acquisition cost. It turns out that people just didn't want to pay the amount it costs to get a really good self-motivated cleaner with great people skills to turn up and do a great job on a completely unfamiliar house. So they got inexperienced cleaners who didn't do a great job, and didn't like it.
That is in fact where dispute came from: race conditions vs data races. I saw race and concurrency thinking you were talking about race conditions. My mistake.

Hmm. Ill have to look into the old stuff further to see about whether any of it, including Hansen, covers the accepted definition of data races. There's potential that Hansen's does but Im holding off until I think on it more.
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> You're frustrated and defensive

Project much?

> all I've done is address you by the wrong gender.

How do you know it's the wrong gender? Why are you making assumptions about my gender, without knowing if I identify as a female?

My original point was the the words "dude" and "guy" have lost all gender connotations in California at least. Try to stay on point.
No worries, it's a common question for me.

I can fly internationally just fine, however my name always gave the immigration officer a headache. Simply because, there's no standard way of resolving it and searching for the correct record of me is painful.

For example

the name on my passport: Steven

My UK Visa: Steven Steven

If I need got to US, from what I heard: Either "Steven LNU"(Last Name Unknown) or "FNU Steven" (First Name Unknown)

Some institutions prefer:

Steven -

Steven .

Steven ,

So yeah, major headaches, especially because my only name is super generic
I read his bio again, and those sound like paid roles to me. If you'd like to claim some authority here beyond "random internet commenter" to assert he's never been paid by them, please do.
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They are already all around us, from the coal plants.

Asbestos was a construction material that was often exposed to mechanical forces. Battery cathode is the furthest from that.
Every new dating app that comes out is an attempt to make dating apps not suck. No one has succeeded so far. There are a small number of people with a ton of success who know how to market themselves, and there are a lot of good people who don't have that skill that find themselves shouting into the void.
Isn't libreboot just coreboot minus blobs?

I don't get why it is in any way remarkable.
I'd say you'd be far better off deriving your own algorithm every day.

Make something to solve a real problem every day of your life and you'll be far better at solving problems then other people. I'd rather be able to do that then just parrot back sorts, graph traversals, and what not.
How do you even get permits and such if you are not in the system? If they catch you will be deported and banned from the US for I think 10 years.

A year or two some music artist got banned for 10 years because he was on the wrong visa and was doing business in the US.
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That's my read on it as well. Funny that you mention 7 + 7 which I've always visualized as 5 + 5 + 2 + 2, or reduced to 10+4 in my head. Whenever I add 7 to anything that doesn't end in 3, I quickly add 5 and 2 instead of 7. With respect to base 10 math, 7 is awkward.
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Why not? The only thing preventing you from doing this is your self-formed limited beliefs in what you can or cannot do. You could literally decide to just do this and start doing this tomorrow.

Don't sell yourself short, everyone else is already doing that for you.
for a long time i thought the name of the project was libReboot. libreBoot does make more sense though.
Fortunately, there's a book: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

https://books.google.com/books/about/97_Things_Every_Program...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/97-things-every-programmer-sho...