skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really have little respect for service workers, don't you? Many people in tourism actually like what they do. Others even see you as the sucker.

I came her to agree with the gf comment. It may be partially geographic, as I'm in Miami and about 75% of the drivers I've spoken with are Venezuelan, arrived in the last 2 years or so, and are very happy with their life change and their job driving.

And the other 25% are largely either other immigrants or former taxi drivers who are, after talking with a number of them about how the economics worked in taxis and with Uber/Lyft, significantly less exploited than they were working for taxi companies. They see Uber/Lyft as an upgrade, a big one.

Trying actually talking with them and asking enough to get to their real opinions. You might hear some spectacular stories, like the Cuban driver I spoke with who walked ashore in Key West on July 4th, and the beachgoers paid a taxi to his family's house in Miami (a 3 hour taxi fare). Then, after he ended up on the street he panhandled and saved enough to rent a car and drive Uber/Lyft while he began working to get his electrician's license in the US (he was an electrician in Cuba). He was just a few weeks from getting his license.

Tenacity. Pure tenacity. The gig economy was working very well for him. And he was quite happy with how he was able to use it to improve his life.
I'll believe in strong AI when I see such an AI implement a (correct) Javascript parser.
This is exactly what a skilled developer does. In principle you could probably design a system that does it automatically. Sounds like strong AI territory though.
I watched a few videos a while back - on the topic of love I think - and it felt like there was a hidden agenda. At the time I felt it was a little too opinionated, pompous, and possibly content marketing for a religious group. None of this is fact, of course, just what I felt when I watched it.
The same situation that pmontra has described above/below. I love being on time to meet people. However, with Glympse, I don't have to stress about being punctual (even when leaving with enough time). There's no need to risk the life of others (or mine for that matter) by speeding/texting/calling the while driving.
Democrats are on average poorer than Republicans, so, there may be some inversion, but the general principle still stands
This is overly generalizing a complex issue. In America, we have a two party system that has basically been taken over by lobbying and gerrymandering. Both sides are different socially, but identical fiscally. Propaganda has been spread massively, amplifying everyone's natural us-vs-them mentality. Plus the populist politician on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders, was suppressed and basically not allowed to be the candidate. Our problems are a lot worse than "but poor people vote for the Bad Guys!"
A software engineer in a startup in berlin earns maybe a median salary of 60k euros ayear at a 40% tax rate. Thats less of what interns make in the us at a 30% tax rate.

An experienced engineer at google or facebook make 200k with a sizable signup bonus. As far as I know, theres no comparison between what a soft dev makes in the us and what he makes in europe.

This is from someone that lives in south america, and is considering moving to either europe, NZ or America, and hands down america pays so much more than anything else.

Not to mention that people criticizing work-life balance of engineers in the us havent visited google offices.
Up voted for admitting it violates a perception of fairness - can't argue with that! To put it in stark perspective where I agree with your sentiment, if not in policy perhaps, note how rental prices skyrocketed in the depressed town of Williston, ND when oil was found and it became a boom town. These landlords are siphoning off an infuriating amount of this boon while adding little to no net new value for luck of having bought and held onto their deeds in that town which not long ago had been worth little. One might even argue that the men gainfully employed in oil extraction are better tenants than the people who scrape by in life when the town was depressed. But, even then, thesee landlords held out when the property was worth little; they took risk to maintain land and provide shelter when the town's prospects were dim rather than buy bonds, perhaps, or something else better diversified and with less risk than real estate.
Show HN: Scroll Freely with the iOS Simulator Scroller
"The tools and utilities for both Linux and BSD are GNU - so only the kernel is different."

Absolutely not. Linux is just a kernel whereas the BSDs represent entire operating systems, and different ones at that.
That's why such projects will use their vast artificial intellect to name themselves things like "Just Read The Instructions" and "I Thought He Was With You" :)
>Far before some one is rich and poor, they are good and bad at playing the piano, writing a book, programming or anything for that matter.

You attribute far too much of a person's wealth accumulation with skill. Is Bill Gates the best programmer of all time?

>People are not same, and by that definition are not equal.

It's hard to argue with this, but I don't see it coming up much in the gender or race discussions. I wonder why.
The Muri of a Bad On-Call System
As a young researcher, you need the publications when you apply for academic positions. High-tier venue publications are easily recognized as such. To recognize high-quality work published in a low-tier venue, the only metric is citations. Accumulating citations takes a long time (you might not have) and is helped by active marketing (you might not do).

This is more about quick-polishing your image than your ego. ;)
And not everything is worth automating. There are still people working in retail, maintaining industrial machines, negotiating loans, and agricultural workers.
Quite a lot of people? I mean, I don't myself (because I don't come across enough articles I feel people here wuld be interested in), but it wouldn't be too much of a hassle if I did.

People have time to constantly use Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit/Tumblr/internet forums in general, they can easily post an article on Hacker News once a day.
HN is the only place I've ever heard/seen anyone mention Scala, ever. I don't know anything about it, not even what the syntax looks like or if it's interpreted.
I think it's more about letting others contribute with new features. No editor is feature complete and there is sadly a lack of easily programmable editors with good performance, good cross-platform looks and an easy and common programming language. VimScript and EmacsLisp is almost not used at all outside the editors.
How to Be Sustainable in the World's Most Visited Cities
This is a product where clearly some kind of free sample is necessary, because when you make claims like you are about your coffee, people want to try it before subscribing to it. If you're giving free samples, you need to collect credit card information to avoid fraud anyway, so you may as well add the customer to a subscription after 30 days unless they opt out. The rebill model is profitable for a reason.

I would go so far as to say you should create an affiliate program. I know the "rebill" affiliate marketing model was quite scummy (acai berry, teeth whitening back in 2008-2011), but it worked very well and doesn't have to be so scummy. The problem then was that the major products were hiding the terms of the rebill and made it impossible to cancel without multiple angry calls to callcenters. But it doesn't have to be this way. Lots of reputable products have rebill models, but they are clear about the terms when you enter your credit card info, and you can opt-out of auto-renew with a button click at any time in the next 30 days. If you can do this you can capture the advantages of the rebill model without high chargeback rates and reputation damage. The rebill model will increase customer LTV and enable you to pay competitive commissions to affiliates who drive signups.

Once you know the percentage of customers who convert from free trial, you can start measuring the average length of subscription to calculate LTV (if churn is negative the average LTV will increase over time). Then you can use that LTV to determine maximum customer acquisition cost (CAC). With that, you can launch an affiliate program (by registering as an advertiser on the few big affiliate networks) and pay a commission as some percentage of customer LTV (hopefully around $20 if you want to compete with other affiliate offers). As LTV increases you can raise commission for your best affiliates.

This is the kind of product that affiliates can sell very efficiently. You should let them do your marketing for you, and use the funding you're raising to bankroll your affiliate program.
Have you left the major urban areas? There may not be a big social safety net, but the work life balance and cost/size of property is very varied across our great landscape.
>...doctors who can basically make a killing in the US but not in Europe.

Arguably that's due to constrained Supply - http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/03/the_high_price.h...
My two cents about this and back to work: I do code deployments to production with the click of a button and some years ago it required a lot of careful planning and time.
"Both sides are [...] identical fiscally"

That's not true, and exactly the kind of misleading statement that leads to people voting against their own interests.
With the packet size set to 255 bytes, you can get about 1.5 KB/s (~ 12 KBit/s).

If you root your phone and patch the NFC stack (see: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=76598) you can probably get much more.

But it's definitely not going to be a pleasant browsing experience. :-)
> All are highly secure and

Not really, those systems get much less attention from sec folk than the Linux kernel (apps aside). Finding a priv escalation in the Linux kernel takes time (most of low hanging fruits have been already found by fuzzing or by code review), while finding it in *BSD kernels requires writing a simple syscall fuzzer and running it for a couple of minutes. I've seen it done live.
> Engineers like names to be unambiguous as possible

Such a wealth of evidence that this is complete bullshit.

Emacs, Gnome, Amarok, Chrome, Firefox, Git, Mercurial, Hibernate, Spring, Play, Om, Racer.
BSD can be called a direct descendant of the original Unix, in contrast to Linux. So macOS is Unix.
And yet Linux derived systems win often because if you are not 100% in control of the hardware (Apple, Nintendo...), driver availability + flexibility > license pains.
Nerdwriter covers a vast range of topics, which means a larger market, but clearly his knowledge of any specific area will be weaker.

I particularly enjoyed his videos on poetry. Definitely gave me a new perspective on an art-form I have never really indulged in.
> many victims of the Holocaust were non-Jewish, and that the association of the Holocaust with "anti-Semitic" fails to represent all the other groups who were also targeted ... In our current political climate, those advocates are called antisemitic bigots and Holocaust deniers along with ISIS

> You're also called a bigot if you point out that most people conflate the total number of people who died in the Holocaust with the number of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust.

Can you substantiate this?

Maybe I'm just socially blind, but I've never seen or heard of anyone labeled a bigot just for citing statistics. I mean, the Wikipedia page on holocaust victims literally features a big ass pie chart with the demographic breakdown and nobody seems to be contesting it.

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

tbh I think you're just tossing red herrings around in the air
To be fair, I think that was even before my reply.
They still are! *BSDs are types of UNIX, so is macOS.
I've been doing some pretty heavy caching of my node application with Redis and have just been using JSON.parse and JSON.stringify to cache and retrieve JSON. Is what I'm currently doing bad? what is the main advantage of using this module? Performance?
مشاهدة مباراة السعودية وتايلاند بث مباشر يوتيوب يلا شوت اليوم اون لاين
I've hit this situation a few times in the past couple of years:

Work done from 2000-2005... someone emails me and says "hey, this isn't working now".

In all 3 cases, I was flummoxed that these systems were still in use, and had been for years. There was a big mixture of shame and pride. Shame - code wasn't as good as it could have been, although I do remember why some corners were cut (time/budget usually, although "lack of knowledge" hit now and then), but it was also early styling of MVC - things were fairly separated, easy to locate where changes should be made, etc.

These were all PHP4 projects, and after upgrades to PHP 5.5 or 5.6 (or other server changes) something wasn't working. That this code worked for ... 12-14 years without being touched was... again, both a bit scary, but also a decent point of pride.

I'm not sure you can really truly appreciate that sort of "man, this code might be functioning for a LONG time - like, a decade or more" feeling when you're, say, 23. You simply don't have the frame of reference. Not saying you can't write good, solid, dependable, future-proof systems at 23, but I don't think it should be a given, either.

EDIT:
Put another way, having to deal with your own code from 10+ years ago is both an extremely educational and humbling experience, and I think developers need to go through it. However, you can't really have that experience until you've done it for more that 10 years.
The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (2005) [pdf]
There are lots of people who do that already, they just take a red eye in one direction.

So their quality of life may go up if they could take a super sonic, but I'm not sure it would expand the market much: either way it's a crappy day and you only do it if you absolutely need to.
This is a reasoned critique of Boom's plans. Much of what I was criticising was references to Concorde and the Tupalev failure.
Looks interesting. Has anybody here used this?
Real Atlassian JIRA and Confluence vulnerabilities: 855 advisories
Will be interesting to see manufacturing yields but also efficiency losses over time, compared to cells made currently.
> "Work 50 hours or starve" isn't a choice, it's a threat.

Damn nature, we'll get back at her somehow, we will.
Show HN: Bless your JavaScript code
Show HN: Making a huge Google Map
Marvin Minsky has pointed out that modern AI methods lack common sense, which is one of the requirements for general purpose AI. Rodney Brooks agreed with him.
“What’s up with the Australian startup scene lately?”
Scents in brands of body wash, chicken stock and canned drink come from Givaudan
E-Finance Careers for a Self Taught Programmer
Hey there guys! I'm currently teaching myself how to code and have also taken it upon myself to learn advanced mathematics and CS theory as well as possible. I want to, eventually, move into the financial sector as a programmer but am not sure what the options are out there. What possible "entry-level" positions can I obtain as a self-taught programmer related to finance or the like? I am willing to self teach any and all information I possibly can/need. I'm just looking for a direct path to develop my coding skills to better prepare for the industry I'm focused on. I notice many self-taught programmer get into web development or app development; should I start there just to build up my experience, even if I'll be, arguably, building a skill set for a different profession?

P.S. I'm located in New York, NY
Well whatever the exact impact it can't be that the police can't be bothered to validate the main evidence trail. Or not type shit by hand that is electronic in nature in the first place for crying out loud! There's just no excuse for such mistakes. What if they raid a wrong house because someone put in the GPS coordinates wrong!?
This article, and most discussions on this topic are all rich with sub-text.

It offers to connect drivers with an insurance broker, and helpfully notes that “the Affordable Care Act offers many choices to make sure you’re covered.”

..a lot of sub-text here, for example.

One piece of the sub-text coming up in my internet & human bubble is "technological unemployment" which I have a slightly different take on then a lot of what I read. I think we're seeing it already and it manifests mostly as wage disparity, not unemployment.

On the subtext of that quote, it seems to be on the side of what we generall call "labour socialism" in Europe. The idea that laws should focus on increasing low leverage emloyees' bargaining power and/or mandated benefits.

IMO, this is a dated position. We've seen relatively consistent success with government provided primary services: health, education & transport. This gets called welfarism, though I think centralism is a better term. We have not seen that kind of success in the labour-socialist sphere. In fact, example like France suggest a problematic trade-off between "good" employment and unemployment. I think the main problem is labour-socialism's tendency to corporatism.

I would really like to see employment (including the gig economy) be free-er but suplemented with free or subsidized basic services (health & education mostly) and a basic income. If housing prices are not pathological (as they often are), the gig-worker would be a lot better off. Instead of chasing our tail trying to force uber (or regular taxi companies) to provide stabilty, the state can just subsidize the citizen and provide stability on some fronts. It doesn't even require "big government" for the most part.

In most of west Europe, we should be able to implement this relativley easily. Redundant conditional welfare benefits (dole, pensions) already spend 25-40% of what a UBI would cost. Another 25%-40% could be taxed back as income tax without disadvantaging workers (IE, your UBI is >= tax increases). That's most of the way to funding it. This remaining gap mostly represents the uber driver, workers earning well below national average dealing with insecurity and on the wrong end of employer provided benefits (like health insurance).

I don't think the US can do it anytime soon though.
>That's definitely not the case, since the numbers I cited are adjusted for inflation.

Inflation adjustment doesn't take into account costs that are prevalent in an era but totally absent in another: like internet access, cellphone bills, and such. Nor how much one not puts into their retirement account / savings to spend on daily needs.

If it was just supposed to be relative to the past, we would all be content for living better off than the pilgrims. Who needs a fridge, for example, when they didn't have any either? So, if we have fridges now and stuff, and even the garbage man has a cellphone, it's all dandy.

Empirically, people older than you that have lived throughout those decades know the numbers a bogus as an indicator of purchasing power, whether they were inflation adjusted or not. One could buy a house with a regular blue collar job as a household's single earner back in the 50-60s. Today, and for a few decades, not so much. Same for things such as college education. You could pay for it back in the day by working laughable gigs by today's standards.

So whether you can have "avocados" or not, if you can't as easily have a house, an education, or a steady job, is a moot point.

Note how: "after adjusting for inflation, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power as it did in 1979, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today".

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...
What gives you the right to be so imperious about this?
Right, turning on restricted mode removes many LGBT-related videos - and includes many too.

It's a hard problem for a computer to figure out which LGBT videos to keep in restricted mode. A video called "I'm gay, here's how I do my hair and makeup" is probably okay. A video called "Look at this gay hair and makeup!" is probably being used for bullying if it's getting passed around at a school that uses restricted mode.
XUnit in UWP
Another vote for a non-subscription option.

I'm happy with my grind-and-pourover setup at home, but would love to have a reliable alternative for travel. I've tried to travel with Aeropress + handmill + beans, but it's only worth it for small town, remote area itineraries, whereas decent coffee is usually available in major metros. But for the times it isn't, or when staying with non-coffee friends, or for on the plane, or for rushing out the door, it would be great to have a decent backup option.
This idea is based on the fantasy that people are compensated purely for what they do, and not also for their starting point, who they are, who they know, and so on.

The reality is that if you were born somewhere poor, odds are overwhelmingly that you would earn a tiny fraction of what someone born somewhere where they are provided proper education and an environment where better alternatives are available.

So maybe you are compensated in proportion to the value you generate, but the problem with this is that this is only superficially connected to the effort you put in and how effective you are.

Some people who do well do so in part because they put in exceptional effort, but the biggest predictor of your earnings and success in life is how where you live and how wealthy your parents are.

This is the problem we have with inequality: It has very little to do with effort or skills, and a lot to do with pure chance.
Also, macOS became officially Unix-certified in 2007 [0], so it can legitimately claim to be a version of Unix.

But it's still based on BSD, which is a descendent of the original AT&T Unix.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-recei...
Sounds interesting! I would definitely join that forum.
This sounds like a new kind of sci resource with well-defined purpose.
Wage inequality and higher education I agree with, but we do quite well with parental leave don't we (the UK)?
I am not sure about the other ones, but I vaguely remember that NetBSD makes driver development relatively easy, or at least one does not need to re-write or copy-past driver code when moving from, say, PCI to a USB-attached device.

I can imagine that makes it a sensible choice for companies that build their own hardware (custom peripherals and so forth).

Also, as others have pointed out, the BSD License. Some companies won't touch GPL code with a ten-foot stick.
A yes, like ycombinator.
ICANN Round 2: time to comment
Show HN: Conversational context in chatbots
I think you are mis-understanding what I wrote. Having seen a couple of lives of states-side friends ruined by what would have been minor (but still serious from a medical perspective) issues in Europe I'm all too aware of the differences in the various health-care solutions.

I've also lived in enough places with various levels of health-care and insurance (and lack of insurance) to see this as a potential problem.

So, instead of reading imperiousness, how about worry?
Thanks I dint know about Show HN
The philosphical tool called "The Veil of Ignorance" suggests it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
Visual Hints That Drive User Behaviour
You are wrong on all points.

http://interestingengineering.com/real-reason-why-supersonic...
We're a crowded island, we have small houses.

The UK has a lower population density the than both Belgium and Holland, both of which have larger average houses than the UK. So there has to be more to it than simply being 'crowded'.